All the way III: More of Life

The red haired man threw Eileen’s wand to the blonde and the blonde handed it to Eileen. Peering around the blonde, Eileen realized that Julian was out cold and tied up by ropes that came from the red heads wand.

Both the men turned to her.

Ron Weasley. The red head was Ron Weasley. He had done something - Eileen wasn't sure what - and her dad didn't like him. Not one little bit.

The blonde... He looked like Lucius. Eileen didn't know him.

The blonde turned to Ron, "You look after these two and call the Ministry. I'll take her home."

The red head made a face, "What? That's not fair! Why can't you wait here while I take her home?"

"Fine," The blonde smirked, "Let her choose." He turned to her, "Eileen, who do you want to take you home?"

Eileen looked between them. It was obvious Ron had done something bad, but she didn't know this stranger.

"Do you know Lucius?" She asked the blonde.

He nodded, "He's my son."

Eileen frowned. She had heard Lucius talk to her mum about his dad, and it was never good, but she did recall that Lucius had said he was from a long line of Slytherins.

"And you'll take me straight home?" She asked the blonde.

He nodded, "Yes... Well, I heard your mother was staying with my son in his house in Spain, so I’ll need an address, but yes, I’ll take you straight there."

"Slytherins honor?" She asked.

The man raised his eyebrows, "They still do that at Hogwarts?" Eileen nodded, "And you're a Slytherin?" She nodded again, "Fine. I'll take you straight to your parents, Slytherins honor."

They shook hands.

Ron made a protesting noise, "Slytherins don't have any honor!"

Eileen sneered at him, her dislike for the man growing. She looked at the blonde, "You."

The red head made another protest, but the blonde put up a silencing hand, smirking, "The lady's made her choice, Weasley."

Eileen moved towards him. She was nervous; could this be a trick? But, well, she had to take the chance. And he was a Slytherin. Believe it or not, honor to members of the same house was important.

She told him the Spanish address and he put his arm around her to apperate. Eileen flinched away, but it was too late. They were moving.

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Hermione was getting fed up with Annie’s tea. But she drank it to keep her mind of her missing daughter. It never worked.

Severus was so quiet, it was unbelievable. Lucius had admitted that he couldn't cope with Hermiones tears. And Annie... she just kept making tea. They were all sitting in the living room drinking the blasted tea.

Every one dropped their cups, as a pop startled them, letting tea slosh all over the white carpet.

Hermione was sure her imagination was playing tricks on her, as Eileen ran to her dad, who as sitting in the chair opposite the spot where she had appeared. She sat, frozen, until she realized that Eileen couldn't apperate.

Hermione looked up. Draco Malfoy was staring at her. Severus, Annie and Lucius seemed to busy checking Eileen to notice him. Hermione got up slowly, so as not to catch the attention of the others.

"You brought her back," She whispered.

He shrugged, "I needed some time out of that prison. I'll probably get more on my sentence for this, though."

Hermione shook her head, "Go abroad, go any where. You brought my baby home and you don't deserve to go back to prison for that. Just... don't come back."

Draco stared at her for a moment, before he nodded once, "Thank you."

Then he disapperated.

Without a second thought, Hermione turned and ran over to the group of people. Eileen turned and threw her arms around Hermione.

They both burst into tears.

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Eileen told them what happened, leaving out the part about the nearly made baby. She just didn't feel like it was something she wanted to tell her already crying mother and furious father.

Annie made them all a cup of tea and when Eileen has finished the edited version of events, they all let out a long breath. Lucius stood up, taking Annie with him.

"We'll go and tell every one you're safe." He said, dragging Annie from the room.

Immediately, her mum started to look over Eileen’s face.

"Come here, sweetheart," She said softly, taking out her wand, "Let's see that lip." When her lip was fixed, she moved down to the bruises on her neck, "I'm so sorry, darling."

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Severus had his arm around his sleeping wife, who was holding his sleeping daughter.

An Auror had come to the house and explained that both the mother and son would be put in the new Azkaban. As far as Severus was concerned, going to prison was a safety precaution for them, because if he got his hands on them... Well, once they got out, they would have to go into something like Witness Protection, because he would find them and murder them.

It was fact.

They had caused his wife and daughter pain and he would kill them.


As for Draco Malfoy bring her home and then disappearing, Severus didn't really know whether to be angry or grateful.

But, once again, his past had come back to haunt him. If he had not been a Death Eater, this would never have happened.

Why did he have this inability to keep the people that mattered the most to him safe?

But he didn't care at the moment, because Eileen was back with them.

Lucius had said they could stay as long as they wanted, but he suspected Hermione and Eileen would want to go home tomorrow.

Eileen seemed fine, but Severus had a dangerous - and scary - suspicion that she had her mothers’ talent for hiding things. There was nothing, however, that he could do about it until she was ready to tell some one.

But, Merlin, he hoped she didn't start hiding her emotions, because he didn't want something like this to happen and find her in the state that Hermione had been in these past few days.

He just couldn't cope with either of them being that terrified again.