Chapter 52

Last Time:

"Dean's... dead" Alex sobs, "almost... drowned... die..." Harry kisses Alex's hair and will never let Alex out of his sight ever again. He promises himself that they will go to Hogwarts to get the Elder wand, and then get the next Horcrux. Then go to Australia and get the Resurrection Stone, then the rest of the Horcruxes.

But Harry will make sure that Alex will NEVER go out of his sight EVER again.

Now:

As Alex lays curled up in Harry's arms sleeping next to the fire, Hermione and Harry are talking to each other.

"I'm never letting her go again Hermione" Harry whispers, "I love her and after today..." tears fill his eyes, "I almost lost her thanks to the Dean kid" Hermione nods and rests her head on his shoulder.

"That Dean kid is an ass" Harry and Hermione looks up to see Damon and Stefan Salvatore, and Katherine Pierce.

"How did you find us?" Hermione asks.

"We heard you" Damon shrugs his shoulders and the three of them sits down.

"We are going to protect you so get over it" Katherine smiles innocently.

"I thought you died when Elena died" Alex's voice is heard. Everyone looks at Alex to see her rubbing her left eyes with the back of her hand.

"I thought that too, but that never happened" Katherine answers.

"Is there a chance that Elena, Jer and Aunt Jenna are still alive?"

"There is a chance" Stefan steps in, "we gave them those necklaces remember?" Alex nods, "I got a STRONG witch to cast a spell on them to make sure that no wizard or vampire can kill them"

"Did they work?"

"I dunno" Stefan whispers. Alex looks at the ground and sighs.

"I miss them a lot. I miss dad the most along with my cousins and aunt" Alex closes her eyes and hides her face in Harry's chest.

"We know" Harry whispers into her hair and rubs her back. The vampires stand up and split up to stand guard on different sides of the tent. Hermione kisses Harry's and Alex's cheeks before standing up and walking into the tent to sleep. Harry and Alex stands up and walks in. Harry gets Alex to crawl into the bed that they are going to share. Hermione is curled up on her side in her's and Ron's bed.

~H&A~

At Hogwarts Luna, Ginny and Neville are standing in Snape's office.

"Why were you going to take the Gryffindor sword?" Snape asks them.

"It's to help Harry, Ron and Hermione to kill the Horcruxes" Ginny answers.

"It's a fake you guys. Just like the one in Bellatrix's volt. I'm going to lead them to the sword once I'm done here" the 3 teenagers nods and smiles, "make it look like you are in trouble. Have a good night, and STAY AWAY from the Carrows"

"Ok" the three teenagers walk out as Snape disappears with the REAL Gryffindor sword in hand.

~A&H~

Alex awakes and sits up. She has a feeling like there is something outside the tent that is to help them win the war. Alex climbs over Harry and walks out the tent with still wet hair. She walks out with her wand in hand.

"Lumos" Alex whispers and walks along a trail. Alex sees a doe in a distance all glowing. Right then Alex knows it's a patronus. Alex walks behind it and sees it disappear in a lake that is frozen over. Alex walks across the ice and wipes the frost away and sees something shining. Alex gets to her feet and jumps up and down until she falls into her freezing cold water. Alex hops back onto the ice, and takes off her shoes, pants, sweater and t-shirt. She dives into the water.

Snape watches Alex swim to the Gryffindor sword that he put in the lake. He sees her swim to the surface with the sword. She puts the sword on the ice as Snape walks over. He lifts Alex out of the lake and hugs her. He waves his wand making her dry, warm and with winter clothes on. Her hair is in a ponytail and she smiles.

"I missed you" Alex whispers. Snape smiles and kisses her forehead.

"I missed you too. I will always help you through this mission Ally. The sword is what destroys the Horcruxes" Alex nods.

"Thank you"

"You're welcome. I'll walk you to the tent" Alex and Snape walks along the path back to the tent. Once they stop Snape and Alex hugs once more before he disappears and Alex walks inside the tent and goes back to sleep after putting the sword on the table.

~H&A~

Harry opens his eyes to see Alex asleep in his arms with her head on his chest. He runs a hand through her hair, which is completely dry. He feels her stir but does not awake. Her face is now facing him and her left hand is under her cheek. Her right hand however is gripping his shirt.

Harry smiles and hears a cough. He looks up to see Ron and Hermione facing him with smiles.

"Morning" Hermione whispers.

"Morning" Harry smiles back.

"Look what we found on the table when we awoke" Ron holds up the Gryffindor sword, "we asked the others how it got here, and no one knows"

"What is it doing here?"

"Dunno. We just have to ask Alex if she knows anything" Harry nods. He looks down at Alex to see her blinking, slowly waking up. Alex rubs her eyes and closes them once more before reopening them. She looks at Harry and blushes. Harry kisses her forehead.

"Good morning" Harry smiles.

"Morning" Alex greets her voice groggy. She sits up and crosses her legs. She looks at her surroundings and smiles when seeing the sword, "so it's not a dream. Sev helped and gave us an answer how to destroy the Horcruxes.

"Huh?" Hermione answers confused. Alex crawls over Harry's legs and takes the sword from Ron when he hands it to her.

"Snape put the sword in the lake last night. He sent a message to me and got me to follow his patronus. I got the sword and he walked me back to the tent. He said that the sword is the only way to destroy Horcruxes" Alex explains, "I remember dad telling me as a bedtime story, and that the only way to destroy Horcruxes is Basilisk venom. My guess is when in the Chamber of Secrets when I killed the basilisk the sword got covered in its venom. So it's the only way to kill Horcruxes"

"Wow" Hermione, Ron and Harry whispers.

"Where are the others?"

"Justin took Zeke and Harper back to New York. Russo, Max, Felix and the vampires are outside. Felix has to go back home, he wants to wait to say goodbye to you" Hermione tells her. Alex smiles and nods.

"Ok" Alex walks outside and Felix hugs her tightly and tells her the exact same story that Hermione told her.

After breakfast, Justin arrives back and they all pack up the tent before disappearing to Nichols Flamel's house in Australia.

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