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Nikolai 'Niki' Urquhart (fwoopersays) wrote in wished,
@ 2010-08-25 22:06:00

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!2003: 08, !complete, nikolai 'niki' urquhart, theodore nott

Who: Nikolai 'Niki' Urquhart and Theodore Nott.
When: Nighttime. After dark.
Where: Hogwarts grounds.
What: Niki is flying randomly and lands at Hogsmeade and walks to Hogwarts. Theodore has snuck out.
Rating: TBD.
Status: Closed/Complete.

He loved to fly. The way the wind whistled and whipped around him, humming in his ears, dishevling his hair, licking cool against his skin, tugging at his clothes. Niki's fingers stayed curled around his broomstick as he flew, through the air, with no direction in mind. Sometimes he just needed to fly. And eventually he would land, he always landed, and when he did he would wander, and find a bar, or find a tree to climb or find a place to sleep. Or he would turn around and fly home.

As he flew, growing near to a hulking shadowed structure, he realized that he had gone a familiar way, although he hadn't intended it. Hogsmeade. He had flown to Hogsmeade. Huh.

Pointing the nose down, Niki flew to the ground and landed fairly lightly. The village was quiet, fairly so, given the time of night. He hopped off his broomstick, holding onto his broom as he started to stroll down the road. Away from the village. He hadn't been back to the school since it was rebuilt... and he realized he wanted to.

He walked along the road, his footsteps echoing softly as he wandered. The school, from the distance, looked good as new. Or good as old?

He mused this over, the voice tickling in his ear, whispering memories to him. Memories that carried him, all the way back to the school grounds.

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booksmart_devil
2010-08-26 01:59 am UTC (link)

Theo's relase into the wild was completely not Greg's fault - that had to be made very clear. The poor boy had retrieved a lover from St Mungo's but also a still very sick patient, and while Theo appeared to be lucid at times, to know what he was doing and that he meant the promises he made, he really wasn't; he wasn't that person all the time.

He was exhausting work, and while he would usually wake up in distress, enough to wake his boyfriend up, the fates had decided not to on this ocassion. He woke up with stealth, silent and aware and, unfortunately, completely gone in the head.

Theo hadn't really seen Greg - he'd just seen the still (and at the time) unsual surroundings of the swet little hut and had been panicked by them. This wasn't his head! This was somebody else's head, Merlin, Theo had wandered into someone else's head - shuddering at the very idea, he'd crept out of the window ('I promise, I won't climb out the window, I only want to stay with you, I promise'... or maybe poor Greg had been too tired to remember to renew the locking charm) and had started running, the only thing in his mind to get back into his head, back into his own head before his secrets leaked out like so much yolk from a broken egg. There were things, when he remembered, that he didn't want anyone to find out about him.

By the time his body started to ache from running (which wasn't anymore than five or ten minutes - his body was so unused to actually being used, nevermind the fact that he was still dramatically underweight and sick) he'd forgotten why he was running in the first place and stumbled to a confuse halt.

He wandered like a little lost soul, further into the Forbidden Forest, more defenceless than the youngest student in the school.

He stopped as he saw a thing fly down, sure that it was a thestral and wandring off to try and find it.

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fwoopersays
2010-08-26 02:04 am UTC (link)

Niki had always liked the Forest, the taboo nature of it, and so he meandered in that direction, his broomstick slung over his shoulder. It was so quiet, utterly quiet, but it was late, and all that really could be heard was the hooting of owls as they called to one another in the night.

He liked owls. Liked birds of all kinds.

As he walked, he suddenly saw movement, and he tensed. A little mouse? the voice whispered to him and Niki peered into the darkness. And then started to follow that movement, the pale skin that waas against the backdrop of darkness.

His footsteps were silent, and hurried, and soon enough he caught up to the shadowy movement.

"Aha!" he announced and then squinted again. A hand lifted and he scratched his head.

"Nott? Not Theodore Nott?"

	fwoopersays 2010-08-27 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	"Where do you think we are?" Niki supplied helpfully, picking up some of the leaves that Theodore had dropped. He looked at them and then slowly began to tear one to shreds. "We know where we are," he added, with a sliding glance sideways, and a little nod of confirmation. "Do you know where we are?" Theodore was a curious sort! Niki was quite intrigued! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fwoopersays 2010-08-27 09:40 pm UTC (link)
	"You don't know!" Niki declared at the non-answer. "You don't know." And with that, he flopped back on the ground and rolled on his back a little bit as if it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard. He giggled and snorted and then lay still. "I like the stars," he announced then, eyes tracing the constellations that drew their patterns in the sky. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	fwoopersays 2010-08-27 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	"You're a star," Niki said and he reached out a hand that was moon pale, and stroked his fingers along Theodore's cheek, a feather-light touch before his hand fell away. "You're like a mouse. Did you know that? So small. And twitchy. Little Mouse." Theodore might have been his name but Niki would now think of him as Mouse. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)