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Sept 14, 2016 23:43:54 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 23:43:54 GMT -7
@magdalena this was a familiar scene. her walking up to the house that her brother and magi lived in. she knocked on the door and brought her hands to her mouth to breath into them, a cool chill on the air that morning. summer was certainly leaving them. she had come to see if she could talk to magi, having spoken to nik the day before. she wanted to tell magi she was glad she was making nik happy, well so she assumed anyway. she didn't think her brother would let someone who didn't make him happy touch him. she was going back to school that night so she only had today to talk to her. she didn't know when the next time she'd be able to leave school what with the tournament on and the heightened security this year. she chewed her lip and hoped that she wasn't too early in the morning. she was an early riser and often forgot that a lot of other people weren't.
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Sept 28, 2016 10:09:09 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2016 10:09:09 GMT -7
Magdalena had only gotten in about an hour ago. It'd been a long, long night. Not that anything bad had happened, thank goodness, but because Magi had gotten stuck helping clean up the club after closing and the others that were supposed to help had bailed. So, normally she got home about four am on days she worked.... but not today. It was after eight when she finally got back home, exhausted and ready to just crash. By that time Nikolai was already awake and getting ready to leave for Quidditch practice. A quick kiss and he was gone, leaving Magi home alone with the cats and dog.
She'd just barely changed into a pair of sweats and tank top when she heard a knock. Someone... was at the door..? Ugh. Great. For a moment she was extremely tempted to feign ignorance and go to sleep, pretend she hadn't heard or that she wasn't home. Alas, it might be someone for Nikolai, and he wouldn't approve of her ignoring it. So, covering a large yawn she staggered back down the stairs. She was still yawning when she opened the door and found herself face to face with Ripley. Nikolai's younger sister.
What the..?
"Ripley? What are you doing here?" She asked, surprise in her voice as she dropped her hand from covering that previous yawn. "Nikolai just left." Of course Ripley was here to see the oldest Krum child. Why else would she show up at their doorstep at this hour?
@ripley (I'm guessing this takes place before they found out she's pregnant, since the Rip/Niko thread doesn't refer to it at all.)
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Sept 29, 2016 22:35:34 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2016 22:35:34 GMT -7
@magdalena "Ripley? What are you doing here?" she smiled slightly when the door opened and she saw magi standing there. though it fell a little when she saw how tired magi looked and she felt bad that she had come so early. she had just thought that if niko was up magi might have been up. it looked now like she had been wrong. "Nikolai just left." she nodded slightly and reached a hand to rub the back of her neck lightly. "actually .. i'm here to see you" she said with smile. all she could do now was make the best of the situation and hope that magi wasn't too mad at her for rocking up on their doorstep so early in the morning. "i thought we could talk? sorry it's so early .. i guess i'm just used to being up with the sun" she said, smiling again.
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Nov 8, 2016 17:00:28 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2016 17:00:28 GMT -7
To see her...?
Wait. Had Magdalena understood that correctly? The brunette fixed the younger girl with a look of stunned bewilderment, her disbelief written all over her face. Sure, she'd gotten along with Ripley in school. They were house mates. But they had't been close enough that Magdalena expected her to literally show up on the doorstep wanting to hang out... Which apparently was happening right now. "Oh." She managed a stunned retort. "Right." It was finally sinking in, and Magdalena pulled the door open wider and stepped aside so Ripley could come in. "Yeah, sure. Come on in." Her mind was reeling, trying to come up with an explanation. What did Ripley want to see her for? Maybe she was going to try and interrogate her about hurting Nikolai? Well, that had already happened, so that lecture would be a bit useless right now.
"Ugh, are all you Krums morning people? The second the sun is up, so is Nikolai." She teased lightly as Ripley mentioned being used to being up with the sun. "I call this 'late', not early." She explained as she closed the door behind the girl and covered another yawn. "Do you want some coffee? How are you here anyway? You're not seventeen yet... are you?" Magdalena wandered into the kitchen as she thought aloud and started to boil some water.
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Nov 9, 2016 23:04:53 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2016 23:04:53 GMT -7
@magdalena "Oh. Right. Yeah, sure. Come on in." well ripley had surprised her. that was .. good? she hoped magi didn't mind anyway. she had just wanted to come over and talk to her. she felt she should now that magi was living with her brother and all. she stepped inside and took off her coat, hanging it next to some others she saw. "Ugh, are all you Krums morning people? The second the sun is up, so is Nikolai." she laughed and shrugged slightly. "must come with the name" she said with a smile as she brushed her hair back off her face. it was disheveled from the breeze outside. "I call this 'late', not early. Do you want some coffee? How are you here anyway? You're not seventeen yet... are you?" she moved to follow magi into the kitchen and she shook her head slightly. "no i'm not. my dad dropped me off on his way to do errands. i'm staying with him and mum for the weekend. i was here yesterday to talk to nik .. we've been fighting and i wanted to apologize to him and .. yeah" she realized she was rambling and she smiled slightly as she moved to sit down on a chair. "coffee sounds good" it didn't really but she didn't feel as comfortable to ask for something else as she did with nik. she knew nik. she knew magi but not as well, though she was hoping to change that today.
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Dec 28, 2016 18:44:27 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 18:44:27 GMT -7
Magdalena made a face when Ripley said it came with the name. "Ugh." She sounded thoroughly disgusted with the whole 'morning' thing. Stay up to seven am? She was totally up for that. But wake up at seven? Hell no. She'd lost count of the number of times Nikolai had woken her up far earlier then she would have liked, which only ended in a very grumpy and snippy Magi. Thankfully she hadn't been to bed yet, so the snippiness should be at a minimum this morning. The coffee would help.
As Ripley went on to explain that she was spending the weekend at her parents and that she had Nikolai had been fighting, Magi leaned against the counter and looked at the younger girl. "Fighting?" She repeated without thinking. It was a bad habit, one Nikolai was well aware of and constantly teased her about. "What did that idiot do?" She finished, not at all hesitating to call her boyfriend an idiot. He was, despite how much he protested against it. And she was pretty sure that he would be mostly to blame for any arguments with his sisters.
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Jan 4, 2017 20:48:15 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2017 20:48:15 GMT -7
@magdalena "What did that idiot do?" ripley shrugged slightly and laced her fingers together as she thought about how much to tell magi. she wondered if nik had even told her but if he hadn't that was his problem not hers. "it's nik, what didn't he do?" she said with a slight smile as she looked up from her fingers at magi. "we just got into a fight after the hospital. i got mad because he kicked us out .. it was stupid really" she said with a sigh and she rubbed her finger into her nose. her and nik often took their fights to the next level but they had always been close because they were so alike.
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Jan 31, 2017 10:58:37 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2017 10:58:37 GMT -7
Magdalena raised and eyebrow at that hint of scarcasm. It almost didn't sound like it. What had happened between the two? Tge younger girl soon went on to explain. Oh. The hospital. Magdalena didn't move from her spot by the counter as the younger Krum explained what had happened and couldn't help the surprised look that appeared. "Because he kicked you out..?" she repeated slowly, as if unable to believe it. Slowly she let out a deep breath. "Ripley, your brother had just gotten stabbed. Don't you think he deserves some time to care about himself?" she asked. Sure, Magi had been upset by his being stabbed. But that was because he'd been with her. It was someone following her that had hurt him. But what Ripley was saying... when had his being stabbed been about his sister?
With a shrug she turned back to the counter and finished fixing the coffee and poured them both a cup. Carrying them over to the table she set one in front of Ripley as she took a seat. "If you're like your brother and want to drown your perfectly good coffee in sugar it's right there." she stated, pointing at the small ceramic pot on the table. Nikolai had the biggest sweet tooth she'd ever seen in her life.
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Feb 1, 2017 13:00:02 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 13:00:02 GMT -7
@magdalena "Because he kicked you out..? Ripley, your brother had just gotten stabbed. Don't you think he deserves some time to care about himself?" ripley frowned as she turned her gaze back to magi. well that hadn't been expected. "i did say it was stupid." she knew she had been the problem in that argument but damn if she was going to make anyone let her feel bad enough about it. she had been worried about her brother, said all of two words to him in the time she had been in his hospital room and then he had kicked her and her sisters out to make sure that dan was alright. "but not all of us were so keen to leave his side that night. it was dan he was worried about. not himself." she said as she reached to take the coffee cup that had been placed in front of her. she was starting to realize this bad habit she had of putting her foot into her mouth, though she was well aware that just because she knew about it didn't mean she was going to change it.
she said what she thought, she didn't hold back on account of the fact it might bother someone else. her thoughts were her own and damned if anyone was going to stop her thinking them. "If you're like your brother and want to drown your perfectly good coffee in sugar it's right there." she reached forward to take just one spoon of sugar to dump into the bitter drink to make it a little better to drink and she stirred it slowly, careful not to make the clinking noise on the side of the cup. it was a sound that she almost couldn't stand. "thanks." she said as she lifted the cup to her mouth to take a sip, taking a moment to enjoy the warmth that radiated from the cup and liquid.
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Feb 2, 2017 9:23:20 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 9:23:20 GMT -7
Magdalena had bad memories of that night. His sisters had only found out about it right before they were taken to the hospital. But Magdalena had been there. She'd been the one to feel Nikolai pulled away from her. She'd been the one to watch him get stabbed and been unable to do anything to stop it. She'd been the one to scream helplessly as he bled out, not knowing if he would die. Compared to that, she couldn't help but feel... a little irked that Ripley would have started a fight about Nikolai wanting just Dan's company. Of course she didn't say any of this. None of Nikolai's sisters knew about Magi's part in the stabbing. "Or maybe he just wanted to talk to another guy." Magi commented before taking another sip of her coffee. "He probably didn't feel comfortable talking about some things with his sisters present. Just like I'm sure there are plenty of situations that'd you prefer to speak to a woman about without your brother present." she added with a shrug as she set the mug down and propped her head in her hands and her elbow on the table.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:04:48 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 19:04:48 GMT -7
@magdalena "Or maybe he just wanted to talk to another guy. He probably didn't feel comfortable talking about some things with his sisters present. Just like I'm sure there are plenty of situations that'd you prefer to speak to a woman about without your brother present." she frowned slightly and looked into the cup of the coffee before taking a sip. she seemed to have the good ability to make people annoyed at her lately. she hadn't expected magi to ride her so much when she had admitted it was stupid and she had asked what the fight had been about. "well the next time i won't even bother showing up." she said as she gulped down the last half of the hot liquid, having to force herself not to grimace at the heat of the liquid rushing down her throat. "thanks for the coffee." she said as she moved to get up from the table. "i can see i've bothered you so i'll just make myself scarce so nik doesn't have another reason to be angry with me." she said as she ran a hand through her hair and moved out of the kitchen, walking back to the front door in order to grab her coat off the hanger behind the door.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:49:59 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 19:49:59 GMT -7
Magdalena raised an eyebrow as Ripley downed the rest of the coffee and snapped that she wouldn't even come the next time. That was not what Magdalena had meant at all. But before Magi could explain that the girl had gone on to act as if she'd been a burden to Magi and moved to leave, saying she'd make herself scarce. Also not what Magdalena had wanted or intended. Setting her cup on the table she lazily pulled out her wand and gave with a firm twist. "Colloportus." The front door magically sealed shut. Sure, Ripley could still get out the back, but she'd have to walk past Magi to get to it. She could also try to magically unlock the door, but the girl wasn't permitted to use magic outside Hogwarts.
"If you want more coffee, the pot is still half full." She spoke up cheerfully as she set her wand on the table and lifted her cup for another sip. "Come sit back down." She added as an after thought, just to make sure the young Hufflepuff understood what it was Magdalena wanted. She didn't leave the request open for negotiation either.
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Feb 3, 2017 5:53:51 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2017 5:53:51 GMT -7
@magdalena as she pulled on her jacket she made to reach for the door handle. though it wouldn't turn. she frowned and tried to get the handle to work for a few seconds then realized it was pointless. magi had probably sealed it shut. she could always try and undo the spell but then she'd be up for using magic outside of school, though she doubted she would receive a huge punishment for just unlocking a door. she sighed and dropped her head against the door with a soft thud before she heard magi's voice drift down the hall. "If you want more coffee, the pot is still half full." she lifted her head from the door and dropped the handle, leaving her jacket on though she moved back down the hall. "locking the door? really?" she asked as she folded her arms and stood in the doorway. "Come sit back down." she sighed and moved to sit back at the table. she really didn't want to get into any sort of argument with magi. it would get back to nik and probably irina too and she doubted it would go down well with either of them. she folded her arms over her chest and looked at magi, waiting for her to say what she clearly wanted the chance to say.
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Feb 3, 2017 23:25:38 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2017 23:25:38 GMT -7
It took a moment, but Ripley eventually returned to kitchen, questioning Magdalena's actions. Magi just looked smug as can be, raising her mug to her lips but stopping just before she took a sip. "What? Come on, you have to admit that was pretty smooth." She answered, sounding just as pleased with herself as she looked. Only after speaking did she take a long slow sip from her coffee, then set it back down on the table.
Ripley had taken a seat and Magdalena took a moment to compose her thoughts. Decide what she wanted to say. Obviously, there was something wrong. "So, let's start this over. That was a pretty cold reaction, especially for your only brother. Care to explain?" For someone that seemed totally willing to make her own opinions known regardless of the consequences Ripley wasn't very tolerant towards letting others do the same thing.
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Feb 4, 2017 4:10:19 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2017 4:10:19 GMT -7
@magdalena "So, let's start this over. That was a pretty cold reaction, especially for your only brother. Care to explain?" cold reaction? well it hadn't been a pleasant conversation. sure she could understand why magi would have wanted to chew her out if it had been a recent event or it hadn't been sorted out or if she had actually been there when it had happened but she hadn't been. her and nik had worked it out. she had admitted it was stupid for her to feel that way and yet magi still seemed to think she had some grounds to try and make ripley see she was wrong. she didn't. "him being my only brother doesn't mean i'm not allowed to be annoyed at him from time to time." she said as she leaned back in the seat and folded her arms over her chest. "there's no point. i'm still going to be the one in the wrong." she said as she looked past magi. she thought back on the fights with nik and the fight with tania and she knew she had been the instigator. in her own way she had been justified but she knew they had been over reactions and she was sorry for them, she truly was and she had tried to make amends. she had with nik and she was trying with tania. she just didn't think she could handle talking about them today. not after the emotional wreck she had been the day before with nik. "i'm sorry but i can't do this." she said. she didn't want to admit she was the problem. she knew she had a temper and her attitude could be too much at times but she didn't know how to stop it. she made a move to get up from the table again, hoping that the back door hadn't been spelled closed.
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