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_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.

Re: private message to Sirius

[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.

Re: private message to Sirius

[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.

Re: private message to Sirius

[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.