The Aftermath PV Finished Reopened

"That is not how owls work. " The young witch stated. Aspen, her great horned owl was back at home likely perching on the old oak in their garden of the Bezuidenhout manor. Although it would be convenient if those feathered creatures could be summoned so easily.

As Mr Vance proceeded to tuck the money into her boot, Aurelia would straighten at Andrew's mention of a floo to the leaky cauldron. The fourteen year old was not too sure what time it was, it was already dark. Aurelia could only guess how long she had been passed out. Surely, she could stay the night in the inn, but bored and alone. Aurelia had completed the mission her grandmother sent her on. Everything on her to-list was completed. The shops down daigonalley would have closed by now. It would be a long night.

Much reluctance to leave had surfaced from the thought. Although Grandmother too would disapprove of her staying at a muggle's home, this family was really warm and nice. They had aided her back to health in a way and Aurelia would be lying to say that their company was unpleasant, it wasn't at all. However, when Mr Vance put in that the Floo was her only way out, Aurelia's lips would tug downwards into a displeased frown.

Either way, whether or not Aurelia would be staying - a decision she had yet to make, she would ask, "Where is the fireplace then? I would need some powder if I were to make a trip."

"I have it," Andrew replied quickly to Aurelia's query of Floo powder, before he speeded off into the house and up the stairs, darting back out a few seconds later with a small leather pouch he had retrieved from a secret nook under his bed. "We doing this now? Can you walk?" He'd ask Aurelia urgently. Cody and Elmer would be back any minute. Time was of the essence, and Andrew's nerves were racking up at the thought of his Muggle friends walking in on a scene he didn't know how he'd be able to explain. To say he was rushing Aurelia to get out of his house, jumping at the Floo opportunity, was an understatement. Not that it was anything personal, but the circumstance was… He just didn't want Aurelia or himself getting into trouble.

"We got a fireplace in the living room." Andrew motioned his gaze towards the patio door in said direction. "Allergies might start up again, so hurry up and make it fast," he warned, ready to help Aurelia stand up and escort her over to the fireplace, if her strength was still lacking.

As much as he was tempted to barter with the Floo powder in exchange for answers from Aurelia about what had happened to her arm, and why she was all the way out here alone in the first place, there simply wasn't enough time for an interrogation before Cody and Elmer appeared, eliciting Stacy's alarm cry of "Andy, they're here!" as soon as she spotted the boys coming up the walkway to the front door. Looked like Andrew would have to set aside personal gain as usual and hope that his Good Samaritan deed would elicit some truthful admissions from Aurelia later…if they ever encountered each other again.

He would send Aurelia on her way and let her scoop out a handful of Floo powder, uttering a brief good luck and farewell before she disappeared, engulfed in a whirlwind of green flames.

"Hey, what happened to the girl?" Cody asked, upon entering the living room with Elmer and finding Aurelia absent.

"Uh, her parents picked her up already..." Andrew started, constructing his tale while the rest of the Vances nodded their heads compliantly.