Ok i am SOOO sorry about the long ass wait but life has been a complete and total beyotch to me! I mean really! First starting around the mid of dec. i had to start studying for finals, then the next week had to take finals. After finals were finished my computer up and CRASHED! Like completely DIED! Then after i fixed it I got the DAMN FLU! The 1st week of the new semester! So i was like dying for a WEEK! Then when i went back all my classes had been changed and the teachers thought it would be funny to assign A SHIT LOAD of homework! Then i have softball for 3 hrs every day! So that is the horror story of my life!
I hope you enjoy this chap. but it is a bit short and sucky. :( sorry! I will make the next one longer, better and i will update quicker! PROMISE!
The siren of the ambulance resonated in the air for a moment before it faded and an eerie silence prevailed.
"Melanie?"
The young brunette slowly tore her eyes from the direction the ambulance had just disappeared to and brought them to rest on the frightened figures of her best friends. Lily was clutching onto a pale Remus, the fear translucent on her ashen face, and Remus faired no better.
"Melanie, what…what just happened?", Lily asked, her voice small.
Melanie shook her head slowly, trying to calm her chaotic thoughts that buzzed in her brain like a nest of hornets. "I…I don't know."
Lily bit her lip in anxiety. "But we are going to find out.", Mel finished firmly.
Silence ticked by. "What do you mean by finding out?", Remus questioned cautiously, breaking the stoic stillness.
Melanie locked her sky blue eyes with his amber ones. " I mean we are going to Barnet."
"What?" Lily's emerald eyes widened and her mouth fell open in disbelief. "Are you out of your mind?"
Melanie rolled her eyes at Lily's screech. "Actually no. I am perfectly sane."
"Bollocks!" Lily ripped herself away from Remus and stormed up to Melanie, shoving a dainty finger into her face. "If you were sane you would just walk away! UGH!" Her face twisted into a furious scowl. "I told you! I told you both!" She spun to glare at Remus as well. "I told you going into that alley was just asking for trouble! Now look what has happened!"
Mel felt anger rise in her. "Well what would you have had us done? Huh, Lily? Let them die?" Mel couldn't believe how selfish Lily was being. Lily shook in her place but then she deflated like a dying balloon, her head bowed.
"Well…no. But Mel." Lily's head rose and worried eyes bore into the young brunette. "Mel…those guys weren't just in the wrong place at the wrong time. They have to be…involved in something. And you have helped them not once but twice. What happens if the people that did that", she turned and gestured to the stained and sordid alley, "come after you now?"
Images of a beaten and bleeding Padfoot flashed behind Mel's eyes, his broken pain-filled words echoing in her head like a broken record and a shiver raced down her spine. Melanie groaned and put her head in her trembling hands. Lily's light footsteps sounded against the cobblestone street and Mel felt a thin arm encircle her and her warm breath brush her cheek. "Come on Mel. You saved them. You have done your part. Lets just go home."
Mel sighed. "Maybe Lily is right.", she thought. "I've done enough. No need to put myself at risk." But Padfoot's frantic plea rang through her thoughts and Mel realized she couldn't just leave him. She didn't know why, but…it just felt wrong. Mel exhaled sharply and inhaled quickly letting the frigid air settle in her lungs and lifted her head up to address Lily. The instant her sapphire orbs focused on Lily's, the red head cringed.
"Oh no. I know that look." Mel smiled weakly. "I'm sorry Lils, but….I can't. I can't just forget about them and go home. I have….have to help some how. But I don't want anything to happen to you or Remus so I think you two should just go home."
Lily sighed and turned to Remus who was standing tall and awkward a few feet away, gnawing on his lip in a nervous gesture and a silent question seemed to transpire between her two friends because after a few moments Remus gave a small nod. Lily turned back to Mel, resignation in her eyes.
"Mel I don't like this idea. I really don't. And I just know something is going to happen. But we promised you many years ago that we will always be by your side and that is not gonna stop now." Mel gazed at Lily who smiled thinly and turned to Remus who had the same faint smile.
"Guys… you don't have…"
"Mel don't argue alright. You're stuck with us." Remus stepped up and stooped to stare her right in the eyes so Mel could see the hard determined glint in his amber eyes. "End of discussion."
Mel made one last attempt. "But…it's your birthday Rem." Remus grinned and placed his large hand on her head and ruffled hair.
"Don't worry about it Mel. You can make it up to me later." Knowing she would get nowhere with Remus, Mel reluctantly nodded. "Deal.", Mel answered with a smile and hugged her two friends.
How did she get such amazing friends?
The automatic doors opened with a whoosh and Mel's nose was assaulted with the pungent odor of antiseptic and the ever present sent of death. Mel took a deep breath, gathered her courage and strode through the glass doors of the ER, Remus and Lily trailing behind her as she navigated her way to the front desk. However, as she got closer to the white reception desk her courage began to falter and when she finally did arrive she was a timid, stuttering mess.
"Umm…ex…excuse me?" The bored looking receptionist looked up from her computer with disinterest.
"Yes?", she drawled.
"Ummm…coul…could you tell me…if…two men were…br…brought in about th…thirty minutes ago?" The woman sighed and her fingers clacked away on her keyboard.
"Hmm… at 10:35 two John Does were brought in with multiple gunshots wounds and other injuries. Is that who you were looking for?"
Melanie nodded. "Well they are still in surgery. You will have to sign in and wait over there."
A red tipped nail jabbed to a group of chairs in the corner of the room. Mel nodded and signed in and walked slowly to the chairs where Remus and Lily were waiting.
Remus looked up as she approached. "Now what?"
Mel sighed and plopped down into the cold hard seat.
"Now we wait."
Two hours had passed and they were still waiting in agonizing suspense. Well Mel was waiting, Remus and Lily had long since fallen asleep. But Mel's ever racing thoughts kept her from succumbing to the sandman's spell.
"What if something went wrong? What…what if they died?" Mel sighed and tried to chase the thoughts away.
She was currently hunched over in the uncomfortable hospital seat, anxiety gnawing at her. As she looked down her gaze landed on her hands that we clasped before her and she gave a start. Her thin hands were saturated in dry blood, the pallid skin died a crimson red. Mel's eyes grew wide and she shuttered as her mouth grew parched.
"This is…this is Padfoot's blood." That revelation made her breath hitch and sent her stomach rolling. Mel made to sprint to the bathroom but a loud voice broke through her silent crisis.
"Is there a Miss Price here?" Mel glanced up trembling at the sound of the fake name she had given on the sign in sheet and saw an exhausted looking doctor in green bloodied scrubs holding a clip board with a forlorn expression. As Mel stared at the defeated man, her heart slammed to a halt in her chest and one thought echoed throughout her head.
"Oh God. They died. Padfoot is dead. And it…its my fault!"
Sucky? Crappy? Yea i know but please still tell me what you think! :) it would make my life a WHOLE lot better! :)
