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Scarlet apparated in front of the modest home and pushed through the gate. As she walked up the little path to the front door, she thought about the warnings that both her parents had given her about the man she had previously thought of as a friend and confidant. She knew of his potential in gathering information and that such skills could be thought of as dangerous. She also knew that he was an excellent fighter based on what Thorfinn Rowle had told her and therefore that made him dangerous. Yet, according to her parents, there was still something much more lethal that she was missing.

Upon reaching the front door, she opened her clutch and pulled out a large Manila Envelope that would never have fit into an ordinary purse of that size. She knocked abruptly and waited for Rookwood to answer. A part of her was tempted to simply push the envelope through the mail slot but the information it contained was far to valuable to potentially leave on the floor of an empty house.

Scarlet smiled broadly at Rookwood, although mentally setting up a guard. "Such a charmer," she smirked. "Its always a pleasure when I get to visit with you Augustus," she said coyly. "Although, this is an official business visit as well."

She held the envelopes toward Rookwood continually studying him as if trying to find a tell about his true personality. "Inside are complete ministry information reports that I have written up for the Dark Lord. They follow all of the heads of the departments, including the minister, as well as any important information that I acquired and felt the Dark Lord would be interested to know. I tried to hand it to him directly, but he is fairly elusive. So, I felt you would probably be best person to give them to since you handle most if not all of the Dark Lord's information anyway, "she finished nonchalantly.

Scarlet raised an eyebrow as Rookwood surveyed the contents of her report. "I already attempted to give it to the Dark Lord directly several times and failed. As such some of the information is a bit time sensitive, so it would be better to get it to him through you than not at all. Besides, I never took you for a snake that would steal my work and portray it as your own," she said bluntly staring him straight in the eyes but with a smirk on her face. "And another thing is you've already seen the contents so regardless, you could potentially already claim the information as your own even with me giving it to the Dark Lord in person. If anything, I'll learn not to trust you based on this experience," she said shrugging.

Scarlet was chilly and decided some tea did sound nice. " Yes thank you. Some tea sounds lovely."

Scarlet walked in the door, not sure whether they would have tea in Rookwood's study where they usually sat or in another room.

"You have not done anything as of yet for me not to trust you..." she paused looking down,"I've just had several people warn me not to." She looked up at his face trying to read anything through his mask. "You haven't lost my trust but then you haven't gained all of it anyway either," she finished smiling. "Is it that bad to be cautious?"

She was still holding the envelope in her hands and wondered if Rookwood would take it for her or not.

Scarlet took her tea, enjoying the warmth of the cup in her hands. She took a sip and looked up at Rookwood. She was exhausted from the past few days at home. "Lets just say my family has been having some interesting times lately and much new information about a variety of people has surfaced," she said putting it delicately. She closed her eyes trying to push away a throbbing in her head that had been bothering her for the past few days.

She looked across the table at him measuring her chances for getting a truthful answer to her next question. "My mother told me to ask you about some 'Reaper' project. What exactly is she talking about? "she asked.

Scarlet drank her tea leisurely enjoying its calming effect. " You just made things a bit more complicated then they had to be by telling her. I'm more annoyed at my mother by her response to learning that knowledge and my uncle..." she just stopped her sentence midway. She hadn't seen nor heard from her father nor uncle in days. She looked into her teacup having already drained its contents. The remains at the bottom reminded her of the absurd divination class she had taken at Hogwarts. If only it were really possible to predict the future with tea...

Scarlet quickly muttered a spell while flicking her wand toward the spilled tea to sop up the spill. She was extremely surprised by his reaction to her question and began to think that she maybe should not broach the subject. However, curiosity got the better of her. "What is the Reaper? What being could inflict such a reaction in a person such as yourself?" she asked wide eyed with a cautious tone. She straightened his cup and poured him some more tea.

Scarlet stared at Rookwood with a worried expression. His demeanor was so different from his usual self. "Death...." she asked with a hushed tone and confusion written on her face."Are you using that as a metaphor, like you almost 'met' death during one of your experiments...or literally? I mean I've never thought of death as an actual physical being."

Scarlet sat quietly fiddling with her tea cup, "I'm sorry...I wouldn't have asked about it if I had known it would affect you so much," she said sincerely.