When Rebecca woke she felt a pounding pain in her temples. She went to raise her hands to her head but found them to be bound by some sort of rope. She slowly sat herself up and saw she was in some sort of dungeon. It was dark and damp and smelled of blood and dirt. Light barely shone in from torches hanging outside the door lighting up the room. She felt her pockets for her wand but felt nothing and felt her stomach drop. She pulled herself up and hobbled over to the door; her ankle sore from fighting earlier. She peered out and was met with stone and silence. Suddenly she heard voices down the hall and she backed away as far as she could from the door and a large figure covered the light and the door swung open.

"He's ready for you." The masked Death Eater said and she stayed where she was. Normally she probably would have been scared shitless out of her mind; locked up in a cell in a Death Eater lair, with no chance she was going to make it out of here alive but the only thing she could think of were the countless deaths these people had caused. All she could think of were the Order Members who had been lost, good people whose lives had been taken away by these people.

"Now." He said and walked in and strode over to her. She waited for the opportune moment before delivering a high kick to his face, knocking him back on to the ground. She sprung for the wand and grabbed it before it was blasted out of her hand and she looked at Bellatrix standing there with a smirk on her face.

"Couldn't handle a little girl could you?" She snapped as the Death Eater clamored up and grabbed his wand from the ground. "Wilkes why didn't you bind her feet you idiot?" She said as she looked at him. "Get her to the chamber." She said and walked out as another Death Eater walked in and Rebecca looked at the two Death Eaters advancing on her as she stood ready, they weren't going to take her without a hell of a fight.


His whole body felt numb. He couldn't believe he had just left her like that, just left her to die. How could he have left the person he loved the most in the entire world to just die like that? What kind of person was he?

"Remus." Lily said as she walked over to him sitting on the couch. He didn't answer her of even acknowledge that she was there, he just stared at the wall as he had been for the past few hours.

"Remus." She said as she placed a hand on his shoulder and he looked up at her. His eyes were brimmed with red from crying and she could still see the tear stains. She felt her heart breaking as she looked at him.

"Remus, Becky is going to be fine." She said as she sat down next to him.

"You don't really believe that do you?"

"Yes I do. It's only been a few days; there is a chance that she is alive still."

"Yeah but for how long? We just left her down there." He snapped and rubbed his face.

"There was nothing you could have done Remus, you need to stop beating yourself up."

"I love her so much." He whimpered.

"Do you really think she is dead?" Lily asked and he looked up at her.

"No."

"Neither do I. Becky is smart and probably one of the most stubborn people I have ever met. She is going to be fine."

"What if she isn't?"

"She will be." She said as she took his hand with a small smile. "And we can bet she is going to give them hell too." She said as he leaned his head on her shoulder. She wrapped her arm around him as she glanced to the doorway and saw James watching with a sad look on his face before returning back down the hall. He walked in to the meeting room which had long been abandoned. A few items littered the table which they had managed to knick from the Catacombs. He stared at the piece of paper which had been condoned as a Hit list although none of them could figure it out. There were names of at least a dozen different people some of them in the Order. Some had red X's next to them which they had considered had been the ones marked already dead but Caradoc had a red X next to his name along with Dorcas Meadows. Rebecca didn't however have one next to her name. There were some names like Marlene and Michael who were already crossed out.

Unfortunately for the Order although they would eventually find out what the 'X's' were, (people to just be executed, the ones without the Death Eaters would try to persuade to their side first,) it would be too late when they finally did.


Rebecca was thrown across the ground and she slowly pulled herself up and looked around the room before her eyes landed on a tall figure sitting in front of her. He hardly looked human. His skin was pale and stretched thinly across his face. His eyes were thin and dark red as they looked at her and she pulled herself up and raised an eyebrow at him.

"I've heard things about you Rebecca Walcott." He said as he stood up and walked towards her.

"I've heard things about you too but believe me none of them are very good." She said and he smiled as he rubbed his chin.

"You should be scared."

"I'm quaking in my boots." She said dryly as she looked around the room at the few Death Eaters standing around the edge of the room.

"I am offering you an opportunity to join a greater cause." He said and she looked back at him.

"Like a deal?"

"Precisely." He said and she pursed her lips.

"I actually have better things to do but thanks for the offer."

"I do believe you should reconsider." He said as he looked at her intensely and she looked away from his eyes.

"I see Dumbledore has taught you well but you are no match for me." He said and she felt her body turned towards him as he looked in to her eyes and she saw his face twitch.

"Crucio." He said.

Rebecca had never felt so much pain in her life. It felt like hot searing knives and needles were poking every inch of her skin and she felt like she was being ripped from the inside out. The pain stopped for a moment and she lay on the floor shaking and panting as her mind reeled. She was going to die down here.


It had been two weeks since Rebecca had been captured. Rescue missions a-plenty had been sent out, but the Catacombs had been magically sealed off. No matter what they tried, they could not get in. The public entrance had been shut because the Muggles who had run it had 'disappeared'. Even Dumbledore had come over to Paris to try his hand at getting in. They couldn't work out how Voldemort was keeping them locked out. Remus spent nearly all his time at the Headquarters going through files and reports to try and find ANYTHING that might lead to Rebecca. There was no ransom note for either Rebecca or Jenny and the attacks continued like clockwork. Each passing day brought on more despair in Remus and he was getting frustrated and angry. He was sick of the pity looks he got from everyone and sick of the way they avoided talking about her when he was near. He just wanted her back with him, without her he was nothing. He relied on her too much, relied on her being there to comfort him before and after the full moon, relied on her so he wouldn't be lonely. She made him feel like he was worth something rather than the worthless werewolf he was. He had to get her back someway, somehow.


The sound of water dripping was the first thing Rebecca heard as she started to wake which brought on the onslaught of pain throughout her body. Each drop hitting the water made her head feel like it was splitting in half. It had been a daily thing for the Death Eaters to come in and beat her around for a while until they were bored of her. She much preferred that to Bellatrix's Cruciatus Curse which made her wish she was dead already. She wondered why they hadn't just killed her already or why there hadn't been a rescue mission of some sort to get her out of this hell hole, she wasn't sure how much longer she would be able to last. She heard the click of the lock and there were quiet steps approaching her. She opened her eyes barely and looked up at the face of Snape. She had only seen him twice in the three weeks she had been here which had been on her way to an interrogation with Voldemort and she was sure she had spotted him standing outside her cell as Bellatrix went on with her games.

"What do you want?" She mumbled as she looked at him.

"Take this." He said as he looked around and pulled a vial out of his robes.

"No, its poison, I'm not stupid." She said sharply.

"I beg to differ." He muttered dryly. "Just take it, it will help."

"I'm not taking anything from you, you murderer." She said and he narrowed his eyes and stood up.

"Fine." He said indifferently and corked the vial and stuck it back in to his robes as he headed to the door.

"I am curious though." She said as she slowly pulled herself up and he looked back at her. "Why don't you join in on the fun?"

"Pardon?" He asked with a raised eyebrow as she raised one back. "I have better things to do than play silly little games." He said and went to leave but stopped and turned back around. "You won't win you know that."

"I'm not going to stop fighting until I'm dead."

"Well that should be fairly soon." He said and stepped out and closed the door. She listened to his footsteps down the hall until they were gone and she laid her head back down on the cold stone as she listened to the dripping of the water wondering when the Death Eaters would be back.


Remus walked in to Dumbledore's office for the third time that week with a distressed look that seemed to be permanent on his face these days.

"Hello Remus." Dumbledore said with a light smile knowing what was going to come next. "There has been no news of Rebecca." He said and Remus closed his mouth as he rested his hands on the back of the chair in front of him. Dumbledore folded his hands as he looked at Remus.

"Remus I think we have to consider the possibility…" He said and sighed. "And as much as I hate to say this but Rebecca has been in the clutches of the Death Eaters almost a month now…we have to consider the possibility-."

"No, she is not dead." He said as he gripped the chair tight.

"Remus-."

"No, she can't be dead. We aren't looking hard enough." He said and started to pace back and forth.

"Remus we have done all we could. Alastors already sent out his Aurors two times, we can't ask again with the chance of the results being the same. We need something to go on."

"You're one of the greatest wizards of all time and you're saying that there is nothing you can do to find her? I find it very hard to believe. I don't think you are trying very hard!" Remus snapped.

"Remus." Dumbledore said quietly as he lifted his head and sighed. "I can understand your anxiety about finding Rebecca and believe me, if there was anything more I could do in effort of finding her I would do it but I have done all I can. I'll talk to Alastor and see what he can do. Alright?" He said and Remus stopped at the window and looked at him. "Until then, why don't you get some rest?"

"I can't, not until she is found." He said and walked out of the office.


"It has been over a month, they have all stopped looking for you, you know. No one cares any more about Rebecca Walcott who was captured in a foolish mission to try to stop me. No one will remember you as anything. You are no one now. Your boyfriend is dead you know, we killed him with out even trying." He said and she smirked to herself. Like hell people would forgot her and yeah right, Remus dead?

"Speak girl." He said. She smiled to herself as she looked up at him she had always had a saying, if you're going to walk on thin ice you might as well dance.

"Well you see, I'm somewhat of a bullshitter myself, but occasionally I like to listen to an expert, please carry on." She said and he stood up with rage written all over his face.

"Do not provoke me! Do you understand what I am offering you? Do you know?"

"I have a question." She said and felt Bellatrix's wand sticking in to her back. "Do you know the muffin man?" She asked casually and felt a jab in her side which made her yelp.

"Discourteous girl! Hold her!" He yelled as two Death Eaters held her from either side and her head was pulled back to look at him.

"Legilimens!" He shouted.

She was thrown back into her cell feeling weaker then ever. She lay on the stone floor with Voldemort's promise of death that night ringing in her ears. She longed to be in Remus' arms again, longed to feel his touch, and his sweet words whispered in to her ear. Perhaps soon she would be. She closed her eyes as she tried to remember his distinct smell and the sound of his words as she drifted off trying to forget the pain and misery that seemed so abundant in her life.


Lily stared at the fire, her book in her lap long forgotten. After a month of searching and coming up dry the search for Rebecca had been called off. Lily knew that they had done everything they could do to find her and the only logical decision was to call off the search and face the facts that she was gone but something nagged in the back of Lily's mind which led her to believe that Rebecca was indeed still alive.

"Hey guys, come look at this!" James called from outside and she was snapped out of her thoughts as she looked to the window. She got up and went to the window and saw James standing next to something which looked like it had been burned in to the ground. She rushed out of the house to join him on the grass.

"What is it?" She asked as she looked at the writing.

"Blagoevgrad, Neofit Rilski." Lily read out loud as Remus came outside. "Someone get Dumbledore" Lily said without taking her eyes from the words and Remus hurried back in to the Headquarters quickly to inform Dumbledore what had been discovered.

"Blagoevgrad is a town in Bulgaria about 100 km south of Sofia." Remus said looking at a map of Europe, "Population of around 76,000."

"What's Neofit Rilski then?" Fabian asked confused.

"Maybe it's backwards!" Gideon said surely.

"Tifoe Ikdlir..." Fabian sounded out. "Errmmm... no."

"Damn."

"Neofi' Rilski yeh say?" Hagrid said from the back of the room. "Ah it's the Southwestern University in Blagoevgrad." He said and everyone turned and looked at him as a blush came over his cheeks.

"How did you know that?" Benjy asked

"I been organizing teh buy a puppy off a man what lives near there."

"Let me guess." James said dryly. "Big with the teeth to prove it right?"

"But why did someone burn the name and location of a Muggle university into out front lawn? It had to be someone in the Order, no one else knows where this place is." Benjy said as he looked at Dumbledore and everyone looked around at each other.

"I think we should check it out." James said out of the silence.

"Could be a trap." Remus said carefully.

"Everything could be a trap. Opening the door to the pizza boy could be a trap." James said as he rubbed his chin. "Bloody suspicious those pizza boys if you ask me!"

"No one's asking dear." Lily said as she pat him on the arm.

About an hour later, the Order had assembled, Lily and Alice had kicked up a big stink about being left behind and were planning on following no matter what Dumbledore said. After the headcount they all left to check everything out and Lily and Alice looked at each other, "Ready? 3... 2..."

"Where would you be off to?" McGonagall said as stepped from the doorway, "You wouldn't be going off on a mission against Albus' wishes would you?"

"Why yes we are Minerva. Care to join us in our rebellion?" Alice asked.

"Oh think I'll pass thank you, but you'll be joining me in a cup of tea if you know what's good for you." She said as she walked to the doorway of the next room and looked at the two.

"We're too predictable huh?" Lily said with a defeated sigh.

"Without a doubt." McGonagall said with a light smile and Alice and Lily looked at each other before following her to the next room.

Two hours later, Lily and Alice has fallen asleep on the couch leaning against one another. McGonagall sipped on the last of her tea and looked at the clock realizing she needed to get back to Hogwarts. Seeing they were asleep she got up and walked out of the room and left and Alice opened one eye and glanced around.

"She gone?" Lily whispered without opening her eyes.

"Yep."

They both jumped up and grabbed their wands, "Ready?" Lily said.

"Ready!"

"Predictable this!" Lily laughed and they both disappeared with a pop.


"Locomotor Mortis!"

"Reducto!"

"AAAAUUUUGHHH!"

"Impedimenta!"

"Crucio!"

"WATCH IT HAGRID!"

Lily and Alice had popped right into the middle of a battle! People were down, a lot of them. Hagrid was just punching people, Dumbledore was taking out groups of Death Eaters with ease, and then they saw who Dumbledore was heading towards... Voldemort!
Lily immediately put up a shielding charm around Alice and herself, seconds before a Crucio was sent their way.
Caradoc was on the ground near them. He was bleeding really badly from the head and not moving. A silent agreement was made between Alice and Lily and they decided that they would be bringing people who were hurt from here to Headquarters. They grabbed a hold of Caradoc and disappeared.
The Death Eaters seemed to be retreating, and Voldemort sent an extremely powerful spell Dumbledore's way, Dumbledore ducked and it hit a stone statue behind him which melted instead of crumbled. Moody was fighting about 6 Death Eaters by himself. James and Sirius bounded over to relieve him of a few...
"Blast you!" Moody yelled at the Death Eaters, he managed to grab at one of the masks and pulled to reveal Evan Rosier's face.
While Moody had his mask Evan used the split second in which Moody could not react to put his want to his nose.

"Reducto!" Evan shouted.

There was a HUGE explosion that sent both he and Moody flying in opposite directions, "JESUS CHRIST!" Moody hollered holding his face which was dripping blood.

"Lupin is it?" A Death Eater said as it approached Remus.

"Who are you?" Remus asked.

"Pity about your girlfriend huh?" The Death Eater said humorously with a laugh.

"YOU BASTARD!" Remus lurched at him and started pummeling him in the face. James and Sirius turned to see what was going on and looked at each other. Remus and physical violence when he was not in wolf form were two things that usually didn't go AT ALL.
James and Sirius decided to get in on the action too.

"RETREAT!" Someone yelled from the midst of the battle and suddenly Death Eaters started disappearing. The Death Eater Remus was beating up on disappeared from his hands and he stared at the ground angrily as his hands shook.

Voldemort got one last spell in which almost caught Dumbledore off guard, before he disappeared and Dumbledore inspected the scorch mark on his robes before sighing to himself. "Pity, I rather liked these ones..."

"Let me see!"

"NO! It's fine Alice!" Moody said as he tried to push Alice off of him.

"Alastor, half your nose is missing, you are not fine!" She said as she put her hands on her hips.

"Well you're not a Healer, what are you going to do? Kiss it better?"

"No, I don't want blood on my lips thank you." She said dryly as she looked at Lily who was helping Benjy.

"Lily what are you doing here?" James said frantically as he hurried over to her.

"What does it look like?"

"Lily what about the baby? What if something had happened?"

"James I am fine, help me with Benjy." She said and he stubbornly took the other side of Benjy.

"We're going to talk about this later." He said before they disapperated back to the Headquarters.


Rebecca lay in the cell feeling herself drift in and out of consciousness slowly and suddenly realized she was not on the ground, she was floating! Was she dead and rising to heaven or something? No, it probably wouldn't hurt this much. She heard footsteps and wondered to herself where they were coming from. Her face was pressed against something soft and the smell of potion ingredients filled her nose. Someone was carrying her. It wasn't anyone she knew, she didn't know anyone that smelled of potion ingredients but then again she didn't go around smelling people.
She tried to open her eyes to see who it was and where they were taking her, but her eyes didn't seem to want to listen to her. Her body lay limp and the only thing working was her brain, but it was becoming dim very quickly, she was falling back into the shadows of her mind. Just as she suddenly felt the cold night air on her skin and she heard the relieved sigh of the mysterious person carrying her, everything flooded away again.


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