Visiting a poor soul.

[Leighton Marsters]

Leighton walked around the outskirts of the temple, carrying Autumn in his arms. Autumn remained quiet all the way here, as if she braced herself for the moment that awaited her. The tall handsome man walked through the large doors, and the monks stopped what they were doing, a few getting up and walking over to him. Koji, was one of them that looked after the magical animals of the glade, he spoke to Leighton quietly, and took Autumn, as Leighton nodded his head. Autumn fretted slightly but then looked at the kind man's face and realised that she recognised him, and liked him. The two entered through a doorway on the far end of the room and were out of sight. The place seemed dead and empty, and everything seemed to sit still. One of the others that were by Leighton's side lead him to the stairs of the tower. He bowed his head and set off in another direction, leaving Leighton anticipating what he should prtect his conscience from seeing next. The tower steps curled around a fat pillar, and Leighton circled it until he came to a lovely room, decorated with paintings, and sculptures of all kinds radiating with elegance and intricalities possesing priceless beauty of all containing. A large, sturdy, and comfrotable looking bed sat in the middle, and another thing radiated from the sheets and quilt.

Japanese characters, also known as 'Kanji' pulsated in blue lights over the length of two contrasted pale arms. Curley red locks with hints of blonde in them surrounded the face of a lifeless doll of porcelain, and it made Leighton's stomach turn. Her lips were no longer the shade of pale pink he knew was a characteristic of his cousin that he liked about her appearance, but now a cracked powder from lack of moisture. Is she dead? Leighton asked himself mentally as tears creeped to the crevaces of his lids. His breath caught in his throat, and his face scrunched up in grievance.

 

[Alexis Richarde]

Alexis had been putting this off for a long time, she needed to see Bella, in case anything happened she needed to see her, to tell her best friend some very important things. So she gave Izaak a kiss on the cheek and left for Japan it was likely that she would be staying the night to get information from these monks. With her wand at her side she apparated into Japan, where Izaak had told her Bella was.

She was wearing simple clothes, a pair of loose jeans and a red sweater over a t-shirt, much more was not needed, she was seeing her comatose best friend not going clubbing, she could care less about her messy-bunned, rose-golden hair and this was clear as she walked through the temple, determination was in her eyes and in her heart she would not be stopped on the way to her friend in need.

Once she reached this room where her friend lay, Alexis spent no time looking at the broad-shouldered male. She walked to the side of the girl she considered to be other sister. She took a seat at the girl's side, she took her hand in both of hers gingerly as she looked with fear onto her friend's body.

Alexis could not loose another person close to her. Her body was limp and cold, this was not Bella, she grasped the girl's hand tighter, urging for her to return to life silently. "Bella please," she said quietly, she knew that she needed to be alive she couldn't leave now, she wouldn't. "You said you would come back," she said as she fixed her red curls, moving them out of her face.

The touch of her hair was not a pleasant one, it was brittle and so much like a wire. It was oily and she could see dandruff from the young woman not being washed in so long. There wasn't anything Alexis could do but cringe and try to hold back her tears.

 

[Leighton Marsters]

Leighton was too scared to inch closer to the still cousin of his, but then, unexpectedly, a girl came aorund him and sat by her side, staring at her longing for her to open her eyes as he did aswell. "It's ok. She's still alive... For now." He added grimly and raised a hand to hold on to his forehead. "How's Izaak?"

 

[Alexis Richarde]

Alexis looked up as someone spoke to her, she hadn't met him before but she assumed this was Leighton. He didn't seem nearly as threatening as her love had described when he said he wanted to pull the plug but as he spoke her heart beat quickened and she stood up, as if she was going to fight off the negative words the young man was saying. "Do not make me hex you in a temple," she spat before turning back to poor Bella. "Izaak is fine," she said through gritted teeth, even the thought of her lover could not keep her irritation for this man at bay.

 

[Leighton Marsters]

Leighton raised his eyebrows, and grew red with anger and frusteration. Neither of them understood how damaging it could be to keep Bella alive. "Right, well. You wouldn't want to go to prison for hexing a muggle would you?" He mocked her cedily. "How will she wake up?!" his voice became hostile and quivvered with the brimming tears. He shook his head as he glared at Izaak's girlfriend with such anger. Leighton turned away, and he took a deep breath in, and wiped away tears. "You don't know hard this is for me. Do you think I have to do this because I want to?" he asked, and images of Bella smiling, and running with Autumn in her arms, made his stomach turn again, as it seemed to be a drastic change from then to now.

 

[Leah Bennet]

It had all happened so quickly. It had begun simply with a telephone call she had made to Izaak and Alexis’ home, hoping just to fall into a soothing talk with his brother’s girlfriend as it had been a frustrating and long-winded day at work. But after Izaak had answered and told her of Alexis’ whereabouts, she had seen it more than fit to make a visit her little sister. It was something she had thought putting off might help because although Leah was a strong young woman, death and illnesses just weren’t something she was able to cope with at all. But after a bout of guilt and a desperate need to see Bella, the twenty-five year old rustily apparated onto the steps outside of the temple her brother had directed her to.

With her fresh blonde hair swept behind her shoulders, Leah jogged into the grand interior of the temple in nothing more flattering than a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. It did not take her long to find the place in which Bella had been laid. However she took her sweet time in approaching her sister’s lifeless body that had been closely surrounded by two figures, one of which she recognised to be Alexis. A casket of butterflies seemed to suddenly explode within her stomach as she drew warily nearer to the group. What if it were too late? What if this would be the last time she would see Bella? What if this was the last memory she’d hold? Leah shook those thoughts away in sudden infuriation with her naivety. Bella was so much stronger than that, she had to pull through.

Already she had noticed the tension between the tall stranger and Alexis. Judging by what Izaak had told both her and his girlfriend, Leah could only assume that this was the man that he had fought with, the man that was her cousin, Leighton. The closer she drew to them, the slower her footsteps became but once she reached them, the reality of the situation seemed to crumble Leah from the inside out. Her azure eyes swept over her sister and the life that had been drained from her once so upbeat body. A hand flew to her face and clasped tightly over her mouth to muffle the cries that she could feel rising in the back of her throat. "Oh my god." Leah breathed with a slight sob in her voice, managing a courteous nod to the man before throwing her arms around Alexis for support.

bleh.