Story: Why don't you & I

Author: theherbflower

Chapter Two: Never Again

Playlist: Nightmare ~ Av7x. My Chemical Romance ~ Nanana. Sound off~ Trapt

"This meeting is called to order on the 17th of June in the year 1981 for Albus Dumbledore founder of the Order of the Phoenix and headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry by I, Alastor Ashlyn Moody" Moody barked out to the assembled group before him. "This meeting is called into being due to an emergency regarding upper divisions of the ministry being found of having been infiltrated by Voldemort's followers." Moody growled looking over at Dumbledore who was sitting quite calmly in a chair. "It has come to my attention that one Rolf J. Ackles head of international magical affairs is in fact deemed to be working for Voldemort. Certain un reveal able Intel have come forward indicating this accusation three months ago." he looked out over the crowd of order members looking for one face in particular which he found towards the back with a very unpleasant look on her face. "After careful deduction and a very quiet investigation, it has been confirmed that Rolf J. Ackles is in fact, a death eater."

The group before Moody inwardly gasped at the situation at hand. For an upper level official in the ministry of magic to have been confirmed a death eater was a death sentence. It made Voldemort one step closer to taking control, and nobody wanted that. Moody looked back up at his niece in the corner who was still glaring and sighed. "There will be a guard posted outside of the Ackles estate from now until a month hence to obtain intelligence regarding other suspected ministry officials of death eater activities. I will be assigning the first shift to Black and Ackles. Shift starts at 21:00." Moody barked over to the corner where his niece was. "Any other news?"

"There was an attack today." Sirius Black called out from the back corner. "Between the hours of 13:00 and 13:50."

"Black shut up!" Gwendolyn Ackles smacked him in the head.

"What do you mean there was an attack?" Moody growled at his protégé. "On who? And where?"

"I was requested as back up to watch Lily Evans-Potter while Gwendolyn went on an errand for her." Sirius replied "I was informed by the afore mentioned that while in the muggle market she felt that she was being watched. After Gwendolyn purchased what she had intended to buy she lured the watcher behind an alley way where she told me she stunned him and obliviated him."

"Is this true?" Moody demanded of his niece who was now glaring daggers at Sirius Black who looked quite unaffected by them.

"Yes Sir." Gwen growled out. "This is true."

"And why did you not report to me immediately afterwards?" Moody growled back at her. "Did you not think it was important to tell me that you were attacked?"

"We received the summons for a meeting just after I returned to the Potter home. We came strait here." she told him elbowing her partner in the stomach. "Of course I thought it important to inform you of activity in the Potter area. My mentors taught me better Sir."

"I want a word with you when this meeting is adjourned." Moody barked at her. "Anymore news that needs to be shared?" he asked the rest of the group assembled before him. "Good then. Meeting adjourned."

The group residing in the front room of the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix started to stand up and stretch before milling about and socializing. In the far left hand corner of the room sat a rather disgruntled and exhausted Remus John Lupin. In his right hand a glass of bourbon was clasped tightly, in the left a nearly out cigarette. The tired man sighed as the people around him milled about talking and catching up after the long days events. Remus quickly looked up and caught sight of his friends James and Sirius talking in hushed voices about something most likely the events that transpired near the Potter house hold that day. With a groan the aching Remus Lupin stood up and butted his cigarette before downing the contents of his bourbon glass and making his way over to where his friends were standing. Sirius had a nasty look on his face and in counter, James had a quite amused look on his.

"What's going on?" Remus inquired of his friends softly. "How's Gwen?" he asked Sirius who just rolled his eyes.

"Not you too Moony. All this crap about feelings is really starting to annoy me." Sirius rolled his eyes at him before turning to James. "I am not in love you stupid git. And if I were, it wouldn't be with the harpy herself."

"Don't call Gwen names." Remus snapped at his friend irritably. "And we've been trying to convince you that you do have feelings for her for quite a few years now Padfoot. Really just man up and accept them."

"I do freaking not!" Sirius protested to his friends. "This is madness!"

"You ratted her out to her uncle. Beat her to the punch." James supplied to his friend. "Lily told me you wore a hole in our parlor room floor."

Sirius growled at his friends.

"When will you idiots give this a rest?" Sirius snapped at them. "I don't have feelings for her!"

"They'll never give it a rest mate." came the fourth voice of Ted Tonks. "Because its for one, true; for two; we're all betting on it, and three; so obvious a blind man could see it." Ted Tonks smiled before clapping his cousin in law on the back happily. "Just admit it, might do you some good. I for one denied that I had feelings for Andy for the longest time, always telling people that they were nuts that she was a Slytherin and that I was Gryffindor and a muggle born. Look how far that went eh? A seven year marriage and a very beautiful daughter out of the deal. There really is no use ignoring what's the truth you know."

"Whatever." Sirius sighed at the three of his friends before him. "Think what you want."

"We will." Remus told him with a smile. "We do."

"We have since sixth year when we caught you calling her name out.." James was quickly silenced by his friends wand.

"I will remind this entire room of the whole thinking Snape looks hot while in drag debacle if you finish that statement ever again." Sirius growled at James who just smiled and kept mouthing over and over again what he was saying.

…scenechange…

I followed my uncle out of the front room of the headquarters of the order of the phoenix to a small back room where I knew I was going to be raked over the coals about not informing him strait away after the attack. If I had my way I wouldn't have told him at all. Stupid Black. I would make the stupid bastard pay for this one. It almost felt like I was headed back to my death sentence at the way my uncle was walking, but hell he's in trouble with me too! Didn't even indicate at all to me that he suspected my stupid bastard of a father of being a death eater! I mean really? What was he trying to prove by keeping me in the dark? The hallways slithered together quickly as we headed into the back of headquarters which was once Dumbledore's home himself. Before he took up his position as headmaster and no longer needed a homestead. I sighed as we reached the back room. My uncle, who was glaring at me, opened up the door and held it open for me. I stepped inside and walked strait to the window over looking the back yard where I could see Lily and Alice talking with Marlene McKinnon and Dorcas Meadows.

"What in the hell is wrong with you?" Uncle Al growled at me.

"What the hell is wrong with me?" I snapped turning around. "What about you! You suspected that bastard was a death eater and didn't even let me know! You kept me in the dark about it! Made me feel like a complete fool in front of the order members!"

"I did that for your safety Gwendolyn Rose! And you know it." he growled at me. "Now explain to me what happened?" he demanded of me. "With every single detail you remember."

"Ugh!" I sighed exasperated at him. "Black already told you!"

"I want to hear it from you Gwendolyn. Now."

"Lily wanted freaking muffins. So I like the good best friend I am, asked jerk wad to watch her so that I could go and procure said muffins for her. After a very long swelteringly hot walk to the muggle market two blocks away I felt like I was being watched. I seen a dark shape duck behind a canned vegetable isle." I sighed sitting down on the settee next to the window. I rolled my eyes and continued. "I made my way through the store, got the rest of what I was sent to get and paid for them at the check out. Then I led whoever was following me in the opposite direction so that nobody would know where James and Lily are stationed. I ducked behind an alley way three and a half blocks away from the market and hid behind a trash bin where I waited my stalker out. I was right that it was a death eater as the person following me rounded the corner and looked around rather dumbly for me. He kicked a box that had a starving animal and moved to kill it when I jumped up from behind the trash bins and asked him if he was looking for someone. He sent the death curse at me which I dodged and countered with a stunner. Then I stunned him, gathered my stuff up and walked back to the Potter house."

Uncle Al just sighed at me before pulling me into a hug. Which was odd as Uncle Al wasn't known to show affection. I've been living with him since the death of my mother in my sixth year at Hogwarts. I hugged back and relaxed into the hug. Hell if he was offering up one of my favorite things I was taking it, no questions asked.

"I'm just glad that your safe." he whispered in my ear softly. "Cant imagine loosing you pumpkin."

"Hey I'm a good fighter. I wasn't about to let some stupid death eater take me down." I told him with a smile. "And if I didn't get Lily her muffin back to her she'd probably bring me back from the dead just to kill me for it." I chuckled at him.

"Pregnant women are a nightmare." Uncle Al told me before pulling back and smiling at me. "Your mom was horrible with you. Demanding cookies on a regular basis. I started having my house elf make whole batches for her when she came over to visit." he chuckled. "Always the same, Peanut Butter and…"

I cut him off.

"Chocolate chip. I know. You've told me a million times." I grinned. "Just like you tell me about how I used to crawl around and tell people I was a pumpkin."

"Because you adored the color orange." he smiled. "Or that you used to swear your name was Rose because you hated the fact that your first name sounded like some disease. Or so you thought."

"Still do." I smiled. "Though the only two people in the whole world that can get away with it are you and Black."

"Ahh yes Black. When are you two ever going to get a move on? This whole love dance is getting rather ridiculous pumpkin."

I groaned and buried my head in his chest. Stupid people who wont accept that there are no feelings or love dances between Black and I.

"Uncle Al!" I protested. "Its never gonna happen. Just get over it already."

"You chose to believe whatever you want Pumpkin." he chuckled. "But I know you better. And there is no use lying to me."

"I just don't want to make the same mistakes mum did." I sighed. "I don't want to fall head over heels in love only to fall on my face. I love mum, and I miss her everyday." I told him feeling my voice waver caking itself with tears. "But I dislike the fact that she chose him. He was her doom. And I don't want to follow in her footsteps."

"Who says you will?" Uncle Al asked lifting my chin up so that he could look in my eyes with his. "I hated your father from the moment he came home with you mother. There was something evil and twisted about him. The difference is I like Black. He's a good match. You both work better together then all of the rest of my Auror's. So do yourself a favor and stop thinking he's your father. Because I don't sense that from him. He's a good man Gwendolyn, and I think if you just stopped letting your mind do the talking and start letting your heart everything would be just fine."

"I dunno Uncle Al." I sighed. "I don't think its ever going to happen. So I'm telling you not to get your hopes up."

"And I'm telling you not to discredit the whole on just the one thing." he smirked at me, his large eye spinning around happily in its socket. "By the way we have a visitor." he told me before he yelled towards the door, "Come in Black. I expect you're here to hear your orders for this evening?"

"Yeah. And Dumbledore sent me to fetch you, told me it was something important." Black told him before walking into the room.

"Right." Uncle Al barked at him. "Now listen up. Gwendolyn yes I know you don't want to do this but you are the one person who knows the Ackles estate the best since you did grow up there. I want you there at 21:00 on the dot and I want a report from both of you at 07:00 in the office. At 08:30 I want a debriefing in my office. After that you have the day off of work. I want the same pattern repeated for four nights. Am I understood?" he barked at us pulling out of the hug. "Now I shall go see what Dumbledore wanted." he nodded at the both of us before ducking out of the room.

I looked up at Black who was watching me as if in some weirdo trance.

"Black why are you staring at me?" I asked him with a glare. "Its rather creepy if I don't say."

"You and Mad-eye were just hugging!" he stammered at me.

"Mad-eye is my uncle. And the only family I have left. Of course we were hugging." I told him irritably. "Is there something wrong with that?"

"No." he sighed to me. "Just odd. I've never seen Mad-eye show any type of affection for anyone. It caught me off guard."

"Well now you know my uncle has a soft side. If I were you I wouldn't go telling people about it, might get you into a load of trouble." I smirked before walking to the door.

"I wouldn't." He smirked following me out of the room. "Ready for our new mission?"

"No." I rolled my eyes at him. "Watching my sicko father, definitely not one of my more favorable things to do."

"You get to take down said sicko father…"

"True." I grinned at him. "I'll make him pay for everything he's done. And I'll prove to the world that he killed my mother."

"We love." he slung his arm around my shoulder.

I looked up at him with a glare.

"You have three seconds after I finish talking to remove your arm or I will beat the crap out of you Black."

"Ahh sweet Gwendolyn, always so negative aren't we?"

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"Why does it have to be so bloody cold?" I asked Black with a whine. "And why in the fucking hell are we twenty feet off of the ground in a damned tree?"

"Because we're less noticeable up here." he replied to the last first. "And because you never wear anything more than a long sleeved undershirt for warmth. Its not my fault your nuts and wont dress properly for over night missions in the rain."

"Yeah but we're in more freaking danger up here!" I whined. "And shut up Black. I can wear as little cloth as I want."

"Oh please." he rolled his eyes. "And if you want you can get naked, I promise I wont be bothered by it. In fact It just might warm me up personal…" I elbowed him in the gut. "Ow woman! Why are you always freaking hurting me?"

"Because your always a fucking git! And stop calling me woman!" I snapped at him. "I will not tolerate you stupid arrogant pig headed chauvinistic ways, I'm not every other idiot witch in the world who find you what was it Marlene called you, 'Oh so dreamy'" I faked a swoon.

"Whatever Gwendolyn." he smirked at me. "I am dreamy, you are just to stubborn to accept it."

"Sure Black. Whatever you want to believe." I rolled my eyes. "What time is it watch keeper?"

"05:38 in the morning."

"Still another hour." I sighed. "This sucks." I whined. "And its ffing cold!"

"Why is it you transverse between three different main curse words? Fucking, freaking, and ffing?"

"I don't know." I told him with a bewildered look. "Its whatever comes out of my mouth. You should talk Mr. Tactless."

"I am not Tactless!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are freaking too!"

"I am not! You harpy!"

"I'm not a harpy you baboon! And yes you fucking are! You told Lily she looked fat six months pregnant; you told Dumbledore he should wear dresses more often during an order meeting and were completely serious! You are tactless and stubborn to admit it."

"Shrew!" he snapped at me with an angry look on his stupid scruffy face. "You're the shrewdest person I've ever known!"

"I am not!"

"Are so!"

"Whatever you baboon, I am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am freaking not!"

"Are freaking too!"

"Not!"

"Too!"

We glared at each other after that.

"Well, well, well." a voice below us drawled. "Look at this, two fighting birdies in a tree."

I looked down quickly only to find the tree we were in surrounded by death eaters. Great. Just fucking great!

"This is all your fault Black!"

"Is not! Its your fault for whining all the damned time!"

"If you hadn't started to fight with me we wouldn't be in this situation."

"You're the one who started to fight with me."

"I am not! It was you!"

"You."

"No you!"

"Can we please stop the childish squabbling. You both might as well come down from there and get this over with." the voice called up at us. "Save a little time."

"Burn in hell death eater." I spat down at the person addressing us. "Why the fuck would we listen to you shit faces?"

"Apparating on three?" Sirius whispered at me. "Give me your hand I'll do it. Keep your wand aimed at them."

"At them?" I asked him exasperatedly lacing my fingers with his. "There is over a dozen of them. How can I point my wand at all of them?"

"Just come down Ackles, Black. Save your selves the pain of being knocked down from there."

"Fuck you!" I shouted down to them. "I'd rather die with the force of ten thousand burning suns that do what you want. So go get your self fucked!"

"I mean it Ackles. We were told not to harm you, but so help me if you don't get down here with Black this instant I'll use force."

"Why aren't we apparating?" I whispered at Black who had a horror struck look on his face.

"They're put up anti-apparating wards up." he gulped out. "We're stuck."

"What do you mean we're stuck? That's a twenty foot drop Black! We're gonna die."

"So lets go down calmly and then fight like there's no tomorrow." he told me with solemn eyes. "Its really the only option we have."

"Fine." I sighed feeling the pit of my stomach drop out. "Wingardium Leviosa?"

"Yeah. On the both of us. Scoot closer and put your arms around my neck. I'll float us down to them."

"Alright." I told him doing what he said. With a swish and flick of his wand we were gliding slowly down to the earth and quite certainly our deaths. "Hey Black?" I asked him quietly.

"Yeah?" he whispered back. "What is it?"

"If I'm gonna die tonight," I broke off looking up at him. His face was paler than normal, but considering our circumstance… "I'm glad it will be with you. You may make me angrier than anyone I've ever known, but you're a good person. And its an honor to fight and die with you."

He grinned at me as we reached the ground.

"Me too Gwendolyn. Me too."

The death eaters surrounding us all wore they're skeleton masks for accept the one addressing us who just turned out to be Lucius Malfoy. A known and confirmed death eater and trusted member of Voldemort's inner circle. I gulped and held my wand out high turning my back to Black who did the same to me so that we were fighting back to back.

"Well its nice that you two buffoons listened to common sense. Now lets just take a walk inside, come along." he pointed towards my fathers estate. "Just walk."

"I would rather die than do what you want Malfoy. I thought you'd have gotten that by now shit face." I spat at him. "Ready Sirius?" I asked behind me.

"As I'm ever going to be."

"Stupefy." I shouted sending a stunner out towards Malfoy, and a battle ensued.

I ducked a jet of dark purple light and sent a few more stunners at some of the death eaters swarming around us. I had seven on me and I had my shield up. I stunned two of them before a stinging hex hit me from behind. I whirled around to see Sirius ten feet away with four death eaters all battling with jets of green and purple lights. I spun back around and stunned another death eater quickly before ducking a jet of green light and avoiding a stunner. I felt another stinging hex hit my right calf hard but I held against the pain and kept fighting. It was ten minutes before I managed to get another stunner at another death eater who fell to the earth quickly. Using my shield I made my way over to where Sirius was fighting and once again stood at his back shooting stunners and stinging hexes at my quarry. Then with the flash of an instant the battle stopped at the same time that I felt a searing unbearable pain start in my abdomen. I felt myself fall back towards Sirius and sink to the ground. I reached for the spot that I felt pain from only to pull back a bloody hand. I felt the world go dark and reality slip away from me.

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Authors Note: So there be chapter two :P good stuff eh? Lots a fighty deathy stuff. Cheers and good night! For me at least, thf

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