Hello, my lovelies (is that weird?) turns out it's the last day of camp nanowrimo. Well, I guess I'll have to get my butt in gear if I want to do what I promised for once and finish this story! Only a few chapters left, I promise.
I only own the idea, not the characters or the world they live in.
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It was a mad race through the skies. Quickly made negotiations had Severus and Sirius making wide circles overhead as James and Lily raced towards the Snape's house for the alarm. Sirius thought he saw a streak of black cloth chase after them.
It was impossible to tell who the dark wizards were. Two of them caught up to Severus' old broom with ease, wands at the quickly dipped down just as one of them sent out a "crucio." The voice was feminine, harsh and familiar.
"Fuck off, Bella!" Sirius yelled over his shoulder, hugging close to Severus as the wind whistled past his ears. He pulled out his wand and whispered a shoddily aimed jelly legs jinx at the Death Eater closest to him. It missed, of course, but it gave him a second to think of something more effective. "Stupify!"
This time it hit his target hard in the chest, knocking her back off of her broom. The other dove to catch her, but as they disappeared through the dense clouds, two more appeared in their place.
Severus turned around and cut between them, blowing them further apart with a silent spell.
Sirius had no time to look at his boyfriend with wonder in his eyes because Severus seemed to be able to do wandless magic. It took seconds for the dark wizards to recover and get back on the boys' tail.
Sirius looked over his shoulder and raised his wand again to shoot off another spell, he noticed Bellatrix and the other wizard rise up out of the clouds on a single broom. Four against two.
Before he could shout a spell into the wind, Severus made a sharp turn left. The broom spasmed and groaned with the effort. When Sirius looked back, there were seven Death Eaters gaining on them. They had faster brooms, more experience. He and Severus might have had some luck just moments before, but it was unlikely it would last long enough to knock seven Death Eaters off their trail.
Sirius hoped desperately that James and Lily got to the alarm without any trouble.
Severus swung the broom around, so that they were facing the Death Eaters. Sirius couldn't see the look on his face, but Severus' entire body went rigid, he pulled out his wand and took aim. Sirius did the same.
"So we're fighting our way out of this. then?" Sirius asked.
Severus didn't answer. His focus was entirely upon the oncoming threat. The spell he cast was little more than a whisper, "sectum sempra," but it had a force as powerful as an Unforgivable. It blew the Death Eaters back, they screamed and held their limbs. They were too far away for Sirius to tell what the spell had done. He'd never heard it before, but with Severus' thing with reading, he figured he must have found it in some dusty old tome.
Sirius was curious, but before he could ask what happened, a new force pushed them back, far away from the Death Eaters. Sirius held tight to Severus as they were blown into an unruly somersault mid-air. Out the corner of his eye, Sirius saw more wizards and witches flying into the fray. Aurors, he hoped.
Once they settled into a calmer air current, Sirius saw that his hope was right. A flock of men and women on brooms went straight for the Death Eaters, only one came towards them. The man they met earlier on in the day, Frank.
"Are you two all right?" he asked.
"We're fine," Severus said.
"You kids did a good job, holding them off for this long."
"Right..." Sirius muttered. He wasn't really paying attention to Frank. In the distance, the Aurors fended off the Death Eaters, a mess of bright light and screaming. It looked like the Aurors were winning, but it was hard to tell when everyone wore the same dark robes.
"You can go down to your friends now, I think some of ours are waiting with them."
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The first thing that happened when they landed on solid ground once again was that Lily ran up and enveloped them both in a large hug. Severus nearly jumped, it had been years since Lily showed him any kind of affection, it was still new to him.
"Thank goodness you two are safe!" she exclaimed, pulling them in tighter. James looked on with a bemused smirk.
It was over. They survived.
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It's a short chapter, I think the next one will be longer, I'm better at writing fluff than I am at "action," just another thing to work on, I guess.
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