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eli is from the darkest timeline (skittish) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2011-12-20 23:06:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 08 2003, character: elijah chambers, character: roger davies

Characters: Eli Chambers & Roger Davies
Setting: Eli's study, Chambers home, mid morning
Rating: Worksafe for now.
Summary: Eli needs a partner in crime for an experiment. He might also need some bro time given the fight with his wife, but those are details.

Apparently lying was becoming a thing. Or at least most of a thing. Although he had actually stopped in at his lab this morning to pick up a few of his personal affects. There wasn't a lot of material that he was allowed to take in or out of the Department of Mystery, but Eli certainly knew exactly where those lines were and how much he could push them. Technically, he could have pursued this particular venture under proper channels, but at the moment it was more a personal interest than a professional one. And really, taking it home with him made it easier to bring Roger into the mix.

Eli couldn't be sure how long that Samara would be out with Jason, but he probably had a few hours. It was more than enough time to get through whatever he needed with Roger and then start in on the promise of drinks. She could fuss about that, but drinking was probably better than being caught meddling with what they had been fighting over just last night right there on this very desk. To anyone else, the room didn't look any different, but Eli was sure if felt off.

Only that didn't matter. Not in the long run. Right now, his study was the best place for this. He just needed to activate the wards on the room and it was most secure room in the house. And with the pensieve set up in here, it was all he needed.

"I've been wondering when you'd get here," he called hearing someone in the house. Really, the only person it could have been was Roger anyone else, Eli had hexed an alert to warn him. "I'm in the study."

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rogerly
2011-12-23 02:38 am UTC (link)

"You know I was mostly joking there. When you say things at least not intentionally, that tells me there is a possibility of scrambling my brain here," Roger said. He knew a pensieve was just for memories, but he had no idea what Eli was going to attempt.

"You have? You didn't tell me you were having nightmares," Roger said wondering what else Eli could be keeping. "That is weird," he said curiously. "Why wouldn't you be able to take out the recent nightmares?" He glanced down at the memory in the pensieve, and it really did look nightmare worthy.

"Dementors," he said with a shudder before looking back to Eli. "Yeah I know. You extract the memory with your wand, and put it in the peniseve. You can watch it or actually go into the memory."

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skittish
2011-12-23 03:11 am UTC (link)

"Well, I'm telling you now." The truth was that Eli didn't tell anyone. That had actually be the cause of the fight the night before, but he hadn't thought others needed to know. Not yet. But that was who he was, weird, creepy and full of secrets. It was how it worked when you were Eli Chambers - how things had to work.

"Okay," he said not fully convinced by Roger's base explanation of how this worked, but he was only an auror. Really, what he needed was an obliviator, someone who knew the nuances of the mind, but then again maybe that would be far closer of a probing than he wanted. "Show me. With one of yours." Eli needed to be sure that Roger could produce an appropriate memory on his own before they moved forward.

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rogerly
2011-12-23 06:01 am UTC (link)

"I suppose so," Roger said since that was truly the best explanation he was going to get. Eli was one of his best mates, but that still didn't stop Eli from being secretive even from him.

Roger looked over the pensieve, and reached to take his wand from his pocket. He could hear Eli's pessimism in his voice, which just made Roger roll his eyes. Did he forget that he was a Ravenclaw or what? "Fine, putting it in the pensieve," he said lifting his wand up to his temple, before concentrating to extract a memory. He assumed he was good with any memory since this was just a demonstration, so he drew out the memory of the day he made Eli tryout for Quidditch, and slipping the shining whisp of memory into the pensieve.

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skittish
2011-12-24 03:53 am UTC (link)

Eli watched Roger critically as he extracted the memory. He knew plenty of people, Ravenclaws or not who could understand and talk through the theory well enough, but completely lost it when it came to the practical application. Once it was in the the pensieve he took a moment to poke around at it looking at a much younger version of himself toying around on a broom because a friend had asked him of it.

It was a safe memory, something they both had in common which meant that he wouldn't have to ask for something else. Instead he simply remembered that day for himself and pulled it from his head, placing it into the pensieve.

"Now, if you are willing I would like to you scoop up my memory and place it back into your mind." This would be the part where he could guarantee what would happen to Roger's mind. He had an idea, but he needed evidence and an account beyond his own.

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	rogerly 2011-12-24 05:29 am UTC (link)
	"You... want to put your memories in my head?" Roger asked. Was that even possible? He supposed it was technically, since you could remove and put back your own memories. "What kind of memory are you going to put in there? Your nightmare?" Roger asked curiously. He figured he had a right to know at least if it was gong to be something he really shouldn't see. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

skittish
2011-12-25 09:39 pm UTC (link)

"No, not yet at least." He shook his head. Roger was getting ahead of them, but it was reassuring to know that he was on the same line of thought. "We're just going to start with my memory of the quidditch trial." Eli pulled the memory in question right to the surface. By many accounts it wouldn't be that different from Roger's with how this sort of magic worked, but it the best place to start.

In theory, the nuances might even be somewhat recognizable, more so, Eli wanted to see if there was any sort of difference in trying to remove a foreign memory from your head. "It's an easy, simple sort of thing, shouldn't cause any trouble, but it's what happens after that which remains to be seen."

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