Rebecca glanced at her menu and listened to the others sitting around the table at the café. Remus sat next to her to her right with Sirius to her left, Peter sat next to him and Lily and James sat next to him. She put her menu down and glanced at something sitting in front of Remus and picked up her fork.
"Ew, what is that?" Rebecca said as she prodded something on Remus' plate.
"A snail." Remus said offhandedly.
"Ew!"
"It's not like I'm going to eat it!" He said as he pushed his plate away from him.
"Good, cos you'd have a hard time getting me to kiss you for the rest of the year!" She said with a laugh.
"Prongs, I dare you to eat it." Sirius said with a grin as he pushed the plate towards James.
"No, don't think Lil would appreciate that. I dare you to Padfoot." James said as he pushed it back towards Sirius who looked disgusted and looked at Peter.
"Wormtail?" He asked and pushed it towards him and Peter pushed the plate back and moved over.
"Are you mad?" Peter said and Sirius looked around.
"I bet that Muggle would eat it." Sirius said pointing to a woman sitting across the café. "She looks like she eats snails."
"I don't think anyone is going to be eating snails today." Rebecca said and picked up her menu.
"Walcott, I dare you to eat it." Sirius said as he pushed it towards her and she looked up from the menu.
"Oh Pads that's disgusting." Remus said as he pushed it away.
"Alright, I'll eat one, if you eat one." She said as she looked at the snails with disgust and looked up at Sirius.
"I'll pass."
"Don't be such a priss. I dare you."
"What did you call me?" Sirius asked surprised and Rebecca chuckled.
"You're acting like a priss, come on, eat one." She said as she picked up a snail and eyed it
"Oh Becky that's gross." Remus said and she leaned over to him.
"Would you still kiss me?" She asked and he looked at the snail in her hand.
"I don't know." He said as he looked doubtfully at the snails. "I would prefer you didn't."
"Alright Walcott." Sirius said as he looked at the snails and picked one up. "I'll eat one if you do."
"Come on Padfoot." Remus groaned and picked up his menu.
"Don't worry I will wash my mouth out plenty." Rebecca said with a smile at Remus and looked at Sirius with the snail in her fingers.
"You first." Sirius said and she looked at the snail and looked at him.
"How about you?"
"Ladies first." He said smartly.
"Age before beauty." She said with a smile.
"Ha, you're older than me."
"Damn. I wonder." She said softly to herself as she tried to figure out how to get it out.
"You use a fork Becky." James with a grin .
"Prongs please dont encourage her." Remus said with a sigh and suddenly Rebecca yelped as the snail went flying across the table, missing Peter's head by inches and landed on the table behind him. The people at the table looked at her and she stared wide eyed and gave a small smile.
"Sorry, my bad." She said and looked at Sirius who was laughing.
"Shut up, you'll get yours." She said and grabbed another snail, successfully getting the snail out and she looked at it and looked at Sirius who watched her with an amused look on his face. She stuck it in to her mouth and disgust passed over her face.
"Oh gross." She said as she gagged slightly and covered her mouth.
"It hastes like a bawoon." She said and grabbed her water and washed down the rest and looked at Sirius expectantly and he set the snail down.
"I changed my mind." He said and she glared at him.
"What?"
"I can't believe you just ate that." Sirius said with a grin and she looked at the snail and picked it up.
"Shall I shove it down your throat for you?" She asked with a grin and Sirius looked at Remus who shrugged.
"Hey this is between you two, you did say you would eat one, whatever happens from this point on is entirely your fault Padfoot, you are the one that chose to mess with Becky." Remus said and Sirius looked at James.
"Mate I would love to help you but Becky is much scarier."
"Open up Sirius, here comes the airplane." Rebecca said as she took a snail out and made an airplane noise and flew it towards his mouth.
"Give that to me." Sirius said and took the fork from her and ate the snail.
"Erlin tat's orrible." Sirius said as he looked around for his water but Rebecca grabbed it and held it away from him.
"How's it taste Black?" She asked with a laugh and Sirius grabbed Peter's water.
"Hey that's mine." Peter whined and Sirius took several large gulps.
"Good job Black." Rebecca said and pat him on the back with a smile and picked up her menu and started to look through it and snorted loudly and everyone looked over at her.
"What the hell is spotted dick?"
Rebecca walked in to the headquarters and looked around curiously. She had gotten an owl from Moody to come to the headquarters. It was silent with the exception of the fire popping loudly down the hall in the meeting room. She heard voices coming from down the hall and she followed them to a door and she opened it up and saw stairs going down to the basement.
"Moody?" she called down the dark stairway and saw Moody appear down at the bottom.
"Get down here Walcott." He said and she came down the stairs slowly. She had never been in the basement before. It was dark and slightly humid, the smell of mildew filled the air thickly and she wrinkled her nose and followed down a small hallway through to another room and she saw an unconscious man tied to a chair sitting in the middle of the room and she saw Caradoc and Moody off to the side and she looked at the man curiously and looked to his arm and saw a tattoo of some sort.
"A death eater?" She asked as she looked at Caradoc and Moody and they nodded.
"Alright what am I doing here?"
"You are going to try and extract information from him." Moody said simply and she raised her eyebrows at him surprised.
"W-what?" She asked and looked back at the unconscious man.
"You can do this Walcott." Moody said and she bit her lip and took out her wand.
"Wait why don't you just do this?"
"I know too much, its too risky." Moody said and Rebecca sighed and frowned.
"You're the one who taught me, you're much better at this than me-."
"Walcott." Moody said and she turned to the man and took a deep breath.
"Enervate." Moody said and the man slowly gained consciousness and looked at Moody and Caradoc and then to Rebecca.
"Well hello." He said with a smirk as he looked at her and she narrowed her eyes at him.
"Is this the best you can do? A little girl?" The man said with a chuckle as he looked at Moody and Caradoc.
"What's your name?" Rebecca asked as she stepped up to him and he looked at her and looked her up and down.
"What's your name gorgeous?" He asked.
"I asked you what your name was."
"You are wasting your time, I ain't telling you shit." He said and scoffed as he looked away from her and she took a step closer and he looked at her and she locked eyes with him.
"His name is Henry Jensen." She said and the man looked at her surprised. "What do you know?" She said curiously as she took another step towards him and he stared at her, his face twitching and she closed her eyes momentarily as she saw flashes of his family, his job at the Ministry, and she finally found herself looking at him sitting around a table with a few other people, some she recognized such as Rabastan, Lucius and Rosier but apart from that she didn't recognize anyone else. They talked around the table but nothing stood out and she opened her eyes and took a step back.
"I don't think he knows anything." She said and rubbed her temples.
"You stay out of my head." Henry growled as he struggled to get out of the restraints.
"Well make sure." Moody said and she looked back at Henry and he looked away from her.
"Look at me." She said but he refused and she waved her wand and he was forced to look at her and she was plunged in to his thoughts and memories. She saw him receiving the dark mark, his arm held up as a hooded figure pressed their wand in to his arm and he fell over grasping his arm as a painful scream escaped his lips. She saw another group gathered around the table talking about attacking the village and she stopped.
"He isn't important enough." She said and Henry struggled even more to get out of the restraints.
"Alright thank you Rebecca." Caradoc said and she looked at Moody.
"Can I go now?"
"Yes." He said and she looked back at Henry and looked at Moody again.
"What's going to happen to him?"
"He is going to Azkaban." Moody said and rendered Henry unconscious once more and she nodded and turned to leave the room.
Rebecca stirred the food around in the pan in front of her as she flipped through one of her old text books from Salem. She heard a knock at the door and glanced at the clock and saw it was nearly 9, she wasn't expecting anyone. She walked up to the door and pressed her ear against the door and listened for voices but heard none. She opened up her door a crack and saw Sirius standing before her.
"What are you doing here?" She asked and he turned around and looked at her.
"Oh good you're here, ooh smells good." He said and walked past her.
"Like I asked before, what are you doing here?" She asked as she turned around and he walked towards the kitchen and looked at what she was cooking.
"I'm hungry."
"Yeah, and?"
"Well I overheard you telling Moony that you were staying in and cooking so I thought I might come by and see what you were making, seeing that I am very hungry." He said and grabbed a wooden spoon and she walked over to him as he went to eat some of the meat and she grabbed his hand and took the spoon out of his hand.
"So you thought you might invite yourself over? Without an invitation?"
"Sure, I hope you don't mind, this smells really good." He said as he picked at the meat and nearly dropped it before throwing it in to his mouth and panting from how hot it was.
"Why can't you make your own dinner?" She asked as she crossed her arms over her chest and covered the pan up and he looked around at the mashed potatoes sitting in another pot on the stove and before he could reach his hand over she swatted his hand and gave him an expectant look.
"I am rubbish when it comes to cooking, so what do you say?"
"I say you should spend some of that inheritance money and go buy yourself something to eat."
"Come on Walcott, are you really going to kick out adorable little me?" He asked and gave her a pout and she raised an eyebrow at him unamused and he got down on his knees.
"Please feed me Walcott." He said and she smiled and shook her head and sighed.
"Alright you can stay for dinner but then you are leaving because I have an early morning." She said and he grinned and got up and went to lift up the lid on the pan and she hit his hand.
"Abusive aren't you? And Moony says his wounds are from the full moon." He said with a scoff and she gave him a push out of the kitchen.
"Set up another place setting." She said as he took a seat at her place setting.
"Eh I would rather not; I'll just take your spot." He said and kicked his feet up on the opposite chair.
"Put out another place setting or you will be eating out of a bowl on the floor you filthy dog." She said with a smirk and she rolled his eyes and got up.
"I would make a good dog you know."
"I would never want you as my dog, you would hump everything in sight, chew on the table, and eat me out of house and home." She said as she stirred the meat around and he gave a light hearted chuckle. "You also probably have fleas." She added.
"But I'm house broken and I promise to keep you warm at night." He said with a wink and she rolled her eyes at him as he looked around the kitchen.
"What are you looking for?"
"Plates."
"Up there." She said and pointed to a cabinet.
"Forks? Knives?" He asked and she pointed to a drawer and he took everything to the table and set it up. He walked over to the fridge and opened it and looked through it and pulled out a beer and popped off the top.
"Yeah sure help yourself." She muttered.
"Thank you." He said with a smile and looked around her apartment.
"It's a nice place you have." He said as he looked at a painting. "What on earth is this supposed to be?" He said as he looked at the odd abstract painting in front of him.
"It's called abstract art Black."
"Art? You call this art? It looks like something you made when you were 2." He said as he looked at her and took a sip of his beer.
"Its kind of whatever you make of it." She said and took the pan and pot to the table and set them down and Sirius walked over quickly.
"I have to make the salad, don't touch." She said and turned back to go to the kitchen and she heard a yelp from Sirius.
"The bloody thing shocked me." He said as he looked at the pan bewildered.
"Well I told you not to touch it; I need to make the salad."
"No need for salad, come on I'm starving." He said and she ignored him and started on the salad and heard another yelp from him. "Come on Walcott."
"Patience is a virtue."
"Bollocks Walcott, starvation is torture." He said and leaned against the palm of his hand and looked around. "Hurry up woman." He mumbled as he scratched the table with his finger and she slapped across the back of his head.
"Do not speak to me like that or you won't be getting any food at all." She said and sat down the salad on the table and tapped the pot and pan with her wand and lifted the lids up and Sirius helped himself to large helpings and dug in quickly.
"You are an animal you know that?"
"You have no idea." He said with a wink and she scoffed and took a drink of her water.
An hour later Rebecca and Sirius sat on her couch looking through one of her old photo albums and sipped on beer.
"Bloody hell who is that?" Sirius asked as he stared at a picture of her and her sister.
"That would be Katie, my sister." Rebecca said in a bored tone.
"Look at those legs." He said as he took the album from her and got a closer look.
"Alright that's enough of that.' She snapped and yanked the album back from him.
"Come on." He said as he tried to get another peek at the picture but she turned the page.
"Come on Walcott, ruin my fun." He pouted.
"Anyways, this is when Andy and I went to the Grand Canyon-."
"Let's go back to that picture." He said and she shut the album and glared at him.
"How come you don't have any other pictures of your family in these?" he asked and picked up an album from the table and flipped through it.
"Well like yourself I don't get along with my family much."
"Oh trust me; your family is perfect compared to mine."
"Perhaps but I just don't get along with them much, with the exception of my father but he doesn't say much most of the time."
"What's wrong with the rest of your family?"
"Well my mom likes to criticize everything about me, my sister is an attention whore its always look at me, me, me, the world revolves around me. My aunt is the same as my mom. My grandparents weren't too bad, on my dad's side, they were muggles, liked me just as I was. My other grandma, oh god she is a nightmare, she lives in France. Stuck up bitch." She muttered and threw the album back on to the table.
"Still you have it so much better than my family, pureblood fanatics, disowned my cousin Andy for marrying a muggle, disowned my great uncle Alfred for liking muggles, pretty much hate anything that isn't pureblood. Nothing was ever good enough, my little brother Regulus was the prefect child, always was."
"It's because we're rebels Black." She said with a smile.
"Damn straight." He said with a chuckle. "Hey what do you think of those one muggle contraptions; uh I think it's called a monobycle." He said and she looked at him confused.
"You know muggles ride them, they go vrooooom vroom." He said imitating the noise and she started to laugh.
"You mean a motorcycle?" She asked humorously and he looked at her confused.
"No that doesn't sound right."
"I think you're thinking of a motorcycle Black."
"Right anyways, what do you think of those?"
"Uh they're alright I suppose, a little loud. Why?"
"I saw one in this magazine, a flying one. I was thinking of buying one."
"You can't even pronounce the thing right and you want to buy one?"
"Imagine how cool I would look on it."
"Why would you want one?"
"I don't know, it would be cool to have. Do girls like motorbycles?"
"Motorcycle Black, motorcycle, say it with me. Motorcycle." She said and he rolled his eyes.
"That's what I meant. Do girls like them?"
"I guess it depends on the girl." She said with a shrug and leaned back on the couch.
"Do you like them?" He asked casually and kicked his feet up on the table and she kicked his feet off.
"No feet on the table." She said and put her feet up.
"Hey why did you kick my feet off?"
"Well it's my table." She said and stuck her tongue out at him and he lifted his legs and laid them over hers.
"Black your feet are heavy." She said and tried to push his feet off of her.
"So." He said and leaned his head back and smiled.
"Get off." She said and dropped her legs which dropped his.
"Aw." He muttered and she curled her legs underneath herself. "So do you like motorcycles?"
"I don't know they're alright." She said with a shrug.
"Just alright?"
"I think you would look like an ass on a motorcycle." She said and stuck her tongue out at him.
"Hey, I happen to think I would look good on a motorcycle." He said and she raised an eyebrow.
"I guess I could see you on a motorcycle."
"Really?"
"Yeah a good looking ass on a motorcycle, I can see it." She said with a laugh and he sighed.
"so you think I am good looking?" He asked and she gave him a bored look and he smirked at her and took a drink from his beer.
"Geeze is that what time it is?" She asked as she looked at the clock and checked her watch. "You have to go now." She said and got up and took the beer he was about to drink from.
"Hey I haven't finished drinking that." He said and she drank back the rest of the beer.
"I did it for you, come on I have to be up in five hours." She said and he slowly got up and grabbed his jacket.
"Come on move faster.' She said and gave him a small push and he pushed her back.
"Don't push me." She snapped and pushed him.
"Well don't push me." He said and pushed her back.
"Alright just go." She said and held open the door for him.
"Aw just for me?" He asked and she pushed him out the door and shut it behind him.
"Thanks a lot Walcott. No goodnight kiss?" he asked from the other side of the door.
"Good bye Black." She said through the door with a smile and walked back to the kitchen to start cleaning up before heading up to bed.
"Are you alright dear?" Madam Dawson asked. She had been the healer at Hogwarts before passing on the position to Madam Pomfrey and had joined the Order to help with injuries. Rebecca, Clara and Madam Dawson were manning the headquarters while the other Order members went out for a raid. If signaled they would come to help capture unconscious death eaters if needed which Moody had assured they probably wouldn't need. Rebecca was currently staring at the fire crackling before her, twisting her shirt around in her hands.
"Yeah fine." She said not looking away from the fire. She was worried about Remus, it was only two nights after the full moon and she knew he wasn't feeling the greatest and hoped it wouldn't deter his readiness for the fight.
"Everything will be fine; Alastor said this wouldn't be a serious fight." Madam Dawson said and Rebecca looked up at her and sighed and got up from the floor and sat down on the couch and looked at Clara sitting in a chair looking over some files.
"I don't know, I just can't help but worry, I kind of wish I was out there right now instead of sitting around here waiting for something to happen." She said and got up and started to pace. "I mean what if something happens to Remus and I am not there?"
"Dear if you were there would be nothing you could do to stop it. Mr. Lupin is bright, he will be fine." She said with an assuring smile and Rebecca gave a weak smile and ran her fingers along the mantle.
"Someone needs to dust around here." She said and wiped the dust away on her pants and sighed as she continued to walk around. Madam Dawson was right, they probably wouldn't need them, and they had more than enough members out at the raid. She turned around and her heart stopped when she saw a burst of sparks in midair signaling that they were needed at the fight.
Yay, i'm back from Alaska. It feels weird to be back because out there it didnt even get dark until 2 or 3 in the morning so its a total trip for me but a blessing to you guys because it means my sleep schedule is messed up so i have LOTS of time to write for now until i get my sleep schedule straight again.
Thank you all of you who read and reviewed, it was like Christmas when i turned on my computer and saw your lovely reviews and i am glad you all seem to be enjoying the story because i know that i am. Next chapter will be up very soon, probably later today.