Whilst Elena is kidnapped by Anna, Stefan suddenly gets a phone call from one of his best friends, Lysandra Adalyn Potter. However, things take a turn for the worst when he finds out what she was going to do.
For the good of the wizarding world, she...
"Go ahead grovel again..." Damon said just as Stefan's phone rang again, he tuned out what Damon said when he saw who was calling, he answered it immediately and despite what had just happened, he couldn't stop the smile from coming to his face as he said, "About time you called Lyra." Damon looked at him in confusion, who the hell was Lyra?
"Uh...sorry I'm not Ly, I'm Hermione." A choked-up voice sounded on the other end causing Stefan's brows to furrow.
"Hermione? Yes, Lyra told me about you, um...is everything alright? Is the war over?" Stefan asked hopefully causing Damon to stop in his tracks from where he was about to walk away. War? What war?
"You're Stefan, right? The vampire." The voice said and Damon's curiosity was instantly piqued.
"Yeah, that's me. Uh...sorry not to be rude or anything but can I speak to Lyra please?" Stefan asked not expecting the sob at the other end.
"That's why I called. Um...I don't know how to tell you this." Hermione said from where she was being held by Ron just after they both hugged their best friend goodbye with tears rolling down their faces. Ly had told her to call Stefan not being able to do so herself and tell him what was going to happen.
"Tell me what?" Stefan asked now confused and concerned.
"Remember what Ly told you about the Horcruxes, and how she feels every time Voldemort is near her," Hermione said and he nodded before realizing she couldn't see him and said, "Yeah I remember."
"Well we just found out there is a reason for that, why she can talk to snakes, why she can see into Voldemort's mind and why she feels every single Horcrux when it dies," Hermione said trying to control her sobs that threatened to break forth but Ron's comforting hand on her back gave her enough strength to carry on.
"What is it?" Stefan asked curiously whilst Damon was standing there completely confused. Talk to snakes? Voldemort? Seeing into someone's mind? Horcruxes? What the hell was he hearing?
"She's a Horcrux herself," Hermione said sniffling slightly as she wiped her teary eyes.
"What?" Stefan shouted out shocked and horrified, what would that mean for her? "Wait she told me Voldemort can only die when the Horcruxes are all destroyed. Shit, we have to find a way to get it out of her or something, maybe those goblins Lyra talks about can help or you could find some spell in one of those books you have, there has to be something, right? We have to find a way out of this..." He was about to carry on with his panicked rambling as he paced across the hallway not even noticing Damon still by the door before he was cut off.
"Stop it Stefan! We can't do anything! We're in the middle of the war, if we don't finish him now, Hogwarts is lost as is everyone within her walls." Hermione said tears flowing out of her eyes as she breathed in shakily.
"What are you saying?" Stefan asked faintly and Damon could see actual tears gathering up in his eyes as he held on to the banister with his left hand with a tight fist. Damon couldn't understand much of what was going on but he got the gist of it and looked at Stefan with a slight hint of, well he wouldn't say concern, but it was as close as he could get to it.
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"Sh-She's gone Stefan. She w-went to him already and she's not coming back, not this time." Hermione said dissolving into sobs as Ron gently took the phone from her, they were the brightest witches of their age, both Hermione and Lysandra so putting their minds together, they had managed to make magic work with muggle tech, which is why they were able to call him. It had taken a few years worth of delving into old spellbooks full of rituals, runes and more neutral-based spells for them to find a way to channel wifi through the magic in the air around them.
Stefan's hand immediately snapped the banister under his hand as the phone drops on the floor from the other. He stood there in shock for a second just processing what he had just heard before he threw the stick in his hand across the house with such force that the entire thing embedded itself within the opposite wall as Damon watched wide-eyed. He stumbled slightly on the spot breathing heavily as he registered her words in his head, playing the words around in his head again and again.
He shouted out in grief punching the wall next to him, creating a hole in it before holding his head in his hands. He breathed in shakily before vamping away to his room and slamming the door behind him. He didn't notice Damon following behind who opened the door only to find Stefan trashing the entire room, throwing everything all over the place with the most agonized look on his face. A few minutes later, Stefan stopped as he leant against the wall with his head in his hands the room around him looking like a literal warzone. Stefan opened the first draw of his cabinet and pulled out the album he kept there, it was full of pictures of him and Lyra. He held it close to him as he collapsed sliding down the wall before opening it.
In retrospect, it wasn't the brightest thing to do because as soon as he saw her face, he realized he would never see her again, never see her smile, never hear her laugh, never pout at him when he won the stupid board game he used to whine about playing and now wished he didn't waste that time with her, he wouldn't see her smirk at him after he fell for one of her pranks yet again. He would never be her taste-tester again, to check out all the different foods she used to make, he would never have duels with her, play fight, teach her self-defense or snuggle with his best friend ever again as they watched a scary movie causing her to scream and huddle into him for comfort. She would never call him Steffie or Steffanie again just to tease him because his best friend, his sister in all but blood, was gone, she was dead and she was never coming back.
