Talking to Voltaire and Isabella

[Voltaire Rothschild]

Voltaire shifted to stand next to Isabella, He still didn't know who the heck this gal was.

[Athena "V" Smith-Calloway]

"You can call me V," she said. "No, that's not my real name, but I can't tell you what it is. See, I work as a spy. My job has been to investigate Death Eaters in the Ministry. I've been watching Erasmus Craven for over a year. I was friends with the St. Clares, and I was there when Wesley St. Clare was pushed through the veil."

[Voltaire Rothschild]

"Oh, So you saw Natalie's father die..." said Voltaire wrapping an arm around Isa. "What else do you know about Craven that we wouldn't?" said Voltaire still feeling suspicious.

[Athena "V" Smith-Calloway]

"Not as much as I'd like. I know he was involved with some financial dealings that involved siphoning funds from official money to give to Voldemort. I also know he has a hitlist of people he wants to kill. Both of you are on it, and so am I--the real me. Wesley and Olivia were, too... but Alastor is lucky. So far he's flown under his radar."

[Voltaire Rothschild]

"I knew about the puppet front he made for the ministry... it was the last we heard of his dealings." he said seriously. "Do you know who else is on his hit list? how is he conducting these murders?" he asked.

[Athena "V" Smith-Calloway]

"I believe both Emily Alchemia and Vincent Corrigan are on his list. I'm not sure who else," V said. "He uses different methods to commit the murders... Olivia was killed with a straightforward killing curse. But Wesley... I was in the room, hiding, when he was killed. He was killed in the Department of Mysteries... just pushed off the platform and into the veil." She shook her head. "I'm not sure what other methods he has planned for anyone else, but I believe he wants to eliminate any kind of pattern that could be detected by anyone. I'm not even entirely sure he was the one qho committed the murders, or if they were committed by someone else. This is one of the things we're trying to figure out."

[Voltaire Rothschild]

"He has to be a cleverer bloke then I've been giving him credit...if he's avoiding a pattern than that points to some fore thought and planning...Wesley was pushed? Easy to say that he fell, an excellent cover story...maybe enough to fool even Natalie?" he said more to himself than to the woman named V. " What about Weiss? his assistant?" he asked, he had only heard of her, and saw her in passing, other than that she was very much an unknown to him.

[Alastor Domino]

Alastor carried Natalie into voltaire's office. "Hey V. This is Natalie." He said to V.

[Natalie St. Clare]

Natalie looked at V for a long moment. "You're hiding a lot," she said. "And you're hiding it well. I can't see inside you. I can sense that you are a good person, and that you've been through a lot of pain." She climbed down off of Uncle Alastor's back and walked over to V. Touching her hand, she closed her eyes as a series of visions flashed before her eyes. Visions of familiar faces. She saw a man she had seen in one of Lucie's visions, and she saw Lucie's boyfriend Ian, who had died. And she saw her father.

Natalie pulled away quickly. Although she figured out who the woman was from what she had seen, she couldn't figure out how her father was connected. "I... I know who you are," she said. "Don't worry, I won't say unless you want me to. But... how did you know my father?"

[Athena "V" Smith-Calloway]

V sighed. "Your father and I were friends. Actually, I was friends with your mother first. We worked together on a lot of assignments for the Auror office. She was the best I've ever worked with. After she was killed, your father came to me and asked me for help in finding the person who killed her. We... er... worked very closely together for a while..." She trailed off, hoping that she was able to block Natalie from seeing or sensing the fact that she had developed an entirely inappropriate crush on Wesley.

[Natalie St. Clare]

Natalie felt a strange emotion coming from the woman for a split second, before she was abruptly shut out. She pulled back and looked at the woman who called herself V. "You... you were in love with my dad, weren't you?"

[Athena "V" Smith-Calloway]

'No!" V protested a little too quickly. "I mean... well, yes, I had feelings for him, but he didn't return them. It was stupid, really. I just... I understood the position he was in, having lost my husband. Wesley--your father--was grieving... he loved your mother very much. I won't, er, wouldn't have acted on my feelings for him."

[Alastor Domino]

"So it was just an infatuation?" Alastor asked. "I think we're getting a little off topic. I'm still shocked, so could you maybe explain what we found?"

[Athena "V" Smith-Calloway]

"Yeah, um, I really don't want to talk about it," V said, blushing slightly. She was still a bit mortified by the whole thing. "Natalie, we need your help to figure out a way to prove that Erasmus Craven is guilty. Can you help us?"

[Natalie St. Clare]

Natalie shrugged. "OK," she said. "What do you want me to do?"

[Voltaire Rothschild]

Voltaire looked over at Isa and let out a short cough. There was still two other people in the room besides himself. he thought it would be a good moment to remind V and Natalie of that.

[Isabella Rothschild]

"Well, if there's anything either of us can do, let us know," Isabella said. "We'd like nothing better than to get Craven out of office and in prison where he can't hurt anyone. Or stare creepily at me," she added under her breath.

[Alastor Domino]

"I'm not too sure that you should be doing anything, considering your pregnancy." Alastor said caringly. "But Voltaire you could help me make sure Sabrina and Natalie stay safe."

[Isabella Rothschild]

"Thank you for your concern, Alastor," Isabella said. "But you know me well enough to know I'm not one to just sit back and let others do the work, especially for something this important. Even if I can't fight right now, I'm sure I can help in other ways. I can do research or investigating."

[Alastor Domino]

"Investigating might be good." Alastor replied. "But I don't think you should directly investigate Craven, considering what you've told me about him. Maybe you should investigate Greta."