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Post by Cassie Vimes on Feb 7, 2009 0:16:57 GMT 1
Relief flooded through Cassie as she felt Ed hug her back. Ever since he’d left she couldn’t help thinking it was because he didn’t want anything more to do with her. That somehow she’d managed to drive him away. She laughed as he hit her with a barrage of questions. ”Woah, easy tiger, don’t forget to breathe.” Cassie paused for a moment as she tried to decide which she should answer first. She started with the last. ”I’ve been good.”
Cassie instantly felt bad when Dacian cleared his throat. She’d completely forgotten he was there as she’d been too wrapped up in trying to hug the life out of Ed. Pulling out of the embrace she turned and smiled sheepishly at Dacian. ”I’m sorry, I just haven’t seen him in so long and it’s such a surprise. I didn’t know he’d be here.” Her eyes flicked back to Edward as though checking that he was definitely still there.
She couldn’t suppress the small huff of annoyance as Dacian jumped to her defence. Cassie could handle herself she’d been travelling alone for nearly two years with no trouble. ”Dacian,” She said, her tone laced with defiant independence. ”I’m perfectly capable of telling Ed that myself.” She rolled her eyes then turned to Ed to prove her point. ”Ed, don’t be an ass, Dacian has been nothing but civil to me since we met.”
An excited yip punctuated her sentence and for the first time Cassie noticed the small black puppy tucked carefully under Ed’s arm. She wasn’t normally one to coo over every furry critter she laid eyes on, but damn that dog was adorable. Then Ed was thrusting the puppy into her arms so he could move around her and face of against Dacian once more. She wasn’t entirely convinced that either of them had listened when she’d pointed out she could look after herself.
There was clearly no love lost between the two men, although Cassie couldn’t help thinking Ed’s reaction was a little extreme. Especially since she knew that Dacian was a muggle and had no way of defending himself from the wand Ed was pointing at him. Dacian, however, seemed more concerned with defending his reputation. Really, men and their egos. ”Tuesday would be great.” She shared the smile at his reference to their earlier conversation.
”I’ll find you, even if I have to beat the location out of Ed to do it.” Cassie vowed with a nod. She watched Dacian leave, eyes lingering on the door behind the bar for a couple of seconds after he’d disappeared through it. ”So,” She turned back to Ed, unable to keep the ridiculously happy grin off her face. God it was good to see him again. ”Since you chased off my entertainment for the evening I guess I’ll have to put up with you instead. Good thing you have such a cute puppy.” Cassie teased, scratching the dog fondly behind the ears as she spoke. [/font]
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Post by Edward Johns on Feb 7, 2009 9:58:11 GMT 1
Edward was positively fuming at Dacian. If it wasn’t for Connery and the changeling he’d have kicked the vampire out then and there. Who did he think he was? Just because he was about six hundred years older than Ed didn’t mean he got to treat his landlord like that. Condescending arsehole.
“No, you won’t see her Tuesday, hell you won’t talk to her ever again you hear me?” the man growled, wand pointed firmly at the vampire’s chest. Of all the time the vampire had been living in the pub, not once had Ed had the guts to stand up to him. Hell, he’d been too freaked to go near him. But now there was a chance Cassie could be brought into this and hurt a whole different side of Ed had emerged.
Never had he been so sure and adamant about anything before. Dacian would not touch Cassie and that was final. “Cassie please trust me when I say he’s dangerous,” Ed pleaded quietly to the girl. He was so close to telling her the entire truth but not while the vampire was around, the last thing he wanted was to look like Silas had the other night. “You can definitely leave now, Cassie and I have catching up to do,” Ed said dismissively whilst imagining the vampire’s chest riddled with rock salt rounds.
“His civility is a trap, he doesn’t want to sleep with you but he does want to get inside of you,” Edward snorted. The joke had a certain amount of truth to it even if it was a little crude. Cassie would be used to it; she’d spent a good part of her school years by Ed’s side listening to all sorts of crap that came out of his mouth. He smiled as he watched Rowdy get acquainted with his old girlfriend. The puppy had taken a shine to the girl, although he did that with just about everyone.
The puppy had once again perked up now that Dacian was leaving. Excitedly he attempted to lick Cassie’s face and bark at the same time, succeeding in biting his tongue several times. “Haha, Rowdy likes you,” Ed mumbled warmly, giving Cassie an equally warm smile. He offered to take back the wriggling dog, brushing his hand gently over her gloved one.
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Post by Cassie Vimes on Feb 7, 2009 12:18:23 GMT 1
”Ed.” Cassie said softly, putting a restraining hand on his arm as he continued to threaten Dacian. She tried not to drop the puppy in the process, who was currently pressing his paw into Cassie’s face so he could sniff at her hair. Of course she’d had to put up with him being overprotective before, threatening to rip the lungs out of any guy who even so much as dared to as ask her the time. But that had been then, this was different. Although part of her couldn’t help being pleased that he still cared about her.
She looked at him wide-eyed as he tried to convince her again that Dacian was dangerous, her gaze searching his face for any clue about what he could mean. Part of her wanted to believe him, Ed wasn’t the type to just lie to her and she was fairly certain she still knew him well enough to tell when he was bullshitting. On the other hand she liked Dacian and she wasn’t going to condemn him on the word of somebody she hadn’t seen in two years.
Cassie smirked at Ed’s crude comment, not all surprised that he was still exactly the same as before even if he had got taller and finally managed to grow stubble that didn’t make him a laughing stock. ”Seriously Ed we’re just going to talk.” She said, trying to convince him not to completely overreact. ”It’s not like he bites.” It wasn’t like he could stop her, not really, he was just too stubborn to realise that yet.
Talking about Rowdy helped to dispel the tension that had filled the room when both Dacian and Ed had been there. Cassie giggled as the dog bit his own tongue and the somehow managed to look at her with an adorably hurt expression like it had somehow been her fault. ”Nice bag.” She grinned, gesturing at the handbag Ed had held on to throughout the entire confrontation as she reluctantly let Rowdy go.
Her eyes flicked to his face as his hand brushed over hers. She was probably just imagining the way her hand tingled at the touch. ”God, I still can’t believe it’s you.” Cassie wanted to hug him again, but it was pretty hard to talk to someone when they were squeezing the breath out of you. "What are you doing here?" She asked, realising sheepishly that he'd asked her exactly the same thing moments before and she'd utterly failed to answer during all the confusion with Dacian. [/font]
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Post by Edward Johns on Feb 7, 2009 13:12:19 GMT 1
How on earth did Dacian do it? Without even being there he was making Edward look like an over protective idiot. Well he was a little overprotective of what he cared about but that wasn’t the point. Grumbling something about sunlight and shotgun rounds, Ed glaned over to where Dacian had stalked off into the back room. Of course he wouldn’t want the girl he was trying to eat to know he lived in the Hog’s Head basement.
“Lying bastard,” he muttered under his breath before turning back to Cassie. What she said made Edward visibly snort. “Oh he bites all right,” a slip of the tongue that may or may not have given away the secret he was meant to be concealing. Normally Ed was the most trustworthy person to confide in but now if he didn’t tell Cassie she ran a very real risk of getting hurt.
Only after Cassie had pointed it out did Edward realise he was still holding the purse Rowdy and snatched. The woman was still there and, with a sheepish grin, Ed handed her back her purse and watched her storm out of the pub. Inwardly he thanked his dog for the loss of yet another customer. Outwardly he laughed and turned back to Cassie as she spoke again.
Like her, Edward could also hardly believe it was indeed Cassie Vimes who stood before him. The girl that had haunted his dreams for two years. “I asked you the same thing but I’ll answer first,” he laughed again and dragged her over to a table to sit down. “I don’t really know what I’m doing here. After I kicked myself out of home I just kind of travelled around a bit, wound up here and decided I liked it. Got a job, made some ‘friends’. That was six months ago now,” Ed answered as best and as truthfully as he could. He’d never actually thought about what he was doing here. He was just coasting, like he’d done his entire life.
“Your turn. What brings you to the humble village of Hogsmeade? Good to see you’re making friends with the bloodsuckers of the place,” oops, Ed had given everything away now but would she pick up on it?
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Post by Cassie Vimes on Feb 8, 2009 11:09:11 GMT 1
Cassie gave Ed an odd look as he contradicted her throw away biting comment. It hadn’t exactly been the answer she’d been expecting. Clearly Ed knew something about Dacian that she didn’t, if the way he adamantly kept warning her away from him was any indication anyway. What exactly it was that Ed knew Cassie couldn’t quite figure out, not from the cryptic hints he was dropping. It could be anything, in the magical world there were a multitude of creatures that bit or worse he could have some kind of weird biting kink.
Although she didn’t really want to consider why Ed might have known that, especially when he was clutching a woman’s purse and a puppy. She watched Ed sheepishly hand the purse back to a rather irate looking woman who scowled as she took in the chew marks that marred the probably expensive leather. Cassie gave her a smile and wave as the woman left, which only made her frown deeper. Somehow Cassie got the impression that was one person that wouldn’t be returning to the pub. Not that it mattered, she didn’t look like the type to frequent the Hog’s Head anyway.
”So you work here and Dacian is your boss?” She asked, not even questioning the way Ed had shouted at Dacian. He always had lacked tact and didn’t give a damn about rubbing people up the wrong way. The only reason Cassie assumed Dacian was the boss was because he looked older, if only by a few years. Plus the Ed she had known back at school hadn’t exactly been the kind to take on responsibility.
”Me?” Cassie gave a little shrug, her story was remarkably similar. She’d never admit, though, that the only reason she’d chose to travel was because Ed had done the same. There were plenty of ways she could have gotten away from her family, but somehow she’d ended up on the same path as Ed. ”Well I finished up school, got decent grades, then went home. Greyson and Barbara are lovely, but, you know.” She looked at Ed, glad that he was one of the few people she didn’t have to try and explain the situation with her father to.
”So I got on the road, haven’t been off it ever since.” She finished. Something about the way Ed had phrased his question was niggling at the back of her mind. The fact that he’d taken a dig at Dacian was hardly surprising, but what had been the word he’d used? ‘Bloodsuckers’. Cassie went pale, taking an instinctive step away from the door Dacian had disappeared through just moments before. ”He’s a vampire?” She practically shrieked, punching Ed on the arm. ”Why didn’t you just tell me?” [/font]
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Post by Edward Johns on Feb 8, 2009 12:29:31 GMT 1
Edward nodded thoughtfully when Cassie mentioned her father and step-mother. He’d never really been a fan of Greyson and Barbara. They way they’d shoved Cassie to one side to make room for their family together. It had always bothered him that she had to play second fiddle to her little half-siblings, not that it seemed to bother her much.
“Haha he’s not my boss, he and his ‘daughter’ are just shacking up here,” shit Ed was in trouble now; already he could feel the painful cracking his nose would make when it was broken in the near future. Oh well fuck Dacian, Cassie had a right to know plus she would have figured it out sooner or later. “Ow,” yep she’d figured it out and was taking the new found knowledge out on Ed’s arm. Man she had a fair right hook.
“I wasn’t supposed to tell anyone,” he said sheepishly whilst trying to revive his dead arm. Now hopefully she knew she’d stay away from Dacian. Edward snorted, not bloody likely. Once Cassie was interested in something she didn’t stop until she’d checked it out fully. She’d always been like that, too much of a flirt. Though he supposed he couldn’t talk, if it had been him and a female vampire he probably would have been drained by now.
“Now that you know will you please stay away from him?” Ed pleaded again putting on the best puppy dog face he could muster. “If not for me, for Rowdy?” he pouted and brought the dog’s face up next to his. Double puppy dog stare for the win.
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Post by Cassie Vimes on Feb 8, 2009 13:21:34 GMT 1
Cassie’s mind was still reeling from the discovery that she’d come alarmingly close to becoming a light snack for a vampire. She shivered, leaning against the table she’d been sitting at earlier, her mind too busy freaking out to concentrate on unimportant things like standing up. She didn’t know all that much about the specifics of vampires, only the knowledge she’d been taught at school and she was fairly certain she and Ed had been goofing off that day.
Part of her was curious, her brain clinging to the fact that Dacian had been a gentleman and he might have just wanted the company and not a blood donation. It was doubtful, but a girl could hope. Being the sane and rational woman that she was she took to blaming Ed. ”Why the hell are you letting two vampires shack up here?” Cassie accused, taking small satisfaction from the way Ed was rubbing his arm where she’d punched him.
The initial shock was fading a little now and curiosity was winning over. There were questions she wanted to ask Dacian, not to mention she had to at least have a bit of a go at him for intending to eat her. ”Now that I know there’s reason for me to stay away.” She contradicted stubbornly, feeling only the slightest guilt now that she realised Ed had only been trying to look out for her safety rather than being the over protective ass she’d suspected at first.
Cassie always had been a sucker for the puppy dog look and now that Ed had an actual puppy she had absolutely no hope. Her expression softened and she laughed. ”Ed, you’re such a dork, that’s fighting dirty.” She reached out and petted Rowdy affectionately then ruffled Ed’s hair. ”I’ll be careful, besides you wouldn’t let anything happen to me would you Ed?” Cassie said, attempting to appeal to his ego. [/font]
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