Harry was speechless for perhaps the first time in his life. trully Sirius wouldn't have known where Eliana had been all this time, could he?
"Very good, Harry," Siruis said, coming to stand before Luna and him. His smile spread clear to his eyes as he clasped Harry's hands with his own, "You passed the tests laid before you. A girl who you could barely even comprehend come to like you, and now you've risked life and limb to find her. It's proved to us at the Headquarters and the Ministry of Magic that two opposites can coincide."
"But, Sirius," Luna interupted, looking at the sewer, "why here? Why not the headquarters or the ministry building itself?"
"Ah, because what's the fun in killing Harry in a ministry building?" Siruis answered, smirking evilly as he looked back to Harry.
"Kill? Me?" Harry croaked, reaching for his wand as he stepped back. Luna was already backed clear against the slimy sewer wall.
"So trusting..even with a little polyjuice potion.." Voldemort's voice slowly seeped out of Sirius's mouth as he withdrew his wand-the brother wand to Harry's own, "I knew you'd come looking for her. You wanted her so badly, thinking she loved you so much, didn't you. Ah, the trickery to be had. And now, to the boy-who-lived, I tell you that I am here to finish what I did not so many years ago. ADVA-"
"Expelliarmus!" a voice beckoned down the sewer drain and Voldemort's wand came whipping out of his hand, flying to the hand of none other than Eliana herself. Standing in the drainage pipe.
"I will not allow this, father. I will not allow THIS," she said, levitating herself to come to stand before him, defyingly shooting her chin towards the ceiling. Luna, at this point was white as a sheet and Harry was holding his wand in Voldemort's direction, incantation at the ready.
"He was a simple freak of nature, leave him be, father," Eliana said, her own crimson eyes meeting her fathers. They were certainly related, Harry thought. Slicked hair, big crimson eyes, and pale skin dominated both their features. In fact, Eliana could pass as a second voldemort should she only cut her hair...
"No, my child, I am here to finish him. NOW," he turned, wand rising. However, before he could even muster a spell, and Harry a counter-curse, Eliana seized his arm, pulling him towards the drainage pipe.
"We can't end the chase now, father. Let the mouse go another day. Yet this young..Potter, scuttle away with his friend. We'll continue our chase and find him again, do not worry," Eliana turned, smiling evilly at Harry.
"Perhaps you are right my child," Voldemort laughed, slipping his wand back into his pocket. With his eyes on Harry he turned, the polyjuice potion completely worn off, and made his way back into the black drainage tunnel. Eliana however, stood facing Harry.
"Good-bye then, you traitor," Harry spat out, his insides aching in pain, "Why didn't you just tell me? You even had the nerve to lead me on."
"I led you on because it was fun. Besides Harry, I'm not exactly you're type," she smiled, fishnetted legs making their way towards Luna before she leaned forward to kiss her cheek, "However, Luna is."
"COME CHILD." Voldemort's voice rung out into the darkness. Eliana obeyed, blowing one final kiss to Harry, giving Luna's cheek one final caress and apparating into another place.
"I-" He was too pissed to either cuss for Voldemort leaving, or for the fact that Eliana turned out to not even "swing" his way, "I-she-I-how?"
"She liked me!" Luna squeeled, laughing as she came to stand beside the small trinket in the water. Harry joined her, shaking his head as Luna kept touching her cheek where Eliana had brushed her.
"I'd have never thought-" Harry and Luna both grabbed the trinket, sending them flying back to the small house. For, as Eliana had said, the mouse was once more scuttling away for another day.
