But I Got My Fingers Laced Together (Andy)

[Irina Rose Krum]

Irina had been reading a history book before bed that night, something completely normal for her. It had been about the Great Wizarding War with Gellert Grindelwald and his fanatics; a recount that was both horrifying and fascinating to the seventh year Gryffindor. She’d meant to put it away before going to bed, but the wings of sleep overtook her before she could even set it aside. Unfortunately, when she fell asleep that quickly, it usually meant a vision was coming.


Rubble, ashes, smoke everywhere it was almost blinding. A body unmoving in the debris, covered in both blood and soot, leg stuck out at an odd angle. Irina didn’t know where she was, but judging from the vast land surrounding her she was standing in the smoldering remains of an estate. She heard something, a soft grunt of pain, and she whipped around. She could see another body, one she had looked away from with the assumption that life had left them, began to move. The figure slowly crawled out towards the center of the floor; the long hair had Irina believe that it was a girl. She seemed familiar, too familiar. The girl reached her destination and Irina moved closer. She watched, eyes wide as the girl wrote four letters, fingers shaking as she used blood from an open wound. H. E. L. P. With a cry, the girl rolled over onto her back and Irina found herself staring at the face of Andromeda Lestrange…


Irina sat up in bed with a cry of terror, breathing heavily with beads of sweat forming at her forehead. She started half sobbing, half hyperventilating; Andy had clearly been in a lot of trouble and pain. Death surrounded her. Irina tried to gain control of herself, sitting back on the pillows. As she lit her wand, the curtains surrounding her four poster bed ripped open and Irina suddenly found herself face to face with the girl from her vision.

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ooc: permission from Dee to post this December post early

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"You said my name," Andy said flatly, standing at Irinas bed, having opened the curtains. "Before you screamed," she added. Then she released the curtains, dropping her hands to her sides. "What's wrong?" she asked, not moving to sit or anything. Her and Irina weren't incredibly close, so she didn't really want to intrude more than she already had by opening the other girls curtains. It looked like the other girls in their dorm either slept through it or weren't in. Anna's curtains were open and she was nowhere to be seen, otherwise Andy would have let her handle this. But, it wasn't Anna that Irina had said...


It was Andy.


Irina Rose Krum

[Irina Rose Krum]

Andy Lestrange was looking at her, telling her that she had said her name. Irina couldn't speak, not just yet. Of course she had said her name; after what she had just seen she remembered screaming to Andy right before she woke up in this cold sweat. "I-I...." she drew a shaking breath and ran her hands through her hair. She looked and saw through her drawn curtains that Anna was nowhere to be found, but Cecelia and Roxy were still sleeping. "C-can we go down to the Common Room? I don't want to wake anyone else," she asked, her voice still shaky. She slowly got up out of bed and put on her dressing down, stopping at the door of the dormitory to see if Andromeda was following her. Once she was settled in her favorite armchair by the fire, Irina forced herself to look directly at the girl. "I...I have dreams sometimes. Nightmares really; they can get really horrible. Blood, death, destruction." She wavered off, unsure of how to continue. How do you tell someone you've shared a dorm with for seven years what you saw her doing?

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Andy waited, not moving, as Irina stuttered at first, her breath shaky. She didn't want to move, but then Irina suggested they go to the common room and Andy nodded, stepping aside to Irina could get out of bed. Andy grabbed her night robe and wrapped it around herself, following Andy to the fire. She sat down on the couch diagonal from her fellow lion and looked up, only too meet Irinas bright eyes.

Irina spoke, about how she had... nightmares? Andy closed her mouth, opened it, and closed it again. Then, she was silent for a few minutes before speaking. "Irina," she started, leaning forward slightly, her posture still tight, though. "I don't know you that well but... if you have something you need to say, just say it. Don't be sacred," she added.

Irina Rose Krum

[Irina Rose Krum]

They didn’t know each other that well; it was true and honestly sort of sad. Irina had shared a dormitory with the Lestrange girl for seven years now, and they were in orchestra club together. They’d always been politely friendly; with the last name Lestrange it could have been easy to ignore or shun the girl, but with a famous last name of her own, Irina firmly believed in judging someone based on the whole package, not just the name. Still, she and Andy had floated in the same social circles, but never quite in the same one at the same time. She would even consider herself better friends with Phil than Andy, and even Natalia who was a year above them and already graduated. Irina silently cursed herself that she hadn’t made more of an effort; that would change right now.


“My dreams, my nightmares, they’re not just in my head…” Irina said slowly, not breaking eye contact from Andromeda. She was always hesitant about telling the people in question about what she’d seen, especially after Nikolai’s stabbing incident. He hadn’t believed her, yet it had come true anyway. Still, the underlying thought of at least trying to make a difference was something that pressed Irina on. “I have visions as I sleep sometimes. It started with the Kings Cross attack, then my brothers’ stabbing and tonight….tonight this one was about you.” Irina stopped talking and looked over at Andy. She wasn’t sure if the girl would want to know exactly what Irina had seen, but the ball was in her court now; Irina would tell her if she asked.

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Andy waited for Irina to get the words out, not breaking eye contact either, even though she kind of wanted to. She had... visions? What did that mean... oh. Andy figured out what she meant. She was a seer and she had clearly seen something bad about Andy. Irina confirmed that when she finished her sentence. "And what happened to me?"Andy asked, her tone flat, almost as if she was uninterested. She was interested, of course, but she didn't want to get emotionally invested in some vision. She wasn't sure if she really believed in those... that much.

Irina Rose Krum

[Irina Rose Krum]

Irina was sort of hoping that Andromeda wasn't going to ask what had happened to her in her vision. But she did; of course she did. If the situation was flipped, Irina would have asked her what she had seen as well. So she took a deep breath, and started. “You were crawling on the ground towards a book...a journal I think. The pages were blank. You were hurt, there was a lot of blood.” She stopped, and looked down at her hands. She'd already gotten this far, so she might as well just get it all out. “You opened the journal and wrote...'help',” she finished softly. She doubted she had to tell Andy with what she had written the message with; it was pretty obvious at that point.

“I'm sorry, I shouldn't have told you about this, I usually talk to my boyfriend whenever I have visions but...” she stopped. She hadn't really talked to anyone about Daniel's depression; she didn't feel like it was her place to say anything. But if she had any more visions like the one she just had she might go crazy not talking about it.

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Andy took in slow, deep breaths as Irina spoke. A... journal? Hers and Phils journal. Blank pages. Blood, lots of it. Wait, she was hurt? Not hurting someone else? That wasn't what she expected. But, she was relieved. That Irina didn't see Andy doing anything to someone else.

Help. She wrote help. To Phil.

Before Andy could speak, though, Irina mentioned her boyfriend and that she shouldn't have told her this. "Of course you should have," Andy said, her voice incredibly flat. "It's my life, isn't it? Or death."

Irina Rose Krum

[Irina Rose Krum]

Irina blinked in surprise at Andy; the girls voice remained flat but she made a good point. “It is, yes,” she said slowly, contemplating her next words. She sighed a little bit. “I just haven’t had the best of luck with people actually believing me; I had a dream about my brother Nikolai and well….he just scoffed at me,” she admitted, shrugging slightly. Though the circumstances on how she told Niko about her vision had been less than ideal; her brother in Animagus form had seen Dan and Irina kissing for the first time and his reaction had been quite angry. At least now though he would believe her whenever she had a vision; silver lining, right? “Sometimes, I wonder if I’m like Cassandra,” Irina mused aloud, then added quickly “In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a Seer cursed so when she had her visions, nobody believed her.” Irina still hadn’t decided whether her visions were a blessing or a curse, but she could certainly do with not being woken up in the middle of the night.

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Andy's head was spinning, and she wasn't sure if she even wanted to try and work out the connection Irina was trying to make. She could tell Irina needed a friend but... she wasn't sure if she was ready to be that friend. Still, Irina had warned her, and that was nice. That was a decent thing to do. But Andy couldn't help but wonder if Irina would have told her at all if Andy hadn't caught her screaming. "I'm sorry," she said flatly, not really committing to it. She was just told she was going to die, or at least be very hurt, and she wasn't really up for talking about Greek Mythology or Irinas brother problems... Andy had those of her own. Which was the same reason she decided to be nice, at least for a moment, before running off like she often did. "I'm sure people will learn. You'll be respected..." she muttered, trying to sound encouraging.

"But I... have to go. I'm sorry. I have to go," she said quickly before turning on her heel and stepping out of the portrait hole. She saw an auror out front, of course, and asked them to check in on Irina whereas she waited for another auror to escort her to the hospital wing... maybe she should talk to Hannah.

But she'd probably chicken out and just deal with this herself. And with Irina.

Irina Rose Krum
--andy out--

[Irina Rose Krum]

Irina was believing more and more that she shouldn’t have told Andy, but maybe this was for the best. At least Andy knew something bad was going to happen to her? That sounded horrible, even just in Irina’s head. Who wanted to hear ‘hey you’re going to be seriously injured and possibly die’ from someone they were merely friendly with? Nobody, that’s who. Irina pressed her palms against her eyes and let a frustrated sound out. She hated this; why did she have to be cursed with visions of people being injured or possibly killed? Why couldn’t her visions be nice things, like whatever her future with Daniel held. But even that now was something Irina was terrified to see - what if it didn’t include him anymore? She didn’t want to be told ahead of time that was what was happening if that was the case.

An Auror came in and Irina shook her head when he asked if she needed to go to the Hospital Wing; she had a supply of Dreamless Sleep potion that she had planned on taking but had fallen asleep reading before she was able to. She went back upstairs and cast a final glance over at Andromeda’s empty bed. Still worrying she had been mistaken for confiding in the girl, she downed the Dreamless sleep potion and immediately succumbed to a blank slumber.

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