Half-Blood Ginger (HP Fanfic)

Chap 25: He's Back?

|March| |2002|

       |Leilani|

            Neville and I had been dating since I chose him over Blaise. On Christmas, he proposed in front of our friends. Neville made me very happy. It was not the same without Kastor. I wanted him back! There must be a way to bring him back to life.

Why I am feeling this way? Bloody hell! Is it because I'm marrying Neville. I wish it was Kastor again. I had gone to my brothers. Draco looked surprised. Harry shook his head.

"Leilani, he's gone. You can not bring him back!" Harry said, as he watched me in Draco's lap.

"I want to!" I lean against Draco's chest.

"You heard Harry, Lani. Kastor can not come back." Draco held onto me tighter.

"He has to come back. Please." I begged.

"Are you scared, Lani?" Harry says, watching me.

"Yes." I lay my nose in the croak of Drake's neck.

"We could at least try." Harry said, getting up from the couch.

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I stirred the potion in the cauldron. It had became hardened and soft. It was finished and I had thrown it on the ground. Nothing happened. I cried. Kastor was never coming back!

"Love--"

"Kastor?"

"No, it's me, Neville." I turned and found Neville behind me. "Don't you love me, Lei?" I did not respond. "Leilani?" I was scared. He started to walk away.

I pulled him back. "I'm sorry. It's not your fault. I haven't felt like myself lately. I love you Neville, honestly. Getting married again, frightens me. I only tried this potion because I've been scared. It is mostly hard to love someone who isn't the first love."

"I understand, love." Neville's mouth hadn't moved. "Leilani." I turned around. It was Kastor.

His body was changing from a dead corpse to a newly healed man. "It worked. The potion worked." I ran and hugged him. "You're real. You're alive. You're really here!" His body was real, no bugs crawling on him either. His face was real. I touched his face, neck, hands and arms. "Kastor."

Everyone had come out of the Manor. The wedding was next week. I didn't care. Kastor was back.

"Kastor!?" It was Asy. "It's really him?" Kastor came closer and all our friends started to touch him. 

"I feel like God." Everyone laughed. "It's wonderful to be back." He noticed Neville next to me. "Longbottom, so sorry, but I think it's best for Leilani was with me. I do not know how long I got again."

"Gran's coming tomorrow. How I am to tell her--"

"Tell her the truth. She's a witch. Things happen." Draco says, he watched Kastor closely.

"Neville, we should talk." Kastor looked at me as I walked away with Neville. "You've seem how much I haven't been myself lately. I didn't think it would work. Honestly Neville, I love you. It might not have been like the way I love Kastor. Finally, he's back and I can love him again. I am sorry, Neville."

"It's alright. I'll owl Gran." He kissed my cheek.

I walked over to Kastor. His arm around me. "Darling, do you remember anything?"

I noticed Neville walking into Spencer Manor. Father was following him with Draco.

"I remember Hades killing me in our bedroom. I think you saw me using the stone, once?" I nod. "The dream after I died. I do not know much everything that happened. It's a blur, honestly." He remembered something. "The children."

"They're fine, dear. They have been too upset for me trying to be with Neville."

"Artemis, she can talk?" I nod. "First, the graveyard. Am I really alive again?"

Some of us apparate to the graveyard where we had buried him two years ago. The plot where he had laid, the dirt had caved into the deep hole. The casket was empty and filled with dirt. Harry had moved a lot of the dirt to check the casket. It was empty. No body. It really was Kastor back from the dead. It was said no one can come back from the dead.

Harry had gone to Kingsley as the rest of us went to Spencer's manor. Narcissa had the children waiting in the parlour room. "Daddy!" Artemis cried out.

"Daddy. Mum." Little Kastor says as he hugs his father. "Where've you been, dad?"

"A very long long holiday, sweetheart. Do not worry." I tell my son.

Harry came in with Kingsley and a strange man. "Come, children.  Maybe Uncle Draco has something for you." Narcissa told my children. They ran out with her and Harry closed the door.

"This man has powers--let's say he knows everything pureblood and such. I had told him what Harry told me." Kingsley turned over to Kastor. "Mr. Spencer, I hadn't believed what I heard, thus, seeing you in front of me, is unbelievable."

"Sorry Minister, if I may?" The man says. Kingsley nodded. "I assume you have been back from the grave, sir." Kastor nods. "Who brewed the potion?" I raised my hand. "Ah. You are both purebloods?"

"No, only I. Leilani is a half-blood." Kastor told the man.

"What blood?"

"Pureblood and Muggleborn."

"Father?"

"Lucius Malfoy."

"Ancient, Malfoy is." He looked at us again. "I suppose it was why he has come back, well and alive. Your blood is pure all the way through. And hers is half, though, her pure side is ancient and a long line of Malfoys. Some magic is stronger than others. It is usually family magic that makes things like that potion work." He looked at Harry. "Mr. Potter, if you would like to add the reasoning of the lady."

"My Half-sister. My mum had Leilani the year before she had me. She had gone to Dumbledore and I met Leilani when I was eleven."

"Muggleborn mother. It usually does not help magic or potions such as these. I dare say, with pureblood like yourself, young sir, it has made you ageless. As for the lady, she had made the potion and coming from Malfoy, it was very strong. That is why it worked. He is no longer dead and shall never die again."

"You're saying, we can not age anymore?"

"With pureblood like yourself, yes, you can not. What of that book you used?" Harry gave it to the man. He gave a look at the potion. "Ah, yes. Who brews it, will not age or die. The object coming back alive, will not age or die. Almost like a vampire."

"Thank you, Mr. Smith." Kingsley says.

"Thank you, sir." Kastor said.

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"Love, I want you to do something for me?" Kastor said as we walked in the Spencer garden.

"Yes, dear."

"Marry Neville. I do not know if what Mr. Smith said is of the truth. I might die again, love. I want you to be happy. If I'm gone again, what in merlin will happened to you? Be with Neville, Lani. It is the only way."

"No. You're alive. And I will not marry someone else if you're here. I love you and no one else." I was crying, tears down my face. "Kastor--you know that I would never leave you. You've known that since First Year. You've come back, dear. Do not say things that does not make sense."

"If you say so, Athena."

"I say so, Kastor. After you had gone, I changed my name to Malfoy."

"Ah, let's get married, Thena." I laugh. "Again."

"Yes, I would love that, Kas."

(A/N: Sorry, it seems like a shock. I had been crying since I killed Kastor off. And I hated seeing her sad. She was to be with Neville and end up with many children. I can not say how many honestly. I realized it was fanfiction and it was my story, I could do what I want).