Tiffany Lestrange
i'm not a fool, i just love that you're dead inside, i'm not a fool, i'm just lifeless too.
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Post by Tiffany Lestrange on Jul 2, 2013 22:30:22 GMT
Tiffany sat uncomfortably on the ground beneath the chair that Soleus usually occupied whenever he was in the room, Illsadyrl perched contently on the chair as if some sort of animal royalty. Not seeming to care much that the beast got better treatment than she did, Tiffany continued to carefully concentrate on mixing the freshest batch of Predaytor's venom into a small vial of nail varnish. It wasn't nearly as potent once it was exposed to the air for long, & it needed to be entered deeper than a good scratch would do, but it still made for a nice, deep blue colored infection around the area when she used it. She'd made it a habit to make weapons out of things that she would always have on her, when she was first engaged to Brent. She didn't have much on him when it came to physical power, but at least now she'd leave him scratching & gnawing at his slap-marks like a filthy dog for days later, which made her feel a little vindicated.
"Br-" she looked up sharply when the floorboards near the doorway creaked, then relaxed when she saw that it was her brother, not her fiance. "Oh. Thought you were someone else. Rowle left this morning - moved in with the Unspeakable." she informed the younger Lestrange, mixing the black varnish with the thin poison by shaking it, then uncapped it & tested the shade on one of her fingernails. Deeming it suitable, she screwed the cap back on & set it aside gently.
Illsdryl lifted her head & watched Soleus curiously for a moment, before deciding that he wasn't a threat, then rested her snout affectionately against Tiffany's shoulder.
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Soleus Lestrange
Life wouldn't be so precious dear if there never was an end
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Post by Soleus Lestrange on Jul 2, 2013 22:44:47 GMT
Soleus trudged heavily to the archway at the centre of the room, giving Tiffany a rather unamused glare. "That thing is in my seat." He said bluntly, and folded his arms, jaw set angrily. He purposely ignored what she had to say and instead kept quiet and watched her while she moved the small bottle about. Eventually he raised an eyebrow expectantly as she didn't hint that anything was going on. This made him more agitated and his jaw began to tense and untense wildly until he spoke again. "Do you have any idea what you've done, Tiff?"
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Tiffany Lestrange
i'm not a fool, i just love that you're dead inside, i'm not a fool, i'm just lifeless too.
Posts: 869
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Post by Tiffany Lestrange on Jul 2, 2013 22:52:53 GMT
The look that the hyena gave Soleus was not a friendly one. She reared her head & began to stand up, growling lowly, but Tiffany reached a hand up to shush her.
"Don't insult her, I don't have the energy to deal with it right now." she informed him, before moving on to his next question. "And, no, I guess not. What have I done, exactly?" she asked him, raising one eyebrow as she finally lifted her eyes to look at him. She'd only just heard about his 'arrangement', but the tranquilizers from her earlier nap had yet to wear off & even then, she wouldn't have connected that it was her fault.
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Soleus Lestrange
Life wouldn't be so precious dear if there never was an end
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Post by Soleus Lestrange on Jul 2, 2013 23:05:14 GMT
Soleus rolled his eyes at the creature. "Fine. I won't waste my breath." He said dryly, as he moved closer into the room, and perched on the arm of a well-worn old sofa, arms still crossed defensively. He kept his eyes fixed on her and his gaze was a pissed-off one.
"Godfrey. Really? Just because Brent's a fucking lunatic, doesn't mean you have to give mother the absolutely fucking fantastic idea of marrying me off to Ashley Godfrey." He sighed loudly, and scratched his barely-there beard in irritation, finding it slightly uncomfortable to be completely mad at Tiffany when really he knew he just wanted someone to blame. He had entered the room positively fuming but already he cooled as he watched her small, still slightly docile form inhabit the dusty mahogany floorboards.
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Tiffany Lestrange
i'm not a fool, i just love that you're dead inside, i'm not a fool, i'm just lifeless too.
Posts: 869
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Post by Tiffany Lestrange on Jul 2, 2013 23:14:16 GMT
"Wow." she said with a humorless chuckle. "Tell me how you really feel."
She had gone visibly tense, clearly uncomfortable with every syllable that left his mouth. "I never mentioned - I just-" she fell silent & then her expression turned positively stony as she stood upright. Any sort of sleepy quietness was gone from her, now, replaced with absolute fury. She stepped dangerously closer to him, her tone taking on a low growl not unlike that of her fiance.
"If you ever compare your little teen-angst special to my engagement that lightly again, I will rip your tongue out, freeze it, & then stab you with it." Illsadryl lifted her head with a whine, licking her chops almost hintingly. Tiff glanced back then said harshly, "Yeah. Or I'll feed it to her."
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Soleus Lestrange
Life wouldn't be so precious dear if there never was an end
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Post by Soleus Lestrange on Jul 2, 2013 23:24:12 GMT
Soleus cocked an eyebrow and leaned back away from her, waiting for her to finish speaking before he dared open his mouth again. When he was sure she was finished, he licked his lips and glanced away. "OK, I get it." He held up both hands as if in defeat, and subtly moved his tongue around inside his mouth subconsciously, as if making sure it was still attached. "It's not the same. I didn't mean that."He swallowed quickly, and jumped up off the sofa arm, slipping past Tiffany to stand somewhere further away from her. Although Soleus was higher-ranking than Tiffany, she held more of their Mother's terrifying personality. Soleus simply got on with the jobs well, but Tiffany was quite intimidating at times. She, Bella and The Dark Lord himself were the only ones who really rattled him. Most of the time Tiffany was easy to handle but he knew he had overstepped the line. He examined an empty photo frame absently as if it was far more interesting than it really was. "It fucking sucks, though." He added quietly, in a guilty tone. ~~
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Tiffany Lestrange
i'm not a fool, i just love that you're dead inside, i'm not a fool, i'm just lifeless too.
Posts: 869
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Post by Tiffany Lestrange on Jul 2, 2013 23:32:57 GMT
"Well grow up." she snapped, clearly still stung. "You could do worse. You have done worse." she added as an afterthought, thinking it over for a moment. She felt angry, sure, but she really didn't mean her words. Did she really want him to grow up? What, like she had? Frowning, she scratched at one of the bites on her shoulder, leading up to a dark, angry looking purple bruise on the back of her neck. 'Till death do us part. she thought angrily, dropping her hand back to her side & stepping away from Soleus a little, as if to silently assure him that she wasn't a physical threat to him - at least not until he mouthed off again.
"Godfrey's father is in charge of our travel. He's an important piece & you'd do well to respect that." she said carefully, thinking about Ashley & her family for a moment. "And Rowle's roommate. The unspeakable.." she went quiet for a long moment, trying to arrange her thoughts properly. "He's neutral, but we'll pin him down sooner or later. If someone could crack him open, they'd be invaluable." she paused again. If she cracked him open, she'd be invaluable.
"Don't concentrate on Bode. I shouldn't have said anything. Besides," she stepped over to him carefully & straightened his shirt, brushing some invisible dust from his shoulder carefully, "you're just engaged. It's not the end of the world." she quirked an eyebrow at him, tilting her head to the side in that devious manner that she hadn't shown in a long while. There was almost something reassuring to it - like her intentions were only for her own benefit, but they wouldn't necessarily do any damage to anyone else.
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Soleus Lestrange
Life wouldn't be so precious dear if there never was an end
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Post by Soleus Lestrange on Jul 2, 2013 23:55:57 GMT
He watched her carefully as she spoke. "I respect her, and her family. I'm one of the few who actually speaks to her at Hogwarts. I just never imagined this." He motioned vaguely in the space around him. "It's weird."
He stopped thinking about the whole Ashley conundrum for a moment and narrowed his eyes suspiciously while she talked about Broderick. "Why shouldn't I concentrate on Bode? Because you want to?" He asked, thinking that she was wanting to take the glory for herself and was completely oblivious to the idea that Tiffany seemed to have a strange thing for him. He smirked very subtly. "You should have thought that one through before you let it slip. Now you'll have to share the glory. Care to share your plans?" He added in an irritatingly cocky voice, trying to push his worries from his mind and return to a hobby he preferred over worrying - playfully irritating his older sister.
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Tiffany Lestrange
i'm not a fool, i just love that you're dead inside, i'm not a fool, i'm just lifeless too.
Posts: 869
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Post by Tiffany Lestrange on Jul 3, 2013 0:07:12 GMT
Nudging the hyena to stand on the floor, Tiffany took her now vacant seat. Brent wasn't home, anyway - what he didn't know wouldn't hurt him. He clearly favoured the predatory beast over his fiancee, hence it getting furniture rights while she sat on the floor. In her own house.
"I was going to try sleeping with him, did you want a go?" she replied, without missing a beat, giving him a cold glare, though it barely masked her amused expression. Beneath that, though, was where she clearly felt threatened.
"I just think there are other things for you to be concentrating on. Like not ruining this thing with Ashley before it starts." she said carefully, adding a little more demandingly, now, "I will deal with Bode."
As if on cue, Illsa' tottered over to the doorway & sniffed the air excitedly, before literally hopping - yes, hopping - her front paws leaving the floor & then slamming back down, back legs never leaving their spot. She looked like an excited little child. After a moment, she started cackling, slamming her paws up & down on the floor again.
"Brent's back. Move." she grabbed Soleus off of the couch & clicked her tongue for the beast, giving it room on the couch she'd just vacated her brother from.
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Soleus Lestrange
Life wouldn't be so precious dear if there never was an end
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Post by Soleus Lestrange on Jul 3, 2013 9:28:32 GMT
Soleus smirked at her response. "No, no, I'll leave that to you. If I tried it he'd know there was something up." He replied, straight-faced. Soleus sighed and nodded glumly. Fine, he thought, I can go along with it for a while if it's gonna benefit us all. He was considering when it was best to contact Ashley by owl about the technical details- meeting her parents, for instance, when Tiffany threw him off the sofa. He regained his balance and stared at Tiffany.
"This is a fucking joke. This is our house." He said quietly, his tone cold. He only kept cool around Brent because he knew that if he intervened, the man would take it out on his sister. Plus his mother wouldn't be too happy, from her point of view everything was going perfectly. Soleus ached to put a boot print in Brent's face (after a strong stunning spell, of course, as physically-well trained as Soleus was, Brent was much bigger and more experienced in throwing people around), but he merely clenched his jaw and moved away to sit in a different space.
He hated the whole Tiffany-Brent situation. It felt similar to him to the Kevin Edwards situation. There was absolutely nothing he could do but sit back and watch his sister slowly vacate her body, leaving behind a shell of her former self. He felt completely useless, and the feeling had caused him to punch holes in quite a few walls. He hoped that her venom-laced nail polish kept him away a little longer, and that by some miracle he'd get caught in one of the raids. Sooner, rather than later.
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Tiffany Lestrange
i'm not a fool, i just love that you're dead inside, i'm not a fool, i'm just lifeless too.
Posts: 869
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Post by Tiffany Lestrange on Jul 3, 2013 17:05:17 GMT
She waited a long moment, hand up as if to warn him to stay quiet so that she could listen, before there was the sound of the floors creaking up the stairs, & a door slamming at the top of them. The hyena whined sadly & then trotted off to follow the noise. Exhaling slowly, Tiffany turned back to Soleus the relief obvious on her face even though she said nothing. They clearly had not had a good night.
"I had the creepiest dream ever." she admitted, "I had all of these.. children." she said the word as if it were some sort of horrible disease that one contracted. Shaking her head, she shuddered, then removed the thought from her mind.
ooc. that was a bit short, sorry!
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