I don't think I quite captured the emotion I wanted for the first part of this, though I reccomend you listen to 'Death of Cedric' by Patrick Doyle and that's what I wanted it to be.

Anyway, I might not get the next one up tomorrow, but it should be up by the weekend. Hope you enjoy - please R&R!

P.S. My door has been fixed! Yay!

Chapter Twenty-Two

I hit the ground hard, whimpering in pain as I did so. Cheers erupted around us and I realised that we were back, safe…

It finally all caught up with me and I burst into tears, trembling violently with fear as well as my sobs. I felt Rai's arms come around me as he gently drew me into his lap, mindful of my leg. I fisted my hands in his t-shirt and buried my face in it, feeling his hand soothing up and down my back.

That seemed to be when people started to realise that something was wrong. Or perhaps they'd noticed that Cedric and Cho weren't moving. Whatever it was, the cheers abruptly stopped and the screams started, amongst the frantic voices.

I heard Master Fung approach us, voice urgent. "Raimundo? Kimiko? What happened?"

"She's back." I sobbed hysterically, my voice breaking. "She's back. Wuya's back!"

I think I sort of zoned out after that, paying no attention to my surroundings, and the next thing I knew, I was being lifted into Rai's arms and Rai was being led away, the horrible sound of heart-wrenching sobs and wails from Amos Diggory and the shrieking of Cho's mother.

I leant my head against Rai's neck, the sobs having finally subsided, though I was still trembling. I could hear Rai trying to explain, through fragmented sentences, roughly what had happened to Mad-Eye Moody, I gathered from the sound of his footsteps (due to the wooden leg).

"Cup was a Portkey…took all of us to a graveyard…Wuya was there…and Chase…"

"The Dark Lord and Lady were there? What happened then?"

"Killed Cedric and Cho…they killed Cedric and Cho…"

"And then?"

"Made a potion…got her body back…"

"The Dark Lady got her body back? She's returned?"

"…the Death Eaters came…Kimiko and Wuya duelled…"

"Duelled with the Dark Lady?"

"…got away…wand did something funny…her grandparents came out of Her wand…"

"In here, Raimundo…in here and sit down…you'll be alright now…here, drink this, her too…"

I felt Rai sit down and shift me slightly so that I was sitting in his lap as he pressed a goblet into my hands and helped me to drink it before drinking his own. Everything came back into focus after that; sight, sound… But I stayed on Rai's lap, clinging to him.

"Wuya's back, Kimiko, Raimundo?" Moody asked urgently, glancing between the two of us. "You're sure she's back? How did she do it?"

"Took some stuff…from her father's grave…from Wormtail…from me…" My voice was hoarse from all the crying, and I burrowed closer to Rai as I heard screams from the Quidditch pitch.

"What did the Dark Lady take from you?"

"Blood." I showed him the arm that Wormtail had cut.

"And the Death Eaters? They returned? How did she treat them?"

I nodded, about to answer, when something occurred to me, something I should've told Master Fung. "There's a Death Eater at Hogwarts!" I tried to jolt upright, but Rai had a firm grip on me, as if afraid to let me go. "There's a Death Eater here – they put our names in the Goblet of Fire, they made sure we got through to the end-"

"I know who the Death Eater is." Moody said quietly, effectively cutting me off.

"Karkaroff?" Rai guessed.

"Karkaroff?" Moody scoffed. "Karkaroff fled when he felt the Dark Mark burn upon his arm…but I doubt he'll get far. The Dark Lady has her ways…"

"He's gone?" Rai repeated blankly. "So…he didn't put our names in the cup?"

"No. No, he didn't." Moody leant forwards, a wide grin spreading across his face. A nasty grin. "I did."

I blinked, shaking my head. Moody couldn't be a Death Eater! He was an auror! He put most of the Death Eaters in Azkaban; dedicated his life to chasing them… Master Fung trusts him… He couldn't be, he just couldn't…

"No…you didn't do that… you can't have…"

"I assure you, I did." Moody's evil grin still twisted across his face and his magical eye twisted towards the door as he drew his wand out. I realised with a jolt of fear that he was checking that no one was outside it. I felt like crying again. Couldn't we catch a break tonight?

"I asked you," Moody began in a low, threatening voice, "whether She forgave the treacherous scum who never even went to look for Her. Those faithless, filthy cowards who were brave enough to parade around in masks at the world cup, but fled at the sight of the Dark Mark when I fired it into the sky!"

"That…that was you? No, you couldn't have…" It certainly hadn't sounded like him. A younger, slicker voice…

"I told you…I told you all in class…If there's one thing I hate more than any other, it's a Death Eater who walked free. They turned on her when she needed them most…" his face lit up with a sadistic smile. Not as terrifying as Wuya's or Chase's, but enough to send chills down my spine just the same. "Tell me she hurt them. Tell me she told them that I, I alone remained faithful…prepared to risk everything to deliver to them the one thing they wanted above all…you."

"You didn't…it can't be you…" Rai was practically pleading now, but even I couldn't accept it; even when I realised that all along, Moody had been calling Wuya 'the Dark Lady', a name only her Death Eaters called her…

"Who put your name in the Goblet of Fire? I did. Who frightened off every person who might try to hurt you or prevent you winning the tournament? I did. Who nudged Hagrid into showing you the dragons? I did. Who helped you figure out how to get past your dragon? I did!"

I pressed closer to Rai, my mind fighting against the thought that Alastor Moody, the ex-auror, was a Death Eater…but the evidence he gave was staggering.

"It wasn't easy, you know…guiding you through these tasks without arousing suspicion. But, as long as you got into that maze, preferably with a decent head start, then I knew I'd have a decent chance of getting rid of the other champions and leaving your way clear." Perhaps Krum and Voskef had been Imperiused… "But I also had to compete against your utter stupidity. The second task…that was when I thought I'd fail… I was keeping watch on you…knew you hadn't figured out the clue…so I had to give you another hint…"

"You didn't…" Rai croaked. "It was Cedric and Cho…"

"Do you think they would've told you if I hadn't suggested it to them? Decent people are so easy to manipulate… I even planted information in your dormitory, Pedrosa. The Bakerset boy…"

"The book you gave Aidan…" Rai trailed off in confusion.

"It mentioned Gillyweed…" I remembered Aidan and me discussing it with Keiko over lunch after the task.

"Yes. Does the same job as that handy little trinket you used. I figured you wouldn't have learnt bubble-head charms yet…"

I started to shake again as Moody stepped closer and pointed his wand directly at me, though Rai shifted so that it was pointing at him instead. Moody smirked and I couldn't stand to look at him, so I shifted my gaze to the Foe-Glass behind his head. There were foggy shapes moving in it. I wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing…

"You were so long in that lake…I thought you'd drowned. Luckily Master Fung took your idiocy for bravery."

I could see that the images in the Foe-Glass were sharpening, and remembered what Moody had told me the last time we were in here, 'if you can see the whites of their eyes, they're right behind you'. That meant the people were coming closer. Moody, however, didn't notice. Both his magical and non-magical eyes were fixed on us.

"The Dark Lady didn't manage to kill you, Tohomiko, but she so wanted to. And the Dark Lord wanted you, Pedrosa, though not as badly. Imagine how they will reward me when they find I have done it for them…" I couldn't help but think that they wouldn't be too pleased; after all, Wuya had insisted that I was 'hers' to kill.

"The Dark Lady and I are so alike." Moody mused as he towered over us, still aiming his wand at us. I shuddered and pressed closer to Rai. "So much in common… Both of us, for instance, had very disappointing fathers…very disappointing indeed. Both of us suffered the indignity of having to carry that father's name, though she didn't have to carry his first name too… And both of us had the pleasure – the very great pleasure – of killing our fathers…"

"You're mad!" Rai squeaked.

"Mad, am I? We shall see… we'll see who's mad now that the Dark Lady has returned! She is back, Kimiko Tohomiko, you did not conquer her, and now, I conquer you!" He raised his wand and opened his mouth. I felt Rai pull out his own wand but there was a blinding flash of red light before either of them could utter a spell and with a loud crash, the door burst open and Moody was thrown backwards, landing hard on the floor.

I turned to see Master Fung along with Professors Snape and McGonagall, Master Fung's wand arm still outstretched. Glancing back at the Foe-Glass, I could see them there too.

Professor McGonagall headed straight for us, me still curled into Rai, clinging to him desperately. "Come along, Mr Pedrosa, Miss Tohomiko." She whispered. She looked very pale and worried, and almost as if she was about to cry. "Come along…hospital wing…"

"No." She turned to stare at Master Fung.

"Master Fung, they ought to… I mean, look at them! Surely they've been through enough tonight…"

"They need to understand. Understanding is the first step towards acceptance, through which only, can recovery be achieved. They need to know who has put them through this ordeal, and why."

"Moody…" Rai muttered.

"H-how could it have been Moody?" I sniffed, still in shock.

"This isn't Alastor Moody." Master Fung said gently. "You have never known Alastor Moody. The real Moody would not have removed you from my sight after what happened tonight. The moment I noticed the three of you gone, I knew, and I followed." He stepped over the unconscious form of… not-Moody… and took a set of keys and his hip-flask from him, handing the hip-flask to Professor Snape, who took it and opened it, sniffing.

"Polyjuice Potion." He concluded. Oh, so that's what Myrtle had seen.

"Severus, please fetch me the strongest Truth Potion you possess, Veritaserum, if you have it. Then go down to the kitchens and bring up the elf named Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrid's house, where you will find a large black dog and Remus Lupin in the pumpkin patch. Take him to my office, inform him I will be along shortly, and then come back here."

Both Professors turned and left without a word. Master Fung headed to the trunk with seven locks, opening one at a time and peering inside, finding a vast array of commonplace items, from spellbooks to broken Sneakoscopes, until he reached the seventh lock. Upon opening it, Master Fung found an unconscious and thin Moody, at the bottom of a pit. He took the cloak from the imposter's shoulders, placing it upon the real Moody, muttering to himself as he did so.

"Stunned…controlled by the Imperius curse…very weak… Of course, they'd need him alive for the potion… Seems to be in no immediate danger…must have Madam Pomfrey see him…"

As we waited for Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall's return, Master Fung explained to us how Polyjuice Potion had been the perfect plan, as the real Moody never drank anything but from his hip-flask through his paranoia. Eventually, though, the potion's effects wore off as he hadn't taken his latest dose, and the potion was only designed to give you an hour.

The magical eye fell out and the wooden leg came away, both of which the imposter didn't need. The man before us now was blonde and pale, and though he was undoubtedly older, I still recognised him. "That's…that's…" I stuttered.

"Crouch!" Professor Snape exclaimed, stopping in the doorway with Winky at his heels and Professor McGonagall close behind him. "Barty Crouch!"

"Good heavens!"

"Master Barty, Master Barty, what is you doing here?" Winky flung himself at the man on the floor, shrieking. "You is killed him! You is killed him! You is killed master's son!"

"He is simply stunned, Winky." Master Fung assured her. "Step aside, please. Severus, you have the potion?"

Snape handed him the potion and propping…Barty Crouch Junior, it seems…against the wall, he poured the potion down his throat before reviving him. "Enervate."

Crouch opened his eyes, but his gaze was unfocused. "Can you hear me?" He nodded. "I would like you to tell us how you came to be here. How did you escape from Azkaban?"

He went on to explain everything, under the influence of the Veritaserum; Winky wailing and pleading with him to stay quiet. He explained how he and his mother, using Polyjuice Potion, had swapped places, his mother dying as him in Azkaban, and afterwards he and his father staged his mother's death, causing him to live under an invisibility cloak and the Imperius curse since then. He told of how Bertha Jorkins had found out, had heard Winky talking to him and guessed, prompting his father to put a powerful memory charm on her – broken only by Wuya, as I knew from my dreams – which prompted her bad memory. He told us how he had been in the empty seat beside Winky, how he had stolen Rai's wand and escaped to the woods to cast the Mark during the chaos. It explained why Winky had been running so awkwardly; she had tied Barty to herself, and it was him trying to fight her. He told how Wuya, Chase and Wormtail had come for him; how he had broken out of his father's control and Wuya had placed the Imperius curse on his father. Wormtail was left to watch over him, but he escaped, coming to Hogwarts. He told of how Wuya had warned him and he had found his father in the forest and killed him while Rai and I ran for Master Fung. He told us how he had seen him on my map – it explained how I had seen 'Barty Crouch' in Hogwarts, in Snape's stores, looking for ingredients. He told Master Fung that he had turned the cup into a Portkey in order to take us to the graveyard for Wuya's plan. He told them that she'd come back.

Winky sobbed, rocking back and forth.

"Show me your arm." Master Fung demanded.

"I'll show me mine if she shows me hers." Crouch seemed to be regaining some of his attitude. Professors Snape and McGonagall looked confused, but I understood. If Wuya had told him that they needed me for the plan, she would've told him why, at least in part. So, I lifted my arm, and Rai gently pulled back the sleeve to reveal the long, thin cut, blood still slowly dripping from it.

The teachers' eyes widened at the sight of my arm and then Crouch held out his left arm, pulling back the sleeve to reveal the black and smoking Dark Mark. "You know what this means, don't you? She's back." Crouch grinned. "Wuya's back."

I gripped Rai's hand tightly.

Master Fung stared at Crouch in disgust before binding him with ropes from his wand. "Minerva, could I ask you to stand guard here while I take Raimundo and Kimiko upstairs?" Professor McGonagall looked disgusted too, but she nodded and pointed her wand steadily at Crouch. After asking Snape to fetch Madam Pomfrey and Fudge, he turned to us. "Raimundo? Kimiko?" he said gently.

I expected Rai to put me down, but he just stood up, rearranging me in his arms so he could carry me and followed Master Fung out the door. "I want you to come up to my office first. Sirius and Lupin will meet us there." He glanced at us as he spoke before turning back to the gargoyle guarding his office as he reached it.

As soon as Rai and I got inside Master Fung's office, my godfathers – both of whose faces had gone almost as white as mine – came rushing over. "Kimiko! Are you alright?"

"I knew it… I knew something like this would-"

"What happened?"

They helped Rai over to one of the chairs by the desk, with shaking hands, and sat down on either side of us. "What happened?" Lupin asked this time, eyes flickering between my face, Rai's and Master Fung. Master Fung told Sirius and Lupin explained what we had just heard from Crouch. I only half-listened, relaxing against Rai, with my head on his shoulder as Dojo came to rest on his other shoulder.

"Hi, Dojo."

"Hey, Kiddo." He said quietly, awkwardly patting my head sympathetically before coming to rest on it. It was oddly comforting.

Master Fung had stopped talking, and sat looking intently at us. I tried to avoid his eyes. I didn't want to recount what had happened, to relive it…

"I need to know what happened after you touched the Portkey in the maze."

"Can't we leave that for the morning?" Sirius argued hotly. "Let them rest first."

"Numbing the pain now will only make it worse when it does hit. You have always shown bravery beyond anything anyone could expect of you. All I ask is that you demonstrate your courage one more time; to tell us what happened.

I nodded slowly and between the two of us, Rai and I managed to tell the story, Sirius and Lupin often making as if they wanted to interrupt, but a look from Master Fung silenced them.

When we got to the part about the wands connecting, though, they did cut us off. Master Fung explained to us why that had happened. It was because of the fact that Wuya's wand and mine share cores. They each contain a feather from the same phoenix. The 'brother' wands refused to fight each other, so they connected, and the gold beads had caused the reverse spell effect, causing Wuya's last spells to appear in shadowy form – the images of the last people she murdered.

We quickly finished the story and Master Fung, Lupin and Sirius – in dog-form – accompanied Rai and I to the hospital wing.

As soon as we walked in, Carla hurried towards us, face pale and tear-streaked. She gingerly threw her arms around us, though still hugging us firmly, soon Antonio joined her. Master Fung held back as he understood how they must feel at the moment, but after they pulled back, he was quick to warn them. "Please listen to me. Raimundo and Kimiko have been through a terrible ordeal tonight. They have just had to relive it for me. What they need now is sleep, and peace, and quiet. If he would like you all to stay with him, you may do so. But I do not want you questioning them until they are ready to answer, and certainly not this evening."

Carla nodded hurriedly and rounded on everyone else in the room, which I then noticed to be the rest of the Pedrosas – minus Pedro, who was probably still at the Ministry, the workaholic – Clay, Omi, Keiko, Aidan, Sishi and Neko. "Did you hear? He needs quiet!"

"Headmaster, may I ask what…" she trailed off, eyeing Sirius, who was still a large black dog.

"The dog is Kimiko's godfather's, Remus', and both will be remaining with her for a while. I assure you, he's extremely well trained."

Madam Pomfrey led Rai and me to the nearest beds, where Rai helped me into mine before going towards his own. Madam Pomfrey spent time healing my leg and arm before pulling the screen and allowing Keiko in to help me change and bustling off to fetch the potion. She brought it over and insisted that I drink it all, but I only managed to drink half before the events of the day finally caught up to me and I drifted off.

Most of 'Moody' (Crouch)'s dialogue was taken from the book, so don't credit me for it. I mean, other times I only take some, but for that passage, I used most of it, though rather than his explanation, I summarised it.