Chapter 25

There had been people captured during the last battle. Everyone was trying to figure out what to do. That's when they got an owl. The release of all of the people captured in exchanged for Albus.

"We can't just give him Albus," Harry said.

"But we need to think of the big picture. I think we should give up Albus to get the rest of the hostages back. I know you don' want to protect your son, but think of all the hostages."

"I'm not letting you trade my son to that monster," Harry said.

"What if we don't give you a choice in the matter?"

"I won' let-"

"It doesn't matter what you want."

"You can't just send Albus to them," James piped in.

"Again, we're not giving you a choice."

"But, don't you care about Albus? Mom died getting him out of the hands of him. If you just give him back her death will be in vane," James complained.

"I know, but we have to save the hostages. Think of the big picture. Giving up one to save several. I think it works to save several. I don't know what to give up Albus, but my hands are tied."

"No. We can't just give in. I'll fight you if you try to take my brother," James stated harshly.

"You can't stop it. We're trading Albus for the hostages. It's done. We already told Alek we'll do it.''

"You can't! Albus is already weak and fragile. You're going to break him if he goes back to Alek," James said.

"I want to go back to Alek," Albus said. He had been standing in the door way. "I want to go back, and if it helps save people that's even more reason to send me back to Alek. I- I don't like the idea that mom died to get me out, but I wan to go back to Alek."

"See, everyone's on bored."

"Albus isn't stable enough to make this choice. We can't trade. We don't negotiate with terrorism," James said

"That's a muggle American thing. We're not bound to that. We'll do what's best for everyone."

"I'm in charge here. We're not doing it," Harry said.

"You're not in charge. You're too bias. You can't see the big picture. We need to give Albus to to Alek to get the hostages back. That's final. Now we're suppose to meet Alek in an hour. Albus come over here."

Albus went over to other members of the New Order. "I'm sorry dad, James, but I have to go back to Alek, but don't worry he's not really evil."

With that they left with Albus, leaving a pissed up James and Harry.

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They were standing on one side with Albus, and Axel was on the other side with the hostages.
"We'll send them over at the same side. Don't try not anything, or I'll kill everyone here." Axel said.

"I understand."

Albus walked over to Axel and the hostages went over to the others. "Good doing business with you." The two were soon gone.

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Albus ran over and hugged Alek as soon as he saw him. "I- they're saying you're evil. That you're doing horrible things. You're not evil or a bad person or any of that right?"

"Of course I'm not. All I'm doing is making the world where everyone can live happily. I'm not doing anything bad," Alek sad, kissing Albus. "I missed you so much. I was so worried about what they might be doing to you over there. I can tell they've been telling lies about me. I'm not hurting people."

"But there's a war going on. I can tell that much and they say it's against you," Albus said.

"We are at war, but it's because they don't understand. I want everyone to be happy, but they think we're evil. I admit, some of the men attack them, but it's in self-defense." Alek paused. "Maybe some of our people are evil. I don't know what the head guy wants, but I'd like to think we're doing good."

"I knew you weren't in charge. If you do anything bad it's because you were forced or under some kind of spell. I knew you couldn't be doing all of his because you wanted to. We should run away."

"We can't run away. We'd never make it out," Alek said. "With everything going on right now, this is the safest place to be. I can protect you here. I don't know if I can protect you out there. Just stay here with me."

"Okay. I trust you more any anyone," Albus said.

There was knock on the door and Rosa came in with dinner. "Oh, I hope I'm not getting into anything. I have dinner for you two."

"Rosa? You're here too? You're one of Dominique and Roxanne's friends right?" Albus asked.

"Yeah. I'm here because my boyfriend, Axel, is here," Rosa explained.

"Well thank you for the food. You can leave now," Alek said.

"Yes sir," Rose said, leaving.

"I'm sure you remember how good the food is here," Alek said with a smile, taking a bite of food.

"Yeah the food is good," Albus said with a smile. "Are there lots of students here?"

"We have a good number of them, more than I thought would join us,"Alek said. "We're going to bring forth a new world order. Everyone will be happy."

"Alek, you're sounding like you want to take over everything,"Albus said.

"Don't worry about things like that," Alek said, kissing Albus. "All you need to worry about is being here with me. I'll keep you safe. I should have done more so that you weren't take away this last time, but I won't let it happen again."

"I'd like that," Albus said. "I don't want to go back there. I can't believe how much people think you're evil. I'm sick of hearing them talk about how evil you are."

"I can tell that would be bad. You won't have to worry about anything anymore. Just let me take care of everything. Just stay in this room and everything will be okay."

"Why do I have to stay in this room?" Albus asked.

"Because there's a war going on and we have a lot going on out there. I don't think it would be good if you got into it. I don't want any pressure on you. It's best if you stay in here. Like before, I'll be here as often as I can. Is Rosa your friend? Or Axel? They can come and visit with you if you'd like," Alek said.

"I'm friends with Axel. It might be nice to hang out with him," Albus said.

"Come to think about it, the whole Slytherin Qudditch team is here. I'll have them stop by sometimes too. I'll make sure you're not alone a lot," Alek said. "I don't want you to be alone and afraid or bored."

"Thanks. That will be nice,"Albus said. "I don't like being alone for too long. I want to help anyway I can."

"You can help me by helping me calm down when I'm stressed. I know that I can depend on you to help calm me down," Alek said, kissing Albus.

When they finished eating Alek took their dishes and put it outside their room. "I'm going to go back to work, but I'll be here tonight before you go to bed, promise."

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"I don't see what you see in him," Rosa said.

"I love him, why does it matter?" Alek asked. "And what concern do you have about my love life?"

"I just don't understand. I suppose it's the same thing with me and Axel. Albus is just so weak. Do you like to control him? Does is keep you happy that he's so dependent on you? Do you like to control your biggest enemy? Do you-"

"Shut up! You don't know anything!" Alek yelled. "I love Albus because I love him. I don't like controlling him. If he were stronger I'd have him helping me with all of this. I admit, he is weak, but that's not the reason that I love him."

"If you say so,"Rosa said. "Did you hear that Molly and Chloe are pregnant?"

"Is that true? That's interesting. It make sense I mean, they were together." Alek said

"I won't be getting pregnant with Axel. I'm sure you don't need to get all the details, but we still have fun. You have sex with Albus?

Alek looked flustered by the question. "T-that doesn't concern you."

"You haven't have you? That's cute," Rosa said. "Are you worried you'll hurt him?"

"I said it doesn't concern you," Alek said harshly.

Rose laughed. "it's cute is all."

"Shut up."

"Shouldn't you go back giving orders? The enemy is gaining on us. We need to make a move," Rosa said. "They have people form Russian and France helping them," Rosa pointed out.

"We have a lot of people from Russia are helping us too," Alek said. "And I don't care about the French. We still have the upper hand. We'll win this war. We'll enslave the muggles and muggle borns and have a world were pureblood and halfbloods can live together."

"I'm a muggle born," Rosa pointed out.

"That's because you killed your parents. If a muggleborn kills their parents to show they are for the purebloods then they will be honorary halfbloods," Alek said. "I don't want to kill all of the muggleborns, so they have a chance to live in the new world."

"How nice of you," Rosa said.

"Your brother became a honorary halfblood when you killed your parents too," Alek said. "So be happy about that. Everyone, except pure muggles, will be happy in this new world. Everything will be okay, once I take over."

"So you're better than Volidmort because you give muggleborns a chance at living in this new world," Rosa said. "I think that's great."

"I'm glad you approve." Alek said, but he didn't even care what she thought.

"Everyone will understand the new world order. You should be lucky to be so close to me. Most people will ever meet me, just follow me like sheep," Alek said.

"Well then I'll consider myself lucky,"Rose said, shaking her head. "It's only because of Axel isn't it?" Rosa asked. "No. I don't care. I like it here. I get whatever I want and get to help plan out attacks, though Axel does much more of that than I do, same with you I guess."

"I've been thinking. You're Lily's friend right? What if I sent you into their camp, claiming to have gotten away form me. You can be my informant. How does that sound?"Alek asked.

"I rather stay here, but if that is what you want my lord, then I will do it," Rosa said.

"Good. I'll send you there without being seen. You just need to not get caught."

"I won't get caught. I promise," Rosa said.

"Good. I'm counting on you."