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UPDATED:9/30/2019

Chapter 43

The Wedding

"Fleur, you 'ad a package sent to ze cottage." Maxime smiled with excitement for her previous student's big day. But her heart and mind still swirled around the missing Alicia Bonnet. Was she alive, was she dead, was she hurt and lost and in pain and terrified, all alone? Those were the questions that had continued to keep the Headmistress of Beauxbaton Academy awake at night for days on end. Until Alicia was back in her sites, breathing and well in care, Maxime had come to the conclusion that she may not sleep until then. Now the next question that had continued to plague her mind, was she ever going to see that day?

"Merci, a-t-il dit de qui c'était, Madame Maxime?" Fleur asked with excitement as she read the letter addressed to them, "Bill, come, someone's sent us a gift!" yet Fleur found her heart flutter and her smile drop moments later as Bill walked into the Kitchen that morning, "Fleur, what is it? Is everything alright, Darling?" the man asked with worry, Maxime sharing her concern, she hadn't read the little letter before she'd handed it to pretty blonde, and now she wished she had been nosy.

Translation-

"Merci, a-t-il dit de qui c'était, Madame Maxime?" = "Thank you, did it say who it was from, Madam Maxime?"

"It's from Alicia Bonnet," Fleur clarified, grabbing a knife from the draw near her she cut the paper and tape from the closed box, she slightly dreaded what was inside, thinking it was something for the Order, or likely from the Death Eaters that may have sent them a body part of the young, missing redhead she and her sister had been so fond about.

To her relief, Fleur found a beautiful, sapphire blue, knee length pencil dress. The tanked sleeves were thick, fit for a business or casual wear and a bottle of white wine. The contents made her smile, even the letters that were inside said box, one addressed Fleur and Bill, the Order, and one to Harry Potter. "It's her dress, I always complimented her on it, it looked so lovely on her. Perfection in eyes site. And wine. Where's Harry? There's a letter in here for him, and the Order, we need as many of them that are here, there's more here, and I don't believe the rest is meant to be ours, Bill."

"Right, just a moment I'll be right back" Bill walked off looking for everyone needed for the moment, he wasn't sure how it was going to go, Harry and Draco had no idea Alicia had been missing, this was going to become rather interesting.

Bill had found the four friends talking with the Minister of magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, who was not only reading off the last Will and Testament of Albus Dumbledore but gifting them with gifts, Harry, the Quidditch Snitch, Hermione a book of children's tales, Ron the De-Luminator, and Draco a silver bracelet with each Hogwarts House symbol, "It's embroidered with magic?" he asked the Minister in confusion, but he hadn't received and answer, simply a shrug of equal confusion, "He had it made for himself but it was finished after his death, his Will states that you are to be given said chain. Whatever magic it may hold I wouldn't know of it. The creature was left anonymous in the order filed. You'll have to figure out it's magical properties yourself, Mr. Malfoy. Now, unfortunately Dumbledore also left you another heirloom, Harry. However, the Sword of Gryffindor was not Dumbledore's to give. As a Historical part of our history and the very sword of Godric Gryffindor, it belongs to the Museum. There's only one problem…. The Sword of Gryffindor is missing. No one has any idea where it's currently located at. Now, I have much more to do today, give your brother my congratulations, Mr. Weasley, good day." And with that the Minister was gone.

"Oh, Bill- what's wrong?" Ron asked his older brother, worried by his fallen face, but with is silence came all their worries, something had happened. Something they all had a deep feeling that they were not going to like, "Bill?"

"The Order has gathered up stares with Fleur, we need you four up-stairs. There's a letter for Harry from someone I think he's going to want to see." Bill said softly informing the four confused, and now scared teens as they followed the Groom of the day up the stairs to a room their father had converted into an office, "What's going on?" Harry asked seeing everyone's fallen and terrified faces. "Alicia sent us information and letters, there's one addressed to you Harry." Lupin said, holding the envelope out to the boy who took it with some panic.

Licking his dry lips, Harry opened the envelope and watched as a picture fell from the folded letter, one they had taken during the Yule Ball, one he never noticed had captured a smiling Emma and Sirius Black dancing behind them, as he picked up the fallen picture and began studying it. Smiling to the photo in his hand, Harry turned to read the beautiful handwriting, but with each word his heart grew heavy with fear and worry, "Death Eaters attacked her and Amos, took her uncle and she's on the run with a friend. I- I don't understand, why haven't we been told about this!" Harry roared up, his worry turning from fear to anger towards the Order.

"We didn't want to tell you until we had found something regarding her safety -"

"It's better than nothing Mum!" Harry shouted to her, for the first time in a while, Harry was furious with Emma, understandably so, but they hadn't told him, hadn't told them.

Emma and the others were taken back, forgetting where his fearful mind was sending him. Harry had lost a lot the last couple years, even if Alicia hadn't really sent word to any of them, she would always send a small gift or huge letter here or there apologizing from her absent writing. They hadn't thought much of it when they received nothing over the break, Harry knew she had a bad memory when it came to writing back, "You seriously think we're going to give you very little information regarding your missing girlfriend and have nothing to ease your mind-" Emma stood for her chair carefully, worried her nephew and son would do something crazy and life threatening, again, without thinking of it, "I have to find her. No thanks to you lot." He growled a bit, the words had slipped out, not intentionally meaning to say them Harry flinched at his stupidity and the way his aunt and mothers face dropped and lost some color.

"Harry James Potter! Sit down right now!" Sirius barked out to boy as he stormed from the study, both parents following suit, "Harry! You can't go looking for her when you're wanted yourself. They're after her and you they'll follow you and kill you both once you've found her! She sent these letters' and the information to us so she wouldn't endanger us or you!" Emma shouted after him. Though she was having no response, Harry was ignoring Emma. Walking out of the front door Harry stormed from the porch and towards the barrier, "Drop the Barriers."

"No. You are not going out there, one alone, nor are you going to put her in any more danger than she already is in. They were after her because of those files. The Bingo Books her father and brother died protecting, they also died protecting Alicia-"

"AND SO WILL I IF I HAVE TO!" Harry roared out, turning on a dime, coming nose to nose with Emma, both staring one another down, but Harry's stare was failing in the deep green emeralds of his aunt and mother.

Emma took a breath to calm herself, it took everything she had inside herself not shout at him for being blind about why she sent him the letter. "Harry, Alicia would die before anything happened to you, and you her. I get that, but if you go out there, looking for her and if and when you find her, those Death Eaters would have found you both. Then her parents and her brothers' murders, their deaths, were wasted. The risk she took to send this to us, without it even being remotely intercepted, was life threatening to her and that friend helping her. Alicia risked her life and that of the friend you both share just by handing this information over to us. If you go out there and find her, you're all dead."

To this, Harry sighed, his high and stiff shoulders falling, his spine slumped a bit giving him the few inches to lean his head forward and resting his brow to Emma's shoulders. Instinctively the two wrapped their arms around the other, one in sorrow fear and apology and other in comfort, relief and also apology.

With a soft sigh of relief, Emma gave his back a comforting rub and softly spoke to him as he silently cried into her shirt. "She's alive, she's a smart girl… She's a Ravenclaw Harry…. Morgan's likely the friend with her because he too has been missing for a few months. And if so, he's a talented Slytherin, protective and determined. Cedric was his best friend, Alicia is Cedric's cousin, Amos Diggory's niece. Morgan knows this, he'll keep her safe. Trust Alicia, trust Morgan…. Trust me."

With a sad nod, Harry agreed in understanding, but the figure behind them that caught his eyes in shock and bewilderment as the boy grinned his charmed grin, "Hey Harry,"

"C-Cedric? But ho-how-"

"Long story, I'll tell you later. But um, I heard your best friend's brother was getting married and I figured it was time I came out of hiding." Cedric said with a shrug, "Like I said, long story."

Harry laughed with happy tears in his eyes as he rushed the friend, he thought was dead and both boys hugged one another in welcome, but this was a friend that was in fact still six feet under.

"I watched you die, your ghost-"

"You only saw what Dumbledore, Snape and I wanted you to see. Morgan and I caught onto Jr, tried going to Dumbledore, but Snape found us first. We hitched a plan to send Myrtle in as me. Don't ask how the Polyjuice potion worked on her, I honestly thought I was seeing things, but it did, she went in pulled the job and I went underground."

The entire time they spent setting up for the wedding, Emma and a few others were skeptical, keeping close eyes on this Cedric when he was near anyone. Especially Hermione.

Something felt funny about this, and none of them were sure how to approach this. Draco seemed to be slowly catching on, he'd noticed the bracelet Dumbledore had left him was stinging him a bit, a sting that was an annoying and very uncomfortably sting and pinch. Glancing down, he found the serpent was glowing a deep green.

Scrunching his brow in confusion, Draco took a chance to see if his mind was traveling in the right direction and moved closer to Cedric and started a conversation with him, all the while the bracelet's sting and pinch had grown to a slight painful bite, like he'd been bitten by the very serpent of Slytherin house. "Nice talking to you mate, but um, Ginny seems to need help inside."

"Not at all, good seeing you Draco, I'll be over with Hermione if you need anything."

"Well, I need kind of kidnap Hermione a bit, her and Ginny, you see they made Harry a birthday cake and she wanted to write the words so, the cake is done any everything, but I need her to finish it. See you later Ced." And with a grin of victory, Draco patted Cedric's arm and walked off to his female friend and gently grabbed her arm, "A word inside, please. Now." Draco whispered to her, a bit of a growl rolling from him and he pulled the vert confused teenager inside with him.

"Draco Lucius Malfoy-"

"That's not Cedric Diggory Kitty-cat… It's Finn." Hearing this sent cold chills down her spin, "What? No that's-" Draco watched a bit confused himself as Hermione had shifted from suddenly defending the boy to go through her recent thoughts, she had spoken to him just a few moments prior, but it had been the name he'd continued calling her throughout their small talks. Her mind ran full circle to when she'd seen him just Apparate into the Cabin's barriers and shields. Something he shouldn't have been capable enough to do alone, he'd have needed help; Cedric smiled at the tearing eyed Hermione as she rushed him and the boys, throwing her arms around him in a tight hug as she cried, "Hey there Kitten, what's with the tears?" he'd called her 'Kitten'.

"Draco, I think we have more than just one rat inside these shields…. He'd have needed help from the inside as well as out to get in."

"Not unless a family member was invited, and he has said invitation," Cedric's voice sang smoothly, his grin still as charming as it had been on the real Cedric, but to their horror, he was holding a giggling Marlene in his arms, wand in hand, "Now, I'm going to keep this precious baby girl in my arms until I get what I want from this Wedding, and if I so much as suspect you're trying to rat me out, the kid is dead… Now, didn't I warn you our third year you would regret hitting me, Kitten?" Finn said softly, his eyes lighting with evil intentions as he gently tickled the two-year-old with the tip of his wand. Marlene's curly blond hair was pulled back atop her head by a cute pink bow tie and dressed in a peach colored knee-high dress for her with white sandals on her tiny feet.

"Finn. You sick son of a-"

"Language Draco, language." Finn interrupted him with a playful tsk, "You know, she's a cute little thing, no parents though. So sad. Maybe I'll keep her and find a mummy for her? What'd you say Kitten?" Finn asked Hermione with a grin and a wink.

Draco and Hermione nearly vomited, but he was not going to let him take either of the girls. Draco took a deep breath as he grabbed Hermione's hand and moved her behind him, "Over my dead body Finn. You won't lay a hand to her."

"Ooh, I thought you were the cute redheaded Weasley. No? My mistake-"

"Hermione's practically my sister, you demented bastard, but you won't hear a peep from us, we'll play your pathetic game this time around Finn. But the second Mars isn't in your arms, you better watch yourself." Draco growled, his blue eyes stealing with malice and hatred into his cousin, a look that actually scared Finn. But he was just as good as Bellatrix at hiding behind his crazy nature, "Good boy, no peep about me, stay close to one another, no splitting up. I want you both in eyesight. No tricks, if I smell something funny, the kid either dies or I leave here with a daughter."

Safe House

"Alicia, where are you going!" Morgan asked in fear storming after the terrified girl, "Alicia!"

"Morgan, they're likely attacking them now! If I just stand here and do nothing. Harry and the others, Amos, will believe his son was alive the entire time and had betrayed them! I will not let them disgrace my cousin like this!" she cried running from the boy she knew she could look at as her brother, he was trying to catch her, but she had a good head start. Alicia had Disapaprated, granted she never did it before herself, but she had a pretty good idea how, she just knew she was going to regret it likely, and she was right.

Holly's eyes grew wide, a gasp caught in her throat, she knew exactly what she was going to do, "Alicia NO!" But it was too late, Holly and Morgan had fallen right through air as the redhead vanished with a zap and panic set in, "Holly-"

"In know, come on. Wand at the ready?" She asked, both giving their nods, Holly grasped Morgan's hand and Disapparated after the girl.

It was too late, they had all arrived at a war zone, Draco fighting Finn in Cedric's form, a wicked grin on his face, a crying two year old in his arms, Draco was doing his best to not aim for the girl, but as he took his steps closer Finn laughed, "CATCH DRAGON!" and tossed the screaming little girl up, Disappaarting to a different location around the wedding starting a different duel with another as Draco made a dive, catching her in his arms and rolled under a nearby table, thankfully giving him cover. He took a sigh of relief taking notice Marlene was unscratched, just sacred.

Everyone had either Disapparated out, had been captured, fighting or laying on the ground injured or dead.

Holly and Morgan engaged in the fight, backing whoever they could, "Alicia!" Morgan shouted, trying to warn her of the Death Eater that had popped up behind her, "Morgan!" Holly screamed, but heartbreakingly, she was too late.

A searing pain struck him in the back sending him to his knees panting and having difficulty breathing, within seconds the world spun, and his eyes closed.

Alicia screamed in fright as arms wrapped around her like a vise. In her struggle she saw many things rolling out in slow motion as she struggled against the arms holding her. Emma, Maxime, Molly and George were guarding the crying and defenseless kids, Draco had Disapparated Marlene with the kids being protected then moved to held Sirius and Remus make their way around, gathering up Ron and Hermione and Harry. He'd grabbed Hermione on his way over, but he'd made the mistake of turning his back to more enemies' opportunities.

"Hermione!" Ron screamed, horror filling them all as they watched a killing curse soar straight for her at the very hands of a mid-morphed Finn.

In a panic Alicia hadn't thought of anything as she threw her wand between the curse and Hermione's back and watched the curse shatter her beautiful oak wand into splinters.

The action had drawn the four friends' eyes, Harry's all the ore connecting with her deep blue as tears rolled down her face as she felt the Death Eater's boding being pulled inward, ready to Disapparate as he laughed. Knowing she'd only have seconds to spare she screamed to Harry, one order she hoped he'd listen to, "RUN!" and with a zap, Alicia Noelle Bonnet was gone and in the very clutches of Voldemort.

Harry sprang forward trying above all odds to get to her before she had vanished, but the second his body had moved she vanished from his eyesight as Remus held him back, "'LICIA!"

Draco threw Hermione into Ron's arms who grunted with panicked gasp of relief knowing she was in his arms as Draco grabbed Harry by his shirt and tossed him back behind himself, Remus and Sirius and into Hermione's and Ron's grasp, guarding the three friends from curse after curse, "GO!"

"Draco-"

"SHUT UP AND GO 'MIONE!" Draco shouted over his shoulder deflecting four more curses. The Death Eaters were after Harry and the other two, not him. Finn was the only one that wanting him as a target, the others likely didn't care. Annoyed Draco glared over his shoulder, his bright blue eyes connecting with Ron's and both shared a nod, "Ron, go!"

"No -" Harry was cut short as Ron Disapparated them, Harry wasn't going to leave Draco, Hermione was far too terrified to move, and he knew Draco wasn't going to be going with them that time around. They were on their own this time.

Draco had been separated from Remus and Sirius and was once again dueling his deranged and laughing cousin as he sent cruse after curse to the blond, "Come on Draco! SHOW ME WHAT YA GOT!" Finn shouted, a crazy look in his eyes, he was getting too close to Draco for his comfort, but what the blond had failed to notice was the closer Finn had moved to him, he'd pulled a dagger from his belt and with ease, physically disarmed Draco Malfoy and ran the very dagger Avery had ran through Emma, he'd ran Draco through his stomach, twisted and pulled up just a bit slicing a good two inch gash upwards. How he had gotten ahold of said dagger was a mystery to anyone.

Ginny gasped at the sight, her brown eyes filling with fearful tears, her voice lost for words for a moment, noticing as Finn pulled the dagger from the blond, watched Finn laugh as he deflected curses from Emma and Tonks.

Her world moved slowly, heart beating painfully as it dropped into her stomach, Ginny Weasley hadn't even noticed she was screaming, "Draco!" her feet moved all their own, running for the stumbling blond as his cousin laughed and vanished singing, "Down, down the Dragon falls!" and caught him in her arms before his head hit the ground, "No, no, no, Dr-Draco… no come on, stay awake.. pl-p-please… DRACO!"

Emma and Tonks skidded to their knees in pure terror and panic, Tonks taking the screaming girl into her arm, both shaking and crying and Emma applying pressure to the wound, "Come on Draco, st-stay awake come on… Draco? Dr-Draco open your eyes!" Emma cried applying more pressure, causing Draco to scream and groan in pain. A cold sweat had quickly set in, "Em-em-mmma… Gi-nny?" He shivered out his words as best he could. Truthfully, he was even lucky he got that much out.

The fighting had stopped, the Death Eaters were gone, now they were left with dead, injured or dying friends or family and finding those who were missing with worry, praying with everything they had that they hadn't been one of the many captured.

Hearing her name Ginny shot from Tonks arms grabbed Draco's shivering hand and held his face in her hands, tears rolling down her cheeks, "I'm here, you have to stay awake okay?" to this he did his best to nod, but it had only been an activation for a seizure and Emma quickly went to work with Ginny and Tonks' aid to her blessed luck.

Hearing Holly off behind them, Emma glanced over her shoulder and almost cried out again, her, Molly, Sirius and Remus were working on the battered and sliced back of Morgan Graham. "Is he at least alive?" Emma asked over moving back to Draco's wound in full worry about losing another kid. Harry, Ron and Hermione were in the wind hopefully, Alicia was now missing, Draco was down for the count and half dead and Morgan was borderlinking death with the blond Malfoy, "I-I don't know." Holly choked out, tears running down her face as she helped the three to stop the bleeding, "We need Poppy, I-I'm not a healer!"

"We can't move them! Draco will be dead the second Emma and Tonks remove the pressure and Morgan likely won't last either if we move him. His back, he should be dead. This spell, it's strong but it wasn't performed right, Sectumsempra, should have killed him." Lupin said looking him over with shaking hands, this had to of been the worst fight they had ever been in.

"Vulnera Sanentur…. The counter curse, that's what it is." Ginny spoke up, shaken she may have been, but she was glad to say Snape had actually talked to her about that, Finn had gone around boosting about how great he was with curses and had ended up nearly killing another student, Snape had healed the boy, but Ginny had confronted him regarding it and he'd explained it. "Well, heal him! It works trust me!" She cried over Draco, he'd fainted once again, he was still bleeding out, but he was also bleeding inside, that was something they couldn't fix.

A sudden thought had stuck her, and she felt rather stupid for not thinking of it sooner, "Kreacher…"

"What!" Sirius asked, shocked Emma was thinking of the Grimmauld house elf at that time, "Kreacher!" she screamed again, and to his shock the house elf came in seconds with a zapping snap sound. His big, old eyes widening at the horrific scene, "M-mistress Fox?"

"Hogwarts, I need you to go to Hogwarts and bring back Madame Pomfrey, now… If she doesn't listen, tell her that Draco and Morgan are dying and Foxy can't fix it, she'll understand. GO!" with another zap Kreacher was gone.

"Please make it here, Poppy…" Emma softly chanted to herself, applying as much pressure as she could to Draco's wound. She was not going to lose him, not like that. "Come on Draco, wake up."

**I know, I'm sorry, you can be angry with me, I'm sorry. But I'm a jerk I know... I'm sorry, please don't hate me, please don't cry either, I'll feel like an ass... Well, I feel like a bigger arse, there we go. But I hope you still enjoyed it. Thank you all for taking your time to read this and the other chapters. Thank you all for the reviews! I hope you have a wonderful night/day!