Gwendolyn Montgomery (purish) wrote in conversatempore, @ 2013-06-02 01:16:00 |
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Entry tags: | josephine selwyn |
Characters: Josephine Selwyn and OPEN
Setting: Nighbourhood close to the Ministry
Content: None
Summary: Bombings and Josie wants to inestigate
Stirring in her sleep, Josephine shifted on her bed. She sighed softly as she rolled over onto her other side. Then all at once, she sat upright in bed, bolting awake as the siren registered. A siren!
“Bea!” Josephine called out as she threw back the covers and slipped out of the bed, grabbing first her wand, then her dressing gown, she slid on slippers and made for her bedroom door. “Bea! The sirens!” She said, knocking loudly on her best friend and roommate’s door. She waited a moment, then another, the sires sounding off in the back of her mind. She pounded on the door again, and when it finally opened, reached for Beatrice in relief. The two girls ran out of their flat, down the stairs and around the corner toward the bunker, making sure to hide their wands before joining the others from their building ad a few surrounding buildings.
Huddling in the bunker, Josephine huddled close with her best friends and their neighbours as they waited in silence, the occasional siren heard in the distance. Then the whistling and finally a noise as the bomb exploded. The floor rattled, and Josephine clutched Beatrice even tighter as she waited, holding her breath, even in her gas mask and only letting it out when she couldn’t breathe anymore.
The minutes stretched on, and what seemed like hours later, though it was scarcely more than a few minutes, the all clear was sounded. Sighing in relief, then shouts of jubilation as they realized they’d made it through alive. Walking out of the bunker, one by one, Josephine stepped back up and out onto the pavement. Gazing out over the street, she looked in both directions, wondering just where the bombs had stuck. There seemed to be no damage, or rather no newly destroyed buildings, in her immediate vicinity, though the bombs had felt so close, nearly on top of them. Josephine shuddered and glanced around, surely someone knew something