Return of the Marauders
Summary: Sequel to Marauder's Daughter. A year after MD finished. Draco and Leah reunite after a year of pain only to learn there's more pain ahead. Why is it necessary to have them admit how they feel? Will Leah and Harry make up in time to defeat Voldemort, or will things spiral out of control? And Leah gets trapped but not in the way you would think. And, of course, the title is right.
Rating: M
Disclaimer: same as the other ones. I don't own the Harry Potter characters, just those I create.
Author Note: Dudes…I've made a trilogy! That is just so cool. And this one is pretty much just completely made up! Oh my god I'm loving this! Ok…on to the story!
Nineteen year old Leah Black sat in front of the TV in her house. Next to her sat her best friend, same age, Hermione Granger. They were supposed to be watching the news but instead they were watching The Nightmare before Christmas. It had been a full year since they left Hogwarts and Leah had seen nothing but the inside of her house for the last nine months. Because of the headmaster, Leah was couldn't leave her house.
"I'm sure he meant well." Hermione had said.
"Yeah. He wanted to make sure I don't get killed." Leah had replied. Dumbledore had learned that Draco had asked Leah for protection, which was good idea to Leah…and a bad one to Dumbledore. He said that if Voldemort ever knew, then he could just hurt Draco and Leah would come…instant trap. So Dumbledore trapped Leah in her house. For the last few months, Leah had been feeling random amounts of pain and she knew something was happening to Draco.
"If he's a skeleton….how are they going to…" Hermione said.
"Yeah, I've wondered that too." Leah said, smirking. When Hermione was home, which she was quite a lot to keep Leah company, Leah was happy. Ginny was going to join them soon. Unlike Hermione, her whole family was still alive and in the order (much to Molly's despise) so Ginny had to go to headquarters first before she could spend time with her friends. Everyone had stopped by the house at random times over the last year…everyone but Harry or Ron. Leah hadn't seen, heard from or spoken to either of them since Harry helped save her from Voldemort back in May during their last year, over a year ago now.
"There is a plus side to lock down." Hermione said.
"What's that?" Leah asked, looking at her.
"You don't have to do and performances." Hermione said.
"Mione…after before locked down for a year…I'd be glad to perform in from of people." Leah said. "But thanks for trying to make things better. I wonder when Ginny's gonna get here."
"She said she'd be here by one o'clock." Hermione said. They looked at the clock. "So she'll be here in a minute."
Thirty seconds later the fireplace roared into life and Ginny stepped out of it.
"Show off." Leah grumbled. She hated floo powder. The Weasley family seemed like they were all pros at using it.
"Hi to you too." Ginny said. She looked different. She, like Hermione and Leah, had grown, but not just in height. She was as busty and curvaceous as the other two.
"Hey…you did it!" Leah said.
"I know." Ginny said. Last time Leah and Ginny had talked, which was Easter, Leah had mentioned that Molly wasn't even done school before she got pregnant. They were wondering if Ginny would do the same. "Well it was kinda obvious since my boyfriend wasn't at school anymore."
"Good point." Leah said.
"So how's lock down?" Ginny asked, sitting on Leah's other side.
"It's as good as…" Leah started but stopped and bent over, her arms wrapped around her stomach. She groaned from the pain. Hermione had already gotten used to this but she still worried about her friend. Leah vanished and there was a big crash on the upper level. Ginny and Hermione ran up the stairs and into Hermione's room where Leah was leaning against the wall by the bed, now her hands were on her head. She started relaxing and slid down to the floor with her knees pulled up. Hermione and Ginny walked over and knelt in front of her.
"Are you ok?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah…but I don't think Draco is." Leah said. "God! I hate Dumbledore so fucking much!"
"He's going to be here soon." Ginny said. "Remus told me to tell you that."
"Great." Leah said, sarcastically. "I'm going to lock myself in my room." She stood up and walked out of Hermione's room and across the hall to her own.
Draco just managed to get to his room by the time he collapsed onto the bed. His head was killing him and, if he was right, he had quite a few new scratches. All the last year, he had been so absorbed in thoughts of other things that he was actually being punished for disobeying Voldemort because he wasn't paying attention. His parents were now getting suspicious.
The door opened and Draco jumped as if he had received an electrical shock. He stood straight, or as straight as he could, as someone in a black robe came into the room and closed the door. He heard the lock click.
"Relax. I'm not going to hurt you." The woman said. She flipped down her hood and red hair fell out. Something about her reminded Draco of someone. She smiled softly, her green eyes light and made Draco relax enough to sit back down. "I'm going to help you."
"Help me how?" Draco asked.
"Lots of ways." The woman said. "I'm Lilly."
"Ok." Draco said. "I'm…"
"I know who you are." Lilly said. She walked over and sat next to Draco. Her hand rested on his back and he flinched. She frowned. "These will have to be taken care of first." Her hand moved slowly, back and forward, between his shoulder blades. Draco felt as if some kind of liquid or something was running down his back from where Lilly was rubbing. It soothed all the pains in his back.
"How are you…" Draco said.
"Don't ask." Lilly said. Draco just nodded. Lilly sighed. He looked at her to see her watching her own hand. "You've been through a lot." Draco didn't say anything. "So has she." Somehow he didn't need to ask who she was talking about.
"Have you seen her?" Draco asked.
"Sorta." Lilly said.
"Is she ok?" Draco asked.
"She's…well…she's holding in there…barely." Lilly said. Her green eyes looked up to meet Draco's silver ones. She smiled softly. "You'll see her again…soon." She stood and flipped her hood up. Her hair easily hidden. "Shhh…." Lilly then turned and left. Draco lied down with his hands under his head. He stared at the ceiling.
"Leah…" Draco muttered softly. He fell asleep soon afterwards, peacefully for once.
Leah looked up from her book. Hermione and Ginny had gone out to buy some Chinese food for dinner so she was alone in the house. She had heard her name. It was soft but she still heard it. Leah left her room and went down to the kitchen where she hesitated before going into the backyard.
There was nothing there. Everything was calm, even the pool water. Leah shivered slightly before walking over to the pool and pulling the cover on.
"What are you doing out here?" Hermione asked. Leah turned and saw her and Ginny standing in the doorway.
"I thought I heard something." Leah said. "And I remembered that the cover had to be put back over the pool." She joined them inside.
"So what did you hear?" Ginny asked.
"I…I don't know." Leah said. "I thought I heard my name but…" She sighed and started putting things onto her plate.
The next day Dumbledore arrived. They were all sitting in the pool. There was a knock on the front door and Leah looked up. She looked at Hermione.
"Can you answer the door?" Leah asked.
"Ok." Hermione said. She didn't know how Leah was able to hear things but she always managed to. Hermione got out of the pool, threw a towel over her shoulders and walked through the house to the front door. She opened it to see Dumbledore there. "Hi!"
"Hello Miss Granger." Dumbledore said. "Is Leah in the house?"
"No she's out back with Ginny." Hermione said.
"In the pool then I'm guessing." Dumbledore said. Hermione nodded. "May I come in?"
"Uh…" Hermione said.
"Hey Mione, Who's…" Leah said, coming in and stopping. She looked at Dumbledore before going up the stairs quickly. She slammed the door to her bedroom.
"She's not really happy with you." Hermione said. "You've kept her locked in here for almost a year."
"Not to mention she's been in a lot of pain." Ginny said, appearing next to Hermione.
"What do you mean?" Dumbledore asked.
"Ask her." Ginny said, shrugging. Dumbledore went up the stairs and knocked on Leah's door.
"Not here go away!" Leah said. Dumbledore went into the room anyways. Leah was sitting at the head of her bed with her back against the headboard and her legs pulled up with her arms wrapped around them and her chin resting on them. "I said go away."
"You seem to have lost your manners." Dumbledore said.
"Well sorry if I'm being a bitch but you're the one that stuck me in this hell hole!" Leah said. "How is this keeping me alive if every time Draco gets hurt I feel it?"
"What do you mean?" Dumbledore asked, frowning.
"At the end of last year." Leah said, sighing and running her hand through her hair. "He asked me to protect him."
"How did he know?" Dumbledore asked.
"Because I told him." Leah said. "When I was in the hospital wing. I wanted him to know…and I wanted him to ask." She looked at Dumbledore. "I feel him. Every time he gets hurt…I feel it. Every time, for some reason, a Death Eater hurts him…I feel it. And it your fault I'm in this pain because you won't let me leave my own property!"
"If you left…" Dumbledore said.
"Then I would get killed…yeah I heard that." Leah said. Leah looked at Dumbledore and something seemed to make sense. "You know."
"About…" Dumbledore said.
"You knew about my baby." Leah said. "You knew I was going to have it and you knew that Voldemort was going to kill it." Leah almost said that it was a girl but she didn't. Dumbledore didn't say anything. "Oh my god." She looked away from him.
"You had to…" Dumbledore said.
"Had to what?" Leah asked. "Had to suffer more pain? Had to suffer more death? What was it Dumbledore because I really don't want to play twenty questions." She looked at her hands. Dumbledore never answered. They sat in silence for a long while before Dumbledore finally left.
Draco stood between his parents, glad for the mask because he was tired and knew he would have looked it. Part of him still wished that Leah would take over Bellatrix's body, even for just a minute, but long enough to let him know that she was fine. There was no way of communicating to her at all. The only thing he knew was that she obviously was alive and out of Death Eater grasp or else Voldemort would be happy.
"Draco!" Voldemort suddenly snapped. Draco jumped slightly and looked at him. "Where is your head boy? Every time you seem to be lost in thought." Draco blocked his mind. By now he was very good at it. Voldemort stared at him for a moment. "I will not stand for it much longer. Your refusal to answer when first spoken to…your refusal to continue tracking Miss Black."
"She was getting suspicious." Draco said.
"Oh I very much doubt that." Voldemort said. "She got away very easily. I know she got away after I killed Severus. Now…how did she manage that?"
"My lord, if I may speak." A familiar, female voice said. Voldemort turned around. "Young Mr. Malfoy was with my group the whole time on that day."
"You vouch for him?" Voldemort asked.
"Yes my lord, I do." The woman said.
"Very well then. Can anyone else say the same?" Voldemort asked.
"I…I can, my lord." Wormtail said, shakily. Voldemort just made a noise and dismissed them. The woman walked over to Draco.
"May I borrow your son for a moment Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy?" She asked.
"Yes." Lucius said, stiffly. He and Narcissa had lost most of their affection for Draco after his last year of school. Draco followed the woman away from the building and into a carriage.
"How are you?" Lilly asked, removing the mask and hood.
"Thank god it's you." Draco said, sighing in relief. Lilly smiled. "I'm…ok at the moment." He looked out the window. "Where are we going?"
"We're going to meet a friend of mine." Lilly said. "Well…a few of them maybe. All depends on who's able to show." Draco just nodded. They rod in silence, Lilly occasionally pointing things out on the way but other then that, they said nothing. The carriage stopped and Lilly got out first. Draco followed her.
"Where are we?" He asked.
"A house of course." Lilly said. She led Draco into the house. "I've got him!"
"Oh!" Another female voice called. There were footsteps and soon a woman with blonde hair had appeared down the stairs. "We were worried." Draco suddenly realized that these two women were about the same age as him.
"I told you I'd get him." Lilly said. "You gotta learn to relax Sabs." The other woman, Sabs, put her hands on her hips.
"Prongs! Padfoot! Lilly's got him!" Sabs called up the stairs. She looked at Draco. "You look really tired. There's a room, first one on the right, that you can sleep in. We'll call you when the food's done."
"Uh…ok." Draco said. He said greetings to Prongs and Padfoot when they showed up, then went up the stairs.
"We have to keep him safe." Sabs said, looking at the guys.
"For Leah's sake, of course we do." Padfoot said. If Draco had paid a little more attention and wasn't so worn out, he probably would have realized that the four people here were the nineteen year old versions of Leah and Harry's parents.
"Well, come on Sabs, let's cook something up." Lilly said. Sabs nodded and the two girls walked through the living room into the kitchen. The guys followed. Every so often, one of them would flash and look like their older selves. Prongs and Lilly, for some reason, had another sixteen years added, whereas Padfoot looked a year older then when he died. They all were the same age, even though two of them died much earlier then the other two.
It's took almost an hour and a half to get everything ready, namely because the guys were acting like idiots…as always.
"Lilly, go wake up Draco." Sabs said. "He's more used to you then to us."
"Not for long…that is if he agrees." Lilly said.
"He should." Prongs said. "You did say that you did the spell right and now his parents are actually letting their true feelings for him show. Whoever knew that Lucius Malfoy would despise his own son."
"I thought there had to be something." Sabs said. "At the Quidditch World Cup, Lucius seemed to be restraining himself from barking at Draco when he was watching Leah and Harry." Lilly smirked slightly before leaving the kitchen. Sabs got Padfoot to help set the table and put on the plates. She had to stop him from eating the food before it touched a plate occasionally.
"This is why I'm lucky that Lilly went to get Draco." Prongs said. "Because she'd be telling me to do things."
"Prongs quit leaning on the counter." Lilly said, coming into the kitchen. A second later Draco followed her. Everyone sat down and started eating. "So…"
"What's up with everyone?" Sabs said.
"Well…Prongs and I were running around outside in the forest." Padfoot said. "And some guy saw us…kinda freaked a bit too." There was a bump. "Ow!"
"Why did he freak?" Draco asked.
"Because…" Prongs said. There was another bump. "Ow! What the heck Lilly?"
"We really don't want to know what you did to make him freak." Lilly said. Prongs and Padfoot rolled their eyes. "Hey Sabs, what you do?"
"Shopped." Sabs said. "Obviously…we needed food and some other things." The other three nodded. Draco just ate. He didn't feel like he was being left out at all, surprisingly. "What about you Draco? Have they been treating you alright there?"
"Because…we could always get you out…" Lilly said, slowly.
"That would be too suspicious." Draco said. The others nodded.
"Well…you could live here." Prongs said. "Somehow I think your parents would love to have you out of the house."
"Yeah they probably would." Draco said. "They were happiest when I was at school."
"Sounds sorta familiar." Sabs said, looking at Padfoot. "Except you and your mother were happy when you were at school." Padfoot nodded. "His mom was a real bitch. Like…three times worse then Leah on a bad day."
"Have you seen her lately?" Draco asked.
"You could say that." Prongs said. There were two bumps. "Ow! Bloody hell! Stop it!" Both the girls glared at him. "Why didn't anyone kick Sabs? She was the one that mentioned her."
"Just shut up." Lilly said.
"Sorta…yeah." Sabs said, answering Draco's question.
"How is she?" Draco asked.
"She's…" Padfoot said, looking at the others. "Well…she's pretty angry a lot of the time. Just got mad at Dumbledore."
"Why?" Draco asked.
"Because he has her on lock down." Lilly said. 'Don't ask. It's hard to explain and we really shouldn't." Draco nodded. They finished eating in silence. At one point when Draco was upstairs, Padfoot, Prongs and Sabs all left, transformed, and ran around in the forest playing a sort of hide-and-seek in the dark game. Sabs was the best because she could see in the dark better then the other two.
"Where'd the other three go?" Draco asked, coming back down the stairs and joining Lilly in the living room. She was watching the news.
"They went out." Lilly said. "They aren't really news people."
"What's going on?" Draco asked, looking at the TV.
"A few people have been thrown in jail, some have vanished, and some have died. All trails lead to Voldemort of course." Lilly said.
"No duh." Draco said. The continued watching, commenting every so often, until the other three returned. Everyone said good night and went to their own rooms. Well…Sabs and Padfoot went to the same room.
"One…two…three…four." Leah said, moving her piece across the board. She was playing Monopoly with Hermione and Ginny…and had been playing for the last two hours. Ginny was winning. The only person who hadn't already played the game and she was winning!
"This isn't fair." Hermione said. "Are you sure you haven't played this before Gin?"
"Yeah." Ginny said. "The only muggle game I ever played was that one that Leah had at school."
"I give up." Leah said. "Gin you win. I'm gonna go to bed."
"Ok…good night." Hermione said.
"Night Le." Ginny said.
"Night girls." Leah said. She put her things away and went up the stairs to her room. She pushed open the door, walked into the room, closed the door and turned on the light.
"Hey." Sirius said. Leah jumped and almost screamed but Sirius jumped off the bed and covered her mouth.
"What the hell…what…" Leah said, once Sirius uncovered her mouth. Her eyes were wide.
"Relax sweetie." Sirius said.
"Relax?" Leah said. "You're telling me to relax? Have you guys not been watching this past year? You watch everything else!"
"We've been watching." Sirius said. "And I'm not telling you to relax completely, just right now. I have some good news."
"Voldemort is dead and I didn't have to do anything?" Leah asked.
"No…not that good." Sirius said. "We…"
"Who's we?" Leah asked.
"Me, your mother, James and Lilly." Sirius said. "Anyways…Draco's save."
"Ok…how?" Leah asked.
"He's living with us." Sirius said. Leah raised an eyebrow. "We're sorta…umm…alive…ish."
"You guys are alive?" Leah asked.
"That's the best way to put it." Sirius said. "We're somewhat ghosts."
"Ok…let me try this." Leah said. "You're not completely dead….but you're not totally alive." Sirius nodded. "How?"
"Not really sure." Sirius said.
"Why are you here then?" Leah asked. "Shouldn't you be watching Draco?"
"The other three have that covered." Sirius said. Leah suddenly noticed that he looked the same age as her.
"Oh my god." She said. "You…you're younger."
"Nineteen." Sirius said. "No clue why we're that age either. But occasional, when it's just us, we will flash…sorta…and look like us before we died. Except Lilly and James look around the same age your mom did when she died, so do I, but that was only a year." Leah nodded. "You should get some sleep."
"When will I see him again?" Leah asked, once she had changed into her Pajamas and was lying on the bed while Sirius tucked her in.
"Soon…I promise." Sirius said. "Good night."
"Night dad." Leah said. She rolled onto her side and fell asleep.
First chapter for the last story. I decided to bring them back. I was gonna wait a few more days before I put this up but I decided to go against that. Make you people happy.