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[capt_angie]

Outside the confines of  the bar proper, Angelina is flying over the lake. Every now and then she raises a hand and wipes it over her eyes. In the attacks yesterday, her parents were murdered by the Death Eaters. There were no bodies, but the amount of blood that was spilled in their home... there is no doubt in anyones mind that they are dead. 

While Angelina flies, she tries not to think about what happened, but it's not easy to forget, even just for a while.

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[capt_angie]

She wipes at her eyes again and pushes her hair out of her face.

"What are you doing out here?"

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

An easy shrug.

"Valking."

(He'd been walking all night, and ended up here. It didn't seem right to sleep, so he just kept going.)

"Vhat are you doing out here?"

[capt_angie]

She offers him a shrug of her own in return.

"Flying. Practising."

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

"Ah." He makes a vague gesture, "As obvious."

A pause.

Cautiously, "I suppose I should ask vhy you are upset."

[capt_angie]

She takes a shuddering breath and after a moment she replies simply, in a small voice "they got my parents."

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

This time he doesn't say "Ah," he doesn't say anything. Just stands there, watching nothing in particular. Still and silent, like a stone.

Finally, "I'm sorry."

And it sounds sincere, for once.

[capt_angie]

"Thank you."

What else can she say?

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

Perhaps too soon, he says, "Ve vill beat them. Ve vill stop them, before long."

[capt_angie]

"I know we will," she says defiantly, pulling her shoulders back and standing up straighter. It's a fighting stance, and something about the way she says it suggests that she will die fighting rather than let Voldemort win.

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

Krum nods, and folds his hands, looking out over the lake.

He's never really been one for speaking much.

[capt_angie]

Silence reigns for a few minutes before Angelina says in a quiet voice "I was drafted last week."

She doesn't know what promts her to tell him, when she hasn't told anyone else. She just needed to tell someone and he was there.

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

Krum frowns.

"Vhat do you mean?"

[capt_angie]

"I mean that last week I recieved a note telling me to go to a place in Diagon Alley to sign up and fight. It was voluntary and I could have left, but I didn't."

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

"Vhat are you going to do?"

[capt_angie]

"What I have to. Fly, and fight."

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

Curious, "Fly?"

[capt_angie]

"They think that You-Know-Who is going to use his own flyers, so the Ministry set up their own squad."

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

"Ah."

Krum considers for a moment.

"I vill come vith you I think, yes? To fly and fight also. My parents vill be safe vithout me, and there is nothing I can do for those already dead. I vill join."

[capt_angie]

She blinks and looks up at him.

"You... you'd do that?"

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

Krum shrugs.

(It's not like he's got anything else to do.)

[capt_angie]

"Thanks you," she says in a quiet voice. "We need all the help we can get, Viktor."

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

"It is not a problem."

He grins a little. "I vill bring my broom from home. It vill be just like Qvidditch, yes? Exciting maybe."

[capt_angie]

She shrugs.

"Maybe.

I'll tell them that you're coming. Think you can make it to a training session tomorrow afternoon?"

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

Krum doubts he needs training, but he nods regardless.

"Yes."

[capt_angie]

"Alright then," she nods.

She gives him a place and a time.

"I'll see you there tomorrow then, yeah?"

[sullen-seeker.livejournal.com]

"I suppose you vill."

It's quiet by the lake, and just a little chilly. Viktor takes one last glance across the water, and then slips his hands into his pockets and heads inside.