Ch.10
Late at night, several days later, Andrea walked around the quiet house, alone. She could not sleep because she had this strange feeling that something bad had happened. "What could it be?" She thought to herself.
"Andrea?" Draco said softly from behind her and she turned around slowly to face him. "I have something to tell you."
"What?" Andrea asked slowly.
"I didn't think about it until just now because I was happy to finally have friends." Draco rubbed his hands together. "Before I left my mother was getting ready to go on a trip and I found out why she was leaving."
Andrea didn't like where this was heading. "What happened?"
Draco cleared his throat. "She left to go get your mother on the Dark Lord's orders."
Andrea stood there for a moment, stunned. "Excuse me?"
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner—it slipped my mind because it wasn't something I had to do."
Andrea slid down the wall and sat on the floor. "So, your mother probably has mine here by now."
Draco sat down next to her. "I'm really sorry…"
"What's going on?" Charlie yawned as he came down the steps and looked at the both of them. When he saw how upset Andrea was he sat down by her and held her in his arms. "Andrea, what's wrong?"
"My…my…" Andrea's eyes went wide and she stared straight ahead.
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She walked down a grey hallway, someone walked in front of her, hands tied behind their back. Pushing open a door they stepped into the room and a man turned around to face them; Voldermort.
"It is nice to see you my dear; it has been a very long time hasn't it?" Voldermort asked quietly.
Her view changed and she saw her mother glaring at Voldermort.
"I can't say the same about you." Jennifer said slowly.
"Now that's not nice Jennifer dear." He walked up to her and caressed her cheek. "You're going to help me bring our daughter here so she can help me rule."
"I will do no such thing." Jennifer pulled away from him. "I would rather die."
Voldermort grinned at her. "No you will not die, but you will wish that you had." He pointed his wand at her. "Crucio."
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Just as Andrea came back to herself Harry came running down the stairs. He came to a skidding stop when he saw them. "They have Andrea's mum!"
"I know—I saw it." Andrea whispered. She stood up slowly. "We have to go get her now."
"You can't!" Charlie said as he too stood up. "That's exactly what they want you to do! We need to wait till we can get Lupin and everyone else from the Order here."
After a few minutes of arguing Andrea finally gave in. "Fine—we'll wait."
"Promise me Andrea." Charlie said, looking straight into her eyes.
"I promise." She said, crossing her fingers behind her back. Harry watched her carefully and hid his grin.
"Okay," Charlie sighed with relief, "that's good. Come on Andrea, you need to get some rest." He tried to take her upstairs, but she didn't budge.
"I'd rather be alone right now please Charlie. I think I'll go sit in the kitchen for a little bit." She kissed him lightly. "I'll be up in a little bit." She watched him disappear up the stairs and turned to face Harry and Draco. "Good-night." Andrea walked down the hall and disappeared into the kitchen.
"I think she's going to sneak away when she's sure that everyone is asleep." Draco said before Harry could say anything.
Harry looked at him in surprise. "I think you're right. I'm not going to let her go alone; I'm going with her."
"Me too." Draco nodded. "It's about time I stood up to all those people."
They both stood there silently. "I'm not going to involve Hermione and Ron in this one. It's too dangerous and I don't want them to get killed." He groaned and stretched. "We'd better get ready."
Andrea crept out the front door silently and was halfway down the street when Harry and Draco showed up on either side of her. "What are you two doing here?" She hissed.
"We're coming with you Andrea. Voldermort and I have some unfinished business to take care of." Harry said.
"And I'm coming along to get even with a few people." Draco nodded.
"No, this is dangerous!" Andrea exclaimed.
"It's dangerous for you too." Harry shot back.
"Yeah…well…I can do things you cannot."
"Like what?" Draco asked.
"I can change my appearance and I don't have to use a wand to do spells!"
Harry and Draco looked at her, stunned. "Oh yeah." They both said at the same time. "I forgot about that." Harry grinned at her.
"Now go back." Andrea pointed to the house.
"Alright, if you can tell me one thing Andrea." Draco said smugly.
"What?"
"Where is the Dark Lord currently staying?"
Andrea gaped at him like a fish out of water. After a moment she closed her mouth. "Alright you can come, but you have to listen to what I say. Agreed?"
"Agreed." Harry and Draco said at the same time.
x.x…X…x.x
Charlie was surprised to find that everyone was already at the house when he woke up. "You guys got here fast."
"Well you said it was of great importance." Molly said as she stood up, a piece of parchment in her hand. "This is for you."
"Who is it from?" Charlie asked as he took it from her, but she didn't need to answer because he recognized the writing. He quickly opened the letter and began to read; it said:
Dear Charlie,
I'm sorry to do this to you, but it's the only way. I cannot risk you or anyone else dying because of me. I have decided to go on alone without anyone else to look after. I love you and I will see you again; in this life or the next.
Love always,
Andrea
Charlie let the paper fall to the ground. "Andrea's gone—she went to fight Voldermort by herself."
Ron and Hermione came running into the kitchen. "Harry's gone too!" Ron gasped.
"Draco's gone as well." Hermione whispered. "Do you think they went with her?" She looked around at everyone else.
"We need to go after them!" Arthur exclaimed. "We cannot let those children do this by themselves." He leaned against the wall. "We have to find the place and do what we should have done years ago."
After several hours of searching they found the place and they could all hear the commotion inside. "It's started apparently." Lupin said.
Charlie pushed ahead of them and entered the building. "Charlie wait!" Bill exclaimed. "Damn it." He sighed as they all followed Charlie.
Everyone came to a stop when they entered a large room that looked like a major storm had taken place. There were dead Death Eaters lying around and in the middle of the room stood Andrea, Harry and Draco. Across from them stood Voldermort, Narcissa and Lucius. Andrea's mom was seated in a chair, looking at all of them with fear.
"Look what we have here—guests." Voldermort whispered and Andrea, Harry and Draco glanced behind them. "Now we are outnumbered, but not for long." He laughed his cold laugh as many more Death Eaters entered the room. "Now it is fair."
The room irrupted as sparks began to fly. Everyone was engaged in a fight with someone else. Death Eaters fell and a few from the Order fell. Harry fought with Voldermort while Draco fought with his father and Andrea fought with Narcissa.
"Andrea please don't kill her!" Draco shouted as he dodged one of his father's attacks.
Andrea shrugged as she looked at Narcissa. Suddenly Narcissa fell to the ground, bound in invisible bonds. "Don't go anywhere." She stepped over Narcissa and walked towards Draco and Lucius. Draco was slowly losing the fight. "Enough." She waived her hand and Lucius flew into the wall, arms stuck to his sides and legs stuck together.
"Thanks." Draco gasped.
"No problem." Andrea looked over towards Harry and Voldermort. "You go help the others while I help Harry."
"But…"
"NOW!" She glared at Draco and he backed away. "We need to do this alone."
Voldermort was so engaged in fighting Harry that he did not realize Andrea was behind him. She looked behind her towards the wall and saw two swords crossed over each other in an 'x'. With a waive of her hand she made the swords bend forward.
"Hey Voldermort." Andrea said.
Both Harry and Voldermort were both so surprised that they stopped to look at her.
"I don't appreciate you using people I love as bait." She waived her hand and he went flying to the side, but he quickly gained his feet.
"Not bad." Voldermort hissed, picking nonexistent lint off of his clothes. "But not good enough!" He waived his wand and both Andrea and Harry went flying. Voldermort walked towards Andrea. "Now you will join me in ruling."
"You wish." Andrea whispered. At the same time she and Harry said different spells sending Voldermort flying backwards right into the swords. One pierced him through the throat and the other pierced him through the heart.
Everything seemed to stop and suddenly the Death Eaters began running out of the building as they realized that their master was dead. Everyone gathered in front of the dead Voldermort. "Wow, now that wasn't how I expected he would die." Bill whispered.
Charlie watched as Andrea pushed away from everyone else and went to her mother. Jennifer stood up and hugged her daughter.
"I was so afraid for you Andrea!" Jennifer whispered. "You should have waited for the others to come with you. You could have been killed."
"Yes, but I wasn't was I?" Andrea smiled. "Besides, they showed up anyway didn't they? And everything is alright now."
"Andrea how could you do that to me!" Charlie exclaimed as he came up behind her. "I was worried about you!"
Andrea turned to face him slowly. "I had to Charlie. I couldn't risk you dying." She whispered.
Charlie sighed and shook his head. "It should have been up to me as well if I wanted to come."
"Yes, but you showed up anyway didn't you?" Andrea grinned at him.
He smiled back at her. "Yeah, yeah I did." Charlie grasped her arms and pulled her into his arms. "I love you." He kissed her softly on the mouth. "Andrea I have a very important question to ask you."
"What?"
Charlie cleared his throat. "Will you marry me?"
Everyone looked at the both of them in shock and Andrea looked up at Charlie with a huge grin on her face. "I wouldn't marry anyone else."
"My Charlie is getting married!" Molly exclaimed. She walked over to Jennifer. "We're going to be in-laws!"
Jennifer grinned at her. "Yes we are."