Rosekiller

Despite what anyone would tell you Evan is not a religious person, The reason? Simply because if there was a ‘God’ he and everyone he loves wouldn’t be put through all this shit.

Remember when Evan said he’s only ever been In love thrice? Yeah that was a lie, actually it was partly true, his first love: Adam turned out to be straight, his boyfriend back in third year: Marcas broke up with him because of his interests–the same interests that got him a best new writer award–and then there’s Seph, the two dated briefly back in Evan’s first year of Uni, half way through they broke up,
The reason apparently being Evan’s demisexuality, after the break up Evan had started a minor relationship with his at the time chemistry partner–they broke up shortly after–, he couldn’t remember his name but it started with a D, fast forward to his second year Seph wants him back and he accepts, they dated all through second and third year,
After Uni he and Seph had started living together, and at this point the relationship had grown toxic.

It started off small with tiny arguments then it gradually became bigger, Evan had gotten home late one night after distracting Pandora from her job interview she had the following morning and Seph had been waiting for him on the couch, Evan could smell the alcohol on him.

“What are you still doing up?”
Evan glanced at the clock, it was eleven minutes after midnight so he assumed he would be asleep.

“Who is he?”
The words came out as a whisper so Evan almost didn’t catch it. He placed his keys in a bowl by the door and took off his jacket, he gave his boyfriend[I gagged while writing that] a questioning look.

“He? I don’t know what your talking about babe”
He stood up, running a hand through his black hair, Evan flinched as Seph roughly grabbed him by the shoulders and pushed him against the wall.

“Let’s try this again” he said harshly. “Who is he?” he added slowly, at this point Evan was breathing heavily thinking about who Seph could be talking about, he didn’t have a lot of time to think before Seph grabbed him by the hair and pulled him onto the couch.
Out of the corner of his eye Evan saw the other man grab a small pocket knife, and his breath hitched.

“Answer me, Evan or I swear to god I’ll cut you up real nice so nobody could ever want you again, Is that what you want?” he frantically shook his head. “Then be a good boy and answer the damn question!” Evan heard himself sob.

“I don’t know who you're talking about!” His voice sounded so small. Seph let out a humourless chuckle.

“Wrong answer” after those words Evan felt a sharp pain going from his front torso till his back, he cried out, at this point he was begging Seph to stop.

“Pl-Please I’m sorry, Just let me go please I’m sorry Seph I’m sorry-” he didn’t know why he was apologising but it made Seph stop.

“Awe baby, you made quite a mess didn’t you” he could practically hear the smile in his words, he let out a broken sob in response.

“Come on let’s get you cleaned up” he forcefully pulled Evan up, he got up and headed to the bathroom leaving him to shake and cry on the couch, when he came back he had a plastic bag in one hand and a few things from the medicine cabinet, and suddenly Evan knew where this was going.

Seph plopped down on the couch next to him and grabbed his face. “You see this-” he waves the bag filled with….white powder around, with a smile.

“It’s gonna make you feel better, now crouch in front of the table” in fear he did so. Seph then made a line of white pow-Cocaine on the table in front of him.

“Sniff, all of it” Evan hesitated but did so, once he was done Seph made another line and Evan gave him a pleading look and he grabbed his hair again, after the bag was empty.

He tilted Evan’s head up, forcing his mouth open and he dropped a pill in his mouth, after repeating that a few more times, Evan blacked out.

When he woke up he was in the hospital with Pandora at his side, she had her eyes closed, both of her hands were holding his right one, she was whispering under her breath, his heart warmed despite not believing his sister still prayed for him.

“Panda?” she opened her eyes, he didn’t notice at first but she was crying, he hates that she was crying because of him.

“Hey Ev, how are you” he didn’t answer, how was he supposed to when he didn’t even know?

“They say that-” she swallowed hard. “The doctors, they say that you overdosed on cocaine and painkillers, please tell me they're lying” he let his gaze travel downward.

“It was him wasn’t it?” he snapped his gaze to her. “Pans I-” she held up a hand.

“Don’t-You can’t possibly still feel anything for him, to the point where you lie”

“I don’t know Pans, I was so confused, I still am” she nodded slowly.

“Tell me what happened” and he did, he told her how this started and everything and by the time he was done, she was fuming.

“I swear I’m going to-” she was cut off by yelling coming from outside the room, he recognized the voices one was ... .Seph and the other one was Reg?

The doors opened and when he and Reg’s eyes met he could see the relief on his face, coming in after him were; Dorcas, Sirius, Remus, James, and Emmeline followed by none other than Seph,
Pandora stood up and grabbed Seph by the collar, pushing him against the wall.

“If I ever see you around him again I will cut off your arm and shove it so far up you-”

“Pandora” called Reg, she let him go and made her way back to Evan’s side.

“What did this bloke do?” asked Sirius, stepping a little bit closer to Remus who was looking at Seph with maliceful glare.

“Siri, that's the guy” said Dorcas, he looked at her then back at Seph. who was looking at Evan with a pitiful face.

“Ev listen I-” he was cut off by Reg stepping In front of him and in the process blocking Evan from his view.

“Why the fuck are you talking to him?” his voice was cold.

“He’s my boyfriend” at that Remus scoffed.

“Could’ve fooled me” Seph rolled his eyes, then looked back at Reg who was still blocking him from getting closer to the twins.

“Move” he tried to make his voice authoritative but it sounded more like a request than a command.

“I’m not gonna do that” Reg turned his head when Pandora let out a gasp, she had seen the bandages on him.

“Bloody hell it’s just a small cut” this seemed to tick everyone off Sirius let go of him and in the next moment Remus punched Seph.

“What the fuck!” Seph exclaimed, holding his nose which seemed to be broken, there was blood on Remus’s fist.

“Bloody hell it’s just a small punch” he said in a mocking tone, before he could say anything else, James gripped him hard on the shoulder, with an obvious fake smile.

“Come now then, you're in a hospital get someone to put some ice on that” before he could drag Seph out the man pointed at Remus.
“It’s all your damn fault anyway!” Evan froze, is that who he was talking about, then he remembered helping Remus pick something to wear for a date with Siri, Pandora was busy that day and Seph saw them.
And Evan couldn’t help but laugh, it was less of a laugh and more of a low chuckle.

“All of that, over one little shopping trip?” he asked in a mix of disbelief and amazement, all that crying, all that pain for what? A stupid misunderstanding.

Remus seemed to catch on, but before he could do anything James kicked Seph out, with a simple ‘Come back again and I’ll dislocate your shoulder’ and quickly shut the door in his face.

And that day soon became the worst of Evan’s entire life.

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[Present day]

Evan woke up to a smell of pancakes, he got out of bed and walked into the living room he saw the box from last night and frowned, it was open and the pictures were on the coffee table, he walked further into his apartment until he reached the kitchen where he saw Sirius and Remus,
Now that didn’t surprise him, what did was the lack of Teddy. Remus was the first to notice him, he gave him a smile and a nod before turning back to the stove, Sirius turned around and beamed at him.

“Evy!!” he got up and gave Evan a tight hug, he pulled away then made him sit down next to him.

“Not that I don’t love Remus’s cooking, but what are you two doing here? And where’s Teddy?”

Sirius placed a hand to his chest and gasped dramatically. “Why do you wanna know where Teddy is? Are we not enough for you?!” Remus lightly hit him on the head with the back end of the spatula.

“Thank you for the compliment, Panda asked us to check on you, and Dora agreed to babysit Teddy for the day, she thinks he might help her soften the blow for when she tells her fiance she doesn’t want an ice statue at their wedding”
Sirius snorted.

“Our baby is cute but not that cute” Evan smirked.

“When he’s older I’m telling him you said that”
He scoffed.

“You wouldn’t dare…..would you? Hey Moony he wouldn’t tell him that right?” Remus shrugged and stacked a few pancakes on three plates.
He placed the plates on the counter, he slapped Sirius’s hand away when he tried to take one, then he began decorating them with berries that Evan didn’t know he had and syrup which was weird because he didn’t have any and fork which-”by the way what kind of person doesn’t have fucking forks?”
Evan blinked at him and smiled.

“I mostly eat take out” he answered nervously. “I’m going to pretend that I didn’t hear that, by the way I re-stocked your fridge because lord knows, it wasn’t going to be anytime soon”
He scoffed.

“Excuse you, I did restock it just last week, how else would I have baked you those muffins?”

“I saw you stealing ingredients from Pandora, you little shite”

“I’m her brother, what’s hers is mine and what’s mine is mine, and if you knew why did you still eat them?”
Remus slams his hands on the counter making both Sirius and Evan flinch.

“One; they were chocolate, Two; I love your baking, and Three; I ran out of shite’s to give”

“Okayyy, so Moony has a problem, and you need forks, we figured out a lot today”
Evan hummed.

“Did you know Remus was Reg's first kiss?” Remus glared at him and Sirius with a blank face got out his phone and sent a quick text to someone, placed his phone on the counter started eating his pancakes, this confused both Remus and Evan, until the door burst open, and James came storming in with Reg over his shoulder trying to get free, James put him down with a huff.

“REGULUS ALABAMA BLACK!” Evan laughed. “REMUS JOHANNA LUPIN” at this point he was clutching onto his stomach while on the floor.

“How could you? I made you breakfast” Remus asked betrayed. Sirius snapped his fingers in front of his face.

“When?” Sirius asked.

“When what Pads?” Remus tried to sound sweet but it ended up strained.

“Before us? Or after?”

“Listen Pads, you were off snogging girls, and James was still pining after Lily, I found Reg crying in the Library after hours and one thing led to another-” he trailed off.

“But we were absolutely disgusted afterwards” added Regulus.

“So you were never together?” asked James.

“No we were not” Remus rolled his eyes.

“Yes, thank god I have standards” Sirius stared at his younger brother with an offended look.

“Are you saying I don’t?” “Are you saying I’m better than Moony?” the two asked at the same time.

“God I’m making things worse aren't I?” Remus nodded,, while they were talking Evan had finished his Pancakes and made himself coffee.

“Are you lot done now?” they all stared at him.

“By the way Ev” he hummed and Remus continued.

“That box, what’s that about?”
Evan froze, he had forgotten about that. He sighed and told them about last night's events, by the time he was done Sirius had hugged him again.

“Could it be you know, Seph?”
Asked Reg slowly.

“The note was signed ‘S.R’, what’s his last name?”

“Roland”

The room grew silent.

“I’m gonna kill him” said Sirius. The look on his face showed that he already decided how, Reg nodded his head.

“Agreed”

“I’ll help you hide the body” said James looking up something on his phone.

“I’ll cover it up” said Remus, taking a sip of Evan’s coffee.

“Okay before we plan how to kill my ex-boyfriend-”

“EW don’t remind me”

“-I have about…..It isn't even brunch, it's past that, how long have I been asleep?”
Remus thought for a moment.

“We got here around two, why?”
Evan looked back at the clock, and let out a frustrated whine, five fucking o’ clock.

“Why didn’t you wake me up?”

“Why aren’t you answering my question?”

“I have a date with Barty at eight”

“Good for you, I needed time to shag Sirius on the couch” Evan glared at him.

“Kidding, I needed time to get stuff to restock your fridge”

“Things are going well between you and Barty then?”
Asked James looking up from his phone. Evan felt his cheeks heat up, they have been texting for awhile now, and went on another date before this, and he won’t say it to Barty or to his friends but he really likes him.

“His Blushing!!!” Sirius jumped up from his seat, did a twirl then fell dramatically into James’s arms.

“Finally a decent guy” Remus joked.

“He's one of my friends, what did you expect?” Reg said with a grin.

“On another note; what are you wearing?”

God save him.

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Barty stood nervously in front of Evan’s door, he had killed his eighth victim and already left the body to be discovered, but isn’t the reason for his nerves, in fact it gave him a lot of energy, the actual reason was Evan himself.

Okay imagine this; a person of any gender, male, female, tree[?] anyone, with the most beautiful laugh and adorable smile, now In Barty’s case it’s more complex, you see the thing that makes Barty like Evan so much is well everything.

From his blue eyes to his blonde hair that contrasts with his caramel skin, and good that voice and freckles, literally everything about Evan is gorgeous. He knocked on the door, he thinks his outfit is simple enough: a black shirt, dark brown slacks, dress shoes and a coat, simple.
But what he saw standing on the other side of the door was pure art, Evan was dressed in a dark blue shirt, black slacks, dress shoes and a light grey coat, and did his hair look fluffier?

“Hi”
Evan smiled.

“Hi”
He felt like he was being hypnotised.

“Ahem” both men turn and Barty sees James, Reg, Sirius and Remus in Evan’s apartment. James is the one who cleared his throat.

“Is ‘Hi’ all you can say? What is this heartstopper?”
Barty grinned.

“If it is I call being Nick”
Barty said in response. James smiled. “Yeah, yeah just bring him back by ten” called Reggie.

“Okay Tori”
Evan joked. As he walked out the door.

“Jokes on you, I love her!”
He yelled as the door closed.

“After you”
Evan giggled, god he’s so cute.

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Once they made it to the theatre, the two were in a deep conversation about their favourite movies.

“-Have you seen a lot of musicals?”
Asked Evan.

“Yeah I’ve been too a few live shows around here”
Evan hummed.

“See any good ones?”

“Yeah I love the theatres here, after all ‘There’s no place like London’”
He stopped.

“Was that a Sweeney Todd reference?” Barty nodded.

“You know it?”
Evan scoffed.

“It’s my favourite musical”
Barty smiled, before he could say anything a female voice spoke.

“Evan Rosier?”
They both turned.

“Yes?”
The woman nodded.

“I’m with the yard, My name is Alice Fortescue-Black, I’d like to ask you a couple questions surrounding the Rosekiller case”

Well fuck….