Toast (Slytherin)

[malfoy]

Isaac sat at the Slytherin table, absently eating a slice of toast with marmalade. Classes started too early in his opinion. Not being much of a morning person at all, he preferred to sleep until noon, sometimes later. He eyed the jug of coffee for a moment, then without hesitation, poured himself a large cup of black coffee. He drained it quickly, the bitterness awakening him slightly. Isaac then returned to his toast, staring off into space as he chewed and swallowed. Maybe he'd cut a few classes this morning and go back to bed...

[darkfall]

Allison came and plopped into the seat next to her brother. Like her brother, she loved to sleep in, but she loved Hogwarts more than anything. It was her safe haven, a way to be apart from her parents. Then again, she was never truly apart necessarily. They had spies, to keep an eye on her. But they left Isaac alone. Shaking off her nasty thoughts, she turned to her brother and gave him a playful shove. "Morning sleepy."

[malfoy]

"Hullo Allison." Isaac said, covering up the expression on his face that the toast had tasted strange. Normal food was disgusting. He felt unable to force down another bite of toast, so he placed it back on hiis plate and decided he would wait for Allison to finish eating.

[darkfall]

Allison looked up at her brother. "Grey's fading Izzy" she whispered. That was there little thing, a little code her and her brother shared. Isaac and Allison had shared secrets a few nights back, and now they had a bit more of a relationship now.

[malfoy]

Isaac groaned, he had to apply that Charm every half hour in order to maintain the steely gray color he could bewitch his eyes to become. But it seemed his vampire traits were reluctant to be covered up, the spell he had placed on his skin to make it a little less pale had not worked at all. Isaac closed his eyes and performed the spell non-verbally. "Better?" Isaac inquired.

[darkfall]

Allison nodded, her mouth full of pumpkin juice. She swallowed and looked back to Isaac. "Much." she replied. Without another word, she pulled out a copy of the Daily Prophet. She began scanning the pages, her blue-grey eyes skittering across the page. She came to a rather startling headline.

ANOTHER MUGGLE FAMILY MURDERED, THE CHANCE OF ANTI-MUGGLE GROUPS NOW HIGHLY UNLIKELY

Allison, starting wide eyed at the page, scrolled down to the bottom of the article. It was printed yesterday.

[malfoy]

Isaac read the article over his sister's shoulder. Although he was never much of a reader, since he became a vampire, he could read four times as quickly as most humans. "The wizarding world has seen it all before." Isaac sighed. "First the muggles, then they'll be going after the muggle-borns, then the half-bloods, and eventually purebloods that get in their way. They'll ignore it of course."

[darkfall]

Allison looked back towards her brother and grimaced. "As much as I hate to admit it, you're right Izzy. The Minister will stop at nothing to keep this all quiet." she whispered back, the phrase tasting rancid on her tongue.

[malfoy]

Isaac nodded, then bit his tongue, a bit more hardly than he meant to. He felt his teeth slice half-way through it, although it did not hurt. He kept his mouth closed tightly, no one was to see what he had done. A weird tingling sensation pulsed through his mouth. His tongue had healed itself. Peculiar.

[darkfall]

Allison took no mind and crumpled up the Daily Prophet, throwing it behind her. It landed in the middle of the aisle, and she didn't make any move to pick it up. She was rather lazy like that. More like frightened...

[malfoy]

Isaac didn't care, sometimes living your whole life in a place where every mess you made was cleaned up by someone else, you never really touched your own messes. The subtle proof was a hidden house-elf scurrying forward and picking up the crumpled newspaper. It had been like that all Isaac's life, even before Hogwarts. He kneaded his forehead with his knuckles, thinking.

[darkfall]

Allison looked questioningly at Isaac, but didn't say a word. Even though her brother and hers relationship had been soaring through the roof for only a few nights now, she still knew him well enough that if it was genuinely important to her, she would find out eventually. One way or another...

[malfoy]

Isaac placed his hand on the table, being overly cautious this time. He didn't want to do any explaining if he disrupted breakfast by suddenly cracking the Slytherin table in two. "Things are different, Alli. Whether the ministry decides to acknowledge it or not." Isaac said in a voice so low only Allison could possibly hear him.

[darkfall]

Allison nodded her head slightly in agreement. No one could notice, except the boy next to her. She gave him a slight glare from the corner of her eyes and he backed off. She looked back towards Isaac, nodded again, then looked back down at her food.

[malfoy]

"You should eat something." Isaac said after an awkward pause, and noticing that Allison wasn't touching her food. At least he had an excuse, food tasted awful now, and had a tendency to make him ill. His diet of blood was just fine.