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Chapter 23: Leaving

Harry was sitting in his room with his head resting heavily in his hands. In his mind he was replaying everything that Hermione had told him about her dream. It was driving him crazy with the thought that Dumbledore had some new crazy scheme that involved Hermione and the baby. He could barely contain his fury toward the old man.

One particular thought that had been continuously running through his head was that in Hermione's dream he had said that he had somehow been able to make the baby his biologically. He wasn't quite sure if that was possible but he had a feeling that if he could find the spell that Dumbledore had used on him when he was a baby he would be heading in the right direction.

Harry was getting a funny feeling in the pit of his stomach at the thought of that baby really being his; it was the one thing that he had wanted all of his life. A family.

Yes he had a father and a grandfather now but they hadn't been there for the first sixteen years of his life. Yes his father had been there for the last seven but not exactly in the fatherly fashion one would need, and for the fact that they had never had a civilized conversation with each other until the night that Weasley had jumped him and even then it was stilted and tense. They had come along way in a short amount of time and there were still some issues that the two of them needed to work out but they were on the back burner so to speak until they could get everything else straightened out around them first.

He laughed when he thought of his grandfather. Oh yes, he had been the perfect model of a grandfather. After all who could honestly say that for the last six years their grandfather was actively out for their blood. Harry didn't hold that against him and he didn't hold his father's previous behavior against him either. After all they didn't know the truth, only Albus fucking Dumbledore had and he certainly didn't try to clear up any of the misconceptions. He certainly didn't try to stop the animosity between them; it seemed like at times he encouraged it. It wouldn't be surprising if that had been his intentions from the beginning, another way to prevent Harry from become close to Severus and ultimately learning the truth.

So much for that plan, Harry thought to himself with a smile.

Now back to the problem at hand, judging from Hermione's dream and how far along she was in the pregnancy Harry knew that he didn't have that much time before Dumbledore tried something. He needed to find out as much as he could about the spell that was used on him but it wasn't like he could ask the man who put it on him. So figuring that the library was the next best thing Harry stood and started toward the Malfoy family library. He knew that from what Draco had told him the library was more extensive than what Hogwarts was and it had more books on the Dark Arts and the Black Arts, something that he knew he wouldn't find even in the restricted sections at Hogwarts.

Harry opened the door that lead to the library and stepped in not expecting to find books flying through the air shrinking and packing themselves in trunks that were scattered all around the room. When he looked to the front of the room he had seen that Athena and Narcissa were the ones responsible for the flying book spectacles.

"Can some one explain to me why there are hundreds of books flying through the room, did someone decide to redecorate?" Harry asked wondering what in the world was going on after all this wasn't a normal everyday thing even in a wizarding home.

Athena turned away from the bookshelf that she had been working on and faced Harry, "We are packing everything that is of value because we have to leave soon."

Harry was confused and shocked, "Leave? Why are we leaving, I thought that we were going to be safe here. Has something happened that I don't know about?" He was getting worried that something had happened to his father and the others.

"It isn't going to be safe for us here much longer, right now you need to make sure that the House elves haven't forgotten anything of yours. We leave in about twenty minutes." Narcissa explained while she finished up the shrinking of the books. She then turned toward the trunks and shrunk those as well.

"Ok, aren't we going to wait for the others to get back?" Harry asked concerned about what was happening and that he didn't know if something had gone wrong with Ginny's rescue.

"They are going to meet us there. Now go and make sure that you are ready to go and stop off at Hermione's room and make sure that she is ready as well. In twenty minutes we will meet you and Hermione along with Sirius in the main hall to portkey out of here." Athena said as she stuffed the last trunk in her pocket and then took a quick glance around the now bare room.

Harry quickly ran out of the room and nearly ran head on into Sirius.

"Hey kiddo, what's got you in such a hurry?" Sirius asked as Harry picked himself up off the floor and dusted off his robes.

"Got to make sure that the elves didn't miss anything and to make sure Hermione has everything of hers ready to go." Harry said in one hurried breath and then continued talking to Sirius as he turned and started running down the hall. "I'll talk to you later." And then Harry was out of site as he ran around the corner.

Sirius smiled at Harry's retreating back and then snorted at how obvious it was that the boy was madly in love with Hermione. He shook his head as he thought about Hermione. He should have seen the resemblance to Remus when he had first met her, especially when she displayed the obviously inherited Lupin brains. Now that he had been told of their relationship he could definitely see the similarities between the two of them.

His thoughts then turned to Remus. To finally find your wife and daughter and then find out all that had happened to them because of a power hungry manipulative bastard and then on top of that to find out that your only daughter is pregnant as a result of a brutal rape. He didn't know how it was that Remus was handling everything so well without blowing someone or something up in the process.

But then again as Lucius had told him, Remus had been given a chance to take out some of his frustrations and aggression on a very unlucky little rat bastard. Sirius smiled when he remembered how impressed Lucius had been when he had seen the swiftness of Remus's revenge. Too bad he hadn't been there, he was sure that he would have been able to make the rat squeal just as loud as Remus had when he finally killed Peter.

But Sirius didn't feel all that left out, after all there was a certain aging wizard that was at the tops of all of their lists that he was sure he would get to have a go at before justice was finally meted out. He knew it wouldn't be long either. Just for the simple fact that he knew that Harry had no patience what-so-ever and he was sure that he had gotten that trait honestly from his father and grandfather.

Just thinking about Snape and the Dark Lord and what they were to Harry had been mind boggling at first but then the more he had thought about it and the more that he had come to terms with it, he had come to the realization of exactly how much the three of them acted like one another.

Remus had been at a loss at what to do with the sobbing girl in his arms. When he looked up his eyes locked with Severus's obsidian ones and he knew that now was not the time to be indecisive. They had decided back at the Manor that instead of going back there the group would head to the safe house once they had Ginny in their care. Remus nodded his head in acknowledgement of Severus's slight rebuke and reached his hand out to grasp the portkey that Lucius had been holding out.

With in several seconds the impromptu rescue posse arrived at the safe house, Tartarus Hold, the Dark Lords headquarters and home. Remus whispered into Ginny's hair as he held her tightly, "Welcome Home."

Ginny turned her head slowly away from the black depths of Remus's robes and followed his gaze. "Oh My." She said quietly as she took in the castle in front of her. "It's beautiful." Ginny said still in awe of its incredible size and the ancient architecture that had looked like it had just finished being built yesterday. "Is everyone else here?" she asked knowing that they would know whom she was talking about. She was excited to be able to finally see Hermione.

Ginny had missed her terribly. Hermione had been the only other girl in Gryffindor that had treated her as her own person and not "Ron's little sister". She had always been one of her closest friends and been devastated when Hermione had quit talking to her. She hadn't known the reason at the time and had been extremely hurt by it, but now that she knew that Ron had been the one behind it had only made her feel even more hateful toward the bastard. Ginny just wished that she had been able to see what was really going on with her brother at the time, maybe she would have been able to save her from what all Ron had done to her. But then maybe it would have just made it worse.

Ginny shook her head slightly trying to clear her head of the troubling thoughts that kept racing through her mind. She caught Draco's smile and couldn't help but grinning herself, maybe things would be all right after all.

Remus knew that Ginny would be alright once they got her fixed up, the girl was a spitfire and watching her tame Draco would be something worth their wile. "They will be meeting us here shortly. They had to make sure that the house elves had everything packed and ready to go."

Ginny nodded and walked gingerly over to Draco. She smiled gently when he took her softly into his arms and kissed the top of her head.

"I missed you Red. I was terrified that we were going to be too late." Draco said softly so that only Ginny could hear him.

Ginny smiled into Draco's robes at the use of his pet name for her. "I'm glad that you weren't. I imagine that I have one of you to thank for the most unfortunate abduction of my upstanding brother?"

Remus hearing her endearingly sweet voice with so much sadistic sarcasm had him chuckling darkly, oh yes she would definitely be one to keep an eye on. He had a feeling that Ginny would be highly entertaining in her methods of getting what she wanted. He just wondered if Draco had any clue as to what he was getting into. But then again that was probably what had drawn the two of them together in the first place.

Ginny smiled sweetly at Remus, "I figured it would have been you. I always figured you as the silent but deadly sort. Guess I was right."

Remus smiled; yes she was definitely one that he would keep an eye on. Her and Harry both would give Tom a run for his money.