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'altogether unseen || WAVERLY Feb 8, 2013 20:49:31 GMT -8

Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2013 20:49:31 GMT -8

The night hours were quiet around the Forbidden Forest. It was well past midnight and most of the students that had snuck out for the night were already making their way back to the castle to catch some much needed shut-eye. ’Ah the touch of sweet cupid’s arrow could do such wonders for younger lovers’, she thought with extremist cynicism. Little did they know that love was a lie; that all people would betray one another in love if they had a chance. She caught glimpse of a couple passing a few yards to her left and pressed her thin frame against one of the trees in the forest, barely breathing. The couple moved sluggishly against the gradient of the trees, giggling to one another and whispering against the wind. Hadley Greer assumed that they could only take so much midnight snogging and whisperings of sweet nothings before they were inclined to bash their brains out themselves. She bit down on her lip as she felt her lips twitch slightly in an upwards motion; or perhaps it was just her that thought that romance and love wasn’t worth her time. When she was convinced that the couple had made it out of her radius of detection, she pushed her body off of the tree and began walking in the same direction: A woman on a mission.

Only the soft coo of owls could be heard from a distance and the occasional snap of a twig underneath Hadley’s soft padding feet. She stopped after about three minutes and made a sharp turn right, desperately searching for something...anything that would be a clue. She wanted to know what Zeke Maxwell was doing sneaking out here all the time. And if he wasn’t going to come clean and tell her himself, then she was going to do her best to discover what it was. Once that idea had been planted in her head, there was no going back. She had to know what it was he was planning and where he was planning on executing it.

She crossed into some sort of cleaning in the forest; a tiny area where the trees parted ways and the greenery was lit up by the stars above. Immediately distracted by the very things that seemed to keep her life-blood flowing, Hadley looked up and felt a genuine smile flutter across her lips. The stars were so beautiful tonight; all of them were shining brightly against the dark sky and there was not a cloud to be seen for miles. If only everyone had the appreciation that she did for the celestial bodies. Perhaps then they would learn what true beauty was.

For a brief moment, Hadley’s eyes closed and she stood there absorbing the moon-light, until she hear a snap of a twig.

Her eyes snapped open in protest, her mind immediately running off in a thousand different directions. Merlin, there was someone behind her. She could practically feel the presence of the other person in the clearing and she cursed herself for being so careless. This is how accidents happened - Hadley warned herself to be more careful in the future before slowly turning around, ”You should-”

[/b] No one was there. Stunned, Hadley’s mouth fell open slightly. She could have sworn that she had felt someone else there with her and yet, no one was anywhere close. Shaking her head, Hadley turned back around and continued to observe the tree that was in front of her, looking for any more signs that someone had been here.

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'altogether unseen || WAVERLY Feb 9, 2013 14:39:54 GMT -8

Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2013 14:39:54 GMT -8

Waverly Cassel was 20% water and 80% acerbity, sustained by Shepard's pie and a general distrust for just about everyone. Her children would die in the womb.

There was a couple, a boy and a girl, entangled in one another's arms at the base of an old oak tree. The girl's back was against the bark, head thrown back, her lover's lips devouring the tender skin beneath. Soft moans escaped from both their lips. Gratified. Waverly had never heard two people sound so gratified before. The pair were completely oblivious to everything around them, lost in their own personal ecstasy. And in a week, the boy will have found some other girl to chase the skirts of, or the girl will have grown bored, or discovered that she prefers the touch of a woman's lips instead. Whichever. In any case, they'd part ways and forget all about this Edenic paradise they'd stumbled into for just a few hours. Waverly wasn't critical of love or relationships. She supposed they were all well and nice. Admittedly, she couldn't be entirely certain since she'd never been in one, herself. It was better to stay detached. Cleaner, that way. Simpler. Or maybe they would fall hopelessly in love, marry each other right after graduation, have twenty grandchildren, and grow old together and die together. Wouldn't that be lovely? Waverly sincerely doubted this possibility, but she supposed it could happen. Inwardly, she wished them the best. Having had enough of kisses, and sighs, and compliments, the boy and girl left the forest with their hands clasped together.

The Forbidden Forest wasn't a stranger to the young Hufflepuff girl. She often escaped to this dark place to get away from the stifling air of the castle. Out here, everything was clearer, fresher. She could breathe out here, away from the drama of her classmates, the demands of her professors. Sometimes what she needed more than anything was to just escape from the harness of her life. Actually, she'd been coming out to these woods more and more lately. It wasn't that anything particularly alarming or dramatic had happened to her recently. In most regards, things were about the same. She still spent most of her time alone. Her sister still avoided her passing glance in the hallways. And she was still an anonymous presence to everyone else around her. Waverly wasn't sure that would ever change.

Waverly would have thought she was the only one left in the dark woods after the lovers left. She was about to spread her wings and fly back to the castle herself, but then a sound caught her attention. It was the soft breaking of twigs under the weight of someone's footsteps. Her black eyes scanned the forest, looking for that elusive figure. Then she caught sight of a shadowy silhouette, standing in the middle of a clearing. Waverly rested on a tree branch above the unfamiliar girl, inky black feathers concealed in the shadowy cover. The girl's white-blonde hair shimmered in the soft moonlight, reminding Waverly of a lightning bug. She used to catch those funny little things when she was just a girl. She'd beg her sister Siobhan to catch them with her, but Siobhan always had better things to do.

As quietly as she could, Waverly flapped her raven's wings and flew to the opposite end of the glade, trying to catch a glance of this new girl's face. Settling into her new station, Waverly cocked her head slightly. She recognized the girl. Hadley Greer. An older student and a Slytherin. Consequently, the two had never personally interacted before. But Waverly, just like everyone else at Hogwarts, was aware of the girl's tumultuous past. What was she doing out here? The girl was paranoid, that was to be sure. Waverly watched as Hadley snapped around, practically shouting into the darkness. No one was there. Waverly frowned, unsure of what to do. She felt a pang of guilt for this girl. Betraying her usual anonymity, Waverly flew down to the ground, but out of sight so that Hadley wouldn't see her change back to her human form. When she was two-legged and un-feathery once more, Waverly cleared her throat and stepped forward into the glade.

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'altogether unseen || WAVERLY Feb 25, 2013 22:18:51 GMT -8

Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2013 22:18:51 GMT -8

She breathed into the air for a few moments, remaining completely and utterly still as a rush of wind ruffled her hair slightly. Someone had to have been there - she couldn’t have been losing her mind that easily, right? There was something strange about the Forest at night; something that she enjoyed in a strange way, but found slightly off-putting. Perhaps that was the reason that she was most comfortable here - like herself, the Forbidden Forest seemed to be an anomaly located at Hogwarts. It was there, but most people were afraid to venture anywhere near it. Just like the blonde Slytherin whom everyone thought was poison to be around.The thought made Hadley Greer smile slightly. Although she was justifying her choice to come to the forest tonight with clever analogies, she still felt as if something wasn’t right. Hadley had always been overly cautious. She assumed that it just happened to come with the territory these days. She was perpetually determined to protect herself in terms of her relationships, personal space, and history. She didn’t want anyone to know things about her that they were not privy to; and her sneaking around the Forbidden Forest late at night was certainly one of these things.

Hadley stopped walking when she reached the edge of the clearing - convinced that someone had to have been here in the recent past. It seemed as if the glade had seen a lot of pacing - someone moving back and forth as if they were anxious about something. She furrowed her brow slightly as she bent down and touched some of the crumpled blades of grass that were near the edge. There was no way of telling when the pacing had happened, who had done it, or where they had gone afterwards. For all intensive purposes, this lead seemed to be a dead end. Hadley growled slightly in her throat, angry that there was nothing here to go off of. All she wanted to do was know what Zeke was up to and why he was being so secretive and sneaking out late at night. She was getting no where, fast and it seemed as if her bad luck just kept going. She stood up and ran her hands through her blonde hair, trying to figure out her next plan of action. She could return to the castle, that was probably her best bet...wait until the next time that Zeke came back out. But with Parent’s Weekend looming on the horizon, she had no idea when that would be, ”Dammit.”

[/b] She muttered against the wind as she closed her eyes in frustration.

Someone cleared their throat. Hadley was absolutely certain that after hallucinating that someone had been following her for the past ten minutes that there was now someone there. She immediately opened her eyes, clenching her fists in defense. She wasn’t sure if she was going to have to hurt anyone, but she most certainly didn’t want to take any chances. If it was a Professor then she would put up one hell of a fight - it hadn’t been the first time. She strained her eyes against the darkness that was all around them, trying to figure out who it was that stood yards across the clearing. It was only after taking a few steps forward that she recognized the girl. Cassel or something. She couldn’t quite place the first name. She was a Hufflepuff, a few years younger than her. And a seeming social outcast just like her. Which made her all the more suspicious, ”What are you doing out here?”[/b] She growled into the silence that was between them, cocking her head to the left in curiosity. She wasn’t sure whether she was upset that the girl followed her or intrigued by the fact that Miss Cassel was clever enough to avoid full detection this whole time, ”It’s impolite to stand there staring. Or to follow people into the Forest at night.”[/b] She was about to threaten the girl, but stopped at the last minute, knowing full-well that it would have no effect on the young woman.

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