Rosekiller

Time and time again people have told Alice what to do what to say, the only person that never tried was Narcissa,
And with her in the hospital, and Frank holding her back from punching this stupid gardener, currently the two were in the interrogation room with said gardener, let’s just say she’s running on six cups of coffee, they're currently trying to figure out why he did what he did.

Frankly Alice didn’t care what this idiot had to say, he hurt the most important person in her life, sue her for wanting to throw a couple of punches.

“Mr. Layden, you said that Mrs. Fortescue-Black, wanted you to do that?” She could see Frank’s jaw clench as he said that she knew he cared about Cissa just as much the first time she introduced the two; they have gotten along better than she would have thought.

“Yeah she did, she texted me and everything!” Frank gave him a curt nod, and continued.

“May we see the text?”

“Hell no” both of them look at the man. “What do you mean no?” he shook his head.

“No you don’t understand-I- I want my lawyer” at this point she ran out of fucks to give, she grabbed the collar of his shirt and slammed him against the wall, Frank didn’t stop her.

“No you don’t understand, withholding information from the police is a crime-”

“And depriving me of my right to counsel is also a crime” this man had the audacity to smirk, like he’d won an award, she let go of him and both her and Frank walked out, he told one of the officers to contact the man’s lawyer.

And he sat her down at her desk, he then came back with two coffee’s and sat down across from her, she took the coffee with a sigh.

“What do we do now?” he asked.

“We contact our C.P.S” Frank shifted, she gave him a questioning look before realising.”She quit” he nodded.

“Well what the hell do we do now?” He got out his phone.“Let me make a call” He then got up and stood a good distance from her so she couldn’t hear who he was talking to.

“He’ll be here in 20 minutes” he sat back down. “What?” How can he ask her what? He just happens to know a C.P.S?

“Who is he?” He put his elbows on the desk and leaned in. “You’ll know him when you see him” this made her even more confused.
And know him she didn’t. 5 minutes later a man with short dark hair and light blue eyes stepped into the station.

Both of them got up and went to greet him, he extended his hand to her and she shook it.

“Alice this is-”

“Rabastan Lestrange, call me Raba” She smiled, she never met him but, his brother had been engaged to Bella, despite that she liked this guy already. “I bet Frankie over here already told you who I am but you can call me Ali”
He nodded with a smile.

“The guy’s lawyer is already inside” Frank said as they walked. “Good to know, now then I read over your case file on the way here, I owe Cissy so-”

“Hold on, how the hell did you get the file?” Frank looked at him with a mix of annoyance and something that Alice couldn’t place.

“I have my ways cupcake” she snorted. “Yeah, cupcake he has his ways” and the three walked in, Alice was surprised to see Severus Snape standing next to the man.

“Snape” Raba greeted. “Lestrange” he nodded.

“It’s to my understanding that your client is withholding information from the police now tell me why is that?” So this is how he is in work mode.

“My client is fearful of that hostile detective” he points to Alice. “That doesn’t give him an excuse, you of all people should know that so you have about four options, would you be willing to hear them out?”
Snape whispered something in his ear and the man nodded.

“I need Verbal agreement Mr. Layden”

“Yes” he clapped his hands together, and sat down across from him.

“First: you tell us why you did what you did without anymore childish behaviour, Second: I get a warrant to search all your devices,
Third: you hand over your sources and the person who is obviously telling you to do this, or
Fourth: we go to trial and I win, we have all the evidence, witnesses heck even the victim can testify, so which do you choose?” he said the last option with a sly smile on his face.

“What’s in it for me?” Snape pinched the bridge of his nose. And Raba let out a chuckle.

“You are in no position to orchestrate anything going on in this room, but-” at this everyone in the room perks up.

“Tell us everything we need to know and I can cut you a sweet deal, Let’s say; Common Assault, six months, we can get rid of the attempted rape charges, and go with Sexual assault for ten years, so ten years six months plus therapy cause lord knows you need it”

“I’m not going to prison for ten years!” Snape slapped his arm. “If he adds back Attempted rape, your looking at life-” he looks back to Raba. “We’ll take it”.

Everyone looked at Layden with expecting gazes, and he sighed in frustration.

“I met this guy a month ago, I do delivery jobs on the side so he asked me to deliver three packages, one to this Blonde guy, the other to this family of three and the last one to this couple, I don’t know what was inside of them, but if it helps I saw the blonde guy on almost everything he owned. And he said if the police ask me why I did it I just say she wanted me to.”

Raba nodded in thought. “What did this blonde guy look like?”

“Uhh- tall-ish, he had long blonde dreads up until his shoulders, dark brown skin, and blue eyes-” both Frank and Alice turned to each other.

“Did he have a tattoo on his neck-of a rose? And an ear piercing perhaps?” he nodded, Alice felt her stomach turn.

“You know him?” asked Raba.

“Evan Rosier, Cissa’s distant cousin” he nodded. “What about the others?” she asked, and once he started to describe them, she felt herself wanting to throw up.

“Sirius, Remus, and Teddy Lupin-Black, Regulus Black and James Potter” Frank said, he let out a shaky breath.

“Satisfied?” Snape raised an eyebrow at Raba.

“Never, but yes that will do, he’ll be transferred tomorrow”

Before she walked out, Layden spoke.

“Oi Mrs. Hostile!” she turned with a scowl on her face, and he threw his phone she caught it.

“This won’t get you a lighter sentence”

“I know” she nods, and walks out into the hall where Raba and Frank are waiting.

“I best be on my way, give Cissy my regards” she nodded, and Raba turned to Frank with a smirk on his face and whispered something in his ear that made Frank blush.

“See you later Ali, and you too Cupcake” and with that he walked off.

“I have to ask, what is it with you two?”
He sighed.

“I plead the fifth”
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Later that day she and Frank Headed to the hospital, Cissa, James, Siri, and Remus were all awake, and as much as she didn’t want to, she had to take their statements.

She first went into Cissa’s room while Frank went into James’, she lightly knocked on the door. Cissa was in bed reading Evan’s book, she seemed to be doing alright and that put Alice at ease.

“Hi Cissa” the blonde smiled. “Hi love, how was the interrogation?” She sat down on the bed, holding Cissa’s hand.

“Raba cut the guy a deal, ten years and six months plus therapy” she tilted her head. “Raba is Rabastan Lestrange” she made an ‘ah’ sound and chuckled.

“I knew he was a lawyer but I didn’t know he was your C.P.S”

“Oh no, Frank called in a favour, Raba called him cupcake, but I think it’s safe to say we’re stuck with him not that I mind-”

“Hold on, he called Frank ‘Cupcake’?”

“Yes in a flirty way too, and before he left he whispered something in his ear and Frank blushed, also he sends his regards” she nodded.

“So, the questions?” Alice sighed.

“No need, he spilled everything, but I do need to talk to Evan. Is he here?”

“He just stepped out actually, he, Panda, Barty, and Dorcas were brought in for questioning”

“Why?” Cissa put down the book, and bit her lip slightly.

“Seph’s dead” Alice blinked.

“What?!-How?---When?”

“Last night, his eyes were-uhh-lets just say he won’t be seeing much of this world anymore, nor will he be able to walk this earth”

“Are his legs gone?” she nodded.

“There wasn’t any roses, but there was writing on the wall, it said traitor, also his mouth was half stapled shut, the killer probably got scared and bailed before they finished, despite that they didn’t leave any DNA, they found his eyes under his hospital bed and his legs were–what? Why are you looking at me like that?”

“You are so hot right now, like I feel a little wet you know-”

“Alice we are in a hospital for god’s sake, keep it in your pants” she snorted.

“Don’t you mean trousers?”

“Go check on Siri and Remus” she stood up, but before she went she kissed her wife's hand. “I love you. Mi Reina”
[My Queen]

“I love you too, Mon Chevalier”
[My Knight]

It hurt Alice to let go but she did, Frank was waiting outside, he told her what James said and how Reggie kicked him out as soon as James coughed, the two were talking until they reached Sirius and Remus’ room, they stared at each other for a moment then knocked on the door.
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“Come in” Remus called, on the bed next to him Sirius was holding Teddy while the baby tried to pull his hair.

Just then Alice poked her head through the door, and smiled. “Hi guys, how are you two feeling?” Frank came in after her.

“We're high on painkillers”

“Correction; Sirius is high on painkillers, I am sober” the man in question rolled his eyes.

“Okay, so we just need to ask you a few questions then we’ll leave you be” they both nodded.

“Okay, where were you guys going?” Frank asked in a soft tone.

“To pick up Teddy” Sirius answered.

“I know none of you were drinking, so who was driving at the time?” he asked again.

“I was, Sirius was asleep next to me, the other dri-Seph came out of nowhere” Sirius was hit first, that was left unsaid but it was true Sirius had been more in danger than him, he’s surgery was longer, Remus had waited for him, he could live with permanent leg damage but he couldn’t live without the other man.

“I think that’s enough for today, we’ll come visit soon and next time it won’t be for work, come along Cupcake” Alice called, Frank’s cheeks heated up and he followed her out.

Sirius turned to him. “Cupcake?” he shrugged.

“Pads?” he hummed

“Are you sure you're alright?” he hummed again.

“Sirius” he was looking down at Teddy, his hair was covering his face, but Remus did see Teddy’s worried face, so he got up out of bed, he limped over to where he was and carefully sat down on the bed.

He brushed his hair out of his face and sure enough the older man was crying.

“We almost lost him” his voice sounded broken, Remus looked down and saw the torso, from what Effe told him a large part of Seph’s car went into him it was a miracle he was still alive, he looked up again, he didn’t know what to say what could he say or do to make him feel better?

“I was asleep, what-what if I never woke up again? What if I never saw either of you again-” he broke off into a sob.

“What if the last memory I had was of us fighting? Of thinking you didn’t love me anymore” he spoke quietly this time, while they were in the car the two were arguing, he couldn’t remember what it was about, and Remus didn’t want to think about it, the pain he felt last night while waiting for him, the pain of thinking that he wouldn’t make it,
the same feeling he felt while looking into Teddy’s eyes and telling him ‘Papa will be here soon’ without even being sure of himself.

“I’m sorry” he blurted out.

“I’m sorry too” he cupped Sirius’ cheek, and wiped a stray tear away with his thumb.

“I can’t promise that we won’t fight in the future, but I can promise that after every one of them I’ll still love every part of you, and neither that fight nor the next not even this accident could make me love you less, and I will apologise-”

“Me too, je t'aime Moony”
[I love you]

“Dwi wrth fy modd pan ti'n siarad Ffrangeg” he mumbled.
[I love it when you speak french]

“What?”

“I said I love you too Padfoot” that earned him a bright smile from him, and a giggle from Teddy.

“Je pense que papa t'a dit de mourir” Teddy said with a small smile.
[I think papa told you to die]

The thing about Teddy is that; he knows both Welsh and French perfectly, he understands english but he’s having trouble speaking it [he’s not],
but other than that he loves to translate wrong things to the other person, one time Remus said good night in Welsh, and Teddy told Sirius he said to ‘fuck off’ Sirius didn’t talk to him for two days

Sirius laughed. “I doubt he told me to die after the speech he just gave” Remus looked at his son horrified, who the hell did he get this from, it’s probably Sirius.

Just then they heard commotion coming from the next room, and boy did he recognize that voice.
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“James lay the fuck back down” this has been going on since James woke up, the knife didn’t damage any vital organs; is what he told Regulus, they had to cut off a small part of his liver where the knife had damaged,
but it doesn’t matter. It'll grow back; is also what he told Regulus, to put it in simple words; Reggie’s a little grumpy.

“First you tell me it’s not that serious-shut up-and now I hear from Mia that they had to cut off a part of your fucking liver, and you have the audacity to tell me it’s not a big deal?!”
Okay so maybe he's a little more than grumpy, no problem he can fix that.

“Because it’s not, stop being dramatic” who the fuck does he think he’s talking too? What’s wrong with his mouth oh god, stupid post-surgery drugs, let’s just hope Reg’s not too ma-

“Dramatic? Dramatic!” okay maybe he is mad or pissed?

James rolled his eyes.“Yeah that’s what I said, do you have a hearing problem or something?”

##*****#&*&((#(#(#((, What the fuck is wrong with him?!.

Reg smiled but this wasn’t his mischievous smile or his rare one no this was, Then it hit him-[it was at this moment he knew, he fucked up] Reggie was livid.

Standing in the doorway were all of their friends [except, Siri, Remu, and Cissa, Frank and Alive were there] , even his parents. At first he thought he was dreaming, but then he saw Barty filming on his phone.

“James Fleamont Potter, what the fuck did you just say to me?” Despite his words his tone was calm.

“Did he just use his full name?!” he heard Sirius yell faintly. “YUP” yelled Barty back.

“I didn’t say anything I asked you a question, god has your memory gone bad love?” He heard Pandora gasp, at this point he was digging his own grave.

Regulus walked until he was next to him on his right side, James kept his gaze down, not daring to meet the younger man's eyes.

“I’ll give you ten seconds to apologise” James scoffed and looked up. “Or what” Oh I don’t know, maybe he’s gonna beat your arse?!

“Otherwise I will grab you by your hair, and make you kiss the wall” Is it bad that he’s kinda into this?

“I’m sorry” his tone was filled with sarcasm.

“Like you mean it” Waiter! Remove the ‘kinda’ from his last sentence.

“I’m so sorry Reggie, for lying to you–for everything really, I’ll never do it again and if I do you can make me kiss any surface you’d like, I don’t mind”

“Are you flirting with me right now?”

He turned to Barty. “Do you still have that sign?” he nodded. “I’ll save it for later”.

“Wait, you're on drugs?” he turned back to Reg who now had a concerned look on his face.

“It’s for post-surgery”

“I’m so sorry, If I had known it was the drug talking-” did he just change personalities?

“Don’t worry Pyaar, it’s not your fault”
[Love]

“Okay, though if it wasn’t the drug, you would need a second surgery” he winked. He heard his mom clap her hands together.

“Okay people back to whatever you were doing-”

He sighed, Reggie was so cute.
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Evan was so done, Effe had told him that someone was calling him at the front desk, and what do you know it was his dad, yay.

{—-That being said, me and your mother are back on speaking terms and would like to invite you and Pandora home next weekend, feel free to bring your partners-}

“Hold on, isn't mom married? And what about Felix?” his father sighed
{Felix is coming with his wife, and yes your mom is bringing her-wife too, I am also bringing my fiance all I need to know is if you’ll be there} he thought for a moment, he really didn’t like his dad or his elder brother,
His mom was bad at first but she actually put in the effort to make up with him and Pandora, so if not for those two for her.

He sighed, Pandora was gonna say yes for their mom, but bringing Lily and Barty, wait Barty? Was Barty his boyfriend? Their pre-relationship was working out fine but-

{Evan? Are you still there?”} he let out a small frustrated groan.

“Yes okay we’ll be there, but let me be clear this is for mama and Rosalie okay?”
[Rosalie: Their mom’s wife]

{I understand, I’ll see you there Evan I-}

He hung up, he knew what he was gonna say and he wasn’t in the mood to hear it.
When he turned around, Pandora was there waiting with Lily and…Barty he felt a small smile forming on his face, as he walked over to them.

“Papa?” he nodded.

“He wanted us to come over for dinner next weekend, Felix, his wife, and Mama and Rosa are also coming and they want us to bring our-”

“Partners?” he nodded again. Then she turned to Lily.

“Would you like to meet my family?” Lily smiled.

“Of course, love I’ll be there” Evan turned to Barty.

“I don’t mind if you don’t” he said.

“No I don’t” they smiled at each other, Pandora fake gagged, while Lily patted her on the back.

“By the way do you have a hair tie?” he asked his sister, she opened her bag.

“Blue, Black, Grey, white”

“Blue” she handed it to him and he tied his hair, just then Barty’s phone went off, he checked it and he almost dropped it.

“What? someone sending you nudes?” Evan teased. He turned the screen so that it’s facing the other three.

“Is that?-”

“Call, Alice” Lily got out her phone, and dialled the number, while Evan stood dumbfounded at the picture of him tying his hair with the message.

‘Tell him he looks better with his hair down.

From. Sp.

Ps.
Why didn’t he invite me?’

“What do we sing for creepy messages?” Barty asked, Evan looked up at him.

“How the hell am I supposed to know? Abba or something?”

“Honey, Honey-”

“Not that one”

Maybe he should invest in a dog or a machete, both works…