A/N Hello, my lovely readers! Dude, it is the day after I posted Chapter 1 and I am back with Chapter 2. I really like writing this story, so it will get very frequent updates. :) Thanks to all reviewers! Dedication: To allidiane23 my first reviewer for this story! :D Disclaimer: I only own Marlene's family members who are the joint property of do i need a pen name and my self.
"Is it done?" A cruel voice demanded of the figures kneeling in front of him.
"y-yes my lord." came the trembling voice of Travers.
"Are you sure you got them all?"
"Except the Quidditch playing brother, he wasn't there." Piped up one of the other death eaters nervously.
"Milo McKinnon is a fool, and no threat to us." Voldemort replied. "We will take him out if we have the opportunity, but it is fine for now. Are you quite sure you killed the others?"
"There were two older people, the parents presumably, four younger wizards, and a young woman, my lord."
"Excellent." Voldemort replied. "The most important part was wiping out the auror, Malcolm, and the one from Dumbledore's troublesome Order, Marlene. She especially has been a thorn in my side from the moment her and her blood-traitor year-mates graduated from Hogwarts." He concluded. "You're dismissed." He hissed to the kneeling death eaters.
"y-yes, my lord." They stammered before rapidly fleeing the room.
-Story Break-
"Regulus?" Sirius asked incredulously. He had left Marlene at Hogwarts while he returned to his apartment to get her a new set of clothes as her current ones were covered in blood. He didn't think she had noticed yet, but he thought it prudent to get her new ones as soon as possible.
"Sirius? I'm so sorry." His younger brother exclaimed jumping up from where he had been sitting outside of Sirius' door.
"A bunch of your death eater buddies aren't about to pop out and kill me, are they?" Sirius asked dryly as he unlocked the door and gestured for Regulus to follow after him.
"I would never help them hurt you." Regulus replied seriously.
"I know." Sirius agreed after considering for a few moments. "Can we make this quick, Reg, I've got places to be?"
"You don't know, do you?" Regulus asked a pained-expression crossing his face
"Know what?" Sirius asked irritably.
"About Marlene." Regulus specified.
"What about her?" Sirius asked with a hard tone.
"She's dead, Siri." Regulus explained. "Her whole family is."
"Get out." Sirius demanded in reply.
"I'm sorry."
"So am I." Sirius answered as his brother disappeared out the door (1). He swiftly conjured a Patronus and sent it to Dumbledore explaining that the Death Eaters believed Marlene and Max to be dead.
-Story Break-
"Marlene!" Milo McKinnon exclaimed striding into the hospital wing. His features looked drawn, and his eyes were red-rimmed, he was clearly on the verge of exhaustion, but he was alive. The quidditch player held out his arms to his only sister who swiftly moved from her spot next to their younger brother's bed and embraced him. "I thought you were dead." He whispered into her hair. "I got home, and oh-God, Marlene, mum and dad, and Malcolm and everyone..."
"It was you then?" She asked, pulling back slightly so she could look up at him. "I heard someone apparate onto the property, I thought it might be a death eater so I disapparated with Max."
"It was me." Milo confirmed. "How is Max doing?" He asked quietly.
"Madam Pomfrey says he's going to be okay, he should wake up soon." Marlene answered. "He was dangling from a fucking Quidditch post, Milo. I think the death eaters were using him as a Quaffle." She paused to let this information sink in before continuing."When I get my hands on those death eaters, I am going to make them see their precious dark lord as the freaking Easter bunny compared to what I am going to do to them."
"I'm afraid that you will not be getting anywhere near near them, Miss McKinnon." Dumbledore announced as he made his way into the infirmary.
"Excuse me?" Marlene demanded in a loud tone, before abruptly forcing herself to quiet down as Max shifted on the bed.
"It has come to my attention that Voldemort for all intents and purposes believes both you, Marlene, and young Max here to be quite dead. And, I believe that it is in our best interests to reinforce that impression. Therefore, I think it's in your best interests to go into hiding." Dumbledore explained.
"Hold that thought." Marlene requested. "I think I'm going to be sick." She explained as she accioed a basin over to herself and proceeded to become violently ill. Milo crouched down beside his side his sister and dutifully held her hair away from her face.
After a few minutes she recovered, and vanished the evidence of her illness.
"Are you okay, 'Leney?" Milo asked referring to to her by her childhood nickname.
"I'm fine." She replied. "Now let's get back to the task it hand."
"Perhaps, you might like to lie down and rest for a short while and we can discuss this later-" Dumbledore suggested only to be cut off by Marlene.
"No. Let's discuss this now. I'm not afraid to fight, you know that." Marlene exclaimed fiercely from her spot on the floor..
"I know." Dumbledore agreed. "But you're more use to us alive than dead." He continued bluntly.
Marlene jumped up from the floor intent on continuing the argument only to sway ominously as the room spun around her. She caught a blurred glimpse of her brother and the headmaster's concerned faces before her eyes rolled back and she plummeted toward the ground only to be swiftly caught by her brother.
A/N Review! Next chapter will be posted very soon. ie. whenever I get reviews. ;) (1) I know Regulus should already be dead by this point in time, however I am extending his life a little bit for the purposes of that conversation. Poor Reggie. Dude. Why do I have to keep killing everyone off?
