Rebecca Warren and The Third Wizarding War

Chapter 29: The End of The Road

Rebecca stared right back at Delphi. She already drew her wand out at her. Albus also had his out. Delphi had hers pointed at Isabelle's neck as though it was a knife and upon further looking, Rebecca did see something sharp in her hand with the wand.

"Well, isn't this lovely?" Delphi said. "Three of the four most wanted children in the world all right here. Hello there."

"Let go of my sister." Rebecca demanded.

"You're not in a position to make demands." Delphi said. "You're going to come with me. All three of you, or your sister dies."

Rebecca called her bluff, "You would have already killed us if you didn't need us."

Delphi laughed. "You're a smart girl. But I really only need you and your sister." She turned her head towards Albus. "Hello, Al. It's been a while."

"Delphi, please let Isabelle go." Albus said.

Isabelle was in tears, but she never made an attempt to break free, which Rebecca was thankful for as she could get injured by the knife.

"I think not. You see, this time, I no longer need you to bring back my father. In fact, I don't need him. Mathias wants the Warren daughters, specifically this one in my hands. He tasked me to track them down and capturing or killing you and Scorpius would be a bonus for me. I can do whatever I want with you two."

Albus didn't flinch at these words. Rebecca, however, had questions.

"Why does he want my sister?" Rebecca asked. She was running out of patience. She wanted to strike Delphi right now.

"You can ask him yourself when you see him." Delphi said. "I'll say this though. After all the trouble we have gone through, especially me, to capture her, the bitch better be worth it."

"How dare you talk about my sister like that!" Rebecca shouted.

Isabelle was beginning to sob. "Please let me go. Let me go!"

Delphi grinned. "I think I hit s nerve. You're very easy to get to, Rebecca."

"If you don't let go of my sister, there will be consequences." Rebecca said angrily.

"What will you do?" Delphi asked. "The last time we met, you were tortured and your godbrother ended up dead. Poor Blake. Lying on the cold, hard, floor of a train station. You in tears while the aurors gawked at his body."

Rebecca didn't say a word, but she thought of a spell quickly. Delphi didn't see it coming. Her wand flew out of her hand. She was surprised by this and stepped back. The knife, still in her hand, slipped away from Isabelle's neck momentarily and Rebecca and Albus both cast another spell at Delphi to make her break free of her grasp on Isabelle.

"No!" Delphi shouted. She looked around frantically for her wand. Rebecca and Albus both pointed their wands at her, but she took off down, deeper into the forest.

"Stay with Issy!" Rebecca said to Albus, and she rand down, after her.

Rebecca kept on her trail. Delphi might try to escape if she got out of the vicinity of the school. Rebecca assumed there was an aparation ban on the school grounds of Ilvermorny much like Hogwarts, but really Delphi had no way to aparate anyways. She had no wand. She was defenseless and could only run.

They came to a clearing, which had a creek running nearby. Delphi turned around quickly and charged at Rebecca with her knife. Rebecca had almost forgotten about it. Rebecca did the first spell that came to her mind.

"Crucio!"

Delphi dropped to her knees and let out a terrible scream. Rebecca could feel the terror that Delphi was facing. She stopped the curse immidiately. Delphi did not get back up but she crawled over to a rock and propped herself to sit against it. Rebecca still had her wand pointing at her.

Delphi looked up at her while breathing heavily. "You're going to finish me?"

"You killed my godbrother and tried to kill my sister." Rebecca spat.

"You haven't got the stomach to do it." Delphi said.

"Watch me."

Rebecca focused all of her anger and felt a rush of certainty.

"I'm watch-"

"Avada Kedavra!"

Green light filled the clearing and when it cleared out, so had the life of Delphi Lestrange. Her eyes and mouth were set in a look of shock, but they were showing no signs up life. Delphi wad dead.

Rebecca stood there. She didn't know what to think. She had just taken a life. She murdered. She had the choice of taking Delphi in for prison, but instead she chose to kill her in cold blood.

Rebecca took a minute to realize she needed to get out of here. She turned without looking back at the body of the blue and blonde haired witch and proceeded back up to the location of Albus and Isabelle. She wasn't entirely sure if it was the right direction, but she felt it was.

The whole time going back up, she felt something. Was it closure? But she didn't feel like Blake was avenged. He never believed in killing, so she had done something he wouldn't had wanted her to do.

Perhaps it was reassurance, because she felt her murder was justified? At least now Delphi would never try to kill or harm anyone again. There was one less murderer in the world.

But then she figured, that in fact, there were the same number because she became one.

"No. No. Only needed to do this once." Rebecca said to herself. "I did it to protect Issy."

But it occurred to her that she couldn't say a word to Isabelle or anyone about it. The trouble she could be in. It would be best left for people to guess at what happened to Delphi. Rebecca and Isabelle could be sent to Mathias.

She was just about to ask herself why did Mathias want them so badly, but she found Albus and Isabelle. They both ran over to her. Isabelle hugged Rebecca tight. Albus asked, What happened?"

"I lost her." Rebecca said. "She got away. I don't know where she is."

"She's not coming back, is she?" Isabelle asked.

"I don't think so. She doesn't have a wand." Rebecca said.

"Let's get back to the castle. We need to tell someone she was here." Albus said.

Rebecca looked back at the way she came. For the first time, she felt a hint of regret.