Author's Note: I do not own Harry Potter. That all goes to J.K Rowling. Although if there is anything you don't recognize from the books, movies, or real life, it's probably mine.
See I told ya! :D Now I am still working on this story, I won't leave you. However, I have been fiddling with the idea of a Star Trek story, Bones/OC, that sorta thing. Karl Urban is one fine ass New Zealand specimen.
Tori stood at the entrance to the gardens with her arm hooked through her fathers. Flutes and violins filled the air as she and Timothy slowly walked the path that w put down especially for the wedding. Looking at all the faces of everyone that had shown up for the wedding, there were more than Tori had imagined. Her and Draco had decided on a small intimate wedding, why were all these people here? However, all that changed when Tori's eyes made their way to the front of the aisle. Draco stood there in his best dress robs, and to her he looked perfect. Everyone else didn't mattered, all that mattered was that man she was about to marry. As she continued her walk, a smile couldn't be kept at bay.
Sooner than she imagined she was standing next to Draco, turning to her father, she kissed his cheek and took Draco's hand. Giving it a small squeeze, she looked over at the Minister, who was officiating their wedding.
"We're gathered here today to join this couple in matrimony. This is a beginning and a continuation of their growth as individuals. With mutual care, respect, responsibility, and knowledge comes the affirmation of each one's own life happiness, growth and freedom. Within the emotional safety of a loving relationship - the knowledge self-offered one another becomes the fertile soil for continued growth. With care and responsibility towards self and one another comes the potential for full an happy lives."
As the minister proceeded to talk about the sanctity of marriage and its importance, Draco began to feel the effects of the Polyjuice Potions wearing off. As his stomach and head began to aches, he almost doubled over in pain.
"Draco, are you okay?" Tori whispered.
"Fine." Looking over at Kingsley, "Mind if we speed this up a bit?" He asked a little too loudly, as his body began to hurt. Those close to Draco hear his request and giggled.
"Eager to consummate, eh Draco?" Blaise poked at his best friend.
"Something like that." With Draco practically glaring at him, Kingsley gave in. Hopping that his speech had given everyone enough time to get everything in place.
"Very well. The rings please." Tori turned to grab the ring from Matilda, as Draco turned to grab Tori's from Blaise.
Grabbing Tori's hand, Draco slide the ring onto her finger while saying his vow, "I, Draco Malfoy, take you, Victoria Willington to be my wife. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life."
She didn't understand why, but to her, what Draco was saying sounded forced, almost scripted. Shaking her head, telling herself it was just nerves, she took his hand in her own, and began to say her own vows. "I, Victoria Willington, take you, Draco Malfoy to be my husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life." Sliding the ring onto his finger, they both looked at Kingsley for the final words that would seal their marriage.
'I know pronounce you…" Before he was able to finish his part, Draco suddenly flew from the altar and laid flat on the ground."
'Draco!" Tori shouted, as she ran to his side. Unable to get him to answer her, Tori shot up and looked to where the attack had come from. Everyone was now looking around to see what had caused this sudden attack and everyones eyes averted to the back of the ceremony where a large group of people where now standing.
"Get the hell away from my wife." The newcomer had shouted.
Recognizing his voice, Tori turned to see Draco standing there, along with her parents, his mother and aunt, her grandparents, Charlie, Harry, Ginny and Hermione.
Everyone began pointing to the new gathers and pointing to the front of the altar where they identical looks alike's sat. "Touch her again and you'll wish you were never born." Draco said as he stumbled down the aisle, his legs still not cooperating after his torture.
"Draco?' Tori whispered looking back and forth between the two blondes.
"Tori, get away from him, now!" Draco insisted.
"What….what is this?" She asked backing away from Draco.
"Tori please, trust me."
Suddenly, the figure next groaned as he tried to sit up. "Draco!" Tori shouted, and she once kneeled next to her fiance.
"Would you please stop calling me that!" He grumbled.
"What are you talking about?" Tori asked backing away. The man got to his feet slowly, his back to her, carefully he brushed off his dress robes.
'I said, I'm not Draco, so stop calling me so." The man turned around to reveal a very familiar face.
Bringing a hand to her mouth, the man she was about to marry was no more, the hair and eye color remained the same, but the man himself had changed.
"Dennis?"
"Hello love." He grinned at her. Running a hand through his wavy locks, he straightened out his robes, and looked over a Blaise. "Don't even think about it." Blaise lowered his hand from his waistband where he kept his wand. "It's a lovely day for a wedding, is it not?" Dennis said smugly over at his best friend.
"What…." Tori was at a loss for word. What on earth was happening right now?
By now, Draco had moved closer to Tori, grabbed her by the arm, he quickly pulled her back behind him. Shielding her from whatever Dennis was had up his sleeve.
"Oh Draco, you can't even save her now." He laughed.
"Where's Cole, Creevey?"
"Mason, he'll be here shortly."
No later than the words had left his lips, dark clouds began covering overhead, twisting and turning. Dark wisps soon followed, and more people began appearing in the gardens of Malfoy Manor. Draco put a protective arm around Tori as many of the wedding guests began more and more frightened.
Jumping onto the podium Kingsley Shacklebolt once stood, Dennis waved a gesturing hand "Ladies and Gentlemen! My friends and colleagues, may I present to you our new Lord and Master!" Several of the newcomers all cheered in agreement as someone began walking up the aisle.
"Thank you for the introduction my friend." Mason Cole stood in front of everyone. He no longer looked like the young man who they once knew him as. His hair was gone, and his skin look pale and sickly.
"Ma…Mason?" Mrs. Cole stood up from her seat and looked at her son. "Son, what are you doing?" She pleaded.
"I'm not your son!" He snarled at her as he shot a spark of green from his wand. Everyone screamed as they tried to dodge the light which hit Anne Cole directly in the chest as she feel to the ground, all life leaving her body.
By now, every witch and wizard had their wands pulled, all pointed at Mason. Kingsley Shacklebolt rushed in front of Draco and Tori his own wand pulled from his robes. "Mason Cole, you are under arrest for the kidnapping of several witches and wizards, the attempted murder of Victoria Willington and Draco Malfoy, and the murder of Anne Cole, your own mother." The last bit was harsher than the rest. "How do you plead?"
"Justified." Mason said darkly.
"How is any of this justified?!" Gavin Cole cried as he held his dead wife's corpse. "After everything we did for you! She loved you ungrateful bastard, you weren't even her child but she loved nonetheless" He shouted.
"Now the truth comes out!" Mason laughed as if he had gone mad. "Tell me father," he hissed out, "does anyone know of my parentage? Or was that also a secret kept in the dark?"
"Mason, whatever secrets your parents may have kept from you, does not by any means justify this." Kingsley pointed at Anne.
"Oh but it does Mr. Minister." Turning around to face the crowd. "Let me tell you a tale of a woman. She was lured in by the wonders of the dark arts. She would practice such things in the dark, and soon she became rather good at it. So good, she caught the eye of one particular man who would use her pleasure in the arts for his own means. When Voldemort," Many people cringed at the mention of his name "began gathering his followers, she was one of first to volunteer. She cared nothing for the wars between Purebloods and Mudbloods, she saw the dark power this man held and wanted to learn for her own. He twisted her mind, body, and soul for his own pleasure. Can anyone guess what one of those might be?" Mason looked around searching for an answer. "Lucius?" He drawled out lookin at the older wizard. Draco turned to look at his father who was standing next to Blaise at by the altar. His eyes glazed over and his face like stone. Not paying any mind to what Mason was saying. "Surely you must know, being the right hand of the Dark Lord for so long. Tell everyone what he did to that woman."
Lucius just stared at the man from the altar. "Oh, I forgot." Waving his wand at him, Lucius suddenly stumbled from his post. Blaise quickly caught him before he fell to the floor. Gasping for breath, he looked at the young man. "It can't be."
"Oh, but it is." Mason chuckled. "See friends, as immortal as Voldemort thought he was at the time, he was always looking for ways to elongate his own life. Even after splitting his soul into several different pieces, he know it was folly, so as many men do, they decided to create an heir. One to take his place after he was gone, and who better to bear such an heir than someone with the same interests in the Dark Arts as he!"
"Oh enough with is Mason. Let's just kill him and get it over with. Some of us are getting a little impatient." Dennis shouted. Chuckles and cackles came from those surrounding the wedding.
"Make a move on any of them and you're a dead man Creevey!" Harry shouted from his spot where the rest of the Order was now standing ready to face off if need be.
"I'm shaking." Dennis said mockingly
While Mason was distracted from laughing with everyone, Draco quickly pushed Tori into the crowd and flung a spell towards Mason. One to which, he easily deflected, and that was the tipping point.
Curses and spells were now flying throughout the air, hitting whatever they could. The wedding party and guests were now in a panic. Screaming and trying to run away from the fight. Tori looked across the gardens, left and right pairs were dueling, streaks of red and green were flying to and from. All around her bodies kept dropping, unsure of what spell they were hit from, they continued to fall.
Tori quickly shook the shock from her body and saw Draco and Mason dueling with one another. Blaise was dueling with Dennis, while Kingsley was trying to Lucius and Matilda to safer places. As quick as she could, she crawled over to them. "Lucius! What in Merlin's name is going on?!"
"Tori!" Matilda cried as she hugged her friend.
"We have to them someplace safer!" Kingsley shouted at Lucius. Both men nodded. "Matilda, given Lucius your wand!" The minister shouted at the young witch. Nodding quickly, she pulled her wand from the folds of her dress and handed it over to Lucius.
"Victoria! Come on!" Matilda grabbed her arm and both they girls followed. Dodging any spell that came their way. They we're nearing the entrance of the house when a loud cry broken Tori's focus. Turning around and saw Draco was disarmed and was now on his knees in front of Mason.
"No." She whispered to herself. 'No, no. He can't…' She couldn't even think of the word without a lump forming in her throat.
As Mason raised his wand to Draco, before she knew it, Tori was running across the gardens as fast as her heeled feel would carry.
"Avada…." Before he could finish his curse, Mason was flung to the ground, a blur of white going with him. Tori quickly detangled herself from Mason and crawled over to Draco.
"Draco! Come on now! Draco!" She shouted at him. As he lifted a heavy head, a smile formed on his lips.
"You look beautiful." He managed to get out. "I'm so sorry Tori. For everything."
A loud cry flew from the fray, and the battle that was raging in the gardens was slowly diminishing, most of the dark witches and wizards had given up. Harry and the other Aurors were making quick work of leading them down to the dungeons of Malfoy Manor before more could escape. Blaise had managed to knock Dennis unconscious and he was one of the many that were being dragged down to the dungeons. Justine and the other few healers that were there were tending to the wounded. Everyone else was doing their best to out in anyway they could.
"No!" Mason yelled out. He quickly got up and stalked his way over to the happy couple. "You took everything from me!" He kicked Tori out of the way and grabbed Draco by the collar of his shirt and drug him up. "It was all supposed to be mine, yet they gave it to you. The one that would follow in his footsteps. You couldn't even kill one person, one old man. Snape had to do that for you, just like everything else." Mason sneered at Draco. "You're pathetic." Thrusting to Draco to the ground, Mason made his way to Tori, grabbing her by her hair he pulled her to her knees, he shook her quite when she screamed in pain, and held his wand by her temple. "I'm going to kill her, you do know that Draco? Or are you too pathetic to get up and save the woman you supposedly love?"
His duel with Mason had opened the wounds he had received by his croonies and every inch of Draco's body screamed when he made the slightest move. Every ounce of him begged him to stay where he was, but he couldn't. Not when Tori's life was at stake. Bringing one leg up, he planted his foot into the ground and tried to lift himself up, but his body would not cooperate with him.
"Mason, whatever I did to you, I'm sorry. Just please, let her go." Draco begged.
"You really are pathetic. A little torture and you can't even stand and protect her." He inched Tori higher off the ground until she was standing, His hand still wrapped around her hair, he pressed his wand further into her temple. "You're really going to let me kill her aren't you?"
Draco couldn't say a word, his mind was screaming at him to do something, but physically he could not. "Such a waste." Mason whispered, as he waved his wand, a streak of light came from it and hit Draco, and before Tori could scream, his body slumped to the ground.
Tori stared at her fiance, today he was supposed to her husband. Today they were supposed to start their lives together. Now everything seemed out of reach. She would never hear his voice, his laugh, feel his touch. Nothing. It was all gone.
A lump rose in her throat and the nausea swelling in her increased as she continued to stare at her fallen fiance. "You'll never get away with this." She spat at Mason.
"Whether or not I get away with anything, Draco's death is a wonderful consolation prize." Mason whispered in her ear and her body stiffened. "He was going to die anyway, but the fact that he died trying to save you, now that will keep me warm at night."
Mason threw Tori to the ground, but she couldn't feel the hard earth crashing into her body. All she knew was that Draco was gone, and he wasn't coming back, and it was her fault. All she saw was his body, no indication of him moving or even breathing. Reaching her hand out, she could almost reach him, but he was too far and even though she willed it, her body would not move.
A new voice rose up from the background, it was almost mute to Tori, but it rang through nonetheless.
"Back away from her."
Mason turned around to see who now dared him, only to see Bill Weasley standing in front of them. His wand steadily aimed at Mason. "Oh look, daddy dearest to save the day. Or did you not know that yet?" Mason sneered at Tori.
Rather than be bothered by his comments, Bill held fast. "Back away from her. Now."
"And if I don't, what are you going to do?"
By that point, several members of the Order and Victoria's family had started making their way towards the unblushing bride; the first to react to the scene was Narcissa, crying as she made a dash for her son, only to be pulled back by Lucius.
Mason turned his head to stare at Bill and chuckled. "You don't have in you. None of you do." He laughed out as he stared at everyone who currently held their wands readily at him.
"It's over Cole, put the wand down." Blaise countered from his spot beside Lucius.
"It's far from over friend. So far from over." Mason chuckled.
"You're right." A quiet voice rose from behind him. Mason turned to see Tori slowly getting up from the ground. "This is so far from over." She hissed.
"Blaise, get Draco out of here."
"Tori."
"Get him out of here. Take his bo…." She paused and took a deep breath, "His body inside."
Blaise slowly made his way over to Draco's body, keeping an eye on Mason as he did. Once he had Draco securely in his arms, he walked back to the group. "Good." Tori said as she turned to face Mason.
Raising the wand she took of Draco, she shot a dark purple light into the air, and a glowing barrier began to encase her and Mason.
"TORI NO!" Charlie shouted as he ran towards her, only to be forced back by the barrier. Justine was by Charlie's side as he tried to stand up.
"What is she doing?" She yelled.
Bill reached a hand out to the barrier, getting shocked in the process. "What is this?"
"There's a reason Tori is a very good dragon trainer." Charlie panted as he stood up, with the help of Justine and Harry. "That barrier is one of her specialties. No dragon has even been able to break through it, that wall only comes down when she wants it to, and I don't see it coming down anytime soon."
"What are you trying to say?" Bill questioned his brother.
"Only one of them is coming out alive." Charlie stated, "Even unconscious, she can keep that wall up. I've seen it happen before. If Cole wants out, he has to kill her."
All turned towards the barrier, still able to see clearly what was happening inside the barrier. All waiting for the worst but praying for the best outcome.
"Well, this was certainly unexpected." Mason drawled out as he stared across the small enclosure at the woman in front of him.
"You ruined everything." Tori whispered under her breath. "This was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. Not only did you ruin my wedding, you threatened my family. You threatened the lives of innocent people, and you killed an innocent woman who loved you like a son, regardless of whether or not you were her own. You killed…" She swallowed the lump in her throat.
"I killed poor precious Draco Malfoy." He said sarcastically.
"Don't you dare say his name again!"
"Are you going to kill me if I do?" He sneered.
A grin spread across her face, "Something like that." With a wave of her wand she shot at him.
Soon the two began throwing spells at each other and defending themselves when need be.
Tori sent a leg locking jinx as Mason which be barely managed to ward off. "Come on now, you can do better than that!" Mason taunted her as he threw another curse at her, unable to bring her wand up in time, Tori quickly dodge out of the way. Landing on the ground as she did, rolling onto her knees she threw a hex at him as she stood up. "If only he could see you now. You're just as pathetic as he was. Both poor excuses for a witch and wizard."
A fire rose inside Tori and she began throwing spell after spell at Mason, who went on the defensive. Tori was pushing him back to the barrier, soon he had only two feet from him and the wall, still Tori did not let up on her barrage. With a flick of her wrist, she brought him of the ground and flung him back down.
Mason landed with a hard grunt on the ground. Letting go of his wand, he clutched his chest as he tried to catch his breath.
Breathing heavily, Tori stepped closer to Mason, " We may not be amazing, we may not be powerful, but we are definitely not pathetic. I don't know what we ever did to you, and I am sorry for whatever it was Mason, I really am. No one should ever have this much hate in their heart."
"You know nothing!" Mason spat at her. Making a dash for his wand, a green light flew to Tori, with little to no time to react, she raised her wand and shot out the first spell that came to mind.
The two flashes met and both witch and wizard were sent flying to opposite ends of the barrier. Mason taking the worst of the hit having been closer to the barrier than Tori. She felt a familiar sensation of pain screaming across of her body, all she saw before the world went dark was the barrier coming down.