Over the next couple of hours, the sun rose, the castle began to stir with activity, and true to what Dumbledore has said, Voldemort came with is troop of Death Eaters.
Severus woke to an otherwise empty bed, a little disappointed, and realized that the only way he'd see her today, or ever again for that matter, was if he won today against Voldemort. But after hearing her profession of love for him and his adversary, Severus wasn't sure she would ever be happy with either man.
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Aurora swore she wouldn't fight on either side and she was sticking to that. she knew that either side she fought on was sure to win, and she just couldn't stand the idea of tipping the scales.
So, before Severus had a chance to wake, Aurora had climbed the multitude of stairs to the top of the Astronomy Tower. She had made up her mind late that night that there was no way she could fight to help either side, but she could keep them apart for as long as her powers would allow without killing herself.
When she saw Voldemort's troops emerge onto what would be the battlefield just after sunrise that morning, without even thinking, she went to the middle of the room and charmed a massive barrier around the castle. It prevented either side from attacking, and gave everyone in the castle more time to prepare for the battle. She may not be fighting, but she wasn't going to send a bunch of children to their deaths without the most protection that could possibly provide from charms, potions, and time for calming of nerves.
Voldemort saw the barrier and recognized it as one that Aurora had when she was mad at him. He took it as a sign that she wasn't going to leave here without a fight. And who was he to deny her what she wanted?
Dumbledore, after seeing it and the army, went down to fetch Severus. The moment Severus saw the barrier, his thoughts were exactly the opposite, and yet the same as Voldemort's. he thought the barrier was to keep him away from the man she hoped would win. And just like Voldemort, he wasn't about to give her up without a fight.
But neither had the right idea, exactly. As we all know, she couldn't make up her mind, so Dumbledore was the only man to realize what was going on. Aurora was trying to protect the two men she loved more than her own life, and therefore she was keeping them away from eachother as long as possible.
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Now, you're probably wondering why it wasn't just Voldemort against Severus since it was just about their battle for Aurora.
While all those fighting on either side knew what was going on, and all would have agreed that they didn't really need to be there, neither side was willing to pass up an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to the other side.
Most of the Death Eaters thought that even if the other side won, they could get into the castle and steal her away for their master, or themselves, and they couldn't leave their master all alone on a battlefield at that damn school were Harry Potter resided and was sure to make an appearance at the battle. And all those at the school who decided to join the fight, were there to make sure that no Death Eater got inside of the school to get Aurora, not even after the battle was over, and they all knew that Voldemort wouldn't come alone, so Severus would need some back up if they started to fight dirty.
And who's to say that the final battle wouldn't start because of a lover's quarrel?
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Aurora knew she couldn't keep the barrier up indefinitely. For one thing, if she did, she could die, having barely been out of the Hospital Wing a day. And secondly, even if she did attempt to do so, someone would start blasting it to bring it down once they began to get impatient. She just had to make sure that Severus was ready on this side before she opened the flood gates.
After an hour, Aurora had to release the barrier and allow things to happen as they were meant to. Luckily, it had helped everyone in the castle better prepare themselves for the fight, and they were even able to get lined up outside.
Voldemort and Severus were in the middle of their troops while others were faced with either someone they knew, knew they could beat, or hoped they had a chance against. Harry and Ron were together facing Ron's former pet and Harry's parent's former friend and betrayer, Peter Petigrew. Not that it would have taken both of them to defeat him, it's just they each had a score to settle with the rodent. Hermione and Draco paired up against Lucius. They were the smartest pair in the entire school, and it would take everything they had and more to defeat this snake.
After Aurora released the barrier, she went over to the Observation Platform to watch the carnage and things really let loose. Bolts of curses, charms, and spells flashed across the field. Barriers erected and disappeared almost nonstop on either side, and explosive potions ignited on both sides of the field. Peter fell within the first few seconds of battle. Both boys hexed his ass into oblivion before he could lift his wand.
Many other bodies fell on both sides. After they had taken care of Peter, Harry and Ron made their way over to Hermione and Draco to help them out. On their way, the hexed random Death Eaters as they passed by them.
By the time they reached their friends' sides, Lucius had just knocked Draco to the side and had his attention focused on Hermione. Ron, at seeing the look in Lucius' lust filled eyes, gathered up all of his courage and rage and directed it at Lucius in one shot, as Harry went to tend to Draco. One overly powerful Expeleriamous and Lucius landed head first on the ground and cracked his head open and broke a vertebra or two, leaving him incapable of ever moving again, assuming he had survived the impact to begin with.
Towards the end of the battle, both sides had lost plenty of people, enough even to quit fighting so they could retreat and regroup, but because Voldemort and Severus were still going at it, neither side left the battlefield. A small clearing formed around the fighters and enough fireworks flew between those two to light the sky on the Fourth of July in America.
A random curse flew form both wands and knocked the other to the ground. As people began to notice the fighting began to stop.
Aurora saw them fall and apparated down to the battlefield to assess the damage done. She didn't care what might happen to her, all she card about was whether or not they were dead.
It took her a moment to muster the energy to apparate down there, which gave them enough time to attempt to rise. Knowing that the first to rise enough to aim a curse would win, they both struggled to just sit up.
As Aurora apparated in between them, they called out, "Avada Kedavra," without looking where it was going or who it might be aimed at.
The blood red stream of light came from both wands at the same time and hurled towards their respective targets. But, instead of hitting the intended targets, the streams instead hit Aurora squarely in the chest and back.
The most horror filled, blood curdling scream pierced the airwaves and all who were standing fell to the ground and covered their ears to block as much of the noise and pain as possible so their ears wouldn't burst and bleed.
All anyone could see was a smoking corpse slumped in a ball on the ground between her quarreling lovers.
A/N: Is this the end, or will there be more? I haven't decided if I like it better ending this way, or if I should add another chapter. It all depends on the type of mood I come out of the weekend with. I hope you enjoyed the story, just in case this is the last chapter.