There is a bonus in the end of the chapter but please refrain from skipping to the end as it will spoil the surprise.

Disclaim: It has not changed since the first chapter. I still do not own the right to Harry Potter.

Warning: Characters deaths (kind of)

Here we are then, the last chapter, please enjoy.

Ever since he had met Albus Dumbledore and had arrived to Hogwarts, even long before that, Tom had been fascinated by power. With power one could achieve anything they wanted. One of the easiest ways to achieve power was through fear. And dark lords were nothing if not feared.

As he stood hidden behind the shelf in the small bookshop Tom was both fascinated and scared of what was going on out on the street outside the shop.

Now where the dust was gone it was easier to make out Grindelwald's followers from the civilians. All were dressed n dark blue robes as an opposite of the Aurors blood red ones. From what he knew, and now could see, they were wearing animal masks. The only visible things were their eyes, mouth and nose. Everything else was covered and gave no hint about who they could be.

There was silent in the bookshop, if someone dropped a needle the sound of it hitting the floor would be deafening. Tom felt the others look at him and realised that they were waiting for him to do something. They believed he would be able to get them out of this situation alive.

In any other situation Tom would have been more than happy to do just that, but as it was right now he had no idea of what to do. He was still a Hogwarts student and these people were full grown witches and wizards. Even with the extra training Evan had given him he would not be able to go up against these people and expect to win.

Tom bit through his lower lip, while he though, and a metallic taste filled his mouth. He swallowed the bloody spit instead of spitting it out as he wanted to and ran his tongue over the abused lip to soothe it.

"My lord, what should we do?" It was Orion's voice which got Tom out of his deep thoughts and back into the real world. He looked around seeing them all watching him with pale and scared faces. The shopkeeper was nowhere to be seen. Either he lay dead under one of the fallen shelves or had run away without them noticing it.

"We are too few and too young to fight them. We could try and find a place to hide. But there is a risk that they will find us before the Aurors arrive. We would be safest behind Hogwarts' wards. If we hurry we might be able to outrun them."

It was a risky plan, especially since it did not look like Walburga would be able to put any weight on her foot. That would slow them down but neither Tom nor the others thought about abandoning her. She was a Slytherin and they stayed together, no matter what happened.

"I will go first, Orion and Walburga in the middle and Abraxas, you will be behind. Everyone shall have their wands ready for use. Remember, this is not in the school. One mistake can cost out all our lives." The three Slytherins nodded to show they had understood what he had said.

Tom waited until he had the other three lined up behind him. Then he slowly advanced out of the shop with his wand in hand. If someone saw him without his wand they would either think of him as stupid or know he had something up in his sleeve.

Before it became necessary Tom would not reveal he could do wandless magic. T could very well be the trump card which would save their lives.

Stepping outside the shop the noise from the fights around them hit him with full force. The dust was gone but now did smoke, from a fire which they could not see, make t hard for him to see what was going on around them.

From time to time he could see people move around him through the smoke. Some wore blue robes and others wore everyday robes. And then again there were those who wore the Hogwarts student uniform.

Tom thought about stepping in and help some of the students, especially the younger years. They had no clue about what to do in a situation like this.

He looked over his shoulder and caught Abraxas' gaze. The blonde Slytherin seemed to read his thoughts and then he nodded.

It did not take long before they faced their first of Grindelwald's followers. Actually Tom was surprised that they had not found someone before now. The man stood with his back towards them and seemed to have cornered a little group of third years. It did not seem like any of them had been harmed yet and Tom wondered why it was that they had not found a place to hide or sought back to the school.

Shaking his head Tom decided to think about it when they were safe.

All four Slytherins raised their wands and fired four different curses towards the dark wizard. The man had not been prepared for an attack from behind and he fell before he had a chance to even make a sound to warn those around him. Using Stupefy on the wizard just to be sure he would not wake up and attack them, Tom stepped over the body. He winkled his nose in disgust before he turned his attention towards the three third years.

Two Hufflepuffs girls and the boy was a Ravenclaw. From the look of it the boy and one of the girls were closely related. Either they were twins or close cousins. "Stay close to us and we will try and get you back to Hogwarts. Have your wands ready to use when we are attacked. But make sure it really is the enemy before you attack." The last thing he needed was for them to hurt someone who was there to help them.

With the three kids and Orion and Walburga in the middle the started walking.

The smoke got worse and Tom had a feeling that they were moving closer to the fire. They used their wand to put bubbles around their heads so they could keep breathing freely. Normally it was used under water but it seemed like the charm did its job well enough on land also.

The air got hotter and Tom started to sweat under his robes and he knew the others were not much better. Still he forced himself to continue down the street. This was the only was to Hogwarts unless they walked back and then around Hogsmeade.

Unless the road before them was blocked Tom would not go that way. While their enemies were hidden in the smoke, the same smoke hid them form Grindelwald's followers. Out in the open they would be a too easy target.

A hand landed on his should and Tom turned around with his wand raised and a curse on his lips.

He started into startling green eyes which were looking him over worried. On the top of the black hair he saw just as black cat ears.

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Harry had not even stepped a foot into Hogsmeade before he had to dodge to avoid the first curse in his direction. Without a word he leapt forward and let his hands close around the wizard's neck. That was the sad thing about most wizards and witches. They thought that since they had a wand no one and nothing would be able to hurt them. There they were open for physical attacks.

Seeing the man's red robes and animal mask Harry had no doubt about whom the man belonged to. While the death eaters had been wearing black robes and white masks Grindelwald's followers wore blue robes and animal masks.

Feeling a tingle of regret Harry let go of the man and used a wandless blasting curse at him. This close the man had no chance of avoiding the attack and he was death before he hit the wall behind him.

Avoiding looking at the man Harry rushed along. This was what he was meant to do. Fighting the bad guys. That had been his fate since the night Voldemort had marked him though Harry had had no idea about it before Dumbledore had told him about the prophecy.

Harry did not hesitate when he met an enemy. More often than not he just sent a push with his magic instead of trying to come up a spell to do the work. The result was the same although it was a little messier than he would have liked it to be.

Still he knew it would be far more mercy than those who were caught by Grindelwald's followers would ever be shown.

Harry was sure his heart froze when he saw the scene in front of him when the smoke was lifted for a short moment. Then the smoke was as thick as before and Harry was left to wonder if what he had seen had been real.

He cursed fate and whatever else being that had a finger in this. The Hogwarts students were not supposed to be in Hogsmeade this weekend. Surely Tom would have informed him if that had been the case.

Not giving him more time to think about it Harry rushed forth to where he remembered seeing some students facing Grindelwald's followers. Something told him they were Gryffindors since they were the only ones who would be stupid enough to fight instead of running into safety when they were facing a stronger enemy.

The many voices around him confused Harry's senses. Curses flew through the air and several times Harry had to change directions so he would not get hit by one of the curses.

Getting annoyed by the confusing sound Harry stopped in the middle of the road and closed his eyes for a short moment. He felt a tingling feeling at the top of his head and smirked. It was the first time he had tried to only transform partly into his animagus form but by the way he could hear things much cleared Harry guessed it had worked.

Despite the interruption and jumps to different sides he arrived in front of the dark wizard he had seen facing the Gryffindors. Harry knew the students were behind him which meant they would be protected for the time being.

Te wizard looked him over and despite the mask Harry had a feeling the other man was smirking at him. "I will just finish of those kids and then the two of us will be having some fun." The wizard made to grab for him but Harry danced out of his reach. "No thank you, I am already together with someone else."

"If that is the way you want it. Imp-"

The man did not get a chance to finish the curse as Harry slammed his elbow into the man's face and heard his nose break. He stepped back only to use another blasting curse which threw the man of his feet.

Choosing to ignore the man for now Harry turned towards the kids who had been trying to fight the wizard. As he had guessed both of the boys were Gryffindors. Though he was not sure about which year. If he should guess he would say they were fifth or sixth years.

"Are you idiots or is it something which runs in your blood? Honestly, instead of fighting these grown-up you should think of getting yourselves and your friends into safety."

Now where he had two students with him Harry was not sure about what he was supposed to do. He knew he should make sure they got somewhere safe but at the same time he wanted to find and see if his lover was alright.

"You are coming with me. I will make sure you come back to Hogwarts. Be ready to attack when he meet the enemy and keep close to me." Harry took forth the necklace which was similar to the one he knew Tom was wearing. No one said he could not do both things.

"Lead me to Tom." The necklace started pulling in one direction and Harry sighed in relief. At least he now knew in what direction Tom was and it seemed like his lover was already heading back to Hogwarts. At least that was what Harry hoped his lover was doing. It would not be like Tom to do something stupid but one could never know. It could be today that Tom decided to pull a stunt like the ones Harry usually did.

Looking behind him to make sure that the two Gryffindors were following him Harry let the necklace lead him to where Tom hopefully would be. Harry could only ask that his lover would be oaky and not lay dead somewhere. If that was the case Harry was not sure what he would do then.

Harry lead the two boys through the smoke he had thought about taking them to ***, hoping that the passage would be there but had decided against it. Chances were that Grindelwald's people would see them use the passage and then they would have a way to get into Hogwarts without anyone there being ready to stop them.

When a curse headed his way Harry put up a shield around himself and the two boys instead of jumping out of the way. The power behind the curse was stronger than he had thought and Harry was pushed backwards.

Sending a curse back at whoever had attacked them and hoping he had hit it Harry signalled for the two boys to follow him. He was surprised to see that they actually did as he ordered them to. Had he been in their situation Harry would never have followed an unknown person, especially not after Sirius' death. Its was never to know when the person would lead one into a trap.

On his way to find Tom Harry made sure to knock Grindelwald's followers out before they had a chance to act. Of course it did not go that way all the times. Harry could feel blood run from a wound on his arm and his ribs felt like they were pretty bruised. It seemed like he could not avoid seeing a healer once all this was over.

He was surprised that none of the boys were asking him questions or demanding that they tried to play heroes and save everybody. Perhaps they understood that their lives depended on how they acted.

Harry was surprised over his own reaction to all this. He had thought he would have a panic attack over this or something like that but until now it had not happened. Perhaps it would just wait until it was safe for him to panic.

On their way to Tom, though the Gryffindors did not know that, they rescued a Slytherin girl and a Hufflepuff boy who had been trying to run away from the enemy. None of them seemed to be fatally wounded though they had quite a few scratches and bruises.

Until now Harry had not seen any death students and he hoped it meant they had managed to escape and it was not because they had been captured.

A little voice warned him that something else was going on apart from what he could see. Harry cursed the headache which made it heard for him to think straight. He felt jumpy and ready to curse anything that just looked at him in the wrong way.

As if they were warned by the same little voice as he Harry felt the students huddle together behind his back. It was good to know that they trusted him to protect him and Harry was not about to let them down. At the same time he was starting to get real nervous; how could anyone expect him to take care of children in a situation like this?

Harry decided not to think more about it since a witch showed up in front of him, dressed in red robes. Without a word Harry raised his wand a sent the Killing curse in her direction. Fascinated he watched as the curse stuck and she fell to the ground. When they passed her Harry could not help but cast a quick glance at her. To him she did not look dead. It rather looked like she was asleep, though he could not see through her mask. He wondered if that had been how his parents had looked when they had been murdered.

Knowing that he would not get an answer and that there were other things to concentrate on Harry forced his thoughts away from the dead woman. He did not feel quilt about having killed her. Right now they were in a life and death situation. If he had not killed her should have killed them all without hesitating.

Thanks to the cat ears he heard Tom's voice long before he was able to see his lover. The only thing stopping him from running to the boy was the knowledge that he could not just abandon those kids. He doubted they would be able to survive on their own for very long.

Tom was standing with his back to him but from where Harry stood he looked unharmed. He quickened his steps, bringing himself to Tom's side in no time. Fearing that he was just Imagineering things he carefully placed a hand on Tom's shoulder.

Harry did not have time to react when Tom suddenly turned around and held a wand between his eyes. Instead he looked his lover over. There was blood on his clothes but it did not seem to be Tom's and Harry breathed out in relief.

He did not get more time to look Tom over as the boy swept him into a strong hug and lifted him from the ground. Not caring that others were watching him Harry put his arms around Tom's neck and rested his forehead against Tom's shoulder. His cat ears moved around to pick up every little sound around them. Even though he was happy to see Tom he would not be unprepared should someone decide to attack them.

They did not stand long like that, after all there were others watching them and it was not really the time or the place for such things. Harry stepped away from Tom but kept close. He would not risk losing him when he had finally found him.

Harry let his eyes wander over Tom's groups. He recognised the three Slytherins but the three small kids he had not seen before. Harry guessed Tom had done the same thing as he and taken those he had found with him.

It hurt to see there scared and pale faces. One of the small Hufflepuff girls was crying lowly and Harry hated the fact that there was nothing he could say to make her feel better.

Making his decision Harry took hold of Tom's hand and ignored the Slytherin's raised eyebrow. Instead he took his wand and tapped it at Tom's hand two times. He body shook ever so slightly when he felt the wards rose.

"This will protect you all until you are at Hogwarts. Do not worry, I will come for you." Ignoring Tom's shout Harry let go of the boy and ran out of the ward. As the maker of the ward he was the only one able to do that. Tom and the other students would be forced to stay there until they were safely inside Hogwarts' wards.

He trusted Tom to lead the others to safety. And Harry knew that once Tom was at school the professors would not let him leave.

Harry ran through the smoke, looking for other students. He would not leave until he was sure that everyone else was safe. That was part of the reason to why he had been put into Gryffindor.

The sound of a child crying lead Harry down the street. He knew that he would not be the only one hearing the sound but he was ready to fight whoever he might meet.

His run was stopped when Harry found a group of Grindelwald's followers waiting for him. The smoke had cleared out and he was now able to see every single one of them. It meant that they could see him just as clearly as he could see them. Harry cursed the fact that he had not thought of taking his invisible cloak with him. With that he would not have been in this kind of situation.

The child he had heard lay at the feet of one of the red dressed witches. From where he was he could not see how bad the damage was but at least the child was alive. That at least was something good.

Harry licked his lips, swallowing. He knew this was not a good thing. He could fight, sure. But not against this many. Not even he was so stupid to think that.

"I was starting to doubt, that you would actually show up, Evan." Harry froze all movements when the followers parted to let a new person step into view. He did not need to look to know who the person was.

"Grindelwald."

"The way you answered my letter really hurt me, Evan, but I am willing to forgive you if you kneel and call me master. And since I am feeling generous I will even let the girl leave. All you have to do is to kneel and say one word."

Harry looked back and forth between Grindelwald and the child. His hand itched after cursing the life out of the man but Harry knew it would not do. By doing so he would put the girl's life at risk. "Why is it that you decided to do this? You could not know I would show up, so what reason do you have?"

"I came in hope of being able to get a talk with Mr. Riddle. I wrote a letter to him a few days ago and he did not give me that answer I wanted to he would have to take the consequences."

Feeling his body shake from anger Harry took several deep breaths in an attempt to calm himself. He caught the girl's gaze and saw fear in her eyes. Gritting his teeth Harry got down on his knees. His hand was still gripping his wand though he knew it would be of no use right now. If he took one down others would be ready to take over and curse the girl.

Laughter, like the one at the graveyard, sounded around him. It was obvious that they enjoyed seeing him like this. Feeling his face burn of shame Harry bowed his head and bit his lower lip. Out of the corner of his eye he could see the girl watching him. He did not need to look up to know that Grindelwald was standing right in front of him. But Harry had no wish about seeing the man.

"Though I would love to wait all day we do not have time for that. We will have to leave before the Aurors show up."

Harry opened and closed his mouth several times before he finally mumbled something without looking up. "What? I am afraid I could not hear what you said. Perhaps you should repeat yourself a little louder this time."

He looked up with a strong fire burning in his green orbs and looked into Grindelwald's eyes. "I said: You can go and fuck yourself before I will ever call you such a word, bastard."

At first Grindelwald looked shocked. When the words started to sink in the shock was changed into anger. "If that is the way you want it." Grindelwald raised his wand. "Crucio."

The curse hit him straight on and Harry screamed. All thoughts were cleared away and all he could think on was the pain.

When the curse was cut of Harry lay at the ground, painting heavily. He was not sure when he had hit the ground and he did not care. Ever so slowly Harry raised himself up on all four and starred up at Grindelwald who was watching him with a firm expression. "Be glad that I did not kill you. Now, do as I ordered you or the girl will pay."

Snarling Harry jumped towards the girl. He tackled the witch who was standing nearest to the girl and then he used his own body to shield the child for any curses which may be thrown at them.

"I will make sure you pay for this with your life." Harry pushed himself to his feet and helped the girl to stand. To his surprise none of the blue dressed people showed any intention of taking part of this. It seemed like Grindelwald wanted to take care of this matter by himself.

Harry pushed the girl behind him and into a small alley between two of the shops. Feeling her leave him, Harry raised his wand. He was ready to face whatever they might throw at him. He and Grindelwald stood facing each other without saying a single word. A shiver ran down Harry's spine when he looked into the dark wizard's face. Had he ever doubted it he had a clear answer now Grindelwald was mad, no doubt about that.

Harry's thoughts were interrupted by Grindelwald's voice which felt so cold that it probably could freeze the air around him. "You are mine to finish off." Harry looked away from Grindelwald's followers and focussed on the man himself.

Falling into a duelling stance Harry waited for the man's next move. He knew next to nothing about his fighting style. It meant he had no idea about what Grindelwald would do. Still, Harry had been in this kind of situation enough times to keep himself calm. After all he had always come out of it alive, more or less.

"We could have been great together. But you have stepped up against me one too many times to I can let you live. Once I am finished with you it will be your lover boy's turn." Harry bit his anger back and stepped away from the small side alley so he had space to move, should it be necessary.

"Crucio."

"Bombarda." Harry had to step to the side to avoid Grindelwald's curse and therefore his own curse missed with several feet. A good thing was that he took two of the followers down with the curse. At least he would not have to worry about those two anymore.

"Aguamenti."

"Incentio."

Harry let himself fall to the ground and felt the curse pass right over his head. A quick glance behind him told him that the old bookshop had started burning. At least he now knew why the bookshop would not be there in his time.

Turning his attention back to the duel Harry rolled out of the way for another curse sent in his direction. Somehow this reminded him a little too much about his duel with Voldemort in his fourth year. A dark lord trying to curse him and him trying to get away from said curses. One this was different. Harry knew far more curses than last time and he was not afraid of using them.

"Serpensortia." A bid, black snake shot out of his wand. Harry watched in fascination as the snake lifted its head and glared at the assembled people. "Stupid humans. I should kill your all for interrupting my hunt. My poison will kill you all, nice and slowly."

"Beautiful snake, please lend me your help."

The snake, a male, turned its head in his direction to look at him. Harry heard several gasps from the followers. It seemed like they had found out what he was. "A speaker, it is an honour finally to meet you. How can I be of any help, oh great speaker?"

"This man." Harry gestured to Grindelwald, who was watching him and the snake with wide eyes. "Wants to harm me and my mate, who is also a speaker."

The snake turned its head towards Grindelwald and hissed, showing of its teeth. "Stupid human, you are going to regret wanting to harm a speaker."

Grindelwald took a step back when the snake flung itself on him. But before the snake could manage to bite him Grindelwald raised his wand and killed the snake with Avada Kedavra.

Harry was already moving and did not have time to feel sorrow for the snake. He had known it could be killed and h hated wasting a life away but it was necessary. Both his and Tom's lives were in danger if Grindelwald was not stopped.

When the dark lord seemed to notice him Harry was already close to the man. Harry raised his wand, ready to use it to end this duel.

"Accio."

The wand flew out of Harry' hand and into Grindelwald's. Harry stopped moving, waiting to see what Grindelwald would do now. "It seems like I won."

Harry's eyes widened when Grindelwald took his wand in both hand, starting to bend it until it reached its breaking point. When the wand broke Harry felt something inside him snap. The wand had been the first real proof that he was a wizard. That the Dursleys' words about himself and his parents were not true. It was also the brother wand to Tom's wand.

A wave of pure magic rushed through him and Harry felt like he would explode if he did not get some of it out before it was too late.

Grindelwald threw the wand away as if it meant nothing to him at all. Harry's eyes followed it falling. He felt a tear run down his cheek but did not react to it. Most wizard felt some kind of connection to their wand. And Harry was no different.

Grindelwald did not react when Harry lifted his hand. Without his wand they all thought he would be harmless. It was obvious that none of them knew just how good he was at wandless magic or they would have feared for their lives right now instead of laughing at him.

Pointing a finger at Grindelwald Harry smirked. "Bye, bye, Grindelwald, it has, as I should say, a joy to meet you." Realising that he had something up in his sleeve Grindelwald stopped laughing and narrowed his eyes. "And just what d you think you can do? You do not even have a wand any longer."

"I will see. I wish I could say it would not hurt dying, but since I have never tried it myself I would be lying. Avada Kedavra."

A green light he had seen so many times before, both in his nightmares and in real life, shoot out f his hand and speeded towards Grindelwald.

None of them were able to look away from the green light which had the same green colour as Harry's eyes.

The killing curse hit the dark lord straight on and Harry watched him fall. It did not happen extremely slowly or extremely fast as he had thought it would. Instead Grindelwald fell and hit the ground in normal pace.

Several pops told him that people around him were disapparating away. Harry ignored them and kept starring at the fallen man. He had not been sure what would happen should he manage to kill the man. Perhaps he had thought that others would e ready to take over his place and try to kill him as revenge. He liked this turn of events the best.

At least he was somewhat sure that Grindelwald would not show up in some other time to cause mayhem since the body was still there. Though, Harry was not sure but he guessed it was his real body that had followed him back to this time. At least he hoped it was the case or he could have problems.

The thoughts of all people murdered with the killing curse running around in different times made Harry shiver. He guessed that there really was a reason to why the killing curse was one of the unforgivable.

Harry kept starring at Grindelwald. The man was the first one he had killed with the killing curse. Until now Harry had tried to avoid using that curse because of all the times it had been sent in his direction. But like the time with the witch attacking the student he had not had a choice. It had been him or Grindelwald and Harry was not willing to let himself get parted from Tom. It did not matter that he could not return to the future and his friends. They had each other to lean on and Harry guessed he would get to see them again someday.

But Tom still needed him and Harry loved the boy. Perhaps they were family even though they were not related by blood.

Footsteps from behind alerted Harry that someone was coming towards him. Knowing that it was probably the Aurors who had arrived. Harry chose to ignore the person. Since he was not dressed in blue robes nor had a mask on his person he could not go for being one of Grindelwald's followers. And should they not believe him he was willing to show them his memory of what happened.

The person stopped a little behind him and Harry started turning around. He figured it would be best to get over with this so he could go and check up on Tom. He wanted to make sure that his lover and the other children had arrived safely to Hogwarts.

"Avada Kedavra."

The last thing Harry saw was twinkling blue eye and blue robes. And then there was nothing.

This is the end of the story. It kinds of suck, but that is just my opinion. Please review and tell me what you thought about it.

It felt like I spent forever on this chapter because my mind was already on a new fanfic. Yes, that is right, a new fanfic.

The sequel to The beginning of the beginning.

Here is the preview to the sequel

Back in his own time Harry sees that nothing has changed and Voldemort is still there. He has to find out where he stands and who his true friends are. At the same time he has to deal with the sickness which is getting worse. Will he be able to find Tom somewhere in Voldemort? Or will he cursed to die alone.

The summary will be shorter when I do it for the story.

It shall be under the name: I choose my own fate.

Until next time.

Mortimus: Remember to review or I will not let her start on the next story in a month.

May 25 2011: The seguel is up. Even better, I have a beta now!