Order Only: Private message to Hydra, Sirius, and Alice

[alt_lupin]

Should we have a funeral this afternoon?

Or wait until tomorrow?

Just so long as it's not after sundown tonight

I could -- arrange things.

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[alt_sirius]

I'm sending an owl to Laura (Merlin, if I can work out what to say), but it will still be days, even weeks, before she could get here.

Hydra, it's up to you. I think there's little reason to hold off and perhaps there are good reasons to get it done quickly, so it's not ... not lingering.

Private Message to Moony

[alt_sirius]

He might have asked me to help, if he hadn't known I was the one who told Rachel to bench him.

Remus.


Heard someone say that without Rachel we can't move forward tonight.

But we can. You and me?

I owe them that much. Reg and Severus and Harry and Justin. I


It ends. Tonight.

Re: Private Message to Moony

[alt_lupin]

You're thinking just the two of us?

Just us, and no more of our friends, or our children, dying?

Yes.

Re: Private Message to Moony

[alt_sirius]

Mordred, yes.

Should have done ages ago.

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[alt_lupin]

Well.

We even have passwords to get into Buckingham.

Might as well use them.

[alt_hydra]

This afternoon, please.

[alt_lupin]

Three p.m. at the Battle Memorial, then. I'll put out word.

[alt_lupin]

Will Ron and Draco be able to come? I'm not entirely sure what their orders were for this afternoon.

It can be as private as you want, though, Hydra.

[alt_hydra]

I don't know.

[alt_sirius]

Draco. Hermione. Tonks.

He'd want Ron there, I think. Sally-Anne? They were friends.

[alt_hydra]

Is she going to bring her friend, Profe

Anyone who wants to say goodbye can come. Of course.

[alt_hydra]

What are you going to do?

[alt_sirius]

What do you mean?

Bury Justin. Dammit.

private message to Sirius

[alt_hydra]

I think I can probably count on one hand the number of times I have ever asked an adult for anything.

Will you please kill her? Will you? I just want it to be over. Everyone always felt so sorry for me, but no one ever tried to save me. Only him. Will you please do it?

Please?

I don't have it in me. Not now. And if she gets away like Antonin Dolohov - we can't let it happen.

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[alt_sirius]

Oh, Merlin, Hydra.

I was going to tell you after the funeral.

Yes.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm going to do. I should have done it ages ago.

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[alt_hydra]

Thank you.

Re: private message to Sirius

[alt_sirius]

No, don't thank me.

Listen: I ... might not be back. I mean, I don't -

Your mother and mine had so many things in common. One important difference, though, is that your mother is all lies, deceit and pollution. Everything she is, everything she has ever done, has been calculated to hurt.

Mine may have been a toxin, but she wasn't wrong when she told me that I am, too. I have so many things to regret, Hydra, but chiefest is that I have failed to protect my loved ones. Every. Single. One.

So don't thank me. It's quite literally the least I can do. It's also the best thing I can possibly think of to do.

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[alt_hydra]

You're going to protect me. You're going to be the one who does it.

And I'm thanking you now, because - just in case.

Re: private message to Sirius

[alt_hydra]

Thank you.