Will immediately left to trail the other Peverells, who were blissfully unaware that their brother was dead.

As he approached, he realized they were discussing their travel plans.

"Are you going to visit Mom and Dad?" Ignotus asked.

"Nah, I'm just going straight home." Cadmus did not look at his brother, although Ignotus was obviously trying to catch his eye.

"I bet Marvolo would like to see you—"

"Don't ever talk to me about Marvolo, Iggy."

"Cad, he's your son! You can't just leave him with our parents and ignore him. You need to move on from Sarah—"

"Shut up!" Cadmus punched his younger brother so hard he hit the ground. The world paused for the both of them as Ignotus lay there. Will almost began to prepare his scythe again, when he started moving. "Sorry." Cadmus said, backing off.

Ignotus got up, his nose bleeding. "I'm not here to judge, Cad. But I think Sarah would want you to care for her son."

"Well," Cadmus said, turning away, "I guess we'll see about that."

"Are you actually going to use that thing?"

"Why wouldn't I? You saw how well that wand worked for Antioch! This—this will work too."

Ignotus shook his head, "That's what I'm afraid of."

Cadmus tried to hit his younger brother again, but this time he dodged. "You think Sarah deserves to be dead?"

"No, I'm saying whether you believe that—William T. Spears or whatever was Death or not, I don't trust gifts given to us by a strange man in the middle of a magical bridge, especially gifts that can do the things he promised. Why, why would you ask for impossible magic that can bring back the dead?"

"I'm desperate, Iggy!" Cadmus shouted, "I can't go on like this anymore. You lot keep telling me to move on and I can't, alright?"

The two brothers halted as they reached a fork in the road. "I'll be at the house if you need me Iggy. Feel free to come by."

And so he took off for the right while Ignotus went left.

Basing his judgements off of lack of emotional stability, Will decided he would follow Cadmus next. However, he hadn't slept or eaten in several hours. He followed the middle brother as far as the house and then left for the night. He hoped nothing interesting would happen while he was gone.

The next day he did a quick reaping of a mortal old man. Nothing extraordinary about that case. Will was known for turning in paperwork quickly, but this time he finished so quickly he was sure he broke a record of some sort.

He returned to Cadmus' house. It was rather large for only one person. He could only assume that it had been meant for his wife and child.

After yesterdays activities, he had thought it necessary to look up 'Sarah's' file. She was a witch of little power but a great deal of money. She and Cadmus had been arranged to be married, but they had actually fallen madly in love with one another. Long before the date of the wedding, she had become pregnant with his child. She then died in childbirth, before the wedding could ever take place. It was not too uncommon a story, Will thought.

Cadmus spent the entire day trying to figure out how the little stone worked. Will eventually got bored and went back home, deciding he would check in again the next day.

For an entire week, Cadmus did nothing but sit in his house puzzling over the small stone. Should he throw it? Recite a spell? Should he maybe—although he never risked it—try to destroy it?

Will had no idea in the least. There was no precedent for dumping blank record into an inanimate object. He didn't really know if it would work at all, or if it would do something completely unintentional. That was another reason why he was giving Cadmus such undivided attention.

He had on occasion dropped by Ignotus' house to make sure he was still alive. However most of the time, he spent his time watching Cadmus struggle. It was quite boring, really. He had even considered abandoning his post and joining Grell for whatever atrocity the red-head had thought up.

Finally, one day, Cadmus was flipping the stone up in the air while he was reading some ancient text that was supposed to give a clue to necromancy. Will was twirling his death scythe, when he decided to stop and watch for another moment.

Once in the air, twice, and then, as it landed in the mortals palm a third time—

"Sarah!" Will nearly dropped his scythe in surprise. He looked around, but there was no one there. He almost thought Cadmus was moaning in agony when he looked at the expression on Cadmus' face.

Tears had formed in his eyes. Slowly he stood up, staring at one particular spot. Will followed his gaze, standing directly behind the man, but saw nothing but wall. "Sarah—I did it! You're alive!" He ran and hugged air at that spot, but his fingers must have passed through the apparition, because he looked confused for a moment.

It hit Will at that moment that because the stone was cinematic record, it was only reflecting the memories Cadmus had, therefore only Cadmus would be able to see her.

Cadmus looked up, as if he was listening to whatever the invisible woman had to say. "That's okay," He replied to whatever she had said, "just having you here in my life again is enough! I love you! I've missed you so much!"

He held up his hands so they hovered in the air, apparently where her own hands must be. "We'll be married," he said, "And raise Marvolo together, and grow old here in this house."

Will had a brief moment where he felt pity on the poor man for fooling him so, as Sarah was obviously not there, but a file somewhere in the hall of cinematic records. Cadmus began dancing around the house, his hands outstretched as if he was holding someone's hands.

After that things were—weird. Will was afraid to leave the house that whole week, as there was no telling when Cadmus might fall down dead. He quickly gave up trying to figure out the conversations between the wizard and his invisible fiancée.

One thing he did note, was that the conversations seemed to be getting more and more desperate. If he was judging based on the number of apologies, Cadmus was having difficulty with the fact his girlfriend was not solid. "Sorry, Sorry, I'll get the hang of this, I promise." Will didn't know if there was any precedence, but he didn't think that was the sort of thing that worked itself out.

Besides the lack of touch, the conversations seemed to be leading in circles. As Sarah was solely based off of Cadmus' memories, she could not develop or change as Cadmus was changing. That was a problem that would surely get worse.

One day, when Will wasn't sure if he himself could live through the increasingly insane conversations, Cadmus had a visitor. It was Ignotus.

Ignotus was far paler than Will had seen him. For a split second, Will thought he was looking directly at him, but he then realized that Cadmus was behind him.

"Iggy!" Cadmus called to his younger brother and ran to hug him, "I'm so glad to see you, I have excellent news!"

"Well, I'm afraid I have terrible news." Ignotus swallowed. "Antioch is dead. Killed soon after we left him."

Cadmus' smile dissolved as he looked into Ignotus' face to make sure he was serious. But then, his smile returned, "That's okay, Iggy, don't worry about it!" As Ignotus gave him a look of horror, Cadmus quickly followed with, "The stone works!"

Ignotus' eyes widened, "What?"

"Sarah and I have been living here this past week. We're still trying to get her adjusted to living again before we move Marvolo back in with us, but she's alive! She's alive! And—And Antioch will be too, I'll bring him back as well. Ah! There she is!" Cadmus looked up the stairwell, smiling and taking in his fiancée's beauty. "Isn't she lovely?"

Ignotus searched every shadow of the stairwell with his eyes. "Cadmus—where is she?"

"I think you need new glasses, Iggy, if she was a basilisk you'd be stone by now."

Indeed, Iggy took off his glasses, cleaned them with his shirt, and then put them back on. "Cadmus, no one is there."

"What do you mean, she's right here." Cadmus motioned to his left, where he held out his arm.

Ignotus looked hard at his brother as if to assess if he was mad. "Right. Well, Miss Sarah, it's been a long time." He held out his hand to kiss the lady's hand, except that he was offering to what he thought was air.

"Oh, that is the one catch. Sarah can't touch anyone."

"I see. Like a ghost?"

"She is not a ghost, damnit, she's alive! Can't you see?"

Ignotus looked hard into his brothers eyes trying to figure out what to do. Again, William could have sworn his eyes flickered to where Will was sitting, but that was impossible. "No, Cadmus, I don't see. She's an illusion. She doesn't exist outside your head."

"She does exist, she's right here, and you're insulting her! Now, apologize properly while I go and get the stone to bring back Antioch."

"No, Cadmus, don't." Ignotus held on to his brother's jacket, "The stone is a trick, don't you see, it's a trick! It will bring you to ruin and then Death will take you for his own, just like he did with Antioch!"

"Antioch will be fine if you just let me go!"

"Antioch would never have died if he hadn't taken that wand, and you won't die if you just get rid of that stone!"

"I can't believe you, trying to keep Sarah and Antioch dead! Well I won't have it, I tell you, I won't have it!"

"They're already dead, you can't bring them back, Cadmus, it's impossible! You can't bring back the dead!"

Cadmus punched his brother. Ignotus was thrown to the ground and Cadmus fell on top of him. The Peverell's grappled with one another on the floor until finally Ignotus managed to push his brother off of him. He himself backed away to the front door.

"I see now," Ignotus said opening the door, his eyes brimming with tears, "I've lost two brothers, then."

"Get out of here!" Cadmus screamed, "Get out of my house!"

"Goodbye, Cadmus. I hope we will see each other again, someday." And Ignotus was gone.

That night, Cadmus and Sarah had their first fight.

"What are you talking about?" Cadmus said, "I love you. I will always love you no matter what."

"You're all I ever wanted, nothing more. I could lose every galleon I had and be happy as long as I had you."

"How can you say something like that? I would never—"

"No, you can't! You can't do that! You can't leave me again!"

"Then damn what's for the best! I must have you! I must always be with you!"

"Don't you walk out that door! Don't you dare leave!"

"SARAH! NO, SARAH, COME BACK! SARAAAAAAH!"

"I will follow you. No matter where you go. No matter where you are. I'll follow you everywhere."

Will could not take it any longer. As Cadmus tied the rope around his neck, Will followed him, his scythe inches from the man's back.

Cadmus tied the other end of the railings. As he climbed the railing to take his final jump, Will took a final act of sympathy. He plunged his death scythe into the man's back before he could feel the pain of a noose. Cadmus' memories streamed out and Will collected them all.

Finally, Cadmus fell, hanging with a peaceful look on his face.

"That was very kind of you," A voice said behind Will. Will turned around, brandishing his death scythe, but there was no one there. "Not driving him insane with the stone, I mean, but killing him painlessly. I didn't peg you as the sympathetic type, but maybe you felt guilty."

Will searched the area, trying to pinpoint where the voice was coming from, however it seemed to come from everywhere. "G-Grell?" Will asked, wondering if this was that man's idea of a joke, "Is that you?"

"I suppose I can't blame you entirely. Antioch and Cadmus both were heading towards their own downfall already. Why else would they request such ridiculous things from you?"

Will finally realized he recognized that voice, and the very idea chilled him to the bone. "I suppose someday," the voice said, "I'll come to forgive you. You are only doing your job after all. But as for now,"

Two human hands suddenly pushed on his chest and William fell over the balcony. Will had never been so scared in his life. Not because he thought he would die, a reaper could survive this fall easily. But because the voice belonged to Ignotus Peverell.

Three thoughts rang through Will's mind. 1) Ignotus had figured out how to fix and work the invisibility cloak, 2) he had modified it so that he was even invisible to reapers and 3) Ignotus himself had figured out how to see through the reapers invisibility.

A/N: Yes, Marvolo is the great great (lot of greats) great grandfather of one Lord Voldemort, and the Marvolo Gaunt we know and love was named after him.