A/N: Another update for all of you. Sorry for not updateing sooner as I had a writer's block. I hope you like this chapter. To comment on one of the reviews, I don't write strictly according to the canon. I only use it as base reference and I think the reason for having fan fiction is for us to use our imagination and put our own take of the books/movies/whatever into a story. I'm sorry if you find my pairings ridiculous. I'm sure there are other stories out that more for your tastes. Thanks for taking the time to read and review my story.
A Simple Gold Band
Chapter 6
"Oh Draco, what did they do to you?" Ginny whispered as she cleaned the wounds on his back. Fortunately, the storage room had all sorts of healing potions and other things like blankets and surgical scrubs.
"Nothing really, just the normal torture sessions that my father likes so much," Draco said, spitting out the word father. Draco sat on the blanket, wearing blue surgical pants as Ginny treated his wounds as he told them about his escape from Voldermort's dungeon.
The guard heard a gagging noise coming from inside Draco's cell. They opened the small opening on the door and peered in. They saw that Draco was clutching his throat and gasping for air. Not wanting to have an important prisoner to die on their watch, the guard opened the door to check out what was happening. As he got closer to the gasping prisoner, Draco suddenly lashed out with his legs, kicking the guard off his feet. Once the guard was down, Draco used the sharpened end of the spoon and plunged it into the guard's jugular, killing him almost instantly.
After making sure that guard was dead, Draco quickly put on the Death Eater robes. Using the guard's wand, he put a glamour charm on the dead man so that he would look like Draco. Draco then locked the cell door and went in search for the portkey station. With the hood over his face and hanging his head low, none of the other Death Eater that he passed stopped him or asked any questions. Finally, at a junction of the tunnel, a few Death Eaters rushed past him and he caught snippets of their conversation.
"…..portkey…… already late….don't want the Lord to be angry….."
Draco followed them closely behind them as they led him to the portkeying station. They finally stopped in a cavern where the Death Eaters had gathered. Up on a podium, Voldermort stood surveying his followers. He raised his hands and all the chatter ceased instantly. As Voldermort started his speech, Draco tuned it out as he looked at all the Death Eaters, taking note of who was present. He saw Lucius standing next to Voldermort up on the podium and fresh surge of hatred and anger coursed through him. The cheers of the Death Eaters around him snapped him back to the situation at hand.
The Death Eaters separated into three groups, each attacking a different target: Hogwarts, the Ministry of Magic and St Mungo's. The three-prong attack was to spread out the Ministry army, making them weaker and easier to defeat. Divide and conquer, that's smart. Lucius must be behind this plan of attack, Draco thought. Draco joined the St Mungo's group and noticed that Lucius was leading the group. Lucius held out a large piece of log for everyone in the group to touch. Due to the number of people gathered together to touch the portkey, Draco had to stand beside Lucius and it took all of his will power not to kill is father on the spot. Within seconds of touching the portkey, Draco felt the familiar tug at his navel and found himself in the hospital. The group of Death Eaters spread out through out the hospital in search for Pansy. Using the stolen wand, Draco took the Death Eaters, one by one, stupefying, binding them with what ever was available and hiding them where the rest of the Death Eaters could find them. He had taken out about half of the group when Draco reached the maternity level. There were still twenty more Death Eaters to go, one of them being his father.
Draco was going to Pansy's office when he saw the door to a storage room open and a close. He didn't think anything about it until he noticed a flickering outline moving slowly from the door to the end of the corridor. Draco followed the moving form quietly and saw that it entered the lounge area. Draco peeped in and saw the charm removed to reveal Hermione. He heard her floo the Ministry requesting emergency help. He quickly rushed to hide around a corner while he waited for her to come out. The door opened and the same flickering outline that he had identified as Hermione exited the lounge. Draco followed her to the storage room, placed his ear against the closed door, and heard her talking. Pansy and Ginny are here? What's Ginny doing here?He entered the room and quickly performed a silencing charm and a locking spell on the door. Not wanting the women to hex him, he summoned their wands to him before revealing himself.
He pulled back the hood and saw them gasp with surprise. Both Pansy and Hermione looked like they'd just seen a ghost. He knew he looked a mess with unkempt hair and a dirty, matted beard but he hoped that Ginny would still recognise him. He saw a flicker of recognition in her eyes before she flung herself at him.
"If they're planning a three-prong attack, the Ministry army will be stretched thin!" Pansy said.
"I know but there's nothing we can do. They might not be able to come as soon as they said," Draco sighed as he put on the blue surgical top. He wrapped his arms around Ginny and buried his face in her hair, inhaling her scent. He missed her so much and he was worried about her. The hospital was under attack and his very pregnant wife was hiding in the storage room. He needed to think up of a plan to get all of them out. He turned to Pansy and looked at her closely.
"Pansy, you look different. Did you do something to your hair?" he asked.
Pansy gave him a small, lopsided grin and said, "I'm pregnant too."
"Congratulations Pansy. I'm very glad for you," he answered, giving her a small smile of his own. "Hermione, do you have any idea how to get ourselves out of this?"
Hermione had this thoughtful look on her face as she looked at the potions cabinet. She stood up and surveyed the different potions available. "How's your potions knowledge? I'm a bit rusty," she said.
"My potions memory is passable. What do you have in mind?" Draco asked.
Hermione took down some of the potions bottle and explained to them that with the potions that were available in the storeroom, they could create a diversion and use the sleeping potions to knock the Death Eaters out.
"Umm….I have a few swords and weapons in my office if it would help," Pansy said quietly. All heads turned to her at once and Pansy smiled sheepishly before continuing, "Harry made sure that I got some training on how to use them and that I had a few in the house and the office just in case anything happens."
"Ok then. We'll go to Pansy's office first to get the weapons then we decide what to do next," Draco said. "Hermione, put a glamour spell on me as Lucius. I'll go get the weapons. All of you stay here ok."
Hermione cast the spell on Draco and his features blurred slightly before reforming into Lucius' face. Draco inspected his 'face' in the mirror and nodded in satisfaction. He put on the Death Eater robes and stood at the door looking at Ginny one last time.
"Draco, you better come back safe, you hear?" Ginny whispered in his ear, hugging him close.
"I will honey," he whispered back. Draco stepped out of the storeroom and made his way to Pansy's office. He managed to get into the office without any problems. He opened the trunk at the back of the office and whistled. There was a very good selection of daggers, throwing knives and a few swords. There was even a bow and a quiver of arrows and all of the weapons were well made and of the highest quality. Pansy sure knows her weapons, Draco thought. He grabbed as many weapons as he could and quickly exited the room.
As he was coming out of the room, he backed into some one. Thinking that it was a lowly Death Eater, he whipped about ready to lambaste the poor soul but he found himself face-to-face with his father. Both men circled each other warily before the real Lucius said, "Who are you and how DARE you impersonate me?"
Draco let the glamour charm fall and sneered at his father, "Hello Lucius."
"Draco, I didn't expect you to be here," Lucius replied, his grip on his wand tightening.
"You've always underestimated me Lucius and that was your mistake."
"A mistake that I intend to rectify. Crucio! " Lucius screamed.
As the curse hurtled towards him, Draco whipped out the sword that he'd taken from Pansy's office and deftly deflected the curse, sending it back towards his father. Lucius jumped aside as the curse skimmed past him. Lucius rapidly fired shot after shot of hexes and curses towards Draco but the younger man just deflected it with his sword. One of the deflected hexes hit Lucius squarely in the chest, sending him flying backwards and landing on his back.
"Curse your reflexes," said Lucius through gritted teeth.
"I wasn't a seeker for nothing," Draco said as he walked towards his father, swinging the sword menacingly.
Once he was standing over his father, Draco swung his sword, aiming for Lucius' neck but Lucius blocked the move with a sword of his own. He had transfigured his own wand into a sword when he saw Draco swinging his sword towards him. The sudden appearance of Lucius' sword caught Draco by a surprise, causing him to loosen his grip on his sword slightly. Lucius pushed Draco back with his sword, causing the younger man to fall back but fortunately, Draco recovered from the shock quickly and regained his balance. The sword fight started up again with both Malfoy men evenly matched.
The sounds of clashing swords rang through out the corridor, catching the women's attention. Ginny cracked open the door and was in time so see Lucius kicking Draco in the chest, sending the younger man backwards. Disregarding her safety, Ginny threw open the door and ran over to her husband. Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth and his blood from his wounds on his chest seeped through his shirt, staining it dark red.
"Ginny, get back inside," Draco rasped as he struggled to sit up. Ginny wrapped her arms around him and helped him to sit up. The couple looked up as they heard footsteps coming towards them. Draco secretly placed a dagger in her hand, knowing in his gut that Lucius would try something.
"So THIS is your whore," Lucius said, leering at Ginny. "You've got looks, for Weasley. I'm going to have so much fun with her before I kill you." Lucius walked over to the couple and kicked Draco in the chest. Ginny was too shocked and afraid to fight back when Lucius wrapped her hair around his fist and pulled her up. He held Ginny against him with the sword against her throat and smirked at his son.
"Ginny," Draco whispered.
Ginny struggled against Lucius' grip but that only succeeded in nicking her neck against the sword. She could feel her blood slick on her neck. She looked at Draco who was struggling to his feet and saw that his wounds still bleeding sluggishly. She clenched her fists tightly to prevent herself from whimpering with fear and found that she was holding something very hard in her right hand. Having just realised that she was still holding on to a small dagger that Draco had pressed into her hand, she put it to good use. Ginny plunged the blade into Lucius' thigh and twisted it clockwise to prevent the wound from closing. Lucius screamed and flung Ginny aside against the wall, grasping his wounded thigh that was bleeding profusely.
"GINNY!" Draco, Pansy and Hermione screamed in unison.
While Pansy and Hermione rushed towards Ginny to check on her, Draco tackled Lucius to the ground and started pounding on him. Hermione lifted Ginny's head and rested it on her lap as Pansy checked Ginny's pulse and bones. "Ginny, Ginny can you hear me? Are you in pain?" Pansy asked when Ginny groaned softly.
"Hurts a lot," Ginny managed to whisper out as a wave of pain passed through the lower half of her body.
"Her water bag broke! I think she's having the baby now!" Pansy said when she realised that there was a pool of water around Ginny's legs. She turned around to tell Draco about Ginny's condition, only in time to see Draco plunging his sward into Lucius' neck. The older man pressed his hands to his bleeding throat and fell to his knees before pitching forward, lifeless. Draco wiped his bloody sword against the dead man's robes and walked back to the where Ginny was lying.
"Ginny, honey, I'm here," Draco whispered to her as he took over Hermione's position, placing Ginny's head on his lap.
"Draco, she's having the baby now and the hospital is still under lockdown and all the birthing rooms are protected," Pansy told him. "If help doesn't come soon, she's going to have the baby right here."
Before Draco could say anything to Pansy, Hermione said, "Someone's coming!"
The group heard footsteps and words like 'the Dark Lord' and 'Potter's woman', identifying them as Death Eaters.
"Pansy, I think the baby's coming really soon," Ginny whispered.
"Hang on Ginny, everything's going to be ok," Pansy said to her. Turning to Hermione she said, "Do you still have the sleep drought vials with you? I want you to throw it at their feet. It'll break and the fumes will knock them out for a while. I need you to go back into the storeroom to get some clean blankets and the medical kit. She's too far into the labour to carry her into the storeroom. You ok with the plan?"
Hermione nodded and held the vials in her hands, getting ready to toss them. The moment she saw a few of the Death Eaters coming around the corner, she threw the vials towards them. The vials broke into a cloud of purple smoke. Hermione ran to the storeroom and picked up all the things that Pansy needed. When she got back to the others, she was just in time to throw up a blue shield of power around them as another group of Death Eaters came towards them from the other direction. The Death Eaters threw curses and hexes at the power shield but it all rebounded on them or the shield absorbed the curses, strengthening the shield.
"Good job on the shield," Draco said suitably impressed.
"Well, Ron taught me that one, just in case our house got attacked while he was away. It'll only last for about fifteen minutes before I need to cast another one but hopefully help would arrive before then," said Hermione.
"Hopefully," Draco said softly as he caressed Ginny's cheek as she gasped in between contractions.
As the Death Eaters continued to throw hexes against the blue bubble, Ginny screamed as another contraction hit her. Hermione conjured ice chips for her to chew on while Pansy checked on the progress of her dilation. Draco wiped Ginny's sweaty brow with some cool water and whispered encouragements into her ear.
"You're ready. The baby's going to come real soon," Pansy said. "Ginny, love, you've got to push when I tell you is that alright?"
Ginny could only nod her head as another contraction passed through her. As Pansy was about tell Ginny to push, the bubble shield started to flicker and drop away. Hermione quickly cast another shield up just in time before the Death Eaters could throw another hex at them.
"Ginny, I need you to push ok? 1….. 2…. 3….. Push!" Pansy said.
As everyone within the bubble shield got caught up with the birth of Ginny's baby, no one noticed a team of Ministry troops led by Harry, rounded the corner and engaged the Death Eaters in a fight.
A/N: Thanks for reading. Please review and tell me what you think.