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Gabe Hatchitt - June 1, 2012 09:52 PM (GMT)
Gabe had fallen off a mountain.
Or at least that was what the ministry official that had woken him up had said. He, of course, didn't remember the events directly prior to his falling off the mountain. His head ached, his vision was funny, and his stomach swirled unpleasantly. He had puked in his toilet a few times after getting home, but that seemed to have mostly stopped.
He sat, curled up, on his couch. A pillow lay over his head, trapping out sound, and he buried his face in the couch. Make it stop. If he was going to fall off a mountain, he would much rather have broken his leg, Or died. Yes, death was preferable to his current condition.
He had been home for an hour when he heard his door creak open. "GABE!" Beatrice Hatchitt said, "WE'RE HERE TO CARE FOR YOU!" He heard her bustle past him into the kitchen and peeked out from the pillow to see a few blurry sets of legs.
"Please no," he said, burying his face in the pillow again. "No no no no no no no." His mind swirled that word around, tested it, decided it sounded definitely like what he was thinking. He didn't want the Hatchitt Brigade to come stare at him and be loud. He wanted to sit on his couch and plot the murder of every ministry official ever.
Judy Hatchitt - June 1, 2012 10:21 PM (GMT)
By the time Judy had arrived at her cousins house she was grinning from ear to ear like a Cheshire cat having heard the entire story of how Gabe, her brilliant auror cousin Gabe, had been pulled from the trail because he'd fallen off a mountain. It was fantastic! She couldn't have orchestrated such a... magnificent, majestic.... thing if she'd planned it herself.... She accompanied her extended family over to where Gabe was living and her grin widened even further as she saw him lying on the couch.
She hadn't thought twice about the scolding, or the punishment she'd received for her part (the mastermind) behind the chaos of the end-of-year feast... afterall it had been worth it.
She stared at his prone form and considered her impulse to sit on top of him but decided that perhaps that wouldn't be kind, afterall he had afterall fallen off a mountain and might be delicate. She snorted.
"Oh yes, yes yes yes yes." She said laughing as she went to grab his pillow.
"How does it feel to fall off a mountain, Gabee?" She said teasingly.
Mina Hatchitt - June 3, 2012 05:55 AM (GMT)
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<p>Though Mina had initially worried when news of Gabe's injury reached her, it soon became plain that he was going to be perfectly alright; with that certainty came relief and then, inevitably, wry amusement. Only Gabe, after all, would manage somehow to fall off a
mountain for Merlin's sake.<p>
<p>And much as she tried to seem solemn as she followed her sister into the bedroom where he was recuperating, she couldn't help the laughter that escaped as she laid eyes on him; for all that he seemed extremely uncomfortable, and in some intense sort of pain-a fact which she registered, and vaguely empathized with-there was something undeniably comical about the entire situation.<p>
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"You," she began sternly, biting back a grin,
"Had better get well soon; if you don't, who am I going to pester?"<p>
<p>At this, she eased herself into a sitting position at the very tip of his bed, careful not to jostle him, and tried her best innocent pout.<p>
<p>Leaning her elbows on her legs and propping her chin in the palms of her hands, she glanced slantways at him.
"Bet you're not too happy with the ministry, huh? Did you lot even find anything, so it wasn't a total loss?"<p>
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Madeline Root - June 3, 2012 09:52 AM (GMT)
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Madeline had been absolutely beside herself when Gabe had gotten drafted by the ministry to go on an adventure of sorts. Her fiance was certainly the adventuring type, and had been placed with, of all people, his best mate in the world. Regan Pendergast and Gabe Hatchitt were troublemakers if Maddie had ever known trouble makers, and they were bad enough alone that they didn't need to be paired up and sent off on a wild goose chase. It was a miracle that Gabe had come back alive (though, if she was being honest, Maddie knew that Regan and Gabe probably had a better chance surviving now that they were separated, and she was quite happy to have Gabe home again).
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She hadn't gone to visit Gabe since he had arrived home, feeling as though she ought to wait for some sort of invitation to ensure her fiance was alive and well. Beatrice Hatchitt, Merlin bless the woman, sent Maddie a letter inviting her to go visit with them and Maddie hastily accepted. She was not yet family, but would soon be- would've been had their wedding not been forcibly postponed by the ministry's little excursions. She detested the ministry at that moment, knowing full well, however, that whey they were doing was to benefit the entirety of Hogsmeade village. The bigger the area, the more people they could fit. That meant more business for those shop owners, and almost more available residences for people who were still living among muggles when they wished they weren't.
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Beatrice Hatchitt, Maddie's soon to be mother-in-law, screetched as soon as they entered Gabe's home. Maddie had only been there once, and followed his bouncy and excitable two cousins Mina and Judy into the living room, as they followed Beatrice. They tortured Gabe, and Maddie stood back, smiling at the scene. While he was immature at times, and while she knew that he was most likely trying to plot the demise of every person in the ministry who had anything to do with the planning of the expeditions, Maddie couldn't help but be amused. His family was so much different than her own, and she was enjoying their liveliness. She stood aways back, letting his family have the first go at him. He would notice her, and then she would have her time with him. For now, she had to be patient.</div>
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Jesse Hatchitt - June 4, 2012 11:45 PM (GMT)
Of course Gabe would fall off a mountain, why wouldn't he?
Jesse, once he'd been assured that this brother was likely to survive and make a full recovery had a very similar reaction as the rest of his family; only Gabe. When told it was time to visit. Jesse gathered with the rest of the Hatchitt troop to head over to Gabe's place. The house Jesse wanted to call his own, but now that his brother would soon be married, he was less enthusiastic about it. Married people... well they were loud. He didn't want or need to hear any of those kinds of shenanigans.
As they all filed in, Jesse simply took up a seat on the arm of Gabe's couch, near his brother's feet, listening with a bemused smile as his cousins teased him. "I must say Gabe, I'm not terribly surprised it was you who fell off a mountain. It's a wonder you haven't flunked out of auror training yet." Jess said, offhand. Teasing Gabe was far too easy sometimes.
Of course he was kind of helpless now, the concussion restricting his activities, stuck on the couch with nowhere to go... That wasn't playing fair. "Alright gals." Jesse stood and corralled his cousins by wrapping one arm around each of them. "Fiance time." He chuckled as he remembered Maddie had come with them. She of all people was probably worried the most. "Let's go help mom in the kitchen for a moment. Just a minute." He said before either one could complain too loudly.
Judy Hatchitt - June 9, 2012 10:44 PM (GMT)
Judy rolled her eyes at her cousin Jesse as she returned Gabe's pillow.
"Fi-ne" She said a stalked off past Maddie and into the kitchen. It wasn't like she had anything against her cousins fiance but she didn't like those words. Fiance... and Gabe would be getting married soon which meant that he'd probably no longer have any time for anybody except Maddie. It's what people did when they got married afterall.
They got caught up in love and that was it. They didn't care about anybody else anymore. Judy felt like she had to shout from the top of buildings to get her parents to even realise she existed. Marriage and love were boring, selfish beliefs that Judy was determined to have nothing to do with.
Mina Hatchitt - June 10, 2012 01:15 AM (GMT)
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"Alright, alright." she protested, wriggling out of her cousin's grip and brandishing her hands in surrender,
"We'll give you two some alone time. But behave! There are children here. And Merlin: try not to fall out of your bed while we're gone." Hesitating only to offer Gabe a mockingly withering sigh, she allowed herself to be led out of his recovery room.<p>
<p>Judy, however, did not comply half so gracefully.<P>
<p>Mina had a keen idea what it was that her younger sister was going through, but did not feel at all up to the task of comforting her. Oftentimes it seemed that Judy was a firecracker, ready to burst at the slightest provocation.<p>
<p>Still, she had to say
something. Judy was looking mutinous, after all, and that was
anything but a good sign.<p>
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"They're not like that, you know." she said quietly, bumping her sister gently in the side with her hip, and offering a grin that didn't quite meet her eyes. Though her words hadn't been very clear, she knew her meaning was perfectly plain-to Judy, at least, whose thoughts were surely focused on the subject.<p>
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Gabe Hatchitt - June 10, 2012 01:58 AM (GMT)
Gabe debated smothering Judy for a minute and flailed for his pillow when she grabbed it, eyes still closed to shut out light. "You-" he said "-are Satan." He buried his face in the couch cushion. "It feels a little bit like falling off of Regan Pendergast's roof, except more pointy." It was a bit sad that that had happened, once upon a time.
Judy was tolerable, but sticking her and Mina in the same place was awful. He barely resisted the urge to kick Mina in the side when she sat on his couch. "Well, we found a mountain."
Jesse was welcome. Gabe praised the decision to make him his best man. "Thanks, Jess," he said, noting the words only once the girls and Jesse had left.
Maddie! Gabe sat up, groaned as his stomach lurched from under him, and sank back fully onto the couch. "Maddie," he said, closing one eye.
He sat up more steadily this time but closed his other eye. "You have no idea how happy I am to see - sort of - you," he said. "Remind me to thank my mother later." Beatrice Hatchitt may have brought the Brigade, but she had also brought Maddie, and that excused it. "Does Regan know I'm alive?" he asked, because if Regan had fallen off the mountain that would have been his first concern, and they didn't have much time before the others came back in.
Madeline Root - June 10, 2012 04:22 PM (GMT)
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There had been no use trying to barge into a conversation where she most likely wasn't welcome. Maddie, though she was almost family (and would've been family if not for the expeditions), didn't feel as though Gabe's cousins would take well to her just trying to make herself known. They were busying themselves with bothering their cousins, her fiance, so she sat back and watched. Maddie had to stifle a chuckle when Jesse corralled the two girls and directed them towards the kitchen. She had always liked Jesse the most of the Hatchitt's, aside from Gabe himself, probably because he reminded her so much of her own brother and best friend, Julien.
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A light smile toyed at the corners of Maddie's lips when the girls and Jesse were in the kitchen, and she was alone with Gabe. Her Gabe. It still got her heart beating faster than it should to think that she was going to marry Gabe soon and be his wife, and hopefully they would have children together one day. And, at the very end of it all, they would grow old together. It was what had kept Maddie going during the times that Gabe was gone. She knew he was with Regan and in relatively safe hands, but as it had been proven by Gabe's being sent home, even Regan couldn't prevent some things from happening.
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As Gabe tried to get up, Maddie rushed over to the couch where he was laying. She smiled a deep, heartfelt smile down towards her fiance and smoothed some hair away from his forehead. In the brief moment they had alone, Maddie swooped down, placed a soft kiss on his forehead and came back up. Whatever happened, it was in private and with the knowledge that they were to be married soon. Married. Maddie's ears were glowing with happiness. "Yes, Regan knows that you're alright. As soon as your mother owl'd me, I sent him an owl, as well. And I'll remind you to thank her later." There was a pause as Maddie and Gabe looked at each other. "I'm so glad you're alive," she said in an almost whisper. "I wouldn't know what to do without you."</div>
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Jesse Hatchitt - June 11, 2012 01:15 AM (GMT)
"Oh relax, hooligans." Sometimes Jess wondered why it seemed that all of his female relatives were the poorly behaved ones. Well, all of them but Vix, she was perfectly lovely. The rest of them seemed to be loosing their marbles for some reason or another. With these two, he thought it was just how they were naturally. "Just give them a moment, he almost died" Jess exaggerated the last word even though it wasn't quite true.
In the the kitchen Jess found the cookie jar easily enough and handed both of his cousins one. It would keep them occupied for at least a couple of minutes. Beatrice Hatchitt never left a cookie jar empty, no matter which house she was in. He thought she had come in here, but she had probably wandered to another part of the house, cleaning something of some kind.
Jess watched the two sisters for a moment, wondering what Mina meant by they're not like that. "What you mean an oaf for falling off a mountain? I'm sure he pretty much just did that." He chuckled, only Gabe. His older brother truly was one of a kind in that respect. The fact that he'd managed to get somebody like Maddie to even consider him for a husband was a miracle in itself. He was happy for his brother though; he desperately needed somebody to look after him. Although their getting married ruined his plans to move in with Gabe for the summer. Connie had moved home and Jess wanted to claim her room. Unfortunately he was pretty sure that newlyweds didn't want much company and he did not want to be around to hear that.
Mina Hatchitt - June 15, 2012 09:54 PM (GMT)
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<p>Mina brushed a strand of dark hair out of her eyes and glanced at her fingernails for a protracted moment before her gaze slid toward her cousin.
"Seems pretty alive to me." she countered, amused,
"Albeit sort of annoyed...but alive."<p>
<p>Brightly, she followed him into the kitchen, Judy falling in grudgingly at her heels.
It was a comfort to be out of Gabe's small recovery room, for Mina had always had an aversion to closed-in spaces. Of course, she had never been an indoors-sort before, and she was feeling rather restless on the whole; nevertheless, the offer of a cookie quieted her calms, at least up until she had finished it off.<p>
<p>Jessie didn't quite understand what Mina had meant, which was likely a good thing; it wasn't as though she didn't trust him, but she didn't much like the idea of spilling out everything she felt to him, and knew Judy-who was as bitter about their parents as Mina was guarded-would surely not be pleased. Even if she
had been the sort to expose her private concerns without reservations, she wasn't sure she would have been able to find the right words to explain how she felt; it was too complicated.<p>
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"I'm glad he's alright." she said lightly, collapsing onto one of the kitchen chairs, leaning her elbows on the table and propping her chin in her hands. A memory of having read something in The Daily Prophet about two people who had also fallen in the same way and lost their lives because of it had occurred to her, and it left a bad feeling in her stomach.<p>
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Judy Hatchitt - June 18, 2012 08:17 AM (GMT)
"We'll see..." Judy whispered back as she tried to make herself comfortable in the kitchen. She took the biscuit with a frown, taking careful note to notice where Jesse put the cookie jar. She knew that she should probably resist the urge for chaos. She had barely finished school and her greatest prank ever was not even cold... so she placed the idea to the side. If Gabe ever became like that... well then his cookie jar was forfeit. She'd recently read of some interesting jinxes, charms and potions that she hadn't used during the feast because she hadn't known how to undo them. (She was a prankster. Not stupid.)
She bit into the cookie, pleased with herself and her idea and couldn't resist herself. She grinned and shook her head at Jesse. The idiot. For a Ravenclaw he could be so stupid sometimes. If he didn't know what they were talking about that was fine by her but.... really, it was plain as day to her that their parents had left them.
"And he did it with such talent as well!" She said, choosing to continue with his misunderstanding. She hadn't really been worried about Gabe. Gabe was Gabe. He could survive anything. There was no way he could die. It just wasn't possible.
Gabe Hatchitt - June 20, 2012 02:07 AM (GMT)
"Thank you," he said, grinning like an idiot at the kiss. Regan knew he was alive. A tiny burst of optimism was brought on. He was genuinely okay. His head didn't hurt - in the dark without too much outside stimulation or movement. Or thinking. He'd be fine, and he could get back to auror training shortly. The delay hadn't been for very long, either - Gabe didn't think catching up to his other classmates would be that difficult.
"I wouldn't die on you like that," he said, meeting her gaze. "I wouldn't." With his chosen profession, it was a possibility. He knew that, half of the first year of auror training had been grumpy instructors reminding you that you could be killed at any moment. But Gabe had a sort of Gryffindorish naivety, the sort that made him think he could avoid the random deaths. If he had just been naive, it likely would have been inviting death to come crane-kick him in the ass. But Gabe was smart, when he wasn't incapacitated on his couch with a head injury, and he was incredibly stubborn.
"Besides," he said, "It wasn't that big of a mountain." The corners of his mouth quirked up. He closed his eyes for a second, swirled through too-slow thoughts, and opened them when he had latched onto a memory. He didn't like his mind being so muddy, he wasn't used to it, and the last time he had felt like this was the last time he had been very hungover. And that hadn't been quite this bad.
"Did you meet with Aoife when I was gone?" he asked, wondering how long they had before the scoundrels came back in. Jesse would probably be able to placate them for a few minutes, he thought. He was just lucky the only attendees appeared to be these five - if more of his siblings had showed up he and Maddie never would have been allowed space.
Soon they would be married, living in the same place, allowed more than secret touches in private when no one was watching. Married. He almost couldn't fathom the enormity of it. It probably wouldn't hit him until a week after they were married, when he was sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast before auror training and Maddie was across from him.
