Desperate Measures (Ianto/Tamika)

[Marcus Hobson]

"Look are you sure your alright?" Marcus asked the young woman hunched on the other side of the ute's cab. He wasn't sure quite what to do with the situation of some crazy girl turning up at the school demanding to see Ianto but he'd offered her a ride and after explaining.. quite slowly that yes Ianto wasn't there and in fact lived in town. Marcus had known a lot of weird kids in his life but he had to admit he'd never exactly seen one start screaming and kicking stuff around like there was no tomorrow. Frankly he was more then a bit concerned as he chucked her luggage in the back of the ute (causing a lecture on proper trunk care) and waited a good five minutes for the girl.. Tabatha or something she'd called herself to get in. It looked to be one of those days as he eventually gave up, opened the door, explained the complex process of putting on a seatbelt and tried to ignore the screams every time they went over 20kms a hour. This is what he got for doing a witch a favour. But much as he didn't particularly like Ianto he did happen to be a bit surprised to know the guy had family and knew how tough it could be for 'traditionalists' in the new world. They certainly didn't get more traditional then this girl. Marcus figured it was best to just not ask as they pulled up out the front of Ianto's house.

"Your stop.. do you want me to call him or something?" it was worth a try, it had to suck to show up and find them not there but somehow he had the feeling the girl wasn't about to say thank you for the ride or be anything but a well.. witch. Clicking off the engine The Beast took awhile to cool down, had it not been for the charms the Kingswood would have overheated many times over for the lack of Marcus' attention to minor details such as fuel and topping up the coolant or well doing any kind of servicing at all. He sat for a confused moment before rolling his eyes and getting out of the car, walking around the other side to open the door and offer a hand to help the girl out.. trying his best to be polite as she recoiled and stalked about the place as if she thought she owned it. Marcus figured he'd done about all he could do, hefting the bags out of the back he lined them up on the porch and rung the bell, waiting to see if Ianto was home, it sounded like he was by the noise of the tv going on inside. Weird how a bloke could change, Marcus still remembered the first ill fated meeting where the guy had looked at his tv as if it was some kind of device from a different plant. He guessed it was good that the guy was acclimatising and all that, Rowan would probably be pleased at the news and there hadn't been any of them 'blow ups' since the move. Then again he guessed Tabatha or whatever her name was probably enough torture to deal with without his help.. who knew by the way the girl seemed to carry herself Marcus had the feeling that he might end up feeling sorry for old Lambytoes before too long.

"Okay well.. looks like Ianto's not home.. so can I drop you anywhere else? Maybe the Bluebird Cafe... you could get a drink and someone can probably drop you off after?" Though to be honest Marcus could think of a million things more enjoyable then spending another minute in close proximity to such a stuck up princess of a girl. Mind you the way her face had changed at the sight of the goat manure stuck to one corner of her precious trunk was sure to put him in a good mood for days. "Well okay I'm off then.. but eh if you need some help just youknow ask for Marcus.." it was only after that statement that Marcus remembered that his world had grown a whole lot bigger of late and he was hardly a household name "Eh nevermind.. I'm sure you'll be fine.. Ianto's probably just gone down the shops" he was trying to be reassuring as he tucked his hands into the pockets of his jeans and glanced a critical eye over Ianto's house, one handyman to another admiring each others work. He'd come far for a guy who had started not knowing one end of a hammer from the other that was for sure. "Right well I'm off.. say G'day to Ianto for me eh?" Marcus said in farewell before heading back to his ute and after a couple of tries managing to drive the thing in a wide arc and onto the road.. just missing the mailbox in the process. The man who'd done his driving test had unsurprisingly retired the day after meeting Marcus, which was probably a good thing with Kat going for her license not that long after. Hobson's where most certainly better on brooms then they where behind the wheel.

[Tamika Parker]

"No I am most certainly not alright" Tamika said with a huff, staring out the window with wide eyes as her fingers clutched the armrest of the car door as if her life depended upon it. This was a nightmare, she was locked in a carriage with a man covered in dirt and in some kind of noisy Muggle contraction that smelt..most unpleasant to use what little politeness she could in such a situation. Everything in her life had been wrong since Ianto had walked out on them, worse that he refused to explain even to her what pressing affair would take him from the love and care of everything that he could have ever wanted. Tamika had cried out her frustration on returning to her fiancee and while it had taken many weeks and months to convince both him and her parents that she would utterly refuse to be married to anyone lest her brother be in attendance Tamika had grown assured that some witchery was afoot to explain her brothers sudden change in behavior. Whatever it was Tamika was going to get to the bottom of it, even if it meant having to deal with this oaf of a Muggle.. or maybe he was a Squib? Certainly he wasn't anyone of significance and had it not been for desperation and finding out that Ianto was not at the address she had known Tamika would have never in a million years gone anywhere near such a unmannered and scruffy man who was crazy enough to take a carriage far beyond speeds that where at all safe, Tamika couldn't have helped but scream at all the Muggle horseless carriages zipping around until they had wound up in what looked like a street of houses so small well they scarcely deserved the word. 'So this is how these Wizards live?' Tamika wondered to herself as she waited for her chauffeur to open the door and help her down out of the horseless carriage.

At least nobody had seen her, Tamika would have wished to die to be seen in the company of the man who had introduced himself as Marcus. Tamika didn't care who his name was, all she cared about was finding her brother and fixing whatever was wrong in his brain to make him wish to live in such a abode and amongst such ghastly people! Safe to say that being rid of him was amongst the top of the to-do list in her mind. To a point that Tamika ignored the man.. if man was a apt term for someone so grossly lacking in any propriety or class. Tamika's eyes went wide in horror, her mouth falling open at the sight of one her her mahogany chests that had been a early wedding gift from her husband-to-be caked with something that smelt more then horrid... rural in fact! "Are you quite done?" Tamika insisted as she cast a glance at the man before returning to stare with a scowl at the building that apparently housed her brother. Maybe it was some kind of charm that had been done to make his home blend in with the others.. surely no wizard would live in something so.. plain? Unfortunately with the knowledge that Ianto wasn't home Tamika soon enough found herself alone staring at the door as if it had personally offended her. "Humph!" Tamika tried to wiggle the door handle before glancing each way for any muggles... pulling her wand out of her skirt pocket Tamika whispered "Alohomora" and quickly put her ear to the door to hear a fant 'click'. Aha success! But nothing had prepared her for what to expect as she opened the door.. solid metal. Wizards seemed to be more clever after all! "Snapes Trousers.." Tamika muttered, no doubt any attempt to blast though the door would bring attention to her from all the unwanted Muggles! Worse there seemed to be some horrible noise coming from within the building, Tamika wasn't foolish enough to step headlong into a trap. So closing the wooden door again Tamika was left to re-evaluate her plan. Crisscrossing the front lawn as much as she could she came across a gate that was easily opened and sidestepped along a thin section between fence and the building where there where windows protected with a thin film. This was good enough for Tamika and with a few Severing Charm's and a tink of broken glass Tamika was able to drag herself though the window and into the building.

At good last something was going her way! Stumbling around the place she quickly found a small dungeonlike room that after opening the doors from the inside she was able to collect her case of supplies and ever so handy collapsible cauldron. Two hours later she'd managed to convert the strange Muggle appliances to some kind of resemblance to real magical implements as the cauldron she'd put on top of a raised firepit (known to those who speak Muggle as a 'stove') her potion was brewing just wonderfully, causing thick fumes fragrant with the scent of bats liver, eel legs, spider-fingers and essence of newt. Just what was needed she was sure to make something strong enough to cure her brother of this feet of fancy.. because if the dose of reality that was his sister's attempts to 'normalise' the home by decorating it with hanging bunches of herbs and a few decorative cobwebs wasn't enough the slightly acidic smell of broken electronics coming from the lounge from where Tamika had tried to 'calm' the hifi and television system from it's constant chatter was sure to put Ianto in a good mood when he got home.. eh right?

[Ianto Parker]

Ianto walked in to his street well not his street but he did own a house in this street his own house any way that did not matter any more as a very desisting smell was emanating from some were and it was not very pleasant it was putting off the pizza he was so looking forward to eating apone his return to his Home and the rather interesting TV thing he had found there were all kinds of really cool thing he had yet to see and to night there was another show of that home and away on that he did not wish to miss it was a funny show about Muggle that live near a beach and people that seamed to sleep around any way still way miss it.
as he got closer to his house the smell got really bad and ianto knew it was not one of the muggles doing the coking as he could smell Bats and newt. Ianto was sure no other wizard or witch lived in his street so that must mean something was going on and that gave him a this is not good feeling coz it more than not had something to do with him.
Ianto keep walking picking up his pace hopping against hope that it was not coming from were he thought it was coming from... His house.
as he walked down the driveway Why was it called that anyway he know it was coming from his home and that something was very wrong as his tv thing had no sound. Ianto pulled his wand out and put the pizza down on the porch and he pulled his keys out and unlocked the door only to find it was locked now Great He unlocked it again and the open it then unlocked the main door and entered his wand at the ready Not that anyone that knew him would be scared by that his wand work was a joke But he could alway poke there eye out.
as he looked around he could smell the Herbs that seamed to be hung ever were and the he saw the cauldron well that discounted the auror
"show you self i am armed" Ianto yelled in to the living area in his most manly voice tho he was all most sure it was Tamika his crazy sister that had taken to distorting his home only she would think she had the right to brake in and change every thing.

[Tamika Parker]

"Lets see.. yes.. this would do just fine.." Tamika said to herself as she checked the potion for colour, the scent was easier to tell.. one thing none of the publications based upon the history of the magical world that had fallen into the hands of Muggles had yet mentioned was the stink that tended to come off a potion during it's brewing stages, unless it was the famous love potion amortentia of course which some wizards tended to leave a thinned down version brewing purely to freshen up a otherwise drab room. With the potion brewing there left quite a good bit of time for Tamika to get acquainted with what her brother had been spending his time with since abandoning all that was good for him. It had been a most eye opening experience for a girl who'd never before stepped foot inside a Muggle dwelling... and Muggle was the only word for it, certainly it matched in some ways the descriptions of Privet Drive. Why she could almost imagine some ugly bloated versions of the Dursleys living in such squalor, certainly not the son of a respected Wizarding family like her own. She had never heard of the Muggle term 'slumming it' but had she been aware it would have been the perfect expression for what she suspected had taken over her brothers mindset.

At least she could do what she could to make something better of the place. She'd already decided upon a room that would be her own and set to charming it to be fit for her no doubt extended stay. It had been a challenge but she was rather proud of the result right down to the cheerful fire burning in the grate, her own bed fit for a princess was draped in green satin and of course it was not to be complete without a full length mirror so that she could ensure herself to be dressed in up most care. So what if it didn't at all fit with the rest of the building, she wasn't about to have her lifestyle dictated to by mere matters of Muggle physics! Satisfied she had just taken to relax upon her duvet, the idea for a story in mind just awaiting her to put quill to parchment to write the story of how Draco would come to rescue her from the horrors of such a Muggle hellhole and set all in her life right again. She would call it 'From the Fireplace and into the Wind' and no doubt the little writing circle that she had discovered quite by chance advertising in the classifieds of the Daily Prophet would be just thrilled with the next adventure of Tamsal Blackhorn... who was of course would have no relation with that blood traitor Serus Black at all!

Of course Ianto would have to ruin everything, Tamika had been quite reserved to her day dream when there was a loud yell from the other room. It seemed her brother was home, how fortunate. Tamika straightened her dress and quite primly walked into the lounge, her wand dangling casually in her hand, "Really Ianto, you know as well as I do that you can't use that wand to save yourself.. really I am sure that wand only chose you because it was lazy and could not find anyone else who might be of less use to the world". Tamika offered her brother a smirk, "Now my wards tell me that there are no d..d...dragons so why is it that you are insisting to speak of your arms in such a fashion? Is this some Muggle.. thing?" she asked scrunching up her face as if they where discussing bed wetting or some other childish habit of morbid embarrassment. To Tamika wishing to act like a Muggle was much like pretending to be a fish, a pointless waste of time that just lead to embarrassing all around you. If only Ianto could see how ridiculous he looked standing in such a boring square room, why he would have been sure to thank her for her valiant attempt to bring at least a little respectability to such a hovel. Yes Saint Tamika was all about making the world a better place.. well a better place for her anyway.

[Ianto Parker]

Ianto could no believe it when he heard tamika insulting him about his wand work and his wand.
"Tam you really have no idea what your talking about." Ianto turned to face her and lowered his wand " and you just can't go around braking in to other people house... and what the bloody hell is that smell" ianto really was not a happy camper he was sure looking at his TV and HIFI that she had broken it some how and his house smelled like some thing was dyeing in it.
"Tam what did you do to my TV over there?" Ianto pointed to the TV in the far need of the room. ianto really like his TV and now it was broken and more than likey bend his magic or Muggle repairing skills to fix it witch menu more money on a new one.
"if i can not fix it you are so paying or a new one little sister" Ianto said the last part a little bit scratchily to her.
Ianto knew that his sister was not truly his full blooded sister and if she knew she would cut him off like some cheap hand bag witch would be great except she would run to 'dear daddy ' and that would be then end of there mother and him if his father could arrange it so as to remove all evidence of the half blood thing his son was and the woman the bore him so never to see the light of day again so no one would know his wife has straded from him and bore a muggral son.
"what do you want here Tam's" Ianto asked here as he made his way to the bar stool ajasion to the bench.

[Tamika Parker]

"Oh yes, because you where the one who got straight O's... how forgetful of me" Tamika shot back with a raised eyebrow. Of course she knew what she was talking about, Ianto had always been so bad at magic that she had half assumed it was some kind of game he enjoyed to vex and embarrass her and her family by his inability to do all but the most common of magical spells. "It was hardly breaking in Ianto, the door was locked and I was forced to let myself in by the window.. what in hades are you doing here anyway? You where supposed to be at that school building and I had to get a ride with the help just to get here!" it all just came pouring out, her fear at arriving at the strange school only to find her brother gone, her fear that he'd already left Australia all together to somewhere unknown and she'd never be able to find him. True as it was that such a event might well have made her life that much simpler but so too would it remove her only excuse towards delaying the wedding that she knew she was to have.

A wedding to a man that she was sure it was impossible for her to love. If only he was English and pale with pale blond hair and a fondness for tight cut black robes and suits.. then maybe Tamika might have been able to pretend that he was her half-blood prince... or however that expression went. Tamika did have to scoff at the smell comment "Snapes trousers Ianto! Have you been amongst those blood traitors so long you can't even recognise a simple potion?" Tamika asked before looking blank as only a properly brought up witch who'd never in her life heard of such a thing as TV would. They had only ever had WWBN by wireless when she'd been growing up. "I didn't do anything to any Tea-Vee.. I just came in here and there was this horrible noise so I silencio'd it.. you really should take better care you know.. all that noise was bound to make anyone suspicious".

"It is a Muggle thing isn't it?" Tamika asked as her brother insisted that she would have to purchase such a repair. "You are most certainly better off without it.. I know what they do to people.. you'll turn into a Dursley!". It took all of three seconds for Tamika to realise her mistake, a small squeak as she covered her mouth. Oh my.. oh no.. she hadn't just said that. Everyone knew that it was unproper to read those books written about the boy wizard who had grown up amongst Muggles. My there had even been books released since on 'How JK Lied' and How Harry Potter was really just one big conspiracy to force the Muggle world onto all proper wizards like herself. Tamika had read those books as well, but none had helped, she still had a hopeless crush on Draco Malfoy that no amount of help seemed able to repair. "I want my brother back" Tamika stated flatly as she followed him into the kitchen, checking on her potion before leaning against the cupboards with her hands crossed before her. It was a stalemate all right.

[Ianto Parker]

Ianto Nodded at her calling the TV Muggle and the was about to comment on how a good pure blood would never read those trashy novels written about the blood trader Potter when he heard her next comment, Ianto was really just hopping mad now she wanted her brother back he wanted his life back the one this purest father stole and distorty the one his mother had manipulated in to what she wanted making him this magically inept half blood and then it happen ianto tured to her.
"you want you brother back, well you can't have him he dead and gone distorty by those who are meant to love him and protect him. those who he trusted to tell him the truth to bring him up in the way that best for him, not the way that was safe for them, NO the ianto parker you grew up with is dead and all that left is this" Ianto was now standing there wand in hand and singling at him self. Ianto felt deflated after his out burst but no he was beyond caring as he felt the rage rise again just looking around his home, his fresh start, his way out.
"You Tamika have no idea what you are asking of me to just stand here in the same room as you and if i go back there i wont be able to stop my self and i will distorty every thing and i can't do that i won't let them see me for what i am, i can't do it i am not ready" Ianto turned away from tamika and Hit the wall full force with is hand and made a large hole in it.
"Please Tam's go home marry the man father has pic for you and make lost of pure blood babies" Ianto folder as he exsamed his hand with is eyes as if he could see thro it to the dirty Elf blood.
"Just please I" Ianto was now having a lot of trouble talking.
a single tear ran down his cheek ianto made no attempt to stop it His life was coming apart since the day he found out that he a barsted child and that he was hidden under a spell his whole life and still he hid it for them so that they could go on and to save his mother
WHY Ianto mind raged at him because as much as he hated her and his sister he loved them to and they did not deserve to die for him and his mud blood they were the only family he had ever know and now he was at odds with them and there way of life s he no longer belonged in the light filled world. he just had to be strong and make her go away.

[Tamika Parker]

It just wasn't fair, Tamika knew the moment she opened her mouth that Ianto wouldn't understand, nobody did! How could they when everybody expected her to just be happy with the news that she was going to marry and have to spend the rest of her life taking care of little brats. Tamika didn't know what alternatives there was, or even if there was any but her brother had managed to get out of it, so it wasn't fair at all that the entire brunt of responsibility to maintain their family's position in society fell down to her and her alone. Nobody else seemed to care about how her brother had just walked off and refused to come home so she just went quiet when Ianto said he was dead and gone. "You know what Ianto.. I have had it up to here with your jealousy!" Because in her mind that's what it came down to, jealousy pure and simple. "It was never my fault that father did not love you like you wished, so why must you continue to punish me in this way?" Kicking her foot against the cupboard she was leaning back on she could not believe her brother. It was almost as if he went out of his way to vex her.

"To think that I used to look up to you..." yes, until she grew older then him and it became obvious that she could do the spells he could not. That she was better, "....now I do not know what to think at all, you have let all this Muggle things rot your mind to such a degree that you do not even wish to see your own family" Tamika had moved from the white hot anger to simple frustration, a quiet frustration at how nothing in her life was as it was supposed to be. Moving to check on her potion she turned her back on her brother for a moment listening to his words. Tamika let out a small sigh, so it came to this. "It is because you are gay is it not?" Tamika turned on her brother, the hole in the wall seemed rather ironic considering his complaining earlier about her messing up the place. Crossing her arms she stared right at him "We all know it, everyone at school did and it was hardly a mystery" It was always the little things, the fact that Ianto had never had a girlfriend, the obsession with battle axes. Tamika had asked a diviner about them in her search and been told that they where a phallic symbol. Tamika had then had to look up just what that meant but by the end it seemed quite clear.

"I do not know why you are so ashamed to admit it Ianto why everyone knows Dumbledore was and even Gellert Grindelwald was thought to be one and he was one of the greatest dark wizards of all time." Yes, this was Tamika's version of being understanding. It was just a pity that Ianto appeared to be so tied up in his rebellion to notice the bigger picture. "You just do not get it Ianto, I do not want to go home, and I do not want to marry Malachi or have any babies but that hardly matters to you does it Ianto.. no you just waste your time here in this Muggle hovel while I have to give myself to some foreigner just to reclaim the honor our family lost because you would not do your duty." Deep down Tamika just wanted a way out. "Something is wrong with you Ianto, and if you will not tell me what then I will just have to stay here until you come to your senses.. that is what family do." Because of course it was all in the family to put together a possibly toxic potion in order to remove whatever magical effect had taken over her brother and turned him into this.. well there was no polite world for it, but he was a very angry, mean and rude man and not her brother at all.

[Ianto Parker]

Ianto could not believe his ears jealousy this had nothing to do with it he was just not interested in going home. but before he could tel her that she went on about Father Oh how he hated that man.
"Father Ha! that man is no father of mine Tamika and never will be. I do this for me not to punish you Tam i have to be free of this" Ianto didn't yell this to her he just hope she would understand him. Looked up to him what a joke " Oh pls Tam we both know you alway thought your self better than me and Father made sure i knew it to." Ianto started pacing the small space between the wall and the island bench. "and as for the Muggle rot as you put it i Happen to like TV and living here." It was tamika next comment that bough ianto to a complete stop.
GAY GAY "GAY I am so not that i" Tamika then went on about Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
" Oh so that make it ok then dose it that a blood trader and a mass murder are, so i can be too right coz that will go over like a house on fire with Mommy and daddy there only son Gay. they love that not only am i a magically retargeted but by they way I'M GAY I LIKE MEN SURE WHY NOT. He will still make me marry, a woman" Ianto almost spat the word " you know that don't you Tam" Ianto had meant for most of that to be sarcastic but by the end it was more of an admission of the truth that Ianto had been running from almost all his life He was Gay.
"That right Tam i will not distory some innocent woman life by making her marry this" he pointed to him self he knew he was no prize not worth any thing at all "to make him Happy and for the family Honor, If you don't want to marry him then don't tell father to Jam it and live your life they way you want to, But you won't will you tam?" Ianto turned and looked her in the eyes for the first time in this long and over the top conversation " because you Believe the crap he spills about blood and Honor. I would rather live in this 'Muggle hovel' with ten men that live that life of lie any more" Ianto was really opening up to Tam for the first time in his life he was almost telling her everything he felt and he was beginning to feel good too, right till she said that she was staying till he told her what was wrong.
"Tam you can not hide from you problem here i am already hiding here and theres no room for you to hide here and i am in complete control of may seances because if i were not i would have told you that ..." Ianto stopped realising how close he can to telling her that he was a halfblooded. "Or made some thing explode " Ianto looked away from his sister as he spoke
"Tamika I don't know what you want from me i have nothing to give to you but the pain of the truth and you don't want that so go" Ianto looked a her as if he were seeing her for the first time in his life she like him as trap in this life but at least she could show her true face and knew what she is. He would just stay in hiding to save her and his mother from the pain Ianto hoped that she would just go and maybe find her own way out of her trap and not try house him.

[Tamika Parker]

Tamika of course had no idea just how much Ianto meant by his words. To her it was just childish to claim that just because their Father did not care for Ianto it was no excuse to act out in such a way. "If you do not wish to punish me, why do you do this Ianto? You stuck a DRAGON onto me Ianto.." yes, that still hurt to think her brother would be so damn cruel. She still had nightmares about being burnt alive by that horrible dragon. Sniffing she detected a odd scent amongst the cloying stink of the potion.. something was not quite right but there was more important matters to deal with for the moment. Everything was wrong, even when she tried to be understanding he just went about complaining again, how selfish "..only once I knew I was better then you Ianto" she muttered quietly.

Didn't he understand that he was supposed to be someone she could look up to? How many times had she written so in her stories? No Ianto had never joined the Death Eaters nor gotten the Dark Mark from Lord Voldemort himself, instead he'd run away the first chance he got for some ridiculous made up quest to find a battle axe that didn't even exist so that all the burden of keeping their parents happy would fall onto her and her alone. He was so selfish! "Well HELLO Ianto.. just look at yourself.. here with these Tea-Vees and working for that.. " Tamika shuddered slightly at the memory of the car ride "man.. you might as well be a blood traitor!" Yes, because while being gay was one thing, loving anyone who wasn't pure.. now that was a whole different kettle of fish so to speak.

Had Tamika read the full instructions on the potion she was brewing she might have known that the fumes had side effects of honesty to all who came into contact with them. Whether or not it was responsible for Ianto's outbursts who knew? "HA! I KNEW IT!" Tamika shouted in victory, so she was right, Ianto was out here hiding away like some Muggle because he didn't want to admit to their parents that they where gay. It all made sense. "Really Ianto, you're such a child, so what if he makes you marry a woman.. it doesn't mean you have to love her" Because if love was a requirement, well the number of purists alive today would be but a fraction for the constant jelousy and infighting. "You speak as if it is a negative to be married to a woman, why could you not just do what everyone else does..get married then have a illicit affair with I do not know the stable boy or such" You could tell that Tamika had spent far too much time reading trash fiction of the kind young ladies where most certainly not supposed to get their hands on. "Who knows maybe you might come to like being married" because of course there was nothing like marriage to straighten a man out.

Maybe if Tamika wasn't dreading her own loveless marriage she might have been more sympathetic to her brother's plight. "So you wish me to destroy my own life because you would not do me a single act of kindness?" Because of course father would take it perfectly well for her to break off the marriage that had been so hard fought for. Surely even Ianto could not be that naive. "You do not have to give yourself to some stranger, to have.. children with some man who stinks of cloves and has the dental hygiene of.." Tamika shuddered, while she didn't hate her husband-to-be there was no question that in terms of looks she found him rather repulsive. "I am not hiding Ianto, and I am not going home.. Father arranged a interview with Mrs Dotts tomorrow of Matacore" she said it stiffly, it had been Father's idea of course for her to get a job, because there was nothing like the prospect of having to do a honest days work for a change to make a girl flee back to marriage and a life of leisure. Tamika however was proud, and while she did not think work to be something worthy of her the prospect of being a Matacore Girl and wearing the uniform gave her a hope that like many she might find a better match then the one she was currently destined to marry. "Ianto, you have already said you where dead and insulted everything I stand for, I think not that there is anything more you could do to harm me now" Tamika just said as there was a sudden stench and thick smoke came from the cauldron "Oh bother.. " turning she grabbed a large spoon and fished out what appeared to at first be a eye.. except that it was melting and letting out the acidic scent of melted rubber... probably explained by the eyeless rubber frog sitting amongst the leftover ingredients.

[Ianto Parker]

Ianto was so lost he had no way of making her go away she just kept coming at him about just giving up and going home living lies Pretending to be like them to like the right people, women Blood lines it was all crap and Ianto knew that now it was not about love of living it was a bout appearances and ianto no longer cared to do that.
"I did not set a dragon on you she just took a dislike to you i can not be held responsible for that" Ianto turned away as tamika as she exclaimed in what Ianto saw was joy at his proclamation of being gay something ianto was only now coming to understand.
ianto decided that he was not going to yell about the blood trader thing as he really was in a way and not really in anther .
"Right i seen those types of marriages Tam we both know no ones happy in them it bad enough when the couple are just unhappy but to have some one who has no interest in the other even on a primal level it worse and you know it. you have seen it too" Ianto had lived around blood marriages his whole life . Ianto knew they were never good when on party was gay because he had seen his uncle Durin making out with the young man that worked for his mother as an aid the boy was only 7 years older than the then 14 year old Ianto. Ianto could not believe when is auntie Elspeth walk right past him and simply said that Durin should take his play thing else were before any one else saw them and told ianto he would understand better when he was married. Later that boy would be one of the reasons he left after a rather passionate make out session in his mother offices at WWN.
" i mean look at Uncle Durin and Auntie Elspeth come on i am not living like that"
Ianto could no believe it when Tamika said about Matacore. " you have a job, Please don't make me laugh you haven't worked a day in you life you wouldn't know how"
"In our world I would be far better off dead A purest that what I am. My kind and yours are never to mix" Ianto Hoped that her distraction with Her cauldron would end this conversation when he notices the Plastic eye on the spoon
"were did you get that Tamika?" Ianto asked hoping that Goolly frog was not were it had come from Knowing all to well that was probably was from his goolly frog.

[Tamika Parker]

"You didn't stop it!" Tamika huffed, she still remembered that day vividly and was determined to never forget, never forgive and surely get revenge on that ridiculous flying beast when next they met. She had a bludgers bat with it's name on it... well at least she'd charm it's name on if she knew what it was. The worst part of having to deal with Ianto was the fact that he seemed to be utterly refusing to trust her in any way. Why she did not know, it wasn't as if she had gone out of her way to curse him or anything. All she'd ever done was what was required of her, had Ianto done the same then everything would have been just fine and they would not even be having this conversation today.

It was really the first time in a very long time that they had managed to go without yelling at each other the entire time. Tamika was quiet as Ianto spoke of marriage, was he really that blind to think that she didn't really believed marriage was anything but a trap into a lifetimes unhappiness. Maybe if she loved her husband-to-be as she did Draco then she could have been happy but that was not to be. "You think I am but a fool do you not? How is it that you complain so much to be unhappy and yet you just stand there knowing that I am to be wed to some foreigner who I can not in a million years come to love." In her stories Draco of course rescued her from the fate set upon her. Yet in real life she was coming to slowly learn the hard lesson that there was nobody who truly cared. "Uncle Durin and Auntie Elspeth get on just fine.." Tamika said automatically before her brain had a chance to think on the matter. "I mean they do as well as anyone else I suppose" a callous shrug, they where old and no doubt a entirely separate matter to her more important state of affairs.

Of course he would scoff about her having a job, her husband-to-be had deemed it unnecessary and even father had not been able to hide the tone in his voice that suggested that Tamika would not last more then one day. "You may laugh but at least it is a respectable job with good people, Father says Matacore is run by one of the few proper wizarding families in this Gods forsaken land. It is far better then whatever you are doing.. helping the help Ha!" Tamika had to pretend to be amused, where really she truly disgusted. Speaking of Disgusting Tamika poked at the melted eye carefully with a long fingernail.. "Typical rubbish ingredients.." she complained as she flicked the remains of the eye onto the bench and set about fishing out the second eye from the unfortunate toy "From the petrified toad of course.. I am not stupid Ianto" Tamika stated as she continued to fish for the elusive melted toy frog eye. This was sure to ruin her potion entirely. No doubt it was the last time she risked using her brother potion ingredients that was for sure.

[Ianto Parker]

Ianto was not surprised when Tamika said he should have stopped Lady Macbeth Ianto could not think as to why Ianto would have attacked Tamika that day if it was civilized to do so which is was not so here they stood in his Home with his now broken TV and what looked to be the end of Golly frog. Ianto was very mad at the way she simply said that there Uncle and Auntie were fine Ianto had seen how miserable they were more so than any others in the family even before he saw why But Ianto knew there was no point in getting in to it with her she was like father appearances were everything.
"was the Frog green and had Spikes on his back kinda squshie" Ianto decide to ask her more about the 'petrified toad' that was in fact a plastic frog that ianto had taken a liking to. "because if it was then it was a Muggle toy you used in there not a real toad so what ever you are making is no good now " Ianto took a small amount of joy in knowing that she was really bad at Potion. Potion on the other side was one of the few magical arts he excelled at. As Tamika had done such a bad job of it he could not work out what she was making
"Tamika do you really think that by hanging around here in Australia will make me change my mind I have no real wish to go home" Ianto was hopping that going for the logical argument might get her to go home.
"And if you hate the man father has chosen then don't marry him marry some one else. " Ianto was telling her what he truth why was he doing that what did he really care if she married happily or unhappily really what difference did it make to him as he was not a part of the Parker Family which is why he would not be wearing the family crest ever again the Parker line ended with his father once Tamika was married off and Ianto felt no sorrow for his father at that.
"Let be me be open with you Tam's I am not all that happy with the way life is treating me but helping the help is well helping me become a better person. And as for working for the Hobsons they are well no different to any other pureblood family. Tho Marcus is a good man I can only guess at what the rest of the family is like if they know father" Ianto was sure Marcus was like so many black sheep in the pure blood world on the out and liking it or a least that was Ianto's impression of the situation after he found out that The Hobsons where the Premier family here.
"So may be you should stop trying to make me better except that I am not a Parker any more and get on with you life and out of mine" Ianto walked to the door
"Good Day Tamika Parker" Hopping that Tamika's pure blood training would have her expect his dismissal and leave as all pure blood did when addressed in this way.

[Tamika Parker]

"It may have been.." Tamika replied as she continued to fish around for the missing eyeball. Blankly she listened as Ianto explained that it was something Muggle. Well what a surprise! "No wonder it is rubbish then" was all she would say on the matter before she managed to burn her finger on the side of the pot "OWW.. Stupid thing!" kicking the stove did not help and indeed just left a scruff mark on Tamika's boot. Huffing she glared at it for daring to defy her. So what if she had never excelled at potions, everybody knew that real wizards used wands and didn't mess about with all the 'toil and trouble' bizzo. "I am not hanging anything.. I am merely here to assist you in remembering that you have responsibilities.. it is not fair that you are wasting your time down here and leaving ME to make up for it". Of course sense would not work on her, Tamika wasn't here to find her brother, more she was trying to avoid her husband-to-be in the hope that someone, anyone would save her from making what she knew would be the biggest mistake of her life.

"Marry whom Ianto? How am I supposed to find someone to marry if I'm not even allowed to go to Diagon Alley by myself and Malachi insists on accompanying me whenever I do wish to go any place outside of the home.. apparently they say it is not done in his country for a woman such as myself to travel alone" and that was the horror she was looking forward to, while she had been used to spending time in her company once she was married and had moved to India to live with her husband-to-be there was sure to be so many human servants and others pressing into their lives that she would never have a moment of piece to write her stories nor daydream about the love of her life.

"Father says I did well to capture the heart of Malachi, that he has much renowned and over half a million galleons a year... he and Malachi are so close that you really think Father would allow me to say no?" Tamika was honestly reaching out to her brother for the first time and yet he was turning her back on her at every turn. She had to scoff at Ianto's words about being a better person "You have changed Ianto, that is plain but for the better hardly, the old Ianto would at least care about his family and would not treat one such as myself in such a way" no he wouldn't have dared that was for sure. "You truly do not know of what you are talking about Ianto, father said that if I where to gain the attention of Richard Hobson then it was surely improve our prospects for future bliss" that of course being code for 'marrying into the family' "I would not have you sally their name by connection to anyone who you might think well of" the name given by the driver of course had no connection in her mind whatsoever.

While for the most part things had remained at least on some level civil it was the final straw when Ianto did state that he was no longer a Parker. "Oh really Ianto PARKER how dare I mistake that Ianto Parker might in some way still have some resemblance of caring for his only sister. Of course he would rather be a traitor to his kind then to care about someone who did share in his blood!" she shouted throwing her hands up and knocking the cauldron over in a A-grade hissyfit. Crossing her arms she stalked across the room to follow him only to have him dismiss her. Automatically Tamika turned her back and walked into her room before her mind had time to step in and break the training. "A VERY BAD DAY TO YOU IANTO PARKER!" she turned back to yell before slamming the door behind her in a most unladylike way. Yep, she was going to sulk now and refuse to come out no matter what Ianto did try to do.

[Ianto Parker]

Ianto could not believe what had just happen she had not left but gone in to his room and slammed the door. MY ROOM Ianto tried the handle to find it locked
"Tamika Bloody Parker Get out of my room and out of myHome right now" Ianto yelled thro the door to his crazy sister.
"I will not have you staying here you need to GET OUT RIGHT NOW" Ianto was stamping his foot as he yelled at her.
Ianto could no believe this he was not going to have her hide from her life at his house the last thing he need was Father showing up to find her to take her back to her marriage.
"I do not need the family coming here to get you i want to live my life and i can not do that with you Hiding in MY ROOM Tam's" Ianto sounded like a small boy yelling at his sister to get out of his room.
Ianto tried a more pure blood approach
"we are not 5 year olds stop being such a child Tamika Parker I have no wish to be stuck with you indefinitely and no desire to deal with the fall out from the family so please remover your self right now It is not proper for you to be in there" Ianto put on his wizard of pure blood voice as he was trained to his whole life and Hope it would work.
Ianto waited to see if it had worked steering at the door was not working he decided while eating to put his wand to good use and cleaned up the mess Tamika had so Happily made of his home with a flick of his wand the cauldron and the messy Cantonese that were on his kitchen floor were gone.
"I'm coming in there Tamika" Ianto turned his wand on the bedroom door and cast the "Alohomora" Pushed the door open as he did so he said " I will owl mother and have her come get you if do not leave me alone" Ianto was at a point he really no longer cared about his deal with his mother he would send for her to get his wayward sister if it came to that.

[Tamika Parker]

Tamika was breathing heavily, emotional with a mixture of rage, betrayal and resentment at how badly her brother had treated her. No there was to be no amends, if he wasn't going to come back to Wales and do the sensible thing then she did not see why she had to be sensible either. Having locked the door with a quick spell Tamika did what all emotional girls did and tossed herself onto her bed, the satin duvet fluffing around her was no respite what so ever to the sound of her brother shouting angrily though the door. Tamika ignored him and instead accioed her parchment and quill to write a letter to her love, her true love Draco Malfoy detailing all that was horrid and unfair about what she had been forced to go though today. None had suffered like Tamika Parker, never mind the Wizards Without Borders workers using bubble-head charms to dive for bodies in the flood waters of Thailand nor the young house elves being flogged for daring to stop sewing wizarding undergarments for just a moment in one of the many House Elf Processing Zones deep below the fancy halls of the Matacore superstore Wizards knew and loved. No nobody in the world understood what it was like to be rich, young, pureblooded and utterly depressed with the state of the world as only Tamika Parker could.

"If anyone is being a child it is you Ianto Parker!" Tamika shouted as she lay on the bed refusing to move for anything. "I do not care for what you wish, Father has stated that I am to stay with you and so I shall" That of course was not entirely the truth. Father had no idea that Ianto was living in some house in a Muggle town with Muggles. Neither did he know the full truth that the school Ianto was supposed to be at was not only infested by Dragons but low lifes like the driver. There of course was a very good reason for that, Father would never have said yes to her coming to Australia had he known that things where truly so bad in the country. He no doubt thought that Ianto was doing as he was supposed to and living in the Wizarding Quarter with respectable wizards who knew their place, not in a hovel like this!

Of course it was just like Ianto to make idle threats "Now who is being improper!" for of course she did not consider it improper to be in her room. Vice versa though was a very different story. It did surprise Tamika though that the door opened, Ianto must have had a trick door for surely he could never do the spell to open it by magic. "Owl Mother? Ha I would like to see you try" Tamika gave her brother a sweet smile, they both knew the story of Flappy the owl. "I do not see why my being here has to be such a issue Ianto, if you would just be sensible why I shall be quiet as a mouse and hardly interfere at all with your.. nude men.." actually to a certain extent Tamika was curious of the idea for she had never actually seen a man in such a state.. at least in the flesh anyway. She had always wondered if it would live up to expectations. "Now if you are quite done Ianto it has been a most stressful day and I have a job interview in the morning so goodnight". With that Ianto flicked her wand at Ianto "Petrificus Totalus!" because it was clear that nothing less then a full body mind was going to quiet her idiot brother.

[Ianto Parker]

Ianto could not understand why Tamika wanted to stay here in his 'Muggle Hovel' But he be damed if she was ganna.
"I can so Owl her" Ianto said in what can only be described as the most childish thing ever said ( in this thread) "I do not give a dam about what father said he dose no own this house" Ianto was tried of being told what to do by them. Ianto was now his own man/elf... whatever he is and this was then end of it.
"i don't care if you are bloody invisible i don't want you here" Ianto said as he looked very disapprovingly at is younger sister
she rambled on about her job interview, ianto took in what she had done to his room she had change everything
" what have you do..." Ianto never finished his question as he was hit by a spell from his 'loving' sister as he fell to the ground in a full body bind ianto wonder how many times he was going to have to go thro this to get her to leave his home

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