Shocked, I stood there without moving my wand an inch.
"My knight in shining armor? Sorry, but that spots already been filled." Good to see my sarcasm was still in tact...
Rolling his eyes, he said, "Look, we gotta go. Put that robe on and let's get going."
"I'm not going any where with you until I know who you are." Unfolding the fabric ball in my hands, I looked at an identical version of the dark cloak he was wearing.
"My names Evan. You're Ellie. Now let's go." He placed his hand on the doorknob, waiting for me to put the cloak on.
"And why are you here, Evan?" I squinted my eyes at him, my wand lowering slowly to my side. I ignored the fact he knew my name. It wasn't important right now.
Groaning, he growled, "Look, I'm gonna explain a bunch of things to you right now, and I'm gonna do it fast, so listen close and careful, got it?"
I nodded, noticing a slight accent in his voice. He sounded American, a tinge of Texas in his words.
"I'm a member of The P.U.R.E.S." He continued, releasing the door. "Private Undercover Rescuers from Evil Subjects. You've heard about us, from your mother, in your dreams."
My eyes widened, "How do you know about the dreams?"
"Look, The P.U.R.E.S. are a very organized group of Purebreeds, we know everything we need to know."
I gasped, hardly believing what I was hearing, "You mean, there's more Purebreeds?"
"Of coarse. The number grows every day."
"Prove it." I wasn't going to fall for any tricks right now. I could afford to.
Rolling his lime coloured eyes again, he turned around and moved the collar of his black clothes away from his neck. A flame, identically to mine, was imprinted in his skin.
And in that moment, I decided to make a rash decision. I decided to trust him.
"Alright." I whispered, and pulled the cloak in my hands over my head. Once I was done, I looked back at him.
"Are you ready?" He asked, hand on the door again.
"No." I might have decided to trust, but that didn't mean I didn't have any questions. "How come I didn't know about you."
"Ugh! I'm gonna have to explain everything to you, aren't I?!" His hands did a gesture of giving up the. He leaned against the wooden door again.
"Alright. So your mother and father started an organization of Purebreeds that would always remain hidden from the population of the world because they knew that something bad was going to happen, and something bad did. We were being hunted, and we lost a lot of members. Including your parents." He shot me a sad look, but I waved for him to continue, "So after losing so many wolves, we went into intense hiding, only coming out of our secret location when someone desperately needed our help. You mother warned us that one day, you would need us more than ever, and she instructed us to remain completely secret from you until this moment. We left you clues, warnings, in your room. I hope you understood them?"
Thinking back, I knew now that the 'soon' one was a warning about today, about Fuego taking me away. How The P.U.R.E.S knew, I didn't care. Not really.
But I still didn't understand one of the notes, the one that said;
"Love, courage, trust, betrayal, loss. What does that mean?"
Evan reached into a pocket on his cloak and pulled out a wand. Aiming at the only empty wall in the closet, he did a small motion.
"Love." He said, and colours stated swirling around on the wall. It formed a small video of me, walking through the little tunnel Remus had created for me covered in quotes.
"Courage." The next clip that played was when I was in the Great Hall, and I had used magic to dump pumpkin juice all over an all too formilar Slytherin.
"Trust." It showed Remus and I in front of the fire in Griffindor common room, hugging after he had told me his secret.
"Betrayal." The image that would forever haunt me appeared, where Remus was tied to the chair, gagged and near tears, looking at me as I explained how much of a monster I really am.
"And finally, loss. We are working very hard to prevent this from happening." Expecting to see myself crying over Remus' dead body, I was shocked to see Remus, sobbing and holding a body in his arms.
Mine.
The room started spinning, and I felt sick to my stomach. Not only was I going to die, but I was leaving Remus to grieve all on his own.
"We already have people in place to try their best to keep this from happening, but..." Evan trailed off, looking sheepishly over still me while putting the wand away, causing the images on the wall to disappear.
"I'm sorry, Ellie."
Fury filled me. I wasn't about to let some evil jokes ruin my life. Or Remus'. Or anyone else's for that matter. They had already taken my parents away from me. Fuego wasn't going to win again.
"Call me Elektra." I flipped up my hood and grabbed a handful of wands from the box so I would have extra, hiding them in various pockets.
"Now let's go." I stepped out into the hallway, only looking back to make sure Evan was following me.
He was, his hood up as well.
I looked from left to right, checking to make sure there wasn't any bodyguards in the immediate area. Evan moved out I front of me, wand raised at the ready. Gesturing for me to follow, me walked down the plain hall, turning right at the end.
"Where are we going?" I asked, whispering so we wouldn't be caught.
"Just right in here..." He muttered, using his wand to unlock the door before turning to walk inside.
"Wait! Are we just going to walk into a random room? Won't someone find us?"
"There's a charm on the door. Only Purebreeds can see it."
Nodding, I followed him inside the large room.
As soon as I stepped into the room, I saw about 50 eyes turn to look at me, everyone dressed in identical black cloaks, and I could see a few marks on people necks as I looked around. But the amount of people and eyes wasn't what shocked me. It was all the colours of the eyes! I saw bright purple, neon orange, shining yellow. Everyone's seemed to be different.
"You're noticing the eyes, aren't you?" Evan leaned over to murmur in my ear. "It's a Purebreed thing. Every family has their own colour. Yours is blue. Mines green. It's a little creepy sometimes."
I didn't know that. I was a Purebreed myself, but I had no idea that that was something that happened.
"I thought I was just unique!" I gasped out, and I heard a few people around Evan and I chuckle.
A women stepped forward, reaching out to shake my hand, her eyes some type of red-magenta.
"Nice to meet you, Ellie. I'm Iris"
"Please, call me Elektra." I didn't know why, but all these Purebreeds seemed so official, it felt right to be called by my full name.
Smiling, Iris moved so she was facing the group in the room.
"Alright. So we've got Elektra. Now all we need is-"
She was interrupted by the sound of a door opening. We turned to see a cloaked man with glittering silver eyes, but I was more focused on what was behind him. Rather, who was behind him.
Remus walked into the room, his eyes on the ground. I gasped running forward to meet him, throwing my arms around his neck, hugging tight. But his arms didn't circle around like I thought they would. That's when I remembered. The injured look he had when he found out what I was flashed through my mind, and I released him immediatly. His eyes remained trained in the ground, not looking up once.
"Remus! I'm sorry! I'm so so sorry! I should have told you, I should have-" a hand came down on my shoulder and I looked up to see Evan giving me an apologetic look. Sighing, I turned back to listen to Iris, no matter how badly I wanted to look at Remus.
"Alright. Now that we've got the two of them, we now have to put forward plan C- the escape plan. Now, we may need to fight, some may get injured. Some may get hurt. But it is top priority to get our leaders daughter out of this building and to safety as soon as possible. So-"
"Wait!" I didn't know what caused me to speak up, but I just felt like I needed to. "Sorry. I just... No will die for me today." The eyes around the room stared hard at me, some seeming like they couldn't believe what they were hearing. Like they couldn't believe that I would actually want to turn down a group of people who were willing to die for someone they had just met two minutes ago. "Not a single one of you will offer up your life for mine. I couldn't live with it if something happened. Either we all get out safe, or I don't get out at all. But you all have families to go home to, I'm sure. You've all got friends to live for. I've... Betrayed mine... It's to late for me to get back their trust. But it's not to late for you. Love, and live, for me. Please." I stopped talking, looking around at all these supernatural eyes. They seemed... Inspired, I guess. They seemed like the respected me.
I jumped slightly as I felt a hand slip into mine. Half expecting it to be Evan, since currently he's the only one that would want to be around me at the moment, I was shocked to see it was actually Remus. His eyes were still staring hard at the floor. I saw a single tear slip down the side of his face, and I leaned over to kiss it off his cheek. I laced our fingers together and sighed.
He might not forgive me completely, at least, not right now. But he was willing to fight with me- to fight for me.
And at this moment, that's all that mattered. That is all that mattered.