Warnings: It's shonen ai get over it or go away

Notes: (X) is pov and or time jump

Thanks to: Cabuckeye for editing

Chapter 44: Mistaken

'Just keep going!' Harry heard the voice go through his head. Tom was still urging him on from somewhere, he let out a breath of relief as him and Draco moved forward. They spotted Hermione who was standing beside Luna her wand out and aimed at the other death eaters in front of them. He nodded to Draco who went down a different row to come out behind them and he himself went straightforward.

"Leave them be," he said just loud enough for the death eaters to notice him. They all looked at him scowling knowing they needed him more than anything so they could obtain the prophecy.

"Potter! Grab him," the male growled and the other death eater seemed to almost be floating rushed at him. Harry threw himself to the side at the last second the death eater passing by him quickly slamming into a shelf. He ran over to the other three as the death eater in front of him went down thanks to Draco.

"Where's Ron," he demanded.

"He used himself as a diversion so we could run," Hermione sobbed. She pointed in the direction Ron had run off in.

"Alright. Go to the door, and destroy everyone you have to. Let Neville and Ginny know you're coming before you do or they'll stun you," he explained quickly. "It's just down that long row, just keep running all the way to the wall then turn left," he went on as quickly as he could. "Don't turn back," he ordered. Hermione looked at him funny, but nodded and began running for the door, Luna close at her heels "Alright…that's two more down," he muttered, but when he looked up Draco was already gone. Cursing Harry ran in the direction he'd hoped his friend had gone.

When he finally managed to spot Draco, he was already caught up in another fight with three other death eaters, Ron helping him. One of them was the woman Tom had tried to trade the prophecy over to kill her. He ran over to them screaming any harmful spell he could think of at them making sure not to do any harm to Ron or Draco as he did. The six people exchanged spells, each of them taking hits in order to dish out their own and attempting to cause the most damage. Harry doubted the death eaters had expected the students here to be able to do as much as they were and was so thankful for Hermione convincing him to teach the D.A. classes.

Ron was hit with a purple light and instantly jerked over to the ground. Draco grabbed him, but the other death eaters were all readying spells, when two of the three fell over. Harry quickly said his own spell and the third one went down as well. Standing to the side of them was Hermione; she'd run back it seemed regardless of what Harry had told her.

"I got them locked in the room," she said quickly before Harry could yell at her. "Come on." She helped Draco pull Ron up and the four of them started for the room as fast as they could. When they reached the door somehow without running into any other death eaters Harry let out a sigh of relief. Hermione relocked the door quickly and stood there trying to catch her breath.

"We don't have time for rest, we have to get out of here, now," he said nodding to the door. "If we get in there the doors will revolve and we'll hide in another room or something, just come on," he screamed and ran for the door him and Draco still dragging Ron. Hermione quickly relocked the door as someone had screamed an unlocking spell and ran with them, Ginny, Luna, and Neville after Harry. They had almost made it into the room with the spinning doors when the door behind them burst open. Draco instantly dropped Ron pointing his wand at the first death eater coming into the room and shot a curse at him.

The death eater seemed to have seen this coming and already had a shield up, the curse bouncing off of him harmlessly and smashing into a ton of clocks. The death eater laughed and ran into the room, four others following in behind him.

"We don't have a choice, we'll have to fight more," Draco growled.

"Yeah," Harry agreed quickly shooting a stunning spell at one of the death eaters. It hit them and they went falling over and hit the ground. The death eater behind him tripped over his body and suddenly Harry was looking at a ton of glass fragments. He looked over to see Hermione had shot a spell at something causing it to explode.

"Come on," she screamed running out of the room. The others followed her as quickly as they could being forced to avoid unforgivables every few seconds, as their path to the door was a straight one. Once they made it out Draco set Ron down, Hermione quickly making a circle on the door with her fire spell and then slammed it shut locking it. The doors began spinning quickly as they had all the other times and Harry let out a small breath, but he knew it wasn't over.

"Hermione, Neville, open three of the doors." They quickly did as he told them. He then went to one of the doors with the X's on them and opened it. "Are any of those the exits?"

"No," Hermione said nervously as fear began to sink in.

"Well, then-" his voice was cut off as the same type of spell that hit Ron collided with him. He fell backwards into the door he'd open which to the others' horror they realized it was the room with the dais in it. He rolled down the steps his head hitting almost every one until he slammed into the floor and rolled over to the dais groaning. He sat up blooding dripping from the side of his head and he blinked as he tried to clear his view.

"HARRY!"

Said boy looked up quickly, just in time to see Ron's body also rolling down the steps, Neville chasing after him. He could see a ton of spells being shot one after another from within the room and he stood up nearly falling over again. He winced wiping some of the blood from the side of his head and forced himself to run over to where Neville and Ron were.

"Watch him real quick. I'm going to get the others in here, we're going to run out one of the other doors in here," he explained quickly running back up the stairs. He was halfway up the staircase when four other death eaters entered and slammed the door shut behind them, one of them the ugly skeleton of a woman Tom wanted dead. "Well this isn't good," he said quietly taking a step back. He nearly fell down the steps again, but caught himself at the last moment.

'Just hold out a bit longer,' the words went through his mind. He felt himself relax slightly and aimed his wand at his own head.

"Try and hit them, you'll never get that prophecy," he growled suddenly. All four death eaters froze where they were at, Bellatrix laughing. She walked towards him confidently as if the mere idea of Harry trying to barter with them was nuts.

"Do you really think we're stupid enough to fall for that one, wittle Potter," she asked. "I'm not Lucius, I don't know how to pway wittle kid games," she grinned at him.

"I'm not like you; I'd happily give up my own life to save my friends." He aimed his wand at her throat.

"DUCK!"

Harry was sure he'd heard the voice before and he obeyed it without question regardless if it was a bad guy or not screaming the command. Five different spells came flying from behind him slamming into the death eaters. Two of the death eaters went down, the other two running off in different directions going to fight the new found enemy. Harry looked up and to his shock saw Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, Madeye, and Kingsley all behind him running after the other two death eaters. The door opened in front of him and he turned around wand ready, only relaxing his grip when he saw his other friends run into the room.

"This is horrible," Hermione, breathed looking around the room in horror. She was bleeding from the side of her face, Neville his nose, while Ginny looked like her ankle had been broken at some point. Luna was the only one who didn't looked damaged in any way shape or form.

"Yeah…this is the war you were so curious about," he muttered looking back to their enemy. Their was an odd noise from behind him, he was sure it had come from Hermione and he ran back down the steps. Another door from within the room had opened more death eaters pouring out of it. Harry's instincts seemed to have kicked in and without thinking; he shot a killing curse at the nearest one. It hit them directly in the chest, the death eater doing spasms and then falling over dead. Harry blinked at his own wand, as had a few of the other order members. He couldn't even being to remember any of the killing curses let alone cast one.

'Sometimes some things have to be done,' Tom whispered to him. 'In order for survival, forgive me.'

'Tom…' He knew he should feel angry, but he didn't. Instead, he was beginning to see a lot of things in slow motion. He raised his wand at the slowest of the new death eaters when his face connected with the stone and his trance was broken.

"Hold him down," he heard Hermione scream and she ripped his wand from out of his hand.

"Got his feet," Draco replied and when Harry tried, he couldn't budge them.

"Get off," he screamed at them, but they didn't respond or didn't understand him. 'Why aren't they answering me,' he demanded from Tom who he guessed was near him, somewhere in the room.

'You're speaking in snake,' he replied bluntly. He sent a few comforting feelings through the link and then seemed to vanish again like he had the last time.

"Aww twoo bad for the babies," Bellatrix mocked her wand pointed at Hermione. She took a hit from a green jet of light knocking her off of Harry instantly. He heard a strange cracking noise from behind him and winced. "And yer dada's gone now twoo. Bad boy-"

Harry and Draco both jumped her at the same time sending all three of them rolling down the steps and once again hitting the floor. This time instead of Harry cracking, his head open though it was Bellatrix, her head colliding as a direct hit with the stone ground. A pool of blood instantly started forming around the woman and Harry ran back up the stairs to get his wand.

"Of all the times, I wasn't going to attack you," he yelled down to Draco after his fingers had enclosed over his wand. He joined his friend back at the bottom of the stairs then watching the outcome of what was going on. Neville, Luna, and Ginny were all stationed at the very top hidden behind the stone benches shooting stunning spells randomly at the many death eaters in the room.

"She didn't want to take that chance," Draco shrugged. A death eater ran at them and they both went to work instantly at taking him out. They nodded to each other realizing they had no choice and joined in with the other order members as mad-eye went down.

"Tom's still talking to me," he yelled to him over the commotion and between shooting off spells.

"Good," he screamed back after attacking another person. They stood back to back waiting for another attack to come, but it didn't. They looked around expecting to see Voldemort, but instead seeing Dumbledore standing in the back, white with rage and his wand out.

"We're saved," Harry, laughed and he nodded to the stairs Draco following him. "We'll get Hermione and the others and get out of here as quickly as we can." As they made it to the top, Harry really started to hate the stairs, regardless of them having helped take out Bellatrix. He ran over to Hermione pulling her up when a stray spell went flying and hit Harry's legs. He fell down on top of her groaning, blood flowing from the wound.

"Are you alright," Draco asked, but he just stared at him blinking as the shock slowly wore off or at least until he looked back down at his leg. Slowly creeping up out of the wound and coming up his legs was solid stone.

"Basilisk spell," Malfoy muttered. "I didn't know those fools had perfected it." Lupin and Sirius came running up the stairs, Dumbledore following after, the last of the death eaters having been taken care of. Harry looked up at them shrugging, he wasn't really sure what to say or do.

"Shit," Sirius muttered and he looked to Dumbledore. "We need to…a normal Mandrake Restorative Draught should fix it right," he asked his voice panic-stricken.

"Yes," Dumbledore said calmly placing his hand on Sirius shoulder. "I believe you're right. Remus, why don't you go and retrieve some from the-"

"I'll go with," Sirius cut in. "It's not safe to walk alone right?"

"Yes, I'd say that's true. I'll remain here with Harry," Dumbledore smiled. Sirius nodded looking back to his godson.

"We'll be back in a few minutes. Just relax." He grinned at him and ran off with Lupin.

"Did you at least kill them," Harry asked wincing, more of his leg had turned to stone. Regardless of knowing the minute his godfather got back, he'd be safe; he was still more than a little scared.

"Yes," the headmaster smiled. "Harry, I do believe you came in here with Tom, did you not?" There was an odd smile on his face and Harry knew that Dumbledore was aware of what had happened. Regardless he decided he'd tell him anyway in case there was something Dumbledore may of missed.

"Yeah…he's gone…or his solid form is, you have to help get him back," he said quickly his fear switching from thoughts about himself to his boyfriend. "Lucius hit him with some kind of weird spell as he touched the prophecy, it shocked him so badly…" his voice trailed off. He knew he was half the cause of Tom's solid form being destroyed. "He's still talking to me through our mental link…" Dumbledore was nodding the whole time and just smiled at him.

"Yes, we'll have to get him back soon. I fear you may not live properly without him. Now, perhaps I can be of some assistants to the others." He stood up walking over to Ginny and cast a healing spell on her ankle. Harry watched smiling slightly. He felt a hand on his shoulder and he turned to see an outline of Tom kneeling beside him.

'You're alright…'

'For the most part,' he laughed and he sat down his head going onto his shoulder. 'I can't believe Voldemort wasn't smart enough to show up. Dumbledore came before he did, we're safe.'

'Yeah,' Harry sighed happily. He closed his eyes resting against the wall behind him.

'Hey, who said you could ignore me? Just because you're turning into a statue,' he snickered his arms going around him. His physical form couldn't feel it, but his spiritual one sure could. He smiled gratefully waiting for his godfather to come back with the medicine.

'My brain as it's slowly turning to stone,' he asked and a flash of anger went through the link.

'Don't joke around like that,' he scolded. 'That's a bit to close for comfort…'

'Well you'll be more careful than, won't you,' Harry asked mentally laughing. He waited for a reply, but none came. He was met with silence regardless of how many times he attempted to get Tom's attention. He felt the link die down and close off as it had so many times during their fights and he let out a small groan. 'This isn't the time for us to get into an argument,' he thought a shiver going down his spine.

(X)

"We have to find it fast or I don't know, but Harry doesn't need to be turned into stone," Sirius growled as they walked down the long hallway doors on each side of them. They'd been walking for a good ten minutes or so trying to locate the first aid department with next to no luck. He let out a growl of frustration. "It should be me down there turning into stone not him!"

"Sirius, if you were the one turning into stone the Ministry would have collapsed by now with Harry's attempts at looking for this potion," he pointed out. With Harry, so stressed already adding something like that to his list would probably have made him go insane at the very least.

"Yeah I guess so…" His voice trailed off and he sighed. Lupin rolled his eyes at him and when he fell behind in pace took no notice of it.

"You don't have to be so depressed, "he muttered. He stopped looking at the sign on the door in front of him. "Okay I'm pretty sure this is it," Lupin said and looked up and down the hall grinning hoping this would calm down his lover. "It's in here Sirius." He walked into it and removed the potion that Harry needed and placed it in his pocket. "Sirius, stop screwing around and come on," he scolded, looking up and down the hall again. He didn't see Sirius anywhere though and annoyed headed back to the lift. "I'll leave you here," he warned him looking around one last time. When he got no answer he got onto the lift, figuring Sirius had left as some kind of a joke and was back down there with Dumbledore. He hit the button signing and headed back down.

(X)

"Here." Lupin opened the potion and poured it into Harry's mouth. He was already stone from the chest down, but it was beginning to quickly dissolve back into skin within seconds thanks to the potion.

"Thanks…where's Sirius," he asked looking around. He got an odd feeling in his stomach when he didn't see his godfather and started to look around more franticly until Lupin started to talk.

"You mean that fool didn't come back down here," he sighed. "I don't know he's got to be around here somewhere. The minute we got off the lift he headed down a different direction and abandoned me or something."

"Well, we need to find him, I do believe we should be leaving," Dumbledore said walking over to them. He'd just finished healing all the students and they were now staggering around trying to find out if Harry was okay or not. He waved to them to show he was still alive hoping they wouldn't stress themselves to much by trying to get to him.

"We should all leave here and now." Dumbledore looked to the others once again. "Remus, I trust the rest of you can take care of Tonks and Kingsley while I escort the children out of here?"

"Of course. Don't do anything stupid Harry," he warned him heading down the stairs.

"I'm not Sirius," he yelled back after him and Lupin waved at him grinning. They gathered together and began their walk back into the room with many doors.

"I see the nice spells you've done," Dumbledore, said looking at all the doors. He added a small fiery dot of his own on the room with the veil in it just in case the door was accidentally shut. "Door to the exit please." Harry blinked. Having just said those words the door to the lift opened instantly and waited for them to go through.

"Do you mean…we could have just asked…?" He groaned hanging his head. "I'm such an idiot…I made Tom get hurt and everyone here…I'm really sorry everyone," he muttered.

"We all make mistakes Harry and by chance we were able to capture a good deal of death eaters thanks to you and the others," he smiled at him. "And the prophecy is safe, is it not?"

"Yeah…" The lift came to a stop and opened all of them walking out into the big room where the fountain was located. There was an odd noise that sounded like a sack of flour hitting the floor, but it wasn't flour. When Harry looked down, he saw the body of his godfather covered in blood lying at his feet unmoving, unbreathing. He looked up quickly and saw Voldemort standing in front of the fountain smirking, his pale and snake like features almost glowing in the darkness. "Sirius…" He fell to his knees his hand going to Sirius' body. When he pulled it back he stared dumbly at the blood as if he'd never seen blood before. "Sirius…" he repeated unsure of what to do. He looked up at Dumbledore who looked shaken at the actions he'd just performed.

"Tom," Dumbledore said sounding more than a bit irritated.

"That's not Tom," Harry growled shaking. "That's Voldemort, Tom is…" He was shaking so badly he couldn't get the words out of his mouth. Without warning Dumbledore hit the button on the lift and all the students were pulled back inside save for Harry and sent back down, Harry and him alone in the room. He muttered a spell and the lift made some kind of groaning noise showing it wasn't going to work again anytime soon.

"That's how you see it huh," Voldemort, laughed taking a few steps away from the fountain. "Yes, you would. Tom has been a very bad child lately, hasn't he," he asked his lips forming into a crooked smile.

"No, he's being doing everything he needs to, to get people like you out of this world," he screamed. Voldemort started laughing again at this and looked around the room.

"Really? I don't see him protecting you now Potter," he spit as he said Harry's name. "I don't see him helping you or trying to defend you. I didn't see him stop that petrifaction, perhaps he's…" He looked down where Sirius' corpse was and started laughing again.

"YOU!-"

"Calm down Harry. He is attempting to anger you," Dumbledore said calmingly putting his arm in front of Harry. "I do believe it is my turn after all." Harry tried to say something, but he was suddenly being pushed back against the wall, one of the giant statutes from the fountain had at some point removed itself and was now standing in front of him. He couldn't believe he hadn't noticed or at least heard the giant thing coming towards him, but it had and now it was doing its best to keep Harry away from the entire fight. "So we meet again, Voldemort," he offered for Harry's own benefit. "As we already have a Tom whom I must agree with Harry, is quite more likeable." He smiled.

"That foolish child has done nothing, but attempt to destroy my future," Voldemort screamed. "He wishes to see himself die, but I've taken precautions for that!"

"Have you now," he asked curiously. "You couldn't have killed him, not completely. In doing so you'd have killed yourself."

"Like I'd tell you fool," he screamed and shot a killing curse at Dumbledore. The old wizard was quite ready for it though and with a small flick of his wrist the spell bounced off hitting one of the many other statues within the fountain. More shots from the wands went off, Harry only being able to see sparks and random jets of different colored lights from where he was at.

"This is ridiculous," he growled, getting to his feet and trying to shove pass the statue. It wouldn't budge though and any movement he made it followed to block him. "I can't see I can't do anything!" He leaned against the wall glaring his arms across his chest as he'd seen Tom do so many times when he was annoyed. "I need to think of some way to get out there and kill Voldemort so Dumbledore will be okay and we can get Tom back."

(X)

Ron slammed his fist into the wall again groaning as they all sat on the floor in front of the lift. They'd attempted to try and get it to start back up, but it wouldn't go leaving them trapped back down in the Department of Mysteries.

"I can't believe he locked us down here," Ron groaned again. He waited for Draco to agree with him, but the boy said nothing so he looked to his sister for support.

"He's as bad as Harry," Ginny chirped in. Luna started laughing at this since Ginny had been the only one really paying Ron any mind. The rest of them were sitting down there worried about what they were going to do, if Harry was even still alive and the realization that Sirius black was dead.

"I think he was trying to send Harry back down here too," Neville said quietly.

"He had," Hermione, sighed. She'd seen Dumbledore's attempt at shoving Harry in, but failing to do so instead had opted for forcing the door shut and saving the others. "Lupin is still down here," she said suddenly. "With Tonks and the others, come on." She pulled her wand back out of her robes and started running down the hall.

Muttering the others followed behind her quickly not wanting to be left behind. None of them really wanted to go back there though, all of them scared that they may end up in another fight with more death eaters should they come along while they were down there.

"We can't be left behind," she said and upon spotting the door with the dot added to it walked in. The others having nothing to do, but obey her also followed. She looked around and saw the other order members at the bottom making sure the death eaters that'd been caught weren't able to get away.

"Hermione, how are we supposed to tell Lupin about….y'know," Ron whispered nervously after grabbing her by the arm. Hermione bit her lip and shrugged unsure of herself.

"I, I don't know…I wasn't thinking about that," she admitted now just casting nervous glances down at Lupin instead of making any attempts to go towards him. "We can't just tell him that Voldemort…"

"Well he's going to find out sooner or later," Draco, pointed out.

"Yes, but he needs his wits about him now or he's going to fail Dumbledore," Luna said speaking for the first time in awhile. The others agreed so instead of going to talk to any of the order members they sat down on the stone benches watching them. There was nothing they could really do after all, not unless they wanted to be the ones to tell Lupin what had happened.

TBC