Chapter 13:

A/N: And Dolohov appears.

No POV

The Cullens and the wolves decided to move up into the mountains to get away from the muggles and await the battle against the New-Born army. The Hogwarts bunch decided to tag along, because they did agree to help their new friends. Before they left the safety of their warded house, they prepared themselves for seeing the dangerous death eater. They duelled each other and practised all the spells they used in the Final battle against Voldemort. They prepared healing potions and other useful potions for their stay in the mountains. They were confident that by the time they had to face Dolohov, that they would be ready.

When the day came to battle, it was madness. The wolves fought. The vampires fought. Even the witches and wizards fought. Eventually Edward killed Victoria and the Volturi, the vampire police, stepped in to deal with the New-borns.

But during all this, Dolohov was waiting for his opportunity, watching his targets. It was just his luck that the last two of the Golden Trio showed up for the fight that his new partner had planned. Upon seeing Hermione and Harry, he decided to stay clear of the actual battle, and to plot his attack instead. He watched silently in the trees and when he saw bushy curls, black messy hair and blond platinum hair running away further up the mountain to safety, he followed, still hidden by the trees, ensuring he closed off his mind so that they didn't hear his thoughts as he followed. When they got to a clearing hidden by the trees, he saw Hermione drop down to the ground. When he looked closer, he saw that the girl had a cut on her leg.

'She must have gotten injured during the fight,' he thought to himself, 'which makes sense why they would run away from the fight with all the blood oozing from her leg. Lucky for me.'

He saw he's old friend's son bending over the girl, applying what looked like an anti-pain potion to the cut while the other searched for something in a small beaded bag.

"It's not here!" Harry said frantically.

"Hermione, love, do you think you're strong enough to apparate back to the house?" Draco asked Hermione.

"No, I don't want to risk it. One of you will need to apparate to the house and get it." Hermione said.

Dolohov sincerely hoped that it would be the blond that would leave the clearing, that way he could get both his targets at once.

"Harry, you go. I'll protect Hermione. The protection spell that we have over us will stop any vampires from finding us." Draco said.

"Harry go! The vampire venom is spreading!" Hermione screeched.

Realisation hit Dolohov and he looked at the 'cut' on Hermione's leg again. The cut was actually a bite mark.

'The mudblood must have gotten herself bitten by one of those idiots working for Victoria.' He thought to himself. Dolohov decided to wait for Harry before he attacked. When Harry arrived, Dolohov watched him rub a venom antidote on Hermione. When he saw that the girl was no longer writhing in pain, he shot body binding spells at the unsuspecting witch and wizards.

The three fell to the ground and couldn't move. Slowly Dolohov showed himself laughing.

"Wow! This was just too easy," He laughed, "After all the trouble I went through to find you, you would think I would have had to work harder." Then he turned to Draco, "By the way Draco, you should really question who trust with information on your location. Crabbe and Goyle were just too easy to crack. One 'crucio' and what's that muggle saying? Bob's your uncle!" He laughed wickedly, "But I'll tell you what? I'm feeling… let's say, generous. I won't make you death quick like your red head buddy back in London. No. I think I'll play around a bit first."

He pointed his wand towards Hermione and just as he muttered 'Cru…', a gorgeous black eagle with, oddly, a Slytherin green beak and silver eyes, swooped in and grabbed the death eaters wand.

As Dolohov yelled 'you stupid bird!', the eagle turned into the one person no one had expected to see.

"How dare you raise your wand to my daughter Dolohov?!" Bellatrix yelled and proceeded to bind his arms and legs.

"Bellatrix," he spat, "never did I imagine that the day I see you again, you would become a traitor."

"Traitor?" she snorted, "When did it become traitorous to protect one's daughter? From a torturing curse no less."

He raised one brow, "Daughter?"

"Yes Dolohov, please do keep up." She rolled her eyes and turned her attention to the three teenagers on the ground, undoing the body bind on her daughter.

When Hermione was released, she squealed, jumping into her mother's arms and yelled, "Mother!"

"My sweet Hermione!" Bellatrix hugged her back, "oh how I've missed you."

"And I you." She replied, "You're an animagus mother?"

"Yes. After I met you at the ministry that night, I became an unregistered animagus, in case things didn't go…well…my way, and I was forced to run. Anyway I guess it did come in handy. I would have been here sooner, daughter, but I could only travel a night. It's unusual for green beaked eagles to be flying around and I didn't want to rouse any unnecessary attention, so I travelled slowly. Looks I came here just in time." She glared at Dolohov.

"You were Voldemort's most loyal follower and yet you allowed your daughter to stand against us. Sounds like you're nothing but a double-crossing whore." He spat at her.

"You good-for-nothing idiot! If I was double crossing Voldemort, why would I be on the run right now, huh?! My daughter was taken from met at birth! I had no control over who or what she became, but I am nonetheless proud of her. She is bright, beautiful and brave. She stands up for what she believes in. Why would I want anything else for her?" she yelled.

"She and her friends took down Voldemort! Does that mean nothing to you?" He questioned.

"Does the fact that, at the age of 17, she helped take down one of the most powerful dark wizards of all time, mean anything to me? Yes! It means that I birthed an amazing witch. That my daughter is powerful. I am proud to say I'm her mother. And every single day I am grateful that she accepts me as her mother." She retorted.

"You make me sick. You don't deserve the title 'death eater'. You are a traitor in my eyes." He growled.

"Oh just shut up already. You are lucky I didn't kill you for trying to hurt my daughter. No. I think you deserve to be behind bars. Draco can ensure that happens. Hopefully you're unlucky enough to get the kiss." She snapped, "Stupefy!" she hit him with the stunning spell causing him to fall unconscious.

"Oh mother," Hermione held her mother again, crying into her neck, "you going to have to leave again before the aurors come."

"Hush Mya," she stroked her daughter's hair, "I will return. I will go into hiding close by and return when it's safe. I promise sweetheart. I came back to you now. I will come back again. I should leave actually, before anyone else sees me. We don't want the aurors to get wind that I was around. Do me a favour? Obliviate Dolohov so that he doesn't remember that I was here."

"Of course mother. Anything to keep you safe."

"I love you."

"I love you."

And with that, Bellatrix transformed into her animagus and flew away.

Hermione's POV

I watched my mother's animagus form fly off until I couldn't see her anymore, and then I turned my attention to Draco and harry, undoing their body binds, while glancing frequently at Dolohov, making sure he was still there. When they were both unbound, I fell into Draco's arms and he held me while I sobbed. Harry went over to the stunned Dolohov and was about to mutter 'obliviate' when Draco stopped him. I looked up at him confused.

"Draco, we have to! He will turn my mother in. He knows she's an animagus." I protested.

"Hermione we can adjust his memory to forget that she was an animagus, but maybe we can us this in our favour. Her favour. She captured the most wanted person in Wizarding Britain. Perhaps we can say that she came looking for you, noticed you were in trouble, stunned Dolohov and apparated away before we could react. If the three of us, two of the Golden trio and one auror, stand up for her and request that she be acquitted, maybe we can free her from this life of being on the run. You can have your mother back Mya." He said.

Harry nodded, "It's a long shot, but it's worth the try. If she agrees not to practise anymore dark magic and to behave like an upstanding citizen, we could strike a deal for her. I doubt that the ministry will allow her to not serve any time for her crimes but maybe the fact that she actually helped the ministry and prevented three deaths in the process, can reduce her sentence. Maybe a small amount of jail time or house arrest for a few years."

"I'll take the house arrest. I don't want her back in jail. Even if I have to use my influence as 'War Heroine' to do it, I will not allow her to go back to that awful place." I stated.

"Okay be reasonable, 'Mione. We need to be able to settle with whatever they give us. She's not exactly being charged for minor crimes here." Harry said.

"I will not send her back too Azkaban. It would be better for her to be in hiding." I glared at Harry.

"Okay, okay, let's just calm down. We'll call the aurors for now and then we'll portkey back to London. I'll set up a meeting with the minister and we can broach the idea with him. We'll see what he can offer her. And if he gives her a suitable deal, we'll send word out using all media forums calling for her to come back to London. In the meantime, let's get that memory charm on Dolohov and get him behind bars before that stunning spell wears off." Draco said.

We agreed and the aurors were notified.

It took weeks for any deal to be settled upon regarding Bellatrix. Eventually after several debates between the minister and me, we finally settled on a suitable punishment. The time that Bellatrix had already served and another five years of monitored magic and house arrest. I made sure that loophole-free contracts were signed and that there were no surprises to contend with. If I was going to bring my mother out of hiding, I was not taking any risks. We used media forums to contact my mother and she finally came out of hiding, and entered Wizarding London for the first time in months.

A trial was held for her where she was charged for her crimes and was sentenced according to the agreement between Hermione and the Minister of Magic. She was not permitted to leave the grounds of Malfoy Mansion under any circumstances for five years and her wand was charmed to monitor all magic she performed for the same amount of time. Although she was not happy being confined, she did not argue. She would rather be free to watch her daughter marry, have kids and grow old, than to be flying around and hiding.

And so, Mother and Daughter were reunited.