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bewitchinghaze ([personal profile] bewitchinghaze) wrote2014-07-04 03:28 pm

Deconstructing A Curse [Open]

 It's been three days since Val dragged Lou home from the police station and found the cursed plant by her bedside. Three days of trying to figure out what kind of plant it was, exactly. She's at the end of her rope with the goddamn menace, and that feeling of uselessness brought on by Yura's visit, and the news of her grandmother's passing, has reached its peak. It's time for drastic measures.

She tosses her mage kit onto her shoulder and writes a quick note to Riley, pinning it on the fridge to let her know where she is. Gathering the plant into her arms, she heads out in the the woods behind the house. She knows of a clearing surrounded by hawthorns (known for their magic enhancing abilities) and various wild flowers that will help contain negative magics so she heads straight there.

Setting the plant down in the middle of everything, she lays a circle of herbs around the edge of the clearing and calls up a bubble of magic to contain her workings. Everything set, she sits tailor style in the middle of the clearing and begins to clear her mind and falls into her magic. The green fire at the centre of her is blazing in response to her surroundings and ready to dig itself into this curse. Val lets a vine of it reach into the slimy feeling black magic around the plant, searching for the chinks in the curse. She sorts through the different bits and pieces of magics, tugging away a curse for hallucinations, another for distrust... Finally reaching the centre of it all and the toughest bit of magic, she shoves a blaze of her magic at it.

The backlash is spectacular. She's physically knocked back from the plant, the release of the curse exploding it, and the pot its in, sending sharp shards of pottery to slice cuts into her cheek and arms. Hitting the ground, she has a brief moment to think 'Fuck' and 'I hope someone finds that fucking note' before she blacks out.
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[personal profile] jiyunnies 2014-07-04 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Riley wakes up late in the day, her first day off in a long time. She thinks it's a bit odd that Val didn't wake her up bright and early, but then her sister knows how overworked Riley's been over the past few weeks and given their recent news, she figures her sister probably wanted to let her rest for once. She stretches, pads into the kitchen and grabs a bagel, stuffing it into her mouth as she reads the note on the fridge. Just Riley and Flavia for a few hours then.

She's busy opening a can of soft cat food for Flavia, the cat stretching lazily across the kitchen counter as she waits for her treat, when Riley suddenly feels a pain against her cheek as the wind gets knocked out of her. She falls back onto her butt, Flavia jumping down to make sure she's okay. "Oh shit." Riley's back on her feet in a moment, catching her breath as she grabs her bag and rushes out the door.

In a few minutes, she finds the clearing the sisters have used plenty of times for various spells and practicing. She finds Val on her back, knocked out. "Soo-Yun! Soo-Yun, wake up." Riley pats her sister's cheek, sending a glow of magic into her.
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[personal profile] jiyunnies 2014-07-04 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Riley pushes Val back down onto the ground gently. "Ya, lay down for a moment. Let your head rest."

"You scared the crap out of me," she says, touching her own face. "I felt the explosion from the house. What the hell are you doing out here?"
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[personal profile] jiyunnies 2014-07-04 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
She runs a hand over Val's head, easing the pain as much as she can. She chews her lip, remembering the way Val and Moira described Lou's behaviour that day. "That makes sense. It did seem really out of character for her."

"Stop squirming, I'm fixing your pretty face." Riley touches a finger to her cheek, focusing a tiny orb of healing magic on Val's skin. "So if it backfired this strongly, someone definitely didn't want to be found."
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[personal profile] jiyunnies 2014-07-04 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"What about her old cases? Anyone bitter about a sentencing? I mean, a judge has to make a lot of enemies throughout their career." She eyes the plant, reaching a hand out to smooth Val's hair. "If someone's gone through this much trouble to terrorize, Lou, they have to be bad."
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[personal profile] jiyunnies 2014-07-04 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Riley looks a bit worried. "Anything you can do to find out if it was the same person?"
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[personal profile] jiyunnies 2014-07-05 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
"She's gone missing? Like, Corrine Flynn kind of missing?"
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[personal profile] jiyunnies 2014-07-05 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
"That doesn't sound like Lou..." She lifts a hand and soothes Val's hair again, this time sending a wave of relief into her head. "Do you think she's in trouble?

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[personal profile] weatherornot 2014-07-05 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Genevieve had never been in a place like Siren Cove before. Hell, she'd never been out of Louisiana before so all the forest and rocky shoreline in places was somewhat fascinating. She wouldn't have thought she was the kind of person to go for hikes but she actually liked it. She'd even invested some of her meager savings in a pair of decent running shoes that made navigating the forest easier. It was kind of nice to stumble upon an interesting spot here and there for some quiet contemplation. She never knew what she would find in the area surrounding the town.

What she did not expect to find though was a body. That was her first thought, that she'd stumbled upon someone that was dead. Which was why she almost just turned and walked away because she did not need that kind of trouble. But if the girl wasn't dead...

Kneeling over the body she reached out and put a hand to the girl's neck to feel a pulse there and breathed a sigh of relief. Of course, now things got a bit complicated.

"Okay," she said. "Beautiful girl unconscious in the woods. Am I supposed to kiss you to wake you up or something? Or just call 911."
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[personal profile] weatherornot 2014-07-05 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)

When the girl gave a bit of a moan, Genevieve almost jumped. She hadn't even done CPR or anything and the girl was suddenly coming around, which was probably good. That meant she probably wasn't seriously injured and hopefully she wouldn't blame Genevieve for whatever had happened.

"Nope, not Riley," she said, reaching out to brush some hair away from the girl's face, mostly to have something to do with her hands as she knelt next to the girl. "I'm Genevieve. You didn't eat an apple an old woman gave you, did you?"

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[personal profile] weatherornot 2014-07-06 12:25 am (UTC)(link)

Oh shit, it looked like the girl's head might have bounced when it hit the ground, which was seriously not good at all. Or maybe that was just Genevieve overreacting to have the girl pass out.

"Come on, Val," she said, lightly patting the girl's cheeks, because that's clearly what you did to someone that had passed out. "This was starting out as a beautiful Disney story only with lesbians and then you passed out again. Come on, wake up."

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[personal profile] weatherornot 2014-07-06 02:46 am (UTC)(link)

Okay, that was something. There was the sort of noises that Genevieve made when she'd drank way, way too much the night before and had to get up before noon for some reason. Which meant that she was probably feeling super miserable. She gave the other girl a gentle shake, not wanting to disturb her too much.

"If you don't wake up I'm going to have to slap you harder," she pleaded. "And I don't think either of us wants that."

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[personal profile] weatherornot 2014-07-06 03:07 am (UTC)(link)

"Oh good, oh good, you're conscious," she said, sighing in relief. At least now if someone else wandered around it wouldn't look so bad. Of course, now if she just left the girl it would look really bad to the girl. Looking carefully through the girl's bag, she knew it wasn't good to go poking around in a witches bag. Finding the Wakebloom she pulled it out.

"Alright, Sleeping Beauty, drink up."

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[personal profile] weatherornot 2014-07-06 03:29 am (UTC)(link)

"Well, you're awake and that's what counts," Genevieve said with a sigh of relief. So maybe it would have been awesome to wake her with a kiss or something, but this was probably for the best. Especially with all the coughing and the watery eyes.

"And no problem. I swear I had nothing to do with whatever made you pass out though. I was just hiking and found you."

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