Right Here Waiting

A/N: Yay, second chappie! Please review. Sorry so short, but I wanted to use the title of this chap, and it didn't fit the first part. Read and enjoy!

Chapter Two: Oceans Apart, Day After Day

"Ellie go home!" Remus shouted, running down the street after her.

"I want to help!"

"NO!"

"Fine!" Ellie disappeared with a pop. Remus also disappeared, but he didn't go to his house.

When Ellie got to the house, the first thing she saw was figures in black on her front lawn. Death eaters. But what were they doing here? She morphed into her recently acquired animigus form, a black cat. She crept up to the figures to listen to their conversation.

"Yes, the werewolf and his girlfriend live here...if we take them and Black, we'll have all the distractions out of the way..." one death eater was saying.

Ellie crept off around one side of the house. There was no way she could fight off all of those death eaters. There had to be at least twenty. And there was no way she could disapperate. There was an anti-apperation field on the house and yard.

What did they want with her and Remus anyway? What could they have to do with the downfall of the Potters? She was just a close friend...It wasn't as if she held the power to stop the Dark Lord...

She peeked her head around the corner of the house to try and ascertain what to do. She lost her balance and toppled over, causing the death eaters to all look over at her.

"Ah," said one, walking over and picking her up by the neck of her robes. "This one has been kind enough to walk right to us. Where's your boyfriend, mudblood?"

Ellie struggled, but the masked death eater kept a firm grip on her. "Get off of me! I don't know where he is, and even if I did, I wouldn't tell you. And my name is Eleanor, not mudblood, thank you!"

"That'll be enough of your insolence." The death eater threw Ellie to the ground. "Since you can't tell us where the werewolf is, you will have to pay the price." Ellie winced.

"What do you want with me?" she asked, straining to keep her voice steady. She struggled to her feet.

"What do I want?" repeated the death eater. "Nothing you could provide." He paused. "Or maybe you could." He grinned an awful grin. "And you can stay on the ground. He shoved her hard and she fell over. He grinned again and aimed a kick at her side.

Ellie gasped at the pain. She tried to stand again, but he kicked her again. By now, the crowd of death eaters had formed a circle around them.

"This one's rather pretty, for a mudblood," called out one boldly from the circle. "Maybe we should take her back with us."

"No," said the first one. "Master said to kill her." He pointed his wand between her eyes. "Avada – "

"Noooo!" Remus bowled through the crowd, knocking Ellie over and causing the green jet of light to hit a tree instead. He stunned the death eater and tried to disapperate with Ellie, but he couldn't because of the shield.

Remus pulled Ellie to her feet, put up a shield on the both of them, and pushed her through the crowd of death eaters, knocking them over. Ellie wrapped an arm around her waist, her ribs throbbing.

"Run," Remus told her. "Even if they hit me, run."

Just as he said this, the death eaters reassembled themselves and hexes began flying. Remus shot a blind stunner over his shoulder and hit a death eater. One shattered Remus's shield with a stunner, and he put it back up. Four stunners broke his second shield and hit him in the back. Ellie shrieked and slowed down, but she remembered what he had said and she kept running.

She managed to elude them by changing into a cat and slipping down an alley. Once she'd lost them, she changed back and leaned against one wall of the alley. The full meaning of what had happened finally sunk in and Ellie slid down until she was sitting with her arms wrapped around her knees.

Remus was gone. The death eaters had killed him or were going to... Tears rushed to her eyes. She put her forehead against her knees and sobbed. Remus, her support and her...fiancé. They were supposed to get married. Now that would never happen.

This thought made Ellie cry harder. Remus had been her best friend, her comfort. Who was supposed to wipe away her tears now? There was no one in Britain, that was for sure.

Ellie wiped away her own tears and got up. She apperated a street away from the Potters to find out what had happened. And to tell them what had become of one of their best friends.

The house was in ruins, and it was still smoking slightly. A witch in all white was moving what looked horribly like a limp body. Ellie's hand flew to her mouth, and she took a step back. The house was swarming with more witches and wizards in white. That could only mean one thing.

James, Lily, Remus. Three people who meant more than anything to Ellie, gone in a single night. She turned on a heel and ran. Ran as fast as she could away from lost friends, lost dreams, and the life she had always known.