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gabriel l. corner ([info]coverstory) wrote in [info]valesco,
@ 2012-02-07 12:23:00


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Entry tags:donovan rookwood, gabriel corner

Donovan!
Gabriel had never been in quite a state, and this nurse, who had not done anything more but sit behind the large round desk and do her crosswords, was not helping his state.

"It has been nearly forty-five minutes, how could you possibly not have any more information? What kind of establishment are you running? I need to speak to the Healer-in-Chief, this is not acceptable---"

The nurse put her hand up and stood. Gabriel's mouth shut tightly as he listened to her repeat, once again, that when the healers were done with the spell casting that needed to be done on Rachel and Danielle that they would let them know. 'Dark magic takes time and care, Mr. Corner.' It was always the part of the nurse's spiel that quieted his rage. Dark magic. The war had been over for more than a year, but here he was, in St. Mungo's because of an attack on his wife and his best friend's wife. Dark magic. The seriousness of the situation could not be lifted, it could not be avoided, it could not be denied. Dark magic.

He pushed away from the counter and stalked back to the seats of the waiting room. It was empty save for he and Donovan; the ward for dark magic attacks had been the quietest in St. Mungo's for months, it was as if the healers there didn't know what to do with themselves. Gabriel dropped down into the seat beside Donovan, knowing that his friend was in quite the right state himself. He stared at his friend for a few seconds before clapping his hand on Donovan's shoulder in reassurance.

"They're going to be fine," Gabriel said, though he wasn't sure how believable he sounded.



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[info]impulse
2012-02-08 12:22 am UTC (link)
Donovan could hear the commotion going on just beyond the borders of the waiting room, but unlike Gabriel, Donovan couldn’t bring himself to keep going over to the nurse’s desk to keep asking the same questions, just to get the same response. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to get in there as soon as possible to see his wife – if anyone thought that was the case, they were absolutely deranged – but he was having something of an out of body experience, sitting there in the waiting room, staring at some random spot on the wall across from him. It was like his brain was working in slow motion, still trying to fully comprehend what had happened while he had been at work.

He had been the one to insist she be at home more, so she was well rested. He was the one who insisted she take on less shifts at work, so that she didn’t get stressed out, and so she could just put her feet up and be pampered when he got in from work.

How could he have ever predicted something like this would happen? That didn’t stop him from feeling that this was all his fault. That guilt on top of the mindless anger he was feeling kept him in an almost catatonic state, hardly saying anything at all, letting Gabriel do all of the fighting with the nurses as he just internally rationalized how he was going to fix this.

How the fuck could he fix this?

The clap on the shoulder made him flinch, swallowing before he turned to look at his friend – his best friend, whose wife was also in a hospital bed, all because she had been in the right place at the wrong time. His words barely made sense, considering his state of mind, and he turned away from him in order to stare down at carpet beneath his shoes. The man looked an absolute mess, completely disheveled, as though he had been sitting there for days instead of just under an hour.

“Yeah…fine…”

His voice was strained and low in volume, emphasizing the adjective he had used since the word was completely relative. They might be fine physically, but how were each of them going to get through being put through this? He couldn’t even appreciate the fact that his best friend was just trying to put things in perspective right now, even though he should have been thanking him, seeing how Rachel never would have been in there at all if she hadn’t been with Danielle.

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[info]coverstory
2012-02-08 01:27 am UTC (link)
Gabriel gave Donovan's shoulder a squeeze before dropping his hands to his lap, knowing there really wasn't anything he could do for his friend at the moment. Saying 'it's not your fault' or anything along those lines would cause a burst of fury out of Donovan, Gabriel was sure. It wasn't Donovan's fault, of course--it was not anyone's fault but the deranged citizens of their society that believed he and Danielle were destroying their family name. Gabriel had never agreed with the whisperings of some of his family members, and was grateful that his parents...while they had kicked him out of the house after he'd found out about Michael, there had been some sense in their hearts to let him back into their lives. 'Sense' in the form of one Rachel Englewood, and Gabriel twisted his wedding ring nervously. The only sense he had in his life was lying unconscious in one of those rooms and he couldn't be by her side.

They sat in silence for who knew how much longer, Gabriel staring at the wall across the waiting room, sure that he was going to rub the gold out of the wedding band with how methodically his thumbs her moving. Getting up and requesting more information would just frustrate him, but the silence allowed his mind to race and jump to the worst of conclusions, the most terrible of ideas.

"Mister. Corner?" Gabriel shot to his feet to face the healer, his stomach twisting terribly, "Your wife has suffered a mild concussion with a broken wrist and dislocated shoulder---the spell damage team is still working on ensuring that there are no remnants of the dark magic that she was exposed to, but from the early examinations it looks like it was more physical damage than magical..."

Gabriel's mind felt as if it had nearly shut down as the healer began to list Rachel's injuries. He knew, somewhere in his head, that his wife could have been much, much more seriously hurt and that he should be thankful, but actually hearing what had happened to her caused such a shock to his system that he nodded and dropped back into his seat as the healer moved onto Donovan.

"...the baby looks to be in good health, but there is scarring from where the hex seemed to have wrapped itself around her arm, and we're unsure of the mobility of the limb..." Gabriel blinked up at the healer as he spoke, and the rest seemed to fade out just like Rachel's diagnosis had. They were left alone in the waiting room once again and Gabriel felt his heart pounding in his throat, and he turned to Donovan, jaw tight and eyes narrowed.

"What are we going to do to them?" he hissed lowly, feeling for the first time in his life the need to extract revenge.

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[info]impulse
2012-02-08 02:15 am UTC (link)
Donovan didn’t know how he hadn’t lost his mind by now. When it wasn’t one thing trying to destroy whatever shred of happiness he and Danielle had, it was another, and every time he thought it was all over, he was proven wrong. He thought they were in a good place for a while – they were married, they had their own lives and they didn’t have to worry about his family ever trying to tear them apart again, and now they were expecting a child.

He should have known. He should have just known that something terrible was going to happen, because it was like clock work - for every 2 steps forward he and Danielle took towards living a normal live, someone had to push them three steps back. What was worse was that he had to be strong for his wife – when he had been removed from his family tree for loving her, for being labeled as a Death Eater because he had been loyal to his family, only to get thrown to the lions, when neither one of his parents showed up at their wedding, he tried so hard to not let Danielle see what a broken mess he was. She knew, of course, and she was the only one who could truly console him when he was barely able to work through it.

For the longest time, her leaving was the worst thing that had ever happened to him. He wouldn’t have been able to survive if he lost her forever. Even Gabriel wouldn’t have been able to pull him out of that deep a pit of misery. The thought kept plaguing his thoughts as he stared at that wall, trying to juggle all of the ‘what ifs’ with thoughts of how he was going to make whoever did this pay for almost bringing him to the point of being inconsolable – for almost breaking him into pieces small enough to fit through the eye of a needle.

Danielle was his lifeline. Danielle was his world. If she had died, he would have died right along with her. The only difference is he still would have had a pulse.

When the healer finally approached the two men who were waiting, Donovan couldn’t even find the energy to stand up when it became clear that they still couldn’t go in to see their wives. He looked away when the healer told Gabriel what had happened to Rachel, guilt turning his stomach like acid, eating away at him from the inside. Steely blue eyes did turn up when the baby was mentioned, knowing that he was now talking to him. For the first time, he felt some relief, but it was short lived after he found out what Danielle had been through. His lips parted, his mouth feeling dry. Even if he wanted to say something, he couldn’t. His heart was pounding, his head felt light, and sound seemed muffled, even as Gabriel started speaking to him.

Again, Donovan would swallow, his jaw tightening as he turned to look at his friend, never having seen him like this before. He had every right to be angry. Donovan was just as angry, if not more so, but his was a silent rage – the kind that, when it finally boiled over, made grown men cower due to his wrath. He was angry at whoever they were, he was angry at himself, he was angry at his parents, his brother, his society. It was too much for one man to handle.

“We are going to cause them unimaginable pain…and we are going to make them suffer. That’s a fucking promise.”

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