A/N: Here is the next, long awaited chapter. Please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own no one.
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Not thinking, Tonks, moved just as one of the Death Eaters guarding the room looked over. Before had Tonks had time to even cast a spell, her wand had flew out of her hand, as had Remus', Ginny's, and Hermione's. One of the three Death Eaters grabbed onto all four of them, while the other cast body binding curses on each of them.
"Let me go." Tonks hissed in a dangerously low tone.
"I think not, niece." Came Narcissa Malfoy's voice from behind one of the cloaks. The other two, both male, chuckled. All three removed their hoods. Narcissa's lips were curved into a thin smirk, holding all the wands, including her own. The other two Death Eaters were Rodolphus and Yaxley.
"What shall we do with them Cissy?" Rodolphus asked, pulling Remus, Ginny, and Hermione over to sit on the ground next to Tonks. The other Healers watched quietly.
"I saw when Bellatrix gets back up here, we let her deal with them. As for now, my sister is busy destroying the lives' of your half-breed children. We shall finally purge our family tree of those not of our blood." Narcissa said, her lips curving upward even more. "I just can't wait."
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Paige clung to her brother as her eyes scanned the room. She couldn't see anything, and she was afraid. Of course, being a two-year-old, almost three, you were afraid of a lot of things. Her hair was black, matching Teddy's,
"Where are we Georgie?" She asked, shaking slightly. Apparently, Teddy couldn't see anything either. They stood in the darkened room, alone, with Fred and George, who were holding Teddy and Paige close to them. All the metamorphosing twins knew is that a strange woman had dragged them away from the Healers. Only Fred and George knew it was Bellatrix Lestrange.
"Somewhere in the hospital Paige." George answered her, hugging the quavering child tightly. Fred had a hold of Teddy, but Paige and Teddy's hand were holding onto each other for comfort.
"I want mommy and daddy. I want to go home." She cried, burying her face into George's chest. He stroked her hair, trying to calm her.
"Mum and dad will come and get us, won't they?" Teddy asked.
"Of course." Fred assured him, even though Fred wasn't even sure Tonks and Remus were still alive. "Hey, what about a joke to cheer you guys up?" He offered.
"Okay."
"What walks like a pigeon, looks like a duck, and scowls like a giraffe?"
"Giraffes don't scowl." Paige mumbled in response.
"How do you know that?" Fred smiled slightly as there was no response.
"So, what's the answer?"
"I do believe you must be talking about ickle Nymphadora." Came a chuckle from the darkness, the eerie voice echoing from nowhere. All four blinked as lights suddenly blared, lighting up the room.
As his focus cleared, George could see they were in one of the lower, abandoned wards, with only one person standing in the room other than themselves.
Bellatrix Lestrange.
"What do you want you mad-woman?" Fred hissed, holding Teddy closer as George pulled Paige closer.
"I just want to play a nice game with my niece and nephew." Bellatrix said, smiling. "Do you want to play a game?" Teddy and Paige shook their heads, clinging to each other more.
"That's too bad. We'll play anyway." She said ad flicked her wand. Chains came shooting out of it and wrapped themselves around Fred and George, forcing Teddy and Paige away. The small twins pulled at the chains around their friends, but Bellatrix came forward and jerked them roughly away.
"Who wants to go first? How about you pretty one?" Bellatrix said, turning to Paige. The little child quavered, her eyes widening as more chains wrapped around her brother, pinning him to the ground.
"Don't hurt him!" She cried and rushed forward, but Bellatrix grabbed her, forcing her back.
"Ready? Crucio!" Bellatrix cackled. Paige screamed and collapsed to the ground, twitching and writhing uncontrollably.
"NO!" Fred, George, and Teddy shouted at the same time, but Bella cast a silencing charm over them as she lifted the curse on Paige, who layed on the ground, breathing heavily. Her hair had gone so pale, it was nothing but white tinged with the slightest bit of purple. Her skin was pale and she was crying.
"Mommy!" She shouted as Bella put the curse on her again. She went into another fit, crying and screaming in pain louder.
"Your filthy half-blood mother isn't here to save you know. She's dead! And so is your half-breed father!"
"You're a liar Lestrange!" Fred shouted, breaking the silencing charm.
"Shut it Weasley! The both of you blood traitors are next after these two! I'll finally rid my family of the impure!" She cackled with laughter, lifting the curse briefly to cast the charm back over the other three before casting the Cruciatus Curse once more on the small girl. She screamed louder than before, her tears streaking her face, as she was tortured.
"Stop it! She's just a child! It will kill her!" George shouted, breaking the curse for a second time.
"That's the point, obviously, Weasley." Bellatrix laughed, not bothering to put the curse back on as she continued to torture her niece. Paige had stopped screaming now, finding it was doing no good, and because she had lost the energy to.
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Tonks' face drained even more color as the screams of her daughter from below stabbed at her heart like daggers. Tears were falling from her dark eyes in anger, guilt, and sorrow.
"Stop it!" She screamed, her voice echoing around the room. "Leave them alone!" She cried, hanging her head, knowing it would do no good. Narcissa was smiling broadly as ever. Beside her, Remus had stiffened in anger, his fists clenched tightly at his sides. Hermione and Ginny were both crying silently.
Tonks hadn't cried in such a long time, it felt different, but she didn't care. She couldn't stand her children being hurt. She had nearly had a heart attack when Teddy had scraped his knee while running, but now as they were being tortured, she couldn't stand it.
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"I think one more time ought to do it, don't you think pretty?" Bellatrix laughed as she lifted the curse on Paige for the third time. Her hair had gone completely white, to match the paleness of her skin. Her face was stained with tears, but that mattered not to Bella.
"Please, stop Bellatrix." Fred pleaded, his eyes sparkling in anger and grief. "Leave her alone."
"I think not. Once more time and then I'll move on to her brother. Crucio!"
This time, the curse hit so hard, Paige was blasted back a few feet, rendering her unconscious. Teddy cried out for his sister, but Bellatrix didn't hear. Only a few more moments and she would have one more from her family tree dead and gone.
"NO!"
The shout was like nothing anyone in the empty ward had ever heard as the door burst open in a cloud of thick smoke.
McGonagall stood there, her nostrils flaring, her wand clenched tightly in her hand. She was dressed in her green robes as usual, but she looked nowhere near as she usually did as a teacher. She didn't have her glasses on, and her raven hair was for once out of its bun, flowing freely behind her. Luna and Percy flanked her, while more shouts signaled she had brought more than just them.
"Come to see the show Minerva?" Bella cackled, lifting the curse and turning her attention to the older woman and her backup, leaving Paige on the floor, unmoving.
"I think not Bellatrix." She hissed, her voice dangerously low for such and older woman. "How dare you perform that curse one someone, much less a child!"
"It's quite easy. I can demonstrate on you if you'd like." She grinned, aiming her wand at McGonagall and firing the spell, but McGonagall blocked it. As the pair began to duel, Luna ran to Teddy to untie him, and Percy hurried over to Fred and George to undo their binds.
After untying Teddy, Luna went to Paige and gently picked up the cold and pale child, lifting her into her arms while using her free hand to grab Teddy's hand and pull him from the room, from the danger of flying spells. Her robes whipped out of site just behind George's.
"Where's Tonks and Lupin?" Percy asked out in the hall, over the noise of the spells ricocheting off the walls inside the ward.
"We don't know. Who all is actually here that you brought?"
"Harry, Ron, Bill, Charlie, Neville, the usual crowd." He answered as he led them around another corner toward the stairs, only to nearly collide with Ron fighting with two large Death Eaters. Percy, being the one of two people with a with a wand currently, fired a Stunning Spell at the large blonde one. It hit and he toppled backward.
"Thanks!" Ron called.
"No problem!" Percy replied. Fred take his wand and go to the second floor." Percy said, tossing him the stunned Death Eater's wand. As Ron disarmed the other one, he tossed the extra wand to Percy as well, who gave it to George. "You go to the fourth floor. I'll take the fifth floor and Luna, you take the twins and go to the third. If you run into any Death Eaters, stun them and run. Try to find the others."
Luna nodded. With Paige still in her arms, hurried up the stairs after George, with Percy in behind her. Teddy was still clinging to her other hand, somehow managing to keep up with the blonde. They emerged onto the third floor and Percy nodded to them as he passed, heading on up the stairs.
It was dark on this level too, but they could hear shouts farther down the hallway, jets of light zooming in random directions. Luna bit her lip, trying to think of a way to find out who was there, without getting hit by a curse. An idea popped into her head.
"Weasley is our king! Weasley is our king! He didn't let the Quaffle in! Weasley is our king!" She shouted.
"What the hell was that?" Came Lucius Malfoy's voice.
"Weasley can save anything! He never leaves a single ring! That's why Gryffindors all sing! Weasley is our King!" Came Harry's voice. Luna let out a sigh of relief.
"Harry! Where are the others?" She shouted.
"I don't know! Bill and Charlie went to find Remus, Ginny, Hermione and Tonks, while Neville headed to the fourth floor. Ron's down on the first floor, and I think Mad-Eye went to the second floor!" He responded quickly.
Luna let go of Teddy's hand and carefully layed Paige on the ground next to her brother.
"Take care of her while I help Harry." Luna said and Teddy nodded. She gave him a small smile before walking blindly into the mass of spells, her wand out and already firing at Lucius, of whom she only got glimpses of as spells passed him and lit up his face.
Teddy kept his sister close to the wall, as more footsteps thundered down the stairs.
"She's downstairs but McGonagall's battling her!" Shouted Bill's voice down the stairwell, but the footsteps down the stairs didn't stop.
"Tonks! Wait! Didn't we have this discussion about rushing headfirst into things?" Remus shouted, his footsteps coming down the stairs after Tonks'. Teddy wanted to shout out, but he was afraid it was a Death Eater disguised as his mum and dad.
KERSPLODE!
A loud explosion sounded from below, seeming to shake the entire hospital. Teddy's eyes widened in fear, but the next instant, a lit wand tip was in his face, revealing his Godfather, Harry.
"Okay there Ted? What say we go find your mum and dad? Knowing here, that explosion was probably your mum." He said with a slight smile. Teddy clung to Harry's hand as Luna gently picked up Paige again, who still hadn't moved. They hurried down the stairs, more footsteps echoing from behind.
"Hurry up Harry, Luna!" Came Charlie's voice from behind. They emerged on the first floor and followed the smoke to the abandoned ward. McGonagall was breathing heavily, looking even more tired and messy than she had been before. She stood in the doorway with Remus, while the rest of the group, Ron, Neville, Fred, George Bill, and Mad-Eye tried to peer in.
Inside, Bellatrix stood, her wand lying on the ground a few feet away. Behind her, the wall had been shattered, so that you could see into the next ward, and the ward after that. Tonks was across from her, her hair black.
She could morph again.
A strange aura seemed to pulsate from her, an aura of anger at her aunt. Her wand was aimed at Bellatrix and her gaze transfixed on her as well. Bellatrix, for once in her life, looked afraid.
"I warned you that you would pay, Bellatrix. You were never a relative of mine, not you or any of the rest of the family besides my mother, father, husband, and children. The Weasleys, Harry, Hermione, and Minerva are more of a family to me than you are." She hissed, her hair slowly alternating from red, to black.
"Well, Nymphadora. Go ahead and do it." Bellatrix cackled, her breathing heavy. She wore the same smirk of laughter Sirius had before he died. Suddenly, most of every watching knew what was going to happen before it did.
The jet of green light shot from Tonks' wand hit Bella square in the chest. The laughter didn't die from her face as she was blasted back a few feet before she collapsed onto the ground, dead.
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A/N: Dun, Dun, DUNNNNNNNNNNN!