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Topic Started: Oct 21 2007, 01:56 PM (567 Views)
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Here is where healers go when they need help with a mystery.

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Having run the entire way from the employee lounge, Neva makes her way into the library. This would do. Not many people actually came here. She fully expected Gilbert to have given chase, but couldn't bring herself to care as she makes her way behind the desk, tucking herself into a small nook under it where she may just go undetected if she was lucky.
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Gilbert had slowly looked around the differnt rooms of the vastly large hospital, finally comming to the library he looks around before seeing Neva like a child hidden under one of the desks he kneels down, "Neva, no one is going to hurt you." he said this time his sothern drawl comming out as he tried to sooth her fradgle and frail nerves. "Neva Please come out. That healer is not here, its just us. and You know I would not harm a fly." he smiled softly at her, as his calm and friendly face looked on her once again.
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Neva wasn't as easily convinced by the man's words this time. Her heart told her that should she come out of her hiding place, there would be another man waiting for her. And this one wouldn't be so forgiving. She bites her lip softly, shaking her head. She just couldn't do it. She had gone her whole life hiding how afraid she was. Now that she had shown a glimmer of fear she simply couldn't hide it as easily as she had done before. It was as though her world was getting smaller whilst the space it took to occupy it got bigger. She felt lost and insignificant, her only saving grace at the moment being her daughter.
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Gilbert sighed as he saw the fear come to her eyes again, he backed off choosing to sit across the room from her, "if you want to stay there little mouse its ok." he said continueing to speak to her like she was a child, He only wanted her to trust him, "Neva come on, you know you can trust me. Look into your heart and see how much I would not hurt a fly. Do you think a woman like Ella Black would marry me? You think Elijah would trust his twin sister with a man that could not be trusted?" he sighed, "Neva what can I do to gain your trust again?" he looked over her, tears in his own eyes as he looks at her sad that she was so afraid.
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If Neva had been in the right frame of mind, she would have found the man's aproach, speaking to her like a small child, rather condescending. But at the moment in time it was hardly high on her list of priorities. She knew that the man's words had a point, yet at the moment her heart simply couldn't believe that they were true. How could anything ever be good and pure when she had seen none of it? She was of the mind set that if she could prove that it had existed at some point, or could see it with her naked eye than it was truth. Beyond that, there was enough reasonable doubt to dismiss it. "I don't know if I can trust men again.....I don't know how...." she whispers, knowing that even though she hadn't said it, Greg was the only one she did trust. She had enough proof from him that he was worthy of her trust. He saved her when nothing else could.
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gilbert listened to Neva's soft words as he rested his hands on his knees watching her, "humm, Neva have I ever hurt you? has your friend Wilson? Has Greg?" He asked trying to think of the men he knew of in her life leaving out a choice few that he knew she would have arguments for. He only kind of knew of Wilson, but only because he did listen when his dear older couisn spoke or when he was forced to sit with Kat and hear about her new fiance. He knew Wilson, Kat and Neva were close. Gilbert may have been soft and gentle but he was smart, he knew what it ment to listen not just with your ears but to really listen and to make another person feel worthy and special.
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Neva had to admit that Gilbert's question was a good one. Neither Greg nor Wilson had hurt her, intentionally at least. Unintentionally, well that was a different matter. But surely intention was everything? "They never meant to... But they did. But I can forgive it of them because I know they didn't mean it. Even if I deserve nothing less than the abuse I get..." she mumbles, more to herself than anything. She had to concede that this conversation was leaving her feeling terribly exposed, as though she was baring all to the man. And the scenario would end come his reaction. Would he simply shun her exposure or encourage it, willing her to continue the positively burlesque show?
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Gil listened even strained to listen with her last words, "Neva no one on this earth, no creature, no human, especially not one as caring and as sweet as you deserves abuse." he said watching her, it was true even if he had only heard of her amazing kindness and never one to really come out of his own shell enough to witness it he still knew that no one deserved any harmful treatment even if they were cruel. He didnt think he had deserved himself to be violated, poisened, forced into a marrage by spells, raped reptatly by his spouce as well as beaten into submission, and had to watch his son killed by her. This all made him shy and soft hearted as he looked at the broken and scared woman that he admired and loved working with, he wanted her to know how much he understood but didnt know what all he could tell her with out them both reviling everything.
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Neva, her mind having drifted to studying the spirals and lines in the wood under which she was hiding, only just caught what Gilbert had spoken to her. She wasn't sure she would call herself caring and sweet. She didn't think of herself like that. She only thought that she looked after the Underdog, something that she thought should have been done anyway. But alas, she was one of the fair few to do so. "Then why would it happen then? I don't understand how I could have gone through what I have and not deserved it in someway. I need to believe that I caused it because then I could change myself and there's hope that it'll be okay. If there's no cause, then I'm powerless and I don't know how to live knowing that at any moment I could be hurt again" she rants, sweeping a dangling strange of her hair from her eye, inadvertently revealing the scars and cuts on her arm. Her secret shame.
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Gil watches her as she speaks and moves an arm, watching from the chair a ways away so that she would stay comfortable, "Neva, I really don't know I only know that you and I dont deserve the treatment we have gotten." he said with a sigh, unconsiously moving in the chair the side of his shirt moved to revile a faint scar from a whip that had been used on him by his dead wife. His own scares relevent in his eyes as he watched her, "Neva I trust you..." he started chocking on his words as he thought about reviling his past inorder to gain her trust.
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Neva turns to look at Gilbert with sad eyes, cocking her head to the side as she hears his small revelation. It was odd really to think that he had been victimised and belittled just like she had. She bites her lip softly, recognising something in his eyes. His eyes held the same ghostly err of acceptance as hers held. "How old were you...when you lost your faith in people?" she asks gently after a world long silence, hoping he wasn't as young as she had been. Wondering if he indeed cared about her own experiences.
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Gil sighed at her question, "it started when I was 15, and you?" he said looking at her, her had realized his shirt had moved up and he moved to pull it down, he had never been one to pull his skeletons from his own closet.
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Neva bites her lip, wondering if she ought to tell Gilbert. It could make working with him uncomfortable. But then again, Celeste knew her secrets and it didn't cause any problems for them. In fact it made their relationship stronger. Sighing to herself she leans back against the bottom of the desk, pulling her feet from underneath her as she sits leant against the wood. "I was six...when my uncle took everything from me...." she reveals to him, the tone of her voice telling him what indeed he had taken.
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Gil sighed at her news, "I'm sorry, No man should hurt one so young an innocent." he said listening. He had only told Ella of his past, not even celeste knew of her employee's shamfull and hurt past, she only knew how quiet and shy the man was. "She was this girl, that Used a Love potion, well not only one but many enough to take my own innocence and make me marry her once we were done at Salem." he said not sure why he told her he shivered at the memory of June Clark and all she had done.
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Neva bites her lip softly at Gilbert's declaration. She hadn't any experience with love potions herself, potions in general being more Greg's territory, herself only having what little she could grasp from the classes in Hogwarts, the lesson not having been taught at Beauxbatons for some odd reason. "I'm sorry. I couldn't imagine being in such a false relationship like that. Even when I was beaten by lovers, at least I knew they loved me...." she sighs, her mind drifting to Pierre before she beats the memory away, not wishing to go down that road.
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Gil sighed and looked away from her, his own memories flooding his thoughts not sure why he was opening up to neva, even though he knew it would help her to trust, "well it happens, and She killed our son to get me to submit, thankfull she was sentinced to death in the american ministry." he said taking a stagard breath, thinkingof the impending birth of his new child and how much more love and trust was between him and Ella and soon their child.
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Neva suddenly felt extremely selfish with her problems, expecially after hearing of Gilbert's own. She didn't know why she had sudenly felt so crushed by her burdens, feeling as though each moment was a terrible chore. She could barely breathe as she sat under her desk, her gaze lingering in front of her to avoid giving the man the piercing stare that she couldn't quite shake off. "I'm sorry. Nobody deserves to lose a child. I've lost three....I know how much it hurts" she bites her lip softly, knowing that she was revealing things to Gilbert fair few knew of her. It was painful to do so, but she knew in the end it may do her good.
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Gilbert looked back at her, "thats horrible I'm sorry neva. But Kyra is a blessing." he smiled, "I do hope that Ella and my Daughter is as she grows." he smiles softly at her knowing revileing even a little of himself helped her some. "Care to come out from hiding neva?" he said softly his eyes still sad for her.
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Neva allows her sullen visage to falter as she thinks of her daughter, knowing indeed how much of a blessing she was. It hadn't been until she became her most cherished girl's guardian that she found a place for herself. It was as though the whole world made sense when she was a mother, her time with her allowing her to briefly forget her sorrows. "She is...." she sighs, closing her eyes momentarily as a vision of her daughter creeps onto her eyelids as though they were some sort of cinematic screen. At his question, she shakes her head gently to signal that she wasn't ready. She didn't feel able to move at the moment. She was finding what little peace she had at the moment, and moving she felt would only displace it.
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"alright I wont push." he said with a soft friendly smile, "What would you like to talk about?" he asked still friendly and soft.
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Neva was relieved that Gilbert wouldn't try and force her out of her comfort zone, although she was starting to feel a might claustrophobic under the desk. But she felt safe there, that was enough for her. She looks thoughtful for a while, trying to think of a subject that wouldn't encroach on either of their privacies too greatly. In the end she decides on something she was eager to ask of everyone. "Well...I suppose I don't really know much about you apart from what happens at Hogwarts. I want to know about you. What are your loves? Your hates? Who is Gilbert?" she asks rather cryptically.
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Gilbert chuckled lightly at her question, "I guess your right. well.." he thinks for a moment on how to respond, "grew up in the states, My dad owns a lot of land, all over, a special breed of magical cows he raises and trades. I never fancied the bussness." he smiled, "I wanted to work in the ministry and despite the potions that June Clark decided to push on me I still became the the Head of inertantional affairs for the American ministry of magic, it may have helped that the minister was and still is my best friend." he laughed, "But now I enjoy to just be at home with my pregnant wife." he sighed, "but helping a friend in need is always something I try to take time out to do." he smiled friendly at her, "what about Neva?"
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Neva listens intently to Gilbert's story, not having known he had worked in the American Ministry. That was actually kind of bad considering she had been the one to process his CV and give the okay for him to be hired. She must have been having a tiring day and just brushed over that particular detail. She nods in all the correct places, her mind wandering a little as she tries to imagine these magical cows. She imagined them glittery and brightly coloured. She didn't know why.

Neva comes back down to earth with a jolt however at the mention of herself. Now there was a book and a half. She looks thoughtful as she tries to think of what to mention and what to omit, having a great deal to do for the latter. "Don't really know what to say. Dad's dead. He died before I was born. He was an Auror before being murdered. Mom died when I was eighteen, after I split up with my abusive boyfriend. She was a Transfiguration Professor at Beauxbatons when not travelling with me" she explains, carefully laving out why she had been travelling. There was no reason to mention that small detail. "I dropped out of Hogwarts in my final year to go live with my ex husband, Kyra's biological father. It was okay for a few years but when I got pregnant he just stopped caring. He was more interested in his work. I guess that's why I started hanging around Mungo's alot more. Because I was lonely. But I met somebody who turned it all around. The first time me and Greg kissed, I knew what it felt like to be wholly and completely loved and I didn't want to let that go. So I divorced Julian and I've been with Greg ever since" she explains, a far away smile painting itself on her lips as she thinks back on the early days of their relationship. "In between starting at Hogwarts and now is where all the good stuff happened. Apart from when I was six. Let's see....I lost three babies, two of which were Greg's. I was raped, tortured, sent to Azkaban after what somebody did to my daughter...I like to experienece the entire range of shit" she tells him with added sarcasm at the end, although she quickly loses the sarcastic tone afterwards. "I guess my only real love, after my work and family of course, is my music. Not that I have the courage to perform in front of anybody but close friends of course...but it gets me by. I sometimes think it's the only thing that does....".
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Gil listens to her intensely not really thinking he was going to get this much out of her, but happy she seemed to find trust in him enough to tell at that he was, he smiled and nodded when it was appropreate, He was surprised about the music detail, "Humm, Music i am a fan of Ella dances its cute she does it when she is cooking or something I can tell she misses dancing." he added and looked at her with a smile, "you must sing, because you have a beautiful voice, I have always thought so" he smiled showing his pearly white teath as he complemneted her. "Oh dear neva, I'm sorry that all that has happened to you , you truely did nothing to deserve being treated so harshly." he said simpatheticly when he thought she was finished.
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