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A/N: Well I hope that this story is shaping up to everyone's expectations. I love all of the feedback that I am getting on this story. And I can definitely say that is what is keeping me going. Hope this chapter is as good as all of the others.

Chapter Eighteen: House Elf to the Rescue

Lucius glanced up into the eyes of the Dark Lord and knew why many people feared him. The anger and pain that radiated from those red depths would be enough to stop anyone in their tracks.

Severus was sitting opposite him at a meeting table the same anger came off him in waves. The main thought on their minds now was how to get Remus back to safety before Dumbledore got a hold of him. If Dumbledore did get to him first, they feared that they would never see the werewolf alive again.

"I think that I will accompany you two back to the Manor. I feel that it is time to come up with a plan and put it into action." The Dark Lord said as he stood and walked toward the library.

He still couldn't believe everything that Lucius and Severus had told him when they had floo'd to his manor earlier. He had been stunned when the first words out of Severus's mouth had been that Athena and her daughter had been identified. After he had been told how that had happened he couldn't help but chuckle. When Lucius had told him the reason for Remus running out and going after that Weasley boy he was furious and for the first time in a long while he had felt pity for the girl.

Witches unlike muggle woman could not abort a pregnancy. The innate magic from the baby protected it from external harm. The only thing that she could do if she didn't want the baby would be to put it in an orphanage or up for adoption. That was one fate that he wouldn't wish on his most hated enemies. If Remus's daughter couldn't handle the baby he knew that there where several of his Deatheater's wives that where unable to have children who would be more than willing to take the baby. He hoped that Remus had been able to get a hold of that Weasley twit.

He would make sure that Dumbledore knew why they killed the boy.

Severus and Lucius stood at the same time and followed Tom into the Library to floo back to the Manor. Severus watched as Lucius was the first to go and then he walked up to the fireplace and floo'd to the Manor.

When Severus stepped out of the fireplace the first thing that he noticed was that Remus was sitting on the sofa beside Athena, Narcissa was sitting in a chair with Lucius walking up to stand behind her.

Harry and Hermione were not in the room.

He heard the floo flare up and seconds later Tom stepped out of the grate and walked over to the group of people.

"Well it is good to see that we don't have to send a rescue mission to save your hide Remus." He said with a small smile. His gaze then turned onto the woman sitting beside Remus.

"My Lady Athena, it is wonderful to see you back in the halls of Malfoy Manor." Tom smiled and sat in the chair opposite of Narcissa.

Severus remained standing glancing around for Harry and Hermione. "Where are Harry and Hermione?" He asked directing the question to Remus and Athena.

Remus glanced at his wife and then turned back to Severus, "We have something more important to take care of right now. But don't worry about Harry. He went after Hermione to make sure that she is ok. She was rather upset when she discovered that she was pregnant."

Severus looked over at Lucius and seen that he was just as confused as he was. "What would be more important..." And then he stopped, there was no way that he had managed to get the boy with out being caught, was there? "You didn't get him, did you?"

Remus smiled innocently. "Did you really think that I couldn't do it?"

Severus started laughing, "You sly devil, how the hell did you manage to swipe the boy from under his parents noses?" he asked interested at how he had managed to pull it off.

Remus started in on his story and the room listened with rapt attention.

Albus Dumbledore had been sitting behind his desk shuffling through paperwork when his fireplace flared up and Molly and Arthur Weasley tumbled out of it.

They both started talking at the same time and Albus couldn't make heads or tails of what they where trying to tell him.

"One at a time please! Now what has happened?"

Arthur took a deep breath and began. "Something has happened to Ron. We can't find him anywhere and his clock hand says that he is in mortal peril." He began to ring his hands in hopes that he could get them to stop shaking. He knew that some thing terrible had happened and he feared for his youngest sons life. Arthur glanced over at his wife and seen that she was beginning to cry again. He stood and walked over to her and put a comforting hand on her shoulder.

Albus had wondered how long it would take for someone to kidnap Ronald Weasley for what he had done to Hermione. He knew that they had to get to him soon or it would be too late. He couldn't let the Weasley boy die, the Weasley's were detrimental to the Order and it wouldn't look good on him if he let anything happen to one of their children.

"I will call the Order together and get a search party organized. Time is of the essence if we want to make sure that he is found unharmed." He said to the two adults standing distraught in front of his desk. "Gather the rest of your children and bring them here to the castle. I fear that they are in danger as well."

Arthur and Molly nodded and floo'd back to the Burrow to get the rest of the family and bring them to Hogwarts. They feared that the Second War was about to truly start.
Winky stood outside the locked wooden door in the dungeons wringing her trembling hands. She had been about to serve the Headmaster some of his tea when she had heard the commotion about that bad Weasley boy. She knew that this was the perfect time to get that man out of the Dungeons and take him to safety away from the old Headmaster.

She quickly undid the strange lock on the door and opened it. She heard the man in the corner gasp and she hurried over to him. Undoing the chains that held him to the wall she sat back on her knees and waited to see if the man would talk.

"Why are you helping me, and how did you know I was here?" Sirius asked the trembling house elf.

"You is not a bad man, and you is needed by Master Harry" Winky said quietly bowing her head. "Headmaster Dumbledore is being a bad wizard and Winky is a good elf. Winky is wanting to be in a good family again."

Sirius shook his head. The logic of house elves was something that he would never understand, but right now he needed to get out of here and find somewhere safe. "I need to get to Remus Lupin, do you know where he is?"

Winky smiled, "Winky is knowing where Master Remus is, he is being with Master Snape and Master Harry Potter sir. They's at Malfoy Manor for the Holidays. Winky is a good elf and that is where Winky will take you sir."

Sirius was shaken out of his shock at hearing that Remus and Harry where with Snape at that Malfoys by the house elf dragging him out of the room that had kept him hidden for the last two years.

Merlin what the hell had happened since he had been gone.