Crookshanks | 𝘚𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬

Chapter 139

It was as though time had frozen. Jenna felt paralyzed, unable to move, unable to scream, unable to breathe. In a flash of a light, Sirius was thrown across the room and laid there unconsciously.

     "NO! SIRIUS!" Harry yelled, running toward his motionless body as Jenna stood there, frozen on the spot. Her whole body went numb.

     "Sirius... no..." Harry panted, trying to shake him furiously.

     "Harry, stop..." Remus ran forward and pulled Harry back as he cried. "Stop..."

    Remus felt as though his own heart had suddenly stopped beating. He had heard Bellatrix's curse. He felt like he was stuck in his worst nightmare, with no way out.

     "NO!" Harry yelled, but when he caught sight of Bellatrix shrieking with laughter and running away, he jerked free from Remus's grasp and ran out after her, his wand raised.

Jenna couldn't move. She felt as though her soul had crushed, torn into a million pieces. She wanted to scream, but she couldn't. She wanted to cry, but she felt as though she had already died. But death would've been mercy. Death would've been easier than this internal pain, burning her every nerve and torturing her every cell, as though someone had set her on fire.

    Jenna had lost almost everyone she loved and cared for. But Sirius was her life. He was the one keeping her sane and going. And if he was truly gone, she had no reason left for breathing.

    Just then, among this madness and chaos, Dumbledore glanced back at Lexi, who was holding Tonks's wand in her hand in a far corner, going unnoticed by everyone. But Dumbledore's head then jerked towards where Harry and Bellatrix had left just a minute ago, and so he ran out after them.

The next moment, Lexi fell to the ground and her eyes closed, the wand falling out of her hands. Kingsley rushed toward the girl, trying to help her.

    Although neither Jenna nor Remus had noticed any of this, for their eyes were only fixed upon Sirius. Remus's knees gave in and he kneeled down on the floor beside where Sirius laid, staring at him in shock and horror. Every bone in his body was trembling, tears filling his eyes.

  Jenna's empty gaze was still fixed on Sirius's motionless body. She moved forward, dragging her numb feet on the ground, feeling as though her own heart had stopped beating and her lungs had stopped working.

"Sirius..." Jenna whispered, falling to her knees beside Remus. Her whole body froze. Her hair started changing color first, and then her face followed as she transformed back to her original self without being able to control it.

"Jenna... I — I'm so sorry..." Remus whispered, the tears rolling down his eyes. But it was as if she couldn't even hear him.

"No... this can't be happening..." Jenna shook her head furiously, her throat burning. She clutched onto her stomach, the pain becoming unbearable. "NO!" she screamed, tears streaming down her cheeks.

As she looked down at him, her whole life flashed before her eyes in a matter of seconds; from the moment she had met him on the train to Hogwarts, to their first kiss, the night he proposed, and to the rainy night he had left fifteen years ago. She remembered the way he always wanted to have a family, because he never had a real one for his own. He wanted that life with her. He wanted to marry her. To have kids. But now... he was gone, and he had taken all those dreams with him.

"No... y-you can't leave me like this..." Jenna whispered, her eyes burning with the tears as she dropped herself forward and laid her head down on his chest, feeling that the pain and the ache in her heart was going to haunt her forever. "Y-you can't... you promised... you can't d-do this to m-m-me... you promised..."