They'd come for her, just like they said they would. Her body was on the floor, crumpled and broken, discarded like an old toy. It was hard to look at the body of someone you cared for, but even more when it was someone you loved. Someone who never gave up on someone, or let them down. Someone so nice, it was impossible to image someone hurting them.
Her eyes were open wide, fear mingled with defence still shining through them, hands where balled into fists with arms shooting off at odd angles. Her mouth was parted in a 'O' shape, as if the deaths spell had caught her off guard.
Remus fell to his knees next to her head, silent tears already falling. His careful readjusted her so her head was resting in her lap, he stroked her hair damp with her own blood, but he didn't care. Numbness had crept up on him, it didn't seem real. She couldn't be dead, she just couldn't. The sight of seeing her broken and lifeless broke him, and he couldn't stop the rest of the tears from falling. It was hard enough to lose Marlene, but now her. Gone from the world like a candle being blown out. Simple, quick and gone, a light that use to shine bright, put out.
If he noticed James and Sirius kneeing beside him, he didn't show it. All his attention was on her, taking her in, the feel of her skin that was losing its heat, the single spark of defiance left in her eyes.
"Remus..." Sirius' voice shook with the suppressed emotions, but Remus shook his head. He couldn't talk. What could he say?
"We need to go and tell the others, we need to move her." James voice came out in a whisper, but strong enough to make Remus turn his head and see the tear tracks on his cheeks. He turned back to her then. Every memory he had with her came back. All the fights, all the make ups. How they first go together, when he told her is secret. Graduation, dancing, going out to dinner. Crying over the deaths of friends, family.
"You'll be with Marly now." He whispered low enough that no one could hear. He laid a single kiss on her forehead, his lips hovering there a second longer then needed. The last feel of her skin against his lips. He took a breath at rattled his whole body.
"I love you Doe." He said quietly, standing up and lowering her hand unclenching it and laying over her chest, a silent gesture then turned unable to face looking at the body of the girl he loved, and always would in some ways.