Rosekiller

Sirius hasn’t slept, Why would he after what happened last time? His brian is screaming; telling him to find Remus and Teddy and when he does he just lays there awake and tired like right now,
his gaze falls on the clock on the wall: 06:30, Remus will be waking up soon, he thinks he looks back at Remus,
Teddy wanted to sleep with him to night, he can’t help but look at all the similarities between the two,
Sirius felt himself smile as he spotted a few black hair strands in Teddy’s hair, It’ll probably be more noticeable when he gets older,
He stared for a few more moments until he saw Remus stir. That's when he closes his eyes and pretends to sleep.

He hears Effe come in to check on them, her and Remus get into a small conversation before she leaves, that’s when he feels Remus sit down on his bed.

“I know your not sleeping love” he opens his eyes, why did he have to marry a smart arse? The smart arse in question helps him sit up, he looks to the opposite bed where Teddy is still fast asleep.
He really does look like Reggie when he was younger, he’s broken by his thoughts when Remus cups his cheek, tracing what he assumes to be the dark circles under his eyes with his thumb.

“Have you slept at all?” he shakes his head, the younger man lets out a sigh. “Why not?”

Because I’m scared that I won’t wake up.

“I’m just not that tired” truth be told he did take a nap, he had to, the post-surgery drugs were kicking his butt, but he ended up having a nightmare and he tried everything to wake up he held his breath,
He tried to scream but nothing worked.
He woke up a few moments later, he was a sobbing mess,
He never wants Remus to look at him like that again; like his weak, like his fragile, like he’ll burst into tears with one wrong move, he never wants anyone to look at him like that again.

“Darling you look exhausted, your body needs rest if you want to get better” there’s that look again, why was he looking at him differently? He's still himself, does he not believe that? He slapped his hand away.

“You don’t have to lecture me, I've heard all of this from the doctors already” and with that he quickly lays back down and pulls up the covers, but Remus doesn’t move.

“Remember when we first met?” he didn’t reply, but he did remember it was one of his happiest memories.
”I was sitting alone in the train compartment and you walked in wearing this hideous dress, so I offered you my jumper and a pair of pants, and when you came back you had the prettiest smile on your face, I honestly wanted to marry you right then and there-” he cut himself off,
Sirius felt his whole body warm up at those words.

Remus continued. “And in second year when you came out to me, I didn’t think differently of you then why would that change now?” he looked at Remus with clear shock on his face, while the other just chuckled.

“Yeah I know what’s going on in that big brian of yours, I’ve known you for fourteen years, and I told you nothing will change how I feel about you, I’m just a little worried that’s all”

“I can take care of myself”

“I know, you took care of both you and Reg for a long time, but right now that part of your life is over, Reg has someone to take care of him and you have me”
He nods, and leans his head on Remus’ chest, while the other man plays with his hair.

“Why don’t you get some sleep?” he looks up at him with his chin on his chest and lets out a whine.

“I’ll be here when you wake up”

“Promise?”

“As long as I live and breathe I’ll always be there with you my star” he says with a smile.

“And I with you my Moon”

Not even a minute later Sirius drifted off to sleep.
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Imagine a tree…

Hold on just imagine it, you got it? Okay good so then imagine yourself in the tree, pretty high right?
But wait there's more, imagine that same tree but it has brown and orange leaves and you're hiding from your girlfriend.

Marlene didn’t know how she got there, the last thing she remembered was going to visit Siri, Remu and James and now she’s in a tree, why is she hiding from Dorcas? Well she might have done something-ish?

Okay so she saw this thing online, it was a job application and the place just happened to be Hogwarts so Marlene thought ‘oh didn’t Remus want to be a teacher?’ so she signed him up, bad idea right?
Well she didn’t think so–at the time, and in her defence it was three in the morning, plus if he does get accepted he starts next year, perfect right?

And when she told Dorcas on the way to the hospital she started yelling at her, so what did she do?

Climb a tree, and now that she thinks about it maybe she should have asked first before doing that, eh what’s done is done and once he sees the pay he’ll thank her, if he gets the job…

“Marlene, get down from there!” she held onto the branch tighter.

“Hell no you're gonna kill me!”

“Yes but you’d look good on the front cover of the daily prophet!” she would….but she can not die in this outfit.

“Look I’ll come down, and you don’t kill me, cause we both know Remus is gonna do it” Cas shrugged.

“Fine, come down I won’t kill you…yet” that’s good enough for her, she quickly made her way down and Dorcas slapped her upside the head.

“Ow! What was that for?!” she rolled her eyes.

“Don’t be a pussy come on, it’s fricking cold out here”

“You are what you eat” Dorcas gave her a deadpanned look and started walking towards the entrance, Marlene quickly followed.
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“You did what?” Remus put his book down, Dorcas stood next to her with her arms crossed, Sirius was holding onto the man sleeping and Teddy was sitting in his lap.

She swallowed hard.

“I signed you up for a teaching gig, But it only starts next year if you get it, but you will so—-please don’t kill me”

He sighed. “Marls, I’m not gonna kill you, but you really should have asked first” she nodded.

“Hypothetically; what would I be teaching?” she perked up.

“Literature” she saw a tiny glint in his eyes. “And you’d still be able to run the bookstore, you can even plan your own schedule” he nodded in thought.

“Is Minnie still working there?” next to her Dorcas shook her head.

“She bought the school, before you ask how, she got a job as a judge, Poppy still works there though” he hummed.

“I remember when Me, Prongs, Padfoot and Wormy got arrested she represented us”

Right, Minnie went to law school, she was always Marlene’s favourite teacher, despite being terrifying.

“Anyway, we’ll leave you be I have to go bother James now see you” and with a final wave, plus the gifting of a few books and chocolate, the two hurried off to James’ room.

Where Marlene saw her first love, Effe, they never dated, no, it was forbidden love, it seems she brought the mister too, it’s fine she’s moved on too.

The woman in question turned around, and gave both her and Dorcas hugs.

“It’s good to see you girls, how are you?”

“We’re good Effe, I’ve heard you’ve been taking night shifts” she nodded with a sad smile.

“Just want to make sure my babies are okay” her heart melted. Effe had always been a good mom, at least better than hers.

“Has Reg also been staying here?” Dorcas asks.

“You can ask me yourself” they turned and saw James glaring at Marlene and Reg sitting next to him with a smile, while Monty was sitting on a chair close to the bed with a book.

“Hi, Baby Black” Marlene waves.

“Hi Marls” he turns back to Dorcas. “How come your girlfriend has better manners than you?” she rolled her eyes.

“Hello, Regulus Emotionality repressed Black” he scoffed.

“Is that what I’m saved as in your contacts?” she hummed.

“It was, I changed it to ‘Sun-blower’” he flipped her off. “Cut it out you two, and James stop glaring at Marlene” Effe sighed.

“Yeah James, stop glaring at your –in another life– Step-mother” Monty chuckled.

“Your no mother of mine” Regulus mumbled something and James turned to him. “What was that love?”

“No disrespect to Mia, but come on, Marls, have you seen Monty?” this time Effe laughed.

“Honestly, love, if you age like that I think I’ll be-”
“Okay! No more calling my parents hot in front of me, and what the heck you two?! You can’t say those stuff in front of-” he was cut off by a scream coming from downstairs, that sounded a lot like-

“Pandora” Dorcas ran out of the room, Marlene heard James telling Reg to go, she ran out herself along with Effe, once they made it to the down stairs floor what they saw could only be described as; fucked up.
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Pandora stared at the pictures on the floor in shock, it was from inside her and Ev’s house back when they were kids, most of the pictures were of Her and Evan getting beaten by their father and other stuff like that,
But the one that made her scream was something she doesn’t remember.
Evan was fifteen in this one and he was bleeding out, his wrist was slit and he was just laying there.

She clutched her stomach as she saw the next one, she immediately grabbed it, she didn’t want anyone else to see this, Evan was getting-she let out a sob,
And looked for any more photos of that, there were only three more, but it was too late Ev saw.

He didn’t say anything, but he did wince when he saw a picture of her with a big bruise on her cheek, he crouched down and started to pick them up, she saw Reg helping, so was Dorcas, Marlene and Effe.

Lily and Barty joined too. Why were there so many? Where did this person get all this? And why didn’t Evan tell her what-she crumbled the pictures in her arms.

Evan helped her up, one of the nurses got her a chair and Evan got her some water.

“Why-why didn’t you tell me?” he sighed. “It didn’t matter then, It still doesn’t now”

“Of course it fucking matters, you were—If that fucker wasn’t already dead I’d put him in the ground myself”
He let out a breathy laugh, and pulled her to his chest. “I know” he kissed her head.

“I love you big sis” she felt tears running down her face. “You’re the strongest woman I know, and I can’t imagine my life without you, you know that right?” she nods.

“I’m telling Cas you said that” he laughs, and it was then when she realised he was also crying.

“I love you too Petite Rose”
[Little Rose]

“Are you gonna turn those over to Alice?” he asks.

“It’s evidence, plus who knows we might find some fingerprints” he nodded. “You want me to call her?”

“Not yet, It’s been awhile since you gave lil’ ol me a hug” he smiled softly at her, and pulled her close once more.

She decided that whatever happens next like always is up to fate, but she also hopes that fate will for once be on her side…
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Life was something Raba wished he’d never had, currently he was sitting at his desk sorting through the files of this god forbidden Rosekiller case, he sees why its called what it is,
But still why the hell was this so complicated it’s obvious, Evan’s stalker and this killer aren't the same person.

One of them uses roses, the other uses voodoo dolls, the only thing the two have in common is well-Evan nothing else, he lets his head fall hard on the desk, but his mopping is cut short by footsteps.

He knows those footsteps, he doesn’t move not even when the door opens and the steps stop at his desk.

“Raba?” He looks up and smiles. “Hi Minnie” the older woman crosses her arms over her chest, with a huff.

“What are you doing? It’s almost dark outside” he sits up with a sigh. “I have to go over all of these files, do you remember Alice and Frank?” she nods.

“I’m their new C.P.S, they sent me all of the information they gathered, but you know me I hate desk work” she hums, and grabs a file.

“Why is Crouch Sr.’s case here?” He grabbed another file.

“His body was dug up, Fleur’s examining it along with Seph Roland’s” she narrowed her eyes.

She pulled up a chair and sat down. “I think it’s best if I contact Poppy and tell her I’ll be home late” he pulled out his phone.

“What are you in the mood for?”

“Anything, do you still have that wine stash in your bookshelf?” he nods.

“Something to go with Red?”

She walks back with two wine bottles, and a slight smile on her face. “You read my mind” he chuckled.

“This is why you're everyone’s favourite” she pops open one bottle and gets two glasses out from a compartment in his desk, after that she hands him a glass.

“Cheers to that, you're the only Lawyer I..tolerate” he smirks.

“Okay it will arrive in twenty minutes, I asked John to bring it in” he put down his phone, and she got out hers.

“I’m not surprised your friends with the night guard, It seems nobody can resist your charms..not even my wife, Poppy sends her love” he laughed, though he must admit it sounded a little sad, this did not go unnoticed by Minnie nothing ever does.

“Out with it, who hurt the pride of London’s finest” he smiles.

“I’m sure you can figure that out” she hums.”I can but it might make you feel better if you talk about it”

“Have you had practice with this kind of thing?”

“You’ve heard about the Marauders haven’t you?” he laughs. “You miss them?” she nods.

“I plan to pay them a visit, three of them are in the hospital” he nods while taking a sip of wine.

“I heard, it seems that out of all your students those four will always be your boys”

“Yes it seems so, though, I don’t mind the other two groups” he tilted his head.

“The valkyries and the pythons” he thought for a moment.

“Who are the ‘Pythons’?” she rolled her eyes.

“The skittles” he made an ‘ah’ sound. “Enough about that, you didn’t answer my last question”

“Tsk, fine…I met this guy last year, I was still a barrister at the time as you know, the guy that I was defending killed two little girls and I set him free, so the guy he was the head detective on the case, he came up to me and told me to:
‘Stop playing on the wrong side of the field’ I listened and after I became a C.P.S, I ran into the guy at a bar and gave him my card I told him to call me if he needs anything, he bought me a drink and one thing led to another and-”

“You had sex with Frank?” he stared at her in shock, it wasn’t because she knew who the guy was but because she said the ‘S’ word.

“Yes I guess I did” she hummed. “I didn’t know you were a bottom Raba” he snorted.

“Imagine that-” he was cut off by his phone vibrating.
He looked at it and frowned.

Unknown.

Un: Duck.
21:07

Just then he saw a red dot aimed at his wine glass, Minnie saw it too she grabbed her phone, quickly pushed all the boxes and files on the floor then they both got under the desk.

He heard the door start to push open.

“John. Do not come in here step away from the door”

“Raba? What’s going on?”

“No time for that call the police now” he heard the door shut and as if on cue he heard gun fire on the floor across from the desk, strange.

Once the shooting stopped they both got up and tended to the files, none of them were damaged.

“Raba, you might want to see this” he looks to where Minnie was pointing.

There on the floor spelt out in bullet marks were the latters:

S. A. N. S. E. H. G. S. T. A. E.

What the hell?
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As he walked over the road he knew someone was following him, sadly he didn't have a machete on him, he was walking to his car, it was just a little further, Once he rounded the corner the person grabbed him.

Before he could scream the person covered his mouth with their hand, Evan bit it hard, he was pretty sure he drew blood, after a few moments of struggling the person let out a yelp, and he saw why something was biting their leg.

Soon that yelp turned into a scream, and they let go but not without kicking the poor thing that bit his leg,they then pushed him onto the ground the fall made him hit his head, the person then ran away.

Evan looked down and saw a brown Siberian husky with green eyes and a scar over its-her left eye, she was just a puppy, he carefully picked her up.

Wasting no time he quickly ran to his car, buckled her into the passenger seat, got in his car and drove to the only veterinarian he knew.

Once he got there he knocked on the door, and she opened it.

“Your home early-oh Hi Evan” Dora smiled. “Yes hello–I- well not me-she needs your help” she looked down to the puppy in his arms and nodded.

“Come in I’ll have a look at her” both of them walked inside.

He sat down on the couch while Dora checked the puppy out, he had told her what happened and she gave him an ice pack.

“She doesn’t seem to be a stary, I think she was recently abandoned, poor girl” Dora says through a sigh.

“I’ll take her in” she looks at him. “If it weren’t for her I don’t know where I’d be right now, It’s only fair I return the favour”
Dora smiled.

“Don’t you have that thing with your parents tomorrow?” he groaned, and she laughed.

“Don’t worry I’ll take care of her until you come back”

“You are an Angel, Dora Tonks”

“Eh, my fiance calls me better things” he scoffed. “Like what ‘good girl’?” she slapped his arm.

“Anyway, we can’t keep calling her ‘puppy’, do you have a name in mind?” he thought for a moment.

“I think I’ll name her, Beatrix”....
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