-Sirius Black-
People are dead.
Four.
Four people have died.
No, four people were killed.
She killed them.
Stella Killed them.
I don't think I'll ever be able to forget the sound of their bodies breaking on the pavement and the look on McGonogal's face in the moments after. And when Stella smiled like killing those people was the easiest thing in the world and said "Welcome to the Game."
We weren't meant to be there but of course we were. As the aurors raced after Stella and McGonogal passed us in the archway of the Great Hall, she gave us her most grave look and I knew that she was silently urging us to stay and to not follow them.
But follow them we did.
While they faced off in the Courtyard outside the front door, just before the bridge James, Lily, Peter, Remus and I hid on the shadowed arches of the pavillion, watching from the sideline. And maybe we shouldn't have, maybe we should've taken one look at that haze of insanity in Stella's eyes and bolted.
But it was like witnessing a car crash being that you just couldn't look away.
And as those hideous words left her lips, in the handful of seconds before she dissolved into thin air, she looked over at us her eyes cold and daring as if the words were meant for us too.
"Welcome to the Game."
Then when she was gone, the shocked silence that had kept us in it's hold dissipated and the full weight of what happened started to settle in. Lily was the first one of us to move and James automatically moved with her. My feet took a few more tries before they started to work, the cold of Stella's stare lingering in my bones.
"Professor?" Lily choked out and McGonogal whipped around and fo a moment her stricken expression met ours before she mannaged to mask it- poorly.
"Get back to the Common Room." She ordered allthough her voice wavered and her eyes glistened.
"Are they dead? Are they really dead?" James spoke up, clenching his fists to stop his hands from shaking. It didn't work, his hands still shook just like his voice did on the word 'dead'.
More aurors started to fill the courtyard, ther usually impassive faces becoming vulnerable at the sight of their fallen comerades. They were too late to do anything but stop and stare at the destruction that had ensued but maybe they were the lucky ones, lucky it wasn't them broken on the pavement.
"Get them out of here. Gryffidor Common Room. Now!" McGonogal barked, some of the authority coming back into her voice.
The aurors in the face of their grief launched into action like they were trained to do, rounding us up and pulling us away from the courtyard as we didn't know whether to fight to stay or be glad to leave. So we stayed in a sort of suspended silence all the way from the front doors to the Common Room.
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