PART 2/7: Road of Carnage
Status: FIN.
Rating: PG-13 to hard R.
Warnings: Violence, torture, suggestive to crude language, mild to serious sexual situations, character deaths, heavy angst and hints of suicide.
Timeline: Post Graduation - the beginning of the first war.
Summary: With graduation come new responsibilities. Outside the safe walls of Hogwarts, Buffy and co. find themselves involved in a war against Voldemort. No one is safe, not everyone is loyal and there will be losses on both sides. Can love and friendship prevail against the darkness or will it crumble beneath the growing shadows?
Pairings: Remus/Buffy, James/Lily, Sirius/OC, Peter/OC, Frank/Alice.
CHAPTER SUMMARIES/LINKS
Episode 1 - Carnage
The time has come to make a choice between what is right and what is easy. Is the gang ready to shoulder the life of adulthood that awaits them outside the walls of Hogwarts? (c. 5800 words) || Episode Art
Episode 2 - Order
The Marauders all attend their first meeting of the Order, meeting some familiar, and some less familiar, faces. Regulus is given a mission, while Lily and James celebrate their upcoming nuptials, but a tragic event interrupts what should be a happy occasion. (c. 5600 words) || Episode Art
Episode 3 - Breathing
Remus has the last connection to his family ripped away, moments after the death of another. A funeral of mourning is followed by Lily and James' wedding, and some well-deserved happiness.
(c. 6900 words) || Episode Art
Episode 4 - Unisex
Regulus’ mission has taken him to Sweden, James and Lily return from their honeymoon, and the NEWT-results arrive. It's time to send in their job-applications, Peter and Samantha are having trouble and amidst it all, Sirius has bought a motorcycle... (c. 6800 words) || Episode Art
Episode 5 - Testing
James and Sirius go through their Auror trials, and Buffy has an interview at St. Mungo's. Remus bad luck continues, while Peter's birthday leads to new opportunities. (c. 7100 words) || Episode Art
Episode 6 - Rain
Peter finds himself at a crossroad, as the fate of Elizabeth is revealed. Remus faces scorn and ridicule, and Regulus successfully completes his mission, but his good luck leads to another’s misfortune.
(c. 7400 words) || Episode Art
Episode 7 - Doors
September arrives, and Mandy returns to school, while the rest of the marauders have jobs to get to. The Order tries to help in a series of attacks on the country. (c. 7300 words) || Episode Art
Episode 8 - Reason
The outcome of the battle is revealed, and Peter makes his choice. At Beauxbatons, Eliza discovers a new purpose, and Dumbledore has a mission for Remus. (c. 6400 words) || Episode Art
Episode 9 - Plans
Dumbledore visits Beauxbatons, where he meets Eliza. Peter meets with the Dark Lord and comes to a final decision regarding his stance in the war. During an Order meeting, something alarming about Voldemort is revealed. (c. 6500 words) || Episode Art
Episode 10 - Lies
Regulus is given a new mission that involves Sirius, and meets up with his brother while he's in Hogsmeade with Mandy. Peter has his first taste of true darkness on his first raid for the Dark Lord, and Remus is shaken when Death Eaters approach him at work. (c. 7200 words) || Episode Art
Episode 11 - Twinge
Sirius meets Regulus to try and find a solution to his ‘problem’ but in the meantime, neglects Mandy... Remus joins Greyback, while Peter, even as his relationship with Samantha keeps falling to pieces, goes on another raid with the Death Eaters. (c. 6000 words) || Episode Art
Episode 12 - Worth
Mandy finally makes a decision regarding her relationship with Sirius, while Samantha’s sense of self-worth keeps sinking as her troubles with Peter continues. Remus makes a connection with two of the children in Greyback's camp, and Buffy is attacked by vampires... (c. 5500 words) || Episode Art
Episode 13 - Dark
Regulus is given yet another assignment, even as he secretly begins to doubt the Dark Lord’s way is the right way, as he spends more time with Sirius. Buffy gets a surprise visit, and Samantha finally gets her answer to Peter's strange absences... (c. 6700 words) || Episode Art
Episode 14 - Wrong
The Hogwarts Express heads back to school, and Regulus seemingly goes missing. Frank and Sirius talk, and the loss of one of their own brings the marauders closer together, but also further apart... (c. 6700 words) || Episode Art
Episode 15 - Secrets
Peter decides to close the store, but leaves it to Remus instead, and on his first day at the store, he gets a very unwelcome visit. When it is made clear something more is going on than the obvious, Remus is given a new mission by Dumbledore. while Jasper finds a new family with the Lowells. (c. 7200 words) || Episode Art
Episode 16 - Motives
Lily alerts Buffy to what might be side effects to hers and Remus’ soulmate bond, while a meeting in Hogsmeade reveals more possible hindrances in Mandy’s and Sirius’ relationship. Remus plots to trick the Death Eaters into believing he’s on their side, even as Voldemort plots to turn him for real. (c. 5700 words) || Episode Art
Episode 17 - Regulus
When Voldemort demands the use of a house-elf, what Regulus finds out about what Kreacher had to do in his service, and the conclusions he comes to about the Dark Lord, just might lead to his undoing...as well as Regulus' own. (c. 7200 words) || Episode Art
Episode 18 - Grief
Sirius overhears a conversation that makes him doubt Remus’ loyalty to the Order, and even as he tries to come to terms with the disappearance of his brother, more losses makes themselves known. (c. 5500 words) || Episode Art
Episode 19 - Soaring
Lily and James move into Potter manor, while Buffy worries Remus is getting in over his head with his mission for Dumbledore, which he still keeps secret from her. And the professional Quidditch match the Marauders are heading to may not end up just a happy outing... (c. 6400 words) || Episode Art
Episode 20 - Falling
As the Quidditch match is interrupted by a Death Eater attack , Lily has her first taste of darkness while attempting to protect James. Snape is alerted to the fact that Buffy might be more than what she seems to be, and the Lowells decide to leave Britain. (c. 6700 words) || Episode Art
Episode 21 - Beautiful
The Dark Lord is alerted to the fact there’s something not quite ordinary about Buffy, while Nick joins the Auror force. Mandy and Eliza face the future in the form of graduation, while Buffy faces it in her dreams, when they take a seemingly prophetic turn. (c. 7600 words) || Episode Art
Episode 22 - Tricked
The Minister and the Order are alerted to the fact that there will be an attack on Azkaban prison, and prepares accordingly. Unfortunately, when the attack does occur, it slowly becomes apparent that there’s something not quite right about it... (c. 8300 words) || Episode Art
Episode 23 - Punished
The Order and the Wizarding World must try and pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the attack. Minister Tool finds himself in disgrace, while the Longbottoms and Potters are hailed as heroes, something that cannot go unpunished... (c. 5900 words) || Episode Art
Episode 24 - Decision
Petunia cuts of all contact with Lily, and when Eliza’s father threatens to do the same, she must decide whether to stay in England or return to France. Voldemort attacks Longbottom manor, and Sirius’ suspicion of Remus grows, while Mandy applies for a career in curse-breaking. (c. 5100 words) || Episode Art
Episode 25 - Power
Lily tries to reconnect with her sister, to no avail, while Buffy’s days of anonymity comes to an end after Voldemort spots her in action during an attack on St. Mungo’s. Intrigued by her abilities, he will stop at nothing until he figures out the reason behind her powers. (c. 5500 words) || Episode Art
Episode 26 - Spy
Dumbledore asks Remus to do the impossible, and Mandy gets a wedding invitation in the mail. Buffy is determined to train the Order in her style of fighting, and also gets an unwelcome visit at work that may or may not lead to trouble ahead... (c. 6300 words) || Episode Art
Episode 27 - Costumes
Snape is approached by an Order-member at work who has a proposal for him, and James and Lily throw a costume party for Halloween. Unfortunately, it is interrupted by another battle that ends in great emotional turmoil for Buffy. (c. 6000 words) || Episode Art
Episode 28 - Kelly
Lucan and Belinda get married and Snape takes Dorcas to the Dark Lord. Mandy gets a surprising visit from her sister who knows nothing about the current state of the Wizarding World, and finds Mandy's current life is not something she can relate to anymore... (c. 5300 words) || Episode Art
Episode 29 - Turquoise
The marauders throw a birthday party for Mandy, while Voldemort plots to use her to destroy Sirius. Buffy faces mental consequences of what happened in the battle of Diagon Alley, and as Christmas arrive, Lily has some exciting news for James. (c. 5900 words) || Episode Art
Episode 30 - Blood
An attack on Hogsmeade makes the Christmas celebrations come to an abrupt end and forces Mandy to tell her sister the truth about the Wizarding World. But can the marauders prevail in yet another battle, or will it end in disaster? (c. 6700 words) || Episode Art
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