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Tonks Rescue Plotness Summary Thinger.
Right, so, since I know this can't be easy on Josie and Meg to reread and all...summary thinger. Or, as Fleur-mun put it, 'SUMMARY AHOY! READY THE CANONS!'
Before that, though, I wanna say this - if you have time to read the threads, read them. I've been doing RP in various forms for a decade now, and was doing it on LJ for a while before I was brought to Milliways. I've done a lot of threads, and a lot of them have been very, very pretty. This plot, these threads, are gorgeous, breathtaking works of art, and I'm both honored and humbled to have been allowed to help hold the brushes.
You guys rock my naughty underthings, and I love you all madly.
Right. On with the summary.
First, read Josie's battle summary thing.
Then we start, for great woe, with this thread, which is Bernard's 'Want to crush! Cannot leave! Grrr!' thread.Sunny is with him, being adorably said and 'what if Mummy's dead' and killing us ALL with the woe, thank you very much, Mir. She and Bernard are sadly father-daughter schmoopish at each other.
Enter Susan Delgado, who well understands the waiting game, you say true say thankya, and she and Bernard talk about waiting, and Death Eaters a little, and Cuthbert, and Roland, and the horses, and Bernard's father.
Roland is there a bit, before the rescue party leaves. Sunny is cute at him, and apparently even mean, nasty gunslinger types are not immune to the Overwhelming Cute that is the beaver baby. They discuss biting, and Roland being too mean to die, and the rescue. And then Sunny makes Roland art, and everybody DIES OFF FROM THE CUTE.
Roland also talks to Bernard, briefly. About how magic works in Tonks' world, about Fleur's well-being, and about shooting Malfoy in the FACE. (That gunslinger isn't fucking around. That gunslinger is out for VENGEANCE.)
Lilly shows up to sit with them too, and oh good god. Uhm. Sexual meataphors involving baseball, wands metaphors are so last year, special potion spoons and bubbling love cauldrons are the new trend. Sunny and Lilly are going to be 16 at the same time, saints preserve us all if they're not too busy running away. And also, hermaphrodites. All in all, Lilly does a pretty good job of distracting the redhead, yay Lilly.
Last thread under this post - Tom Riddle, who sits with Bernard and watches through the mirror thing linked to Tim's glasses, and gives Bernard a thing of Dreamless Sleep potion. They talk about Sunny, Ingress, Tom's willingness to off Voldemort himself (eep), Raven kicks ass, so does Faith (HAHAHAHA!), and then the rescue thing is over and they're running for the door.
Aaand since we're on the subject of Tom, we'll skip over to the other waity post.
First, Angelina shows up, and she and Tom discuss strategy, the powers they have on their side, and oh look, not needed after all.
Also, Cole, with sword. He and Tom discuss the crystal he gave Faith, the dangers of mucking about with time, and Cole's magic in general.
Regulus Black. He and Tom talk about Voldemort's traditionalism, Tim's adaptation of their magic, and yes. 'Family grows,' indeed.
ALAIN! Uhm. *restrains gunslinger fangirling tendencies* Alain is there. Being all Alain-y, which is to say, quiet, but ready to open a can of whopass if it's needed. Tom tells him about being he-who-will-never-become-he-who-must-not-be-named, and they watch Faith kill people, the voyeurs.
So now we come to therescue thread itself. Since the gang split up, I'm gonna break this down by the teams for ease of my brain, and then come back to the group thing when they're all together.
Tim and Faith head down to the basement - no surprise, the stairs are cursed, so Tim floats and Faith shows off her Slayer climbing skills. They come to an open door with Death Eaters behind it, and there's some Tim-fu, using the Potterverse's magic quite nicely really. He makes short work of his Death Eaters, but is somewhat confounded by the Blast-ended Skrewt. Shoulda read the books, Timmy. He sees Tonks and Bill pursued by armed Death Eaters, disarms the badguys and gives chase. Faith, meanwhile, having no magic at her disposal, relies on a somewhat more basic weapon - one of the Death Eaters can't stop staring at her knockers, even when she puts a knife in his friend's throat. Inbreeding may keep the bloodlines pure, but I think we know now why they're more likely to be Slytherins than Ravenclaws. She snaps her admirer's neck, and handles her Skrewt with an ease that comes from being quite familiar with children's literature, but the presence of human blood on her hands confounds her for a minute, until Tim's announcement about seeing Tonks and Bill draws her back into Slayer Mode. Yes, much use of whitetext there. Because I could.
Faith goes out the window, Tim on her heels, and while Tim throws up protection spells around Bill and Tonks, Faith puts a sword into Lucius Malfoy's guts.
Roland, Fleur and Hagrid make a pretty damn scary team - Roland in the lead, Fleur putting out torches as they go, and Hagrid not loving the Kevlar, really. They run into nine Death Eaters in the hallway, and Roland, being Scary Gunslinger Man, takes down four of them before one can say the spell that lights his right sleeve on fire. Fleur puts out the fire and then expresses professional contempt at the effectiveness of the flame before showing them how a Veela does it - with a twirl and a sexy French accent, apparently. Hagrid, not being so big on the stealth, puts down one of the Death Eaters with a Reducto curse to the chest - probably not a very attractive death, really. Roland's arm still hurts, but he is Stoic and ignores it, and it's not enough to stop him putting the Gunslinger Smackdown on a Death Eater who's a little show with his Killing Curse. At this point, Fleur dives out the window, taking two Death Eaters with her. Points for the clothesline, but we have to deduct for the lack of planning. Hagrid and Roland are running down the stairs, and oh look, Roland and Cuthbert are playing together, isn't it sweet? 'Course, the dead Death Eaters are probably less charmed by it - but Faith's pretty damned impressed, say true. Fleur's a little too badly hurt from her collision with the wall to be much help, but she has enough juice to go over to Bill before she passes out, which makes it nice and handy for Hagrid to put himself in the role of human shield.
Damned Scary Team the third is Raven and Cuthbert. Raven has his bird-fu on high and can sense...something...from the beginning, and Cuthbert, being no fool (at least not when he's not trying to be one), lets the god take point. Also, the scary gunslinger is smiling, which...well, it's Cuthbert, so who's surprised? They run into some traps for Raven to disarm, and then Cuthbert gets to do somesexy scary gunslinger things, taking down two of the Death Eaters before they can say a spell. Raven gets the third with a knife, and they get the message about Tonks, but before they can join the others, they find the something Raven sensed - a dementor. Cuthbert has a Jericho Hill Moment Of Doom, and the gunshot he fires is more luck than anything else - but has no effect. Raven, on the other hand...Raven can take care of business pretty darn well, really, and a man who can laugh like that after running into a dementor...damn shame he's sexless. Once outside, as mentioned, Cuthbert runs into his old friend Roland, and isn't it sweet that they can still play together so nicely?
Meeting the rescuers are Ophelia and Raph, coming fresh from some as-yet-slowtimed hijinx. Ophelia is all ghosty and is scouting the place, and Raph doesn't like white masks - possibly Kabuki theatre was not a part of Asian culture the turtles were ever introduced to. Ophelia leads him to two Death Eaters, and he takes them out with ease and a wisecrack. A third hits him with Impedimentia, but Raph takes him out before he has the chance to capitilize on this. Ophelia says it pretty well: "You threw your knife thing through his head. I think he's dead." Yeah, Ophie, that'll do it. She goes through a wall to Tonks' side, and Raph, still staggering from the spell, follows.
Now we come to the very last of the rescue party, the man so cool he doesn't need a team - Aziraphael The Mighty (and Smite-y). He's wearing Crowley's clothes and an expression of which Crowley would no doubt approve, but the wings are all Angel. He comes across two Death Eaters, one of which also happens to be a vampire. The human is dispatched easily - Aziraphael SMASH - but the vampire can use a sword. Aziraphael is mentally pithy, but gets disarmed anyway. The vampire laughs, so Aziraphael BURNINATES HIM FOR GREAT JUSTICE AND USE OF YEATS IN WHITETEXT. He starts to join the others, despite the fact that his staircase of choice has stability issues - by diving off the stairs and letting himself freefall for a bit before bringing back the wings. Once there, he sees Tonks and has a 'Must control fist of death' moment regarding Malfoy because she's not moving, but he doesn't kill him - mostly because he wanted to. Instead he heals him, which, uhm, not the best strategic decision ever, but he is Angel, so we forgive him.
Next, for a moment, we turn to the ringleader of this little genocidal circus - Lucius 'Born With a Silver Cauldron-stirrer LODGED UP MY ASS' Malfoy. When we first see him, Tonks and Bill have freed themselves, and are holed up in a little room. He, as Grand High Snooty Bastard, is standing outside, is too good to break down the door, so he has somebody else do it. Tonks and Bill are heading out the door on a rope, and Lucius sends half of them to go after Tonks while the others stand with him. The rope is severed, and Tonks and Bill fall to the ground. Malfoy is pleased. Still snooty, but in a pleased way. He and the othertrained monkeys Death Eaters go down to the stairs and pull guns on Tonks and Bill, which is when the whoop-ass starts. The Death Eaters are disarmed, except for the one who can't aim and the one whose gun goes off in his hand, and Malfoy pulls his wand on Fleur, which is when Faith does her stabbity and when the Angel heals him. Oh, also, Raven puts Malfoy's eye out, which, yummy. But Aziraphael heals him, which he reacts to in typical Malfoy fashion - niceness, ugh. But then Tim curses him and makes the castle collapse, and then the good guys are gone, leaving Malfoy alone to plot.
Last, but not least...Bill and Tonks, and I saved them for last because they're just so fucking cool. First they got away, and now, holed up in a little room surrounded by Death Eaters, they're plotting.
Tonks barricades the door with a table, and Bill has obviously seen Gone With the Wind, or perhaps just spoken to Miss Scarlett at some point, because he pulls down the green velvet drapes - thankfully, to make a rope, not to wear as a dress. His Death Eater rope finishes, and down they go, Tonks first, Bill following, his note to Fleur lost without his noticing. Then they get cursed. Bill fires back, because he's cool that way even when his hands are bleeding (which they are), but the rope breaks anyway, and they fall. Tonks is having flashbacks to LAST SEPTEMBER JEEBUS MEG, and Bill sees dead people, but Tonks is breathing and Fleur is there so he thinks it's all right.
In this thread, everybody comes home safe, there are reunions, schmoop, and a lot of healing.
And because Josie asked, I have to inclued this OOM, which takes place in the Wrangle-Tonks household. There is much schmoop here, too, including Tonks waking briefly and 'Baby is fine yay', but then we find that Sunny left her snake in the bar. Bernard goes to retrieve it, and when he gets back he finds that, well, his bed is awfully crowded given the fact that he's not, y'know, in it. Josie wins my heart forever for the phrase "demonic hassenpfeffer," and Bernard, after getting both his girls into more appropriate clothing, finally gets to sleep.
And that, my darlings, is that.
Before that, though, I wanna say this - if you have time to read the threads, read them. I've been doing RP in various forms for a decade now, and was doing it on LJ for a while before I was brought to Milliways. I've done a lot of threads, and a lot of them have been very, very pretty. This plot, these threads, are gorgeous, breathtaking works of art, and I'm both honored and humbled to have been allowed to help hold the brushes.
You guys rock my naughty underthings, and I love you all madly.
Right. On with the summary.
First, read Josie's battle summary thing.
Then we start, for great woe, with this thread, which is Bernard's 'Want to crush! Cannot leave! Grrr!' thread.Sunny is with him, being adorably said and 'what if Mummy's dead' and killing us ALL with the woe, thank you very much, Mir. She and Bernard are sadly father-daughter schmoopish at each other.
Enter Susan Delgado, who well understands the waiting game, you say true say thankya, and she and Bernard talk about waiting, and Death Eaters a little, and Cuthbert, and Roland, and the horses, and Bernard's father.
Roland is there a bit, before the rescue party leaves. Sunny is cute at him, and apparently even mean, nasty gunslinger types are not immune to the Overwhelming Cute that is the beaver baby. They discuss biting, and Roland being too mean to die, and the rescue. And then Sunny makes Roland art, and everybody DIES OFF FROM THE CUTE.
Roland also talks to Bernard, briefly. About how magic works in Tonks' world, about Fleur's well-being, and about shooting Malfoy in the FACE. (That gunslinger isn't fucking around. That gunslinger is out for VENGEANCE.)
Lilly shows up to sit with them too, and oh good god. Uhm. Sexual meataphors involving baseball, wands metaphors are so last year, special potion spoons and bubbling love cauldrons are the new trend. Sunny and Lilly are going to be 16 at the same time, saints preserve us all if they're not too busy running away. And also, hermaphrodites. All in all, Lilly does a pretty good job of distracting the redhead, yay Lilly.
Last thread under this post - Tom Riddle, who sits with Bernard and watches through the mirror thing linked to Tim's glasses, and gives Bernard a thing of Dreamless Sleep potion. They talk about Sunny, Ingress, Tom's willingness to off Voldemort himself (eep), Raven kicks ass, so does Faith (HAHAHAHA!), and then the rescue thing is over and they're running for the door.
Aaand since we're on the subject of Tom, we'll skip over to the other waity post.
First, Angelina shows up, and she and Tom discuss strategy, the powers they have on their side, and oh look, not needed after all.
Also, Cole, with sword. He and Tom discuss the crystal he gave Faith, the dangers of mucking about with time, and Cole's magic in general.
Regulus Black. He and Tom talk about Voldemort's traditionalism, Tim's adaptation of their magic, and yes. 'Family grows,' indeed.
ALAIN! Uhm. *restrains gunslinger fangirling tendencies* Alain is there. Being all Alain-y, which is to say, quiet, but ready to open a can of whopass if it's needed. Tom tells him about being he-who-will-never-become-he-who-must-not-be-named, and they watch Faith kill people, the voyeurs.
So now we come to therescue thread itself. Since the gang split up, I'm gonna break this down by the teams for ease of my brain, and then come back to the group thing when they're all together.
Tim and Faith head down to the basement - no surprise, the stairs are cursed, so Tim floats and Faith shows off her Slayer climbing skills. They come to an open door with Death Eaters behind it, and there's some Tim-fu, using the Potterverse's magic quite nicely really. He makes short work of his Death Eaters, but is somewhat confounded by the Blast-ended Skrewt. Shoulda read the books, Timmy. He sees Tonks and Bill pursued by armed Death Eaters, disarms the badguys and gives chase. Faith, meanwhile, having no magic at her disposal, relies on a somewhat more basic weapon - one of the Death Eaters can't stop staring at her knockers, even when she puts a knife in his friend's throat. Inbreeding may keep the bloodlines pure, but I think we know now why they're more likely to be Slytherins than Ravenclaws. She snaps her admirer's neck, and handles her Skrewt with an ease that comes from being quite familiar with children's literature, but the presence of human blood on her hands confounds her for a minute, until Tim's announcement about seeing Tonks and Bill draws her back into Slayer Mode. Yes, much use of whitetext there. Because I could.
Faith goes out the window, Tim on her heels, and while Tim throws up protection spells around Bill and Tonks, Faith puts a sword into Lucius Malfoy's guts.
Roland, Fleur and Hagrid make a pretty damn scary team - Roland in the lead, Fleur putting out torches as they go, and Hagrid not loving the Kevlar, really. They run into nine Death Eaters in the hallway, and Roland, being Scary Gunslinger Man, takes down four of them before one can say the spell that lights his right sleeve on fire. Fleur puts out the fire and then expresses professional contempt at the effectiveness of the flame before showing them how a Veela does it - with a twirl and a sexy French accent, apparently. Hagrid, not being so big on the stealth, puts down one of the Death Eaters with a Reducto curse to the chest - probably not a very attractive death, really. Roland's arm still hurts, but he is Stoic and ignores it, and it's not enough to stop him putting the Gunslinger Smackdown on a Death Eater who's a little show with his Killing Curse. At this point, Fleur dives out the window, taking two Death Eaters with her. Points for the clothesline, but we have to deduct for the lack of planning. Hagrid and Roland are running down the stairs, and oh look, Roland and Cuthbert are playing together, isn't it sweet? 'Course, the dead Death Eaters are probably less charmed by it - but Faith's pretty damned impressed, say true. Fleur's a little too badly hurt from her collision with the wall to be much help, but she has enough juice to go over to Bill before she passes out, which makes it nice and handy for Hagrid to put himself in the role of human shield.
Damned Scary Team the third is Raven and Cuthbert. Raven has his bird-fu on high and can sense...something...from the beginning, and Cuthbert, being no fool (at least not when he's not trying to be one), lets the god take point. Also, the scary gunslinger is smiling, which...well, it's Cuthbert, so who's surprised? They run into some traps for Raven to disarm, and then Cuthbert gets to do some
Meeting the rescuers are Ophelia and Raph, coming fresh from some as-yet-slowtimed hijinx. Ophelia is all ghosty and is scouting the place, and Raph doesn't like white masks - possibly Kabuki theatre was not a part of Asian culture the turtles were ever introduced to. Ophelia leads him to two Death Eaters, and he takes them out with ease and a wisecrack. A third hits him with Impedimentia, but Raph takes him out before he has the chance to capitilize on this. Ophelia says it pretty well: "You threw your knife thing through his head. I think he's dead." Yeah, Ophie, that'll do it. She goes through a wall to Tonks' side, and Raph, still staggering from the spell, follows.
Now we come to the very last of the rescue party, the man so cool he doesn't need a team - Aziraphael The Mighty (and Smite-y). He's wearing Crowley's clothes and an expression of which Crowley would no doubt approve, but the wings are all Angel. He comes across two Death Eaters, one of which also happens to be a vampire. The human is dispatched easily - Aziraphael SMASH - but the vampire can use a sword. Aziraphael is mentally pithy, but gets disarmed anyway. The vampire laughs, so Aziraphael BURNINATES HIM FOR GREAT JUSTICE AND USE OF YEATS IN WHITETEXT. He starts to join the others, despite the fact that his staircase of choice has stability issues - by diving off the stairs and letting himself freefall for a bit before bringing back the wings. Once there, he sees Tonks and has a 'Must control fist of death' moment regarding Malfoy because she's not moving, but he doesn't kill him - mostly because he wanted to. Instead he heals him, which, uhm, not the best strategic decision ever, but he is Angel, so we forgive him.
Next, for a moment, we turn to the ringleader of this little genocidal circus - Lucius 'Born With a Silver Cauldron-stirrer LODGED UP MY ASS' Malfoy. When we first see him, Tonks and Bill have freed themselves, and are holed up in a little room. He, as Grand High Snooty Bastard, is standing outside, is too good to break down the door, so he has somebody else do it. Tonks and Bill are heading out the door on a rope, and Lucius sends half of them to go after Tonks while the others stand with him. The rope is severed, and Tonks and Bill fall to the ground. Malfoy is pleased. Still snooty, but in a pleased way. He and the other
Last, but not least...Bill and Tonks, and I saved them for last because they're just so fucking cool. First they got away, and now, holed up in a little room surrounded by Death Eaters, they're plotting.
Tonks barricades the door with a table, and Bill has obviously seen Gone With the Wind, or perhaps just spoken to Miss Scarlett at some point, because he pulls down the green velvet drapes - thankfully, to make a rope, not to wear as a dress. His Death Eater rope finishes, and down they go, Tonks first, Bill following, his note to Fleur lost without his noticing. Then they get cursed. Bill fires back, because he's cool that way even when his hands are bleeding (which they are), but the rope breaks anyway, and they fall. Tonks is having flashbacks to LAST SEPTEMBER JEEBUS MEG, and Bill sees dead people, but Tonks is breathing and Fleur is there so he thinks it's all right.
In this thread, everybody comes home safe, there are reunions, schmoop, and a lot of healing.
And because Josie asked, I have to inclued this OOM, which takes place in the Wrangle-Tonks household. There is much schmoop here, too, including Tonks waking briefly and 'Baby is fine yay', but then we find that Sunny left her snake in the bar. Bernard goes to retrieve it, and when he gets back he finds that, well, his bed is awfully crowded given the fact that he's not, y'know, in it. Josie wins my heart forever for the phrase "demonic hassenpfeffer," and Bernard, after getting both his girls into more appropriate clothing, finally gets to sleep.
And that, my darlings, is that.
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A beautiful and masterly thing, my dear.
Go collapse. *Offers beer and chocolate*
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LOVE.
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Thank you, sweetheart. :D
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Thanks for doing this!
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