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( Sokka | Locked 100% )

... I need your help. And you can't tell anyone, okay?

( Aqua | Locked 100% )

Aqua... I know we haven't spoken that much, but I need to ask you a really, really big favor.

( Sanji | Locked 100% )

[ a long silence goes here. ] ... could I stay at your house tonight?

( Luke | Locked 100% )

I'd -- [ ... ] Can I see you?

[ Xion is out of the house today. Mostly because it's become almost impossible to stay there. She hasn't slept for more than a handful of hours since Vanitas attacked -- three days ago. She's so exhausted she can barely stay on her feet, but better awake and moving than a sitting target.

Who could sleep, knowing that at any minute someone stronger than you and your friends could break into your home and kill you whenever he wanted?

It's this question that drives her to address Luceti at large, once she's got herself settled on the railing of That One Bridge. Hey, it's like right next to her house and she wanted to sit on a bridge, so sue her. ]

( filtered AWAY from Vanitas and Saix | Locked 100% )

What would you do if you didn't feel safe in your own home anymore?

[ and this is to say nothing -- not a damn thing -- of how she feels about Roxas right now. He had no excuse -- what defense could you give? -- and Axel almost died -- for what? Why? Why had any of this happened? Does she blame Roxas, for extending the invitation, or Vanitas, for taking it? Even if she had something to say to him, she couldn't -- he hasn't been home in days.

It's a very numb Poppet that's sitting on that there railing, swinging her legs and staring at the water below. Please interrupt her thoughts -- for they are very grim ones. ]

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Depends if it's an avoidable situation or not, wouldn't you say?

Draco!

[ she's already spoken to Hermione, and after hearing about the Fidelius charm -- well -- she's kind of got her heart set on it. ]

It's -- Hermione told me about this thing -- er, I mean, a spell, called the Fidelius Charm? Do you think it'd work? It's... [ shakes her head. ] Someone is after us. And unless we can hide really well, he won't stop. It's not avoidable.... not unless we do something. And the Fidelius charm... [ it sounds perfect. but is it? so, so cautiously optimistic. ]

[Oh Xion bb, you're asking the wrong wizard for optimism. There's a long pause as he thinks this over. He's very aware what the Fidelius Charm does, and he does tend to trust Hermione's judgment now, but...]

The charm ought to work if Hermione's powerful enough. I assume she'd be the one casting it in the first place.

What happened?

[ it's all Hermione's fault, anyway. That one tiny bit of hope has been enough to start to lift her out of her numbness and straight into really emotional territory, though for Draco's sake she's trying to keep it in check. ]

I really, really hope so... do you think she is? [ she's desperate.

tears try to work their way into her voice when she answers his question, though she manages to hold them at bay. ] My best friend was attacked and almost died... three days ago. We need a way to hide from the boy who attacked him and moving wouldn't be enough...

[As far as Draco's concerned, most things are Hermione's fault anyway. Granted, he knows better than to stomp on Xion's hope, especially given the circumstances. He's starting to pick up on the connotation that Xion's life is associated with sucky things.]

...absolutely. [Maybe he doubts it a tiny bit, but Hermione is the brightest witch of their age. Just don't tell her he said so.]

[However, that wasn't exactly something he was thinking of.] Wouldn't it just be easier to kill the boy in question? [Because it's easier for Draco to make death-threats when he's in the safety of his own house.]

[ oh thank goodness. Xion has to press a hand over her mouth to stop the noise of relief from getting out -- because it would have sounded choked up -- but when she speaks, her voice radiates gratitude. ] That's ... that's good to know.

[ a pause. it says something for how she feels about Vanitas right now that her first reaction to that idea is not to feel troubled, or even the littlest bit bothered. all she does is sigh. ] It would be ... but he'd just come back. You know that. And when he did... I don't think he'd be too happy. I'm not sure it's worth the risk.

As much as I hate to say it, Granger's perhaps your best bet for complicated magic. She'll make sure your house is safe.

[Hmm. Isn't that what he told Hisoka when the boy suggested killing Riddle? Xion has a point. Damn.] Isn't there a way to outsmart him?

... thanks, Draco.

[ a beat. ] I'm not sure. If there's a way other than the Fidelius charm ... I haven't found it yet. If we moved I know he'd track us down again. Traps wouldn't really stop him. Is there some other way...?

...you could always Obliviate him so he doesn't remember his true purpose. What is it that he wants with you lot so badly anyway?

... [ shakes her head, slowly. ] ... I don't think he really wants anything. He's just ... cruel, and evil. I think it's fun, for him.

...sounds a bit like someone from my world. Torturing people for fun, but gaining power from it anyway. A lot of our world fears him. Even those who don't openly admit to it fear him, in a way. There really isn't much you can do with those types other than outsmart them.

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