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A/N 1:And now some (for myself) fabulous news. Today (18.09) I got the results from my Cambridge Advanced Certificate Exam.. And I got an A.. AN A!!!!!!!! * dances around the room happily * I mean, I already had an A in the First Certificate, but I thought the Advanced hadn't gone that well... Now on to the Proficiency * gets into fighting stance * but first I'll have to study till June for it * sigh *
A/N 2 : Hehehe, this story is really having much more success then I (or we) thought it would have. Seeing as this is already the fifth chapter, so some kind of jubilee chapter, I'm dedicting it again to everyone who reviewed (BlueGirl89, Kassandra8 ), but especially to Eliza Evenstar and Jessica Black5 who have been my reviewers from the beginning and of course to Lucius Sikilmituile without whom this story wouldn't be on the net.
And, using the opportunity, I wanted to tell all of my reviewers... YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!
CHAPTER 5: OF HATRED AND LOVE
What happened in the last chapter...
On their way to the kitchen Draco pulled Hermione aside, "I think we should talk."
The girl nodded: "Let's go to our headquarters, they won't disturb us there." The two of them went to the elevator and soon entered the Angels' office. Once there Hermione sat down on a sofa.
"What did you want to talk with me about?" she asked although she knew exactly.
"I wanted to talk about us. I want you back Hermione."
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Meanwhile, not too far away, inside a Manor built of black stone... A man was walking rapidly along a corridor, the notice of his heels clicking on the stone floor bounced of the walls and echoed through the whole mansion telling everybody he was coming. When he neared, people hurriedly got out of his way, frightened, not daring to look at him, only whispering a fearful:
"Master." when he passed them by. The man wouldn't even acknowledge their presence, he was looking for someone in particular and he knew where that man would be, after all he was his most loyal follower.. A smirk appeared on the man's, despite his evilness, handsome face.. That was what he loved about power, the control over other people's life, to know exactly where they were and when, to have them do anything he wanted. Finally the man stopped in front of a huge, wooden door. He had reached his destination. Without bothering to knock he slammed the door open and the two men sitting inside the room around a table immediately looked in his direction, quickly rising and bowing when they recognized him.
The taller one, a man with blond hair and an ugly scar across his left cheek turned to the other one: "You can leave now Mc Gilroy. I want to see results soon."
The man by the name of Mc Gilroy nodded: "Yes Mr Hunter!" With that he left walking hurriedly past the man who had interrupted him, like the other inhabitants of the mansion, his eyes downcast, whispering a shaking:
"Master." and closing the door behind him.
The man sneered disdainfully: "Weaklings, weaklings altogether. You are the only one who dares to look at me Jackson."
Jackson Hunter surveyed his master whom he knew since they were young kids. People who didn't know him like he and the others did wouldn't understand why most of his followers didn't dare look him in the eye. He was well built, a handsome man with, long, shimmering black hair that reached a few inches under his shoulders, aristocratic features and amazing, deep blue eyes. Eyes which had a hypnotizing effect if you gazed into them for too long.. And that wasn't all. When he got really angry his eyes would turn a dark shade of violet. In such a moment it was better not to be near him for in his rage he didn't differ ally from enemies, he would kill who was in his way.
"I suppose it also has to do something with the fact that a year has almost passed since. that day.. Lucifer:" he said using his masters first name, being his advisor and oldest friend he was the only one allowed to do so.
Lucifer still looked disdainful, though a strange _expression had crossed his face when he had heard Jackson mention.. that day...
"But we are not here to talk about the lack guts of my followers, as alarming as it might be, I wanted to ask you how the preparations are going."
"Everything is fine Lucifer, you should have the requested material by noon. By the way, we received a mail from Diego Alberti."
"The boss of the Italian Devils? What did he want?"
"Well, apparently one of his informants found out about your new project and he wants to send some help."
"Hmmm, he probably wants to see if he can get a part of the cake.. Why not, perhaps we can find out some useful information about his organisation.. Even if he's an ally that's a good thing, you never know when a supposed ally can turn against you. Moreover, his men are good, and with what we have here, we need every good man we can get."
"But it's a woman.."
Lucifer Damon grinned slyly: "Even better, tell him to send her."
"I'll write to him right now!"
Hunter's master walked to the door and opened it, attempting to walk out. Before he did however he turned around and looked back at him.
"Jackson, when Mc Gilroy comes back with the results bring them to my office, I'm sick of seeing weaklings." With that he turned around again, closing the door behind him.
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At the same time in "heaven"..
Draco sat on a couch across from Hermione and was fidgeting nervously.
"Well?" the young woman asked lifting an eyebrow inquisitively, at the same time grinning inwardly.
"Uhhhhm, I want you back and that's all?"
"So you don't have anything else to tell me?" she inquired suggestively.
"Look Hermione, I. I'm really sorry that I freaked out like that, I should have known you would never do such a thing, that Harry would never do such a thing.. It's just that I love you so much and I never understood how someone as sweet and wonderful as you would want to be with me... the son of a Death Eater!" he spat out the last part.
Hermione smiled sweetly and came to sit beside him, putting an arm around his shoulders: "You are not your father Draco, you escaped from his influence, you fought for your own ideals and dealt with practically the whole of your house being against you. You showed the world that you didn't care about their opinion as long as we were together. You were there for me when I needed you, you protected me from Voldemort and you always knew what to say to cheer me up... Now tell me, why should I want someone else?"
"Does.. Does that mean you are taking me back?" the young man asked hopefully
Hermione had to smile at the puppy dog adoration in his eyes: "Yes! That's exactly what it means, I was going to make it a little bit more difficult for you.. But, like always, you knew what to say." She said smiling lovingly at him. Draco gazed into her eyes: "That was easy," he whispered, "I just said what I felt!"
And then, for the first time after a long, seemingly endless period, they kissed..
And it was the best, most passionate kiss they had ever shared. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* At the same time, above them, one Ronald Weasley was wondering about the whereabouts of his best friend and his colleague.
"I wonder where those two are." he mused.
"What do you think?" Ginny asked grinning, "Making up of course!"
"I'm sure Hermione will take him back, she will let him sweat a bit before she does though." Luna said.
Harry had to laugh: "Yes, that would be typically Hermione!"
"They are probably in the office, I heard the sliding door and the elevator when we were leaving the living room," Kevin threw in.
"Well, Draco's moods were probably as down as the elevator went!" Ron joked.
Everybody laughed, despite it being a really bad joke, when they were interrupted by somebody clearing their throats.
"You were not by chance talking about us, were you?"
"About you? Honestly Hermione (A/N ^_^), I thought you knew us better than to suspect we'd be talking about you behind your back. We are your best friends!" Ron cried out trying to sound hurt.
The young woman rolled her eyes: "Yeah Ron, whatever you say... By the way, as you probably will have guessed, Draco and I are together again. We thought we could all go out together and have some drinks to celebrate it." "Sounds great, what do you think guys?" Luna asked.
The others nodded instantly, except for Ron who had to excuse himself: "Sorry, but I already have a date this evening at eight and now it's six, if I don't go home now and get ready I'll run late!"
"Like you won't have to wait for Lavender when you pick her up.." Harry said.
"Oh well, but he doesn't want to make a bad impression on his girlfriend, does he? She could get angry if he is late and beat him. I beat ickle Ronnekins is afraid of that." Draco said taking over Fred and George's nickname for their brother.
"Haha! Very funny Malfoy! As far as I remember I wasn't the one starting to sweat at the thought of seeing Hermione again only because I didn't know if she still loved me."
With that he left the room, leaving a heavily blushing Draco and five laughing people behind.
(A/N: Usually I would end it here cause it's a good length, but this chapter will be extra long, so here I go...)
Half an hour later, after the girls had changed, Harry, Kevin, Draco, Luna, Ginny and Hermione left the house and started walking towards a café they knew (not "The three Broomsticks). On their way there, Hermione felt a well known shiver running down her spine, she looked questioningly at Ginny and Luna who nodded at her.
"What's up?" Draco, who had put his arm around her waist, asked in a whisper.
"We are being followed!"
The blond nodded: "I know, I noticed it, too. And so has probably Harry. Don't worry though, we are accustomed to that. Harry, Ron and me, we have many enemies and are under constant observation."
"Yes," Harry agreed, "As long as they don't attack, everything is O.K., don't let them ruin our day."
Soon they arrived at the café and sat down outside on the terrace in order to enjoy the beautiful day and the fresh breeze...
Meanwhile, in a hidden corner not too far away, a man was watching the six intently, smiling to himself.
"Mr Hunter and my master will be most pleased.." He whispered barely audibly, content showing in his voice. Then he started to do his job, carefully avoiding being seen, little did he know that the six had long ago acknowledged his presence. When he had done what Jackson Hunter had requested, he threw one last, mockingly pitiful look, at the group and disapparated.
"Whoever it was following us, he just disapparated," Luna stated a second later at the table.
The others nodded and went back to their drinks, not thinking about it anymore.
"Before I forget it," Harry said, completely changing the topic, "Tonks wants to come over tomorrow in order to help you with the unpacking."
"That's cool! I haven't seen her for ages!" Hermione exclaimed. The other two girls agreed.
"Now that I think of it.. We still need someone we trust who could carry a message from you to us if you can't come yourselves," Ginny told Harry and Draco, "Let's say you're on patrol or have lots of paperwork and want to change the hour of a meeting. I think Tonks would be perfect for the job. We know her, and we know we can trust her, after all, we fought together against Voldemort." Luna could only agree to that: "Is that O.K. with you, guys?" she asked.
Harry and Draco also found it to be a great idea and promised to talk to Tonks as soon as they saw her again.
Afterwards they sat there, talking and drinking for a while longer until suddenly clouds started to form above them and the sky began to darken.
"Looks like a heavy storm coming," Draco said.
"Yeah, we should better go home, I don't want to get soaking wet again, like we did during the Mississippi job." Luna said.
"That's because we fell into the Mississippi, not because of a storm," Ginny threw in.
"Who would have thought the bad guys would blow up their own ship in order to kill us?" Hermione asked.
"Well, I don't really know what happened there, but obviously they didn't achieve their goal for you are still alive!" Harry said.
"We might tell you someday about our adventures darling, but right now we've got to go home," Luna answered, kissing her fiancé goodbye as did Hermione with Draco.
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(Some minutes later, at Lucifer Damon's manor)
The storm had already broke loose and, when you looked out the window it seemed the end of the world was near, like hell had come to earth. It was the perfect climate for such an evil being like Lucifer Damon. While the thunder roared outside and the flashes crashed on the earth, cutting the pitch black sky, said man sat at his desk in his office, looking at a picture in a frame before him. The photo showed a beautiful lady with light brown hair and dark green eyes which couldn't hide the malice in them. She was Valerie Damon-Power, his wife.
"Soon." he whispered to the picture, "Soon a year will have passed an then the time will have come, the time for my revenge, for our revenge.."
He remembered the day of her death well, it had happened during a job, a job which was supposedly safe, yet she had died. He remembered the face of the one who had killed her perfectly, even now, almost a year later, he could still see that person clearly in his mind. He would make sure the person would suffer as much as he did when he lost the only one he loved, he thought while his eyes flashed violet for a second.
Lucifer took a dagger and started playing with it, thinking about sweet revenge when a knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.
"Come in!" he barked
The heavy ebony door opened revealing a triumphant looking Jackson Hunter.
"Ahhh Jackson!" Lucifer said relaxing a little, "Do you have the results?"
"Yes Lucifer!" Jackson said walking over to the desk and handing his boss an envelope, "Here they are!"
The black haired man smiled contently: "Very well, tell Mc Gilroy he did a great job."
"I'll do that!" Hunter said leaving the room and letting his boss alone.
"Well, let's see what we have here." the aforementioned man whispered opening the envelope with the dagger and pulling out two photos which he laid, side by side, in front of him. Then he looked them over, still playing with the dagger. One of the photos showed six young men and women talking animatedly with each other and laughing. The other one was a picture showing the face of one of them, this one especially caught Lucifer's attention and, while he smiled evilly, his eyes turned a dark shade of violet. Then he slammed the dagger right into the photo.
"You will pay.." he hissed.
A/N: What do you think? I personally find this to be the best chapter up to now (and I thought I was about to get a writer's block). I know, it ends cliffy again and this time it's a cliff-hanger from hell (rather literally as it ends with someone who could be the devil himself).
By the way, I invented Lucifer thinking about what kind of character Lucius would like (she's always into the movie's bad guys) and I think he came out pretty good, I even suppose he'll have some fans (Lucius already asked me if I wanted her to fall in love with him ^_^). What do you think of him? Please tell me
* hint, hint *
Answers to your reviews:
Lucius Sikilmituile: After hearing the threat you spoke out towards it, my writers block decided better not to come and instead I wrote the best chapter up to now. Perhaps you should send such threats much more often. Thanks for reviewing!
BlueGirl89: Now you know what Hermione said... I hope you liked it! And I hope you enjoyed the rest of the chapter, too which was more "scary".
Kassandra8: Well.. you really know me good! (I shouldn't expect less as you've been one of my best friends for the last 6 years) I have a thing for cliff-hangers.. And this one was a real cliff-hanger, don't you think? And about you giving me ideas... I'm waiting for some! Call me as soon as you have new ones (I need some for the next chapter!).
Eliza Evenstar: * ducks under the table so you can't kill her * I know, I know! This was a really strong cliff-hanger, but it creates more tension, please don't kill me, please don't! * remembers something and comes out from under the table * Hey! You don't know where I live! You can't kill me! * let's out sigh of relieve *Lucius Sikilmituile enters the room: If you give me 50 dollars I'll tell you where she lives !Me: Hey! I thought you were my best friend! Lucius: * smiles evilly * I am! But money rules the world! Me: You're not going to make that deal Eliza, are you * makes puppy dog eyes at you *
Fandom Avenger: You are a little bit strange, did you know that? If I don't like a story I don't go on reading it and one flame is enough! I got the idea that you don't like the fic and that you think it's stupid so stop bothering me and go use your precious time to try and destroy other peoples self esteem cause it wont work with me! I wont edit my fic only because of your criticisms if that's what you were hoping for and I'm going to continue with my writing style, author's note inside the chapter and all. If you find them disturbing, skip them or better, stop reading my fic!
JessicaBlack5: Well, Hermione didn't let Draco suffer too long! Somehow I couldn't let him wait too much. There will be some action in this story, I will look how fighting scenes are described in a Buffy book I have and let it inspire me (especially to get names of kicks and punches) I'll try to make it similar to Charlies Angels but also different (my personal note).. You'll see when it' ready. How did you like Lucifer? I'm looking forward to your new review.
Greetings, Firegoddess and Winterbreath.
A/N 1:And now some (for myself) fabulous news. Today (18.09) I got the results from my Cambridge Advanced Certificate Exam.. And I got an A.. AN A!!!!!!!! * dances around the room happily * I mean, I already had an A in the First Certificate, but I thought the Advanced hadn't gone that well... Now on to the Proficiency * gets into fighting stance * but first I'll have to study till June for it * sigh *
A/N 2 : Hehehe, this story is really having much more success then I (or we) thought it would have. Seeing as this is already the fifth chapter, so some kind of jubilee chapter, I'm dedicting it again to everyone who reviewed (BlueGirl89, Kassandra8 ), but especially to Eliza Evenstar and Jessica Black5 who have been my reviewers from the beginning and of course to Lucius Sikilmituile without whom this story wouldn't be on the net.
And, using the opportunity, I wanted to tell all of my reviewers... YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!
CHAPTER 5: OF HATRED AND LOVE
What happened in the last chapter...
On their way to the kitchen Draco pulled Hermione aside, "I think we should talk."
The girl nodded: "Let's go to our headquarters, they won't disturb us there." The two of them went to the elevator and soon entered the Angels' office. Once there Hermione sat down on a sofa.
"What did you want to talk with me about?" she asked although she knew exactly.
"I wanted to talk about us. I want you back Hermione."
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Meanwhile, not too far away, inside a Manor built of black stone... A man was walking rapidly along a corridor, the notice of his heels clicking on the stone floor bounced of the walls and echoed through the whole mansion telling everybody he was coming. When he neared, people hurriedly got out of his way, frightened, not daring to look at him, only whispering a fearful:
"Master." when he passed them by. The man wouldn't even acknowledge their presence, he was looking for someone in particular and he knew where that man would be, after all he was his most loyal follower.. A smirk appeared on the man's, despite his evilness, handsome face.. That was what he loved about power, the control over other people's life, to know exactly where they were and when, to have them do anything he wanted. Finally the man stopped in front of a huge, wooden door. He had reached his destination. Without bothering to knock he slammed the door open and the two men sitting inside the room around a table immediately looked in his direction, quickly rising and bowing when they recognized him.
The taller one, a man with blond hair and an ugly scar across his left cheek turned to the other one: "You can leave now Mc Gilroy. I want to see results soon."
The man by the name of Mc Gilroy nodded: "Yes Mr Hunter!" With that he left walking hurriedly past the man who had interrupted him, like the other inhabitants of the mansion, his eyes downcast, whispering a shaking:
"Master." and closing the door behind him.
The man sneered disdainfully: "Weaklings, weaklings altogether. You are the only one who dares to look at me Jackson."
Jackson Hunter surveyed his master whom he knew since they were young kids. People who didn't know him like he and the others did wouldn't understand why most of his followers didn't dare look him in the eye. He was well built, a handsome man with, long, shimmering black hair that reached a few inches under his shoulders, aristocratic features and amazing, deep blue eyes. Eyes which had a hypnotizing effect if you gazed into them for too long.. And that wasn't all. When he got really angry his eyes would turn a dark shade of violet. In such a moment it was better not to be near him for in his rage he didn't differ ally from enemies, he would kill who was in his way.
"I suppose it also has to do something with the fact that a year has almost passed since. that day.. Lucifer:" he said using his masters first name, being his advisor and oldest friend he was the only one allowed to do so.
Lucifer still looked disdainful, though a strange _expression had crossed his face when he had heard Jackson mention.. that day...
"But we are not here to talk about the lack guts of my followers, as alarming as it might be, I wanted to ask you how the preparations are going."
"Everything is fine Lucifer, you should have the requested material by noon. By the way, we received a mail from Diego Alberti."
"The boss of the Italian Devils? What did he want?"
"Well, apparently one of his informants found out about your new project and he wants to send some help."
"Hmmm, he probably wants to see if he can get a part of the cake.. Why not, perhaps we can find out some useful information about his organisation.. Even if he's an ally that's a good thing, you never know when a supposed ally can turn against you. Moreover, his men are good, and with what we have here, we need every good man we can get."
"But it's a woman.."
Lucifer Damon grinned slyly: "Even better, tell him to send her."
"I'll write to him right now!"
Hunter's master walked to the door and opened it, attempting to walk out. Before he did however he turned around and looked back at him.
"Jackson, when Mc Gilroy comes back with the results bring them to my office, I'm sick of seeing weaklings." With that he turned around again, closing the door behind him.
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At the same time in "heaven"..
Draco sat on a couch across from Hermione and was fidgeting nervously.
"Well?" the young woman asked lifting an eyebrow inquisitively, at the same time grinning inwardly.
"Uhhhhm, I want you back and that's all?"
"So you don't have anything else to tell me?" she inquired suggestively.
"Look Hermione, I. I'm really sorry that I freaked out like that, I should have known you would never do such a thing, that Harry would never do such a thing.. It's just that I love you so much and I never understood how someone as sweet and wonderful as you would want to be with me... the son of a Death Eater!" he spat out the last part.
Hermione smiled sweetly and came to sit beside him, putting an arm around his shoulders: "You are not your father Draco, you escaped from his influence, you fought for your own ideals and dealt with practically the whole of your house being against you. You showed the world that you didn't care about their opinion as long as we were together. You were there for me when I needed you, you protected me from Voldemort and you always knew what to say to cheer me up... Now tell me, why should I want someone else?"
"Does.. Does that mean you are taking me back?" the young man asked hopefully
Hermione had to smile at the puppy dog adoration in his eyes: "Yes! That's exactly what it means, I was going to make it a little bit more difficult for you.. But, like always, you knew what to say." She said smiling lovingly at him. Draco gazed into her eyes: "That was easy," he whispered, "I just said what I felt!"
And then, for the first time after a long, seemingly endless period, they kissed..
And it was the best, most passionate kiss they had ever shared. *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* At the same time, above them, one Ronald Weasley was wondering about the whereabouts of his best friend and his colleague.
"I wonder where those two are." he mused.
"What do you think?" Ginny asked grinning, "Making up of course!"
"I'm sure Hermione will take him back, she will let him sweat a bit before she does though." Luna said.
Harry had to laugh: "Yes, that would be typically Hermione!"
"They are probably in the office, I heard the sliding door and the elevator when we were leaving the living room," Kevin threw in.
"Well, Draco's moods were probably as down as the elevator went!" Ron joked.
Everybody laughed, despite it being a really bad joke, when they were interrupted by somebody clearing their throats.
"You were not by chance talking about us, were you?"
"About you? Honestly Hermione (A/N ^_^), I thought you knew us better than to suspect we'd be talking about you behind your back. We are your best friends!" Ron cried out trying to sound hurt.
The young woman rolled her eyes: "Yeah Ron, whatever you say... By the way, as you probably will have guessed, Draco and I are together again. We thought we could all go out together and have some drinks to celebrate it." "Sounds great, what do you think guys?" Luna asked.
The others nodded instantly, except for Ron who had to excuse himself: "Sorry, but I already have a date this evening at eight and now it's six, if I don't go home now and get ready I'll run late!"
"Like you won't have to wait for Lavender when you pick her up.." Harry said.
"Oh well, but he doesn't want to make a bad impression on his girlfriend, does he? She could get angry if he is late and beat him. I beat ickle Ronnekins is afraid of that." Draco said taking over Fred and George's nickname for their brother.
"Haha! Very funny Malfoy! As far as I remember I wasn't the one starting to sweat at the thought of seeing Hermione again only because I didn't know if she still loved me."
With that he left the room, leaving a heavily blushing Draco and five laughing people behind.
(A/N: Usually I would end it here cause it's a good length, but this chapter will be extra long, so here I go...)
Half an hour later, after the girls had changed, Harry, Kevin, Draco, Luna, Ginny and Hermione left the house and started walking towards a café they knew (not "The three Broomsticks). On their way there, Hermione felt a well known shiver running down her spine, she looked questioningly at Ginny and Luna who nodded at her.
"What's up?" Draco, who had put his arm around her waist, asked in a whisper.
"We are being followed!"
The blond nodded: "I know, I noticed it, too. And so has probably Harry. Don't worry though, we are accustomed to that. Harry, Ron and me, we have many enemies and are under constant observation."
"Yes," Harry agreed, "As long as they don't attack, everything is O.K., don't let them ruin our day."
Soon they arrived at the café and sat down outside on the terrace in order to enjoy the beautiful day and the fresh breeze...
Meanwhile, in a hidden corner not too far away, a man was watching the six intently, smiling to himself.
"Mr Hunter and my master will be most pleased.." He whispered barely audibly, content showing in his voice. Then he started to do his job, carefully avoiding being seen, little did he know that the six had long ago acknowledged his presence. When he had done what Jackson Hunter had requested, he threw one last, mockingly pitiful look, at the group and disapparated.
"Whoever it was following us, he just disapparated," Luna stated a second later at the table.
The others nodded and went back to their drinks, not thinking about it anymore.
"Before I forget it," Harry said, completely changing the topic, "Tonks wants to come over tomorrow in order to help you with the unpacking."
"That's cool! I haven't seen her for ages!" Hermione exclaimed. The other two girls agreed.
"Now that I think of it.. We still need someone we trust who could carry a message from you to us if you can't come yourselves," Ginny told Harry and Draco, "Let's say you're on patrol or have lots of paperwork and want to change the hour of a meeting. I think Tonks would be perfect for the job. We know her, and we know we can trust her, after all, we fought together against Voldemort." Luna could only agree to that: "Is that O.K. with you, guys?" she asked.
Harry and Draco also found it to be a great idea and promised to talk to Tonks as soon as they saw her again.
Afterwards they sat there, talking and drinking for a while longer until suddenly clouds started to form above them and the sky began to darken.
"Looks like a heavy storm coming," Draco said.
"Yeah, we should better go home, I don't want to get soaking wet again, like we did during the Mississippi job." Luna said.
"That's because we fell into the Mississippi, not because of a storm," Ginny threw in.
"Who would have thought the bad guys would blow up their own ship in order to kill us?" Hermione asked.
"Well, I don't really know what happened there, but obviously they didn't achieve their goal for you are still alive!" Harry said.
"We might tell you someday about our adventures darling, but right now we've got to go home," Luna answered, kissing her fiancé goodbye as did Hermione with Draco.
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(Some minutes later, at Lucifer Damon's manor)
The storm had already broke loose and, when you looked out the window it seemed the end of the world was near, like hell had come to earth. It was the perfect climate for such an evil being like Lucifer Damon. While the thunder roared outside and the flashes crashed on the earth, cutting the pitch black sky, said man sat at his desk in his office, looking at a picture in a frame before him. The photo showed a beautiful lady with light brown hair and dark green eyes which couldn't hide the malice in them. She was Valerie Damon-Power, his wife.
"Soon." he whispered to the picture, "Soon a year will have passed an then the time will have come, the time for my revenge, for our revenge.."
He remembered the day of her death well, it had happened during a job, a job which was supposedly safe, yet she had died. He remembered the face of the one who had killed her perfectly, even now, almost a year later, he could still see that person clearly in his mind. He would make sure the person would suffer as much as he did when he lost the only one he loved, he thought while his eyes flashed violet for a second.
Lucifer took a dagger and started playing with it, thinking about sweet revenge when a knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.
"Come in!" he barked
The heavy ebony door opened revealing a triumphant looking Jackson Hunter.
"Ahhh Jackson!" Lucifer said relaxing a little, "Do you have the results?"
"Yes Lucifer!" Jackson said walking over to the desk and handing his boss an envelope, "Here they are!"
The black haired man smiled contently: "Very well, tell Mc Gilroy he did a great job."
"I'll do that!" Hunter said leaving the room and letting his boss alone.
"Well, let's see what we have here." the aforementioned man whispered opening the envelope with the dagger and pulling out two photos which he laid, side by side, in front of him. Then he looked them over, still playing with the dagger. One of the photos showed six young men and women talking animatedly with each other and laughing. The other one was a picture showing the face of one of them, this one especially caught Lucifer's attention and, while he smiled evilly, his eyes turned a dark shade of violet. Then he slammed the dagger right into the photo.
"You will pay.." he hissed.
A/N: What do you think? I personally find this to be the best chapter up to now (and I thought I was about to get a writer's block). I know, it ends cliffy again and this time it's a cliff-hanger from hell (rather literally as it ends with someone who could be the devil himself).
By the way, I invented Lucifer thinking about what kind of character Lucius would like (she's always into the movie's bad guys) and I think he came out pretty good, I even suppose he'll have some fans (Lucius already asked me if I wanted her to fall in love with him ^_^). What do you think of him? Please tell me
* hint, hint *
Answers to your reviews:
Lucius Sikilmituile: After hearing the threat you spoke out towards it, my writers block decided better not to come and instead I wrote the best chapter up to now. Perhaps you should send such threats much more often. Thanks for reviewing!
BlueGirl89: Now you know what Hermione said... I hope you liked it! And I hope you enjoyed the rest of the chapter, too which was more "scary".
Kassandra8: Well.. you really know me good! (I shouldn't expect less as you've been one of my best friends for the last 6 years) I have a thing for cliff-hangers.. And this one was a real cliff-hanger, don't you think? And about you giving me ideas... I'm waiting for some! Call me as soon as you have new ones (I need some for the next chapter!).
Eliza Evenstar: * ducks under the table so you can't kill her * I know, I know! This was a really strong cliff-hanger, but it creates more tension, please don't kill me, please don't! * remembers something and comes out from under the table * Hey! You don't know where I live! You can't kill me! * let's out sigh of relieve *Lucius Sikilmituile enters the room: If you give me 50 dollars I'll tell you where she lives !Me: Hey! I thought you were my best friend! Lucius: * smiles evilly * I am! But money rules the world! Me: You're not going to make that deal Eliza, are you * makes puppy dog eyes at you *
Fandom Avenger: You are a little bit strange, did you know that? If I don't like a story I don't go on reading it and one flame is enough! I got the idea that you don't like the fic and that you think it's stupid so stop bothering me and go use your precious time to try and destroy other peoples self esteem cause it wont work with me! I wont edit my fic only because of your criticisms if that's what you were hoping for and I'm going to continue with my writing style, author's note inside the chapter and all. If you find them disturbing, skip them or better, stop reading my fic!
JessicaBlack5: Well, Hermione didn't let Draco suffer too long! Somehow I couldn't let him wait too much. There will be some action in this story, I will look how fighting scenes are described in a Buffy book I have and let it inspire me (especially to get names of kicks and punches) I'll try to make it similar to Charlies Angels but also different (my personal note).. You'll see when it' ready. How did you like Lucifer? I'm looking forward to your new review.
Greetings, Firegoddess and Winterbreath.