Lives and Loves of Ravenclaw Girls
Chapter 12 – Death Eater Attack
By: Samantha, Julie and Megan
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"We're going up to Zonko's, see you guys later," Megan said and everyone else waved her and Tag off.
"Who wants to go to Gladrags?" Lily asked.
"I will," Kassie and Samantha said at the same time while Sirius and James pulled faces at the very idea of going into the wizarding fashion shop. Julie was wearing very much the same face and was trying to sneak away.
"Count us out, we're going up to the shrieking shack," Will told them as he led Heidi away from the group.
"Well, um, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, wanna come to Honeydukes?"
"Yip," James said making a hasty exit with Julie, Sirius and Remus in tow.
"Shannon? Rick? What about you guys?" Lily asked.
"I'll come to Gladrags," Shannon said taking her hand out of Rick's, "You can go with the marauders and Julie, Rick." Rick nodded and took off after Julie and the marauders
"Boys," Kassie muttered, "You can't take them anywhere."
"Apparently you can't take Julie anywhere either," Samantha laughed. The three girls headed happily off to Gladrags Wizard Wear.
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After Lily, Kassie and Samantha had finished shopping, Lily and Kassie headed off in the direction of Honeydukes to find James and Sirius while Samantha went to find Severus. She came across Megan and Tag in the middle of a snogging fest outside Zonko's.
"Do you guys know where Sev went?" Sam asked breaking up Megan and Tag's snogging fest.
"No. Go check some darkened alley, he's sure to be there," Megan said and continued to snog Tag.
"Fine. Thanks for the help." Sam said sarcastically. She started down high street looking for Severus and not finding him. She sighed as she peered into a quaint little shop and saw another couple kissing. She wished she could find Severus. It was getting cold and she didn't know where he was.
All of the sudden he popped out from behind her and gave her a hug, "Hey, beautiful," he whispered in her ear, "Let's go back to the castle and warm up."
"But ..." Sam started and was interrupted.
"Sam, I don't want to hang out with your friends I want to hang out with you."
Sam crossed her arms across her chest and closed her mouth. She turned away from him.
"Sam, come on. I just want to be with you today. Okay?" he smiled at her and she melted.
"Okay, but I want to finish shopping first. I still haven't figured out what to get Shannon. I was thinking... Sev, what's wrong?" For Severus was looking from side to side quickly and kept checking behind him as if he expected someone to jump him from behind.
"Nothing, okay. Let's just go back to Hogwarts."
"I can't, I have to finish shopping," Sam told him again.
"Sweetie, we really have to go now," Severus said in clipped tones, widening his eyes as if she would understand what he meant. "Oh, shit," he said and grabbed her hand pulling her into an alley just as a red light flashed down the street.
"What was that?" Sam screamed.
"It was ... I don't know." Severus said.
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"What's going on?" Julie asked as people started running around, screaming.
"I don't know," Remus said squinting his eyes and looking in the distance to see what people were running from. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me." he whispered and grabbed Julie's hand.
"What?" Julie asked as he pulled her along, pulling out his wand. Julie followed suit and tried to look behind her. "What are those things?" she asked as he tugged on her wrist.
"They're Death Eaters."
"Death what?!" Julie exclaimed stopping and bring Remus to a stop too.
"Death Eaters. They're Voldemort's followers. Evil people."
"Voldemort," Julie whispered, mouth dropping open and eyes widening.
"Yeah, He's evil too."
"I knew that." Julie said hitting his arm. "Why are they here though?"
"Dunno, maybe they got bored, maybe they're here to frighten people into following Voldemort."
Just then a group of people ran through them. Julie tried to hang onto his hand but the crowd ripped through them tearing their hands apart and taking Julie with them. "Remus! REMUS!!!"
"JULIE!!!" Remus yelled trying to keep track of her but lost her when someone pushed him to the ground.
"Stay down," Sirius's voice said to him.
"What the hell are Death Eaters doing here?" Remus asked him as they crouched behind a barrel. "Sirius, I need to find Julie. We got split up!"
"Okay, coast is clear, let's go find your girl."
"Where's Kassie?" Remus asked him as someone rushed passed them.
"Her and Lily are safe are with James, don't worry."
"I hope Julie's safe."
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Megan and Tag had been about to go into Zonko's when they heard someone scream a blood curdling scream. Megan whipped around drawing her wand. "Oh shit."
"What?" Tag asked squinting at where Megan was looking.
"Please tell me I'm just seeing Death Eaters and they're really not here."
"Sorry, honey, but you told me to never lie to you. Those are Death Eaters and they're heading our way."
"Oh, just perfect," Megan said pushing Tag down an alley, "just what we needed." Tag pulled out his wand and grabbed Megan's hand.
"Let's go rid our school of that slime."
Tag leapt out of the alley as someone grabbed Megan from behind. "Tag!" He whipped around to find someone in a white mask holding Megan around the middle with their wand pointed to her neck.
"Let her go." Tag growled out.
"Make me, Anderson." the Death Eater bit back.
"Just leave her out of this." Tag pleaded.
"You refused the Dark Lord, Anderson. You're going to have to pay. Starting with your whore here," he jabbed the wand further into her neck making it hard to breathe. She sucked in deeply and the Death Eater laughed. "Hard to breathe, Docura? Think how bad it would be if I let a little Crucio slip."
"Who are you?" she asked wincing when he laughed again and pushed the wand deeper into her neck.
"I'm surprised you don't remember me, Docura," he said ripping the mask from his face, and throwing it to the ground. He wrenched her face towards his so she could see his handsome face. He had long brown hair and vivid blue eyes. She recognized those eyes.
"It can't be, Brandon Miller?" He had been the boy her and the girls had fought over in second year.
"In the flesh, baby," cackled into her ear, "Now drop the wand, Anderson," Tag did as he was told, dropping the wand and kicking it away. "Good boy. Now against that wall."
"Let Megan go. She didn't do anything."
"Like hell I will, I told you, you would have to pay and she's the price," he jerked Megan's head up higher, exposing her neck more. Megan brought her foot down on his foot and he jerked back a little allowing her to bring her elbow into his groin, he released her and she brought her elbow into his nose. She jerked away from him and rushed towards Tag but before she could get there Brandon yelled the Impediment curse. She looked up in time to see the building's bricks come falling down on her.
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"SHANNON!" Rick yelled, tackling her to the ground as a flash of green light flashed above them. They tumbled to the side of the street, Rick's body on top of her own.
"Don't move an inch," he whispered so quietly she had to strain her ears to hear him. They lay there playing dead, as the sound of footsteps crunched in the snow by them. Shannon bit back a whimper as the sound of foot steps stopped right beside them.
A swift kick from the death eater sent Ricks limp form off of her, but Shannon dared not open her eyes, nor would she breathe. A foot nudged her ribs, and she let her body move with his foot.
"Come on, get a move on," a voice called from down the road.
"Comin'," a deep voice said above her, she waited for the sound of his receding footsteps, but they never came. Instead a second pair came closer.
"What are you doing? Lets keep moving," said a gruff voice.
"Pity isn' it? Sucha shame sumt'in so purdy, lay unawares," Shannon felt a cold hand brush against her cheek.
"Look, if you're going to rape her, get it over with already. There are still more people in the village who defy our master," Shannon felt her stomach tighten with fear and felt as if she was going to throw up. She might be raped, she was going to make her get away when she had the chance, but right now she didn't have her wand ready.
She heard one set of footsteps leave as she felt the same cold hand touch her thigh, reaching higher and higher.
She heard a large, hollow thump, coming from above her, and suddenly an immense weight fell on top of her. She finally dared to open her eyes to see Rick standing above her, with a bent in garbage can in his hands. He tossed it to the side and took her hands to pull her up off the ground.
The pair looked down the street to see the second death eater round the corner away from them. Rick pulled her the opposite way.
"Rick, don't you think we should fight?" panted Shannon, as they ran along the deserted streets.
"My first concern is to keep you safe, Shan. Come on, I don't hear anything this way," he replied, leading her out towards a back road behind Zonkos shop.
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"Well, where can we go that's safe?" whispered Heidi quickly.
"I don't know! We need to go somewhere slightly isolated," he whispered back. Screams filled the air around them as the crept along the shadows.
"I have an idea!" said Heidi suddenly.
"Where?" Will asked, before looking over her shoulder, and pulled her into the doorstep of a shop.
"The Shrieking Shack. No one would go up there!" she breathed against his neck as he held her tightly.
"Alright, we don't have anything to loose."
The pair crept among the trees quietly and slowly, trying to go un-noticed by the death eaters they sometimes heard in the distance.
They made it to the gate to the shack, and bolted up the hill, staying low to the ground. Will led Heidi, his grip on her hand firm and relentlessly tugging. Out of nowhere a jet of red light shot at them, and Will jumped on Heidi, taking her to the ground.
"James! They're not death eaters!" yelled a voice from by the house.
A sudden blur of a black cloak appeared and was dragging them towards the house. Heidi shrieked in horror of a potential death eater, by a hand was clapped over her mouth.
"Shut UP, Singe! Do you want us to get caught?" someone growled into her ear.
"Potter?" she heard Will say beside her.
"Yeah, it's me. Kassie and Lily are over there," he said nodding his head over his shoulder. He slowly took his hands off of Heidi and began tearing at the wooden boards on the door.
"What are you doing?" whispered Heidi.
"We need to get in there," growled James back.
"Why? Looking for the ghosts to help us?" Heidi spat.
"The ... uh ... the ghosts don't come out until around midnight. Come on, we will be safer inside."
No one asked anymore questions as Heidi sat with Lily and Kassie against the side of the door, while Will and James attacked the door.
"Why are they attacking?" questioned Heidi out loud.
"Who knows," replied Lily, her head on her knees.
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"Oh shit," cursed Julie, running against the crowd. "REMUS?" she screamed in vain. So many screams filled the air; it was like she had yelled under her breath.
She was hit in the shoulder as people passed her by. She struggled to run towards them and more than once she was stopped and told to run the other way.
"Julie? What the hell are you doing? Come on!" yelled a voice, grabbing her by the upper arms.
"NO! Chris! I have to go find Remus! Let me go!" she yelled as she tried to pull away from him. "Chris! I have to go!"
Chris ignored her yelling and instead pulled her into a little alcove between two shops. "Stay down Walsh! You can't find him now!"
"But i have to Chris!" she said, strained.
"Why? Are you going to save him? He's a big boy Jules; he's going to take care of himself," Julie ignored him and tried to stand up, but Chris pulled her back down. "You will only distract him if you do find him. He will feel the need to protect you, and he might hurt himself doing so!" Julie finally stopped struggling and slumped down against Chris.
"Shh, just stay quiet," he whispered, his mouth close to hers. She shut her eyes tightly, breathing in deeply, trying to calm her racing heart. If she closed her eyes tight enough she imagined herself with Remus, out away from trouble. She nuzzled her head into Chris' shoulder, pretending it was Remus. Chris wrapped his arms around her as she let a few tears go loose.
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"SEV!" screamed Sam into the empty alleyway.
"I'm right here Babe," whispered Severus, pulling her into a darker part.
"What's going on? Do you know?" asked Sam, looking around frantically.
"There are ... I don't know sweetheart. I just know we have to get back, NOW." he whispered intently. Sam swallowed a knot in the back of her throat.
"Come on," said Severus, pulling on her hand.
The two ran down the ally and stopped at the end. "Wait here Sam, i'm going ahead to make sure we can make it safely." Sam's eyes widened in fear but she nodded anyway. Snape dropped her hand and disappeared around the corner. Sam pressed herself against the wall, willing herself to stop the tears that had just started.
"Well, well, well. Look who we have here," said a cold voice behind her. Sam spun around to see a death eater standing a few feet away. "Little Samantha Adams."
"Who ... who are you?" stuttered Sam.
"Someone who knows all about you," said the cool, woman's voice. Sam eyed the girl's wand that she twirled in her hands. "You're the one that's dating Snape. You dirty Ravenclaw. How dare you find yourself worthy enough to be with someone of such noble blood? You're no better than my fool of a cousin."
"Who are you?" Sam asked again, in anger.
"Crucio," Searing hot pain ripped through Samantha's body. She couldn't think of anything, as her vision blurred. She heard screaming in the distance, before registering that it was her own voice. Blood filled the inside of her mouth when she bit her tongue. She lay on the ground twitching in agony.
Snape heard her screaming from a ways away and ran to the ally he had left her in. He looked from her withering, bloody, body up to a figure holding her wand out at Sam.
Rage filled Snape's body as he launched himself at the death eater.
"BELLATRIX! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" he screamed.
"I'm doing you a favor Severus! SHE'S NOT WORTHY!"
"I DONT CARE! Crucio!" he screamed, his wand pointing at her. Bella twitched on the ground for a few moments before being released from the spell. "Get the hell away from us!" Snape spat.
He knelt down beside Sams limp form and took her in his arms, whispering his apology over and over.
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"Shannon, be careful!" whispered Rick, pulling her back from a sound from the corner.
The pair decided to sit behind a shop, near a few trees to wait out the attack. Rick cuddled a crying Shannon, who still remembered the touch of the man who was going to rape her. Rick spoke soothingly into her ear, trying to comfort her. They sat their in the shade of th trees, both silently praying that the death eaters wouldn't stray off the paths so far.
Shannon choked back a sob as another building went up in fire a ways away, and the sky was becoming cluttered with glowing green skulls. Shannon nuzzled in closer to Rick, wondering how such a horrible day had started out so perfect.
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"Shh, I think someone's coming," Julie could feel Chris' breath on her neck, as she buried herself deeper and deeper into his shoulder.
Footsteps came and went as she breathed heavily into his shoulder in fear.
"It's okay, they're gone," he whispered down to her. She pulled herself away to look up into his light brown eyes.
"Thank you for saving me," she whispered as she trembled slightly.
"I wouldn't let anything happen to you, Walshy," he whispered back. Julie finally noticed how close he suddenly was, and the fact his nose was getting closer to hers as the seconds past. She was so emotionally frantic she didn't notice his hand pressed lightly against her flushed cheek. His lips were only a few centimeters away from her own. She sucked in a breath, scared of what was going on. She was about to close her eyes when a voice cut through the silence.
"JULIE?" yelled Remus, from a ways away. Julie pushed Chris off of her and ran out into the street, not caring if she was seen by the enemy.
"WALSH?" yelled what she thought was Sirius' voice.
"REMUS?" she screamed into the empty streets. She ran around the corner, and straight into two death eaters.
"Oh fuck," she said before getting a spell straight to the gut. She flew into a brick wall and everything went black.
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"REMUS?" they heard her scream. They ran towards the direction of her voice, only to see her be attacked by a death eater and his companion. They pair laughed sinisterly, before being knocked out by an stunner from Sirius.
Remus ran past the two death eaters to Julie, who lay bleeding heavily from a head wound.
"Is she ..." asked Sirius, trailing off.
"I ... I ... don't know," Remus choked out. He pulled away his hand that he had cupped around her head, only to find it tainted a deep crimson from her blood.
--End Chapter 12
