Bait and Bleed - An AU War RPG

*Fabian frowns slightly to his brother, in agreement: very low, indeed. He knocks back another long drink, but it doesn't do anything to loosen the sick knot in his stomach.*

I still don't think so. If the Dementors were behind it they've have been cut loose on Piccadilly Circus already. Tube lines. If we take the latest two as the main corpus of information we're using, as the pattern - not to minimize here, but it's not a lot of people compared to Diagon Alley. If they wanted numbers - and they'd want numbers - it'd be somewhere more crowded.

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You're right.

Still, someone had to loose them in the first place, someone had to let them go to Rothbury and lower those protections first. And that person works at the Ministry. They'd have to. And they're probably a Death Eater. Two birds, one big fucking stone.

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Work at the Ministry, or have access to the Ministy. I mean, Malfoy...

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But he's so nice, Fabian, he wouldn't dream of it.

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Fucking Malfoy.

--We have to bring this to Moody. He might have the leverage to let us look into Malfoy. No way will Umbridge approve it for our own investigations, we'll have to get some kind of probable cause.

*But there's a kind of energy, a light in Sirius' eyes that wasn't there before. This is something to work on, something they can do.*

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I don't think Malfoy would do something so openly solo. But I still don't think it's a Death Eater. If it is, it's someone operating without Voldemort's orders. I don't think he'd want to kill so indiscriminately, he values "pure" magical blood.

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*Fabian looks slightly better too, but it's at Gideon's joke, not necessarily the thought of doing something. He's wired a lot like Sirius in that regard, but was more making a point than anything else, about Malfoy. Still, he smiles a little at Gideon, clinging to that thread of humor - it's like a goddamn security blanket, for him, and he doesn't care if that's a silly comparison.*

Unless he's trying to stir up panic in general, and I wouldn't put it past him. Anyway purity's not the only thing, mind, he doesn't give a flying fuck about any of our families. Wrong kind of purebloods.

Anyway - I didn't mean actually Malfoy, Sirius - Gid's got the truth of it, he's such a doll - but I just mean I don't think we should limit ourselves to people with official Ministry IDs. A lot of people have fingers in that pie.

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Why not Malfoy? If we can make his life hell under the guise of an investigation and show Umbridge that the three of us are more political baggage than we're worth, why not?

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*He laughs a little, shrugging.*

If you wanna antagonize Malfoy I'm all for it. Just don't get fixated.

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There are worse things to fixate on, Fabian.

*Gideon pours himself a Firewhisky, finally, and takes a long sip, thinking hard. When he speaks, it's quiet.*

I dunno. It seems to me like it's mayhem and not specifically targeted mayhem, either. Who do we know who does that, Ministry or otherwise?

Fucking hell, even the pubs are political these days.

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*Glancing up, Fabian raises a hand slightly.*

Call me crazy, but I'm liking Voldemort for that description. Just saying.

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Twist my arm. You're crazy.

*But he's listening.*

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But look at Rothbury and the ICW. Contain, kill as many as you can, get out clean. Targeted, precise, with wards, and with evidence of Death Eaters present to clean up after. The latter three attacks aren't like that. The latter three are just--slaughter.

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Okay, but again - contained. The Dementors stuck to the museum and the pool, they didn't go gallivanting across the country. What if it's controlled chaos that's meant to look random? Spread panic?

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But then why attack only magical places? It's a larger headache if it's mixed company.

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We're going round in circles. We can argue til we're blue in the face about who's behind it and why they're doing it, but until we find more evidence, we can't prove anything and we don't have anything to act on.

I still say we throw Malfoy at the wall and see if he sticks. Or get Lily to pump Snape for information on it.

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*Alice takes a sip of her Firewhisky.*

There is one question we haven't asked yet: Why us? I wouldn't put it past her to be spying on us.

Is it possible she knows we're in the Order?

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Maybe. Or maybe she's just a bitch who likes to watch good people suffer. Result is the same.

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Oh! Oh, and guess what I get to do. Anybody remember Greyback?

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*Alice winces and nods.*

Who can forget?

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Definitely not me, while I'm in Scotland poking about feral werewolves. So, you know. If I get mauled to death, do me a favor and tell Molly so long for me.

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By yourself?

That's--

You've got to be joking, there are about eight rules I can think of off the top of my head why she shouldn't be able to make you do that by yourself.

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*Alice's breathing stops.*

That's a suicide mission.

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