Yep, here is the second part of the update. I hope that you all like it.

The song for this is "STAND UP" by Trapt

"Hermione? Hermione?" A gentle voice asked quietly.

Hermione's eyes twitched.

"Come on Hermione, open your eyes." The voice coaxed.

Hermione's weary eyes slowly opened, she didn't see anything for a few seconds, but slowly everything came back into focus. Harry was leaning over her gently shaking her shoulder. Once he saw that she was awake he smiled and leaned back allowing Hermione to see a familiar ceiling that she hadn't seen for a while.

With a slight groan Hermione pushed herself up into a sitting position and looked around her room in Grimmauld Place. She slowly tucked a stray piece of her bushy hair behind her ear and sighed.

"What happened Harry?" She asked.

Her sighed and ruffled his hair up.

"There was a Death Eater that was still there, so Riley shot a Dilaborn curse at him and it broke his neck." Harry said quietly.

Hermione nodded her head as a few silent tears slid down her cheeks.

"My p-parents?" Hermione asked, her voice cracking half way through.

Harry smiled, "They're fine Hermione. They weren't there. The Order had gone to move them to a safe location a few days ago."

Relief washed over Hermione as she launched herself onto Harry. She was crying into his chest happily as he just smiled and rubbed circles into her back. Finally realizing that she was practically sitting in Harry's lap Hermione jumped back with a blush on her face and saw that it was mirrored on Harry's face.

"So-sorry about that." Hermione stuttered.

Harry rubbed the back of his head, "It's alright."

Hermione nodded and then started fidgeting with her hands.

"What about everyone else? What's happening? How did we get here? Where are the Dursleys? Malfoy? Riley?" Hermione started inquiring as soon as her brain registered everything that needed to be asked about.

Harry started laughing quietly.

"We got here by Apparating. An Order meeting started about an hour ago to discuss what's happened. The Dursley's are here somewhere, and I haven't seen Malfoy or Riley since we got here. You and I were rushed off for Madam Pomfrey to look us over."

Hermione looked confused, "But . . . how did Malfoy and Riley get in?"

Harry sighed. "We apparated in front of the house. As soon as we got our feet on the ground you and I were rushed in. I don't know what happened to them. I just know that they are somewhere in Headquarters."

"What?! What do you mean don't know?!"

"I don't know anything Hermione. They aren't letting me in on the meeting either."

Hermione looked down and fisted the comforter.

"Sorry Harry. I shouldn't have snapped at you like that." Hermione said quietly while a few tears streamed down her face.

"I think I'm the one that should be apologizing." Interrupted a voice that neither of them had heard for a while.

Hermione's neck twisted in order to see the familiar redheaded figure that she had tried to forget. Ron rubbed the back of his neck and looked away from the death glare that Hermione was sending in his direction.

Everything was red. The red just seemed to bleed into every corner of vision. Even as she tried to follow the red streams something seemed to smash into the back of her head. That was when she realized her eyes were still closed. Normally that isn't a realization, but the rushing sound in her ears and annoying pounding headache tends to mess with your reaction times.

With a pained groan Riley forced her eyes to open and take in her surroundings. The room was annoyingly gray. Craning her neck to the side she saw a shriveled up heart resting on the mantle and then suddenly a grating noise reached her ears. Riley looked into the corner and saw a filing cabinet shaking. With a quick look down Riley saw the painfully familiar chair.

"You've got to be shitting me!" She exclaimed feeling the ropes around her neck tightening. Her painfully dry throat did nothing to help her discomfort. The room shook slightly and there was a crackling of electricity from the doorway.

"Afraid not love."

Riley immediately let go of the magic that was building in her once she realized that someone else was in the room. Riley tried turning her head to the side, but that sent a jarring pain through her cracked skull. She hadn't thought that they had hit her that hard.

"Do you mind coming in front of me, I can't really turn my head." Riley rasped trying to keep her anger in check.

Draco slowly made his way in front of Riley and nodded tightly.

"Order doesn't trust you?" Riley bit out.

"Not a bit. I can't even touch the door without getting electrocuted and sent back into the opposite wall."

Riley's eyes narrowed. Apparently the Order had placed another ward on the door. She only assumed that it was designed to let people in and then out when a certain spell was cast with a wand. That way the other ward wouldn't go off.

"Did they leave any water?"

"No."

"No wand?"

"Nope."

"How long have we been in here?" Riley asked her teeth gritting.

"Well, it was dark when we got here and seeing as how it's getting dark again, I'd say a while."

It sounded like a growl erupted in Riley's throat.

"You didn't have those bruises before we got here Dray." Riley said in a very strained voice.

Draco looked at her and raised his eyebrow.

"Nicely stating the obvious.

Riley's eyes narrowed as she looked at the door.

"Look. I'm sorry." Ron said quietly looking at the floor.

Hermione just raised an eyebrow at him.

"We've all been stressed and we've all said some stuff that we didn't mean. So I think that we should just put it in the past." Ron said.

Hermione saw how Ron was glancing towards Harry as a plea for help. For some reason that made Hermione even angrier.

"We?" Hermione said incredulously, "Huh, that's funny because . . . well I just can't remember saying anything that I didn't mean. In fact I haven't said a lot of the things that I've wanted to."

Hermione looked at Ron and glared.

"You know it's funny because I thought I liked you. Like really liked you." Hermione said simply, "But then I started actually thinking about it and I realized that I like Malfoy better then you at this point, Ron."

Hermione had a smirk on her face that for some reason just felt so right.

Ron's mouth had dropped open and his face steadily started to get redder and redder the angrier that he got. Yet, Hermione just ignored him and turned to Harry.

"I need to find Riley, Harry." Hermione said simply, "Even Malfoy."

"Who? Oh, your bloody bitch friend?" Ron snapped out glaring at Hermione before a smirk spread across his face, "She's in her room of course. Though, I doubt she's going to be up, she took one hell of a beating when you got here."

Riley had closed her eyes and was trying to control her breathing.

"You alright?" Malfoy asked warily.

Riley opened her eyes and looked at him. He had never seen her eyes that bright and it almost looked like there was red bleeding into the gold. Though he knew that it was only his imagination.

"I am beyond angry." Riley said her voice raspier then he had ever heard it.

"Well that's too bad now isn't it girl." Came a grating voice from the door.

Riley slowly turned her head slightly so she could see the ex-auror. Mad-eye walked into the room and closed the door behind him with an audible click of the lock sliding into place.

Riley's head whipped to the side with blood dripping down her chin as Moody's fist collided with her jaw.

"Hey." Draco spat as he started moving foreword.

Moody pulled out his wand and pointed it in between Draco's eyes. "Back up boy."

Moody spat out some incantation that Draco didn't recognize, but the next thing he knew he was pinned to the back wall.

Mad-eye leaned down and looked Riley in the eyes and grinned.

"I've been waiting to get back at you. Now I have the permission to do it. Removing the threat so to speak." Moody said as he circled Riley's chair.

"You are saying that like it should scare me." Riley said her gold eyes getting brighter by the second.

"Oh, it will." Moody said.

With a flick of his wand Draco flew and hit the ground. Riley's hand clenched and the muscles in her legs started tensing.

"But before I get to you I need to deal with Mr. Malfoy."

Another flick of Moody's wand and Draco flew from the floor and hit the ceiling before crashing back to the floor. Draco let out a small cough and pushed himself up slightly with his arms.

"I thought you were supposed to be the good guys." Draco spat spitting out the blood from his mouth from having bit his tongue.

Another round of flying into the ceiling and floor followed as Moody flicked his wand up and down. Blood was streaming down from Draco's eyebrow after splitting from his fourth contact with the floor and by the fifth Draco could feel the bruising all across his torso.

"What was it that Ms. Granger used to call you whenever those three started talking. Oh, yes, the incredible bouncing ferret. That is the only thing I wish I had actually done that year."

"Hey Mad-eye."

Moody turned towards Riley again and glared while stopping Malfoy's collision courses.

"Didn't they ever teach you anything in Auror training?" She asked simply. "You don't jaw jack when you are in a fight."

Moody looked at her like she was an idiot and took a step foreword and punched her in the face again. Riley laughed lightly as Moody only took a half step back.

"Shut up girl. What would you know about any of this."

Riley grinned and there was an odd snapping sound.

"Oh . . . only that it gives the person a chance to hit you back."

Riley's leg shot up and kicked him in the face. Moody's head whipped to the side as his disgusting hair flew around his face. Riley balanced the chair on the back two legs and horse kicked Mad-eye in the gut. That one double-legged kick caused a series of events to happen in rapid succession. Riley's chair flew backwards and she landed on top of her arms that were still tied behind the chair. Meanwhile Mad-eye's feet left the ground and he crashed straight into the sealed the door. Just like Draco had said the minute Mad-eye's body connected with the door the blue crackling from the electricity started and sent Moody careening into the wall on the opposite side of the room. By the time he reached the floor he was out cold.

Riley flung her body weight up and the chair righted itself once again. The fall had dislocated Riley's wrist just enough to allow her to pull her arms free from her final restraints. When she finally stood up she turned to see Draco pulling himself up off of the floor.

Riley looked at Draco and said, "I don't feel like sitting here in this room anymore do you?"

"No I don't, but how do you propose we get out of here." Draco said snidely. Okay, so maybe he was a little bit beyond angry too.

Riley brushed it off, "They hurt my charge. This is the requirements and retribution."

Draco's eyes widened.

"This may feel a bit odd." Riley said simply.

Draco tried to brace himself but he suddenly felt himself surrounded by some sort of shield. The electricity from the door started crackling and Draco watched as it enveloped Riley's body. The glass in the room started shattering. That was when Draco started feeling a strong type of static electricity surround him. It didn't hurt, but it definitely felt odd.

The room was shaking something fierce. The electricity in the room started getting stronger and Draco could see how it seemed to be touching Riley's skin, but she stood still and suddenly the door flew off of it's hinges and the electricity stopped immediately.

Riley turned and nodded her head at Draco. It was then that he noticed the shield around him was gone. As he stepped out onto the landing he stood just slightly behind her. All of the walls were bending away from the room that they had just come out of. Riley's magic seemed to be pressing against everything; it was from the ward that she had just broken. The walls seemed to buckle from it. Even Draco felt the magic, but for some reason his magic allowed it to pass into him easily. However nothing around seemed to be as accepting. The walls, the hand railings, everything was pushed out and looked as if it was bending to get farther away from the ward's and Riley's magic. It was obvious she was not happy.

They could hear the commotion from downstairs as they all realized that the ward had been set off. Draco vaguely wondered if they knew that their ward no longer existed. Draco and Riley continued to calmly walk down the stairs and finally came into view of the people on the ground. She came to a stop and only turned her eyes towards the people on the ground. Everyone was there. Riley's eyes passed over everyone. Her eyes traveled from Tonks and Lupin who were standing closely together, to Shacklebolt who looked like he was itching to grab his wand, McGonagall and Snape were both looking up shocked, then to the entire Weasley clan sub Ron and Percy. Riley's eyes locked onto Arthur and her eyes narrowed even more before she continued onwards, but there was the problem. The one person that was supposed to be there wasn't. Riley turned her head finally. It looked demonic as her body followed. She gripped the handrail and quickly vaulted herself over it. The ground beneath her splintered as it too tried to get away from her sudden presence. Riley raised herself up from her crouched position and kept her hair covering her face.

Draco reached the ground at the same time as Harry and Hermione who had heard the commotion. The second the three of them reached the ground floor, Riley flicked her hair back and looked around at all of the frozen people around her. Shackelbolt had reached for his wand and Riley's head whipped towards him. He flew through the air and was pinned against the wall spread eagle style.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Riley's voice came out. Her head tilted to the side and slightly up.

"What did you do to Alastor?" Shacklebolt growled out from his position on the wall.

Riley tilted her head and looked at him, "Technically all I did was kick him, your ward took care of the rest, but don't worry. He's only unconscious. I think."

She held her wand out and two wands appeared in her outstretched hand. She handed Draco his back and let her wand arm drop to her side as she turned her head towards the kitchen door.

Dumbledore slowly walked through the door with such authority that everyone else parted for him to walk through. He slowly started walking towards Riley when suddenly the ground around his feet cracked and for some reason he couldn't lift his feet out. As he looked up Riley's wrist had lifted and pointed at the ground around his feet.

"See, I played nice the first time around, old man." Riley bit out as she looked at him with that smirk on her face. "And for some reason, I just don't feel like being as indulgent right now."

"Now, Ms. Brookes. This is unacceptable behavior." McGonagall stated, but immediately stopped talking as Riley's head whipped around in her direction.

"I don't believe I asked your opinion, but since you want to talk about unacceptable behavior lets." Riley said as she walked over to the other strict woman. She got a foot away from the Professor and tilted her head, "This group of you has attacked me twice now. You have tied me to a chair twice. You have exposed me to some fucking electrocution ward multiple times. You held me against my will for a week. You put me in the hospital for weeks. You beat the crap out of Draco Malfoy and me. I was a bitch and . . . oh wait so were you. You also were given the permission to 'remove the threat' of me being near anyone that you deemed important."

Hermione gasped slightly as she heard what Riley was saying. Harry had narrowed his eyes and was glaring at some of the people in the Order. Together they moved to stand next to Draco.

Riley took a step back from McGonagall and took a deep breath. She immediately turned to Mr. Weasley.

"Where is my bike?" Riley ground out while glaring at him. It was by far the angriest Riley had ever sounded.

Mr. Weasley didn't say anything and he barely even looked at Riley.

"So you did take it apart." Riley said, "You took something that was very dear to me. Now if you had grown up on the streets I did, I could kill you for less."

Everyone in the room tensed, but no one moved.

"I don't want to kill you." Riley said while shaking her head making sure that her eyes never left Mr. Weasley's he still wasn't looking at her. She slowly walked up to him and grabbed his chin gently and tilted his face towards her. When he finally looked her in the eye she smirked.

"I don't want to kill you. I want to take something that is so precious to you and rip it to pieces like you did my bike." Riley said quietly. Finally the Weasley clan burst into action and started throwing spells at Riley left and right, but Riley jumped up and did a flip in the air and landed near Harry, Hermione, and Draco. She made sure that she deflected every spell that could possibly harm her charges. All of the Weasley's were fighting angry, but they didn't know how to channel any of that. They were being sloppy and this fight was quickly getting old. Riley spun around suddenly and put her wand in between Harry and Draco blocked the stunner that was hurtling towards Harry's back. The fighting immediately ceased.

"Ron? What are you doing?" Harry asked confused.

"What am I doing? What are you doing standing there next to her and Malfoy!?" Ron spat.

"So you send a stunner at me?! Just like you almost hit Hermione when she left? What is wrong with you Ron!"

"Stop." Came a strong voice.

Everyone turned to Dumbledore. His wand rested by his side as he lifted his feet out of the trap that Riley had cast.

"This is not the time to be fighting amongst ourselves. Not in this time of darkness." He said. "We need to stick together."

Dumbledore turned his blue eyes to Harry.

"Harry. We need you to come back to us. We need you for the battles that are to come."

Riley's eyes narrowed, but she didn't say anything. This was Harry's choice and she would not interfere.

"We all get lost Harry." Dumbledore said with his comforting old man voice. "It's alright. No one blames you."

At this Dumbledore glanced at Riley, but he continued.

"Come back to us Harry. Come back to the light."

For some reason Harry tensed. He had grabbed Hermione's hand as they ran down the stairs and he still hadn't let go, but he could feel her shaking slightly. Why would she be shaking? He looked to his left where Riley stood right next to him. There was a large bruise forming on the side of her face. Her lip was swollen and puffy and her jaw clenched every few seconds like it was trying to keep itself from locking. Riley's good arm was bruised and the wrist looked a bit off. The burn on Riley's arm seemed to be ripped and blood was dripping onto the floor from her fingertips even as she held it a loft and kept her wand trained on the Order members. Draco didn't look any better. His head was bleeding and he kept one of his eyes shut in an effort to keep the blood from dripping in. Neither of them had looked like that when they had all arrived.

Riley turned and looked Harry in the eyes. Everything else around him seemed to fade away as he focused on Riley. Then he felt it. He felt something warm and soft brushing against his face. It felt reassuring almost like a reminder. Then in his head he heard words being whispered lightly, "I'll follow you."

Riley turned her head back to face the people standing in front of her. Harry could see the pride shinning in her eyes. It was easy to see with the odd lighting. The lights in the house were dim, but the hallway was well lit by the moonlight that was flooding in through the window even if it was slightly behind the clouds.

Suddenly Riley's injured arm tensed. The muscles underneath the charred skin bulged as her knuckles turned white around her wand.

"I'm not giving you my wand." Riley said as her focus turned solely to the headmaster.

"Ms. Brooks, you have harmed innocent people, for that the Order must remain precautious. Surrender your wand." Dumbledore said softly.

"I don't think so." Riley said her eyes narrowing while her arm never relaxed.

"I'm sorry to say that it was not a request Ms. Brooks." Dumbledore said. "Give me your wand or we will take it from you."

Riley looked over at Harry and Hermione. The question was clear on her face, though both of them doubted that the Order could see it. Her face was accepting, a silent surrender of power to the two of them. "What do you want me to do?" She was telling them that it was their choice.

"STUPIFY!"

"Protego" Riley flicked her wand and the stunner went flying off in another direction, yet Riley still hadn't taken her eyes off of Hermione and Harry. Harry shook his head imperceptibly and that was it.

"And you." Riley said audibly the rest of her question hanging in the air for only her charges to hear, "Are you coming?"

One final nod and it was done.

"We will take you wand." Dumbledore repeated.

A smile spread across Riley's face as she turned her body to stand sideways towards the Order her arm straight out towards them. It was the same smirk that Harry could have sworn she had given Voldemort right before her wand exploded in his face.

"Well then." Riley's smirk grew, "Why don't you come and get it?"

One by one every one of the people standing in front of them raised their wands and pointed them at Riley, yet the smirk didn't move from her face.

A loud sigh escaped as Draco raised his wand towards the Order and took a step towards Riley so that they were almost touching. Draco's arm fit perfectly above Riley's.

"This is so troublesome." He sighed, but nonetheless his smirk was in place and he looked resolute.

Hermione turned and raised her wand also her face set and determined.

"The Order is not what I had believed it to be. I can't agree to morals that do not match mine." Hermione said as her fingers tightened around her wand.

Then slowly, much to the Order's horror, Harry's wand joined the others. His chest against Riley's with Hermione at his back just as Draco was at Riley's. The clouds were moving finally. The light streamed in to focus on the four standing together. The line of light was steadily moving on the floor towards the Order members.

"I never strayed from the light Professor. I only chose a different one." Harry said strongly.

Riley could see Hermione and Harry's hands shaking. To fight against someone that you care about can be one of the hardest things in the world. It is one of the few defining moments in your life where a piece of you will break and never heal. However it seems the even two/thirds of the golden trio were far luckier then most.

No one moved, no one spoke and second by second the pale silver light was starting to get closer to the Order members.

Riley turned her attention to one specific person in the group in front of her. Her gold eyes locked with gold eyes and the smirk fell from her face.

"Thank you Mr. Lupin." Riley said sincerely, but her voice was clipped.

His eyes narrowed as he kept his wand trained on her.

"Why?" Lupin growled out.

"Because you are going to be the reason that we can leave." Riley said simply.

His eyes narrowed and just as he was about to retort, Riley interrupted him.

"I won't blame you though." Riley said quietly, "No one can control their animal side."

Then it happened. The moonlight hit the Order and suddenly Lupin let out a pained groan as the bones in his body started realigning. He looked out through the window and the full moon was glaring maliciously down on him. The past few days there was so much commotion, he had forgotten. Everyone had forgotten. Everyone was too shocked to move and before it seemed possible, there was a full-grown werewolf standing in the hall.

The howl that he let out rattled the windows and suddenly the room was lit red as stunners hit the wolf from every direction. Tonks broke out into sobs when she saw her husband in wolf form stunned. A few of the Order members spun back around only to be met with an empty hall. The front door was swinging in the night breeze.

That's the end of this chapter. I hope you liked it! The next is already half written, so it most definitely won't be more then a week for me to update again. Please review and let me know what you think. Even if it is to flame me for not updating for so long.