A/N: Thanks to Baileys96 who was helped me looooads with this chapter ;)

Scarlett looked appalled. She saw some crimson flowing down the trunk and pool next to Felix's motionless body. Nero sighed and started off in the general direction of camp. When he passed Scabior he murmured something about needing a piss.

"Oi!" Greyback shouted, "You're not going anywhere you moody git." He snarled.

"Piss off." Nero spat over his shoulder.

"Can't you be nice enough for one second to look after Felix?" Scarlett shouted after him, furious at him for walking away from them...

"Why me? Do it yourself unless you want me to piss my trousers."

"Wouldn't be the first time." Scabior sneered at him.

Scarlett's mouth dropped open in disbelief. Why was he being such a dick?

Greyback chuckled darkly, "Next time your open your pretty mouth like that again you'll be on your knees before me, girly."

Scarlett's anger bubbled to the surface, "Fuck you!"

Greyback's smile vanished to be replaced with a predatory growl, "How dare you..."

Suddenly a spark came from Scarlett's wand. It was a green spark and it flew straight towards the Death Eater standing next to Greyback. She watched the green light echo off Greyback's chest. The werewolf jumped to the side and watched as his partner dropped to the ground, eyeballs rolling up into his skull. He died silently. Scarlett replaced her wand in her boot, a slightly guilty look on her face.

Greyback didn't give his death a second thought.

"Why d'you have to make things so difficult, hmm?" He barked.

Scabior's eyes glowed a strange colour, "I swear to God if you don't tell me where Nancy is I'm going to kill you."

Greyback cocked his head to one side, "I like to see you try."

The jinx that flew from Scabior's wand was so quick that Greyback didn't notice it until the last second. He flew back into a tree and sunk to the ground, almost identically to the way Felix had minutes ago. His chest rose and fell in shallow but steady breaths.

Scarlett felt a smile reach her lips.

"Tha's better." Scabior said, replacing his wand and turning to Caius and Kurgan.

"Go back to camp, get some supplies and then go out snatchin'. We're already low on money as it is."

"Fine." They groaned, slumping their shoulders and walking back towards camp. X-ray followed suit without any objection.

"And take Felix with ya!"

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Back at the camp Ziggy had fallen into a doze, his insomnia keeping him from getting enough sleep at night. He was woken by a small stone which hit him in the head, between his eyes.

"Argh," He moaned, "What was that for?" He opened his eyes and they met Nero's.

"Sorry, never mind." He muttered, keeping his gaze down. The last thing Ziggy wanted to do was provoke Nero into one of his fits of rage.

Nero turned his head to see Kurgan and Caius who had popped into view behind some trees. They must have apparated. Lazy buggers. Kurgan let Felix drop from his large shoulders and he landed with a thump on the cold ground. Kurgan stepped over him and carried on walking.

"Scabior says we have to go snatching. Now." Nero grumbled, reaching into his pocket for his little green pills.

"Really?" Caius whined.

"Yeah, come on." Kurgan told them in his low gravelly voice.

They all walked into their tent and ran back out again.

"Oh God! Did you have to do that?" Nero yelled, a sleeve covering his mouth.

"Jesus Christ, what the fuck is wrong with you guys?" Caius shouted, bending over and propping his hands up on his thighs.

Jason and Sean came out, each with a lit cigarette in their blood covered hands, "It was an accident."

Caius straightened again, "Their brains are everywhere."

"Yeah, we told you," Sean started.

"It was an accident." Jason finished.

"Well how the fuck did it happen, then?" Kurgan asked, spitting on the ground.

"Erm, we found a book under someone's bed and tried a random curse in there." Sean mumbled.

"Please tell me this wasn't Scarlett's bed?" Nero asked.

"Well, it smelt like her so..." Jason said, flicking some ash at Ziggy.

"That explains a lot." Kurgan rumbled from the edge of the camp.

"Oh for goodness' sake, you didn't have to blow their bloody heads off." Caius complained, his hands clasped behind his head.

"It was an accident!" Sean protested.

"Come on, man, we've got to sleep in there tonight!"

"Shut the fuck up!" Nero screamed.

Silence descended onto the camp.

"Let's go now before I kill you all." Nero ground out.

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Scabior and Scarlett walked slowly up the path their Hogwarts' carriages had gone so many times before. Nothing was said between them but it was a comfortable silence. Thoughts were whirring through Scarlett's mind, mainly memories they had shared together, good ones and bad. By the time they got to the top it was much darker.

They stood outside the gates and turned to each other.

"Why can't our lives ever be simple?" Scarlett spoke after a long time. Scabior stepped closer.

"But then they would be borin'." He clasped the back of her neck.

"Can't have that, can we?" She whispered. Scarlett closed her eyes as he leant in and gave her a deep kiss which spoke thousands. It said maybe we won't make it through this. It said maybe I don't care.

When they broke away Scarlett smiled properly for the first time in a long while. She felt as if her problems didn't really matter now.

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Nero, X-ray, Ziggy, Caius, Jason, Sean, Kurgan and Felix landed in a completely different forest...on top of each other.

"Argh!" They groaned in unison. Kurgan was at the top of the heap and swore furiously.

"GET THE FUCK OFF ME!"

Everyone came to their sense quickly and scampered off the angry giant.

Nero suddenly realised they were standing on a fine sprinkling of snow.

"Where the hell are we?" Felix asked.

Nero stared, wide eyed, at the frozen earth all around him. He felt wetness on the top of one eyelid and realised it was still falling.

"I don't know..." Nero's answer was quiet.

Caius saw a movement from the corner of his eye and smelt something...panic.

"Ssh." He placed a finger over his full lips and gestured for the others to stop talking. They became quiet and followed his eyes to the girl who was crouching down next to a tree. Nero grinned.

She was perhaps 20-25 metres away and was breathing heavily, a single streak of blood dripping down her pale skin from her temple.

Nero was the first to stand up straight and move forward, the ice crunching beneath his brown worn boots. As he got closer he could pick out some finer details, like her reddish brown hair, her flushed cheeks, and her chocolate brown eyes. She looked to be about sixteen or seventeen. Perfect.

When they were ten metres away her head jolted up, her eyes locking onto his. They quickly scanned the others' hungry faces and the reed bands on their arms before widening in pure fear.

So she knew who they were then...

Nero's lips quirked up at the corners. A thought of how similar he was becoming to Scabior flitted through his mind but he brushed it away.

"Hello, gorgeous." He said, his eyes darkening in lust.

"Shit." She cursed, wisps of silver smoke flowing from her perfect lips.

Out of the corner of his eye Nero could see Caius edge closer, but told him she was his.

He approached the girl slowly, watching the was she prepared herself to run.

Yes...run, pretty, run, he thought maliciously.

When he was only five meters from her quivering form, she gathered her senses and bolted away from him.

What are they waiting for? She thought as the blood pounded through her ears.

Nero counted to nine and when he decided she was almost too far ahead he raced forward.

"Stay there!" He called to the others who totally ignored him and followed slowly. He ran up after her and soon enough she came back into view.

It became hard for him to concentrate when he focused on her soft flowing hair and those long, exposed legs...

"Damn, she's fast." He cursed, but then he saw her trip and crash to the ground. He heard her cry out in anguish and smiled when she pressed a hand on her pretty mouth to keep quiet. He slowed to a jog and watched her.

She hadn't noticed how near her silent hunter was when her knee was gashed open and bleeding everywhere. She looked so innocent while she cowered there on the pure white forest floor with her skimpy and totally inappropriate-for-the-weather clothes. Trying to get a closer look without interrupting her, he stomped his foot in a snow filled hole and tripped over. The girl was not stupid or deaf, and heard his thump and raced to her feet.

She threw her head from side to side, desperately searching for a way out, the others closing in on her from all directions, and something from their demeanours suggested they might not let her go...

Her eyes flickered from each man back to her surroundings, quickly settling on a large trunk not too far away.

Nero's eyes followed hers to the tree, "Oh, shit." Nero thought and got to his feet, tumbling through the air as he tried to reach for her ankle but she was up the tree before her knew what had happened. He didn't want to harm her by cursing the tree or jinxing her, so he decided to follow old style.

He ran over and grabbed one of the lower branches, hauling himself up and trying to regain balance at the same time. The girl was about three metres above him and still climbing, fast.

He had never seen anyone go that quickly, even that bulk of a man Greyback.

"Oh, for fuck's sake." He mumbled in despair. Nero hated heights.

He looked up again to where she was, that was definitely too high for him. He was afraid that if he apparated higher up he would fall off. But he had to get her! His attention had never been so captivated by a girl before. He sighed and gulped down the lump in his throat. He copied her method and jumped up, pulling himself up onto a smaller branch.

She glanced back in horror, he was getting closer, and the men below were beginning to chuckle darkly. They were enjoying this.

"Go on, Nero!" Kurgan bellowed from the ground, eliciting amused sniggers from the other snatchers.

Her light brown eyes roamed back up the trunk to a branch above her head. With a sudden burst of energy she grabbed the branch with both hands and heaved herself up. Nero growled with frustration as he struggled to gain a foothold underneath her. She swung her legs up and perched on the highest horizontal branch she could see. But it was far too thin for Nero.

He yelled out suddenly, "Fuck!" As the branch he was crouching on broke.

Kurgan burst out into deep raucous laughter as he tumbled to the ground, hitting every branch as he went.

"You're crap at climbing trees, mate." Sean jeered, and received the coldest glare from Nero.

"WELL WHY DON'T YOU TRY THEN?" He screamed, making the girl jump slightly up in her tree.

"Wow, aren't those pills he takes supposed to control his anger?" Jason muttered to Sean.

Nero's head shot over in their direction.

"If I didn't take those pills, we'd all be dead right now." He snarled furiously.

Jason sobered quickly and shut his mouth.

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They reached the entrance and entered, not seeing any Death Eaters there at all, they must all be in the Great Hall.

Scabior steeled himself and let out a slightly shaky breath. He flicked his wand at the door which opened half-way very slowly, letting out an audible creek.

Voldemort was sitting on his throne, eyes fixed on Scabior as he side-stepped into the hall timidly.

"What are you doing here?" He cursed. Greyback was supposed to kill them both, he supposed he would have to do it now.

Scabior suddenly realised Voldemort's train of thought and whipped his wand towards him, the Elder wand flying through the air and into his hand.

Voldemort's eyes widened and his lips parted. How dare they?

"How dare you..." He said lowly, moving towards the pair.

"My Lor-"

"Why are you here, Scabior?" A cold, inhumane voice echoed over the hall.

"You see-"

"And what is she doing here?" He tried to control his tone, knowing they were armed and he was not. How the fuck did that happen? Voldemort suddenly rose from his throne. He glided over to the door and pointed at Scarlett's neck. Scarlett recoiled in fear behind Scabior, tugging at the hem of his jacket. She knew they had taken his wand, but she didn't doubt the amount of wandless magic he possessed.

"She just tagged along..." Scabior mumbled, his eyes downcast.

For fuck's sake Scabior, be a man!

Scarlett then looked up and wished she didn't.

"You owe me your life, Scarlett." He stated slowly.

"I know." She whispered back.

"But you aren't worth the effort." He continued.

Oh thank God.

"Why are you here?" He hissed, putting his wand back in the folds of his robes.

"Erm, we were lookin' for a girlfriend of one of my snatchers. The name's Nancy, and I know you 'ad something to do with her." Scabior's voice wavered less with every word.

"Well, you are correct." Voldemort answered in an icy tone.

Scarlett wondered how much begging it would take to release her whereabouts.

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"Fine, I will." Kurgan gave Nero a smug look. Sure he was big but he wasn't planning to climb the tree. Oh no.

Kurgan strode over to the base of the tree and pointed his wand at the base. He cast a charm which decreased the density of the trunk, making it more flexible. He leant over and pushed against the tree with both hands, and the others watched it sway with the force precariously.

The girl above looked like she was about to wet herself in fear.

"Just fuck off and leave me alone!" She suddenly screamed.

Nero paused, gobsmacked. He then regained his wits.

"You know, for such a pretty mouth, that was a very ugly word, beautiful." He called up to her, watching as she struggled to hold onto the branches.

"Please." She wailed, terror filled tears running down her cheeks.

That's more like it, Nero thought.

"Push it again." He ordered Kurgan, who gave the tree one last shove, making the whole top lean over like he had seen the Whomping Willow do many a time when it was cleaning itself. The girl flew out of the tree, narrowly missing Sean by an inch.

Nero took his time wandering over to her shivering form on the ground. He leant down and took her chin in his hands.

"So what's your name?" He asked. Behind him someone got out a little black book.

"Jennifer Reids. Pureblood." She muttered, unable to take her eyes off his crystal blue ones.

"Check it." Nero said, knowing full well he didn't want to ever part with this gorgeous specimen.

"It's on 'ere, but she ain't no pureblood." Jason said.

Nero moved his hands to hold both sides of her neck, and leant in to her face.

"What status is your blood?" He asked slowly, watching as her eyes watched his lips.

"I'm a muggleborn." She admitted, a determined fiery gaze in her eyes.

"Let's take her to the Ministry then." Kurgan rumbled.

"No, I think I'll keep her." Nero replied.

"What?" Sean asked.

"Well, she was going to Azkaban anyway and we don't want to waste something this pure." He cocked his head to the side, letting his fingers stroke her neck.

"Fuck you." She spat.

"Well," Nero straightened his neck, "Almost pure. And I like virgins anyway." He stated, grasping a handful of her hair and yanking her off the ground.

"Back to camp then?"

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