Silvaticus
Chapter 2
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The alert was going off once again and Greyback was able to easily pin-point their location to some random forest in the middle of nowhere. As he apparated, he wondered who would be hiding all the way out here. Once his feet hit the snow he began moving. The only sounds he could hear was the crunching of snow under his shoes and his men talking excitedly amongst themselves.
The Snatchers came across a tent in the middle of a clearing and as they approached, the lights in the tent went out.
"Come out of there with your hands up!" said Greyback. "We know you're in there! You've got half a dozen wands pointing at you and we don't care who we curse!"
Greyback motioned for his men to go in and take them by force. After a couple of minutes of struggling, his men emerged with three figures.
"The girl; I've seen her somewhere before," thought Greyback.
The redhead was shouting to at his boys to let the girl go but Greyback had no intentions of doing that. Especially since he knew that he's seen these two before. Even if he was wrong, he knew he would be able to cash in on these truants if he was lucky.
Lately, some of his fellow Death Eaters have been feeling that a half-breed such as himself didn't deserved to be paid the full amount for some of his catches. Being manipulated out of the price of a couple of Mudbloods, blood-traitors, and truants was only a small annoyance. His growing frustration came from the lack of respect he was receiving.
He had very little, if any, respect amongst his fellow Death Eaters even though he's known most of them for over 20 years. His blood-boiled as he thought of how he was constantly treated by his 'equals'. He was finally brought out of his angry thoughts by the sound of the girl's voice pleading not to hear her little boyfriend.
"Your boyfriend's going to have worse than that done to him if he's on my list," Greyback said.
That's when he decided to take a closer look at the girl. She wasn't all that bad looking. Her hair was a bit of a mess and was a bit scrawny for his taste. But she was young. He usually liked them young.
Greyback thought, "The younger they were the softer the skin was."
"Delicious girl…What a treat…I do enjoy the softness of the skin," he said to the girl and received a mixed look of horror and disgust.
Scabior had the rest of the boys search the tent while he and Greyback checked their catches names on the list.
"Now, let's see who we've got," said Greyback as he leveled his wand to illuminate the black haired boys face and what he saw made him laugh.
"I'll be needing butterbeer to wash this one down. What happened to you, ugly?"
Greyback could feel his frustration growing when the boy didn't answer so he gave him a thump to the stomach and repeated himself.
"I said, what happened to you?"
"Stung," the boy finally said "been stung."
"Yeah, looks like it." replied Scabior.
"What's your name?" said Greyback ignoring Scabior.
The boy didn't seem to even think about it when he said, "Dudley. Vernon Dudley."
Greyback knew there was more to their story than these three were saying. The taboo doesn't just go off for any good reason. One of them had to have said the name of the Dark Lord.
As Scabior checked the first name, Greyback went on to question the ginger one who tried playing games by saying his name was Stan Shunpike. Though, Scabior was quick to mention that Shunpike had done a bit of work for them recently.
So, the red head tried for another, "Bardy. Bardy Weadly"
Weadly! Does he really think we're that stupid?
"A Weasley? So you're related to blood-traitors even if you're not a Mudblood. And lastly, your pretty little friend." he said turning to the girl.
All of the other Snatchers began leering and cheering Greyback on while Scabior told him to ease up.
"Oh, I'm not going to bite just yet. We'll see if she's a bit quicker at remembering her name than Bardy. Who are you, girly?"
"Penelope Clearwater," she said with the upmost certainty.
"What's your blood status?" asked Greyback trying to trip her up.
"Half-blood." she responded just as easily.
After discovering that the ginger was a Weasley and clearing the girl they moved onto the one with the deformed face once again. The boy's credibility seemed to check through though. The kid knew where the Slytherin Common Rooms and his father a ministry official.
Greyback knew he wouldn't get much for the lot so he had his boys tie up the three of them with the other prisoners while they checked the tent one more time. Then that's when they found it. The Sword that later became the last and final straw. Thinking back, the reason why he chose to defect wasn't the sword its. Sure, it was a lot of money but it's what that deranged woman did to him in order to get the sword back.
He should have just pocketed the sword and not reported it to the Malfoys. He only turned it in because he thought that they would reward him for it.
"All of the years of service. All of the wasted time. All the soldiers he lost from his pack were all because of Him. He could've had his own army by now and taken over the ministry himself. And for what? To be called a half-breed or a beast." Greyback thought looking back resentfully.
"The only reason why I joined them in the first place was to gain more soldiers for my army and I think I may have swayed in the past years. It's time I focused more on increasing the numbers in my pack again. He hasn't been holding up to his end of the bargain."
Greyback knew that he had made the right choice for himself as he stood there in front of number 12 Grimmauld Place. He was told to come alone. He knew that if he could fool You-Know-Who into accepting his services that it would be even easier with Dumbledor's fools. He had valuable information that they desperately needed but he wouldn't give it up without something in return. Abruptly, the door opened and was greeted by Lupin.
"Come in and go straight through," he said.
Greyback slipped through the crack in the door and waited for Lupin to close the door behind him.
Lupin turned to him and said, "Everyone's in the kitchen waiting. It's just through here."
With that, Greyback followed Lupin down the dimly lit narrow hallway and into a small doorway that he presumed was the kitchen. Once inside, he saw all of the faces of the people he had been hunting for nearly two decades staring him down in defiance.
"This should be fun," he thought as he took his seat.
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A/N:
So I was told recently by a reviewer that the story was a little confusing and then I realized they were right! I didn't tell you guys that I wasn't writing this story in order. The first two chapters are basically from the ending to the beginning. At the end of this chapter it catches up to current time. Sorry I didn't make that clearer before!
With this story, I'm using the book as an influence and timeline but it's not going to be concrete seeing as the pairing (Fenrir/Hermione) have to have a relationship somehow.
Let me know what you guys think! I can't wait to hear what you guys think of the new chapter. So be nice go review people! Or just go wish me a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Also, the new chapter of Hello Beautiful is now up too!
