Lisa: Sorry, haven't been able to write for five days, been over my friends house. How one night turned to five days I will never know. Lucky for me I've known her for fifteen years and I come prepared for that sort of thing.

Heather: I know what that's like...

Lisa: Yeah... You'll stay over there for weeks. Like a black hole... just sucks you in...

Heather: I do not stay there for weeks... just a week.

Lisa: Riiiiiiight...

Voldemort's Destruction

Andy walked out of their apartment with a sad look on her face. The Marauders and the Marauderetts have been out there for over an hour waiting. They told Andy and Lily what happened when they came back. Andy immediately went in there to comfort him.

Laura had kindly agreed to reverse the spell as amusing as it was this was not the time for any of them to break out in song and dance. The spell may have been meant to spread some cheer, make people smile but there were some things a show tune couldn't fix. So when she came back they just sat in the hallway, some of them fell asleep since it was now technically night.

Andy cleared her throat as she stepped into the hallway and looked around. Heather was leaning against the wall with a deck of cards and flicking them into the plant across from her, she stopped when she saw Andy. Lily and James were in each others arms, Lily had fallen asleep but James was awake and stroking her hair. When he noticed the female werewolf he nudged his girlfriend and she looked up. Peter was sitting on the floor fraying the edge of his robes and chewing on his bottom lip, he stopped biting his lip but continued to keep his hands busy when she entered. Now Laura and Sirius, was a bit of an awkward situation. Both of them had fallen asleep, Sirius first then Laura, sometime in her sleep she had fallen over and now her head was lying on Sirius's chest. It reminded Andy of their school days when the two were a couple.

After she cleared her throat once again the two woke up and looked around, embarrassed by the situation they were in. "Sorry... Didn't mean too..." Laura said sitting up and placing her back firmly against the wall.

"Quite alright..." Sirius mumbled and crossed his arms across his chest. "So Andy, any news on Moony?"

She shook her head and took a seat next to Heather. "He's barley talking... Urg, why does all this shit have to happen at once?" She asked referring to his father, the job and now his dying sister.

"Because life blows." Heather sighed.

"You sure you couldn't get him to say anything? Or he didn't mumble anything you missed..." James asked sitting up straighter as Lily took some of her weight off him.

"I tried James, he's not talking, but if ya fancy a go..." Andy trailed off and motioned her hand toward the door of their home.

"Oh, I dunno if I should. You can usually get anything out of him." He said.

"I wish I could go down to that office and show them a thing or two, show them that werewolves aren't the worst of their worries." Sirius growled. "Then go find his daddy, beat a little bit of sense into the git."

"I'll give you a hand there." Peter said. "You don't mess with the Marauders."

"Got that straight." James sighed.

Lily looked over to her friend and hesitated before speaking. "Andy, did he say anything? Anything at all?"

She let out a breath slowly as she fell back against the wall. "He babbled about how it was his entire fault for a bit, I shot those dead, or I hope I did. Not the first time somethin' like that has come up. He uh, he said that his entire family is leaving all over again. Told him it wasn't true, he didn't respond. I kinda just hugged him after that... he cried..." She said.

"Has to be hard." Sirius said remembering how his family was toward him.

"It is... losing someone you love..." Laura said thinking back.

"I wish there was something we could do to help." Lily said leaning her head on James's shoulder.

James shook his head. "There isn't, we can't pretend to know what he's going through, we can't stop him from thinking things, we just have to let him know we're here for him. And I'm pretty sure he knows that."

"He does." Sirius said. "He has to know."

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In St. Mungo's hospital the young blue eyed woman sat in her bed, her father right by her side. She was visibly weakening; she was pale as death and had dark circles around her sunken in eyes. Her lips were turning blue and her bones looked like they were bursting out of her waxy skin. No one would guess she was once a youthful, hyper, happy girl. But through all this she managed to keep a smile on her face and keep talking.

"Dad... I wish you would go talk to Remus." She said in a hoarse voice.

He shook his head. "Darling, you know I can't do that... I don't even know why you want something like him around. Honestly it's a bit disturbing to have a..." he stopped himself and looked up at Charlotte fearfully. "I – I mean..."

She sat up a little. "Oh my God... what were about to say? Were you about to say werewolf? I can't believe it, Remus was right about you. You don't care about him at all, the only reason you talk to him is because you're forced to. You really do hate him."

"Well darling, who wouldn't? He's a nice lad I suppose but he's a dark creature, a menace to our society. They shouldn't be here."

Charlotte looked at him in disgust. "So this is the reason we never went back? This is the reason you kept me from my mum, brother and sister? All because of your prejudice and hatred for your own son?"

"He's not my son, my son would be human."

"Your son is your son and you should accept him for who he is, not what he is. Besides, it's your fault Greyback bit him in the first place." She said glaring at him with fire in her tired eyes. "If you hadn't pissed him off none of this would have happened."

"Don't you dare blame this on me." He said clenching his teeth.

"But it was, you were the one who insulted him, I know you didn't mean too but it was you. And you know what Remus didn't hate you for it; he still loved you after it." She said shaking her head. "Why couldn't you still love him...?"

The looked away and stood up. " Charlotte, you don't understand."

"What is there to understand?" She asked. "You left and you took me with you and you took me away from my family to be with you." It never really all occurred to her, not until now, all the horrible things her father had done. All the lies he fed her, now after being reunited and talking with Remus, her mother and sister did she realize what a git he actually was. "You would have taken Daina too, but her age prevented it. You would have just left mum and Remus. They would never have made it on their own, thank Merlin for Daina."

"I couldn't let him spoil my reputation; I have an image to keep." He said with a soothing voice. He was trying to make her see things from his point of view.

"Oh and abandoning your family makes your image so much better?" She asked.

"Darling – "

"Leave, I don't want anything more to do with you and your lies and prejudice. Remus was right about you, mum was right, Daina was right. Everyone was right, you only care for yourself, and you don't care about anybody or anything." After her short speech her voice was beginning to give away from all the talking she was doing. This only further proved her point, if he truly loved her then he would have told her to stop talking it wasn't helping or he would have offered something to drink for it.

He straightened up and turned on his heal and left the room. Charlotte was left behind staring at the wall, her emotionless façade didn't last long, soon she was crying. She didn't know why, she was glad to be rid of the evil man she called father but it also tore her heart open.

She wasn't sure how long she was left alone until there was a knock at her door. She let out a muffled come in and she dried her eyes quickly looking up, the door opened and a short woman walked in with a scarf still lingering around her neck, she was older then herself but still youthful. She had bright blue eyes and blond hair.

"Daina..." She said as her sister took a seat on the edge of her bed.

"I heard what you did to father, one of the healers, they didn't mean to eaves drop they were coming in to check on you and they heard. He told me, and I can't tell you how happy I am that you finally saw it. But I'm so sorry it had to happen this way." Daina said softly.

"I'm not, I'm glad I was able to tell the git off before I die." Charlotte said with a smile.

Daina shook her head. "No, you're not going to die."

"Yes I am..." She replied. "I know it, I've accepted it. I'm so incredibly happy that before I go I was able to see my family once again. You've all turned out so great, I'm so glad that you've all managed, and that Rem went to Hogwarts!" She exclaimed as best she could with her failing voice.

"He's so upset you know." Her sister replied. "I got an owl from his friends not too long ago. They said he wouldn't speak to anybody and he's crying... it's just horrible. He won't even speak to Andromeda."

"I want him to come back."

"But he won't, he doesn't want to see this."

"I want him back." Charlotte said. "He's my baby brother, we were best friends and I love him so much. I want to see him one last time."

"I'll see what I can do." Daina said.

"Oh and please, I want my funeral before Christmas, rush it if you have too but I don't want it anywhere after the holidays. I don't need any of you worrying."

Daina looked confused. "How are you so sure you'll...?"

"I know, trust me, I won't last the rest of the week." Charlotte said with a sad smile.

This worried Daina though, it worried her because it was Thursday, and the week wasn't that long anymore. "Alright, I'll see what I can do." She murmured.

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Remus sat in his room on him and Andy's bed. His back up against the backboard and one leg pulled up while the other dangled off the edge. Andy had jet a little while ago, he was thankful she didn't send anyone in to 'comfort' him, he didn't need it. He just needed to rest, and to think. Maybe if he tried hard enough this would all go away. Maybe if he got hold of a time turner he could go back in time and change things but he knew that wasn't possible.

He couldn't return to his normal life now. Now that he knew his sister had died, now that his father returned and now Remus knew for a fact he truly did despise him. Nothing was going to be the same.

As he got lost in his thoughts he was roughly pulled out of them by a large crash on the side of the building. At first it sounded like an earthquake but it was over as quick as it began and another one hit. Remus bolted up off the bed and ran too the door, he was met halfway by James who had come in for him.

"James! What's goin' on!?" He cried as he met him in the kitchen.

James shook his head and they jogged back out to the hallway. "Dunno, but I think its death eaters. Think they're attacking the building."

"Why would they attack here?"

"For the muggles maybe? The muggle borns? I dunno." James said and they reached the hallways to see all of them with their wands pulled out looking around.

"Is everyone okay?" Remus asked as he saw everyone on their guard.

"For now, yeah." Sirius said looking around. "We should try and find them."

"Shouldn't we call someone?" Laura asked with a panicked look on her face, here eyes wide and scared.

"Like who? The Order?" Heather cried with a forced laugh. "Wake up, Lar, who the hell are we?"

They heard screams in the building and a man screaming his hate for muggles. "Oh yeah," Lily said looking around trying to decipher where the screams were coming from. "Defiantly a Voldemort attack."

"Then let's go, try and find them." Andy said. "Two groups, four and four."

"Great, okay" James said and looked around the hall at everyone. "Okay, um, Sirius, Andy, Laura and Pete you go that way." James pointed to one end of the hall. "Take the upper floors, the rest of us will go this way and take the bottom ones."

"Sounds like a plan." Andy said and the two split up to go their separate ways.

"Hey!" Sirius yelled out as he turned around one last time to James's group. "Good luck, mate." He said and James nodded.

"Thanks, you too."

"Thanks." Sirius replied and they went to go investigate.

James wandered down the stairs onto the floor below them and had a look around. It looked like most of the people had cleared out of the building; either that or they were dead. James prayed it wasn't the latter; he didn't need that on his conscience. They made no noise as they walked down the hall with their wands drawn and ready.

"Where are they...?" Lily moaned.

"I dunno..." James said. "Waiting I guess."

"For what?" Lily asked him looking up.

"Us." He replied.

Heather let out a sigh, she was in the back, had killer aim when she had to turn around and shoot. She always took up the back. She just hoped no one decided to sneak up behind her and jinx her while her back was turned. That wouldn't exactly be fair, but wince where were death eaters ever fair?

"You guys hear that?" Remus asked.

"Hear what?" Heather said looking around for the thing Remus heard.

"Nothing, there's no noise. No people, no talking, no pets, no nothing." Remus sighed. "Everything's still."

"Maybe they got out in time." Lily hoped.

"Merlin I hope so." He said. "Heather, be on your toes."

"Already am."

"Bloody hell." James breathed and out of the corner of his eye he saw the familiar death eater hood creep out from a corner. "Stupefy!" He cried knocking the death eater out. "There all around us! Get ready to fight!" He yelled as all the Voldemort supporters jumped out of the rooms, corners and every other hiding place.

"Blimey!" Heather cried as she was forced against a wall from all the spells pushing her back. "Protego!"

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Elsewhere in the building none of the commotion was heard, they were already two floors above them. Sirius was leading the group, his wand at the ready, his Auror training taking over for him. The others behind him weren't doing so well. Andy was the best, with here werewolf abilities she was able to be stealthy, being smart, for once in Sirius's opinion, she took off her chain wallet. She was actually being quiet. Laura and Peter on the other hand were a bit in a nervous wreck. Laura could be brave and powerful in a full blown battle, but while she was in a quiet room, not knowing where the bad guys were she was a little jumpy. Peter was breathing hard, he had gotten considerably better at spell and jinxes over the years but he was loud when he walked.

"Sirius, where do think they are?" Andy asked.

"I dunno, but I bet they're close." He said.

"How d'you know?" Laura asked looking at him with fearful brown eyes.

"I just do."

"I hope they come out soon, I don't like this whole secreti –" Peter said but was sharply cut off mid sentence. Sirius turned around only to see a solid wall made by some sort of spell.

"Laura!" Andy cried and ran to it putting her hands up on it. "Laura, can you hear me!"

"Sh." Sirius said and put his hand over her mouth. "Damn, they're everywhere..." he mumbled. "Run, c'mon we have to run!" he said and grabbed her hand and he ran down the hallways dragging her behind her.

"Is it just me or does this seem familiar?" Andy said between breaths as she ran. "Ya know, you draggin' me down a dark corridor, being chased by some unseen evil. You're not going to snog me again are you?"

"'Course not." Sirius said. "Just keep running, we're not strong enough to take them all on now, there's a lot of them."

They turned the corner and opened up a door to run up a flight of stairs. "This new Sirius," Andy said as she was flung around the banister to start climbing them, he had still not relinquished his hold on her. "Kinda like him, shows you're not a complete and total git."

"Oh I'm insulted." Sirius said as they arrived at the next floor. He turned around and locked the door securely with his wand. "Come on that outta buy us some time."

"What'd you do?" She asked looking at the door.

"Charmed the lock, they can't get in unless they break it down."

Andy sighed. "Well that won't be too hard... urg! Sirius we can't just keep running! We have to fight them!"

"Yeah, eventually, but not now. There's too many."

"So we're leaving them there for Laura and Wormy to take care of!? They'll die!" Andy said as she followed Sirius down the corridor and to another flight of stairs she presumed.

"No, I'm trying to think. If we took this flight of stairs down then we could probably meet up with them on the other side." Sirius said, he may be a bit thick and a joker at times, but when he was placed in a situation where he had to live up to his name and be serious he could. He's been told during Auror training he had amazing potential to be Head Auror.

"And when we met up with them we can fight the death eaters they ran into on the other side and then bring it back up and take care of these wankers." Andy said with a grin. "Sirius I love you."

"Feelings mutual." Sirius said as they ran down the stairs. Only when they reached the bottom they weren't met up with Laura and Peter. They were met up with some very angry looking people in black robes and masks.

"Crud." Andy said as she raised her wand.

"Stupefy!" Sirius yelled as he began the battle.

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"Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no..." Laura repeated as she looked at the wall in front of her. "We're stuck, stuck away from Andy and Sirius, what are we going to do?"

Peter looked around and tried to think of a plan. "Okay, let's try and find the others. They went downstairs right? So maybe if we go down there we can find them."

"Pete... I think we should move." Laura said as she eyed the darkness around her. "Like now."

"Think you're right." He said and the pair walked down the hallway at a fats pace with their wands ready in front of them.

"They could be anywhere." Laura said as they reached the stairs to go down.

Peter tried to open the door but he couldn't. "S'locked." He stared and pointed his wand at it. After unlocking the door he opened it to be faced with a battle scene. "Oh no..." He said and saw Andy and Sirius fighting on the stairwell.

"We have to help them!" Laura cried as she jumped forward and began firing spells at the intruders.

The battled raged on for several minutes as the four younger Order of the Phoenix members fought. The death eaters weren't many, each one of them had tow or three and that they could handle. Especially Sirius who was trained to fight more then one opponents at once.

"Laura?" Andy asked as she noticed the familiar brown haired girl fighting along side of her.

"Hi." She said before firing a spell.

Andy looked around and spotted Peter down the stairs a little bit, as she was fighting she managed to creep up them. "Do you know where the others are?" She asked Laura.

"No, we were – STUPEFY – going to find them but then we ran into you two on the stairwell." Laura said. "Good thing we did too."

"I'll say." Andy said as she clotheslined one of the death eaters who had lost their wand and was running to get it back.

Sirius finished off the last of them and he looked around. "Right... maybe we should try and stick together a little better..." He said breathing hard from the short battle.

"Wow, wonderful conclusion." Andy said sarcastically. "So where too? Try and find the others? Maybe they ran into some death eaters as well." She suggested.

The Auror in training shook his head. "No, James can take care of himself, besides he has Remus with him. Kid's a genius." Sirius said. "Let's just try and go up a few levels there might be people trapped up there, not all of them are magical." He said.

"Oh my God, new Sirius is awesome." Laura said.

"I know, right?" Andy grinned as they all ran up the flights of stairs.

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Downstairs Remus had fought off the various death eaters and he was standing in the doorway of the building. They had gotten several people out, they were muggles and now some ministry officials were altering their memories of the incident. He had seen several go up to the top floors to try and met up with his friends. He hoped they were alright, but it was just a small attack. Not many deaths, but the thing that killed him was the fact there were deaths.

The building was almost completely destroyed. The two top floors were utterly blown apart and the few ones under it, including their own floor, wouldn't be livable for a few months until it was rebuilt. No one would want to live here anymore anyways, or at least no magical people. It was because of the thing that floated above the ruined building. The dark mark.

James walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "You okay, Moony?"

"M'fine, James..." Remus said not taking his eyes off the apparently interesting spot on the wall he was staring at across the street.

"Look, I'm sure they're all fine."

"I know..."

"Mr. Lupin?" An Auror asked as he walked up to the two boys.

Remus blinked as he tore his eyes away and looked at the man. "That's me."

"Mr. Lupin I'm sorry to tell you this, especially in this crisis –" The Auror began but was cut off by Remus.

"Just tell me!" He said closing his eyes and gritting his teeth.

"I'm sorry Sir, but your sister Charlotte has died."

Lisa: Lets all have a moment of silence... moment... moment... moment... OKAY! Done! So glad I never became too attached to her character.

Steph: Tell them the good news.

Lisa: Yes! I got a deviantART account. So if anyone has an account or just wants to check out some of my pictures, I have a few to go with this story and more coming, go use the link on my profile and say hi!

Heather: Does anything else have to be said...?

Lisa/Steph: (shrug)

Lisa: Probably when I started but not now... I dun remember...