thattimeofthemonth | Open RP Post

Remus forcibly broke the spell holding him in place and just as Draco came out of his blindness, he would hear the /crack!/ of someone Apparating and there was Remus, holding his wand to the puppet's throat. He dropped the jinx from Draco as well, holding up his free hand to stop any further actions.

"Not bad," he said simply. "We just need to work out a few kinks in your thinking."

Draco frowned more mad at himself then anything. He knew what his mistakes had been. It was hard enough to restrain from simply protecting himself instead of the puppet. Panicking also wasn't good.

"It was a very clumsy attempt," Draco commented critiquing himself.

"I still don't think bad for me throwing you into the situation with no explanation behind it." Remus gave an encouraging look, then smiled. "I wanted to see what you had in mind first, then work from there." And he still found himself proud that Draco's first reaction had been to protect the puppet.

"Tell me why I did what I did," Remus said, gesturing to the space between himself and Draco. Could the young man figure it out for himself?

"I'm not mad at you, more at myself." Draco paused to think a bit on Remus's question.

"I think from the start you were trying to prevent me from being able to use any spells and then tried to see if I would panic and not protect the puppet." Draco carefully answered.

"Won't that loud bang from the blinding spell have drawn attention?"

"I don't want you to be mad at yourself is part of my point." Remus shook his head slightly. "Not exactly what I was going for. I was trying to show you different ways you could have been quieting the situation. Silencing your opponent may completely destroy some wizards who are unskilled in silent casting, but it will also keep the volume down on your fight. Your choice in binding me was excellent, so I wouldn't be able to move or dodge. The flash-bang is a last resort - I used it to cover the sound of my apparating. Muggles will think it was a firecracker, an explosion perhaps, but not magic. You can grab your friend and be gone."

"Right," Draco replied understanding what Remus was explaining. He made sure to store this knowledge away just in case. Having to relearn everything and rely on a different way of thinking was proving to be difficult. Everything he learned of the Dark Arts was different.

"Do a lot of Wizards know some form of silent casting? It was difficult to learn, and many felt they didn't need to know it.

Those aligned with the Dark Arts didn't generally care about what Muggles saw or not, and in Remus' opinion often thought too grandiose, too violent, too large to think about the littlest actions which could get under their guard. He wasn't blind to the fact that in turn, sometimes their side didn't think big enough.

"Know? Yes. We're all generally taught to do it, but practice? No. Most wizards have no need to practice silent casting and without practice, they'll fail in combat situations."

Draco gave a nod. He was glad that his father had insisted he learn and practice it. "What other angles can we use?" Draco questioned.

He wanted to have an open mind of options. While he knew his classmates...it didn't mean he understood others that may show up. Nor did he know if his old gang had grown in skill or numbers.

"Think about your surroundings. Night time? Darkness. Day time? Distractions. You want to keep things quiet, invisible, or easily confused while doing everything in your power to do one thing and one thing only: get away safely." He met Draco's eyes, quite serious. "I'm serious about that. You might want to fight, you might want to hurt them, show them a lesson. Don't. You need to get away with your friend as quickly as possible or you risk him getting hurt, yourself getting hurt, or the situation getting out of control. It isn't glorious, to run, but it's better than what could happen."

"So basically it's all about buying yourself enough time to get out," Draco said. "Does this get reported? And would they even worry about it because I was involved?"

He was hesitant on asking the last part, but he needed to know. He knew he had Remus, but outside of that who else would bother to listen to him?

"Exactly."

But the second question was trickier. Remus looked away, back over the moors, before letting out a breath. "I probably shouldn't say this, but all I can say is, report it to me. No one else. Bring your friend immediately and we'll... decide from there. I need to meet him first to see how trust worthy he is, but more importantly, I know how to do the memory charms. If I can manage it, I'll make sure he remembers you, just not the last few hours."

He gave a solemn nod and didn't inquire further. This was enough for him. As soon as they were done, he would send a message to Jake about meeting his relatives tomorrow. He was slowly getting used to sending messages. He still was cumbersome about it.

"I'm ready for the next challenge you want to throw me at me." He commented instead wanting to get some more training.

[Wait, did we end up getting Draco a phone?? How is he sending messages? /confused]

"Alright then." A quick smile, and Remus said simply, "turn around. Now... we'll deal with surprise attacks."

[The day they got the camping supplies was when we had planned to have Jake get him the phone and we pretty just speed that the scene up. If you still wanted to do the phone part we can ignore that bit or if you're okay we can keep it. I'm good either way. Sorry for the confusion!]

Draco nodded and did as told. He mentally braced himself and tried to keep all senses alert for what may happen.

Edited 2016-02-11 00:03 (UTC)

[Oh that's fine! Draco - world's slowest texter. XD]

Silence. The wind blew quietly across the moor, the half-moon over head. Remus stood there, watching Draco, making him get more and more anxious about it on purpose. Then, slow and silent, he started moving closer and closer, waiting Draco closely.

[Very slow. Think hen pecking on a a regular keyboard and then double checking or triple checking for mistakes.]

The waiting was beginning to make Draco anxious, but he tried to not loose focus. The noises that came from the moores and the way the shadows played from the moon didn't help either. He tried to not let his mind go into over play.

Remus decided to come forward with a likely scenario. If Draco's enemies had seen him with the Muggle, then they could likely use the Muggle to hurt Draco. So he came up behind the puppet and when he had his wand to the puppet, he laughed a dark laugh. "Malfoy!" Faking the possible real scenario. "Hanging out with Muggles?" A sneer, but it didn't show in his eyes.

The fact that Remus was imitating his friends almost caught Draco off guard. It seemed so uncharacteristic of him and yet at the same time it showed how much he was paying attention to his students in class.

"Expelliarmus!" Draco said and with a gesture of his hand he aimed to disarm Remus of his wand. He wasn't going to waste time bantering with him.

He had survived two wars, been a part of the Order most of his life; he had learned well to pay attention to the people around him. Twisted to the side to avoid the strike, which was a good start, but he moved right back behind the puppet. "That all you have?! What about your little Muggle friend here?" An arm came around the puppet's throat, wand to it. "Better put your wand down, Malfoy."

Draco didn't say anything retort although there was a slight twitch in his check. He couldn't afford to waste his time bantering with him. With a loud bang he created a thick smoke screen that surrounded them. Right as he appearated he used a silencing spell and then appeared next to his puppet his wand at Remus's chest.

Remus felt that wand more than saw it, currently coughing out a lungful of smoke. "Well-" hack, "well done! Even caught me by-" cough, "surprise." He gave a quick wave of his wand to clear the air, still coughing. "Amazes me how quickly you pick up when you're interested!"

The complimented earned a smile from Draco. He really was trying and with the interest of protecting Jake was high on priority list, he put all his effort in it. "I have someone I want to protect...I never really had that before," Draco commented.

Okay that was no small hint. Another cough, wiping an eye, as Remus peered at Draco before just going for it. "I told you we wouldn't judge, and I still won't, but... Draco, is this... Muggle of yours... More than a friend?" Okay a touch awkward.

.....Draco then realized he just accidentally outed himself. He didn't think it would come across that. He was thinking on friends and family terms. Harry always had his friends to protect...his friends weren't exactly friends. He pointedly looked at his feet and nodded his pale face a bright shade of red.

Oh dear. Remus slid a hand back through his hair, scratching at the grey at his temple. This just got massively more awkward didn't it? His statement before had only been combined with his previous statements to make him think that maybe... he hadn't thought he would be right! Oh bloody hell. His parents would flip their kids wouldn't they? He breathed out, then said quietly, "told you, no judgement. If he's your mate and that's what you want us to keep it at, regardless of the truth, then we'll treat him as your mate. But... if you need to talk to someone, I'm still here. To listen. Help."

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