Time lost. ...EPILOGUE UP!

The Loa gathered in Anise’s broken thoughts and emotions and focused.

Anise’s hands began to glow and she could feel the stillness of Draco beneath her. Suddenly she knew what to do.

“The Loa can heal him.” Anise whispered, pressing another kiss to his cold cheek.

Severus blinked… “You need to put the Loa in him. Release it Anise… Just push it out. They must want you to heal him. Otherwise, they would never indicate their capability to you. ”

Anise focused and drew on her energy and she exhaled the black essence into Draco’s mouth.


At first, nothing seemed to happen.




Then Draco shifted back to into wolf form. He growled suddenly tossing Anise to the ground.

The sudden feral form startled everyone, as he seemed to shift, again into a human. His features melting in and out of wolf form battling with the new entity that resurrected him and was now trying to take over.

Draco choked and fell forward on his knees and coughed, expelling the smoke, and as it evaporated.

The Loa screamed inside of Draco as they saw a great wolf spirit swallow them up.


“THIS IS YOUR FAULT, Back to the Shadowlands!!!! No host, nothing gained!” The three voices seemed to hum in the air as the cloud of blackness floated upwards away from them all into nothingness.



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Draco fell forward limply. Anise clutched him to her. “Draco…?”


Anise’s tone was wavering as she frantically felt him and she rested her face in the crook of his neck.

Everyone froze in shock over what had happened.

Draco had died and come back.

Stranger things had happened, but not in recent memory.

“Pixie...” The word seemed to float on the air as he replied weakly, his hand moving up to cup her hair, as she clung to him, her tears soaking his face.

“Are you trying to drown me?” Draco’s teasing tone was meant to stop her crying but she just sobbed harder, unable to be coherent as she hugged Draco closer to her body in relief.


Draco smiled slightly as he touched her face tenderly. Draco realized that they were not alone suddenly and his gaze traveled up to Harry and he darted a look back at Anise.

Draco pushed her back from him with a reluctant sigh, his body growing stiff.

Severus pulled Hermione closer to him, recognizing the look of resignation in Draco’s eyes, having had that look a few times in his own life. It meant that he was in bloody agony.


Draco slowly stood up from Anise staring down at her with a mixture of tenderness and frustration.

“You saved my life… That thing you put in me, it made me able to change, once it brought me back to life. Werewolves are naturally resilient to possession in that form. The Wyld already possesses us. No wolf can hold two masters. Lucky for me, those deities were nasty.”

Anise smiled tearfully at him and her next words rushed out.. “Now we can be together.”

Ginny gasped; clearly, she had missed something here.

Harry stepped forward but Draco put a hand up to them calmly.

Draco’s silver eyes were stricken with grief as he spoke and his gaze became slowly neutral. “No pixie. This is where we part ways. I appreciate what you did. However, it has to end. You’re a little girl and I’m… just a damned monster.”

Anise slowly rose up and fisted her hands. Her nose stuck up in the air as she stomped towards Draco after his words hit her. Tears shimmered on her pale cheeks and she was drenched in blood, her and other peoples.

Draco thought to himself that she had never looked more intimidating and he loved everything about her at that moment.


Ginny sighed. “Oh dear. She has that look.”

Harry nodded at his wife. “I’m staying out of this one. Is she wants Malfoy then… Good luck.”

Draco looked at them speaking and he backed up slowly. “What are you saying? She is a child; she does not know what she wants. I am a Malfoy! I almost destroyed all of your lives. You can’t possibly be encouraging her.”

Harry raised his eyebrow. “We aren’t discouraging her. Besides, Anise is of age. She is seventeen technically due to her time-turner use in the fourth year.”

Draco stared hard at Anise who had stopped in front of him.

Anise looked at him with annoyance written all over her face. “Why are you asking them? They do not matter. Your are mine.”

Draco shuddered in pleasure from her blunt words.

Severus whispered to Hermione, pressing a kiss to her delicate ear. “I hope we have a boy. Girls are scary.”

Hermione watched them with tears in her eyes. “Shush you…”

Anise poked a finger in his chest. “I brought you back from the dead. You are mine now. Completely. NOBODY else’s.”

Her bravado was beginning to wear thin and Draco was remaining adamant. He said nothing but the words, her words were tearing him apart inside. He wanted her so much, but he could not damn her to his lifestyle.

Anise stared at his unrelenting expression and she choked suddenly. The pain from his rejection tearing at her inside. Draco did not appear affected at all, by what she was saying.

It was too much for Anise.

Draco was slowly deciding what to say when Anise took off running.

Draco cursed under his breath and followed her.

Ginny and Hermione went to run after her but their men held them back.

“Let them figure it out themselves.” Severus said.



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