The trials of new powers.

[Shara2007]

"okay" Sarah siad sitting there and doing it starting to feel a lot better.

"Wow how did you know that would work." sarah said when she felt better.

[Xaver]

(Sorry about the absence. I tried to get on. :-\ My apologies.)


Xaver watched the girl, feeling a bit of sympathy for her. He wished he could do the same. He wished the sight of what had happened to himself would actually stirr some queasiness - he wished he wasn't so used to it all. But, he was.

He blinked at Ginny's question, and looked to her, too tired to wince at the stinging of the salve.

He thought for a moment before he responded.
"My story?.."
He paused for another moment.
"I ... I don't know.."
He frowned deeply, and shook his head.
"I get.. bits and pieces. Just fragments of memories. I know I was drugged. I don't remember. I don't know. I get hit with violent flashbacks that knock me completely over even now.."

Xaver sighed.

"I don't remember a lot of whatever happened between the time I went back home.. and when I woke up in some hospital .. somewhere... I can't imagine what they were thinking.. With my wings and everything.."

Uncertainly, he ran his fingers habitually through some of the silken black feathers, frowning.

[Shara2007]

Sarah sit back listening to them talk. She did not feel the strengh to talk so she just started to draw. Sarah was holding a pad and drawling happy pictures.

"Well this is wow. I'm going to fight for helping. I feel bad not being able to help." Sarah siad sitting there then getting quiet.

[Ginny Weasly]

Ginny nodded.
"Okay." She said, soflty. She wasn't fazed by the blood very much. Except for the natural wish to look away, she was very familer with it all.

"Don't worry about it Sarah." Ginny said, as she finished putting salve on Xaver's wounds. She wiped off her hands, and turned to the girl.

"Want me to walk you back now?" She asked.

[Shara2007]

"Sure I guess since I do go classes and things to do later." Sarah siad getting up.

"I hope that I will get to see you again Xaver. Here." Sarah said and then handed him a picture she had drawn of him when he frist showed up. Yawns.

"I guess I sleeper the I though." Sarah Said getting up ready to follow Ginny.

[Ginny Weasly]

She smiled and nodded at Xaver.
"Stay still. I have a spell on this office, so nothing will happen to you. You can relax-"She caught herself, before adding an endearment at the end and just smiled slightly.

"C'mon Sarah." She said, leaving the office, and heading towards the girls common room.

[Shara2007]

"so Professor how do you know Xaver. He seems really nice. After you get past the frist glance." Sarah siad she was so happy that she had powers and that she was metting nice people

[Ginny Weasly]

"Oh..." Ginny blushed slightly, "we went to school around the same time. Hung around with the same crowd of people. Didn't really get to know each other until after I dropped out of school." She said, nonchalantly. In truth, her and Xaver's relationship was very chalant. She knew him very well, or rather, she had known him well. She wasn't that sure anymore, but she wouldn't hesitate to help him.

She smiled at Sarah, thinking to herself. Ginny worried about Xaver when he was away, but she didn't think it her place to check up on him. Not that she always could. She couldn't tap into her power like she used to be able to.

"Anyway, here we are...."Ginny said, opeaning the door to Sarah's house common room. "Oh, by the way....being a student of mine isn't safe. Don't go around trumputing that you have special classes. You can tell people, but be careful." She said, before walking away, back towards her office.

[Shara2007]

"ok thanks Ginny. I'll talk to you later." Sarah siad before going to her room and drawling because she was not tired at all.

[Xaver]

"Thank you, Milady."
Xaver gave a small, polite smile, and a small bow at the waist, his wings drawing to rest at his back. He accepted the drawing, looking at it for a moment, and nodding.
He looked to Ginny when she spoke, a warm smile playing his lips all the while, and nodded. He knew he would be safe. Well. He would be comfortable.
He didn't say anything.
He knew he shouldn't.
His heart was in knots, thumping oddly against his ribcage. He couldn't tell if it was the effect of the salve, or the presence of Ginny herself.

As they left, Xaver looked at the drawing, for a moment marveling in its greatness, and then marveling that he was even interesting enough to draw. She must have been bored, he thought. Just like any other bowl of fruit. He mentally nodded to himself, setting the drawing onto a table.
He felt his wounds slowly healing. It surprised him a bit - though that in itself was unnatural. Xaver was not very much of human ethnicity, and wounds upon his physical form usually healed quickly if they didn't kill him. Usually.
He wished he could remember.
He touched his fingertips to the wrap around his middle, concentrating, and finding it satisfying that every minute, he felt better. He was draining his energy in a dramatically quick way, but he knew it was worth it.

In less than a few moments, Xaver slumped to the floor, all bandages in the garbage, drained of energy and all strength for the moment.. but physically, completely healed - healthy. Better, really.
Mentally was a different story. Emotionally, mentally - he was a wreck. Supernatural powers can't cure everything. Some scars most never see.

On his bare stomach, an arm tucked under his head, his enormous wings open, spread out over the entire office floor, he slept.
Thankful and at peace for the first time, since the last time, he had seen her...

[Ginny Weasly]

Ginny came into her office and sloftly closed the door. She stood there, looking at him, her eyes soft. She watched him for a moment before stepping over him to get to her desk. She decided to let him sleep while she worked.

But she couldn't work. She couldn't concentrate on any of it. She kept looking at him, watching him breath. He was just so hypnotyzing. She missed him everytime he went away. It made her ach. But she'd never tell him how much.
It was too much to explain.

She sighed and sat back, crossing her legs, and tapping a pen off her knee while watching him.

[Xaver]

Xaver awoke to soft tapping - so rythmatic it almost lulled him back into oblivion. But in waking up, his eyes flickered open, and he saw her. The face that had drifted into his dreams years ago. Ginny.
He smiled. Slowly, carefully, Xaver pushed himself off the floor. He stood, and straightened, yawning slightly. He dropped his arms after a little stretch, and then simply looked at her.

She didn't look too different from the last time he had seen her... It wasn't like it had been a century or anything..
But he knew she was changed. It was only nature for those of the living to change within their surroundings and circumstances. He had, he knew. He didn't particularly want to think of how much. He didn't know how much.
But what Xaver knew had not changed, was his feelings for her. He had missed her. Missed her so much it bordered on physical pain. He didn't know if she had changed so much, that her feelings had changed... but he tried not to think about that.

"Ginny," he said softly.

Xaver smiled, warmth etching into the tired lines of his face.

[Ginny Weasly]

She watched him as he stood. He face showed no expression, but her eyes held a slight warmth. She kept tapping her pen, annoyingly. She didn't move other then that. Except her eyes.

She observed him. He was a bit scary looking. If he'd been a muggle, he'd probably be thought to be a hoodlum. Still, she couldn't help but think of how good looking he was. She couldn't stop thinking how attractive he was.

She kept watching as she spoke in response. "Hello again Xaver," she said lowly.

[Xaver]

Xaver ran a hand through his hair and found her eyes - finding, that she was watching him.. observing him.. He looked down at himself. Well. So much for looking good for when he found her again..

He had wanted to go looking for her, though he thought he might know where she was, for ages. She was the beauty that had caught the shadows of his life by surprise. She was more a part of him, more of what kept him going, than even he realized.

And here, he had found her, and he was looking like a wild cur.
But then.. he guessed it wouldn't have worked out perfectly even if he had tried real, real hard. He never wanted perfect, though. That, whatever it was, would be boring. He wanted a wild, bold, certain red-headed source of beauty. That, was the perfection he dreamed of. And he hadn't known just how much until that very moment.

Xaver swallowed, and light-heartedly, smiled.

"Hello again, to you."

He would normally have, with a thought, been instantly changed into fresher clothes, but he didn't have enough recouperated power to hold himself together, really, so instead, he seated himself into the chair across the desk from her.

"How have you been?"

[Ginny Weasly]

"Better then you, if you appearance is anything to judge by."

She still barely moved, and kept her thoughts deeply hidden. As well as her emotions. As a girl, she was prone to mood swings. But not like this. One second, she was overjoyed at the sight of him. The next, she was angry that he had disappeared. And in a few seconds, she was sad because she had missed him.

She had to force herself to sit still. She wanted to jump up and hug him. She wanted to kiss him, and wanted to cry on his shoulder. She wanted to slap him.

But, she was an adult now. She'd have to act like it.