(open)come out come out bloody baron

[stella]

Stella couldn't sleep for the life of her. She had been at Hogwarts for a few weeks now and she still couldn't figure out what was so grand about it. It might have been the fact that she had gone to Durmstrang for awhile now and Beauxbatons before hand. It was different and she liked it being different. She'd run into a few ghosts and creatures that had her rather interested. She'd driven Mal completely crazy running off and leaving him be to talk to others. Not that the boy wouldn't do it himself. She was happy that she had learned not through transfiguration but an ancient book she found, to turn her entire body into that of an animal. It was different then an animagus. She could already change different features of herself thanks to being a metamorphmagus but in order to change into an animal she had to really practice and it didn't always work. Changing more than one body element at a times was rather hard.

However she rolled out of bed and put on all black so she wouldn't be seen moving across the grounds. She checked to see if Lance and Mal were awake but Mal wasn't there and Lance wasn't there either. She figured Lance was out playing his violin as that case was gone and Mal well Mal was out being Mal either listening or causing trouble of his own. It didn't take her long to see Lance at the top deck playing she gave him a wave and slipped off into the night up to the castle. She got in without being spotted and thanks to finding some secret passages to get in in the first place.

She headed down into the dungeons. She walked down the stairs and into the death day hall. It was rather large and she liked snooping around to see what was going on within.

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[snow]

Snow was not really up for staying in the tower dorms of ravenclaw she had to walk around and get to know this school as fast as she could she wanted to know every inch of this stupid school so that if she had to hide she could get to the hiding place as fast as she could right now no one knew her so no one saw the pain she was in half the time. She hadn't even told Ace that the second she walked into this school her head felt like it was going to exploded so many people were planning so many things that she was getting it all at once making it really hard to figure out switch name was her father.

Closing her eyes she focused herself and started seeing a girl walking around the school she had to be a Black because that's the people she had been focusing on. Normally Snow would run and get Ace to go with her to see this girl but it was late and knowing Ace he was off doing something that was going to get him a detention. Slipping into the shadows on the dungeon she waited until the girl passed her before she stepped out quietly.

Tilting her head she watched Stella for a minute before smirking and started to walk after her making the heels in her shoes make a tapping noise as she came down the hall. "Hello Cousin, your name must be Stella" she said trying not to sound as if she already knew that. "A lot of kids around here are talking about you" was her cover on how she knew the girls name.

[stella]

Stella was essentially bored out of her mind and wanted to find either Peeves or the Bloody Baron to discuss some things with them. After all Peeves would listen to her because she was a prankster and the Bloody Baron might give her the time of day because her father was in his house when he was at the school. Stella really hated the fact that she'd never know her father. His business had been done apparently because he and her mother never came back to her as ghosts. However, she figured there could be another reason why they hadn't yet come to her to comfort her when she needed it. Everyone she'd ever loved died on her. She was afraid of it happening again. Her brother was taken from her and she was just a lost and slightly bitter little girl at times. Of course now she was a rebellious teen but did that really matter.

She took a deep breath exploring around the death day party hall. The only thing that made it spectacular was the fact that it was so large. She wondered how crowded the room got on such an occasion she would definitely have to find out soon. However she was pulled out of her thoughts as she noticed someone was following her. She didn't make a move to seem like she noticed until the other actually said something to her. Called her by her name for instance. No one knew who she was. Least not that Stella didn't know. She was sure that her name wasn't being thrown around that much unless of course coupled with Krum and that was usually who they said first and not her.

She turned around to stare at the girl that had come up on her. "Well hello. Fancy meeting another person here." She could tell for some reason that they looked the same. There was something off about this girl and being a black would make sense. "How'd you know my name really." Stella wasn't much for people faking not knowing her. She hated being even half lied too.

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[snow]

Snow stopped suddenly no one had ever called her out like this before she didn't know what to do she was not the best liar that was why she hid behind Ace so much he was better at finding her secret then she was. Now Snow was a smart girl and she could talk herself out of this if she wanted to but the question was did she really want to? This girl was her cousin was family how mad wouuld Ace be if Snow came clean to her? Mentally she was calling at to Ace she knew he would feel her stress and fears and come but then were her fears and stress really needed?

Snow didn't know the Blacks she didn't know if they could be trusted hell she didn't even know her father could she really trust anyone? Closing her eyes again as she tried to calm her headache so she could think to answer this girl. "Okay so you are right no one is talking about you and your name so you are safe there and yes I do know you name because well its my job to know I asked around your ship flirted with a few boys and one told me who you were" she couldn't think of anything else and if she didn't get a hold of her headache soon she was going to be on her knees in pain.

Deciding it was best to stay away from the truth for right now she just couldn't say anything to keep quiet that's what her mom told her, people would use her and even kill her for all that she sees fear owned her heart so she perpared herself to get yelled at or worse attacked. "I know where your brother is....." she shouted out loud with out thinking. Snow was in shock way did she say that why did she act so stupid but she wondered if this would distract Stella from ythe truth on how she knew her name. Ace was so going to kill her for this..

[stella]

Yes Stella had called the girl out on her lying. However this was coming from a person who could tell with the master of deception was lying. Stella was good at picking such things up. She had grown up being that way in a sense. Still at times the wool could be pulled over her eyes and she didn't like when that happened. She's nearly bitten Mal's head off when he did it to her once. Still they were still friends and there was probably nothing that was going to change that aspect of her no matter how evil Mal could ever get in the first place. His name meant bad and she was sure that in some right he'd live up to that. Stella was the book and well she'd live up to being the one that could cover everything up. Hopefully she would not share the same fate as her father and get in to deep. Then again she probably was in far to deep now and she didn't care. Her brain quickly shifted out of that thought process onto the girl at hand. She had to be a Black. There was no doubt about it. When you were one you generally knew who the other ones were. You didn't need telepathy or seer abilities to figure that one out. Even if one seemed to not fit the family tree. They all did in some form or fashion.

This one seemed to be worried about something so Stella figured it was about time to drop the evil act in a sense. She could be nice but she did want to know the other's name. "Alright...Let's start this again. I'm Stella Regulus Arcturus Black. I'm sure you already knew that but this makes me a bit happier. You might be?" She was trying not to get angry for being lied too at the moment. She wasn't going to call the girl an out right liar to her face though. That would just be stupid. Stella shook her head at the words the other said. Least about the boys on the ship knowing who she was and all. "Just stop I'm trying to let it slide. Don't lie I don't like being lied too. Let's get that straight alright?" She knew what the girl was and she didn't rightly care anymore. It wasn't like she was going to exploit the talents of her own flesh and blood in a sense. It would be stupid but the lying thing was going to have to stop.

She took a deep breath and calmed herself finally realizing that the other seemed to be in some pain. She pulled out a bottle of potion she had concocted to help with pain for any thing really. She walked over handing it to the other. "Here drink this. It should calm things down a little bit." Her voice had changed for a third time. She was using more of the helpful Stella voice that didn't usually come out unless she truly was concerned about someone. Then words about her brother came out. "Toby...you know Toby is here?" Stella had picked up on the pattern of wavelength much like her own. A boy in the walls of the school. But she hadn't seen her brother in so long she wasn't even sure the usual twin bond thing was working anymore.

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[snow]

Snow was starting to feel back in a corner and it was starting to piss her off. It wasn't helping her head and now she hurt so bad that she dropped to her knees "Fire" she thought in her head as she started to stress out. "I'm sorry..I don't mean to...o" she started to say but had to stop because her own voice was killing herself. Taking slow breaths as she tried to pull herself together to say something anything to fix this. If this girl was her cousin then they were family and family could be trusted so she was going to have to let her guard down. Would Fire be mad? She doubted it as long as she wasn't hurt or in danger he should be okay with Snow telling the truth.

Black so Snow was right she did found the right girl "My name is Snow Fallen Black" she said as her head seemed to calm a little she took another deep breath and looked up at the girl "I am sorry I lied but around here you can never know who you can trust and who you can't. My brother and I just got here so things have been just a tad stressful" she tried to explain. "I don't lie normally my brother is here to cover my slip up's so I don't have to say much" she added really wishing that Ace was here right now. "No more lying and truth is I am a very unique seer many see things through art others in their sleep by having dreams; but I seem to get them everywhere I am in my sleep, when I'm tired or not with it." she explained knowing that no one was around to hear their conversations that was one of the things she liked about her talent she could tell when someone was around.

Moving a hand to her temple she tried to rub her head to stop the headache "Oh and I get really painful headaches with them too" she added as she moved to sit near a wall so she could rest against the wall. Looking at the bottle she nodded before drinking the potion closing her eyes and taking a calming deep breath she opened her eyes and looked straight at Stella. "Now I can see you..Yes Tobias he has the same vibe as you I ran into him in class the other day. He is in the Slytherin house" she answered quickly noticing that the other girl seemed really excited to hear this news.

[stella]

Stella could feel pain and anger that she couldn't account for. Still she'd not seen her brother in ages so she wasn't sure if it was him or her own anger at times. She hated that too. She hated it so much. She wanted to be in her brother's arms again. To let him know how much she loved him and how big of a whole had been left in her heart. She hated the fact that they had been seperated. She knew there was bitterness that surpassed what it should be and she was sure that had to come from him. Still she had not seen him yet and she wanted too so badly. Her mind stopped there though. There was no way in heck that Stella was going to cry. That didn't happen. Not when she was around anyone family included. Stella didn't cry it got you nothing and it got you no where. She could talk her way in and out of sticky situations she used her words. If words didn't work then her skills and if not the usual muggle skills her skills as a witch. That was how it had been. When her lover had died. She...she nearly cracked. She grieved yes but no one ever saw her cry. No one knew the pain. Of course Mal and Lance and tried to cheer her up cause they could read through her masks but even they hadn't been able to relieve the pain that she still felt. She shook her head and tried to concentrate on the issue at hand. Why did meeting more family put her in such a state of emotional mess. She almost wanted to growl but she didn't.

Stella thankfully was pulled out of her thoughts as Snow began to speak again. So she was right about the family thing and she didn't have to be a seer to know that. Of course it wasn't to say that Stella had not been taught occlumency and legemancy. She still was not very good at it but she could keep those who tried to pry out. It was very scary in her head though. Probably not as much as another cousin of hers but scary still. "I can understand the lying. I do it all the time so I guess I'm a hypocrite for scolding you for doing so. So another seer. You have to be in a dream like state to get visions though. I can understand the slight mind reading that comes with that. I can't be overwhelmed with stuff. I tend to black out hence the pain potion I keep on me at all times." She was indicating what she had just given to Snow. "So you are the Fire Ace's sister. He gets around. Or rather there are many of our boys who have challenged him to duels in the past week. How he gets out of all of them is not beyond me. He's crazy but he reminds me..." She shook her head. His agression reminded her so much of the anger and bitterness that she got when Tobias came into her mind when she knew that her brother was angry. It was scary to know such things at times.

"Slytherin...That doesn't surprise me one bit. If I were here I'm sure that it where I would land or god forbid Gryffindor." She shuddered at the thought. "I think I would much prefer to be in another house other then Gryffindor." She held the fire against Gryffindor like any Slytherin would. She didn't like the house of what she had seen most of them were arrogant jerks. Though Slytherin wasn't much better but the fit more to her liking."Judging by your words and how you hold yourself I would have to say you are Ravenclaw." A bigger smile crossed her lips and then she almost smacked herself in the head. "Here I go babbling I'm sorry about that. Mal says I do it way to much at times." It was sign that Stella had broken out of her morbidness and needed to be shut up actually but at times she could do it on her own without Mal or Lance hitting her upside the head.

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[snow]

Snow sat there and listened to the silence that was between them she was happy because it seemed like she was now awake and out of the fogginess that traps her in a world she hates. Listening to Stella talk about lying and her being a hypocrite. “I spend hours watching people quietly sometimes you don't need visions to see what a person is planning to do.” she whispered softly. Snow really didn't know what to think about Stella but they were cousin's and she guessed she was going to have to trust her. She talked about pain potions and how Stella herself black out and had a hard time with pain, well now they had things in common but was that something she should be happy about that or not.

Snow looked up as she heard Ace's name and nodded “Yeah he is my older brother we haven't been here long but he has made a name for himself” she smiled proud of him she was always proud of her brother. “Ace is really protective a few of those boys looked at me the wrong way” she said calmly. “He is well trained and taught at dueling most don't have a chance when it comes to going up against him.”

Listening to Stella talk about Toby and how she would have been placed in Gryffindor reminded her of the conversation that she had with Ace about how she wanted to be in the same house as him but knew she wasn't going to be. She was happy that she was so smart because she didn't want to end up in the other two houses. “ravenclaw is correct but I sadly begged the hat to say Slytherin but it refused saying my wisedom was better fit in this house” she explained softly. Snow laughed when Stella said sorry about talking to much. “It is alright I don't mind I don't talk that much though.” she didn't really know what to say anymore so she sat there “hmm if you are looking for him he is always by the whomping willow or you can just wait til meal time.”

[stella]

Stella was letting feels come through her body. Snow seemed rather sad and frightened in a way. Not too sure if she should be trusting to anyone. It was a way that Stella had felt for a long time as well. She trusted Lance and Mal with her life though. It had taken them a year to get that trust out of her but they had not done anything to make her think that she should not trust them at all. Getting others however to trust was a completely different thing. He cousins that were at Beauxbatons trusted no one at all but eachother. She had felt sorry for them while she had been there. However she had passed out being around then for too long. On top of that they loved the fact that she blew up the potions classroom. It wasn't like she exactly meant too. Okay so that was a lie she was really upset and annoyed and the classroom went boom. That was one of the reasons why she was here after all. Headmaster Karkoff seemed to think that she might do that if he wasn't in the school. However she had in a sense grown up sense then and she had others to keep her in line. She fit better of Durmstrang then she ever did at Beauxbatons.

Stella nodded her head to Snow's comments about only needed to watch people to know what they are planning to do. "Yes that I know but then again I get a reading of the aura and their emotions." She shook her head trying to get the wavy lines of Snow's aura and emotions. She hated it sometimes because she coldn't be in large crowds for too long without a grounder. That was what Mal and Lance were to her when they were at school. Class was easy as she was grounded in the lessons but she knew when everyone else was getting annoyed and such with not doing something right. She hated that she had been born with the extremely sensitive empathy powers. On top of that you knew when she was upset thanks to being about to change her hair color at will or by mood. He hair went from its normal read to black and her eyes to a soft amythesist at the moment. It was her usual thinking getting used to someone else's feeling mood.

The talk about Ace entered her ears. "Yes I have noticed that. I commend him for being able to take on the guys that he did though only a few of them are pretty good duelists. The ace duelists aren't stupid enough to get into a duel or they talk their way out of it at times. Sorry that our guys gave him the wrong looks. They can be stupid like any other boy at times too. Highly intelligent most of the other times." She let out a small laugh. They were extremely smart but they were teenagers and allowed to do stupid things at times. A well trained duelist knew when to pick a fight and when to let it go and she was sure that if one of their ace duelist did such a thing they apologized and got out of it. That was if her cousin Ace didn't get the frst blow out first obviously.

Stella really didn't want to be in another house from her twin. It would drive her even more batty then she was already without out. She would not leave his side ever again once she finally found him. Still if the hat said that she would be in another house she would have to go with it. After all the hat allowed you to at least ask it for a house and if it fit you could get the one you wanted it. If you had the personality that fit for it. Stella knew that Gryffindor was the house of the brave and couragous. Ravenclaw for those with wisdom, and Hufflepuff for those with loyalty. It coud be just as well that her loyalty woudl shine through everything else and place her there but Gryffindor seemed the more likely choice followed by Slytherin which was family house and a place that she would fit well. She let that go when Snow confirmed that she was indeed in Ravenclaw.

"I'm never in the great hall during meal time so it might be we see eachother at the willow." She shuddered at the thought of being in the great hall with all the people. On top of that she had heard that people got sick off the food if they did not make it themselves.

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