Mary
She had her wand against her temple. Lily was gone. Marlene was gone. Dorcas was gone. Peter was gone. Benjy was gone. James was gone. Gid and Fab were gone. Edgar was gone. Remus was as good as dead. Drinking until he passed out, hitting the floor and screaming in rage. She’d tried to talk to him. To reconnect but it was like talking to a wall.
There had been restrictions placed on the magical forests of brittain so he could no longer use them. After the previous (and only since Lily and James had died) moon she’d gone to check in on him.
The wolf had destroyed the room and him. He lay naked staring up into the ceiling with several dislocated limbs and blood pouring from him, forming a puddle beneath him. Remus didn’t even try to reach for his medical kit. Just kept murmuring weakly.
“Almost there-“
“Be there soon-“
“Just a little longer-“
She’d helped him despite his begging to just let him die.
She had done all she could. All she needed was a friend. She needed him. But he was nothing more than a shell for rage and grief. She understood that he was a mess. That he’d just lost everyone because the person he loved the most in the entire world betrayed him.
She understood but still a small voice in her whispered “what about me?”. She’d lost everyone too. Why did no one take care of her? Why would no one care if she just went away?
She needed him and he couldn’t be there for her. He was all that she had left. She didn’t want to remember.
Marlene’s pale face and unseeing eyes. Lily’s dull red waves and her mouth opened in a scream. Her true love. Dorcas still with a wicked grin. Didn’t want to see it.
The images that haunted her. Both awake and asleep. She felt so lonely. So abandoned.
Honestly she just wanted to join them but she couldn’t. It felt like a betrayal. To choose death when they had no choice.
But she couldn’t go on like this. She just couldn’t.
“Obliviate” she murmured and it all went away. Mary Macdonald was no more. No memories and not the same person. Gone just like the rest of them. Alive but not the same.