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Tweak says, "42"

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

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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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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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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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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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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