AN. I make no monies and Harry Potter is JK Rowling. I merely borrow and keep my day job. One more after this and we are done. Thank you to those that followed this confusing Trilogy.
Chapter 21 Banishing the Darkness
Hermione knelt down, pulling out her wand and murmured healing spells that should have sealed the wound and watched helpless as the wound continued to spill out.
"Oh Severus! I can't heal you." She moaned out, cradling her husband's head in her lap.
Harry knelt down next to her hearing her words. "I hate to bother you but what do we do about that?"
Hermione looked to the Alter and it looked like black oil erupting out from the Alter and seeping into the ground.
"Oh Gods what do we do?" Hermione whispered out, voice loud in the absence of silence.
All gathered around Hermione and looked down to her, waiting for direction as Hermione always had the answer.
She looked up at her friends and son, not knowing what to say when her husband croaked out. "Love!"
Hermione turned her attention back to him. "I'm here Severus." Holding his hand.
"No Hermione! Love!." He gasped out. "Justice here a ghost made into a man because of his love for you. Erin and Donovan here because their love broke his Dark Mark. Harry because of his love, love for all. Always for all! Love for the Wizarding world, his parents, his wife, his children, and those unknown."
He gasped out in pain, holding her hand tightly. "And most of all, your love for me Hermione Snape. Pull me up!" He gasped out and felt for his fallen wand, hands frantically trying to find it.
Harry knelt down and placed the intricately carved end of the unknown black wand into the gasping man's hand.
"Better…" Severus gasped out and pointed his wand toward the broken alter. "I am close to death but this stops it for a moment."
Black forms that seemed of human appearance moved slowly around them, forcing the small group tightly together.
"They are going to kill us." Hermione whispered out.
"Focus sweet witch. Focus your love! Everyone! From the core of your being and point it at that broken Altar. The White Lady said there is power there and despite being broken it still exists. It needs focus! Powerful love from those married before, and one who sacrificed." Moaning out and all watched in amazement as an electric blue light shot out from his wand and to the broken Alter.
All watched in amazement as the Darkness stopped seeping out and the broken alter raised in the air.
"Do what he says! Push your love and push your majiks." Hermione shouted out, an electric blue light spouting forth from her wand and connecting to the Alter along with her husbands.
Several tendrils of light shot out toward the Altar and the ground trembled, moaning in resistance.
Harry noticed Hermione fell down across her husband as he fell back and stilled as well.
"Keep it up!" He shouted out. "Darkness will not take us over. I Love and I Feel and you will never take that away from me!"
The ground shook and everyone fell down, keeping their wand focused, blue light continuing to shoot out.
Donovan moved to Erin and grabbed her hand, blue light shooting forth and hitting the Alter. "I love you Erin. I love you with all that I am."
Donovan watched in awe as the light emitting from his wand changed to a bright purple, while sparks wrapped around the light, the broken Altar whirling around in madness before it thumped down back onto the ground, slid once again.
Erin fell down gasping for breath. "We did it Donovan!" Holding tightly to his hand and lost consciousness.
A resounding crack of thunder sounded out and everyone fell to the ground, his last gaze was the Altar whole once again as all lost consciousness.
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The White Lady stood up and looked to the gathered group in amazement, calling them to wake up. "Such Love that you have!" She exclaimed. "Never before in the centuries that I have watched over this world have I ever seen it."
All watched as Sebastion ran to his mother and father and fell down upon their dead bodies sobbing out.
"Mum! Dad!" He sobbed out. "No! We lived! You love one another! How?!"
Harry moved and knelt down beside the young man. "Sebastion, you know of the Prophecy."
Aurelia moved and placed her hand on Sebastian's shoulder and remained silent.
The White Lady called out. "They were always destined to sacrifice and that they did, one Dark wizard choosing the Light, and a witch of Light binding herself to him sealed her fate."
She continued. "Sebastion Snape, you are Soul bound to another and I promised to Bind you. Your parents are here though you cannot see them as Death is allowing them to witness before their travel to the Veil."
Aurelia rushed to Sebastion and held his hand and whispered. "I'm sorry about your parents."
He glanced down at his parent's dead bodies. "It was always known that it would happen. It has always been their Destiny and they fulfilled it."
He turned to her. "When I touched you, my soul lifted in joy and love. I know you felt the same. Marry me! Right here, right now, in their presence and that of the White Lady. I know that we have not met before but when I touched you, I KNOW you."
Severus watched the proceedings and turned to DEATH. "Will I go to Hell or the Darkness after this? I've done enough for eternal damnation!"
DEATH chuckled. "Yes you have Severus Snape. You know that I do not decide your Fate in the afterworld, but the Veil does that. Enjoy watching their Binding, same as what you and your wife experienced. I delay because you deserve it."
"Place their bodies on the Alter." The White Lady commanded,
Harry and Justice immediately moved and placed Hermione and Severus's body on the Alter while Donovan and Erin looked on.
Justice took a moment to sweep back Hermione's hair and whispered. "I am whole again and I protected you. I swear I will protect the sons and daughters in the future." Kissing the dead lips of Hermione and stepped away.
"That's really nice of him." Hermione murmured to her husband.
Severus glowered and looked to his wife. "They will be protected. It's enough for me."
The White Lady gathered all to them. "One Witch and one Wizard here before me. Together in the age old dance. Who speaks for the witch?"
Justice moved forward and held Aurelia's hand. "I speak and stand for her."
The White Lady nodded before addressing the Groom. "Who speaks for Sebastion Snape?"
Harry moved forward and placed his hand on the young wizard's shoulder. "I speak for Sebastion Snape, son of my beloved friend and Severus, father of the groom. They lay on this Alter and I wish them well in their travel." Tears beginning to fall and splash on the dead bodies.
The White Lady looked to them while placing a finger on Severus and Hermione. "Their Majiks will seep into the stone and protect this world."
All watched as the white stone Alter as the bodies sank down within it.
Hermione watched. "Severus, they need rings and they have none."
Severus pulled his wedding ring off and placed it on the Alter, watching it flare in a bright light and appeared, watching his wife do the same.
The White Lady picked them up from the Alter and held them out to Sebastion. "They hear you and present their wedding rings. Take them and remember their Sacrifice."
Sebastion turned and placed his mother's wedding ring on his bride's hand before placing his father's wedding ring upon his. I love you and there is nothing more in this world I want other than you. Only death will prevent my love to you."
DEATH stood next to Hermione and Severus, watching the touching wedding, the White Lady bind the mortals and turned to the translucent forms of Severus and Hermione as the ceremony completed.
"Very touching. " DEATH drawled out. "But everyone is mine in the end."
Hermione whispered out. "Will they have a full life?"
DEATH smiled and shrugged. "Everyone has a full life, be it good or ill." He ominously replied.
Severus snarled out. "That is not an answer and you know it!"
Death chuckled for a moment as they watched the Lady of the Light approach after everyone left. "It's really up to her at the end. She is the Veil you know, and you are privileged not to see the flapping curtain drawn across an arch of stone , but the True Veil."
DEATH bowed before moving aside, hearing the White Lady speak. "Severus and Hermione Snape, what shall I do with you?"