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Who: Death Eaters and Affiliated
What: Reactions to the Dark Mark activating.
Where: Wherever they happen to be at the time!
When: Newdi Evening
Notes: Reaction drabbles / logs
Warnings: Bumbling?
Reactions posted as comments.
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"I could seek out Narcissa Malfoy. If she is from before the end of it all, she won't know what I am. If she's from after, she will owe me a great debt. I could establish which, bargain for her silence regarding my presence here, and keep apprised of the situation through her." A beat, and he added, "If the war is over for her, I need not hide your existence from her. Or my own as Jack."
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Their options, however, were limited, and if someone knew something, there was every possibility that it actually would be her. He was right on this, and the prospect of not having to be hidden was an appealing one. Still, Martha didn't know if costs made it worth it.
Considering, Martha spoke. "I don't know, about this, Sev. I mean, I know why it would work, but if she's not from the end, if she's from... hell, before you made the unbreakable vow with her, she may ask you to do those things again. And you would, because you'd be worried about my safety." Wanting him to see the parallels that she had drawn for himself, she left it there for the moment.
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He wouldn't rush out and find the other woman. Not yet. There were too many variables to consider. However, he couldn't simply carry on without some knowledge of what was happening amongst his old colleagues. It was affecting him. Who knew how it could affect him in the future? Worse, there was no one he could send in his place. Not Claire, not Martha, not Xenophilius. The Mark wasn't common knowledge, and one outsider poking around with that information would get them killed.
"I can see no other alternative," he replied. "None save waiting. And we can wait, Martha, and allow events to unfold. If it's what you prefer, we will."
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The last thing she wanted was for him to undo his redemption, and to become a worse man for her.
When he gave her the choice of waiting, Martha watched him for a moment. She knew him very well indeed and she knew that not knowing, and not having the information would drive him mental. Clearly they needed to think of a third way to go about doing this. With her finger on her lip, Martha looked deep in thought for a moment. Was there a way to only be Severus for a moment? To not engage in everything that she might request? To not put himself into danger?
"Are you feeling any lingering effects from whatever that was?" Slipping a bit into doctor mode, because if it was effecting his health then it shortened their options considerably, Martha reached over and touch his cheek, trying to see if he had a fever.
How she wished she'd a scanner.
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But how long could they continue before something else happened, and he was left not knowing and unable to seek information because of his reluctance to interact with those from his past? Escape was always an option, but how long until they managed it? Months? Years? Could he continue to lead the life of Jack Jones, undiscovered, for the rest of his life?
"No," he admitted finally, sighing the word. He wasn't in pain. He didn't feel sick. In the time it took to have their discussion, the sensation had become nothing more than a memory. "Nothing at all."
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Someone had loads of explaining to do.
Sighing, Martha removed her hand, and then she pressed it to her own face, a face palm that she'd picked up from him. Waiting indefinitely wasn't a good thing. And it would only continue to drive a wedge between them.
"Can you contact her without letting her know about everything else? Without getting involved?" Without being a death eater?
Despite her hatred of when he lied, and all of that, Martha did understand how subterfuge could be important, but she didn't want that to be his life either.
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Narcissa Malfoy owed him, after all, one Unbreakable Vow. He took her hand away from her forehead and clasped it in both of his, trying not to consider what he had lost - Mozenrath, first and foremost now - and wondering if things between them would ever again be as they were on the Barge.
"If - if - I do this, we must agree to it. There can be no doubt that it is the best course of action, that this will be the way to survive here. But you must also be aware of the risks, whatever we choose. If there is more to what happened tonight than mere mischance and I am discovered without some forewarning, there is no coming back." No Death Toll. Game over.
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It scared her to death, and perhaps for the first time, she'd begun to understand why he'd been so perpetually frightened of losing her like that.
"Forewarned is forearmed," Martha admitted, and then she nodded a bit. "Sev, if I lost you..." She started to speak, and then she moved to her toes and kissed him as if that could some how chase the thought of that away.
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There was, too, a note of genuine dismissal about it. 'If I lost you' seemed like something only he would consider about her. She was young and would move on. His mind helpfully supplied the rest: 'If I lost you, I would be extremely unhappy for a socially acceptable amount of time, and then find someone new.'
"Tell me what you wish to do."
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And if he told her what he was actually thinking, then it would definitely be a huge fight. She would be completely devastated if she'd lost him in anyway. Just being those two weeks without the memories and missing him without knowing it had been bad enough.
Taking a deep breath, Martha didn't know what to say for a moment. "I want what's going to be safest for you in the long run. If they discover you're here, or if Lovegood decides to sell you out for something, then you should know who and what you're dealing with. We should know. It doesn't mean I like it, but I think you're right about Narcissa."
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"I'll wait three or four days before contacting her to give the appearance that I've been making inquiries after this incident - attempting to find whoever may have activated it, you understand. You'll have time to change your mind."
Plans within plans. His mind was already on his next move - contacting the few people he knew and asking them to pass along the rumour that he was looking for Narcissa. It wouldn't do to have her think that he had been hiding from her. No, his best option was to suggest he had only just arrived, had been unaware that there were others until the Mark burned.
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"I know that it doesn't stop Lovegood from selling you out, but if you can go with something that you're not so indebted to them it may help a bit." For a moment, Martha was reminded of the year that wasn't and how things were misdirection.
Taking a deep breath, Martha just sighed and wrapped her arms around him, holding onto him very tightly for a moment. "I hope she's from after and knows."