Disclaimer: (Dark struggles out of closet, undoing gag and binds. Shoves something in the closet, locks the door. Dusts off). Dark: "Okay, now that that's over, I shall stick to the point. We don't own, we're not making a profit off the story, all characters belong to JK Rowling except Crystal who belongs to Yukari, we do not live in Southern California and Yukari will not hit me because she is now locked in the closet." (Sounds of thumping come from closet). Dark: "So, don't sue us because, as previously stated, we don't have the money. Now, on to chapter two."

Chapter 2

A loud popping sound, right behind him, caused Severus Snape to spin around. Hermione Granger had just apperated behind him, and didn't look too steady on her feet. Severus caught her before she fell.

"Oh! Thank…" Hermione looked at the face of the person who had kept her from falling. "…You." They straightened, still holding one another. They stayed like that for a minute before letting go. Hermione was blushing fiercely as she stepped back a little. Severus noted, with some amusement, how red Hermione had become. He cleared his throat to end the uncomfortable silence that had fallen.

"Where…where a-am I st-staying?" Hermione stuttered, causing her cheeks to turn a deeper shade of red.

Snape raised an eyebrow. "At Hogwarts, naturally, Ms. Granger." He answered easily. Hermione laughed nervously. Severus felt his heart lighten at the sound.

"N-no, I meant w-which room. I've never been in professor McGonagall's room before." Hermione didn't meet Snape's dark eyes. He noted this as well, but didn't mention anything.

"That's why I'm here Ms. Granger; the other new Professors arrived earlier. Harry, Luna, Ron, Ginny, Draco, Neville, and that foreign witch have all been shown to their rooms by the Head Master."

"You mean Crystal."

"Yes. Her." Severus said distastefully.

-Flashback-

Today's class of N.E.W.T level potions had been, so far, uneventful. Severus was making his rounds around the class room, when he came up on the American. She was busy writing a note behind her cauldron. "Miss Abbc (A-bec, rhymes with Quebec), perhaps you would like to share with the rest of us what is so important that you are unable to concentrate on my class!" he held out his hand for the note. His student looked up at him, then at his hand, then back up at his face, and laughed. Severus felt himself bristle at the sound of her laughter. He snatched the note, and before she could grab it back, proceeded to the front of the classroom. Severus noticed that Crystal's best friend Draco Malfoy glance at his girlfriend, Ginny Weasley, then at Crystal, and shift uncomfortably in his seat. Severus glanced at the note, realized why his godson didn't want it read aloud, and came up with the perfect plan. "Ms. Abbc, perhaps you ought to read this note to the class."

Crystal laughed again, angering Severus further. "Hell no Snape! You went and stuck your overly greasy, sun-deprived arse in that one, you can read it."

Severus glowered as he started to read.

Draco, don't worry about it. They taught us how to make the contraception potion in B.U.M. (A/N: Baltimore University of Magic. B.U.M.) But you may have to get some of the stuff I'll need to brew it. I'll give you an exact list later. Ha-ha… Snape's walking around staring down at people's potions.

Severus finished, his face betraying no emotion. "Ms. Abbc, since you are so adept at brewing the contraceptive potions, tell this apparently dim-witted class how long a girl has to take the potion for it to produce its desired effect." Severus crossed his arms in triumph.

"It depends on the person, sir, the potion will be most effective within six hours, however, it can be used with the same results after seven or eight hours."

"Name the ingredients."

"Eye of Newt, Pixie, and Doxie wings, bile of toad, and… Foxglove."

"Describe the process necessary for brewing the potion."

"The potion can only be brewed during three nights per lunar cycle. The night of the new moon, and the nights immediately proceeding, and following it. All of the ingredients are added to a bronze cauldron, and stirred clock-wise for one hour."

Severus found nothing to correct, so he asked his final question. "Why is this potion N.E.W.T level, and considered dangerous?"

"If the potion is taken during a pregnancy, the fetus will die, and it can cause difficulties in future pregnancies." Crystal answered all of his questions with ease, hinting on smugness.

-End Flashback-

Severus was brought back to earth by the sound of Hermione's nervous giggle.

"What?"

"She had a point you know."

"What? You think my arse is sun deprived?" Severus twisted to see his butt, looking at it with mock self-consciousness. Hermione laughed harder.

"No, I have never, ever thought about your ass, sun deprived, or not." Now that's a lie. Hermione thought, angry at herself for lying to him. I've thought of your ass in both a sun deprived, and sun friendly state. "Anyway, she was right when she said that you were pushing in where you shouldn't have been. If Draco was asking his best friend for protection, because he and his girlfriend were shagging, and they didn't want any of the seriously nasty repercussions, then that's his very private personal business." Hermione said hotly.

"I never thought I'd hear you defend Draco Malfoy."

"Yes, well, people change."

"They do at that."

-Flashback-

Severus sat in his private rooms, re-reading the note he'd received earlier that week.

Severus,

Draco Malfoy has just owled me requesting a private audience to discuss Voldermort. I would appreciate it if you would please join us in my office. On the second to last day of summer, at two-o-clock.

Severus glanced at his hourglass, and decided that he ought to go to the Head Master's office. As he entered, Draco nervously rose to his feet.

"It's alright Draco, Severus is here because I asked him to come." Albus reassured the just-turned-16 year old. "Please continue."

Draco sat back down in the chair he had previously occupied. "L-like I was saying Professor; I don't want to be a deatheater. I know there's going to be a battle, soon, and I don't want H-Him to win.I-I want to fight."

"Very good Mr. Malfoy."

-End Flashback-

"I was surprised." Hermione's voice brought Severus back from his private thoughts once more.

"Hmm?"

"Well, when Draco showed up at Headquarters, I expected his to, well, not get along with anybody. But He and Crystal became best friends."

"That was kind of surprising wasn't it?"

-Flashback-

"So, who do you think Dumbledore's bringing with him?"

"Dunno, Lupin said something about a deatheater, but that's all I could hear on the extendables be Mum got them." Ginny informed the whispering group.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, crystal, and Ginny sat together conversing in soft tones, so as not be heard by the many odd inhabitants of number 12 Grimmwuald place.

"Who are deatheater's?" Crystal looked confused, "AND WHY ARE WE WHISPERING!"

"Shhh!"

"WHAT! Oops, sorry, I mean what?"

"We don't want Mum to know that Fred and George left us any extendable ears, or else they'll start putting up wards and stuff." Ron whispered, pulling from his pocket, a tangled mass of flesh coloured string.

"But Ron," Hermione cut in quietly, as she to was whispering, "Your mom told us Dumbledore was bringing someone today."

"Oh yeah, I forgot." Ron said in hushed tones.

"So Crystal brought up a valid point," Ginny said, her voice returning to it's normal volume as everyone stood up, "Why are we whispering?"

"Force of habit, I guess." Harry surmised. Just then Mrs. Weasley opened the door of Buckbeak's old room (Buckbeak was now living with Hagrid), and announced that Dumbledore had just arrived. The group of teens followed her down the stairs to the front door where Albus Dumbledore stood with his hand on the shoulder of Draco Malfoy. Draco didn't look so good. His hair was not in its usual slicked back state, instead, he'd let it part naturally in the centre. Kingsley Shaklebolt was asking Dumbledore and Draco if there had been any trouble getting Draco from the predetermined pick-up point. Dumbledore and Draco both nodded, but before anyone could ask what had happened, Mrs. Weasley pointed out that they were already late for the scheduled meeting of the Order. Dumbledore and Snape, who had come out from the kitchen, ushered Draco over to Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Crystal who were all still standing on the stairs.

"He's under the protection of Dumbledore." Snape snapped and left it at that.

"Hi! I'm Crystal!" Crystal said cheerily, putting her hand forward. Draco shook it , but before he had a chance to say his name, Crystal jerked her hand back, pulling Draco with it, and pushed his hair back from his forehead, revealing a large cut that trailed from his temple to his chin. "You're hurt, I've got a first aid kit upstairs, come on." Crystal stepped back, and led Draco past the still very confused Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny. Once they were all up in the girl's room, Crystal pulled a white box out from her trunk. "This will sting."

"What is it?" Ron asked distastefully.

"Cleaning alcohol."

"Why do you need brandy?"

"It's not that kind of alcohol Ron," Hermione explained, "It's disinfectant, to clean the cut, and make sure that he doesn't get infected with anything."

"Look, I'm no expert, but I don't think worrying the adults is something we want to do, so…" Crystal gestured wildly, holding muggle medical tape, gauze, cotton, and disinfectant.

"Wait, infected? Like with what, Granger?" Hermione blinked, Draco Malfoy had never used her surname without the context of an insult. Luckily Crystal covered for her.

"Oh ya know, gangrene, the usual." Crystal dabbed the cotton saturated with disinfectant on the cut, and Draco actually, physically, pulled back. "How'd this happen Draco?" Crystal asked as she swiped the cut again.

"I was waiting for professor Dumbledore, when Lucius, and some others I didn't recognize attacked me, they didn't use wands, they just, beat me up."

"Well, that would explain these other cuts and bruises," Crystal said pushing herself across the hardwood flooring, to get more things from the white box, "Here, take off your clothes."

"Don't you think it's a little too soon in our relationship for you to asking that?" Draco said sarcastically.

"No, I think I wanna check to make sure you don't have any more serious cuts. Shit, I wasn't referring to that, anyway!"

"Ginny!" Ron suddenly barked at his sister, "OUT!"

"But"

"Now!"

"Come on Ginny, I'm leaving as well." Hermione said quietly.

-End Flashback-

"He really needed a friend, someone he could trust not to judge him, especially then." Severus said thoughtfully.

"Yeah. Our sixth year was really… important for everyone." Hermione said, cringing as she remembered.

"I remember." Severus said softly.

"I mean, first Madam Pomfrey found out about Crystal's eye, the attack on the Order's headquarters, when the deatheaters found out about Crystal, and then… the attack on the school."

'Not to mention, almost no one showed up for the start of term."

-Flashback-(A/n: (Yukari) "This flashback will skip around a lot, but I will warn you before a time skip." (Dark) "Actually she'll tell you 'Timeskip' and tell you when the new section takes place." (Yukari) "Anyway, Harry and the gang are in sixth year, (except Ginny and Luna.)

"So?" Ron asked as crystal and Neville climbed through the portrait hole, after Harry and the others had finally convinced Crystal to see the school nurse about her eye. Crystal sat down by the fire across from everyone else, with her lips pursed, like she was trying not to cry.

"I-it's cancer." Harry, Hermione, Luna, and Ginny looked at her alarmed. Ron and Draco just looked… confused.

"Uh, what's cancer?" Ron asked scratching his head.

"It's a muggle disease, a molecular mutation, it infects the carrier's cells, and spreads." Ginny said quietly.

"How do you know that?" Draco seemed surprised.

"Well, if I'm going to be a Medi-witch, I need to know about magical and muggle afflictions." Ginny shrugged.

"It's um, formed a tumour in my left ocular cavity, behind my eye."

"Will it spread?" Draco asked concerned.

"No, Madam Pomfrey did a charm so it's isolated, but the only way to get it out would be the muggle way." Neville took his turn to speak, while he comforted his girlfriend.

"You mean cut it out?" Harry asked.

"Yeah Harry, and if they were to do that she'd lose her eye."

-Timeskip- x-mas at number 12 Grimmwuald place, deatheaters attacking.

"Wotcher kids!" Tonks came crashing into the room. "Get to the fireplace, and floo to Hogwarts!" When nobody moved, Tonks screamed "Now! Move your little teenaged butts!" she shrunk their trunks, stuffed them in Crystal's cargo pocket, and pushed them down stairs, and into the hall. Hermione caught a glimpse of deatheaters robes before someone sent a stunning spell her way. She ducked, but not quickly enough.

"No!" Crystal ran to Hermione's limp form, feeling a power rise within her. It felt like it was radiating from her eye. She concentrated, mentally forcing the deatheaters out of the house. She concentrated a little more, and the door slammed behind them. Tonks, Mrs. Weasley, Lupin, Fluer, Bill, and Charlie all stared at Crystal.

"You're telekinetic!" Tonks exclaimed.

"She's a muggle communication device?" Ron asked befuddled.

"Telekinesis," Tonks explained, helping a revived Hermione up from the floor, "mean, she can move things with her mind." Tonks led the others into the kitchen, grabbing a pinch of floo powder, and tossing it into the flames. "Hogwarts! Albus! Get Poppy, we're coming back now." Tonks shoved the seven students into the fire, and quickly followed them. Once everybody climbed out of the fireplace, Madam Pomfrey grabbed Crystal's arm and forced a thermometer in her mouth.

"I fink I migh be mih eye." Crystal said around the thermometer.

"Madam Pomfrey," Ginny cut in, using her best professional voice, "Could this be the result of a magical reaction?"

"What do you mean Ms. Weasley?"

"Well, couldn't the telekinesis be her magic reacting with the tumour behind her eye?" Ginny inquired. Madam Pomfrey pulled the thermometer from Crystal's mouth.

"It felt like it came from my eye."

-Timeskip- this is more towards the end of the school year, this is the attack on Hogwarts part of the final battle. Be warned, I rated this fic R or M (depends where you're reading this) because there's going to be some pretty graphic stuff. There is a rape scene in this flashback, and it may be kind of disturbing. You have been warned. (Dark's voice) "Tell them the rest." (Yukari's voice) "Okay, Cho's in this part in the beginning, so please don't axe murder us."

Cho Chang slid into the seat next to Harry that was not already occupied by Harry's girlfriend, Luna Lovegood. "Hi Harry." She said quietly, as if Harry's various friends and family made her nervous.

"Uhh… Hi Cho," Harry said in a confused, but hurried voice, quickly turning back to Luna, "Anyway, like I was saying -" again he was interrupted by Cho.

"Listen Harry, I was wondering if I could talk to you." Cho seemed desperate to get the conversation focused on her.

"Sure. Shoot."

"Could we talk, in private?" Cho asked scared, but trying to be coy or sexy. Nobody could really decide which. So Harry came up with an excuse, to not have to leave.

"Uh, first bell rings soon, I wouldn't want you to be late or anything."

"Right," Cho was flustered, no boy save Harry had ever tried to resist her, no boy she really wanted. "I-I was just wondering, are you going to, you know, be doing anything, like, over the summer?"

"You mean, like, do I have plans?"

"Yeah, stuff like that." It was so obvious that Cho was flirting, it was painfully obvious.

"Well," Harry leaned back, stretching, and slipped his arm around Luna's waist, "Mostly planning on dealing with Voldemort, but… ya know… hanging out with my friends, showing my cousin around, spending time with my girlfriend." Harry strongly emphasised the last part, holding Luna closer to his body, and finally lifting her, setting on his lap. Luna giggled, kissed Harry gently on the underside of his chin, and slid off his lap because she was using breakfast time to study, as well as eat.

"You-You're girlfriend?" Cho frowned slightly.

"Yeah, I think you know her, Luna Lovegood."

"Oh right! You'll spend time with Loony Lovegood!" Cho began to cry.

"Don't call her that!" Harry shot back.

"I'll call her what ever I want to! I thought we shared something! I-I thought you l-liked me!"

"I used to! But all you wanted to talk about was Cedric!"

"Oh!" Cho's temper flared, her anger hardened her eyes. "So that makes it okay for you start going out with Loopy Loony Lovegood!"

"I told you not to call her Loony Lovegood. Her name is Luna." Harry seemed much calmer then Cho, as if he'd been expecting this confrontation for a long time.

"Look Harry," Cho changed tactics at the speed of light, suddenly gentle, still crying, but no longer shouting. "I'm sorry for yelling, but I really like you, and you said you used to like me so…"

"You're right, I used to, but, stuff happened, things changed. I changed. Wow, I can't believe I actually delivered that crappy line." Harry grinned at Luna, and Luna grinned appreciatively back. Cho noticed, and her anger flared again.

"AND LOONY LOVEGOOD KNOWS ALL ABOUT THAT DOES SHE!" Cho was standing and getting hysterical. A bench scraped against the stone floor. Luna stood up, an aura of power, intelligence, and anger scorched the air around her. She spoke in a dangerously soft voice.

"Yes. I do know all about it. Why? Because I was there." Cho appeared taken aback at Luna Lovegood responding to something someone said about her. Cho stopped her fake tears.

"How was I supposed to know that?"

"You couldn't have known, nor could you have realized that while you were shacking up with Michael Corner, Harry was dealing with some really tough stuff. Stuff he only shared with me, and I didn't judge him."

"And by some miracle I knew that too, huh?"

"My god! Weren't you listening! No, you didn't know. But you should be smart enough to realize that you missed some things in Harry's life, and that you shouldn't expect some things to have changed. You're a disgrace to Ravenclaw intelligence." Cho left their end of the table that the students and teachers were sharing. Luna sat down calmly.

(This next part is the final battle/rape part. Final warning.)

Just as Luna sat, the doors of the Great Hall banged open and about 30 deatheaters entered the room. "Everyone on the floor! Now!" People hesitated. Two of the deatheaters used the Cruciatus curse on a couple of second years. After their shrieks of pain subsided, Lucius Malfoy issued the order again, adding a command to put wands on the floor above the head, and then put hands at sides. He grinned wickedly. "And if anyone attempts any form of resistance, we start killing the youngest students." He motioned to a few of the other deatheaters to collect the wands. After they'd finished, Bellatrix Lestrange's laughter screeched though the silence.

"Lucius! Here! The traitor!" Hermione turned her head to see what was happening. The hem of Lucius' heavy black cloak brushed her gently as her swept past her to Draco. Bellatrix was holding up Severus's body by his hair, her wand pointed at his throat.

"Here's the other!" Lucius shouted, pulling Draco up by his hair, then shoved Severus and Draco in a corner together. "Sit up!" Lucius barked. "All of you! Now!" He walked to front of the Hall, and addressed the room at large. "Potter! The Dark Lord demands that you surrender the location of the Telepath!"

"Even if I knew what you were talking about, do you honestly think I'd tell you?"

"Harry," Crystal whispered in Harry's ear "It's me… I have to go."

"No way!" Harry hissed back "They'll kill you."

"And if I don't, they'll kill lots of us." Crystal turned to Neville, hugged him and whispered something in his ear that the others couldn't hear. When she pulled back, Harry could see that both Crystal and Neville were crying silently. Then Crystal hugged Harry, "Sorry we couldn't have spent more together Harry." She whispered through her tears "But it was cool to be you cousin while I was." Harry hugged crystal back, allowing his own tears to spill out.

"No Crystal, you can't go, you're the only real family I have left."

"I have to go Harry, but we're family, so I'll never really be gone right?"

"Yeah, I guess." With that Harry and crystal let go of each other and Crystal stood up.

"I'm the telepath! I'm the one with the power you dark lord seeks!"

"Interesting." A high, cold voice said from behind everyone. Heads spun around and Lord Voldemort stood before them. He snapped his long, white fingers, and two deatheaters grabbed Crystal's arms, dragging her to where Voldemort was standing. The words Crystal had whispered began to reverberate in Neville's head.

Neville, I need to tell you,

I'm here to offer you a choice, bow before me, and kiss the dark mark, or die a very painful death." Voldemort waved his wand, "Bow!"

I love you

Crystal dropped to one knee, but her eyes never left Voldemort's.

No matter what happens, remember that.

"They tell me you're from America." Voldemort said in a falsely pleasant voice. Crystal began to struggle to her feet.

"That's right, I am. And we," her feet were under her, "Do not," her legs began to straighten "Bow!" Crystal drew herself up to her full height.

I didn't think I'd fall in love when I came here.

Slap! Crystal's head spun and her eyes watered as her cheek stung from Voldemort's hand. She looked back at his white snake-like face and into his red eyes with snake-like slits for pupils.

But I did, I fell in love with you.

Voldemort slapped Crystal's other cheek, but this time, when Crystal looked back at him, she opened her mouth to speak.

And I will always be in love with you.

"I will bare their pain!" she pointed to the students and assorted teachers behind her, "To bring about your end!" Crystal pointed maliciously at Voldemort. "You will fail, we will win!"

"Lucius!" Voldemort called the tall blonde man over. "She will not see our way, you may have your way with her, but do not kill her."

"My Lord?"

"Not just yet, she must be taught respect first."

"I understand master." Lucius said silkily. He turned to Crystal. "Globus Carcer!" A bubble erupted from Malfoy's wand, entrapping Crystal within it. "Crux Crucis!" Harry looked on in horror as Crystal's body was strung up by invisible ropes, and stretched out like she was being crucified. "Concrucio Cremo!" the new Cruciatus Curse worked perfectly in its own painful way. Liquid fire coursed through Crystal's veins, making her scream. Lucius and the other deatheaters watched on for a full thirty minutes while Crystal suffered. When Lucius finally let her down, Crystal slumped down on the floor in a heap. Lucius leaned down and said quietly "Now it's time for some real fun." He grabbed her ankles to keep her from getting away. "Silencio!"

"No!"

"My lord?" Malfoy looked at Voldemort questioningly.

"Let her scream."

"Yes milord." Malfoy removed the charm, and pinned Crystal's body beneath his own. She tried to fight back, to push him off, but he was too strong, too heavy. He pushed her skirt up, past her thighs, straddling her. He ripped through her uniform, and shoved her hands above her head, holding them there with one of his strong hands, and began squeezing her breasts until they bled. Crystal bit her lip to keep from screaming. He kissed her roughly on the lips, forcing his tongue inside her mouth. Crystal bit his lower lip, his blood mixing with their saliva. When Malfoy pulled away, he looked down at her bruised, bloody body. She was disgusted to see that he was becoming hard at the sight of her blood. Malfoy unzipped his fly, and grinned evilly at his victim trapped beneath him. "Put it in you mouth."

"And if I say no?" though tears were flowing freely from her eyes, Crystal was not about to let him do this to her.

"That wasn't a choice whore. But if you don't do as I say bitch, I'll force you, but not before I kill one of the first years. And it'll all be your fault you fucking slut." Crystal looked at Harry, and Neville, her face etched in sorrow and pain, then closed her eyes, swallowed, and lowered her mouth to Malfoy's tumescent, quivering member. After about two minutes of that Malfoy groaned, pulled her off, pushed her back against the floor, hard, pulled her panties down to her ankles, and plunged into her. He thrust harder and harder, faster, and faster, spurred on by Crystal's cries of pain. With each thrust, blood spattered the stone. Malfoy's ecstasy reached a new level, and the other deatheaters had become enraptured, cheering on their comrade, so no one noticed that the teachers and ex-DA member's wands were slowly sliding along the floor to their owners.

-End Flashback-

"But she survived. Many of the teachers didn't but, all the students did because of her." Severus said quietly. Hermione nodded in agreement. "Well Ms. Granger, your quarters are this way." Severus gestured to a corridor on the other end of the entrance hall. Hermione followed the lead of her former Potions master down the unfamiliar hallway, her legs still shaking from apperating so far. She felt dizzy.

Severus turned around and caught Hermione once again before she fell. "You don't apperate often, do you Ms. Granger?"

"No, not as often as I should." Hermione admitted.

"Right." Severus said straightening her, "Can you stand?" Hermione nodded. Severus let his hands fall from her person. Hermione wobbled, nearly falling once more, but Severus caught her a third time.

"Then again, maybe I can't."

"Here." Severus said, hooking Hermione's arm around his neck, wrapping his other arm around her waist to steady her.

"Professor?"

"Yes, Ms. Granger?"

"C-Could you not tell the others about this please?"

"Are you embarrassed to be seen with me holding you up Ms. Granger?" Severus asked letting his hands drop slightly.

"No!" Hermione clutched at his hands. "I just… don't want the others to worry is all."

"Fair enough Ms. Granger." The two professors proceeded to Hermione's rooms in silence.

AN: Dark: "On behalf of me and Yukari, we would like to thank all of those who reviewed all 5 of you. Sadly, it has left Yukari a bit… depressed." Yukari: "My reasons for living have died! 143 hits and only 5 reviews! This is the end…THE END! (Crawls into a dark hole). Dark: "She's been like this for awhile and… I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! Please, please, please review! If you review she stops being dramatic, shuts up, and continues to write. That leaves me with one less headache and a much more peaceful existence. So, to let you know, your review can be one saying, "Great job! I love it! Keep it up!" (This will produce better results), or you can say, "What are you guys thinking! Draco and Ginny? Snape and Hermione? What's with you people! (This would cause Yukari to be more dramatic and sad and cause my life to consist of more fire and brimstone…if you get my meaning). Or, you can ask questions about the story, which will gladly be answered by myself and/or Yukari. Also, thanks to our 5 reviewers: vamgirl, Kimi kimz, spyhorse, Bilover, and Marauder. We are grateful and we will always remember you.