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Lissydove · 09-20-2005, 05:42 PM

Hey Ottery!

Is it grey...? No too sure on that... The two grey sweaters were in your other fic.

For now, I will say khaki as you've mentioned the color at least twice this fic that I can point out... Shall I quote them?

Loves,

Lissy

Ronboy45 · 09-20-2005, 07:52 PM

Ottery's favorite color is Ronboypink!

MunchyBubbles · 09-20-2005, 08:44 PM

Hiya Ottery!!
*dances in singing!!* Whoo I'm happy today!!
Why you ask??
Check the Avy!!
Ohh Great Story Otts!! I have like no idea what you fav color is But um how bout red??
Dances out singing "Today is My birthday"
Love ya
Princess Thea

allucha · 09-20-2005, 09:59 PM

happy birthday

Ronboy45 · 09-20-2005, 10:00 PM

Happy b-day!

Si · 09-20-2005, 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PottersPrincess21

Hiya Ottery!!
*dances in singing!!* Whoo I'm happy today!!
Why you ask??
Check the Avy!!
Ohh Great Story Otts!! I have like no idea what you fav color is But um how bout red??
Dances out singing "Today is My birthday"
Love ya
Princess Thea

Happy Birthday Thea! <3

I think your favorite color is Grey...*hopes I'm right*

OtterySt.Catchpole · 09-21-2005, 12:51 AM

*sighing* It's official...you've all flunked! Except Allucha cuz he was excused, and Si, cuz well we know she's reading my fic...and uhm Princess cuz it's her birthday...

Happy Birthday Princess Thea!! *Ottery makes the mob thugs hold up the banner*

Uhm...and Ronboy cuz *gives Ronboy a peck on the cheek* as of right now, yeah... RonboyPink is my favorite color. Sorry, Lissy, and no just because I make Lupin's sweaters gray *Ottery can't remember where else he might have mentioned that color* doesn't make it my favorite color. Sorry kiddies. But Thea was close...before Ronboy changed my mind it was purple...cuz it's a combination ofblue, and red and I could never make up my mind...oh and purple is regal...so, but that was before...now it's RonboyPink.Update in a minute...maybe.

But first...next question..."If Ottery could be King for a day...Mwahahahahaha what would be his first decree?

OtterySt.Catchpole · 09-21-2005, 01:11 AM

They were standing by the dusty road watching the grass of the plains sway in the wind, and the occasional tumbleweed, as Ottery took off his cap to wipe his brow. Ruben for his part was sitting on the sideboard of the car looking at the ground, taking what little shade there was.

"It's not so bad Guero, I'll get us out of this," Ottery said, in the distance could be heard the sound of a saxophone playing. "See? I didn't even have to try that hard." Ottery said smugly.

"You're just lucky we broke down close to Jesse's place." Ruben said swatting Ottery on the arm as he got off the sideboard, just the same he was smiling. Sometimes Ottery had the best luck.

There came a sound of the grass rustling and Ottery turned to look. If it was that bull again...he hadn't meant to hit it...and how was he to know it was a bullfighting bull or that he would get angry and chase the car all the way until they ran out of gas. The dark haired boy turned, a panicked look on his face ready to shield his friend from danger (T: It's not like it was heroic Otts, it was all your fault Ruben was in trouble you know... O: Gee rub it in why don't you), when he noticed it was a brown wolf. Ottery smiled wildly, and let out a whoop.

"David!" He yelled as the wolf knocked him down and started to lick his face. "Down boy, down!" Ottery was saying laughing.

"Down is right. Hey!" Ruben was yelling. He crossed his arms angrily.

A brown haired boy was licking Ottery's face.

"You really need to work on your metamorphmagus skills David. It's only okay for a dog to be licking a boy's face, otherwise people'll think you're weird." Ruben said testily.

Ottery opened his eyes to find his friend David blushing a dark red under his brown skin. Ottery smiled anyways, and laughed and ruffled the boy's hair.

"We are weird Guero," Ottery said as David helped him up off the dusty ground.

"I can't help it. I can't control my transformations...when I get excited..." David said still blushing.

"Well, as long as you don't..." Ottery broke out laughing just then and Ruben, who had had his arms crossed, pouting and was staring out into the distance turned to find his friend rolling on the floor laughing next to a bull.

"What?" David asked.

Ruben couldn't help smiling. He really was just learning how to use his skills and you couldn't blame him for being happy, they hadn't seen each other in weeks.

MunchyBubbles · 09-21-2005, 05:45 AM

Thank you all for the Birthday Wishes! It made my birthday much better!!
Cause most of my friends Forgot!!

Love you all..
Hmm your First Decree?? Uhh Something to do with Ron???
hehe
Princess Thea

KellyBear · 09-21-2005, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OtterySt.Catchpole

But Thea was close...before Ronboy changed my mind it was [/COLOR]purple...cuz it's a combination ofblue, and red and I could never make up my mind...oh and purple is regal...so, but that was before...now it's RonboyPink

Purple is my favorite color, as well, but I don't remember reading it anywhere...

Quote:

But first...next question..."If Ottery could be King for a day...Mwahahahahaha what would be his first decree? [/FONT]

Make Rupert come back to the states and party with us! And that is my final answer! Wait, no, he has to bring Daniel and the twins, too...that's my final answer!

Kelly
PS You hit the bull!?

OtterySt.Catchpole · 09-21-2005, 05:22 PM

I hit the bull but I didn't kill it. Otherwise it wouldn't have chased us around for miles...

Sorry Kel, I didn't know you were a bull lover. I live in Texas, where our official motto is: "Beef! It's what's for dinner."

It's a staple of my diet...right up there with chocolate.

We all love you Princess Thea.

I'm sorry your friends didn't remember...I wish mine wouldn't...

but that's all right... *Ottery drowns his sorrows in butterbeer and then it's all better*

And you're both right so you both get A's. Hey, AA...

I'm the one drinking the butterbeer and here you are the one's...

All righty...update after this.

Now taking suggestions for what should happen next:

A) Ottery gets a love interest
B) Teddy makes his debut
C) Teddy makes his debut as Ottery's Love interest

O: As if!
T: I'd sooner marry Elizabeth Taylor.
O: Heeeeeeeeeeeey!
T: You're not that great a catch Otts.
O:

D) The world ends
E) This fic ends...and thank goodness
F) Write in____________________
G) Dumbledore grows a beard
H) Ottery grows a beard

T: You were eleven.
O: And precocious too...

I) The CareBears show up
J) We skip 50 years ahead and pull an Alias Season 3
K) Ottery teams up with Sydney Bristow to find the Rimbauldi artifacts
L) Ottery dies
M) Ottery goes to Hogwarts
N) We pull a Smallville Season One...Cliffie...Oh no the tornadoes
And because you demanded it... LOL
O) All of the above.

OtterySt.Catchpole · 09-21-2005, 05:48 PM

The boys were walking towards the little hill across the dusty road. They never bothered looking in either direction being that they were in the middle of the plains and you could pretty much see anything coming towards you from any direction. David was being especially quiet, having turned back into a boy, he was so happy to see his friends but he didn't want to turn into something bizzare or they might reconsider taking him with them back to the city. That had to be why they were there...

Jesse, David's father was an old man of 80 years, most of which he had spent tending sheep, he was sitting in the shade of the tree by a fire that never burned out listening to the sound of music coming from a box. It was lovely music transmitted magically over the whole world from Wizarding music stations. An old song was playing, a happy, lively tune. He had his back to the boys as they walked up the hill, but Ottery could smell the smoke coming from his pipe, and even if he had not, he would have known that was what Jesse was doing. He was never without his long smoking pipe.

"So, how've the sheep been treating you?" Ottery asked stupidly.

"Don't be such an idiot Otts," Ruben said. He was being a bit testy with his friends because he suspected something and he was growing impatient having to wait to find out exactly what.

"It's dull. Like always...just swiming at the river, when I'm not practicing being a wolf."

"You should try a little harder," Ruben muttered softly.

"Hey, we should all go swimming at the river before we go back." Ottery said as the old man came into sight.

"Brilliant idea. Mind if we come along?"

Ruben looked up from staring at the path he was walking. David squinted as the sunlight glinted off the gentleman's glasses, and Ottery smiled guiltily. Sitting there, his back still to them was Jesse in his old nomadic robes, smoking his pipe (you could tell from the rising smoke), and sitting across from him on soft silk cushions they had likely apparated, legs crossed, were Henry Ford and the dark haired professor from Hogwarts.

OtterySt.Catchpole · 09-21-2005, 06:17 PM

The boys joined the older men sitting down by the eternal fireside, except Ruben who chose instead to sit on a boulder behind them. He could not help feeling like perhaps this had nothing to do with him. As if he were just a passanger on someone else's trip. They had come to see Ottery not to see him. Ottery nodded to Jesse, who sighed. Jesse was not particularly fond of the boy, or his influence on his son, David. The only thing the old shepherd thought should occupy his son's mind was tending the sheep, anything else was dangerous. It had been in their family it had been a tradition...it was what the boy was destined to do. Dreaming of other things and distant places was like planting a seed of discontent. But David loved him, and Jesse loved his youngest son. He was the only one left to him, the others having gone their ways, either as shepherds themselves or something else. They did not keep in touch with him, but such was the way of the world.

"So? How did you boys like the car?" Mr. Ford, the plump little gentleman asked.

"Yeah, about that Mr. Ford. It's not stolen, I meant to give it back...honest. It's just... we ran into this bull..."

"Sounds like what's happening to me." Mr. Ford said.

"Anyways," Ottery replied a little annoyed even as Ruben snickered and David tried to hide his smirk staring into the fire. "So we ran into this bull and it chased us and next thing you know, your contraption isn't working anymore."

"Most likely, you've run out of petrol." The professor replied, pushing his glasses back further on his face.

It was too surreal, they were dressed in fine suits, sitting on large, fluffy cushions with tassels no less, on a hill, behind them a large expanse of plain on which the sheep were grazing. The two gentlemen were out of place in the scene. Everyone else fit, but not they two. Ottery was not too happy either that they had tracked him down.

"Have you made your decision yet, Ottery?" The professor asked.

"No." He replied grumpily.

"What decision?" David asked turning to his friend. He turned to look at his father as he felt the old man's withered and weathered hand rest lightly on his wrist. It was his way of telling him that it was not their concern.

"It's imperative that you tell me soon. There are interesting things going on abroad as you well know..."

"Actually I don't. I don't care what's going on outside of Tocantins." Ottery answered truthfully. He was a little upset. He wanted to talk to his friends about it, he wanted to have time to think it over, he wanted to make up his own mind in his own time and they were pushing him. He hated being pushed into making a decision.

"I have other students to pick up." Dumbledore said impassively. To Ottery though it seemed that the old man was trying to tell him just how unimportant he was. He was just one of many other students. There wasn't anything special to him.

"So why don't you? Come back in a month and I'll tell you then." Ottery said.

Jesse smoked his pipe quietly, while Henry got up and started looking over the plains. Ruben pointed him in the direction of the car and the man was off, he was just the driver, a friend of Wulfric's but the situation did not concern him one way or the other...just his car. It was one of a kind...though he wanted to remedy that soon.

"I'd rather not. I have somethings...I have to tend to. I may not make it back."

"Students? Picking up? What's going on Ottery?" David asked curiously.

Ottery sighed.

"Yeah, what's the matter, Otts. That's why we came out here isn't it? To talk."

He explained everything to them then.

"And you still haven't made up your mind? No surprise there," Ruben said answering his own question.

Ottery got up suddenly. "I want to talk to my friends first." He said defiantly.

"By all means, Mr. St. Catchpole. Tell us when you're ready and we'll give you a ride back to town. I don't imagine you've brought brooms along or horses, and it is a very long trip back."

Ottery started walking off down the other side of the hill, towards the sheep. Ruben looked at David, and they both nodded, but David turned to look at his father. Jesse sighed. He did not like Ottery but he was his son's friend, and he would not let his son fail his friend in a moment of need. It was not what he had been taught, and it was not what he meant to teach his sons. He gave his silent permission and the brown haired boy stood up and he and the blonde haired boy went running after Ottery.

allucha · 09-21-2005, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OtterySt.Catchpole

"So, how've the sheep been treating you?" Ottery asked stupidly.

hehe, what a clever question, cool post

KellyBear · 09-22-2005, 01:10 PM

Ottery, I love steak as much as the next person - maybe more - I just prefer it dies before I meet up with it. Sheesh, talk about your moving violations.
In deference to Lissy, I vote All of the above (good luck with that)

I'm with Allucha, I thought the sheep comment was pretty funny.
*patiently awaits the next installment*

OtterySt.Catchpole · 09-22-2005, 09:58 PM

Thanks Allucha & Kel...you two rule. Here's some more...not a lot but...somethins...somethin' hope you like.

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Ottery didn't know what to do. It wasn't as if his aunt had ever asked him to make up his mind about anything...she was in control and there was no question of that. He had never been expected to decide anything and suddenly his fate was in his hands. He had no one to look up to, no one he could ask...all of the adults in Ottery's life were more interested in telling him what he was doing wrong or how he should be doing things that there really wasn't anyone he could turn to and ask for advice. Which is why he had wanted his friends' help.

The three boys walked quietly by the river, the sheep grazing behind them, and further still the hill where Professor Wulfric Dumbledore awaited his reply, from the looks of it, impatiently, as he was standing over Jesse by the tree behind the eternal fire. Ottery wasn't so sure he liked the Professor or not, he seemed a kind man, but he was impatient. He had only heard about it last night, did he really think the boy could make up his mind so quickly? Ruben bent down to pick up a stone, while David kept glancing back, he knew there were being watched and he would turn to look at Ottery's face which was all screwed up in thought.

"So what are you going to do?" David asked finally.

"I don't know. I don't want to leave you guys...but..."

"You can't get far enough away from the old bat your aunt." Ruben said breaking out laughing as he threw the stone into the little river.

Ottery smiled, as David kind of debated whether he should smile or scold Ruben for that. You were supposed to respect your elders...even if they were big evil meanies.

"I'll miss you if you go Otts." David said looking off into the distance.

Ottery looked at the boy. He loved that about him, David was so much more open with his feelings than boys ever were supposed to be. It was a kind of braveness he admired, and even envied, but he had never felt occasion to be so bold. The times he told people what he felt, had usually landed him in trouble. But that was speaking his mind really more than anything else.

"So don't go." Ruben murmured, bending down to pick up another rock, so he wouldn't have to face his friend. It was so softly said it almost escaped his hearing. Almost.

"But I want to go. It sounds interesting and exciting."

"So go then!" Ruben said this time loud enough that there could be no question as to what he had spoken. His face seemed a mixture of anger confusion, and betrayal.

"But I want you two to go with me." Ottery said.

"Yeah, well, that's just stupid." Ruben said. "You know it isn't going to happen, they didn't invite us, they asked you. Get your head out of the clouds for a second Otts, this isn't some stupid fantasy dream we all get to play along with you, where everyone lives and we all live happily ever after."

"I like fairy tales..." Ottery whispered, a little taken aback at his friends rage. "I thought you did too."

David was holding back tears, "Shut up Guero. Just shut up! If Otts wants us to go...we should go...to the ends of the earth, remember? To the ends of the earth." The boy shot back at him.

"They didn't ask us you..." he did not finish what he was saying, but rather started snickering.

"What?" David asked.

Ottery turned around to see. David had turned into a gorilla, and he was crying. Ottery laughed too, and hugged his friend. No matter how silly he looked, the tears for his leaving were real. Because there was no question in Ottery's mind that he would be leaving. Not anymore.

"What?" David asked again, scratching his head.

Ronboy45 · 09-22-2005, 10:00 PM

Hi Otty-poo!

allucha · 09-22-2005, 10:18 PM

ooo, interesting post

OtterySt.Catchpole · 09-23-2005, 03:20 AM

*sees Ronboy* Ronboy! *tackle glomps him* You're too cute.

Thanks Allucha, but you haven't seen nothing yet. Okay, so I was getting out of the shower right, I swear I always get epiphanies in the bathroom.
T: Too many raspberries huh?
O: Epiphanies...you twit.
T: Less fiber Otts. *Ottery smacks Teddy*

Anyways, so I got this shinning revelation about the plot of the story. I know where we're going now. Mwahahahahahaha, because I didn't before. But now I do. It's nowhere you've ever been. Hope you all stick around.

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"Impossible." Professor Dumbledore said, burying his hands in his coat pockets. "I really don't have the time to be trying to convice your friends parents that they should let me take their children half way around the world...well really it's only a quarter, half way would be China...but the point is..."

"Simple. You want me, you get my friends. You don't want me. You don't have to take any of us." Ottery said stubbornly.

"It's not a matter of what I want Ottery, it's a matter of what's best."

"What's best is me being with my family."

"What's your aunt have to do with any of this?" Dumbledore asked.

"Exactly. We're talking about my family, and that's David, and that's Ruben."

Si · 09-23-2005, 11:14 AM

Si votes for all of the above because she's already in trouble with the feds. *runs away with the money*

KellyBear · 09-23-2005, 12:49 PM

IMO, Showers are the best place to think. Since you finally have a plot direction, does this mean the votes no longer count? Kinda like "Whose Line Is It Anyway"

Too bad, cuz I was kinda interested to see how you were gonna work everything in

Love Interests, Care Bears, Beards, Tornadoes, Teddy~the whole bit! Wait, wait, I got it, Teddys love interest in 50 years is a Care Bear with a beard! Still working on the tornado bit...
*crossing my fingers and hoping the three amigos end up at school together*

Kel

OtterySt.Catchpole · 09-23-2005, 06:11 PM

*tackle glomps Si* The only one from the original cast still here

...and I love you for it. It's not quantity...it's quality, I always say.

Kel, I take everyone's suggestions into consideration...and I never said the Care Bears wouldn't show up...or that I wouldn't have tornadoes... :evillaugh

This story is going to be more fun than a barrel full of monkeys...

Ronboy45 · 09-23-2005, 06:34 PM

Eggs for Ottery!

OtterySt.Catchpole · 09-23-2005, 07:01 PM

*glomps Ronboy* You're the only one who cooks for me.

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"Impossible." Professor Dumbledore said, burying his hands in his Muggle coat pockets. "I really don't have the time to be trying to convice your friends' parents that they should let me take their children half way around the world...well really it's only a quarter, half way would be China...but the point is..."

"Simple. You want me, you get my friends. You don't want me. You don't have to take any of us." Ottery said stubbornly, standing there his face as serious as he could make it, and let me tell you it was difficult what with spending most of his time pranking or laughing, arms crossed as he stared down the older man.

"It's not a matter of what I want Ottery, it's a matter of what's best," Professor Wulfric Dumbledore replied, trying to reason with the boy. He sighed, and leaned on the tree. He knew that the boy meant to argue with him but he was obstinate about making Ottery see the reasoning behind his words.

"What's best is me being with my family," Ottery replied, stubbornly.

"What's your aunt have to do with any of this?" Dumbledore asked, taken aback. From what he had seen, the woman's anger was barely restrained whenever she saw Ottery, and that was likely just a pretense she put up because of himself and Henry Ford. Likely when there was no company present she gave the boy an earful of anger, and a few swattings too, she looked the type, even if Wulfric did not like to judge people on looks alone.

"Exactly. We're talking about my family, and that's David, and Ruben. I'm not going without them."

Wulfric sighed.

"What if I told you then, that you couldn't go. You would miss your chance to return to your birthplace, to Ottery St. Catchpole, you would miss your chance to see your parents' home, their resting place." Wulfric well knew what he was doing. He was playing the boy's sentiments against his loyalties. It was manipulative, but he could not go back without him. He feared what would happen if he fell into the hands of the Ministry of Magic, many different factions in the Wizarding world were interested in the boy's fate. But the boy could not be made aware of that. He was too young, and the responsability of that knowledge too great.

"It's all or nothin'." Ottery said walking off.

Ruben looked at the Professor and shrugged even as he smiled. He didn't really feel any pity for the older man, he kind of relished the idea of traveling to another continent...especially with the war going on in Europe. It all seemed like a grand adventure. He walked off after Ottery. David knelt down across the fire from his father, and looked into the flames.

"Father...I want to go."

Jesse threw dust on the fire and the flames died out.

"I was afraid the day would come." He said as he looked at his son, who could not face his father. He lifted the boy's chin until he looked him in the eyes, and he could see the tears threatening to spill out. When David looked at his father he saw his eyes crying too.

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The boys stood side by side, dressed in brand new Muggle suits, as Professor Wulfric Dumbledore bid his Muggle friend goodbye. They were standing next to their trunks, packed almost fit to burst...just in case, Dumbledore had conjured up magical belts around them to keep them tightly sealed, with the boy's possessions, and not a few things that would now a days be considered contraband.

"So, I guess this is the end." Ottery said sadly.

"No, it's the beginning," Ruben corrected.

"I still can't believe your Mom let you go, Guero." Ottery said.

David for the most part stood there quietly, by his friends on the trainstation platform. He knew his father would not see him off, he had his sheep to tend to, but he had given the boy his blessing and that was that. Suddenly he felt an arm clap his back and he turned to see Ottery's smiling face, on the other side Ruben clapped his arms around him too and smiled as well.

"It's just us three now," Ruben said seriously.

"Against the world." Ottery remarked, as if happy with the prospect.

"Until the ends of the earth..." David said, smiling as he started crying.

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When they were on the train they took a compartment to themselves. Dumbledore sat there his legs crossed staring at the hall as if expecting trouble, and regretting the more than handful that he had sitting next to him, but the boy was too valuable an asset, a necessary piece in the grand game yet to be played. He did not know...as there was no way he could see the future...just how important the other boy's would be too in the grand game. Ottery and Ruben were arguing who would play white in Wizard's chess, and David looked out the window as the train began to move. Over the hill he suddenly saw a large group of sheep, and behind them, leading them along was his father. He got up and waved, waved wildly, and opening the window he screamed out to him. His father waved goodbye to his son, whom he would never see again.

End Book 1

Si · 09-23-2005, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by OtterySt.Catchpole

*tackle glomps Si* The only one from the original cast still here

...and I love you for it. It's not quantity...it's quality, I always say.

*tackleglomps Ottery* Yes, it seems I'm one of the only originals still around. *feels old* hehe I promised in your other story I would read everything you write and I always keep my promises.

I'm liking the time period this is set in. I don't know why I like this particular time period hehe.

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