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Tweak says, "J is for Jousting"

Lilith (potter_girl) wrote in breaking_point,
@ 2010-02-11 10:05:00

Entry tags:

*complete, 2025 02, dead character: bellatrix lestrange, dead character: lily luna lestrange

RP: Lily Luna and Bellatrix
Who: Lily Luna Potter, Bellatrix Lestrange
Where: Lestrange Manor
When: Just after lunch, 11 February
Rating/Warnings: tba
Summary: Lily gets another dose of training

Apparently she'd been 'good'. The elf had brought her breakfast, laid out her clothes for the day, and she'd asked shyly if there was anything that she could have to read. He'd brought her a very old, very dusty book on basic defense, and although she'd read similar books through and through, she sat with it in her lap. It was better than nothing. She'd studied until midmorning when the elf had come back, saying that she was being permitted a walk outside, if she liked.

She liked.

Lily hadn't expected to go alone, but the elf hung behind her, so it was almost like being by herself. She walked the paths in the neglected garden, breaking dead heads off the flowers and poking them into the soil. Maybe they'd bloom when the weather warmed again. Maybe not. It gave her something mindless to do.

And the air was fresh and sweet. Lily didn't tire of the walking, or of the outside, and walked the paths over and over until the elf beckoned. "Lunch, Miss," he said, and she followed him back to her room. Maybe she'd get to eat somewhere else soon, but for now, this suited her. He fetched a tray while she washed her hands, and she ate with the tray on the top of the trunk where she could look out across the grounds.

She hadn't been finished for long when he came for her again. "Mistress says Miss is to come." He led. She followed. Bellatrix waited in the hall where they'd worked before, and Lily felt a rush of anticipation. She was going to learn more...

"Thank you for letting me go outside. It was lovely and cold."

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potter_girl
2010-02-11 09:23 pm UTC (link)

Lily dropped the shield obediently, then hissed at the burn of another different hex. She gripped her wand.

Want to hurt her? Oh yeah.

Another hex stung her wrist and Lily turned, putting every bit of her desire to hurt back, to retaliate, to give one better, into the hex as she shouted the word and flung the spell. A glimmer of magic crackled through the air, and she followed it immediately with another, then another.

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bp_bellatrix
2010-02-11 09:28 pm UTC (link)

Oh she was rather good. Not brilliant, but a rather fast learner. In this instance her feelings helped her rather than hurt her and for every spell she threw a little bit of the goodness inside her vanished.

Laughing with pleasure of the game, Bella let the hexes hit. "Adapt," she shouted changing her hexes repeatedly. She'd keep one hex up until Lily could throw it back at her then turn to another, stepping up in intensity and pain with every move. It was still child's play. Nothing fancy, nothing truly hurtful. But soon, soon she'd teach her how to really hurt someone.

"Adapt faster," she shouted.

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potter_girl
2010-02-11 09:34 pm UTC (link)

Lily learned fast. The hexes weren't Unforgiveables, but they were painful if you let them be. Could be painful if you threw them right. She worked on both focus and ignoring, a faint smile playing on her lips as she followed the lead, learning hexes she'd never heard of, sending bright jets of magic across the room.

She followed the pattern of hexes, changing when Bellatrix did, moving slowly across the floor in a wide circle. Another hex. Another. Red, then yellow, then blue.

She turned, changing her hex again, but not following the order they'd used, a simple backwards step to the hex before. Lily smiled at the power she felt in her hand as it erupted from her wand, and she didn't wait to see the result, but threw another in its wake.

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bp_bellatrix
2010-02-11 09:59 pm UTC (link)

Improvisation... now that was new. That was definitely a deviation from the hex that had her under her spell. There was less following and more thinking, acting, in that.

Throwing up a shield, she blocked the last hex, halting her own. "You're learning fast," she said, stepping closer. Of course these were hexes she'd cast since she was a little girl, that she'd been exposed to since before she could walk. Nevertheless, it was dark magic, and while relatively harmless it would eat away at the girl's goodness.

Her breathing was quick and shallow as she moved to stand behind the girl like the day before. Once more a gnome was summoned, once more Bellatrix showed the movement of wand before casting the Cruciatus. She let the gnome scream for a while, before letting go. "Now you try," she told Lily, knowing the girl wouldn't stand a chance. There was no where near enough darkness in here. It would take weeks - possibly longer. Though for every attempt...

She waited for the girl to fail.

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potter_girl
2010-02-11 10:07 pm UTC (link)

Lily stopped, wand still ready, breathing fast and hard, waiting for the next task. The next challenge. The next game. A faint smile appeared at the nearly-praise, unexpected in the midst of orders and challenges.

She breathed deeply once, willing her pulse to slow, and straightened with Bellatrix moved behind her. Her wand followed the movement once, then again, and she focused on the screams of the tiny creature. Willed herself not to care. It was a gnome. Grandpa tossed them over the fence...

Her body was still on edge, exhilarated from the game, and she willed the magic to come from her. "Crucio!" Her hand gripped tightly, so tightly that her wand trembled just a bit, and she pushed harder, striving for the sound the little thing had made...

Gritted her teeth and tried again. And again. And finally, she lowered her wand. "I can't," she whispered. "I... I'm sorry. I've disappointed you..."

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