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chapter two; remember the suffering?
The next days were more of the same, and by the third day, while holed up in the library that Ninny was cleaning for the third time she finally gave up.
She wasn't going further in her research, not like she had been when James was there. Her head hurt, and her eyes were killing her, and reading what her father wrote made her sick to the stomach at times.
So she gathered her pride and slipped out of the library to find the three boys somewhere around the house. She found them in the living room, talking, though it sounded more like a fight.
Not like the ones they usually had where they bickered endlessly about nothing, but one that had Remus act as a mediator instead of an instigator. However, they went quiet when they saw her approach and she couldn't hear what they were saying.
"What's up, love?" Sirius was the first to speak, sending James a dirty look in the process before turning to her.
Her brows furrowed slightly at the interaction but she chose to leave it ago. She sighed."I need your help."
"Ours?" asked Remus and reluctantly Amaya nodded.
"Yes." She met James' eyes and gave him a small smile. He seemed to be holding back one of his own. "I'm stuck. And as much as it pains me to admit, I can't do this alone."
And so the four of them gathered in the library and chose to put her trust in Sirius and Remus like they placed their trust in her like they had been there for her. She chose to trust them when they said they wouldn't tell anyone, not even Peter, and Amaya told them everything she'd told James. By the end of it, Sirius looked mildly disgusted at hearing about Horcruxes and Remus looked stupefied.
"That means he's impossible to kill," Remus said.
Amaya nodded. "Unless we find and destroy all the Horcruxes. We don't have any precise location but James and I know the Hufflepuff Cup is with someone the Bastard trusts—"
"So, a Malfoy, a Nott, or a Lestrange," concluded Sirius before grimacing, "Or my deranged cousin."
"That means he hid them then," added Remus. "He doesn't want them near."
"If I went through the trouble of splitting my soul I would too," said Sirius. "It would be bloody stupid to keep it next to me."
"Dumbledore says he's taking care of the rest," Amaya said, "We only have to worry about finding the artifacts and a way to destroy the blasted things."
"A Confringo won't do?" asked Remus.
James shook his head, clicking his tongue. "From what we found 'till now, it has to be something more powerful. One of the theories I read was the Killing Curse. The book theorized that if it was used to make the Horcruxes, it could destroy them—"
