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Topic Started: Dec 14 2007, 04:22 AM (14,027 Views)
Dante Morvanna
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Dante, who caught the last of what Harm was saying,

"Well Angel wasn't ready to give up her broom. She flew off on me a few times."


Now however he had Angel in his arms who still had the broom in hand. Well at least if he was holding her she wouldn't run off again though who knew.
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Jordan Morvanna
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Jordan wasn't always the best at being patient but this time she made an exception to be. When Harm came back,

"You look great," she assured her.

She was literally resisting the urge to voice how excited she was when Dante came back in which meant they were ready to go then right? Obviously that had Jordan's good mood even higher than before.
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Harmony Lopiparo
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"Did you tell her she was going to go see the twins and Em?" Harm asked, looking at her daughter with amusement, "I'm sure you can bring the broom, Ang, if you promise to share. Okay?"

When Jordan said she looked great, Harm just smiled a little bit and said, "Thank you...it's all about being inventive, right?"

So...yeah. Guess they were ready to go? She reached over and took Dante's free hand, after a moment going, "Oh! Angel, this is your aunt Jordan. Did you two meet while we were at Mungos?" She didn't know, after all, who was all there.
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Dante Morvanna
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"I told her that and she flew off," Dante answered.

Because Angel was convinced she wasn't done flying yet. Not till he actually caught her anyways. Though Dante wasn't nervous about the dinner or anything, it was still the idea of going back home that was a bit unnerving. He took Harm's hand and waited for Jordan to answer before he disapparated them to the house.

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Jordan Morvanna
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"Absolutely. Rose is the same way."

Did Harm know about Rose being... well she wasn't sure but she left it be. Harm would know once she saw Rose anyways. As for Angel?

"I saw her a few times, didn't I, Angel?"

She smiled and once she had answered Dante asked if they were ready before he disapparated and Jordan followed after.
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Dante Morvanna
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Dante figured he didn't even know how to explain it to Harm. If he didn't however that was like lying and he refused to do that. He had been gone for three days so that warrented an explanation in itself didn't it? It didn't help that he'd have to talk to Ella too, and not just for what he did but for the things Ryder said. Knowing him he'd lie to her about it which Dante wasn't going to let happen.

He all but fell onto the couch and decided he would explain. At least while sitting here and Harm having not noticed he was back yet, he had to time to think about it. Then again that wasn't always a good thing.
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Harmony Lopiparo
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Three days. All of them but Rose practically just up and disappeared, and Harm had no idea where they had gone. Dante'd disappeared for a night or two every once in a while but, she was taking care of Angel, so she didn't think too much about it. Until all of them randomly ditched the dinner, and hadn't come back for three days.

Three, days.

Harm had just finished getting Angel to lay down for a nap, and was tiredly coming down the stairs - slowly, her back hurt (carrying two babies and a five year old was tough work) - when she saw Dante on the couch. For a minute, she just looked him over, looking for...wounds, or dirt, or anything.

Anything at all that would give her some kind of clue why he'd just disappeared.

Harm leaned against the wall at the end of the stairs and slid her fingers through her hair before she spoke.

"Welcome home?"
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Dante Morvanna
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"Panther." Dante turned enough to actually see her, and honestly when he was upset it was much easier to make jokes. "If you ever suggest we go on a cruise, I'm going to have to say no."

Maybe it wasn't the best way to start, but how was he supposed to explain things?

"Everythings so screwed up."

Well that didn't help either but he was too frustrated to actually get it out just yet.
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Harmony Lopiparo
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A cruise? That only served to make Harmony more curious, as she'd heard no mention of any 'cruise'. Not from him, or the news, or anything. The expression didn't show on her face, she just breathed in and out slowly.

Whatever it was, it couldn't be good.

But when he uttered his second sentence, Harm just gave a great big sigh, and walked over to him, sliding down to sit cross-legged in front of him, taking his hands.

"Tell me."
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Dante Morvanna
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"I kept leaving out of nowhere sometimes because I was meeting with Ryder and Gryphin. A lot of other people. The cruise was like our crazy payback at the world."

What a way to put it, but he if he didn't just say what was on his mind, he probably wouldn't get to explaining much of anything.

"People died and people got hurt. Silver was...she looked a lot like Sam. She just was Sam and I wanted to get rid of her. She was the first person on that ship that was murdered. I just made the announcements after that and tried to stay out of sight."

Dante wondered if he was rambling more than explaining, but at least the information was there.

"Ella's in mungos. Jordan is too. You know why Jordan is?" There was a sudden spark of anger instead of the dull look he had when he actually got home. "Because that asshole Davis took a candlestick holder and hit her in the head with it."

Even saying it was too much. If he found Ryder...well Ryder just better know how to hide very well.

"You didn't hear the things he said about Ella in the end."

He shook his head and just stopped. Apparently you never know people as well as you think you do. That was the problem wasn't it? But he didn't want to say too much all at once if he wanted Harm to understand it, and he did.
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Harmony Lopiparo
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"The cruise..." Harm said, waiting for a further explanation on that one. She didn't know anything about any cruise. But, the way he had described it, made it sound not so fantastic. It kind of surprised her that Dante was meeting up with Phin - afterall, the guy had divorced Rose - but Ryder made sense. Because she and Ella were really close, and obviously Dante and Ryder would spend a lot of time together otherwise...

He started to explain the basics, and Harm's expression slightly shut down when he started talking about Sam. A Silver? She didn't know, any Silvers. And that? That worried her a little bit.

"Who was Silver?"

She just wanted the truth, at this point. All of it. It seemed like just a huge mess, and she couldn't figure out how to fix it if she didn't know it, right?

When he said that Ella and Jordan were in Mungo's though? She couldn't help herself. She was already on her feet, her hands clenched at her sides, that usually utterly strong control she had was slipping away rather quickly.

"Ryder...did...what?" For a second though, that instant fury was replaced by something like panick, "The baby. Is the baby okay? Dante is Ella's baby okay?!"

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Dante Morvanna
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"We set up the cruise just to trap people somewhere. Said it was a weekend getaway but, it was anything but that. It was just to get back at them. We all killed someone on that ship or hurt someone and made lists for who should go."

Dante wasn't sure how he felt about it anymore. The idea had seemed so good before and he was so sure and proud of it. Now however he wasn't sure.

"Silver Audley. She was a Auror. I met her at a cafe in Diagon alley. I shouldn't have, Harm, I shouldn't have at all. She just looked so much like Sam that I thought then it was her. Merlin I'm sorry."

That much he was ashamed of. Out of it all that was one thing that he did regret the most. That and what happened to Ella. But in the end to hear it was all one big set up just had made it worse.

"Ryder's been lying this entire time. He told them he married her for convenience."

Honestly he was like one big mess of emotions. He was upset and angry and who knew what else. As Harm paniked though he quickly spoke up.

"The baby's fine."

He hadn't even thought about that when it had happened. He was too afraid someone was going to hear and he reacted badly. He wouldn't have blamed Ella if she hated him for it. And since Harm didn't know,

"She got thrown overboard."

But he couldn't bring himself to tell her it was actually him that did it. He could admit to anything else but that just seemed worse.
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Harmony Lopiparo
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They had a weekend playing god. Harm didn't understand the motivation. She didn't understand why. But she wasn't one to judge, and that part of it was over. She didn't want to know what went into that thought process.

Ryder...well. She knew Ella. That man wouldn't live much longer, if she heard what Dante was implying at the moment. And Harm would be willing to help make sure he didn't come back again.

When he started talking about some other girl though, suddenly boneless, she all but fell into sitting on the coffee table in front of him. He wouldn't be apologizing if nothing had happened past being friends. Which meant, because some girl looked like Sam...She closed her eyes, for a minute. Did that mean that every girl that looked like Sam would entice his attention?

"When...you proposed to me." She started, looking down at her fingers, twisting them together, "Was it just because you couldn't do it to Sam?"

If Sam was alive, would he still have proposed to her? She wasn't angry...there were a lot of emotions mixed up together. Anger, and fear, for Jem and Ella, yes. But right then, she just felt...hurt.

There was a moment of relief, a moment where she just nodded and breathed out, when he said that the baby was fine, and her expression just tightened when he said she'd been thrown overboard. Not, good. She would have to go check on the girls after...after this.
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Dante Morvanna
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The question had actually caught Dante off guard and he looked up at Harm, surprised for a moment. And he had been afraid of that. That it would all ruin everything. That's wasn't why at all but he figured that was how it seemed wasn't it? He couldn't even imagine the thought of losing Harm or Angel or the babies. It wasn't something to even be thought about.

Dante grabbed Harm's hand as he shook his head.

"No. No, Harm, it wasn't. I swear it wasn't. I love you and I'm sorry I screwed up."

He would have apologized times ten if he thought it did any good.
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Harmony Lopiparo
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It really relieved Harm to see he was actually surprised by her question, so when he took her hand, she didn't pull away, just looked at them. Their hands, entwined.

"So why, when someone with a similar name and face shows up, you..." She shrugged, and just moved on, unable to say it.

"So if you planned this cruise, why is everything screwed up?"

She was trying, really hard, to understand.
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Dante Morvanna
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"Because I was an idiot?"

So attempting to make light of it was not a good idea probably. As Harm moved on he did too, but he knew that issue still stood.

"Ryder and Gryphin changed things. Ryder messed with the lists of people and changed it. Gryphin did what he wanted. Not eveything went how I had it because it turns out they were the ones doing everything and planning behind my back. I was just another victim as Gryphin put it."

Dante didn't know them well enough to feel that much betrayal but they were friends. Ryder at least. But now a lot had changed in a matter of three days.
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Harmony Lopiparo
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Because he was an idiot. It seemed too...light hearted, for the fact that he...well. No. She was done thinking about that. Because if she continued to think about it, she was going to start crying, and she needed to hear the rest. She needed to go visit Ella and Jordan. And she couldn't do that if she was a complete mess, could she?

It was easy enough for her to see that Dante had completely gotten played, and she lightly squeezed his hand for a second.

"It'll be okay." Her voice was quiet, and resigned, but firm all the same. "So are there people out there ready to arrest you or can we go take care of El and Jem?"
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Dante Morvanna
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"I'm sorry, Harm."

It was like he figured saying it again wasn't going to help but he felt he should.

"No one tried to arrest me there so I think it's safe."

He hoped it was anyways. He wanted to apologize to Ella too because he did feel bad. Jordan he hadn't seen so not knowing how she was was worrying.
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Harmony Lopiparo
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"Through good times and bad, right?" Harm breathed in, a slight smile - but a smile nonetheless - on her face as she got up from the table and hugged him, pressing her face against the fabric of his shirt as she just tucked away anything but silent determination to make everything work. Everything, would work out.

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"Right."

Explaning everything and admitting to it all hadn't been as horrible as he first thought. He felt better that she knew actually, and Dante simply hugged Harm and held her; grateful that it hadn't gone badly. It would all get figured out and it would be fine. Think positively right?
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