Chapter 36

"Are you going to fight?" Luis asked Ciel. "I mean, I know your brother is fighting, but-" Luis looked down. "I don't want you to go out and die. And we're too young, they'd never let us fight. We can't do much of anything."

"I don't know. If people didn't know me here, I would just fake papers and join the fight. With everyone here knowing who I am so it makes I hard to sneak out onto the field,"Luis said.

"My uncle said I'd be too distracting for the men fighting," Luis said. "I couldn't fight, even if I wanted to."

"I still would rather be out there doing something, anything to help." Ciel said.

"Yeah. I don't like just sitting here, waiting for things to happen. But what else can we do? Unless you think we'd be much help with the hospital tents," Luis offered

"I guess we could do that. Anything to help would be good," Ciel said.

"Ciel I love you."

"W-what?"

"I said I love you, but I'm scared. I'm scared that you only like me because of being part Veela. I want to believe that you like me for me but-"

"Trust me. I like you for you. I like you for more than your looks," Ciel said.

"Thank you. You don't know how happy that makes me," Luis said. "I've never had a boyfriend before. I was always afraid they only liked me because of my veela blood. I don't like girls as more than friends, but I think I, well, I wouldn't mind going out with you."

Ciel smiled. "I would like to be your boyfriend."

Luis' face lit up. "R-really. That's awesome!" He hugged Ciel. "Let's go see if we can help with medical. I hear they're under staffed. Everyone wants to run off and play war."

"But that's what you want to do," Luis pointed out. "But I'm glad you'll be staying here I don't want to lose you, not when we're finally together."

"Worrying doesn't do any good. Besides, we won't be in any danger. No need to fret," Ciel said.

"That's true."

"The war is getting close to an end. We're getting close to fighting Alek in his home base. We'll be winning the war soon," Ciel said. "Then everything will be okay. We'll go back to school and life should get back to normal."

"How can things go back to normal after all of this?" Luis asked. "So many horrible things happened. You can't just forget that and go back to the way things were."

"But that's all there is to do. It might take some time, but life does go on," Ciel said. "Because life has to go on."

Luis was quiet for a few long moments. "I guess that makes sense. Life can't stay in a state of war forever."

There were some yelling. Luis and Ceil ran to see what it was.

"They're attacking us here! Everyone that's not a fighter go back to the shelters," Harry yelled. There were people yelling everywhere, spells flinging back and forth. Ciel grabbed Luis and started to run to the shelters.

There were people dying everywhere. Luis never thought they would attack here.

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It was a few hours before the fighting stopped. The shelter door opened and Alek walked down a smile.

"No need for fear. We're going to make a new world now. You're all welcome to be a part of it, of die. Whatever you prefer. Right now, you'll all be coming with me. Resist and die."

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It was quiet as everyone sat in cells. They would take a few people at a time and none of them ever came back. "Ciel, I'm scared," Luis said.

"Just go with what they want. We can't fight back now. We just have to stay alive long enough to fight back,"Ciel told Luis. "Just do what they want. You're almost pureblooded. You should be okay."

"What about you?"

"My parents are dead, so I should be honorary halfblood," Ciel said. "You shouldn't worry."

Luis looked around. Most of his cousins were already gone. "Do you think he'll killing him, do you?"

"I doubt it. As long as they go along with Alek, what is the smart thing to do, then we can get together and have a fighting force to take on Alek. We have to live in order to do that," Ciel said.

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"Miss Molly and Miss Chloe we have a room for the two of you. We don't want you to lose your babies," Axel said. "I'm glad you decided to come to the side of the new order."

"I'd do anything for my baby," Chloe said. "Can I see James?"

"And I want to see Micheal," Molly said.

"They're busy at the moment, but I'll let the know you want to see them,"Axel said.

"How are my cousins?" Molly asked.

"Most of them have given into following lord, but a few refuse and I can't be held accountable for what happens to them," Axel said.

"There's no way James would give into Alek," Cleo said. "You're going to kill him aren't you?

"You shouldn't worry about it. You need to rest so your baby is healthy," Axel said.

"How can I not worry about James? He's my husband," Chloe said.

"I'll see what I can do about seeing him. You two just rest. We'll take good care of you.." With that Axel said.

"They're going to do horrible things to James because a there's no way he'd follow Alek. I-and there's nothing I can do to help him."Chloe looked down. "Maybe it's okay. Alek running everything. I mean, they're treating us well. They're only going after people who are against things. They even give muggleborns a way to be a pat of the new world order. He was good enough to take over everything."

"Don't even talk like that!" Molly yelled. "Don't you know how many lives he's taken?"

"And how much have we killed too? He's doing the same thing we'd do against a dark wizard. He seems to take care of everyone under him. I don't think he's evil. I think he honestly believes he's making the world a better place,"Chloe pointed out.

"At least England. I doubt he'll be going after another country."

"That would make sense. I'm sure he wouldn't go after another country. I think things are doing okay. We're being treated a lot better than if we were under Voldemort. I really do think Alek wants the best for everyone and he's trying his best to do that," Chloe said. "I think this might be okay."

"Do you hear yourself? Of course this is bad. Alek is evil remember?" Molly said.

"But what if he's not? I mean, he's done some horrible things, but bad things happen to people in war. He's letting at all the first though thirds years don't have to prove they're any blood type. They're all being honorarily halfbloods. He's being nice to the kids"

"Yeah but he's also killing their patents of those muggleborn in that group," Molly pointed out.

"We'll we're here and it doesn't matter who's right or who's wrong. We're here for the long run," Chloe said.

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James was chained to a wall in the dungeon. His wand was taken away. He was helpless. "I'll never join you."

"Don't you want to be with your family You're beautiful wife. It would be a shame if something happened to her wouldn't it?" Alek asked.

"Leave Chloe out of this! This is between you and me," James spat out. "If you touch her I'll kill you.."

"In your position? I wouldn't be making any threats. I'd be begging for mercy," Alek said. "You know the kinds of things I can do to make you listen to me."

"I'm not afraid of pain. I'm not afraid of you killing me. If Albs finds out you've killed me you'll lose him forever. And don't think he won't find out. He'll find out. He'll find about about this too if you're not careful. You don't want to lose Albus do you?"

Alek used a pain spell on James, causing the older boy to scream. "Do not think I will lose Albus. He'll never find out about this. If anyone tell Albus this happened, or anything about how muggleborns can be treated as halfblood in the new word or anything that might make him think less of me, I'll kill them."

"Because having a person who tells Albus the truth then suddenly disappears will work," James said. "Albus will start to figure things out. He's not stupid."

"No. He's not stupid. But he trusts me more than anyone else. I'll just lie to him and he'll believe every word I say," Alek said simply.

James pulled at his chains. "I shouldn't have let be friends with you in the first place. I had a bad feeling about you, but Albus was so sure you were fine that I let it go. I shouldn't have let him convince me you were a good person."

"But I am a good person. The ministry wasn't doing it's job well enough. There were too many evil wizards running around, attacking innocent people. I stopped all of that. I took care of every evil wizard I could find. I'm giving people a chance to not be considered muggleborns anymore. Everyone can be a part of the new world I'm making. If you just understood what I'm trying to do then he wouldn't be fighting me like this. James, I'm giving you a chance to be part of my upper crew of people. I want to work with you to make he world a better place. I might go too far sometimes. I need someone to remind me of that so I do something not necessary. I want you to be that person."

"And I refuse?" James asked.

"I'll hurt you again until you go insane or agree to work with me."

"Fine. I'll be in your cabinet, just let me off of these chains," James said.

"I'm going to have one of my men unchain you, in cause you planed on attacking me," Alek said. "And do remember we have your wife and unborn child in our side. We're doing everything we can to keep her safe and sound healthy. I have your brother, your wife, and oh did I mention we have Lily too. You can't win. You have to work with me other wise people love and care about will deal with the blame, not you."

James looked down. "Fine. I understand. I'll work with you, just don't hurt them." He was defeated. He couldn't kill Alek. If he did that his family would probably be killed. He's think of someway to get out of this and save everyone.

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"Well this sucks," Dominique said.

"I know right? We're just supposed to fall in line in Alek's world?" Roxanne said.

"Well they haven't been mean to us or anything. We have this lovely bedroom to ourselves. We can do whatever we want in here,"Dominique said with a smirk.

"Oh but we're cousins what can we do?" Roxanne asked, smiling back.

"I've never had sex before. I don't even know what to do," Dominique said.

"We don't need to have sex. I'm happy just being here with you. I love your body against mine. I love you in my arms. I love that no one can match how happy we are when we're together. I love you so much and no one is going to take you away from me." Roxanne said.

"Is that why you joined Alek when I did?" Dominique asked.

"Yes. I'd follow you forever. You can't get into Heaven, I'll walk with you through Hell."

"Those are from a song."

Roxanne laughed. "Yea they are, but I mean it. I'll never be without you. We'll grow old together. We'll live together forever. Who needs boys anyway?"

"Yeah I agree. It's the two of us against the world! Being in love is something wonderful," Dominique said with a smile. "People don't judge us here. I like it. No one cares how close we are. I know people talked about it at Hogwarts, but they don't do that here. Hell, they gave us a room together. They have to know how close we are together."

Roxanne sight a little, "but aren't we prisoners of war?"

"The war's done. We lost,"Dominique said. "I'm not sure what we can do about it, so we might as well get used to this."

"I can't believe we lost. I thought t hat with Uncle Harry was with us that we'd win for sure. We had so many good wizards and witches that I thought it was impossible for us to lose," Roxanne said.

"Yeah. There must have planned a way to do it. Well, there's nothing we can do about it now. If we tried to fight back we'll be killed." Dominique said.

"We should just enjoy what we have here for now," Roxanne said.