You heard the leaves and stones underneath your shoes. Your fingers were tangled with Draco, your hand held your wand tightly. Draco held you hand a little tighter. Your shivering breath and nervously squeezing of his hand made him realise that you were scared.

No one spoke. Hundreds of footsteps were heard behind you. You never knew that Voldemort had this many followers. You only met the most important once. Voldemort walked in the front, behind that were the most important adult death eaters, followed by the two of you and a large group of others.

You saw Hogwarts up ahead. It was surrounded by a shield... It was blue and glinstering a bit.

You missed Hogwarts... you missed the classes, your friends, the lake, the common room... The time everything was normal. Draco looked at you. You sighed and got a better grip of your wand.

Voldemort stepped forwards and looked at Hogwarts. He held the elder wand tightly in his hand. Everyone stood around him in half a circle. Bellatrix stepped forwards a bit.

Voldemort screamed and cased a spell at the shield. Blue light was admitted from it. Small cracks became visible in the shield and some parts even broke off. You stood closer to Draco and leaned against his arm.

Voldemort pulled back and looked at his wand for a while. The shield turned orange and yellow. It was clearly weakened.

'Y/N, Draco... move back in the crowd.' Your mother whispered.

You looked at her with a questioning look.

'Why?' You whispered.

'Just listen to me. If you want to live, you step back.'

You nodded and you walked into the crowd. You looked at all the wizards and witches. Their dark marks clearly visible.  You were almost at the end of the group. You stood still and looked at the star filled sky.

'Draco... If I die here, I want you to move on.' You sighed.

'You won't die here Y/N...'

'You never know... promise me you'll move on.' You spoke while looking at him.

He was quiet.

'Draco... I need you to promise me... I also need you to promise me that if we're in danger and the only way is that one of us should die... I want you to run and leave me behind. I need you to live... For your parents.'

'Y/N... I can't promise that...'

You sighed. 

'I know it's hard... but please.  Promise me.' You spoke trying to keep yourself calm.

Draco out of no where pulled you in for a hug. You hugged him back and he held you even tighter.

'I promise.' He softly whispered.

He stepped back. The moon and the stars lit up a part of his face. You saw his silver eyes sparking, a tear in the corner of his eye.

'We can do this... We just have to stay together.' You said.

He nodded and pulled you a bit closer.

'Just remember this... before we face what ever we have to face.' He spoke before gently kissing you.

You kissed him back and he pulled back rather quickly. He let go of you hand and you looked at him. The crowd in front of you started moving. You quickly followed.

You had no idea whether or not you were ready for this. All you knew was that you couldn't turn back now. You were stuck in this world now.

What would happen? How many innocent people would die? Who would win? Voldemort? Harry? On which side were you? How many people did you have to kill? All these questions rushed through your head.

You couldn't answer them... you just had to wait and see. You just hoped your parents would survive.... and Draco, and his parents of course. You secretly hoped Harry would win. That he would end this torture once and for all. But you couldn't know.

The insecurity was driving you crazy... It also had to do with the stress and fear. Your breath was heavy and shivering, your hands were sweating and your heart was racing. You looked around and grabbed your wand a bit tighter. You couldn't handle this anymore. You had to get into Hogwarts, fight this war and make sure it would be all over.

Then worse part was that the chance of surviving was rather small... you knew it was. People knew you, knew your name. The new students, the old students... what would Harry do if he saw you? Or Luna? Or Hermione and Ron?

You walked with the crowd and saw the bridge. Some enthusiastic snatchers started running. You saw Neville and swallowed. When the death eaters got to close they just vanished... You stopped and looked at it in shock. Everyone stopped. Neville smiled a bit.

'Yeah!' He spoke while stepping forwards a bit. 'You and your whose army!' He yelled.

That was such a stupid mistake. If they would brake through he would be dead... well he would be even if he hadn't said that... suddenly at the front a small orange piece fell down. You were still outside the shield so it couldn't be from that. Neville looked at bit more scared as one of the men slowly stepped forwards. The spell was broken...

He grinned and Neville stepped back. He yelled and everyone started running.  You tried your best to keep up. You had completely lost sight of everyone you knew.

Neville started running everyone ran after him. You swallowed as you were pushed around a bit. You stepped onto the bridge.

Everyone started casting spells at Neville, horrible missing and hitting the bridge. They could seriously damage this thing! Couldn't they think?! Neville casted a spell back, hitting the wood of the bridge. You saw that spell shoot through the wood and slowly breaking apart.

You jumped a bit further and everything behind you exploded. You started running faster and tried to out run the brake down of the bridge. You panted heavily and were almost running up front. There were a few people in front of you, including Neville.

The screaming of dying people and the horrible sound of falling bodies tortured your ears. You tried to ignore it but couldn't.  You couldn't get detracted, you could end up like them. You saw Ginny and some others up ahead.

You looked up and saw the bridge about you breaking. You stretched your arms and begged. You caught up with Neville. He looked at you with a terrified look.

'JUMP!' You screamed at him.

You both jumped forwards and everything behind you collapsed. You got a grib of the edge of the bridge and held on tightly. A deep cliff underneath you.

'Neville!' Ginny screamed.

He grabbed the edge and hung besides you. You looked at him and he looked at you.

'Thank you.' He mumbled.

'For what?' You asked while trying to pull yourself up.

'For telling me to jump... I wouldn't have jumped if you hadn't told me.' He sighed while trying to get onto the bridge.

You threw your wand onto the bridge and Neville did the same. You pushed yourself up until your could place a hand on the bridge. You pushed and pushed until your couldn't finally rest your upped body in the wooden planks.

All wand of all the students were pointed at you and Neville also made his way up. You picked up your wand.

'I'm not going to hurt you.' You spoke slowly while putting your wand away and putting you hands up. 'See?'

Ginny looked at the students who lowered their wands.

'That went well...' Neville panted while grabbing his wand and standing up.

'You could have killed yourself.' You sighed.

'Why do you care? I'm not a death eater, I'm fighting against your kind.'

'Do you really think that I want this?' You asked.

Neville didn't answer and looked at Ginny.

'I'm not stupid, this is not who I am. I'm not a death eater!'

'You killed Liv!' Ginny yelled at you.

'I couldn't control myself!' You yelled back.

'Who say you can now?' She spat.

You shot her an angry look.

'I don't have my wand in my hands right now. I need a wand to kill.'

It was quiet for a moment.  Your heard screaming and yelled inside.

'You guys better hurry. I think they made their way into Hogwarts. Harry needs you.' You said.

They looked at you in confusion.

'I told you, I'm not like them! Stop wasting time and help you friend!' You yelled.

Neville ran towards the group and they ran towards the door. Neville stopped.

'Y/L... Thanks.'

You gave him a small smile and he ran off. You grabbed your wand and walked inside slowly. The war had started... It was time to fight.