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Post by Guinevere S. R. Smithson on Feb 10, 2007 14:19:59 GMT -5
Guinevere stood up and snapped her fingers. Her clothes immediately changed into sweats and a t-shirt and running shoes. She decided to go running to clear her mind. She ran out the big entrance doors and ran around the lake. She was running across the grass on her way back inside when she bumped into someone. She bounced back and landed with an 'oomf.' She lifted her hand that had broken her fall. "Ow," She hissed, noticing the cut from a rock. "Sorrry," She apologized, noticing the other person had also fallen. "I didn't think anyone else would be outside now," She said.
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Post by Sirius Black on Feb 12, 2007 13:11:36 GMT -5
Sirius watched everything from his position by the door. He shifted uncomfortably, sure that it would seem rude to stare at a family discussion. He had half his mind wanting to leave, but his body just stayed there.
He watched as Raine walked past him, and out of the door. Sirius just stoon, like a stunned person.
"How long have you been standing there?"
Sirius looked at Artemis and shrugged. "Long enough." He said.
He wanted to tell her that it would be better if she just told Raine what was going on, but decided to shut up. It wasn't any of his business.
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Post by Artemis Smithson on Feb 12, 2007 16:05:27 GMT -5
His answer only made her tense up more.
Long Enough Was his reply.
An awkward silence overcame the room, and Artemis didn't know what to do. She looked away finally, and then opened her mouth to speak, "Um...," She struggled desperately to think up something to say, "so...what of all of that did you actually...um..." She couldn't think of what to say, her tongue kept on fumbling on the syllables and letters, and then her mind just froze up.
(Psst, Sirius, iz alright about the past few days, we survived without ya...barely i might add...but we survived none the less! ^__^)
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Post by Celeste Azerath on Feb 13, 2007 13:05:31 GMT -5
Celeste had just gotten done helping her Herbology teacher finish packing up the rest of the Mandrakes.
She was tired and ready to make it back to her bed and just fall asleep. But she always loved to visit Hagrid's hut before heading off to bed. It was sorta a tradition and habit with her.
She had tied her long black hair up into a ponytail, and let her gryffindor cloak drag the ground as she started to head towards Hagrid's.
Her eyes caught hold of the black lake in the distance and a smile crept onto her face.
Everything about nature brought her joy. The beauty, the innocence, the wild rebellion of it all.
It was something she had never considered herself to be.
She was always sitting alone at lunch, and never quite got the hang of talking to anybody.
She always followed the rules, she had been raised knowing if they were broken punishment would surely come.
She always kept her hair tied up and out of her face, and kept her clothes baggy and non-form fitting.
Suddenly she found herself hit smack on with something hard, and her books flew out of her hands as she fell to the ground.
She heard somebody muttering how sorry they were, but she quickly looked up, trying to apologize herself, when she realized it was a Professor.
Her heart caught fright, and she quickly started to gather up belongings, "I'm s-so sorry pro-professor, I wasn't watching where i w-was g-going, I'm sorry." But after a few more minutes of apologizing, she had gathered her things, and stood up, and just turned on her heel and started walking away, her face heated up bright red in embarresment.
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Post by Guinevere S. R. Smithson on Feb 13, 2007 14:55:29 GMT -5
Guinevere followed after the girl she had run into to. "Are you okay?" She asked kindly. "I'm Guinevere," She introduced herself. "Please, you don't have to call me professor, please call me Guinevere, or Gwen," She grinned. She remembered the girl, she had seen her around the school. She noticed how lonely the girl seemed to be. "Would you like a cup of tea or hot chocolate?" She asked.
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Post by Celeste Azerath on Feb 13, 2007 16:12:43 GMT -5
She bowed her head to the ground, her arms clutched tightly around her books. She could feel how hard her arms were shaking and trembling, and she worried that her books would slip out of her grasp and get soiled in the mud puddles she was walking through.
The professor had smiled, she saw out of the corner of her eye, and introduced herself. Told Celeste to call her Gwen.
But that just seemed to formal, to personal. That's not how she was raised. She was always told to give her elders and teachers respect.
"I-I'm-" She was going to introduce herself, but then she quickly shook her head, coughing, and then took off running ahead of the professor and once she reached the porch of Hagrid's hut, she didn't bother knocking, she just ran on in.
Resting herself against the door she heard the all too familiar greeting of Hagrid, "'ello there Celeste," But it seems he caught hold of the girls panick attack and he dropped the egg he had been holding back into the pot, pulling off his oven mits and set them on the table walking over to her, "Wha's the matt'r Celli?" Hagrid asked.
She looked up into his eyes and pulled on a smile, "N-nothing, I'm fine. J-just raining out there, I'm out of breath thats all."
Then she heard the all too familiar chuckle of her older brother, and right then he walked out of one of the back rooms, a black apron tied around himself, "Catching a storm run? One of these days Sleepy your going to get yourself deathly ill."
Her eyes widened, and a true smile grasped her face. The books fell from her grasp, and she ran across the room and jumped into the arms of her 23 year old brother, "BASTIEN!" She couldn't believe it, her brother was here. He was an auror and was always working and having meetings and missions to go on, so even during the summer break she rarely saw him. This was indeed a wonderful surprise.
He wrapped his arms around his sister, and chuckled softly, "Hey sis, long time so see eh?"
But right as safety and comfort started to fill her a knock came to the front door of Hagrid's hut.
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Post by Guinevere S. R. Smithson on Feb 13, 2007 18:08:16 GMT -5
Guinevere stood, puzzled. She sighed, wondering what she did wrong. She walked to Hagrid's hit slowly. She knocked on the door, the way she had so many times during her years as a student. The door opened. "Hi Hagrid," She said. She looked around as she stepped in and saw the girl from outside. She made herself a cup of tea and sat down.
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Post by Celeste Azerath on Feb 13, 2007 18:31:59 GMT -5
Bastien let go of his sister and just stared at the professor in the doorway, "Guinevere?" He laughed slightly, and then he walked past his sister and towards the professor, now pouring herself some tea, "Never thought I'd see you here. Artemis maybe, but you I never pictured to be the type to be held back."
And it shocked Celeste to hear her brother joking and talking nicely with anybody but herself and his auror buddies.
"B-bastien?" Celeste murmured, feeling very uncomfortable in this situation.
Her brother turned back around and then his smile fainted slightly seeing the way his sister looked, "Oh, um," He turned back glancing at the Professor, and then looked back at Celeste, "Celeste this is Guinevere, I knew her and her sister here at Hogwarts," He laughed halfly probably trying to tell his sister that everything was ok, "Her sister was the one i was always pranking and getting in trouble with," He turned back to Guinevere, "This is my sister Celeste," Apparently he knew that his sister hadn't introduced herself, and took it into his hands to do it for her, "She's a 6th year Ravenclaw, and personally, I've made it as an auror."
We heard Hagrid laugh, back to the pot, pulling the egg from it and flipping it over, placing it back in gently, "One of the best they got too."
Even with this Celeste couldn't hide the warmth it gave her at her brother's success. But it nerved her seeing her brother knowing the professor, the one she had just done a hit-and-run from.
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Post by Guinevere S. R. Smithson on Feb 13, 2007 18:52:06 GMT -5
Guinevere gasped. "Bastien!" She screamed. She flung her arms around his neck in a tight hug. "No, I'm actually the mythology professor here now," She said, grinning. 'He looks the same, even after all these years. All these years of nonstop thinking about him, and here he is, right in front of me,' Guinevere thought.
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Post by Celeste Azerath on Feb 14, 2007 12:15:07 GMT -5
It struck Celeste's heart to see the way the girl was hanging all over her brother. And he didn't even seem to care. He was smiling and glowing as if he had just found a long lost love or something.
Just thinking about that made Celeste shiver and the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.
"So, how has Artemis been since, well...this incident...," Bastien said, after about an hour of chatting non-stop with the professor.
The look on the professor's face told me that she was confused, and didn't know what he was talking about.
"Has she healed up alright? It wouldn't surprise me if she blew it off like nothing, but man," Bastien said, looking at his mug of tea and then i saw him shiver slightly himself, "That guy was wicked," He looked up at the professor, "And not in the good sense of the word, I mean it literally, that guy was one bad seed, it amazes me she lasted as long as she did around him.." With that he pulled the mug up to his lips and began to drink it, looking at the proffesor over the the mug.
I just stared at the professor, wondering what he was talking about, but also why the professor seemed to be so shaken and scared, "P-professor? A-are you ok?" Celeste asked, the need to know if everything was alright overruled her 'no talking to anybody' policy.
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Post by Guinevere S. R. Smithson on Feb 14, 2007 20:26:08 GMT -5
Guinevere looked at bastien with wide eyes. 'Wh-what?" She stuttered. "What are you talking about?" She asked. She suddenly felt her legs getting shaky and sat down. "Who? What? Who are you talking about? What about Artemis?" She asked.
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Post by Celeste Azerath on Feb 14, 2007 21:03:01 GMT -5
Bastien starred surprised at the professor, "Gwen, is everything ok? What's going on? You're acting as if you didn't know about any of this…" he trailed off, and then he glanced at his sister nervously, and then looked back at the professor intently, and then said cautiously, "You did know didn't you Gwen? What's wrong, what's going on? Is artemis ok?"
Celeste grasped enough courage and walked over to the professor, "What's going on?" She asked, looking up at her brother expectingly.
Bastien nodded at his sister and looked at the professor, "That's what i want to know..." He glared at the professor, "Tell me Gwen."
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Post by Artemis Smithson on Feb 15, 2007 16:09:33 GMT -5
Artemis had been struggling to find the word to use to confront the guy, but eventually she gave up. Giving an "I GIVE UP" sigh, she walked over closer to Sirius, "Look, how old are you anyway?" Looking at him up and down, she then said, her face in a creased worried frown, "6th year, 7th? 5th?" Grabbing hold of his wrist she said, "I'm betting you can't apparate...am i right?" She guessed. Taking his silence as a yes she rolled her eyes, "I thought so, because if you could you probably would've disspeared long ago..." Thinking of the entrance to the Forbidden Forest, a slight yank pulled both her and Sirius to the front of the Forest, and out of her bedroom.
Letting go of his wrist, she sighed, and then calmed herself down a bit, "Look, whatever you heard...what ever you think you know...just...it's nothing ok?" Artemis suddenly felt a desire to prove herself, to defend herself, to defend him, "It's nothing I can't handle, and there is no need to go talking about it with anyone ya hear me?" Taking a moment to catch enough breath she then looked up at Sirius, "You're the guy from the dressing room, right? The guy with the fabulous abs," Artemis grinned mentally just picturing it in her head, and maybe even for a moment she felt the corners of her lips bend upward. But quickly pushing that aside she looked back at Sirius, "I'm not the type that you want to mess with. And i'm deffinately not the type of girl that you want to get to know...you're goodlooking and all Sirius, deffinately my type...but I'm sorry that you got mixed up in all of this." She was just so surprised he hadn't run off or interupted her. And so she kept talking, taking this as her chance,"I never panic Sirius. Never," Emphasizing the word, her voice shook for a moment, "I'm used to being on my own, I'm used to handling my own problems, and...," Suddenly it just over ruled her, it was annoying her so much that he wasn't saying anything, not even one little bit, he just stared at her, "Ok, you know what...I don't need to defend myself to you, and I don't need to explain myself..."
Hearing a door slam open she jerked her head up to see the red angered face of her twin, Guinevere, standing in the doorway of Hagrid's hut.
Then what she heard made her flinch, "But you definately need to explain yourself to me!"
But as I looked at her I caught sight of who was standing behind her, and she gulped, "B-Bastien?"
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Post by Guinevere S. R. Smithson on Feb 16, 2007 11:52:20 GMT -5
Guinevere shook her head. "What are you talking about Bastien? What about Artemis?" She asked, panicing. "What did I know or not know?" She asked. "Bastien, please tell me..." She asked, almost pleadingly. She got up. "You know what? i don't know if I even want to know. She didn't even tell me...I tell her everything. She was the only one who knew about my panicing...the only one who knows I still love you!" She blurted out before she could stop herself. Her eyes widened. "I shouldn't have said that...ummm just forget I said anything," She mumbled. She picked up her jacket and walked outside, slamming the door, mad at herself for letting that slip, and mad at her sister for not telling her. She looked up and saw her sister next to Sirius. She rolled her eyes at Artemis and kept walking, not even glancing back at her.
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Post by Celeste Azerath on Feb 16, 2007 12:59:49 GMT -5
The professor was freaking out. She looked so worried, she was panicing. She didn't know anything that had happened to her sister. But how could she not know?
"You know what? i don't know if I even want to know. She didn't even tell me...I tell her everything. She was the only one who knew about my panicing...the only one who knows I still love you!"
Celeste froze in place, and her eyes widened, She what?
Apparently Celeste wasn't the only one who was surprised.
"Gwen-" Bastien began, but the professor shook him off.
I shouldn't have said that...ummm just forget I said anything The professor grabbed her jacket and took off out of the house.
"Gwen!" Bastien called, suddenly his body unfrozen, he was able to move.
"Bastien stop," Celeste screamed, racing after her brother.
Only Bastien had frozen in the doorway.
Caught so offguard Celeste bumped into her brother, but she grabbed hold of the back of his shirt(preventing her from falling over).
"B-Bastien?" I heard a girl call out.
"A-Artemis?" Bastien whispered.
Artemis? Celeste thought. Wait...
Suddenly Celeste gasped...Artemis...Artemis was the girl that Bastien had brought home that day all those months ago...
That girl who he had been nursing back to health. That girl who he had...
Dated...claimed to love.
Was this the same girl that slept as my bunk buddy all those months ago...the same girl that had dated Bastien...the same girl that had run away from us after Bastien said he loved her?
After Artemis ran away Bastien had been crushed, but he survived it. It was a change to be the one nurturing instead of the one being nurtured.
But...only recently he had started writing about someone in his journal... Celeste had caught a glimpse of his journal on a night when he was on a mission for the ministry, and she felt guilty about it, but he had started writing about how he had found somebody he knew back at Hogwarts...
What the professor didn't know, was that Bastien had already known everything about her. He knew about her job, her teaching and her head of house.
After Artemis left, he found the professor and...
"Bastien, was that the girl you were talking about in your journal? The professor?" Celeste breathed.
Celeste peered under her brothers arm and saw the girl out in the feild, standing next to some boy. Sirius Black she knew.
Why was Sirius Black with Artemis?
She looked back up at her brother when she heard him mutter, "Crap."
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