Chapter 6
Later on Remus with Snuffles, Albus, Minerva and Severus went to Merry's rooms and entered to find a 5 ½ foot box covered in a cloth with knives in it. Sandra was sitting on the couch reading a book.
"Um… Sandra why are there knives in that box?" Sirius asked, once he transformed back into Sirius.
"Because Mummy's in that box." Sandra said, not looking up from the book she was reading.
"What?" cried Minerva. "She could be dead by now!" she said.
"Nah. Just stiff." Sandra replied.
"How long has she been in there?" Remus asked.
"Since classes ended, if you noticed, she didn't come to dinner." Sandra informed him.
"Oh good Lord! Get her out of there!" Minerva cried out.
"You have to take the knives out first!" Sandra told them.
Severus removed the knives one by one and opened the box, and he and Sirius helped Merry out of the box.
Merry leaned against the box and worked on getting the kinks out of her neck before twisting until she heard her back crack.
"Ouch. I think I fell asleep up to the point when the knives were taken out." Merry said, sliding down on the box, accidentally whacking her head into the box. She just laughed as she just rubbed the back of her head.
"Lack of oxygen." Sandra told them.
"I'm alright. Not going to be able to move until tomorrow morning, but I'm alright." Merry reassured them.
"Be grateful that our class doesn't start until 11 then." Severus commented.
"Nice to know you care, Bastard." Merry said to Severus. "You need anything?" she asked the people in her living room. Sandra had left the room.
"Where was your daughter earlier today?" Albus asked.
"I know she went to bother Remus since there was Potions, but I didn't see her until lunch." Merry said.
Sandra was just in the other room. Why couldn't they ask her?
"I know that she was Remus, and she had come to see me, however, when she was about to leave she told me she was going to Minerva's class room-" Albus paused.
"And she never came." Minerva finished.
Remus blinked. He thought he smelled blood, coming from one of the rooms.
"Merry, what's that room?" Remus asked, pointing to the room where he smelled the blood coming from. The room where Sandra went into a few minutes ago.
"That's Sandra's bedroom. Why? Is something wrong?" Merry asked.
"I'm not that sure." Remus said.
Merry looked skeptically at the door before looking at her guests.
"I'll be right back." Merry said before going to her daughter's room.
Merry stepped inside the bedroom and smiled and she saw her daughter fast asleep when she noticed something red on her neck. She went over to Sandra and moved her a bit to see her neck.
"Merlin!" Merry cried out, alarming everyone in the other room.
"What is it?" Minerva asked.
Merry moved to reveal small bloody handprints on Sandra's neck. Merry picked up her daughter's hands and saw no blood on them, but the handprints were the same size as her daughter's own small hands.
Albus had went to go get Poppy. A few minutes later and she flooed.
"Those are child's handprints." Poppy announced.
"They're not Sandra's though." Merry told her.
"No, they're not hers. I'd say they belong to a little boy, seeing as the fingerprints stick out a little more, but that's impossible." Poppy said.
Merry sighed and looked around the room when suddenly she saw something red start to drip down the mirror of Sandra's dresser.
"Is that… blood?" Merry asked hesitantly.
Suddenly the blood began to for words.
It is not her time yet, for it was not my time either.
Merry was scared when those words appeared on the mirror.
"Alexander." She whispered.
"Who?" Albus asked.
"This boy named Alexander was Sandra's best friend. He was killed less than a year ago and she's been depressed ever since. But she hides it as you could tell. She hides it so well." Merry told them.
"How did your daughter's friend die?" Poppy asked.
"He had been strangled." Merry said, turning around to stare at the small prints on her daughter's neck.
LALALALA DAYS LATER LALALALA
A few days later Sandra was perfectly fine and had no clue about what had happened.