A/N: Hello to all of you who have followed this story since the very first chapter ignoring my bad grammar and my many many spelling mistakes. I can't believe this has taken so long... two years, 26 chapters, more than 40 thousands of words and almost a hundred reviews... Wow! Thank you, thank you to every single of you: CYMKK09, LemonDropsWoolSocks, Bergere, roni2010, Minerva's Daughter232 and also to katrin lily, BlueMarkingPen, eternal vampire, mrssesnape, Kathinka, Puppyluv09, 8thweasleykid, master-moehri86, Snape, Rosine, crazzie-bunnies24, IrisMn, corriente , VictoriaGr , McGonagallFan , Harpygirl24 , Leta McGotor , Lady McSnape ,Gabriella Janeway , MinervaAmaliaMcGranger , wigglesfunk , oceanclover15 and to those who were always following the story in silence also, thank you.

I hope the ending doesn't disappoint you, altought I know the story style has changed a lot from the first chapter. Here it is, the very last chapter of ANGELICA, THE END

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When Severus was passing by the bathrooms of the fourth floor, he had to dodge a curse that appeared from nowhere by hiding behind a sculpture. He stayed there until he heard some steps approaching and then he came out with his wand ready to attack. For his surprise, his attacker was nobody else but Leonard, Minerva's older brother.

"I'm sorry, did I hurt you?" he said.

"No," Severus answered putting his wand down, wondering what his brother-in-law was doing there.

"I was following Goyle… I thought you were him, I'm..." He froze and regained his voice, "Why isn't my sister with you?"

"Thomas and Bellatrix ambushed her… I was on my way when you attacked me."

"Stop talking and go, then!" Leonard exclaimed.

"You're not going anywhere…" a grave voice said from there and both men turned around to face Mr. Goyle.

"Go, Severus… I'll cover your back," and trusting his words, the potions master crossed the corridor while Leonard Lestrange shouted spell after spell against his enemy.

Minerva was regaining consciousness slowly. She was dizzy, tired and her eyes wouldn't obey her command to open. In that darkness, Minerva heard a female voice begging: "Please, let me kill her…" and another, this time coming from a man, but also familiar, replying: "Not yet, we'll take them to the Dark Lord together…"

Making an effort, she remembered the latest events… She had come back to the school after making sure Angelica would be safe, the battle had started so she went to make sure her students were safe but… it was an ambush… her brother and Bella were waiting for her. If those voices were theirs, that meant they were waiting for Severus to come help her... She had to free herself; she had to fight back.

After her eyes would finally open, it took a while to them to get used to the light in the room; after that, the first thing she saw was the grey stone of her old bedroom's floor. She moved her arms very slowly, looking for her wand… she was surprised that they hadn't tied her up in any way, but not that she was wandless. Suddenly a black heel boot stepped right in front of her face and she closed her eyes again so they wouldn't notice she was awake; it would be silly trying to fight without a wand.

She felt a hand grabbing her hair and she opened her eyes. Bellatrix pulled her up and made her kneel down in front of Thomas.

"Did you have a nice rest, sis?" His voice felt like acid but Minerva didn't lost any time on replying his jokes, she murmured something and all of a sudden her twin brother and the woman behind her were thrown against the wall by an invisible force. Then, she held out her hand and an old Nimbus came from under the bed.

When Severus rushed into the Gryffindor common room through the tore up painting, an old broomstick mounted by Minerva passed above his head. She was dodging a curse coming from Bellatrix wand.

From where he was standing, Severus pointed at Bellatrix and without thinking it twice, he yelled: "Avada Kedavra!". A green light came out from his wand but Bellatrix moved away and it touched Thomas, who was right behind her. While Severus watched his wife's brother falling to the ground, Bellatrix sent some curse up to Minerva, who felt from her broomstick. In a quick reaction, though, she managed to transfigure herself to her animagic form and landed on its feet.

After that, Bellatrix pointed his wand at Severus and began to cast the same spell that had killed her partner, but Minerva jumped on her face still being a cat and seeing herself in danger, Bellatrix disapparated under her feet.

"I told you to stay at Poppy's," Severus said to his wife while she transformed herself back to her human form… but she said nothing in response… she just walked towards him and melted on his arms.

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A COUPLE WEEKS LATER, in front of the castle's entrance…

"How are we going to fix this mess?" Minerva wondered loudly "The school is all in ruins, we won't be ready to open on September…"

"We will…" Severus said holding little Angelica on his arms "with a lot of help." And then, Poppy suddenly appeared in front of them.

"Hello, Min, sweetheart… your brother says hi, he's fine, recovering from his bounds."

"Poppy, what are you…?"

"I'm here too!" Rolanda exclaimed from behind, and after her other staff members, friends, students and their parents apparated all of a sudden at the lands of the school.

"What's this?" Minerva asked, confused.

"We all want to help," Sybill said.

"If we join our wands we'll be able to leave the school as if it was new before the summer ends." Augusta Longbottom said with her grandson next to her.

"Oh, my god… Thank you, thank you all of you for being here…" she breathed hard and then regained her usual still position and bossy tone "Let's make two groups, one will stay outside and the other will work inside… Come on."

"She's back," Rolanda joked and Poppy giggled while they followed her friend inside the castle.

"Tell us again how you managed to get free from Bellatrix and your brother," Poppy asked, since she was very happy that her best friends were fine after the battle that had taken so many beloved people from them.

"I used wandless magic to knock them out and then I grabbed my old broomstick…" she told, tired of telling the same story once and again "… and while I watched Severus coming in and killing Thomas by mistake, Bellatrix attacked me and I felt down from my broom…"

"That wouldn't have happened to me… I've always been a better flying than her…" Rolanda muttered.

"That's a lie and you know it," Minerva fought back.

"Oh, really… prove it, then…"

"Whenever you want…"

"Ladies, please…" Severus made peace as he appeared still holding their little girl on his arms "There's a lot of work to do…"

"Don't talk to us like that, you're not the headmaster anymore." Rolanda replied.

"You're right, but I'm the headmistress husband, so I have all the rights to talk to you as I please." He then looked at Minerva and handed her the baby, "I think she's hungry."

"Oh, are you my dear…" she took Angelica on her arms and left a kiss on Severus lips on the process "Do you think the office will be very damaged?"

"We could go and check together…" he said, and they climbed the steps to the old Albus Dumbledore's office, hand by hand.

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THE END.