Is she really going out with him?

Ice and Fire

June 2013

Barty and Regulus' messenger convo

[Bartemius C Jr] Lily Evans.

[Regulus A. Black] This is Regulus.

[Bartemius C Jr] I know that you stupid bastard. I am talking about Lily Evans, I was with her yesterday! Well last night... all of it.... If you know what I'm saying

[Regulus A. Black] Reminder that my parents are married. Also I know what you are saying, I just don't care. I also have no idea who Lily Evans is.

[Bartemius C Jr] By all of it I mean I fingered her and she wanked me off then we fell asleep in the back of the car and I bought just McDonald's breakfast before leaving her home. 1..2..3.. AWWWWWWWWW

[Regulus A. Black] Barty, I can't stress this enough, I do not care.

[Bartemius C Jr] How is twirling school anyway you miserable twat?

[Regulus A. Black] -.-

[Regulus A. Black] If by twirling school you mean my very expensive figure skating tutoring, it is going semi-well, Though there is a hockey team who train in the same rank and I despise one of the players, his is proving to be a thorn in my side, James Potter.

[Bartemius C Jr] Ah Yes Potter! I know him. You totally want to fuck him don't you? HA he's just your type Reg!

[Regulus A. Black] Go annoy 'Lily' instead, I am busy NOT wanting to fuck Potter.

[Bartemiums C Jr] Oh you are going to let him fuck you so hard...

[Regulus A. Black] Barty. Be. Gone.

The Valkyries whatsapp chat

[MaryMac] Helloooo earth to Lily.

[EmmeVance] Someone ring her! We are going to miss brunch.

[Marleneee] Not like Evans to sleep this late? Something must have happened!

[CassieMeadowes] I nominate Emmeline to ring her. Or anyone but me (Sorry Lils for when you read this but I think you'll agree it would be awkward)

[EmmeVance] Calling her now.

[MaryMac] I really just want sipping cocktails and talking shit, I have been ready to go the last half hour, my makeup will never look as perfect as it does right this second. Today at least...

[Marleneee] I am hungry as fuck.

[Abones] Someone needs to wake Kingsley too.

[CharityB] Well one of the blokes can do that. Message them!

[LilianaJ] I have awoken! Just off the phone with Emme.

[Marleneee] EVANS!!! Where have ye been lassie?!

[LilianaJ] I only got home at 8 in the morning and didn't sleep till near ten, so I have had a grand total of two hours sleep!

[Abones] Wait, what?

[CharityB] I am intrigued, hurry up and get really! I want to hear all about this! Reservation is in twenty minutes girls!

[MaryMac] ehhhh can't wait that long? What happened? Who the hell were you with?

[LilianaJ] My beautiful princess with a disorder

[CassieMeadowes] Your what now???

[CharityB] Tell me more, tell me more

[Marleneee] I'll pick ye up in my taxi! I need to hear this first it's arriving in five minutes, hurry up Evans!

[MaryMac] Why do I have the feeling whoever you were with was not a good idea...

[LilianaJ] Well whether that be the case or not. It is my decision, and mine alone.

Later that day in France

Regulus had been training in figure skating since he was three. He could do it as easy as breathing but his parents wouldn't let him even dream of competing professionally unless he got into the university of their choosing. Which he did and would be starting to study in Harvard come September. They were thrilled, Regulus' only joy came from the fact he had a summer of competing in European competitions before going to focus on his studies. To Regulus this was his first summer of complete freedom, far away from Grimmauld place, in Paris he trained in Ballet every single morning and Figure skating 5 evenings a week, the rest of his time was spent drinking coffee and reading books.

For the first time in his eighteen years he did not feel caged in, he feels he earned every second of this and had the right to enjoy it. His mother calls him twice a week which is the only downside, she also checks in with both his trainers daily. As long as they report he was on top form, concentrated completely and skated or danced fantastically the phone call wasn't so bad. The only thing bringing him down was that James Potter.

"Ah baby Black!" James grinned,

"What now?" That had been an interesting new development.

"You are Sirius Black's brother," the man pointed out whilst fixing his glasses back on,

"I am." Regulus confirmed,

"See it's crazy, I thought you looked hauntingly familiar. Then I heard the old hag call you 'Black' I- er I went to school with Sirius," James told him carefully,

"I am aware he never did manage to keep his mouth shut about 'James Potter' and all the wonderful things you got up in that forsaken school." Regulus sneered, "You know after the way he behaved during his first year is the exact reason I was sent to a much stricter school. So, I have you to thank for that."

"I am sorry to hear that, I knew he had a brother but he stopped mentioning you around the time he ran away-"

"How very fascinating!" Regulus cut in before starting to walk off.

"Wait, shit! No Reg, I only mean. I think he does miss you,"

"You are wanted on the Ice Potter. My time here is done."

August 2014

"Barty, wake up," she lost count how many times she said those three words or more so pleaded them, like they were a prayer. She begged the universe to wake him, why is he so cold? So stiff? He can't be dead when he is the most alive person she ever met, a lot of people are just existing but Barty really lives, and he enjoys it. He is chaos itself and at times he can be her calm, she never met anyone like him and she wouldn't again. She did not want to either; she just wanted him, she needed her Barty to be awake.

She doesn't know when it dawned on her that he appeared to be dead, that no matter what she was doing she couldn't wake him, that her phone was smashed to smithereens. That his screen was cracked so bad that she could see the notifications coming from but she couldn't use the phone itself. It refused to work, that is what her brain felt like at that moment. She isn't sure when she left the scene of the crash, she had been the one driving so realistically she needed to stay at the scene. Barty was gone though and that consumed her and took over her, control left her body and she walked and walked until she found her way home. How could this happen? She isn't sure how she even got home, she doesn't remember when she started walking. When she left Barty, but she did and he was gone. Life as she knew it would be forever changed, all she wanted was him. She could smell his cheap body spray and the weed which he was rarely without.

Ice in August was a rarity, it had been so cold that night but it was summer after all.. It seems everything she thought about the world was changing, perspective shifted, nothing is impossible.

When she got home her sister was screaming. She was staying at their family home because she was to be married in the morning. Lily was covered in blood and her legs gave out Petunia was screaming at her demanding to know what she did and where the blood came from, Lily was in a trance. She may be physically there but mentally she was not all there. Not fully, where is her mind? She is unsure, she can barely grasp what is happening around her. She can't feel anything except the pain of Barty's absence. He once said he was her fire, now she barley felt like an ember.

She doesn't know how much time past before the police got there and arrested her she barely heard them read her rights the only words she definitely heard leave their lips was

'Bartemius Crouch Jr'