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Blammo, you are messaged!

Just have to say, I've been extremely impressed with the development you've done this past month, Mahz. All the hard work you're doing for this community fills me with warm fuzzies and has really strengthened my trust in you and the stability of the guild. Thanks so much! Shorty, you da best. And, ahhh, notification system!!! Yes! I'm so ready to stop obsessively checking my subscriptions for new posts.

Hip bump! I really can't wait until we can edit posts made before reboot. My first post needs some updating.

Bump!

Your Marcus is awesome. I can't wait until he and Kates really get into it! >:D l Writing Olly is so fun, omg. His accent is such a challenge but it's so entertaining! I like Ryan, she's quite intriguing! (: And I'm sure she and Katie will get on like a house on fire! I'm looking forward to their interactions, I must admit!

Ahh! Thanks! I'm really stoked for this game. I forgot how fun Olly is to write! He's such a fuckin' dweeb, I love him. <3 And Katie's always a riot.

BAM! Olly and Katie posted! WHOOSH!

Practice had been brutal. It was always punishing—they were Falcons, and they were the most vicious team in the league—but today they had dialed it up to eleven. Katie hadn’t felt so alive in years. Adrenaline had blocked any pain out from her mind and _Merlin_ she had played the best she had since before the war. It had started grim, but Falcon’s were happiest when they were beating the shit out of each other and the practice had ended in laughter. As they left the locker room, they managed to avoid the few remaining reporters. They apparated in a series of _pops!_, appearing outside the Leaky Cauldron. Muggles sidestepped them, not even batting an eyelash at their Quidditch gear. _Most_ of them had showered, but Katie was convinced their beaters were actually trolls. No amount of hygiene would ever fix their stench. Maybe they were related to the Auror investigating the team? Releasing a whoop of exhilaration, Katie leapt on Kamala’s back. The dark haired witch staggered for a moment beneath her, before caving into her mad impulses and hitching her up with barely a wince. Katie had broken four of Kamala’s ribs rushing her for the quaffle and knocking her off her broom only an hour earlier. She was a good sport, really. “I’m not a broom, Bell,” Kamala was laughing as they entered the Cauldron. It was packed for lunch, and the Falcons were quick to start dragging tables together. Fuck anyone who said they were blood elitists—they were going to fucking show the world that they were better than that. “Damn right you’re not, my broom knows how to fuckin’ maneuver, you’re like a goddamn bus.” “That’s because of your fat ass,” Kamala snarked, but Katie was simply snickering and dropping off her back. Kamala ran her knuckles through Katie’s blonde hair, mussing it properly. Just like Angie and Licia always did, she realized with a laugh as she landed a punch on Kamala’s ribs. She did wince then, and land a blow on Katie’s arm that nearly numbed it. “We can’t take you two anywhere,” Fenrir drawled, but there was a twitch of a grin on his otherwise impassive face. Katie batted her eyelashes obnoxiously at him, prompting an eyeroll. “Don’t lie! You adore us, oh Captain my Captain!” She dodged the spoon Haggerty threw at her, which bounced off the back of some poor bastard’s head, dropping into the last empty seat. “Haggerty, do you even know how to _aim_?” “Fuck you, Bell!” He snarled, but she was all fiendish glee. Poor Hannah Abbott looked so displeased by their obnoxious group, but she was sweet as ever as she took orders. It was almost like Hogwarts again, and Katie clung to the warmth in her chest, the first bit of sunlight she'd truly felt in months.

She confirmed the child was hers and Oliver nodded. The lad couldn’t be much older than two or three. He’d have been born just before the war, then. He was lucky to have survived it. So many children had died. He could remember with perfect clarity how little Colin Creevey’s corpse had felt in his arms. Oliver smiled tightly, forcing his thoughts away from that night. “It’s alright,” he grinned at the tyke, who appeared to have his priorities straight. Food was always brilliant. She mentioned the difficult of apparition with a child and he nodded, rubbing his chin. Merlin, he needed a proper shave. “Dae ye know the Patil girl's café just aff Diagon Alley? It's quieter than th' leaky cauldron this time ay day,” He offered. Katie had taken him there last week with Alicia and Lee, fresh from holiday. It had been a relief to see them all alive and well. He remembered how pale Katie had been when she’d told him she was smuggling ‘Licia out of the country, how tired Lee had looked all those long months, wondering if she’d made it out alive. Merlin, his _team_ was broken and Oliver couldn’t do anything to help. He’d never felt so powerless in his life. Padma’s was all royal blue and gold, with open windows and curling steam from a dozen tea pots. The walls were covered in artful dances of paint, swirling fires and glittering galaxies bleeding into oceans and silk. There was a corner covered in flowers and picture frames, an impromptu shrine to their dead. Someone had lit incense before the laughing photo of a girl he remembered to have been a Gryffindor (she had a floral name, maybe). Oliver studied the shrine, hands in his pockets. They hadn’t placed Fred here yet—Oliver didn’t think anyone was quite ready to give him up. He heard the bells tinkle above the door and he turned, raising a hand in greeting to the Auror and her little one. He put the shrine at their backs when he lead them to their table, holding out her chair as his mum had practically beat into him. Oliver had cleaned up with a quick scouring charm, although his robes were still rather rumpled. “Wood. It’s nice to see you again,” Padma greeted, her black hair plaited down one side, voice soft. She smiled to Ryan and Ayden, serene. “Lockwood, was it? What can I get you?”

I'm going to do a wee bit of godmoding and move Olly, Ryan and little man to lunch in my post, just a heads up!