Neville had gone unseen till then as he arrived to see Luke. "My parents, what happened to my parents? I demand to know what happened."

His grandmother had come in behind him. "Come sit down Neville and we will tell you."

Looking like he was going to protest Neville did eventually allow his grandmother to lead him to a chair. The tension in the room could have been cut with a knife. Luke wished he could have offered his friend some comfort but he had no idea what was happening either.

Rodolphus hated to say this. "I am sorry Neville but your father was one of the patients who were killed."

Neville broke down crying in his grandmother's arms but it was Augusta who asked. "And my daughter in law?"

Preparing themselves to hear she had been killed as well they had no idea what they were looking at. They found some hope in that they were told only Frank had been killed but they knew things were only getting worse.

Rodolphus took a deep breath. "Your daughter in law was taken. By Dumbledore's men. He has claimed his men rescued her and is keeping her safe."

Neville looked up. "He has my mum? He took her to try and lure me out of hiding hasn't he? I can't loose them both."

Their hearts were braking for Neville. He was of course right. The only value in kidnapping the Longbottoms was their son. Voldemort to kill him and Dumbledore to get his hands back on his little pawn. Neville not being known as the child of prophecy had kept them safe in the hospital until now.

Luke clung to his husband. "There has to be some way to get her back. I mean we can't simply allow Albus to keep her."

Severus kissed his husband. "We will do anything we can but we can not give into his demands. We can't risk that Neville will fall into his control."

As much as Augusta loved her daughter in law and wanted her safe she knew they were right. Alice was lost to them already. Neville was her only family left and she would not risk him for anything. Even if it had been Frank alive and captured it would be the same. Her concern for her grandson was not simply for the war. She had sworn to his parents if anything ever happened to them she would protect and care for her grandson. As aurors there had always been that unfortunate chance.

Augusta looked at her grandson. "I swear we will do all we can to get her back but I won't risk you. You are all I have left Neville; I will not risk my grandson."

Neville clung to her arms. "I know Gran and I know you're the only mom I really ever had but I can't just let him keep her. We need to at least try. Please Gran."

Assuring her grandson she understood Augusta gently comforted him and assured him that they would find his mother if they could. The Malfoys said that they and everyone in the manor would do anything they had to.

Narcissa came to them. "We will have Frank brought here and he can be laid to rest in our plot. And when we get Alice we will have her in the best private hospital."

Augusta managed a small nod. "Thank you. We'd appreciate both. I know both Neville and I would find comfort if we could lay Frank to rest here."

They still had friends among the ministry back in the UK and they would have Frank's body sent back. They had been worried the body would be taken and desecrated but Moody was able through the aurors to get the body. Lucius assured Augusta it would arrive the next day at the latest and they'd have a memorial.

Luna had been told and came into the room and sunk down next to her boyfriend. "Oh Nev, I am so sorry. I am so sorry Nev."

Neville let go of his Gran and went into her arms. "I can't believe he is gone. I always thought when this war was over I could go see him again. Take our..."

Though Frank and Alice could register nothing Neville had always found comfort in speaking to them. He had planned on bringing his kids to meet them one day. He had always in a way thought himself luckier then Luna who lost her mom and Harry when he thought he was a Potter. Even if vegetables, they were always there. Luke remembered finding out about them only months before he came here, he had thought Neville had it worse.

Neville held to Luna. "This is why I refuse to...I will never do this to you Luna. I won't marry you and make you a widow. I am even a greater risk then my parents."

Luna cut him off. "My father and I have our own enemies. Your mother was an auror too, your dad did not do this to her. I will not hurt less without a ring."

She reminded Neville that not having the title of his wife would not save her any pain if he died. She loved him and if anything happened she would be devastated. She did not need his name to have that connection. She would wait till he was ready but she loved him more then life itself and she wanted to be with him. Kids could wait till after the war for she agreed she did not want to bring kids in when they might be an orphan one day.

Augusta agreed with Luna. "You know your parents would want you to be happy. You are young but don't let fear of what happened to them, keep you from Luna."

Neville kissed her. "Next spring if this war is still not done by then perhaps we marry in April, no matter what."

Luna had tears in her eyes. "I'd like that a lot Nev. I can wait till next spring I promise. I just want to spend my life with you."

The others watched and Xeno had joined them in the room for like Luna he had heard about Neville's parents. He knew his daughter was right. Augusta was just happy if even for one moment she and Neville were distracted from the pain they were in. Neville would need Luna through his father's memorial and everything with his mother. Just as she had been amazingly proud to have Alice as a daughter in law, she'd be proud to have Luna. Neville saw her as a mother figure as she was the only one he ever had though he called her gran. And in many ways Neville was more a son to her then grandson.

Lucius stood. "I promise Neville we will do all we can for your mother. I just wish that we could have rescued them all those years ago."

Augusta looked up and shared a look with Bella and Rodolphus. "You can not blame yourself for Rabastan and Barty. You did your best. They knew the risks."

They had not only been members of the order but they had bee aurors as well. They had chosen to put their lives on the line every day. They had been tortured on Halloween for information on where their son was. Augusta had him in a safe house as they had been tipped off. They had faced worse then death, catatonic for the rest of their lives, to protect their only child. They had never revealed Neville's location, not after hours and hours of torture. Neville safe under the Fidelius with them safe keepers alone. Unlike Peter who had betrayed the Potters, Frank and Alice had given themselves to protect their child they loved.

Neville looked at his father's wand holster. "I know my parents could never have walked me down the aisle but I always believed dad would still be proud."

His gran kissed him. "He is and will be. He is free from the prison of his body and watching over his little tadpole as he called you. He will be so proud of you."

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Moody was back in the UK trying to track down information. He knew Albus had not trusted him since Luke disappeared but he still had some ins. He needed to find out where they had taken Alice. Albus would not be stupid enough to have her at the school as it would raise too many questions.

Tonks came into the office. "I think we have found something. I was over seeing the transport of Frank to the continent and I think I may have found her."

Moody's head snapped up. "Are you sure? I mean Albus would not have been careless about information. He knows Voldemort wants he as bad as we do."

Angered over the death of Frank and the kidnapping from under his nose of Alice, Tom had made his wrath over the issue well known. He had taken a number of prisoners from the hospital including good old Gilderoy and had killed them brutally. He had hung them from prominant buildings with Neville's name on their chest. Knowing that the safest place for Alice would have been at the school he could not have risked it thanks to Tom's actions.

Tonks nodded. "Kingsley the bloody fool actually placed a floo call from some where in Wales to the office several times. You know he would not be there..."

Moody agreed. "That man would not go some where as remote as Wales unless for something important of course. And you know Albus has made him his right hand."

One of the few people that he had left that he could trust without a doubt in his mind, they all knew Albus had been turning to Kingsley more and more since the other members of the order had proven their true colors. He had the Weasleys as well but he would never use them for this kind of dirty wok.

Alastor stood. "We need to see if we can track the location if we can. We also need to send word back home to the manor and get some back up here."

Tonks was ahead of him. "I put a tracer on the man's entry point and we know where he is. I sent word to the manor a while ago and aid should be coming as well."

Not surprised that his young protégé had done this all without him he pulled her close and kissed her. Few knew that their relationship had become romantic over the years. He had been reluctant for he had believed that he was far too old for her but he knew that he was meant to be with her.

Tonks pulled back. "Lucius and Rodolphus are meeting me in Wales to go find her. I should be going or they might be worried."

Moody kept her in place a moment longer. "Please be safe Dora."

Very rarely did Moody ever show a worry for they were both aurors and members of the Order. She knew he was serious and worried when he called her Dora, a term only her parents usually used for her. He had trained her as an auror but as they became romantic and were talking marriage and children down the line if they both survive the war Moody showed a human side he rarely showed before.

Tonks kissed him tenderly. "I promise to be careful Alastor. I need you to go and see to the transport of the body to the Malfoys since I am going."

For a moment Moody was going to offer to switch but he did not. "You tell Lucius that if anything happens to you that I will hunt him down."

Moody knew better then to argue with Tonks or convince her to allow him to go in her stead. He had trained her himself and she was as good as him and he hated to admit it but she was better then he had been back in his prime in many ways. He knew she could hold her own. She was turning him into an old hen she often said.

Tonks apparated outside the location but the wards were too strong. Lucius and Rodolphus appeared soon after. "This is the place?" Lucius asked.

Rodolphus felt the wards. "There has to be more men or something. I mean these wards are more minor then they should be. I could take these down easy enough."

They all knew that Albus could not be this stupid and Kingsley would have known that Tonks or Moody could bring them down. Voldemort would have easily attacked this place as well. It seemed way too easy. Kingsley had even if he had not known about the tracker that she had put on him, never been this stupid before.

Tonks realized something as her sensors she had placed when she arrived were going off. "Others have arrived. We're not alone."

Lucius sent off a patronus. "Moody will send back up. We need to get in there and find out what is going on and out before things get worse."

Unfortunately it did not seem they were wrong about the trap and while men came out from the house Death Eaters also appeared as well. It seemed the three of them were about to be caught in the cross fire and there was not way of knowing if Moody and the back up would be able to make it there in time.

Tonks looked at Lucius. "You can get out of here. Use your form Lucius. We need to make sure that word gets back to what happened here."

Lucius looked at her and his brother in law who was nodding. "I will go but I am coming back with help."

Reminding him that Moody would hunt him down and torture him if he did not bring Tonks back home in one piece she nodded. One extra person was not going to help them caught between both sides. They needed to ensure aid came and Tonks told him to get in the house and see if he could get his hands on Alice there.

Lucius was under a disillusionment charm and just before he transformed into his hawk form he whispered. "Shields up, what ever, stay alive. I want to see my grandbaby."

Knowing that he was worried about them and not Moody coming after him Rodolphus nodded. "Get out of here. Check on Alice and get out of here now."

They both knew the wards had come down and Lucius had the portkey on him that had brought them back to the UK. He would send Alice with the portkey if he could back to the UK and then send for help. Rodolphus and Tonks would have gone if they were animagi but they were not.

Tonks threw a shield charm as a curse came their way. "You need to get out of here too Rodolphus. There is one more individual portkey left. Take it."

Rodolphus thought about his wife and daughter and granddaughter but he could not. "I am not about to leave you. You take the portkey or no one does."

As she blocked another curse Tonks tried to remind him that she was single and he had a family who loved and needed him but he was not about to leave her behind. His wife and Cassey would understand. They would know why he agreed to stay here and offer back up for Tonks. There were new wards set a, a booby trap and no one who had apparated in there could leave. They saw the activation of a portkey in the house and knew that Lucius had succeeded.

Rodolphus watched as Tonks crumpled to the ground screaming as she had been hit by a cruciatus curse. "Tonks you need to get out of here and now."

Tonks was shaking all over and took the portkey out and it was activated but she tried to give it to him. "Tell Alastor I said yes."

Before he could do anything more Rodolphus felt the pull of the portkey and he knew he could not go back. He watched in horror as Tonks was hit with another cruciatus curse as he was pulled away from her side. Her words rang in confusion in his head. He was hit with two cruciatus curses before he was taken away.

He landed in Moody's office and the man was still there even though he sent back up. Moody bent down next to him. "Where is she? Where is she?"

Just before he passed out into the welcome oblivion he repeated her last words. "She told me to tell you she said yes."

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Lucius had not meant to leave with Alice but he could not get the portkey attached to her and he knew she would be lost if she went alone. He needed to get her back to her son and mother in law. Neville had lost his father already. He would bring the boy back his mother. He was sure Moody would send help soon.

When he landed at his manor his wife and sons ran to him. Narcissa hugged him. "You have her. Thank Merlin Lucius. But what happened?"

Cassey was standing there with her mother, Lyra in Percy's arms. "Where is my dad Uncle Luc? What happened to my father?"

Seeing that even is sons and wife were almost in tears for every scenario was running through their heads as well he hated to tell them. He hated to tell them that because he was an animagus he was able to escape and rescue Alice.

Augusta and her grandson's arrival cut off his response for now. Neville hugged his mom as Augusta turned to him. "Thank you Lucius. Thank you."

Lucius nodded and sent for a house elf to take Alice to the rooms they made for her till she could be hospitalized. "We were attacked. By both of them."

The shock in the faces of all them told the story all too well. He directed them to sit and told everyone except Neville and his gran who had accompanied Alice up for the rooms. Neville had not seen his mother for over a year and after loosing his dad, he needed to be with her right now.

Lucius told them what had happened. "I sent off a patronus. I pray that the aurors got there. I am sorry Bella and Cassey. He forced me to go."

Bella held her daughter but she nodded. "You don't need to tell me for I knew my husband would have. It was his choice. I just pray they get to her in time."

He wished he could have stayed and sent his brother and Tonks back. He wished that his brother had been there for his wife and Cassey and Lyra. But he could not deny being back for his wife and the twins especially with Luke pregnant, relieved him as well. He was sure that the aurors would get to them in time.

Suddenly there was a floo call in the nearby fireplace from London. Moody was there. "It is over."

They all looked at the man who was shaken more then they had ever seen him before. "What happened Moody? Are the other two alright?"

No answer came but for a request for a portkey big enough to transport three people to the manor to be sent through to him right away. They were all worried. There were few things that ever made Moody looked scared and one was the woman they knew he loved.

Luke looked when they sent the portkey on. "Why didn't he tell us anything? What happened to Tonks and Uncle Rodolphus?"