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Dean Thomas (artisgratia) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2012-02-01 21:09:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 14 2003, character: dean thomas, character: jayne dough, npc: pandora zurlo

Characters: Dean, Seamus's mum, Jaynedora
Setting: Diagon Alley first, then...wherever. Friday the 14th, around 5:30pm.
Summary: Dean meets up with Seamus's mum, and they're both surprised by someone Dean recognises.
Rating: Worksafe, possible disturbing imagery

Dean wasn't worried about Seamus's mum showing that day. He was actually a bit grateful. Focusing on her meant he wasn't going to be focusing on the nightmares and murders for a few hours at least. He asked if he could shift his hours around at work that day, and so, at around 5:30, he was available to take Mrs. Finnigan to the Leaky to meet up with Seamus.

The whole time of course, Dean chatted with her, answering some questions and trying his best to neatly dodge others. That wasn't easy. It wasn't at all hard to tell where Seamus got his personality from. To be fair though, it only endeared Mrs. Finnigan to Dean more. "I called my mum Sunday," he promised, wincing slightly under the look that was given him. What, wasn't Sunday recent enough?

"And when's the last time you've gone round to see her?" Mrs. Finnigan didn't so much ask the question as demand it, and Dean winced again. Not recently enough, of course. They headed down towards the Leaky, after Mrs. Finnigan had insisted on stopping in a a shop first.

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	jayne_dough 2012-02-02 05:56 am UTC (link)
	She managed to block the severing charm, but was caught by the incarcerous which wrapped thick ropes around her lower legs, knocking her to the ground. She could still cast spells, however, and sent a deprimo to blast a hole in the ground between them. If that didn't work, she'd blast the bloody woman if she had to. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

artisgratia
2012-02-02 03:26 pm UTC (link)

Dean jumped back as the ground in front of them started to give. He grabbed Seamus's mum and shoved her back, knocking her clear but stumbling himself as the alleyway ground cracked and opened. Multiple thoughts raced through Dean's head but most prominent was the fact that this woman, whoever she was, had killed Penny and pretty much bested an Auror. If she was behind all these murders, maybe she'd even killed Harry.

Rage filled Dean, rage tipped with fear. If Harry and Ron had both been unable to kill this witch, could he manage to get himself and Mrs. Finnigan away safely? Mrs. Finnigan, her eyes still blazing, cast another incarcerous, higher this time, intending to bind the woman's arms as Dean got to his feet. His first severing charm missed. Maybe the second would, so he cast it again.

Two against one. Those odds had to be in their favor, right?

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jayne_dough
2012-02-03 05:23 pm UTC (link)

Pandora sneered. So they were giving her a fight, were they? She would teach them that she was a witch not to be trifled with. As she was still on the ground, the next binding curse missed her. She heard the casting of another severing charm and deftly raised her bound legs to catch it, allowing the charm to cut through her bonds and release her.

She should kill them both, but she wanted to know what the boy knew and how he knew it. Of course, that meant that she only needed him, but she couldn't collect her memory if she were busy in a duel.

Spotting a set of garbage cans nearby, she cast a spell transforming each piece into a pigeon that erupted from the cans and set upon the pair, aiming for hair and appendages to pluck at with their beaks.

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artisgratia
2012-02-05 10:53 pm UTC (link)

Dean was expecting another direct attack from the woman, not the almost diversionary tactic. So when the garbage cans became pigeons, Dean was completely surprised, as was Seamus's mum. One pigeon got her good enough to make her drop her wand. Dean managed to hold onto his longer, but only until one of them went for he eyes.

Dean manged to punch the pigeon right out of the air, but his wand went flying as he did. And neither of them hand a chance to accio it back while the birds were still attacking.

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jayne_dough
2012-02-06 02:39 am UTC (link)

She smiled widely as she saw how well her distraction had worked. She cast a petrificus totalus on the boy and only took a moment to verify that he was indeed petrified before she turned her attention to the older woman who was doing her best to lift her wand through the flock of pigeons. One thing to be said for the woman, she had fire.

"A woman after my own heart. It's just a shame I have neither the time nor desire to convince you to work with me." Before the woman could get an opening, Pandora cast an avada kedavra, putting an end to her with a blast of green.

She stopped the birds with a finite incantatem and pulled out her box just in time to catch the whisp of black as it exited the woman's body.

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artisgratia
2012-02-06 02:49 am UTC (link)

One of the worst things about petrification was the fact that the body was completely frozen, but the mind was fully function. dean could see and think and what he saw was absolutely heartbreaking. The flash of green was unmistakeable, even if he didn't hear the accompanying words that ended Mrs. Finnigan's life. But he couldn't act. He couldn't yell, or do anything to stop or distract the witch that had just killed Seamus's mother.

But then he saw what she did next and that too was familiar. It had been in Ron's memory. The box. The spot he didn't know Mrs. Finnigan had disappearing, in a black whisp into the box. Just like Penny.

Seamus's mother was dead and Dean couldn't save her, and now he had to wonder what the witch's plans were for him.

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jayne_dough
2012-02-06 02:57 am UTC (link)

The box was quickly closed and put back into her robes, and with an accomplished smile and gait, she stepped over to the prone body of her newly acquired captive. She lowered herself onto her haunches and reached out to touch his temple.

"Killing is so anti-climactic," she said, half to herself and half to him. "I used to be able to take people to the brink of death over and over without allowing them to pass, but now, I have no choice but to kill. It is truly quite sad, don't you think?"

She laughed. "Perhaps you can think on it and let me know. For now, let us go to my companion's flat where I will expect you to tell me all about how you know my face. Believe me, if you don't tell me the truth, I will know, and I will punish you for it."

Her hand closed around a petrified shoulder, and moments later, they disapparated in Jayne's living room. She levitated the boy's body with a spell and brought him into the bedroom, dropping him onto the floor with a thud.

"Now, you spend some time thinking, and when I'm back, we'll have ourselves a little chat. Won't we?"

And with that, Pandora closed the door, leaving the room dark and silent.

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artisgratia
2012-02-06 03:07 am UTC (link)

Dean could only watch as she came over to him and spoke. He wasn't really listening. He could only see the body of Mrs. Finnigan there in the alley. He tried. He tried to protect her and failed. He glared at the witch who'd killed her, the only thing he could do as she gave him an idea what was in store for him.

She disapparated them and left him alone in a room in the dark, presumably to think and worry on the upcoming torture. But all Dean could think about was how Seamus's mum was gone and there was no way to let him know where he himself was.

Dean was just going to have to get through this somehow. He just didn't know how.

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