Ha ha... Right, I'll post this then I'm off to bed. It's 12:45 in the morning right now and I is very tired!

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Chapter 33

Jamie stood slowly as Hermione and Ron spoke in the center of the room. He walked round the edge of the Hall and out the doors. He threw the front doors open and ran out across the grounds, searching for anything.

He slowed down as he neared the Lake, not wanting to get any closer than h was in the dark when the grass round his feet lit up in a yellow light from behind him. He heard the screams he knew too well. He spun round and picked out the tall shadow at the edge of the forest, a figure on the floor at their feet. Without thinking, he ran towards them.

''Alicia! Ali!'' He shouted and the screams ere suddenly mixed with laughter. ''Bellatrix! Let her go!'' He yelled, anger pulsing through him as he drew his wand. The woman just laughed harder and intensified the curse, causing Alicia to scream louder.

He didn't know what happened next but he stood rooted to the spot in the ringing silence.

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All she could feel was knives attacking her body. They didn't stop as she screamed. She heard someone call her name but she couldn't answer. The knives seemed to double in number then, stabbing her over and over again. Then, a bright green flash erupted through her eyelids and the pain disappeared. She lay still, panting as if she'd run the marathon, in the silence that followed.

After a couple of minutes she opened her eyes and blinked a few times, trying to dislodge the leftover tears. She didn't sit up as she was still in too much pain, but sh recognised the figure in front of her head.

''Jamie?'' Alicia whispered and he spun round to look at her. ''Jamie! I'm so sorry...'' She breathed as she waited for the final words from Bellatrix. But they didn't come. Then it hit her. ''Jamie, what have you done?''

''I didn't... It just happened'' He said, staring down at her with a shocked expression on his face.

''I believe you...'' She whispered as she tried to get up. Jamie seemed to wake up then and stretched out a hand for her. She flinched slightly but took it anyway. He pulled her right up into his arms and buried his face into her shoulder.

''Never. Do. That. Again! I thought I lost you forever!'' He whispered, a million emotions clouding his voice.

''A promise I'm happy to keep... I thought that I'd never see you again'' She said as she closed her eyes. An image flashed up against her eyelids and she gasped.

''What?'' Jamie said, pulling away to look at is face. A smile was spreading slowly across it and her clear eyes were fading to a bright blue as her hair straightened and turned scarlet.

''When that happened,'' She said, glancing at Bellatrix's body at their feet, ''Harry and Voldemort were fighting in the forest... Harry's won!'' She said the last bit and Jamie's face split into a grin as well. He grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the forest.

''Come on... Lets go meet him and then tell the others!'' She laughed and thy ran into th forest, Jamie's wand tip lit, Alicia leading the way to the clearing she had seen.

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I did have permission from Amelia to kill her off so I thought I'd use it before I forgot about it... I was going to deal with her anyway...

Abi... xox