Post by silvus on Nov 27, 2008 22:36:57 GMT -5
A blue wisp of smoke burst out the top of the Three Broomsticks, a vengeful black shadow followed closely behind. The two intertwined back and forth. Bellatrix's laugh and Nettie's howl mixed with the dark storms overhead. The clouds of rapid moving magic mixed with blue lightning in the sky.
The white wisp stopped and vaporized on top of Hogwarts, the highest point on the castle. Bellatrix circled twice around the tower, trying to figure out Nettie's strategy. She looked in a window and saw an odd sight. Two red head boys giving chocolates to a crowd of burly older kids, one being Malfoys son. She gave it no thought and landed in front of Nettie. The two eyed each other.
"This looks familiar doesn't it batty. I remember this weather, me telling you to ask out Akkana. I never thought you'd actually do it. I mean look at you, you're still a freak. You're still that little crying girl who did her homework under the whomping willow! You went to prison for killing people and starting a war. You're a loser Bellatrix, face it. You always have been and always will never be ME."
Bellatrix whipped her wand and flung a crucio curse at the woman. She repelled and and Bellatrix repelled it back at her, just stinging her left arm.
"I went to prison because the war was already starting. Because of people like you. People who will never accept that those BORN into magic are superior to those just PLAYING magic. And that little quip about me never being you?" Bellatrix handled her wand and looked at it. "I thank the dark lord that I will never be as small and petty and pathetic as you were at your BEST moment. I know now I can wake up every morning and know you are dead."
"And you justify this HOW?" Nettie was getting a spell ready.
"You ask yourself that, look into a mirror and know what you did. Because right behind that smiling, caked on make-up face is me standing right behind you keeping a promise I made long ago. I never forgot, I never forgave and...."
Nettie flung her wand at Bellatrix and shouted "Petrificus Totalus"
Bellatrix sharply deflected the charm back at Nettie and did one of her own "acio" and Nettie Neptunes wand was in Bellatrix's hand.
"......and what goes around" she looks at the wand in her hand and snaps it in two, tossing it over the edge of the castle "......came around"
Nettie was frozen by her own spell and couldn't move. Bella knew this and knew this was her chance.
"You know for so long I had used the killing curse to amazing effect. I love using it because it's so...........final. There is no 'to be continued' or 'until next time' it's a dead stop." She eyed the other woman with a tilted head and narrowed eyes. "However for you this is too good, too quick, too final. it doesn't give you much time to realize the mistakes you made. It doesn't give you the chance to truly wonder 'what if'. I used to kill myself wondering 'what if we did become real friends?, what if Rin saying yes was true? what if we were teaching here right now instead of fighting to the death. And do you know what?"
Nettie was still stiff as a board.
"No.......? no answer?"
A crackle of thunder echoed off the mountains beyond.
"I am glad you did what you did. Because it allowed me to see beyond the dreams of others, it allowed me to walk my own path. I kill because it's what I do. I kill because I was the little creepy girl under the whomping willow. People like me never grow up to be teachers or ministers or anything like you. People like me are Death Eaters because we are not ashamed of what we are. We are pure blood through and through. We kill those like you, because the world is a better place without you."
Bellatrix Lestrange leveled her wand and spoke a simple spell even a 1st year could conjure up with no trouble. "Wingardium Leviosa"
Nettie's stiff aware body lifted slowly into the air, moving from the comfort of the steep roof over the edge. Lightening came close, just missing her.
"Funny, all that dueling we had, the big fight. My break out of Azkiban, my hunt and dead bodies of death curses left in my wake. And here we are, a simple levitating charm keeping you between life and death. Goodbye Nettie Neptune, your screams will help me sleep tonight."
With that bellatrix releases both spells and Nettie Neptune falls to her death. No wand at her side and no one to save her she hits the ground the same time thunder rolls in the valley.
