Time lost. ...EPILOGUE UP!

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Yes, it is true.

I am wickedly demented and thank you for pointing out how confusing it can get. I will try to remedy that with my next few chapters. I hope that they are getting longer. Either way, soon all will be revealed.

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Back at the Cave, two days ago…




Draco stared menacingly at Anise, waiting…

Anise’s voice came out in a rush. “Yes, I am Harry’s daughter. I have visions sometimes. I came here because I got a time turner for school and unfortunately, like my father I ignore the rules. I have heard my whole life about Lily and James Potter’s bravery. I just wanted to see them for myself. I knew something was wrong the moment I got here.”

Draco practically snarled at her and began to pace. “Just you being here is wrong! You should not even exist! Just like your stupid father. Obviously I am a failure at the simplest of plans. His ironic smile was unpleasant and he stalked towards her.

“You of course will try to stop me from completing my task. You would disappear completely if I did.” He jerked her up by her shirt and shook her.

Her head snapped back and Anise gasped. “You don’t understand. Your actions are what brought them together in the first place! This is all your doing Draco! Your responsible for the fall of the Dark Lord!! Lily Potter was in love with Severus Snape. Any fool could see that if they spent time here long enough. Your meddling brought Hermione back… Severus fell for her instead. Lily and James still fall in love!” Tears of pain streamed down her face as he pushed her back against a wall.

Draco’s hands dropped from her shirt and move to close tightly around her neck instead. “You lie! You are lying to save your father and yourself!” Draco hisses and squeezes tighter as if by punishing this girl in front of him, he could some how make it true.

“The Gods are watching you Draco Malfoy. You have a destiny, just like me. You were always meant to come here. Just like Hermione was always meant to die here. Severus was always meant to always love her and mourn her death, helping Harry Potter defeat the Dark Lord. It’s all true.” Anise gasped, her face turning red from his bruising grip on her neck. Anise squirmed against him, he felt himself drawn to her despite the situation, and it enraged him.

Draco shifted and relaxed his hands but didn’t move them from her neck. “What about you. I could kill you. That wouldn’t affect this future would it?”

His eyes were crazy with his grief and Anise felt tears tumble past her reddened cheeks. “No, it wouldn’t.” Anise felt her heart stop as Draco flicked his gaze downwards towards her body.

“So I could do whatever I wanted and it was your destiny to have it happen.” Draco murmured mockingly, as he felt the rage coursing through his veins, his voice deceptively soft. He felt her trembling body underneath him and he felt a surge of guilt. Draco had never believed in abusing women but this girl was the daughter of his most hated enemy.

Potter had destroyed his whole family and Draco had to fight the urge not take it out on the pixie who seemed hell-bent on getting in his way. Potter’s anguish and having his little girl despoiled and her future ripped from her was a fitting revenge for Draco’s past that Potter had gleefully destroyed repeatedly.

Draco slipped a hand under Anise’s chin and pulled her tearstained face up to face him. “Why did you come back here? You know who and what I was doing.”

Anise just stared at him through her tears. She wet her lips nervously as Draco contemplated killing her. Anise did not feel very brave right now. She felt stupid and naïve.

Anise’s voice was raw when she spoke. “Because it was my destiny to be here with you. To make you see the truth of what you were doing. No one can change this Destiny. The Gods will continue to warp it repeatedly so it fits. Voldemort must be defeated by Harry Potter. It is not about the man but about the entirety of what is right and good within this universe. The battle had to be won, don’t you understand? No matter the cost. No matter whom they have to kill to achieve it.” Her words fell between them, soft but potent.

“You’re just a casualty of the war Anise?” Draco thumbed her bottom lip and his expression was bleak as he contemplated her.

Anise nodded slowly. “Just as Hermione is now. Was it always Hermione that Severus thought of when he sacrificed himself? Does it matter? History can change but for us, it is always as it will be. You will find a million possibilities to the same ending. When the Gods interfere, no one man can hold against them. My father could not and he accepted his destiny. So must I.”

Draco nodded slowly at her words even though it hurt to hear them. “My mother.” Anise raised her hands up to catch the futile tear that rolled down his face.

“I know. She was always meant to die, just as others were always meant to live.” She tempered her words with a kiss to his scar.

Her words seemed to imply more then just his mother. Draco thought of the girl that died in his arms. He shuddered as Anise gently kissed along his scar.

“I have no future now. I have nothing but this mark left for me.” His words sounded bitter and Anise realized how much it cut him to reveal that much.


Anise shook her head slowly. “No Draco,… you have me.”

She looped her arm through his and grabbed their wands from him. Draco’s eyes darkened at her movement. Anise mentally begged his forgiveness. “Stupefy!!” Draco froze and fell to the ground in the cave.

Anise pocketed both wands and rushed to grab her invisibility cloak. There was little time left now. Everything was happening soon and she had to see it through.




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