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Dale Smith ([info]just_dale) wrote in [info]breaking_point,
@ 2009-08-27 09:59:00

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Entry tags:*complete, 2024 08, dead character: dale smith

RP: A wolfy conversation
Who: Dale Smith & Tristan Moore
Where: Tris's house
When: August 27th, 2024
Rating/Warnings: None
Summary: Dale keeps his word and goes to meet Tristan.
Status: Complete | Private


Dale had left work on time, determined not to be late for his... Appointment? Meeting? with Tristan. He had thought about it a lot in the past couple of days and he had a million questions flitting around in his mind, not sure what he wanted to ask Tristan first.

He was glad he had told Ben about things. He was his best friend and it was something that he didn't want to keep from him, no matter how anti-werewolf the magical community was. He also knew in hindsight that he should have realised that Ben would be pro-him. His friend had always been there for him and this was just something else that they could and would deal with. He would just have to keep an eye on him; he had a feeling Ben would be more affected than he let on and Dale refused to let him feel bad on his part.

His conversation with Patrick from the night before had confused him too. He hadn't spoken to the man in years and he had told him about his condition without a moment's thought. Dale couldn't figure out why he had been so open about it and decided to blame stress and alcohol. It was easier.

He had decided to not charm his marks for this meeting and had let his hair go back to its normal length. The collar of his shirt covered them somewhat but they were still visible if one was inclined to look. Ringing the doorbell at Tristan's, Dale stepped back and waited for somebody to open the door.


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[info]just_dale
2009-08-27 08:29 pm UTC (link)
Dale listened to the explanation, interested to hear there was another werewolf in the house. He wondered if it was normal for werewolves to congregate together. He supposed it made finding room-mates easier. "So Mitch is a werewolf like us?" he asked. "I- Unless people were hiding it from me, I've never met a werewolf. It's a bit surreal to know of two in three days," he confided, feeling a bit out of his depth. He didn't know much of anything

"Ah," Something still felt off but he ignored it. He was probably just being over-suspicious. "You brew Potions? That's pretty awesome. I was always terrible at them," he said. "Didn't have the concentration for it. I was too busy making the class laugh at my jokes," he added with a chuckle.

"Sounds fine, the weather's remarkably un-British today," he said, putting his hands in his jeans pockets as he watched Tristan. "I don't have any outside space where I'm living at the moment. My friend has found a house though and we might be moving there once we've tidied it up a bit. I haven't seen it yet but apparently its gardens are large enough to hide a werewolf once a month which is cool. What do you do on the full moon? Stay inside or go outside?"

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[info]not_an_orphan
2009-08-27 08:48 pm UTC (link)
"You've probably met at least one other," Tris offered. "Prejudices keep most of them quiet about what they are, and for twenty-six days of every twenty-eight, we're perfectly normal and don't really show any differences." He shrugged and grinned. "But yeah, Mitch is a victim of the lunar flu."

Carrying the tray outside, Tris set it down on the porch. "Sadly, yes, I brew potions. I'm visiting Professor Withors once a week during the school year to work on the Wolfsbane, so I can eventually brew my own."

Picking up one of the biscuits, he broke it in half. "I run out there," he said with a gesture to the woods. "When I was at school, they let me romp around the Forbidden Forest. It's fun," he admitted. "Having your own mind but a wolf's body. If only it came without built in societal prejudices."

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[info]just_dale
2009-08-27 08:56 pm UTC (link)
"Probably," He tried to think if he'd noticed anybody disappearing for two days during school but he didn't think he had. "I never really knew about werewolves beyond dressing up at Halloween when I was younger. They're nothing more than mythical creatures in the Muggle world."

Dale followed Tristan outside and sat on the porch next to him, taking a cup of tea from it and a biscuit to nibble on. It would probably appease his stomach for a while and stop it from rumbling. "Potions is the one thing I thought I could do but no such luck. I should have known really, I could never cook Muggle-style and it's kind of the same principle."

He looked out over the woods, thinking that it would be quite neat to be able to run around at leisure. "Does it hurt?" he asked. "The changing. I'm not a wimp when it comes to pain but I can't imagine it not being agony. I also think you're the only person I've spoken to so far who has referred to it as fun."

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[info]not_an_orphan
2009-08-27 09:15 pm UTC (link)
"You find a silver lining in it," he said quietly. "Or you go crazy." He cocked his head slightly. "This is all I've ever known. This life. I won't kid you - it's worse for people being turned, I'm sure. They go from perfectly normal to outcast, all because of bad luck."

He sighed. "It hurts like a bitch, but at least its quick and the wolf can ignore the pain. Back to human is a little harder; the human bodies aren't as equipped to cope with the pain. There are potions for it. If you ask her nice, Ace can probably help you out there."

He gazed out across the yard for a moment. "I wasn't kidding about the crazy. It's hard on the mind, and ... the best you can do is find someone to talk to when things get dark. Someone who gets you, or gets this."

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[info]just_dale
2009-08-27 09:29 pm UTC (link)
"I got warned about that," he said, sipping at his tea. It was still slightly too hot and he blew on it to cool it down. "My friends seem all right so far although I don't know if they're just pretending for my benefit. I told my best friend last night and he was supportive but I didn't expect any different. Ben's always been the same."

He remembered the potion the Healer had given him. "She gave me a potion. She said it might help," He thought of Patrick and how he said he'd help. "There's somebody else I can firecall if I need to. We're not exactly friends but he offered to help."

Dale frowned; he hadn't thought about the mental effects. He had been trying to avoid them thus far. "What do you do? Talk to Mitch?"

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[info]not_an_orphan
2009-08-27 09:42 pm UTC (link)
Tristan laughed aloud at that; he couldn't help it. Then he reminded himself Dale had no way of knowing their relationships. "Nah. Mitch is the guy I tease when I walk by the room and he and Ace are busy. Landon's my rock. My light, I guess. He keeps me from drowning in my own darkness."

Tris shrugged. "He's the one that brought me out to begin with. My mom had it in my head that ... She meant well. She didn't want me hurting people, but she had me absolutely terrified of myself by the time I started school."

He kept his eyes on the distant trees as he spoke. "Lan was brave enough to befriend me, and patient enough to deal with me."

He licked his lips. "It wasn't easy, and it never gets easier. It's a constant thing, the dark place. He keeps me from going in so far I can't get back out again."

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[info]just_dale
2009-08-27 09:52 pm UTC (link)
"Ah," he said, not sure how to reply. Whilst Ben was his best friend and had been for quite a while, Dale had never really been terribly introspective. He was an extrovert, relied on the approval of others and loved to entertain, shock, flirt and have fun. He always had been the same. "I'll have to see how it is for me. I've never really been in my own head much if that makes any sense. I try to get into other people's heads."

He thought of Ben and if he could deal with that and hoped that he could. He knew that if push came to shove he wasn't too proud to not send a message to Patrick. He had said that he understood and he'd managed to stop him from thinking about it the other night. They weren't friends though. That was the odd thing.

"I can think of a few people," he said, hoping he was right. "Have you ever hurt anybody? Or come close to?"

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[info]not_an_orphan
2009-08-27 10:07 pm UTC (link)
Tris chuckled."Long as you stay out of mine, we're good."

He'd had quite enough of people trying to get into his head lately.

"Once," he said in response to the question. "Something was off with the potion I'd taken, and I wasn't enough me to keep the wolf under control. Nothing happened; my mom caught on quick enough. Pinned me down, dragged me inside and kept me there."

Tris turned his eyes to Dale. "Nothing happened then, but something could have."

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[info]just_dale
2009-08-27 10:22 pm UTC (link)
"I don't mean to get inside people's heads, I just do. I like to entertain people and that means knowing what makes them laugh and what doesn't," Dale explained.

"That's what I'm scared of mostly. Hurting somebody. Doing to them what somebody did to me- I keep thinking if the person remembered, if they felt remorse, if they will do anything differently. It plays in my head almost constantly," he admitted. "I'm staying at St Mungo's until I can trust myself and until I'm used to what happens. I don't like the idea of being scared and alone."

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[info]not_an_orphan
2009-08-27 10:59 pm UTC (link)
"I've heard that wolves not on the potion won't remember what they did as a wolf," Tristan offered.

Heard, had in-depth discussions about. Whichever. Sometimes it still amazed him how easily the lies and half-truths fell from his lips.

But that was a hazard with running with a secret organization - only so much information could be parceled out, and some had to stay vague. 'I heard' rather than 'the stray we rescued told us all about it.'

"I think I did the hospital thing when I was little," he said. "Not since school though."

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[info]just_dale
2009-08-27 11:10 pm UTC (link)
"That doesn't make me feel any better knowing that they might do it again," Dale admitted. "Why isn't the potion free in all countries? I know that it's expensive but surely for the governments it's worth making sure all werewolves are kept safe and kept from hurting others?"

He knew he was being idealistic and foolish but he didn't see how they could justify making a potion that helped and then not giving it to those in need.

"So you used the grounds at Hogwarts from when you got there. Did you take the potion when you were younger?" he asked. "From a baby, I mean? God, it must be so different for you. I'd say I don't know how you did it but like you said, you've never known anything different."

He frowned, thinking. "What happened to your mother- Uh, if you don't mind me asking, that is. Did she get turned too?"

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[info]not_an_orphan
2009-08-27 11:32 pm UTC (link)
"Not all wolves want the potion," Tris said. "I'm sure you've heard the ..."

He trailed off and frowned. "Well, maybe not, if you're Muggleborn. Fenrir Greyback ring any bells for you? He's ... parents tell stories about him to get their kids to behave. Like Muggles have a boogeyman? We have him. Or had. He might be dead now. But there are others, like this Drakkor bloke."

He grinned. "If I ever get rich enough to afford it, I'll hand out Wolfsbane on street corners."

Shaking his head, he thought for a moment. "Not since infancy, no. My first shift ... I was eight. So we started it then. And yes, my mum was turned, but fortunately my baby brother turned out clean. No fur for him."

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[info]just_dale
2009-08-27 11:53 pm UTC (link)
"I've heard his name mentioned at school but not in anything more than vague terms. He was around when Voldemort was, wasn't he?" he asked. More than ten years had passed after his death before Dale had found out he was a wizard. "I take it he didn't want the potion?" Drakkor rang a bell and he remembered the newspapers. "He doesn't seem like the nicest bloke in the world."

Dale frowned, some of the things not making sense to him. He supposed it was because he knew so little about the disease and how it worked. He was still a baby in comparison to somebody like Tristan. "How come you didn't shift till you were eight? Were you too young?" he asked. "Well that's a relief for your brother... I didn't realise that werewolves could still have children. It's kind of reassuring- I mean I'm gay so it's not something I'm going to have to deal with but for others? Yeah, reassuring."

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[info]not_an_orphan
2009-08-28 12:38 am UTC (link)
Tristan nodded. "Worked ... for Voldemort, so the stories go. Or tied his pack to him, something like that. But he ..." Tris shook his head. "Fenrir liked kids. Liked to make sure he was close to some when he shifted, so he could turn them. Was his goal to turn as many as he could, and turn them young."

Exhaling softly, Tristan shrugged. "Same reason magic doesn't manifest until wizards are that age, I suppose. Just ... one of those things triggered by time or some development or something. And usually they can't reproduce. The shifting usually causes miscarriages, and we're ... really not sure why my mum got as lucky as she did to have another kid. Sage was born prematurely, and he had some problems from that but ... he grew up into an okay kid. I'm just glad he ... was around to grow up at all. And that he wasn't tweaked like we were."

His eyes flicked toward the window, and he grinned and nodded before lifting his hand in a wave and swinging his attention back to Dale. "Lan's got patrol tonight," he shared. "He was letting me know he was leaving."

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[info]just_dale
2009-08-28 08:20 am UTC (link)
"That's... That's really wrong," he said once he'd processed it. It seemed unimaginable that people would do such a thing, hurt people on purpose. Dale thought you'd have to be sick in the head and then some to justify it. "Is this Drakkor the same? Or does he just like practising his ABCs with human limbs?"

Dale thought it was kind of fascinating but then at the same time understandable. Transforming at too young an age would risk killing a child or so he assumed. "That's shitty- That women can't have children. Are you still close to your family?"

He looked up at the window when he saw movement, watching as Tristan responded. "Patrol? What does he do?" He assumed Auror or Hitwizard but he didn't want to be too presumptuous. "What do you do for a living? I never asked."

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[info]not_an_orphan
2009-08-28 01:50 pm UTC (link)
Tris tried to recall what all had been actually published, and what had just been speculation. "Dunno about that. I ... there've been a couple articles about him. 'parently he likes to murder even when he's not shifted. The ... the name thing I think is recent."

He grinned, and nodded. "Still close to them, yeah, but my mum's a bit over protective so I had to get out of there 'fore she drove me batty. I don't see Sage as often as I'd like to, but ... he's busy. Going into his last year of school," Tris shared with a slight grin.

"Lan's in his second year of Auror training. And I am wasting my life away as an employee at Weasley's Wheezes." He laughed and shrugged. "I could've ... done other things I'm sure, but I'd just as soon not sign up for Auror training then have them tell me to sod off because I go furry once a month." A faint smirk edged his lips. "Our employment options sometimes get a bit ... limited," he pointed out. "You think they'd let us play to our strengths and just make sure we're off those two nights, but ... no. We're dirty and unclean and awful, awful creatures."

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[info]just_dale
2009-08-28 05:43 pm UTC (link)
"That's really wrong," he said, shivering a little. It seemed so unfair and unjust that somebody was allowed to roam around and do those type of things. "So has he been causing trouble for quite a while or has it been a new thing? I have to admit that I haven't really paid much attention to articles about werewolves."

Dale laughed, imagining the family environment only too well. "Yeah, parents can do that. I couldn't wait to leave even though I'm very close to them."

He smiled and nodded. "I can understand that, I'm sure I should have tried to actually have a career or something," He brushed his hand through his hair. "So Weasley's Wheezes? That's not far from I work, really," He grinned. "Dirty and unclean and awful? I might be dirty but not in the way I think they mean."

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[info]not_an_orphan
2009-08-28 06:07 pm UTC (link)
"Dunno how long," Tris admitted with a shrug. "Just know what I've read in the papers."

And of course, as far as the world knew, Drakkor and Sterling were two different people ... so he couldn't even cite Sterling's prior activities that had made the paper - though there'd been no surviving witnesses to those to describe him; they'd all learned through Mitch.

Tris grinned a little. "Think we're all a little dirty in that way," he pointed out.

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