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Post by Gabby Brocklehurst on May 19, 2008 11:08:05 GMT -5
Gabby smiled and shook her head sadly at Chase. She followed him. "Maybe parent's aren't such a safe topic of discussion" she said as she strapped her wand back to her leg. She hated leaving it alone and she was still shaken up from that night in the shrieking shack with Vannah. "We could trade battle stories" she said dryly referring to the fact that they both had scars.
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Post by Chase Firebrand on May 19, 2008 18:27:49 GMT -5
Chase threw Gabby a reflexively sharp look, then, catching himself, gave a wry laugh that melted into a chuckle. "Go ahead," he said, stopping to tread water. "You go first. You said your brother gave you that one," he prompted, his eyes flickering toward the scar that began at her collarbone. At the moment, it didn't matter to Chase if she'd only been trying to get a reaction. He'd reacted, and the new topic of conversation was far preferable to the old one.
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Post by Gabby Brocklehurst on May 20, 2008 9:33:13 GMT -5
Gabby nodded. "He was my half brother" she corrected him. "When my mother was younger she had an affair with another wizard who was working at the ministry. They had a son, but he left and took James with him. When my mother married my father, a muggle, he refused to let her see him except once a year. It broke her heart" Gabby said, as she plunged into the past, her voice trembled a little but she kept going.
"His father was pure blood and James became a death eater when he left hogwarts." Cassie paused and swallowed, her mouth suddenly feeling very dry. "One night when I was eight, James appeared and he kidnapped me. He took me to a meeting and cut me to get my blood for something. I was made to forget, and it only haunted me in dreams until Vannah unlocked the memory"
A single tear slid down her cheek as she remembered the pain and confusion it had caused her. She quickly wiped it away and looked up at Chase. "So, I'm guessing it was Emilian" she said, changing the subject.
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Post by Chase Firebrand on May 20, 2008 9:55:56 GMT -5
Chase paused a moment, letting Gabby's words settle, then letting them go; he could tell a purposeful distraction when he saw one. "Yeah, it was Emilian," he said. "Deprimo, Diffindo, Reducto," he listed, gesturing to each scar in turn; the starburst pattern on his right shoulder, the stripe that arced from high on the right side of his chest down across his abdomen, disappearing into the water, and the mottled skin of his left calf not visible as he treaded water. "Not even high-level spells, but it was enough."
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Post by Gabby Brocklehurst on May 20, 2008 10:01:35 GMT -5
Gabby nodded thoughtfully as he briefly described his scars. "I'm not sure what curse she used" Gabby said, referring to her longest scar, the one Vannah had given her. "But I think it was sectumsempra which finally made her stop" she said calmly, looking Chase in the eye. She wasn't proud of what she had done, although part of her was pleased Vannah had also ended up in the hospital wing.
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Post by Chase Firebrand on May 20, 2008 10:15:36 GMT -5
Chase gave Gabby a hard look that might have come across as angry if it weren't for the sudden tight press of his lips. He wasn't sure, but secumsempra might have been the last spell he used on Emilian before he went unconscious, so he wasn't about to judge her for it. "Sometimes you do what has to be done," he said simply. He swam a short distance, not enough to leave Gabby behind, but enough to appease his need for motion; even barring discomfort with the conversation, his leg and shoulder stiffened if they were still too long. "I don't know how I remember the curses he used," Chase admitted. "I can hardly remember most of the rest." Just Dru begging him to stop, and blind fury. And pain.
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Post by Gabby Brocklehurst on May 20, 2008 10:33:53 GMT -5
Gabby caught up to Chase, diving underwater briefly to give her time to catch her breath. Talking to Chase could require a lot of energy sometimes. She surfaced just before he beagan to speak and she listened as she pulled her hair away from her face. Cassie shook her head. "It's the other way round for me. I can remember every second of it. It was torture" she said quietly, not looking at Chase, but away, towards the forest. "I can't remember how many curses I tried though before one hit her." she added. She sighed and rubbed her forehead, trying to get rid of a headache.
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Post by Chase Firebrand on May 21, 2008 9:35:03 GMT -5
Chase's lips pressed tight. There was so much he could say about Vannah, but nothing Gabby didn't already know. Vannah was a menace, it was that simple. "Does the Headmistress know?" he asked, mentally linking Gabby and Vannah's fight with his and Emilian's. He wondered if Vannah was still walking around with a wand, or if the girls had seen what happened to Emilian and kept their mouths shut.
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Post by Gabby Brocklehurst on May 21, 2008 9:55:30 GMT -5
Gabby shook her head. "I don't think so and I don't plan on telling her. Vannah already has enough of a reason to hate me. I didn't rat out Lucretia either, we talked it over and reached an understanding. Well, that was before I landed her friend in the hospital wing" Gabby said thoughtfully. She sighed and swam off, covering her discomfort with dwelling on what had happened for so long. She dipped underwater briefly to avoid conversation.
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Post by Chase Firebrand on May 21, 2008 11:25:39 GMT -5
It sounded like the girls had as many violent tendencies as the guys did. "I'm not going to tell you to go running to the Headmistress, it's your choice, but if it keeps happening..." He shrugged and gave Gabby a pointed look. She said they'd both nearly died last time, and they were both still walking around the school, holding the grudge. At least he didn't have to see Emilian. It was a lot easier to keep his promise not to try anything when the jerk wasn't in his sight taunting him.
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Post by Gabby Brocklehurst on May 21, 2008 11:31:01 GMT -5
Gabby heard his words just as she dove underwater and she thought them through. Surfacing she looked at Chase. "She has a grudge against me because I'm with Ryan. But they had broken up before I even met him so she has no right to feel like he's hers" Gabby knew they had history together, and that they broke up because of Emillian, but she wasn't one to voice those thoughts.
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Post by Chase Firebrand on May 21, 2008 17:38:38 GMT -5
Chase made a low noise of derision. "I don't know why she cares anyway, she probably just needed something to do." In his experience, she focused her fury on whoever happened to be in her sight. "Just be glad you're not in Slytherin, you'd have to deal with her all the time."
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Post by Gabby Brocklehurst on May 25, 2008 10:39:35 GMT -5
Gabby nodded, agreeing with Chase. "Then again if I was a slytherin maybe she'd like more more because I would be jsut as evil" she said thoughtfully. "Anyway, I don't want to spoil a perfectly good day talking about her" Gabby said, making a face at the thought of Vannah. "At least now we're in engaged he should leave her alone a bit more" Gabby said absently, not realising she had said the words out loud.
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Post by Chase Firebrand on May 25, 2008 11:37:35 GMT -5
Chase looked aside at Gabby, not at all convinced of her wishful thinking, but unwilling to burst her bubble just yet. There was a lot he could have said, though. He could have mentioned his own luck with forgetting the other girl, could have gone back to their last topic and assured her that the Slytherins didn't get along any better amongst themselves than they did with others. But neither statement was at all conducive to relaxing, and that was what he was here for, not to remind himself how cynical he was. So Chase stayed silent for now, leaving it to Gabby to break the silence.
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Post by Gabby Brocklehurst on May 26, 2008 3:38:22 GMT -5
Gabby glanced up and saw the sun disappear behind a cloud. She shivered, suddenly feeling cold. "I think I might go. I don't want to get ill, I'm trying out for the quidditch team" Gabby explained, as she began to slowly swim back to the shore.
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