Home Sweet Home? (Open)

[calcetines]

Angel stood in the entrance hall, pink-cheeked just from walking from Hogsmeade to Hogwarts. She had just come back from France, it had been much warmer there than England, but Angel had to admit, she was glad to be back. Lessons would start tomorrow, and everybody else was already back from holidays. Angel shivered a bit as she set down her trunk, then brushed the snow from her cloak, it was pretty close to being a blizzard outside. And she had a strong craving for... Something. But she couldn't put her finger on what it was. At the same time she felt nauseous... Angel looked up when she heard footsteps only to see...

[igloogirl]

Gabriella was grinning at her from near the Great Hall. "Welcome back Ang!" she exclaimed, rushing forward to give her cousin a hug. She let go after a moment. "Well, how was France? Was Wolfgang good?" Gabriella stopped herself before she asked too many questions.

[calcetines]

"Well," said Angel, overwhelmed with joy. Of all the people she wanted to see, Gabriella was probably the one she wanted to see the most, net to her mum of course. "Wolfgang's in one piece." said Angel. She felt like throwing up for whatever reason. Perhaps she was just weary from traveling, after all, she had only arrived back in England yesterday to see her parents before going back. "And France is positively beautiful," Angel said in response to Gabriella's other question.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella paused for a moment, Angel smelled awfully weird. Perhaps it was just France, or being with Wolfgang. Because she smelled a little bit like him now, but like something else too, Gabriella couldn't quite place it. "Did you allow yourself to enjoy it?" Gabriella asked teasingly.

[calcetines]

"Why wouldn't I?" Angel said with a small and weary smile. "The second I got to him, it was as if all the worries in the world were gone," She figured that Gabriella felt the same about Isaac. And in a way, Angel had a love for Isaac as well. But more like a brother, he had saved her life twice. "Did you get the parcel I sent you?" Angel asked. She had sent Gabriella an enchanted charm bracelet, the little heart charm flipped open to reveal a wizard's watch and it played a French lullaby if you opened it upside-down.

[igloogirl]

"Of course!" Gabriella replied with a grin. She held up her wrist, revealing the charm bracelet on her wrist. "My favorite part is the French lullaby. Where'd you find it?" Gabriella had been pleased to get such an amazing gift from Angel, but it had to come second next to her engagement ring.

[calcetines]

"I actually got the bracelet from a muggle jeweler in Paris," said Angel, leaning against the wall, she was feeling weak. She was so tired. Traveling wore her out. "I charmed the locket to become a wizard's watch and play the lullaby myself." Angel said, faint note of pride in her voice. It had been difficult, but she got it to work.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella smiled, she had been expecting Angel to say something of the sort. "Well you did a very good job with all that spellwork, Angie," Gabriella replied with a smile. She could tell Angel was proud of the gift, as Gabriella thought she should be.

[calcetines]

"Thanks," said Angel with a smile. She was quite eager to go to bed, completely exhausted from her travels, but whatever they had made for supper in the great hall smelled delicious... She wasn't heading up to the Ravenclaw dorms without some of whatever that was... "What did they serve for supper?" asked Angel. "It smells really good."

[igloogirl]

Gabriella raised an eyebrow, how was she to know what supper had been. She had skipped it. Gabriella inhaled to smell the air. "Smells like ravioli and garlic bread," she replied to Angel, still wondering why her cousin had brought it up.

[calcetines]

"Oh, all right," said Angel. "It smells really good, I think I'll have a small portion." She didn't know why th ravioli sounded so delicious, perhaps she was just longing for Hogwarts cooking. Not that the food wasn't good at Beauxbatons, it just wasn't Hogwarts food. She had recently given up being a vegetarian, the appeal of meat was too strong when you were a werewolf...

[igloogirl]

Gabriella nodded, wondering if Angel had eaten on the way back to Hogwarts. "Well we better get down to the kitchens then, they always have extras," Gabriella replied with a smile. Gabriella automatically reached for Angel's trunk and then stopped herself, wondering if Angel wanted her to carry it.

[calcetines]

"I'll just send it up to the Ravenclaw tower, I can take care of it when I get there." said Angel, pulling out the wand that she had made herself after her old one was broken by Death Eaters. She cast the spell and her trunk sped away up to the tower. "Shall we get going then?" asked Angel.

[igloogirl]

"But of course," Gabriella replied, trying to stay cheerful when she was really quite perplexed. Between Angel's new smell and odd behavior, Gabriella knew that something was wrong with her. She just couldn't figure exactly what it was.

[calcetines]

Angel would have dearly loved to run to the kitchens, but she was far too tired to do so. Not weak like she had been. Her weakness had gone away, perhaps it was the stress-free few weeks she had in France with Wolfgang. Eventually they got down there and Angel reached out to tickle the pear.