All Too Well

[SARAH JANE FINNIGAN]

When Sarah slowly opened her eyes, she had no idea where she was or what had happened. A part of her wanted to get up, but another, louder part of her told her that it wouldn't be wise. She needed to stay still. She attempted to move her hand but saw that nothing happened. Her hand was numb. Her arm was numb all the way from her fingers to her shoulder.

That was when the memories came back to her. The man in the Alley. The wolf. She moved her wand and half of her mind for less than one second and that was when he went in for his attack. A man looking for Vanessa. She couldn't remember who it had been at the moment, though she could remember that she had known the man, she had seen his face before and at the time she had known his name. Though neither of them uttered a name. Conversation was minimal. She found herself out numbered. A man and a wolf. And when she went to stun the wolf, she found herself on the ground, covered in scraps an bruises. Before she had known what was going on, her arm was in shooting pain and she felt as if she couldn't move. She remembered looking up at the sky wondering what would happen to her. That was the last thing that she remembered.

Sarah closed her eyes again and whimpered at the memory. Sarah was tough. She was strong. Even when she was having a vision of pain, she wouldn't cry. She would bit her lips together and force herself to stay as composed as she could. But right now, all she wanted to do was cry. She had seen this coming. She had had a vision not to long before of a man in an Alley standing over her and cursing her. She had been to distracted with work and with the boy to think to much about the vision. It had been a warning, like all of her visions. She wanted to kick herself for not doing more.

TAGGED: MADISON LEANN ENTWHISTLE @eliza LAVENDER QUINN FINNIGAN SEAMUS BRAEDAN FINNIGAN @harry JAMES SIRIUS POTTER @vanessa THOMAS ARTHUR WEASLEY @neville and any other Potters, Weasley's and friends who want to be there!

[SEAMUS BRAEDAN FINNIGAN]

Seamus had gotten an owl while he was working about Sarah. He had immediately put his work down and took his leave to get to St. Mungo's. He was worried about the attack. And while he'd worked in the Ministry and knew what was going on, having some of his best friend's own children attacked he couldn't believe that his own daughter had been attacked by the Black Army.

He'd quickly apparated to the hospital and made his way to find his oldest daughter. He'd made it before she'd woken up and he was sitting in the corner of the hospital room as he waited to find out what was happening. Before he'd come into the room he'd stopped to speak to a healer about her and found out that she'd been attacked. The frustrated father unable to do much of anything to help his daughter. So he sat in the corner so his need to take over the situation wouldn't take over. He wouldn't even know what he was doing when it came to healing.

When she'd woken up he jumped up from the chair he was sitting in and he came to her side. Her eyes had closed and he heard the noise come from her. ”Sarah, dear, are you alright?” he asked her. He was clearly frantic but attempting to keep his cool. He felt so helpless and Seamus was not used to being helpless. He'd always had a hard time just sitting back for things. So very much he wanted to help her.

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Tagged: SARAH JANE FINNIGAN
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[AUSTIN BRADY KIRKE]

Austin once again was coming home from practice when he got the floo call. Another one of his friends had been attack and it was starting to worry him. How long before whoever it was got tired of simply hurting them and he had to go to a funeral? He didn't want to be the one to think negatively not when Sarah was alive and almost okay. The problem with that was he was pretty sure that someone was targeting his friends specifically and well, didn't that mean he had to be next?

He sort of hoped that no one would be next, that this was completely random and there was no pattern except he kind of knew it wasn't. There was a such thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time but this was ridiculous. Changing into sweats and a t-shirt he apparated to the hospital and walked to the desk. After getting the room number he rushed into the door seeing her father and then Sarah lying in bed. Sighing he walked over and nodded his head in the direction of his friends father.

"Oh gosh Sarah, I was worried." he finally got out as he looked over her to assess the damage that was done. He wasn't the type of person that could just watch their friend lay down hurt. He wanted to help so bad he just didn't think he could do anything, besides hunt down the person who hurt her and probably get hurt in the process.

[THOMAS ARTHUR WEASLEY]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=width,500,true] [style=background-color:#000202; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px][style=text-align: center][/style][style=text-transform: lowercase; font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -2px; font-size: 42px; text-align: right; color:#C3926C; font-style: italic; padding-right: 20px; margin-top: -25px; text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000; position: relative; z-index: 1; margin-bottom: -15px;] LIKE, "EVERYTHING'S FINE" [/style][style=background-color: #2C2A27; width:502px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: center; height: 10px;] [/style][/style][style=background-color:#000202; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px][style=font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; padding: 25px; margin-top: -10px; color: CCCCCC;] //let's lie to each other one more time// His feet struck declaratively, urgently; he'd stepped straight out of apparition into stride without missing a beat. Everything since that owl from his mother had arrived to notify Thomas that Sarah had apparated into St. Mungo's and promptly passed out had been a blur. He was acting on instinct and even as his wits caught up with him, reminding him the kind hornet's nest he was now practically running into headlong, there was a part of him that was doing everything in its power to suppress that. Everyone would surely be there at some point, most obviously Sarah, but also Madison - perfect Madison who loved so much it hurt - and his mother too. After all she had been the one to summon him. Even James would probably make an appearance, though it might take the owl a bit longer to reach him; and he'd better... for Merlin's sake even Austin had managed to beat the lot of them here. How long could he keep pretending like nothing had happened? The only answer he could give for why he'd kept it secret was simultaneously selfish and selfless - he knew what he and Sarah had done would completely break three hearts. And how does a son tell his mother that he has failed her in one of the most tragic ways a man can fail the woman who taught him how to treat women? 'How do you tell your mother than you cheated on the love of your life?' As Thomas rounded the corner and reach the door leading into the hospital room, his mind rushed with thoughts only of Sarah, thoughts that were wrong and right, protective brother and one-time-lover, forbidden and suitable, all at once. In it all, as he looked down from the foot of the bed at her with her arm dressed in a sling, a single word was what came to his lips, quiet and soberly: "Who?" Acting out in vengeance would be incredibly selfish and incredibly stupid; in his current state of emotional turmoil it would also be a sure path to a hospital bed and room of his own, an experience he knew all too well. Seeing the distraught Mr. Finnegan made him want to act even more - 'just give me a name.' Reckless was not Thomas' style. But so much of what he looked back on that he'd done recently... there wasn't a better word to describe than that. So maybe now he was reckless. //only everything was oh so wrong// [/style][/style][style=background-color: #2C2A27; color: #CCCCCC; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 1px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;]outfit; pictured here. words; 414. notes; lyrics: magic bullets - "will scarlet" ; tags below [/style][style=font-family: arial narrow; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1px; text-align: center;]TEMPLATE BY LITTLE BITTY PRETTY ONE @ CAUTION 2.0[/style]

TAGS: SARAH JANE FINNIGAN, MADISON LEANN ENTWHISTLE, JAMES SIRIUS POTTER, PATRICIA ELISE WEASLEY, SEAMUS BRAEDAN FINNIGAN, AUSTIN BRADY KIRKE

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Vanessa almost freaked when she heard the news about what happened to Sarah. It was obvious to her as well why it happened. The same reason why George and Freddie's shop was attacked. The Black Army had found out Vanessa was being protected, and they were after her friends. Her stomach grew ill at this. She was the cause of all this. Her secret had cost so many so much. She felt like just giving herself up to the Black Army, then taking her own life to spite them.

But she knew she couldn't do that. She would betray the love and trust of all those who vowed to protect her. And to die that way would be to die a coward. No, she would not back down and hide anymore. If her wicked parents thought she was a powerful witch, then maybe she was. But they would find the powerful witch was opposing them, not standing at their side.

For now, there was Sarah to think about. She made her way to St. Mungo's and slowly walked in the room. When she saw Sarah there, the tears came back.

"Sarah... Sarah, I'm so sorry," she said softly.

SARAH JANE FINNIGAN

[SARAH JANE FINNIGAN]

Sarah wasn’t surprised that the first voice that she had heard was her fathers, but she was thankful that it was. Sarah loved her dad, he was her hero, and the mere fact that he had been there before she woke up made her feel better and less afraid almost instantly. It took her a few minutes to find her voice but when she opened her eyes again and saw her father standing over her, she managed to choke out, “Dad.” And for a split second, she wondered if he was disappointed in her for not being able to defend herself better. She always tried to be strong like he was. She wanted to be able to fight like he had and be able to defend herself and her friends and loved ones. Had she already failed?

When Austin came through the door next, Sarah turned her head a bit to look at him before a cut in her neck began to pull and she winced and laid her head back on the pillow. She was glad to see him though, she could hardly remember the last time that she had seen him and it made her happy that he had come to see her. She wondered who had told them all, perhaps they just sent an owl to her parents and then they had told everyone else. She always wondered exactly how things like that worked. “Hey.” she said softly to him. “Don’t be worried…” her voice was very weak and quiet, but she did manage a smile.

Thomas was the next to enter the room, and to be honest, Sarah wasn’t surprised that he was one of the first to arrive. When she saw him, she almost felt her breath catch in her chest, which lead to a small coughing fit before she was able to settle back into her pillow. She hadn't seen him very much lately. He stood at the foot of her bed and looked over her arm and the rest of her visible injuries. Sarah wasn’t sure what to say to him. He had been her best friend besides Madison for so long, but that was before that night. She loved him. That was for sure. But she knew that she didn't love him in that way, it just wasn't mean to be. Though, seeing him so upset and protective reminded her of her love for him, even if it was mostly as a brother. “No. Thomas. Don’t think that way. I don’t want you to end up here again…” She could remember when it was her crying outside the hospital room door after he and James had been attacked. She and Madison had sat outside and cried for hours and hours. That, she knew, was when her feelings had changed. 

Vanessa came in and Sarah gave her a soft smile as well. She knew that her friend was going to blame herself. Not to say that she wasn’t involved. Sarah knew that she had been attacked because she was hiding Vanessa and was protecting her in her own home, but she didn’t blame Vanessa. She loved the girl and would do anything to protect her and keep her safe. That was what being a member of the Order was all about. “It’s not your fault.” she insisted.

((I tried to reply to everyone, hope this is good! Anyone else who hasn't joined yet but wants to is still welcome to (and please do), I just wanted to throw a little reply in for Sarah so the ones already here can post again if they want to, so I'm just going to tag everyone I mentioned, but everyone else is still welcome of course ))

@vanessa THOMAS ARTHUR WEASLEY AUSTIN BRADY KIRKE SEAMUS BRAEDAN FINNIGAN

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Neville then walked in, a wealth of worry on his face, which shouldn't have surprised anyone. It was good to see so many friends in there, but of course he had come to see Sarah and make sure she was alright. Sarah was as close as a daughter to the Longbottoms, and to hear she was attacked set off a number of emotions in Neville- again worry, and anger. Neville was tired of the Black Army feeling they could do as they pleased and was ready to show his Gryffindor courage again and fight.

"Hello Sarah," he said, trying to smile and not show his worry to upset the girl. He then placed a bouquet of flowers on the table next to the many already there. He turned around a sighed a bit. "I just... well I want to say..." His anger then took over a bit. "We're going to find who did this to you, Sarah. They're going to pay!"

SARAH JANE FINNIGAN

[THOMAS ARTHUR WEASLEY]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=width,500,true] [style=background-color:#000202; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px][style=text-align: center][/style][style=text-transform: lowercase; font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -2px; font-size: 42px; text-align: right; color:#C3926C; font-style: italic; padding-right: 20px; margin-top: -25px; text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000; position: relative; z-index: 1; margin-bottom: -15px;] LIKE, "EVERYTHING'S FINE" [/style][style=background-color: #2C2A27; width:502px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: center; height: 10px;] [/style][/style][style=background-color:#000202; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px][style=font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; padding: 25px; margin-top: -10px; color: CCCCCC;] //let's lie to each other one more time// Sarah was absolutely right. That one thing that Thomas wanted most at that very moment - escape through retaliation, firing hex after hex after hex while he funneled his rage at things that included but weren't limited to this through his wand arm into what was presently a blank-faced, nondescript body in his mind's eye... it would likely get him either hurt or killed. And while getting away from the trouble he'd caused that easily sounded like a good idea now, he was quickly reminded of the pain it would heap on his parents, Tanner, Madison, and even Sarah herself. All the same, he made no promises, other than that if he went, he wouldn't go alone or underprepared. "What didn't kill me made me stronger," he said, a bit reactively before giving his own words a bit of careful thought. "You'll see. It will do the same for you." That much was true. When he and James had been attacked, damn near killed, initially it had made him question a number of things about his life, but it had also galvanized his resolve about certain others - like becoming an auror and that Madison was the love of his life and that he shouldn't let anything stop him from pursuing that dream. You look like a complete jackass on that end now, don't you? The former-Professor Longbottom's arrival felt like confirmation of what he'd told Sarah. Thomas had heard all the stories about him from his uncles, if ever there was someone who embodied being stronger in the broken places it was Neville Longbottom. Thomas' attention shifted to Vanessa, who looked as though she was wearing the burden of Sarah's attack on her shoulders like one hundred pounds of chain. For a brief moment he swelled with a sense of true nobility that he felt he didn't deserve. "You can't blame yourself. I'd have done exactly what she did to protect you - so would anyone else here or anyone in the Order," he reassured her. "We look out for our own and that includes you." It was the truth. If it hadn't been his family's shop that the Black Army laid waste to, it would have been another Order member's business; if it wasn't Sarah, it would have eventually been another of them. The responsibility lay solely with the coward or cowards that seemed afraid of a fair fight. //only everything was oh so wrong// [/style][/style][style=background-color: #2C2A27; color: #CCCCCC; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 1px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;]outfit; pictured here. words; 401. notes; lyrics: magic bullets - "will scarlet" ; tags below [/style][style=font-family: arial narrow; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1px; text-align: center;]TEMPLATE BY LITTLE BITTY PRETTY ONE @ CAUTION 2.0[/style]

TAGS: SARAH JANE FINNIGAN, MADISON LEANN ENTWHISTLE, JAMES SIRIUS POTTER, PATRICIA ELISE WEASLEY, SEAMUS BRAEDAN FINNIGAN, AUSTIN BRADY KIRKE, @vanessa, @neville

[SARAH JANE FINNIGAN]

Sarah didn't want anyone to get hurt for her. She didn't want to see anymore of the people that she loved in pain. And she knew that it wasn't all because of her. The members of the order and her friends wanted to fight for what was right and what was good, but knowing that it was her lying in a hospital bed was lighting the current flame made her feel so guilty. She should have been better able to defend herself. Why had she failed so horribly? She had always been quick with her wand and was always quick to master spells. Yet, here she was, A failure. And all of her faults laid out for the world (or, maybe just the hospital room) to see. She was probably being over dramatic, but it was a truly sore subject.

"I don't want anyone to make this personal." Sarah insisted and attempted to sit up a little, careful of her arm the most. "Thomas is right, this will make me stronger. All of the attacks on us have made us stronger, and as a whole, we are stronger and we will heal and fight back." Sarah said. She was glad to see Neville come in. He and his wive had been so amazing to her, they had given her a job and always treated her like family: perhaps because of how good friends they were with her parents. It was nice that he so many people worried about her. But at the same time, she didn't want everyone to make a big deal out of this. If they made a big deal about it and let it slow them down, the Black army would surly use this distraction to get ahead.

THOMAS ARTHUR WEASLEY SEAMUS BRAEDAN FINNIGAN AUSTIN BRADY KIRKE @vanessa @neville and others.