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m4moony

The Hunt for Greyback

Aug 05, 2007 19:26

Date: Friday, 17 August, 2001
Time: Early Afternoon
Location: Spinner's End to Sherwood Forest and back again
Rating: Potentially up to R for violence
Characters Involved: Remus Lupin, June Connors, Glamis, Zak Rollins, Bill Weasley, Severus Snape, Harry Potter (?)

( A [Father] will do almost anything for the love of a daughter. )

misc: prewrites

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sightlesswolf August 7 2007, 17:23:40 UTC

The front door slammed open, and June burst through. Glamis was on her heels; the pack's beta was saying something, probably urging her to slow down, but how could she? How could she, when after two months of fruitless searching, running headlong into dead end after dead end, they finally had something? They had to move now - if they lost him again...!

"Remus!" she shouted almost before Glamis had got the door shut behind them. "REMUS!"

Urgency raced through her like the feeling of a full moon day, all her nerves electrified, only with purpose. She couldn't stand still and wait for their alpha to come to them. Remus wasn't in the sitting room, she couldn't hear him in the kitchen, which meant he was probably upstairs; she'd go and find him. She started up the stairs three at a time, and nearly smacked straight into him as he hurried down. "Remus!" she gasped, seizing his arm in a tight grip; "Remus, we've got him. We've got him. He's hiding out in a cave at the edge of Sherwood. But he could leave at any time, he usually ( ... )

m4moony August 8 2007, 05:05:16 UTC

The slamming of the door had caught Remus' attention immediately. After weeks of near silence slowly driving him bonkers, that was nearly a given. The frantic shouting from June sent him dashing toward the stairs in a heartbeat. June could be effusive in her enthusiasm, but the note of urgency in her voice nearly always spelled danger.

As he met her on the stairs, listened to her words, Remus felt as if the world had fallen out from under his feet -- and not in that good floaty sort of way being in love had caused. In fact, it took him several moments of startled blinking to grasp exactly what she was telling him.

They'd got him?

"Greyback?!?! You found is hideout?"

After months of looking, June and Glamis searching two months solid. Glamis and Perry before that. Before that Remus and Glamis...almost a year spent hunting this monster. They'd finally found him ( ... )

billthedefender August 8 2007, 11:12:17 UTC

Bill had only just walked in the front door setting down his bag and keys as he looked around the empty hall. That's when he heard the yelling and sharp reflexes left no hesitation as he jogged into the lounge.

"Remus!" The young man shrugged off his suit jacket, dropping it on the couch as he hurried closer. "What is it? Are you okay? Is everyone okay?" There was panic in Remus' voice and Bill instantly assumed the worst.

The protest for werewolf rights had angered a lot of people and Bill worried there had been retaliation against his pack.

Although not a werewolf himself, Bill considered himself a part of the pack. They were his other family and the thought that they were in danger quickly made him start to panic. Bill quickly lowered himself down to kneel in front of the fireplace. His suit was at odds with his long hair and earing, but he looked very neat having just come from a day at the office.

m4moony August 12 2007, 00:51:56 UTC

Remus also considered Bill a part of the pack, in addition to being an asset in a fight. Nor was that all together an incongruous thought with the image Bill presented in the moment. The neat and tidy shirt and trousers did little to hide the coiled muscles beneath, drawing tighter with sudden panic.

"They found him. Greyback. But we have to move now or we'll lose him again." The words poured out of Remus in a rush, urgency lending a frantic tone to his voice. After searching for so long, longer than many realized, starting even before Mandy's death, starting over a year ago with the first murder, that of Raithen Cain, Remus was ready to end this if he could. "If you want to come with us, get changed and come through. I'll leave the floo unlocked to you so you can. I need to tell Severus. We're meeting in the kitchen in ten minutes ( ... )

subtle_simmer August 14 2007, 07:54:10 UTC

Severus heard a commotion from the study he'd scarcely used this summer except as the most expeditious means to get from the house to his labs. Most of his belongings not directly related to brewing were at Spinner's end. The furnishings which belonged to Hogwarts were still present, but only the attentiveness of the Hogwarts house-elves prevented a fine layer of dust from accumulating.

Wiping his hands quickly on a cloth kept near his cauldron for the purpose, he strode briskly into the study in time to hear Remus' breathless exclamation.

"Who found whom?" he asked, an edge of concern to his voice to see Remus so out of sorts.

m4moony August 14 2007, 14:04:31 UTC

"Greyback," Remus bit out, already chomping at the bit to get back and start plotting a strategy. If June was right, they had maybe eight hours in which to plan, prepare, and take action. He wouldn't let himself think it now, but the thought that they could have the monster who took his childhood and a young woman who had been as good as his child away from him flirted dangerously at the edges of his mind.

There was a recklessness that came with the feeling of impending revenge concealed as justice.

"June and Glamis have been continuing the search, trying to track the bastard down. After over a year of no luck, they found him. But, he's likely to move by morning and we'll lose the trail. I sent June to make sure Zak stays while I came to get you. Bill will meet us in the kitchen in..." Remus checked the time. Three minutes had already passed since June had burst in with the news. Too long. Remus wanted to be away now. "...seven minutes."

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sightlesswolf August 13 2007, 17:14:25 UTC

Zak hadn't much liked being told to stay behind, but he'd had to accept it. For one thing, Zak was no fighter and he knew it - and someone ought to be here in case anyone stopped by, to stop anyone suspecting that the pack was up to something. And even if things stayed quiet, someone should be here when Severus returned ( ... )

billthedefender August 14 2007, 10:13:57 UTC

Greyback. They'd found him! Adrenalin poured through his system and the moment Remus face disappeared he jumped to his feet. He quickly kicked off his shoes and pushed the confining suit pants over his slim hips, abandoning both in the lounge room ( ... )

sightlesswolf August 14 2007, 20:48:59 UTC

June was gratified to see that Bill, at least, appeared as eager to be about this as she was. Considering he was barely dressed when he popped in - and she couldn't help noticing the lean, muscled line of his torso, and remembering how he'd decked Nevin on the morning they'd learned about Cormac. Hopefully he had a bit more of that fight in him; she wasn't going to be holding him back today.

Though maybe she should be more concerned about him trying to hold her back. His doubtful question caused her to bristle with sudden anger. Was everyone going to doubt her, even now that she was no longer blind?

"You bet your life I'm coming," she snapped, more fiercely than she intended. But how could he ask her that? He'd been there for Mandy, he knew how much Greyback had done to all of them. He, who stood in front of her with his handsome face marred by scars matching the ones that still traced a webwork around her prosthetic eyes - so much fainter, so much better than before, but they would never completely fade: a lifelong reminder ( ... )

m4moony August 16 2007, 03:17:32 UTC

"No, Severus will not be joining us," Remus announced tightly upon entering the kitchen to hear June's last words. His jaw set with grim determination, he went into no further details. Let the others assume what they would. He would not be the one to tell them Severus had not wanted to stand with them in this.

Glancing around the room at his assembled team, Remus remained hopeful they could succeed in this. They were four strong, battle-hardened individuals to Greyback's one. They could easily stand on their own against him. Unless he uses magic a small traitorous part of his mind whispered, sounding suspiciously like the stubborn Head of Slytherin House he'd just left. But, Remus ruthlessly pushed it into silence.

They had survived worse.

"Alright, now that we're all here, June, Glamis why doesn't you brief us on what the lay of the land is we'll be facing?"

fi_admin August 14 2007, 23:35:59 UTC

Fenrir was not an idiot, no matter that wizards held him in disdain. So what if his magic wasn't powerful enough to do a bloody Killing Curse? He much preferred to taste the blood of his victims, anyway. There was so much more satisfaction to be gained when one could drink in the heady scent of terror along with the coppery bloom of blood's rich flavour across his palate.

Delicious.

So he disdained the wizards as much as they did him. This did not mean he never used magic - when travelling alone it was foolish not to have some basic proximity alarms and the like. He was stronger than any normal human, it was true - but he still had to sleep, sometime.

The wilds were his home, though. No one knew better than he how to blend with the surrounding brush, conceal his tracks, mask his scent, guard his identity and his safety. Even the Dark Lord might not have been able to find and manipulate him - if not for the sodding snakesAlone was how he preferred to be, hunting and killing, honing his reflexes and his strength. Well into ( ... )

sightlesswolf August 15 2007, 02:20:04 UTC

It was working.

As anxious as they all were for this confrontation, as much as they could feel the opportunity slipping away from them, none of the four hunters were fools. Gryffindors, yes, but there was still some difference. At least half an hour had been (reluctantly) spent formulating a plan, forcing themselves to come up with potential obstacles and means for dealing with them.

One: They had to prevent the Ministry's trackers picking up on four lycanthropes Apparating together to a remote edge of Sherwood Forest; such a thing would be too suspicious to be ignored. Solution: Each of them had left a few minutes apart, going in opposite directions, and had taken several seemingly aimless jumps before eventually reconvening in Sherwood. That had meant spending more time, which none of them liked, but it wasn't wasted if it saved them all from imprisonment or worse. Trading all of their lives for Greyback's was not the plan ( ... )

fi_admin August 15 2007, 02:49:07 UTC

So focused was he on Lupin - the brave little Gryffindor whelp who screamed louder when his pups were hurt than when he was - that Fenrir didn't consider he might have company, this time. Indeed, the very idea that Lupin would allow any of 'his' pack to be in danger was almost unfathomable after the bloody lesson Fenrir had sent Lupin in that regard ( ... )

sightlesswolf August 15 2007, 03:05:10 UTC

The twin sounds of bones breaking and the accompanying howl of pain were possibly among the sweetest June had ever heard. Her blood was up, and even finding herself practically nose to nose with him and his gruesome leer couldn't faze her, not right then.

"You won't be finding out," she snarled. "But maybe we'll find out how yours taste!" Her lesser size and weight might have made it impossible for her to knock him down, but they had some advantages too. Tightening her grip on his wrist, she ducked away from his grasping hand and under the arm she held, twisting it savagely at the shoulder. Then she slammed her shoulder, with her entire weight behind it, into his injured side.

Thread 8

billthedefender August 15 2007, 04:39:46 UTC

Bill watched the exchange from a few meters away. June wanted her chance and here it was. Besides, the less Greyback knew about how many people were here, the better. The sound June made when she collided with the tree made his stomach clench but there was little he could do for her now, he had to keep his attention on Greyback, not on his little injured friend ( ... )

fi_admin August 15 2007, 04:48:00 UTC

But Greyback already knew there was more of them - at this point between the pain in his ribs and his bollocks, he couldn't much be arsed to estimate how many more of them, but as long as he could manage, he would play.

He hadn't had this much fresh blood in a long time. The boy he'd killed to frame the other bitch hadn't been a challenge at all. Just now, he was only starting to have fun.

Laughing throatily, he followed the new opponent's movements.

"How the mighty have fallen, Lupin," he called, still taunting the leader. "This one's not even full-grown! Worse, he's only a human ( ... )