Restrained
"What should we do with them?" Andre turned to his companions, nodding at the three restrained aurors. Antonin looked around the barren landscape. "We can't interrogate them here, we need a secure location."
"Do you think they even know anything?" Rodolphus asked, watching the female fumbling around with the restraints stealthily.
While Karkaroff and Rosier debated the subject, Rodolphus watched the woman as she fumbled around. He caught the moment something akin to an idea flashed in her eyes so when she began whispering to her companions Rodolphus was ready. "Avada Kedavra."
"Rodophus what-?" Igor sputtered.
"To avoid accidents."
Controlled
In the end it was always every man for himself. When the end came there were choices to be made. Some went into hiding, others found a fight to the death. The less well known were able to keep a low profile and not become targets. There was also Lucius Malfoy's way: repent everything and claimed to have been under the Imperius curse.
Jack Avery had never considered Malfoy's way until the aurors caught up with him. Then all that remained was fear. Fear controlled his mind, body, every ounce of sanity. And he betrayed everything he'd every stood for.
Defined
The formula had been defined the night before in some haze of overworked epiphany. All Karkaroff remembered was everything falling into place a couple of hours after Snape had joined him and Ivan in the lab. Maybe they should have asked him to help earlier…
Walking into the lab the next morning, Igor found a rather downcast Ivan standing beside a table where Snape had spread out various notes, potion flasks, and an assortment of unpleasant-looking insects. "What's he doing?"
Ivan huffed. "Apparently, the damn perfectionist wants to define every parameter of the formula and test them before we resume."
Resolved
Spats between Rodolphus and Antonin were fairly rare; both were willing to act professionally if nothing else around each other in all situations. But there was no denying that Rodolphus wanted to take command of an increasing amount of missions and this was the very thing that seemed to frustrate and irritate Antonin the most. "He's a politician, not a fighter! Now is not the time to experiment!" Antonin would often complain to an uncomfortable-looking Lucius, who had no desire of getting in the middle of his friends' spats. Despite that, very few Lestrange-Dolohov clashes were resolved without Malfoy's involvement.
Unlimited
Tom Riddle had always had a dream of possessing unlimited power. The idea of being undefeatable excited him, making him shiver giddily all over from the inside. His powerless childhood at the orphanage had starved him for control, for respect. He knew that power would give him both, and in turn, power constituted of both. At Hogwarts, Tom did a lot of reading, his mind constantly making notes of what might help him to gain the power he desired. He finally came to the conclusion that immortality was one way to have ultimate power. And the way to immortality: horcruxes.