Dying
By: RemmysGal
Disclaimer: You know the deal…Victoria is mine, nothing else is. Oh, and the parts of the song down the bottom are Dying by Five for Fighting, so that's not mine either.
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"So, how did it go?" A voice asked from the study as a man stuck his head out. The man was Arthur Weasley, and he was speaking to Remus Lupin, who had just hung up the phone inside the kitchen of Number 12 Grimmauld Place.
"What?" Remus looked up at Arthur. "Oh, well, all right I suppose."
"Is she coming?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"I'm going there." Arthur was shocked.
"Why?" he asked.
"Dunno, she said she's not coming until I go over there and explain everything to her. So I'm going."
Arthur nodded. "I'll tell Molly to make some supper before you leave. When do you leave?"
"Tonight."
"Okay, then." Arthur walked out of the study and up the stairs.
"Arthur?" Remus called. Arthur turned.
"Yeah?" he said.
"Thanks."
Arthur smiled. "No problem, Remus." He went up the stairs.
Remus sighed again and shook his head. Then he followed Arthur up the stairs and went to his room. He needed to pack his belongings. He reached under the bed and pulled out a shabby worn suitcase.
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------*Victoria Rokaway hung up the phone and sighed. She shook her head, her honey hair shaking with it. Sirius was dead. She wasn't supposed to care. She gave up on Sirius Black a long time ago. She gave up on the wizarding world a long time ago. They claimed to be better than others, than Muggles. But it all resulted in the same thing. Death. Betrayal. No matter how much they claimed they could do, they couldn't stop death. They couldn't stop friends from betraying friends for their own foolish pride.
She slammed her hand down on the counter. Dust lifted from where she had hit it.
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------*"SIRIUS BLACK!" a voice screamed from the girls' dormitory in Gryffindor Tower. The door could be heard opening and closing with a slam as two pairs of feet pounded down the stairs. 14-year-olds Victoria Rokaway and Lily Evans entered, looking positively livid. They looked furiously around the common room, their eyes resting on a group of four boys sitting in the armchairs by the fire.
"Sirius Black," Victoria snarled. 14-year-old Sirius looked up at her. Then he smiled his gorgeous smile, the one that made all the girls at Hogwarts swoon. Well, almost all of them.
"Yes, Rock?" he replied sweetly.
"Don't you dare use that innocent and harmless look on me! Would you care to explain how the girls' dormitory is now covered in Bubotuber pus?"
Sirius looked shocked. Then he looked at his three friends, James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. "Mates, do we know how Bubotuber pus is now covering the girls' dormitory?"
"No, we don't," they all replied sweetly in unison.
"And it couldn't have been us," James said casually.
"And why not, Potter?" Lily snapped at him. He just gave her a dazzling grin.
"You should know, Evans," he replied.
"Why would I know that?" she asked him.
"Because, oh dear smart one, you must have Hogwarts, A History memorized by now, and I believe there is something in there about the girls' staircases turning into a slide when a boy tries to go up it?"
Lily blinked. "Yes," she said, "there is." James smiled triumphantly and shot a thumbs up behind his back to his three friends. "But that doesn't mean," Lily began angrily, "that you…you…Marauders… that you are couldn't have found a way up the girls' staircase!"
"Yes, but Lily how could you prove it?" Sirius asked sweetly.
The girls looked at him. They gave the boys one last icy glare before turning and walking out of the common room. Victoria stopped before she climbed out of the portrait hole.
"That was really immature Black," she said, her voice quiet. She wasn't even sure Sirius had heard her. Then she turned and climbed out of the portrait hole.
Sirius heard her. But as his friends slapped him on the back and congratulated each other, Victoria's last words were pushed out of his mind.
*------------------------------------------------------------------------*- Remus Lupin apparated in front of Victoria Rokaway's flat, or the flat an operator on a local telephone told him was her house. He looked at it. It was old and worn, but you could tell it had a homey feeling to it. It seemed so out of place with its busy and upbeat surroundings. It was just like Victoria, out of place, somewhere she was not supposed to be. Remus knew why she left. To an extent of course. Sirius never told him the real story why they broke up. He supposed James knew, but James wasn't alive anymore. And neither was Sirius. This was the only place to give a story, and possibly get one in return.
- Remus sighed heavily and walked up the brick walk to the door. He set his suitcase down, took a deep breath, and knocked.
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…The first time you left I said goodbye…
…Now there's not a prayer that can survive…
…Dying, Dying to die just to come back so we can meet again…
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Author's Note: Well that chapter was really short, I know, but I'm actually kinda happy with it. Sorry for the cliffhanger, it just seemed like a good place to stop. I'm not really letting any information slip out yet, but if you pay attention, you may read between the lines and see where I'm going.
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Much Love,
RemmysGal
