Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2013 22:44:21 GMT -8
[/color] There was a shake in her voice as her hand pushed open the door quietly. The staff members had retreated to a corner upon their arrival to give them privacy.There was a whisper in the halls of the dungeons that the Slytherin Common room was finally reopened. It was certainly cause for an eyebrow raise. As he hit the couch something seemed off. Rodolphus Lestrange had wooed plenty of girls in that very spot. Hell he'd had sex in that spot a good few times. This was not the same cushion as early in that day. "There is something wrong with this... He bounced up and down a little testing the springs and standing up very quickly. "Someone messed with the cushion. That is a different .... It's like I don't even know this couch anymore!" His long finger pointed accusingly at the furniture as he looked around at the semi-familiar faces as they trickled in. One girl happened to pipe up and sneer something out about flood damage from the lake. Before he could come up with a reaction there was a tap at his shoulder, and he turned to see a wide eyed second year staring up at him.
"Miss Echoes is requesting your presence... She's in the Clock Tower. She also wanted me to tell you that it's very important and that you need to find her immediately." Naturally, at this sort of request, Rodolphus instantly assumed it to be a booty call. He inspected the boy to be sure it wasn't a ruse and then made up his mind. The second year was just round enough to weigh down a spring. His firm grasp clenched onto the boy's chubby arms and sat him down in the foreign cushion. "Do me a favor. Don't move from this spot until I come back. There's a good lad." With a ruffle of the boy's hair, Rodolphus sprang free of the common room. The mood he was in now could have brought him to whistle.
Integra had finally come to her senses and chose him! Sure it couldn't last long. There was a betrothal he'd been bought into, and all the other lays that would come knocking, but if he could get her to just stay his, claimed for Rod's enjoyment, then all would be okay. Surely Echoes would understand him having to fulfill his duties as a sex machine. Either way he was going to have amazing sex tonight. With a woman he didn't have to hold back with. The release was going to be amazing. It was something he could get from only one other place. A place he still felt unsettled about. Never in his life had Rodolphus ever felt undecided about something. But his excursion with Joram had been something he wanted to keep in the back of his mind, to mull over again and again.
Bounding up the steps two at a time, Rod made his way to the clock tower. Her ass in those pants was like a peach on a hot summer day. OH the things he would to do her tonight! As he approached her, the girl's back turned to him, Rod watched the way her shoulders rolled in their sockets. The light on her skin as it pulled over her skeleton, cast shadows in the recesses of her body. Being as quiet as possible, Rod crept up behind her and put his arms around the girl's body. "It's about ti-" Her clothes were damp, and her skin was ice cold. Pulling away he looked at the girl as Integra turned to face him.
The expression her eyes cast at him could have knocked him on his feat. It was a lethal mixture of vengeance, hatred, and incredible pain. "Is that... Blood on your shirt?"
"...Yes..." How was she supposed to explain this to him. She knew he'd stayed behind with Lyra for dinner after Rod left. It couldn't have been easy on him, and his night was about to get worse. With her thin pale hand covered in dirt, Integra brushed back her messy hair. Rod's glaring look at her disheveled features, made her realize she couldn't have looked presentable in the slightest.
Everything had gone suddenly serious and it rose concern in the boy as he eyed the normally flawless woman before him. "What's going on?" The conversations between them had typically been hidden in sexual banter and laughable insults. Recently, however, they had come to a point in their relationship as friends where they felt comfortable having actual conversations of worth with one another.
Integra licked her lips and took his hand in hers. "C'mon. I'll show you."[/green]
Her answer put him off. Was this some sort of freaky thing Rab had turned her on to? What the hell was he getting himself into? As uneasy about this as he was, Rod couldn't help his curiosity and followed the girl without protest. In only moments they were approaching the hospital wing. "There was an accident...Rab...I got there when I noticed something was off but... He...Rod, I tried to find you..."
[/span]Tucked behind a curtain off to the side, lay his baby brother. At first Rod wanted to laugh and tell the sod to get up and stop being stupid. But as the tears fell from Integra' eyes, Rod realized the reality of the situation. "What the fuck happened?!" His shout was but a whisper, so as not to wake the boy as he looked at the dark haired mess. She quivered and shook her head. "I don't know. There was so much blood and....I couldn't breath. I couldn't wake him up...It was like a nightmare."[/color] [/font]
Integra found a stool next to the boy and took his limp hand in hers. Rod could only stare on at the pair for what felt like hours. This was certainly not the kind of booty call he was looking forward to, but that was far from his mind now. It didn't take long until Integra was resting her head on his brother's arm and quickly drifting off to sleep. The girl must have been exhausted from all the emotions. The whole thing was so surreal. Was this even real life or was it just some sick twisted dream. As he palmed his eyes, Rod tried to rub himself awake and out of this delusion. When he looked back, the pair were still there, motionless.
He paced the room a few times before draping a blanket around Integra's shoulders. Compassion had come in like a plague. No notice. It was uncertain that he'd even had it inside of him until now, but through the sorrow, Rod was finding that the right thing to do now was put aside his normal demeanor and facade. He had to be here for Rab. He had only himself and Integra looking after him. And she'd done all she could now. With Rabastan out, who looked after her? Swallowing his pride and choking back everything that lead him away from being a sensitive individual, Rod pulled up a chair and rested his elbows on the bed.
"Once, a very long time ago, there was a wizard who was in charge of making all the potions for a shop...." Rod's soft and low voice shook as he spoke. "He made every sort of potion. Ones to clean spots, ones to grow roses. Ones to make Tots, and ones to shrink noses." As much as he was fighting it, a tear began to threaten his previously unbreakable cool. "Unfortunately he was very terrible at making potions. He'd turned his wife into an ugly barren woman with warts, and could not cure her, no matter how hard he tried. She hid her face everyday and locked herself in their home, ashamed of the wizard and what she'd become...." The rest of the story was barely audible as he croaked it out between tears, burring his face in his hands. "The wizard made a disaster of the shop. There were upturned cauldrons everywhere. And his wife....She slipped! Ugly troll face in the mix. This was not how the story went verbatim, Rabastan knew it much better than he did. "Jesus Christ." Rod gave up and was reduced to silently attempt to console himself. If Rabastan died.... He'd truly be alone. [/font][/justify][/blockquote][/span]