The XanderCordelia Factor

Voldemort laughed as his minions started to near the castle. Bloodshed and pain and tears and chaos...his element. And of course, that little side-order of taking over the world. The sky darkened.

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Draco and Hermione started, as the smell of smoke and dark clouds broke their loving reverie.

"What the fuck?" the blond hissed, gripping his wand. Hermione stood, wand out and ready.

"Reveal." she whispered, and it showed the dark minions, and Voldemort sitting on black cushions, his wand twirling in his fingers. And a glass of blood in his hand.

"Draco, we have to get in the castle! The war...Voldemort...happening...RUN!" she cried as red and green bolts of powerful spells flew over their heads. Draco threw up a shield charm, and Hermione and he bolted to the castle, leaping for the door. They made it, and shut the door.

"Can't something go right without evil or the forces of darkness or spandex ruining it!" Draco moaned. His girlfriend looked at him, amused.

"Spandex?"

"Long story, very tedious and probably therapy promoting." the two smirked, and the window beside them exploded, shards going everywhere. A cry of pain. Draco looked up from where he hid his hand, trying to find Hermione. She was lying in a puddle of blood. Hers. He blanched and grabbed her, turning her over. A shard of glass had cut her cheeks up, and a particular slit at her temples bled profusely. Choking out a healing spell, he stopped the bleeding and healed the cuts on her face. Reviving her, he kissed her deeply.

"Don't EVER do that to me again, okay love?" he whispered.

They ran towards the center of the building, blasting any minions that managed to get in into oblivion.

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Voldemort watched his war waging on the castle from a scrying glass, and his face distorted in anger. That Malfoy boy was betraying his calling! He was defying the Dark Lord! And he was winning and running with that Mudblood bitch!

"I shall deal with this soon-to-be dead man!" in a poof of green smoke, he vanished.

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Draco was near the Great Hall when statues fell, blockading every exit but one: the Hall doors. Green smoke billowed around those doors, and Lord Voldemort appeared, with his hands held in a majestic attack position. He shot a spell at Hermione, and two black and purple slashes hissed as they hit her body. She fell, blood spurting. Draco ran to her, and healed most of the cuts when a vicious kick sent him sprawling towards a statue. His head hit it, and for a moment, Voldemort seemed to multiply. Blood poured from the cut on his head, and he tasted copper.

"Fuck it, you prig, isn't this supposed to be reserved for Harry Potter?" he asked.

"Traitor."

"Aw, don't get your knickers in a bunch."

"You insulted spandex too."

"Yeah well. Some things in life were just never meant to be discovered." he tried to get up, but a swift kick to his kidneys sent him down. Blood dripped into his eyes. He gripped his wand, and hurled a curse at the Lord. It caught him off-guard, and as blood spurted from his nose and eyes, he hurled the same curse right back. This time Draco blocked it, and it rebounded at the Big Bad.

"You have insulted me for the last time, Malfoy, you have betrayed me, and now you shall pay with your life. Avada Ked-"A bolt of red prevented the killing curse from being completed, and the blonde saw his girlfriend holding her wand, fire in her eyes and fury on her face. The Lord leapt up from this attack, as if he was drawn by strings and was a puppet. He turned, and let loose a series of curses, all of which blasted Hermione and Draco into the stone walls around them. Draco was held on the ceiling, and was only kept there by the magic from Lord Voldemort. A smirk came over the evil lords face.

"So, enjoying the view? Oops, forgot. Gravity!" with that, Draco was thrown onto the floor twenty feet below. He struggled to get up, and fell. So much hurt...so much was probably broken. He blacked out.

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