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A/N: Here's my next chapter.


Ginny followed Harry up to the gap between eleven and thirteen.

Within seconds, Number twelve was in front of them. Ginny gazed at it in amazement. She'd forgotten how big it was.

"I can't do this. I can't just walk in there after being gone for five years!"

"C'mon Ginny, they'll be glad to see you."

"I don't want to go in there. Take me back to the school so I can floo to the Riddle Mansion."

"No way. You're not going back to him."

"You know, he never acted like you're acting now. He didn't force me to stay." Ginny said. Of course, she didn't know if he would've or not, since she chose to stay with him. But she didn't mention that.

Harry ignored her and rang the doorbell. When the large door opened, Ginny saw the face of Remus Lupin.

"Harry…is that…?"

"It's me." Ginny whispered. Remus hugged her, Ginny was stunned that he was so glad to see her.

"Come in, your parents aren't here right now. But Ron is. Fred and George are at their shop, Bill and Charlie might drop by soon to say hello. Percy's here, but has decided to lock himself in his room. Maybe he'll come out since you're here. He's not happy. He's got no one to report to anymore, no one to order him around. He's a mess, to say the least."

"Poor Percy." Ginny said, feeling a pang of guilt. She knew it wasn't her fault, but she was married to the man who'd overthrown Cornelius Fudge.

"Well, come in. I'll go find Ron, and Sirius. Maybe Percy will come, but let's wait a few minutes."

"Sirius! But…he's…"

"Not dead." Remus said with a smile, "I'd better let him explain it to you."

When Ron saw her, he nearly knocked down Remus while running to hug her.

"Ginny! You're back! You're back!" he said. Ginny nodded, forcing a smile. She was happy to see him…but she didn't want to stay. She really hoped they would understand and let her go back to her other home.

"Hi Ginny." She heard Sirius's voice say. She looked up at him standing in the doorway. He had changed a bit…his hair had a few gray strands. But she could recognize him anywhere.

"Sirius! How?"

"Well, apparently, I wasn't wanted behind the veil." He said with a smirk. "I was thrown back out after what seemed like forever, in pitch blackness. I was knocked out for a while I guess. When I woke up on the floor…I couldn't believe it. I was alive! Then I thought I was dreaming. I mean, I was hit with the killing curse too. So I decided to use the way muggles used to find out if they were dreaming. I pinched my arm."

"That was brilliant." Ginny said sarcastically. Sirius grinned.

"Hey, I was in a state of shock. But it worked anyway. My arm now hurt, which meant I was alive. So then there was the problem of getting out of the Department of Mysteries without being seen….I was lucky to be thrown back out after they cleaned the place up. It would've been bad if I was tossed out in the room while they where in there. Being a convicted murderer and all, I don't think I'd have been politely escorted out. So I left and went into a hallway. Then finally up about a hundred flights of stairs. I had draped a cloth over my head and brought the end across my face, just below my eyes. I got a few odd looks, but hey, at least there were no dementors.

"Then I went to find Kingsley. I figured that the guy in charge of the hunt for a murderous villain could easily help him out of the stupid building. I found him, he seemed kinda shocked to see me, I guess it's because I'm dead and all... He said it had been a week. Seemed like a year to me. He also said that everyone believed I was dead, which was an extremely good thing because I was no longer in danger of being caught. And by the end of it I ended up here, and the reason we didn't tell anybody was we didn't want to take a chance on the ministry finding out I'm alive. But now I guess it doesn't matter, except maybe Voldemort may want to kill me, just for fun."

Ginny decided not to comment on that last bit. It actually took her a few seconds to process the word Voldemort, as she had always just called him Tom since he sorta kidnapped her.

"That's just amazing." Ginny said, shaking her head, "Why were you thrown out?"

"Maybe it just didn't like me very much," was his intelligent answer.

Percy came in next. He was more than delighted to see Ginny.

"How did you get away?" he asked in astonishment. Ginny shrugged nervously. Yeah, it was real hard, she thought sarcastically. "Uh…Harry helped."

"Good job, Harry."

"Wait till Hermione comes home!" Ron said. "She'll faint. Mum will have a heart attack. We've all missed you Ginny."

"I've missed you too."


Tom stared straight ahead, wondering if he should kill Tia for losing Ginny.

"You got what you wanted from her? What's the big deal?" Wormtail said.

"Get out of my sight, rodent." Tom ordered. Wormtail disapparated without further comment.

"I'll get her back. When I do, I'll personally make sure that she won't have anyone left to run to." He said to himself. "I can't believe she did this, I gave her everything."

There was a soft knock on the door.

"Come in."

"Daddy?" came a small female voice. Tom turned to see which of his daughters it came from. Andy.

"What is it princess?"

"Where's mummy? Why isn't she here?"

"She…went away on a trip. She'll be back soon."

"Okay. It's just…Krissie thinks it's Cody's daddy's fault. She saw him pull her to his car from the window."

Tom let this information process. Then he stood up.

"Go get your sister, tell her to come here now."

"Okay." Andy said. In a few minutes, Krissie came into the room.

"Hi daddy!"

Tom sat down on the couch and Krissie climbed onto his lap.

"Kris, can you describe Cody's father to me?"

"Yeah. He's tall, and he has black hair, but it's messy, not neat like yours. And he wears glasses. Mummy called him 'Harry'. I guess she knows him from somewhere."

"Yeah, I bet she does. Did he happened to mention where he lived?"

"Cody told me where they lived. It's called…uh…it starts with a 'G' and it's number twelve. Number twelve…G something place."

Tom slowly began to piece it together. Someone mentioned Number twelve to him before. A death eater…Regulus Black …Number twelve…G…Grim…Grim…

"Grimmauld!" Krissie shouted. "That's it! Grimmauld!"

Tom placed Krissie on the floor and stood. He'd never thought of it before. Ginny was at Number Twelve Grimmauld Place! And so was Potter…they were all hiding there.


Ginny spent the rest of the day being hugged by various people. Surprisingly, she wasn't as happy as she thought she'd be. Sure it was great to see her family again, but she missed Tom. Later, she talked to Hermione, hoping to make her understand.

"I'm sorry, I have to go back." Ginny whispered.

"Ginny…why do you want to be with him?"

"He loves me, I love him. I have kids."

"I know, Ginny. I saw the papers. You're even married to him. I guess we never considered that maybe you wanted to stay. We always assumed that you hated him and that he was keeping you prisoner."

"Let me go back."

Hermione sighed.

"Don't you care that he's our enemy." She said, and then whispered, "He killed my parents. Just because they're muggles."

"I'm sorry Hermione. I really am. You have no idea how worried I was about you and your parents when he killed all those muggles."

"And to think, we all thought you were suffering." Hermione snapped, "You didn't even bother to let us know you're okay."

"I tried. But I went to the burrow and my family wasn't there. I thought they'd come here. And I didn't want Tom…I mean Voldemort, to find out about this place."

"Tom? You actually call him that?"

"He is my husband! Why shouldn't I call him by his first name? I even named my son after him!"

"Yeah, I'm sure you're children are going to be just like him too."

Ginny stormed out of the room. She hated how everyone was acting like she'd done something terrible. Tom was right, I don't need them, she thought angrily.


"Do you think there's a shield around the place?" Lucius asked.

"If there is, it shouldn't be too hard to penetrate."

"I'm not so sure this is the best idea." Lucius said.

"Potter is going to pay for taking Ginny away from me."

"Well, Ginny went with him, and obviously didn't put up much of a fight."

"Do you want to relive last night, Malfoy?" Tom said threateningly. Lucius shook his head.

"Good. Assemble an army, We'll attack after midnight. One o'clock. Got it?"

"Yes, master."

"Go!"

Lucius left to get an army ready. Tom went up to his bedroom and collapsed on the bed.

"She'll be back soon." He told himself, "I'm never letting her out of my sight again."

"Dad!" he heard Tommy say outside the door, "Dad!"

"What?"

"Are you going to get mummy?"

"Yes."

"Can we come?"

"N-" Tom paused…maybe bringing the triplets would come in handy… "Yeah, you can come. Tell the girls to get ready."

"Okay."

He heard footsteps running down the hallway away from his bedroom.


When an army was set up, Lucius asked how they would be getting there.

"By air." Tom said.

"What about you children?" Lucius asked, looking at the three five year olds.

"Kristen will be with me at all times, of course. And I've got a broomstick that Tommy and Andria can use. I'll tie it to mine so they won't get lost."

Tom was very protective of Kristen. He'd saved her life when she was born and she was the smallest out of the three children. Night came and the time of the attack drew closer,

"How will we enter?" Lucius asked. Why can't he just shut up and follow orders? Tom thought angrily.

"Find Bellatrix. Bring her to me, she may know about this place."

Lucius came back a few minutes later with Bellatrix.

"It's charmed to disappear from sight." She said, "We had a password to make it reappear but I'm sure they changed it. There may be a spell you can use."

"I know quite a few. But how big is the mansion?"

"Three stories, and an attic."

"How many rooms?"

"I'm not sure." She admitted nervously.

"Very well. You're dismissed. Lucius, Get everyone in the air. I'll be joining you soon."

"Yes, my lord."

Tom turned to the children.

"Whatever you do, keep quite when we get there, okay?"

"Okay." They said in unison. Tom picked up Kristen and motion for the other two to follow.


About thirty people floated silently above Grimmauld Place on broomsticks. Tom stared down into the empty alley between eleven and thirteen.

"Daddy?" Krissie whispered, "What are you looking at? What do you see?"

She peered down at the alley too, trying to see what was so interesting. Tom drew out his wand and pointed it at the alley. He muttered a very powerful spell that would hopefully reveal the house.

Success.

Number twelve Grimmauld Place appeared where the alley had once been. An evil grin spread across Tom's face. It was time to rid the world of Potter and his bloody friends once and for all.


A/N: Well, that's the sixth chapter. Review and tell me what you think.

Thanx to the following reviewers: Lady Ashley, storygirl2009, AnimeHanyou39, SanityEscapesMe, Pookster1234