t h e r e s e ❥ (alongday) wrote in valesco,
@ 2008-04-30 16:29:00

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alice longbottom, amery wilkes, amycus carrow, avis booth, berkeley doge, braith selwyn, corner conway, death eaters, frank longbottom, grayson wilkes, group, james potter, mycroft doge, order of the phoenix, rabastan lestrange

Open Thread!
She pulled the invisibility cloak tighter over herself, taking in deep, steady breaths. The streets of Godric's Hollow were calm, still, not a person in sight as it was rather late; in the houses of the muggles in the area, you could see the telly flickering through the windows. Alice couldn't see the Order members hidden about the town, but she had a rough idea of where they were all located. It was strange to have the upper hand for once, but she knew it wouldn't last for long, no matter how pessimistic a thought. The tip to Dumbledore had arrived with a good amount of time before nightfall and had given the Order a lot of time to prepare for whatever was going to strike the small village.

James had been adamant about being one of those to go and find Sirius, but it was obvious that with his past relations with the death eaters that they couldn't risk it. Alice knew that Frank was eager to help as well, but it was finally decided on who was to stay and who was to go, and things would just have to deal.

Alice slowly made her way through a garden of one of the small cottages. She couldn't help but peer through the kitchen window, eyes softening at the sight of a daughter helping her mother was the dishes. These people were completely innocent; why had Voldemort decided to attack this village? Surely it couldn't be because wizards and muggles were living together, Hogsmeade was the only all-wizarding village and he'd already attacked there twice.

Quickly, she put up a ward on the houses' windows, feeling a guilt rise up in her at not being able to warn the family about what was to happen. She saw the flare of a spell before she heard it erupt, and Alice gripped her wand tighter, sending one last look toward the window before heading out into the starts of the fray.

[ooc] consensus says that we'll do both the thread and the ooc post; try and get your characters in, but if you can't, head back to the ooc post and relate what you'd like to happen there. Other people (with Order members/death eaters/aurors/etc) can tag to those comments with ideas they have, and so on. Have fun!

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alaspooryorick
2008-05-01 04:17 am UTC (link)

Cute. Obviously the constant annoyances that Booth had provided to her as a younger woman and even now that they were married was just practice for ignoring annoying fucking Death Eaters. She suppressed a laugh in the back of her throat and kept her own shield up until the last possible moment, allowing him to advance on her and slowly moving back away from the crowd. It would be better to draw him away from where he could get reinforcements, right?

Avis was certainly a fan of unconventional techniques and she wasn't beneath playing dirty to get the job done, unlike Mr. Corner Conway. She bent down with her shield still up and felt around for the loose cobble she'd almost tripped over on her way over ... then shucked it straight at Dominic.

She followed it with a barrage of spells -- diffindo, expelliarmus, and stupefy.

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dominics
2008-05-01 05:41 am UTC (link)

Ah, this girl really was all for playing dirty. Well, fuck. Of course when she'd sent the conjunctivo curse at him he'd assumed, but... this always made them more difficult to beat. Then again, when he could finally stand over them and bleed them to death while he watched them writhe in pain, it was all the more worth it. At least he'd be having some fun tonight, Dominic supposed.

He hadn't been prepared for the cobble that she threw at him--innovative, he'd give her that--and his momentary shock caused his shield to drop around him. Thinking quickly, Dominic dived to the right into a ducking roll, narrowly avoiding her spells--all except for the diffindo, courtesy of which he felt a sharp pain up his left side.

Forcing himself to ignore the way his wound was screaming at him, he threw his free hand over it and gritted his teeth, launching several further rounds of the Cruciatus at her, topped off by a very angry, very concentrated Avada Kedavra. Now the bitch had just pissed him off.

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alaspooryorick
2008-05-01 05:54 am UTC (link)

Oh, but he did have a fucking temper, didn't he. The cobble did just what it was supposed to and at least one of her curses hit him the way she'd been hoping that it would, cutting up his side. She was prepared for the curses that he sent at her, but she ended up catching the edge of one of the Cruciatus curses.

It sent a shock of pain up her spine and she groaned, forcing herself to keep her concentration. The bolt of green sent warning signals off in her mind and she shot up another shield before she literally threw herself off to the side in a roll. She'd have to thank Tomas for teaching her that one (some sort of American Football thing or something). She kept up with the relatively low-damage spells, but by the time that he was throwing the Unforgivables at her ... well. A modified flagrante curse saw a flaming coil of rope sent in his direction. She'd been messing with it with Erin, trying to find something that would create a binding field. It ought to shoot up a brief wall of flame if she'd done it right. It wasn't meant to do damage, just to distract.

Unfortunately, it shot up for only a few seconds at half-height and fizzled out. They still hadn't gotten it quite right. Damnit.

"Stupefy!" Again.

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dominics
2008-05-01 07:12 am UTC (link)

Dominic was impressed, not that he would ever admit that. The fact that she had the strength to even attempt to roll out of the way, furthermore to throw up a shield or cast any spells at all was surprising and spoke a lot to her strength. He was going to have to be even more careful with this one than he thought. Not that he didn't think he could eventually beat her, but he was going to have a very difficult time of things indeed if he didn't watch himself. One second off guard and she could easily have him--not that he really cared that much, but it would be preferable to not be thrown in prison before he got a chance to see his future heir.

He scoffed under his breath at her half-baked attempt at a flame wall, which ended in a grunt as the action irritated his wound. With much effort, Dominic rose to his feet and sidestepped the stupefy, which was actually quite horribly off-target anyway. He made his way slowly over to her, wand still aimed at her as she stayed under the curse.

Dominic stopped when he was standing over her and took a moment to just watch her face as it contorted in pain. It was satisfying in so many ways, and a little more with each twinge he felt from his very bloody side. Deciding it was worth it, he exerted the energy to make an extra jab with his wand, which would increase the level of the curse. Yes, he definitely had a temper on him.

"I hope you're ready to die, you bitch," he hissed at her.

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alaspooryorick
2008-05-01 07:17 am UTC (link)

It had definitely been quite a while since she'd felt a Cruciatus curse this intense and it was all that she could do not to scream - some part of her wondered if she actually wanted to and physically couldn't, but she pushed that thought out of her mind and instead set her jaw, fighting to at least get a look at him because damned if she wasn't going to remember the Exact Sound of his Voice and anything she might've been able to tell about that mask of his.

Then he was jabbing at her and she could feel her consciousness slipping away from her. It was a damned shame she hadn't been able to spit in his face, she thought absently as she gave another rolling shudder and lost her fight with the waking world. Hm.

Was she ready to die? It was an interesting question to say the least. At least she'd gotten in a good wound.

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dominics
2008-05-01 07:27 am UTC (link)

Dominic threw off the curse about ten seconds after she stopped moving, and cursed under his breath. He always had had a shoddy sense of restraint when he was angry, and now he wasn't even going to be able to see the fear on her face when he delivered the final curse.

Well, what was done was done, and there was nothing he could do about that. He did get a bit of consolation in knowing, however, that the woman must not have been as powerful as he thought if she had lost consciousness so easily. Or maybe he just didn't know his own strength. Either way, it didn't matter, because as the Avada poised itself on his lips, he knew that she would be dead in a few seconds anyway. He couldn't, of course, just let her live after having confronted her like this.

"Ava---" His spell was cut off as an explosion sounded beside him, causing him to have to cover his head and neck from the falling rubble around him. As the dust cleared he looked around, and found a rather tall man in auror robes pointing a wand at him.

Fucking hell, this night just was not going his way. Without a look back to the woman, but not without a lament for her continued life, he chased off after the Auror. Well, there was always hope mental incapacitation.

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