Closure (Sebastian Sallow x MC)

Chapter 9

I'm running.

Why am I running?

I turn my head to look at my back, and I see them. The dark wizards. They are chasing me. I try to run faster.

I don't remember how I ended up in this situation, but I am terrified. They are yelling at me as they throw curses at me. All kinds of curses. Unforgivable curses. I shot spells back at them, but I can't aim well backwards.

I try to lose them, but I'm at one of their camps and it's enormous. I'm surrounded by them. None of them have visible faces, they all have masks covering them. They come from behind me, at my sides, in front of me. They just keep apparating. All trying to grab me. To hurt me.

I keep running until I see two familiar bodies, just standing in the middle of all of this.

Natty and Poppy? What are they doing here?

I run to them to tell them to hide before the dark wizards see them. I reach Poppy and grab her so she faces me.

I scream.

Her eyes are empty, there is no life in them. The once happy and kind eyes she always had to me are gone. And so is she.I watch petrified as her body crumbles and falls to the ground. Natty's body falls next. She's gone too. But I hear her voices, asking, begging for help. My help. But I can't do anything. I have failed, again.

I cry. I cry so much my chest is hurting and I have no voice left to scream.

I can't move my body. I'm so afraid, I can't do it. I just keep bawling my eyes out.

But then I see them. Ominis and Sebastian. They are running away too. They are still alive. I have to make sure they stay with me. They have to be safe. They have to be alive.

With the last forces I have, I chase them into a cave. Without noticing, I end up in a corridor with a door at the end of it. I see Ominis, in the ground, hugging his own legs and mumbling something I don't understand. When he feels my presence, he points at the door, and I walk there. Where is Sebastian?

I try to open the door but it's locked. Alohomora does nothing to it. Bombarda is the next spell I cast. I have no time to waste. Where is Sebastian?

When all the dust from the explosion disappears, I see him. He is tied to a chair. His face is covered in blood, his arms as well. I see cuts and bruises all over his bare chest. One of his fingers is missing. He looks at me, panic in his eyes.

"April, run." He doesn't have the force to scream.

One of the men that are in the room with him turns at me. In his face, I can only see a creepy smile. He points his wand at me.

"Avada Kedavra"

***

I wake up in a cold sweat and screaming.

It takes me a few moments to realise that I'm in my bed and that was a nightmare, but that doesn't calm me down. I'm on the verge of a panic attack when I see a candle lighting up.

"April? Are you alright?"

Her voice allows me to concentrate on any other thing than my anxiety. With the clarity that brief moment gives me, I see Poppy's sleepy but worried face.

"Sorry... I had a nightmare." My voice is merely a whisper, broken from the yelling.

"Oh, honey." She wakes up entirely from her bed and sits on mine. "It's about what Professor Weasley told you?" I nod, not having the strength to talk. I already told her and Ominis about it some days after I heard the news. She gives me a sad smile. "Do you want me to sleep with you?" She grabs my hand.