#ttmestarter

Kidnapped as a young boy, the captain of a pirate ship first used him as a deck hand, but then started training him to fight and how to lead. Eventually he started to rise in the ranks, all the way to first mate. And when the old captain passed, Nicholas was made captain of the crew and together they set sail, pillaging and robbing towns and villages. 

The whispers about how he was too young to be the captain had all but died now. Every once in a while, they would meet someone new who would say something, but they were easily silenced. Nicholas had a reputation of being ruthless, it kept him and his crew alive, and so he lived up to it. 

So when he was woken in the middle of the night by his first mate, he grabbed his sword and followed him to the deck, prepared to do what had to be done. When he saw the person that they had on their knees, awaking Nicholas’ judgment, he was thrown slightly. 

@maryelizabethmacdonald

Charlie had known for quite some time now that his feelings for Mary had returned; how could they not? She was intelligent, kind, funny, gorgeous - everything anyone would ever want in a partner. He was almost sure at some points, too, that Mary felt the same in return. Traveling to France together only seemed to make things more complicated, because he could’ve sworn here and there that they were about to kiss. But despite how sure he was that Mary had feelings for him - which he had a right to be, considering they’d dated - she was dating Rick. 

Rick was a complex situation in and of itself because of her past with him and what Charlie thought of him, but right now he was more a point of confusion with Mary. She was humoring Charlie from time to time, but she still had her heart set on Rick. It just didn’t make sense. And although he was sure it was going to ruin their friendship, he didn’t want to continue on questioning every little thing that she did and what it meant. He needed to ask her about it, and that was precisely what he was going to do today. 

It’s been several years since she ran away from her home. Ever since then, Alecto had been going from place to place, hitchiking and doing some things she wasn’t too proud of to survive. She was a pretty girl with a nice body and she knew how to take advantage of that. 

The first time she stole was from a man who was too fat to pick up his wallet when it fell to the floor. It came naturally to her, that’s when she realized that she didn’t have to take men to a motel room to get money, or at least not all men. She made some exceptions with the cute ones.

Now she was in a diner in the middle of a small town. Why she was there? She had no idea. But the place wasn’t too crowded, there was a handsome man at the end of the bar with a fantastic hair, the waitress on the other side of the bar and an old prick who had been staring at her tits ever since she got there.

It didn’t take long for him to make his move on her and all she had to do was flash her brightest smile. She had stolen some silver fox’s wallet earlier that morning and she was wearing a wig, a blonde wig. She loved wigs, they made her feel safe whenever she did things she wasn’t supposed to do, like stealing this man’s car keys like she was about to do.

“A drink? At midday?” She asked, faking an american accent. “My lord, you are a naughty boy, aren’t you?” She grinned as she leaned a bit forward, exposing a bit more of her cleavage as she played with the straw of her glass.

And just like that, he was hooked. The man kept on talking and talking and when he placed his chubby hand on her thigh, Alecto knew it was her moment to act. “Why don’t you order a gin and tonic for me, sweetheart?” She whispered seductively in his ear while one of her hands caressed his chest slowly the other hand simply took his keys from his back pocket. “I have to go the restroom and make myself more pretty and I’ll be back to you” she winked at him playfully before taking her bag and walked out of there.

Once in the bathroom, she got out the diner through the window. Alecto landed gracefully on her two feet and clicked the button on the keys. She saw how the lights of a black car turned on and off and she walked towards it, rather impressed since it seemed to be a good car from a expensive brand. She looked around to make sure there was no one around and took off her wig as she kept on walking. However, when she opened the door of the car, someone grabbed her by the wrist.

“What do you think you are doing?” She asked rather irritated before looking up and saw the handsome bloke from the bar. Ah, fuck. Was he a cop?

Em hadn’t been back to the Auror Academy properly since she graduated. She’d dropped off a few files here and there for whatever Auror was in charge of training when a case concerned them, but that was just to the offices. So walking back into the training room felt like she was riding a wave of nostalgia. Not much had changed, admittedly it wasn’t like it had been a decade, only a few years, but still. She looked around and remembered some of the bigger duels she had done and annoyingly the times she’d had her ass kicked. Especially in the boxing ring, she had been smaller than most of the other trainees, so the hand to hand combat had been the hardest for her.

Looking over at the ring she spotted the person she’d come to see. Mar was sparring with some trainee, and it looked like the poor sod was getting wrecked. Em made her way over and rested her elbows on the side of the ring with a cheeky grin as she began to speak “We’re here tonight with a match everyone’s been waiting for folks, the trainee, and the one and only Marlene McKinnon. Doesn’t look like a fair fight off the bat ladies and gents, McKinnons got a lot of pent up aggression, in my opinion it’s those 4 brothers she grew up with. But it looks like Trainee is putting up a good fight” She grinned, holding her hand to her mouth to make her voice slightly echo-y.

“In moves Trainee with a left hook, and Oo just misses, but lucky for him he doesn’t forget to block the incoming punch from McKinnon” she tried to not laugh, and make it as serious as possible, but it was hard not to “McKinnons moving around the ring now, taking him for a ride, tiring him out. I wouldn’t fall for it kid, I’ve heard she’s got the stamina of a racehorse” she grinned at the last part, knowing Marlene would both scold her and laugh at it later.

@msmarlenemckinnon

Evanna wasn’t sure why, of all the places she could have ended up in front of, it happened to be the flat of someone that she wasn’t sure she could trust. Sure there had been a time when she and Marlon had been friends, maybe even a time when they had been almost more than friends, but that time had long since come and gone. After Hogwarts, Marlon went on to become an Auror, fighting against the Dark Lord and the Death Eaters, and Evanna’s family was very much tied to the Dark Lord and his mission. Her father had know The Dark Lord for a very long time, and considered himself to be as close to the enigma of a man as anyone could be. She herself wasn’t expected to become a death eater, but she knew that there was a good chance that her brothers would join soon. 

So when she brought her fist up to knock against Marlon’s door, quite late at night, she wasn’t sure what would happen. One the one hand they had been friends, on the other hand, he was an Auror and probably suspected that she at the very least, knew some stuff. But she was bleeding and black spots had started appearing in her vision, so she wasn’t in any position to be picky about who she asked for help. 

She’d been out walking when someone who was related to someone her dad had sent to jail had decided that she was a good person to take out some anger on. She didn’t know who the people were, and she’d managed to get away from them, but just barely and definitely not unscathed. She knocked again when there was no answer immediately. With the luck she was having today, he would probably be sleeping, or out. She let out a labored breath of relief when he finally did open the door. “Hey there, stranger,” She said, trying to smile up at him. 

@alicefortesc

The past year had easily been the hardest in her entire life. Her dad had passed away early on in the summer, and her whole entire world felt like it had fallen apart. She didn’t know how much better she could say she was at this point, but she was at least better off than she’d been before. It was hard to know he was gone though, and even harder to now be at school and feel impossibly alone without the comfort of Nymphadora or Matt. Of course, she had other friends, but none of them were closest even in the slightest to the companionship the three of them had. With everything all at once, Addie would have preferred being back in the orphanage to this. 

Violet had been officially dating Nick for about eight months, and she had never been happier. Something about her changed when she was with him, and it wasn't her competitiveness. He genuinely made her feel special in just the smallest moments, and she hoped he felt the same, because she thought he was amazing. More than that, she thought he was everything. Which was remarkable seeing as she used to think he was one of the most annoying people she knew. 

 What she also appreciated was how the McKinnon family had so quickly and so happily accepted her. Not that she had expected them to shun her or anything like that, it was just that she didn't expect to essentially be welcomed so quickly into the family. She wasn't sure if Nick had brought girls home before her, he probably had, but she didn't care, because he was hers. And whenever she was with him she felt right. 

@maryelizabethmacdonald

Lily awoke with a start. Feeling both like she had just had a nightmare and like she’s been asleep for a very long time. Everything seemed rather dark and though she had bolted upright as soon as her eyes opened, she hadn’t a clue where she was or how she had gotten there. 

Where ever she was, the place seemed to be crumbling and half burned down. She rubbed her eyes with her hands and then slowly pushed herself to her feet, trying to piece together what she knew. She knew that her name was Lily Potter, she knew that she was living in Godric’s Hallow, and.. she had a son. She looked around the room and was aghast to find Harry’s cot just to her left, empty, and covered in ash. Her breathing got shallow and she took a few steps back until she bumped into his dresser, her hand landing on top of where it was burned and she flinched, expecting to find it hot, but instead it was cold. Cold and frail, as though the fire had been a very long time ago. But it couldn’t  have been, why would Lily have been left in the middle of her son’s room? None of this was making sense. She needed to find James and Harry. 

She started down the hallway and then down the stairs when she started to remember what had happened to her family. Take Harry and run, he’d told her. I’ll hold him off. She took a shaky breath as she stepped down onto the main floor of the house. Nothing felt right. This place seemed as though it were abandoned, so why had she been left here? She felt the urge to run, to put as much space between her and this house as she could so she headed for the door looking around more, she just wanted out. She didn’t pause until she got to the street and saw someone giving her a strange look from the other side of the street. 

“It’s not actually haunted you know,” He called out to her. “That’s just a story the locals made up to fool everyone.” She turned around to look at the house and covered her mouth with her hand as she saw that half of the house was gone. Destroyed by something powerful by the looks of it. And there was a large plaque in front of the house, magically signed in every inch of free space, but Lily could hardly pay attention to that. She read hardly the first line of the inscription before she dug her hand into her pocket, relieved to find her wand and apperated to Mary’s. That sign couldn’t be true, this all had to be some elaborate trick by the Death Eaters. Her son, her husband... Mary would know what was going on.