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July, 7, 2067
GOOD News! Grandma Angelina just left us here at the appartment we're staying at, she's going to the hospital to sign some papers. We've got the funeral plans taken care of so far, she wants to tell Courtney's grandparents in person. Okay, so yeah that doesn't sound like good news but it is what it is, and that's not what I was talking about anyways. The good news is - drum roll pleeease! - they've signed Tobias over to me! Of course, we couldn't have accomplished this without Grandma Angelina. Thank merlin for her. She reassured them over and over there's no way I'd be caring for Tobey on my own, she would be right there and so would my family, which is all entirely true.
Alexis is introducing the little guy to candy at this precise moment. I'm hoping it's something we bought earlier, and not something she brought that we made. I didn't check, but you know.. I trust her, and her judgement... usually. I should be packing up stuff now, so we're ready to go home when Grandma gets back. But first, I want to write abit more; I have alot of news.
We'll start with this appartment, as you could guess no we didn't rent an appartment for our couple day stay! We were planning to go to the nearest hotel, but Nurse Reed had a sheet of information waiting for us from Court. Including the address of where she and Tobey were staying, naturally we came here to gather their things and stayed the wait we had to endure.
We were in the livingroom last night, Lexi and I, the little guy was asleep and Grandma Angelina was calling Grandpa Carl. It was fairly late, and we were talking. Mostily about what everyone else was going to think, Sam, Dusty and Curt being the main people to come up in 'what will they think' and then changed to 'wonder whose noticed we're gone', 'think Lorraine's called the aurors out to find us yet?' the last one - I REALLY hope she hasn't done. But this is my mum we're talking about.. you never know.
Then suddenly something black caught Lexi's eye, on the end table furthest from her and closest to my side of the couch. Being pounced on made a whole lot more sense after she made me reach for it, when she figured out she couldn't grab it from next to me.
It was a journal, we discovered. I knew as soon as we opened to the front of the page, it was in Courtney's handwriting. I won't write everything that was wrote in the book, because it was half-full, almost half of the book used up with her sharp, straight medium-sized script. The book told a story, but not the kind you would read to your children before bed. This book told a story, the whole truth and nothing else, about five friends.
She started this journal back in her first year attending Durmstrang, there's only a page or two each during her first and second year of school. Third year, it begins to grow in number a little bit more and keeps on adding more from there on out as the drama of life grows up too.
You see, Wyatt and Alexander Saunders (the twins), Jake Naidu, Courtney and Conner were the best of friends and always had been. In school I suppose they were a little troublesome, but they were kids. Isn't that normal?
They played silly, small pranks every now and then. Never intending to actually hurt or upset anyone, that's why they didn't ever do anything big; Still, somehow they managed to upset some kid, as old as Con and Court (they were both three years older than me). Vilmos was his name, and he too had a group of loyal friends. What they didn't know till third year, after getting into a big fight with him and his guys (provoked by the evil one himself) and nearly getting expelled while Vilmos and his 'crew' were allowed to leave, and head back to their lounge, is that this boy was powerful with wealth. Far too much, it became obvious he got what he wanted, at all times. It became apparent that he was determined to keep it that way, too, when Conner went missing.
No one knew for a long time, we all thought he had been in the wrong place at the wrong time and was kidnapped by muggles. We had found him though, and he was okay. He didn't remember alot, but it didn't take long for the memories to flood back. By the time he was nearly fifteen, going into fourth year (His birthday is in september; He was a late starter.) after that summer, he had left Emmy and Ben's house where some friends and I where. Alex and Wyatt went with him, they were going to help our parents pack up the rest of the house and move things out (we were moving at the time). While on break, they were playing soccor out on the street by the park. That's when it happened..
A semi-truck came bounding around the corner, out of control.. no one could have stopped it, no one seen it coming soon enough. You see, when Conner and Wyatt were hit, wrestling for the ball at that moment, Conner's body was too weak. That's what we were told, and believed. Conner had been saying there was something wrong, we had so many tests done both by healers and muggle doctors and nothing ever came back proving what he felt. It wasn't a pain, but it wasn't normal either. I know, because he had talked to Wy and Alex about it and months after, they finally told me these things. They said, Con said, it was like.. he was dying, slowly, his body was weakening from the inside out. We thought it must have been something to do with his kidnapping not even a year and a half earlier. They must have hurt him somehow, but it still didn't explain why no one could tell us what Conner was feeling.
Now, I learned from the journal that.. well, this is going to sound insane but I truly believe it. Conner is alive. He didn't die that day, several years ago. The healers said he had, they took him away first. They suggested not to burry him, but cremating. Because they said he was a mess and it probably wouldn't be worth it, mum, torn up as she was decided to let them do what they thought was right. So that's what happened. It all makes sense. He never died, the ashes weren't real.
None of it was real.
The kidnapping was the first set up, Court wrote in the journal. Vilmos hired someone to do it, to get rid of him. But Conner's stronger than that, he's smarter than that. He couldn't take Con down just like that. The truck was the second set up, except this time the poor, innocent driver was as much as a victum as Conner. His truck had been bewitched, so to him it had been out of his control.
Conner's alive though, Courtney and Jake were the only ones who knew this for a fact. They had gone to find him, leaving Wyatt and Alex in the dark on purpose. In fear worse came to worse, two out of three would survive. It was, of course, for the best. When they did, they all barely escaped, again, with their lives.
December of 2062 is when they found him, and since then they had to keep going from place to place. They couldn't come home, because the war had just begun with Vilmos. If they were targets, coming home would put their families at risk too. Something Courtney said they all agreed wasn't a possibility. That's why it's been till now, we've been left to think he was gone..
Do you know what Tobey's full name is? Of course you don't. I'm getting carried away, you're a book..
Tobias Lucca Mae
He's Conner and Courtney's son! They were engaged, those two. They wanted to get married but they were waiting, they wanted to be able to come home for that. They wanted a new, safe path cleared in life where Vilmos wouldn't be after them; They were fine to wait for that day, too.
Each the three, before Tobias arrived, had attended and graduated school. Obviously not Durmstrang, Court wasn't specific on the area or names. That was probably best, really. They had jobs too, and everything seemed to be going right but then HE caught up with them. Trapped, Conner and Jake got Courtney and the baby out, which was a miracle in itself. It wasn't soon enough, Court was injured, she didn't say how, but it was the reason of the hospital trip.
The last few pages were hard to read. The last, she was saying goodbye to her loved ones.. to Conner, and Jake, her grandparents and baby. To the entire Mae family, she wrote. If by chance anyone found it.
I really don't know what to say, do, or think. Conner and Jake are alive somewhere, and Courtney did say in the journal, they would come when the time was right. I think means, when it's over and done with. Until then, I'm going to take care of Tobias, just like Courtney wished for me to. His daddy and uncle will come home, one day. Until then, I'll be Tobey's safety blanket, so to speak. That's all for now, I think my hands going to fall off from writing, and Alexis is calling from the other room.
- Vammy Badger ♥
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