Blast to the Past II
Chapter Twelve: The Sacrifice
Author: Kitty Malfoy
Title also known as 'How Harry REALLY got his scar
A/N: Disclaimer is the same as before.blah blah blah! And I'm not gonna write it out again because I've already done it once and to do it again would just be a waste of space. Well wow! wasn't that last chapter exciting? But wait! Dare I say it? Yes I do - It gets SO MUCH better. As the Passing Time Trilogy is finally winding down Blast to the Past II is winding up as the epic conclusion of our hero, Serenity's, journey draws near. What lies in her future? A happily ever after..or a pure, sacrificial death? I can't tell ya that, 'cuz that would spoil the ending. I was greatly plagued in the begging of the last book of the trilogy on whether or not I was going to kill Serenity off...to kill or not to kill...that definitely was the question! Will this be the final chapter? I don't know! Anywayz! I'll stop rambling now, and get on with the chapter that you have been so "patiently" waiting for. Enjoy!
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Serenity stumbled from James' body and out into the hallway. She was instantly drowned in the waves of evil and power. Gripping the railing she looked out over the balcony and her heart stopped. The indoor window from Harry's nursery looked out into the living room below and Lily's terrified form was silhouetted in it.
"Lily!" She screamed, helplessly.
Green light engulfed the red-haired beauty and the scream echoed through Serenity's mind. Things slowed and became blurry as Lily's limp body fell to the floor and hit it with a thump. Tears streamed down her face and she threw her head back. Her agonized and high-pitched screams echoed through the foyer and it sounded like banshees on a hunt.
So soon reunited and just as quickly ripped from her. Serenity felt so weak and empty as if a giant leech had sucked her dry of everything inside her. She couldn't tell if she had really screamed or if it was just in her mind. It was impossible to tell. Her mind was in turmoil. James dead brown eyes stared at her, unseeing.she looked down at her hands and wretched. Sticky, red blood coated her hands and arms. Blood splattered her chest and a dripping handprint stained her torso. Hands grabbed at her legs, and Serenity ripped them out of the grasp of her dead friends. They crawled towards her pleading with their sightless eyes and reaching towards her.
An infantile wail slid into her mind and blasted away the panicked cloud of confusion, and Serenity regained her senses. The blood disappeared from her hands and clothes and Lily and James blew away in the wind like piles of ash. Her eyes snapped to the window as Voldemort stepped up to Harry.
She didn't have time to think - she just acted . She leapt onto the banister and vaulted through the air and burst through the thick paned window. Glass flew everywhere, and blood oozed from the billions of paper- thin cuts the glass had inflicted upon her.
"Avada Kedavra!"
The words were spoken in a hiss simultaneously as she shattered the window and rolled to the floor. Somewhere downstairs someone else yelled. Serenity's brain didn't have time to register a single thought. She rolled sideways as the energy left Voldemort's wand. "You bastard!" She screamed, seconds before the deadly energy ripped into her. She screamed as the blast flung forward and onto Harry who was oblivious to the chaos going on around him. She snatched up Harry and clutched him to her chest.
thought about a cliffy.but that would be mean..
A blinding white light erupted from Serenity's chest and flowed out around her and baby Harry like ripples in a pond. Voldemort hissed inhumanly as the light swallowed him whole. The light seemed to come from Serenity's lightening necklace and it floated eerily around her neck.
Voldemort screamed again and the light lanced through him; ripping his form to shreds that disappeared in the light.
Serenity's final scream became audible once again over the blinding pure energy. The green energy reappeared from the light where it had disappeared, and crystalline tears slid down her face as she felt it bore through her exposed back and seep into her soul. As her final note was reached the energy was sucked back into her necklace in a rush of energy and unnatural wind, and Serenity gasped.
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She didn't want to die. She wanted to live. To be able to see Harry and Remus and Sirius and her children. She had so much to live for...such a passion for life that died when she did. And yet...and yet she had given it all up in an instant for this small child that she held in her arms. She could feel time slow and freeze. Harry's small heartbeat sounded loud and ominous as it pounded through her head like a steel drum.
Was this what it was like to die?
It felt so cold and lonely.
Darkness surrounded her...she knew this feeling. She had felt it when the shadow had swallowed her soul. This feeling of total helplessness and depression. It drifted over you as silent as the stars and swallowed you whole in a single night of misfortune. It twisted and clouded you until you were no longer yourself, no longer human. It killed you far more effectively than death ever could.
Suddenly her brothers face floated in front of her. "Draco?" she whispered. She reached out to touch his face and was swept inside.
* "Come on, Sere, it's not that bad." Draco coaxed.
"Yes it is, Draco! It's awful!" 7-year old Serenity wailed, stepping away from the broomstick.
"I'll fly with you." He insisted. He mounted the broom and pulled her on in front of him.
"I'm so afraid." She said in a breathy voice. "What if I fall?"
"I won't drop you."
"Promise?" She asked.
"Promise."
*
That was the first day she had ever flown. She had been so afraid. And it had been so hard for her to admit to her "strong, macho" older brother that she felt so. She realized now that the darkness only represented her own fear. She was afraid to die.
As soon as the thought was registered in her brain the darkness cleared and she could see her friends standing before her. Smiling and looking at her with such love that it seemed as if they were trying to tell her that everything would be all right.
Lily's melodic voice drifted around her and spoke to her on the whispers of the wind.
* "I'm Lily Evans." The girl's bright red girls bounced and her eyes sparkled when she spoke. "The tall, dark, and handsome one over there is Sirius Black. The shy, quiet, and thoughtful one is Remus Lupin. And this is James Potter...he's off-limits." * Tears came though she did not hear them nor see them...nevertheless...she knew they were there. So filled with emotions - pain, anger, sadness, fear, confusion, but at the same time - love, hope, peace, happiness, and clarity. More images ran through her head. The Halloween Party; the first time she'd ever kissed Sirius; the battle with the Lethifolds; the healing of Severus; Graduation; the fall; the torture; the Death Eaters and the Mark of Voldemort; her children...they never got to have the mother they deserved...
A ray of light broke erupted at the end of her flashbacks, and enveloped her. It ripped away everything leaving her bare and naked beneath it's intense heat. Her pain and memories of her life slipped through her fingers like grains of sand, and she laughed joyously at the empty state with which it left her. Nothing but white energy filled her and surrounded her. Her burdens were not only gone but also erased as if they never existed.
She felt like she was flying, soaring above the death that lay before her in her flesh body. She no longer knew anything of what was or what had been she only knew that she was finally free...finally alive.
Only her azure eyes shown through the light and large feathery wings sprouted from her back. Downy, ivory feathers fell beneath her as she snapped her wings open and they stretched out beside her. Music reached her ears - its call so alluring and beckoning. She barely realized her feet had left the unearthly ground she had stood upon. She flew towards the light, smiling, as the heavenly music washed over her and wrapped its tendrils around her - guiding her upwards. She reached out a longing arm and--
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The door slammed open and Sirius stumbled inside. The poisonous energy exploded inside her and she fell to the floor.
Baby Harry sat on the floor beside her body waving a chubby fist in the air. Serenity's blood coated his clothes and her tears that had dripped onto his face caused it to shine. Smoke wisped up from his forehead. Beneath his ebony bangs, a red-hot lightening bolt scar gleamed and smoked. The same steam wafted up from Serenity's necklace, and it still glowed red-hot from the energy that it had released, and the heat that had burned the image onto Harry's forehead.
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WOW! Did I do that? Is she dead? ..POOF! I don't know! Reviews will be ever so helpful in letting me write you another chapter. You'd like that wouldn't you? Reviews! Need 'em! This chapter was great! Looooooooooove it!
R & R! All mah faithful Serenity-fans out there! Love ya ta pieces!
Kitty Malfoy
Chapter Twelve: The Sacrifice
Author: Kitty Malfoy
Title also known as 'How Harry REALLY got his scar
A/N: Disclaimer is the same as before.blah blah blah! And I'm not gonna write it out again because I've already done it once and to do it again would just be a waste of space. Well wow! wasn't that last chapter exciting? But wait! Dare I say it? Yes I do - It gets SO MUCH better. As the Passing Time Trilogy is finally winding down Blast to the Past II is winding up as the epic conclusion of our hero, Serenity's, journey draws near. What lies in her future? A happily ever after..or a pure, sacrificial death? I can't tell ya that, 'cuz that would spoil the ending. I was greatly plagued in the begging of the last book of the trilogy on whether or not I was going to kill Serenity off...to kill or not to kill...that definitely was the question! Will this be the final chapter? I don't know! Anywayz! I'll stop rambling now, and get on with the chapter that you have been so "patiently" waiting for. Enjoy!
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Serenity stumbled from James' body and out into the hallway. She was instantly drowned in the waves of evil and power. Gripping the railing she looked out over the balcony and her heart stopped. The indoor window from Harry's nursery looked out into the living room below and Lily's terrified form was silhouetted in it.
"Lily!" She screamed, helplessly.
Green light engulfed the red-haired beauty and the scream echoed through Serenity's mind. Things slowed and became blurry as Lily's limp body fell to the floor and hit it with a thump. Tears streamed down her face and she threw her head back. Her agonized and high-pitched screams echoed through the foyer and it sounded like banshees on a hunt.
So soon reunited and just as quickly ripped from her. Serenity felt so weak and empty as if a giant leech had sucked her dry of everything inside her. She couldn't tell if she had really screamed or if it was just in her mind. It was impossible to tell. Her mind was in turmoil. James dead brown eyes stared at her, unseeing.she looked down at her hands and wretched. Sticky, red blood coated her hands and arms. Blood splattered her chest and a dripping handprint stained her torso. Hands grabbed at her legs, and Serenity ripped them out of the grasp of her dead friends. They crawled towards her pleading with their sightless eyes and reaching towards her.
An infantile wail slid into her mind and blasted away the panicked cloud of confusion, and Serenity regained her senses. The blood disappeared from her hands and clothes and Lily and James blew away in the wind like piles of ash. Her eyes snapped to the window as Voldemort stepped up to Harry.
She didn't have time to think - she just acted . She leapt onto the banister and vaulted through the air and burst through the thick paned window. Glass flew everywhere, and blood oozed from the billions of paper- thin cuts the glass had inflicted upon her.
"Avada Kedavra!"
The words were spoken in a hiss simultaneously as she shattered the window and rolled to the floor. Somewhere downstairs someone else yelled. Serenity's brain didn't have time to register a single thought. She rolled sideways as the energy left Voldemort's wand. "You bastard!" She screamed, seconds before the deadly energy ripped into her. She screamed as the blast flung forward and onto Harry who was oblivious to the chaos going on around him. She snatched up Harry and clutched him to her chest.
thought about a cliffy.but that would be mean..
A blinding white light erupted from Serenity's chest and flowed out around her and baby Harry like ripples in a pond. Voldemort hissed inhumanly as the light swallowed him whole. The light seemed to come from Serenity's lightening necklace and it floated eerily around her neck.
Voldemort screamed again and the light lanced through him; ripping his form to shreds that disappeared in the light.
Serenity's final scream became audible once again over the blinding pure energy. The green energy reappeared from the light where it had disappeared, and crystalline tears slid down her face as she felt it bore through her exposed back and seep into her soul. As her final note was reached the energy was sucked back into her necklace in a rush of energy and unnatural wind, and Serenity gasped.
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She didn't want to die. She wanted to live. To be able to see Harry and Remus and Sirius and her children. She had so much to live for...such a passion for life that died when she did. And yet...and yet she had given it all up in an instant for this small child that she held in her arms. She could feel time slow and freeze. Harry's small heartbeat sounded loud and ominous as it pounded through her head like a steel drum.
Was this what it was like to die?
It felt so cold and lonely.
Darkness surrounded her...she knew this feeling. She had felt it when the shadow had swallowed her soul. This feeling of total helplessness and depression. It drifted over you as silent as the stars and swallowed you whole in a single night of misfortune. It twisted and clouded you until you were no longer yourself, no longer human. It killed you far more effectively than death ever could.
Suddenly her brothers face floated in front of her. "Draco?" she whispered. She reached out to touch his face and was swept inside.
* "Come on, Sere, it's not that bad." Draco coaxed.
"Yes it is, Draco! It's awful!" 7-year old Serenity wailed, stepping away from the broomstick.
"I'll fly with you." He insisted. He mounted the broom and pulled her on in front of him.
"I'm so afraid." She said in a breathy voice. "What if I fall?"
"I won't drop you."
"Promise?" She asked.
"Promise."
*
That was the first day she had ever flown. She had been so afraid. And it had been so hard for her to admit to her "strong, macho" older brother that she felt so. She realized now that the darkness only represented her own fear. She was afraid to die.
As soon as the thought was registered in her brain the darkness cleared and she could see her friends standing before her. Smiling and looking at her with such love that it seemed as if they were trying to tell her that everything would be all right.
Lily's melodic voice drifted around her and spoke to her on the whispers of the wind.
* "I'm Lily Evans." The girl's bright red girls bounced and her eyes sparkled when she spoke. "The tall, dark, and handsome one over there is Sirius Black. The shy, quiet, and thoughtful one is Remus Lupin. And this is James Potter...he's off-limits." * Tears came though she did not hear them nor see them...nevertheless...she knew they were there. So filled with emotions - pain, anger, sadness, fear, confusion, but at the same time - love, hope, peace, happiness, and clarity. More images ran through her head. The Halloween Party; the first time she'd ever kissed Sirius; the battle with the Lethifolds; the healing of Severus; Graduation; the fall; the torture; the Death Eaters and the Mark of Voldemort; her children...they never got to have the mother they deserved...
A ray of light broke erupted at the end of her flashbacks, and enveloped her. It ripped away everything leaving her bare and naked beneath it's intense heat. Her pain and memories of her life slipped through her fingers like grains of sand, and she laughed joyously at the empty state with which it left her. Nothing but white energy filled her and surrounded her. Her burdens were not only gone but also erased as if they never existed.
She felt like she was flying, soaring above the death that lay before her in her flesh body. She no longer knew anything of what was or what had been she only knew that she was finally free...finally alive.
Only her azure eyes shown through the light and large feathery wings sprouted from her back. Downy, ivory feathers fell beneath her as she snapped her wings open and they stretched out beside her. Music reached her ears - its call so alluring and beckoning. She barely realized her feet had left the unearthly ground she had stood upon. She flew towards the light, smiling, as the heavenly music washed over her and wrapped its tendrils around her - guiding her upwards. She reached out a longing arm and--
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The door slammed open and Sirius stumbled inside. The poisonous energy exploded inside her and she fell to the floor.
Baby Harry sat on the floor beside her body waving a chubby fist in the air. Serenity's blood coated his clothes and her tears that had dripped onto his face caused it to shine. Smoke wisped up from his forehead. Beneath his ebony bangs, a red-hot lightening bolt scar gleamed and smoked. The same steam wafted up from Serenity's necklace, and it still glowed red-hot from the energy that it had released, and the heat that had burned the image onto Harry's forehead.
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WOW! Did I do that? Is she dead? ..POOF! I don't know! Reviews will be ever so helpful in letting me write you another chapter. You'd like that wouldn't you? Reviews! Need 'em! This chapter was great! Looooooooooove it!
R & R! All mah faithful Serenity-fans out there! Love ya ta pieces!
Kitty Malfoy