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Post by slytheringal on Feb 24, 2012 18:09:09 GMT -5
It had been a couple months since Zoey; who preferred to go by Alexis, had learned about her sister, half-sister actually, from her father. And they really had not officially met yet, and Alexis thought it might be a good time to meet up with her and talk with her a bit; get to know her. She strolled up to the Astronomy tower, which was her favorite place to go and relax. The sun was just starting to set over the horizon and so it made a perfect painting in the sky with the reds and oranges, which is what Alexis liked.
She hoped that Helen would show up, for she had managed to get a message to her in the Great Hall during the evening meal to meet her there to sit and talk and officially get to know one another; after all, they were family.
Alexis arrived at the top and starred out through the window, waiting for her younger sister to arrive. Thinking on what to say exactly and how to approach her, for Alexis had heard from her father that Helen was a bit shy and unsure of what her new surroundings would bring her, but Alexis promised him that she would try to make her comfortable.
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Post by helen on Feb 25, 2012 14:54:27 GMT -5
When the letter had first come, she had been frightened. The last time she had seen or interacted with her half-sister was at the Masquerade Ball, after her stranger-father had tried introducing that... that woman as her new mother, something Helen would never be able to accept. It didn't matter how nice she was, how unfallibly perfect everyone found her, Helen couldn't... she couldn't accept her. It was like a betrayal to the memory of a woman who had raised her for fourteen years of her life, loving her and keeping her safe and dying for her and nothing would ever be able to replace that. Perhaps one day she would accept her Stranger-Father as father, but never that woman.
She... she just couldn't.
Her sister had been a surprise too, and afterwards, as the Raven-Man had watched carefully, she had cried, unsure and overwhelmed, not understanding how they could possibly ask her to accept this all at once. But, it seemed, she had no choice, and she had known a letter like this would come eventually. Why wouldn't it? Her Stranger-Father seemed to want them all to become a perfect, happy family overnight, and Helen knew for a fact that such a feat would be impossible. They would never be perfect. Her mother would never be there. She would refuse to accept a replacement.
"You should go," the Raven-Man had said gruffly as she had read the letter aloud in a shaking voice. "Whether or not you hate your family doesn't matter if they're related to you by blood."
So Helen had nodded slowly, keeping her eyes down, as she shuffled out of the room and up the winding stairs, the Hufflepuff crest on her robes bumping into her still-developing chest. At the top she ceased movement, taking a deep breath before pushing forward on the door, her eyes closed.
Come what may, and what might come she did not know.
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Post by slytheringal on Feb 29, 2012 1:36:58 GMT -5
Alexis had been sitting by the window looking out, just trying to figure out on just what to say first when Helen came up there to her; or Alexis hoped she would. She was the oldest of the two, and so Alexis knew she had to try and set an example for Helen, which was sometimes hard to Alexis to do with the trouble she tended to get into. Sure she would sneak into the dungeons to the Slytherin common room or she would be caught out of bed at late hours, but she knew that she could not let Helen know that for fear she may look down upon her sister.
After a few moments of being there, she heard the door being pushed open and she turned around, pushing her hair behind her ears. She saw the young Hufflepuff standing there, with her eyes closed.
"Hi, Helen, I am Zoey Alexis, but I got by Alexis. And as you know by now, we are sisters," she replied thinking what a good start.
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