Grimmauld Place: The Orders Hideout

"Stay out if it woman!" He roared as Jess pushed him aside. "He's my brother I'll torture him if I want!" He glared at her as she got to her knees, trying to ebing Aiden too. "You're bloody pathetic sometimes..." He huffed and turned, cloak billowing around him as he went. "Someone won't always be there to save you, Aiden. Full moon's soon afterall." He added with an evil smirk before fleeing the scene.

He rolled over onto his back, breathing hard, his eyes not looking so tired for once. "Bloody..." He propped himself up shakily on one elbow, wiping at his face with his tattered cloak. "Like to see him survive where I do..." He mumbled to himself, his eyes finally coming into focus. He jumped. Instead of it being Claire kneeling over him like he thought, it was Jess. "Jess?" He propped himself up against the deck behind him shakily, taking the chocolate. "Think you're Remus?" He forced a small smile, biting into it. All the horrors of his past had flashed before his eyes and it was quite terrible....

Sky stood there for a few moments taking in the scene of Aiden lying on the floor in agony. She was shoked to see Jess come storming in and going to Aiden's side. "What the...." She said. She shook her head in disbelief. She heard the words exchanged between Jaden and Jess and saw Jaden turn to leave. She followed him out the door grabbing Aja by the hand and taking her with them.

(so...if you're stupify'd does someone have to wake you up? lol, let's just pretend you don't if you do....)

::What just happened?! thought Claire groggily, struggling to open her eyes. She finally got them to stay open a crack and laid her head on her arm, eyes taking in as much of the room as she could see from her position. Well, it seemed like the Death Eaters had left...unfortunately. Gingerly, she made sure that all of her limbs were in working order and sat up, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hands.::

"Everyone alright?" she asked the room, then remembered Jaden. Evil little- "Aiden, are you ok?" she asked, concerned, then smiled slightly. "Oh good, chocolate."

~Fated had made it across the final room towards the door when he felt a blast from behind and he fell to the floor unconscious~

Jess screeched "FATED!" She turned around and hugged Aiden, "Sorry.. gotta go but I love people from both sides," she said looking from Aiden to Clair, She then hugged clair tightly as well. "I love you both" and with that she stood up heading for the door. She grabbed Fated and brought him outside, She went over to an aclove and used a spell to wake him up, "weve got to stop meeting while your unconcious" she giggled.

"Yeah heh i know" He chuckled groggily. Then he got to his feet~ "Did the others escape too?" He asked~

"yeah.." she grumbeled thinking about Jaden and his brother.

"Okay then, I'm off! Need to go somewhere for a bit!" ~He called as he ran off~

Jess walked back into the building and walked p to Clair and Aiden. "Ive done something stupid" she sighed.

(Well I'm going to wake up now...because this is just boring)

::Rachel slowly opened her eyes and looked around. Almost everyone was gone now, except for Claire, Aiden...and Jessica? She glared angrily up at her, and retorted.::

"Story of your life isn't it?"

"What's wrong Jess?" asked Claire, getting up shakily and walking over to her. Her mind was buzzing, many many thoughts rushing around, bumping into each other and forming new possibilities about what had just happened. Sky Weasley had Stupefied her, wasn't she supposed to be with the Order?! And- and Aiden had a brother, a Death Eater by the looks of it, and had been Crucio'd. She bit her lip and looked at him worridly, hoping he was okay. And Fated and the other Death Eaters had escaped. Claire sighed at that (the other Order members were going to be furious) then put a comforting hand on Jess's shoulder. "Jess what's going on?"

She began crying, "Just stuff" she said, "I dont want to be who I am anymore" she said hugging Clair.

::Claire smiled sadly and hugged her back, realizing that if she were Jess she would be thinking the same thing.::

"It'll be alright," said Claire softly. She took a tissue out of her pocket and handed it to her to dry her tears. "Come on, let's talk." She lead Jess over to one of the sofa's in the room and sat down, pulling the other witch with her. "Sounds like you have a lot on your chest right now. Anything I can do to help?" she asked, concerned.::

THe other Order members were going to absolutely kill them. He got unsteadily to his feet as Claire took Jess over to the sofa. He was going to get Jaden if it was the last thing he did. He padded over to the chair he had been sitting in and sat back in it, running a hand through his hair. He began to wonder why the lycanthorpy didn't effect Jaden the same way that it did him. Was it that Aiden was always in the underground, trying not to get killed? Was it something the Dark Lord was doing for him? He could only guess. The only thing he had on his side was Moony and the Wolfsbane potion. On that note...he needed to get some soon. The next full moon would be soon and he prefered to just curl up in his room, a normal little wolf, and wait it out. He watched Claire a moment as she talked with Jess. She was very kind indeed...and young. He sighed and stood back up from the chair. He wasn't that old himself, but his young soul was encompassed in a very old body. Jaden didn't have to feel this way....He bit his cheek and crossed the room, taking up his now cold cup of tea and taking a sip, frowning slightly as he let his mind continue to wander.

(Drake *sigh* Claire is twenty and I thought I read somewhere that Aiden was twenty-three or something...well, whatever his age she's not that much younger, lol.)

"If you don't want to talk now, that's perfectly fine," Claire said to Jess. "You could just drop by my apartment sometime, I'd love to see you more," she finished with a smile. Claire got off the couch and walked over to Aiden. She lightly put her hand on his shoulder, concerned.::

"Is everything alright?" she asked, mentally kicking herself immediately. Of course it's not, he just got Crucio'd by his own brother! "Would you like me to get you anything? I've never been...well, hit with an Unforgetable before but anyone could see that that hurt terribly."

::Lying through her teeth again, partly anyway. It was true that Claire Johnson had never had an Unforgetable Curse used against her, but Tatiana had. Claire grimaced, eyes closing and a shadow clouding her face for a moment as the memory that would forever haunt her slid into focus once more.::

~*~*~

"Father?" asked Tatiana, knocking tentatively on the thick wooden door to his office. It wasn't really an office, that was just a ruse in case anyone that didn't know Mr. and Mrs. Marquez's real work stopped by. "You said you wanted to see me?"

"In," a gruff voice ordered, and Tatiana hastened to obey. There was her father seated in his usual armchair by the fireplace. Her mother stood against the far wall, her brown eyes unfocused as they stared into the fire. Once Tatiana had walked to him, Andre looked up at his middle child. They had the same dark eyes, but the warmth that sparkled in his daughter's had never been seen in his.::

"Do you know why you're here?"

::Tatiana nodded. It was obvious, really, and the moment she had been dreading for months now. The same thing had happened to her older siblings...and she had barely seen either of them since. But she couldn't say 'yes' when he asked, she just couldn't. She wanted more in life, however selfish it seemed...not the life of a Death Eater.::

"Well?" asked Andre, annoyed. "Yes, or no?"

::She nearly burst out in laughter right then. Like there was a choice. The only one she could think of was a life of servitude or being disowned. And she knew she would chose the latter, whatever the cost. After a few moments of silence, she opened her mouth to speak.::

"I- I can't, Father," she said. Her face was white as snow but she stood her ground. From the corner of her eye she thought she saw her mother's look of shock before retrieving her usual cold expression. Before Tatiana knew it, the large man seated before her had taken out his wand...and she was on the floor, curled up in pain, face streaming with tears.::

"Are you sure about that?" he asked in an eerily calm tone, gazing at the fire. He raised his wand again and the memory went black.::

~*~*~

::Claire popped her eyes open, worried he may have noticed her sudden change. It had rushed past, only lasting seconds, but Order members were always trained to look for anything out of the ordinary. She composed herself and risked a glance at him, hoping he hadn't.::

Traci opened her eyes she had been focusing on a way to get to the order when she closed her eyes and now she was here she doesnt know how she does it she just does she looked around nervously "um hi" she whispered

(Sorry, you know I'm dumb like that sometimes. BTW...-TacklehugglesElana- I MISSED YOU!)

He shrugged slightly, flicking a greying lock from his eyes. "That's what I risk being in the Order, I suppose." He stretched out, heaving a sigh. "I'll be alright." He offered a weary smile through all the pain still in his eyes.

Part of him couldn't believe that Jaden had done that to him. HIM. They were brothers..Aiden had hoped that maybe he still meant more to Jaden than that. How terribly wrong he had been. When they were boys, before Hogwarts, they were one in the same. The young twins of Magus O'Brien. They did everything together...everything. But then came Hogwarts. Aiden sat beneath the Sorting Hat, suspecting that he'd be sorted into Slyherin along with Jaden who was waiting expectantly. But then the hat shouted GRYFFINDOR! and everything changed.

Aiden sat, thinking about that exact day...the day everything went wrong. The rest of their days at Hogwarts were no better either...but that was a story and thought for another day.

"What do you say we get back to that cup of tea?" Rather stupid notion he supposed, but he wanted to get his mind off of this whole bloody mess.

"Good, lets get to it then." He offered a small smile and sat back down at their table, prodding at his arm with his wand.

"'s not bad. Nothing I'm not use to." He frowned a bit, working at trying to heal the gash. "Another day in the life of being in the Order." He tossed his wand down on the table with a sigh, looking across the table at her.

"Have anything going on later tonight, now that that's all over?" He inquired as he fished through the box of tea bags, pulling out one he wanted and dropping it into his cup. He wasn't looking forward to when the senior Order members got back. Remus and Minerva wern't going to be happy with them.

Aiden looked thoughtful a moment before sipping his tea and setting the cup down on the saucer infront of him. "Why don't we go for a stroll? Nice night." He offered a small smile, quirking a brow. He tapped his cup with his wand, a bit of sugar and cinammon being added to the mixture. "Don't have that much of a social life meself." He twirled his finger over the cup as if stirring the tea with his finger.

He traced a circle on the table with the tip of his wand absently, waiting for her to answer. He hoped that it wasn't too bold of him to ask. Better out there somewhere than in here when Remus and Minerva returned.

He smiled and set his cup of tea down. "Splendid." He smiled, noticing the light blush in her cheeks as she looked out the window. "Get out of this dusty old house for awhile. Aiden himself didn't spend much time away from Grimmauld Place. When he wasn't there he was in the underground or the Ministry trying to keep an eye on Jaden and other Death Eaters. He had had some difficulty spending time there since Sirius...but that was a story for another day.

"Let's be off then." He smiled and took to his feet, flicking a piece of hair form his eyes.

Aiden waved a hand to the other Order members as he left, plucking his tattered traveling cloak off the front of his door as he passed it in the hall. A nice walk would be a great relief, he would finally be able to get his mind off of things...at least for awhile. He followed Claire out the front door and out into the dim front yard of #12. Without so much as a 'pop' it dissapeared back into the scenery as if it were never there, the other residents of Grimmauld Place never the wiser. He absently wondered how the Black Family had managed to live there for so long with no one noticing their presence. He shrugged. That was a matter for a different day.

"Trying to get away from me already, are you?" He grinned, nudging her with his elbow as he walked past her. "Well I will say you've stuck it out longer than most." He teased, making his way left down Grimmauld Place.

Chris walked up to the door and walked in. Chris had been here many times. It wasn't exactly a good place to live tha's for sure. "Well, nice to be back." CHris said aloud. He hadn't been here in forever.

" Hey nice to see you chris" Zelda said.

" Hey nice to see you chris" Zelda said.

"Back at you." Chris said. "So what's going on today?"

" Just the usual".

"OK." Chris said. "Anything interesting happen?"

" We had a break in didn't find out who it was though" Zelda said

"Oh, to bad."

" Thats what I said" Zelda Said.

"Well, what have you been doing?"

"Sping on the death eaters" Said Zelda

"Interesting." Chris said sitting dow.

" It's alot of fun" said Zelda

"Yeah I bet it is."

" You should come one of these times" Said Zelda

"I should." Chris siad. "I hope I will soon."

" Ok but not now I need to go alone right now" Said Zelda... " Bye".....

"Bye." Chris said.

(sorry for the double post)

Chris apparated into the house.

"Yes, dosen't it look nice, since we cleaned it up. It used to look like a dump."

"I will soon live here after I graduate from Hogwarts."