Elara wished she could say her vacation to her home for the week was boring and uneventful but her and Draco both knew that wasn't true.
Elara was acting weird and Ginny wanted to know why.
"El, what's going on with you?" Ginny asked. Elara looked up from the parchment she had been studying and made blank eye contact with Ginny from across the table.
"I'm not sure I know what you mean?" Elara lied before looking at her parchment once again. Ginny frowned.
"Elara." She muttered.
"What? There nothing wrong Ginny. I'm fine."
"Okay, you went home to say goodbye to your dying grandmother a week ago and you came back acting very strange. You jump anytime anyone touches you, you refuse to talk in class, Draco and Snape have been looking at you weird and you have been wearing sweaters in June. Somethings up."
And then it clicked.
"No. Elara." Ginny whispered. Elara held her breath. Before Elara could stop her Ginny grabbed her arm. Elara attempted to pull it away but it was useless. Ginny pushed up her sleeve. Elara felt a tear fall on her cheek as Ginny stared blankly at Elara's forearm. They sat like that for a moment before Ginny threw her arm down like it was poisoned.
"Ginny-" Elara began but she was cut off by Ginny's hand making contact with her face. Elara placed her hand on her cheek and looked back at Ginny.
"Traitor!" Ginny spat. "You're a death eater?!How could you?"
"I... I couldn't help it-"
"Yes you could! You have a choice and you chose the wrong side. You didn't even have the guts to tell me!" Ginny collected all of her stuff quickly.
"No, please don't leave." Elara whispered. Ginny scoffed and then she glared at Elara.
"Never talk to me again."
Then she was gone. Elara stared at the seat where Ginny had sat calmly just two minutes previous, her face peacefully studying her potions book. Elara sat in shock for another moment before she wiped away her tear and then she rolled her sleeve and exited the empty library.
Her arm burned.
Elara sat in professor Snape's bedroom in tears. He came into the room, and saw his god daughter, sitting on his head.
"Elara. You can't be in here. You know-" he flicked on the lights
She was crying.
Snape's expression softened. This wasn't the first time she had been in his room without him knowing it but it was the first time she had been in it like this. He moved towards his stove and put on a kettle of water before sitting down across from her on the bed and wiped away a tear.
Most people had never seen this side of him but his God children were the most important thing in the world to him and seeing Elara like this hurt him.
"She found out." Elara sobbed. "We were studying and she started talking about how I was acting weird and then it sort of clicked in her mind. She grabbed my arm and stared at it before she told me to never speak to her again."
"Did you explain why he made you take it?"
"She wouldn't let me tell her. She hardly let me say anything." Elara wiped her tears away.
"You have to tell her."
"She won't listen."
"So make her."
"Where are you going?" Draco asked, watching her rush towards the forest.
"Ministry of Magic. I'm being called." She replied, continuing to walk.
"Is that where Harry's disappeared to?" Draco asked. Elara didn't want to look at him.
"Yes."
Draco grabbed her arm, forcing her to stop and make eye contact with him.
"I want to come."
"No. I'm about to go defy the deatheaters, you are not going to be there for that. They'll try to use you against me and Harry." She told him before turning to continue walking. Draco chased after her. She reached the edge of the apperating barrier on the grounds and Draco grabbed her arm for a second time to turn her. She stared at him and he let go of her.
"Bring him back safe please." He pleaded, looking into her eyes. "He's the love of my life and I need him. Please."
Elara took a deep breath.
"I promise."
Then she was apperating illegally.
Harry had stopped talking to Elara but because Draco wasn't a death eater he still trusted him. Draco had tried to tell Harry why Elara had become a death eater, that she didn't have a choice because he would have killed her family and Ginny, but Harry just couldn't trust her and Elara didn't blame him.
She wouldn't either.
Elara showed up at the ministry right in between the group she was there for and the group she wasn't.
She was exactly where she wanted to be.
"Ah, Elara. You've finally arrived." Her father said. Elara looked at him and smiled.
"It seems I have." Elara replied coolly. She looked over at the people she had come to protect and they all glared at her. She smiled at them.
"Good. You can retrieve the prophecy." Lucius told her. Elara turned to Harry.
"You listen to it yet?" She asked. Harry furrowed his brows. "I need to know. Have you?"
"Yes." He replied. Elara smiled.
"Good." Elara levitated it and it flew into her hand. Harry had tried to stop her but he couldn't. It was almost impossible to stop someone with wandless magic if you couldn't do wandless magic.
"Now I know you really are a traitor." Harry spat, looking at her arm. Elara laughed and then looked at him dead in the eye. He glared and she smirked.
"You wanna know why the dark lord wanted a 15 year old in his ranks? He found out I could preform wandless magic and apparently I was 'very powerful' which meant he would have an advantage.He didn't really take into account if I wanted to be a death eater or not." Elara replied. Elara asked him. Hermione caught on immediately and smiled. The others seemed confused. Lucius seemed to catch on too.
"Elara no. Give me that prophecy." He ordered. She turned to him and smiled then turned back to Harry and the group.
"Run." She told them. They stood for a moment confused. "Or don't. You can die if you want."
Harry smiled brightly, finally understanding, and he began to run the other direction. Everyone immediately followed as all the shelves began to fall. Elara sprinted to the door, following Harry and he opened it. Everyone fell through and Hermione stopped them from hitting the ground. They stood up.
"Betraying Voldemort? Elara Narcissa Malfoy you are going to die if you do this?! What the hell is wrong with you?! Why are you helping us? What are you doing?" Ginny asked her angrily. It was clear she was scared about what was going to happen to her best friend and Elara knew in that moment that Ginny still cared about her. Elara paused and looked at her.
"Getting myself killed." Elara replied, smiling. The death eaters appeared in the room and grabbed everyone except for Harry and Elara. Her dad glared at her.
"Elara Narcissa Malfoy, you give me that prophecy this minute." Her father ordered. Elara smirked and then the glass ball flew into the air out of anyone's reach.
"You better let them go." Elara warned. He looked around the room and assessed his options. The the order came, the order Elara called.
Elara smiled brightly.
"Get away from my godson." Sirius punched Elara's dad in the face and Elara laughed.
"Elara." Sirius said, smiling at her.
"Mr. Black." She replied politely. He shot a curse at a death eater.
"Don't ever call me that again." He said. Elara laughed. Lucius grabbed Harry when they weren't paying attention.
"Well father, it seems you made the wrong choice." Elara frowned. Then she let the prophecy go. Lucius threw Harry to the side and jumped go catch it but he missed. Elara smiled at his face of defeat.
"Avada Kedavra!" Elara heard it and pushed Sirius and Harry aside with her mind and ducked. Elara smiled and stood up.
"You stupid dumb bitch." Elara yelled, but Bella smiled and turned.
"Crucio!" Bella yelled. Then the scream. Elara recognized the scream because she would know that voice anywhere. She looked over at Ginny. Bellatrix lifted her off the ground and threw her down.
"No!" Elara screamed. Ginny collapsed to the floor, heaving, unable to catch her breath. Bella lifted her again and this time, she threw her to the other side of the room. Her chest wasn't moving.
Ginny wasn't breathing.
Elara looked back over to Bellatrix and sprinted after her. Bellatrix skipped through the halls.
"I killed her. You gonna hurt me?" Bella laughed.
"CRUCIO!" Elara screamed Bellatrix collapsed. Harry chased after her.
"Elara no!" He screamed but then she heard the voice.
"Do it." Voldemort whispered.
"You know the spell." He continued.
"She killed her. She deserves it. Kill her."
"Elara you're better than them. You are better than they will ever be. Don't kill her because as much as she deserves it-" Harry walked over to her and gently grabbed her hand with her wand that had been pointed at Bella. He moved in front of her and looked at her in the eyes. "-you are not a murder."
Elara realized what she was doing. She was no better than Bellatrix.
"Kill her Elara. Kill her."
Elara breathed heavily.
"No."
Disobeying her dad and the deatheaters was one thing but disobeying Voldemort directly was something entirely different.
And way more dangerous.
Voldemort appeared in the room and Harry stood his ground beside her.
"You two are foolish." He laughed. "And now you are going to die."
Elara heard the flames and she looked over to see Albus walk through them.
"The only one foolish here is you Tom. The aurors are on their way."
"By the time they get here I shall be gone and you three shall be dead."
Albus pushed Elara and Harry to the wall. She saw Harry stand up again but she stayed down as they fought. She was thinking about Ginny lying on the ground bleeding.
Dead.
She had been thinking about this until she saw Harry collapse.
"Harry!" She shouted. She stood up and ran over to him. She fell next to him. He was struggling, Elara could see it.
"Harry, please. You're better than him. You've beaten him time and time again. He doesn't have to win. You don't have to loose. It isn't how you are alike but how you are different. Please. Fight him. For me. I just lost the girl I've been in love with for over three years. I can't loose my brother too. I just can't. I know you hate me. I know I'm a deatheater and I'm a traitor but I've never stopped loving you. Please fight him. He can't win. If he wins I'll loose everything I've ever loved including you." Elara begged.
Harry slithered next her and then his head flew back. Elara felt her tears and she felt weak. She felt hopeless. She couldn't help him. She let him down. She let herself down, Ginny down. She let everyone down.
Most importantly she let Draco down.
"Bring him back safe please."
"Harry." She murmured, wiping the hair out of his face. Harry slithered for another moment and then he fell, flat on his back, motionless. Elara stared for a moment.
"He's the love of my life and I need him."
"Oh god." She muttered. She felt herself sob. Everyone watched from afar but none of them had the guts to come near them and look at Harry, laying there lifeless under Voldemort's spell.
Sirius ran into the room and looked at the picture in front of him, his god son not moving underneath Voldemort, and his cousins daughter crying next to him.
"Harry! Elara!" Sirius screamed. He attempted to run forward but Remus grabbed him and held him back.
Elara stared at Harry, having a hard time catching her breath.
"Please"
"He's dead." Voldemort laughed. And he was right.
Harry Potter wasn't breathing.
"No." Elara whispered. Elara let out another choked sob and then she screamed. She fell into his chest.
"Please"
"Elara Malfoy, I have won. Join me once more and you shall live. Deny me again and you shall die." She heard. Elara sat up slightly.
"You'll have to kill me."
"Then I will."
She had broken her promise.
"Please"
Elara closed her eyes and then she kissed Harry's forehead. She sat for a second before he awoke with a start. He breathed heavily for a moment and then he moved his head.
"You're the weak one and you'll never know love or friendship." Harry began. "And I feel sorry for you."
Then he screamed. Elara could see he was in pain and it hurt her to watch. He struggled further and then Voldemort left his body.
Time seemed to slow down.
Elara saw the minister and his people come in to the hall and he made direct eye contact with Voldemort.
"He's back." Fudge whispered.
Then Voldemort was gone.
Elara pulled Harry's head into her lap and she stroked his hair. He was hyperventilating. Elara picked him up and then she aperated outside of the school gates. She ran to the hospital wing and dropped him in a bed.
"Poppy!" She screamed. There was no answer.
"Poppy!"
Nothing.
Elara decided instead of waiting she would do what she had done plenty of times before, and clean his wounds. She did so while he was asleep so he would be in the least amount of pain possible.
Then Draco ran in.
"Draco you can't be here" Elara told him.
"My boyfriend is hurt, again, and you are too. You need me as much as he does."
"I'm fine Draco."
"You're a liar. What happened?" He asked.
"I went where I was ordered to because I knew Harry would be there. I got the prophecy and destroyed it before Lucius could take it to the dark lord. We were winning when Bella shot the killing curse towards us. I managed to get Sirius and Harry away which made her mad. She threw Ginny against a wall and then she threw her again." Elara wiped away a tear then put down her sewing needle.
"She's dead." Elara whispered. Draco looked down at the ground.
"I was about to kill Bella when the Dark Lord showed up. He possessed Harry. He was dead for a minute before somehow he revived himself. Then I brought him here." Elara explained. Draco grabbed her hand and then pulled her into him. She sat silently in his lap.
"I'm so sorry." He murmured. Elara hadn't cried for Ginny yet. She had still been in shock.
Elara sat there in silence. She continued to fight tears for a moment before she collapsed into Draco and she began to cry.
It was heartbreaking.
The three of them sat in the hospital wing. Harry was sleeping, something Elara was sure he hadn't done in at least a month from the way he had passed out. Elara sat in Draco's lap in the chair next to Harry, her face all red and splotchy from the tears she had finally cried. She had almost fallen asleep when Sirius, Ron, Hermione and everyone else ran in. They all looked at Draco.
"What are you doing here?" Ron spat. Elara looked up at Ron and wiped her tear away.
"I healed Harry because Poppy wasn't here and I thought his wounds should be cleaned. Draco came in to see if I was okay." Elara explained. Ron looked at her expression and nodded his head.
Sirius got closer and kneeled in front of her. He placed his hand under her chin and moved her face side to side, checking for any cuts or scrapes.
"Are you hurt?" Sirius was genuinely concerned.
"Physically, no. Just heartbroken." Elara replied, another tear falling.
"Why?" Ron asked. Then Elara noticed he wasn't upset.
"Where's Ginny?" Elara asked, standing up.
"On her way in here. Poppy healed her as best she could and now they're bringing her in here to continue her healing." Ron told her.
"She's alive?" Elara stood up. It was in that moment that Ginny came through the room, being carried by Remus Lupin. "Oh thank god."
Elara ran forward and sat down on the bed next Ginny.
"Elara?" Ginny asked.
"Yeah. It's me." Elara replied.
"I'm sorry I didn't listen to you." Ginny apologized.
"Don't worry about that right now. You're alive, that's all I care about." Elara kissed Ginny's forehead and then watched as Poppy gave her about 10 healing potions. Ginny fell asleep almost instantly. Elara sat next to her, holding her hand as she slept.
Ginny woke up from a nightmare two hours later and she made Elara hold her until she fell asleep again
Ginny didn't have anymore nightmares.