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Andromeda Tonks (née Black) (estrangedsister) wrote in makebelievelog,
@ 2011-08-19 16:40:00

Entry tags:

andromeda tonks, kurt wagner

Who: Andromeda Tonks and Kurt Wagner
What: Working outside
When: Friday afternoon
Where: Castle grounds
Rating/Warnings: Probably low.
Status: In progress. Closed.

It was a pleasant day, and Andromeda had shooed the smaller versions of the Black brothers outside to play, following herself to set up camp on an outside table as they vanished off around a corner. She didn’t mind taking care of them – welcomed it, in fact. They filled some of the ache that Dora’s absence had left behind. But they reminded her of being eighteen – as she must have been around the time they came from. Breaking up with Ted every other week to go fill her prepared place as a wife to some pureblooded idiot, only to scramble back to him the next day. The countless arguments as he failed to understand her unwillingness to throw it all to one side and come with him… Things she hadn’t thought about in a long time.

And in the years that had passed she’d forgotten what her little relatives had been like. Or perhaps she just hadn’t been old enough to see it. But there they were. Regulus, quiet and careful, with large eyes and a serious little bow for a mouth. And Sirius, his skinny shoulders squared even at that young age, ready for an inevitable fight.

Andromeda sighed to no’ one in particular, the sound dissolving into the air, and straightened the papers spread before her until they sat completely parallel with each other. Half a dozen white rectangles against the wood, printed with black words that provided little relief for the way she was half-listening to the sounds of the outside, ready for a child’s yell as he fell or fought. It was no small wonder, therefore, that she didn’t hear the person coming down the path until they were almost on top of her.

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justbeingabamf
2011-08-19 05:54 pm UTC (link)

Of course she wouldn't have heard him but maybe because his attempt to teleport home merely brought Kurt teleporting into the sky just above where Andromeda sat. Kurt's cry of surprise was cut off at once by him pinching out of space into another bit of space a few feet away in a tree. Thank god he was agile enough to catch himself on a heavy branch of the tree. The smoke of his teleportation was blown away at once with a strong breeze and the tree shook with his arrival and that of the breeze.

"Mein Gott," he groaned, his heart was racing. Well getting home wasn't about to happen anytime soon! Kurt carefully crawled out from the tree and spotted Andromeda, sighing sweetly as a pair of boys played in the distance. Kurt flipped down from the tree and landed square beside her, head tilted. His tail curled around his waist and he sat crouched on the table edge.

"Guten tag, Fraulein, are you all right?"

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estrangedsister
2011-08-19 06:05 pm UTC (link)

Andromeda nearly jumped out of her skin at the sudden arrival of a man beside her. She was on her feet in a moment, her hand flying to the wand poking out of her bag before she caught herself. Instead of threatening the stranger, Andromeda swallowed hard and let her hand fly briefly up to touch against her chest, feeling her heartbeat slow from the sudden shock. After all, no'one she'd met here had been dangerous. They all seemed perfectly nice, actually. Still, it wasn't polite to apparate into a tree and then appear beside someone and give everyone in the vicinity a minor heart attack.

"Oh, Salazar." Andromeda hissed, to herself more than anything. Her perfect arrangement of papers had been ruined, she noted with some dismay. Still, Andromeda regained enough composure to peer quickly in the direction the boys had vanished off to, then turned to take another look at the newcomer currently perched on the egde of the table. Her brown eyes widened.

"Goodness," she announced, before she could stop herself. "You're blue!"

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justbeingabamf
2011-08-19 06:35 pm UTC (link)

Kurt eyed her hand and was relieved when it did not pull a stick on him like Lily had. He grinned apologetically, his fangs glinting in the sunlight. Kurt flipped off the table edge backward and stood tall a moment before bowing deeply.

"My apologies for scaring you. I am blue, ja this is true. I assumed people here might be quickly used to seeing those of an odd coloring since there is a green woman here as well. Perhaps I thought wrong."

Kurt's tail began to lazily sway behind him and he moved around to the other side of the table to sit. She was very pretty and actually reminded him much of Kitty. His grin smoothed out into a boyish smile.

"I thought I heard you sighing as if something were the matter."

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estrangedsister
2011-08-19 08:32 pm UTC (link)

Andromeda had winced the moment her own stupid comment had slipped over her lips, but thankfully he didn't seem to take offence. In fact, he was bouncing all over the place like a Billywig, and sinking into a low bow. Andromeda crossed her arms tightly across her middle and smiled a little nervously. "No, I'm sorry. I was just startled, is all. I don't believe I've met the green woman."

After all, he probably couldn't help being blue. It didn't look like the tint people got when they got in the way of hexes, and anyway he had a tail... The Black sisters had always been taught to be polite with guests, to shake hands and kiss cheeks and make polite chit-chat no matter if they were enormously fat or had webbed fingers or anything else. Then they would always sneak away and giggle behind their hands in their rooms later, but at least they were polite, respectable pureblood girls...

Those days were a long way away now.

She settled back into her seat as he did, finally picking up her wand and waving it so the papers fell into a neat pile. She couldn't be working when she had company, after all. "Oh," she shook her head a little, chestnut hair bouncing. "No, it's nothing to worry about. I'm just a little tired, is all."

Andromeda glanced up at him, absently smoothing her skirts over her lap before placing them neatly on the table before her. "Forgive me. Are you new here? I don't think I know your name."

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justbeingabamf
2011-08-19 08:51 pm UTC (link)

"I do that," he pointed out. He scared the dickens out of many people and at times it was hurtful how cruel they could be in retaliation for his accidentally popping out of no where. Others were kinder, and so far she seemed more kind than anything else, so he didn't mind her pointing him out as to being blue. He watched her use her stick (wand, he reminded himself) to move the papers and he shook his head slowly.

"Ja, I am, I am Kurt Wagner... I feel as if I will never get used to seeing that," he gestured to her wand and the papers before settling his cheek against his palm.

"You're a witch, then? The girl I share a room with is also a witch, how extraordinary!"

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estrangedsister
2011-08-20 02:04 pm UTC (link)

"It's a pleasure, Mr Wagner." Andromeda slipped her wand back into her bag. "I'm Andromeda. Andromeda Tonks." She smiled politely across at him, shaking her head a little before a faint frown creased her pale forehead. "Yes, I am. I'm sorry - I though you must be as well. I mean... didn't you just apparate?"

Andromeda wasn't exactly well-versed in muggle culture, or anything else. She'd improved since moving out of her family home and marrying her husband, of course, but she was still far from used to it. The witch turned briefly as the children yelled something or other, then turned back to the blue man sat opposite her in their patch of sunshine. "Who's your roommate?"

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justbeingabamf
2011-08-20 03:06 pm UTC (link)

"Apparate?" he tilted his head and thought about what she must have meant. Oh! Kurt laughed and pushed himself up and in one split-second he was there, the next he was gone! The sound of him pinching in and out between space was a loud BAMF and coils of slightly pungent smoke curled out from where he was. He appeared within the same second right beside her, hand resting on his cheek again.

"Nein, I can teleport. Ah, my roommate? Lily Potter! She is very nice, she turned our sitting table into a toadstool!"

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estrangedsister
2011-08-20 06:13 pm UTC (link)

Andromeda flinched as he vanished and then appeared a second later beside her. It was a lot like apparition, but now she was paying attention it did have a different noise, and it was a lot more smokey than when people back home apparated. "Riight. But you're not a wizard?"

She nodded, sitting up a little straighter and picking up the neat pile of papers to place them in her bag, before turning to face him a little more fully. "Lily Potter?" She frowned for a moment, because she only knew one Lily Potter and she was staying with her husband and Neville. But then she remembered how many Potters there were, and that Al had a sister called Lily.

"Oh. I know who you mean. Her brother's dating my cousin," She crossed one leg neatly over the other. "Do you know anyone else here?!

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justbeingabamf
2011-08-21 02:54 pm UTC (link)

"Nein, I admit that would be... interesting to be, but my abilities are what the Professor calls genetic, I was born this way," he gestured to himself and shrugged. People here were easier to talk to about this than actual strangers back home, really. He was fairly surprised by that.

"They call it a mutation, where I come from. We do not have so many witches but there are many mutants, individuals born with special abilities. I believe there is a man who is a sorcerer supreme, though," Kurt scratched at the back of his head with the end of his tail.

"I do not, besides you and her, and well... the few I have met over the network. Are they many families like that here?"

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estrangedsister
2011-08-21 09:44 pm UTC (link)

"Mutants?" Andromeda frowned. "That doesn't sound like a particulary pleasant word. My little girl was born a metamorphmagus, so she can change her appearance at will. She was born with black hair, but it turned purple about ten minutes later. And she went through a phase when she was three when she'd walk around with a beak." She shook her head a little, a fond smile turning up the corners of her mouth.

She was getting used to the blue, she decided. Once you got over the initial surprise of his appearance he wasn't particulary unpleasant to look at - he had a kind face. Andromeda wasn't as bad as her sisters had been when it came to judging people, although there were still some prejudices that she had to work to keep squashed. But she had started to realise that being here was only helping with her own quest for self-improvement. She smiled across at the stranger, trying not to let the tail that scratched the back of his head faze her.

"I don't think so," she admitted. "There are people who come from the same worlds, and they tend to clump together. But I don't know who else has relations here. Those are my cousins-" She nodded over to where the boys were playing. "And I have a great nephew here. My daughter and actual nephew were here too, but they were sent home."

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justbeingabamf
2011-08-21 10:28 pm UTC (link)

"It is and it isn't. I try to be proud of what I am but there are those who would call me a demon and want me dead for being what I am. I mean no one harm but one look at me and the assumption is that I come from the pits of hell," he sighed. Kurt followed her nod to watch the boys a moment and raised his right eyebrow.

"Great nephew? My goodness, and you are a mother, but you look so young!" Was that part of the abilities of a witch? To never age? Then he crinkled his brow and shook his head.

"Unless.. people, they come from different times too? Mein Gott, I wonder if anyone from my world is here? Perhaps I should ask around."

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estrangedsister
2011-08-22 09:37 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, I'm sorry," Andromeda bit her lip uncomfortably. "That must be terrible." For a stupid moment, she thought of Bella, but quickly pushed the idea of her deranged sister away and pushed a lock of chestnut hair back behind her ear. Then she laughed, flushing a little despite herself.

"She's only five," she admitted. "I had her when I was 21. But I'm afraid you got it in one. I don't think whoever runs this place is too worried about the chronological order. There's actually older versions of those two around-" She waved a hand vaguely towards the children. "In their twenties. It's all very confusing and it's probably best not to question it, if I'm quite honest."

Andromeda shrugged. "There could be. I can't say I've met anyone else who called themselves a mutant but that doesn't mean they're not around. I'm usually kept quite busy mothering our lot." She smiled, turning her gaze down to where her hands were crossed in her lap for a moment before glancing back up at him.

"So may I ask what year it was that you came here from?"

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justbeingabamf
2011-08-24 01:56 am UTC (link)

"Oh," he chuckled. "I am surprised none of the residents have run me out of this castle yet, but if there are witches and wizards I can see why I have not been yet... and they.."

He glanced to the boys and tilted his head, glowing yellow eyes squinting.

"They have older counterparts? How peculiar.. I can from the year 2009. So you are older than me right now? By a year, twenty six? I am twenty-five and only just this last May."

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estrangedsister
2011-08-26 02:39 pm UTC (link)

Andromeda laughed, shaking her head. "I wouldn't have dared guess. I suppose being blue, it's easier to disguise your age. I should think about it for when I start getting older." She grinned teasingly across at him, relaxing a little and resting her elbow on the table, propping her chin in her palm.

"But I came from 1978. I was born in 1952. So yes, I think we can safety say that I'm a lot older than you in both timelines." She smiled again, her eyes drifting towards the children. She couldn't help it, really. The pair of boys had a dreadful habit of getting completely filthy or stuck somewhere or lost in a few moments. She was rather looking forward to getting her break from them, whenever it might be. Although she wasn't deluded enough to think she wouldn't miss them the second they were gone.

She turned back to Kurt. "And have you had a proper chance to look around yet?" She questioned. "I know the first few days and weeks can be a little confusing."

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