Dynasty Decapitated

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axtonks‌:

“The deputy minister? You’ve never heard of him?” Suspicious Andromeda thought quietly.

“I’d think that is significant.” She said looking him dead on now. “I could ask where that blood came from, if you’d rather talk about that Mr.Avery.”

“No thank you, I’m on the job as you know.”

Cass shrugs a shoulder, completely unbothered by the spike in suspicion in the auror’s thoughts. He was telling the truth for once, after all. “I don’t really follow politics. Does little to serve me so I find my own way.”

He raises a calculating eyebrow. No, he really would rather not talk about all the blood, funnily enough. His business is going to take a hit as it is, if any of his usual clients happened upon him and an auror. Part of his allure is his ability to slink under the radar. This is not under the radar.

“You wouldn’t happen to have a photograph, would you?” he asks, taking another sip so he has something to do with his hands.

Bird and Worms|| Cass and Maya

#convomaya #birds and worms

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mayazabini‌:

Maya’s face softens and for once she lets it. His hands might be her favorite thing about Cass-they’re capable of so much evil and yet when they touch her-at least when they’re like this-they only hold tenderness. Maya lifts his other hand from her hip now, taking it in both of hers, letting her fingers play with his, desperately trying to replicate the tenderness in his voice when he gives her the answer that lights her soul on fire.

“I like it when you say my name.” Maya tells his hand, not quite able to look at him then. It doesn’t make sense, and they both know it, to not say what she’s thinking. She’s an open book to him right now, something rare and almost precious.

Almost, because they both know, if Cass turns the pages too far, he’ll find the ugliness they’re accustomed to.

Maya doesn’t say it out loud because she doesn’t need to, but she needs to know what he thinks-its not the first time she’s wished for the ability to get into his head too.

I wish it was different.

She’s not stupid enough to wish for normalcy-that was never in the cards for either of them. But still, on those nights where she’s lonely, she imagines a future where her mother had lived, where she had no half siblings to suck away at her dad’s fortune, where she could get that piece of paper with him and it might actually mean something. They’d still be as fucked up and as horrible as they are now-Maya can’t imagine how they could be anything else-but they could belong to each other, fully. Truly. In a way that everyone could see.

Because as much as she pretends to be disgusted by Cass’s wickedness, she envies it. Part of her longs to fall down to his level too, revel in their horribleness, but a bigger part of her won’t let her take that last step over the edge.

“I’d say yes.”

She slides off to the side of him and settles in, letting herself the solidness of his arms around her. She breathes him in-stale sex and sweat and that cologne she always buys him for his birthday.

“If things were different. I’d say yes.”

Cass kisses the back of her hand and holds it to his chest. looking at her with the sad fondness he finds impossible towards anyone else.

“I know.”

He’s seen her true heart. Of course he knows.

They lay in silence for a long time, Cass staring up at the ceiling as he rubs her back and feels her breath against his chest.

“We still have this,” he says as much for her as for himself. “For all the flaws in our destinies and whatnot, we still have this, Maya.”

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axtonks‌:

She watched him closely, not wanting to seem too suspicious. But he just had a menacing look about him, and the blood raised more than a few questions.

Originally posted by ghostling

“Just a few questions Mr.Avery, I’m sure it won’t be long.” She said as he sat across from her. “Do you know Earle Ibis?”

“I’m sorry, who?”

“I’ve met a lot of people, Auror Tonks. Heard a lot of names but is that uh name supposed to be significant in some way? To me specifically?”

He waves at the bartender who immediately sends a tumbler of whiskey into his raised hand and wags his eyebrows at the auror as he takes an exaggerated sip.

“Did you want one?” he asks lightly, swirling the contents once before setting the glass down. “It’s absolute swill here but it’s wet.”

#convoandromeda #gtfo

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axtonks‌:

“I mean, I could come back and it would be far less casual. Not a great look when I report you weren’t will to talk.”

Originally posted by americangods

“I always suggest working with Aurors Mr.Avery.”

“Right.”

With a heavy put-off sigh, he shakes out his wand, manifests a handkerchief to wipe his face clean, and vanishes it with another shake.

“How,” Cass starts in a stilted voice as he takes the seat opposite the woman, “can I possibly help you, Auror Tonks?”

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Bird and Worms|| Cass and Maya

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mayazabini‌:

“An hour.”

She sucks in a breath as his lips replace his finger tips.

“Maybe two.”

She giggles softly as he kisses around her chest, teasing her. A surge of emotion springs up from a place inside her she rarely sees. It’s almost shocking, whenever her own humanity stares her in the face. It’s easier to lean into the Veela parts of her-the emotionless, cold, almost beast-like instincts. But something about mornings with Cass…they made her into someone she could never really be. But she could pretend, as long as the light was low and they didn’t have to face themselves in the full glow of a day. She asks the question she almost always asks when this springs up around him, sick of thinking about it on the rare nights where she’s lonely. She’s got to know, even if she hates herself already for asking.

“Would you marry me?” Her voice is smaller than she would’ve liked, disgustingly vulnerable and the exact opposite of how she wanted to be seen. By anyone but him. Cassiel was as close to safe as she could ever be.

“If…if you know, things were different. If it was an option.”

She sits up slightly, her hands playing with the bottom ends of the hair close to the back of his neck.

“Would you?”

“Yes.”

Cass’ answer comes barely a breath after she’s finished asking. It’s not even that he read it in her consciousness seconds before she even started speaking. It’s the answer that has waited on his tongue for this very moment, whether he knew it or not.

“You should know that,” he says softly, blinking up at her as his fingers skim around her hips. “You’re it for me, Maya.”

He reaches up and twists a lock of her hair around his pointer finger, following it down past her shoulder. When his eyes find hers again, he can’t help but smile at her expression torn between embarrassment and confusion. Her features, though all grace and elegance for most all to see, can truly ruin when roughed by fury, barely masking the monster within. The other half to his own monster.

“But what’s marriage but just a piece of paper, right, darling?”

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#convos #rphoenixstarter #open #trying this again #tw blood

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axtonks‌:

Originally posted by ghostling

“Mr.Avery, my name is Auror Tonks I’m here to ask you a few questions.”

“Uh-”

“Auror Tonks...this isn’t really the best time. I’ve got--a few other matters to attend to at the moment.”

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“You’re in my seat.”

Bird and Worms|| Cass and Maya

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mayazabini‌:

“Cause I don’t want to be awake alone.” She pouts for a second, pressing her mouth against his naked back. She still feels drunk and she honestly might be- its the only explanation for her strange urge for affection. Maya snakes her fingers around his shoulders and flips him back over-or rather, convinces him to flip back over.

“And it’s still too early for me to think you’re annoying yet.”

Her eyes search his face as she moves closer.

“And maybe…”

Their mouths are so close but she doesn’t kiss him properly yet.

“Maybe I wanted to say good morning.”

“Mmm, morning.”

It’s the tone of her voice that always gets him. Clears away the fog, takes him somewhere else, makes him forget. And she knows just how to bring him to her level--or below--with just her breath formed around some choice words, and he’s gone. Mornings with Maya Zabini might be the closest to sacred Cass has ever been or ever will be in his life.

He closes the short distance between them with a short, almost sweet kiss and pulls back, looking into her eyes, willing her to pull him back to wherever they left off last night.

“How long do I have before I’m deemed annoying again?” he teases as he skims her clavicle with his fingertips. “Wouldn’t want to waste time.”

so, you wouldn't kill Maya?

Oh, you’re a bright one, aren’t you?

do you have a favorite color?

Is scarlet too on the nose?

is there anything you won't do for money?

There are certain things that you don’t bring up in polite conversation.

what's the most illegal thing you've ever done?

If I told you, I’d have to kill you.

What’s your imagination tell you?

how much would it cost for you to kill Maya Zabini?

There are such things as dangerous questions, mate.

I’d watch yourself if I was you.

#Anonymous

Bird and Worms|| Cass and Maya

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mayazabini‌:

She rolls over in the big bed and pauses, sleep riddling her brain not registering who the body next to her is.

Something small warms in her when she sees Cass’s face, relaxed in sleep, but it dies as soon as the hangover headache catches up with her.

“Cassiel-”

She rubs her face and pulls the giant white sheets over to completely cover her, smirking as she looks at his now naked body next to her.

“Wake up.”

@cass-avery

“Da frkh?” Cass grumbles into the pillow, opening one bleary eye to find Maya smirking at him.

“Why?” He pushes himself up onto his elbows to stretch out his spine but turns over onto his other side so he’s giving her full view of his backside instead. “You have someone else to entertain?”

Do you believe in love at first sight?

You lot are certainly very concerned with my love life.

Show me a few Galleons and I’ll give you my answer...all night long.

If a list of all your customers leaked, in how much trouble would you (and/or your customers) be?

How does a sentence in Azkaban sound?

They’d have to be able to pin something on me first.