Soul Bound 5

“Andy thank Merlin you’re here.”Andromeda held back a flinch when following Ted’s words the man in question threw his arms around her and gave her a hug. Her instincts were telling her to push him away from her and hex him into the middle of next week for touching her but she fought against them. The reason being was that she still had to play her role for a little longer before she could finally divorce him. That day couldn’t come soon enough. The man’s presence made Andromeda’s skin crawl and the cheap cologne he had worn since Hogwarts made her want to gag. That smell she would have to use powerful cleaning spells to get off her robes. It pissed her off even more because it overpowered the scent of Hermione that Andromeda had picked up from holding the baby for most of the day. She did steal one of Hermione’s blankets with Jean’s permission so at least she would be able to enjoy the scent later.

“What’s going on?”Andromeda asked pushing Ted away from her.

“It’s chaos. Everything has been quiet all day then we started getting reports of Death Eaters attacking at random places. There is no rhyme or reason to the attacks either. Some of them are on regular citizens or businesses that have no affiliations to either side of the war.”Ted told her.

“What do you need me to do?”Andromeda avoided looking at the severed house elf heads as she followed Ted into the house. She never understood why Sirius didn’t take them down. Andromeda had made a silent promise to the poor creatures a long time ago that as soon as she got the chance she would give them a proper burial.

“A few people have come back hurt.”Ted led her into the sitting room where they had set up a makeshift hospital.

Andromeda immediately went to Amelia Bones’ side. She pulled out her wand and began casting healing spells.”What happened to you?”

“I was ambushed at my home. Luckily I was the only one there.”Amelia was extremely thankful they hadn’t gotten to her child.

“Is Susan alright?”Andromeda asked.

Amelia nodded the best she could.”She was with my husband and his parents. They were giving me a night off to rest.”

“That decision likely saved their lives.”Andromeda had no doubt that the baby would have been killed if the Death Eaters got to it.

“If I didn’t get the back up that came to help me when it did I wouldn’t have made it myself. There were to many of them.”Amelia had fought hard but knew if left on her own she would have been killed.

“I don’t understand why they are attacking tonight.”Ted couldn’t think of a reason for the Dark Lord’s people to go on such a large offensive.

“The man is insane. He probably doesn’t even know why he sent everyone to attack tonight.”Andromeda knew exactly why the attack was happening but wasn’t going to tell them. Before anyone could reply the shrill voice of Molly Weasley overwhelmed the room.

“What is going on? Why are you all here instead of out there helping?”Molly asked as she stormed into the room holding a baby with five red headed boys of various ages following behind her.

“These people are wounded Molly.”Ted told her.

“Well Andromeda hurry up because they are needed on the battlefield.”Molly said as she made her way over to where Andromeda was.

Andromeda held back an eye roll at the woman’s request.”I am going as fast as I can Molly.”

“I’m not so sure about that.”Molly looked over Amelia’s wound.”That should have been able to be healed in minutes. What is taking so long?”

“It looks like that due to my efforts in healing it so far. Now if you wouldn’t mind can you give me some space? You breathing down my neck is irritating.”Andromeda went back to Amelia’s wound ignoring Molly.

“I am needed to make sure you don’t hurt our people worse than they are.”Molly didn’t trust Andromeda. She just knew that she was aligned with her sisters and the Dark Lord.

“We got another one.”A female voice announced.

Andromeda looked up and noticed an unfamiliar man being carried in by a woman Andromeda thought was named Sara. The problem was easy to spot because the man was missing an arm.”Put him in a chair.”

“You got it.”Sara said setting the man in a chair.

“Ted I need you to bring me the black leather bag that has my initials on it that’s in my potion’s room.”Andromeda needed the more advanced potions to regrow the man’s arm.

“Of course.”Ted hurried out of the room.

“Are there any updates?”Amelia asked.

“The aurors have shown up to help and they have been rounding up Death Eaters. I’m not sure of the numbers but there have been many people injured and more than one casualty on both sides.”Sara told her.

“You’re all set. The rest will heal on its own. It will be painful and the area will be tender for a few days but it isn’t likely to scar.”Andromeda told Amelia.

“Thank you.”Amelia made a move to put her shirt back on but was stopped by Molly.

“Let me see it.”Molly examined the wound again.”You are lying you could easily finish healing this.”

“If you think it can be done you are more than welcome to try.”Andromeda moved on to the next person surprised to see Augusta Longbottom. The woman had a nasty cut on her head. Seeing she was asleep Andromeda gently shook her awake.”How are you feeling?”

“Not the greatest.”Augusta had never felt so bad in her life.

Andromeda waved her wand over Augusta’s head sealing the cut.”What exactly happened?”

“I was in my study when the door was kicked open by the Lestrange brothers. They kept asking where the boy was and when I told the I didn’t know what they were talking about they attacked me. I fought them off the best I could but Lucius Malfoy came out of nowhere and hit me in the head with a spell causing me to pass out. When I woke up I called for help but by the time the others got there they were gone.”Augusta still didn’t know what the brothers were talking about.

“Well I healed your wound but you took a pretty hard hit to the head. I need you to stay awake for a while to make sure there isn’t anything wrong.”Andromeda was pretty sure that the men were looking for Neville. It did please Andromeda and she knew it would please her sisters that Augusta could identify Lucius and the Lestrange brothers as her attackers. That would guarantee that they would be put in Azkaban.

“I’ll try but I am very tired.”Augusta felt like she could sleep for a week.

“I’ll come back to check on you.”Andromeda gave Augusta’s shoulder a squeeze before moving on to Gideon Prewett.”Hello Gideon.”

“Andy thank Merlin. I need you to heal me so I can get back out there to help my brother.”Gideon was worried to death about his brother. They never went on missions without each other.

“Let’s see what I can do.”Andromeda waved her wand over Gideon.”It seems that you are missing your hand and have some superficial wounds that are easy to heal.”

“What can you do about my hand?”Gideon asked.

“I have a potion that will regrow it in a couple days then it will take at least a month before it will work properly.”Andromeda told him.

“Then just seal the wounds and I will go back out there with one hand. It’s not my wand hand anyway.”Gideon could easily ignore the pain and fight with one hand.

“Alright.”Andromeda cast the spells to heal him and closed the wound on his wrist to prevent it from opening up again.”I healed you but I want you to drink a blood replenishing potion before you go back out there.”

“Where can I get one of those?”Gideon would comply with Andromeda’s request because she wasn’t fighting him on helping his brother.

“I’m back.”Ted announced as he walked into the room and handed the bag he was holding to Andromeda.

“Thank you.”Andromeda took the bag and opened it. Pulling out a bottle of red liquid she handed it to Gideon.”Drink this and wait ten minutes then you are good to go.”

“You are truly a blessing from the gods.”Gideon wasted no time drinking the potion. Anything to get him back to his brother he would do.

“Good luck and be safe.”Andromeda didn’t want anything to happen to Gideon because he was a member of Hermione’s family. One that would likely be very welcoming to her. Leaving Gideon Andromeda went to the man with a missing arm next.

“Can you fix it?”The man asked.

Andromeda rummaged through the bag before pulling out a blue bottle of liquid.”Drink this and your arm will grow back in a week. Then after it’s back it will take a month before you will be able to use it properly. If after that month you have any problems come see me.”

“Thank you so much.”The man drank the potion.”I was worried I was going to have to get a mechanical one.”

“The potion is relatively new.”Andromeda wasn’t going to mention it was invented by Narcissa. Her sister was waiting until after the war to patent it because she didn’t want the Dark Lord to know about her skills with potions.

“Well regardless I’m thankful.”The man said.

“Who is next?”Andromeda scanned the room for the worst injured and saw Kingsley Shacklebolt holding his stomach and groaning. She went to his side and noticed a large amount of blood on his clothing.”What’s wrong?”

“I took a slicing spell to the stomach.”Kingsley told her.

Andromeda lifted up his robes revealing a very deep wound.”I’m surprised you haven’t passed out from the loss of blood or the pain.”

“I can feel myself slipping.”Kingsley was hanging on by a thread.

“Drink this.”Andromeda handed him a bottle of red liquid. She then waved her wand over the injury wincing in sympathy when Kingsley hissed in pain. Once the wound was closed she cast a cleaning spell on him and his robes to get rid of the blood.”It’s going to be sore for at least two weeks. Try not to exert yourself or you may reopen the wound.”

“I was really hoping that I could get back out there and help.”Kingsley didn’t want to be sidelined.

“I think everyone here does.”Andromeda personally did not want to get involved at all but had to play her part.”I need to check on Augusta.”

“Thanks for the help.”Kingsley was upset he couldn’t help but wouldn’t risk his life if he was his body was this weak.

“You’re welcome.”Andromeda tried to make her way over to Augusta but was intercepted by Molly.

“Why are you sending my brother back out there?”Molly asked.

“He asked me to fix his body to the point he could go help his brother. I did that. Him going out there is his own choice.”Andromeda did not like that Gideon was going back out there but there was nothing she could do about it.

“What are you really up to?”Molly knew Andromeda was plotting against her family. The Blacks had always been jealous of the Prewetts. Even in school the sisters were horribly jealous of her.

“I’m trying to save people’s lives. What exactly is your purpose here? Shouldn’t you be at home putting your children to bed?”Andromeda could see how tired the young boys were. Even the baby was fussing and crying.

“Don’t tell me how to raise my children. If anything I should be telling you how to raise yours. Your child is out of control and has no manners.”Molly thought Nymphadora should have been disciplined more.”A firm hand would do her wonders.”

Andromeda took a deep breath to calm down and reminded herself that killing Molly would result in prison time and that would take her away from Hermione and Nymphadora.”Molly I am not going to beat my child. She is eight of course is going to act out and be excitable. I actually encourage her to be herself.”

“She will never find a husband if she is so out of control.”Molly told her.

“I personally am hoping she finds a wife.”Andromeda smirked at the slack jawed expression Molly was sporting. Before Molly could respond Dumbledore entered the room.

Dumbledore raised his hands to get everyone to stop with all the many questions they were shouting at him.”Calm down everyone.”

“What is going on?”Kingsley asked.

“The Dark Lord is dead.”Dumbledore waited until the room quieted before continuing.”He along with the Lestrange brothers and Lucius Malfoy attacked the Potters at their home. There was a fight that resulted in Lily and James along with the Dark Lord being killed and myself and Alastor apprehending the other three men. Baby Harry luckily survived.”

“At least there is that.”Ted said.

“Why did he attack the Potters?”Amelia didn’t think the Potters had anything the Dark Lord wanted.

“We don’t know.”Dumbledore lied. He knew exactly why they were targeted but he wasn’t going to let these people know about the prophesy.

“Now what happens?”A random man asked.

“Now we round up those that we can and we put them on trial for their crimes.”Dumbledore was expecting a lot of new residents in Azkaban in the next few months.

“So the war is over then?”The man with the missing arm asked.

“We have defeated the head of the rebellion. From our intelligence he never set up an heir to take his place if he was killed. That means they have no leadership. That’s why we are going to go after them hard and fast so they don’t have a chance to regroup.”Dumbledore wanted to eliminate any of the Dark Lord’s followers that could continue the cause so that Harry had a chance to grow up and learn the skills he would need to defeat the Dark Lord in the second war.

“We are all willing to help.”Amelia would do all she could to prevent another war from happening.

“Yes we are.”Kingsly agreed.

“I’ll be calling on this group and the others in the coming days so keep yourselves prepared at all times. With that said I’m going to go see what damage was done tonight.”Dumbledore needed to get the number of casualties on both sides.

“Isn’t this exciting? The war is over. Now we don’t have to worry about fighting anymore.”Ted couldn’t think of better news. 

“It’s very exciting.”Andromeda of course wasn’t excited for the same reason Ted was. Yes it was nice that most of the fighting would stop but the majority of Andromeda’s excitement had to do with the fact that she was very close to publicly reuniting with her sisters and being able to openly spend time with Hermione.

“I’m glad Dora is staying over at the babysitter’s because I predict this is going to be a long night.”Ted figured they were going to be up all night helping the others.

“I’m going to go make myself some tea.”Andromeda took herself and her bag into the kitchen where she was met by Kreacher.

The elf smiled brightly upon seeing her.“Misses Andy what can Kreacher do for you?”

“I would love a cup of tea please.”Andromeda had always felt bad for the elf for having to live with her aunt and the rest of Sirius’ family. That was why she always went out of her way to be nice to him.”So what news do you have about Sirius for me Kreacher.”

Kreacher growled as he made Andromeda’s tea.”He is unworthy of the name Black.”

“We both know that and soon so will he.”Andromeda hadn’t told Kreacher about Hermione but she did tell him that she and her sisters were going to take the Black Family Head of Household title one day. Ever since being told the elf did all he could to help her take down Sirius. That included keeping track of his movements. It was Sirius’ own fault the elf wasn’t loyal. He ordered him to obey the Order members. That vague command allowed Kreacher to do whatever Andromeda asked him to do. Even spy on Sirius.

“He recently invited his friends here to celebrate the birth of a child. I don’t know who the mother is but the child is a boy and he was very excited about having an heir. I heard him tell Peter that he had planned for the child wanting it to grow up with James’ son.”Kreacher told her.

“We had thought he would have a child already.”Andromeda was not surprised by that. Well she was surprised there was only one child as she expected Sirius to have at least a dozen.”Did he speak of the plans he has for raising the child?”

Kreacher nodded.”Yes he plans to move it and the mother in here.”

“That’s not going to happen.”Andromeda wouldn’t let Sirius move his bastard into one of their family homes.

“I would prefer it didn’t misses.”Kreacher said setting the cup of tea in front of Andromeda before taking a seat at the table with her.

“Other than the child what else have you seen?”Andromeda asked.

“Dumbledore came asking for gold again.”Kreacher told her.

“What did Sirius say?”Andromeda doubted he agreed.

“He said he would look over his accounts with the family goblin but after Dumbledore left Sirius ranted about how insulting it was for Dumbledore to think that the House of Black would give him gold. He made the comment that Dumbledore would have to pry the gold out of his cold dead hands.”Kreacher said.

Andromeda chuckled.”Well at least that will keep Sirius from emptying the vault.”

“Yes misses.”Kreacher agreed.

“Tonight has been a good night for you and me Kreacher and I am happy to tell you that in exactly 12 years myself and my sisters will be taking the title from Sirius.”Andromeda smiled at the big grin Kreacher gave her.

“That makes me very happy misses.”Kreacher wiped a tear from his eye.

“Me too Kreacher, me too.”Andromeda took a sip of her tea and let the silence fill the room. Things were progressing and soon Andromeda would be able to be with her soulmate. She missed Hermione terribly and wished that she could just blow off the others and go back to the Granger’s house. She had a key now. Something that she needed to figure out a way to secure to her body. She didn’t trust leaving it anywhere. Even if the house was warded the key was very important. Andromeda had no doubt that the lock was magical in nature and the key was the only way to open the door. With the lengths her grandmother went to protect Jean and Denis Andromeda knew she wouldn’t leave their protection to a muggle lock. Sofia was too smart to overlook that. Another thing Andromeda was looking forward to when she got access to the Black estate was visiting her grandmother’s home and seeing what she left behind. After finding out the truth about her Andromeda was curious about the woman who sacrificed so much to save the world. Hopefully she left some kind of journal behind because Andromeda wanted to use the information to honor her grandmother properly when they fulfilled all the prophesies. It was the least Sofia deserved.