//Harry//

I was falling through air. I could feel the rush of air around me, I opened my eyes it was black, nothing was there I couldn't even see hand in front of my own face. I must have been lost, lost to the world. I started slowing down, red flames erupted around me, I landed on my back beaten and broken on the ground. I coughed spurting out a mouthful of blood, and looked up taking in my surroundings.

"Well done Harry Potter." Amdis said coldly. I sat up and turned towards his voice, I was in the same room as I was before nothing to suggest my previous fight but the injuries that I felt on me. "You made it. So now you receive your prize." He lent out his hand to me, inside was a small purple velvet box, I reached out my hand to it but stopped short.

"What about the last task, aren't there supposed to be four." My mouth ached but I managed to choke out the words in a scratchy, throaty voice.

Amdis started to laugh his teeth gleaming against the fire light. "Yes, but you passed it, your heat was pure, you wanted the gift for someone else, someone that you would risk your life for, you were willing to die to grant them this. Agape, that's what was flowing through you, it is a love that people have for one another and a love that few now have the means to feel. It is the greatest of all of the tasks, and one that few people have ever passed. Stand up, take your prize and go, live happily for as long as your life lasts. The one who this is meant for will be restored to full life at the age that they died at."

I lifted myself up slowly, felling the ache and the pain and numerous bruises, cuts, bites, and broken bones. Slowly I lifted my hand and took the box from Amdis, it was light but warm, it felt familiar like I was home. "Thank you." I said feeling power restored to me slowly as my mind caught up whit what was happening, with what I had won.

"I wish you the best Harry Potter, and that I will never see you again as long as I may live. " Amids inclined his head to me, and I the same to him. He brought his hand up and clicked his fingers together and there I was again in the rushing darkness holding onto the small box for dear life and despite the pain and exhaustion I was feeling I smiled knowing what was waiting for me on the other side.

//Rose//

Here they are my parents, Hermione went out early this morning to get the last minute food's that she had on order so I have not been able to find her to ask her about Harry, he was still not back yet and there was no sign that he was coming soon, the others were worried too now each asking the other if they had heard anything from him whatsoever over the holidays, neither had which was unusual, even Sirius was worried. The doorbell rung, I could smell them before I heard the doorbell ring, my mother, father, brother and his wife on the doorstep four vampires and Sirius had no idea what he was in for.

"I'll get that, it must by your parents Rose, very prompt aren't they." Sirius said bounding over to the door dressed in dark blue robes, his wavy black hair tied back for the occasion. Ron and Ginny had come back up from the kitchen waiting to see Sirius's reaction. I walked down the stairs slowly dressed in dark blue jeans and one of Harry's smaller shirts, I needed to surrounded by his sent today the pain of him being gone had tripled as I realised that he may not be coming back from wherever he had gone if he was not back today.

"Ah, you must be Garret and Elizabeth, pleased to meet you, Sirius Black, Harry's godfather." Sirius said holding out his hand in greeting. James half smirked at Joanna as Garret closed his hand around Sirius's causing Sirius to gasp at the sudden cold then back away slowly. "What are you?" he said looking between me and my family noticing the similarities between us.

"Sirius, they are vampires we thought that it's best that you didn't know till they arrived." Ginny said quickly watching as Sirius turned to her, white shock on his face.

"You allowed blood suckers into my home without telling me!" He roared casing Ginny and Ron to back away slightly in fear.

"Sirius they don't drink human blood they drink animal blood to sustain themselves. They aren't dangerous at all. Look at Rose she and Harry have been dating for the past term and she's never hurt him."

"Vampires are vampires despite how they may act Ron, they are mindless killing machines with only one thought of where their next meal may come from, no idea of real human feelings." Sirius said

"No idea of real human feelings." I said stricken from the pain of those words. "Mr. Black I peg your pardon but I don't see how you can raise such an unwarranted accusation, if you have not noticed your godson has been missing for the past days, you have not see not heard from him during the time he has been away, and you have barley even noticed that he has gone, in actual fact you seem to not worry about his whereabouts. I on the other hand have felt his absence for days, it has pained me not to have him close and near, I love Harry and if he does not return today I do not know how I can cope in this world without him. His sent when it first touched my senses struck me, I wanted to taste him, I admit I did, but I resisted. Since then we have become friends and then lovers, I would sooner die than live without him. I question the relationship we have every day, not because of lack of feeling or affection but because I love Harry so much that I don't think I can allow him to live a life with me, because whatever happens the life that we share together can never be no more than a half life. Either he lives and dies mortal with no children and a relationship that I cannot fulfil totally because I am scared and afraid of hurting him in the process. The other life would be one where he joins my kind, and that is a fate that I will not bestow on him, as though I would happily spend eternity with him his life is too precious, too pure, too beautiful to take away from selfish reasons. Do you doubt my feelings?" Sirius stared me in the eye as if searching for lies that lay beneath my words.

"I'm afraid what my daughter says is true, she loves your godson. We mean you no harm to come here, you my dislike our kind but we mean no harm to any human who we come across. We have chosen a different way of life from the others. If you want us to be gone then we will gladly leave, but the courtship that your godson and our daughter have entered means that there is little way around us never interacting with one another." My mother addressed Sirius with deadly regard that I had not notice before. I watched Sirius for a reaction, he merely stared at her as she spoke, half entranced by her fluency and her beauty and half fearful at what she was. There was a few moments of silence after mine and my mother's speech as everyone held their breath waiting for the next reaction that Sirius would give.

"Harry's missing?" Sirius said slowly as if this was the only information that he could process at that moment in time.

"Yes." I said, eyes filling up with tears at the mere thought of him being gone.

"Where?"

"I don't know." My throat felt dry as I said the words, trying to maintain a hold on me emotions.

"I think I can help you out there." I whipped round and my eyes fixed upon hazel brown ones of the girl that I had spent the morning waiting for, Hermione was standing there behind my family, three large heavy looking bags in her hands, her eyes were red and her face filled with worry. As I stared at her my annoyance at her lack of compliance at telling me the truth about Harry faded away, she was obviously as worried about him as I was.

//Hermione//

"I don't know much, I only know part of what is going on." I was standing up at the end of the table which was dressed for Christmas dinner that was supposed to be cooking now. Rose's family as well as the Wesley's, Sirius and Lupin were sitting around the table looking up at me eyes burning into me all wanting to know the one thing that I could not tell them. Where Harry was. "It all started a few weeks ago, Harry came to me with a request he wanted to give you back your life Rose, he wanted to make you human again." Everyone in the room turned to look at her.

"But that's not possible." Ginny said looking between Rose and me.

"Actually it is." Garret said looking at his daughter. "There is an old legend that says that if someone can pass four tasks then they can reunite the body of the walking dead with its soul, its life force." Mr. Weasley looked back around at me at this.

"So Harry found out how to do it?"

"Yes."

"Where did he find it?"James asked suddenly.

"I don't know." I admitted truthfully. "We were looking but we didn't find anything, the nearest thing we found was this symbol." I pulled out the scrap of paper that I had taken to carrying around trying to match old documents to the symbol.

"That's the symbol of the un-dead that you were looking at." Sirius pointed at the paper in my hand.

"I know and I have looked through documents and documents but nothing has come up. The night that we found this Harry was called to Dumbledore's office and after that I do not know. The only thing that Dumbledore said was that he should be home by Christmas and that he had every trust in him to make it back safely."

"So let me get this straight Dumbledore sent Harry off to somewhere that no one knows where it is in order to retrieve a vampires soul and he could possible not be coming back?" Mrs. Weasley exclaimed hysterically.

"Yes. I know it's not good and that I should not have kept you all in the dark for this long but I didn't know what else to do, I was hoping he would be back here by now, I didn't want to believe that me night not come back." All the worry that I had been feeling everything thing that had been building up for the past days was suddenly flooding to the surface. All the doubts, the worry, the frustration of not being able to tell people about this, it hurt, I could no longer contain it, the tears started falling and I was sobbing hard into my hands. I felt an arm circle around my shoulders and pull me tightly into their hard chest.

"It's going to be fine, no matter what we are going to get through this." I heard Ron's voice whisper in my ear comforting me, allowing me to release all the pent up feelings, sometimes I forgot how much I loved this boy, he might be stupid and narrow minded and forgetful at times but he was always there for me when I needed him and now I needed him more than anything in the world.

"What am I meant to do?" Rose was standing up tears silently falling down her face.

"I'm sorry, I don't..." I trailed off not knowing what to say.

"He risked everything to get me back my life and now he's gone because of it, and I don't even know where he is." She was shouting at me now anger filling her. "You still have the one that you love, I have nothing but this half life that I've been living in, I have watched as the last of my line die out, and I will continue to watch the rest of the world crumble whilst I still live on in a shell of existence." She turned towards her family. "You know what it is like to be alone, people want to live forever, all that I want to do it live, I'm sorry I love you all deeply but Harry he was the last thing that was holding me from insanity."

Elizabeth nodded her eyes welling up. "How are you going to find them?" Garret asked.

"No you can't!" James said standing up.

"You can't what?" Ginny asked confused looking between the family of vampires that were talking almost too fast to understand.

"James what is she talking about?" Joanna asked clasping James arm. He turned to her and said one word in a fast whisper so that no one else could catch what he said. "She can't no!"

"I have to."

"No you can't, I refuse to allow you." James said almost pleading.

"You refuse to allow me? You do not tell me what I can and can't do. Do not even think that that the past years that we have lived together have given you the right to tell me that I cannot see them." Rose said in a deadly whisper taking a step forward towards her brother.

"I can't just let you do this, this is your life, you can't just throw it over some mortal."

"James you have no say in this, I may not agree what Rose is planning on doing but we must let her do what she thinks is right, she has seen much more than you, she has never truly felt part of this life, none of us have, but we have something to hold us to it, Rose has never it's her life to choose."

Elizabeth turned towards her daughter. "Is there not another way? Do you have to see them?"

"Who is them?" Sirius asked angrily not wanting to be left in the dark no more. This was getting me worried, it made no sense what they were saying.

"They are a clan of our kind that are famous for keeping the peace between other clan, harbouring the gifts of other vampires and destroying ones that plead them to." Garret explained looking at his daughter, and then back at the others. My heart skipped a beat, was this what she was talking about? Giving up her life?

"You can't." I said before I could stop myself. "Harry wouldn't have wanted you to, and we don't even know that he is gone."

"He's not here is he, and we may never know if he is going to be coming back so what am I meant to do live forever knowing that I've lost the only love of my life?" Everyone was silent; I had nothing more to say. "When you have lived as long as I have then you realise that this world is not as wonderful as it first appears to be and the only things that are worth staying for are those people that impact your life, the ones you love, the ones that you can never leave." She took a deep breath and continued talking into the silence of the others. "I could go on, but I know what it is like to have everything that you wanted everything that you could wish for, and now it is gone I can't wish for anything more so what is the use in staying, tell me that."

We stood there, I knew if we tried to stop her then none of us would last long, the grief that was rolling off of her. Rose turned to go her face set, the out of nowhere there was a flash of blinding white light that filled the room, a great whirling sound, a dark figure fell from the ceiling and upon the table with a crash. 'It can't be.'

//Harry//

I coughed, chocked and spluttered. I had landed on something hard and cold, I felt my arm crush below the force of my weight. I opened my eyes, my glasses were cracked but I could still see through them to the group of people that were looking down at me. I could make out one face more clearly than the others.

"Rose." I said pulling breath into my lungs from where it had been knocked out by the force of the fall.

"Harry." she came forward timidly reaching her cold hand towards my face. "Where have you been, you are hurt." With her help I was lifted up into a sitting position cradling my arm, the room moved around me and all I could see was her tear stained face. "I thought you had died." She cried out trying to hold in her tears.

"I went to hell and back, and have retrieved something that I hope you will accept." I held out the little box towards her. "Do you accept life, life with me?"

Rose smiled, and inside I melted for the hundredth time at the sight of her beautiful smile. "Always." She kissed my lips as I opened the box up. Her cold lips grew in warmth he touch became fire and there out of nowhere was the beating of her heart a smooth beat, I could feel it her heart, it was the best feeling that I had ever felt.

"Your heart." I said not knowing what else to say once she had pulled away.

"I know." She looked down at the place where our hands rested clasped together above her heart. "I love you." She whispered, smiling the truest smile I had ever seen.

"I love you too."

This was the moment that I realised that it would last forever, even past death, and this is where the story of finding something I never knew existed ends and becomes a fairy tale that lived happily ever after. There is no more reasonable explanation that I can decide upon except unconditional love that has led me here. It saved my life in hell and brought back the life of the one I love. I am gripped in this place forever, not a moment fixed in time but a person fixed in feeling that has never wavered since the moment that I felt it. And this is where the story ends and an untold chapter begins.

Thank you for reading this story, I enjoyed writing this and I hope you enjoyed reading this.