Love of my life

Chapter 23

He's too late as we warp back to my time-line. We get to May 2nd 1998.

"Let's go to Hogwarts to see your brother," Tom smiles at me. We apparate outside of Hogwarts and go inside. Everyone is frantically getting ready for something. I pull aside my old classmate, Lavender.

"Hey Lavender, what's going on?" I ask.

She looks at me confused, "how do you know my name? And what's going on is about there is about to be a battle!"

"A battle?" Tom inquires.

"YASSSSSS!" She says as she runs away. We turn around to see a boulder coming at us. Tom immediately blocks with a spell. We look at each other dumbfounded and head towards the great hall.

When we walk in I see Harry. I even see my mom and my father...my father?! He's alive!?

"Harry!" I say as I run toward him and hug him tightly. I missed him so much. Although he doesn't hug me back, all he does is stand there. I release him confused.

"Uh hello, who are you?" Harry says awkwardly. My heart drops.

"Who am I? I'm your sister" my voice cracks.

"Um sorry but I don't have a sister," Harry says while laughing awkwardly.

"But I'm Clarie De la Fontaine, your half sister-" I get cut off by my parents gasping. I turn to them on the verge of tears. I then turn to my friends. "Please tell me you remember me" I say to them but there is no recognition in Ron's eyes. None in Hermione's either, just curiosity and suspicion.

I look at everyone's lost and shocked faces. My heart feels like it breaks into 2 pieces. I turn to Tom and he looks confused and sympathetic. I look around the room at all the familiar faces who don't recognize me.

That is until I see the doorway. There are 3 old men in their early 70s. They look so familiar but I can't put a name to them. I don't remember them being here. I walk closer to them when I realize who they are.

"Atticus? Valentine? Dune?" I ask, questioning myself. They all turn to me and look at me curiously. They look from me to Tom and it's like a light bulb went off in Valentine's head.

"Clar? Tom?" He asks. I smile and run to hug him.

"Well I'll be damned!" Dune says, while hugging Tom. Tom laughs and hugs him back a little awkwardly.

"Of course the one time they come back there is gonna be a battle!" Atticus laughs. I hug him next, then finally Dune.

"What happened over the years when we weren't here?" Tom asks.

"A whole lot!" Atticus says.

"Sweetie, why are you crying?" Valentine asks me.

I tell them everything, from my family to time traveling.

"Hip hip hooray! You're back with your family!" Atticus says. I start crying even more.

"Stop you dimwit! You made her cry even more! She wasn't done telling the story!" Dune says, hitting Atticus' shoulder.

"They don't remember me," I cry out.

"If I remember correctly, I think I know what happened. In your old timeline, your Voldemort killed James, Lilly and tried to kill Harry. But you see, that was your Voldemort. Our Voldemort killed a baby called Clarie, who I'm assuming was you." Valentine says.

"Wait wait wait, in your timeline, that was Voldemort?" Atticus asks, pointing at Tom.

"Yeah, wait, who is-" before I can finish my sentence, there is a loud bang.

"Oh dear heavens! The battles begun!" Dune says, as he grabs Valentine and holds him closer.

Tom and I are about to run to the commotion when Atticus stops us. "Why are you going over there? You're gonna die!"

"This is my fault! This wasn't supposed to happen! I need to fix this! You guys should stay here, I don't wanna lose anyone else," I say back to them. They give me an underlying smile and Tom and I leave.

Left and right we see people fighting for their life. Killing curses are shot everywhere. We have dodge many of them.

When we finally get to the commotion and see a young man around our age talking to my family. As I'm about to get closer, this old ass man steps in front of me.

"Halt in the name of- wait." This man grabs out a monocle and looks from me to Tom. "Riddle? De la Fontaine?" He asks.

"Do we know you?" Tom asks.

"Um it's me, Mulciber" he says, like it's obvious.

"Ok well can you move? I kinda need to get somewhere," I say in a rush. However he doesn't move, instead he pulls out his wand. He starts to try to duel me but it's no use. He tried hitting me with the killing curse but I rebounded it to him. He falls to the ground dead.

The man in front of us turns around. It can't be. How? How has he stayed so young?

"Lestrange?" Tom asks.

"Just the two people I was looking for all these years!" Lestrange cackles. "I've waited so long to finally get revenge! I was about to kill you when you two disappeared out of nowhere! I've searched far and wide but could not find you! That was until I killed Clarie as a baby, or so I thought. Now it's time for you to die!" He says as he pulls out his wand and points it at me.

Tom's faster and steps in front of me with his wand. They battle, spell after spell. I try to help but Tom keeps putting himself in the way to protect me.

After a few minutes, Lestrange finally gets the upper hand due to his more experience. He hits Tom. Tom stops and drops his wand. He's hurt badly so I step in.

Lestrange is way more powerful now, I struggle to cast any spells so I instead protect myself. It's hard for me to keep up, I don't know how many more spells I can rebound. I can see it's taking a toll on him too. I just need to keep going so he can tire out. The only problem is, I'm tiring out.

One the spells rebound towards someone. I can't see who it is out of the corner of my eye. I just noticed someone else steps in front of that person. Lestrange notices too, he stops to turn. When he turns, his face morphs into an evil smile.

I turned too to see that the person who was about to get hit was Harry...the person who stepped in front of him was Tom. No.

I run towards Tom, I bend down to feel a pulse. He has no pulse. No. No. This can't be happening. He can't be gone. Lestrange's wicked laugh interrupts my thoughts. His laugh chills me to the bone.

"Looks like your little boyfriend is dead! Oh how revenge feels sweet! Now who is gonna save you now?" Lestrange says as he mocks me. I don't care what he says about me. I can't even think straight. All I feel is anger. Anger about everything he did, what he's done to Tom.

Without thinking, I get my wand and point it towards him. He's too busy laughing at my tears to notice.

"Avada kedavra" I say with passion and the green light escapes my wand and hits him right in the chest. He stops laughing, his eyes stare into mine as life leaves his eyes and he falls to the ground.

A loud sob escapes my mouth as I turn my attention back to Tom's lifeless body. I hold him tight as I cry. I hear whispers around me but I don't care. I hear Valentine, Dune and Atticus trying to comfort me but I pay them no mind. All I pay attention to is Tom. All my pain towards his death.

They say you need to really mean it when you use the killing curse and I did. I really did mean it because of Tom. He is the love of my life and yet he's gone forever because of me.

A/N~ there may or may not be multiple endings...