Eddie Carmichael (hg_eddie) wrote in hallowed_ground, @ 2009-03-27 23:32:00 |
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Entry tags: | * complete, 1997: november, alicia spinnet, eddie carmichael |
date: 20 November 1997
characters: Alicia Spinnet & Eddie Carmichael
location: Various.
private/semi-private/public: Private.
summary: Worries breed irresponsible behavior.
status: Complete.
Though hardly the sort of man who regularly sorted through the trash, Eddie had so little contact with the Wizarding world that he'd made a habit of skimming the public rubbish bins whenever he had a chance. Always at night, and always in the smallest of Wizarding settlements he could find. Individual residences he avoided for obvious reasons.
When he found The Quibbler's latest issue with the addendum of a beard and horns to Harry Potter's face, Eddie had plucked the issue free of the other detritus, eyes reading through the contents in the ample moonlight.
It was public knowledge, then. He supposed it was only a matter of time, really, before their activities became so widespread that people wouldn't be able to avoid notice, and the brave - or stupid - among them start talking. Eddie's thoughts dropped immediately into worry for Alicia, for all he knew she wouldn't appreciate it. Lips pressed almost to an invisible line, he Apparated to several different locations before finally returning to the windswept crag he'd spent the past few days, tent pressed between a jagged outcropping of earth and stone.
It took him longer to find what he was looking for than it did to pack up his camp. When he found the photograph, he Apparated first to a public owl post near Inverness, trying after to sit on his hands long enough to keep from following the bird before it had the opportunity to reach its destination.
Enclosed in a smudged paper envelope is a photograph of the street outside the cafe where Alicia and Eddie met for coffee near Sturgis' place. A blonde head moves in and out of the corner of the photograph, hair whipping and tangling.