"So uh whose house is this again?" James whispered as they crouched in the bushes and trees that surrounded the house.
"Rabastan and Rodolphus Lestranges'." Benjy said and Rebecca rolled her eyes.
"House? More like a castle but of course they grew up in a castle, can't have anything less." She said with a frown and grinned. "Can we burn it down?" She asked as she looked at Moody.
"Walcott if you don't be quiet you are going to give us away." He snapped.
"It's actually more of a chateau." Remus said offhandedly and Rebecca looked at him dully.
"It still does not deter me from desperately wanting to burn the damn thing down." She said and rolled her eyes. "I'm sure they have plenty more castles, they won't miss it much."
"If you don't shut up now I will shut you up." Moody hissed.
"Come on we're not that loud." Fabian said and Moody glared at him.
"Shhhh." Frank said and everyone quieted down.
This was probably one of the most important missions they had been on, not to mention the most risky. If this failed entirely more than half of the Order faced being wiped out. They needed the information about the portkey and hopefully if they were lucky they would get some information on future plans. They had been crouching in the bushes and trees for the past hour and most of the Order was getting restless just sitting around doing nothing.
Rebecca shifted over to where James, Sirius Lily and Remus were sitting hoping for a little more entrainment than what Moody was giving her.
"I spy with my little eye something that begins with T." Rebecca whispered.
"Huh?" Sirius asked confused.
"It's a muggle game, I say something I spy that begins with a certain letter and you try and guess what it is, its fun to do when you have nothing to do." She said with a wave of her hand. "Got it?" She asked and looked at everyone who nodded.
"Alright I spy with my little eye something that starts with the letter T."
"Breakfast." Sirius said quickly and she looked at him confused.
"What?"
"Breakfast begins with tea, maybe some eggs and sausage and some toast."
"Black, when I said it begins with 'T', I was talking about a letter." She said dully.
"No it never starts with a letter." He said and Rebecca looked at Remus with a look saying 'he can't actually be this stupid.'
"Well what did you expect?" He asked with a smile and she rubbed her face.
"Alright Lily you take over."
"Um, alright, I spy with my little eye coming that begins with R." Lily said.
"Armor." Sirius said and Rebecca stared at Sirius.
"Are you just playing stupid? Armor starts with an A, we are looking for things that start with R. Say it with me, Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr." She said as she leaned in towards him.
"Motorcycle." He said and she stared at him.
"What?"
"A motorcycle starts with Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr." He said and Rebecca sighed and shook her head knowing he was just playing stupid now.
"Alright, what starts with 'come here' and end with 'ow." She asked and Sirius paused looking genuinely confused.
"I don't know what?"
"Come here." She said and motioned towards herself and he leaned in towards her and she whacked him across the back of the head.
"Ow." He said as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Good job Black." She said with a grin.
"You over there shut up." Moody snapped and suddenly there were voices not too far off.
"Don't be impatient Rodo." The voice of Bellatrix came before her accompanied by 4 other death eaters who all wore their hoods and masks.
"Do not tell me what do to Bella. I only take orders from my Lord and Master." The familiar voice of Rodolphus said.
"The Dark Lord has put me in charge; you will do as I say. Not to mention this will be partly my property by next week." She said and one of the further Death Eaters turned around and walked backwards as to keep talking to the others.
"I do believe the term is whipped Rodo." He said and gave a laugh.
"Oh be quiet." Rodolphus said and kicked some dirt up at him.
Behind the group lagged Rabastan and another masked Death Eater.
"So what are you doing this weekend?" Rabastan asked.
"Well I am expected at Rodo and Bella's wedding, then I think Evan and I are going to catch up." A female voice said.
"Oh he wants more does he?"
"Well it's not like I am not getting anything out of the experience."
"Point taken." He said and caught up with the large group which had stopped to wait for them.
"About time." Bellatrix snapped. "Now I have the portkey, it's a gold locket, do NOT touch anything in the house or I will kill you, quite literally." Bellatrix said before turning to the door and tapping it three times and muttering some sort of password. She removed several alarms and opened up the front door and walked inside with the others following closely behind.
"Wow this really seems like a great idea now." Rebecca said dryly and looked at Moody.
"How the hell do you suppose we are going to get inside now?"
"We could just burst in and hex them all stupid." Sirius suggested blandly.
"We could pick the lock, anyone got a pin?" Fabian asked.
"We need to find a way they will let us in." Moody said and Frank gave a dry laugh.
"Do you expect us to just walk up and ring the door bell?"
"Why not?" Rebecca asked.
"That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard." Edgar said.
"No it makes sense; one of us can get up on the roof and surprise them." Sirius said.
"Well who's going to ring the doorbell?" Gideon asked.
"Althought I kind of like the idea of swooping in with wands a blazing." Sirius muttered.
"That's stupid and reckless Black, sure way to get us all killed." Rebecca said and stood up. "Alright I'll ring the damn doorbell. Who is going on the roof?"
"There needs to be another way." Frank said.
"I think this is the quickest and most likely to catch them off guard." She said.
"I'll go on the roof." Sirius said as he got up.
"Alright then it's settled. Come on, stay hidden." Moody said as everyone got up and started towards the house, hiding behind shrubbery and trees as they made their way to the front door and hid behind the pillars by the front door and Sirius hoisted himself up above the door as Rebecca stood at the doorstep and looked up at him as he gave her a thumbs up.
"Alright here goes nothing." She said and knocked on the door.
"Must be Karkaroff, bastard is always late." Someone said from inside and the door opened to reveal Walden Macnair.
"Ugh you're even uglier in person." She said and stepped aside before Sirius swung around and knocked Walden in the chest and stunned him. They stopped and listened for the sound of other Death Eaters but the house was silent. Rebecca made a motion for everyone to follow as she stepped inside and looked around.
"Alright Pettigrew you stay here and keep your wand on him, if he so much as twitches you hex the hell out of him." Moody said to Peter who nodded and pointed his wand at the motionless Macnair. "Half of you follow me, the other half up those stairs." He said quietly and Rebecca started up the stairs with Remus, Lily, Sirius, the twins and Marlene following. The rest of them followed Moody down the hall.
They got to the second floor and spread out along the dark halls, wands ready for anything.
"MASTER! SPRINKLES FINDS STRANGERS IN MASTER"S CLEAN HOUSE! SPRINKLES DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO!" A voice wailed out of the silence and Rebecca turned and saw a house elf screaming. She went to stun it but it disappeared and Rebecca heard voices in front of her and started at the double door as they burst open revealing the Death Eaters, a horrifying sight indeed.
"Oh Bollocks!" Sirius yelled.
"Holy shit!" She screamed and took off the opposite way as spells came flying down the hall and she grabbed Remus and pulled him in to a room as a spell zipped past where they had been seconds before.
"My, my trespassing, and you say you guys are on the side of good." Bellatrix cackled and Rebecca looked across the hall and saw a table and she saw Sirius, Marlene and Fabian ducked in the room across from her.
"Now." She said and with a flick of her wand sent the table flying down the hall as they all took the moment to escape down the stairs.
Chaos ensued the entire house as the Death Eaters and Order members fought. Rebecca backed up against Moody as they duel Death Eaters back to back.
"This was a." She said and pulled him to the side to avoid a killing curse. "A great idea." She said and looked up the stairs.
"Get out of here Bella, they can't get that locket." She heard Rodolphus say.
"She has the locket." Rebecca said to Moody as she spotted a gold locket around Bellatrix's neck.
"We need that locket." Moody said.
"I'm on it." Rebecca said and ran towards the stairs, jumping over a few Death Eater bodie, locking eyes with Bellatrix as she ran towards her.
"Get out Bella." Rodolphus said and pushed her as he sent a hex towards Rebecca who narrowly dodged it as she threw herself in to the railing of the stairs, nearly launching herself over the side. He sent a killing curse her way and she threw a vase out in front of her and ducked as the vase shattered, sending shards every where.
"Tonight you die Walcott." Rodolphus said and she looked behind him and saw a large window. She shattered it from behind him and disarmed him as she rushed up the stairs and blasted him off the landing. She looked down and saw a group of Death Eaters and looked above her at a large chandelier.
"Diruo." She said and a bolt of light hit the chain holding the chandelier, breaking it and it came crashing down. The candles on it rolling around and she stared wide eyed as the drapes caught on fire. She shook her head to herself and turned down the hall which she had seen Bellatrix go down.
"Where did you go?" Rebecca said to herself as she walked down the dark hall, her fingers running along the side of the wall as she made her way down the hall, the sound of the fight getting softer and softer until there was complete silence. She felt herself tackled from the side as something pinned her by her throat to the opposite wall, her feet barely touching the ground, the light from the skylight barely lighting up the terrifying face of Bellatrix Black. For being small Bellatrix was sure strong and Rebecca clawed at her hand around her throat. A wand was shoved in to her chest as Bellatrix laughed.
"I do wish I could enjoy this more thoroughly." She said with a cruel smile.
"Avada-." She said and Rebecca head butted Bellatrix and blasted her down the hall. Bellatrix got up with a cackle and ran down the hall. This crazy woman was laughing!
She ran after her down the hall and up a flight of stairs before entering a meeting room of some sort. There was a long table with high back chairs lining along the sides. Light from the evening sun shone in barely lighting up the room and she squinted through the darkness before a green spell came her way and she dodged it and took off out of the room and heard Bellatrix laughing from behind her.
"Run, run, run as fast as you can." She called from behind and Rebecca came to a door which was bolted close. She tried to lift the handle but it wouldn't budge.
"Protego, Reducto." She said and the door blast open and she ran in to the room and looked around for an escape. It was a library filled with hundreds of books. Boxes stacked high littered the room and the only light source were the candles mounted on the walls and the small light from the stain glass window. Rebecca could hear her heart beating in her ears as she desperately searched for a way out. She saw a pair of double doors which were bolted closed and looked too thick to blast apart.
"Well, well, well." Bellatrix said as she entered the room with a taunting smile on her face. "It looks like the little mouse has no where to go." Bellatrix said and Rebecca felt her feet trip from underneath her and she was lifted in to the air, only barely able to manage hold of her wand and she found herself hanging in front of the glass window looking over three stories and Rebecca felt herself freeze up.
"And last words?" Bellatrix asked with a smirk.
"Yes. Accio fat book." She said and a book came forward and hit Bellatrix from behind,
"Accio locket. Reducto." She yelled and felt the cool metal slam in to her hand before she was blasted out the window, the sound of glass shattering and the wind in her ears as she sailed through the air in to the trees. She fell from each branch until she hit the ground hard and everything went black.
"Everyone get out of here!" Frank yelled at everyone as part of the ceiling collapsed, narrowly missing Moody as he helped Fabian out of the house who was limping.
"Alice, where are you? Alice!" Frank called for his wife who ran over to him and the Order stood back as they watched the building come crashing in to itself, thick billows of smoke rose in thick black waves.
"How much would you pay to see THAT again?" Gideon said as he nudged Remus.
"I would probably give my left nut to see that again." Fabian said with a laugh as Moody set him down on the ground.
"Has anyone seen Lily?" James yelled as he looked around.
"I'm right here James." She called as she made her way through the crowd of people and he pulled her in to his arms and hugged her tight.
"Thank goodness you're alright." He said and Remus looked around.
"Is everyone alright?" Frank asked as Sirius sat down on the ground.
"Yeah we're alright, just a little dead." He said with a wave of his hand and laid back on the ground.
"Has anyone seen Becky?" Remus asked as he looked around.
"She went off after your cousin." Moody said as he looked at Sirius whose eyes got wide.
"Please tell me she didn't."
"Have you seen Becky?" Remus asked as he walked over to Sirius.
"She went off after my bitch of a cousin." Sirius said angrily to Remus
"She hasn't come out?" Remus asked and looked at Moody who looked around and Remus looked at the building wide eyed and he ran towards the burning building
"Moony no! There is nothing you can do." Sirius said as he jumped up and grabbed a hold of him and James ran up and grabbed him by the other side.
"No, she might still be in there." Remus yelled as James and Sirius restrained him and he broke down to the ground in a heap as Sirius and James exchanged looks.
"What's that over there?" Benjy called as he looked over towards the trees.
"Oh bloody hell its Rebecca." Caradoc said as he ran over to the motionless form laying on the ground.
"Rebecca." He said as he appeared over her and checked her pulse and Remus came over.
"Oh Merlin." He said as he covered his mouth staring at the shard of glass in Rebecca's stomach and the abrasions all over her arms and face. She was dead pale and she hardly appeared to be breathing.
"Is she…dead?" Remus asked as he took a step towards her.
"No but I don't know how much longer she is going to last." Caradoc said.
"What's this?" he asked as he looked at something gold in her hand and he held up the locket.
"Moody she got the locket." He said and Moody walked over and looked at Rebecca before taking the locket.
"Get her to Headquarters, alert Madam Dawson." Moody said as Caradoc carefully picked her up and apparated away and Remus stared at the spot she had been before he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Hey she will be fine, Becky is a fighter." James said softly and pulled Remus away.
"Remus, you should go home." Lily said as she walked in to the room and Remus looked away from Rebecca's sleeping figure.
"No, I'm fine." He said as he rubbed his face.
"You have been here since yesterday, you need some sleep."
"I'm fine; I just want to be here when she wakes up." He said as he took her cold hand in his, rubbing hers softly hoping to get some warmth in to it but she had been as cold as ice since she had been brought in. Her normally tan skin was pale and covered with bandages and scratches. She looked like a broken doll, like something someone had taken her and thrown around. Madam Dawson and Madam Pomfrey who had been called in from Hogwarts had barely managed to stabilize her due to the blood loss and had warned Remus she might not make it through the night but here she was.
"Remus go home and get some sleep, eat something and then come back."
"How can I sleep? Every time I close my eyes I see her, just lying there…covered in blood." He said weakly and looked at Lily. "What if she wakes up and I'm not here?"
"Remus she isn't going to wake up any time soon, there is nothing you can do." She said as she laid a hand on his arm and he looked back at Rebecca. "Get some sleep, you need it." She said and he nodded and got up.
"Come on." She said and led him out of the room as he trudged in a zombie like manner, glancing at her once more before exiting the room.
Rebecca could hear incomprehendable voices off in the distance, a dull pain wracking through her whole body every time she took a breath and let it out thought she couldn't move anything, nothing wanted to move. No matter how hard she tried nothing wanted to move. She wanted to know where the voices were coming from, it wasn't exactly normal to hear voices was it? What if she was dead? No, death probably wouldn't hurt this bad would it? Besides if she was dead wouldn't she be bouncing around cloud to cloud dressed in white robes with a harp in her hand, a nice pair of white wings attached to her back? Unless she was in hell. Yeah she would go to hell.
The voices slowly became clearer and she recognized one of the voices as Remus'. Remus! She wanted to see Remus; she wanted to be in his arms. He would make everything better.
"Rrmmmmm." She mumbled trying to call out to him and suddenly there was silence. No where was Remus' voice? Suddenly she heard a mumble. It was Remus! She could feel her toes now, they were cold.
"Rrmmmmmm." She mumbled again and her eyes twitched before she forced them open and was blinded by light and shut them closed. She was slowly getting feeling back in to her body but along with that came the intense pain in her sides as she took slow breaths.
"She's awake." She heard Remus said and a warm hand was placed in her own.
"Remus." She said a bit more clearly.
"I'm here Becky." He said and she cracked open an eye and saw him hovering above her and a smile tugged on her lips.
"Hurt." She mumbled as she cracked open her other eye.
"I know, Madam Dawson is getting you something for that." He said with a smile as he touched her face lightly. She wanted to talk to him but every breath she took was like a knife stabbing in to her sides making it very painful to talk.
"You got the portkey, if that's what you're wondering." He said as if reading her mind and she gave a small smile.
"I can't believe you went after her like that, you could have been killed Becky, I don't know what I would have done." He said and Madam Dawson re-entered the room with a goblet.
"Help me prop her up." She said and got on the other side of Rebecca and she braced herself as they shifted her up to a more sitting position and she gave a hiss.
"Sorry." He said before Madam Dawson brought the goblet to her lips and Rebecca drank back the contents, giving a face of disgust.
"I know, I'm sorry." He said and sat back down next to her and took her hand.
"This should help with the pain; it is going to make you sleepy in a few minutes." She said and exited the room and Rebecca looked at Remus.
"I'm so glad you're alright." He said and she lifted the hand he held up to her face and felt bandages and her eyes got wide.
"Don't worry, they're healing, Madam Dawson said the scarring won't be too bad." He said and her eyebrows shot up more.
"It's not that bad." He said and she glared at him before he smiled. "I still think you're beautiful and I would still think you're beautiful even if your face was all scarred up." He said a smile tugged on her lips before she felt her eyelids start to get heavy.
"Go to sleep, I'll try and be here when you wake up again." He said and leaned forward and kissed her forehead and smiled at her before she started to drift off back in to the darkness.
I'm sorry its been such a long time since i last updated, i have been so SUPER busy with work, yoga, friends and school that i've barely had any time to really write and its been killing me so. I have this one done and i will finish up the next chapter and post it tomorrow afternoon or evening. Happy reading and reviewing!