"Next." Rebecca said as she turned back to the counter and saw Randall smiling at her.
"Hey Randy. What can I getcha?"
"Vanilla frappuccino." He said and got out the money. "I met your boyfriend." He said and she took his money and gave him a small confused look.
"Pardon? My boyfriend?"
"Yeah, Remus or something came by to see if you changed your mind about The Dive and he was there."
"Huh." She said with a nod and gave him back his change.
"If I had known you had a boyfriend-."
"I wasn't actually aware I had a boyfriend." She said.
"So he isn't your boyfriend?" he asked as he went over to the other counter as she started to make his drink.
"Well not technically."
"So that means you're still single right?" He asked and she raised an eyebrow at him.
"I feel like you have been avoiding me." He asked as he leaned against the counter and brushed his hair out of his face.
"Why would I avoid you?"
"I've been wondering the same thing."
"I haven't been avoiding you Randy." She said with a small smile.
"Well how about we go out to dinner tonight then? Since you are technically single and aren't avoiding me." He said and she poured his drink in to his cup.
"I am actually busy tonight." She said and he nodded.
"Well how about tomorrow night?"
"Not now Randy, I am still figuring out things with Remus alright?"
"Alright then, well if you change your mind I am always free." He said and took the drink from her and gave her a smile and a wink before heading out of the café and she watched him leave before going back to help another customer.
"Tell me Remus, I wasn't aware that you were my boyfriend." She said as she walked up to him before training and he looked at her surprised.
"Are you mad?" He asked and she crossed her arms over her chest.
"A little ticked yes." She said and he looked around at Sirius and James off to the side talking with Peter.
"Can we talk somewhere else?" He asked and she looked at the others and walked out of the room and Remus followed.
"Remus why would you tell Randy that you were my boyfriend?"
"Why are you and Randy talking?"
"You can't tell me who I can and can't talk to Remus." She snapped. "He came in to my work today and told me I have a boyfriend I didn't know about. Did you ask if I wanted to be your girlfriend? No." She said and saw hurt written on his face which he covered up.
"Fine then." He said and she looked questioningly at him.
"Fine then what?"
"I'm done." He said and turned to leave.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm walking away I thought that was obvious." He muttered and walked out the door and she stared after him and glanced around the room and stepped outside and saw more Order members had arrived and Remus was no where in sight. She saw Sirius off to the side smirking at her and before Rebecca could take a step she heard Lily's cheerful voice.
"Hey Becky-." Lily said as she walked up.
"Not now Lily." Rebecca snapped and walked across the room to Sirius leaning against the wall by himself and he raised an eyebrow at her as she walked up to him.
"Are you proud of yourself?" She snapped.
"Actually a little." He said and gave a small chuckle.
"You are an asshole you know that Sirius?"
"You were never good enough." He said and looked across the room. "Now if you will excus-." He said and she slapped him hard across the face and the entire room got quiet.
"I hate you Sirius Black." She spat and turned on her heel and walked past everyone to the door.
"Walcott." She heard Moody yell before she stepped out and apparated back to her apartment.
She walked in to her apartment and slammed the door behind her and looked around. Kimba poked his head through the bars of the railing above and came down the stairs as she sat down on the couch and he jumped in to her lap. She took deep breaths trying to hold back tears as she roughly pet Kimba to the point where he squirmed out of her lap and walked away from her and sat on one of the opposite chairs staring at her.
"What the hell are you looking at?" She snapped and got up and stared to pace the apartment.
"I don't need him any ways, it's his fucking loss." She snapped and grabbed her wallet and keys and walked out of her apartment.
"Rebecca." She heard Randall from down the hall and she turned and looked at him as he hurried towards her.
"Everything alright?"
"Yes everything is fine." She said and turned to the stairs.
"Do you want to talk? I got take out up stairs if you want some." He said and she looked at the stairs and clenched her fists.
"Alright." She said and he motioned for her to follow him and she came up to his apartment.
"It's on the counter, take whatever you want." He said and she grabbed a fork from him and sat up on the counter as she grabbed a box and looked at Orange chicken and grabbed another box which had chow mien.
"So what's going on?" He asked as he grabbed a box and leaned against the counter.
"Guys are such assholes some times." She muttered and stabbed a piece of chicken and stuffed it in her mouth and Randall gave a small chuckle and she continued.
"I mean, you think you know someone and bam! They turn around and surprise you with something stupid."
"I take it things aren't going well with Remus."
"Things aren't going with Remus, telling me who I can and can't talk to, the nerve of him, honestly." She said and set down the box. "Who the hell does he think he is?"
"Well he obviously doesn't deserve you."
"Damn straight." She said and picked up the box again.
"How about I take you out tonight? We'll go do something fun, get your mind off this guy?"
"Oh god I really shouldn't have walked out of there, Moody is going to kill me." She said as she smacked her forehead and looked up at him.
"I really shouldn't." She said and he stepped up closer to her.
"Why not?" He asked as he brushed his fingers over her knee lightly.
"Well I just shouldn't."
"Give one good reason why not? I think you could use a little fun, you're so uptight." He said with a small chuckle.
"What if I made a mistake?" She sighed and looked at the food.
"I assure you that you didn't make a mistake. He was stupid to just let you go like that. Any guy would be crazy and stupid to let you go." He said and she looked at him.
"He was different though."
"Yeah they all are, just up until you see who they really are." He said and she shook her head.
"But why would he just do that? Maybe I over reacted."
"You reacted just fine, you were smart about it, come on lets go out tonight."
"No I cant, I have to go." She said and put down the food.
"Do you have to?" he asked as he lightly took her hand and turned her back to him.
"I don't like being touched." She said as she pulled her hand back. "I have to go." She said and headed to the door. "Thanks for the food." She said and walked out and headed back downstairs and looked around the apartment, how could things have gone so wrong?
Rebecca bounced a rubber ball on the floor and caught it easily in her hand as she walked up and down the hall way.
"Becky would you stop that? It's very annoying." Kate said from her room but Rebecca ignored her and continued walking up and down the hallway bouncing the ball on the hardwood floor.
"I swear if you don't stop I am going to take that and throw it at your face, now cut it out."
"You're no fun Katie, all you ever do is stay in your room with your stupid make up." Rebecca said and walked in front of Kate's room and bounced the ball in front of the doorway and Kate turned from her dresser and got up and ran towards Rebecca and Rebecca grabbed the ball and took off down the hall as Kate ran after her and tripped her and wrestled her for the ball.
"Give it back Katie, its mine." Rebecca screamed.
"I told you to stop bouncing it." Kate said and Rebecca quickly got up and started to run before Kate pelted her with the ball and Rebecca tripped and the ball rolled away from her and Kate stood up and dusted herself off.
"I'm telling Mommy and Daddy." Rebecca said as she held her knee.
"Yeah like they will believe you, I'll just tell them that you're lying." Kate said and smirked. Rebecca grabbed the ball and threw it at Kate who ducked and the ball hit the vase behind her and it fell off the shelf and shattered on the floor and Rebecca stared wide eyed at the vase as Kate started to laugh.
"Oh man you are going to get it so bad. I'm telling mom."
"No don't tell Mommy-."
"Or what?"
"Please, that's Mommy's favorite vase."
"Well we could say it was Sylvester." Kate said as she looked at the cat sitting on the couch. "But you have to do something for me otherwise I am going to tell mom that you broke her favorite vase and you'll be grounded forever." Kate said with a smirk.
"Walcott why aren't you concentrating?" Moody yelled and she got up and kicked the chair next to her.
"I am sick of this; you always invading my mind like this."
"If you cleared your mind this wouldn't be happening-."
"I can't concentrate right now." She snapped.
"It's quite obvious and until you do we're going to keep going." He said and flicked his wand and suddenly she saw flashes of things.
Her first kiss with Andrew, her sisters wedding, Hogsmead with Remus, Remus telling her he was a werewolf-
"Stop it." She yelled as she crumbled to the ground and she heard a yelp from Moody and she looked up and saw him holding his face.
"Why the bloody hell did you throw your wand at me?" He asked and she looked at her wand across the floor.
"You said to use my wand." She said and shakily got up.
"I didn't mean to throw it- get up get your wand." He said and she walked forward and picked up her wand and faced him.
"Now clear your mind of everything." He said and she took a deep breath and closed her eyes and tried to clear her mind.
"Moody I just can't-." She said before more flashes entered her mind.
"You're my best friend Andy." Rebecca as four years old said as she wrapped her tiny arms around Andrew.
"I'm done." Remus said as he turned away from her and walked out the door.
"Next time we meet you won't be so lucky." Rabastan said darkly as he looked at her with his dark eyes.
Rebecca forced Moody out of her mind and she slumped on the ground out of breath and looked up at Moody as sweat dripped down her forehead.
"That was a little better. Get up." He said and she slowly pulled herself up.
"Moody I am so exhausted-." She said and started to see flashes.
"Rebecca how many times have I told you to stay out of trouble-." Rebecca say her mother saying as she scolded her and it blurred away and everything went black.
"Walcott." She heard Moody say and she felt water splash in her face and she sputtered as she rolled over, her head aching.
"Oh my head." She groaned on the floor as Moody stood up.
"That was much better." He said and she rolled back over and looked back up at him, her head feeling like someone using a sledgehammer to it. He held out his hand to her and she reached out to take it and he grabbed her hand and pulled her on to her feet. She wobbled slightly and looked around.
"How long was I out for?"
"Less than a minute." He said and she grabbed the chair and sat down in it.
"I never want to do that again." She mumbled as she rubbed her temples, the pain slowly receding.
"Get used to it, in the beginning that's what its going to be like, eventually your mind will grow stronger and you wont be having these blackouts and headaches." He said and she looked up at him annoyed.
"Alright I think that's enough for today. You can take the rest of the night off and get some rest."
"What about training."
"Take tonight off." He said and she got up and pocketed her wand.
"Night." She said and walked out and saw some of the Order members standing around, the twins were dueling each other, laughing the whole time. She saw Remus across the room standing with James and Sirius who were talking with each other while Remus stood next to them not saying a word. Sirius stopped talking and glanced at Rebecca before looking at Remus who looked away from Rebecca and she rolled her eyes and headed out of the headquarters.
"Stupefy." Rebecca shouted as she side stepped a curse from Sirius and turned back to Remus and threw the couch at him and he barely managed to duck as she turned back to Sirius and put up a shield and turned back to Remus who was recovering from ducking from the couch and he managed to barely block her disarming spell and threw a stunner at her as Sirius tried to confuse her and she ducked and rolled as the two spells collided with each other making a small explosion and she got Sirius with a hair growing charm and his hair started to grow out at a rapid rate blocking his eyesight.
"Chair." She shouted and threw a chair at Remus and he ducked from it.
"Depulso." He shouted but she blocked it and with a quick flick of her wand pulled the rug out from under Remus' feet and he fell to the ground.
"Expelliarmus. Incarcerous" She said and disarmed him and bound him tightly with ropes and she saw a red spell come at her from behind and she tried to dodge it but it hit her in the side and slammed her in to the wall and she crumbled to the ground. Sirius tried to push the hair aside to see her and she took the time she had to retrieve her wand.
"Expelliarmus." Sirius shouted and she felt her wand slip through her fingers and land not too far away.
"Levicorpus." Sirius said and levitated her in to the air by her foot and tossed into the wall. She saw ropes coming at her and she felt them start wrapping around her starting at her feet and she pushed herself towards her wand not too far away. She barely managed to grab it before the ropes made their way to her arms and she singed the ropes from around her.
"Depulso." Sirius shouted and she was thrown across the room, spinning wildly in the air and skid across the floor. She picked up her wand in front of her and dodged a chair.
"Locomotor mortis." He said and her legs snapped together and she wobbled to keep her balance. She threw a jelly legs curse and his legs wobbled from underneath him and he reached around to grab something to hold on to.
"Stupefy." She yelled and Sirius was hit in the chest and thrown back unmoving. She collapsed on the ground panting as she rolled on to her back and she heard a small clap from around her as she sat up and looked at Sirius lying on the floor and at Remus tied up in ropes off to the side. She undid the spell on her legs and slowly got up shakily.
"Good job Walcott, take care of Lupin." Moody said as he tended to Sirius and Rebecca glanced at Remus before rolling her eyes and walking over to him.
"Better luck next time." She said as she looked him in the eye with a hard look and vanished the ropes as he stared back at her and she paused for a moment before standing up and walking away from him.
"Walcott you're bleeding, go fix yourself up." Moody said and she sighed and walked down the hall to the bathroom and saw she had blood dripping down the back of her neck, with a quick spell she stitched it up and cleaned off her shirt and started at herself in the mirror. She lifted up the side of her shirt and saw she had what looked like the beginning of bruising along her back and ribs, which was going to be a bitch to heal. She gripped the sink and stared at herself in the mirror, Remus and her hadn't spoken to each other since the incident with the exception of a few necessary comments between each other in order to train together but other than that neither of them had said a word. She could deal with this, it wasn't a big deal, she had broken up with plenty of guys and look at her now, she was still alive, but none of them had hurt as bad as the one with Remus, even if they hadn't been together officially, it still hurt not talking any more. Oh well it was just another obstacle in life, all you could do was adapt and overcome.
Thanks for reading!
I dont know if any of you saw it but I'm going on vacation on Saturday to Alaska for 2 weeks and i wont be able to write or post anything so i figured i would give you a giant dose before i leave and hope you dont go in to withdraw while i am gone haha, so i'm going to be posting a story every day this week until i leave.
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