Karina sat, curled up against the wall, Ollivander lying down and being watched over by Luna, when they heard Greyback coming down the stairs. His voice was accompanied by the shuffling of feet. More than one pair, by the sounds of it. That, and the sound of a infant's cry.
"Reckon she'll let me have a bit of the girl when she's finished with her?" Greyback crooned, his voice and the baby's sobs coming closer. "I'd say I'll get a bite or two, wouldn't you, ginger?" Ginger?
The door opened, and Karina could barely make out four figures standing in the darkness, tied together as they rocked back and forth, the crying louder than ever as the door slammed shut, and a terribly, drawn out scream came from above.
"HERMIONE!" Bellowed the voice of Ron Weasley, and one of the figures began struggling to get away from the others, another who appeared to be holding a bundle staggering. The smallest appeared to be barely concious. "HERMIONE!"
"Be quiet!" Came a voice Karina had been dreading to hear come down here. "Shut up, Ron, we need to work out a way-"
"HERMIONE! HERMIONE!"
"We need a plan, stop yelling - we need to get these ropes off-"
"Harry?" Luna's soft voice called through the darkness, and Karina could barely make out that she was standing. "Ron? Is that you? And the baby?" Ron stopped shouting. "Harry? Ron?"
"Luna?" They sounded shocked.
"Yes, its me! Oh no, I didn't want you to he caught!"
"Luna, can you help us get these ropes off?" Said Harry, and Karina felt around for the nail they had been using to break others binds.
"Oh yes, I expect so." Luna told them.
"Luna, I've got the nail." Karina found her voice, and she staggered to her feet weakly, holding the nail out to Luna's dark figure.
"Mum!" Harry gasped, now struggling against Ron and the other two, whom hadn't identified themselves yet. "Mum! You're here!" Karina walked over as quickly as she could, weak as she was, and put her fingers to her lips.
"Sh, Harry." She told him, handing the nail to Luna and kneeling before Harry, unable to stand anymore as Bellatrix's voice floated downstairs.
"I'm going to ask you again! Where do you get this sword? Where?"
"We found it! We found it! PLEASE!" Came a voice Karina could only sadly identify as Hermione.
"Ron, please stay still!" Luna whispered. Ron was struggling against the ropes again. "I can't see what I'm doing -"
"My pocket!" Said Ron. "In my pocket, there's a Deluminatoe, and its full of light!" Karina quickly reached into Ron's pocket, found the little device, and the room was instantly filled with light. Karina saw that it was indeed Harry and Ron, with Sirius James in Harry's arms, ropes around his wrists that were bound to the other prisoners and wrapped around his waist. His face was bloated slightly, as if he had been hit by a stinging charm and it was almost completely worn off, but otherwise looked alright. Ron was a bit battered and bruised himself, though he seemed much more worried for Hermione upstairs.
The other prisoners turned out to be Dean Thomas, who's face was bloodied and bruised, and a little goblin that Karina didn't know the name of, who's face was covered in welts, and looked as though he was going to pass out.
"You are lying, filthy Mudblood, and I know it! You have been inside my vault at Gringotts! Tell the truth, tell the truth!"
Another terrible scream...
"HERMIONE!"
"What else did you take? What else have you got? Tell me the truth or, I swear, I shall run you through with this knife!"
"There!" Karina jumped up again and pulled her sons into her arms, afraid to let go, the ropes getting caught between their legs.
"Oh, my boys!" She cried, the tears streaming down her cheeks. "My sweet boys! Oh my Merlin! I didn't want you to have to end up down here!" Harry put one arm around her, the other still holding Sirius, more happy than ever to see his aunt.
"Mum! Is this where you've been this whole time!?" She nodded, sinking to her knees again, and Harry crouching down, realising how weak she really was.
"Yes! Oh, Harry, I was so worried about you two!" She told him, slowly taking Sirius from Harry, and pulling him in close.
SKIPPING AHEAD FOR THE TIME BEING TO A PART THAT WILL RIP AT THE HEARTSTRINGS!!!!
"Back away from the door." Came Wormtail's quavering voice, and Ron's arm went up slightly, as if planning on blocking Sirius and Karina from spells.
Wormtail came down, the boys tackled him, and the next thing Karina knew, his silver hand was around Harry's neck!
"No! Wormtail, please no!" She begged, jumping up and running over to him. "Please, Wormtail! You're better than this!"
"I saved your life!" Harry grunted. "You owe me, Wormtail!" Wormtail's eyes softened, and to all of their surprise, his hand pulled away from Harry's neck, and short of control over the silver hand, headed for his own throat.
"No! No!" Karina sobbed, grabbing onto Pettigrew's wrist and trying to pull it away from him. "No! I can't lose another one!" Harry found it only miracle and a curse that Hermione screamed again as Karina shouted.
"Karina..." Pettigrew choked out as his hand closed around his neck. "Let me go. I did bad things. Let me go, Foxtrot." Karina handed Sirius to Harry as she fell to her knees, him sliding to the floor as he slowly lost the air from his lungs.
"Please, Peter. Please, stay!" She begged. He shook his head ever so slightly.
"Goodbye... Foxtrot..." And he lost all air, his hand finally slacking. A third Marauder, had officially died.
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WARNING: SPOILERS!!! ~A Watty's 2019 Submission!
RandomI debated this for a while, and decided to do it. These are chapters or small bits that I want to put into my stories in the future! I type them all the time, and decided to let you guys see them early! But I you don't want to see any of them, then...
