AN: This is written for The Golden Snitch, for two events. The first is the Halloween Costume Challenge, Dress-up, with the prompt: Princess- Write about a Minor Female Character. The second, for The Great School Bake-Off Competition, the Prompts are: Tiramisu Cake: pairing: FrankAlice!, emotion: afraid, weather: lightning, action: giving someone a goodbye kiss. I'm in Hogwarts, Slytherin, and I had permission from both respective mods to combine for their challenges. Where this is a combined story, I will have this in two places, under the bake off one-shots, and the one-shots and drabbles for the Halloween contest!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER!
There was a thunderstorm roaring outside as Frank and Alice Longbottom snuggled in front of the fire. Their son, Neville was currently visiting with his grandmother, and would be gone for a few more hours. The couple were still mourning over the loss of some of their close friends, James and Lily Potter. Their funeral was yesterday, and they let Neville go with his grandmother while they still came to terms over their deaths.
As Alice got up to make some more tea, Frank watched out the window as a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating their front yard. What Frank didn't expect to see in his yard, was a bunch of cloaked figures honing in on his wards. He suddenly felt the pull of the outside forces trying to gain entry, when suddenly, with a snap the wards were down. Jumping to his feet, he unsheathed his wand and ran to the kitchen, where his wife was.
Telling her was futile, since she had felt her wards come down as well. The couple headed back to the living room, where they shared a traditional goodbye kiss in case one of them didn't come out of the impending battle. They both were afraid for the other, in case they didn't survive, and they both hoped to Merlin that Neville and Augusta did not arrive home early.
Ending the kiss, they stood at arm's length, and prepared for when the unknown figures burst through the door. The impact was not long after, when they started slewing off Ministry approved defensive and offensive spells. The ensnared battle did not last that long though, before a crucio hit Alice. Rodolphus took his chance and while Frank shouted out an agonized scream, he was knocked out and bound.
Bellatrix loomed over the wedded couple, and continued her onslaught of the cruciatus curse, letting one gather a moments rest before Rodolphus continued for her, so she could turn her attentions to the other.
When gathering information was futile, and their minds were broken, Bellatrix and her followers left. Not noticing the floo roar to life before they left the property.
Augustus stepped through the fireplace, with Neville cradled to her bosom, taking a moment to wipe the soot of off their clothes. When she was finished, she finally noticed the crumpled figures of her son and daughter-in-law. Letting out a shriek, she floo called St. Mungo's. Waiting for them to arrive, she rushed over to their prone forms, and checked for pulses. Upon finding them, she stuck Neville in a playpen and helped Frank and Alice as best as she could before the Healers arrived.
Before they were carted off, Alice, regaining some sense of her mind, spoke in a hushed and broken whimper, "Aug, take care of my Neville! Make sure he remembers us!"
That was when Augustus broke down for their new loss, and Neville broke out in a cry for his mommy and daddy.
All would never be right in the Longbottom home for now, not bearing able to be in the house any more for right now, Augustus gathered their fallen wands, and Neville's things, before heading home to Longbottom Manor, preparing herself to tell the rest of the family about Frank and Alice's horrible tenure.