Heart of Gold

King's Cross Station

~Tessa's POV~

There was a white light

I opened my eyes with a groan and looked around

I saw Harry not far from me.

"Harry!" I said

He looked up

"Tessa!" He said, standing and rushing over. He hugged me.

I hugged back then pulled away "where are we?"

He shrugged

The was a small groan from behind us

"Huh?" I turned to see a gross looking thing, like what Voldemort was before he came back.

I took a timid step toward it before a voice interrupted me

"You can't help Tessa"

We both turned to see Albus Dumbledore approaching us from beyond the white light

"You wonderful girl" he said, beaming with pride, "You brave brave children"

"Professor..." I breathed

"Let's walk" he said

"Professor what is that?" Harry asked

"Something beyond either of your help" Dumbledore replied, "Part of Voldemort sent here to die"

"And where are we?" I asked

"I was going to ask you that" Dumbledore replied, "where would you say we are?"

"It looks like King's Cross" I said

"Only cleaner and without the trains" Harry added

"King's Cross is that right?" Dumbledore said, "This is, as they say, your party. I expect you now realize that you two and Voldemort... have been connected by something other than fate... since that night in Godric's Hollow, all those years ago.

"So it's true then, sir?" Harry asked, "A part of him lives within us, doesn't it?"

"Did." Dumbledore corrected, "It was just destroyed many moments ago by none other than Voldemort himself. You were the Horcruxes he never meant to make."

"We have to go back, don't we?" I asked

"Oh. That's up to you." He replied

"We have a choice?" Harry asked

"Oh, yes. We're in King's Cross, you say?" Dumbledore said, "I think, if you so desired, you'd be able to board a train."

"And where would it take us?"

Dumbledore chuckled "on."

There was a train whistle in distance

"Voldemort has the Elder Wand." I said

"True.-" Dumbledore replied

"And the snake's still alive.-" Harry added

"Yes."

"And we have nothing to kill it with." I said

"Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it." Dumbledore said, "I've always prized myself on my ability to turn a phrase. Words are,in my not so humble opinion... our most inexhaustible source of magic...capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it. But I would, in this case, amend my original statement to this: Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who deserve it."

He stopped walking and turned to us

"Do not pity the dead. Pity the living. And, above all, all those who live without love."

"Professor, our mother's Patronus was a doe, wasn't it?" I asked, "That's the same as Professor Snape's."

"It's curious, don't you think?" Dumbledore asked

"Actually, if I think about it, it doesn't seem curious at all." I replied

"I'll be going now" Dumbledore replied, beginning to walk away

"Professor? Is this all real?" Harry asked, "Or is it just happening inside our heads?"

"Of course it's happening inside your head, Harry." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Why should that mean that it's not real?"

"Professor?" I said, "What should we do?"

I turned to see that he was gone

"Professor?" Harry asked

I looked at him and he met my eyes

"Are we going back?" He asked

"We have to don't we?" I replied

"Yes... I suppose we do" he replied

I set a hand on his shoulder

"We can do this" I said

"I know we can" he replied

I smiled at him as the white world seemed to fade away

~Narcissa's POV~
(Wait whaaat?)

We watched as The Dark Lord stumbled. The Twins' bodies lay at the edge of clearing

"My Lord?" Bellatrix spoke, "are you alright?"

She tried to help him but he stopped her

"I do not need your help" he said

"The twins? Are they dead?" Someone asked

The Dark Lord looked at me and I stumbled forward toward the two.

I knelt down beside the girl and felt her pulse, which was strong.

My eyes widened and I leaned closer to her.

"Is he alive..?" I breathed, "Draco? Is he alive?"

The girl's lips moved just barely and she breathed a small yes.

Relief flew through me

"Mrs. Malfoy..?" She breathed, I looked at her, she was silent before she breathed, "I love him.."

I felt the faintest smile come to my face. I remember that day the twins were at the manor. How Draco had saved her from Bellatrix's curse.

"I know..." I breathed then I stood.

I looked at the Dark Lord

"Dead."