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A blog showcasing the characters of the stories written by myself in collaboration with Abi. The stories being The Dark Ages/Renaissance, Secret Affairs, Kiss of Revenge (the Mob!Family), and Court/Stone Era; they're linked below.
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“That bad, huh?”A breath of cigarette smoke left his lips as Alec exhaled in answer to his persistent friend’s question. Alec didn’t indulge in smoking, most of the time he saw no point in it, now however, he felt like it was either smoke a cig, or jump in the lake and hope that the giant squid ate him alive.“I thought you and Sid patched things up,” Jesse commented carefully before bringing the cigarette up to his lips again.Alec shook his head, “It’s not about Sid.” His facial expression must have betrayed his words, for Jesse rolled his eyes and took another puff of the smoke. Alec cleared his throat and then inhaled once more, looking out over the Grounds. Everything was just so bloody complicated. N.E.W.T.’s were in less than five months, graduation after that. Jesse had already gotten accepted to the London Film Academy, Sid was waiting to hear back from either the Birmingham School of Acting or the movie she had auditioned for, and he…he had no idea what to do.He most certainly didn’t want to work in the Ministry. He couldn’t deny that some of the departments caught his interest, but none so that he would want to work there for any long span of time. And no matter how good his family and friends said he was at basketball, he wasn’t nearly good enough to play professionally. He was good at school, he was good at learning, but he damn sure wasn’t planning on becoming a professor either.Sid was right, he had no bloody clue what to do. “I’m a failure, Jesse.” Jesse laughed, genuinely amused as he turned to his distraught friend. “Alec, no you aren’t-““I turn 18 in less than three weeks. I have no idea what I want to do with my life, you and Sid know exactly what you want, hell, I think Blair has a more solid idea than I do.”“Doesn’t mean you’re a failure, Alec. Failures don’t get time turners to work.”Alec groaned, bringing the smoke up to his lips again. After a long exhale, he shook his head. “It’s not ready.”“The hell it isn’t,” Jesse raised his eyebrows, parting his lips in a small circle and letting smoke rings float up and away from him. Alec watched them curiously as they made their way through the night air, before the smoke just dissipated and vanished before their very eyes. How dreadfully accurate. “I need to find a way to test it-““Okay! Then let’s test it right now!” A hand went for his collar, trying to tug it down and away, and Alec scoffed before pushing Jesse’s hand away. Alec shook his head, “It’s not ready, Jesse.” That was a partial lie. Alec had been using as much of his free time as he could spare working on the time-turner and he had applied the spell, had ran as many diagnostics charm he could think of to ensure that the spell was working and they all told him the same thing- it would work. Alec was just uneasy about using it. “Whatever, we were talking about you being a failure, or rather, how you aren’t.” Jesse shrugged and then let the cig fall from his hands, squishing it with the sole of his boot. He only did it for show, Alec knew, because he could just as easily vanish it from existence. “What’s got your knickers in a twist, mate?” Jesse asked, genuinely worried for his friend. “You only have one type of modesty- fake modesty. But this is downright concerning. Alec Stone doesn’t think he’s a brilliant mastermind that could conquer the world?”Alec chuckled, shrugging his shoulders afterwards. “I’m not going to conquer anything if I can’t even figure out what I’m going to do with my life.”“What do you want to do after school? What is the one thing you want most in this world?…Don’t say me because, while I do know I’m delectable-” Jesse broke off into an easy laugh as Alec threw the lit cigarette at his face; Jesse dodged it naturally. “I…genuinely have no clue,” Alec answered honestly, his brows furrowed as he exhaled and ran his hands through his hair and face, groaning a bit in frustration. Jesse shrugged, “It’s not too late to apply to Oxford.”“Why on Earth would I want to go to Oxford?” “To keep learning shit- that’s what you like to do right? Well…maybe you’ll find some sort of inspiration among your intellectual superiors.”“Equals.” “I’m just surprised you didn’t say inferiors.”Alec grinned, shaking his head from side to side before he looked up at the setting sun. Why did everything have to be so complicated? It seemed like only yesterday he was meeting Jesse and Sid, learning how to play basketball, teaming up with Blair to get to the junk food cabinet. Now he was supposed to be an adult- when did that happen? Alec cleared his throat uncomfortably before he admitted silently, “I just feel like…like I’m getting left behind.” “By who?”A small reluctant noise came out of his mouth before he admitted, “You…Sid.”“Well, seeing as how we’re sharing a flat come September, I think you’re more worried about Sid, aren’t you mate?” That was the problems with best friends. No matter how absorbed they might be with themselves such as Jesse was, there was no hiding the truth from them. Alec sighed, nodding reluctantly. “She’d probably move to L.A. if she had the money,” Alec commented, biting on his bottom lip pensively. “She wants to be a star…and she was practically born to be in the spotlight, be adored by everyone, everywhere…but I just want her to stay.”“Why did you think she applied to an English drama school and not an American one, you dunce?” Jesse punched his shoulder in an attempt to accentuate his point, but all Alec really derived from that message was that he needed to start building more muscle. “Because they’re infinitely superior?” “Because she doesn’t want to leave England, not without you. It’s all terrifyingly nauseating to tell you the truth.”Alec shook his head stubbornly, closing his eyes as he attempted to believe what Jesse was saying, but he was having a difficult time. Pursing his lips and licking them, Alec turned to Jesse and asked, “Do you think we work?”“What?” Jesse asked in confusion, disbelief that he was being asked that question. Alec simply nodded to show that he wasn’t kidding. “Of course you do- stop being such a girl, Alec,” Jesse pushed Alec’s shoulders and rolled his eyes, searching for another cigarette in his pockets. “I don’t know why I bother,” Alec shook his head. “Just forget I said anything-““Alec. You’re my best mate. Right?” Jesse waited for Alec to nod before he continued, nodding as well. “Well, Sid’s my best girl. mate. girl-mate. And you two just need to….stop talking to me- cut the middle man and just talk to each other. You both are annoying as fuck-““Sid’s talked about me to you?” Jesse nodded, waving it off immediately, “She was annoyed.”“Well, we both were but…” Alec pursed his lips, shaking his head from side to side. He knew perfectly well what the ‘but’ was. They might have apologized, and sorted things through but something just felt…off. Maybe the things they had said had hit a little too close to home, and while they had forgiven each other, the effects were still. “Whatever you two do,” Jesse started, lighting his next cigarette with his wand easily enough, “Don’t fuck it up. Because a) I’m not going to choose sides, b) that would be the official end of us as the unholy trinity and d) whatever hope of a possible threesome immediately jumps through the window.” Alec laughed in genuine amusement as well as exasperation, shaking his head from side to side. “You skipped C.”“C’s an unlucky letter,” Jesse shrugged before bringing the cigarette up to his lips once more. “Wish I could erase C from existence.” Turning away from his friend, Alec smiled a little as he looked out on the lake, chuckling under his breath. He didn’t understand Jesse sometimes- ‘erase C from existence’. As if creating and erasing something could be that easy, especially when it was already meant…to be… Alec laughed in delight as he turned to Jesse, beaming. “Jess, you. are. brilliant!” Jesse’s eyebrows arched, clearly at a loss for what had just happened. “Of course I am…why?” Grinning, Alec picked up his book-bag off the ground and then hugged his friend tightly, but quickly, patting his shoulder afterwards. “You just gave me an idea.” Noting the overjoyed look on Alec’s friend, Jesse spoke hesitantly and slightly teasingly, “It doesn’t involve kissing me does it?” “If it works, I just might!” Alec grinned. “See you later!” Alec moved away from Jesse, running up the Grounds towards the castle, in the direction of the Ravenclaw common room. He knew exactly how he was going to test the time-turner.

“That bad, huh?”

A breath of cigarette smoke left his lips as Alec exhaled in answer to his persistent friend’s question. Alec didn’t indulge in smoking, most of the time he saw no point in it, now however, he felt like it was either smoke a cig, or jump in the lake and hope that the giant squid ate him alive.

“I thought you and Sid patched things up,” Jesse commented carefully before bringing the cigarette up to his lips again.

Alec shook his head, “It’s not about Sid.” His facial expression must have betrayed his words, for Jesse rolled his eyes and took another puff of the smoke. Alec cleared his throat and then inhaled once more, looking out over the Grounds. Everything was just so bloody complicated. N.E.W.T.’s were in less than five months, graduation after that. Jesse had already gotten accepted to the London Film Academy, Sid was waiting to hear back from either the Birmingham School of Acting or the movie she had auditioned for, and he…he had no idea what to do.

He most certainly didn’t want to work in the Ministry. He couldn’t deny that some of the departments caught his interest, but none so that he would want to work there for any long span of time. And no matter how good his family and friends said he was at basketball, he wasn’t nearly good enough to play professionally. He was good at school, he was good at learning, but he damn sure wasn’t planning on becoming a professor either.

Sid was right, he had no bloody clue what to do.

“I’m a failure, Jesse.”

Jesse laughed, genuinely amused as he turned to his distraught friend. “Alec, no you aren’t-“

“I turn 18 in less than three weeks. I have no idea what I want to do with my life, you and Sid know exactly what you want, hell, I think Blair has a more solid idea than I do.”

“Doesn’t mean you’re a failure, Alec. Failures don’t get time turners to work.”

Alec groaned, bringing the smoke up to his lips again. After a long exhale, he shook his head. “It’s not ready.”

“The hell it isn’t,” Jesse raised his eyebrows, parting his lips in a small circle and letting smoke rings float up and away from him. Alec watched them curiously as they made their way through the night air, before the smoke just dissipated and vanished before their very eyes. How dreadfully accurate.

“I need to find a way to test it-“

“Okay! Then let’s test it right now!” A hand went for his collar, trying to tug it down and away, and Alec scoffed before pushing Jesse’s hand away.

Alec shook his head, “It’s not ready, Jesse.”

That was a partial lie. Alec had been using as much of his free time as he could spare working on the time-turner and he had applied the spell, had ran as many diagnostics charm he could think of to ensure that the spell was working and they all told him the same thing- it would work. Alec was just uneasy about using it.

“Whatever, we were talking about you being a failure, or rather, how you aren’t.” Jesse shrugged and then let the cig fall from his hands, squishing it with the sole of his boot. He only did it for show, Alec knew, because he could just as easily vanish it from existence.

“What’s got your knickers in a twist, mate?” Jesse asked, genuinely worried for his friend. “You only have one type of modesty- fake modesty. But this is downright concerning. Alec Stone doesn’t think he’s a brilliant mastermind that could conquer the world?”

Alec chuckled, shrugging his shoulders afterwards. “I’m not going to conquer anything if I can’t even figure out what I’m going to do with my life.”

“What do you want to do after school? What is the one thing you want most in this world?…Don’t say me because, while I do know I’m delectable-” Jesse broke off into an easy laugh as Alec threw the lit cigarette at his face; Jesse dodged it naturally.

“I…genuinely have no clue,” Alec answered honestly, his brows furrowed as he exhaled and ran his hands through his hair and face, groaning a bit in frustration.

Jesse shrugged, “It’s not too late to apply to Oxford.”

“Why on Earth would I want to go to Oxford?”

“To keep learning shit- that’s what you like to do right? Well…maybe you’ll find some sort of inspiration among your intellectual superiors.”

“Equals.”

“I’m just surprised you didn’t say inferiors.”

Alec grinned, shaking his head from side to side before he looked up at the setting sun. Why did everything have to be so complicated? It seemed like only yesterday he was meeting Jesse and Sid, learning how to play basketball, teaming up with Blair to get to the junk food cabinet. Now he was supposed to be an adult- when did that happen?

Alec cleared his throat uncomfortably before he admitted silently, “I just feel like…like I’m getting left behind.”

“By who?”

A small reluctant noise came out of his mouth before he admitted, “You…Sid.”

“Well, seeing as how we’re sharing a flat come September, I think you’re more worried about Sid, aren’t you mate?”

That was the problems with best friends. No matter how absorbed they might be with themselves such as Jesse was, there was no hiding the truth from them. Alec sighed, nodding reluctantly.

“She’d probably move to L.A. if she had the money,” Alec commented, biting on his bottom lip pensively. “She wants to be a star…and she was practically born to be in the spotlight, be adored by everyone, everywhere…but I just want her to stay.”

“Why did you think she applied to an English drama school and not an American one, you dunce?” Jesse punched his shoulder in an attempt to accentuate his point, but all Alec really derived from that message was that he needed to start building more muscle.

“Because they’re infinitely superior?”

“Because she doesn’t want to leave England, not without you. It’s all terrifyingly nauseating to tell you the truth.”

Alec shook his head stubbornly, closing his eyes as he attempted to believe what Jesse was saying, but he was having a difficult time. Pursing his lips and licking them, Alec turned to Jesse and asked, “Do you think we work?”

“What?” Jesse asked in confusion, disbelief that he was being asked that question. Alec simply nodded to show that he wasn’t kidding. “Of course you do- stop being such a girl, Alec,” Jesse pushed Alec’s shoulders and rolled his eyes, searching for another cigarette in his pockets.

“I don’t know why I bother,” Alec shook his head. “Just forget I said anything-“

“Alec. You’re my best mate. Right?” Jesse waited for Alec to nod before he continued, nodding as well. “Well, Sid’s my best girl. mate. girl-mate. And you two just need to….stop talking to me- cut the middle man and just talk to each other. You both are annoying as fuck-“

“Sid’s talked about me to you?”

Jesse nodded, waving it off immediately, “She was annoyed.”

“Well, we both were but…” Alec pursed his lips, shaking his head from side to side. He knew perfectly well what the ‘but’ was. They might have apologized, and sorted things through but something just felt…off. Maybe the things they had said had hit a little too close to home, and while they had forgiven each other, the effects were still.

“Whatever you two do,” Jesse started, lighting his next cigarette with his wand easily enough, “Don’t fuck it up. Because a) I’m not going to choose sides, b) that would be the official end of us as the unholy trinity and d) whatever hope of a possible threesome immediately jumps through the window.”

Alec laughed in genuine amusement as well as exasperation, shaking his head from side to side. “You skipped C.”

“C’s an unlucky letter,” Jesse shrugged before bringing the cigarette up to his lips once more. “Wish I could erase C from existence.”

Turning away from his friend, Alec smiled a little as he looked out on the lake, chuckling under his breath. He didn’t understand Jesse sometimes- ‘erase C from existence’. As if creating and erasing something could be that easy, especially when it was already meant…to be…

Alec laughed in delight as he turned to Jesse, beaming. “Jess, you. are. brilliant!”

Jesse’s eyebrows arched, clearly at a loss for what had just happened. “Of course I am…why?”

Grinning, Alec picked up his book-bag off the ground and then hugged his friend tightly, but quickly, patting his shoulder afterwards. “You just gave me an idea.”

Noting the overjoyed look on Alec’s friend, Jesse spoke hesitantly and slightly teasingly, “It doesn’t involve kissing me does it?”

“If it works, I just might!” Alec grinned. “See you later!” Alec moved away from Jesse, running up the Grounds towards the castle, in the direction of the Ravenclaw common room.

He knew exactly how he was going to test the time-turner.


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