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Two Weeks Later
"You should have wrote-"
"I didn't want to spoil your honeymoon-"
"Lily's been going out of her mind-"
"I know, I just-"
"Why didn't you come here before? Why didn't you talk to her right after?" James asked, running a hand through his untidy hair. There were dark shadows under his eyes.
"I just couldn't I couldn't bear it alone. Remus won't even talk to me. I haven't seen him since that morning."
"He's working for Dumbledore, didn't you hear? He's doing something important, something to do with the war. Dumbledore asked Lily and I to help out too."
"Yeah, I heard about that. He sent me a letter."
They walked in silence to the front of Vienna's apartment building and climbed the stairs to her second story flat.
"47, wasn't it?"
They stopped staring at the door. Dried blood lay on the floor, grisly and dark as a promise. Without hesitation James unlocked the door by magic and threw it open, wand raised high.
The flat was destroyed, papers lying everywhere, broken furniture strewn across the floor. A large blood stain coloured the couch. Drawers were ransacked through, the bed overturned.
They quickly searched the flat for any sign of her, but she was gone.
"Where is she?" James said, staring around at the mess before him. He looked genuinely frightened. Sirius didn't answer.
James turned to see Sirius sitting next to the blood stain, his face buried in his hands. Then all at once he got up and pulled the cushion from the couch and threw it at the wall, howling.
"It's all my fault! She's dead James! She's dead and it's my fault!"
"You don't know that," James said consolingly, but it sounded hollow and weak even in his own ears.
…
Lily hadn't been able to stop crying. All James could do was hold her, lost as he was in his own grief.
"Maybe if we hadn't lied, if we hadn't let Sirius choose, then she never would have went back," Lily sobbed, burying her face in his shoulder.
James had called the ministry after seeing the apartment. He'd watched as the Magical Law Enforcement Squad had hurried in, followed by a team of Aurors. None of them could agree on what happened. They only agreed it wasn't good.
The predominant theory, however, was that she'd been dragged off by a group of Death Eaters, whether for information or revenge, no one knew. But no one could deny that she'd made enemies, that was for certain.
No one could reach Remus. No one knew where he was, only that he was on a very important mission from Dumbledore.
No one really fancied telling him she'd died.
Hi Again! So do you think Vienna really is dead? Where is Remus? Is this the end of the road?
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