For anyone interested, I placed the Black Manor in Champagne-Ardenne in Northern France and the Van Alan's live in Marseille in Southern France not far from Cannes where Beauxbatons is located. Just in case anyone was wondering how close the two different households are, now you have an idea if you look up a map of France. Also I am going by the book, where we never see, or know for sure that Draco has The Dark Mark. Thanks again to all my faithful readers! If anyone read the excerpt on my blog, let me know what you think please. This chapter was pretty hard to write and I'm sorry for the wait, but ENJOY!

Chapter 10: A Tragic End

Ginny awoke the next morning feeling more tired and stressed out then she had in a long time. She was nervous about the backlash from Draco, Uriel, and Blaise's little third degree undercover operation. She knew that they hadn't Obliviated Harry, the combination of spells, and potions were likely to kill him even without the addition of a memory charm. She just knew something bad was going to happen. Still she got up and went down to breakfast. Narcissa and Emily were not there, Draco informed her that they were taking a walk around the grounds. Uriel wasn't there either; Blaise told her that she still wasn't feeling one hundred percent.

"I think in her zeal, mother might have given her a little too much of the dreamless sleep, and calming draughts." Draco laughed trying to reassure her that everything was going to be okay. "Now you and Blaise and I can talk without making her relive it."

"Was it that bad?" Ginny asked looking both at Draco and Blaise.

"It took all of my self control to not kill him on the spot," Draco answered.

"I don't know if it was the potions, or it was just him, but he had no remorse it seemed. He didn't care about you or Emily, he says your better without him, and he cannot be more right." Blaise continued.

"What he really needs is therapy," Uriel said as she entered the room.

"Or heavy drugs," Draco added.

"Or group hugs," Blaise chuckled as he pulled out Uriel's chair for her.

"I'm serious," Uri told her brother. "I think it would be better for everyone if when we go to court we give him a minimum punishment for the battery charges and maybe get him committed to St. Mungo's or another hospital where he can get some psychological help. I think if he could learn to deal with his problems he might not be such a horrible person."

Draco was a little surprised. "Your defending him, after he treated you like an object, like a piece of meat all night?"

"Draco, everyone is capable of change, look at you. Before I came back into your life, you were not the person you are now. You were spoiled and nasty, and downright mean. Before Ginny came along you were a loner, too afraid to love or be loved, and lets face it a little bitter. You have changed for the better because of the chances you had. Harry Potter hasn't had those chances and maybe he could change if he did."

"Blaise what do you think?" Ginny asked, willing to go with whatever he said.

"We can decide on it later, but I do agree that weather he goes to jail for an extended amount of time, or he gets committed, he does need psychological help. He needs to talk to someone to try and help him with his demons."

"If that's what you think Blaise, I trust whatever you say." Draco said squeezing Ginny's hand.

"I'm glad you have so much faith in me Draco," Blaise said getting to his feet. "I need to get to the office. We all have a lot to think about a focus on today."

"Do you have to go to work?" Uri asked Blaise.

He smiled at her. "I'll be here for dinner, I promise."

With a goodbye to both Ginny and Draco, Blaise left to go to work, Uriel sat back down. Draco was looking at her with slightly narrowed eyes, and Ginny looked about ready to burst with excitement.

"So what happened last night after you two left?" Ginny finally asked not able to contain herself anymore.

"Last night? Nothing happened, I was dead on my feet, I was hardly able to say goodnight to Blaise by the time he tucked me into bed."

"Aw he tucked you in?" Ginny cooed. "That is so cute. So you just fell asleep last night?"

"Yes," she nodded. "This morning however…"

"I knew it!" Draco slammed his fist on the table. "I am going to go kick his ass."

"Draco," Uri stopped him. "Nothing happened, we talked, that is it I promise."

"I don't know if I can listen to this," Draco told his sister and his girlfriend. "You are my sister."

"Well Draco if you don't want to hear it leave, because I want to know what happened." Ginny shooed him away turning to Uri.

Draco didn't move, he figured it was better to know what was going on so he was prepared when anything finally did happen between the two of them.

"It's no big deal Gin," the older women tried to assure her. "It isn't like he proposed, we're just on the same page now. I like him, he likes me, and we are taking things slow especially right now. We have bigger things to worry about; Blaise wants to focus on finishing what we've started."

Draco looked satisfied enough with his sisters answer and Ginny still looked very happy. So far everything seemed to be going their way. Just as they were finishing up an excited Emily burst through the doors followed by Narcissa.

"Mother," Uri rose to her feet. "Why don't you and I pop to Paris for a quick shop and give Ginny some time with her daughter. I fear we haven't been sharing Emily with Ginny or Draco."

Narcissa nodded and smile. In a wave of their wands both Malfoy women were gone leaving the would be family alone with an afternoon to themselves.

"So," Draco turned to his favorite redheads. "Who wants to go flying today?"

Emily clapped her hands and jumped up and down in excitement. She was almost never allowed to fly; she only ever got a chance when she was at The Burrow. Draco took both of the girls out to the grounds. He and Ginny both grabbed brooms, but when Emily went to grab one for herself Draco stopped her.

"Why don't you ride with me right now? I want to take you and your mum somewhere very special and we'll get there faster with just two brooms."

At first the little girl looked like she was going to argue but just climbed onto Draco's broom with him. Draco flew them up and over the forests surrounding the Manor. Ginny hadn't really seen much of France, only where Fleur and Bill lived but where the smaller manor was in the French countryside was so beautiful. They rode for about an hour, only because the three of them felt so at ease and free when flying. It was something they all loved. Before long Draco steered his broom toward a clearing in the woods and Ginny followed. They touched down and leaned their brooms up against a near by tree.

"Now," Draco turned to both the Weasley's again. "You two must keep this place a secret. This is where Uri and I sneak off to when we can't stand to be around mother anymore. We found this place together while we were taking a long walk, not long after Uri moved back in with us. This is our secret place."

Ginny giggled to herself a little bit.

"Hey," Draco warned her gently, a smile still on his face. "Both Uri and I didn't really have childhoods and so we spent a lot of our first year together acting like kids…in fact I think,"

He stopped and walked over to a stump, and knocked on it. It sounded hollow, and Draco opened the top of it.

"Yea, it's still here, I can't believe the charm has lasted this long." He finished.

"What is it?" Emily asked excitedly.

"We put a charm on this so it has an unlimited supply of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Bean…only the good kind though."

Emily dug her hand into the stump and came out with a handful of the beans. The little girl squealed and began to eat the colorful beans she had found. After a few games of hide and seek and exploding snap Emily fell asleep, leaving Draco and Ginny alone to talk.

"When did you change so much Draco?" Ginny wondered, having been meaning to ask him for years.

"Well after our first little run in my fourth year, I never was the same. You were alone on your way back to the tower after the Yule Ball and you weren't paying attention to where you were going, and I wasn't paying attention and we just collided. After the first few insults we both fell quiet. I was forgetting that I wasn't supposed to like Weasley's because I couldn't stop thinking about how beautiful you were."

Ginny smiled at him. "And I wasn't thinking about the fact that you were a stupid Malfoy ferret because I had never realized how deep and soft your eyes were, or how your hair fell in your face just so."

"So for just a few minutes," Draco said rising to his feet, and holding his hand out for the object of his affections. "We forgot that our last names kept us apart."

Ginny took his outstretched hand and rose to meet him. "And as the last song wafted out of the great hall you pulled me close and right in the middle of the hallway we danced."

As Ginny finished speaking Draco began to waltz her around the meadow. Both of them smiled at each other, remembering the memory as if it was yesterday.

"After that I couldn't stay away from you," Draco told her.

"We kind of stalked each other over the next few years didn't we," Ginny laughed. "I knew what you were planning before Harry did."

They both fell silent, and their dance came to an end.

"I'm sorry," Ginny said, a tear escaping her eye. "If I hadn't of been so proud maybe Emily would be ours and Harry Potter wouldn't be this source of all evil in our lives."

"No," Draco held his hand up. "This is my fault, if I had been willing to listen to you, listen to Uri, things would have been so different. Then I was stupid enough to tell you to try again with Potter."

"We were both fools," Ginny finally said so they wouldn't keep trying to outdo each other.

"We are all fools in love, and I have loved you for so long," Draco replied before pulling Ginny to him for a fierce and possessive kiss.

Ginny could have stayed there, kissing the man she loved for hours, making up for lost time as it were. Soon enough Emily began to stir, and Draco and Ginny figured it was better to get back to the manor before Narcissa and Uriel got back. Not long after Draco and Ginny got back Blaise was there.

"I have good news," Blaise told Draco and Ginny as Patches served them drinks. "Your trial is in a week."

"A week? That is incredibly soon," Ginny all of a sudden looked nervous.

"Don't worry, everything will be fine, we'll all stick together," Draco promised.

Soon Uri and Narcissa were back from Paris. The odd family once again sat down at dinner together. Despite the impending trail looming over their heads everything at dinner was light and happy. Narcissa even let herself go a little and had one too many glasses of wine, and started telling them all about her Hogwarts days.

"So, I don't know how we pulled this off, but the next day Dumbledore's beard was rainbow colored, and he liked it so much that he seriously considered keeping it like that."

Everyone at the table laughed, none of them had ever seen Narcissa like this, and that was enough to have them all laughing as hard as they could. As the laughter died down they heard a buzzing noise and Uri pulled her cell phone out of her pocket.

"Uri, I told you not to answer your phone during dinner." Narcissa said as she finished off her fourth glass of wine.

Uri ignored her mother and put the phone to her ear.

"Mama…mama quel est Mauvais? Mama etes-vous là? Mama s'il vous plaît me répondre…Mama!"

The whole table had gone silent, and Narcissa had excused herself from the table, every time Uriel had said 'Mama' Narcissa had only looked more upset.

"Draco, something is wrong," Uriel looked up at him her eyes shining with tears. "Please come with me to Marseille just to make sure that my parents are okay."

"We'll all go," Blaise said, gripping her hand.

"Patch!" Draco called. "Please put Ms. Emily to bed and stay with her until we come home. If anyone other than my mother or one of us comes to get her, take her to the Malfoy safe house."

Patch bowed and took Emily by the hand. As soon as they left the room the four apparated right outside the Van Alan house in Southern France. The second they arrived they knew something was wrong. The door was forced open and the house was a mess. The four drew their wands and cautiously entered the house.

Their were scorch marks from curses and spells all over the place, Ginny tired her best to keep her fears at bay but they mounted more with each second. Uri was in the lead, obviously the most familiar with the house. Draco stopped to examine the walls, Ginny close behind him while Uri and Blaise went ahead.

"These weren't caused by a wand," Draco said examining the scorch marks even closer. "This was done by pure, raw, magic."

"But what could possibly have…"

Ginny's sentence was cut short by Uriel's sharp scream that came from upstairs. Draco and Ginny were both off and running in a second, Blaise was right in front of them, having been in the living room looking for clues. The found Uriel in her old room at the foot of her bed shobbing, her eyes fixed on something that was on her bed.

Draco, Blaise, and Ginny slowly looked where she was looking and as soon as she looked she turned away and hide her face in Draco's shoulder. There on the bed, their eyes still open, frozen in shock, were Claude and Annette Van Alan, dead.

Blaise automatically went to Uri's side, Draco trying to find something to say to his sister. He looked around the room for anymore clues, and he found the biggest one of all, written in blood on the back of Uriel's door.

"You played me like a fool I am, now here is my revenge, you who are damned. You didn't get to hear them scream, or watch them as they fell, so come and get me little miss, I'll see you again in hell."

Below the message was an H, and that was it. Draco punched the wall behind him, Ginny covered her mouth with her hand, Blaise quickly sent his Patronus to his office, and the Ministry in Paris, the whole time still holding Uriel.

"Get me out of here…please" she begged from the floor.

"Draco, I have to stay here and talk with the Auror's and get all this evidence recorded for the trial…this has to be Potter's doing. Just get Uri out of here, and keep Emily and Ginny safe."

Draco scooped Uriel up in his arms and apparated with her in his arms, Ginny apparating right behind them. Blaise turned back to the grisly site in front of him, swearing on his life that Harry Potter was going to pay for hurting the people who had become most important to him over the past few months. Draco, Ginny, Emily, and Uriel were his family, and no one hurt his family.

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I know that this was a sad ending to this chapter and no everyone probably hates me but I did put some love and mush in there. So please keep reading to see what happens! I love all of my readers, and followers, and please leave me a comment sspecially if you read my excerpt on my blog. Also what Uriel said in French was "Mama what's wrong? Mama are you there? And Mama please answer me."