Denial
Chapter 53 – The Afterlife, and Blood
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SIRIUS BLACK – JAILED FOR MURDER!
Sirius Black, twenty-two, of Birmingham has been jailed for life for murdering thirteen people, twelve of them muggles.
Late last night Sirius was seen outside the house of Aurors Lily and James Potter. His wand was in his hand and bodies lay scattered around him. According to a victim of this attack Sirius had been one of the first on the scene when a 'gas explosion' blew apart the house of Lily and James Potter, and their one-year-old son, Harry. In fact it had been Lord Voldemort and his followers who carried out this attack early yesterday evening, killing Lily and James Potter and destroying the house. By some miracle the Potter's son survived. No one can say how, or why. Black, and the wizard who died in his attack, Peter Pettigrew, were friends of the Potters, who were hiding from Voldemort. It is believed that Black was their secret keeper, and a spy for Voldemort. Before Black's attack Pettigrew yelled that Black had 'betrayed Lily and James'. This suggests that Black gave up the Potters' whereabouts to his master. After the attack, when the authorities were called in, he said nothing. All he did was laugh. He received no trial before being thrown into Azkaban.
HOWEVER, in a bizarre twist to the story, there is no record of Peter Pettigrew's death. This can only mean one of two things; Although it is a rare occurrence, some people, when they die, stay in the tunnel for a very long time, despite the signs. This is due to disorientation.
The other possibility is that Peter Pettigrew IS NOT DEAD.
Married to a mass murderer. Think of that.
He was already an attempted murderer.
It wasn't a great surprise.
But he would never betray Lily and James. That was absurd. Peter must have lost his mind.
Except Sirius was going to lose his mind now. In Azkaban.
If he hadn't already lost it.
After all, he did kill at least twelve people.
It's surprising that someone so intelligent as he would do something so stupid. Very surprising.
And really quite upsetting.
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It didn't end there though. Oh no. The first of November had a lot of news, good and bad. And although the first was terrible there was some good in it at least.
Harry was alive. Lily and James were happy – well, I say happy. I mean depressed beyond the level of Matt. But they were better than they had been when they'd got off the coach. Somewhat sane.
And then – around three o'clock – a leaflet came through the door.
It was one A3 side of a newspaper, issued by the government, delivered to every door.
VOLDEMORT – DEFEATED!
Apparently during the attack on the Potters Voldemort – who had gone to the house in order to defeat Harry, because of the prophesy thing – had disappeared and now all the wizarding world were celebration his downfall. Most unslyly, might I add. Wizards in robes lining the streets and so on.
Harry Potter had deflected the spell – the killing curse that killed me, Kira, and Ruby! A one-year-old boy was not meant to be able to do that. He was left with only a scar – lightning bolt shaped.
Seriously, I knew Lily and James were clever but their son was a genius. A child prodigy.
And I'm quite jealous.
But I'll get over myself.
And there are more distressing matters to attend to – Sirius. But I could do nothing about it. Nothing. I was powerless to help him. The most I could do was ask Lily and James about the secret keeper business. So Ruby and I, as it was nearing 7 o'clock at night, made our way back to Kira's house.
The day was grey, wet, windy, and cold. Quite unpleasant and unfriendly. As we reached their house I saw that all the lights were out. As I neared the door I saw it was bashed in and swinging open.
I entered their house, cautiously. There was definite signs of a struggle. The coffee table was lying on its side with a leg broken, off and their were drinks spilled over the carpet. A record that had been playing was stuck, with no one to stop it. Two loud power chords were playing over and over again. The lamp had been knocked off the table, and the bulb was smashed.
In the kitchen it was very dark. When I switched the light on I saw there was a knife on the table, smeared with red, and on the wall was the Dark Mark of Voldemort. Drawn with blood.
Ruby immediately began to wail. I picked her up and ran out of the house, before sprinting back to our own. My hands were shaking so much it took me more than a minute to unlock the door. I rushed through to the kitchen and grabbed my pages, and jogged back to the living room where I magicked a fire into the grate, making it far to big so it began to lick at the mantle piece.
"Shit" I sobbed, and shot water out of my wand to put it out before taking a deep and calming breath, and creating another, smaller fire. I threw some floo powder in, grabbed, picked up Ruby again, and flooed to the house of my grandparents.
As I fell out of the fire, black and chocking I saw that the woman who I assumed was my grandma (it was difficult to tell, because she was now it her 20s again) was sitting on a flower-patterned sofa, drinking a cup of tea, and eating a piece of shortbread.
"Oh!" She exclaimed, seeing me, "Hello dear. Is that Chloe?" She smiled. I sobbed.
"Yes. Look. Two of my best friends were murdered last night, and my husband has been locked in Azkaban for betraying them to the Dark Lord, Voldemort. And now they've disappeared – been taken by someone, kidnapped, I don't know – but there's blood on the wall in the shape of the Dark Mark, and I don't know what to do, and I don't know what to do with Ruby." I gushed, as tears began to pour down my face.
My Grandma sat there, with her mouth and eyes wide. She seemed not to know what to say. I didn't know if she even understood what I was on about considering I didn't know if she was a witch or not (she was on my dad's side) and I didn't know if she knew much of what was going on in life. After a moment she said, "The police dear, the police. Use our fire." She stood, took Ruby off me, and set her down on the sofa, took some floo power from a box on the windowsill, and threw it into the fire. "Jeremy!" She called, towards the door.
"Yes?" My Granddad ambled into the room, his hands in his pockets.
"Look after, um..." Grandma indicated the sofa.
"Ruby." I supplied.
"Ruby, will you, Jeremy? We have to go to the police."
"Why?" He asked, sitting next to my daughter.
"It's just urgent." I said, pulling Grandma into the fire, and yelling "NewBrum police!"
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AN: I couldn't resist. When I said there would only be five more chapters you all should have known I was lying. Five indeed. When has there ever been only five chapters left? Puh.
And seeing as this is going to be my last fan fiction, as I have grown out of such things, (mostly) I might as well make the most of it, so there's going to be another major event later, and probably three epilogues. (I always do excessive epilogues. It's a tragic side-effect of being me).
I'm still bored of this. But my interest has grown since this chapter. And it's the holidays, as I may have said, so I'm bound to update at least three more times.
AND – oh my God, I could not believe this! Read this:
Mistake by eternity's star
He got her pregnant when she was 15 what will they do now? how will Chloe and Sirius cope? are they ready to be parents? I think not! read how the cope with the shocking news that will change their lives forever.
(actually the description has changed since then, and doesn't include the name Chloe, but the story still has Chloe in it).
Here's the address: www. fanfiction . net /s/ 1960774 /1/ without the spaces. It can also be found on my bio.
Now, where do you recognise that plot from? WHERE? WHERE I ASK YOU?
Rage.
Deep passionate rage.
Anyway... Moving along... so I don't get as stressed as I did when I first read that story. Thank yous:
Captain Oblivious – well, you may be getting a laptop. But I've got ANTI- VIRUS PROTECTION! (Seriously, someone should really have thought of getting it before. Well, I did. But I'm not the computer-buying-stuffs-for-person around here. Eventually I got it by downloading it from the Internet. Oh the irony... kind of) Anyway. I do return. And I update. I actually update! And there is another cliffhanger. Enjoy it.
InsertRandomInsanityHere – If you're still checking back everyday – have another lucky day! And my quitting has stopped. Well done. Magic has been... magicked.
LilyGinnyBlack – Did you ever see button moon? With Mr spoon? That was a good programme. And I hope this chapter has had an even more torturous ending. And there will be more than five chapters, so you don't have to not care that there will only be five more now. But this story will still end! At some point. Probably when my brain has been completely mangled by an alien, and it can't think up anything new without me asking it to.
The all mighty and powerfulM – I thought the e-mail was probably necessary after four months. I realise I can never finish this. I don't think its possible. Even when I get to the time where it's supposed to end it'll probably keep on going. Like last time.
shayomac – And it will continue to be! Naturally its one of the last good stories. I'm fabulous :P. I have reconsidered. Perhaps I'll aim to beat The Story of James Potter (by Koonelli in case anyone wants to read it) which has been going for about five months more than mine, and is about to end on around 80 chapters. Wait. Then I'd have to write another 30 chapters. Well, currently I'm thinking I can't be bothered, but I thought I'd never get past 37 chapters. In fact I never thought I'd get past 17. It could happen. And Japan is fabulous... but considering this new development maybe Regulus was just on holiday, and has returned to do this dastardly deed. Or something. We shall see.
LadyLupinLover – And look at that. I have actually updated soon. Especially compared to the four months of the last update.
Nicky Black – But death is – at least in some ways – a good thing. And considering we'll all go there when we die we can all see Sirius! Hooray! And I am un-rushing the ending now, so be happy. Happy! :D. I must say, I am quite pleased with the popularity of this. I hope the person who stole off me's story withers and dies. I mean.... I hope they live a long and prosperous life... }:(
Angel of the Elements – I think my writing might be improving again. Although I haven't read the chapter through yet. I could be hugely mistaken. Hmmm... it's a bit too fast paced. Oh well. I'll try to update AGAIN soon. I have three days of doing nothing to kill.
Padfootz-luvr – ah! What's Chloe going to do now with this more immediate and pressing and in many ways more distressing matter? Time will tell. Hopefully not too much time. And now the situation worsens for Lily and James. Think back to the tale of Ruby's dolls And Daddy the Comb, and James the Lampshade... There is a chance it may be relevant. Though I haven't decided yet.
zeldagrl436 – thusly have I revealed what she thought. Although she can find out the truth – once she finds Lily and James. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
potatoheaven – well, Georgie the super-snail will defeat your army of potatoes... hopefully. Actually they can just be at peace considering I updated.
madderthanyou – Well, I only updated recently so... and now again. I'm so proud of me. Aren't you proud of me? I am. As long as you read this before Thursday I may update again. If you don't then I may have anyway. Oh the joys.
figgiesblazin – As I may have said, I am less bored now, so it should be continuing for some time, and I should update again. I bet now I've said that so many times I won't.
Sweetgirl – I think you'll find its very interesting and has just got more so. :P
elvencherry07 – and now I have invented some key moments. So it will last longer. As I said. But it will end some time. As I also said. It will. But not in five chapters. As I also also said. You'll live. :P
Well, I think they were rather fabulous thank yous. I'll probably never write any as long as some of those ever again. So I imagine you must be extremely upset if you didn't review last chapter. And if you want a full picture of what's going on I suggest you read all of them. Although I repeat myself about fifty times.
That's something I can have pleasureness with. The person with the story with a plot suspiciously like mine only has one review. Madderthanyou, I am ashamed. Especially as it was through you that I found the story in the first place. But luckily for you I generally get over things.
I wouldn't mind if it had the same basic plot – someone at Hogwarts gets pregnant. Even someone in the marauder era gets pregnant. But it is SO SIMILAR! You may have to remind yourself of earlier chapters in Denial to see this. Those from around 1 – 15, which I know is a lot, and I realise you most likely won't be bothered, but! But! I wouldn't mind if it was someone called Chloe who was friends with Lily! I wouldn't mind if it was Sirius having a child, BUT!
Rage.
I'll go now.
- Mai.
