A/N This series is coming to an end shortly. Don't worry, I got another story idea. Are you ready for another bad story?
On another depressing note; my updates will be less frequent (What do you mean less? You have no update schedule!). This is because I'm sorting through some personal things and I'm going through a really tough time. I hope you understand.
This has not been edited. (I'm too fucking depressed to deal with this rn)
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, I never have and sadly, I never will.
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"Japan was amazing! We should've gone years ago!" Phoenix told me as we got back to England via Portkey.
"Well, I told you years ago but you said no."
"Well, this time Fred and George came with us."
"I still don't know why..."
"The past is in the past!" She exclaimed as Fred and George were talking between themselves.
"This really wasn't necessary."
"What is necessary is going home and checking if Cristal messed up the house!" She grinned as she grabbed my hand and apparated us giving me just about enough time to blurt out a goodbye for the twins.
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"How was Japan?" Cristal asked me and Phoenix.
"It was great!" Phoenix told her.
"Hey... What's on your hand...?" I asked her as I saw something glisten on her hand.
"Everytime we go on vacation we miss something!" Phoenix exclaimation and I gave her an apologetic look.
Cristal blushed and covered her face and I innocently pried her hands away.
"Nu! Stop!" She swatted my hand away and I gave her an incredious look.
"Rude. So... Spill the beans." I asked, me and Phoenix leaning over in attempt to flaunt her.
"I... You can tell he proposed!" She was blushing scarlet.
"Yeah, but how did it happen. Come on Cris!" Phoenix tugged on her arm, a smirk growig on her face and Cristal jumped out of the seat and ran out the room, covering her cheeks with her hands much to the delight of me and Phoenix, who were doubling over in laughter.
"So, what's going on with you and that other guy at St Mungos?" I wriggled my eyebrows and she gave me disinterested look.
"Who?"
"I've seen you two flirting all the time, what was his name again... Caelan?"
"Yeah...? Things are going great...?"
"You like him." I bluntly stated and she leaned over and hit the back of my head with her hand and I grinned at her.
"So what?"
"Nothing."
"Shut up."
"OK."
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I was at work, there an hour before my shift was going to end. I rested the side of my face against my left hand, I was reviewing some notes I took at the crime scenes and I was born out of my mind.
Albeit, one thing kept bothering me. These were all in a pattern and heck, the further I investigated into the more I felt like I knew who the dark wizard is.
"Mélia." I whispered out in a rough whisper as I figured out who it was.
"MÉLIA FUCKING MALFOY!" I yelled, jumping out of my seat and running over straight to where Cristal should've been.
"Cristal... Cristal Seabrooke? You know where she is?" I asked a short man when I reached the department who simply shook his head. I sighed as I continued to search until I heard she went home. I apparated home and I practically broke down the front door in my haste.
"Aud? You should calm down." Cristal told me as she turned from the seat on the couch she was sitting on, her mouth filled with vanilla ice-cream and her hand currently holding the tub.
"It's Mélia!"
"She died? Thank the good lord!" Phoenix exclaimed as she walked into living room from the kitchen.
"Unfortunately, no. But... I bare bad news." I told her.
"What?" Cristal asked, knitting her eyebrows.
"She's erm... The dark wizard who put the country in frenzy."
"Fuck..." Cristal cursed, getting up and punching the wall.
"Hurting yourself isn't going to help." I plainly stated.
"Mélia? You sure?" Phoenix inquired.
"Phoenix, we were friends with this girl for 5 years, I've learnt that she's a creature of habit. Heck, she even left traces behind. Do you know anyone else that attempts to change their footprints for no reason?"
"She did use to walk in the snow from heel to toe."
"Yeah, you'd get one footprint with the bottom half and the other with the top in the snow. I saw it..."
"It doesn't snow in June though Audrey!" Cristal argued.
"It does in December... Depending on where you live. She was Scotland, OK. God knows it rarely snows in England."
"How long have you been searching for her?!" Phoenix placed her head in her hands.
"Geez. I dunno... We've been secretly investigating this since the first crime that took place, then made it public knowledge after shit got real."
"That's..." Cristal began but I cut her off.
"Yeah, I realise progress was lagging but we had to take care of other things too, there are still death eaters out there."
"I'm coming with you." Phoenix looked at me, determination written on her face but I simply shook my head.
"No. Absolutely not. Both of you are going to go to work that day. Besides, if I let you go then everyone else is gonna wanna go. You guys need to realise it's not just a joke, I'm not doing this for fun. I could get killed going there, I don't want you both to die."
"You could die out there, exactly! That's why we need to come out there fighting beside you!" Phoenix grabbed my arm and looked me in the eye. "We're not idiots. We fought in the war and we were part of the Order of Phoenix and Dumbledore's Army. We know this isn't some fun game, we know that it's risky as heck out there. That's why we need to go, we need to go so that you don't get hurt."
"That's not what I'm worried about, dammit! It doesn't matter if I die, don't you understand?! I would rather die than be the cause of the death of one of you two. I have nothing to live for anyways, I have people waiting for me afterwards."
"What about Fred?" Cristal asked.
"What about him..?
"You act like it wouldn't matter if you died but it would Audrey, dammit. Stop acting like your some fucking hero. Quit trying to act humble because there is no way in hell that we're just going to be all fine and dandy with you going on a suicide mission!"
"Cris is right. We're not going to let you do that on your own. You're going to have to accept our help whether you like it or not."
"No. No way am I letting you come with me."
"You got no choice." Cristal shrugged and I frowned.
"Fine. I can't tell you not to it seems like. Just, please... Don't tell Fred."
"We're telling him." Cristal told me with a neutral- almost uninterested- look.
"Noooo!" I shrieked, lunging over to punch her but she was too far away and she ran away leaving me alone with Phoenix to pout.
"Could've been a lot worse."
"Shut up."
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"She actually told him..." Phoenix told me the news two days later as I was sitting in the garden, staring at the flowers as I sat on the sofa swing outdoors. The warm summer air filling my lungs.
"Seriously... Argh." I bit my bottom lip and poured myself a glass of champange. "I really hate Summer." I told her as my eyes stared into the distance.
"I know Audrey."
"Like... Really hate it."
"I know Audrey."
"What do you think he's going to do?" I asked and she shook her head at me before reaching over to grab the glass out of my hand and threw the content onto the floor, the main victim being the grass.
"Who knows. Maybe attempt to get you to stay and knowing you that's not happening. So he'll probably tag along."
"And so will Malfoy."
"Yeah. Probably. They recently got engaged, why would he let her go on a suicide mission on her own?"
"Reasons, perhaps. Maybe he wants her to secretly die?" I joked but seeing the look on Phoenix's face made me clarify it. "Just a joke."
"Not funny."
"I have been told I have a dry sense of humour."
"Someone told you that you have humour?! Wow... They must be really deluded because I don't think you know how knock knock jokes work."
"Knock Knock."
"Who's there?"
"You know."
"You know who?"
"... I'm gonna let that sink in." I told her as the sofa gently rocked us.
"You're a prat."
"You're rude."
"Says you."
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June 16th
It was the day we were suppose to stop Mélia, it was extremely windy as I made my way to Diagon Alley at 10pm.
Cristal hadn't been able to keep her big mouth shut and everyone in our small circle of friends found out about the suicide mission we were going on.
Hence why I was going to Diagon Alley right now, Draco was planning to tag along on our mission and so was Fred, much to my dismay.
"I don't understand why you're coming along! I'll be fine by myself! I've done this before plus I just have to stall them until the ministry come!" I told him, attempting to change his mind last minute as I reached my destination.
"I'm coming with you no matter what you say, because I love you."
"I know. Who doesn't?"
"I can name a few..."
"Moving on!"
"Are we going?"
"Yeah yeah. Hang on."
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So now we were standing in front of a cave on the top of a random mountain in Scotland. The cool summer breeze swaying my blonde hair around me. Cristal's big round brown eyes glanced around to see what was around us.
"This is so cliché, couldn't they have thought of a better base?"
"No, they couldn't. Try to understand, it must be hard being an idiot." I told her in a bored tone as I tapped my wand and hoped the rock that covered the cave from muggle eyes would disappear.
"Let me try." Phoenix told me as she murmured an incantation, the rock disappearing in a flash.
"Aww... I suck at magic."
"No you don't."
"You're real funny if you think I am." The cave was exactly what you would expect a cliché villain base to look like. Dim, dense and damp. I pinch my nose to avoid smelling the bad odour. "Lumos." I held my wand up in front of me so that I could see what was happening.
Rocks crunched underneath my feet as I walked and I heard a pair of voices commune.
"Are you an idiot? I know the ministry came for us!" Mélia's voice echoed, her British accent was more prominent than it was years ago despite her living in Bulgaria for a while. "Argh, I can't deal with this right now! Let's just kill them quickly and this over with." More footsteps echoed throughout the dense cave and the noise was coming closer to us.
I froze for a second but shook my head, holding out an arm to prevent anyone else.
"Stop." I whispered in a rough voice.
"Well, well, well. Who do we have here? Audrey, Phoenix and Cristal." Mélia tutted as she strolled over to us, her brown hair swaying.
"Mel... It doesn't have to be this way!" Phoenix yelled out behind me.
"My exact thoughts but... It has to be this way because of you all unfortunately."
"Shut the fuck up." Draco casually told her cooly.
"Ah, dear cousin Draco. How is everything?"
"Better now that you're out of my life. But it'll be way better now that I'm about to kill you." He told her as he raised his wand only for Mélia to disarm him.
"Dear cousin, don't you know that I'm much better than you at this?" She patronised and Draco glared at her. "I'm getting bored... Don't worry I'll finish you all nice and quick."
"In your dreams."
"Us two against you 5? Please, I'd say that's reality." A voice spoke from behind Mélia and my breath hitched in my throat.
"You..." I mustered out, I felt Fred grab my hand and I was thankful.
"Audrey... I... I'm so... So sorry for what I did to you..." He apologised as he walked over to stand in front of me.
"No you're not, you're not damn sorry!" I yelled at Rudolf.
"Just give me a chance to-"
"No, I gave you one too many chances before!" My voice trembled and I could feel my blood boil.
"I loved you Audrey, and I still do. I swear to God that I'm really sorry, truly sorry. Can you... forgive me?" He grabbed my hand and placed it on his chest.
For a moment I almost believed his words, I almost believed that he loved me and I almost ran into his arms. But then I realised that that was not reality.
Fred growled as he pulled me away from Rudolf's touch, he punched him in the face and sneered at him.
"Keep your hands off my girl!" He told him as he wrapped an arm around me and keot me close. Mélia cleared her throught to grab our attention.
"Even though I love a good romance scene, this isn't the time and place. Avada Kedavra!" She pointed her wand towards Fred and I quickly murmured a counter spell against her after I recovered from my shock less than a second she threw the curse.
"Don't even try to touch my man." I grinned as I threw jinxes at her. Rudolf got up and began dueling with Draco and Fred. Phoenix and Cristal backed me up but what happened next was the most unexpected...