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Post by Madison Kingsley on Aug 18, 2016 3:26:05 GMT
Madison was about to lose her mind. Being stuck in a hospital room was driving her crazy. Lydia was in and out, as were Mum and Dad. But the former couldn’t stay all the time, and the latter were too worried to be entertaining. Today, though, she had been left unattended for a little too long. None of the nurses were around, so Madi had snuck out of her room and down the hall. (Lydia just might kill her for this, but it was either escape or go insane.) She wasn’t stupid enough to actually try and leave the hospital, although the thought did cross her mind. In the end, though, she settled for heading upstairs to the hospital shop. Maybe there would be something interesting to keep her occupied for a bit.
Between her jeans and sneakers and the grey sweatshirt with its sleeves pushed up to her elbows, she didn’t really look like a patient as she strode casually down the halls. (Technically it was probably a little warm for the sweatshirt. But the inside of the hospital was pleasantly cool, and the soft and baggy garment didn’t rub painfully against her shoulder.) The only real giveaway was the hospital bracelet on her wrist. But as long as she kept her hands in the large pocket of her sweatshirt and didn’t move her shoulder too fast, she shouldn’t draw too much attention. There were tons of people in the hospital visiting the other victims from the attack. If anyone asked, Madi would just tell them her sister was here. Which was technically true.
She wandered into the hospital shop, eyes idly scanning the shelves for anything entertaining. She didn’t need a cup or a toothbrush or any of the celebratory gifts that indicated a baby had been born. Although the teddy bears were pretty cute. Maybe they had some stuffed lions… All thoughts of stuffed animals were quickly abandoned though when Madi caught sight of a familiar redhead doing something behind the register. She had completely forgotten @liza was working here this summer. Merlin, if she’d known that, she would’ve broken out of her room days ago. (Okay, maybe not. Her shoulder was still really sore. But still.)
Madi set down the bear she had been looking at and meandered over to the counter. She pulled one hand out of her pocket so she could put her forearm on the counter and lean on it. Using both arms would’ve seriously irritated her tender shoulder. But Madison was getting pretty good at not moving it much. “Hey you,” she said, smiling brightly at her fellow Gryffindor. “How’s it going?”
(OOC – Madison’s stuck in the hospital right now thanks to a werewolf scratch, so I figured she and Liza might run into each other eventually. We can go with them being good/best friends if you want, or they can just be acquaintances from the same house. Totally up to you.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 13:33:02 GMT
"Oh, sugar," Liza grumbled under her breath. As she'd walked up behind the counter, she had, for the second time that day, caught the edge of a box of tea with her elbow, and in doing so brought the whole pyramid of boxes down. "Why am I so clumsy?" Liza wondered aloud, and she debated just leaving the darn things on the floor to spite them. But should someone come in, she'd be in trouble, and she hated the thought that she might disappoint anyone. So, with a heavy sigh, Liza reached down and picked up four of the tea boxes, and began the tedious task of setting them up again in the pyramid shape. It didn't occur to the redhead to use her wand, which was currently tucked behind her ear. Liza's task was interrupted by the sound of a familiar voice. Liza stood up properly, the pyramid not even half complete yet. Yet as she did so, her hand knocked one of the boxes, and several tumbled off the half-built pyramid of tea. "Madi!" she exclaimed in delight, barely noticing the mess she had created and looking up to greet her best friend. The pair had two years between them, but they were as close as could be despite it. "I'm great!" she grinned, but, as a second thought, after looking around her, her grin turned into a guilty smile. She gestured to the scattered pile of tea. "Well, mostly. I've tipped this thing over twice now - and that's only today. It's bloody annoying sitting here. I always catch my arm on it. Anyways, what about you? I haven't had time to owl you, I've been so busy, here and y'know how it is on the holidays. And mum's decided now is the perfect time to pick up a second job, so I have twice as much chores at home. Lyra works as well, so I'm the only one stopping the place from falling to pieces. Anyways, how come you're here? Did you come to see Lydia? How's she doing?" Liza came around the counter to greet her friend, opening her arms for a typical Liza-Hello-Hug. Madi didn't look much like a patient who had just been in an attack, and she knew she came there quite a bit for her sister, so Liza didn't register that a hug might be borderline difficult for her friend at the moment.
Again, sorry it took me so long. I went with best friends because I just feel like they would connect so well. I'm just gonna use this thread to reply to your post on Liza's plotter, because I totally didn't get around to that either. Liza is an expert hugger and will be 100% ready to help Madi deal with everything. Like Madi, Liza's best friend is always her sister, but I can see Madi being a very close second. So I'm going with the idea that these guys are super close, and we should definitely play out their meeting in the Time Turner because that would be so much fun, and I'm already super-shipping these guys as BFFs  |
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Post by Madison Kingsley on Aug 31, 2016 4:01:05 GMT
Madi had thought she would be the excitable one after being stuck in the hospital for days, but Liza got so excited she knocked over a stack of tea boxes. Madison couldn’t help grinning a little. Liza was always clumsy. It was part of her charm. The redhead started explaining, and Madi waved her hand to show it wasn’t important. “I’d pretend to be offended, but I’m way too happy to see you. I’ve been bored out of my bloody mind.” Although obviously that particular trial was finally at an end. Thank Merlin. The question that left Liza’s mouth was perfectly natural, but it dampened Madi’s enthusiasm all the same. She couldn’t very well lie to her best friend. She just wasn’t entirely comfortable answering that question either. Or heading straight into Liza’s hug, as much as she might want to. But her awkward pause and one-shouldered shrug (she was getting pretty good at not moving her injured shoulder) would undoubtedly cue Liza in that something was up. “Yeah, Lydia’s fine. But I’m actually sort of here for me. I got a bit… scratched up in the whole… werewolf… thing.” Liza worked here. Surely she would know what had happened. Madison pointed awkwardly at her injured shoulder. Her face quickly brightened as she realized how dire that must sound. “It’s fine though. I’m fine.” Liar. “Definitely fine enough for a hug.” She finally moved forward, turning a bit to pull Liza into a one-armed hug. As fervently as Madison might insist that she was just fine, thank you very much, she couldn’t help holding on extra tight. Liza always gave the best hugs. And somewhere under her mountain of denial, some small part of Madi was painfully aware that a hug was exactly what she needed. She was smiling as she pulled away though. Partly out of genuine joy at seeing her best friend and partly to try and distract Liza from asking about the attack. Speaking of distraction. “You want some help with those?” Madison asked, pointing at the mess of tea boxes. A genuine spark entered her eyes as an idea struck. “Hang the pyramid though. What if we made it a lion?” How exactly one would build a lion out of tea boxes, Madi had absolutely no idea. But it would be nice to have a little fun to take her mind off things. (OOC - No worries if replies take a bit. I totally understand. Besties it is then.  And yes, we should do a thread with them meeting!) |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 8:25:34 GMT
Bored? That confused Liza a bit. Madi had plenty of friends - including Wolf and his band of pranking idiots (Elizabeth was all for pranks, but that particular band of friends just got on her nerve - but not Madi of course) - hadn't she been hanging out with them? Maybe she'd been grounded or something. Liza shrugged, and moved on. It didn't seem that important, Madi was bored if there was no explosions or something like free ice cream, Liza was sure, so it probably wasn't anything.
As Liza came around opening her arms for a hug, Madi answered her. Liza saw the one armed shrug and she peered curiously at her friend. "The werewolf thing?" Liza had just finished her shift, and she had seen some of the first people to come in. There had been blood and crying, and it was enough to make her want to heave. She had defintely seen Lydia as she turned away to apparate out of St. Mungo's, but she had assumed that she was there as a healer. She hadn't seen Madison in all the chaos, apparently. "Oh Merlin, Madi I'm sorry. I didn't see you before I left. I didn't– are–" Elizabeth swallowed, and her voice lowered slightly. "Are you– did you– did they—?" she left the question hanging, not wanting to say the word in case it hurt Madi to think about. Elizabeth sincerely hoped her friend wasn't a werewolf. There had been so much talk about cutting the rights of werewolves lately, not to mention the suffering it would bring.
Liza brought herself back when Madi persisted she was fine. She opened her mouth to contradict the girl, but Madison clearly knew just what to say to cut her off. As her fellow Gryffindor reached out awkwardly with one arm, Liza dropped the subject, and stepped forward again, wrapping her arms tightly around the girl, careful not to move the injured arm. She made a note of how tightly Madi clung on. Liza grinned into the hug, despite what she'd just heard. Hugs made everything better in Liza's eyes. Hugs fixed everything.
As they pulled away, Liza was glad to see that Madi was smiling. The younger Lion, clearly not wanting to dwell on her experience, changed the subject. And while Liza wanted to be the consolling shoulder for her friend, distracting her was probably good for her.
"Sure," she agreed after a brief pause, before eyeing her friend's arm. "Dunno how much help you'll be though." Jokes were very good distractors. "A lion? Hmm. Sounds tricky." Her eyes caught Madison's and her grin widened. "Sound like a challenge. Let's do it." Liza glanced at the boxes of tea. "With a wand or the muggle way? Speaking of which, I have no idea where I've put mine." Liza reached into her pocket, but it was empty. "Oh well, I've probably left it somewhere around the shop. I'll find it later. Guess we'll go the muggle way then?"
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Post by Madison Kingsley on Sept 21, 2016 3:44:05 GMT
The sudden concern on Liza’s face was both comforting and enough to make Madi uncomfortable. It was refreshing to be reminded her best friend had her back. Especially now. But it also meant Madison had to talk about the blasted incident. She quickly shook her head. “No. I just got scratched, not bitten. They said I was lucky.” The words left a bitter taste in her mouth somehow. She didn’t feel bloody lucky. Her shoulder ached and she could hardly sleep at night. Lydia wasn’t faring much better, although she was certainly doing an admirable job of trying to hide it. Madison was still having a hard time getting her head around the fact something like this had happened to her. And in sleepy Godric’s Hollow, of all places. If her hometown wasn’t safe, where was? It was uncomfortable to think about.
Thankfully, Liza seemed willing to let Madi off the hook for now. The younger lion stuck her tongue out when Liza insulted her ability to help. “I’m not the one who knocked over my own stack. Besides, you should just be glad it’s not my beating arm or we’d be in trouble.” Because Gryffindor was definitely going to win the Quidditch Cup this year. Madison could just feel it.
Stacking tea boxes sounded like a perfect distraction. Especially without magic. It would certainly be a hell of a lot more entertaining than counting ceiling tiles in her hospital room. “Muggle way. Definitely.” Madison was grinning from ear to ear as she approached the pile of fallen boxes. She had absolutely no idea where to start, which was precisely what made this idea so fun. “Well, it would probably be easier if he was sitting down. So…” She scooped up a few boxes and set two of them on the ground, promptly placing two more on each of them to create two stack of three boxes. “There. Front legs.” She looked over at Liza and grinned helplessly. “What now, oh wise seventh year?”
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2016 6:57:57 GMT
The wave of urgent concern passed when Madi confirmed that she had not been bitten - only scratched. Although Liza raised an eyebrow at the term 'lucky'. Elizabeth was an optimistic person, but even she thought that healers used it far too often. It may have been worse, but that didn't exactly mean that Madison was 'lucky'. She'd been attacked by a werewolf and been stuck in hospital - how that was lucky, Liza wasn't sure. Sensing Madi didn't want to talk about her own encounter, Liza changed direction. "What about Lydia, then?" she asked. "Was she hurt too? Is she okay?"
Liza stuck her tongue out in return, but grinned at the mention of Quidditch. Man, she missed it. And she was totally ready for an amazing team to take the Cup for Gryffindor. She was, of course, eligible for captain, but the position usually went to the arrogant, self-obsessed, sport-oriented guys. Like Wolf. She wasn't quite sure how she'd go under Wolf's captaincy, but she was sure she'd manage.
Muggle way it was, then. That would definitely be more entertaining than with magic. Madi got straight into it, creating… well, Liza wasn't quite sure until her friend proclaimed them front legs. Liza raised a questioning eyebrow, but didn't comment. Liza, a half-smile on her face at what Madi had named her, contemplated how on earth they were going to make a lion out of tea boxes, before she placed three across the span of the front legs, and then two on the outside of that, with half the box hanging over the edge, so that they could start building a sort of circle shape for the mane. "If we put the outside boxes half over the edge of the one below, we should be able to make a sort of circle shape I think. We'll have to put some in the middle. To, y'know. Balance it out. Stop it from falling and crumbling into individual tea boxes, and all that." God, that hadn't been very articulate. She hoped Madi understood where she was going with her idea, because she wasn't quite sure of it herself.
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Post by Madison Kingsley on Oct 6, 2016 5:37:22 GMT
Liza didn’t exactly press the issue, for which Madi was grateful. But she didn’t seem ready to let it go either. Madison shook her head. “No, she’s fine.” Well, if having nightmares and sleeping in Madi’s hospital room because she could barely let her sister out of her sight was fine. “She saved my life, actually.” But that brought back memories of screaming and howling and a wolf on her back and not having her wand. Madi shrugged to hide the tightening of her shoulders. “It’s over though, so it’s fine.” She couldn’t quite look at Liza as she said the words. It was only a small lie though. Barely even one at all. Hopefully her best friend wouldn’t call her on it.
Liza surveyed Madi’s work for a moment before grabbing up some tea boxes of her own. Then she issued a plan. Not a very eloquent one, true, but plans didn’t need to be eloquent to be effective. “Sounds good to me. Can’t be a lion if it falls apart.” She flashed Liza a cheeky grin before picking up a few more tea boxes and setting them on top of Liza’s to start forming more of the circular mane. One of the boxes wasn’t quite on all the way, and it wobbled a bit. But Madi managed to quickly steady it. Her brief look of worry faded as the box decided to stay put. “You sure you should be helping?” she asked teasingly, glancing over at Liza. “It be a shame if we got him half built and you knocked him over.” Liza might be ridiculously graceful on a broom, but that quality didn’t always extent to her existence on the ground. She could be a bit of a klutz, to put it bluntly. A fact Madison had no problem teasing her about.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2016 15:36:26 GMT
"She did?" Liza smiled proudly. Not that she knew Lydia all that well. But saving a sister was something that deserved such a feeling. "That sounds brave. I wish I could have been there for you. But I'm glad she was there." It was such a heavy tone, and Madi was usually such a light-hearted person that Liza couldn't resist adding on a little more to make her friend smile. "Because what would I do as a Prefect this year if I didn't have my favourite little prankster to bust? You'd take all the fun out of being in charge if you left, you know." Something about the way Madi said it was fine was not very convincing at all, but it was all so fresh that Liza let it drop. Madi would talk when she was ready.
"On the contrary," grinned Liza. "It can be a lion if it falls apart. If we call it one. It just wouldn't be a very good one." They began to build their lion's mane, stacking the boxes carefully - one started to wobble a little, and Liza's eyes flicked to her friend, but Madi was already steadying it. Liza let out a breath she hadn't realised she'd been holding. "That, my friend, was far too close."
Elizabeth feigned offence at Madi's joking insult. "Excuse me? As I recall, you are the one with a dodgy shoulder and a beefy beater's arm. Besides, you handled it. So if I knock it and you don't catch it, then it is very clearly your fault." Liza grinned at her friend, breaking the charade. She reached up and placed another box on the tea-box statue. As she put the last box in place for the mane, her eyes turned on Madi. "Alright, Miss. I-don't-think-Liza-should-help, what next?" A not-so-subtle jab at her friend for pointing out her clumsiness. Not that Liza was actually offended, but the two went through this banter all the time. How she was able to fly a broom and catch a tiny flying ball and yet she would catch her foot on the portrait hole every time was beyond Liza.
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Post by Madison Kingsley on Oct 28, 2016 3:19:39 GMT
Madi was pretty proud of Lydia too. Her big sister was amazing. Madison had already known that, of course, but this only solidified it. “Yeah, me too.” If Lydia hadn’t been there… Madi definitely didn’t want to think about how things might have ended up. She shook her head just the tiniest bit to clear it. Liza seemed to pick up on her discomfort and chose to steer the conversation back toward lighter things. It worked, tugging a small smile onto Madison’s face. “Right. What good’s all that power if you can’t abuse it?” She was teasing, of course. Liza was actually quite fair with her authority. And she had a habit of letting Madi get away with the occasional prank, which was definitely a perk.
“If you say so,” Madi said drily. Personally, she thought it would just be a pile of boxes if it fell over. But whatever. Although that outcome was looking pretty likely judging by the wobbling of the box. Madi was just as relieved as Liza that she had managed to stop their blossoming creation from falling over. But there wasn’t any fun in letting Liza know that. “And you, my friend, have far too little faith in me. I’m actually rather offended.” The grin fighting to break across her face gave her away, but it didn’t matter. She loved bantering with Liza. The events of the werewolf attack and its aftermath were fading quickly from her mind as the familiar back and forth took over.
Now it was Liza’s turn to get offended, sending her own playful insults Madi’s way. In a display of great maturity and dignity, Madison stuck her tongue out at her best friend. “Oi!” she cried when Liza said it would be her fault. “You’re the seeker here. Shouldn’t you be the expert on catching? I just hit things.” She made a show of swinging a pretend bat with her good arm, stopping just shy of whacking it into the stack of boxes. “Besides, you’re older and a prefect. So shouldn’t it be your fault?” Her tone as perfectly innocent despite the twinkling in her eyes. Madi loved poking fun at her friend’s status. Honestly, if the professors could hear the way Liza talked about a million and one ways to knock Wolf off his high horse, they might seriously reconsider trusting her with such authority.
Madi grinned as Liza threw her own words back at her. “I don’t know. A tail maybe? Or more of a body? Something to make him look a little less like a mutated tree.” While the mane was quite impressive, it was still hard to tell what the creature was supposed to be with his stick legs. Madi tilted her head as if a different angle would provide more inspiration. She was so caught up in their little project that she didn’t really notice how far away the tea box she was reaching for had fallen. A jolt of pain in her shoulder ripped her back to the present. Madison hissed audibly as she quickly pulled her arm back in. She reached around with her other hand to very carefully feel her shoulder through her sweatshirt. It had been five bloody days. How could it still hurt this badly when she pulled at it? Realizing Liza was watching her, she forced her face to paste on an unconcerned look. “I’m fine. Just sore. It’s really nothing.” But her heart was hammering in her chest. She really didn’t want to talk about this. Abso-freaking-lutely did not. Especially with a fellow Quidditch player. What if this screwed up her ability to play this year? The healers seemed to think she would be okay by the time the season started, but with how slowly the wound seemed to be healing, Madison wasn’t so sure. Still, she had to keep up appearances. “Remember when that bludger crushed my arm last year? That was way worse. And even then I totally could’ve finished the game if our captain had just let me. This is nothing.” It was a lie, of course. But maybe Liza would be willing to let it go. Madi had to resist the urge to bite her lip as she waited to find out.
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And yes, we should do a thread with them meeting!)
