A/N: Alright guys! I was having a spot of trouble with this chapter but i finally finished and i like it better than the last chapter 12 i had out so i'm hoping you guys do too! Please read and review to tell me if you like where this is going or not!!!

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Chapter 12: Hope

Harold fell to his knees when the group disappeared. The castle was in chaos around him but he could only see his children's faces as they were apparated away; they held fear and pain. Harold stared straight at the spot they disappeared. He was head auror; he was supposed to be able to protect them from any kind of threat and yet he hadn't done so. He heard a wail come from behind him and turned his head to see who it was. Harold was shocked to see it was his other daughter who was crying out in desperation. He got off his knees with difficulty and walked to Rose.

When Harold finally got next to her, he knelt down beside her and folded her into his arms. At first she fought him and banged her fists on his chest and shoulders but he just held her tighter, then, finally, she gripped his shirt and just let out her tears.

"We were right there, Daddy. We could have saved them." Rose's words were muffled by his shirt and her tears but they could understand her just fine. "How are we going to find them daddy? What if they kill them? What if they make James join them to protect Lily? You know he'd do that for her, for any of us. What in the world are we going to tell mom?"

"Shh, baby girl. I'll figure this out; I'll get them back alive. You let me worry about telling mom. We'll get through this." Harold sounded like he was trying to convince himself just as much as he was trying to convince Rose. He rocked her back and forth until she started to go from sobbing to sniffling.

"You're right, Dad." Harold looked Rose in the eyes and saw a deep determination in those two-tone eyes. "We will get them back and they will be alive, no matter what we have to do." Rose looked around her and noticed that all of their friends were around her dad and her. She looked at them and said, "That means you guys too. You're all as much family as dad and mom are." She gave a small smile when they all nodded back at her.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~With Melony*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Melony was in her kitchen baking cookies. She and Harold were going to go and visit Arthur and Molly Weasley. Poor Molly had just had her second child, Charlie, and with little Bill at four and just as wild as any child Molly was wearing herself a little thin.

Melony suddenly got a bad feeling like something was wrong with a person in her little family. She checked the cookies and then walked into the room that held a clock that showed where each member of her family was or how they were doing. She checked Harold's hand on the clock and saw that he was distressed and then moved onto the others. What she saw when she looked at her children's hands chilled her to the core. Rose's was the same as Harold's on distress but James and Lily's were hovering just above abducted. The towel her hands had been worrying fell unnoticed to the floor.

"No!" Melony's shocked whisper was like a pen dropping in the silent room. Her hands began shaking as she brought them to her lips. Tears of fear and dread began pouring down her face. She stared at her children's smiling faces on their hands. It wasn't long after their hands finally came to rest on that dreaded location that Melony collapsed on the floor. That would be how Molly Weasley found her friend when she came to check on her an hour later. She would also find a smoking oven that anti-fire wards had luckily contained.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*With Lily and Severus*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Sev?" Lily looked into her friend's eyes. She could feel her shock at seeing him in this dreaded place begin to replace itself with fear. "W-What are you doing here? I-I thought you said you wouldn't even think of becoming a Death Eater!"

Severus didn't know whether or not he should tell one of his few friends the truth. If he did that decision could get both of them killed. If he didn't, Lily would never even speak to him again not to mention probably turn him over to the authorities. Severus decided that telling Lily was his best option. "I was forced into the mark by my dad. If I had said no then I would be dead by now. I went to Dumbledore as soon as I possibly could." Severus paused in his explanation and took a look at Lily. He didn't know when he'd been ordered to get the 'toy' in this room that it would be his friend. She was covered in scratches and blood. He pulled his eyes away when he came to a part that was private but uncovered. He looked at her clothes on the floor and saw that they were slightly torn. He quickly repaired them and handed them to her to put back on. "Lily… are you going to be able to put these on by yourself?"

Lily blushed and shook her head. "I-it hurts to much Sev." She gave a small smile when Sev blushed and nodded. She helped him as much as she could to put her clothes back on but it wasn't much. "What are you supposed to do with me Sev?" She had a tinge of fear in her voice.

"I'm supposed to bring you back to the cell you were in before they pulled you out." He looked into her eyes and saw a small spark of relief in the emeralds. "I don't think we'll see anyone on the short walk from here to there so I'll be able to carry you instead of you having to walk okay?" He gave her a small smile when she nodded. When he picked her up, Severus tried with all of his might not to jostle her too much but it was slightly unavoidable and Lily let out a quiet whimper.

As they began walking, Severus realized that he'd never asked if anyone had been taken with her. When he got a nod, his stomach sank. "Who was it, Lils?"

The use of her nickname brought tears to her eyes. "It's James. He tried to protect me but there were too many and they took us when aurors finally showed up. I think I saw Dad running towards us." Lily closed her eyes and replayed the last moments before they were kidnapped.

"When I get out of here I'll go find your dad and Dumbledore and help them get you out of here. Don't worry, Lils." Severus hugged her closer to his chest. When he got to the dungeons he listened and when he didn't hear anyone down there continued to carry Lily as he was. He walked down the row of cells until he came to the last one. Severus saw James sitting in the corner that faced the door. James had his long legs drawn up to his chest and his head resting on his knees. He'd never seen the confidant boy look so broken. When Severus opened the door and walked in, James' head shot up and Severus saw that his face was tear stained and James' eyes were blood shot. "James come help me put Lily on the cot in the corner. She's hurting and I don't want to jostle her too much."

James jumped up and rushed to help Severus put Lily on the mattress. He finally looked at his best friend, his Lily, when she was lying comfortably on the cot. James almost broke down when he all the bruises and cuts. "Oh, Lily, what did they do? Did they…" James couldn't continue on but it seemed that Lily knew what he meant and she reluctantly nodded. James laid his head on the mattress and let the tears come then.

"James if I had known that it was you two that they were taking from the school today I would have told Dumbledore sooner. I tried to get to school from here faster but it might have alerted the loyal Death Eaters that I wasn't so loyal and I would have been in the same place as you." Severus knelt by his classmate and put a hand on his shoulder. James and Severus weren't friends but they'd always been polite to each other in Lily's presence but Severus knew that right now James needed a friend and Lily couldn't provide that because of her situation at that point in time. "I'm going to go straight to Dumbledore and your father as soon as I get out of here so try to keep them from getting Lily again."

"Why are you even in this place, Severus?" James picked up his head and Severus saw a small light of defeat in James' eyes and knew that Dumbledore and the aurors would have to work fast to get them and the rest of the prisoners out of here before they gave up.

"Ask Lily as soon as I'm gone." Severus heard steps coming from down the hall and immediately turned his concerned face into a sneer. "Filthy mudblood and blood traitor." He said it loud enough that the person walking could hear him then he whispered, "Stay safe. I'm going to send help." Severus walked out of there with a slight swish of his robes.