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sailorwritesstuff · 5 months
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*the gang roughed up by an adventure. *
Merula: are they ok? they look like shit
Rowan: AYE. don't talk about my partners like that.
Rowan: what happened? you look like shit.
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8emezzoo · 3 years
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Snape, about catholicism: What’s the catch?
Penny: Well, there’s a lot of donations and some shame around sex but christmas is fun.
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nuttydelphox · 3 years
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The Moon is Brighter By Your Side
Story by @nuttydelphox
Companion art by @slytherinliththorne
Words: 5,200
My half of the @hphmbang2020 done with slytherinliththorne! You can find her half here!
Prompt: Chiara once lost a friend to her lycanthropy and had avoided contact with people since then. But the unexpected friendship with Jae Kim changes it all.
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The night was still in the Hufflepuff dorms where Chiara slept. The only movement was her own tossing and turning. Her breathing was short as if she were being chased. When her eyes flew open and she sat bolt upright she found that the sun was beginning to rise.
Sunrise…
Chiara let out a sigh. The night was over, and with that her nightmares. At least for now. She lays back down and stares at the canopy of her bed, thinking to herself.
The nightmares came every night recently. They pop up every now and then to remind her of her past, and what she has been doomed to. They were always the same. A bright smile that twists into a look of horror the second the sun goes down.
Chiara shook the thoughts out of her head. No use dwelling on them now. She slowly and quietly gets out of bed and dresses, trying not to wake her dormmates. Without a sound she slips out of the dorm and out of the Hufflepuff Common Room.
With the sunrise came the end of curfew, meaning that the Great Hall would be opening for breakfast soon. Her stomach grumbling, Chiara ascended the stairs out of the basemen and into the drafty hallway. She found the Great Hall was still closed. A bit disappointed, Chiara decided to take a short walk to kill some time.
The windows along the corridors were open, letting the chilly wind pass through and nip at her ears. Pulling her robes tighter around her, Chiara notices that she wasn’t the only student up this early. A small crowd was gathered around a bench at the other end of the corridor. In the middle of the crowd was Jae Kim, selling his usual contraband - or as he liked to call it, “uncommon collectibles.” Seems like the early morning is a good time for business as most professors and Prefects aren’t awake yet.
Chiara’s stomach growls again as she notices that Jae is also selling sweets. Pumpkin Pasties, Peppermint Toads, Bertie Bott’s Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Fizzing Whizzbees, Cauldron Cakes, and Sugar Quills to name a few. Having not eaten since an early dinner the previous night, Chiara was quite hungry, and found herself approaching the small crowd.
“What can I get for you?” Jae asked as she got closer and the students parted to make room for her.
“Oh, sorry. I was just looking… I don’t have any money on me,” Chiara said truthfully.
“That’s cool,” Jae said before turning his attention back to the other students.
As his customers purchased what they wanted and the crowd thinned, Jae noticed that Chiara was still looking at the sweets intently. After his last customer purchased an Auto Answer Quill and Chiara was the last one standing there, Jae finally asked, “Are you just looking for a snack?”
“Huh? Oh… Yes. Sorry, I’m hungry and the Great Hall isn’t open yet…”
“Tell you what, how about I give you something on the house? Since you aren’t looking for anything that’s actually against the rules.”
Chiara was a bit startled by the offer, but wasn’t about to turn down free sweets. “I’ll take a Sugar Quill then.”
Instead of handing her just one, Jae gave her two. He considered saying something like, “Cute girls get extra,” but only Diego could pull off something like that. Instead he said, “A little sugar to kick start your day.”
“Thank you, Jae,” Chiara said with a smile on her face. She walked away, already chewing one of the Sugar Quills.
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“Um… Jae?” Chiara asked. “Are you going to be able to stay awake for this lesson…?”
From the looks of it he wasn’t. His eyes were fluttering trying to stay open and his face was slipping from its rest on his hand. Chiara knew full well that Divination was a class Jae frequently slept through, and she wasn’t too thrilled to be his partner for this lesson.
They were reviewing dream interpretation that day, and were separated into pairs. Knowing that Jae drifts off in class, Professor Trelawny had paired him with Chiara, hoping that her most enthusiastic student would help her least enthusiastic student to focus. So far it didn’t seem to be working.
Chiara had always assumed that Jae slept through this class because he found it boring. But now she was finding out that it was more so the heat and the fumes that were putting him to sleep. Not that she could blame him; it was quite stuffy in the room.
Professor Trelawny gave them a rundown of the lesson, then floated around the room assisting students as they tried to discern their fortune from their dreams.
“Jae?” Chiara asked, prompting him to open his eyes. “What kind of dreams do you have?”
He fixed his chin into his hand and looked off into the distance, thinking. “Well… I don’t often have dreams… That I remember anyway… I remember when I was little I often had dreams where I was watching a play with my mom and I would have to go onstage and fill in for one of the actors. Does that count?”
“I don’t think so… What about recent dreams?”
“Um… Last week I had a dream that I was being chased.”
Chiara started to flip through the pages of their textbook. “Chase dreams are common. They mean that you’re avoiding something in your waking life. Responsibilities or even yourself.” She found the page on chase dreams. “Seems like they can also represent close-mindedness and fear.”
Jae blinked. “You know all that from the top of your head?”
“Well, I’ve been studying dream interpretations… This is my favorite class after all.”
“I am glad to hear that you are enjoying my class, Miss Lobosca,” Professor Trelawny said as she moved closer to their table. “Mr. Kim, you are having dreams of being chased, I hear? As Miss Lobosca said they are very common. What dreams have you been having my dear?”
The question was directed at Chiara, who was startled at the sudden inquiry. She knew full well what her nightmares of horrified faces and the full moon represented…
“I-I’m also having dreams of being chased, Professor…” Chiara lied.
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“No really,” Jae said, pleadingly, “it’s my stomach. I think the sandwich I ate was bad…”
“Is that so,” Madam Pomfrey said in a voice that made it clear that she was not convinced. She had no time to expose him however, as she was busy with a wave of students who decided it was a good idea to listen to Mandrake cries, so she tasked Chiara with taking care of Jae while she focused on the other students.
While it was true that Jae wasn’t ill, he did have good reason for needing to go to the Hospital Wing. His late night trips into Knockturn Alley were proving fruitless lately, and he was losing profits as well as sleep. He had an idea of what he needed to change for the better; the issue was putting that into action. But first he needed sleep.
Sleeping in class wasn’t an option as he would only get caught and given even more detention time, not that he cared but it wouldn’t help him at all. And skipping class to sleep in his dorm or the Gryffindor Common Room would only get him caught by a Prefect. Even faking illness wasn’t fool-proof, as he could easily be caught by Madam Pomfrey. But it seemed like the least dangerous option.
Chiara closed the curtains around Jae’s bed to block out some of the scolding the other students were receiving from Madam Pomfrey. She placed a bucket next to his head. “How long ago did you eat the bad sandwich?”
“It was during lunch, so an hour ago…” Jae rolled onto his side, clenching his stomach in his bid for believability.
“What was on the sandwich?”
“Uh...roast beef?”
“Hmm… Maybe it was expired, or left out too long.” Chiara sat down in the chair next to Jae’s bed. “Let me know if you have to throw up.”
Jae nodded slightly then closed his eyes. The Hospital Wing was far from quiet, but at least he had a bed. He dozed off and on, occasionally holding his stomach and groaning to complete the act. As he rested he tried to think of what he could do to increase his profits. His mind kept coming back to the same conclusion, and he groaned at the thought of it.
“Jae, you don’t have to groan,” Chaira said. “I know you’re faking but I’m not going to tell Madam Pomfrey.”
Jae rolled over and said sheepishly, “...You won’t?”
“No. I can tell that you need sleep, and I know what it’s like to need sleep. It’s important for your health and you’ll eventually get sick if you don’t rest. ...Besides, I have to repay you for the Sugar Quills.” Chiara smiled at him.
Jae smiled back at her and felt a rush of warmth in his chest. He rested his head down to sleep again, thinking that he would have to pay her kindness forward.
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A few days later in Astronomy class, Professor Sinistra was despondent. “I had wanted to study the new moon for this week’s class, but since the night sky is still cloudy from this afternoon’s showers we shall make do with our lunascopes.”
Chiara was unsure of how they were supposed to see the new moon even with a clear sky, but she didn’t bother to ask. While she enjoyed Astronomy class and divining the future based on the stars, she was unable to find much beauty in the moon, even with a lunascope. Her nightmares were just as frequent as before, and she was beginning to dread sleep again.
As she looked through her lunascope, the stars seemed to form the outline of a face she was never able to forget. Selina…
It was a suitable name for someone who looked like the full moon. Shining eyes full of wonder and a smile that lit up the night. She hadn’t been deterred when she first heard that her neighbor was a werewolf. Chiara found validation in this. Here was proof that her parents were wrong to shut her away from other people. Wrong to prevent her from making friends.
Chiara and Selina became fast friends, as children are wont to do. But the first time and only time she saw Chiara transform… She would never forget how fear had filled those shining eyes and the terror in her scream… Perhaps she was doomed to never have friends. Perhaps that was part of being a werewolf.
“Psst, Chiara,” Jae whispered next to her, nudging her arm. “What’s the difference between ‘waxing gibbous’ and ‘waning gibbous’?”
Chiara was a bit startled to be so suddenly shaken from her memories. She was only able to stutter at Jae in response.
“Miss Lobosca! Mr. Kim!” Professor Sinistra scolded them from the front of the class. “Care to share with the rest of us your conversation which must be so much more interesting than my lesson?”
Chiara was so stunned that she was speechless; she had never been called out in class like this before. Was she going to get detention?
“Sorry, Professor,” Jae spoke up beside her. “It’s my fault. I was asking her for help.”
“If you need help, Mr. Kim, you can always raise your hand to ask me the question. That way it won’t be an interruption.” With that, Professor Sinistra returned to the lesson.
Chiara and Jae looked at each other. It was unusual for him to take the blame instead of deflect it. She smiled at him a silent ‘thank you’, and he smiled back.
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Jae sighed as he counted his stock for the third time in a row and came up with the same small amount. His income was the lowest it had been in weeks, and still wasn’t improving.
“Still coming up short?” asked Charlie from his bed.
“Yeah,” Jae put the money away in a bag and locked it in his trunk. “I have to come up with a way to get some more goods…”
“Where do you even go in Knockturn Alley to get your stuff?” Charlie asked, looking up from his Herbology homework.
“Here and there,” Jae said evasively. “But my sources haven’t been that good or reliable lately. I have to find more…”
Jae thought about his plan to do so. It would require delving deeper into Knockturn Alley and coming out of his hiding place in the shadows. He preferred hiding where it was safer. Out in the open you were vulnerable to the denizens of the Alley and whatever transgressions they felt like doing. He shivered at the thought. He was horribly unprepared to come out of the shadows…
But he had a plan to prepare himself. The plan was just as dangerous as Knockturn Alley itself, but he knew he had to go through with it. If only to keep his business from going under.
‘I’ll go in a few nights…’ Jae thought to himself as he looked out the window onto the rainy grounds.
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Chiara closed the book as the last of the ghosts drifted through the wall and left. She had just finished reading Cinderella to the ghost of a somber looking Slytherin boy, but her heart wasn’t in it. Sure she had read the book aloud and the Slytherin boy didn’t seem to have any complaints, but her mind was elsewhere.
She had joined Penny in reading fairy tales to the lonely ghosts of the castle a while ago, and she loved it. But tonight she was distracted and subdued. She looked out the window into the rainy night. Even through the gloom the moon could be seen peeking out of the clouds. The full moon was only a few nights away…
Penny was packing up her own book when she noticed the faraway look in Chiara’s eyes. “What’s wrong?”
Chiara pulled her gaze from the window. “Oh, nothing. Just thinking about the story.”
“Cinderella? It’s a Muggle classic. What do you think of it?”
Chiara wasn’t going to tell Penny about her thoughts of Cinderella magically changing back into her rags at the stroke of midnight and how it mirrored her own magical transformation in the light of the moon. Instead she simply said, “It must be nice to be whisked away to a life of luxury and certainty.”
Penny nodded as they set off for the Hufflepuff Basement together. “It must be. It’s every girl’s dream.”
“It is?” Chiara asked, genuinely confused.
“Of course! To have no worries, for the rest of your days… Hakuna matata and all that.” Penny chuckled at Chiara’s bewildered expression. “Never mind that. Let’s talk about something else. What’s going on with you and a certain Jae Kim?”
“The question was so out of left field that it took Chiara a moment to process what Penny had said. “I-what?”
I saw that look the two of you shared in Astronomy the other night. What was that about?”
“Oh that? That was nothing.”
“Come on, you can tell me. We’re friends, aren’t we?”
Chiara wasn’t sure how true that was. While she and Penny did get along very well both in and out of classes, Chiara was reluctant to let people get too close to her. Especially knowing that werewolves are Penny’s greatest fear… True, she was accepting of Chiara and even brewed Wolfsbane potion for her, but Chiara didn’t want to risk another Selina.
“It’s...nothing. Really, it’s nothing.”
Penny gave her an appraising look. “Alright, if you say so.”
They walked in silence after that.
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The darkness was thick, and swallowed the light from Jae’s wandtip. The only time he could see a tree was right before walking into it. He frequently tripped on roots and shrubs, despite walking back and forth along the same path.
“Come on, Jae,” he said to himself. “You have to do this. You can’t continue your business unless you can get a good stock. And to get a good stock you have to go deeper into Knockturn Alley.”
He took a deep breath and stared into the trees. He wasn’t in Knockturn Alley, but along the perimeter of the Forbidden Forest. Sneaking out was easy - he’d done it so many times. What was hard was working up the courage to walk into the Forest.
This was something he had to do. Chiara’s dream interpretation basically confirmed everything he had already been suspecting himself. He was avoiding his responsibilities as a business owner and he was avoiding himself. In order to overcome his fear of the dangers the darkness brings, he’ll have to face them himself.
The clouds parted, and revealed the full moon. It’s light illuminated the path in front of him, giving Jae some reassurance. He held his wand out in front of him and delved deeper into the Forest.
The path was well worn by both Hagrid and Kettleburn, so he was no longer tripping on shrubs and roots. As Jae continued to walk in the Forest he was becoming more and more anxious of every noise he heard. Was it something harmless, like a Unicorn? Or was it an Acromantula? Or a Centaur?
A particularly close rustling made him pause and point his wand, ready to attack if necessary. Out of a shrub came a small creature that looked quite like a dog. It looked up at Jae with big round eyes and turned its head to the side.
“Oh...hello there,” Jae said. “You’re quite adorable.”
The cub wagged its tail, which Jae took as a sign of friendliness. He relaxed his arms and knelt down to look more closely at the cub. “Are you lost? Or do you live here?”
It turned its head to the other side, then walked up to Jae and sat down in front of him. Jae scratched its head. “You’re quite friendly. Do you have a name?”
“Borf!” the cub barked.
“Shh!! You don’t know what could be lurking nearby.”
“Borf borf!”
Before Jae could respond the cub turned around and ran back the way it came.
“No, wait!” Jae called out a bit too loudly. “Come back! It’s too dangerous for a cub like you!”
Jae gave chase following the cub through the bushes and undergrowth. The cub was consistently at the edge of his wandlight, but just out of reach. It had a much easier time slipping under roots and around tree stumps than Jae did. On top of that it seemed to know where it was going. All the while the cub was barking.
“Shh! You’ll attract something dangerous! Like a...a…”
Jae’s words trailed off as they reached a small grove in the Forest. A gap in the trees allowed some moonlight through to the ground, where it perfectly illuminated a small bag and moonstone necklace. They were neatly placed at the base of a tree, almost as if hidden. What startled Jae the most was that he recognized them.
“These...belong to Chiara. What are they doing out here…?”
Jae picked up the two items and inspected the bag further. In it was Chiara’s wand and a photo of a sunrise over Hogwarts. The cub sat down next to him and wagged its tail.
Jae looked around, as if expecting to see Chiara nearby. He’s just beginning to wonder if she was okay when the cub began to chew on her bag strap. “Hey, don’t do that!” Jae scolded, pulling the strap up and away from the cub’s mouth. In retaliation the cub barked again.
“Shhhhhh!!” Jae said again, putting his finger to his mouth. The cub stops barking and turns its head again.
From somewhere in the trees they hear a howl.
He drops Chiara’s belongings. Fear rushes through Jae’s body as he scoops up the cub in a panic and looks around the grove. In his rush to follow the cub earlier, he had unknowingly abandoned the path. He was lost now, with nothing but his wand to defend himself. He cycled through all the spells he knew in his mind. He could cast Red Sparks into the air, but will anybody see it to save him? What if he just attracts more danger? Are his concealment charms good enough to hide him? Can he handle himself in a duel?
Why had he come into the Forbidden Forest at all? Why did he follow the cub instead of just letting it run off? What was going to happen to them now?
The howl pierces the night again, closer now.
Jae crouches against the tree trunk, extinguishing the light from his wand and trying to make himself smaller. Suddenly, the cub in his arms howls back. A cold wave washes over Jae as he realizes that what he’s holding is a werewolf cub.
He hears footsteps nearby and across the grove he can see the outline of a large creature with long limbs and pointed ears. An adult werewolf.
Jae bolts to his feet and furiously tries to climb the tree. He makes it up three branches when he realizes that he was still holding the cub in one arm. He was too high off the ground now to drop it, and he couldn’t climb down. He stared at the adult werewolf, and it just stared back at him.
Then it slowly stepped forward into the little light pilfering through the treetops. It was a bright white, whereas the cub in Jae’s arms was a muted gray. The blue eyes were just as bright, and Jae registered that it was odd to see something so bright in such a dark forest.
The werewolf slowly came closer to the tree, which Jae realized it could easily scale. He tried to climb a bit higher, but with the cub in one arm it was tremendously difficult. As he reached for a branch, Jae’s foot slipped beneath him and he fell several feet to the ground.
Pain exploded in his ankle and he bit down on his cheek to suppress a scream. Tears stung his eyes and he finally lets go of the cub, who was unharmed. The cub calmly walked over to the adult werewolf, who pet it like a human would.
Jae couldn’t be in a worse situation. He was severely injured and alone at the feet of a werewolf. Even if he managed to cast Red Sparks, the werewolf would have bitten him - or worse eaten him - by the time help arrived.
...But the werewolf wasn’t attacking him. He looked up at it with tear-filled eyes and saw that it was not even growling at him. In fact it looked nothing like the bloodthirsty monsters werewolves were always described as. This one wasn’t out of its mind or acting on instinct. Jae could see that the blue eyes were sane, and intelligent. And familiar…
The adult werewolf picks up Chiara’s bag and begins to fish around in it. If Jae wasn’t in searing pain and scared out of his mind he might try to stop it. The werewolf pulled out Chiara’s wand and crouched closer to Jae. He couldn’t move away from it even if he tried.
The werewolf points the wand at Jae’s ankle and within a moment, the pain began to quickly ebb away. He flexes his ankle and finds that it was perfectly healed. Instead of mauling or biting him, the werewolf had saved him…
But how could the werewolf perform magic with Chiara’s wand? True, Jae wasn’t that familiar with wandlore and the rules of wand magic - he probably slept through that lesson - but something still seemed off. He looks back and forth between Chiara’s wand and the werewolf until he makes the connection.
“...Chiara…?”
The werewolf’s blue eyes widened and it backed up. The cub however stepped forward and licked Jae’s face. Then it pulled on his hoodie until Jae got the message and stood up. He gingerly put weight onto his ankle, finding that it didn’t hurt at all now. He looked up at the werewolf, who was several feet away now. Jae lit his wand again to see it better. The werewolf retreated an inch further.
“I...thank you,” he says, at a loss for better words. “Are you...?”
Without answering, the werewolf pointed into the trees and then ran off into the opposite direction. Jae was about to give chase before the cub pulled on his pant leg. He looked down at it, and it walked away into the direction the adult had pointed. Seems like now it was going to lead him out of the Forest…
Jae was not paying attention as he followed the werewolf cub. Instead he was lost in his thoughts. Those eyes...the healing spell…the necklace and bag… It had to be Chiara. He had heard rumors of a werewolf attending Hogwarts, but that was mainly something used by the seventh years to scare the first years. To think that it was not only true, but someone he knew…
The cub led Jae all the way to the path that they had met on before standing on its hind legs to place its front paws on Jae’s legs. “Thanks for being my guide, little one,” Jae said, scratching it under the chin. It responded by licking Jae’s palm and then climbing down to disappear back into the Forest.
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Chiara was mortified. It was her worst fear come true. Someone at Hogwarts knew her secret, and he was going to tell everyone.
When the sun rose and her transformation wore off, Chiara made her way out of the Forbidden Forest on trembling feet. In fact her whole body was shaking in fear. What was going to happen when she showed back up at the castle? Would the students start hurling insults at her? Run her off of the grounds? Where would she go to school now? Where would she live?
She peeked around every corner before proceeding down a corridor, terrified of running into someone. She was nauseous with worry and anxiety. Jae was the first person she saw, and she almost threw up there. He was sitting on the same bench that she found him on just a few weeks ago. This time he was alone, counting his stock.
Chiara steadied her breath. Maybe this was an opportunity to convince him not to tell anyone if he hadn’t already. She planned what to say to him and then marched around the corner before she could change her mind.
When she got close enough he looked up. She had barely opened her mouth to speak before Jae said, “Hey, Chiara. Are you looking for more Sugar Quills?”
Chiara blinked and faltered. He asked it so casually. As if he didn’t see her in werewolf form last night.
“I...no. No, not right now. I wanted to talk to you.”
“Okay.”
Chiara had completely forgotten what she was going to say. She stood there dumbly looking at thim. Jae stared back, beginning to feel uncomfortable.
“Um...what did you want to talk about?”
“I...I forget.”
Feeling lame, Chiara plopped herself down on the bench next to Jae. He shuffled his stock uncomfortably. “Does it...have to do with last night at all?”
“...Yes.”
“Okay. Well, for starters are you feeling alright?”
“...What?”
“I heard that the transformations are painful. Are you feeling alright?”
Chiara wasn’t sure at all what to say now. He didn’t seem scared of her, and he wasn’t angry with her. It seemed like he actually cared. Which couldn’t be right.
“Why do you ask?”
“Well, we’re friends, aren’t we?”
“Are we?”
“Yeah? I thought?”
The last time a friend had seen Chiara transform, she screamed and ran away. She reacted so poorly that Chiara’s mother had to Obliviate her and move the whole family away. And now Jae was sitting next to her, calling her a friend after seeing her transformed.
What was different about Jae? Or was it Selina who was different?
“...You saw me transformed.”
“I did. I’m sorry that I was afraid of you at first. I didn’t realize that one: it was you. And two: that you weren’t a bloodthirsty monster like I was led to believe.”
Chiara blinked and recoiled a bit. “Bloodthirsty monster?”
Jae threw up his hands defensively. “I didn’t mean it like that! I meant that I was always told that werewolves were out of control and always hunting people. And I believed it because I never knew anything different until last night.”
Chiara wasn’t sure what to say, so she didn’t say anything. She turned her gaze to her hands instead of looking at Jae. She didn’t want him to see her tears.
Jae let them sit in silence before saying, “Thank you for healing my ankle by the way.”
Chiara wiped her eyes in what she hoped was a casual manner. “Oh that? Yeah, no problem. I heal bones all the time in the Hospital Wing…”
“Was that a werewolf cub that led me to you?”
“Oh year! That’s Borf. He’s a good judge of character. What were you doing in the Forbidden Forest on a full moon night anyway?”
“Oh…” Jae looked sheepish. “Well… Looking back it was a stupid plan. See, I need to make some new connections in Knockturn Alley in order to keep my business running. But in order to do that I need to go deeper into the Alley. Which...frankly I’m scared to do. So I’ve been avoiding it and staying in the safe shadows rather than risking going out into the open. I...was avoiding my responsibilities and running away from myself, which you figured out from my chasing dreams a few weeks ago in Divination class.”
It took a few moments for Chiara to dig up that memory. “You paid attention to my dream interpretation?”
“Well, yeah,” Jae shrugged. “It seemed to mean a lot to you, and you knew what you were talking about. You said it represented fear, and I’m obviously afraid of being out in the open of Knockturn Alley. Which is why I was in the Forest. To sort of practice for Knockturn Alley.”
Jae turned sheepish again. “And you also said that my chase dreams represented close-mindedness. Which you were right about again. I was close-minded about werewolves until I saw you…”
Chiara looked at him in awe. “Wow… I always figured you thought Divination was a hack profession just like most people do… Guess I was close-minded about you as well.”
Jae smiled and handed her three Sugar Quills. “Well it seems like we make each other better. I’d say that’s a pretty solid foundation for a friendship.”
Chiara graciously accepted the treats. “I agree.”
She thought about Selina again. Perhaps their falling apart was just because they were too young to understand one another. Maybe Selina was in a better place now. Chiara certainly was. She knew now that she could trust Jae. And if he was good enough for Borf he was good enough for her. And of course Jae proved himself well.
Chiara began to realize that she had a lot more friends than she knew about. Penny, Tonks, Badeea, Liz, Talbott…
Chiara smiled and bit into a Sugar Quill.
Maybe she wasn’t so alone after all...
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hogwarts9 · 3 years
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Aishwarya Rogers
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
PART 10
Later in an awards ceremony, Senator Brandt speaks to the small audience and a press meet.
" I am honored to present this medal for valor to my personal friend, Captain America!" He says expecting Aishwarya to come but she didn't show. " Captain America?" He said again " Captain, that's your cue"
Then his assistant comes to him and whisper something in his ear.
Stan lee (RIP Stan lee...your deeply missed) whisper to the man next to him " I thought they say she was a lady?"
Meanwhile in London secrets base, Aishwarya shows the location of the other 6 hydra bases she found at the map. " The fifth one was here in Poland, right here the Baltic." She said marking on the map " And the sixth one was about here, 30, 40 miles west of the Maginot Line...I just got a quick look"
A solider takes the map after she marked the spots. " Well, nobody's perfect" Carter said and they head to the discussion table.
" These are the weapon factories we know about.." Aishwarya said " My brother said that Hydra shipped all the parts to another facility that isn't on this map."
" Agent Carter and Agent Lobosca , coordinate with MI6" The colonel said " I want every Allied eyeball looking for that main Hydra base."
" Any what about us?" Chiara said
" We are going to set a fire under Johann Schmidt's ass." He replied " What do you say, rogers? It's your map....You think you can wipe hydra off it?"
" Yes sir, I'll need a team." Aishwarya said
" We're already putting together the best men." The colonel said
" With all due respect, sir, so am I " she said
Later at a pub with the group of solider she had rescued from the hydra cell. She had changed into a dress.
" So, let's get this straight." Dugan said
" We barely got out there alive, and you want us to go back?" The black solider said
" Well boys.." Aishwarya said " Pretty much"
" Sounds rather fun, actually." The solider, who asked if she was a woman when she rescued them, said. " Burp" Morita burps " I'm in"
Denier speaks in French and the black solider talks to him and they laughed. " We're in."
"Hell, I'll always fight." Dugan said " But you got to one thing for me."
" and ?" Aishwarya asked
" Open a tab, captain." He said finished his drink. They all chuckled. Aishwarya gets up and head to the bar counter.
" Well, that was easy." Morita said
" Another round sir." She said
" Where are they putting all this stuff?" The bartender asked. Later piano music played as the men sing.
" See? I told you" Arjun said drinking with Finn @theguythatdraws as Aishwarya comes to them." They're all idiots."
" How about you two?" Aishwarya said to both of them " You ready to help Captain America?"
" Of course i am in." Finn said " I am already working on the weapons."
" Hell no.." Arjun said " That sweet little girl from Brooklyn who was too dumb not to run away from a fight...I am following her." She chuckled and nudged him
" Wait u been in fights before we meet...that is it..ur young lady are not going to war without the proper gear." Finn said
" Finn...stop acting like my dad." She chuckled as she sips wine.
" Your keeping the outfit?" Arjun asked
" You know what..." Aishwarya said " It's kind off growing on me."
Suddenly the singing stopped, Arjun and Aishwarya see what happened while Finn kept drink his beer. " Hey, Finn." Aishwarya said " Your lady is here."
Finn chokes on his drink as he see Chiara in a gorgeous red dress. "Finn close ur mouth ur drooling." Aishwarya chuckled as she sips the wine.
" Captain, sergeant ...Mr.Stark." Chiara said
" Agent carter" Finn and Aishwarya said. " Ma'am" Arjun said
" I believe u own me a dance practice....we want to be ready when the big day comes." Chiara said
" Yes ma'am." Finn blushed
" Aishwarya tomorrow ur trying on the new equipment Finn made."
" Yes ma'am" Aishwarya said
" I see ur top squad is ready."
" yes...yes they are."
" Finn...Let's dance."
" Right behind u." He follows Chiara " But first lets all take a picture." Chiara said grabbing Aishwarya's hand as they meet with carter. Aishwarya take a group photo with Finn, Peter Carter , Arjun and Chiara. This is Aishwarya's military family....her family.
The next day, Finn examines the container ,Aishwarya brought which glowed in blue light, with a machine claws. the claw holds a small ball of blue energy.
" Emission signature is unusual." Finn said to the scientist next to him " Alpha and beta ray neutral...I doubt Aisha picked up on that....Seems harmless enough...Hard to see what to see what all the fuss is about "
He moves the second claw to hold the orb then it exploded and he get thrown back as the glass shattered. He adjust his glasses. " Write that down." He tells to the scientist as he gets helped up by another scientist.
Aishwarya comes to a male agent who is reading a newspaper. " Excuse me. I'm looking for Mr. Stark." She said
" He's in with Colonel Phillips." The agent said not looking up from his newspaper. She nods and looking around her as she waits, the agents looks and her and recognize her." Of course, you're welcome to wait ma'am." He said and she leans back on a table at the corner.
" I read about what you did." He said showing her the newspaper before putting it down " I am impressed."
" Oh yeah the rescue." She said " I was just doing what needed to be done."
" Sounded like more than that." He smirked " You saved nearly 400 men."
" Really, it's not a big deal." She said
" Tell that to their wives." He said as he comes to close to her making her a bit uncomfortable.
" I...I don't think they were all married" She said as she moves to the other side and he turn around making her walk back to the wall.
" Pls...move." She said getting pissed
" You're a hero" He said getting close to her.
"thanks...but pls move away from me." she said slowly get mad.
" All of America, they owe you their thanks." He said pinning her to the wall
" I.SAID.MOVE!!!!" She ,now snapped, kicks him at the balls making him move back.
" When a lady said move...u move mister." Chiara said " Captain we are ready for you, follow me...and u get back to work." Aishwarya immediately walks with Chiara.
" You ok?" Chiara asked " Yeah...sorry about him." Aishwarya said
" Don't be, he deserved it...I will tell the colonel about him. Nice reflex."
" Thanks" They both chuckled
Aishwarya meets with finn. " Well here they are Aishwarya, my work which will make you and your men not get killed...Carbon polymer...should withstand your average German bayonet...Although Hydra's going to attack you with a pocket knife" He said showing her fabric before walking to the other works
" I heard you're kind of attached." Finn said looking at the old shield.
" It's handier than you might think." She said as Finn went behind a table with different shield designs. " I took the liberty of design some...this look fun." As finn talks about some of the shields , Aishwarya noticed a round shield under the table and she picks it up.
" What about this one?" She asked
"No, No, that's just a prototype." Finn said
" What's it made of ?"
" Vibranium..It's stronger than steel and a third the weight." He explains as Aishwarya looks the shield and tries it on. " It's completely vibration absorbent. "
" How come it's not standard issue? " She asked
" That is the rarest metal on earth...What you're holding there, that's all we got."
" Your finished, Mr stark?" Chiara asked
"What do think?" Aishwarya asked
' Could use some testing"
" Take that gun and shoot at me." Chiara did and Aishwarya blocks the bullets with the shield as everyone else freaks out with the shooting
" Works fine.." Aishwarya said feeling the shield " Here...these are some design for the suit and shield. " She hands the paper sketch to Finn who still surprised but the gun shooting.
" sure no problem." Finn takes the paper.
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