Ginny walked into the living room, wand in hand, to find Harry, Ron, Blaise and Draco already in the room, preparing more spells to send at the approaching Death Eater. They were clustered together, wands pointed at a glowing orb that was hovering in front of them. Hermione walked into the room with a small mirror in her hands. The mirror had five faces reflected, glaring through the glass at them.
Lucius Malfoy was standing in front, with Macnair, Bulstrode, Fletcher, and two other people she didn't recognize standing behind him.
"There are five Death Eaters in the dark detector," Hermione held up the mirror so everyone could see.
"Well, that means we out number them," Blaise smirked. "There are five of us in top condition, and one who will still be able to help, even though Ginny is injured. They probably think that there are no more than two people here." His smirk grew wider at the prospect of surprising the Death Eaters. "Plus, Five of us are fully trained Aurors, and Draco is a fully trained ex-Death Eater. They won't be expecting anything like that."
"Yes. That's true, but it will take more than one person to take down my father. He's stronger than you think." Draco sighed and shook his head. "We need to come up with a plan of action. If we just stand here and wait for them to come to us, we will be killed easily. Like sitting ducks."
Ron nodded eagerly. "I have just the thing! It's just like a move in chess where you take your king and switch it with a castle so the king is protected behind a bunch of pawns. The Death Eaters are after Malfoy, right?"
Everyone just looked at Ron, waiting for the rest of his plan.
"So we let them get a glimpse of Malfoy, then hide him to the side and jump out and stun the Death Eaters!"
"What?" Ginny shook her head, confused. "In human terms Ron."
Ron sighed. "Draco, you stand in the kitchen doorway when they come in. Send as many stunning curses as you can, but quickly step into the kitchen and take a step to the side. Hopefully the Death Eaters will rush after you. Harry and me will sneak up behind them and stun as many of the bastards that we can. Hermione and Blaise will be hiding in the kitchen to help you get rid of any who get past us. See, simple!"
"What do you want me to do?" Ginny asked quietly.
"Hide," Draco and Ron intoned at the same time.
"No. I will not hide from the battle. I will help with the cleanup in the kitchen."
Ron opened his mouth to protest when Hermione gasped. "They're coming through the last of the protections! Get ready!"
They scattered. Ron and Harry hid near the door and the girls and Blaise ran into the kitchen. Draco leaned against the doorway, wand at the ready. This was not going to be a pleasant fight.
The glowing orb positioned itself above the doorway. It was their last effort at keeping the Death Eaters out of the house before they had to join the fight.
The door burst open and banged against the wall behind it. Harry flinched away. He had been standing behind the door and needed to move so he wouldn't be crushed.
Lucius Malfoy stepped into the room, a smirk on his face. The rest of his cronies filed into the room behind him.
"Draco," Lucius snarled. "I expected better of you. A Death Eater never betrays another. It is the law, boy. We have come to make you pay for this."
"But father, I never did anything wrong." Draco smirked. He hadn't done anything wrong in his life. He had never killed or hurt anyone of his own free will, and turning in the Death Eaters was a very good thing. "I don't know what you're talking about." Draco put on an innocent face and quickly glanced up at the orb. It had settled over the Death Eaters heads and was pulsing eerily.
"If you give yourself over to us, boy, we will just kill you." Lucius snarled.
Draco smiled. "I have no intention of getting caught, father." The orb exploded.
Draco dove through the kitchen doorway, stunning spells falling from his lips as quickly as he could utter them.
Blaise took his place in the door, jumping into the fray. Two of the Death Eaters were down. The bomb spell in the orb had knocked them out. One of the Death Eaters was stunned, and a fourth was grappling with Ron and Harry. Lucius calmly enervated the stunned Death Eater and turned towards the kitchen door.
"They're coming Draco," Blaise screamed as Bulstrode got off of the floor and started battling with him.
Lucius calmly stepped through the door and threw up a shield spell that blocked the three stunning spells that were shot at him. They rebounded off of his shield and streaked back towards the three people who sent them. Hermione was stunned, Draco dove wildly out of the way, and Ginny ducked behind the overturned table.
Lucius smiled faintly and shook his head. "This is going to be easier than I thought." He looked at his son with a smirk. Malfoy was walking forward, toward the table and a hiding Ginny.
"It's me you want, father. Leave her out of this." Draco snarled. From his vantage on the wall he could see Ginny sweating and shaking behind the table. It looked like she was weakening, and he would be damned before he let his father near his Ginevra.
"Do you want to protect this girl?" Lucius looked sharply at his son.
"With all of my heart father. I have never wanted to protect anything more." Draco answered with his heart beating in his chest. He loved Ginny. That was all he needed to know.
Lucius snarled. "That is your mistake, Boy." He brought his wand up, and before Draco could react snarled, "Imperious."
All he had to do was kill the red headed girl. Kill the girl Weasley. It was so easy.
He was numb. The only feeling he could sense was a need to kill the girl. He had to kill the girl.
Draco brought up his wand and sighted it on the patch of red behind the table.
Ron, Harry, and Blaise came running through the kitchen door. They saw Draco with his wand pointed at Ginny and ran in.
They would come too late. None of them could get there in time.
The words were already forming on his lips. All he had to do was say Avada Kedavra. The voice was telling him to say it. He would say it and it would all be over.