Jenny flopped down on the grass in the clearing they had passed by three times.

"It's hopeless." She groaned as she lay back with her hands over her face. "We have been searching for hours."
It was cold, dark and late and the Order had been wandering around the woods outside Paris for a good five hours if not more. So far they'd discovered that the train tunnel was not the entrance to the Catacombs, and that the woods were really, really black because the crescent moon was blocked by the trees.

"I don't think there is anything here." Tessa said as she took her seat next to Jenny.

"It has to be here somewhere." Caradoc said as he squinted in the darkness.

"Well if it is, I don't think we're going to find it tonight." Edgar said as he sat down on a fallen log. "I suggest we camp out here tonight and get an early start tomorrow."

"Well, we'd better make a fort." Edgar said. "So nothing can't get at us."

James grinned, remembering forts made in the Boys Dorm on occasion back in the day, "Ok! I'll get some pillows!"

Frank rolled his eyes. "Oh like a giant fort won't be noticeable... the Death Eaters are evil, not stupid."

"I beg to differ." Sirius muttered.

"Invisible barrier?" Benjy suggested.

"Haha! Yeah! That way we can watch the Death Eaters rebound off it and land onto their butts!" Fabian said.

"And then we can laugh at them!" Gideon said and he and Fabian hi-fived each other, everyone else did their best to ignore them.

Another hour later Frank and Edgar very proudly got everyone's attention two show them all their good work, "Look." Edgar said motioning in front of him. "Perimeter is established!" He said and threw a rock at the invisible barrier and an annoying alarm sounded.

"Perfect." Rebecca said sarcastically who had just started to nod off leaning against Remus and didn't appreciate being woken up just to be told she could sleep soundly now. "If any pesky little rocks sneak up on us, we'll have plenty of warning." She muttered as Remus wrapped an arm around her and kissed the top of her head.


The next morning the Order woke with a start to an annoying alarm sounding... they all quite literally jumped five feet in the air wands pulled and pointed in all directions in about two seconds flat...
Fabian started laughing and threw a rock in the air and caught it again, "Wake-y Wake-y ladies and gents!"
Another second later they had all descended on him to make him pay, very badly.
Many hours were spent, yet again, wandering aimlessly, looking in caves, fox dens and all other holes found. They were on the verge of giving up when James gave a shout.

"What the HELL are THEY?"

They all rushed to his side instantly to look at what he was looking at.

"Thestrals." Rebecca said unconcerned as she continued to look around.

"Thestrals?" Caradoc looked around, "I can't see anything..."

"Do you know what this means?" Sirius asked, "Thestrals are drawn to death..."

"Everyone spread out and look for any caves, holes or doors!" Frank commanded.
Sirius went straight for the largest clump of Thestrals, there was long, long grass around here that he could not see into, he took a couple of steps into it, and disappeared into the ground.

"Padfoot!" James yelped as he ran over to where Sirius had been.

Sirius's head popped up out of the grass, "You guys owe me multiple dinners I think, just look at what I found!"

"I think we owe you more than just a dinner Padfoot! More like dinner, a movie, and a night of hot passionate sex!" James exclaimed as they all looked into the small cave Sirius had found in the long grass, it went about three meters down at a 45 degree angle and then it dissolved into deliberate stone walls with the occasional brick patch before it they couldn't see any further.

"I won't complain." Sirius said with a grin.

"Bad mental image guys." Rebecca said.

"Make sure Lily doesn't find out, she might be a little disappointed." Benjy said with a laugh.

"Ok, are we ready folks?" Frank asked

James pulled out a piece of fabric from the bag he'd made Peter carry. "Think this might come in handy?"

"Well good for you James, you were smart enough to bring an invisibility cloak, I doubt it will fit us all under there though." Rebecca said dryly and suddenly a Thestral came up and licked her ear and she gave a scream and jumped away from it wiping her ear furiously as Sirius let out a bark like laugh.

"Oh shut up you." She said and kicked a clump of dirt his way.

"Oi watch it." Frank said as he brushed himself off.

"Sorry Frank." She said and shot a glare at Sirius who was brushing himself off.

"Alright guys listen up, so here's the plan." He said as he motioned everyone in.

It was incredibly dark, blacker then the blackest black on record. The group crept down and down in the darkness. James was at the front putting his plan into action. He was holding the Invisibility Cloak up with a spell in front of them so it spread the whole width and height of the tunnel so anyone ahead of them would not see them. Not that seeing was really an option in this kind of lighting. However spreading the width and height of the tunnel was nothing too difficult considering it was so small and claustrophobic that they had to crawl their way down.
Jenny was starting to hyperventilate, the wind made an eerie whistling noise and it blew down the tunnel and off into the shadows, it almost sounded like a moan or scream echoing off the walls.
Eventually the tunnel leveled out and widened so they were able to stand up straight and about two people across, but as soon as that happened they started hearing crunching noises under their feet. Edgar stopped and bent down to see if he could feel what it was they were standing on... he came back up holding something smooth and cold, and it was quite light, he squinted at it in the dark.

"Lumos." He whispered, and the dimmest of lights appeared at the end of his wand, he pointed it at his hand to reveal an arm bone. He dropped it in shock, everyone else was watching now as he bent down again, slowly, and cast the creepy light over the floor, which was covered mostly in feet and hand bones occasionally attached to an arm or a leg.

"Oh grody." Rebecca said as she covered her mouth with her hand.

"Didn't take you as the squeamish type Walcott." Sirius teased and she glared at him.

"Let's not do this now." Remus interjected before Rebecca could open her mouth and Sirius gave her a cocky eyebrow raise before turning and continuing down the tunnel.

They decided to move on; the tunnel was stuffy now, the air down here not having been circulated for years and years. Quite suddenly there was a draft on their left and a feeling of something huge next to them. Edgar, who had kept his wand alight, swung it around to the left to reveal another tunnel, the end could not been seen, but on the floor there were three sticks in the shape of an arrow, next to it followed by what looked like something large had been dragged through the tunnel on the dirt, going down into the tunnel... something glinted ever so subtly in the light somewhere down the there, Peter jumped, which in turn spooked the rest of them.

"What's that?" Gideon whispered.

"Don't know..." Edgar put his wand as far forward as he dared, but the glinting had dissolved into the shadows.
They stood stock still, frozen, waiting for something to move or glint again, but all was incredibly silent and still. Suddenly a gust of whistling wind blew down the tunnel they had come down and almost took the Invisibility Cloak with it like a sail. James stumbled forward, not willing to give up his beloved cloak so easily, and then they heard a sloshing noise.

"Oh that's not good." James sounding repulsed. "In fact, that's disgusting... and it's all over my cloak!" He said with a groan.

"Put it away James, it's not any use anymore, anyone could come up from that tunnel back there and see us from behind, it's not going to help." Frank said.

"Come on, keep moving." Caradoc said urshering everyone forward.
They crept forward into what turned out to be knee-high, bone-chillingly cold water.

"Oh Merlin." Benjy shuddered. "There are bones in the water, can you feel them?"

"It's so cold, I'm dying to death!" Fabian said as he shivered.

"Dying to death?" Remus asked curiously as he glanced back.

"Yeah, what else can you die to Remus? Dying to life just doesn't have the same ring ya know?" Rebecca said from next to him as she wrapped her arms around herself.

"Here, take my cloak." He said as he started to take it off.

"No I'm fine Remus, keep it." She said as she pat his arm.

"No, really I want you to have it."

"Remus I don't want it."

"I do." Fabian said from behind them.

"Priss." Rebecca said with a grin and Fabian frowned. "Would you like my cloak Fabian?"

"I'm not cold actually." He said as he dropped his arms and Rebecca gave a chuckle.

Hours passed much the same, the tunnel started widening more and it branched out into a couple of chambers and forked off in sections. The air now seemed less stuffy... Sturgis seemed positive that this meant that this part of the Catacombs were in use, this just proved to make everyone even jumpier than they were before. Especially when Benjy jumped around all of a sudden and stared back the way they had come passed Edgar and Frank who were bringing up the rear

"Did you hear that?" he whispered harshly.

"Come on that's not funny." Tessa said shakily as she latched on to Jenny.

"Listen." Benjy said as everyone got quiet.

"Fenwick if this is some sort of-." Moody started.

"I hear it too!" James replied from the front of the group, he was looking wide-eyed back down the tunnel too.

"Quit it you guys, you're freaking us out" Rebecca snapped as she took Remus' hand and he pulled her closer to him making her feel a bit safer.

"I'm not kidding." James said surely.

"Well I didn't hear it." Edgar said.

"Me either and we're between you two..." Moody said.

"Maybe it's a spirit and you guys are the only ones perceptible to them?" Gideon said with a smile.

"Don't be stupid." Fabian said as he nudged him.

"Isn't that through sight, not sound?" Peter asked.

"Shhhhhh! Listen!" James said and everyone got quiet.

"What did it sound like?" Frank asked.

"It was like whispering." James said cautiously. "And it came up in front of us and whooshed past me and down back behind us."

"Passed me too." Benjy said.

"I think I may just be well and truly scared shitless." Sirius informed them.

"And here was me thinking you laughed in the face of danger." Rebecca teased. "Dropped ice cubes down the vest of fear, tweak the nose of death-." She rambled.

"You guys are being SO loud!" Peter scolded louder then all of them.

"SHHH!"

"Keep moving!" Frank said urgently.

"There's a fork up here... which way do we go?"

"Which one did the whispering come down?" Moody asked.

"The right one."

"Go down the left, I don't like disembodied whispers." Edgar said.

"I think we should go right." Rebecca said as she looked down the long tunnel.

"Did you not just hear-."

"We're down here looking for something, chances are there is something down the tunnel with said disembodied whispers, I think we should go right." She said.

"She has a point." Peter said.

"You're crazy." James said staring wide eyed.

"Right it is." Moody said and James sighed.

"Oh sod it!" He muttered and went down the right.

They had come to a large chamber, Fabian and Gideon were prodding a pile of stones suspiciously, and Rebecca was inspecting a carving of a rather frightening looking devil on the wall which had been painted over with what she hoped was brownish-red paint that only looked like dried blood out of coincidence. Frank, Edgar, Caradoc and Moody were conversing over a map of Paris, Peter was standing in a corner looking down the tunnel they had just come in by, James was drying his cloak, and everyone else was trying to edge away from the bones that littered the edges of the room.

"This is impossible!" Caradoc sighed.

"You have obviously never tried to nail jelly to a tree mate." Fabian said from the stones.

"We're going to die down here!" Caradoc continued as he walked over to the twins.

"Why are you being so sodding negative?" Benjy snapped.

"Bingo! I knew it!" Fabian said with a grin.

"What?" Everyone said in unison.

"Please enlighten us with your new found knowledge Fabian." Gideon said as he kicked a rock which followed with a squeak.

"Did that rock just squeak?" Caradoc asked as he stared at the rock lying not ten feet from them.

"Pogrebins." Remus answered from the other side of the tunnel with Rebecca.

"Oh fabulous." Edgar said as he threw his hands in the air and sat down on the ground.

"What are Pogbrains?" Sirius asked.

"Pogrebins." Remus corrected.

"You use them in Potions" Rebecca said as she turned from the painting.

"Oh that helps me a lot." Sirius muttered.

"They're annoying little creatures, native to Russia... but they've migrated somewhat. They follow people around, infusing them with a sense of hopelessness until the person collapses, at which point the Pogrebin attempts to devour them." Remus said in a relaxed tone. "They look like grey rocks with small hairy bodies and they hided by crouching down and pretending to be nothing but a harmless stone." He said as he picked up a rock which started to squeak and try to bite his fingers and he tossed it away from him.

"That's greeeeat." Sirius muttered darkly. "So the longer we stay down here, the more desperation we'll feel and we'll just die."

"Oh I don't like the sound of that." Peter said sadly.

"Let's sing a song to keep up our spirits!" Gideon suggested happily.

"Only if you want my wand imbedded in your forehead." Moody grumbled.

"Ok, lets not..." Gideon said quickly

"What you REALLY don't wanna come across down here is a Red Cap." Remus said as he looked around.

"Red cap?" Peter asked unsure.

"They're Scottish elves, also called Lowland castle spirits! Said to live only in castles with a history of violence. Their main occupation is coloring their red caps, which they dye with human blood. As soon as the blood dries and the color fades, they look for new victims. "

"Wow that makes me feel real safe dear, thank for or planting that picture of horror in my mind." Rebecca said sarcastically.

"What do they look like?" Fabian asked.

"Well see for yourself there is one right behind you." Rebecca said and Fabian as well as a few others jumped and turned around with their wands out and she started to laugh.

"Come on not funny Becky." James said.

"Ok, enough of a rest, we're moving on again." Frank declared as he got everyone moving again.

It wasn't long before they came to a room with bowls in it, some apparently running water, and a burnt out fire. It wasn't warm, but certainly not over 100 years old, more like a couple of months.

"Well there hasn't been any magic here in a while." Rebecca said as she held up an open vial of green liquid. She corked it and pocketed it

"Bugger." Benjy said with a sigh.

"What about down there?" James was pointing at some stone stairs that were carved down into the floor and through a gap which went into another tunnel below.

"Maybe... someone go down there..." Sirius said as he nudged Rebecca.

"Not me, you go."

"Not a chance Walcott."

After a quick argument about who would go, they all went together.
It was even darker and more claustrophobic down here, or at lest it seemed it... here the air was absolutely fine however, not stuffy at all. They couldn't risk a light bright enough to see their surroundings. Rebecca held up the vial again and cursed herself not being able to see it.

"This is it."

"How do you know? You can't even see." Sirius hissed.

"Because the vial is warm, stupid." She snapped.

"What was that?" Frank spun around

"What was what?"

"I thought I heard scraping footsteps, like when you drag your feet along the ground."

"Did anyone move their feet?"

They all shook their heads, and then they all stood silent for a second to listen.

"There it is again! Anyone messing around cos it's not funny guys." Frank said.

"Oh I'm sorry, I was under the impression it was highly amusing." A voice said in the darkness, and then a laugh... and then laughs answering it...

"LUMOS MAXIMA!"

The tunnel was bathed in light, and so were the Death Eaters who had surrounded the Order members.

There was a second where everyone just froze and took in the situation, and quite suddenly everyone started firing off spells all at once.
Rebecca saw Remus next to her get hit with a stupefy almost right away as he dropped down next to her and she reached in to her pockets and pulled out a few vials and hurled them at the Death Eaters around her, one hit a wall which promptly exploded, blasting a gaping hole in the wall. Dust and rubble was blasted all over the room as she bent down next to Remus quickly.

"Enervate." She said and he instantly woke up and looked around as she helped him up and off to the side before tossing more vials in the direction of a group of death eaters.
The roof of the tunnel they had been in caved in, the fight was split in half. Rebecca, Peter and an unconscious Jenny were on one side with about 6 Death Eaters, and the others were in the original tunnel with the rest of the death eaters.

"Ennervate!" Rebecca yelled pointing her wand at Jenny; it was then kicked out of her hand. She dove for it, narrowly dodging a curse and stunned the death eater as Jenny got her bearings.
Mean while in the other tunnel most of the Death Eaters had been caught under the collapsing roof. The rest of the Death Eaters were knocked out quite easily and quickly.

"ARE YOU GUYS OK?" James yelled through the rubble

"SHUT UP!" Rebecca hissed before coughing from the dust. "Do you want more roof to come down on us?"

"Sorry." He whispered.

"What are we going to do?" Remus asked.

"I think you guys should keep going, they whole place probably knows we're here now. Jen, Pete and I will find another way out."

"I don't like that idea; I think we can just move these rocks-." Remus said.

"Guys just go, we'll be fine."

"How will we keep in contact?" James asked.

"Remember that walkie talkie spell I showed you guys a few weeks ago?"

"Yeah. Good idea."

"Becky." Remus pleaded.

"Remus I'll be fine." She said and glanced back at Peter and Jenny who both looked exhausted.

"I love you."

"I love you too, now get going."

"Ok, ok, let's get on with it then..." Moody said.

Half an hour or so later, Peter, Rebecca and Jenny found themselves feeling quite lost.

"Everything looks the same." Jenny sighed as they continued down the tunnel.

"I think we passed that pile of bones ten minutes ago." Peter said and Rebecca glared at him.

"We are not lost." She said and sighed. "Alright we're lost." She said and leaned against the wall.

The larger group crept through the chamber, there was a note taped to the wall, it was a list of names... a Hit List! Frank pocketed it.
There were other things of possible interest they found and took before they heard voices... They bolted, but found there was nowhere to hide... Plan B was the 'just attack them and hope for the best' option. This sounded like an alright option until they saw who turned the corner, Voldemort himself stood and looked them over, Bellatrix came up behind him and looked right at Sirius.

"Bad idea, bad, bad, bad idea." Sirius said.

It was all very, very quiet, Peter was breathing loudly and Rebecca kept hitting him because it was creeping her out, Jenny was feeing along the wall having had her wand snapped in the fight, Rebecca was in the middle, Peter at the back... still breathing loudly.
And suddenly they heard a yell and spell fired. "Oh God, they were caught!" Rebecca gasped.
Jenny put her ear to the wall. "Its close, come on, follow the noise!" She said as they continued along the tunnel.

It was crazy in the chamber when they finally found their way in, Voldemort had thrown a couple of random spells, gotten bored, left to leave his Death Eaters to the work. Frank was on the floor, Sirius and James had resorted to beating the crap out of the Death Eaters with their fists.
The next thing they knew, they were sprinting down a tunnel, Peter was at the front of them all. They could hear a couple of Death Eaters perusing them, the rest seemed to have stayed in the chamber... but at the rate the Order were going they needn't bother chasing, they were so incredibly lost they would probably die down here before they found their way out.

"Hey! I can see light up the end of the tunnel there!" Sirius yelled

"S'probably a train with our luck." Caradoc panted.
The got there and Peter found a ladder and started climbing, he pushed at the roof and it moved away. It was a manhole that Muggles used to get into the sewers. They all piled out, slammed the cover back on and sealed it.

"Does that seem just a little bit too easy?" Frank said as he looked around at everyone.

"Yes." said Gideon said and gave a sigh of relief. "It did. Now let's go home." He said and got up, leaning down to help his brother up as well.

"Wait, wait, wait, need to check what we got." Frank said.

It was dark out and they all crept to the safety of a small park with a lot of trees before they checked to see if anyone was following them and that everyone was present.

Rebecca and Jenny weren't with them…

"SHIT!" Remus said as he sprung up and was running back for the manhole in a second.
James and Sirius tackled him quickly before he could even reach the street.

"There's nothing we can do! We can't get back down that way!" James said as Remus fought desperately against them.

"She's still alive! She has to be!" Remus said and threw James off and tried for the manhole again but Sirius held on to him barely able to restrain him before James grabbed a hold of him again.

"Wait, try her wand." Gideon said.

"Good idea." Benjy said as he got out his wand.
It crackled and then fuzzled into the sound of echoing footsteps sprinting on stone.

"Hey guys!" Rebecca voice said, she was breather hard, her voice jarred every time they heard a foot hit stone.

"Becky." Remus said desperately.

"Hey Remus. Where are you guys?" She asked curiously.

"We're outside." James said.

"Gee, love you guys too" Rebecca said, they heard her stop walking. "Shhh for a sec guys..."
They all exchanged worried looks at the long silence on the wand.

"Alright it's all good. Um, Jenny was captured." She said, her voice cracking. "There was nothing I could do, I tried to get her back but there were too many of them and now I'm lost. So geniuses, how do I get out? Any suggestions? I'm pretty much open to anything."

"Use 'Point Me." Frank said.

"Oh good ide-" she suddenly stopped talking.
Rebecca stared at the two huge Death Eaters she had just walked around a corner and straight into.
She grinned nervously and started backing away, "Hey! How're ya going? Ah, seen a bathroom around here?"

"On your knees."

"No, actually I've got this cartilage problem, little ACL thing." She said and one of the Death Eater stepped forward and hooked his foot around the back of her knees bringing her down hard onto her knees, she winced. "That helps."
And then her wand cut out...

"Becky!" Remus yelled but there was nothing. He tried to go back but Sirius and James restrained him.

'No, we have to go back; we can't leave her like this." He said and they all looked around before apperating back to the headquarters.

"NO! GO BACK! SHE WOULDN'T LEAVE US LIKE THAT!" He said before James pulled him into a hug and Remus just held tight to James.