Midnights in Hell 2
By phoenixgod2000
Authors notes: Who to kill, who to kill, around and around I go, who to kill?
Each chapter is deliberately short because I think noir works best that way. each chapter is basically going to be one scene. hopefully, I'll be able to get out one or two a day.
It had started raining; Auror Captain Kingsly Shacklebolt noted with the part of his mind that wasn't surveying the crime scene. It was raining slowly, a soft drizzle that wasn't uncomfortable but it left the whole world gray.
It was appropriate.
His protégé was dead.
Tonks lay in a heap at the opening of the alley. Discovered in the wee hours of the morning by muggles, it hadn't taken much effort for the aurors to obliviate those in the know and take over the investigation.
He studied her form, still as a muggle painting, and wished, not for the first time he had never taken a vow to avoid Unforgivables.
He wanted to the person who had done this to scream. Not just for Tonks, but for all the other girls as well.
She still wore the clothes she had gone clubbing in and there wasn't any sign of a killing blow. A sure indication that the killing curse was the culprit.
Shame the killer didn't stop there. At least that would have been clean.
Her face was a mask of blood. It leaked from the corner of her eye sockets like the bloody tears of suffering saint. Around her edges of her face were teeth marks, the dull, broad scrapes of human teeth put to a use they were never meant for.
He had eaten the eyes right out of her face.
Kingsly turned away, suddenly no longer able to bare the sight of his fallen student. He shoved his hands deep into the pockets of his robe and walked over to one of the other aurors.
"Do you have anything?" He asked gruffly, not really expecting an answer.
The other auror, another young one he noted grumpily nodded grimly. "Yes sir, but you aren't going to like it."
"Boy, ain't nothing I'm going to like today." Kingsly retorted.
"Sir…we analyzed the leftover magic. He used more this time and we were able to get good clean print without any background aura messing it up." The young aura fell back into silence. "We know whose aura it is, but it doesn't make any sense sir. Why would…"
"Spit it out."
"It's…Harry Potter sir. The person who killed Tonks is Harry Potter."