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In a quiet desk to one side of the library, Adam Hawk sat alone, a squat quill resting in his hand, snug as a wand. He didn't look at the parchment and ink laid out in front of him. Instead, his eyes surveyed the general milling of students around the room. Most were studying, a few groups quietly chatting amongst themselves. Almost all of the seats were taken, and there were no empty tables in sight. Must have been a lot of hand-ins. It was a perfectly pleasant scene – even Adam, with his generally bleak and irritated outlook, could appreciate that.

'KILL THEM!', the Voice within him shouted. Adam ignored it, as often he did.

With a consigned sigh, he looked down upon the parchment in front of him. He felt the need, every so often, to write something. Not anything too deep, or vastly important. Just something to remind himself of who was in control. With the Voice shouting so loudly inside him, Adam was all too aware of how easy it would be to let it dictate his thoughts. Had he done that, no doubt he'd be rotting away in Azkaban by now with amount of people he had killed. Still, it was a risk he was more than aware of. He had noticed how he had begun to, occasionally, question the Voice more than ignore it. That couldn't be a good sign.

Adam dipped his quill into the inkwell, paused a moment, and began to write:

My name is Adam Taranis Hawk, Eldest of the two Hawk children.

He paused, a memory of Alexander, his younger brother, flashing through his mind. It was hardly 6 months since he had been bitten by a werewolf, sullying the Hawk bloodline. Neither Adam, nor any other member of the family, had spoken to him since. Even his sister, Alex's twin, Adrianna, to the best of Adam's knowledge. He was no longer their brother, Adam knew this, yet it still felt strange to exclude him. He continued:

My blood is pure, first and foremost. I am a Slytherin, and a good one at that. A capable wizard. A good son. I will be a strong leader to my family, and I will keep our bloodline clean.

I am probably insane.

He wrote the last line, as he always did, with a half smile. It was almost funny to him, at this stage, that he couldn't decide if he was mad or not. While the Voice spoke with such conviction, and such strength, Adam never felt under any compulsion to follow it's commands. It was there, of that he was sure, but it was not in control. Was that true insanity? He couldn't be sure. It didn't have a name either, not one that it had made known to Adam at any rate. Was even thinking about the possibility of it being named mad?

Sighing once more, Adam crunched up the length of parchment, tossed it aside, and leant back in his chair, closing his eyes. If he was insane or wasn't, it didn't make too much of a difference. There was, after all, very little he could do about it. As the Voice continued to whisper instructions to kill the other students in the room into Adam's mind, he began to drift off a little, unaware of the footsteps approaching his table...

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"You know darling, you really shouldn't just throw pieces of parchment with this kind of information anywhere." The blond with piercing green eyes laid the crumpled ball back on the table in front of the boy. Katalina found herself strolling through the library actually looking for something to do. It was almost sad how fast she became bored with the idea of school. She needed some action or something to keep her from just running off.

Just as she was browsing through titles and looking for a comfy spot to sit, something rolled to her foot. Just a crumpled bit of parchment. Nothing more. Until she opened it and read it. Kat was nosy like that. She looked at it shocked at what she read, but there was a distinctive half smile on her face. It was definitely interesting. She followed it's trail back to where it had to have come from, which wasn't very far from where she was. Adam Hawk was a reasonably good looking, albeit scruffy guy with very pretty eyes. Which meant he was probably insane.

She gave him a half smile, half smirk that was completely benign. "and don't worry Mr. Hawk, all of the best people are certifiably insane. It's a good thing." then she gave him another knowing but harmless smile.

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Adam's eyes snapped open and he raised his head with admirable speed at the sound of the voice opposite him. Thankfully, he hadn't fallen into a deep sleep – It was hard to do with a disembodied Voice muttering away in your head. Now, though, it was silent, as it was during one on one conversations. It felt to Adam like the Voice was giving him the peace of mind to maintain a sane conversation. That, or it needed time to decide if it wanted someone dead or just hurt. It was often difficult to tell where it would go.

Adam's eyes landed on Katalina de le Vega, and he allowed himself a soft smile. Adam didn't have a great many friends, certainly none close. Kat, though, he had always had a certain admiration for. She was so... self-assured. Confident, like Adam, but more brazen with it. Where Adam used it like a shield, she used it as a weapon, wielding it to command attention. It was impressive. Adam had no idea where such a confidence could come from, but he liked it. She was pure, too, which was a definite plus. And cute, definitely cute. Adam appreciated this last fact for a moment, reclining a little more in his seat. extending his legs to stretch out the last of his drowsiness.

“Oh it's darling, is it now?”, he said, his curt, smooth middle-English voice a little quieter than one would usually speak. It was, after all, a library. That, and Adam never felt much need to speak too loudly. Again, confidence. “Well, Katalina, you most certainly shouldn't be picking up pieces of parch-”. He cut himself off, eyes flickering to the ball of parchment. He had momentarily forgotten it's contents, and only now realised the impact of what Kat had read.


'Nobody can know.', the Voice whispered inside of him, and Adam instantly agreed.

He realised he had been silent for perhaps a second too long. “-ment.”, he finished slowly, before locking eyes with Kat again and forcing another small, soft smile. “But I suppose my great secret is out now. Adam Taranis Hawk, crazier than a bronze Galleon.”. His eyes sparkled as he laughed, looking down at the parchment and running a hand through his hair. “It's good to just write sometimes, these things don't need a reason all that often.”. He tried to be dismissive, as if the parchment meant nothing. He had found it the best way to deflect questions that could lead him into a corner. He looked back up at Kat, and shrugged. “I must apologise unreservedly for ruining your literary experience.”, he said, his smile broadening a little. “I am clearly an awful, nutty human being.”.

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She could literally see recognition flash in his eyes when he saw her. Then again, it was hard not to recognize the girl who made her presence known to everyone in a room. At least, when she wanted to. That was something she was very good at. Making her presence known while keeping her secret a secret. While he questioned her use of the word darling, she spotted the empty seat next to him, and practically threw her bottom into it. When she sat she heard the crinkle of her leather jacket against the seat. And with the same swing of motion, she threw her black clad legs onto the table. Then she turned to look at him up through her thick eyelashes, and gave him a smirk. “It is whatever I want.”

Her smirked turned into a smile, which evolved into a small giggle, and settled back into a smirk. Then he mentioned the parchment. Now, maybe a normal witch wouldn't have caught his pause, but she did. He paused on the word parchment, and that made her curiosity peak. Not enough to show, not just yet, but he definitely had her wondering. Not something easily done when you've been on the planet for over a century. He covered with a smile, and she went along with it, and added a special little sparkle in her eye that most humans couldn't do even if they tried. The blond went along with it. “Yes, it seems so. And if I know your biggest secret, then there's really no more hiding from me, is there?” She smiled wickedly, and winked at him.

She recognized the dismissive behavior, and if that's he way he wanted it she would oblige. However, she knew she wouldn't forget what she read. There was something in him, she didn't quite know what, but something about him became curiouser and curiouser the more she was around him. It was... intriguing. “Nutty? Absolutely. Awful? That's the best kind of person. So don't worry about ruining my library time. In fact, it was welcomed.” Truth. She was so bored before. However, now that something has peaked her interest, she wasn't going away any time soon.

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When Kat sat down and laid her legs on the table, Adam's eyes were immediately drawn to them. He wasn't a lecherous man (far from it in fact, he was woefully inexperienced and often disinterested in such matters), but even he couldn't help but notice something so wonderful in front of his eyes. His mind seemed to forever drift this way when around Kat, he realised. Peculiar,really, since despite being fond of the girl, he knew Kat not very well at all. Still, Adam shook himself and resumed listening, his eyes locked firmly on Kat's, his soft, almost passive smile unwavering.

He considered her line of reasoning fora few moments, but again, the Voice reminded him to say nothing.Truly, he felt no compulsion to do so anyway. It was a part of his life, it had been for longer than he could remember, but it wasn't apart he had ever shared. Once he had asked his father about it, but Arthur Hawk was not the most patient of men for such things, and had dismissed the young Adam's convictions that he had a Voice continually speaking to him. Truthfully, Adam didn't blame the man –It was, after all, rather far-fetched.

Which was good enough reason not to bite. All too aware of the sparkle in Kat's eyes, Adam chuckled softly. “Well, darling, the thing about dark secrets is that the more you tell of them, the less dark they become. And I, for one,rather appreciate my dark secrets remaining at the very least murky.”. He turned a little in his chair, to face her all the better, allowing one arm to rest on the table, the other still laid lazily over the seat-back. “However, I must say, the implication that I am hiding from anyone, let alone yourself, is simply staggering.”.

Adam shook his head, looking down in mock sadness, before flickering his eyes back up and grinning.“Regardless, I'm glad I could avoid ruining your time in this book-infested hellhole.”. He once more looked over the crowd of students, the Voice picking up a little as he did so. They were still milling around with their mixed purposes, so uninteresting, so...impure. “Dear God, to be like that..”, he muttered absently,shook his head, and returned to look at Kat, smile intact. “What brings you along here anyway, Kat? I must admit I've never had you down as a library person.”.

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She watched his eyes travel up the length of her legs, but a blush never came to her cheeks. She was not a modest one. In fact, her smirk grew bigger. “Enjoying the view my dear?” She giggled. Then his eyes locked on her, and she found herself staring at their color. She was glad they weren't brown. Brown was the most boring color to look into, because that's what color everyone had. Of course, she wasn't at all ashamed at looking. She didn't look away swiftly or try to hide it when he looked back. It was a reaction that she lost over time. After almost a century and a half, her modesty had become almost nonexistent. It was something else that set her apart from the masses. That and she was a vampire, but that was a different, more secret, story.

Her eyebrow raised when he said darling in that tone. He was playing with her. Katalina liked that. She had never before spent so much time with the boy, and she was beginning to question why that was. He was far more fun than she originally thought. If he was going to play with her. She was definitely going to play with him too. “Ooooh a mystery. I love a good mystery.” Then he shifted in his seat, looking the epitome of relaxed. She crossed her fingers over her belly, where the faint and only scar on her body was placed. Then she laughed, a little too loudly, and got a very dirty look from the librarian. “I guess I would have to agree with you. Why would anyone want to hide from little old me?” She placed her fingers under her chin and glanced up and to the left in a pose that spoke 'I'm adorable' louder than any words could.

He looked around at the others in the library, and her gaze followed his. He obviously saw them as a sort of infestation. To Katalina however, if they were nothing to her, they were at the very least potential food. Not that they could know that. She smiled at him playfully. “Right again. I'm not. There's not a whole lot I could learn from these books anyway.” I'm older than most of them.” She thought that last part instead of saying it out loud. That was a sad fact. Kat was older than some of the books in the library, and that they used in class. It made her feel old. “The sad truth is that I was bored. There's not a whole lot left that I haven't already seen, discovered, or done. I figured since the library is a place I rarely frequent, maybe I could find something here” Then she smirked at him again. “That's when I found you Adam. Something I hadn't yet discovered... or done.” Her emerald eyes twinkled wickedly. “Just kidding.” Though he definitely was new to her, and all new things excited her.

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