All right, chapter 12 is up, now time for chapter 13, no reviews to comment now though so you'll have to survive without that.

Oh, the reason for why I'm calling the story "Angels Fall First" comes in this chapter, there's more to it than a name of an album and a song. There's a poetic meaning too.

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Harry looked upon Bellatrix, she looked back. She still thought she was superior to Harry, he could see that in her eyes, looking at him madly. Then suddenly they both screamed one curse each and jumped out of the way. It continued like this, they threw curses at eachother, evaded the other's attacks or used magical shields.

Harry used charms he'd learned in school like Stupefy, Impedimenta, Petrificus Totalus and Blasting curses.

Bellatrix on the other hand mostly threw Unforgivable curses at Harry. Mostly the Cruciatus curse. Harry was afraid that one of those would hit Ginny and circled around Bellatrix to get Ginny out of the line of fire but still keeping Bellatrix away from her.

Harry was surprised by his power and felt how it kept being strong when feeling his anger against Bellatrix, not knowing that the anger was a result of his love for Ginny, Sirius, Neville's parents even though he never knew that couple and every other life he wanted to be untouched by this evil.

Ginny herself didn't really know what happened. She was able to open her eyes very little every now and then. She tried to see what was happening but could only see two forms running around with colourful lights around them.

She remembered an enourmus happiness by seeing Harry sitting by her, then there was pain and everything went black until now. If she hadn't had such pains now from after so many Cruciatuses and if it hadn't been such a dead serious situation she'd felt silly about what a typical situation this was. She being the prisoner getting saved by the "prince".

Harry sent another Stupefy at Bellatrix and felt how his limbs felt heavier and heavier. The power along his spine, brain and out into his fingers felt like it was diminishing. She may be only a normal Death Eater, one of Voldemort's most loyal though, but she was still very persistent and hard to beat. Especially for Harry who had in the past just tried to escape from Death Eaters or Voldemort himself, but never stayed to bring one down. Being untrained as him, even for being the best student in Defence Against Dark Arts. He just kenw that this was getting harder and ahrder for him to keep his advantage.

Suddenly Harry made a wrong move and stumbled on a stone, he managed to bring up his shield with another "Protego!" as another Cruciatus curse flew at him. But he lost his balance by the curse hitting his shield and fell down on the ground. Dropping his wand again.

He felt so tired and was panting as he lay there, feeling aching on his back where he landed on some stones. Bellatrix was also panting he heard. He wondered for how long they've actually been fighting now, could be anything from ten minutes to one hour.

"So" Bellatrix said, and paused to catch her breath. "You are too exhausted to continue, how unfortunate Petrificus Totalus!"

Harry tried to get up a shield again with some of his wandless magic he's been using every now and then during the duel but was too slow. He felt all his limbs locking to his body and how he was lying stiff like a board. He was only able to move his eyes and noticed Bellatrix taking out a dagger from her robes.

"The Dark Lord tried killing you with the Killing Curse, no need to try that again, a simple dagger through your heart should be enough" she said to him. "Though it's very tempting to play with you again."

She walked over to Harry and bended down over him with the knife, putting it into his skin on his stomach and cutting open a wound. Harry tried to flinch by the pain but couldn't do anything at all, it was now he noticed that Ginny had opened her eyes again and was looking at them. She looked so scared, sad and angry at the same time.

"No, I have to control myself, I'll have plenty of time to play with baby-Ginny after you're dead" She said to herself and laughed madly while she was apparently thinking about different things to do on Ginny, and then lifted the dagger. Starting to thrust it towards Harry's heart.

"NO! I can't die now! I can't condemn Ginny to this destiny, I have to stop Bellatrix, it's she or Ginny now!" Harry thought as he again felt the power rising in his spine and time seemed to be going slow. Minutes instead of seconds, the power realeased his limbs and again he screamed "Impedimenta!" just before the dagger penetrated his skin. Bellatrix flew away with a scream and hit one of the ruin walls, making it collapse over her.

Harry himself caught his breath and stood up wearily, walking over to the pile of rubble with his wand ready in his hand again. Is it over? Is she dead?

He noticed one of her arms sticking out of the pile of rubble, with blood flowing along it. He lifted some stones and threw away them. Finally he found her lifeless face, her eyes still glinting with madness even after her death. The dagger must have been pressed into her chest too as he saw how it sticked out of her with a strange angle.

"Harry" a weak voice said from behind and Harry turned around. Seeing Ginny still sitting there with her arms chained to the wall.

Harry hurried as much as he could with his terribly aching cheast and the aching wound on his stomach. With two quick Alohomoras Harry released her and then he fell down on his knees at her, smiling.

Ginny herself fell down on the ground. Her nose was bleeding and Harry started panicking, what if Bellatrix had tortured her into madness? He bent over her and noticed that her heart was beating and she was still breathing.

"Ginny?" he asked "Ginny? Are you there?"

She looked up at him and smiled.

"Yeah Harry" she whispered. "Thanks to you"

Harry looked down at her face, his body aching but not caring about it, he only cared about her eyes as he leaned closer with nothing stopping them this time.

Lupin had been flying for several hours now to the east with Moody, Tonks and Dumbledore on his six.

After forcing his way into Harry's room and noticing how he, his Invisibility Cloak and broom were missing Lupin hurried to Dumbledore who calmed him down, actually with some spells. He wasn't to interfer but now after the dawn they gathered to get to wherever Harry had gone to.

It was mostly Dumbledore who led the way, somehow knowing where to go and Moody used his eye to look through the trees.

"He should be over that way!" Dumbledore shouted and Lupin saw that he pointed over to the right. Moody looked there with his eye.

"I can see them!" he shouted back. "He and Miss Weasley."

Lupin saw a smile creeping up on Moody's scarred face.

"They appear to be having a good time!" he finished.

Lupin himself didn't really care and flew of in that direction at full speed.

As he looked down he saw some old ruins on the ground, and there he saw two bodies on the ground, one red haired and one black haired. His panic rose.

"Having a good time my ass!" he thought, worried that they may already be dead and hurried down to them. But as he got closer he noticed that they weren't dead at all. They appeared to be kissing.

Lupin landed and walked over to them, they hadn't noticed him yet so he made a loud "Hem hem!" and smiled as he saw Harry turning around with his wand up.

He looked up at him in surprise and Lupin noticed he was bleeding from his stomach and holding one arm over his chest.

"Professor Lupin!" he said.

Harry looked alarmed up after hearing the dreaded "Hem" but felt a big relief by seeing Lupin standing over him.

"So Harry, what happened to the Death Eaters?" he asked with a big smile on his face.

Harry noticed three other people landing around them. Seeing that it was Dumbledore, Moody and Tonks..

"Uhm, there was only one, Bellatrix, and she's dead" he answered and pointed over to the rubble of stones with Balltrix' body sticking out of it. Moody was already standing there and inspecting her.

Dumbledore walked over to Lupin and put a hand on his shoulder.

"They are wounded and tired, we should take them back to Hogwarts" he said. "Harry, you think you can fly?"

"Yeah, Professor" Harry said and staggered up to stand. Dumbledore tried putting an healing charm on Harry's wound as Lupin helped Ginny to stand up.

They were soon all flying back to the castle. Harry and Ginny on his Firebolt as he insisted. Lupin and Dumbledore on their own brooms and Moody took Bellatrix' body with him.

They landed outside Hogwarts around dinner time and entered the main entrance.

Ginny and Harry were leaning against eachother as Dumbledore and Lupin tried assisting them but everyone stopped as they came into the Entrance Hall where several students were standing, trying to get away from reporters trying to question them. McGonagall was storming out of the Great Hall as Harry entered, probably to get the reporters away from the school.

Every activity halted and everyone watched the five people who had entered. Suddenly there were camera flashes everywhere as reporters hurried over to Harry.

"What happened during your time with You-Know-Who?"

"Were you really killed and resurrected from the dead?"

"Is it true that you joined the Dark side?"

"Were you really kidnapped by You-Know-Who?"

"How did you survive more than a month with You-Know-Who?"

And the questions went on, Harry saw how McGonagall pressed herself through the crowd to Dumbledore and managed to talk to him. Harry himself tried pressing himself through the crowd of reporters and curious students with Ginny in his arms. Trying to get to the stairs and to the Hospital Wing.

Behind him he heard Dumbledore booming out Calming charms with a powerful voice. And then shouting "OUT!" with an even more powerful voice.

The only obstacle now was all curious students who quickly stepped out of the way when seeing Harry's facial expression and that he and Ginny were both wounded.

As they climbed the stairs with Dumbledore, Lupin, Tonks and Moody behind them Harry noticed how Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville came running after them.

Ron and Hermione apparently wanted to hug them for coming back, but Harry wouldn't stop walking until he reached the Hospital Wing and entered.

He and Ginny were soon forced off eachother as Pomfrey put them down in one bed each. Ron, Hermione, Luna and Neville stood by the entrance and watched them worriedly. Probably not really knowing what to do. Dumbledore finally drove them out from the room with approving looks from Pomfrey. Talking to them calmly and Harry noticed how they started bombarding him with questions as the door closed.

All the time while Pomfrey worked on Ginny Harry looked over at her and she looked back. In the end they both recieved Dreamless sleep Potions.

Harry slowly opened his eyes and saw the dark ceiling of the Hospital Wing. It was night and his scar was aching softly. Voldemort probably wondered where Bellatrix had gone to. He suddenly thought back on what had happened. He had killed someone. Sure she deserved death or worse but he had still killed someone.

He looked around and saw Ginny lying on the bed to the left of him. He suddenly felt a strong urge to have someone close, to have her close to him. He felt like he had lost somekind of innocence by killing someone, whoever it was.

He had worried about this with killing someone when he heard the prophecy, now he will have killed at least two people in his life if he was to kill Voldemort too. He had to kill Voldemort otherwise everything would be lost.

He crept out of his bed, made it over to Ginny's bed slowly and quietly before noticing that she was also awake and watching him with halfopened eyes. She smiled at him and made room for him in her bed.

Without thinking Harry crept down by Ginny, looking into her eyes as she smiled at him. He failed to smile back.

"What's the matter Harry?" she whispered.

He wondered for a while how to put his feelings into words, it made no sense actually, he should be happy that Bellatrix now is gone forever.

"I don't know really, I'm happy that she's gone but feel bad for I have killed someone" he answered silently.

Her smile disappeared as she continued to look at him, being really close to eachother.

"Well, don't think about how you killed someone" she finally said. "Think about how you've saved my and probably many other life's by finally stopping her."

Harry thought about that and knew instantly that she was telling the truth. The alternative was so much worser. He just had to keep out with having a life or two on his conscience if it meant knowing that those lives had saved so many more.

Their faces got closer and closer and they both started kissing eachother slowly and when they broke off Harry felt an even stronger urge to continue to live again.

"Thank you" she suddenly said. "For saving my life again"

"And thank you for saving my life Ginny, for making me realise that I still have reasons to live."

They lay there quiet for a while, having their arms and legs around eachothers before Ginny broke the silence again.

"You know one thing Harry?"

"Mmm?"

"You are like an angel who has fallen."

Harry blushed deeply about that comment.

"An angel who was pulled down from heaven as a baby and dragged through the dirt for a long time in his life."

He was surprised that she made that likeness of him being pulled through the dirt. She could see and understand a lot more than he first thought. Or maybe was it him who had been isolated from people throughout his childhood so he didn't really understand other humans yet.

"And then you came and started pulling me up" he said to her and it was her turn to blush. They both smiled and looked at eachother before they started kissing again. Not noticing Pomfrey just entering the room to check on them. She first noticed Harry's empty bed and then the couple lying under Ginny's sheets, kissing.

She looked at them open mouthed for a moment, almost starting to scold them, but then changed her mind. "They do look rather cute" she thought and silently made it out of the room to continue sleeping.

Harry opened his eyes after a nice night of sleep. It was morning again and he was still in the Infermary. As he looked around he finally remembered that he had accidently fallen asleep in Ginny's bed. She was still lying to the left of him sleeping, she was also lying on his left arm which felt a bit numb.

Even though Harry liked being so close to her he felt that he needed to get away before anyone else got into the room, but he still didn't want to wake her.

Before he had time to do anything more Dumbledore entered the room and looked at them for a moment. A huge grin crept up on his face as he walked over to them.

"Good Morning Mr Potter and Miss Weasley" he said and Ginny woke up. She looked up at Dumbledore and blushed really deeply.

"You do know that this kind of close... behaviour is actually forbidden at this school. Though with your special circumstances I am prepared to oversee this."

"Anyway Harry, I came here on behalf of Mrs and Mr Weasley who wants to thank you for saving their daughter again."

"Well, tell them that I'm happy that she saved me" Harry said and glanced at Ginny who smiled at him.

"And Professor while you're here, I think I'm prepared to go back again, to school I mean."

He looked at him surprised.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, better now than never" Harry said and suddenly felt a lot more uncertain.

"Very well, I will arrange your return with Professor McGonagall, that you will be able to get back on track with the others. And of course show you your O.W.L-results."

About some hours later, after some breakfast and lunch and last checks by Pomfrey they were able to leave the Hospital Wing. It was already soon dinner.

Harry thought about how much had to be corrected now after these last months. His grave had to be updated and that poor kid who lies there have to get a real funeral with his family. All the newspapers going around with rumours had to learn the truth and he himself had to get back a bit of his privacy again. Last time he had a bit privacy must've been during his second and third year.

Suddenly Harry's scar burned terribly again. He screamed out in agony as he fell down on his knees, Voldemort's anger pulsated around his veins.

"Harry, what is it?" Ginny yelled and grabbed him.

"He knows about Bellatrix" he answered with clenched teeths as the pain subsided and he was able to stand up.

Ginny looked worried but he just smiled at her.

"He's angry and has lost something important, that's something to be happy about" he said. Not wanting to ruin the moment.

He staggered for a few meters when they continued towards the Common Room.

As they reached the Fat Lady she as usual asked for the password, smiling at Harry. Harry himself had no idea at all what the password could be and certainly did not expect what Ginny was about to say.

"Harry lives" she said and smiled at Harry who blushed yet again.

As the Potrait swung aside and they entered, Harry noticed that most Gryffindors were there. Everyone looked up at them and then suddenly applaudes and cheers broke out.

Harry instantly felt very uncomfortable as most people rose to greet him, clap him on his shoulders or just cheer at him. Ginny instead grabbed his hand and dragged him through the crowd to Ron, Hermione and Neville who were all happy to see him back in the Common Room.

Hermione gave him a tight hug as she whispered "You did it" to him.

"Yeah" Ron said. "The newspapers got the crazier story after another. You joining You-Know-Who, you kidnapping Ginny" both Harry and Ginny blushed.

"And even saying that you killed Bellatrix"

Harry and Ginny suddenly both pailed which Ron, Hermione and Neville noticed.

"Well... In a way my actions resulted in that"

Everyone around them suddenly went dead quiet. Staring at him. Those further off tried asking those who heard about what harry just said, thus a nasty whisper started. Then suddenly Neville rose to everyone's surprise and walked over to Harry. He took Harry's hand and shook it.

"I know that you know what happaned to my parents" he said. "And I myself am at least happy that she is gone now. No matter how."

Harry stared at Neville's dead serious eyes and responded to his hand shake.

"Thanks for your support Neville" he said.

He then looked around at those around him.

"So what I've missed then?"

No one apparently felt ready to laugh by his joke about his absence as no one started laughing. Actually Harry himself felt rather stupid joking about it, but he thought now that there was no need to deny what happened to him. What other way to talk about it now when he had released much of what had happened to Ginny and felt ready to live again.

"But Harry..." Ginny said, obviously refering to how the mood in the Common Room had gone from party mode to funeral mode in less than a minute since he started talking. Instead she grabbed his shoulder and gave him a long kiss to bring up the mode again. Either wasn't she thinking or caring about the people around who started with catcalls and applauds again or his brother standing there like a fool the first seconds before his started going red.

He went to Harry, grabbed him by his T-shirt while pushing him upon the wall as both Ginny and Hermione yelled "Ron! No!".

"Yeah, life is going back to a state of normality again. Almost anyway, memories will stay, the prophecy is still there but now at least I have a reason to complete it." Harry thought as Ron started yelling at him while Hermione and Ginny tried to pull him back and hold his fists from hitting him.

"You keep your bloody mouth from my sister! You hear me Harry?! You may be Bloody-Boy-Who-Lived but this is my sister!"

"Well, he'll hopefully get used to us being together soon enough."

THE END! On this fanfic anyway, Savvy?

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OMG! I killed her, I killed Bellatix :(
Though she did deserve it, hehe.
Hope you all liked it anyway, I have some ideas in my brain for more fanfics, one serious hp-fanfic, one serious and loooong Homeworld fanfic and one hp-parody, mixing hp, star trek, star wars, babylon 5, homeworld, lotr etc etc.
Hopefully becoming something funny, but for now, I gotta study!