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Date and Time: January 10, 2008 - evening
Characters: Marcus Flint, Daphne Greengrass, Gerald (NPC)
Location: Flint Manor, England
Private/Public: Private
Rating: R
Warnings: Language for sure
Summary: Marcus returns home from the Voodoo Islands and Daphne wastes no time finding out where he's been
Completion: Complete



After spending nearly an hour under the waterfall shower in his bathroom, Marcus was sitting on his bed in a daze, his hair dripping onto the carpet below. He had only been back in England for a couple of hours after a week of being in the Voodoo Islands - a week after discovering his only child had been taken from him. He had come back alone, and defeated.

He had consulted the only person he knew who could help him while out of England - a priestess of a nearby village who really was a witch. Abuela Aurelia knew everything that happened on the sleepy island which Marcus' holding was on, and yet she could not give him any more information that he did not already know. Whoever had taken his son was magical, and they had killed Maria and destroyed Marcus' superlab. She had tried performing a detection spell on the knife that had killed Maria, but whoever had wielded the knife had learned to conceal their identity. The only consolation Marcus had from his visit with Abuela Aurelia was when she took hold of an item of Alejandro's clothings and met Marcus' eyes with hope.

Su hijo está vivo.

Your son is alive.

Marcus had gone for seventy-two hours straight looking for any indication that his son was still on the island before collapsing under his own exhaustion. Every known contact he had in the Islands could not tell him much, but it was clear that no amount of searching would reveal that Alejandro was still in the country. His captors had fled, and gods knows where in the world he may be. Marcus had talked to every known slave trader, muggle and wizard and no one had seen his son.

He was at a loss. Without being able to notify the muggle authorities of his son's disappearance without bringing suspicion on himself, and there not being much of a wizarding authority in the Voodoo Islands themselves, Alejandra was as good as gone.

When Marcus had arrived back at Flint Manor, Gerald knew something dire had happened though he was not one to question his employer. All Gerald could do was to ensure whatever Marcus wanted or needed, he would retrieve for him.

Evening came swiftly, and though Marcus had demanded not to see any visitors, when Daphne Greengrass arrived on the front step of Flint Manor, Gerald could not turn her away. She had been questioning where Marcus had been for the past week with worry, and Gerald enjoyed the young woman's company whenever she had paid a visit to the Manor.

"Yes, Master Flint has arrived back home though I must warn you, he is not well Miss Daphne," Gerald warned her in a low voice when she stepped over the threshold.