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Tonks, if you please (tonks_please) wrote in labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-03-08 15:44:00

Entry tags:

arrival, complete, day two, nymphadora tonks, rose tyler

WHO: Nymphadora Tonks and Rose Tyler
WHAT: The arrival of Miss Tonks
WHEN: Day 2, afternoon
WHERE: The center of the City of Illusions
WARNINGS: PG-ish?
STATUS: Complete

It was a sad state of affairs when she would wish for the company of Severus Snape. She'd never really liked him, and the events that had happened all those months ago on Mirage had left their mark on her. But she needed Snape right now, that was the simple truth. She didn't know of any Healers on the Planet, and Snape, while a greasy, unpleasant git, was someone who could probably help her. But he'd disappeared, and it was most inconvienant at the moment.

For the last few months, Tonks had been feeling rather ill. At first, she'd tried to ignore it and hoped it would go away. Eventually, though, she'd been forced to seek out the unpleasant Potions Master. Only to find he'd disappeared, which was beyond annoying. Still, what else could she do? But she was so tired all the time. Still, she'd likely just caught some sort of Muggle illness, and left it at that. It would pass, she figured.

Still, it had been going on for awhile now. But it hadn't impacted her life that much, and she almost thought it was starting to get better. The throwing up had stopped, anyway, and the tiredness seemed better. Maybe she would recover. Still, it couldn't hurt to have talked to Professor Snape about it. But since that couldn't happen, she tried her best to forget about it.

One day, though, which was not so very different from any other day, she was simply minding her own business when everything changed. She thought maybe she would seek out Marcus, when a black hole opened up in front of her. She didn't even have time to scream. In fact, she barely did anything but think to herself Merlin, here we go again... before she was being sucked down into it.

She landed on a grassy lawn and looked around. It was a strange place, almost sparkly, and she frowned as her dark eyes took everything in. The tents, the jousting, the general activity... and then it occured to her just what had happened. She gasped, and then shook her head. "...Marcus... no!"" She gradually came to understand all the implications, and for some odd reason, found herself rather dizzy. She fought it off, though, and set her jaw determinedly. She was going to get back to her lover. There was just no other way she would accept things.

All she had to do was figure out how. Someone was walking by nearby, and she called out to her. "Excuse me, can you please explain where I am? This isn't Mirage, is it?"

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plusone
2009-03-10 12:38 pm UTC (link)

Rose couldn't help herself. She giggled as Tonks addressed the creature, and giggled harder at its reply. Maybe there was hope for this blasted place after all.

"No," she replied as Tonks questioned her about questions for the little thing. "Not unless it knows a way out of here. And since I doubt its great and powerful King would approve of it telling us one way or the other..." She shrugged in annoyance, giving the animal thing her best glare. Which, she had to say, was rather impressive. Came from years of she and Jackie living in the same house, especially through Rose's teenaged years. "Or if it knows something to do around here other than play Damsel in Distress. Got tired of that game when I was seven, don't plan to revisit it ever." After all, though there'd been times she herself had been rescued, she was just as fond of the times she'd done the rescuing. And there'd been plenty, thanks.

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tonks_please
2009-03-10 09:08 pm UTC (link)

Tonks nodded, flashing Rose a smile. Then, she waved the little goblin thing off. "You can go." She was normally fairly nice to house elves and goblins and things, but this felt like a different set of circumstances somehow. She just wasn't as inclined as usual to be nice, that was all. After all, she had just been kidnapped. Again.

"Damsel in distress? Sorry, that's a game I don't play." In fact, Tonks would be rather disgusted with herself if she ever did resort to that. Not that her work as an Auror hadn't put her in danger from which she'd needed help to remove herself, but that wasn't the same as waiting around for someone to save her. She could handle that.

She looked around and grinned. "Well, there's lots of stuff to do around here. We could go fight with swords." Which would probably leave Tonks bleeding. She wasn't the best with her coordination. "Or eat. There's lots of eating places around." She glanced around and then pointed. "Hey, that building in the middle of all the others looks important, don't you think?"

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plusone
2009-03-10 09:14 pm UTC (link)

Rose liked the girl's exploratory nature. A prickling thought occurred to her that she had a mind that would do well at Torchwood before reminding herself that Torchwood wasn't a part of her life, at least for the moment. And, if it ever was again, it was doubtful Tonks would be there as well. A shame, that.

"The eating here is overwhelming," Rose admitted, glancing around as her fellow inmates, as she was coming to think of them, were eating everything in sight. And the music lessons had sounded interesting. She had to admit, she loved learning the culture of others. She just wished it hadn't had to be at the expense of losing her home and her family. "But we could go see what's going on over there, if you wanted. No idea, honestly, I really haven't checked this place out quite as much as I probably should have."

If he were here with her, they would've already dissected the place, interviewed the other residents, and befriended the goblin things. But that was then and this was now, wasn't it? Rose wasn't looking forward to being best mates with her kidnappers, either.

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tonks_please
2009-03-11 11:02 am UTC (link)

"Everything here is overwhelming..." She shook her head as she looked around. "I don't know what they're thinking, really. This looks nothing like what I've heard about what the Middle Ages actually were like." In some ways, the wizarding world was stuck back in those times, so she knew what she was talking about a bit.

It suited her to explore, though. She nodded slightly. "Yeah, let's do that." After all, she might find a couple of people she knew. Even if she didn't, this was valuable knowledge to obtain, insofar as knowing your enemy. Also, she was enjoying the girls company. It all added up for the witch, and she set off in a random direction.

"Oh, look!" She pointed ahead of her, tripping her way forward. She wasn't the most graceful person in the world, and had a hard time keeping her own feet out of her way. "It's a weird muggle instrument! I think I saw one in a picture once!" It was, in fact, a harpsichord, and she found the music coming from it to be quite beautiful. There were several other instruments she didn't recognize, but the effect of all of them together was quite striking.

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plusone
2009-03-11 02:20 pm UTC (link)

"A what instrument?" Rose asked, baffled and yet pleased by the girl's rambling. It was a nice change from the silence of her room. She would've asked if she was alright, but Tonks seemed to go on as if nothing had happened. She must've been used to it. Shareen had been clumsy enough at times, which is why Rose refused to sneak up to the roof of the school with her. Just in case.

"A harpsichord," Rose pondered, glancing at the instrument with interest. "You know, there's an entire planet where they use our instruments from all over time. That's is a pretty popular one, actually." God, how long had it been since they'd been there? One of the more uneventful stops, thank goodness, but fun and quiet and peaceful, just the same. She never thought she'd give anything to be back there but now? She definitely would.

She looked around, curious about the way everything was set up. "I wonder what made them decorate the place this way?" Rose questioned out loud. "It's nice, I guess, but... Even people back home don't enjoy this stuff that much. Maybe a couple of times a year, but that's about it."

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tonks_please
2009-03-12 12:45 am UTC (link)

"Muggle." She glanced over at Rose and sighed softly. She really did have to stop calling people that. She'd come to the conclusion that, even when it wasn't meant that way, it came off a bit rude. She didn't like that. So she once more made a mental note to be more careful, and knew that she would probably forget again. A habit of a lifetime is not broken in a period of days, or even months.

She listened with interest as Rose spoke. "Really? That sounds bloody brilliant!" She pictured the place vividly in her head. It sounded interesting to her. "I would love to see that sort of thing. One time I met a nutter who had enchanted all sorts of instruments to play all at once... and all out of tune. Merlin, I'm surprised I don't still have the headache."

Tonks shrugged. "I dunno, really. Maybe this King bloke has a thing for history." Although that didn't seem to make sense. This was extremely historically inaccurate. But she couldn't think of a better reason. She looked at the music practice for awhile longer, and then stepped back. She wasn't really very musical, and tended to like her music a little bit more edgy than this.

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plusone
2009-03-13 06:45 pm UTC (link)

And yet muggle still told her nothing. It sounded like something someone might name a chihuahua or a big fluffy cat. She'd ask later, when it seemed less rude and more curious. Right then, she was much more curious about how much this Tonks actually knew about the history of these instruments...and history in general. She'd never actually felt the shows people put on were all that accurate, especially not having traveled back to said time in history herself.

"If he does," Rose began, giving Tonks a careful look to see if she'd give away anything extra about herself, "then he needs to do a bit more reading up on it. For one, the people aren't dying in the street of pestilence. For another, it looks a bit more like a street faire, with all the traveling performers and what have you." Which sort of lost its appeal when, instead of a woman in a long and beautiful dress, it was a little gnomish looking creature. Not quite the attractive picture the ladies of the time had made.

"Want to keep looking, then? See if perhaps we can spot any other historical inaccuracies? This one's not really doing it for me." That and the newcomer looked terribly uncomfortable for some reason or another. Couldn't be the progressively grating sounds of an old-fashioned instrument being played quite badly.

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tonks_please
2009-03-13 10:43 pm UTC (link)

The witch put her hands over her ears, feeling like she might be deafened by the contrasting musical stuff. She listened to some interesting music herself, a lot of which her mother really, really disliked, but this even went beyond her taste in music. She backed away rather quickly, and was glad as the discordant noises faded away behind them.

The witch shrugged slightly. "Yeah, pretty much." She'd odone her own studies of the times, though not to the point of actually going back to them, as Rose had. Not that Tonks knew that. "Anyway, it's really weird. I don't see how we're supposed to live in a place like this." She frowned, wondering if it would ever change. If this place was anything like Mirage... but it seemed to her that it both was and wasn't.

"Yes, that sounds like a really brilliant plan." She glanced around, and then pointed. "Oh, look, dancing!" Obviously by the way that Tonks tripped over to the pavilion with the dance music coming from it, she would never be a dancer. But she did look curiously at the dancers, who were all human in form, but tended to have faces that you forgot as soon as you saw them. Shw frowned. "I bet that king guy made them..."

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plusone
2009-03-14 06:26 am UTC (link)

"Curious, isn't it?" Rose questioned, as much to herself as to her companion. "How you can never quite focus on them?" She was thinking again, and while once that might've been dangerous, these days it was all she did. Thinking of how to get back, thinking of how to stop the darkness from coming, and thinking of the past. But now she was thinking of how something didn't add up about this place. "I wonder if they ever stop dancing. You know, if they're machines or just...images or something." She tried to make eye contact with just one, but it never seemed to quite work.

Shaking her head, Rose gave a small sigh. "Well, it looks like we're stuck here, so I certainly hope we're just here on a holiday or something. Because I'm not entirely sure I could stand this for long." The music played in the pavilion was okay, but nothing she could imagine herself listening to for months on end. Months. Years. When King Whatisface said never leaving, how long did never really mean?

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tonks_please
2009-03-14 11:38 pm UTC (link)

Tonks' eyes widened, and she looked with sympathy at the dancers. To her, being trapped like that would be unbearable. "Oh, I hope not... how awful if that was true." She kept looking at them for awhile longer, and then shook her head. "I can't just leave them there if they're under the Imperius..."

She took out her wand and pointed it straight at one of the dancers. If anyone was being forced to dance, she had the inclincation to stop it. "Finite Incantatem!" The spell worked, insofar as she felt it leave her wand. However, there was absolutely no effect. The dancers kept dancing, and didn't so much as look at her.

"Oh well." She sighed softly and tucked her wand back away. "I would like to look around more, but I think I'll go to my room first. Do you think we could meet again?"

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plusone
2009-03-14 11:53 pm UTC (link)

At first, Rose was too busy staring at the wooden stick Tonks had used, and paying attention to the strange words she'd used, to notice much else. Good God, she'd never get used to this place if this kept up. It was one thing to hear that someone was a witch, but to watch them throwing around magic spells? What was next, someone into a toad? "Bloody hell, that was brilliant," she murmured, then shook her head, focusing more intently on the girl in front of her.

"That'd be nice, I think," Rose replied, finding she actually meant it. She'd had fun, for the most part, and it was nice not being cooped up in her room being sulky. Maybe her Mum had been right all those months ago, maybe getting out and about was the right way to heal. "Once you've had some time to settle in. Not that I think getting used to this place is on the agenda," she added with a wry smile. "But just the same. And rest, too, traveling parallel universes really does take its toll on you."

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tonks_please
2009-03-15 12:21 am UTC (link)

Tonks glanced over at the pretty woman, and smiled brightly. She kept forgetting what effect her magic could have on people who didn't know what it was, and had never seen it before. It pleased her, however, that Rose seemed amazed rather than scared. "Thanks! It seems normal to me, sometimes I forget... but it didn't do anything."

The witch backed out of the tent, glancing around once more. It really was a remarkable place, though she was sure it was going to get old pretty quickly. "Yeah, I'd kinda like to get out of here before getting used to it, but it can't hurt to get more information." She smiled at the other woman. "I think we can probably communicate through the journals, so we should arrange to meet again!" She was quite sincere, she'd liked the girl a lot.

"I'll see you later!" She flashed another bright smile to the girl and a cheery wave as she headed off in the direction that the goblin had pointed her. She had enjoyed that more than she'd thought, meeting Rose. But she needed to find her room now.

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