"No!" Marlene fought against her brother's hold so strongly that she fell on the floor once he had let her go. She brushed the hair from her face and looked around to see where Thomas had brought her. Their family home. The shock of seeing her brother had quickly turned to anger. "How... dare... you?" To Marlene, he had no right to step foot in the house where they had grown up. Thomas had left them to join Voldemort a long time ago and gave up being a part of their family. Standing there with him... the memories of their childhood only increased her anger. She tried to compose herself, letting her emotions take control would only make things worse for her, but she had kept them bottled up for too long. All at once, she felt the pain, the betrayal, the abandonment. Marlene leapt to her feet and and threw a punch that connected with his jaw. Pain traveled through her hand, but that didn't matter to her right now. She went to take another swing, but Thomas caught her arm and swung her around before she could make the hit. Marlene's attempt to wriggle out of his hold was met by his arms closing around her tighter.

"Marlene... look."

She shook her head violently, but he held her chin in place to make her see what he wanted her to. The doorway to the parlour... Thomas let her go when he felt her stop fighting against him. Marlene staggered over to where she saw her mother's lifeless body laying on the floor. "No..." She forced herself to look away, refused to believe that her mother was dead. Turning to look back at Thomas, Marlene saw the two other bodies laying on the floor near the front door. Nausea overtook her and she sunk to the floor. "Please... no..." Her chest felt as if it were collapsing. Her mother, her father, Finely... all of them. Dead. Her body gave her enough strength to crawl over towards her father and brother's bodies before giving up on her completely. Marlene laid on the floor next to her father and felt every part of her body quake. She began hyperventilating and could no longer feel her fingers. Through her tears and quick breathing, she could only repeat the word no over and over again.

It felt as though she had laid there for hours, with Thomas only staring at her and trying to hold back his own tears. Eventually she had stopped crying and her body had calmed; however, her mind could not be put to rest. Marlene could only stare back at Thomas. Her thoughts were so jumbled that she couldn't think straight and her body felt as lifeless as the rest of her family. From the corner of her eye, Marlene saw quick movement, but couldn't find the strength to look. "Avada Kedavra!" was the only thing that she heard before she saw Thomas become limp and fall to the floor. In an effort to save her own life, her body jolted upwards and she found herself making a break for the door, but did not make it in time; she felt something hard hit the back of her head and everything went black.