How It Started

Chapter 50 - Vesper Malfoy.

I woke to my shoulder being aggressively shaken, I opened my eye's and was met with a large mass of light. I quickly rubbed my eye's with the palm of my hands and noticed everyone sitting and awake, still my vision blurry.

" Gee, my eyesight's nearly as bad as yours Harry. " I said jokingly, my word's slurring with the intoxication of sleep still very much present. I heard a low laugh from beside me and I grinned at whoever it was, I rubbed my eye's once more and the world began making sense.

Harry was the one who I had heard laugh only moment's before, everyone else stared at me slightly bemused. I couldn't help but smile lightly myself, however the joking atmosphere didn't last as the door burst open.

I held my wand out at whoever it was, muttering the beginning of the torturing curse, however I stopped in my tracks as Selina entered.

She stared at us all, slightly concerned, I pursed my lip's, glad I hadn't finished the ending of the curse as I slipped my wand back into my pocket. She walked over and sat back up on her spot from last night, on sofa.

Oh. Everything from the previous night came back to me in one single moment, I stared at Harry, a grim expression plastered onto my face. He seemed to sense my recollection and shrugged with a small shake of his head, dismissing my worries. I smiled and he grinned back.

Ron made a loud sigh-noise, gaining all of our attention. He grunted, sitting up on his sofa chair.

" I'm hungry. " He said, I laughed at this, despite anything happening, Ron always managed to be hungry.

" Have you got any food in the kitchen? " I asked Selina, she looked over at me, a slight edge to her expression.

" The order was here not all that long ago, so my guess is yes. " She answered, going back to picking at her finger-nail's. I raised off the floor, holding a hand out, indicating I'd be back. As I walked through the hallway, making my way to the kitchen on the far end.

I pushed open the door and made my way to the small pantry, inside was a small collection of a variety of food. I wouldn't call most of it necessarily ' breakfast food ' but I would work with what we had, I reached for the pasta but a small container caught my eye.

I hovered my hand over the metal encasing before picking it up, to my delight there were a few slices of bread inside. I began a search for jam, but found honey instead. I began walking to exit the room, but a small figure obscured my vision.

" Blood-traitor! " It yelled in my face, I pushed it off of me, it's weight more than I had anticipated leaving my forearm's slightly tense. I looked over to see the familiar face of the house-elf for the black family, Kreacher.

" Good to see you too. " I muttered, raising off the floor, I eyed him for a short moment as he went to walk away.

" Come on Kreach. " I said, he looked at me conspicuously, turning back around to walk away. I mumbled my apologies as I held onto the back of his.. pillow-case. I picked him up, pushing him into the crook of my elbow as I walked back out. He began punching my arm but we were there soon enough, I dropped the bread-tin and honey on the floor which created a loud clash.

" Welcome ba- " Ron begun, but he then saw the small creature still in my arm's. Ron looked from him to me, as I set Kreacher down, shutting the door behind me. He glared at me, then the door and then the group. He walked over, now sitting in-front of Hermione.

" Mud-blood. " He hissed, Hermione's eyebrows furrowed, obviously a little hurt by this comment she had received so many times from my brother. Ron grabbed the chair he had been sitting on and lunged at Kreacher, Harry jumped in-front of him with raised hands.

" Ron, he's a house elf. " He said, Ron stared at Harry for a short moment, He nodded slowly setting the chair down and shooting a glare at the small House Elf. Harry looked over at Kreacher opening his mouth as if to ask something then shutting it.

" Well - how have things been? " Fred asked, a slight quirk to his mouth as he asked the house-elf. Kreacher sat on the floor, with a grim smile on his face.

" We was robbed. " He informed the group, however staring solely at Selina. She raised her eyebrows, offering he continued. I was slightly confused as well, the place didn't look like the subject of robbery.

" Dug through regulus's things. " He continued, I raised my eyebrows even further. Selina shot up and in an instant was running back down the corridor, Harry looked at me shortly before we followed her, followed by the rest of our group shortly after.

We ran down another long hall-way until we made it to a bedroom, where Selina stopped. She looked inside his room, noticing it's ... messy condition. She ran her fingers over the letters engraved in the door, I noticed them and eyed Hermione, she noticed the similarity as well.

" Harry. " We both said, he raised his eyebrows at us and I pointed to the charm around his neck, the first horcrux.. or so we believed. It was actually a fake. He looked at us confused, but opened it up and produced the note, he gave it to me and Hermione walked over, looking over my shoulder. I looked at the note, then at the letters engraved on the door.

" R.A.B. " Hermione said, Selina looked over at us, confused. I showed her the note and she made the connection, all of our eyes flitted over to Kreacher.

" Kreacher, did Regulus have a charm like this one? " Harry asked, showing the small necklace wrapped around his neck. Kreacher inspected it, before nodding slowly, looking over at Selina as he did so.

" Was it taken? " I asked, suddenly remembering the houses robbery, he looked at me and with another small grim smile, nodded.

" By whom? " Fred asked, suddenly interested in where the conversation was going.

" Some weird man, I tried to stop him. " He told us, I nodded, he was a house elf, of course he would protect his home. He held up one finger and in an instant was gone, I raised my eyebrows at everyone.

" He's probably going to try and find the man. " Selina informed us, I nodded.

We all stood in silence, eager now to see where this would take us, we were getting closer to finding our first Horcrux.

In the space of a second Kreacher arrived back, alongside Dobby now, they were both wrapped around a very concerned Mundungus.