WITHOUT THE M A S K [scorpius]

It was a really cloudy night for the month of November. The streets of London were more deserted than usual. This was a good thing, at least for Sue it was. She had just found a not-so-bad apartment in a really less populated place to rent. The landlord hadn't even questioned her much. Sue wasn't disguised today. It was the first time since almost a month. The people here couldn't be less interested in others business. The place was almost perfect to hide. Sue was walking on the dark streets of the Countryside, having nothing else to do. She was really cold. She was wearing a black tee and skinny blue jeans, with her hair tied back in a low ponytail. The faint glow of the streetlights barely illuminated the pavements. Sue stopped near a deserted turn and looked around for a nearby shop.

Scorpius had been in diagon alley, checking a new broom that had come out. Now, he was walking along the streets of London, searching for a good muggle shop. Scorpius rarely got to go to London, so whenever he did he checked muggle shops, as they interested him. It was quite late and chilly, and there were few people on the streets, which Scorpius didn't like. He hated silence, it made him feel alone and lost. Unsurprisingly, most of the shops were closed for the night and Scorpius was thinking of going back. However, just as he was taking his wand out to apparate, he saw a person walking on the opposite side of the street. As he recognized her, he almost dropped his wand. He hadn't seen his sister for months and he had doubted to see her in London.

Sue looked around. There were no shops nearby. Only one shop at the very end of the street was present, but it was closed. But there was someone else present there. With the pale skin and blond hair, it wasn't too hard to recognize her brother. Sue stiffened. She was really surprised to see her brother there of all. This was probably the quietest place in whole London, and Scorpius liked to stay away from dark places like this. Seeing the stunned expression on his face too, Sue suddenly felt a pang of guilt and anger together. She felt guilty because she had left like that, and anger for what she didn't know right now. Having nothing to say she just stood there looking caught. "What are you, um, doing here?" Sue asked after a while with a frown.

Despite not having seen her for three to four months Scorpius hadn't missed Sue much. Still, he had been worried about her, and was (slightly) glad to see her. "Wow, four months we haven't talked to each other and you don't even say hello," he said coolly, when he got over the surprise of seeing her there. "As for what I'm doing here, I could ask you the same question." He could hardly tell her he was checking out muggle shops, Sue was far more obsessed with the whole pureblood mania crap.