there's a dazzling haze

a mysterious way about you, dear ♥️

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{ stefan }‌:

Over the course of the weeks that he worked with Kallista on what he thought to himself as an experiment to know the future, she had a few visions but not many – and nothing which really blew his mind. While he had expected a lot more by this time from her, the thing about Stefan was that he did not mind slow progress. He didn’t not mind waiting when he knew the potential was there. They simply had to find a way to tap into it, and he with his life going haywire, this was a great distraction for him. “You have to try, Kalli.” he said in a soothing tone, knowing the other was frustrated. His brows rose a little as he considered hinting to her that there was other things to try – he had been wondering about how to speed the process, but he also didn’t want to scare her away. It would be so much easier if she believed that his intention wasn’t to hurt her,  only help. “There are other things we could do to clear a mind block but they would be –” he pretended to hesitate, “I want to figure this out without trying anything extreme, okay? I know you can do this.” 

Kallista felt almost desperate for answers. Having never had someone that was actively trying to help her, Stefan’s inquisitive questions were a welcomed difference from the stunning silence from her parents. She kept flipping the tarot cards, her eyes catching on the one she set down. “Well, that’s a sign if I needed one.” She held up the one that had caught her eye: the reversed fool. “Risk-taking.” Kallista uncrossed her legs and let them drop to the floor as she looked up at the other, her head leaning back enough to look at him. “Obviously I need to take some risks if I want to figure this out, so if you have any ideas, please tell me, Stefan.” Sighing, Kallista let her head hang, staring at the deck of cards in her hands. “I’ve tried everything and it’s just...it’s just out of my grasp no matter what--herbs, potions, meditation, tea--nothing is working. I don’t know what to do.”

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{ remus }‌:

“Good, I’m glad,” Remus admitted honestly, glad the other was okay. “Yeah. I’ve been really good actually,” His mind flickered to the thought of his boyfriend and he smiled, before it faded slightly – almost feeling guilty. “Anything new with you?”

“You don’t have to feel bad, Remy.” She giggled, bumping her shoulder against his. “We broke up a long time ago, you’re allowed to be happy--and I’m happy for you, love.” With a wide smile still on her face, she turned a bit to look out the window. “Remember how I used to tell you I had visions as a kid? I had a few since Valentine’s day.”

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{ julian }‌:

As she handed the bottle back, he took a quick sip from it. An eyebrow raised at her words, although he didn’t comment; it didn’t feel like something he should talk more about, really. “Yeah, that’s me. Sorry, I don’t think I actually know your name.” He said with a small smile before taking a seat next to her. “I don’t think I’ve ever done this before, but there’s a first to everything, right?”

“I have a very good memory,” she said, giggling at her own inside joke. “I’m Kallista.” Grinning as he sat down next to him, she took the bottle back again and took a drink. “Doing things for the first time is always the best, don’t you think.” She couldn’t help but giggle, warmth rising to her cheeks from both the alcohol and the flirty tone of her words.

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{ remus }‌:

“I- yeah, sure. Anything to distract me from this nightmare of an essay, actually,” Remus smiled weakly at the other, chewing on his bottom lip as he spotted the blank space next to him in the alcove. “Uh, so how have you been recently?” Remus briefly wondered if the other had heard about him and Stu, praying she didn’t bring it up. That was one awkward conversation he’d rather not have.

Kallista smiled softly and moved to sit next to him, placing her bag on the ground to give herself more room to tuck her feet beneath her. “I’ve been...good. Surprisingly.” Her small smile widened as she looked at him. “I take it you’ve been good too?”

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{ julian }‌:

Julian let out a small laugh as she spoke, giving her a small nod. “I know, I an such an amazing person!” He joked, letting her grab the bottle. He’d already had plenty to drink, sharing was definitely not a problem anymore. At her question, his eyebrows rose, a small smirk appearing on his features. “Well, I was only coming to keep you company, although some ulterior motives could certainly be a great idea.”

Once she’d taken the bottle, she poured some into her cup before handing it back to him. “I’d happily accept either,” Kallista said with a giggle. Taking a sip from her cup, she sat down facing the lake and looked up at him. “Julian, right? Come on, join me! The party’s fun, but there’s something about watching the stars above the lake that always pulls me in.”

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{ @stefanxxnott​ }

They’d made a habit of meeting up after curfew, her and Stefan. She’d written home to her parents, telling them about how her visions were back, but when they’d written back, they’d completely brushed over it, ignoring it just as they had when she was younger. The only person who seemed to embrace it was Stefan, so she’d sneak out a few nights a week and head up to the divination class room to meet him. Kallista was sitting at the table in the middle of the room, her legs crossed beneath her, and her hand resting on the stack of tarot cards. “I don’t know,” she said again for what felt like the fifteenth time. She started turning the cards over, she continued, “It’s like...my visions are still cloudy. I know I should be able to see them clearly, and it’s not that I’m not relaxed...there’s just a block, you know? I just don’t know how to get past it.”

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{ remus }‌:

|| @puerilekalli​

Remus chewed on his lower lip, his eyes scanning the pages of the text book in front of him. His mind couldn’t seem to focus on the essay in front of him, causing a sigh to escape his lips as he pinched the bridge of his nose, finally tearing his gaze away. As he was the other, his eyes widened. “Oh, shit, Kalli, how long have you been standing there?”

Kallista had felt a lot better after talking with Stefan, the vision she’d had the night of the attack was no longer a mystery, but now she was getting more. Some of them were just quick flashes of images, others had her zoning out at random times through out the day. She’d been on her way to the Great Hall when an image of Remus sitting in a corridor flashed across her mind. She shook it off, but before she knew it, she was standing across from him, shocked that she’d seen him before even coming across him. “O-Oh, not long, I just...You look like you could use a friend, Remy.”

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{ stefan }‌:

“I do believe you.” he said in a soothing tone. Clearly the other was hysterical, speaking far too fast. He didn’t care about how distressed she seemed but he was rather interested to know her childhood visions. “How young?” he asked her, without trying to sound way too curious but he was. Real seers were rare, he had never met one unless he counted Trelawney who kept predicting his death. “I do believe you because he used polyjuice potion, he told me himself. He got the Professor arrested. I tried to explain to the authorities but my words weren’t proof enough.” He was lying, he had not bothered with the authorities at all but he feigned sadness, it was a start to gaining her trust, to make her believe nobody believed him either, make her feel like they were on the same boat. 

“You do,” she sighed, chuckling a bit nervously as she calmed herself down. “How--How young?” Kallista pulled her bottom lip between her teeth, her eyes darting down as she tried to remember the last time she’d had a vision. “Um...the first one I had was when I was...at six? maybe seven years old? I had three of them and they just...stopped one day. Everyone thought I was lying, but I haven’t had them since.” She looked up at him again. “Until now. No one believes you, but I do. I saw it and I know you weren’t lying either.”

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{ julian }‌:

Julian was a little sad Gryffindor lost, but he wasn’t going to miss an opportunity for a party. Especially when he knew Juliet would be there, and they seriously needed to talk. Except he couldn’t find her, and he was starting to believe she was actually avoiding him. But this was a party, and he wanted to at least have some fun. And he’d spotted someone standing alone, so he just walked over. “I think I’m fine.” He smiled, showing her the bottle he’d brought with him. “But I could offer you one.”

She giggled when he smiled at her, though it quickly morphed into a small gasp as she spotted the bottle. “Oh, you are my new favorite person!” Kallista was a fairly outgoing person, but even now, she would blame the alcohol for her stepping closer and kissing his cheek before taking the bottle from him. “Did you come all the way out here just to keep me company, or do you ulterior motive?”

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{ @julianvane​ }

Kallista was enjoying the party after Hufflepuff’s win, drinking a little and dancing a lot to celebrate. After dancing along to a particularly fast song, she found herself wandering along the edge of the lake, admiring how the night sky bounced off the water for a moment before lifting her drink to her lips. She downed the liquid before she heard someone walking up and turned to look at them. “I’d offer you a drink,” Kallista said with a giggle, “but I’m fresh out.”

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{ stefan }‌:

Stefan frowned at the other’s words but she didn’t seem like she was going to stop talking. The more she spoke however, the more interested he became. He didn’t understand how she could possibly know that Elijah had impersonated a professor. “You dreamed it? You mean you had an actual vision?” he asked her, getting actually interested in what the other had to say. He had never really thought of divination as a dependable line of magic but he knew real seers existed. “Hey, hey – it’s okay, calm down.” he said gently. He didn’t know what he wanted of her, but he knew he wanted to know more if she really was a seer with powers like those of many in the past. “I believe you. I promise – it’s Kallista, right?” 

She held her breath until he said the word out loud. Vision. Only then did she release the breath and look up at him, calming down. “You believe me,” Kallista asked, her voice shaky as if him believing her was such an unlikely thing. Quickly she nodded and said, “yeah, yes, that’s my name. I’m sorry, I just...I didn’t think anyone would actually take my word for it. I’ve had visions before, but only when I was really young and people told me they weren’t real because I didn’t have any more after that, but I--I couldn’t get this one out of my head. And you were in it so I figured you knew what it all meant.”

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{ stefan }‌:

Kallista was not someone he paid much attention to. She was one of the weirdos of the school was all that he knew of her. So when she spoke to him as though she was even allowed to, Stefan raised his brows at the other, but on registering her words his eyes narrowed as he stepped towards her. “I did have to meet him a couple of times unfortunately.” he said suspiciously. “But what do you mean you saw me? I didn’t see you anywhere around.” He was pretty sure had the girl been around during his unfortunate encounters with Elijah, he would have noticed even if she was mostly invisible to him.

“Not--Not in person. I didn’t see you in person...” Kallista struggled to find the right words, to figure out how she could best explain the dreams she’d been having and why he seemed to be a main focus in them. “I know that people think I’m crazy for believing in divination and reading tea leaves so religiously, but I know what I saw--what I dreamt of. Stefan, I saw you and Elijah talking about that professor, about how he he pretended to be the professor to do such horrible things. But I didn’t see it in person! It--It was a dream that I’ve been having every day since I was in the Hospital Wing and I know in my heart that it was a vision, but no one will believe me! And I don’t know what I’ll do if you don’t believe me because you were there, but I...” She stopped, taking a deep breath as she tried to stop her rambling.

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{ regulus }‌:

Regulus frowned slightly at her words, evidently confused. “Yeah, I think so, but I never think anything of it - they’re usually just stupid little things, like getting a coffee from the great hall.” He explained with a bit of a shrug. “Why?” A lot of things were weird since Valentine’s, but this was still a strange kind of question to be asking.

“I’ve just...I’ve been having a few of those dreams lately and I’m trying to make sense of it.” She chewed on her bottom lip before closing the book in front of her. Staring down at the title of the book--The Dream Oracle--and not really wanting to be looked at oddly again, and covered it with another book. “I guess, they’re kinda like mysteries that i’m trying to figure out...”

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{ remus }‌:

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Remus was curled up in the alcove in an empty corridor. A muggle comic book in his hands as the boy flicked through the pages, resting his head against the pillar. A sigh escaped his lips, and the other didn’t realise someone had been standing next to him. “Oh, sorry, how long were you standing there?”

Kallista had spent far too much time in the library the past week, her mind overloading with everything she’d been trying to learn. Without realizing, she’d stopped walking down the corridor, images flashing across her mind as it ran a hundred miles a minute. But then someone sighed and startled her out of it. “Remus? Oh, I...I’m not sure...”

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{ regulus }‌:

Regulus needed to get something done - with classes back on again, he needed to work on some of the things due in the next week or two. Wandering through the shelves of books, eyes scanning for a specific title, he only paused when he heard his name, or what he thought was his name anyway. He froze and blinked, before turning in the direction, spotting her through the shelves. “No, it’s fine…” He said hesitantly, walking around that bookcase so he wasn’t talking to her through the shelves. “Do you need anything?”

She watched him for a moment as he walked around the shelf, her mind spacing out a bit as she wondered how she knew it was him. When he asked if she needed anything, Kallista shook her head and looked back up at him again. “No, no, I don’t need anything, but...” She bit her lip. “Do you ever have a deja vu dream? Like...you dream of something, then it actually happens a few days later?”

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{ @youngestblxck​ }

Kallista was sitting in the library, reading through a book on dream interpretations to find answers for the dreams she’d been having since the attack. While she was used to tarot cards, crystal balls and tea leaves, prophetic dreams weren’t as familiar. Despite having one or two prophetic dreams when she was a child, she’d gotten used to a life without them, even though she’d always held out hope for more. Kallista had gotten lost in thought when she was suddenly struck with the overwhelming thought that someone was about to join her. “Regulus,” she whispered, taking a moment to process what had just happened before she turned around and spotted the person in question moving through the stacks. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to stare, I just...thought I was alone...”

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{ catriona }‌:

Cat woke up groggy and feeling confused about where she was. It took her a few minutes to put the pieces together, but she felt like her entire body was sore. Once she realized she was in a bed, she looked over to see her sister sitting next to her, asleep against her bed. She tried to smile, but even that hurt to do, so she tried to speak through her dry throat. “Kalli? Hey, what a face to wake up to,” she laughed, then winced from the pain. “Ow.”

Kallista knew she probably looked a mess, her face puffy from crying, a bandage covering the large cut on her forehead and bruises covering her body. It took her a moment to wake up, but as soon as she realized Cat was talking, she sat up up. “Cat, thank Merlin you’re awake!” There were already tears brimming her eyes as she took her sister’s hand, trying to prevent herself from hugging her before knowing how hurt she was. After a beat, she wiped her tears away and poured a glass of water. “We’re both a little worse for wear, aren’t we?” She couldn’t really describe the feeling of seeing her younger sister in that bed, but it was something she never wanted to relive. “I’ll have to owl home and let them know we’re safe--they’re probably going out of their minds since it’s been a few days since the attack.”