Choices - open

[nixnight]

nix walked around the trophy room with a small bit of paper in her hand that was folded up many times, her hair was down and around her eyes with her currently tucked up as she walked and thought. She had always thought she was going to go in to the broom making business after school but that had all changed with the birth of her son so she had to do something different and so she had come here on a comment someone had made once. She'd been told that she was good with broom indeed but she shouldn't be making them, she should be riding them in some qudditch team and making a name for herself.

That's why she was here, she was standing beside quid ditch cup and she was sighing to herself. Her and her team had done most well in the last two years and she knew she was good on her broom and it had come to hit her that she really would be good on a qudditch team somewhere. She sighed again and then nodded to herself and walked back over to a small cluster of golden cups and she smiled as she read the name on the closest one, "Nix Night - Gryffindor Captain - Player of the Match". " see Jamie, your mum is a qudditch star and so she will be in the real world" nix said to seemingly no-one but a gurgle from behind her alerted her to her sons presence

[gage]

Gage absently wandered into the trophy room, a piece of parchment in each hand and a frown of deep thought on his face. He had read both letters three times, partly because of his dyslexia, and partly because he could hardly believe what had been sent to him. In his left hand he held a letter offering him the seeking position for Puddlemere United, the same offer from the Chudley Cannons in his right. And Gage had no idea how to decide. So to help him think he had gone on a walk, like he always did when he was facing a decision. Though this one, he figured, might boil down to the flip of a coin.

Gage looked up when he heard a baby, and unsurprisingly found that it was Nix and her son James. He smiled, tucking both the letters into his pocket. Normally slightly egotistic, Gage wasn't sure he wanted his offer letters to be widely known yet- even if he would trust Nix's advice. "Hello," said Gage, casually leaning against a trophy case, "how's it going?" He wasn't sure what he felt about her having a baby so young, though Gage did have to give her props for keeping with school, the Ravenclaw girl hadn't been able to manage that.

[nixnight]

Nix turned and looked down to see James with grey hair and she laughed at him and then bent down to dust away the muck from his hair until it was it's healthy red and then she heard a voice, she reached out and picked up James and turned back to see another of her gryffindor qudditch team and she smiled. "hey, you all ok?" she asked with a smile before she leaned back against the table of trophies behind her. James gurgled as he saw the other person and nix felt his hands curl against her arm and she shook her head and lifted her son so she could look at him, "be nice, gage is a nice guy" she said and James hung his head for a moment before giggling and nodding and nix tried not to laugh at him. "sorry, he's got a bit of a thing against guys. I don't know the reason yet but he only likes his father and step-father and all other guys he needs warm up time" she said in explanation of her sons behaviour before she noticed gage's face and the slight discomfort there. "you ok? Any thing I could help with?" she asked as she looked him over to see if it was anything physical or just something to do with life like her discomfort for the moment was

[gage]

Gage smiled a bit as Nix brushed the dust from her son's hair, it was amazing to him at that particular moment how much she struck him as a mother- rather than the friend and captain of the team he had known before. He supposed that having a baby did change people- though it seemed his parents hadn't been effected all that much. Gage had seen it even as kid, how he was seen as more of an inconvenience than a child. He hadn't been abused or neglected, just never paid all that much attention. Not that Gage was sensitive about it, his parents hadn't wanted children, but he had happened anyway. A "mistake."

"Don't worry about it," said Gage. He liked kids well enough, but they had to be older kids, like in the range of six to eight. He definitely wasn't all that into babies, they were too fragile, in a way they scared him. Perhaps it was because he had needed to be so independent- to have someone rely on him for everything was an unsettling concept. "Perhaps I might be able to ask your opinion on something?" asked Gage, and without waiting for a reply added, "Puddlemere or Chudley?"

[nixnight]

Nix gave a small smile of relief at gage not minding James or his way of acting and she then chuckled at his question, "depends if you want skill or fans" she replied and then cradled James against her before explaining herself. "I'd say the cannons if you want fans who'll follow you through everything and not care if you do badly for ages, they'll know you'll do good some time. Then I'd say united if you would want to do well for longer and keep up in the cup but have fans who jump from team to team in their support. I'd say the cannons and the loyally myself but it's down to what you want" she said with a smirk before she mentally corrected herself, she'd pick the harpies every time but that hadn't been one of the options so she wouldn't state that one.

"may I ask why? Or isnt it my place to ask?" she said as her mind began to wonder why gage had asked, had he been following the same career idea as her and was now picking between the teams. Nix really wanted to go in as a young harpy herself and see if she could make captain and bring the team up in their ranks in the cup standings, but she had always been a supporter of women and always wanted to see them do well at just about anything

[gage]

Gage adjusted his position so he propped his elbow up atop the case and rested his chin on his fist. It was a position he often assumed when there was a surface of the right height nearby. In fact, he rarely noticed when he was standing this way, it was more of an absent habit than anything else. He nodded along as Nix spoke, for once taking in something without immediately offering a reply. His eyes flickered to James every couple of seconds, glad that he was not expected to hold the baby or anything. That definitely wasn't something he'd be comfortable with. He forced thoughts of babies from his head and went back to his dilemma.

"You've got a point there," said Gage, stroking his chin as if he had a beard. His fingers instead met only vague stubble- which felt only slightly picky. He smiled a bit when Nix asked why. "Well, I wasn't planning on making it known but..." said Gage, trailing off as he reached into his pocket for the offer letters, holding them out so Nix could see them a moment before tucking them away again. He smiled as if he were up to no good. "I'd appreciate it if this was kept on the down-low," Gage added.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled as gage took on her words and she felt proud of being helpful before he showed her two bits of paper and she grinned and nodded ,"well done, did you tryout or was it scouts that got you? Ive been told I have harpy scout due to come to my next school match by a friend of mine so I'm hoping to leave school and move in to that business so I can be around for James and sterling and still be working and bringing in pay" she said with a laugh before James giggled. She turned the bit of paper between her fingers and she hoped gage didn't notice it there, the turth was she had already been given the harpy offer yet she hadn't been able to say much to James being due to soon after it arrived and now she had so little time to accept or deny the offer they had made

She looked down at him to see him holding a bit of hair and them she raised an eyebrow down at him ,"now were we laughing because she stole some hair or because we recognised the word James as our name?" she asked and the second giggle from her son answered her question. He was learning and growing so quickly and she loved it about him, he was already big for his age and growing tall fast and yet he was also smart and now knew his own name and simple words, he couldn't say them of course but he knew them and gave signals that he knew them which comforted nix in to knowing her son seemed to have gotten both his parents intelligence

[gage]

"It was scouts," said Gage, smiling and unable to help but feel proud of himself. Nobody had even told him that they were coming, and now he had two offer letters without even doing a formal audition! Though he knew that he would be expected by the end of term to decide whether he wanted to wear blue or orange- that way he would be able to jump right into training during the summer to be ready for the upcoming season. Gage was frankly surprised he had been offered a full-fledged position for both teams straightaway, he had fully been expecting to be a reserve first. He nodded as Nix explained her own situation.

It then occurred to him that if that were to happen they would be on differing teams, for the first time since he had started playing Quidditch. That would be an odd thing to experience. Gae smiled a bit as Nix interacted with her son, it was still odd to think about, but it was nice to see her maternal nature in the way she cared for James. It wasn't something that he had had the opportunity to witness before.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled down at her son and then looked back at gage before thinking to herself, how would James react to brooms and flying and such. Tain and her loved brooms and flying and his aunts and uncles all over being in the air too and sterling waste exactly against it so it would be odd to think that he may not like them, she doubted he wouldn't be a broom boy but there was always a chance. She snapped her eyes up to gage again and then she smiled to herself and laughed for a moment ,"I wonder what's going to happen to the gryffindor team once we leave. We pretty much built the team up if you think about it and we are both due to be gone soon, I wonder who'll get my role" she thought out loud and then she smiled in gage's direction.

It did seem odd to her to think that she was leaving he place that had been her first ever home so soon, James was born here and she had met Tain and her forest family here and been raised to be human. She had learned to be a wolf and joined a pack of werewolves and met sterling here, so much had happened to her and she had made so many friends and such a name for herself and yet she was leaving and moving so far away from the school and from hogsmead and her family and friends.

[gage]

Gage half-wondered what time it was, though wasn't bothered enough to look for a clock. At any rate it would take him longer than was socially acceptable to decipher the time- digital clocks never worked in Hogwarts and he had always had the worst time reading clocks with hands. That certainly was one thing that Gage appreciated about the muggle world, technology. And even just electricity in and of itself. He knew there was little use for it with magic, though he would think that witches and wizards would have at least caught on to some of it, simply for the sake of convenience.

Though they remained ever stubborn in their ways, to Gage it seemed at times it was like going back to the dark ages. Not many muggles routinely wrote with quills on scrolls of parchment or wore cloaks. He had even gone to school in a castle for the past seven years. "They're going to be in a sorry state with us gone, I'd wager," said Gage, lightly shaking his head, though he felt that he and Nix were the most talented players that their team had. It would likely take a term or two for the remaining members to figure everything out once they left.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled and nodded at gages words about the team before James gave a little sad noise and she looked down at him in her arms, his face was frowning and his eyes were watering and it took only moments for nix to work out the issue. "we'll need a moment" she said before she quickly turned away from gage and then pulled her wand out from inside her robe, she summoned a nappy from her school bag and then put her wand down and looked at her son.

Changing had been one of the things she had been worried about getting wrong when James was first born but she had worked it out quickly and now was quick at it. She had his old nappy off in moments and then was cleaning him up when she realised the smell and then grabbed her wand against and vanished the old nappy, then she turned back to James and lifted him up making a wave of happy gurgles from her son as she tucked his new nappy under him. "I know some people find it odd to see this so I thought I'd be polite and turn away" she said as she stuck the nappy in place and then leaned over to get her son's baby grow and starting to tug it back on to his arms as he wriggled

[gage]

((OOC: Yes, I'm lame, but my muse for this thread is seriously gone. Do you have any ideas...?))

[nixnight]

*not a lot I must say, but i think these two should get together once they both decide on their teams *

[gage]

((OOC: Sure ^_^))