Chapter 11: The Last Stand

When Draco groggily opened his eyes he instantly remembered where he was except now Ron was on his right hand side and Kingsley was on the other side of Blaise. They seemed to be all coming around at the same time, this situation was not good and what was worse no one knew what a jam they were in.

"Welcome back to the party!" came Harry Potter's joyful voice from a throne like chair he had set up for himself, Flora Quincy at his feet, his hand on her head.

"We're all going to have a fun time," she smiled maliciously.

"That's right Pet," Harry assured her.

Draco was relieved that Lucius didn't have his hands around the girl's throats anymore, now he just stood menacingly behind them. Harry apparently didn't miss that Draco was staring at Lucius, as were the other captive men.

"Lucius, will you please take the girls down closer to our guests, I want to make sure that they have the perfect seats for the show," Harry leered.

"Of course Mr. Potter," the older man did as he was told.

"Amazing Potter," Draco shook his head. "How on earth did you do it? That can't be Lucius because he would never kowtow to you."

Harry smiled again very coldly. "Well, I am sometimes smarter than people give me credit for. I thought that everyone would suspect a Polyjuce Lucius or a glamour so I delved a little deeper and looked into other ways. At first I didn't find anything I didn't already know, and then I turned to dark magic and I found my answer. I remembered the Inferi that attacked Dumbledore and I while we were hunting for the first Horacrux and I wondered if I could improve upon them. So I went to Lucius's grave and I began the necessary incantations and left him to find me. Inferi are very useful, they follow the orders of the one who made them, and believe it or not they can speak."

"Harry, maybe you should start at the beginning," Flora suggested. "They don't even know how we kidnapped Narcissa, and we need to tell them about Uriel, every little detail to add to their pain, all of it."

He smiled down at her, bringing her head up to his to kiss her on the lips. "You are so right love; I do need to tell them everything. I suppose I should start with the attack on Ginny in Diagon Alley; that was me glamoured to look like one of the Malfoy men. I knew that Ginny's mind would jump straight to Draco because of how besotted she is with him and after I attacked her he would be taken to Azkaban because Kingsley wouldn't let Ginny fall into that trap again. At that point Flora was letting me out so that I could start to move the plan forward, but I only left while she and I were supposed to be in our private therapy sessions which meant I had a limited time frame. Flora and I knew we needed a more foolproof way for me to walk around the Wizarding world without getting noticed. That was when we decided to put Lucius Malfoy's knowledge to work. We picked around in his memories and found where Narcissa was most likely to be found and using a copy of Lucius's magical signature we were able to get through the wards and we kidnapped Narcissa."

"Why not just scare Narcissa to death by having Lucius appear to her as if he was alive," Blaise asked in a condescending tone.

"We didn't want to kill Narcissa," Flora told him matter-of-factly. "We knew that she would suffer plenty from Uriel and Ginny's deaths, or at least that was the plan at the time."

"Also, Lucius wasn't ready to make his debut. Dark magic takes longer to work then light magic, and it takes a lot more effort and meaning. Although even with all the dark magic and the glamour's I could never make him look as human as I wanted him, so I did have to be careful. A zombie looking Lucius Malfoy is sure to draw attention. So I decided to Polyjuice myself as Narcissa and change her into me. Then Flora came up with the brilliant idea to keep her constantly fed with the potion through an IV drip so we wouldn't have to worry about keeping the potion in her system. The first day she of course freaked out claiming that she was Narcissa Malfoy which only led the rest of the staff to think that Harry Potter had really gone spar. So they sedated "me" for my own good and Flora was able to connect the IV of Polyjuice."

"So if you looked like Narcissa why use Lucius?" Ron wondered.

"Narcissa wouldn't ever dream of destroying her precious family, we needed someone to use who would actually like to get revenge on the members of the Malfoy family. Lucius was the perfect puppet because it was so unexpected and we knew it would create an almost instant rift when "Narcissa" didn't believe her husband was walking around again. Draco going into denial and Blaise losing his mind were just bonus prizes. Lucius as an Inferi fed off the hate I had for the Malfoy's and anyone who helped put me in that hell hole, as well as using his own anger and hate that festered in his heart since the day he died. So when he was finally ready I decided to unleash him on Uriel first. After hearing her testimony at the trial I knew her relationship with her father was a raw nerve, and I couldn't wait to pick at it until she couldn't take it anymore. It was quite useful as well because he was still a Malfoy he could still get past all of the Malfoy wards on the Manor which has made him invaluable as a spy. I've known things about the Malfoy's for months that hardly anyone else knows. I didn't know Zabini was living there with you all, I just thought he came and went as he pleased or I would have planned better and Uriel would probably be dead by now. Blaise surprised Lucius by coming to Uriel's aid when he had her right where he wanted her."

"If you were playing as Narcissa why didn't you hurt Ginny or Emily when I sent them to France for protection?" Kingsley wondered.

Harry laughed as if he had just asked the most obvious question in the world. "Well Malfoy, I would never dream of hurting my daughter, if Flora taught me anything its that Emily is a gift that I have taken for granted. One day I might even be able to make her understand why I did what I did to Ginny."

"She is my daughter Potter!" Draco fought against his bonds a little harder. "You are a sick twisted little fuck!"

"Just because you adopted her Malfoy doesn't mean anything." Harry reguarded him coldly. "You think that one day she isn't going to wonder why she doesn't have the Malfoy hair, or eyes, or any of the other traits that give your family away? One day Emily will come to you and ask who her real father is, and even if I am not around for that day you'll know that I have won a small battle."

"Harry," Flora warned gently. "Don't taunt them too much, Malfoy is so deeply unattractive when he gets angry and it almost makes me sick."

Harry just nodded and went back to the question Kingsley had posed. "I didn't want to give the game away yet. I still had to make everyone in the Malfoy circle think Narcissa was acting oddly to take some of the suspicion away from me, and make them doubt the appearance of Lucius. I was so close to taking care of Uriel through Lucius until Blaise stepped in but I knew I just had to wait a little until her family left her in peace. From his vantage point Lucius watched Blaise leave, followed by Narcissa, Draco, and eventually Ginny and then he knew it was time for him to attack again."

"So I ordered Lucius inside with a wand we had taken from one of the Healer's at the hospital. His orders were to kill his daughter and burn the manor down using fiendfyre so that there would be no evidence left. Unfortunately I should have explored a little more before I sent him in with those direct orders. I didn't know that Malfoy and Ginny were still in the Manor, I wanted Uriel and the house elves to be the only fatalities and that was when I found out Uriel's house elf was guarding her on Ginny's orders. Of course because house elves have a different kind of magic she could tell it wasn't Lucius and she wasn't going to leave Uriel's side so the stupid elf did the only thing she could think of, she put her own brand of protection spell on the Malfoy."

"Of course!" Ron groaned. "Why didn't we even think of that?"

"All of the research Hermione has done on House Elves; they have a special brand of magical signatures that can't be picked up on by most Wizards. They also have a very strong type of protection spell that they can only put on their specific master or mistress that is said to keep them safe at all costs."

"Very good Ron," Harry applauded. "Finally after all these years you start to listen to Hermione. She told me about this about a year ago but when that stupid little Elf started her protection nothing was going to be able to stop it."

"So you are telling us that Mitzi did this to Uri?" Blaise was a little baffled.

"Yes Zabini," Harry told him. "House elves can cast a net around their owners to shield them from any and all harm they think might come to them. The house elf was trying to cast a blanket protection spell but under the duress of Lucius firing curses at her and the rapidly growing fire she messed the spell up and quickly tried to protect Uriel by binding her powers. Unfortunately she didn't get to finish before the fire started to reach them and she just ended up with a warped kind of memory modification."

"You mean I'll get my memory back?" Uriel dared to hope even in this hopeless situation.

"Yes you will, and just in time too, now….who shall I kill?" Harry looked at all his hostages cruelly. "Ron I can't kill you. We were friends once, and Hermione and the baby need you. Kingsley, I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you because you stood by Malfoy and let all this happen. I'll spare Uriel and kill Blaise so that when Mitzi's protection of her wears off she'll be blaming herself for the rest of her life, and sadly I have to kill Ginny. I can't have two more Malfoy's running around and if I kill Ginny and the babies that will hurt everyone not just Draco…the gift that keeps on giving as it were."

He walked down to Ginny and signaled for Lucius to let her go, which he did. Harry pulled out his wand and immoblized her so she couldn't run as Draco, Ron, Blaise and Kingsley all struggled to get out of their bonds. Uriel just stood there looking confused as if she was trying to process everything that she had heard. She kept trying to match names with faces, and broken memories with what the dark haired boy who kept them hostage had told them only moments ago. She didn't know what to do and she could feel her panic growing by the second.

Ginny was on her knees unable to move while Harry Potter stood in front of her rolling his wand around in his hand, toying with her, trying to savor the moment. He saw that Ginny had raised her hands to her stomach as if to protect the Malfoy spawn that was just beginning to make her stomach swell. That sight only made him even angrier, that Malfoy had finally won at something after all these years of Harry thinking that he was the better man. Draco Malfoy had tarnished his name forever and he would make him and every other Malfoy pay. Ginny's death would be enough to put all three of the living Malfoy's over the edge, Blaise's death would send Uriel into a downward spiral, losing his wife and his unborn children would drive Draco to the very last bit of sanity he had and watching both her children slip away from her would put Narcissa into an early grave.

Harry smiled…Malfoy hadn't won after all, he had.

"Good bye Ginny," he sighed as he raised his wand again this time to deliver the finishing blow to his former wife. "You did please me some of the time."

"You never pleased me," she told him frankly, gripping her stomach even in her unmoving state.

"Avada-" Harry started but got no further because Uriel finally broke out of her trance and let out a blood curdling scream of.

"NOOOOO!"

Everyone felt her raw magic ripple through the air and several things happened at once; Inferi Lucius crumbled into dust, Flora Quincy was thrown backward and knocked unconscious and the chairs that the boys and Kingsley were tied to burst apart. Harry knew he was running out of time so he raised his wand again pointed it at Ginny who remained immobilized.

"Avada Kadavra!" he yelled.

Time seemed to move at a painstakingly slow pace as the green bolt of magic headed straight toward Ginny. The boys were still desperately trying to free themselves from their bonds as they watched horrified and unable to do anything. Ginny closed her eyes and waited for the final blow to come, but it didn't; she opened her eyes just in time to see Uriel Malfoy push her out of the way, the curse hitting her instead. Her body was thrown backwards and lay unmoving as everyone assembled stared in disbelief.

"What is it with that girl and ruining my plans?" Harry asked annoyed, staring at her lifeless body as if he had just killed an animal.

That was the last push Ginny needed; she lunged at Harry and knocked him to the ground. The two were locked in a battle for his wand and whoever got the wand would be the one who lived. Draco spotted Flora's wand about ten feet away from him and he started to inch his way toward it, still bound like the rest of them.

"Draco, hurry!" Ron pleaded watching his sister and his former best friend fighting to gain control of his wand.

Draco put his hands out only a few inches away when he heard. "Crucio!"

He turned his head to see his wife standing over Harry Potter, his wand in her hand.

"Incarserous," she pointed the wand at him again and watches as snake like ropes bound him tightly.

As soon as he was secured Ginny flicked the wand in the boy's directions and they were set free. Ron summoned everyone's wands while Kingsley went to secure Flora Quincy.

Ginny snapped Harry's wand in half and raised her own to curse him again.

"Cruc-" was all she got out before Draco stopped her.

"I know you're hurting right now, but he isn't worth it…that's not who you are," he told her tears shining in his eyes.

Ginny fell into his arms sobbing, Draco caught her and supported her, deftly leading her to where Blaise was sitting, Uriel's still form gripped tightly in his embrace, tears rolling in torrents down his cheeks.

Draco collapsed in front of his best friend unable to form words, unable to think of anything as the pain welled up in his chest. Blaise Zabini had never cried in all the years that Draco had known him. Blaise was the only person Draco knew who had a more impenetrable mask then he himself did. Uri had been the first person to crack that mask, and slowly inch by inch, year by year, she chipped away at Blaise's icy façade until he had become a different, kinder, more caring man. Now she had delivered the final blow and the last shred of his icy exterior was gone forever as he sobbed, desperately clinging to his lost love.

"Blaise," Draco addressed him gently. "We should go."

"No," he insisted gripping her tighter still. "I'm not leaving her!"

"Well can you at least let her breath a little?" Came a strained and muffled voice from Blaise's arms.

Blaise loosened his hold almost too afraid to hope, but to his delight Uriel sat up on her own and looked around.

"That hurt," was all she got out before Draco and Ginny had both pulled her into a fierce hug.

"How did you survive?" Draco asked her as they broke away.

Uriel held up her left hand which was burnt pretty badly but they could all see what had stopped the curse. The beautiful, green diamond engagement ring that Blaise had bought her had been blown apart by the impact of the killing curse. Draco took her hand and started to perform some healing spells on it so the burns wouldn't scar.

Uri gripped her head. "Everything is flooding back into my head at once so forgive me if I'm a little cross."

"Your memory?" Draco asked his sister.

She nodded. "Poor Mitzi, she was always such a good friend and she gave her life up to save me. I would give my memory back if I could have her safe again."

"You'll have to go to the hospital to make sure the spells won't have any adverse effect on you, especially the killing curse. You are lucky to be alive Uriel," Draco looked up at her.

"What happened?" Ginny wondered, still a little in awe that Uri was living.

"I was heading toward a bright white light, and then I saw my parents…all three of them. Lucius stepped forward and told me that he was sorry for everything and that he really did love me. Then he said I didn't belong there yet and to turn around and go back to Blaise, and my family."

"I can't believe you did that," Blaise shook his head. "Jump in front of a killing curse. You are so stupid!"

Before Uriel could defend herself Blaise pulled her to him and kissed her as if he never would again. After he broke apart from her they smiled at each other.

"I missed you," he told her.

"You owe me a new ring," she pointed out, smiling as well. "Maybe we can do our proposal a little better this time too."

"Whatever you want," he assured her. "I will buy you the biggest ring, and give you the sappiest, most cliché proposal in the world as long as you promise never to leave me."

She didn't even need to say the words; she just leaned in and kissed him again.

Draco pulled Ginny into his arms and gave her a kiss as well, his hand straying down to her belly, where he could feel their boys growing.

"Let's get out of here," Draco helped Ginny to her feet as they broke away. "We all need to go to St. Mongo's and make sure we're all okay while Kingsley and Ron take those two to Azkaban."

As Draco spoke, Ron and Kingsley appeared each leading one of the unconscious criminals in front of them.

"I will build a maximum security ward of Azkaban myself to hold these two," Kingsley told them.

"We'll meet you at St. Mongo's once these two are taken care of," Ron told them before he and Kingsley were off.

Blaise held his hand out for his Angel.

"I don't think I can support myself yet," Uri tried to get up and failed.

Without another word, Blaise scooped her up into his arms and carried her out of the building, Draco supporting a still shaken Ginny at his side. The four of them kept walking forward and would never look back again.

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