The Blood Traitor || Oc x Oc

The Finding of R.A.B.

The subway that the five of them had entered was still teeming with visitors and English residents as the five friends continued to make their way quickly through the station. They tried to not make their movement too suspicious. Harry finally struck up a conversation, asking a question they had all been wondering about in the first place. 

"How is it that they knew we were there back in the coffee shop?" 

"Who knows," Ron answered. "Maybe you've still got the Trace on both of you?" 

"Impossible!" Sera objected. "It was removed today! That's our birthday! It's the Wizarding Law, isn't it?" 

Hermione gasped loudly, halting in her tracks. Everyone else did the same, backtracking to the girl behind them. 

"What?" Sera asked. 

 Hermione picked up her pace again, looking devastated. "Harry, Sera! I'm so sorry! Ginny, Dante, and I — we'd prepared a birthday cake for the both of you! We were going to bring it out after the wedding was over! Oh, I can't believe that we didn't get the chance to celebrate your birthday properly!" 

Sera was about to speak up but Harry beat her to it. "Hermione, Dante? Sera and I appreciate the thought — we really do. But given to the fact that we had almost been killed the Death Eaters just a few mere minutes ago, that's probably the least of my worries right now." 

"Besides!" Sera insisted. "We've got more birthdays to come. We have a proper birthday celebration after this stupid war is over. Don't beat yourself up about it, Hermione."  

Hermione blushed, looking embarrassed. "Right. Perspective. I agree, Sera. You do have more birthdays to come." 

"We've got to get off the streets somehow," Dante butted in. "Get somewhere that we know is perfectly safe." 

An idea came to Sera's head. "I've got an idea. Come on!" 

They quickly hurried to the one place they knew was safe from Death Eaters and the Outside World. 

They came into the little metroplex on the far side of London. Sera smiled when she saw the familiar neighborhood of Grimmauld Place. Harry took out his wand and put in the password, which had been switched after Sirius' death, given to Sera shortly before they left to bring their brother home safely from Privet Drive. 

They entered the dusty old home. A gas lamp suddenly sprung to life, startling the friends. Everyone glanced nervously at each other before Harry took a careful step forward. A sudden voice caught them off-guard.

"Severus Snape?" said a deep, growling voice that made them stop in their tracks. 

Sera and Harry glanced at each other. 

"Mad-Eye?" Harry finally asked. 

The dust and dander began to transform itself into a ghastly, spitting, scary image of the deceased Albus Dumbledore. Sera shrieked in fear and hid her face in Dante's shoulder. In return, Dante held her protectively close to her. 

When it got seconds away from them, it finally dissipated. Sera finally took her head out of Dante's shoulder, carefully peeking out.

"What was that about?" Ron asked. 

"Mad-Eye's doing, I suppose," Sera answered, pushing her hair out from her face. "Just in case Professor Snape came snooping around. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case."

Hermione raised her wand. "Homenum Revelio." Nothing happened. "It's a spell to reveal human presence. But there's nothing from what I'm feeling. We're home alone."