Disclaimer: Refer to first chapter.

Summary: Harry Potter died in his final battle against Voldemort, but did he really die?

Pairings: DM/HP, SS/HG, LM/OC, LP/JP, I still need to decide about the others, so, any ideas, tell me.

AN: This fic will contain OotP spoilers, but not for now, so I guess everyone will have time to finish their reading before the spoilers appear.

AN2: There is no HP/DM in this chapter, just LM/OC, but there are SOME answers about the plot in this chapter (I hope), that's one of the reasons why I put it here (a DM/HP fic).

Warning: This fic contains slash, which means male x male relationships so, if you are offended, the back button is on the top of your screen.

Thanks to my reviewers. Thank you very much guys, you make worth posting this story.

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4.Love doesn't know barriers.

~~~Meanwhile, in the room where Harry had the conversation~~~

"Well, what do you think Nil?" asked Tom.

"About what?"

" Do you think he will join us?"

"He may, but we will have to be careful with him; people hid many things from him in the past so, if we want his help we will have to be true to him" answered Nil cautiously, looking at the floor.

"Do you think that Christa made a good impression?" asked Lucius getting up to have a glass of water.

"You know she always does, Luc. Besides, Christa never lost her kind personality due to her hatred towards the Bringers. It was good for Harry to talk to her." Answered Nil with a kind smile on her lips.

"You asked Christa on purpose, didn't you?" it was Tom's turn to be surprised.

"Of course I did, her life is enough to make him believe we are the good guys, and, besides, she knows how to avoid certain questions perfectly." Answered Nil in her always calm voice, looking at Tom.

" Well, I guess we can continue this conversation later," said Lucius approaching Nil "because I think now is time to all of us go to bed. Tomorrow will be a full day." Lucius finished his sentence kissing Nil's neck.

" Oh please! Get a room you two" said Tom, rolling his eyes.

"That, my dear friend, is exactly what I'm planning to do." Said Lucius mischievously while picking Nil up in his strong arms and heading to the door.

"Lucius!" exclaimed Nil when Lucius picked her up.

"What? Have I done anything wrong?" asked Lucius with a fake innocent face.

"You are hopeless" exclaimed Nil giving up fighting to free herself from Lucius grip, not that she was trying to.

"Ah, by the way, if you excuse us, Tom, I need to put this young lady in bed" Lucius said kissing Nil's cheek and going out of the room.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't" shouted Tom at them.

Lucius laughed and replied through the door:

"Don't worry, I won't".

~~~~Outside the room~~~~

After some minutes of walking in silence, Lucius realized that something was wrong with Nil.

"Nil, dear? Is everything alright?" asked Lucius worriedly while walking with Nil in his arms to their chambers.

"Hm? Wha... Oh yes, everything is just fine" answered Nil looking briefly at Lucius and then murmuring to herself:

"Everything is just fine."

Lucius stopped in the middle of the corridor they were and looked at Nil.

She was looking down, with her arms still around his neck, head rested against his chest, with a worried expression on her beautiful face.

"Nil, what is wrong?" asked Lucius worriedly

"Nothing is wrong, Lucius, seriously." Answered Nil still looking down.

Okay, now he knew that something was seriously wrong, but the confirmation came with her next phrase:

"Take me to our chambers, Lucius, please, I need to take a bath." She said that in such a tone that made him want to cry, especially when she buried her face deeper in his chest.

" Of course." He said swallowing the lump that was formed in his throat.

The rest of the walk was made in a very uncomfortable silence.

When they entered their chambers, Lucius put Nil on the bed and said:

"Nil, I'm going to prepare your bath, okay?"

"Okay, Luc." Answered Nil in a sad tone.

" Do you think there is enough room for two in that bath?" asked Lucius masking his worries with a playful tone on his voice.

"I don't know. You are the one who is going to prepare the bath isn't it? So you tell me if there is enough room for two." Answered Nil with a playful smile on her face.

'Hum, at least this is working' thought Lucius looking at Nil's smile.

"Hum, let me think: size of the bathroom, amount of water in the bathtub, size of the bathtub..."

"I guess that as long as you don't try anything, there may be enough room for two in there" interrupted Nil still playfully, pulling Lucius towards her for a kiss.

"Spoilsport" said Lucius with a mock angry face after the kiss.

Nil stared to laugh uncontrollably.

"You... really... should...see...your...face...Luc...dear...it's... priceless..." Nil was trying to say between the breaths she was trying to draw.

"Okay, enough sugar for you for tonight, I'm going to prepare that bath." Said Lucius getting up from the bed with a smile on his lips that reached his silvery eyes and then heading to the bathroom to prepare Nil's bath.

On his back he still could hear Nil's laugh.

'Yes, that definitely worked' he thought when he closed the bathroom's door.

When Lucius closed the door, Nil slowly stopped laughing. She stared at the closed door and re-started to think about the encounter she had that morning.

~~~~Flashback~~~~

"You'd better be careful, Nil, our fellows are already getting suspicious that you are not only fucking Malfoy senior to get information about his fallen master." Said Peter Pettigrew in a low hiss, cornering Nil.

"And who told you I'm fucking Malfoy senior? Please, enlighten me." asked Nil back with a smirk.

"You don't fool me Bluenile, I can see that there is more about you than meets the eye"

"Oh pwease, someone 'elp me, big bad Pete is about to attack me" answered Nil in a childish mocking tone and then she added in a low, dangerous and poisonous hiss:

"I guess that YOU are the one who should watch your steps Peter, because you cost a lot to us with that performance of yours in Potter's third year. You had a clean path to make that brat be on our side and what did you do? You throw it into the air. I, at least, am still inside that Brotherhood rows without raising suspicions, while you have to cower here for protection. Besides, accusing a fellow Bringer may cost really much, like your life I could say."

"You can't prove that I was accusing you Bluenile" said Peter backing off.

"Can't I?" asked Nil pulling a brown thin card out of her white robes.

Peter visibly palled at the sight of the brown card, a recording card, just like a muggle tape recorder, and then, he relaxed, even chuckled.

"Yeah right, go on, show them the recording card and let them decide who accused who." Said Peter confidently.

"Didn't I tell you Peter, I stopped the recording just before what I said. Hum, it seems that it missed what I told you. What a pity, isn't it, Pete?" replied Nil putting the card back in her robes.

This time Peter paled so much that he seemed a dead man.

"Bluenile, the council waits for you to report." A voice interrupted their argument. It was Deacon Frostheart. "Anything wrong, Pettigrew?"

"There is nothing wrong with him, Frostheart, I just told him to be careful while running around in his rat's form, because of some of the freshmen here that can transform themselves in feline animals, though I didn't know it would have that effect on him." Answered Nil in a mocking tone.

Frostheart just smiled to Nil and said:

"Nil, you'd better be going, you know the council doesn't like to wait, and you hold important information for us."

"Sure" Nil smiled back and headed to the council's room, where she should report about the Brotherhood's plans.

~~~~End flashback~~~~

Someone was shaking her and calling her. Lifting her head from the pillows she didn't know she had hugged, Nil saw a very worried Lucius.

"Nil, love, what the hell is wrong with you?" he asked brushing his thumb on her cheeks to dry her tears. "Come, let's go have that bath, dear, you surely need it." Lucius said, picking her on his arms when he saw that she wasn't going to answer soon.

Lucius took off Nil's clothes, put her in the bathtub, took off his own clothes and joined Nil in the bathtub.

"Now, do you want to talk about what is wrong with you?" asked Lucius putting his left arm around Nil's shoulder and bringing her closer to him.

" It's not much, really, I was just thinking about this morning's meeting with the Bringers." Answered Nil still looking sad.

"Go on."

After a moment of silence, Nil finally asked:

"Luc, may I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"Have you been talking to Pettigrew lately?"

"No, I haven't seen him since Voldemort's fall. Why?"

"This morning, when I was going to report to the council, he cornered me and said that 'our' fellows were already getting suspicious that I wasn't...'fucking' you just to gather information about your fallen master, and that I didn't fool him."

"Look at me Nil." Lucius said lifting Nil's chin until she was looking directly in his eyes. "We're NOT fucking, we are MAKING LOVE, and that's a completely different thing. Don't believe what Pettigrew say, he is just saying that to see if you fall on his trap. Remember, he is a dirty rat, all he knows is how to make people dirty and then, run, that's what he did with Black, that's what he is trying to do with you."

"I know Luc, it's just... I wish everything would just... end. I wish we could have a life, a real one, and stop living this lie." Nil finished her phrase with tears rolling down her cheeks.

While she was talking, Lucius grip on her shoulder got stronger, and when he relaxed to lift her chin again, there were fingertips on it.

"I know dear, I know, but we both knew that joining the Brotherhood would mean to give up every chance to have a real life, you made it crystal clear to me what joining the Brotherhood would mean. It would mean to live a lie 'till the end of our days. We gave up our happiness in order to ensure others' happiness." Lucius said looking directly into Nil's eyes, though he didn't mean what he said. While trying to make Nil feel better all he could think was why they had to wait to strike and end that mess everyone inside there was calling 'The real war'.

"I know, Luc, I know, but it's already getting on me, it's been already 30 years since the Bringers started to act more intensely and we are not even close to end this war. Hell, it's been millenniums since the Bringers started acting and the Brotherhood is not even close to destroy their activities." Nil started to cry, and then added in a whisper: "Eight years since I'm living this lie." Then she started to talk while crying." I am just taking it yet because you are beside me, otherwise, I would already be crazy. But I feel that soon I won't be able to take it anymore. It's already getting on me Luc."

All Lucius could do was hold her tighter and whisper comforting words on her ear that everything was going to be fine, that they were closer to end the war that they have ever been, while thinking:

'Hell, why can't the heiress of Ravenclaw just show herself? Why? We already have the heir of Slytherin safe with the Brotherhood, the heir of Gryffindor now is here too; the heir of Merlin, the heiress of Morgan LeFay, the heiress of Hufflepuff and the heiress of Rapsehs are already being watched by the Brotherhood. We are so close, so close, all we need now is the heiress of Ravenclaw, but why doesn't she show her power so we can end this fucking war and live our lives? Why?'

After a while of crying Nil felt she could talk without shuttering:

"Luc, dear, I'm already finished, are you going to stay here a bit more?" she asked after she finished crying, looking at him, interrupting his thoughts.

"No, I'm going with you." Answered Lucius, getting up and getting two towels, tying one around his waist, he wrapped Nil in the other and carried her to the bed.

When they reached the bed, Lucius put Nil on the bed and laid on top of her. He started kissing her and unwrapping the towel that he had put on her, roaming his hand all over her body. They parted when air became a need, and Nil spoke:

"Luc, dear, do you mind if we don't do anything tonight?"

Lucius looked at her with a puzzled expression and answered:

"Why are you asking me that, Nil? You know I don't mind, if any of us is not on the mood, why force anything?" he said caressing her cheek with the back of his hands.

"Thanks, Luc."

"You don't have to thank me, Nil, you know I would never force you into anything." Answered Lucius laying on his back and putting his arm around Nil, bringing her closer to him.

"I know, it's just, I'm really bad today." After a pause Nil said: "Did I tell you that I'm going to see Draco tomorrow?"

"No, you didn't."

"Well, I'm going to see Draco tomorrow morning."

"Yeah, right, I know, I'm getting old." Lucius said teasingly.

"Lucius, it's not that. I just haven't seen him in two days, and you remember that YOUR SON is now widowed." Nil answered looking at him as if he had gone mad.

Lucius started to laugh and rolled in a way that half of his body was on top of her, and he started kissing her between laughs.

"I know, dear, I know, I need to see him too, not with you of course and not tomorrow, as Potter will most certainly have thousands of questions about the Brotherhood, but I need to see my son, see how he is taking things." He replied

"Why don't you invite him to live in the manor for a while, that way he will be safe from the Bringers." Nil suggested.

"I don't know, Nil, I don't think he would like to go and live with ' his- evil-Death-Eater-and-Voldemort 's-supporter-who-wanted-to-deliver-The -Boy- Who-Lived-in-a-silver-plate-to-his-master excuse of a father'" answered Lucius bitterly, and then he added in a sad tone, averting her gaze, "even if he knew about the Bringers and that living in the manor would possibly save his life from them, as he is their next target, as you told me."

"I may try to convince him." Nil said cupping Lucius's face with both hands.

"Would you do that for me, love?" asked Lucius looking at Nil, a glint of hope in his eyes.

"Of course I would, Luc. I know how much you love your son and that you want nothing more than to know that he is happy, and safe" answered Nil looking into Lucius's eyes.

"I don't deserve you, Nil." Lucius whispered and then, started kissing her passionately.

Although Nil had said she didn't want anything that night, she couldn't help but deepen the kiss and roam her hands around Lucius body; her hands going down, trying to get free of the only thing keeping their bodies apart: the towels.

"You are so beautiful, I love you so much, my Nil, my river of life." Lucius said with his voice deep of desire when he parted the kiss to breath and rid himself of the towels.

"I love you so much, light of my life" Nil whispered resuming the kiss.

She didn't mind that Lucius was still married with Narcissa, they were getting divorced anyway; she didn't mind she had started a mature relationship at the age of fourteen nor she minded that he was twenty years older than her; she didn't mind that, at the time they started their relationship, he was potentially a Bringer of Purification and she already was a member of the Brotherhood of Light, she didn't mind that, at that time, he thought that all muggles and muggle borns should either die or be enslaved; they loved each other, and that love opened his eyes for the world around him. They were more than lovers, they were twin souls, and would always be there for each other, after all, love doesn't know barriers.

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AN3: I'll be posting this fic once in a week so I'll have time to TRY to improve the next chapters, but I can't do much if you don't review telling me what you think about it; if you have any questions, tell me so I can be sure that I'm covering every aspect of the plot; I can't do much without your help. so, please, guys, review. Also, I feel that I need a beta reader; so, if anyone would like to be my beta reader, please, send me an e- mail.