-Alrighty you crazy people. No, this is not a Harry/Hermione fic, it's called 'reading the summary'. I am so sick of those, it's not even funny...always the same sort of plot. Same thing goes for Lucius/Hermione...and the ones that are good, it's like the writer drops off the face of the planet for like a year, and always when the story gets good. I refuse to do that to my readers. Anyway, you will find out more about Azadeh in other chapters that are coming up, and you'll be suprised (hopefully pleasantly). Have patience, I'm not one of those 'wham-bam-thank you, ma'am' writers, where everyone gets together almost instantly, has sex, and lives happily ever after. So have patience. I know I have some smart readers, and I promise I won't disappoint.-

Chapter 29

Harry had woken up with the knowledge of what he had done, her death confirmed that morning by an envelope delivered by one of Voldemort's messengers. Her small wedding ring and bracelet lay in his large hand, falling to his knees and tears coming, Harry caressed what was left of his loving Azadeh. He held his head in disbelief, shaking, he thought he was going insane, his heart...he wanted it stop beating. Harry had killed his wife, he killed the one person that made him feel whole and it was controlled by Voldemort. Why had this happened?

There was a knock at the door. "GO AWAY!" he screamed.

"It's Draco, open up the damned door, I heard what happened!"

Harry waved his hand and opened the door, Draco stepped through to find him in shambles...he was almost disgusted at the sheer sight of Harry. "What...what do you want!" he sobbed.

"First of all, calm down..."

Harry looked at him as if he was the worst enemy, "DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN, MY PRECIOUS WIFE IS DEAD!" Tears were streaming, "I KILLED HER! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!"

"Indeed," Draco narrowed his eyes and knelt down next to Harry. "But things are not always as they seem, Harry."

Harry looked confused, "what the hell do you mean by that!"

"Be at my house in fourty-eight hours, you'll know what I'm talking about. Tell NO ONE! Don't act like you know anything, GOT IT!" Draco left immediately to confront his father, leaving Harry confused and still in emotional devestation...but he would do it, he would be there at Draco's house in fourty-eight hours.

Lucius had heard what happened, and nearly destroyed the house entirely. How could he be so stupid, of course the Dark Lord would get rid of her...she affected two of his Death Eaters to insanity, well, at least him...

Draco knocked on the door and came through, "so I take it you heard."

"YES. I DID," Lucius hissed.

He leaned against the wall and crossed his arms, "nice to know that your plan worked, didn't it?"

Lucius scowled, "What did you come here for!"

"To see if you knew, to see if you needed help in cleaning up your mess...at the house anyway. I know how you get when things don't work out as planned. So, what are you going to do now...I suppose you COULD find another girl, there's another auction this weekend...two, around sixteen, not as pretty, but fair of face enough to get you off..."

"SHUT UP!"

"NO I WON'T! It's because of YOU, she's dead! You fed him lies, didn't you...you thought the Dark Lord was just going to hand her over to you after you made him believe that Harry had nearly defected...but he really hadn't! He was more emotional over her, but he hadn't truly defected...and you convinced the Dark Lord anyway to just FIND something wrong. Hoping that he would say, 'Lucius, good job...here's your title back and Azadeh, so sorry.' Is that what you thought? He goes in so many directions, the Dark Lord never goes the way you expect him to, you should know that by now father...hopefully, this will serve as a lesson."

"And what about YOUNG HARRY?" Lucius hissed.

"Oh, he's a wreck, more so than you...but he always knew how to love better, didn't he?" Draco left his father, his feet crunching on the mess on the floor, smirking...it was always fun knowing something that someone else didn't.

Draco knew it was Azadeh's birthday...'what a way to celebrate your birthday, your husband tries to kill you and your former owner started it all,' he thought. So, to make up for all of their idiotic behavior, he wanted to buy her something exquisite. He knew she wasn't much into jewelry or clothing...clothing, jeans...she liked jeans, she was wearing them when his father found her, he had an idea what size she was. So, he bought her some...he had to go to the little boys section though because they didn't really sell jeans in the wizarding world for girls, this was funny. Draco described the size of the 'boy' to the clerk and picked out the right size for 'him'. Plus he bought some shirts that were more in the women's section, some he found sexy...for his own eyes, of course. Then shoes, she liked boots, but his father or Harry would never buy them for her...so, he did.

He had a cake made, but was careful to have it delivered to the house. People who knew Azadeh, knew it was her birthday, like certain Death Eaters, and it would be to coincidental if he were seen carrying a birthday cake and presents after Azadeh's disappearence/death.

When he got home, she hid for a minute and made sure it was him before she came out. Azadeh's yellow eyes poked out and blinked, it reminded him of an owl of sorts and he snorted with laughter a bit. She popped out and smiled, "took you long enough."

"Happy birthday," Draco said and handed her presents over.

"But Draco, you didn't have to...you saving my life is enough," she looked down sadly.

"I wanted to do something special, you deserve it after everything you've been through."

Azadeh took the presents gently, "thank you."

"Go on, open them..."

She opened up her presents and was very happy with them. Azadeh took off to the bedroom and quickly changed. When she came down, Draco raised his eyebrows, he had no idea boy clothing could look so good on a woman. She smiled and sighed, "normal clothing." He laughed.

"Come, dinner is ready...we have birthday cake too."

Azadeh appreciated Draco's attempts at making her feel better, even though she cried when he left. Terrified of the future, uncertain of how everything was going to go. What if Harry would never recover from the spell...he would spend his whole life wanting to kill her. Plus, she had made love to Draco, what if Harry did recover, should she tell him...would Draco tell him to create a conflictive situation so he could obtain her? She knew how Draco felt about her...

They ate, but she picked at her food like she always did when she was concerned about something. "What is it, my pet?" Draco drawled.

"Well, I do have to do a few things myself. But my first question is...should we tell Harry about what happened last night, I mean, if he recovers?"

Draco stopped for a moment, he really didn't want to discuss Harry, he wanted to pretend that she was with him...but, it couldn't last forever. "Between you and me, if Harry could go his whole life without knowing what happened, that would be fine with me."

"Then it wasn't...?"

"Azadeh, you know how I feel about you. I would keep you forever if you would let me...but as it is, you are alive and still married to Harry. Even if Harry never got over the spell, I still couldn't marry you because the binding ceremony would never work. Yes, I took advantage of an emotional situation...and too be honest, as the risk of sounding like my father...I don't regret it one bit. I love you..."

She blushed when he said it...

"I love you, Azadeh, and I have from the moment I saw you. But I know we can never be together because I'm smart enough to understand that you're meant to be with Harry. We could go over the whole, 'oh Draco, you'll find someone that's right for you...she's out there somewhere.' Though, it wouldn't do me any good right now. I'm not going to try and keep you for myself because look at what it has done to my father...he's gone almost mad because he can't let you go, I don't want to end up like that."

Azadeh got up and sat in Draco's lap, which suprised him, "if...this wasn't all such a mess, if Harry..., I would pick you over anyone, I'd want you to be with me forever too."

He smiled and hugged her, "thank you for saying that..."

"But isn't the truth better?"

"Whoever tells you that line is selling something. No, not this time...I am honest with myself, Harry is a man to be feared, even as a boy, he was more powerful than me, and quite frankly, even if you can get him back on your rebellion's side...I still would not want to meet his temper where YOU are concerned. The only reason I AM in a more comfortable position right now, is because I managed to keep a cool head."

Azadeh froze when he mentioned the rebellion, "so, you KNOW about the rebellion?"

"Of course, in fact, I expect you to rejoin them...where else can you go now? Voldemort would have you killed on sight."

"And you're not going to turn me in?"

"No."

She smiled, "will you come with us?"

Draco smiled broadly, he'd follow her anywhere, "yes."

Squealing in delight, she hugged him so hard he thought she was going to cut off his air supply..at the same time, he really didn't mind. "Good, because we have to meet him in one hour."

"Who?"

"My father..."

"Alright, what do we do?"

"Well, I obviously don't need my bracelet taken off now...but I know someone who does."

"Who?"

"You're sounding like an owl," Azadeh grinned.

"WHO?" Draco exaggerated.

"Hermione Granger..."

He nearly froze, "you mean that mudb..."

"Don't you EVEN say it! I'll SMACK you if you do. You won't be allowed to say it in the rebellion because some of them are MUGGLEBORNS."

"Are there other pure-bloods," Draco almost sound REGAL when he said it.

"Yes, suprisingly enough"

They met up with her father, and at first she thought he was going to attack Draco...but she calmed him down.

"Hm," her father stated. "A MALFOY joing us...there's something for the record books. Anyway, here's your staff young lady."

"A staff?" Draco looked at her.

"We don't always use wands, you can, but I prefer my staff. Now, I have to go to get Hermione, I told her I'd be coming..."

"You aren't going by yourself?"

Her father looked at Draco seriously, "she has to, otherwise it will draw too much attention...we're hoping to get her out quietly. But knowing Azadeh..."

"I'm NOT THAT BAD."

Her father looked at Draco again, "do you remember that explosion that happened at one of the local halls where the Death Eaters met?" Draco nodded. "THAT was her...all she was supposed to do was plant a small series of bombs that would disable some of their higher magic equipment...and it turned into the whole building catching on fire." Draco raised his eyebrows...

"That was YOU?"

She shrugged her shoulders, "so I got a little over-zealous with the explosives... ANYWAY, I'd love to talk about this more, but gotta go."

"WAIT. HERE," her father gave her the device that would disable the bracelet...Azadeh apparated in the most beautiful way...white feathers appeared and then seemed to travel with the wind. Draco awed at her and cursed Harry.

The white feathers landed by a tree and formed Azadeh, she had apparated to Hermione's home, it was late and wondered if Hermione had given up hope on waiting for her. She looked around, Hermione's bedroom light was on...Azadeh threw a small stone at her window. It took a moment and then Hermione poked her head out and saw Azadeh waiting for her, dressed in all black so she wasn't easily seen. She waved.

Hermione already had her bags packed, she had to be extremely careful not to arrouse the suspicion of the new 'lady of the house', they had JUST gotten back from their honeymoon, they had married earlier than planned and when Azadeh found out, she had to make the necessary adjustments. Hermione opened the window...

Azadeh jumped up and down in excitement as Hermione threw down her bag first, but then...Jasper entered her room and she could hear his yelling. "WHAT THE HELL! Oh...figured it out did you! That I don't NEED YOU anymore!" Jasper grabbed Hermione. "I WANTED YOU TO GIVE YOURSELF TO ME! YET YOU NEVER DID...WHO NEEDS A MUDBLOOD ANYWAY!"

Hermione was screaming, the new wife came in and told him to kill her and be done with it. "Oh my God," Azadeh whispered to herself. She became desperate, but didn't really have a choice and became angry, Azadeh's spirit animal kicked in, and she put the hood over her face so she couldn't be identified. Jumping off the tree and onto the roof where Hermione's window was, she could hear the aweful woman telling Jasper 'to kill her with his own bare hands, that she wanted the little mudblood to suffer.'

Azadeh came through the window at a quick rate and jumped on Jasper, digging her now claw-like hands into his back, he screamed and let go of Hermione, who was coughing wildly from him choking her. The woman, Eliza, was screaming until Azadeh kicked her down the stairs and knocked her out. "THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT, BECAUSE HERMIONE WOULDN'T SPREAD HER LEGS FOR YOU, YOU PERV! IT'S CALLED ROMANCING YOU JACKASS!...NOW YOU CAN LIVE WITH YOUR ICE CUBE OF A WIFE!"

Azadeh tore into him, but Jasper managed to throw her off and charge at her. Hermione came to her rescue and knocked him out with one of her lamps, crashing it over his head.

"Well, THAT was a little nerve racking," Hermione stated.

"Oh, you think?" they both laughed. Azadeh took Hermione's hand and put the device over the bracelet, it automatically released and fell off her wrist. "There, you're free now." Hermione rubbed her wrist and started to tear. Azadeh sighed, "well, we'll have time for all that later...let's go." She pulled off her mask, releasing her black hair, Hermione went out the window first and then Azadeh, they apparated together since Hermione didn't know the location.

The white feathers revealed two figures now, Azadeh and Hermione. "We're back!" Hermoine froze when she saw Draco. "Don't worry about him, he's on our side now..." Draco nodded and grinned.

"How can you be sure."

"Well, I can't...but, I have to trust my instincts. Anyway, he doesn't know the secret location of where you're going."

"Don't you mean we?" Hermione was put out enough as it is, not wanting to seperate from Azadeh yet again.

"I'll join you very soon, right now, you have to go with my father. You'll apparate with him...don't worry, we have another plan that needs to be initiated...so I can't go now."

Hermione looked down, but realized that it had to be done, "okay." She left with Azadeh's father, but not before giving back the device.

"You look a little mussed, my pet," Draco purred and straightened her hair.

"Let's just say two pure-bloods are 'sleeping' right now."

He smiled, "are you ready to go?" She nodded, Draco held onto her and they disappeared in a puff of black smoke.