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Morgandy Yaxley ([info]markedheart) wrote in [info]all_roads,
@ 2008-03-04 18:36:00

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Entry tags:*thread-completed, dominic abbott, morgandy yaxley

Polyjuice games; Hestia's flat [MY, DA]
WHO: Morgandy, Dominic, briefly Hannah, Ernie, and Hestia via journal
WHERE: Hestia's flat
WHEN: Friday, 7 January, 2000; late afternoon
SUMMARY: Mory tried to keep Dominic away from her for the next few days, to no avail. COMPLETED THREAD.
RATING: PG-13 for language



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[info]regretfulde
2008-03-04 11:55 pm UTC (link)
Dominic was worried to say the least. While he could easily attribute Hestia’s snappishness to being ill, something still had him ill at ease. Not the best cook in the world of his own admission, Dominic had actually ventured to a Muggle grocery store to pick up a can of chicken and noodle soup, and had loaded that shopping sack full of other things to comfort Hestia such as a carefully wrapped plate full of Hannah’s homemade sweets and some treats he had impulsively picked up for Max.

Satisfied that he had everything that he needed, he used his floo to get to her flat. Max, the little devil, was taking advantage of his mistress’s poor health to shred pillows in the living room. “Bad dog.” Dominic scolded, picking the pillow up and sitting it on a table next to his sack of goodies. He tossed the puppy several treats, trusting that that would make him behave for a bit, and then proceeded down the hallway.

“Hestia?” He called, walking toward her room slowly. Hestia, it’s me, I’m here…” He paused outside of her door frame, frowning as he looked at the bundle of covers. “I know you’re under there somewhere…” He took several steps closer, sitting on the edge of the bed and pulling the covers down. “Hello gorgeous.” He said, his tone teasing. “Aren’t you glad that I came over after all?”

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[info]markedheart
2008-03-05 12:07 am UTC (link)
Not knowing if Dominic had a key or other access to the flat, nor wanting to use that specifically warded journal Nicodemus had given her, Mory was currently in a high-strung state. She had meant the next few days to be set aside to familiarizing herself with Hestia's flat as well as to read through her journal for helpful information. Hestia herself hadn't been exactly forthcoming, but Mory hadn't pressed her more than was expected when another was within hearing distance.

The dog had been an unexpected trial as, somehow, it had seen through the Polyjuice. Damned animal intuition. She had left it shredding a pillow to keep the creature out of her hair, only later learning his name was Max. Knowing his name hadn't helped.

The place was strange, this body was strange and every frustrating minute that passed made Mory even more certain that giving in to Rodolphus and Bellatrix's demands would soon be in the past, rather than her future. She wouldn't continue at this forever, she'd find a way to ruin their plan without being caught or something else as effective.

The moment she heard the Floo she took off down the short corridor and threw herself into the bed.

"Go away!" she yelled from beneath the blankets, then presented him with a hostile look when he uncovered her. She supposed that smile he was directing at her was meant to persuade Hestia to his way of thinking, but even if that assumption was right, she needed him out of here while she was still floundering like this. Angry moods swing to the rescue, hopefully.

"You're incapable of listening to me, aren't you?" she demanded angrily, pulling on the blankets.

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[info]regretfulde
2008-03-05 12:20 am UTC (link)
"I am." Dominic laughed, kicking off his shoes to the side of the bed and looked down at her. She looked fine, other than being clearly irritated at him, but perhaps the illness had not taken hold yet. He leaned in, pressing his lips first to her forehead, and, finding it cool, then to her lips. She was flushed, but that was likely in anger at him...not the most promising sign but better than illness.

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[info]markedheart
2008-03-05 12:25 am UTC (link)
This. Was. Not. On. Planting her hands on his chest, Mory pushed him away and then retreated under the covers. Merlin be damned, she was not going to be kissing Dominic Abbott, even if these weren't technically her own lips right now. Hestia Jones couldn't possibly want this much affection while pregnant, she was barely into her second trimester. Mory had been sick as a dog and, according to Hestia, so had she. Men!

"You're trying to get sick!" she accused from under the blankets, huffing angrily and searching for more things to say. "If you want time off work, go get your own excuse!"

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[info]regretfulde
2008-03-05 12:29 am UTC (link)
"My own excuse?" Dominic frowned and then his frown turned to a wide grin. EXCUSE. This was some ploy for her to get some time away from those damned trainees of hers, he should have guessed that on his own. He laughed heartily, pulling the blankets down again.

"I see through you, Jones, you selfish minx." He tossed the covers back, gazing down at her in all of her furious glory. "But wouldn't calling in 'sick' be so much more fun if we got to enjoy it together? I won't rat you out with Moody, if that's what you're worried about." He stretched out on the bed next to her, still laughing.

"You nearly had me going, I brought you soup and sweets and even got Max a few things, and here you were the entire time, perfectly fine. Are you certain you weren't in Slytherin?"

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[info]markedheart
2008-03-05 12:40 am UTC (link)
Oh fuck This was great, just great. Mory hadn't thought to make herself seem sick, she had been too concerned with knowing where things were in the flat so she didn't make him suspicious. Now he didn't even believe her. What the hell was she to do now?

"I am sick, I am! The Healer said so," she insisted stubbornly, a last ditch effort to make him by the story. If he didn't believe her, she'd have to play along with his assumption. "And you should be at work, it's the middle of the day and people are probably very interested in where you are and what you're doing lately!"

She grabbed for the blankets again and pointed to the door. "You can't stay here, you're the Minister. You have things to do. People will talk. I'm pregnant, it's expected for pregnant women to be ill and have to stay in bed."

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[info]regretfulde
2008-03-05 12:47 am UTC (link)
Dominic made a comically large pout come to his face. "It is expected for pregnant women to be ill, but you're NOT ill." He reached his hand out, resting it flatly on her stomach over her clothing. "Is this some sort of game?" He waggled his eyebrows at her. "Are you trying to trick me into going so that you can spend all night devising devious things to inflict on those trainees of yours?"

His thumb moved in slow circles over her stomach. "Or are you just feeling a bit tired because of the baby?" His face took on a more gentle look. "Did you feel guilty about asking for a day off because you were tired? Because I assure you, someone other than you can shout at those boys just as well as you can, and I won't think any less of you if you are tired. We knew that you might get tired, that you might have to take a few days off, no one is faulting you for that."

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[info]markedheart
2008-03-05 12:54 am UTC (link)
Repressing a shudder at the idea he might think this some sort of sex game, Mory resigned herself to the lie he had given her and hoped, because he had thought of it, he would believe it.

"Oh, all right," she growled, expression surly. "I'm not sick, I just didn't want to go into work and I needed an excuse, one they'd believe and one you'd believe." She sighed and then reached out, touching his cheek gently with what she hoped was intimate affection before drawing her hand away, unable to shake the feeling that even that harmless gesture was somehow cheating on her husband. She was in bed with another man, after all, even if it was completely platonic.

"I wanted you to think it was contagious so you weren't tempted to leave work to be here," she said quietly, face turned slightly away form him, "because people will talk and I don't want them talking about you."

There, that sounded believable, didn't it?

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[info]regretfulde
2008-03-05 01:06 am UTC (link)
It sounded believable, though it still tore at Dominic's heart. "Hestia..." he sighed, taking her hand and pressing it to his lips. "You don't need to hide things from me. "I'm a grown man and I know when it's necessary for me to go to work and when I can afford to take an early day, and I can afford to take an early day today. What I CAN'T afford is worrying about you 'for a couple of days' because you've shut yourself away from me."

He squeezed her hand again, sitting it back down again. "Besides, we need to talk anyhow. Have you heard anything from Kingsley recently?" Even in the privacy of his home or hers sometimes he was a bit hesitant about discussing things openly that had to do with his information leaking. His very life was at stake, as well as Hestia's, as well as Hannah's.

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[info]markedheart
2008-03-05 01:14 am UTC (link)
"You don't when it comes to me, where I'm concerned you forget to anything you should, only things you want," Mory said, knowing it was the truth concerning his relationship with Hestia, if nothing else. "I didn't want to face people talking about us and I knew you skipping work would only make it worse, only make it harder to go back when I made myself."

She turned away then, uncomfortable in the face of how clearly he cared for Hestia. She had nothing against Dominic Abbott or Hestia Jones and in other circumstances, when she didn't have secrets to hide and if they world was different, they might have made nice friends for her and Gideon. If only he'd go away so she could figure out a way out of this.

"And no, I haven't heard from him, I just journaled him this morning to tell him I wouldn't be in, he hasn't had time to reply, I'd imagine," she said, more than a bit puzzled. Hestia hadn't mentioned anything important to do with Kingsley, had actually been difficult to deal with as far as anything Auror or Order related.

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[info]regretfulde
2008-03-05 01:46 am UTC (link)
Dominic's face sobered a bit. "Can you blame me for not wanting to do what I should?" He rested a hand on her back, confused as to why she had turned away. "Thinking of you here alone and sick made me feel like the worst sort of man. I know how important it is that I make this job work, Hestia. I know what depends on it, but I think that I know the limits as well. I can figure out when I should stop pushing my limits and when I have a bit of leeway, and now I have a bit of leeway."

He leaned in, kissing her shoulder. He was sorry that the article had come out like that, sorry that people would be talking about her. "Most of the aurors and trainees likely already knew when you went on light duty though, didn't they? Going back to work shouldn't be so bad as all of that. They all care for you like family, I think they'll likely come to your defense before they talk about you like that."

He paused, giving his words time to sink in before continuing. "And I meant about the other thing, about what I had asked you to tell him the other day. You said that you would talk to him about it and tell me what his plans were."

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[info]markedheart
2008-03-05 01:57 am UTC (link)
If anything, his words were making Mory feel sickly guilty, realizing he meant his success as the Minister was necessary to keeping his girlfriend safe, in keeping their baby safe, and right now as hard as he could work, those two things were entirely out of his hands. She would not be part of Bellatrix and Rodolphus harming pregnant women and unborn children, or children at all, which was why the massacre had affected her so strongly, knowing she might have been sent to one of the areas children had been murdered that night instead of where she had been, where she had killed adults instead. Normally a strong women, that had left her curled in Gideon's lap after it was over, certain he thought her a monster even if he would never say so. And Dolohov, her only reason for this Mark, had continued to live by being off in another group where she could not even kill him.

Blaming it on the hair in the potion for carrying some strong strain of pregnancy hormone, or even just on the freedom to be weak, stuck in the body of a woman who was pregnant and emotional, she had to fight back a sob as she pulled away from his gentle touches and kisses, the action making it silent but not keeping it from shaking her body.

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[info]regretfulde
2008-03-05 02:27 am UTC (link)
Dominic could see her body shaking as he pulled away, though he didn't know why. Imagining that it was likely just a result of the conversation with Kingsley going awry, he sat there, a chill running through him. What if Kingsley didn't think that the information was enough, or wanted to...

No, he couldn't go through that line of thought. He had to assume that Hestia's side would find some way to ensure that they were safe, regardless of whether the information that he gave them more or less specific than the last time. "Hestia..." he said softly, feeling quite inadequate at the moment. "It's alright if he didn't think it was specific enough of a threat to act on, you know as well as I do that sometimes the information that I give you is vague at best, I can just tell you what they tell me, nothing more. Don't cry, I'm sure next time it will be something more precise."

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[info]markedheart
2008-03-05 02:38 am UTC (link)
In shock, Mory rolled over, eyes widened so far the whites were visible the entire way around Hestia's vividly blue irises. She stared at Dominic as though he were some terror of the night, something horrifying and so shocking it numbed the body from running away.

He was the informant.

It was at once too much to absorb and yet what made the most sense. In his uncertain loyalty, clearly holding 'deviant' feelings and ideas, yet heading the Ministry and thus holding his only hand to avoid the death of his loved ones, no one would think he would be so insane as to inform on the Death Eaters. Yet he was dating and Auror and Order member and he was high enough up to know some information. He had to be a decent Occlumens, that was the only explanation, otherwise Nicodemus would have known and told Rodolphus. It was the only thing that had kept her true motives from the mental evasion, after all.

They were dead. They were all dead, as there was no way she could tell Rodolphus and Bellatrix of all of this and watch them kill everyone connected, from Hestia to Dominic to his daughter, yet if she failed to continue at this successfully, they would go after Risa. Alone, she was not enough to stop Rodolphus and Bellatrix and their army of renegades for the inevitable.

Now her tears were for real, ones of panicked fear in knowing she had no time in which to find a way out of this without the loss of lives, innocent ones at that. To run now with Risa and Gideon would mean dooming others and she didn't know that she could live with that on her conscience.

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[info]regretfulde
2008-03-05 02:50 am UTC (link)
This was bad, this was very bad. Either Hestia was in the throes of a MASSIVE mood swing, or Kingsley had said something to put her in this state. Could that be it? Could it be that her meeting with Kingsley had gone so badly that she was hiding from him for fear of having to tell him how badly it had gone before she was ready? Damn it, this was an awful position to put her in, stuck between her Death Eater boyfriend and her job, her LIFE as an auror.

He pulled her close, pressing a kiss to her forehead and the one to each of her tear stained cheeks.

"Hestia, love, please don't cry. You can tell me if something happened with him." He said quietly. "We have no secrets, you know that as well as I do. You don't have to take a day off from work and me to think about it, you should just tell me. I love you and whatever Kingsley said or did...it doesn't effect that."

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[info]markedheart
2008-03-05 03:00 am UTC (link)
Had Dominic not done that, gathered her up, Mory would have overcome her shock, then her horror, to get to the place where she could semi-rationally think and plan. Perhaps it was the spells too, perhaps it was the state of this body or perhaps it was her sense of complete aloneness – and what had she been thinking, not telling Gideon? Her reasoning now, that he would rashly interfere, seemed less certain now than it had a few hours earlier – but it was enough to push her toward open crying instead of allowing her to gather herself.

Though she did not cling to Dominic, not even now, she also did not pull away from him. It was comfort given that she would not push away, not when vivid images of Risa suffering for this mess filled her head. That was something no mother could face with a dry eye and a lack of fear.

"Salazar, this is so impossible," she gasped, shaking her head, "they'll kill my baby, I know they will."

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[info]regretfulde
2008-03-05 03:12 am UTC (link)
"Shhhh..." Dominic was shocked to say the least by her words, because Hestia was normally so strong. "We won't let them hurt our baby. We won't let them hurt either of our children. That's why we're doing this, remember?" On his darkest days Dominic thought that his leaking information to the aurors was an added risk with no reward, but today because Hestia was less certain he was more so. It was an odd balance they had of supporting one another, but it seemed to work.

"One day we won't have to worry about our children anymore." He rested his hand firmly on her stomach. "At least, not about them being taken from us like that."

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