Tears and darkness (Jacob)

[nixnight]

Nix was in the bell towers in the middle of the night, her owl who's name was phantom was sitting on her knee beside her and kept flapping his wings in the breeze as nix looked down the edge of the tower and sighed deeply. She was sitting in one of the alcoves of the wall and looking out across the grounds, she was wearing her dark purple pyjamas and her long messy red hair had fallen over her face. Her eyes were red and there were long tear streaks down her face and a small bit of paper was crushed her curled up hand

[nazgul466]

The slow sound of footsteps rang through the bell tower, they then slowed down until the reached an eventual stop which was followed by a loud cough and a few words of profanity. Jacob continued to walk up the bell tower until he reached the opening which is when he covered his eyes with his large right hand as the stars were so bright.

Eventually Jacob moved his arm covered in the brown fabric of his hooded jacket and saw the small red headed girl in front of her. Images flashed in front of his eyes and Jacob realised who she was, so he touched her shoulder gently then turned her around. Her eyes widened and Jacob saw her tear marks then the paper in her hand.
"I didn't think I had that effect on you anymore Nix, do you remember me?"
He commented jokingly on her tears.

(OOC: BTW It's Jacob xD)

[nixnight]

*dammed ipod spell check/auto-correct...*

Nix rolled her eyes as she heard foot steps coming up the stairs to the bell tower and then she turned her head so it was resting against the stone wall as she heard a voice she knew. "i know you jacob, i remember you and everything but i have a lot on my plate currently so if you dont have any reason for sticking around here, please just go away" she said in a small and defeated sounding voice as phantom hooted at her to tell her jacob was there, "i already know tommy" she said in weak voice as she turned her to face her owl on her knee

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Jacob weakly smiled at her predicament, Nix was the only person who was nice to him when he was younger. They used to be friends at school and she was the only one who treated him normally while he was in care but soon enough they lost touch.

He gently leant over Nix and hugged her close to make sure that she was loved. Slowly Jacob uncurled her hand which had suddenly gone very lax, he held it in his right hand and refused to open it.

"What's on this note Nix that has caused you so much grief, please tell me?"

Jacob was legitimately worried about Nix, this was only the second time he had seen her cry with the first being when her hamster died.

[nixnight]

*mate, try not to go in to history unless you know it *

Nix rolled her eyes and turned her head away again and then dropped her finger away from her palm and let the paper drop to the floor as she felt jacob put his arm around her sholder, he was only a fifth year and normally nix would have jerked away but she was too tired and upset to bother to now. she glanced down at the paper on the floor and then sighed and felt another tear drip down her face as she thought of the words on it again...

"Dearest nix
It deeply saddens me to write this to you and you must know by simply seeing it's me wirting this that its bad news. I know you have a lot going on at your school this year so I'll make it very short. Jasper was killed 2 days ago, he was walking home from school and was run down by a theif trying to make a getaway from a bank robbery. The theif was caught I think you'll be glad to know and jasper has a funeral on Sunday, I don't know if you can come but if you could I know he would loved you to have been there. If you can't, he had something he wanted you to have, I'll send it to you if you send your owl back to us.
I wish you all the best
Grace Metot"

Nix knew the letter off by heart ,she still hadn't had the courage to send phantom back to her best freinds family and was terrified of what she was going to do at the end of this school year. Would she be able to go and see them again or would jasper being gone mean she lost those dear muggle freinds she had found in his parents? She felt yet more tears drip down her face and rested her cheek against the cold stone wall as her hair fell across her face

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Jacob quickly scanned the letter and he sighed while at the same time resting his head on the top of hers. He then held her out at arm's length and looked her straight in the eyes while the tears continued to run down her face.
"What are you going to do about this funeral business?"

Jacob looked at Nix as her eyes kept moving from side to side, she was still crying and couldn't look him straight in the eyes. It then occored to Jacob that she had just seen his mask and he quickly let go and turned around while at the same time covering his face.

This was the reason Jacob felt like a freak, the mask made him isolated as people thought he was a madman (which he was) but without it then he would harm or even worse kill people due to Abyss. It was a lose-lose situation.

"A lot has changed since we were younger. I've been tortured physically and mentally for as long as I can remember. So what about you?"
Jacob was just trying to take her mind off of this Jasper bloke.

[nixnight]

Nix sighed and then turned back to the stone wall and rested her face on it again ,"I have a twelve year old daughter" she said and then laughed weakly at how that made no sense unless you knew the story of her and pixie. "I'm busy studying for my NEWTs in the summer and I'm looking after my daughter, I have hike work to do atop that and I'm still getting in trouble most days so I end up losing time in detition" she said in a long breath. Phantom gave a hoot on her knee and she turned to look at him, he flapped his dark wings and nix nodded and then slowly lifted her hand and let him climb on to her bare wrist and then she shifted herself and held him up to the open hole in the wall

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Jacob straightened up when he heard the words: "twelve year old child", he then pulled up his hood and turned around while still looking at the ground. This was news that really made Jacob worried but probably not just Jacob her parents must be worried though from what he remembered her parents weren't the nicest of people.


"So wait you're 16 or 17 and you have a twelve year old child..." Jacob was waving his hands backwards and forwards trying to emphasise the point.

"How is that even possible?!" Jacob placed his hands on the side of his hands and at the same time shook his head.

"What the hell?!" Jacob then put his hands by his side and begun to laugh.
Jacob wasn't laughing about the point but that he could hear footsteps on the wooden floor in his mind. Abyss was coming through. Jacob then saw himself facing Abyss within his mind and they begun to talk:
"Abyss just stay out of this, Nix needs our help!"
"Nix is here, Oh My God! Nix is awesome well by awesome I ment easy to kill"
Abyss then begun laughing which affected Jacob which made him laugh "in real life".
Jacob then sat down and begun rocking backwards and forwards.

[nixnight]

Nix heard jacob talk and sniggered quietly to herself and nodded her head and then turned to look at him, he had stood up and now was talking to no one and nix narrowed her painful red eyes. phantom took off from her wrist and floated down in to the darkness of the night but nix was busy watching Jacob. He had stopped talking now and was sitting down and rocking like a child would and then she nodded her head, she turned round on the stone seat beside the window and let her bare feet touch down on the wooden floor before pulling back the dark right sleve of her pyjamas, revealing her wand.

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Jacob sighed and slowly stood up while looking at the stars which were very bright tonight. He turned around to see Nix sitting down and he saw her wand, Jacob's eye widened when he saw the wand, it would have been easy pickings and all that power in Jacob's hands would have been destructive "they" could have taken over the world, but Nix was "their" friend so he didn't.

Jacob shuffled over to where Nix was sitting and sat next to her. He saw that she was wearing no shoes but then noticed that she was wearing pyjamas, her feet must have been cold.

"So how do you have a child at this age?" Jacob was still perplexed about this as foster homes would only let you adopt a child after a certain age. Then Jacob saw a broomstick without anyone riding it float past the two misfits and Jacob just shook his head to just dismiss it.

"Are you going to tell me then?" He asked in a gentle tone.

[nixnight]

Nix watched Jacob uncurl himself and she paused before pulling her sleve back down again and then she turned back and pulled her feet back on to the alcove and then she pulled her knees up to her chest again. "me and a freind went swimming, in the lake" she said nodding her head to the black lake across the grounds from them ,"i as pulling under by some weeds and it seemed I was going to drown when something bit me and I kicked to get away and resurfaced. It turned out a merchild had bitten me, we took her out of the water and she looked like a baby but once we had gone to one of the teachers and told her she said that pixie was really twelve in human years and so she could join the school if she wanted" she said in a short breath

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Jacob nodded at the story and most of the story he understood, he didn't know what a merchild was and he didn't understand what the black lake was.

"Oh okay I thought you ment that you'd given birth and that's why I was worried" Jacob covered and pulled down his hood revealing the mask.
"So has she joined the school, and what's her name?"

He stood up and scratched his head before looking over the edge of the tower. Jacob felt Abyss in his head telling him to push Nix over it but Jacob just ignored it and sat back down.
"And wait where is she right now if you're her parent?"
Jacob rubbed his head and asking too many questions hurt his head.

[nixnight]

Nix rolled her eyes and felt a lot more like her old self for a moment and then she turned her head to jacob, "Her name is Pixie Rain Green, shes in gryffindor with me and shes doing very well in her classes too" she said and then grinned a little and looked up at the boy, "shes my "cousin" as far as anyone else knows, and shes a second year. She can handle herself and even if she cant she knows how to contact me quickly" she said and then she shifted herself on the side of the alcove and let her legs hang down and out of the window and felt the wind blow though her messy red hiar

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The first thing that jumped to Jacob's mind was how stupid a name Pixie Rain was. Honestly if she ever went to public schools then she would have the tar kicked in her, and that would be all because of Nix. Despite all this Jacob nodded throughout the story and to be honest was putting this merchild into the same school as her apparent mother the best idea?
It wasn't for Jacob to judge but he did anyway and he thought it was a terrible idea but he liked Nix so he kept it to himself.
"So why are you up here anyway?"
He asked the question which had seemed blatantly obvious throughout their small conversation so far.

[nixnight]

Nix turned her head and looked down at the lake below her, "i like to go places where others dont, i like to be alone at night because i cant sleep normally any way so i come outside, normally i'll walk to the lake but today i wanted to be high up, and then i got the letter and i just didnt want to move" she said in a slightly wobblely voice. she lifted a hand up and ran it through her messy red hair and messed it up and little more before turning her head so she could see the forbbiden forest better in all it's moon washed glory