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Triple drabble. Marcus and the War, with a side dish of Lee. Jeanne's fault.
requiem
Three years into the war, and Marcus thinks, not for the first time, that he should've done what was expected of him and joined Voldemort's side.
He's on the winning side, but it doesn't feel like it. He hears the news of his friends' deaths, but he's not allowed to mourn them, because that would be seen as a sign that he isn't trustworthy, that he's still a true Slytherin. He hears about Terence's death, and an hour later he's bent over maps and codes and strategies.
He isn't allowed to mourn the others, either, because despite everything he's given up, this is still not his side. Percy Weasley dies at the hands of an Auror, yet Marcus is the one Oliver Wood glares at throughout the funeral. Seamus Finnigan, one of his best field operatives, simply doesn't come back from a mission one day. Marcus knows that anything he says to Dean Thomas will only get him a fist in the face, so he says nothing.
He stops going to funerals when he starts thinking too much about his own, which will no doubt be soon, quick, and unattended.
The Weasley twins go missing on their twenty-third birthday. Only one of the bodies turns up, a month later, and Marcus realises he'll never have a chance to learn the difference between them now. He supposes it doesn't really matter in the end, and toasts them anyway, in a Muggle pub somewhere in London, where nobody knows him.
And still, suddenly, a voice from behind him: "Buy you a drink?" He turns, and it takes him a few moments before he recognises the man standing there as Lee Jordan, older, more scarred, and his famous dreadlocks replaced by the crew cut they're all sporting these days.
"Sure. Have a seat."
Still not entirely sure what the point of that was, but there you go. Hm. Elfie, feel free to put it on the Marcus/Lee site if you think it qualifies.
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