Chapter 32: Loving Promises and Permanent Endings

"Do you want help with that?" Melissa asked, pointing towards the triplet's baby carriage.

"Yeah, thanks. I swear this group is going to be a whole lot of trouble. The twins can perform wandless magic already, can you believe it? I bet the triplets will have amazing Quidditch skills, and Alyssa...Well, she's Alyssa, she'll be undoubtingly smart and help these five get into a world of trouble."

"Yes, but you will be the big brother that stops them from getting into way to much trouble, the one that teaches the Quidditch, and keeps them save from the undeniable evil of walking in on your parents." Melissa said smiling.

"How did you know that happened to me?"

"Sirius and I were talking about Draco, Harry, and Remus and it just sort of popped up. Amazing what you'll learn after Sirius has had about seven FireWhiskeys. Did you know that James dressed as a girl to win a bet at Hogwarts? He ended up being hit on by Arthur Weasley." Melissa started laughing.

"No, I didn't know that, but now that I have the image of my grandfather in girls clothing, you will be paying for it later on in life." Dragon shuddered, "and it's one disturbing picture."

"Sorry, I thought it was quite funny. Anyways, since you keep complaining about how troublesome your siblings are, how many kids do you want when you're older?"

"One or two, I can't see myself right now having a bunch of kids. I mean look at what it's done to my parents, they're either fighting, spliting up, or lieing to each other."

"Dragon, that's not you or your brother and sisters faults. Your parents have just been under a lot of stress for a long time, and it's finally getting to them. Come on, let's go into the common room and sit by the fire, it's already fall outside and the weather's pretty cold." Once inside the common room, they made sure all the babies were settled in a playpen, before they settled down on the couch, Melissa curled to Dragon's side.

"Dra! D-Drag! Drag! Drag, Drag, Drag, DRAG!" Micheal said, jumping up and down. Dragon and Melissa turned their focus from the TV Dragon had conjured up, to the playpen.

"Michael, are you talking?" Melissa asked, a little disbelievingly.

"He he he...Drag."

"Dragon, he's talking! He's able to say your name!" Melissa squealed, going over to the playpen and picking Michael up.

"Hey big guy, what's up?" Dragon asked, taking his brother and sitting him down on his knee.

"Drag...he he he." Michael pulled out Dragon's wand, and waved it. Two rings appeared, one a plain gold band, and the other had a skinier band, but diamonds placed in it.

"Michael! What have we told you about doing magic. No, it's bad." Dragon took his wand back, placing it on the table in front of them, out of Michael's reach, before putting him back in the playpen.

"What are these?" Melissa asked, picking the rings up off of the floor.

"They're the Malfoy promise rings, well two of the three at least. See, the guy gives his love the ring, they promise that they won't be with anyone else but each other, it's usually used in long-term, serious relationships, basically you're promising yourselves to each other in every means possible. It's given to the girl or boy after there is an arranged marriage contact, and you can only take it off if both of you decide that the marriage isn't going to work. That's how Lucius got stuck with Narcissa, Lucius' parents arranged a marriage contract with Narcissa's parents, because, at the time, they had been a couple for about three years. In fifth year, they had a falling out of sorts, Lucius fell in love with another, but due to Narcissa still being in love with Lucius, they couldn't take the promise rings off. Lucius and Narcissa were forced to wed, leaving Lucius with a wife he hated, and Narcissa with a husband who refused to be around her at all once she bared an heir. When Narcissa died, her ring along with Lucius' disappeared. I guess grandfather figured out what would happen if Narcissa was to die before others did, placed her under the Imperious curse, forced her to drink a Polyjuice potion to look like him, then forced her to act like him. When Draco saw the 'Narcissa' Lucius, he thought it was grandfather, killing him for what he did, when in reality it was Naricssa. It got him out of his marriage and her off his hands. I don't know why anyone would wear them, and I have no idea why Michael even thought of conjuring them." Dragon said, using his wand to place them safely in a box, there was no way he was touching them.

"I want to wear one of them one day." Melissa whispered.

"Why?" Dragon asked, looking down at her, confusion showing in his eyes.

"Cause then I'd know that you really loved me, and I wouldn't have to worry about someone else coming and taking you away from me."

"Hun, rest assured, that is never going to happen, but when we are ready and if I think it's the right time, then I will give you the ring." Dragon said, kissing Melissa, and congratulating himself on getting out of a fight.

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Late that night, Draco, Harry, Severus, Chastity, Albus, James, Sirius, Lily, Hermione, and Ron were sitting in the old meeting room of the Order of the Phoenix. They had recently discussed Draco and Harry's plan for taking out Belatrix and Kelly, and were now putting on the finishing touches. "So, Chastity and Hermione are going to stay here. Lily, James, and Sirius are in group one, Ron, Harry and Draco group two, which leaves Albus, Remus and I in group three." Severus said, splitting everyone into groups.

"I don't want to stay here Severus, I want to go with you all." Chastity complained.

"Chastity we are not fighting about this right now. Mood swing or not, you are staying here, I will not have you putting the baby in harms way. Now, everyone move out!" Severus said, getting up and kissing Chastity on the forehead. Hermione and Chastity were in charge of informing all the students to stay inside, the Aurors on the where abouts of the Order, and to keep the groups updated on each other.

"So Hermione, would you like to do the honors or shall I?" Chastity asked, waving her wand so that an intercom system hooked up all over the school.

"Go right ahead, I'm not really into having my voice blasted everywhere. I'll go contact the Aurors, and set up the radio system." Hermione walked over towards one of the Orders various means of communication.

"Attention all Students! Due to a recent event on the school grounds, all Quidditch practices, detentions, parties, clubs, and library study groups have been cancelled. All studentswill report to their dormitories immeditaley, anyone found dawdling in the hallways will have detention with our care taker Mr. Filch. The Head Boy and Girl will meet me in the corridor leading off of the Great Hall for further instructions. Thank you." Chastity waved her wand again and the P.A. system disappeared. "Let's hope no one gets hurt."

"The Aurors are stationed and the radio is working. Do you want me to go meet those students for you?"

"No, I'll do it, I mean it's only right outside the door." Chastity got up and made her way outside.

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"So, this is Riddle manor huh? Why would Kelly hide in the exact same location as her father?" Sirius asked, sneaking up to the door.

"Because she probably thought that we wouldn't think she was stupid enough to hide in such an obvious place. Unfortunately for her, we know just how stupid she really is." Lily whispered back.

"Then you obviously don't know a lot about her do you?" A sweet voice came from behind them. "Nice to see you again...Cousin."

"Sirius duck!" James yelled, trying to pull Lily to the ground, but she was frozen in fear.

"James, it's a trap! Kelly must be some where else."Sirius yelled, dropping to the ground and rolling away from a spell.

"Hmm, my, my little Lily Evans, mudblood extrodinare. Pity the Dark Lord got to kill you before, oh I bet you were a screamer huh? Not that James would know anything about that now would he?"

"What are you talking about?" James asked, pulling himself up while looking around him, it looked like Belatrix was all by her lonesome, but James didn't want to take the chances, since Sirius and himself had dropped their wands. James knew he had to distract Belatrix so that Sirius could get both their wands.

"What ? Lily-poo not tell you about the wittle afwair she had? Aww, and here I thought all along Lily had told you." Bekatrix said, acting like she was talking to a little kid.

"Shut up Belatrix!" Lily shouted, slowly going for her wand.

"Ah, ah ah. Now, none of that. Expellarimus." Belatrix pointed her wand at Lily's hand. "Now, I think Potter and my cousin have the right to know what happened before all three of you die. Lil Lily here wasn't so faithful to her husband the first couple months of marriage, she married James, then screw Lucius...Oh and after Lucius dropped her, she went and seduced... Drum roll please...The Dark Lord! Handing over the location of your hiding place in a moment of blind passion, and blaming it on Peter Pettigrew! Lily, Lily, Lily, you sold your own husband and son for a nice long fuck from Tom Riddle, tsk tsk tsk, and here we had all thought you were innocent. Oh wait, but that's right, he killed you after your second child was born, because you had to defy him three times didn't ya, had to get away from him while he was attempting to kill you...Wasn't one of those times when you brought him his daughter? Your first child, one that you some how hid from your husband."

"The miscarriage." James whispered to himself, starting to cry.

"Correct James, she didn't have a miscarriage, she lied to you and in the process got you killed. Marriage is great isn't it?"

" I don't believe you! Lily would NEVER cheat on James!" Sirius yelled, his face red with anger.

"Now now cousin, what a memory loss you've had. I can't believe you forgot about Lily and you doing it in the potions classroom, but that was before Lily and James had even gotten together, if memory of accidently walking in serves me right. Bye Bye Lily Dirimo Decessus!"

"Dirimo Decessus!" James repeated, pointing his wand at Belatrix.

"What was that?" Sirius asked, noticing the Orangey Green flame that shot from Belatrix and James' wand.

"It means that Lily and Belatrix will never be able to come back again, no matter how good Draco's potion making skill is. It's latin for permenant death." James said, his feelings all confused, he definitely needed to talk to someone who wasn't named Sirius or Lucius.

"Chast or Hermione come in." Sirius said, talking into his walkie talkie as James checked to make sure there were no more Death Eaters, they knew that one of the three groups had to find at least one.

"Yeah Siri?" Hermione's voice came on over the radio.

"Belatrix is dead, no Death Eaters around. Lily won't be making it back, we're going to meet up with group two, just in case they need back up."

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"Dragon what's going on?" Melissa asked, slightly frightened, the last time Hogwarts was like this, Kelly had stolen the twins and Melissa had ended up being killed.

"I don't know Melissa, but don't worry about it, chances are someone got into a fight and Peeves got involved or something. I mean he has been going around singing 'when there's strife and when there's trouble, call on peevsie, he'll make double.' Chances are he went through with his word. Look, I won't let anything happen to you, I promise."

"Promise enough to give me a ring?"

"Mel, we discussed this already. Even Harry and Draco didn't wear the Malfoy promise rings, they went out and got their own, ones that they could take off even if the other one was still in love. Let's not dicuss this anymore right now, the common room is full of people, and no one is suppose to know about those rings."

"Okay, I'm sorry, I'm just really scared that something is going to happen." Melissa said, curling back up into Dragon's side, and watching the twins, triplets, and Alyssa entertain the rest of the common room. It was the first time the triplets had been in the Gryffindor common room.

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"We've got a live one!" Ron yelled aross the Riddle Villa, it seemed that they were not playing with some dumb first year, but a clever second year. After sending Belatrix to hell, James and Sirius found their way to group two, Harry was crushed to learn that his mom had died, but he kept a stone mask up. Upon entering the second home, they had found that Kelly had murdered all of the Death Eaters...Well, all but the one Ron had found. "He's close to death, but I don't think we should save him."

"Do you know where Kelly is hiding?" Harry asked, he had a gleam in his eyes that the Death Eater remembered from the past war.

"N-no." He gasped, his breaths coming in short but long pauses.

"Did she bring Voldemort back?" Harry asked, hoping this Death Eater knew something.

"N-no, s-s-s-he w-was to w...Weak." The Death Eater said before dieing.

"Great, now we have no Death Eaters, no Belatrix, and no bloody clue where a soddin thirteen year old Dark princess is." Draco said, kicking the closet table. "Hey look a note...How unoriginal." Draco said, picking up a piece of parchment that fell to the ground. " It's a logical question, a muggle one by the sound of it, probably made by one of the Death Eaters."

"Well then read it out loud, it might give us a clue to were Kelly is hiding." Sirius said, looking at Draco like he was some idiot.

"You are walking down a road and you encounter a fork in the road, and you do not know the correct way to go. There are two men standing at a junction and both know the correct road. One man always lies, and the other man always tells the truth, but you do not who know is the liar and who is the one who tells the truth. You can only ask each man one question, but it must be the same question for both. What is the question that would allow you to get the information necessary to chose the correct path? What the bloody hell does that mean?"

"She's in Hogsmeade." Harry said, going through the words in his head. "The junction would be where it split to go from the village to either Hogwarts or into Hogsmeade. There are going to be two Deatheaters on duty, one of them wrote this note, probably the truth teller, the other one he's with lies. We just have to figure out what the question is, get Hermione on the Walkie and get Severus, Albus, and Remus all of us have got to come up with some question we could ask them.

"I say we go back to Hogwarts and re-group. This could be a huge trap that gets us all killed that we're walking in on, we already lost one member, I don't want to lose another." Remus said, joining the cirlce of people. They were down to all guys now, since Chastity and Hermione were back at the castle.

"Let's do that then, maybe one of the girls would know. Chastity was practically raised a muggle right? And Hermione is muggle-born so our chances are greater." The guys all apparated back to the edge of the Forbidden Forest and ran inside as fast as they could, they had walkie'd ahead and had Chastity round up the last group.

"Welcome back, so what's this 'big huge mystery that us poor old men..Hey I'm not so old...are stumped on,' and Drake babe, you have a 13 year old kid, sorry to tell ya, you're getting up there in years."

"It's a brain teaser thing, something about junctions and a liar and some weird guy that tells the truth, and you can only ask one question to each of them, but it has to be the same question because you're lost and need to figure out which road you need to take. Here." Ron handed them the letter.

"I think I had this question for a bonus on a test once. You can't ask either one which one the liar is and which one the truth teller is because they'd both point at themselves, or each other. It has something to do with the paths."

"You ask which path their companion would take, the liar would say the truth teller was taking the wrong path, and the truth teller would say that the liar would take the wrong path therefore they would both be pointing at the wrong path, all you have to do is take the path they aren't pointing at because that is the right path to whatever your location was." Hermione said, figuring out the rest of it. "Now go, it's the end of November, if we finish this all tonight, then people don't have to celebrate their holidays in fear." The guys got up, made sure their weapons were still concealed, their wands easily locatable, before leaving the castle again, making their way towards Hogsmeade.

"Here they are." Ron said, pointing towards the two Death Eaters.

"Which path would your companion take?" James asked, walking up to one of them, while Draco walked up to the other one. They both pointed towards the left path.

"Let's just hope the girls were right huh." Remus said, walking down the right path.

"I'll take the left, just to be sure." Sirius started walking, thinking that everything was fine.

"Sirius DUCK!" Draco yelled, the rest of them falling to the ground as well. Sirius had stepped on a trigger, spells were flying left and right.

"Shit! James' isn't that.."

"Yeah, Lily was hit with it earlier, how did they figure out my grandfather's spell?" James asked, trying to huddle everyone into a gully where they had at least some coverage from the spells. After two minutes, the spells suddenly stopped.

"What's going on?" Hermione and Chastity called through the walkie talkies. "What's that noise?"

"Sorry girls, Sirius stepped on a trigger, permanent death spells everywhere." Severus said into the walkie.

"Is everyone okay?" Chastity asked, she didn't want to lose family or Severus. The guys poked their heads up out of the gully, Sirius' body was lying, motionless, in the middle of the pathway.

"C-Chastity, I'm so sorry." Severus said, cradling the walkie talkie in his hands, he really didn't want to be the person to tell Chastity that Sirius was dead. He wished, very much so, that he could be back at Hogwarts, holding Chastity tight when she found out.

"What are you sorry for Severus? Who died?" Hermione asked, Chastity couldn't form words though the lump in her throat.

"Sirius was hit. Look, we're going to start going down the correct path now, we should be back in no time. Please whatever you do, make sure Chastity is ok until I can get back to her." Severus said, his heart breaking for Chastity and her baby.

"I will Sev, you just take care of yourself okay? She's depending on you to come back to her now." With that, Hermione put the Walkie Talkie down and pulled Chastity into a hug, Sirius might have been an arse to her, but that didn't mean Chastity still didn't love him deep down. Now however was the biggest test, who was going to take care of Melissa, and how were they going to tell her what happened?

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"Melissa, are you still up? If so, sneak down to the common room, Love always. Dragon" Dragon's note asked, flying up the girls staircase and into the dormitory, landing next to Melissa's head. Melissa got up, pulled on her robe, and made her way downstairs.

"Dragon what do you want? It's four in the morning." Melissa whispered, coming down the stairs.

"I wanted to give you something, I've been looking for it forever, my grandmother gave it to me. Melissa, do you promise on the name Potter to save yourself for me, to love me unconditional, and hopefully eventually marry me, as I promise to do the same to you. If one of us decides that we don't want to go through with any of the above promises, do you promise to give me your ring back, so I can pass it on to someone who, as of right now, does not even amount to you?" Dragon asked, getting on bended knee and pulling out a gold band with emeralds in it, Dragon was already wearing his band.

"I promise on the name of Potter to save myself for you, to love you unconditionally, and hopefully marry you, and you pomise to do the same to me. I promise that if we have a falling out, that I will return this beautiful ring to you, so you can uphold tradition of passing it on to the women destined to be your wife." Melissa repeated, having studied up on it in a book in her room earlier that evening before she fell asleep. Dragon placed the ring on Melissa's ring finger, before getting up and kissing her. "Thank you so much Dragon, you don't know how much this means to me."

"Trust me, I know exactly how much it means to you. I'm sorry for waking you though, please go back to sleep, I don't want you tired for classes tomorrow."

"You mean if there are classes, that leaving the common room ban still isn't lifted. Dragon-"

"Say no more, come on, but I'll sleep under the comforter, and you can sleep under both blankets, that way we can't be told we were in bed together having sex, cause you can't have sex between a sheet."

"Sure you can't, but you can have sex through your clothes, go figure right?" Melissa took Dragon's hand, pulling him up to his dorm room.

"Plus, we're already half way promised to each other, so it should be fine. I mean the only thing we need to do, if we really want to promise ourselves to each other, is to have our family make up a marriage contract, but we have a long time to think that over and everything, it's not like we have to do everything right this instant." Dragon said yawning, his brain had shut down and he was letting himself ramble. Melissa climbed into bed besides Dragon.

"Yeah...later."

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"Remember to keep your eyes open, we don't want another accident to happen." Harry whispered, walking down the path. At the end of it was a run down house. "What is it with Riddles and run down houses?"

"Harry, you'll be eating that statement later, let's just go in and get this over with." James said, using his wand to unlock the door. Walking inside, at first glance it seemed that no one had lived their in a while, but subtle things like unbrushed foot prints, and still wam embers softly glowing the in fire place gave away that Kelly was still residing here. The guys split into two groups of three, Ron, Draco, and Harry went upstairs, while Remus, James and Albus stayed down.

"Stupefy!" Someone from upstairs yelled, with a loud 'thump' the three downstairs knew someone's body hit the floor.

"We found her!" Draco called downstairs. The guys ran up the stairs quickly, following the sound of Ron and Harry's voices.

"What are we going to do with her? Send her to Azkaban?" Ron asked. "I mean, the last time we killed her, she was just brought back to life."

"Dirimo Decessus!" James said, pulling out his wand and pointing it at Kelly. He didn't need to draw up any hatred for the young girl infront of him, he already had it. After he killed her, James left the house without another word, disapparating to who knows where.

"What's going on?"

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D/N: Hello everyone :). Kime is on chapter two of Twisted Three alreadyand let me say...It is WAY more twisted then anyone ever could have imagined, drunk Dragon, somone's preggers, and it's not just Harry or Draco...Oh and there's this new guy named Matt... Anyways, enough teasing. How's everyone doing?What's new? Everyone here is mourning the loss of Sirius and Lily, however we have been informed that many of you are probably throwing parties that Sirius is finally dead. Anyways, can't say much tonight, too tired...Oh and did we mention, Oliver's out of Azkaban? Mwahahahahaha. Three reviews, wow where have people gone? Orlin? Volleypickle16? Where are you guys?

Sarahamanda: Glad you enjoyed the chapter.

Bitcake: Yes they made up :), and I'm glad you enjoyed the Chastity/Sev scene. Yes, Severus is caring and you'll be seeing that side a lot more often around Chastity. Yes I randomly picked the name/person lol, I ran out of ideas. Sev: The Dark Lord Tommikins? Pukes again Really now. Fine, two can play the drive someone crazy game...Goes and sits on your bed naked You know you want me. Kime: Covers eyes from Snape Yes dreams, and that visual will become a nightmare.

Heather: The story won't end, there's still year 3..duh :).