Gravedigers
3rdPOV
Howdy, it is my birthday bitches! And instead of getting gifts I am giving them! Enjoy this chapter and don't forget to review. New story new rules!
"Thank you for meeting me." She pecked his cheek and sat across him.
"Seriously?" He didn't expect to see her looking like this.
"Seriously? You thought that I will go around with blond lock for everybody to see?" She rolled her eyes.
"No, I am not that stupid... I am not stupid at all. You are wearing a wig that is all." He shrugged.
"Ah, yes the wig thing. Unfortunately, I suck at magic now, Ronald."
"Unbelievable... Who are you then?"
"I am Deidre Mavrai." She stuck her hand out as if they were meeting for first time. He ignored her and she placed her hand back on table. Those two know each other for a long time. "Stole face from girl I knew. She arrived at Manor with her parents, I only once saw person more miserable than her..." Ron understood that she meant herself. " She begged me to kill her so she won't become death eater. I granted that wish because I wished that someone had done the same for me... Well at least I did in begging."
Ronald Weasley met with 'Deidre' at Leaky Couldron. Many heads turned in their direction. Ron was a war hero, best mate of great Harry Potter and also Auror in making. Deidre Mavrai was still unknown to world, well people read article about her in Prophet, but mostly people were enchanted by her beauty. Deidre had short black hair and black eyes, she was pureblood and had warm smile that reached her eyes. At least that is what people thought, real Deidre was dead for over year.
"Ah, I see it now... She reminded you on you. " Ron leaned closer to her. "Well, Bella..." He whispered. "I did read the article, but not only about little girl you saved, but also about Deidre's sister... Annie, killed in front of her." Ron leaned back in his seat. "You are quite popular, expect that we will end on cover together. People will think we are dating." He grinned.
"Then let them." She placed her hand over one he had on table. Then she licked her lips. "Or are you worried what Hermione will think?"
"Lets not talk about her." It was obvious that Bella hit the sore spot, but she was too bored to ask about it. Bella didn't like Hermione. "Why did you call me here?"
"I need your help." Bella said seriously.
"I already knew that, you wouldn't come all way from hell to Earth just to say 'hello'."
Bella looked at him and smirked. When she started personally training Ronald, she knew that he could achieve great things and she was right. He was like male version of her, she made him who he is. Maybe not as intense and extreme version, but decent. Ron and Bella ordered Firewhiskey, they had time... Plenty of it actually as they needed to wait for night to fall. As expected, at one point reporters appeared and hell if they won't make the cover.
"I freed Grindewald."
"You what?! Why in the name of all that is holly did you free him?"
"He is my family." She shrugged. Family is power after all.
"Okay... Okay. I won't ask any stupid questions anymore, family is important." He agreed and went back to digging.
"Thank you."
Bella and Ron found themselves on graveyard in Godric's Hollow. Night finally fell when they arrived. Bella was thankful, Ron not so. Bella thought that some jobs should be done in dark and especially in dark, so she was digging silently. Ronald on the other hand would prefer street lamp now, deluminator and lumus, but she forbid it. Only light two of them had was moonlight, for Bella it was more than enough, but for Ron... He kept whining.
"Why couldn't we do that last week, it was full moon then."
"Yes, we could do it then." She agreed. "But then we would need to dig another grave. Your own, Ronald." She said coldly. "I would eat you up for dinner."
"What are you saying?"
"I got bit by werewolf on full moon. Don't be idiot." She swung her shovel and finally hit something other that soil. "Gotcha."
They threw their shovels out and dig out the wooden coffin with their bare hands. Bella admired it for a moment, before opening it. She smirked. Bella and Ron had spent their evening digging up the grave of Arabella H. Clark, her supposed grave. Ronald was maybe little freaked out with fact that they were doing what they were doing, but he didn't show. Instead he wondered how crazy this beautiful girl next to him was.
"What is up with rods?" He asked as he looked in the coffin.
"In shoulders and hips..." She started. "Pierced through to unable one to move. Then, there is cloth, stuffed in mouth to cover screams...If there is any." She smirked darkly. "Whole grave charmed to never open, made to lead person inside to insanity.. Unless I open it or die of course. Now, I died, didnt' I?"
"Why though? You could have it all. I will never understand why you did it. I thought that you loved Tom..." She interrupted.
"I did, still do, always will. He was my forever... You are right I could have it all...it just, I don't know what. I feel guilty."
"For killing 53 people?" Ron tried to guess. He failed.
"No." Her response shocked Ron, he thought that eventually she will show some remorse. "Why do you insist that everybody can be saved? I can't be, deal with it." She was harsh. "I feel guilty for not realizing that I was truly his only before it was to late... I drank poison hours before I learned the truth." Sob escaped her lips. "He never cheated on me, it was a test and I failed."
"He knew?"
"He was the Dark Lord, I underestimated him, like he did with me. He knew everything..." She pulled her sleeve up, Dark Mark was black as night. " This is my punishment, he knew that I will betray him..." She swallowed loudly. " Tell me... Did T-Tom even try?"
"No." Was only answer Ron offered.
"I know. He died to get back on me, this is his revenge... To know that I will suffer without him, that I will be weaker, but afraid to die." He voice trembled. "I am afraid to face him once I die, that is why I yet didn't end this... this horrible excuse of life I am living. He fuckingly knew me to well... Penalty for my crimes as Dark Lady is death, Ministry is hunting me down and I am struggling to survive, my magic.. I am weak." He eyed glowed yellow.
"What happened to you?" Ron tried to get closer to her, but she kept pulling away.
"I was bitten by vampire, Victoria... He venom was circling through my body before Tom stopped it, all that power was drained from me... I couldn't save my best friend because of it... And then I was bitten by werewolf on full moon. I'm one of them."
"Yo-You..."
"Don't stutter. I am werewolf, small part of me is still witch and tiny piece of my is I suppose vampire... I fed on raw flesh and blood, I am a monster... Bigger one than one I was before. My body temperature is colder than human's, my heart beats and I sleep, but I am unable to cry tears... All grief I have stays in me." She pulled wig from her head and threw it on ground. "Enough of this... Please draw the deathly hallows on headstone. You know what plan is?"
"Yes. Scream for help, call aurors, say that I saw two people here after Deidre brought me here and stay calm, Mistress." He bowed his head.
"See you soon then... Game on." Bella took shovel and hit Ron's head with it.
In less than a hour, cemetery which according to Ron was very dark, was not all illuminated. Ministry officials, Healers, Aurors, even Minister were now in crowd that was created. After Ron woke up from throbbing headache, he did as Bella told him to. He was loyal to her even after her down fall as Dark Lady and that is success if someone asks. Ron explained what happened and Healers stitched his forehead up, he was covered in blood when he woke.
"Weasley." New minister Kingsley Shacklebolt decided to ask Ron questions himself. "What were you even doing here at this hour?"
"Well sir..." His head throbbed as he spoke. "I don't really know, I remember spending day with this one girl and then... She brought me here somehow, I didn't want to, but she... For some reason I just couldn't say no." Ron played dumb. He developed amazing acting skills, but not even those skills were enough to fool another Weasley. Not that Ron knew it at time.
"It looks like he was put under Imperius curse." Percy Weasley said.
"Possibly... Ron, is there anything you especially remember?" Minister asked.
"Uhmm... I... I saw one male when we arrived, he was old and um... Deidre...She said something...Uhmm... 'Game on'...?"
"Game on?" Minister repeated.
"Minister we found something!" Some Auror called. Shacklebolt excused himself and went to see it. There will be more time to speak with Ronald.
"What is it?"
"We found a wig... Short black." He handed it to Minister. "I asked around, others say that this would be hairstyle of Mavrai girl." Minister clenched his fists.
"Dammit!" He cursed. "She was right under our noses whole time and got away!" Minister was intelligent enough to realize that there is no Deidre, it was damned widow Riddle. " What is with that girl... She freed Grindewald from prison earlier this day... What is next?!"
"Minister?"
"Yes, Percy?" Minister was now annoyed.
"You will have to see this..."
Minster stalked towards him right away and Percy led him to coffin. The coffin was placed next to grave that was digged up, it was already opened when Minister Shacklebolt arrived. As he passed the digged grave, he saw another coffin in it and ordered to have this one digged out too. He noticed that first three letter of name Arabella written of headstone were crossed. Bella, he read, under it he saw triangular mark... He groaned before looking in coffin as Aurors told him to.
"Is that ..."
"Isabella Marie Slytheirin, or Bella Potter if you prefer." Percy bent down." And from what I hear, she is still breathing."
Silver eyes opened then and for the first time after year and half, they saw light. Then they found Percy.
I decided to update this and then take break from this madness... Hope you like it...?
Sorry for mistakes,
Wicked Daphne
