Chapter 26
Ginny and Susan sat in silence for what seemed to be hours, until both babies began to cry at the same time. Ginny looked to see that her sister-in-law had too been crying even after they had broken apart.
"What do you think is wrong with them?" Ginny asked.
Susan sniffled, "That is Breeanna's hungry cry and as it is so early in the morning, I bet that is Roselyn's hungry cry too."
"Okay let's make them something," Ginny said drawing her wand.
"Okay, but we can not use a lot of magic."
"Why not?"
"If there any Death Eaters in the school they will be looking for us and I bet Voldemort has figured out some way to track our magic. So," Susan pulled out some baby food jars. "Tap them lightly with your wand and it will warm it up enough for them to eat. While Draco was getting ready I made us some ham and cheese sandwiches, I know it's not much…"
"But it's enough go give our unborn babies nourishment."
"Exactly."
Bridget felt a lump in her throat when she saw the field of her school, there were Aurors, teachers, sixth and seventh year students trying to fight the many Death Eaters. Order members were here and there too. Bridget turned to see Oliver by her side and she gave him a look she had never gave him before, "I love you." Bridget whispered and ran out into the field.
Oliver's heart dropped, "I love you."
"Come on Wood, we have got to get out there." Draco said slapping him on his back.
"Right," Oliver nodded and ran out and tried to get as close to Bridget as possible. Oliver had to make sure that the Potter Princess was okay.
Harry began to battle with a Death Eater in front of him throwing curses and hexes left and right. Harry could hear the death curse being thrown here and there behind him, but he couldn't think about that now. Harry couldn't think about losing any more family members.
"Crucio!" A female voice came from under the white Death Eater's mask in front of Harry.
"Arrggh!" Harry yelled and the more hate Harry held for the Death Eater, the curse wore off until Harry was fine again.
"You are going to regret that," Harry growled.
The girl chuckled, "You really have no idea do you? None of you pathetic Potters have no idea who I am!"
"Stupefy!" Harry yelled and the Death Eater froze, Harry walked up and pulled the mask back. Harry gasped as he felt his eyes bug out, Hannah Abbott stood in front of him. The second spy. Of course it all fit now.
Everyone knew that Neville had been the first spy and he had become a spy after Bridget started to have feelings for Oliver Wood. Hannah had been close with Susan and had connections to all of the Potters. The second spy was finally revealed.
"You bitch," Harry heard someone yell behind him. Harry was pushed aside and Harry then saw his brother-in-law, Draco Malfoy, spit in Hannah's face. "Crutious Imperia!"
"What the hell?" Harry asked but then his answer was answered, Hannah Abbott had ropes wrapped around her ankles and arms. A metal cage came down around her and locked her in. "Good one Malfoy."
"Keep it in mind Potter, you wouldn't want to make your wife a widow."
"Back at you."
Arabella Black had been fighting Death Eater, after Death Eater. Arabella was really a step forward on these stupid Death Eaters. None of them knew how to block out their mind and seconds before they threw a curse or hex at her, Arabella knew. None of these pathetic Death Eaters had a hand on her.
Arabella smiled inside as she knew that Sirius, James, Lily, Remus, Narcissa, and Catarina was looking down on her and all of the Potter kids, Draco too. They had to come out of this fight survivors!
"Crutious Imperia!" Arabella yelled at yet another Death Eater.
"You think you are so smart don't you Mudblood!" A voice that was too familiar cackled.
Arabella turned around to see a Death Eater in front of her, "Bellatrix Lestrange."
"Have I been waiting for this, or what?"
"Yes, I believe that it is Hogwarts resident bitch from the years 1970-1978! What an honor!" Arabella said rolling her eyes to her one and only enemy.
"What an honor it is that I will be the one to kill the Mudblood that slipped through my master's clutches years ago."
"It was over a decade," Arabella said lazily.
"How dare you insult my master! Crucio!"
Arabella's screams joined screams of so many others that had been fighting for the good few hours that the battle had been.
"Now your little brat will be an orphan, as all the little Potter children have been!" Bellatrix cackled.
"Never!" Arabella screamed and pulled out of the curse which surprised both Arabella and Bellatrix. "My nieces and nephews are not orphans because Sirius and I became the parents they never had! You will not make my Roselyn an orphan!"
Bellatrix cackled, "Watch me. Avada Kedavra!"
Arabella ducked and screamed, "Crutious Imperia!" Arabella looked down in the cage and then she began to laugh, "That was too easy Bellatrix!" Then Arabella hit the ground, someone had hit her in the back of the head with a curse. Arabella had blood oozing out of the back of her head…
Adora's Seer powers were in full effect now and Adora had just surprised the Death Eater in front of her. In fact Adora had surprised herself to tell the truth. The Death Eater had yelled the disarming charm and Adora's wand was feet away from her. The Death Eater had yelled the Killing curse, Adora fearing the worst threw her arms up in front of her and created some kind of force field. The killing curse bounced off of herself, then hit and killed the Death Eater before her.
Another Death Eater began to fight Adora. Adora thought a spell and threw her hands out in front of her, sending hexes from her finger tips. Adora's eyes got as big as the Death Eater's had, of course in a look of total surprise. Adora was really afraid of how far her powers were advancing, she could now do wandless magic? Uh..
"Adora watch out!" A female voice yelled some where far away.
Adora turned around to see the Death Eater she had been fighting about to hex her and another Death Eater was approaching her. They were either going to kill her or bring her to Voldemort to try and make her use her powers against her nephew.
"Avada…" Oh no, they were about to throw the killing curse at her and now she was stiff as a board. But the other part of the killing curse never came and soon enough she saw the two Death Eaters fling across the yard and slam hard against the Hogwarts Castle. Professor McGonagall yelled at the Death Eaters, "Crutious Imperia!"
Adora looked around to see who had thrown those two Death Eaters off of her and before she knew what was happening, she saw Death Eaters being thrown left and right. Adora's face lit up as she began to battle with another Death Eater, Bridget's powers were coming into full effect now.
'Get them good Bridget, get them for Dad.'
'No problem, this one is for you Grandfather.'
"Adora watch out!" Bridget Potter yelled as two Death Eaters were getting ready to throw the killing curse. Bridget couldn't lose her loving Aunt Adora, like she had lost so many people before.
Before Bridget knew what was happening she threw her arms in the way of those scumbags that were Death Eaters, those cowards, and they were flying across the lawn and right into Hogwarts Castle. Professor McGonagall yelled, "Crutious Imperia!"
Bridget felt her fingers tingle, 'This is it.' A voice told her inside her head, and it wasn't her aunts or her sister or Ginny. Bridget never heard this voice in her entire life, but some how she knew who it was. She felt silent tears run down her face, her mother was telling her that this was it. This fight would be her salvation, this fight would help her through all of the traumatic things she had been going through. This fight, this pain would pull her powers to their full extent.
"I love you mum," Bridget muttered as she was flinging Death Eaters left and right and totally out of her way. Bridget had no idea why she was running and where she was running, until she saw something that made her eyes totally bug out. Oliver.
"No," Bridget sobbed and she threw herself down on the ground. Bridget heard spells, hexes, and curses being thrown at her. Somehow they weren't hitting her. Bridget didn't know it at the moment, but later on Adora would tell her niece how proud of her that she was. Bridget had just attempted something Adora had just done tonight too, but the difference was that for Bridget it just popped up. Unfortunately, Adora had been working at this for a few years now.
Bridget somehow threw a scarlet barrier around herself on the ground and around the heap that was Oliver Wood.
"No, no!" Bridget screamed as she held Oliver's limp body in her arms. "Don't leave me! Please oh Merlin, don't leave me. I love you! I love you! Damn it, I love you! You can't leave me now! I love you, I want to marry you! I want to have your babies! Don't fucking leave me now!" Bridget sobbed into Oliver's bloody clothes. Bridget felt her whole body shake and no matter what the Death Eaters did, they for some reason couldn't block through her barrier.
Bridget felt the man beneath her begin to cough and she felt something wet, when Bridget looked up she saw softness and pain in his eyes. Bridget looked at her clothes and at the stuff coming out of Oliver's mouth, blood. Bridget's hazel eyes with brilliant green flakes got big.
"Oliver," she whispered.
He looked around and chuckled, "Damn you are getting good." He began to cough unaccountably and blood coming out of his mouth.
"You can't leave me," Bridget whispered as silent tears streamed out of her eyes and down her face.
"I didn't know you cared so much," Oliver cough horribly again.
"Don't be thick," she said rolling her eyes. "I need to move you inside and get you looked at."
"No, I'm fine. I have to keep fighting."
"No!" Bridget yelled, "You are hurt."
"Just a couple of scrapes."
"Don't you lie to me Oliver Wood!" Bridget hissed, "You are all bloody and now you are coughing up blood. I…I thought I…I'd lost you."
Oliver laughed, "Nope. You can't get rid of me that easily, dying isn't in my schedule."
"Oh shut up," Bridget said rolling her eyes. "I've got to carry you."
"What!"
"Well obviously you can't walk."
"I can limp."
"And what good does that do us?"
"Walk with me and keep this barrier up. Where is Madam Pomfrey?"
"Most likely in the Hospital Wing, healing people who have gotten badly hurt. Let's go."
Oliver stroked a bloody hand through Bridget's hair and down her porcelain face, "Merlin your gorgeous. I love you."
"I love you too, but if we don't get you back now you'll lose your bloody neck."
Bridget helped Oliver up and they began to walk with the barrier around her as Death Eaters, Aurors, teachers, and students looked stunned at the baby Potter princess's powers. "You always know how to ruin a moment."
"I'm a Potter warrior."
"No, you are my Potter princess."
Draco Malfoy was fighting with good accuracy. Aurors, teachers, and students had been given the right to kill and use unforgivable curses if they needed to, to save their life. Draco was glad that he had been given this choice. Draco was now fighting either his childhood friends or his father's friends. All were trying to kill Draco, the traitor.
Everyone had heard the story where had gotten their Master's daughter pregnant and that Draco had not only abandoned Autumn but also baby Desdemona. The thing that boiled their master and all the Death Eater's blood the most, was that Draco had left the beautiful Autumn for a filthy halfblood. A Potter, which was even worse.
If things couldn't get any worse for the blood traitor, he killed his father which had been one of the Dark Lord's best Death Eaters. Draco the blood traitor, took his half sister and was raising her as his own with his filthy halfblood wife.
Draco just hoped with everything that he could hope for that he would be able to see his sweet Susan's face again. That he would be able to hold her in his arms again, kiss those sweet lips, and make love to his wife again. Draco hoped that he would be able to see Breeanna become the beautiful woman she would become one day. Draco wanted to be there they day that he and Susan would have to bring Breeanna to King's Cross for her first year at Hogwarts. Draco wanted to make his family with Susan. Draco wanted to be with Susan when she delivered their first child.
"Avada…"
"Avada Kedavra!" Draco had killed, what was that the third childhood friend he had had. This would have been painful, but Draco's father had been a Death Eater. Draco had learned years ago how to put your feelings aside and then learn how to forget this day later on down the line.
Draco didn't honestly care how of the enemy he killed, as long as he could get back to his family alive.
"How are you doing Malfoy!" Draco heard his brother-in-law yelling from somewhere behind him, in between curses and jinxes.
"Enough to save my ass!"
"Likewise!"
Draco threw another few hexes and laughed inside of his head. Harry and Draco would never be best friends, but the fact that they could joke around like this was just humorous.
Ginny and Susan had been talking on and off, and the girls had just laid the babies down for their naps. The Death Eater alarm went off at four in the morning and now it was ten. The fight had been going on for hours and Ginny couldn't help but wonder how tired the others were getting now.
It was then that Ginny felt a sharp sting to her chest and Ginny cried out.
"Ginny!" Susan's eyes got wide and she ran over to her sister-in-law, "What's going on? What's the matter!"
"My chest, oh Merlin! What the hell is wrong with me! Oh no the baby!"
"What's wrong with the baby?"
"I don't know, I don't want anything." Ginny had another sharp pain to her chest and she passed out.
Ginny looked around, she was on the battle field. How in Merlin's name did she get here. She was like a phantom floating around. All of her family members seemed to be doing very well.
Then Ginny felt that sharp pain in her chest again and Ginny clutched it, and she prayed that there was nothing wrong with baby James.
Ginny turned her head to see her husband fighting for his life. Merlin this was the final battle, there was Harry fighting the fight of his life against Voldemort himself.
Ginny came to and she noticed that she was lying on the bed that she had been sharing with Harry just a few hours before.
"How did I get here?" Ginny mumbled.
Sadie Malfoy placed the babies in the playpen and ran over to her sister-in-law, "Oh thank Merlin you are okay."
"How did I get here?"
"You passed out over there earlier," Susan pointed to the stop where the two women had been sitting. "You were having horrible chest pains."
"How long have I been out?"
"An hour and a half."
"Where's Harry?"
Susan gave her sister in law an odd look, "He's fighting outside, remember."
"Of course I remember, but I didn't know if the battle was still going on."
"I haven't heard anything, so I am imagining that it is. Are you sure you are okay?"
"Yes, I just had some pains in my chest and then I was outside."
"Outside? I think we might need to take you to Madam Pomfrey."
"No," Ginny said shaking her head. "Our family said we had to stay here and we will. But what I saw really scared me."
"What did you see?"
"I was out on the field, with the rest of our family. Arabella and Adora were fighting wonderfully, Ron too. Draco was fighting a lot of younger Death Eaters, looked like what might have been former childhood friends."
"It wouldn't surprise me," Susan sighed. "I just hope when he comes back that he will be the same man he was when he left today."
"But Harry," Ginny's eyes began to fill up with tears."
"What about Harry?"
"He was fighting Voldemort."
"Yes? We all knew that it would come down to Voldemort and Harry in the end."
"Yes of course," Ginny nodded. "Harry was losing terribly, I am really scared now."
Ronald Weasley was fighting the best that he could, which turned out to be pretty damn good. His battles had been very long, but in the end Ron got his men. Ron had many scratches and bruises all over his body, he could already feel them. There was a trickle of blood that had been running down the side of his face, that was really starting to bother him now. It trickled faster than the sweat.
The smell of death was just unbearable and he knew that the others felt the same way. There were dead bodies all around them. Ron didn't want to think about the family and friends he might have lost.
Running across the many bodies that he had, he was very thankful that he hadn't seen anyone he recognized yet. Thank Merlin, he hadn't seen Adora.
What was really troubling Ron was that he hadn't seen Adora since they headed out early this morning.
'Don't think about that now,' Ron thought to himself. 'You can't let your emotions get the best of you.'
"Die old man!" Autumn Lewis hissed, "Avada Kedavra!"
Albus Dumbledore hit the ground and she turned around to see Severus Snape behind her, "How dare you! He was my kill!"
"You didn't have the powers to kill him!"
"You bastard!" Minerva McGonagall screamed and then she pointed her wand at Severus Snape, "Crutious Imperia!" Autumn Lewis ran for it before Minerva could get a hold of her.
Madam Pomfrey was totally over booked, there were lots of beds that had black sheets over the person. Saying that this person was dead.
"Bridget dear!" Madam Pomfrey yelled over all of the ruckus, "Come here!"
"Stay right here," Bridget said placing Oliver down. "I will be right back."
"Do what you have got to do."
"What's the matter?" Bridget asked the school nurse.
"I need you to hold this together as I say an incantation."
Bridget looked down and saw that she was having to hold two pieces of flesh together, this man's heart was trying to come out of his chest. This would have grossed out many people, but not Bridget Potter. Bridget had wanted to become a Healer after she left Hogwarts.
After healing the man, the school nurse turned to the Potter princess. "What are you doing here dear? I thought you were on the field, like the others."
"I was but Professor Wood has gotten really badly hurt. I think he should be looked at."
"What's wrong?" Madam Pomfrey asked the young student as she made her way over to Oliver Wood.
"I saw him collapsed on the ground and he was coughing up blood and blood was oozing from his mouth."
"Oh dear," Madam Pomfrey said as she was examing him.
"I'm fine," but fine was anything but Oliver Wood as he began to cough up even more blood…this time it was in clumps.
"Bridget dear, help me get him to a bed."
"Yes ma'am."
Bridget had been ordered to Madam Pomfrey's office to brew a potion for Oliver as Madam Pomfrey was trying to stop the blood.
Bridget had always been a genius both Potions and Charms, and she figured she had gotten this from her mother.
Ten minutes later Bridget ran over to the school nurse, "Finished."
"And it turned the correct color?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Okay, go give it to Mr. Wood and then I need your help over here. I'm sorry to say that I can't let you back on the field, I have no one helping me in here and I desperately need some help in here."
"No problem," Bridget nodded. As much as Bridget wanted to go back out and help out her family, Bridget knew she wasn't going to be the one to get rid of Voldemort. Bridget had done her share outside and it was totally obvious that Madam Pomfrey needed Bridget in here.
"Drink this," Bridget said standing next to Oliver.
Oliver sat up and took the vial, "Your bedside manner is horrible."
"Shut up and drink it," Bridget said seriously.
"Come on Bridget…"
"I'm serious, I've got to help Madam Pomfrey and I can't leave you until you drink it."
"In that case…"
Bridget didn't let Oliver finish his sentence, she opened up his mouth and poured the contents down. "Good."
"You are going to be one hell of a Healer."
"Merlin knows it," Bridget said walking off to help out the school nurse.
"You've got another one!" Came a voice from what Bridget recognized as a Seventh Year Hufflepuff, he must have been helping Madam Pomfrey out with bringing all the patients in.
"Put it on the last bed."
"She needs attention now, she's lost a lot of blood. A nasty blow to the head."
Bridget turned around and screamed, there was the only woman that had been a motherly figure to her, Aunt Arabella.
