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New chapter for the AHM-your-joy.
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III: Complications and intrigue
After twenty-two days of silence, tormented by a quarrel that had been humiliated and being wildly almost unable to sleep at night, Orion came to present themselves at home of his uncles in the early afternoon of a sunny Wednesday. Alphard received him with her usual cheerfulness, and when he asked his sister, the accommodate in the room while he went to call. The uncles were out and so Orion sat alone, with the curious sensation that the heart rate came in even at the very tips of his fingers and his throat dried up irrevocably anxiety. Completely unable to make any movement, he waited with his head down staring at his shoes compulsively.
He had no idea what he would say. The words of Walburga had humiliated in a way that he himself struggled to understand and his "boy" still echoing in the ears, but above all else was ruled by the knowledge that they can not resist his posting. Had run for two years in the belief of being able to walk away from her, but he could not take note of the failure.
Walburga Black's entry was in his veins and probably would stay there for life, and if he could not close it would have been satisfied as a woman of her as a sister. But his absence beyond all endurance.
"You should not have come, Orion."
Her voice made him an extremely mild and sweet jump. Walburga was standing in the doorway, pale and desolate. He bit his lips without looking at her hands clasped in her lap.
He swallowed with difficulty, shaking his head.
"I did not want among us ..."
"But it was my fault. I should have be the one to apologize, "she interrupted the momentum, coming a few steps. Orion's eyes widened with surprise: her cousin Walburga, the indomitable horsewoman, was bent by an evident sense of guilt.
"But you did not, so ..." he murmured Aton.
"Excuse me, Orion."
muttered those words in a voice so low and soft music to appear. Struggled for twenty days in pride, unable to allow his uncompromising and I am proud to make a single gesture of peace but without anxiety to avert and sadness. Now that the front of her, she was clearer than ever that he could not tolerate the hatred of his cousin. She had clear, especially, and unfortunately, that bound her to him but a simple attraction of a deep affection that she could not explain, yet perfectly sensible, because it turned to a stranger, but the boy grew up next to him , whose strengths and weaknesses and knew many secrets.
"Okay, Walburga," he said absently.
The light in her eyes pained silver the wounded instead of letting the relief due to his words. Without knowing how to control which lacks basic common sense and the natural gift that has always accompanied, Walburga across the room, as if an alien force or a curse driving until you come before him, he again lowered the head.
"Orion," muttered bending down at the same time when the boy raised his head.
Orion Black distinctly felt the lips of the woman he loved has always been on their own, softer and sweeter than any he had ever imagined. She held her breath in a gasp of surprise, unable to believe what was happening, until the fragrance of its skin, that he had learned to recognize from childhood, he was not in the lungs. With a sigh that was almost a sigh of relief, grabbed the momentum of the shoulder, drawing her to him without her objected. Indeed, obediently followed the movement that imposed, relying almost shyly with his hand to his chest for no cadergli him, as a part of you then can not find that unpleasant possibility. He let the boy's lips caress her with a craving almost overwhelming, breathless. At fourteen he began to imagine that one day kiss the man of her dreams would give her a kiss that would have stripped away any remaining air from the lungs, and finally he was receiving.
"... For Salazar."
The voice startled and incredulous of the second house received them, and jumped to his feet with an exclamation Walburga suffocated.
"Alphard" exhaled, stunned.
Orion made a turn to get up in the wild-eyed cousin, still on the door and totally amazed.
"You! And you! You ... and you, "stammered the young man, without capacitance. "You ..."
"Alphard, I pray it's not like ... "began Walburga, wringing her hands.
"That 's right, however," he thundered stunned. "Orion Black! I would not have expected this from you! And you, little sister, waiting for dad to know that ... "
" Alphard, "interrupted Orion taking the necessary clarity. "Please do not make this situation ..."
"She's engaged! And you get married! You're four years younger! But thing ... "Alphard exclaimed vehemently, and her sister grabbed his hand. Burst out giggling hysterically.
"Alphard, is nonsense," Walburga assured him earnestly. "The other day we had a fight and we just get carried away ... Orion ..." he stammered nervously, seeking his help with the look.
swallowing the burning wound that inflicted those words the boy nodded firmly, serious and composed.
"It 's so, cousin. E ' just a nonsense. "
" On this we can swear! I ... I ... "
" Alphard, please do not say anything to Daddy, "she insisted suppliant, holding her hand more intensely. Alphard Black
repeatedly shook his head, snorting loudly.
"Of course not. I was not going to do really, "he muttered, trying to recover from the surprise. "I'm not a spy or something. But Salazar! Are you crazy? "
" It 'was the pathos of the moment, little brother, " Walburga justified himself with a chuckle artifact.
"I must have drunk a glass too, at lunch," said Orion plate.
"Go to dispose of it at home, cousin," she admonished the largest with a touch of coldness. "And you go to rest, you seem pretty experienced."
herself from the grasp of his sister without any bitterness, turning his back to both.
"Now," he added quietly, leaving the room. Orion
bowed his head and picked up the mantle, no longer able to look at the woman. The crossed in due falcate, con la sensazione che qualcuno gli stesse squarciando le viscere. All’ultimo si voltò indietro, grave.
“Io non ho bevuto un bicchiere di troppo,” affermò con serietà.
“E’ meglio se vai,” mormorò Walburga senza guardarlo.
Lui serrò le labbra e non rispose. Sollevando lo sguardo da terra Walburga si scoprì sola.
Tre giorni dopo Cygnus Black si presentò nella casa paterna come una furia. Walburga se lo vide precipitare in camera come un drago all’attacco e si spaventò dell’agitazione quite uncommon in the more controlled of his brothers.
"What are you thinking?" The attacked him, carefully closing the door behind him.
"What?" She stammered, feeling lost. If he knew he could count on the discretion of Alphard, which itself had a lot 'to hide from parents, the same could not be said of most loyal younger brother.
"You kissed Orion" Cygnus hissed indignantly. "What it tells you your head?"
"N-I do not know, I ... The situation we got out of hand, "she stammered nervously, getting up from his chair in front of the desk.
"As for this I have no doubt. How can you be so cruel to our cousin? I did not expect this from you. Orion is not a dirty beggar in jest and you're not a girl. "
Walburga bit his lip, looking slightly amazed.
"Crudele? It '... was only a kiss, "he defended himself, while the memory of that moment of ecstasy made her blush in spite of himself. Cygnus
froze, grave, and her face it was marble. He nodded slowly and do almost contemptuous.
"Just a kiss. Sure, "he murmured coldly. "I'm sorry, I have to talk to our brother."
"I told you ... Alphard? He promised ... "she began eagerly Walburga.
"Orion told me this morning."
His brother slammed the door behind her, leaving her alone.
Cruel, had called. Walburga could not be cruel, if not against itself. He had tasted something could not have but wished with all herself and now the lack was made even more painful.
Crudele. Why cruel?
I have not had a drink too many.
The words of the Orion sprang to mind with a start and suddenly every thing became clear: his stunned silence at their first meeting after his return to England, the professions of affection and interest to rabid Thomas Burkes and farther back, the questions about his happiness before leaving for abroad, his quiet and steady side throughout adolescence. The reality of the situation, simply, jumped in the eyes with new evidence.
He had to catch me back in his chair, putting his other hand to her mouth to stop a moan. He remained motionless for minutes, his heart thundered in my chest and ears invaded by a buzzing sound painful. When he was able to regain control of himself at the desk and sat down with slow, almost solemn gestures, he acquired a parchment and a quill pen, slowly starting to write.
I am sorry for what happened the other day.
I do not know how it happened and I am mortified to
having surrendered myself to that. I can assure you that will not
never anything like it and please accept my apologies.
I think it's better if you for some time does not meet.
Please do not misunderstand my words, because the love I bear you
is unchanged, but the idea that the situation
that has arisen requiring a certain decorous detachment.
hug, like a sister.
; ; Walburga Black
reread several times the lines just laid, before putting the scroll in an envelope and add the address of Orion. He clasped her in his hands for a few seconds before holding it with your fingers the tears that blurred vision. He was so sure you're doing the best for both the first and losing the necessary strength arose, and went up Owlery sent the letter without delay. Only then burst into tears.
The answer to his letter, he had to wait for three days, during which Walburga was intractable. He had a temper tantrum during the Sunday lunch, so that her father suggested she go back to bed and join them when she returned self-possessed, and refused to see her boyfriend explanation citing a fierce, prolonged migraine. When he saw the outline of the owl that fell and went off to welcome him snatched the bag from the feet, without even opening it back in the room.
Dearest beloved and cousin
do not intend to accept your apology, but only because you have no reason to extend
. As to your desire for detachment
I understand it fully and I bend, like I always did ,
to your will. I am thinking of leaving London and
quickly settle with my wife in her country. The climate
English I is in fact very healthy.
With devotion,
; your cousin
Orion Black
He read several times the few lines written by the boy, and the tears that started the furrowed cheeks turned into a dark, fierce relief. At least if Orion had left it, perhaps, failed to return to leading a quiet existence until he returned. Impose herself to ignore the pain that the idea of its remoteness adversely, the unbearable sense of loss that already gripped by the thought of the desolation and suffering he was causing to the person she loved most in the world. With the hardness of his character less wiped tears from her face, she went to freshen up and sent Thomas at a dinner invitation.
That evening he began his insomnia.
As for Orion, he understood that promises dark moments the instant he recognized the handwriting on the curvaceous cousin envelope addressed to him and did not need to open it to know that it contained bad news. He still felt the need to sit down as soon as the reading.
For a few moments of anger and impotence blinded him, and his first impulse was to rush home and cry uncle and Walburga him in his anger, to know by what right do something like that to him, which would give his entire fortune to his only smile. He has only a moment to realize that having to do with the irritable and haughty girl was definitely a move counterproductive. It closed
outraged and suffering in silence, unable to accept the fact of not having the slightest hope yet complained of the same evidence. Do not eat or went to lunch or dinner and it was night when he finally left the house, without either father or mother had dared to ask for explanations on that shadow wrath. Marched aimlessly through the sleeping city odiandone every brick, every corner, because was the city where he lived Walburga who did not love him, without even looking after the numerous signs dell'impestante presence of muggles who normally would have frustrated. He spent the next day in the same state and only at night, crystallized her lips into a smile of bitter irony, scribbled the answer probably Walburga was waiting, but not send it. That same morning he made contact with parents of Katrina as much as possible to hasten the wedding. Would return to Germany and would never met the woman he loved madly, as she wished.
Only when he came to that troubled realized that the decision had not eaten for more than two days, sent the owl to Walburga and resolved to eat. His mother greeted his renewed presence at the family table with undisguised relief, saying that whatever he had so upset his son had at least begun to eat and therefore was better.
He was wrong. Orion emerges from his room only to eat and throughout the rest of the day the door closed when not a sound came. Even during the meal and spoke in a voice barely distracted. After five days of agony mother Melanie took the intervention of her husband and Arcturus, mindful of her twenty years, felt that the wisest thing to do would disturb the quiet tale of marital Cygnus to see if at least he had managed to rip his cousin and friend from the dark trance hallucination.
Cygnus arrived at Grimmauld Place on Saturday afternoon and look at him was enough to give a name to her condition, and that name was that of his sister. Patiently, with painstaking care, Orion tried to wrest a confession, or some vague explanation put clue on the evolution of the facts, but from the lips of the boy is not dry spills that elusive monosyllables. After three hours of solitary monologues Cygnus resigned himself to a shameful surrender and took his leave, promising to uncles A new visits in the following days to monitor the situation.
Orion had not defined a precise idea or motivation for the behavior that he was holding. His disgust was just a general malaise that led him to depart either from the surrounding world, because if it distanced Walburga then everything else is not worth it. He even set aside the project of fortification of protection to the house, because the discontent and unhappiness prevented him to concentrate on anything practical and rational. That attitude, however, was his salvation.
When, four days later, Cygnus came to visit him and found the situation dramatically changed was begun to really worry. Feeling over by events, he thought it was right to worry that his cousin to pull out from that miserable condition should be the same person who had it ditched. Without bothering to inform him that his relatives greeted the resolution with promises of sudden improvements and went immediately to his father's house. There he found that Alphard and at first it irritated him.
"I'm trying Walburga," he announced hasty.
"Got something diplomatic incident with the Orion? "he inquired, without raising his head from the paper business was examining.
Cygnus looked at him suspiciously.
"Maybe. Why?
Alphard shrugged his shoulders, always distracted.
"Just like that I can not sleep at night because you march to and fro like a lost soul. "
Cygnus froze in disbelief.
"You're talking of Walburga Black that I know?" Asked near to his brother.
"Let's see ... Brunette, blue eyes, nose and unashamedly beautiful" asked Alphard, without waiting for an answer. "Yes, you," confirmed turning the page.
"I do not sleep at night?" Repeated Cygnus stunned.
"Either that, or is definitely Sonnambula," confirmed Major shrugged. "I thought it might have something to do with the cousin."
Cygnus realized immediately that the situation was not exactly as if the era depicted. Obviously the "just a kiss" Walburga was thrown in a shot to save face and perhaps there was a single microscopic and can bring a smile to his cousin and sleep with his sister.
And that possibility was sitting in front of him, intent on carefully browse the content of a document, in that exact moment, he had great interest.
"Alphard," said Accor. "Alphard, I need your help."
"You put a gamble, you lost it all and you need a loan? "asked the other with a sigh, raising just looked up at him.
"No," replied patiently Cygnus.
"Then we can talk," granted Alphard, magnanimous.
"You have a much stronger influence on me Walburga."
Brotherly love I refuse to impose a modest, but I will not because it is absolutely true. And then? "Celio brother, on the other hand that day was unusually great for mood for the wonderful performance of its investments.
"You have to convince her to see Orion," Cygnus said succinctly.
Alphard looked at him seriously for a moment, considering how his words.
"No," finally settled, looking back down on the desk.
"No?" Cygnus repeated dryly put it near.
"Exactly, no."
"Why?" Protested the child, irritated.
"First, because our sister was married a few months and has already a miracle that has not yet screwed it up and promised that has survived these two years and result in broken without neurosis and depression, and there is no need to start all over again, "explained Alphard fluently. "And second, I tried to invite him to dinner the other night and she almost bitten the hand with which I was writing the invitation. He does not want to see it. "
" he insists, "begged Cygnus momentum.
Alphard merely to raise his hand as to argue that kept the integrity of all four of their limbs.
"Alphard, you want our sister to be happy?" Said Cygnus subtly showing off your best persuasive and affectionate tone.
The brother stopped reading, hesitating to raise his head. Finally, look back on him, to meet with the art of younger depressed. Cygnus knew perfectly well that the other even more than he loved Walburga.
"Salazar ..." Alphard snapped irritably. "I already know it will end very badly. Maybe I come off his arm and bites to be all your fault yours. "
" At St. Mungo miracles now, "said Cygnus optimistic.
"Get out of my sight, disabled brothers and blood traitor," cried Alphard Telegraph.
"Good. Let me know when there is news, "he concluded, turning to leave.
"There need be, read the Journal of my hand chopped off."
Cygnus smiled brazenly with her brother, before leaving the room and go home.
Alphard Black left their documents on the table and prepared Carefully attack. Muni is a bottle of Firewhisky, a plate full of chocolate biscuits and a pair of leather gloves dragon for good luck, then install Walburga's room and waited patiently for his return.
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