No time for Games.

[Samual Kaster]

Samual Pace Kaster was once again wearing a grin on his face, he loved being home, even though he missed Hogwarts dearly, and all of his friends, he was happy to be back with his family. The Gryffindor was a little heart-broken though, because his sister had been expelled from school. Expelled! And it was his fault! Tamalia would never blame him for her actions, but the curly-haired boy knew that it was his fault that she was expelled, if he hadn't of told her about his Annalie problem, she wouldn't have gotten so angry at the other girl and picked a fight with her. Shaking his head and pulling on the fluffy balls of his beanie, the young boy sighed. Even his favourite beanie wasn't picking his mood back up, even thouugh just five seconds ago he'd been quite happy. When something grabbed his finger, Sammy looked down, and then smiled at his baby brother, Hamish, he was a cutie and Samual loved hanging out with him when he was home, Bethany too, but he wasn't sure where she was at the moment, probably with Tamalia, who was a few paces behind him. When Hammy appeared to want to have a race, Samual rolled his eyes and decided that he'd humor the younger boy, and ran after him, letting him have a decent head-start so he felt better about himself. Hamish was a typical four year old, he liked winning and cried when he lost at things, so Samual, being the older and more responsible of the two, allowed him to win all the time so he wouldn't be upset.

Grabbing the little boy by the waist, Samual proped him on his hip and ignored him as he started pulling on his beanie, completely oblivious of the fact that he was effectively pulling the beanie off Sammy's head. Continuing to walk, Samul found himself distracted by the fact that Hamish was starting to attempt to eat his beanie, his beloved beanie! "Hey Ham, no." He said quietly, pulling the four year olds little fingers away from the beanie. While he was in the middle of saving his accessory, he forgot to sop walking, thus ending up bumping into someone. "Oh I'm so sorry!" He insisted, looking up to have a good look at the person he;d ran into. When he saw the person he'd ran into, his heart sank and he gripped Hamish a little tighter in shock and fear. "A-a-annalie?!"
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[Annalie Darkhart]

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<COLOR color="#000">Annalie was enjoying the few hours she had before she had to go home to face the music for her expulsion. Thankfully her parents worked and couldn’t get away from work early, leaving her the time to get herself organized. She knew how her parents would react when they found out. They would be disappointed. Angry, she could take, but the disappointment that she was going to see on their faces was going to sting. She was always supposed to be the smart girl that did wonderful things for the Darkhart name and she had willingly besmirched it. Though it was entirely worth it, she had left a legacy behind for being the second person expelled and she had brought Tamalia Kaster down with her. The entire Kaster family made Annalie feel physically sick and if she didn’t see another one of those snotty nose brats again it would be too soon. She had been buying up on the necessities for the worst case scenario, being kicked out by her family. It was entirely possible and the only solution was to travel to Russia and see if Anton and his family would take her in. She had been buying some gifts to offer them, sure it could be considered a bribe, not that she cared.

Pushing past fellow shoppers Annalie noticed in disgust that a lot of the people milling around were both current and future students at the corrupt school she had been expelled from. Typical. Rolling her shoulders back she stood up straight emitting an aura of disinterest, as she walked she shot death glares at them as she walked. Hands in her pockets of her coat and her bags slung over her wrist she headed in the vague direction of food. She was hungry and was going to need the strength when she finally faced her family. Glancing off into the horizon she didn’t notice the approaching figure and was rudely brought back into the moment when they collided. Her hand groped for her wand before she consciously remembered that it had been destroyed by the Ministry when she had been expelled. Swearing she looked at who collided with her and a smirk spread across her face, she could recognize that mop of curly brown hair anywhere. Samual Kaster. Chuckling darkly she shook her head. "Of all the worthless pieces of dog manure that I could have bumped into it just had to be you didn’t it?" she hissed at him fully aware of the toddler on his hip, he was probably going to use the poor kid as some kind of human shield. As such a pathetic person would. "What the hell do you think you are doing crashing into me and having the audacity to not even apologize for it? Apologize! Now!" she demanded her cheeks turning red in anger. The fact they were out of school and she no longer had a wand didn’t make a difference, Annalie had usually words anyway and Samual was going to apologize before she even thought about getting food.
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[Hamish Kaster]

Walking was a big ask for the four (nearly five) year old, it was ridiculous how much walking Hammy's big brother expected him to do. Why was Samual being so mean? This wasn't fair, Hammy desvered to be carried, but have to totter along side the older boy. Blowing raspberries at passersby, Hamish picked up a flower from the ground-and ate it happily. Won't Mummy be so proud of him! She was always telling everyone to recycle stuff, and Hamish's understanding of 'recycle' was to omnom vegetation, i.e flowers. Latching onto Samual's finger, Hamish sucked his thumb and looked around, he wanted to run around and eat more flowers, but Samual didn't seem to be heading that way. What was he to do? How was Hamish going to end up at the flowers?! There was only one thing the small boy could do. Run for it. With determination in his emerald eyes, Hamish let go of Samual's finger, and started bolting towards the flowers, he wasn't very fast, but Samual could never beat Hamish in races, so obviously he wouldn't reach him now. When he felt hands on his waist, Hamish flailed his arms and legs around, but it was no use. Evil and nasty Samual got him, and put him on his hip. Bad Samual! Hamish smacked him slightly on the shoulder, just to point out to him that his behaviour was not acceptable, and Hamish was not going to stand for it. To further his point, Hamish grabbed Samual's beanie strings and started pulling. That'll teach him to deny Hamish flowers! When feeling the soft fabric, Hamish's glare turned into a cheeky smile, this felt like petals, tasty petals, petals that would always find themselves in Hamish's mouth, just like this beanie was.

Hamish frowned when Samual's pulled the beanie away from him. Bad Samual! That earned him another smack on the shoulder, not that he appeared to notice. How rude, why was there no reaction?! Hamish was feeling distraught, Samual obviously didn't understand how serious this crime was! To deny Hamish flowers, and beanies was almost unheard of! When they bumped into someone, Hamish used Samual's shoulders to steady himself, and then looked at the culprit that nearly caused him to fall. She was ugly, but in Hamish's eyes, anyone that wasn't family was ugly, so this wasn't really anything big. Hamish watched as the ugly person got angry, wwhile Samual seemed to be... scared? A frowned settled on the youngest Kaster's face. This ugly person was scarying Sammy! Hamish's Sammy! How dare they, what gave them the right?! Nothing did, absolutely nothing! Hamish was shocked and pulled on Samual's shirt. "Go aawaay!" He screamed at the top of his lungs. Hamish didn't like this ugly person, Hammy wanted her gone. "Nooooooow!"​

 

[Samual Kaster]

Sammy shook his head when Hamish smacked him several times and looked at him, shaking his head, not that the younger boy would care to listen to him, he never did listen to Samual. Sammy then looked at Annalie, hearing her horrible chuckle was bring back nightmares that were supposed to be laid to rest a while ago, but they were apparently easily remembered just by the older girls prescence. When she spoke, Sammy frowned and glanced at Hamish, hoping that he was too preoccupied to hear, or understand Annalie's words, because he didn't want his baby brother to go aroud repeating those, what would he say to Lisa? She didn't really know about how horrible Annalie was, just that Tamalia fought her, and Tama usually fought everyone, so that wasn't saying much.

It was amazing how quickly a good day could turn sour, just by Annalie's presence, Sammy's day had been ruined. It didn't seem right, because now Hamish woud be here, and see just how mean people could be, he was too young to be exposed to Annalie's evil, so Samual naturally turned slightly so Hamish was just that little bit further away from the older girl, he was a little worried that she'd start on him too. Samual stared at Annalie in shock. Was she serious? Like, really serious? He'd already apologised, what more did she want, Sammy to kiss her feet? "Annalie... I already apologised..." He pointed out quietly, looking down slightly and hoping that she'll find something better to do and shove off, but before he could think of anything else, Hamish piped up, and it absolutely mortified Samual. "Hamish!" He cried in shock, glancing at the surely furious Annalie, then back at a frantic Hamish, who seemed outraged by what was going on. As usual. It was a little embarrassing how possessive Hamish could get about things, especially people, especially his siblings, and this included Sammy. Sometimes Sam questioned Hammy's sanity, like right now, did he not understand that he was facing a she-devil? "Please be quiet." He whispered, putting his finger to his lips. Turning back to Annalie, Sammy shrugged weakly. He was doomed. "Sorry about that..." He said quietly, he had a feeling that his apology was a waste of time and breath, but it was worth a try, and even though Annalie was a horrible, cruel person, Samual wasn't going to be rude to her, because he wasn't like that at all.
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[Annalie Darkhart]

Annalie looked at the toddler with a mix of digust with a tiny itty bitty hint of adoration. Though she was a self-confessed heartless b!tch she could erase the tiny part of her that found tiny little kids cute. Not even years of being horrible could erase that. Pulling herself together instantly she ignored the child and focussed on Sammy, the cause of the seemingly ongoing feud between the Kasters and her, which in some ways was rather unfair, the Kaster out numbered one to one trillion and yet she was already winning. Rolling her eyes Annalie put her hands on her hips, "Can't you control your dribbling family? Honestly you are such an embarrassment to the word family." she said with a sigh. Sammy wasn't as fun to annoy as Tama, she always had a right temper on her and reacted perfectly to her ploys, Sammy was too whiney to really enjoy bullying. "It wasn't a very good appology Sammy, perhaps you should try again?" she raised an eyebrow at the Gryffindor letting him know that she wouldn't leave him alone until he appologize properly.

Peeking a look at the toddler in Sammy's arms when she was sure he wasn't looking Annalie quietly judged him. He would probably be an alright kid, if he hadn't been born into such a worthless family. He was surely going to end up like all the other Kasters she knew, annoying. "Which reminds me." she started dragging her eyes away from the kid, "How's Tamalia taking the fact that I got her @ss kicked out of school?" she asked with a quiet chuckle. Annalie knew family was a touchy subject with Sammy and at every chance she could she would always make a point to bring at least one of them up in conversation. "Is she regretting messing with me when I had nothing to lose?" she mocked hoping to get a rise out of the boy.​

 

[Hamish Kaster]

Hamish didn't take well to Samual ignoring him. Hamish was not a child to be ignored. Ever never was the youngest of the Kaster's to be ignored. With a small huff, Hammy stared daggers (well, attemtped to) at the ugly person that was stealing all of his attention. what made her so special? Why was Sammy giving all of his attention to her? Attention that Hamish could have instead. Hammy was still at the age where words meant very little to him, so he wasn't entirely sure what Sammy, or the ugly person were saying, what did Samual call her? ... A-a-annalie? What sort of stupid name was that? No wonder why this ugly person was scaring Sammy so much, he was obviously worried that her stupid-ugliness would rub off on them. What if it did?! Hamish looked the ugly person up and down in worry, were ugly bugs jumping from the person and infesting Sammy and Hamish while they stood within the persons general distance? Hammy didn't want to be infected! He immediately tried to escape his brothers grasp, so that they could both run away, Sammy was obviously too scaried to move, Hamish had to remind him by running away himself. Hamish sighed in frustration when he realised that he was not strong enough to escape his brothers grasp. It stunk being four (nearly five) years old. Pulling on his brothers curls, he tried once again to get his attention, and then whispered (rather loudly) in his ear. "Wet's go Fairy." Hamish called Samual 'Fairy' mainly because it was how he pronouced 'Sammy', he wasn't going to strain himself by trying to call Sam, Samual, or properly pronounce Sammy, because he just didn't care enough to do it.

One word that caught Hamish's attention, was 'Tamalia', that was the name of his big sister, but she seemed very cranky these days. Hamish's eyes narrowed when he realised that A-a-annalie the Ugly was still ignoring him, and was causing Sammy to ignore him. Stuff was about to go down. Reaching for his shoe quietly, Hammy skillfully untied the shoe one-handed, after a few minutes of yanking at it, it came loose and Hamish removed his shoe, wiggling his little toes slightly from the sudden cold that went through his little socks. When neither Annalie, or Sammy were looking, Hamish flung his shoe at the girls face and hopped up and down as it flew through the air. That'll teach her to steal his attention.​

 

[Samual Kaster]

Samual frowned and continued to ignore Hamish, it was something he rarely did, but he didn't want to take his attention from Annalie, who seemed to be acting particularly horrible this afternoon, that now no-longer seemed so perfect as it had moments ago. Family was always a sensitive subject for the Gryffindor, because it always seemed to be a huge mess that would, or could never be cleaned up, and since people seemed to think that they knew everything that happened in his family behind closed doors, it was just that little bit harder to deal with. Still, he didn't like the comment about his little brother, because his natural, older brother instincts came out, but he still couldn't bring himself to yell at her becuase he didn't really see the point in fighting fire with fire, Tamalia did that and looked what happened to her, kicked out of Hogwarts, and her wand destroyed. "Annalie, please, just leave me alone." He said quietly, trying to keep himself, and the wiggling Hamish in check. Hamish didn't seem to like Annalie either, not that he wasn't surprised, Hamish didn't like many people, and he was sure not many people liked Annalie. Samual pulled Hamish's fingers from his hair and sighed when he whispered in his ear, that thought had crossed his mind, but he couldn't very well run with Hamish in his arms, not effectively anyway, and he wasn't about to put the toddler down, because he could trip over and hurt himself, and his siblings would kill him if he did such a thing. Looking back at Annalie timidly, Samual kept control of the squirming Hamish and frowned once again, he already missed his smile. "I apologise for running into you, next time I'll keep an eye out for you." One of the main reasons Samual probably didn't see Annalie, was the fact that he wasn't accustomed to looking out for crazy, evil, expelled Ravenclaws, but he'd make sure he kept an extra special eye out for her.

Samual failed to see the quick look Annalie gave Hamish, if he had seen it, he probably would have attempted to run because it would have freaked him out to see Annalie not looking coldly at someone. Even a toddler. When she continued her verbal onslaught, Samual tried to ignore her, but the mention of Tamalia brought his emerald eyes but up to Annalie's cold face. Why did people have to talk about Tamalia like she was nothing? Because Samual didn't like the truthful answer to Annalie's question/taunt, he chose to not answer it, simply because Tamalia was more than mortified, and furious about the outcome of the fight, and Sammy didn't want to address it at all. He tried to ignore Annalie as best he could, but it was hard, since she seemed to know him inside and out, it was difficult to ignore someone like that, because they knew exactly what to say. Before he could even react to what Annalie said, he saw a little, but rather hard, shoe fly towards Annalie's face. Total, and utter shock crossed Samual's face as he looked at Hamish as if he'd tried to fly. "Hamish!" He cried once again, why was he being difficult? Couldn't he just sit quietly and suck his thumb or something? Looking back at Annalie timidly, Sammy shrugged slightly. "Sorry about that..." It was official. Samual was as good as dead right now.
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