The Half Blood Princess

Chapter 7

Draco and Gwen lay down on his bed at his parent's manor as the early morning sun rose outside on the horizon. The doors were firmly locked with multiple wards in place. Gwen laid on her stomach and had a sheet wrapped around her nude body, her long hair tumbled across the bareness of her back. Draco had another sheet wrapped around his waist. They were thinking out exactly how they were going to break into Bellatrix's vault at Gringotts. Each potential idea had too many flaws to be properly executed.

"We could just Imperius her." Gwen finally suggested, turning onto her side, looking at her fiancé. He stared at her for a moment considering the plan. It had some merit.

"We'll have to do it together. She might be too powerful for just one of us." He said thinking it though. "But how will we get rid of it once we have it?"

Gwen thought for a moment. "I'm going to go talk to dad." She said sliding off the bed, the sheet wrapped around her body. She went over to Draco's closet put on a bra, a pair of her jeans and one of her shirts. Going over to Draco, she kissed him.

"I love you." She told him before she left.

Gwen apparated to the edge of Hogwarts grounds. She ran into the castle, making her way up to the castle, not wanting to remain outside any longer than she had to. As she walked up the staircases to her father's office, she thought to herself about how exhilarating it felt to have some small part in her own fate now. As she reached the eagle, she laid her hand just so, and went up the final staircase. Severus looked up from his desk, seeing his daughter unexpectedly. His brow creased slightly as he got up.

"I thought that you weren't due back for another few days." He said quietly.

"I know, but something came up." She said breathlessly as she went over to one of the chairs before unceremoniously plopping down. Severus frowned at her.

"What has happened?" he asked her dangerously.

Where to start? Gwen thought. "All right, please don't be mad at me, but I went back in time last night to change what happened."

"What?" Severus said as his frown grew even more complex looking.

"Well, Harry and a group of his friends were caught initially by a group of Snatchers last night." She began.

"I hadn't heard of that occurrence." Severus stated.

"That's right, you wouldn't have because right after Bellatrix came in to the room, Draco and I slipped out of the room and turned back time an hour. We met the Snatcher group before they got to Malfoy Manor, and attacked them. I mean it was only Greyback and some squib-like folks… Anyway, Draco and I got Mr. Ollivander out finally as well as Luna, and we sent them with Harry's group. So Draco and I told Harry that we would manage the Hufflepuff cup that's in Bellatrix's Vault at Gringotts as well as the Ravenclaw Diadem."

"How are you both going to get into Bella's vault?" Severus asked skeptically.

Gwen looked rather sheepishly at her father. "We were going to Imperious her into getting it for us…" She said quietly.

Severus looked at her severely for a moment. "When were you two planning this little escapade?"

"Tomorrow."

"I really don't want to let you do this on your own. Perhaps if I do the Imperious, it will last longer…That's it, yes, I will come back with you this evening to the Manor, and we will do it tomorrow morning."

Gwen beamed at her father. "Oh, how do we get rid of it? The horcrux, I mean?"

"With the ring that Dumbledore took down over the summer, it took a while. But, Riddle's Diary in your second year, that only took one Basilisk fang… Perhaps if…or…I could bring a few different types of ingredients. Come with me." He said finally getting up and moving toward the door. He went down the stairs and traveled out to corridor. He went up a few flights of stairs to the seventh floor corridor and stopped at the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy trying to teach trolls to dance the ballet. He paced a few times in front of the tapestry, and on the third pass, a door formed. He took Gwen's hand and led her in to the room. She saw a tiara sitting on a table with a wall full of various poisons and deadly instruments.

"That's the diadem?" She asked.

"Yes."

"And how are we going to get rid of it?"

"That's what we will figure out now." He said as a two pairs of goggles, gloves and two aprons appeared in front of each of them. They put on their protective gear and went over to the cabinets lining the wall that contained various means of death.

"What to try first?" She asked.

Severus took a few bottles off the shelf and put them on the work station. He then removed a dagger from another cabinet. Carefully, he poured the contents of a few of the bottles over the dagger which emitted some smoke and hissed slightly. They looked at each other a few moments before, taking the dagger together, they plunged the entire thing into the diadem. A bright light and sizzling sound emitted from the diadem and then quickly went out. An acrid odor remained though. Gwen looked at Severus.

"Does that mean the horcrux is gone?" She said not sure of what she had seen.

"I think so." He whispered back.

The father-daughter pair left the room with the still smoking diadem, a basket of poisonous potions and a few daggers. They brought them up to the Headmaster's office. Gwen went back to her room, showered and dressed to get the acrid smell off of her. She changed into a different pair of jeans with a different shirt and went back to her father's office.

"Are we ready to go back to the Manor?" She asked him leaning on the door frame. He had hidden away the diadem while she had been away, as well as shrunken the basket into a box to not disturb its hazardous contents, which he placed in his pocket. He also had an assortment of pastries from Madame Puddifoot's to bring with them as a present for everyone at the Manor. They left the office, which Severus proceeded to ward and lock in every possible way before leaving the school grounds. They apparated to the entrance to Malfoy Manor and knocked.

Lucius answered the door and was surprised to see Gwen and Severus standing there with a box of pastries.

"I thought that you had not left Gwen." He asked her confusedly.

"Oh, I left early this morning, I had to go and ask father a few questions that needed answering right away. I also thought that he wasn't up to anything important at school, so he should join us here and have a good time." She said smiling at her soon-to-be father-in-law. She gave him a quick hug, as he stepped aside, and went in to the Manor in search of Draco.

Severus just shrugged at Lucius to explain his daughter's behavior. "Girls…"

"Well, come in Severus. Nothing exciting is going on here. Bellatrix is here, as are the others that aren't out and about."

"Oh, I brought some pastries for everyone." He said as he fell into step next to Lucius as they made their way to Lucius's study.

They entered the study and Severus set the pastries on an end table. Lucius went over to a cabinet behind his desk and got out a bottle of brandy. "Severus?" He asked indicating the brandy as his eyebrow arched slightly.

"Please." Severus said standing near Lucius. After Lucius had poured the glasses, he passed one to Severus who took a sip immediately.

Meanwhile, Gwen had arrived at Draco's room. He had bolted shut the door after she had arrived and proceeded to ward the door. They went over to the sofa in the room and sat down.

"We figured out how to finish it. The other one is gone and dad will help us with the other project." She said trying to be as discreet and unspecific as she could be.

"That's good." He said kissing her neck making his way up to her face and they began a heavy make-out session.

Author's Notes:

I don't own anyone but Gwen.

Hope you enjoyed Gwen and Snape taking down a horcrux. I was going to have the chapter be longer, but I'm going to split it up.

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Thanks,

DE : )