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Natalie Bower // APRIL ([info]tamegiggles) wrote in [info]beyondthepages,
@ 2010-05-16 06:30:00

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Entry tags:!complete, 2023 10, brian avery, torrence mulciber

RP: Bored Now
Characters: Tory, poking Avery
Time/Date: Saturday evening, October 15 2023
Location: His house - Avery's, that is. Tory does not have one.
Warnings/Rating: PG13ish
Summary: Tory is... bored.
Status: Complete



He'd played around in the streets, tortured and killed some muggles, some more obvious than others. He'd nearly made the paper more than once, but he'd always been good at keeping himself out of trouble, and he knew better than to make a big stink right now - this anonymity that he had at the moment would come in handy later, and just because he was frustrated with it right now...

But boy, was he ever frustrated with it. Sneaking about in the shadows when he was used to proclaiming his statements proudly, announcing to the world that yes, he was a Death Eater, a follower of the Dark Lord and he was damn proud of it had been some of the greatest times of his life, both times that they'd experienced their reign of power, and he missed that. He missed being able to parade around and make good work of his killings, of his tortures. He missed people knowing his face when he walked down the street. He missed the fear.

And if he missed it this much, he could only imagine how hard it must be for some of the others.

Hell. He was even starting to miss Azkaban. At least there, you didn't have a concept of how much time was going by outside the window. Time you could be spending doing something instead of sitting around being useless.

And so, having nothing better to do, he showed up unexpectedly at Avery's. Something, he imagined, was liable to get a bloke killed if he kept on startling old friends like this. But maybe he had a bit of a death wish.

When - assuming he did - Avery answered Tory's insistent knock, he simply stood there for a moment before he asked, very simply, "Do you ever miss it?"


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[info]blows_things_up
2010-05-16 10:56 am UTC (link)
Avery wasn't exactly surprised to see Mulciber there. It was pleasant though; if they could only get Rosier back and get Rodolphus to let Bellatrix out to play ... maybe they could have some fun.

Well, he assumed it was Rodolphus keeping Bellatrix on a leash, and he wondered how long that would hold out; she'd always been a willful bitch.

"Miss some of it," he admitted as he stepped back to let Torrence in. He mostly missed having someone to give him orders and provide clear paths of escape. He didn't miss the punishments for his not-infrequent fuck-ups though.

"Halloween's coming," he said with a shrug. "Lots of things to do with masks," he pointed out as he moved toward the den. "Drink?"

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[info]tamegiggles
2010-05-16 11:23 am UTC (link)
"Our god is a merciful one," he muttered, slipping into the place and glancing around more out of habit than anything before he made his way over to where he'd noted Avery kept the drinks. He'd have headed there even if he hadn't been offered one, but felt like less of a jerk about it since it had been offered. "One day in a year we get to go out and make some noise. Even then though, we've got to be careful. Doubt there are enough of us left to make some real noise. Can't just be you me and Bella out there killin' folk, they'd see through that one, idiots though they are."

He paused, thoughtfully, his eyes lingering on Avery as he leaned against a wall. "'less we sent out some kind of... alert, message, indicated our intentions without actually stirring up any shit that'll bring Mom down on our backs."

He fiddled with his wand, a slow grin curling up over his face. "Think we could alter the Morsmordre to be a jack'o'lantern?"

He was only half kidding.

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[info]blows_things_up
2010-05-16 11:35 am UTC (link)
"Rodolphus and his pet, and Macnair," he added. "Could see if Fenrir wants to play with us too. Roddy's got a couple other connections, Fenrir might have a pack," Avery ticked off the possibilities on his fingers as he settled down into a chair.

"Full moon's right before it. We could stretch it into a few days of havoc. Start with the willing pack, fill in some blanks ourselves afterwards. Give the Ministry something to really clean up."

The idea of just flashing some marks around was good, but not quite as satisfying as actually killing things. Still, they could try the 'misdirection' thing while they were at that. Flash some marks in a bunch of different places, and wreak havoc somewhere else while the Aurors were busy.

It had merit. All of it did.

"Dunno about that," he murmured. "If that spell even works still. We could make up our own. Can't be that hard."

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[info]tamegiggles
2010-05-18 05:54 am UTC (link)
"Just to get everyone involved," he said, not sure why this idea had rooted itself in his brain. "I mean, we can owl those we're sure of, but we might be able to double our numbers if we let people know what's coming and what date it's on. Shoot up a couple of alerts a few days before Halloween and let people know to be ready. Has the benefit of getting the population all worked up and the Ministry all fucked up and freaked out. You know I never say no to chaos." He took a rather large mouthful of his drink.

"God, I'm just so bored of this dreary after life existence, I really don't know how you stood it for 30 some odd however many years it's been," he shook his head. "Azkaban was better than sitting around and trying to be a good little boy for Mom. I know Bella's losing her mind, and Roddy's probably already lost his. Enough to make a bloke wonder if a revival is really even worth it at this point, or if the handful of numbers we have should just go out with a bang and kill off the Potter's children in one fell swoop."

He rolled his eyes, drinking more deeply, "Course if they're just going to come back, s'not much point in that either."

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[info]blows_things_up
2010-05-18 06:08 am UTC (link)
Avery chuckled softly, but it was true enough. With no idea how the returning dead thing worked, there was a risk of return when people were killed off.

It also meant they could come back if they were killed.

"I know a few people," he admitted with a slight nod. "Criminals on the Muggle side of things," she continued with a slight grin and a little shrug. So, he'd turned to Muggles for a bit of entertainment now and again; what of it?

"Who's to say I was bored all this time?" he quipped. "I had my fun. Not as much or as often as I would have liked, but ... I got out. Helped rid the world of a bit of Muggle scum. Better a few knocked off than none at all, right?"

He snorted at the comment about Bella losing her mind; that had happened ages ago. "Rodolphus ..." He shrugged a little. "He could've done more. Could've done a lot more, but chose to simply hide completely rather than play-act."

He wondered what the odds were of getting Potter's kids. "They'll be due up for a Hogsmeade trip," he reflected thoughtfully. "Just before Halloween, I think. Could make a go then if we had a plan in place with enough time to prepare and act on it."

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[info]tamegiggles
2010-05-18 06:48 am UTC (link)
"I stand by my statement, mate. If you weren't bored, I don't know how you did it, because what we've got to work with just isn't enough for me." But then, he'd always been a bit of a showboater. "Suppose that's why I couldn't stay out of prison to save my life, but there we have it. Go big..." he waved a hand. The expression finished itself, really.

Though the idea that the kids would be out on a Hogsmade adventure certainly caught his attention, his lips curving into a slow grin. "Does Bella know? We could make a right party if we got ourselves all dressed up and headed down to the 'Head for a drink. We get some of the Malfoys we might even be able to bully them out of hiding. They've got spawn, don't they?" he mused. 'Course... "The boy stronger than Lucius was? If he has even half a spine it might not be worth threatening them until we're more secure in our... numbers, powers, abilities? We've got a handful of people so behind the times that they don't even know who to call allies at this point, and are trusting the information of people who's been playing out the outsides of the game for decades," he sipped. "No offense, mate. You've done the best you can, and who were you to expect we'd all be back and itching for a fight all these years later? But really. I'm going starkers. If I don't get my work in the Prophet soon, I'm bound to kill myself."

He'd never really been much of a planner, and he suspected he was on the last couple of brain cells which is why this plan was starting to brew, and he wondered if he'd be going at it alone... and thought that suited him okay, really, even if he died and didn't return over it.

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[info]blows_things_up
2010-05-18 02:10 pm UTC (link)
He chuckled softly. They all had their strengths, he guessed. His was following orders without deviation. Mulciber's was flash.

"I could let her know, but it'd be easy enough to guess at if she thought about it. The schedule hasn't changed since we were in school. There's always one just before Halloween. One just before winter holidays. One around Valentine's day.

"And they're practically in my back yard," he murmured. He sometimes wondered if that was why he'd chosen the place he had, a tiny little cottage nestled on the outskirts of Hogsmeade. Just to keep an eye on the school ... though he couldn't imagine what he thought would have come of it. Returning deceased was not exactly a scenario he'd ever thought about with any degree of seriousness. It was supposed to be impossible.

"Wish we could figure out who'd done this. See about getting him to bring back ... well. Others like us."

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[info]tamegiggles
2010-05-19 03:21 am UTC (link)
"Point," he said with a shrug. "But hey, we're a bit more removed from the whole school thing than you are, it... yeah, being in your backyard and all."

A ridiculous grin was starting to cross his face. Oh, the fun they could have with this one. At the very least, they were going to make some parents squirm.

"Think it's a calculated thing, the returns?" Tory mused thoughtfully, when Avery mentioned finding the person who'd done it. "Think he's sitting there with a list of all the blokes and birds who died... in or around the war, it seems for the most part at least, and he's just..." Tory waved his glass around, the liquid sloshing out a bit onto his hand and he licked at his flesh to avoid wasting any - maybe he'd had too much too fast. "You know. Picking names, seeing what happens?" He drank some more - clearly he was sloshing because there was too much in his glass. "While I can't fault him for choosing my name, I really do wish he'd - like you say - hurry the fuck up and give us some people we can use."

Unless it really was just random, which he thought was more likely. But maybe if someone could figure out what was causing it, they could pick and choose who to bring back. They needed more people in the Ministry so they could know what the fuck was going on. They needed more people period.

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[info]blows_things_up
2010-05-19 03:46 am UTC (link)
"True," he agreed. "She probably wouldn't think about it that way, either," he admitted. She was violent and brilliant in her insane, off-center way, but logical, coherent thought didn't really work for her.

"No," Avery said before he shrugged. "I don't think it's a controlled thing. If it is, why wouldn't he have brought back the Dark Lord yet?" Unless it was someone, it was deliberate, and he planned on becoming the next Dark Lord after perfecting his returning-dead trick.

Or hers, he reflected contemplatively. It could be a witch. "We'll just have to keep an eye out for our sort who slip through the cracks and wind up back among the living."

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[info]tamegiggles
2010-05-19 04:08 am UTC (link)
Tory snorted. "Cause no one gives a fuck anymore now that we know he's a Muggleborn," he said with a hauty scoff. Though.. and perhaps it was the beer doing most of the thinking for him now... that did give way to wonder about a couple of things, and he stared at his glass for a moment in thought before he said, in a tone far more serious, "If he did come back, would you still support him, even knowing that?"

He wondered about it himself. In spite of his blood status, and the lies associated with that... it wasn't as though the Dark Lord had been having someone else perform the great feats of magic that he had proven capable of. Perhaps it explained how - in the end - he was defeated by Potter, but... really. He'd been stronger than the rest of them with or without pure blood status.

That... may be enough to regain old loyalties. At least from Tory.

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[info]blows_things_up
2010-05-19 04:38 am UTC (link)
Avery shrugged one shoulder. "Hadn't really thought about it. Suppose if he dropped the pretensions now that we all know anyway, and just ... wanted to do evil in the world, it'd be one thing. But I'm not sure I could get behind him campaigning for blood purity when he's a half-blood himself. If we're going to wreak havoc in the name of something, it should at least be a truth, not some delusions."

Which was wise and insightful for him; a rarity.

"Even be one thing if he wanted to kill off Muggles for being Muggles." Avery grinned slightly. Granted, Muggles had their uses. He was particularly fond of bombs.

"Suppose it's one of those things we'll have to see about. If he pops up, then ..." Avery shrugged. "We'll see where it goes."

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[info]tamegiggles
2010-05-20 06:52 am UTC (link)
He wondered about that, and wondered if it was the booze that made Avery sound smart there for a minute. Probably. But it made sense. You couldn't exactly go off on muggleborns when it was part of your family tree and all that.

But a quest for power? He could get behind that. And they could figure out their ideals and what they supported as they needed to. Later. Once they were done with some mayhem and chaos and causing some pain.

He nodded to show his agreement to pretty much everything Avery said, and smirked slightly. "Be neat to see the walls that divide us all come down, and the muggles running and cowering in fear. Probably end in an all scale war between the two of us. They've got them blast-wands that you like. Maybe it'd even be close to a fair fight," he was amused by that idea, and also really intrigued. He was mostly kidding, but was it true? Would it be pretty close to a fair fight?

Of course, they'd probably end up having to do something stupid. Like teaming up with Potter and his brats in order to defeat the muggles.

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[info]blows_things_up
2010-05-20 02:10 pm UTC (link)
Avery chuckled. "Not a chance of a fair fight," he protested. They could do so much more, so much more quickly, than the Muggles could. Granted, the Muggles could drop some bombs on them - the really big ones - but they'd be wiping out as many of their own as they would the wizards.

"Wouldn't want an open war anyway. I prefer our way of doing it. Picking them off in bits and clumps, blowing things up, working under the cover of darkness, making them afraid."

Avery sighed contently. He missed those days. Missed when there were easily a hundred Death Eaters, when things like this actually worked. "We should see who's left. Who's really left that wants to come play."

They'd be older, like him and older than that, but ...they could still wave a wand, wreak some havoc. It was something worth thinking about.

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[info]tamegiggles
2010-05-21 05:54 am UTC (link)
He smirked. He hadn't really thought that the muggles stood a chance, but he knew next to nothing about their technology and what they were capable of. "Well, no," he agreed, eyes sparkling. "But it's nice to think about a full out destruction like that, every once in a while. Suppose once they were all gone, I'd regret destroying them so quickly." He smirked at that. He knew he would.

He nodded his head to Avery's statement that they should find out who was still in the game, and shrugged his shoulders briefly. "Question is how to do it subtly. Suppose we're going to have to keep playing the owl game and playing it safe and going out of our minds with boredom until we devise a better method to go about bringing everyone out of the woodwork without arousing too much suspicion."

He'd do it in a heartbeat, he thought. Head out and cause a lot of havoc, let those who knew him know that he was back - at least those who didn't know already. But he knew it wouldn't be enough. Something big, and relevant to the old interests would have to happen before people were really going to stand up and take notice of anything that he could think of to do.

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[info]blows_things_up
2010-05-21 06:06 am UTC (link)
"Maybe, maybe not," he said with a shrug. "Be nice to keep some play things around to keep the batshit ones entertained, but otherwise ..."

Otherwise, what good were Muggles, really? Keeping them restricted, making them keep themselves hidden because they were dumb herd animals. Because the idea of magic would incite mass panic and ... get them attacking.

Then it could be self-defense.

Avery's wheels were rusty and hard to get turning, but once they started going, even he had the occasional flash of brilliance. It wasn't something he could do alone, and it wasn't something they were ready to do yet, but ... if they made a big show of magic on the Muggle side of things, caught their attention ... then what?

He grinned to his thoughts and nodded slightly to Mulciber. "Keep an eye and ear out for anyone coming back that doesn't make the papers," he added. "Owl people and test the water. Slow but steady."

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[info]tamegiggles
2010-05-21 07:03 am UTC (link)
He snorted, downing the last of his drink and all but slamming the glass down on the nearest flat surface. "Assuming don't lose our minds while we're moving along at this steady pace."

He did feel a bit better though, since coming here. He'd at least managed to kill a bit of time without being a complete idiot and doing something really foolish, like blow his theoretical cover. He did still wonder if the Ministry knew he was back and was just not saying anything for now, or if he'd managed to keep his nose clean enough to stay off their radar, but honestly he didn't care much.

"Think I might head out," he said, glancing around. "All this talk of killing and no actual doing. Wanna tag along? Could maybe find a couple of birds to have our fun with before we get into the really good stuff."

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[info]blows_things_up
2010-05-21 01:15 pm UTC (link)
Avery shrugged. "I'm used to it. It's just the impatient buggers like you that'll have the problems," he quipped. Him, and Bellatrix. Now that she'd started whatever she'd started ... he didn't see her moving very slowly at all.

"Sounds good," he agreed. Having a partner in crime was better than sticking out his neck alone, and it'd been a while since he'd played with birds. Been a while since he'd really played with anyone.

A grin tugged his lips as he pushed up to his feet and awaited Mulciber's lead.

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