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While Voldemort took
the baby into his arms (not touching it's skin), Amanda quickly put
a Body Bind Curse on all the Death Eaters. She wanted them to see
their master's downfall before they got sent of to Azkaban for the
rest of there live, and then she quickly untied herself and Draco,
magically of course.
Voldemort turned around
to see all his Death Eaters still standing up right, but obviously
under some sort of curse. Amanda and Draco walked slowly as they
approached Voldemort, though both looking him in the eye.
"Give me my brother
back, now," Amanda demanded as if talking to a young child who had
been naughty.
Voldemort looked at her
before looking at his surrounding Death Eaters, "how did you do
that?"
"That's not
important, now give me back my brother, or else," she threatened.
Draco was trying to keep looking at Voldemort, but the fact that
Amanda was threatening his sent a shiver down his spine. He knew
deep down that Amanda couldn't loose, especially because there were
no Death Eaters around to back him up.
"You dare to threaten
me you foolish girl, I thought you would have learnt from your
parents mistakes, don't bite off more then you can chew."
The two trees Amanda
and Draco burst into flames, (thanks to Amanda) and as if a trail of
oil surrounded the three of them, a circle of flames about
twenty-metre radius appeared around them. Voldemort looked slightly
taken back.
"She's not as
foolish as you may think, actually you're the foolish one if truth
be told," Draco finally spoke up.
Voldemort held Bradley
in one hand and went to slap Draco, but his hand was stopped in mid
air, as if some one was holding his wrist from behind. At that same
time the flames around them became hot coals and instead Nagini,
Voldemort's snake burst into flames. The Death Eaters, who had
once again become visible, had looks of horror in their eyes. Their
great master was losing a battle to a few teenagers, without wands.
Voldemort gasped as his
last remaining external Horcrux was destroyed, that that he knew it
was his last one.
"Killing my snake is
that the best you can do?"
"Just a warm up act
before I kill you, Tom," she laughed, getting pleasure out of the
look in Voldemort's eye when she called him Tom.
"You can't kill me,
I've gone further then anybody else to ensure immortality,"
Voldemort boasted.
"Ohh right your
Horcruxes, well don't worry about them they've all been
destroyed," she smiled an evil smile as Voldemort's face showed
true fear for the first time in his life.
Voldemort looked over
at Nagini's smouldering carcass, before holding the wrapped baby
closer.
"I-it is not
p-possible, you're o-only s-sixt-teen," Voldemort stuttered.
"I-it I-is t-too,"
Amanda stuttered mocking him, causing Draco to laugh.
"You won't kill me,
you're not willing to spend the rest of your life in Azkaban, and
if you come near me, I'll hurt your precious brother here."
Amanda and Draco
laughed at bluff; finally figuring out that Bradley is under
seventeen, and would have inherited his father's protection against
Voldemort's touch.
"Any last words
before you give me back my brother, and I kill you?"
"I don't believe
you'll kill me, and let your brother grow up without any family,"
Voldemort explained sounding a little more confident the last time.
"He'll always have
family, wether I'm around or not," she declared.
"I'm sorry to say
your boyfriend doesn't count," Voldemort laughed, "he as he
same nose as his sister, but his eyes I do not know." He brushed
the back of his hand over the babies face, instantly he dropped it as
he felt himself burning and crumbling. Lucky Amanda expected this to
happen, so she quickly summoned her son into her arms.
"Well that was easy,"
Amanda told Draco who was holding out his arms for Bradley wanting to
make sure he was okay. While Draco held Bradley Amanda summoned the
Aurors, who appeared a minute later. Draco and Amanda had time to
take of the Anti-apparition jinx, and still had time left over to go
poke random Death Eaters.
While Draco was busy
cuddling Bradley, Amanda walked over and crouched down beside Lucius,
half undoing the curse, so that he could only move his head to talk.
"That's him isn't
it, my grandson?" Lucius asked sounding half annoyed but
surprisingly half proud.
"And you're never
going to meet him, we don't want him to pick up any bad habits,
like killing people for instance."
Amanda smiled at the
irony, of her son already killing some one when he's only
twenty-two weeks and didn't turn six months for another six weeks.
"Ironic don't you
think that my grandson killed the greatest wizard of the century, of
whom I was a loyal supporter?"
Amanda smiled to
herself as she again hexed Bradley's grandfather, "yeah ironic,"
she agreed.
The smile quickly
vanished as she realised that the ministry would be here any second,
and how would they explain the baby! After all it's illegal to
have sex if you're under seventeen in the wizarding world, even if
they believed her, 'he's my brother story' which they probble
would. She isn't old enough to get custody, as it was still
another two weeks before her seventh birthday, and it is unlikely the
would give custody to Draco considering he's actually not a
relative.
About two dozen Aurors
apparated in front of her and immediately started arresting the Death
Eaters while a few others did other jobs. The person in charge
picked p a handful of dust from where Voldemort had vanished a few
minutes ago, and inspected it closely. Concluding that it was in
fact once a wizard, regardless he tested a sample in a little jar.
While the Aurors were
running around like mad collecting mad impossible statements about
how a baby killed Lord Voldemort, while Amanda quickly told Draco
what they were going to tell the Aurors. It wasn't the truth
because the truth involved telling the Aurors that Draco was
Bradley's father and the fact that two (once/still) underage
wizards have been regularly been breaking laws imposed on them for
their own safety.
It didn't take long
for Tonks to find them, she quickly gave her cousin a hug, which was
much to his embarrassment not that it mattered much because nobody
was really looking. Then she turned to Amanda who was now holding
Bradley and let out a cry, "there is a baby!"
Many of the Aurors
turned in her direction; the guy that collected the dust now strolled
over to them. The tall brunette looked over his glasses and down at
Bradley.
"To whom does this
child belong?" He asked in a deep but professional voice.
"He's my brother,
sir," she added respectfully.
"I know you're
Draco Malfoy, but what is your name child?"
"Amanda, Amanda
Torque sir," she stated clearly.
"Gracious, I'm
terribly sorry for your parents, but that can't make you much older
then sixteen. I'm afraid that after I take your statement I'm
going to have to find a new guardian, one for yourself and one for
your brother."
"Why can't I stay
with him?"
"It is easy to place
babies, but few would want a baby and a nearly aged witch," he
tried to explain with empathy.
"Why can't I look
after them?" Draco asked, trying to hold his new family together.
"You're just a b,"
but Draco cut him off, "actually I'm of age, with my own house
and a large bank account!"
"I, this is a
delicate issue, it would be up to a court to decide," the man again
trying to explaining something, "I'm sorry but I highly doubt
you'd get custody, you're not a relative and you're barely a
year older then her."
"What about when
Amanda turns seventeen, would she be able to custody of her brother…"
"Bradley," Amanda
filled in, "right wouldn't she," Tonks asked.
"Well given the fact
that they're closely related, I reckon she would get custody if she
can prove she can support it."
"I'll look after
them," Tonks offered suddenly, "I'll look after them till
Amanda's next birthday, which is just around the corner I believe."
"Well I guess, if
it's a temporary thing."
Amanda and Draco beamed
at each other, even Bradley was smiling.
"Now before the three
of you go anywhere you'll have to come down to the ministry so we
can collect your statements, so we can start prosecuting all these
Death Eaters."
Amanda nodded while
Draco just looked at his feet and remained silent. Amanda knew he
was thinking about his dad being sent of to Azkaban, even if he was a
terrible father he was still his father. He just couldn't do it,
he couldn't testify against his own father, it just isn't right.
How would his mother react to her husband being sent of to Azkaban,
to live a life of misery?
They took a Portkey to
the ministry where Amanda held Bradley with one arm while squeezing
Draco's hand with her other hand, not know what to say. She knew
he was in a hard place, either but your own father in prison or let a
bad man walk free.
They were each put in
separate rooms so they could have an individual statement taken.
Amanda took Bradley with her, as it would look a bit suspicious if
Draco took him.
As planned they told
they same story about how they arrived at the house, met Voldemort
and went outside. Then Voldemort just burst into flames, so they
quickly grabbed Amanda's brother, their wands and stunned all the
Death Eaters.
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