Tempus Edax Rerum

We Only See Each Other At Weddings And Funerals - 2

The back of Luther's head was shown.

 "In five, four three, two...." A man's voice counted down as the scene shifted to a tv recording of a news reporter .

18 Years ago

"This is a flashback," Lily mumbled. "A what?" Cassiopeia asked, a small frown on her face. Lily looked at her in surprise, Cassiopeia Black had never even looked her way the entire time they had been attending Hogwarts and yet here she was waiting for her to explain what a flashback was....

"Umm it's when in a movie they show an event that happened in the past," She explained. Cassiopeia looked away as if this had not been the first time they had ever even talked without any annoyance or animosity.

The siblings looked at them in confusion.

 "This is Jim Hellerman, reporting live for Channel 2 News outside of the Capitol West Bank at Main and Sixth." 

The sound of alarms going off was heard as more news crews could be seen behind him along with a white building. 

"A group of heavily armed men stormed the bank not three hours ago and took an unknown number of hostages."

The scene changed to a bald man walking through a door, a walkie-talkie held to his ear and a gun in his other hand, as alarms wailed. "Get them behind the counter!" he ordered, gesturing with his gun. Another man, wielding a machine gun, corralled a terrified group behind the counter.

"Now you've put me in a position where I gotta do something I don't want to do. Hmm?" He snapped into the walkie-talkie. He was so focused on the scene in front of him that he didn't see the young girl skipping towards him. "Shit!" He swore, turning to find the curly haired, masked girl standing next to him with a smirk on her face.

The Hargreeves siblings shared a knowing look, 18 years ago had been they're first mission and it had also been a bank robbery. It was their first but definitely not the last.

The children looked between the curly haired girl on the screen and the woman sitting with them. "That's you. Isn't it?" Remus asked.

"Mhm," Allison hummed, "This was our first mission."

"Hey, get back with the others." He barked.

The girl looked him up and down, lips curled, "I heard a rumor."

"What? What'd you say?" He leaned down.

She smirked. She cupped her hands, leaning towards him as if to whisper, "I heard a rumor," her voice echoed, "That you shot your friend in the foot."

The man's eyes glazed over, in a trance he cocked the gun and aiming at another robber. "Hey dude? What the hell?"but his words were cut off by a scream as he was shot in the foot. The gun fired wildly, shattering windows and causing the hostages to cry out in terror. The leader looked down at the gun in his hand, bewildered.

This must have been what she looked like, Cassiopeia thought, it had felt exactly like being under the imperius curse but unlike it, this way she couldn't remember what she had said or done.

The scene changed back to news reporter ducking down at the sound of gunfire, "We just heard shots from inside the bank." SWAT teams and police vehicles formed a barricade around the building. "It's uncertain if any of the hostages were harmed in that."