I ran upstairs into the dining room to find a group of Death Eaters there…with Rose in their clutches.

She looked unharmed, and I breathed a sigh of relief. She looked petrified though, as though she was scared more for me than herself.

"Rodolphus." I growled, and he stood up and crossed over to me.

"Welcome Scorpius- how does it feel to be back at home?"

"To be honest, this doesn't feel like my home at all." I snarled, stepping back.

"Aw, that's too bad. But you could learn to love this home again."

"If?"

"If…you join us. I only have to brand the Dark Mark on your arm."

"You expect me to help you in your mission? To track down the defected, and then carry out Voldemort's mission? You're dense." I snorted.

Instantly, I was pinned against the wall, my relative's hands clutching my neck, closing off airways. "So you know our true goal? Yes, we wish to rid the world of those who backstab and betray."

"So my father and his parents." I pointed out angrily.

"Not just them, but mostly yes. They were in the Dark Lord's inner circle, and they betrayed him at the last moment. Lucius and his failure of a son are to blame for our fates! They should have been locked up along with us! But no, they rose back to power! How is that fair?"

"Don't…talk….about my father…that way…" I struggled to get away from him.

"Aw, should've known you'd care about him so much- you look exactly like him." What did that have to do with it? "I should just put you under the Imperius Curse…then you'd cooperate." Suddenly out of the corner of my eye I saw Rose thrashing about, obviously not pleased where this was going.

Remembering this wasn't only a family feud, I said, "I'll stay…if you let Rose go back to her home…unscathed."

Rodolphus thought about it for a moment then with a sleazy grin, agreed.

He flicked his wand at Rose and her bonds on her legs, arms and mouth came off and fell to the ground. "I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to hold onto this." I realized the wand was Rose's.

Rose glared, but was smart enough not to say anything.

"Now, I assume you know how to get home from Wiltshire?" Another Death Eater tugged Rose along over to the fireplace, and pulling out some Floo Powder, he threw it in the fireplace and shouted a place close by to the Black home, and then was about to push Rose in, and knowing I may not get another chance to say so, my heart pounding in my chest, I shouted, "I love you Rose!"

She looked to me, tears filling her eyes. I broke free of Rodolphus somehow, and we sprinted to each other, and even the room wasn't too long, it felt like we were reaching for the other forever. She smacked into me and I picked her up in my embrace, and without a second thought, I pressed my lips to hers, and she kissed me back just as fiercely.

"I love you Malfoy." She whispered, and then with some Floo Powder, she was taken out of this demon hole.

Now I was faced with all these monsters.

"You love her, how touching. Too bad you'll never see her again. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to lead the invasion on the Ministry of Magic. Hopefully…Potter and his friends will be there." He began to Apparate and trembling with anger, I launched myself on him, and he tried to shake me off, but we ended up Apparating together, into the Department of Mysteries…by…by that veil where Sirius had disappeared in the original timeline.

"You incompetent child! I should just kill you!"

"Do it! I'll die before you imprint that demon's mark on my arm!" I shouted back, challenging him, and he took the bait.

He fired a killing curse out of Rose's wand and I wielded my own wand to fight back. How long we fought, I have no idea, but I knew I was going to lose. I didn't learn forbidden curses like he did. He was evil and would stop at nothing.

Suddenly, I could hear hurried footsteps and whispers, and I heard my name being called. Being an idiotic 17 year old, I actually looked, and my great-uncle shouted, "Avada Kedavra!" and green light filled my world, and immediately it went black afterwards. The last thing I saw was the frightened faces of my parents, my friends, and their parents. Even our parents' parents were there, and they all looked terrified. The person who had called my name…it had been Rose.

Denise's POV

I watched my son die right before my eyes. "Scorpius!" my husband yelled out, and he ran forward but Harry and Ron held him back, and stood n front of him, knowing Rodolphus was just itching to kill Draco.

"That's my son! That's my boy!" Draco screamed out over and over again painfully, as tears streamed down his cheeks freely.

I was weeping too, but I couldn't be the weak one anymore, this time, I had to hold it in for Draco's sake. I was holding onto his arm, holding him back as Harry and Ron fought Rodolphus, looking like they had lost a son as well.

Hermione hurried with the children over to Scorpius' corpse in an effort to heal him, even though there were clearly no cures for the unforgivable act.

"My uncle will rot in hell, there's not way he'll go back to Azkaban. He'll die tonight. I'll kill him! I'll kill him! For killing my son!" Draco lost his struggle and fell into his parents' arms.

Narcissa sunk to the ground and kissed her son's head and rubbed his back as he clung to her, a little frightened boy once more, while Lucius and I held up a shield over the four of us, as it was all we could manage.

"Mum..Mum...my child...my child...Scorpius...I never wanted this for him." Suddenly those years Draco had distanced himself from his parents became pointless.

Narcissa soothed her own baby and Lucius said to me, "Denise, now do you understand how Narcissa and I felt when you two were teenagers?"

I nodded. If I had been them, when I broke away from Draco to go back to the Battle of Hogwarts and fight, I wouldn't have let my son chase after a girl. But it had just happened. Rose was sobbing by Scorpius. Blaming herself, for if she hadn't yelled for him, he wouldn't have gotten distracted.

And I knew deep down, I would have understood anyway. I was a teen in love once too. I sort of still was, because my feelings for Draco had never dulled in the slightest. Hermione and the kids all sat together, as Hermione now was just trying to protect all the kids from any stray spells. We exchanged a look and we nodded.

"'Nise, where's 'Nise?" Draco panicked and I immediately knelt down beside him. "I'm right here love. I promise." I said, crying.

Draco and I then met eyes and we fell into eachother's arms. No one's pain was the same as ours right now. We had the exact same pain right now.

Eventually I stood up as I realized Hermione setting up a spell to shield the children and the body from harm by itself in order to fight.

"Dad- hold up the shield. Don't let your family out of the shield barriers, under any circumstances." I stepped out of the barrier, and Lucius nodded. He seemed happy with how I called him Dad.

"'Nise?" Draco said from inside the barrier. I did a fast spell without my wand so he couldn't leave the barrier, and he pounded against air, trying to get to me. I smiled weakly through my tears. "It's my job to fight Death Eaters. I have to help my friends." I then mouthed I loved him and turned my back on him. I met up with Hermione to duel with the boys and she said, "I stole that time-turner from Hogwarts about a year ago- I was able to find it...we can go back...and prevent his death."

Immediately I asked for the time-turner, and she put it around both of us, turned it back and the scene changed. Her daughter had just lost the boy she loved.

When our past selves ran in, we pulled Rose back and covered her mouth. It was as simple as that. "Avada Kedavra!" I heard Draco finally say and the green light burst and we ran in to see Rodolphus dead on the floor instead of my son. Realizing that myself and Hermione were missing from the cluster, in order to fix the timestream they still had time-traveled like we had, and we went up to the them. Draco and I ran straight to Scorpius and held him tight.

"Scorpius." we said simply, and that was all that was needed. The three of us didn't need to say anything. No words were needed to express ourselves.

Scorpius' POV

After I pulled away from my parents, I stood up and saw Rose retrieving her wand from the body. She looked over to me once she had retrived it and she broke into a tearful smile and then sprinted to me, and caught me by surprise whe she kissed me and then hugged me to her. "Scorpius, you moron, you didn't have to do it. The second I got back, the adults were already there and I told them what had happened, and after we defeated the Death Eaters at the Manor, they told us where you were...we got here as fast as we could."

"Just in time." I said, and held her close. I saw all my friends and their parents there. The Potters were all grinning widely, as if they figured this would happen eventually, and Mrs. Weasley was smiling too, happy for her daughter. My parents had their arms around each other's waists and were looking relieved, as did my grandparents. Mr. Weaseley however, did not look pleased.

"You pure-blood! Malfoy, you've corrupted my little girl! Oh no! What if he corrupted Hugo too!" they looked at the boy who I realied for the first time was there and he shrugged nonchalantly. "MALFOY! Your son has corrupted my children!" he turned on my father and everyone laughed except for my dad who stepped out of his place and got in Rose's father's face and said, "Yeah Weasley? I'm sure your children corrupted my son!" the two glared and then started to argue just like they did when they were in school, and Ron's friends tried to calm him, while my family tried to calm Father.

I looked at Rose and we rejoined our friends.

"So you two finally made it official huh?" James slapped me on the back.

"James." Lily moaned.

"Rose you're so disgusting, get a room." Hugo wrinkled his nose. And at first I was taken aback, and then I realized how much we'd all grown pver the years, and we broke into laughter.

"My best friends are going out- this is going to be soooo fun." Albus complained sarcastically, and I pulled him to me by draping my arm over his neck, and I looked to either side of me and said, "So this war will wrap up pretty soon, with most of the Death Eaters captured again...We're gonna finish our final year at Hogwarts!"

We all grinned and laughed while in the background the two fathers still fought.

In the end everything wrapped up nicely.

This could be a good life after all.

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Yayyyy! I finished this! And it only took a whole year! I must say while I like Always Misguided more, this story has come to hold a special place in my heart. I just wish the last few chapters were bette,r but I got lazy. Oh well, hope you all enjoyed reading this, and you've stayed with me after all this time, I salute you!

Harry Potter will live on forever in our hearts! 3