(A/N: Sorry it's taken so long. This is it!)
The Last Stand
Sirius was walking up and down the hospital wing, seeing to everyone trying to find out who was alright and who wasn't, and who had been taken. But there was only one person who hadn't been accounted for one way or another, Dumbledore; they couldn't get to his office to see if he was in there and it seemed like he couldn't get out if he was in there.
As he was passing Electra's bed he heard her move, he almost ran over to her side. She opened her eyes and looked up at him; he smiled down at her and then kissed her on the forehead.
"I told you not to do that to me again." Sirius told her, she smiled at him but she was still really sore, everywhere.
"I'm not going anywhere." Electra told him. "Remus, how is he?"
Sirius looked over to the next bed behind her, Electra tried to turn over but it hurt her to much, then she saw McGonagall in the next bed to her.
"Is she alright?" Electra asked. "What about Harry, Ron the twins?"
"I'm alright." Harry said as he sat down on the end of her bed but out of her eye line.
"Remus, well he's sleeping and I'm not looking forward to telling him everything what happened." Sirius told her. "McGonagall, she's going to be alright after an awful lot of rest; just glad that I don't have to tell her that as well...Ron well...erm...they took him..."
Electra just looked up at him, he looked ready to break down but she knew that he wouldn't not here not with all these people around.
"I told Molly and Auther, their here...god I thought she was going to kill me...but she just broke down...I would have preferred it if she would have hit me shouted at me anything...but that it was so much worst." Sirius told her. "Dumbledore is still missing, so is Snape. Quite a few of the students...they took Draco, he tried to help Hermione...they took them both...after...they've taken Tonks as well."
"I don't believe it." Electra said breathlessly, not completely taking in that he hadn't told her about the twins.
"They took them, I'm so sorry." Harry said suddenly getting to his feet and walking around so that she could see him. "I'm so sorry I let you both down, he took them with Ron; I should have done something to stop them, but..."
"Harry it's not your fault." Sirius told him.
"But it is...I should have done something more to stop them." Harry said.
"And what, got taken as well?" Sirius shot at him. "Harry I've lost to many people I care about, do you honestly think that we want to lose you as well?"
"Well no...but..." Harry tried to explain.
"Harry, we care about you as well, we don't want to lose you." Electra told him.
"Harry sit down." Sirius told him, and then he turned back to Electra. "Do you know there's one thing about that, that I just don't get...why would Voldermot want them?"
"Wait a minute, I think I remember something." Harry said thoughtfully, as Electra tried not to look at either of them. "I Think he said something, ask Electra and Severus...I don't know what it means."
Sirius looked at Electra as though she would know the answer, but she tried to look as puzzled as she could she worked quite well, and looked like she was in pain as well.
"Are you alright?" Sirius asked her, she nodded slightly. "Well?"
"I don't know." Electra answered. "The only thing I can think of is that seer woman, remember from the summer? Maybe she read me wrong, she did get very excited about something."
"That's it, they haven't a clue what they're doing, so now she's given Voldermot some stupid information." Sirius said, as though this answered everything. "She probably even told him that Snape was the father... now that would be the most stupidest thing ever wouldn't it? Because you and him please like that would ever happen...and that other thing doesn't count of course."
"Of course, stupid." Electra said, but a little too obvious.
"What?" Sirius asked staring at her. "It is stupid right?" Then he shock his head. "God what the hell am I thinking, of course you wouldn't...sorry Electra you know how it is, it's been like hell."
"Of course." Electra said.
"You should rest." Sirius told her, as Harry got to his feet. "We're checking on Dumbledore's office again, and then planning on how we're going to get everyone back and finish this once and for all."
This time it was Harry who looked away, because he knew more then anyone what that means, only one of them can walk away from the finally battle; it was going to be him or Voldermot this time.
Sirius bent down and kissed Electra, before he left with Harry; Electra just watched him walk out of the hospital wing. She couldn't believe that she had gotten away with it again, she just didn't know why she did; why didn't Sirius want to believe that she would do something like that? God even she still can't believe that she did it. But thinking about, she doesn't know why Voldermot would want her twins, even if he knew that Severus wasn't the father, or even if he thought that he was; it just didn't make sense.
Sirius walked down the corridor with Harry just behind him, they both stopped outside of Dumbledore's office and looked at the rubble.
"Harry..." Sirius said.
"I'm fine." Harry said.
"Of course your not." Sirius told him, turning round and standing directly in front of him. "Dumbledore told me, because he knew that you wouldn't tell me...though I would have preferred to have heard it from you...well what I'm trying to say is that, well I won't let you die. Not because I'm supposed to say that because I'm your godfather and your fathers best friend, but because I care for you...like family...kind of like my own son or brother...does that sound alright?"
Harry looked up at him and then hugged him, Sirius just stood there for a moment before he hugged him back.
"That sounds just fine, I feel the same way, you're the only family I've ever really had...I don't know what I would do if I lost you as well." Harry told him.
"We should really talk more shouldn't we?" Sirius said smiling at him as Harry looked up at him. "Right, back to business any ideas about how to get into there?"
"Why don't we just blast our way through?" Harry suggested.
Sirius thought about this for a moment, reaching for his wand in his pocket; as more rubble seemed to fall and then they heard a voice.
"That might do more harm then good." Dumbledore said brightly.
They both rushed towards the wall and tried to look up to see if they could see him but they couldn't, they couldn't see anything part from dust and stone.
"You're alive." Sirius said.
"It seems so doesn't it?" Dumbledore said pleasantly.
"So what's the damage?" Dumbledore asked.
"Well erm...there's a lot of injuries...Remus took out a lot of the Deatheaters, but we don't need to go into great detail about that." Sirius told him. "They took quite a few of the student's they had Portkey's on them."
"First off, I need to get out of here...and have McGonagall..." Dumbledore started.
"She's injured up in the hospital wing." Sirius told him not looking up as though he didn't want to look at Dumbledore as he told him.
"Then it's up to you Sirius." Dumbledore told him. "But I'll see what I can do about getting out of here...the Floo network isn't working by the way."
"Of course it wouldn't, they wouldn't have wanted any of us or you to get out that way." Harry said.
"Good, good your still here." Dumbledore said brightly.
"Yes I am but they took the twins and Ron, and I couldn't stop them." Harry told them, well Sirius gave him another stern look.
"I'm sure that both Sirius and Electra have told you that that isn't your fault and you shouldn't balm yourself." Dumbledore told him. "But it is interesting why he would want them isn't? It isn't as though he needed them for you to go after him, considering how many other's he has taken we would go."
"We don't get it either." Sirius agreed.
Electra tried to sit up, but it hurt to much; though she almost fell out of bed when Remus woke up beside of her screaming. She turned round as fast as she could as he jumped out of bed and started to back out of the hospital wing looking at everyone in fear as Madam Pomfery tried to calm him down.
"Remus, are you alright? Please Remus." Electra said trying to get out of bed.
He looked over at her, and then turned and ran out of the wing and down the corridor as fast as he could; he needed to get out of there. He could remember everything he had done, and he could still taste the blood on his lips.
He raced down the corridors not knowing where he was going only knowing that he had to get out of there as fast as he could; but as he turned the corner he hit something hard and fell to ground on top of it. Sirius smiled up at him, but he didn't smiled back, as he pushed him down while he tried to get away. But Sirius grabbed hold of his leg, not wanting him to go.
"What the hell are you doing?" Sirius demanded, as Remus tried to kick himself free.
"Let me go." Remus snarled at him.
"Remus come on mate." Sirius said.
Remus turned around in a flash and kicked his leg free and grabbed hold of Sirius and threw him up against the wall; Harry moved against the wall trying to get as far away from the two of them as he can.
"Remus mate, Moony just calm down." Sirius told him.
"Calm down! I killed them, you saw what I did...you were there." Remus told him. "I killed them all, everyone I came across I killed them, I can...I can still taste them...and what? What do you want me to do, calm down? I'm a monster! You finally saw what I really am."
"Yeah, well I already knew what you really was." Sirius told him, as Remus tighten his grip on him. "Remus, you saved us. I was there...you saved us...you didn't kill any of us...the Deatheaters saving us."
"That doesn't make it any better, all because they were Deatheaters." Remus told him. "I still killed as a werewolf, as a murdering monster."
"You're not a monster...Tonks..." Sirius tired to say. "She still...she still loves you...she told me...she still wants..." But his words were cut off as Remus' grip tighten around his toart.
"No, you're lying." Remus whispered. "She saw me, she screamed I remember...she would have ran away from me but she was to scared to even move..." Remus let go of him and fell into him, Sirius grabbed hold of him and fell to the ground with him. "I lost her."
"She loves you still, yeah she was scared...of course she was mate." Sirius told him. "But she still loves you...this is it though"
Remus looked up at him wondering what he was talking about.
"She's gone, they took her...but we're going to get them back." Sirius told him. "All of them, we're not coming back until we've got everyone of them back. But this is it; I'm only going to ask you this once. Are you coming with us?"
Remus looked at him shacking his head. "How can I, after what I did?"
He looked down, and then back up at his friend, there was pain in his eyes; not because he had hurt him as a werewolf or just now, but because he was letting him down now.
Remus stood up suddenly pulling Sirius to his feet as well. "You're right this is it, I've got to stop running away. I'm here; at your side...does...does she really still love me?"
Sirius smiled brightly at him and then hugged him and clasped him on the back. "Oh god mate, why the hell wouldn't she, wants not to like about you?"
"Right then when are we leaving?" Remus asked.
"As soon as we have enough people." Sirius answered. "Hopefully tomorrow or the day after, I don't think I could take it any longer then that. One of the Deatheaters told us where they are...though maybe you could get a bit more information out of him."
"Oh, him...do you really think I should?" Remus asked a little unsure.
"He was going to take the twins and me...they got them and Ron...and Hermione as well." Harry told him. "And quite a few others."
"I'll try." Remus said straightening up.
Electra was laying in bed, all she wanted to do was to get out of there to be doing something but she could hardly move let alone go with them on the rescue they were planning; but they were her children as well.
A cloaked figured walked into the hospital wing, Madam Pomfery saw him straight away and went straight over to him, not wanting anyone to disturb her patients while they try and recover. But he pulled his wand out and pointed it at her, Electra didn't hear what the spell was, but knew that this wasn't right when she just walked away and into her office. The cloaked figure then turned round and walked over; he looked at McGonagall lying in the bed next to her and then walked down between the beds.
He stopped next to her, and then pushed back his hood; it was peter she couldn't believe it.
"The Dark Lord wishes to talk to you." Peter told her, he reached out for her hand and held it tightly as he took something out of his pocket, and then they just disappeared.
Darkness engulfed her as she landed on the hard ground, she pulled her hand away and clutched her side and rubbed her head the journey making her hurt even more then she had before.
"Someone's been a bad little girl." Peter whispered before he walked off, leaving her all alone.
She turned round, but to quickly; she heard someone walking softly over to her she knew who ever it was she wasn't going to like what was coming next.
"Electra Lupin, or is it Black now?" Voldermot said. "I doubt that either of them would be too pleased if they knew what you have done."
"I haven't done anything." Electra told him.
"Brave little thing aren't you?" Voldermot said. "But I should thank you, because of your help when they come to rescue you and the others; none of them will leave here alive infact they will never leave here again."
"What?" Electra said breathlessly.
"Some people still don't believe that Black is innocent and they don't l;ike your brother because he's a werewolf." Voldermot told her. "So what better way to end it; everyone will believe that it was them who betrayed you all and joined me. They might as well have, because they are walking right into my hands even as we speak now."
Voldermot turned to walk away but then stopped again as the doors opened and two cloaked figures walked in carrying someone.
"Why don't I just leave him here with you, he's no more use to me now." Voldermot told her of handled. "And anyway, he'll be dead before they get here to help him."
Voldermot walked out making the two cloaked figures move quickly out of his way, before they walked over to Electra and drop the unconscious person on the floor beside her.
Sirius locked the door behind him as he walked out of the room, leaving Remus inside of it along with the Deatheater; he wasn't so sure now that he should have done it considering that he was screaming as soon as he saw Remus and he hadn't even done anything.
"Sirius! Sirius!" Ginny shouted as she ran down to the corridor towards him.
"Slow down Ginny." Sirius told her.
"But...Electra...Electra's gone...she isn't up in the hospital wing." Ginny told him holding her side. "Harry can't find her anywhere, he said that she's not even on the map...Madam Pomfery said that she kind of remembers someone arriving but nothing else...do you...I mean would they have taken her?"
Sirius just stood there, his whole world was falling apart around him and there was nothing he could do about it; there was a feeling somewhere that was telling him that it was all going to end like last time, he was going to lose everyone he cared about.
"Sirius." Ginny said, looking up at him just staring not doing anything.
He turned round again, and unlocked the door and walked in; Ginny didn't dare go inside because of all the screaming, a moment later Sirius and Remus walked out and the man inside was still screaming as though he was being tortured.
"We're going tonight." Sirius told her. "Tell everyone, everyone who is fit enough to come with us is coming; this is it."
Ginny nodded slowly as the two of them walked away, she just watch them walk down the corridor until they were out of sight and then she went off to find as many people as she could.
The entrance was the quietest it has ever been with so many students in it, as Dumbledore walked down the stairs with Sirius, Harry and Remus behind him. They stopped a couple of steps from the bottom so that they could all see them, as they looked out over the students they realised that it wasn't just students who were there, but their parents as well. Many students had contacted their parents telling them what had happened and what was going to happen, they were all here not to argue against the decision of going after Voldermot but to fight along side them.
"I want to tank you all for coming, and also apologise as well; for not protecting your children and fellow student's well enough." Dumbledore told them. "That is why we are doing this, our last stand; we will not take this any longer. He has terrorised us for long enough it must come to a stop tonight. I will not order or ask any of you to come with us..."
At this they all stepped forward, Dumbledore smiled at them all.
"Then we leave tonight, we will not come back without them and until Voldermot has fallen." Dumbledore told them.
Remus and Sirius stepped forward carrying large baskets, and then started to hand out small boxes; they all got into groups and then waited for Dumbledore's order.
"We have been told the location of where they are holding our friends." Dumbledore told them. "We will be travelling there by Portkey, as did they. I don't want any more of you hurt, stay together in your groups; we will also be joined by a group from the Ministry also."
"The whole department of Auror's infact Dumbledore." Kingsley announced next to Molly and Bill. "Along with a couple more departments."
At this news whispers broke out among the crowd, everyone seemed pleased by this information; Sirius though didn't seem at all happy.
"Its taken them long enough hasn't it, what they had to wait until children were killed and kidnapped before they would do anything about Voldermot." Sirius whispered to Remus.
"Well they're here now." Remus said.
Electra sat in the dark, with Severus in her arms; he kept slipping in and out of consciousness. He was getting really cold and mumbled to himself, Electra was really starting to worry about him, she couldn't do anything for him in here; but it kept coming back to her what Voldermot had told her, he wouldn't last much longer. She knew he was right, she could feel him slipping away.
"Severus...its going to be ok." Electra told him.
"You're lying again to me." Severus whispered. "I should have known that he would never have let me go...and that I couldn't have gotten away with it."
"You will if you hang on a little bit longer." Electra told him. "They'll come, I know they will."
"They come for you...and the others." Severus said. "But not me...I won't be here when they get here."
"Don't say that, you have to fight...I thought you were a fighter someone who never gave up." Electra told him.
"I haven't the strength to fight, to hold on." Severus told her, as she held him a little tighter. "And I've got nothing to stay here for have I?"
Electra closed her eyes as he cuffed again painfully.
"Of course you have." Electra said.
"You're lying again." Severus told her.
"Severus...I...I..."Electra tried to say, but didn't really know what to say to him as he head went limp. "Severus, Severus stay awake! Stay with me, don't you dare leave me alone here."
"Black...he'll be here...he'll come for you." Severus whispered. "I would...he loves you...stupid...stupid bastard...he won...tell him I told him that."
"No...no I won't." Electra told him firmly as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"It's so cold...I guess that's what people say...about me...did say about me." Severus said. "They won't bother now...I'll be forgotten before the days out...alone in the darkness..."
"Your not alone, I'm here...Severus I'm still here." Electra told him as more tears escaped. "You won't be forgotten...I won't forget you..."
"I would laugh, but I can't...it hurts to much." Severus said and then his eyes closed again.
"Severus, please..." Electra whispered desperately, and then she kissed him softly.
"You don't have...have to do that...I know...that...you don't feel for me..." Severus told her.
"Well that's where you're wrong, you don't know everything." Electra told him, as she felt his body giving way. "You were right...I mean about me...I was afraid...but I did love you...I do love you..." And then she lent down and whispered to him. "I love you...they are yours...you won."
Severus smiled slightly up at her, as she smiled back down at him; before his head dropped and his sightless eyes fell to the ground. Electra held him as tightly as she could, she couldn't tight back the tears anymore; as she cried into his lifeless body.
The groups appeared in the darken corridor's, there were torches on the wall; they quietly made their where. The Auror's arrived a couple of minutes after them, and slit up into groups, one went off with every group.
"So Moony, how are those werewolf senses of yours?" Sirius asked as he walked up Remus and Harry on either side of him and Dumbledore in front.
"Still quite strong; I kind of feel as though I could tear them all to pieces." Remus answered. "I mean, if they try and stop me from finding..."
"Those you care about." Sirius finished for him. "You're not the only one, well maybe the only one strong enough to do it with their bare hands."
"It's left." Remus said as they reached a junction. "I mean for the holding cell's."
"Who's down there, can you tell?" Sirius asked.
"What about...erm...well...can you tell where Voldermot is?" Harry asked.
"No, to both your questions." Remus answered.
"Are we going straight for Voldermot or to the holding cells?" Dumbledore asked them.
Sirius took a deep breath before he answered. "The other groups will find them, that's what they're doing."
"So, its Voldermot then." Remus said, and then smelt the air. "I think we have to carry straight on."
"Straight on it is then." Dumbledore said.
They all nodded in agreement and started to walk down the corridor, Sirius tried not to look down the corridor that Electra and twins could be down, but he couldn't help it. But he walked straight on, leaving up to one of the other parties to find them; willing them to find them soon.
As they walked down the corridor, they heard rushing feet and shouting its looks as though the art of surprise has been lost, though they still had some because they would be expecting such a big group of them.
The wall quietly opened behind them and two cloaked figures came out, but they carried on walking. Remus turned around in a flash defecting both curses, startling the others. They rushed at Remus firing curse after curse at him, but somehow he managed to defect everyone, he wasn't the defence against the darks arts teacher for nothing.
"Go! I'll take care of these guys and then catch you up." Remus shouted at them.
"No, we can't!" Harry shouted back, as Sirius pulled him along.
"He'll be fine, we have to keep moving." Sirius told him. "He'll be fine."
Sirius near enough pulled Harry down the corridor, it was as though he was betraying his best friend leaving him behind to fight them, but he knew this was for the great good.
"How could you just leave him there?" Harry shot at him.
"Harry he's my best friend, I know what I've done." Sirius told him. "He'll be alright, I'm sure of it."
"Harry, Remus knows what's at steak here just like everyone else." Dumbledore told him as they carried on walking. "I never said this was going to be easy, and these things never are."
"We're going to lose a lot aren't we?" Harry asked quietly.
"Yes, everyone will fall at my feet." A voice said in the darkness, but they all knew who it belonged to. "Dead or alive it doesn't matter, because they will fall. Fools all of you."
"And you're prefectic, kidnapping babies, how big of you!" Sirius shouted at him.
"Mr Black, I was hoping to see you." Voldermot told him. "They alright, and their mother...well I'm sure she will be in time, well that is if she can live past today. Though I'm sure it won't upset you to hear that Severus Snape is dead."
"What? But how?" Sirius said.
"He betrayed me; I knew all along it was only a matter of time before his uses came to an end." Voldermot answered. "Though what an end. His was a good death, though for the rest of you it won't be as pleasant."
"And what the hell is that supposed to mine?" Sirius demanded.
"He died a happy man, knowing the woman he loved loved him back, and that he was a father." Voldermot answered smiling at him. "Didn't she tell you? They had a thing; there was a point that she didn't know who the father was, though it looks like she does now."
"You're lying!" Sirius shouted as he ran at Voldermot with him laughing, he waved his hand and Sirius flew through the air and hit the wall hard crumbling to the ground in a heap.
"No! Sirius!" Harry shouted as he tried to get to him, but Dumbledore stop him. "Let go of me! Sirius!"
The shouted echoed down the corridor where Remus was breaking down a door to a ceil, he stopped what he was doing when he heard his best friends name and then again. He turned back to the door, and almost ripped out; Tonks flew out and rapped her arms around him tightly.
"I knew you would come, oh Remus." Tonks said.
Ron and Hermione walked out behind her, they looked up and down the corridor looking for Harry wondering why he weren't there with Remus. Remus pushed Tonks away slightly.
"We have to go, I think their in trouble." Remus told her as calmly as he could.
She nodded and then they turned to Ron and Hermione, as Draco walked out.
"So what are we all standing around here for?" Draco asked.
They all set off to Harry and the others.
Dumbledore pulled Harry behind him, as he still tried to fight him and get to Sirius who was lying on the floor not moving.
"You're going to fight me old man, well if you think you can then give it your best shot." Voldermot told him.
Harry just watched on as they fought firing curses off one another, but none of them seemed to doing anything; he moved over to Sirius and slowly turned him over. Harry felt the tears pouring down his face, as he looked down at him; blood covering half his face. His arm felt strange as though it was broken, and there was still no sign of moment, he couldn't even tell if he was breathing.
"Sirius please, wake up, please wake." Harry whispered, and then yelled out as he was pulled to his feet from behind.
"Let him go." Dumbledore told him. "He's just a boy."
"He may just be a boy, but he's brought me down once I can't be having that again." Voldermot told him. "No, he must die, just like everyone else he cared about."
Harry couldn't really hear what he was saying even though he was in his arms, he only knew that this could be it. He was going to join them, he was going to join his parents and Sirius, it was all going to be over.
There was a bright light, a blinding bright white light. Harry knew that he had to get to it; he fell to the hard floor and crawled towards the light. He had only gone a couple of feet when something grabbed hold of his foot, he turned around to see what it was what was stopping him from getting to the light he needed to get to; and there he was. Voldermot was there stopping him, he was stopping him, he wanted to be with them to be with them all.
Harry reached for his wand and pointed it straight at him, there was screaming from all around him but he couldn't see where it was coming from and he didn't really care. He didn't even hear the curse that he said, as more light filled the space but this time it was green.
Voldermot's hand loosen around Harry's foot, then he felt light head the last thing he remember was the light faded and falling into darkness.
Harry started to open his eyes, everything was kind of blurry and bright, he closed them slightly again and turned his head to the right. He wasn't sure where he was, but he did seem think that someone handed him something, he felt them and realised that they were his glasses. He put them on and looked up to see who was stood over him.
"You're awake we've been so worried." Ron told him, he nudged Hermione in the seat next to his bed and she woke with a start.
"What's wrong, what's happened?" Hermione asked getting to her feet.
"Harry's awake." Ron told her.
"Oh, right." Hermione said, and the turned round and smiled down at Harry but he didn't smiled back at her.
"Sirius, where's Sirius...what about Dumbledore and Vol...Voldermot?" Harry asked trying to sit up but they both stopped him.
"Well erm...well..." Ron tried to answer.
"No." Harry whispered. "He can't be...don't say that he's...he's...he can't be..."
"Who can't be what?" Sirius asked brightly as he walked over to his bed side.
Harry smiled wildly this time and flung himself at Sirius who hugged him back.
"I'm not that easily taken out." Sirius told him. "Anyway I have plans, big plans so I'm not going anywhere."
"I thought...oh I don't even want to think about it." Harry told him, still not letting go of him.
"Electra's alright, and the twins she's with Remus and Tonks." Sirius told him, Harry let go of him finding out all of this. "See I told you he would be alright."
Harry could see that there was something else, something that he didn't want to tell him. He looked around the hospital wing, there was a couple more people there but no Dumbledore and McGonagall was gone as well.
"Where's McGonagall gone?" Harry asked. "And what happened to Dumbledore and Voldermot?"
"Well, McGonagall she's a lot better trying to sort everything out." Sirius told him. "Replacements and everything...Voldermot...well...he's...he's dead Harry. From what Remus told me, you killed him...erm well you and Dumbledore."
"Yeah so where is he? I want to see him." Harry told him firmly. "Why isn't he here, why hasn't he..."
"Harry...Dumbledore...he...he's dead...he died...the last battle it killed them...took everything that they had and then...well you finished Voldermot off." Sirius told him.
"What? But its Dumbledore, he can't he just can't be dead...he's..." Harry tried to say but couldn't, and fell back into Sirius who held him tightly.
"I know Harry...I know." Sirius said softly.
It was finally the weekend, the feast normally everyone looked forward to them but not this one, who could they after everything what had happened. Sirius and Electra walked down to the great hall together, they hadn't talked about Voldermot had told him, he didn't really see the point because he knew it was all lies. But he also knew that Electra had taken Severus' death hard, though he had put that down to that fact that she had been with him when he had died.
He loved her, and he wasn't going to let Voldermot destroy what they had because if he did then that would mean that he had won.
They walked into the great hall together, the normal banner's were gone and black ones were in there place as they walked up to the staff table. The main chair in the middle was empty, no one had gotten used to the fact that Dumbledore was gone, they didn't even know if they ever would.
They sat down and looked over the tables, there were many empty spaces where student's were missing also a couple of teachers, the hall seemed so empty without them here.
McGonagall stood up once that everyone had arrived, the hall fell silent not that it was loud to start with.
"I want to start, by taken a moment to remember all those who has fallen." McGonagall told them. "For all these who lost their lives so that we can live ours, to live ours to the full to always remember what they have done so that we can carry on. This isn't the end, but only the beginning, a beginning of our lives and rebuilding of our old ones." She paused to take a breath and give them all a moment. "Also, I have been talking with Minister Fudge. We have lost a great man, the best headmaster Hogwarts has ever seen, and a great friend. His replacement will be announced at the start of the month so I am told...I hope that who ever it is that you give them as much respect as you gave professor Dumbledore. Also, we will be getting a new potions teacher and head of Slytherin house...I think...I...we should take a moment to remember those we have lost."
Everyone lowered their heads, as McGonagall shakily tried to steady herself; Sirius got up and helped her back into her seat as everyone looked back up, and saw that he was holding McGonagall's arm and that he was the only one stood up now, and was wondering is he was going to say anything. But he just froze with all eyes on him, he looked down at the plates and then back at the students.
"I think that's its time to eat." Sirius announced, and at his words the tables filled with food.
Sirius quickly sat back down, Electra lead over and kissed him on the cheek.
"God I could have said something better then that." Sirius said.
"What is there to say?" Electra said. "We all feel everyone's lost in different ways, it doesn't matter how much we say, it isn't going to help take the pain away. Everyone has to deal with it in their own ways, they'll be alright, they're strong they'll get through this."
"Its just..." Remus tried to say.
"Dumbledore." McGonagall said quietly.
"Yes, I guess I always thought that he would always be here." Remus told them. "He was always here for us when ever we needed him; he did so much for us all."
"Great man...he was a great man." Hagrid said.
"Hagrid's right, he was a great man." Sirius said. "And we are all better people for knowing him."
"Here, here..." McGonagall said as she raised her glass. "To Dumbledore, and all of our friends...who we will be reunited with someday."
"To Dumbledore!" They all said together, all the student's stood up together and raised their own glasses. "To Dumbledore!"
A couple of weeks later Fudge arrived at the school just like he said he would, he walked straight to Dumbledore's office and then when he was stood in front of it remembered that he was no longer in there. And that McGonagall had stayed in her office, so that's where he went to next.
He knocked on her door, and waited only a minute before she called him in. Sirius was sat in the chair in front of her desk, someone else he didn't really feel as though he was ready to talk to still.
"Professor, its nice to see you...and erm you also...erm Mr...Black." Fudge said.
"Yeah course what ever." Sirius said, not moving so that he could sit down, he didn't really see the point.
"Well, yes." Fudge said and then turned back to McGonagall. "WE have talked about and have finally come to a decision about who should take over as headmaster...we believe that this time, it should be a headmistress."
This got both of their attentions, they looked at each other and then at Fudge.
"Professor McGonagall I would like to offer the job to you." Fudge told her.
McGonagall just stood there, as Sirius stared at her, and then he got to his feet and walked around the desk.
"You should take it Professor; it would have been what he would have wanted." Sirius told her. "You'll do great."
"I don't know..." McGonagall said and then looked up at Sirius who smiled at her and was nodded slightly. She smiled at him and then turned back to Fudge. "Ok then, I'll take it...and do Albus proud."
Sirius hugged her briefly and then let her go. "You'll be great Professor."
"Thanks you Sirius." McGonagall told him, and then added thoughtfully. "Gryffindor will need a new head of house. What do you say?"
"What?" Both Fudge and Sirius said.
"Well, I think you're just what we need." McGonagall told him. "And you can also take over as Transfiguration, after all you are very good at it."
"Professor I...I don't know what to say." Sirius said. "Thank you." And then he hugged her again. "Who would have thought it, me head of Gryffindor and a teacher."
(A/N: thank you all so much, for reading all the story and you all liked it as well. I do hope that I didn't upset too many of you with the ending, if I did I'm sorry, but that's how it had to be. Do you think that was alright leaving it there, or do I need one more? I don't think I do, unless you wanted to see everyone reactions. Anyway that parts up to you, if you want another chapter then I'll do you one, but you'll have to ask.
You know I think that's my longish chapter.
Oh and I want to thank those who've read my other stories as well, I am going to continue them as well, but I just got carried away with this one.)
The Last Stand
Sirius was walking up and down the hospital wing, seeing to everyone trying to find out who was alright and who wasn't, and who had been taken. But there was only one person who hadn't been accounted for one way or another, Dumbledore; they couldn't get to his office to see if he was in there and it seemed like he couldn't get out if he was in there.
As he was passing Electra's bed he heard her move, he almost ran over to her side. She opened her eyes and looked up at him; he smiled down at her and then kissed her on the forehead.
"I told you not to do that to me again." Sirius told her, she smiled at him but she was still really sore, everywhere.
"I'm not going anywhere." Electra told him. "Remus, how is he?"
Sirius looked over to the next bed behind her, Electra tried to turn over but it hurt her to much, then she saw McGonagall in the next bed to her.
"Is she alright?" Electra asked. "What about Harry, Ron the twins?"
"I'm alright." Harry said as he sat down on the end of her bed but out of her eye line.
"Remus, well he's sleeping and I'm not looking forward to telling him everything what happened." Sirius told her. "McGonagall, she's going to be alright after an awful lot of rest; just glad that I don't have to tell her that as well...Ron well...erm...they took him..."
Electra just looked up at him, he looked ready to break down but she knew that he wouldn't not here not with all these people around.
"I told Molly and Auther, their here...god I thought she was going to kill me...but she just broke down...I would have preferred it if she would have hit me shouted at me anything...but that it was so much worst." Sirius told her. "Dumbledore is still missing, so is Snape. Quite a few of the students...they took Draco, he tried to help Hermione...they took them both...after...they've taken Tonks as well."
"I don't believe it." Electra said breathlessly, not completely taking in that he hadn't told her about the twins.
"They took them, I'm so sorry." Harry said suddenly getting to his feet and walking around so that she could see him. "I'm so sorry I let you both down, he took them with Ron; I should have done something to stop them, but..."
"Harry it's not your fault." Sirius told him.
"But it is...I should have done something more to stop them." Harry said.
"And what, got taken as well?" Sirius shot at him. "Harry I've lost to many people I care about, do you honestly think that we want to lose you as well?"
"Well no...but..." Harry tried to explain.
"Harry, we care about you as well, we don't want to lose you." Electra told him.
"Harry sit down." Sirius told him, and then he turned back to Electra. "Do you know there's one thing about that, that I just don't get...why would Voldermot want them?"
"Wait a minute, I think I remember something." Harry said thoughtfully, as Electra tried not to look at either of them. "I Think he said something, ask Electra and Severus...I don't know what it means."
Sirius looked at Electra as though she would know the answer, but she tried to look as puzzled as she could she worked quite well, and looked like she was in pain as well.
"Are you alright?" Sirius asked her, she nodded slightly. "Well?"
"I don't know." Electra answered. "The only thing I can think of is that seer woman, remember from the summer? Maybe she read me wrong, she did get very excited about something."
"That's it, they haven't a clue what they're doing, so now she's given Voldermot some stupid information." Sirius said, as though this answered everything. "She probably even told him that Snape was the father... now that would be the most stupidest thing ever wouldn't it? Because you and him please like that would ever happen...and that other thing doesn't count of course."
"Of course, stupid." Electra said, but a little too obvious.
"What?" Sirius asked staring at her. "It is stupid right?" Then he shock his head. "God what the hell am I thinking, of course you wouldn't...sorry Electra you know how it is, it's been like hell."
"Of course." Electra said.
"You should rest." Sirius told her, as Harry got to his feet. "We're checking on Dumbledore's office again, and then planning on how we're going to get everyone back and finish this once and for all."
This time it was Harry who looked away, because he knew more then anyone what that means, only one of them can walk away from the finally battle; it was going to be him or Voldermot this time.
Sirius bent down and kissed Electra, before he left with Harry; Electra just watched him walk out of the hospital wing. She couldn't believe that she had gotten away with it again, she just didn't know why she did; why didn't Sirius want to believe that she would do something like that? God even she still can't believe that she did it. But thinking about, she doesn't know why Voldermot would want her twins, even if he knew that Severus wasn't the father, or even if he thought that he was; it just didn't make sense.
Sirius walked down the corridor with Harry just behind him, they both stopped outside of Dumbledore's office and looked at the rubble.
"Harry..." Sirius said.
"I'm fine." Harry said.
"Of course your not." Sirius told him, turning round and standing directly in front of him. "Dumbledore told me, because he knew that you wouldn't tell me...though I would have preferred to have heard it from you...well what I'm trying to say is that, well I won't let you die. Not because I'm supposed to say that because I'm your godfather and your fathers best friend, but because I care for you...like family...kind of like my own son or brother...does that sound alright?"
Harry looked up at him and then hugged him, Sirius just stood there for a moment before he hugged him back.
"That sounds just fine, I feel the same way, you're the only family I've ever really had...I don't know what I would do if I lost you as well." Harry told him.
"We should really talk more shouldn't we?" Sirius said smiling at him as Harry looked up at him. "Right, back to business any ideas about how to get into there?"
"Why don't we just blast our way through?" Harry suggested.
Sirius thought about this for a moment, reaching for his wand in his pocket; as more rubble seemed to fall and then they heard a voice.
"That might do more harm then good." Dumbledore said brightly.
They both rushed towards the wall and tried to look up to see if they could see him but they couldn't, they couldn't see anything part from dust and stone.
"You're alive." Sirius said.
"It seems so doesn't it?" Dumbledore said pleasantly.
"So what's the damage?" Dumbledore asked.
"Well erm...there's a lot of injuries...Remus took out a lot of the Deatheaters, but we don't need to go into great detail about that." Sirius told him. "They took quite a few of the student's they had Portkey's on them."
"First off, I need to get out of here...and have McGonagall..." Dumbledore started.
"She's injured up in the hospital wing." Sirius told him not looking up as though he didn't want to look at Dumbledore as he told him.
"Then it's up to you Sirius." Dumbledore told him. "But I'll see what I can do about getting out of here...the Floo network isn't working by the way."
"Of course it wouldn't, they wouldn't have wanted any of us or you to get out that way." Harry said.
"Good, good your still here." Dumbledore said brightly.
"Yes I am but they took the twins and Ron, and I couldn't stop them." Harry told them, well Sirius gave him another stern look.
"I'm sure that both Sirius and Electra have told you that that isn't your fault and you shouldn't balm yourself." Dumbledore told him. "But it is interesting why he would want them isn't? It isn't as though he needed them for you to go after him, considering how many other's he has taken we would go."
"We don't get it either." Sirius agreed.
Electra tried to sit up, but it hurt to much; though she almost fell out of bed when Remus woke up beside of her screaming. She turned round as fast as she could as he jumped out of bed and started to back out of the hospital wing looking at everyone in fear as Madam Pomfery tried to calm him down.
"Remus, are you alright? Please Remus." Electra said trying to get out of bed.
He looked over at her, and then turned and ran out of the wing and down the corridor as fast as he could; he needed to get out of there. He could remember everything he had done, and he could still taste the blood on his lips.
He raced down the corridors not knowing where he was going only knowing that he had to get out of there as fast as he could; but as he turned the corner he hit something hard and fell to ground on top of it. Sirius smiled up at him, but he didn't smiled back, as he pushed him down while he tried to get away. But Sirius grabbed hold of his leg, not wanting him to go.
"What the hell are you doing?" Sirius demanded, as Remus tried to kick himself free.
"Let me go." Remus snarled at him.
"Remus come on mate." Sirius said.
Remus turned around in a flash and kicked his leg free and grabbed hold of Sirius and threw him up against the wall; Harry moved against the wall trying to get as far away from the two of them as he can.
"Remus mate, Moony just calm down." Sirius told him.
"Calm down! I killed them, you saw what I did...you were there." Remus told him. "I killed them all, everyone I came across I killed them, I can...I can still taste them...and what? What do you want me to do, calm down? I'm a monster! You finally saw what I really am."
"Yeah, well I already knew what you really was." Sirius told him, as Remus tighten his grip on him. "Remus, you saved us. I was there...you saved us...you didn't kill any of us...the Deatheaters saving us."
"That doesn't make it any better, all because they were Deatheaters." Remus told him. "I still killed as a werewolf, as a murdering monster."
"You're not a monster...Tonks..." Sirius tired to say. "She still...she still loves you...she told me...she still wants..." But his words were cut off as Remus' grip tighten around his toart.
"No, you're lying." Remus whispered. "She saw me, she screamed I remember...she would have ran away from me but she was to scared to even move..." Remus let go of him and fell into him, Sirius grabbed hold of him and fell to the ground with him. "I lost her."
"She loves you still, yeah she was scared...of course she was mate." Sirius told him. "But she still loves you...this is it though"
Remus looked up at him wondering what he was talking about.
"She's gone, they took her...but we're going to get them back." Sirius told him. "All of them, we're not coming back until we've got everyone of them back. But this is it; I'm only going to ask you this once. Are you coming with us?"
Remus looked at him shacking his head. "How can I, after what I did?"
He looked down, and then back up at his friend, there was pain in his eyes; not because he had hurt him as a werewolf or just now, but because he was letting him down now.
Remus stood up suddenly pulling Sirius to his feet as well. "You're right this is it, I've got to stop running away. I'm here; at your side...does...does she really still love me?"
Sirius smiled brightly at him and then hugged him and clasped him on the back. "Oh god mate, why the hell wouldn't she, wants not to like about you?"
"Right then when are we leaving?" Remus asked.
"As soon as we have enough people." Sirius answered. "Hopefully tomorrow or the day after, I don't think I could take it any longer then that. One of the Deatheaters told us where they are...though maybe you could get a bit more information out of him."
"Oh, him...do you really think I should?" Remus asked a little unsure.
"He was going to take the twins and me...they got them and Ron...and Hermione as well." Harry told him. "And quite a few others."
"I'll try." Remus said straightening up.
Electra was laying in bed, all she wanted to do was to get out of there to be doing something but she could hardly move let alone go with them on the rescue they were planning; but they were her children as well.
A cloaked figured walked into the hospital wing, Madam Pomfery saw him straight away and went straight over to him, not wanting anyone to disturb her patients while they try and recover. But he pulled his wand out and pointed it at her, Electra didn't hear what the spell was, but knew that this wasn't right when she just walked away and into her office. The cloaked figure then turned round and walked over; he looked at McGonagall lying in the bed next to her and then walked down between the beds.
He stopped next to her, and then pushed back his hood; it was peter she couldn't believe it.
"The Dark Lord wishes to talk to you." Peter told her, he reached out for her hand and held it tightly as he took something out of his pocket, and then they just disappeared.
Darkness engulfed her as she landed on the hard ground, she pulled her hand away and clutched her side and rubbed her head the journey making her hurt even more then she had before.
"Someone's been a bad little girl." Peter whispered before he walked off, leaving her all alone.
She turned round, but to quickly; she heard someone walking softly over to her she knew who ever it was she wasn't going to like what was coming next.
"Electra Lupin, or is it Black now?" Voldermot said. "I doubt that either of them would be too pleased if they knew what you have done."
"I haven't done anything." Electra told him.
"Brave little thing aren't you?" Voldermot said. "But I should thank you, because of your help when they come to rescue you and the others; none of them will leave here alive infact they will never leave here again."
"What?" Electra said breathlessly.
"Some people still don't believe that Black is innocent and they don't l;ike your brother because he's a werewolf." Voldermot told her. "So what better way to end it; everyone will believe that it was them who betrayed you all and joined me. They might as well have, because they are walking right into my hands even as we speak now."
Voldermot turned to walk away but then stopped again as the doors opened and two cloaked figures walked in carrying someone.
"Why don't I just leave him here with you, he's no more use to me now." Voldermot told her of handled. "And anyway, he'll be dead before they get here to help him."
Voldermot walked out making the two cloaked figures move quickly out of his way, before they walked over to Electra and drop the unconscious person on the floor beside her.
Sirius locked the door behind him as he walked out of the room, leaving Remus inside of it along with the Deatheater; he wasn't so sure now that he should have done it considering that he was screaming as soon as he saw Remus and he hadn't even done anything.
"Sirius! Sirius!" Ginny shouted as she ran down to the corridor towards him.
"Slow down Ginny." Sirius told her.
"But...Electra...Electra's gone...she isn't up in the hospital wing." Ginny told him holding her side. "Harry can't find her anywhere, he said that she's not even on the map...Madam Pomfery said that she kind of remembers someone arriving but nothing else...do you...I mean would they have taken her?"
Sirius just stood there, his whole world was falling apart around him and there was nothing he could do about it; there was a feeling somewhere that was telling him that it was all going to end like last time, he was going to lose everyone he cared about.
"Sirius." Ginny said, looking up at him just staring not doing anything.
He turned round again, and unlocked the door and walked in; Ginny didn't dare go inside because of all the screaming, a moment later Sirius and Remus walked out and the man inside was still screaming as though he was being tortured.
"We're going tonight." Sirius told her. "Tell everyone, everyone who is fit enough to come with us is coming; this is it."
Ginny nodded slowly as the two of them walked away, she just watch them walk down the corridor until they were out of sight and then she went off to find as many people as she could.
The entrance was the quietest it has ever been with so many students in it, as Dumbledore walked down the stairs with Sirius, Harry and Remus behind him. They stopped a couple of steps from the bottom so that they could all see them, as they looked out over the students they realised that it wasn't just students who were there, but their parents as well. Many students had contacted their parents telling them what had happened and what was going to happen, they were all here not to argue against the decision of going after Voldermot but to fight along side them.
"I want to tank you all for coming, and also apologise as well; for not protecting your children and fellow student's well enough." Dumbledore told them. "That is why we are doing this, our last stand; we will not take this any longer. He has terrorised us for long enough it must come to a stop tonight. I will not order or ask any of you to come with us..."
At this they all stepped forward, Dumbledore smiled at them all.
"Then we leave tonight, we will not come back without them and until Voldermot has fallen." Dumbledore told them.
Remus and Sirius stepped forward carrying large baskets, and then started to hand out small boxes; they all got into groups and then waited for Dumbledore's order.
"We have been told the location of where they are holding our friends." Dumbledore told them. "We will be travelling there by Portkey, as did they. I don't want any more of you hurt, stay together in your groups; we will also be joined by a group from the Ministry also."
"The whole department of Auror's infact Dumbledore." Kingsley announced next to Molly and Bill. "Along with a couple more departments."
At this news whispers broke out among the crowd, everyone seemed pleased by this information; Sirius though didn't seem at all happy.
"Its taken them long enough hasn't it, what they had to wait until children were killed and kidnapped before they would do anything about Voldermot." Sirius whispered to Remus.
"Well they're here now." Remus said.
Electra sat in the dark, with Severus in her arms; he kept slipping in and out of consciousness. He was getting really cold and mumbled to himself, Electra was really starting to worry about him, she couldn't do anything for him in here; but it kept coming back to her what Voldermot had told her, he wouldn't last much longer. She knew he was right, she could feel him slipping away.
"Severus...its going to be ok." Electra told him.
"You're lying again to me." Severus whispered. "I should have known that he would never have let me go...and that I couldn't have gotten away with it."
"You will if you hang on a little bit longer." Electra told him. "They'll come, I know they will."
"They come for you...and the others." Severus said. "But not me...I won't be here when they get here."
"Don't say that, you have to fight...I thought you were a fighter someone who never gave up." Electra told him.
"I haven't the strength to fight, to hold on." Severus told her, as she held him a little tighter. "And I've got nothing to stay here for have I?"
Electra closed her eyes as he cuffed again painfully.
"Of course you have." Electra said.
"You're lying again." Severus told her.
"Severus...I...I..."Electra tried to say, but didn't really know what to say to him as he head went limp. "Severus, Severus stay awake! Stay with me, don't you dare leave me alone here."
"Black...he'll be here...he'll come for you." Severus whispered. "I would...he loves you...stupid...stupid bastard...he won...tell him I told him that."
"No...no I won't." Electra told him firmly as a tear rolled down her cheek.
"It's so cold...I guess that's what people say...about me...did say about me." Severus said. "They won't bother now...I'll be forgotten before the days out...alone in the darkness..."
"Your not alone, I'm here...Severus I'm still here." Electra told him as more tears escaped. "You won't be forgotten...I won't forget you..."
"I would laugh, but I can't...it hurts to much." Severus said and then his eyes closed again.
"Severus, please..." Electra whispered desperately, and then she kissed him softly.
"You don't have...have to do that...I know...that...you don't feel for me..." Severus told her.
"Well that's where you're wrong, you don't know everything." Electra told him, as she felt his body giving way. "You were right...I mean about me...I was afraid...but I did love you...I do love you..." And then she lent down and whispered to him. "I love you...they are yours...you won."
Severus smiled slightly up at her, as she smiled back down at him; before his head dropped and his sightless eyes fell to the ground. Electra held him as tightly as she could, she couldn't tight back the tears anymore; as she cried into his lifeless body.
The groups appeared in the darken corridor's, there were torches on the wall; they quietly made their where. The Auror's arrived a couple of minutes after them, and slit up into groups, one went off with every group.
"So Moony, how are those werewolf senses of yours?" Sirius asked as he walked up Remus and Harry on either side of him and Dumbledore in front.
"Still quite strong; I kind of feel as though I could tear them all to pieces." Remus answered. "I mean, if they try and stop me from finding..."
"Those you care about." Sirius finished for him. "You're not the only one, well maybe the only one strong enough to do it with their bare hands."
"It's left." Remus said as they reached a junction. "I mean for the holding cell's."
"Who's down there, can you tell?" Sirius asked.
"What about...erm...well...can you tell where Voldermot is?" Harry asked.
"No, to both your questions." Remus answered.
"Are we going straight for Voldermot or to the holding cells?" Dumbledore asked them.
Sirius took a deep breath before he answered. "The other groups will find them, that's what they're doing."
"So, its Voldermot then." Remus said, and then smelt the air. "I think we have to carry straight on."
"Straight on it is then." Dumbledore said.
They all nodded in agreement and started to walk down the corridor, Sirius tried not to look down the corridor that Electra and twins could be down, but he couldn't help it. But he walked straight on, leaving up to one of the other parties to find them; willing them to find them soon.
As they walked down the corridor, they heard rushing feet and shouting its looks as though the art of surprise has been lost, though they still had some because they would be expecting such a big group of them.
The wall quietly opened behind them and two cloaked figures came out, but they carried on walking. Remus turned around in a flash defecting both curses, startling the others. They rushed at Remus firing curse after curse at him, but somehow he managed to defect everyone, he wasn't the defence against the darks arts teacher for nothing.
"Go! I'll take care of these guys and then catch you up." Remus shouted at them.
"No, we can't!" Harry shouted back, as Sirius pulled him along.
"He'll be fine, we have to keep moving." Sirius told him. "He'll be fine."
Sirius near enough pulled Harry down the corridor, it was as though he was betraying his best friend leaving him behind to fight them, but he knew this was for the great good.
"How could you just leave him there?" Harry shot at him.
"Harry he's my best friend, I know what I've done." Sirius told him. "He'll be alright, I'm sure of it."
"Harry, Remus knows what's at steak here just like everyone else." Dumbledore told him as they carried on walking. "I never said this was going to be easy, and these things never are."
"We're going to lose a lot aren't we?" Harry asked quietly.
"Yes, everyone will fall at my feet." A voice said in the darkness, but they all knew who it belonged to. "Dead or alive it doesn't matter, because they will fall. Fools all of you."
"And you're prefectic, kidnapping babies, how big of you!" Sirius shouted at him.
"Mr Black, I was hoping to see you." Voldermot told him. "They alright, and their mother...well I'm sure she will be in time, well that is if she can live past today. Though I'm sure it won't upset you to hear that Severus Snape is dead."
"What? But how?" Sirius said.
"He betrayed me; I knew all along it was only a matter of time before his uses came to an end." Voldermot answered. "Though what an end. His was a good death, though for the rest of you it won't be as pleasant."
"And what the hell is that supposed to mine?" Sirius demanded.
"He died a happy man, knowing the woman he loved loved him back, and that he was a father." Voldermot answered smiling at him. "Didn't she tell you? They had a thing; there was a point that she didn't know who the father was, though it looks like she does now."
"You're lying!" Sirius shouted as he ran at Voldermot with him laughing, he waved his hand and Sirius flew through the air and hit the wall hard crumbling to the ground in a heap.
"No! Sirius!" Harry shouted as he tried to get to him, but Dumbledore stop him. "Let go of me! Sirius!"
The shouted echoed down the corridor where Remus was breaking down a door to a ceil, he stopped what he was doing when he heard his best friends name and then again. He turned back to the door, and almost ripped out; Tonks flew out and rapped her arms around him tightly.
"I knew you would come, oh Remus." Tonks said.
Ron and Hermione walked out behind her, they looked up and down the corridor looking for Harry wondering why he weren't there with Remus. Remus pushed Tonks away slightly.
"We have to go, I think their in trouble." Remus told her as calmly as he could.
She nodded and then they turned to Ron and Hermione, as Draco walked out.
"So what are we all standing around here for?" Draco asked.
They all set off to Harry and the others.
Dumbledore pulled Harry behind him, as he still tried to fight him and get to Sirius who was lying on the floor not moving.
"You're going to fight me old man, well if you think you can then give it your best shot." Voldermot told him.
Harry just watched on as they fought firing curses off one another, but none of them seemed to doing anything; he moved over to Sirius and slowly turned him over. Harry felt the tears pouring down his face, as he looked down at him; blood covering half his face. His arm felt strange as though it was broken, and there was still no sign of moment, he couldn't even tell if he was breathing.
"Sirius please, wake up, please wake." Harry whispered, and then yelled out as he was pulled to his feet from behind.
"Let him go." Dumbledore told him. "He's just a boy."
"He may just be a boy, but he's brought me down once I can't be having that again." Voldermot told him. "No, he must die, just like everyone else he cared about."
Harry couldn't really hear what he was saying even though he was in his arms, he only knew that this could be it. He was going to join them, he was going to join his parents and Sirius, it was all going to be over.
There was a bright light, a blinding bright white light. Harry knew that he had to get to it; he fell to the hard floor and crawled towards the light. He had only gone a couple of feet when something grabbed hold of his foot, he turned around to see what it was what was stopping him from getting to the light he needed to get to; and there he was. Voldermot was there stopping him, he was stopping him, he wanted to be with them to be with them all.
Harry reached for his wand and pointed it straight at him, there was screaming from all around him but he couldn't see where it was coming from and he didn't really care. He didn't even hear the curse that he said, as more light filled the space but this time it was green.
Voldermot's hand loosen around Harry's foot, then he felt light head the last thing he remember was the light faded and falling into darkness.
Harry started to open his eyes, everything was kind of blurry and bright, he closed them slightly again and turned his head to the right. He wasn't sure where he was, but he did seem think that someone handed him something, he felt them and realised that they were his glasses. He put them on and looked up to see who was stood over him.
"You're awake we've been so worried." Ron told him, he nudged Hermione in the seat next to his bed and she woke with a start.
"What's wrong, what's happened?" Hermione asked getting to her feet.
"Harry's awake." Ron told her.
"Oh, right." Hermione said, and the turned round and smiled down at Harry but he didn't smiled back at her.
"Sirius, where's Sirius...what about Dumbledore and Vol...Voldermot?" Harry asked trying to sit up but they both stopped him.
"Well erm...well..." Ron tried to answer.
"No." Harry whispered. "He can't be...don't say that he's...he's...he can't be..."
"Who can't be what?" Sirius asked brightly as he walked over to his bed side.
Harry smiled wildly this time and flung himself at Sirius who hugged him back.
"I'm not that easily taken out." Sirius told him. "Anyway I have plans, big plans so I'm not going anywhere."
"I thought...oh I don't even want to think about it." Harry told him, still not letting go of him.
"Electra's alright, and the twins she's with Remus and Tonks." Sirius told him, Harry let go of him finding out all of this. "See I told you he would be alright."
Harry could see that there was something else, something that he didn't want to tell him. He looked around the hospital wing, there was a couple more people there but no Dumbledore and McGonagall was gone as well.
"Where's McGonagall gone?" Harry asked. "And what happened to Dumbledore and Voldermot?"
"Well, McGonagall she's a lot better trying to sort everything out." Sirius told him. "Replacements and everything...Voldermot...well...he's...he's dead Harry. From what Remus told me, you killed him...erm well you and Dumbledore."
"Yeah so where is he? I want to see him." Harry told him firmly. "Why isn't he here, why hasn't he..."
"Harry...Dumbledore...he...he's dead...he died...the last battle it killed them...took everything that they had and then...well you finished Voldermot off." Sirius told him.
"What? But its Dumbledore, he can't he just can't be dead...he's..." Harry tried to say but couldn't, and fell back into Sirius who held him tightly.
"I know Harry...I know." Sirius said softly.
It was finally the weekend, the feast normally everyone looked forward to them but not this one, who could they after everything what had happened. Sirius and Electra walked down to the great hall together, they hadn't talked about Voldermot had told him, he didn't really see the point because he knew it was all lies. But he also knew that Electra had taken Severus' death hard, though he had put that down to that fact that she had been with him when he had died.
He loved her, and he wasn't going to let Voldermot destroy what they had because if he did then that would mean that he had won.
They walked into the great hall together, the normal banner's were gone and black ones were in there place as they walked up to the staff table. The main chair in the middle was empty, no one had gotten used to the fact that Dumbledore was gone, they didn't even know if they ever would.
They sat down and looked over the tables, there were many empty spaces where student's were missing also a couple of teachers, the hall seemed so empty without them here.
McGonagall stood up once that everyone had arrived, the hall fell silent not that it was loud to start with.
"I want to start, by taken a moment to remember all those who has fallen." McGonagall told them. "For all these who lost their lives so that we can live ours, to live ours to the full to always remember what they have done so that we can carry on. This isn't the end, but only the beginning, a beginning of our lives and rebuilding of our old ones." She paused to take a breath and give them all a moment. "Also, I have been talking with Minister Fudge. We have lost a great man, the best headmaster Hogwarts has ever seen, and a great friend. His replacement will be announced at the start of the month so I am told...I hope that who ever it is that you give them as much respect as you gave professor Dumbledore. Also, we will be getting a new potions teacher and head of Slytherin house...I think...I...we should take a moment to remember those we have lost."
Everyone lowered their heads, as McGonagall shakily tried to steady herself; Sirius got up and helped her back into her seat as everyone looked back up, and saw that he was holding McGonagall's arm and that he was the only one stood up now, and was wondering is he was going to say anything. But he just froze with all eyes on him, he looked down at the plates and then back at the students.
"I think that's its time to eat." Sirius announced, and at his words the tables filled with food.
Sirius quickly sat back down, Electra lead over and kissed him on the cheek.
"God I could have said something better then that." Sirius said.
"What is there to say?" Electra said. "We all feel everyone's lost in different ways, it doesn't matter how much we say, it isn't going to help take the pain away. Everyone has to deal with it in their own ways, they'll be alright, they're strong they'll get through this."
"Its just..." Remus tried to say.
"Dumbledore." McGonagall said quietly.
"Yes, I guess I always thought that he would always be here." Remus told them. "He was always here for us when ever we needed him; he did so much for us all."
"Great man...he was a great man." Hagrid said.
"Hagrid's right, he was a great man." Sirius said. "And we are all better people for knowing him."
"Here, here..." McGonagall said as she raised her glass. "To Dumbledore, and all of our friends...who we will be reunited with someday."
"To Dumbledore!" They all said together, all the student's stood up together and raised their own glasses. "To Dumbledore!"
A couple of weeks later Fudge arrived at the school just like he said he would, he walked straight to Dumbledore's office and then when he was stood in front of it remembered that he was no longer in there. And that McGonagall had stayed in her office, so that's where he went to next.
He knocked on her door, and waited only a minute before she called him in. Sirius was sat in the chair in front of her desk, someone else he didn't really feel as though he was ready to talk to still.
"Professor, its nice to see you...and erm you also...erm Mr...Black." Fudge said.
"Yeah course what ever." Sirius said, not moving so that he could sit down, he didn't really see the point.
"Well, yes." Fudge said and then turned back to McGonagall. "WE have talked about and have finally come to a decision about who should take over as headmaster...we believe that this time, it should be a headmistress."
This got both of their attentions, they looked at each other and then at Fudge.
"Professor McGonagall I would like to offer the job to you." Fudge told her.
McGonagall just stood there, as Sirius stared at her, and then he got to his feet and walked around the desk.
"You should take it Professor; it would have been what he would have wanted." Sirius told her. "You'll do great."
"I don't know..." McGonagall said and then looked up at Sirius who smiled at her and was nodded slightly. She smiled at him and then turned back to Fudge. "Ok then, I'll take it...and do Albus proud."
Sirius hugged her briefly and then let her go. "You'll be great Professor."
"Thanks you Sirius." McGonagall told him, and then added thoughtfully. "Gryffindor will need a new head of house. What do you say?"
"What?" Both Fudge and Sirius said.
"Well, I think you're just what we need." McGonagall told him. "And you can also take over as Transfiguration, after all you are very good at it."
"Professor I...I don't know what to say." Sirius said. "Thank you." And then he hugged her again. "Who would have thought it, me head of Gryffindor and a teacher."
(A/N: thank you all so much, for reading all the story and you all liked it as well. I do hope that I didn't upset too many of you with the ending, if I did I'm sorry, but that's how it had to be. Do you think that was alright leaving it there, or do I need one more? I don't think I do, unless you wanted to see everyone reactions. Anyway that parts up to you, if you want another chapter then I'll do you one, but you'll have to ask.
You know I think that's my longish chapter.
Oh and I want to thank those who've read my other stories as well, I am going to continue them as well, but I just got carried away with this one.)