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Post by Faith Winters on Aug 29, 2012 16:09:19 GMT -5
(OOC: This kinda picks up from "Time for Fun")
Faith sat on the bed and took a few deep breaths, she didn't like to admit it but she was thouroughly shaken by this turn of events, and worse Valerius was no where to be found.
She saw the letter he had penned her and swiftly opened it. His tone was brisk and straightforward, she was to occupy her time with studies and work on her healing spells. Under no circumstances was she to leave the hotel or spend time with "that Bronwyn trouble" as he put it. He would be back for her by the end of the week.
She sighed and put the letter down, at least she knew he was okay, or rather she could feel he was okay and that did a lot to ease her mind.
Who was that man she had run into? Why did he look so much like Valerius? Did Valerius have a twin? All these questions were going to be answered sooner rather than later she was about to find out.
Deciding she had had enough for one night she went to the bathroom and turned the faucet letting the bathtub fill with hot water. She had no idea she had been followed or that she wasn't the only one in the hotel room.
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Post by Cassius Knight on Sept 6, 2012 20:54:54 GMT -5
Cassius had followed the girl. It wasn't the first time he had done snooping around. Truthfully, he had done it a lot during his school years, either at Hogwarts itself, or at home with his father. And he was not about to let this girl out of his sight.
When he, at last, had found the girl again, she was heading into the hotel. With a quick and quiet spell, he cast a tracking charm on her and cast the sister spell on his eyes so that he could see the footsteps left behind by the spell. He watched the elevator numbers go up to her floor and then followed her up, continuing after the foot steps until he finally found the door they led him too.
He heard the bath running and waited another fifteen minutes, until the bath water shut off, to be sure that she wouldn't be on the other side of the door. If anything, he was a patient man.
Finally, with a quick unlocking spell, he entered the hotel room, locking the door behind him. He was silent as he entered and looked around the front room of the hotel suite. There wasn't much there, but he didn't want to enter the bedrooms, just in case she was still bathing and naked. He still had his dignity, and wanted to spare her hers.
So, for now, he sat on a couch in the lounge of the room, waiting for her to come out of the bathroom. If she had already mistaken him for his dead brother, perhaps, she would do it again.
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Post by Faith Winters on Sept 6, 2012 21:08:46 GMT -5
She turned the water off and let her robe hit the floor before sinking into the water that was charmed to sooth any aches and pains, she found herself extremely relaxed. Valerius taught her better than that, but a the moment she didn't care. She was more than tired, and she had had quite a long night.
She might have fallen asleep in the tub had her body not suddenly gone cold. Something was wrong.
She had only a split second before a darkly robed man pushed her head under the water with a vice like grip. For Faith there was nothing more vulnerable than being in a fight quite literally naked. She couldn't speak or breath or use magic all she had was her feeble strength against his. She tried striking him in various pressure points and while she did some damage the unexpected attack and the swiftness of it had overcome her.
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Post by Cassius Knight on Sept 6, 2012 21:15:45 GMT -5
Something wasn't right. The sounds he heard were not the sounds of someone in a bath, and certainly weren't the sounds of 'Other' activities that happened in a hotel room.
Cassius quick rushed into the bathroom, wand out. He saw the attacker and Stupified him, knocking him away and off the girl. With some quick thinking, he grabbed a bathrobe off the door and threw it over the girl, pulling her out of the bath. He looked around quickly to see if there was anyone else, hoping he hadn't made the wrong decision.
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Post by Faith Winters on Sept 6, 2012 21:24:38 GMT -5
Faith coughed nearly a lung full of water and gripped fiercely the arm that held her steady seeking security and reassuring herself she was still alive, she had almost lost it for a close moment until her rescuer had showed up.
She had just started to breathe easy when another man masked like the first with robes that hid all forms of identifcation attacked Cassius from behind. "Look out-" She grabbed her wand and sent the man spiraling backward with a quick spell, she may have been caught off guard but Valerius taught her well. She'd process all of this later but there was no hesitation in her as she wrapped the robe around her and got out of the tub leaving the bathroom completely it would be better if they weren't in the small space.
At first being with Cassius was like working along side of Valerius but she was quick to find even more of a difference between the two.
She saw the point of entrance being the bedroom window where another man was crawling in, but she didn't have time to hex him as another grabbed her from behind.
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Post by Cassius Knight on Sept 6, 2012 21:41:30 GMT -5
Cassius was an excellent fight, actually. He wasn't his brother, for sure. But they, in the end, had been trained differently. Cassius trained out of boredom and bar fights. In truth, this situation was right up his ally. Small spaces, multiple opponents.
He swung his fist around, catching the attacker that had grabbed her right across the face, knocking him back into the now half empty bath. With his other hand, he spun his wand around, casting a body bind spell on the one coming through the window. He was only part of the way in and was now blocking the window with his body.
Without even bothering to think another second about what was happening, he grabbed Faith around the waist and apparated out of that hotel room and into his. He didn't trust himself, in the moment, to get the two of them all the way to his house, but his hotel room was enough to at least give the two of them a moment to regroup and get out of here. He quickly turned to her. In that exact moment, he looked and sounded so much like his brother, it would be nearly impossible to tell them apart.
"Why are they attacking you and is there anything important in that room that you desperately need before we leave? And I mean truly desperately, life or death."
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Post by Faith Winters on Sept 6, 2012 21:50:12 GMT -5
She was so caught off guard by him, but she had to admit Cassius looked good in a fight. Valerius was awe-inspiring in a fight, there was a deadly look of determination on his face that was intimidating as it was ruthless. There was no softness to him at all. But Cassius, he almost grinned while fighting, it was boyish and it was charming, it softened his face and lightened the serious situation.
She caught herself staring at him as he fought off their attackers, then before she could speak she felt the familiar squeeze of being apparated. Valerius had done that with her several times but she had yet to master it herself, it had been messy the last time she had tried.
"I...what..." she took a glance around the room her mind not quite adjusting to the change of scene, she wanted to go back and kick some assassin behind but they were safer where they were. Faith had a necklace on with a pouch at the end of it and inside there was everything she owned neatly compressed by a spell. Valerius and her had made several hasty exits and she knew how to be prepared.
"No...I have everything..." she looked up at him, "You really aren't him...the longer I see you the less you have in common.." she blinked it was uncanny really how she thought they were the same person when clearly they were not. Suddenly she shivered and glanced around the room regaining her thoughts, "They found us...this was much sooner than he thought they would.. I have to find him. I have to tell him that they're here..." she was pacing in front of Cassius speaking to herself more than to him.
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Post by Cassius Knight on Sept 6, 2012 23:09:52 GMT -5
He had about a few thousand questions and comments for her when she said that he wasn't him and had less in common with him. But that would have to wait for now. He still had his wand out, so quickly cast a spell to pack all of his stuff as fast as possible while she was talking to him.
Within two minutes, he had everything packed and sent back home. He grabbed around the waist again.
"Ready?"
Without even waiting for an answer, he apparated out of London (making a new thread)
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