To Go

Rodolphus

Darkness shrouded us as we landed in the empty street. The bland yellow of the Muggle lights were sour as they flickered their dirty illumination on the rows of houses. Many of the windows were lit up behind their curtains and I could hear the sounds of music behind the doors. We, a group of three walked silently and swiftly. I looked up to the sky and scowled at the grey-yellow glow in the direction of London. Dirty Muggles, even managed to pollute the sky, even managed to hide the stars. We would make them see the error of their ways, they who scurried over the world like rats, ever multiplying and taking up valuable space.

We would show them who had the power.

"Number eighteen, that's what the list says" Dolohov said in a hushed voice to Malfoy.

Malfoy gave a sharp nod and briskly walked down the street, his cloak bristling around him, I followed after him and Dolohov matched my pace.

When we came to the house in question Malfoy, after moment of hesitation in which he tested for Magical boundaries, passed through the gate which creaked slightly on being opened. It was a small family house, no different to its neighbours, the owners were probably well off in their view. Idiots. The curtains were all drawn and I quickly cast a couple of silencing charms to stop some ignorant Muggle thinking they could help the residents. Oh, and they'd want help all right...

Malfoy went first, as planned wordlessly, smashing the door down with one devastating spell. There had been a quick shriek as the door had plummeted and I saw a brief glance of a round faced man glancing fearfully into the hall. Malfoy walked over the collapsed door into the well lit entrance hall and I followed, walking with long strides into the Muggle home. I saw pictures hanging on the wall, immobile and pathetic, of a happy family. To my left a photo of two girls, a redhead and brunette, around the age of seven or eight caught my eye and I sneered. The Mudblood would be next on our list.

We walked calmly into the kitchen we had seen the idiot peering out of and I gave a raucous laugh when I saw the female trying to wrench the back door open as her pathetic husband wielded a golfing stick. Idiot. The thing with the families of Mudbloods is that they know enough to know what we can do but not enough to realise they stood no chance against us. The female screamed when seeing us and span to face us her face full of desperation as her greying carrot red hair stuck to her face where her sweat and tears fell.

"Please, we've done nothing" She cried and I laughed harder.

"Hush Delilah" The male said with a determined glint in his eyes as if he truly though he could fight us "If you kill us, you'll be sent to the prison, that place – I've heard about it – you should just leave because I have camera's all over the house so they, your people, they'll know who killed us and-" He was cut off by Dolohov's mocking voice.

"Ha! Here this guys, the filth is trying to threaten us! Why don't we show this idiot what we're capable of, eh guy?" Malfoy chuckled and I grinned.

Within moments they male was bound hanging upside down and the woman was shrieking again. I loved that sound, that worthless begging, we weren't even hurting her yet and she felt the need to pierce the air. Of course it wasn't as much fun when we didn't have to break them; it was nice when the wenches had to broken into screaming but oh well. She stared up at her husband and her hand tirelessly scratched at the window panes and the door knob.

"See how well your husband protected you" Malfoy scorned.

"Run Delilah! Get out! Just go, warn Lily and Petu-"

The sounds washed over me, the begging, the screams, the smashing of glass, of bones. We made them bleed, and chock on their own blood, we made their naive minds understand what pain was. We made them forget who they were, what they were. Once we got bored we killed the man and gave the female his body, or at least what we supposed was his body, didn't look like a body anymore really. That made her silent, which was interesting to be sure, they usually screamed now, as if to pull back their loved ones from death. Idiots. She went silent, blank, until we made her scream again. We drove home who were the powerful ones but even that got boring after a while. I considered leaving her alive, broken and essentially lifeless, but I have no sympathy for the producers of mudblood filth, not that it would really be sympathy.

So we killed her.

We were drunk on the sensations of their death and pain. It was nice not to have Bellatrix here for once, she always took it completely in hand and while I admired her creativity and blood lust it was nice to have my own reign.

We left.

All around the country other Mudblood families were finding out the cost of thinking they could be a part of our world. It was a satisfying feeling to send up the mark, the great signature of our dark lord, into the air knowing my other comrades were doing the same. The mudblood filth would soon realise what they are up against. How I'd love to see their faces when they heard what had happened to their weak families but no... I would see them soon and they would see me before their gasped their last stolen breath.

Lily

Eliza slid into the seat opposite me.

"Hello Lily" she said in her quiet dreamy voice as she grinned at me. I'd always liked the crazy Ravenclaw for all her little oddities; at least she wasn't as bad as her new boyfriends Xeno Lovegood, I didn't understand half the things he said.

"Hey Eliza, how was your Christmas break?"

"Oh! It was very good thank you, I realised what I was doing wrong in my new spell, would you like to see?" She said with a radiant smile the danced in her blue eyes.

"Um... maybe later, yes?" I said uneasily.

"Of course, you don't have to see it if you don't want to, you're probably worried I'll accidently blow something up" She replied with a slight nod and an understanding smile, not perturbed in any way.

I chuckled, classic Eliza.

"-but how come your here on your own? Don't you usually study with Alice or Lara?" She asked, shaking out her glossy blond hair and perching her chin on a raised fist, looking at me intently.

"Oh well. Alice is with Frank and Lara with Remus" I said.

It wasn't that I was annoyed or sad or lonely now that both my friends were so happy with their boyfriends, I don't mind spending time on my own, it was just that-

"You're a bit jealous aren't you? That's okay, it's natural" Eliza said as if she'd read my thoughts... as usual.

I didn't answer, she knew the truth anyway. I looked across the room where Lara and Remus were together and smile. They were sitting close next to each other, both studying but obviously very much aware of the others presence. As I watched Lara reached out and pushed a strand of hair out of his face and he raised his hand to take hers and simply hold it, not raising his eyes from his book. Lara's fair face shone with amusement and the scar on her face seemed to vanish as she chuckled. Remus lifted his head and rolled his eyes and her fondly before kissing her nose. They both continued to study.

"They're very sweet together, don't you think?" The girl opposite me said obviously following my gaze "and her brother's with Sirius Black. I knew he was gay, I just knew it but everyone thought he was straight as a ruler except I told them I had a ruler at home which is bendy and so Black could be gay when they put it that way. They said I didn't get the point but I think it was them who didn't understand" I laughed merrily at the girl.

"That is true and after all you were obviously right"

"Yes, I decided not to rub it in their faces though. People don't like that" She said with another small smile.

Sirius

"Earth to Prongs, earth to prongs" I waved my hand in front of my best friends face which seemed to drag him from his thoughts. I rolled my eyes.

"Huh?"

"I said" Sigh "that if you're still, I repeat, still thinking about Evens then I'm going to use this very heavy, very boring book to hit you over the head until you do something about it" I shook my head in exasperation.

"I do try and do something about it!" He said grumpily rubbing his head as if imagining my threat "you know as well as me that she never says yes"

Al chuckled and we both turned to him to see his eyes glinting happily.

"What are you thinking?" I asked my boyfriend, poking him in the rips before he had time to swat me away.

"Nothing" he said sweetly, crossing his arms over his chest "I'm sure you'll figure it out soon enough Prongs, it's not too hard to figure out"

I looked at James and his eye clearly said he too had no idea what Alex was talking about.

"Are you sure?" He said uncertainly "we are talking about a girl and Merlin knows how their brains work" I nodded in agreement; they seemed to think in the most unpredictable ways possible.

"They're not that hard to figure out"

We gapped at him but he just looked amused.

"Gah. Trust fate to make a guy who understands girls gay, why couldn't one of us straight guys be given that gift – you don't even need it!" Prongs said with a defeated sigh.

Al just chuckled and said simply:

"In born Legilimen plus twin sister, all I'm going to say"

Lily

I stood outside the door to the headmaster's office nervously. I wasn't even sure why I was nervous. I just was. I gulped twice before knocking, my chest felt heavy as I tried to take in breaths. My throat felt as if it was closing in around me and I felt sort of disconnected to my body.

"Come in"

Using all of my will I pushed open the door and walked into the room. It was much like it had looked last time I'd been in here but this time something and shifted. I looked at my head master and he wordlessly indicated the chair opposite him. I hardly felt myself moving before I was perched on the cushioned yet surprisingly hard seat. I gulped, again. It was there in his eyes, usually I would see a sparkle there that hinted that he was aware of a joke that nobody could see. Not now.

I gulped.

"Miss Evens..."

I didn't hear his words. I could hear them. I was frozen, I couldn't move without deliberately thinking about it. I wasn't breathing. I didn't hear his words and therefore they did not exist. Something inside me clicked though. There in my chest something slid into place, a block. Then I knew. I knew. But yet I didn't because my brain had forgotten to tell me exactly what was making me feel this way. I was frozen.

"I'm sorry... what?" I said disconnectedly my face hardly moving as I stared at moving lips of my headmaster, willing myself to hear.

"I'm sorry Miss Evens. Your parent have been killed by Death Eaters"

There it was.

They were dead.

Dead.

Dead?

They were gone.

But-?

The words didn't seem to connect to my thoughts. I was numb. They were dead. What did that even mean? No, I knew what it meant. Dead, not alive. But to me? If they were dead, did that mean I would never see them again? No, I would see them again. Next summer, we were going to Greece. Petunia was coming too. We were... but we weren't because they weren't alive. Because they were not alive. They. Were. Gone.

Gone...

Gone?

Gone.

Oh.

Lily

The funeral was in the graveyard around the corner from our house. I'd asked to see them but the wizard simply said it was best not to. I didn't like that. The ground was cold, hard, and the trees around me were drooping, dead, black skeletons that swayed in the wind. The sky was white. I was dressed in black. I don't remember putting them on though. I don't know what day it is either. I don't remember much. I watched as the two black coffins are lowered into the earth and the ring of white flowers on each went down with them. I haven't said a word. I don't recognise the people around me.

Apart from Petunia.

She hasn't spoken to me. I don't think why. Not yet. I don't see her really.

It doesn't take long for me to figure out why she hasn't been speaking to me. Not that I really wondered. I hadn't realised that she wasn't till she did. By that point though I'd wished she'd stayed quiet.

"This is entirely your fault! It was done by your people and why else would they touch Mum and Dad! Did you know I had to identify them? Hu? Did you! Do you even know what your lot did to them? Never speak to me ever again. Never contact me. I hate you!"

Then she was gone.

She was gone.

I was alone again.

She was right though. It was my fault.

Lily

Walking back into the common room I suddenly felt somebody run up to me and force me into a desperate hug. I remembered being hugged by my mother. My father. It wasn't either of them hugging me now though. They wouldn't ever hug me again.

I broke.

It hit me and suddenly I was crying. No, not crying, I was sobbing great big shaking sobs that tore at my throat. My face was buried into her hair and I just stood there as she hugged me close.

They were gone.

And suddenly I knew exactly what that meant.