A/N: I'm sat here, eating a huge bag of Haribo's and writing this :) I do feel slightly sick though :(

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They all stood there, looking at Yaxley's body. None of them knew what to say, or what to do. After a few minutes Lucius walked over to him, and prodded his body with his foot.

"Just checking" He muttered, removing his foot quickly, as though he would catch some horrifying disease from it.

"Darling," A voice from behind said. Lucius turned round, and saw Narcissa standing there looking scared. "Rookwood is upstairs, with all the other Death Eaters."

She saw Yaxley lying dead against the wall and gasped, "You killed him? Lucius, they will get you!" She whispered, not able to take her eyes off of Yaxley's crumpled body.

Lucius moved towards her, gently taking her head in his hands, and pulling her face away from Yaxley. He looked deep into her eyes

"No, he won't. Trust me" and with that he grabbed her and they both made their way out of the cellar. Once he reached the door he turned back to the others and said,

"Stay here and keep quiet" and with that they was gone.

Lucius walked cautiously along the corridor and into the dining room, Narcissa was following close behind him, she was so quiet that he had to keep looking behind him to make sure she was still there. Standing beside the fireplace, obviously having just floo'd themselves in were Rookwood and the group of Death Eaters.

Lucius walked up to him and shook his hand, "Hello Rookwood, what brings you here today?" he said, looking round at the group.

Rookwood glanced around the room before saying "I'm looking for Yaxley actually. You haven't seen him have you? He said he had something important to tell us"

"No, I can't say I have" Lucius replied, carefully avoiding Rookwoods eye contact.

Rookwood looked at Narcissa, "And you, Have you seen Yaxley? He whispered in a greasy voice, his eyes looking up and down her body, a small smile on his face.

She whimpered, looking at Lucius quickly before saying "No, I haven't seen him" her eyes were firmly fixed on the floor, as though she expected Rookwood to call her a liar. But he didn't.

"Hm, well if you do see him, tell him we need to talk. By the way, I heard about your son, such a pity." He said, sneering at Lucius.

Narcissa's head shot up, she opened her mouth to say something, but Lucius shot her a look that said "Shut up!" and she shut it again, flushing slightly.

"Well, must be off. Stuff to do, not that you would know how that feels" Rookwood said smirking. He took one last glance at Narcissa, before getting into the fireplace and disappearing in a burst of green flames. The other Death Eaters followed suit.

"That was close" Lucius murmured, and he and Narcissa made their way back to the cellar. Hermione, Draco and Severus were all sat on the floor talking amongst themselves. They looked up when Lucius walked in.

"What did they want?" Severus asked, slowly getting to his feet and watching Lucius carefully.

"To ask where Yaxley was" Lucius replied, looking at Yaxley again before turning to Severus, and saying "We need a plan"

"We fight," Severus replied, "There's nothing else we can do. They're going to find out about Yaxley sooner or later, and we should get them on our terms rather then theirs."

"So what are you suggesting?" Lucius asked.

"We ambush them. We still have the Dark Mark, we can bewitch it so that, once it's pressed, the Death Eaters will come here. And then, we attack them" Severus finished, smiling slightly.

"But" Narcissa started, "There's only five of us against a dozen or more of them. We won't stand a chance."

They all stood, quiet for a while, stumped. Hermione was the first one to talk again;

"We call the Order" she said, looking at everyone in the room.

"The Order won't help us" Severus said, "The Malfoys are ex Death Eaters remember"

"They won't help them, no. But they'll help me and they'll help you" she said impatiently.

"Me?" Severus laughed, "They thought I killed Dumbledore remember! I thought you knew it all, obviously not" He sneered.

Hermione stared at him, she had forgotton that he was meant to be dead, therefore he didn't know about Harry telling the Order that he was innocent.

"Professor," She started, wondering how to tell him. "Harry saw your memories remember? He saw that it was all on Dumbledores orders, and that you were on our side all along. He told the Order that you were innocent"

Severus looked at her, wondering whether or not she was telling the truth. But then, why would she lie about it?

"Really?" he said, slightly stunned

"Yes, so the Order will help us. Maybe I should owl them though. It'll look better coming from me, rather than Lucius" She replied.

She looked at Draco and motioned him out of the room. They both walked to the Owlery which was at the back of the Manor and Draco called down his owl.

"Do you think the Order will help us?" He asked Hermione, who was scribbling on a piece of parchment.

"Yes, They want the remaining Death Eaters dead as much as we do. There - finished" she said, attaching the note to Hershey's leg. They both watched as he flew out of the window, getting smaller and smaller.

"This is like the war all over again" Draco murmured, watching Hershey fly over the trees and disappear.

Hermione stood close to him and rested her head on his shoulder. "It needs to be done though. The Death Eaters won't rest until we're dead, especially after your Father killed Yaxley." she said softly.

Draco turned round to face Hermione and gently kissed her on the lips, it was peaceful until the door to the Owlery flung open with a loud BANG

Lucius stood there looking stunned, "I was coming to see what took so long." he said faintly, watching them both slowly pull away from eachother.

"Awkward" Severus said from behind Lucius. He walked into the room, watching Hermione flush "Seems like Granger likes Draco, and maybe vice versa" He sneered.

"Shut up! Just because you've never been in love before." Draco snarled angrily at Snape, whose smirk vanished straight away, replaced with a cold glare.

"I have actually, Draco" he said, before turning and sweeping out of the room. Lucius was still stood there looking as though someone hit him on the head with a frying pan.

"So you're in love are you?" Lucius said, watching his son. Draco glared at him

"Yeah I am, do you have a problem with that? are you going to try and kill me again?"

Lucius seemed to be having a silent battle with himself before he finally sighed and said "No, I don't have a problem with that" He too, left the room, leaving Draco and Hermione standing there slightly shocked.

"I wonder what he'll say when he finds out we're engaged" Hermione muttered. Draco just shook his head,

"I really don't want to know" he said grimly.