Chapter 33
They landed in the meeting room at Malfoy Manor. The others that had apperated before them where there awaiting there return as were a few others from the inner circle. As soon as Snape landed with Brianna in his arms Voldemort was up from his chair and in front of him within a second.
"What happened." he ask when he saw his daughter teetering on the edge of consciousness and bleeding. Severus laid her on a transfigured couch that Lucius quickly made for him and Narcissa went to work healing her niece as Bellatrix hovered around anxious about her daughters well being. Voldemort also watching carefully.
"My lord she caught a stray spell by Lupin the werewolf before we were able to apperate away. We had a small delay due to Potter, we had to take care of so he didn't jump apperation. I told everyone to go ahead of me, however Brianna refused and Bella wouldn't leave her child behind. Just as we were leaving was when she was hit." Severus said bowing before his lord and keeping one eye on Narcissa. The dark lord nodded.
"So stubborn, my daughter." the dark lord mumbled to himself.
"Cissa?" the dark lord hissed at the blonde.
"She is fine my lord. It was just a cutting hex. I have sealed it and given her a blood replenishing potion as well as a pain potion. I can wake her as soon as you'd like." Narcissa said and everyone in the room gave a sigh of relief.
"Do it." he ordered and Narcissa waved her wand awakening Brianna. Slowly she groaned and opened her eyes before slowly looking at everyone's face.
"What?" she ask at the look of concern that was radiating off everyone in the room.
"What do you mean, what? You were injured. You could have died." her mother screeched. Brianna just shrugged.
"Hey it happens." she replied as if it didn't mean anything, several people rolled there eyes are her, sitting up slowly and stretching her now healed arm she looked towards her father.
"How do you feel." the dark lord ask his daughter.
"Alive." she said and there was a light chuckle in the room.
"Don't ever scare me like that again. If I wasn't immortal you would have taken years off my life child." the dark lord said and Brianna laughed and nodded.
"Hey the important thing is that Dumbledore is now toast." she said reminding everyone of the mission that was just completed.
They spent about an hour giving the Dark Lord a play by play on what happened from everyone's point of view. They found out that several of the light side suffered injuries during the death eater fight on top of losing there light icon. The dark lord was pleased at the success.
"Excellent. Now all that stands in the way is taking over the ministry, which we are working on as well as getting Potter. Severus once we have the ministry under our control this summer I am placing you as Headmaster of Hogwarts. We will slowly start changing it to fit our beliefs. And I want Brianna and Draco to finish there schooling, with you as Headmaster and some of my death eaters as teachers she will be protected." the dark lord said and Snape nodded.
"Of course my lord. It will be an honor to run Hogwarts." he said smirking.
"And Potter father. What are we going to do about him?" Brianna ask when no one else seemed brave enough to.
"Hum, I haven't decided if I want to take out Potter at the first chance I get or make him suffer first then kill him in front of the light. I will make that decision soon. In the mean time I want everyone working on finding out anything you can about Potter and the order and continue to report it to me. Knowing the enemies every move is important even if you don't plan on using that information." The dark lord said before dismissing everyone after they all agreed.
"Brianna, get some rest tonight. You and Draco did well and I am very proud of you both. However, you were injured and even though you are healed I still want you resting just to make sure." he said leaving no room to argue. Brianna just huffed and pouted causing Snape to chuckle.
"What are you laughing at?" Brianna ask him glaring. He sobered up quickly before answering.
"Nothing love. Your face is priceless. But he is right you need to rest. So come on." Snape said and before Brianna could protest he lifted her up bridal style and carried her to her room, ignoring her protest the whole way.
The next morning Brianna dressed after a shared shower with Severus and headed down for breakfast. When breakfast was over Snape went to the Potions lab to get working on stocking up there supplies while Brianna went to visit her prisoner.
"Go morning Professor Burbage." Brianna cooed at the pitiful women who was shivering in the cold dungeon cell floor.
"What do you want." the Professor ask crying.
"Oh I already told you. You will pay for touching what is mine." Brianna replied coldly.
"Your just jealous that Severus wants a real women and not a child." Burbage had the nerve to say. She was screaming in pain as soon as the words left her mouth as Brianna hit her with a Crucio. She held it for over a minute before lifting the curse.
"Really is that what you think. Is that why he would never touch you, why he turned down all your sluty advances. Is that why he sleeps in my bed at night? Really honey stop dreaming. A dark wizard such as Severus would never dirty himself with a Mud Blood like yourself." Brianna taunted and laughed as Professor cried harder.
"What. What are you going to do with me." Burbage ask.
"Well, I'm going to listen to you scream some more until you pass out. Then I'll let my father decide what he thinks should happen to you. You are a Mud Blood after all. He will probably keep you here for a while then use you as an example. But who knows." Brianna said and before Burbage could reply she was screaming her self horse.
An hour later a smiling Brianna went to the Potions lab to help her fiancée. He looked up when she entered.
"What has you smiling so? Did you have fun?" He ask after giving her a deep kiss.
"Oh yes, she screamed quite nice until she passed out. Now I've come to help you." she replied as they spent the rest of the day content just working near the other.
The weeks pasted by quickly. Everyone was working on something or another in order for the Dark Lord to win. Severus was often gone tracking down Order members for information on Potter, but he always managed to make it back at night to sleep in the bed with his love. Finally it was time for another big meeting with the inner circle and some other death eaters, so the dark lord could monitor everyone's progress. School would start again in a month and some plans needed to be finished up quickly.
Everyone was sitting around the big table with The dark lord and Brianna at the head of the table. No one was talking as they waited for the last two to arrive. Several of the death eaters were nervous at the quite whispers of Parseltongue going on between the dark lord and his daughter. That combined with the dark lighting along with the floating body of Burbage hanging upside down above the table had everyone on pins and needles.
The dark lord was doing this on purpose so everyone knew that failure would be punished. Draco was glancing at the body every so often in curiosity. He was not needed for the meeting but the Brianna allowed him to sit in just so he could be kept up on everything.
Finally after the silence was almost deafening Brianna spoke up.
"There coming." she said and the dark lord nodded looking towards the door.
The door opened and two dark figures walked in.
"Yaxley, Snape." the dark lords high, clear, cold voice rang though the silence. "You are very nearly late." Several people shivered at his cold tone.
"Severus here." the dark lord pointed to the seat next to his daughter. Showing his place as a high ranking death eater along with Bellatrix and Lucius. "Yaxley-beside Dolohov." the dark lord pointed. Both men moved quickly to take there seats. Brianna gave a sly wink to Snape who smirked at her in response as he sat himself at the table.
Living in the same house as the dark lord some death eaters where treated more like family. Snape, the Malfoy's and Bellatrix, they knew they had much more freedom and privileges then others. But during meetings like this when the others where present, they had to act with the up most respect. Punishment would be doled out for acting out of place. How they act in private with the dark lord was to stay private.
The dark lord turned to Snape first.
"So?" he ask.
"My Lord, the Order of the Phoenix intends to move Harry Potter from his current place of safety on Saturday next, at Nightfall." Snape said.
"Saturday….at nightfall." the dark lord repeated. His red eyes locked with Snape's. Others at the table shivered. Snape as always was calm and collective, secure in his place among the ranks and not because he was in love with the dark Princess. He worked hard over the years for the dark lords respect and he had it.
Brianna watched with morbid fascination as the other death eaters that she had only really seen a few times watched with wide eyes hoping the dark lord didn't call on them.
"Good. Very good. And this information comes from?" the dark lord ask.
"From the source we discussed early. Fletcher." Snape replied.
"My Lord." a voice interrupted and everyone's head snapped to who spoke to see Yaxley leaning forward in his seat from down the table.
"My Lord I have heard differently." he said pausing. When the dark lord said nothing he went on.
"Dawlish, the Auror, let slip that Potter will not be moved until the thirtieth, the night before the boy turns seventeen." he said and Brianna narrowed her eyes. How dare the fool contradict Severus.
Snape however smiled.
"My source told me that there are plans to lay a false trail: this must be it. No doubt a Confundus Charm has been place upon Dawlish. It would not be the first time; he is known to be susceptible." Snape replied.
"I assure you my lord. Dawlish seemed quite certain." Yaxley tried again.
"If he has been Confunded, naturally he is certain. I assure you, Yaxley, the Auror office will play no further part in the protection of Harry Potter. The Order believes that we have infiltrated the Ministry." Snape sneered at the death eater.
"The Orders got one thing right, then, eh?" said a squat man sitting a short distance from Yaxley. Brianna couldn't remember his name. He gave a wheezy giggle that was echoed here and there along the table.
Brianna didn't laugh nor did her father. His gaze had wondered to the body that was slowly rotating above the table as he was in deep thought.
"My lord, Dawlish believes an entire party of Auror's will be used to transfer the boy-" Yaxley went on but a raised pale hand from the Dark Lord had him shutting up quickly. Voldemort turned back towards Snape.
"Where are they going to hide the boy next?" the dark lord ask.
"At the home of one of the Order. The Weasley's I believe. I have heard that the 2nd eldest Weasley boy, that one Greyback injured, is getting married and Potter will be attending the event." Snape replied.
"Potter has been known to spend a lot of time with the Weasley family." Brianna back up.
"The home according to the source, has been given every protection that the Order and Ministry together could provide. I think that there is little chance of taking him once he is there, my lord, unless of course, the Ministry had fallen before then, which might give us the opportunity to discover and undo enough of the enchantments to break through the rest." Snape explained. The dark lord nodded.
"Well, Yaxley?" the dark lord called down the table towards said person who cringed back slightly as the firelight made his red eyes seem to glow. "Will the Ministry have fallen by then?"
All heads turned towards Yaxley waiting on his response.
"My lord I have good news on that score. I have-with difficulty, and after great effort-" Brianna snorted quietly at this. "succeeded in placing an Imperius Curse upon Pius Thicknesse." he said. Many at the table looked impressed. Dolohov clapped him on the back.
"It is a start. But Thicknesse is only one man. Minister Scrimgeour must be surrounded by our people before I act. One failed attempt of his life will set us back a long way." the dark lord pointed out.
"Yes-My lord, that is true- but you know, as head of the department of magical law enforcement, Thicknesse has regular contact not only with the Minister himself, but also with the heads of all the other departments. It will, I think, be easy now that we have such a high-ranking official under our control, to subjugate the others, and then they can all work together to bring Scrimgeour down." Yaxley replied sweating slightly.
"As long as our friend Thicknesse is not discovered before he has converted the rest. At any rate, it remains unlikely that the Ministry will be mine before Potter moves. Therefore, if I decided to make a move it will have to be when he travels." the dark lord said.
"We have an advantage there, my lord. We now have several people planted within the Department of Magical Transportation. If Potter Apperates or uses the floo network, we shall know." Yaxley supplied.
"He will not do either. The Order is eschewing any form of transport that is controlled by the Ministry, they mistrust everything to do with the place." Snape interrupted.
"All the better. He will have to move in the Open then." Brianna replied smirking. She reached out and stroked Nagini who had just slithered onto the dark lords shoulders.
"Ickle Potter is running out of options, it seems." Bellatrix laughed as did a lot of the others.
"Yes, according to my source, They are going to Poly juice several people to look like Potter and move then all at the same time in different directions. Making it harder for us to follow or figure out which is the real one. Then they will take to the sky." Snape said and the dark lord nodded gazing back towards the body.
"I think we will have a go at trying to obtain Potter during this time. I am not overly concerned with it at the moment, Whether I take him now or later on after we have taken control of everything it doesn't really matter. However, they are expecting us to attack so attack we will. Even if to just scare him some and lessen there numbers during the attack. I don't want to kill him just yet. I want him to watch as we take his world away from him, I want the light to watch there savior die knowing they have no hope. So, we will attack to possible capture but not kill. If we don't get him this time then we will get him later on. He will have to return to school soon and will be easier to take there." The dark lord said and everyone nodded in understanding.
There was silence as the dark lord was in deep thought, stroking his new wand. He now had two, since his other was not effective against Potters brother wand. He pointed his new wand towards the body hanging over the table and woke her up.
"Severus, you recognize our guest? Do you not?" The dark lord ask and everyone looked up at the now crying, struggling body. Once she rotated to face Snape she spoke.
"Severus! Help me please!" Burbage cried.
"Ah, yes. I almost forgot she was still alive." Snape replied looking at the women in disgust as she slowly turned away.
"For those of you who do not know, we are joined tonight by Charity Burbage who, until recently taught Muggle Studies at Hogwarts. She also made the mistake of pissing off my daughter who in turn captured her during there flee from Hogwarts." the dark lord told everyone. Most everyone at the table gave Brianna a scared glance before focusing back to the body. They knew this women was toast. You just don't piss off the Dark Lords Daughter.
"Yes she taught the children all about Muggle and how they are not different from us." the dark lord said and the death eaters protested, Barty spat on the floor in disgust.
Charity rotated to face Snape again.
"Severus…Please…Please…do something." she cried and Snape just stared at her with a cold look, one eye brow raised. Brianna reached up and caressed Snape's face with the back of her hand. Burbage eyes flicked back and forth between the two, a look of dread showed on her face as she closed her eyes, realizing Snape was not going to help her.
"What do you think my child. Should she be shown what happens to those inferior to us." the dark lord ask her.
"Yes, I think we should." Brianna said in a cold voice that had the death eaters shivering at her anger.
"Would you like to do the honor's." The dark lord ask her and she smirked. Taking out her wand she pointed it at the Professor and said very coldly with no remorse.
"Avada Kadavra." the flash of green light lit up the room as the body fell with a thud, dead onto the table, causing several of the death eaters to leap back from the table in fear.
"Dinner Nagini." The dark lord said. Everyone watched as the giant snake shot out and began to devour the now dead body.
"We will all meet here before nightfall on Saturday to attack Potter. Don't be late." the dark lord said as he dismissed everyone.
