Cheen Loonga Tujhe Is Jahaan Se (Josh)

Subject: Cheen Loonga Tujhe Is Jahaan Se (Josh) Sun Feb 13, 2022 7:51 pm

If Azalea had expected her workload to settle into something less hectic over the next few weeks, she had been very wrong. As the first week of term morphed into the Second and then third, Azalea learned to appreciate the difference between being a mere teacher and running the management of the school to boot. Never had she deviated Old Headmaster Kessler as much as she did now, knowing what he probably did to the keep the school running behind the scenes -and in his sickly condition.

Making a note to send him a fruit basket or something, Azalea carried on with her days, putting out fires left and right. Adelaide Goshawk had made it very clear she did not intend to be around more than needed. And in the redhead's books, "needed" meant her Arithmancy classes and nothing more. So it was Azalea who had to oversee every matter that by right should have been attended to by the headmistress.

When she had pointed this out to Jake, he had merely replied with a cheeky "Good practice for later huh?", rightfully earning a playful shove from the witch.

Of course, that was another problem. Whatever arrangement she and Jake had made prior tot eh term starting was torn to shreds. Most nights, Azalea found herself too wrapped up in work to come home,. It was so common now that texts and calls to Jake telling him she wont be home that evening had become common, leaving the Auror to manage Adrienne's bedtime alone. The small child had been very curious as to where mommy was every evening and the answer of "work" was growing thin. Azalea hated on missing out the time with the young witch but there were days it was impossible to leave the school.

So she had to rely on her sleeping potion, always managing only the bare minimal of sleep and waking up anxious and afraid, as if something had gone very wrong.

Clara had been an angel in all of this, forever ready to take on Adrienne whenever Jake was at work and could not fill in for Azalea. Someone, the American brunette had gone from being the more involved parent tot he one that barely saw her daughter any more.

And then there was Ivan.

They had always known Ivan hasn't as outgoing as his sister but Azalea had never really thought it would keep him from making friends. After all, she herself had been very bookish and academically inclined, sort of. It had never hampered her social equilibrium. But then again, she had grown up in Nightshade where alcohol was the social lubricant of choice. Ivan did not have that luxury.

On her very freest potion class with the first years, the brunette had walked in to see Ivan squirming in his seat as Mathew Parker tried to relieve the boy of his jacket. As it turned out, someone had thought it funny to spread wood glue all over Ivan's chair, sticking the boy tot he wooden surface.

Azalea had dissolved the glue with a single drop of acid form a vial and warned everyone that such pranks would not be tolerated in her class but she doubted it had made a difference as a few days later, she had found Ivan with his blazer over his head, struggling desperately in the entrance hall, his small arms falling everywhere.

She had quickly freed the child but it had been too late to see who had tangled his blazer over him. It was a simple enough spell that even some first years could perform.

Ivan had looked at her embarrassed, not meeting her gaze as he silently mouthed "Please don't tell dad."

Azalea had respected the boy's wishes but that hadn't stopped her worrying.

Nothing stopped her worrying these days. It was almost as if she was living on some kind of edge. Where at any moment, something would go horribly wrong.

That evening, she texted Jake once again about sleeping over at the school. Yet another emergency that required her attention. As always, she assured him she would try to be back in time to make Adrienne breakfast.

Azalea went to bed close to one in the morning that day, an involuntary shudder running down her spine as she reached for the slewing potion she had to rely on when away from Jake. Sleeping alone no longer felt safe somehow, even if she tried to convicne herself there was no logic to the fear.

The doors were locked, the school was protected.

She had felt no sign of Joshua Murray in weeks. Not since the green dress debacle.

Then why had she taken to wrapping herself in several layers when she fell asleep?

It was as if her subconscious was trying to warn her of something but... what?

"Hey Leafy?" the witch called. On queue, a dark tendril slithered out from her sleeve, curling out into her palm. "You mind keeping watch at the door tonight?" she asked and the wine swayed, trailing from her body and gliding across the floor to stand guard at her bedroom door.

With a softly murmured "thanks", Azalea settled into bed. The potion kicked in not five minutes later, carrying the witch off to a supposed dreamless sleep.

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Subject: Re: Cheen Loonga Tujhe Is Jahaan Se (Josh) Sat Mar 26, 2022 11:34 am

Joshua Murray sat at his desk, the hour growing later as it always did. His Azalea had never been one to be rushed, and with school back in full swing, her hours had become later. It did not deter the head of the Murray house though, waiting patiently as he did every night. Waiting for the small flicker in the bottle on the desk to give off the ever so subtle signal that his Azalea was ready for him.

The blond had just added a note to his work on the potion he was currently adjusting for his Azalea when the signal came.

A dark smile crossed the man's lips in that moment.

Almost without a movement from the blond, the signal to wake Ethan and bring the child to the study was sent. The steady hand of Josh's moved towards the vial on his desk, checking the signal was there. Confirming the information, the man closed his eyes, seeking the mind of only one person. At the distance from Hogwarts, it took great concentration, but Joshua Murray had done this so many times now, it did not matter how far his Azalea was, her mind was his to enter.

***

The space filled white in this instance. Joshua's plan different than it had been all the week's before this date. The empty space was easier to manipulate, rather than dressing the space up and causing distractions. For today, no distractions were needed. He had the one thing he knew that the witch would be engrossed in the moment she saw him. But that was not for now.

It was a quiet few minutes, waiting for the potion to pull his Azalea away from the real world, to bring her in to the world he'd created just for the two of them to be alone. The place in which his Azalea remained as he'd always wanted her... his. Unable to get away from him, to do anything against his wishes. This reality was the one in which he remained in control, similar to the days his Azalea had doted on him without question.

His Azalea appeared in to the white room, though.

Her dark brown locks flowing beautifully down her back. Her slender frame hidden below an oversized shirt, and finally, those beautiful brown orbs looked around, trying to find their bearings until they landed upon him, stood across from her. The amber hints around the edge of the eyes shone brilliantly as they landed upon him, and the Murray head's lips pulled slightly at the edges.

"My A-Azalea." He greeted softly, watching her turn towards him fully. "This won't do..." he managed, and without any sign of his command, the witch's attire changed in to a soft lilac dress that much more befitted the Lady Murray.

The steady glint from the ring that always appeared on her left hand glimmered as they stood.

"Perfect."

The man moved across to his Azalea, drawing her in to him carefully, and pressing a firm, possessive kiss against his Azalea's lips.

"You are late this evening, is everything alright at the school?" He asked, his finger moving to push a stray lock of hair away from her face. The expectant look upon his features as he watched her without breaking eye contact.

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Subject: Re: Cheen Loonga Tujhe Is Jahaan Se (Josh) Fri May 13, 2022 5:58 pm

She knew something was wrong the moment she opened her eyes to white.

Why was she awake? She was supposed to be asleep. And yet here she was, surrounded by blank space that felt so eerily familiar, it sent chills down her back. She had been here before...

Even her body seemed to know this was a familiar place, every muscle on high alert as the familiar profile of the blond appeared. Azalea wanted to shrink back into the white but it was almost if the background wouldn't permit it so. Wherever they were, this world was solely controlled by one person.

And if the person coming steadily closer to her, even though she had not taken an single step towards him.

"My A-Azalea."

The words made her skin crawl. Where was she? Where was Jake?

Suddenly, her sleeping t shirt was replaced with a flowing lilac gown. Complementary Jewels appeared on her person, her hair falling into freshly styled waves of over a decade ago. The large diamond on her ring finger shone brilliantly among the white.

And all this while, she couldn't move a single muscle as his cold lips touched her.

Pushed into her.

Tried to inhale her through his senses, as if he would never get enough of her.

"You are late this evening, is everything alright at the school?"

"You're... not here," she managed, trying to defy his presence with everything she had. "You can't be..." she reasoned, a desperate plea in her voice. They had taken so many measures, gone to so many people.

How could none of it have worked? How was he still here, right in front of her.

Claiming she was his.

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Subject: Re: Cheen Loonga Tujhe Is Jahaan Se (Josh) Fri May 13, 2022 6:26 pm

"You're... not here,"

"Of course I am, A-Azalea." Joshua replied to that statement gently, the thin line of the man's lips twitching at the edge as he said so much. Being this close to his Azalea would do that to him, bring out the almost giddy excitement of a teenager -- or as giddy as anything could make the Lord Murray.

"You can't be..."

"It's real, I'm here." Josh soothed the witch's worry, as the lock of hair fell neatly in to place against the side of the witch's face. "We have to spend some time together, now that you choose not to come home each weekend. But it's okay, I know with time you will come back to me. And our son." The last was said as the man's hand moved down from the witch's face, back to her waist as he drew her closer. The subtle way the man leant forth, and inhaled would not go amiss in this setting, but he didn't care as he drank in the familiar smell of his Azalea.

"You didn't answer me, A-Azalea, is there something wrong with the school?" Josh asked, drawing back up to his full height in the process, composing himself as the scent of the witch offered to succumb him to more than they currently had time for. "If there's anything I can do to help you, you know you can always ask, A-Azalea."

He would move heaven and earth for the witch. Nobody, nothing would stop him from ensuring everything in his Azalea's life was perfect.

She only had to say the word, and it would be done.

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Subject: Re: Cheen Loonga Tujhe Is Jahaan Se (Josh) Fri May 13, 2022 6:56 pm

The more he reassured her that he was here, that this was real, the more she wanted to get away.

And yet, when he moved in close to her, the perfectly sculpted angles of his nose barely touching her throat as he inhaled her scent, another sensation was awakened in her body, one that was as fearful as it was... familiar. That one motion made her want to close her eyes and give in to this reality.

But she couldn't.

This was wrong, they were not meant to be here.

"I know with time you will come back to me. And our son."

A lone tear slid down her cheek, her body doing everything it could to defy these surroundings that insisted she melt into the man in front of her because nothing else mattered. "Ethan.." she whispered softly into the blank space they were in. The absence of the child in her life was a void in her heart nothing else would ever fill.

As he asked her how everything at school was going, Azalea found herself compelled to answer. Just as she had been compelled to obey his every word so long ago. Deep inside her still remained the obedient doll Joshua Murray had brought home to try and bring to life with his care, attention and dogged determination.

"There is so much work..." she spoke, trying and failing to fight the impulse. "I never get to go home." The idea of not seeing Adrienne as much as she would have liked was one that truly agonized her. She had lost enough children to last her several lifetimes.

"If there's anything I can do to help you, you know you can always ask, A-Azalea."

"I want Ethan..." she tried again, hoping that by naming something he could not give her, the spell would be broken. He would no longer be in control and this nightmare would end.

And it had to end soon.

Before she became totally absorbed in someone else's reality.

Again.

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Subject: Re: Cheen Loonga Tujhe Is Jahaan Se (Josh) Fri May 13, 2022 7:16 pm

"Ethan.."

The whispered sound of their son's name fell from her lips as his Azalea's head came to rest upon his chest. The man held her close to him in that moment, comforting her as she took a moment to compose herself. It couldn't be easy, willingly choosing to stay away from your child, but he would not judge the witch for that. Time, of which he had plenty, would bring her back to him.

But nothing more was said of their son.

Instead, his Azalea's attention moved to her work, and how there was too much of it. Keeping her from 'home'. Josh understood that to be the Manor, and nowhere else in that moment. The hopeful glint upon his features lost as her head remained tucked against his chin. "Tell me what you need, and I'll make it happen." Josh coaxed, trying to find out what would assist the witch needed to make life easier. An assistant, he would have it in place in an instant if she asked.

"I want Ethan..."

The request was one that he could easily provide. One he was ready to provide.

"As my A-Azalea wishes." The man replied, drawing back in that moment.

***

In the study of the Lord Murray, Joshua moved back from the scene he'd created in his Azalea's mind. Faced with nanny and his son who was looking to his father curiously, if not somewhat tiredly.

"Come, Ethan." Joshua spoke, and the youngest Murray moved around the large desk to his father. Hoisting the child in to his lap, Joshua's eyes returned to nanny for the briefest of seconds. "Go." He spoke firmly, and the nanny left the Murray's alone.

"We're going to see mother." Joshua explained, lifting his wand to the boy's temple.

***

The scene hadn't changed when the Lord Murray returned. Everything was still perfectly as it had been.

Except for the small boy who stood before him.

The hand upon the boy's shoulder was removed.

Ethan's eyes found his mother.

Breaking in to a run, the boy would hurriedly move to his mother, wrapping his arms around any part of her that he could hold.

"Mother!" Rang clearly in the air.

Joshua Murray would remain where he had appeared in the room.

Watching.

Waiting.

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Subject: Re: Cheen Loonga Tujhe Is Jahaan Se (Josh) Fri May 13, 2022 7:40 pm

Whatever she had hoped would happen at her impossible request did not come to pass. She should have known nothing was beyond Joshua Murray, especially not in the world he had specifically created to cater to each and every whim of his.

Which was what Azalea really was: his greatest whim in human form.

And he would give her anything she asked of him.

She didn't feel him leave, no. His presence was all around her even as his physical body distanced for a while. The hold on her mental faculties was just as tight, making her unable to even blink let alone move in any way.

And then she heard it.

"Mother!" Rang clearly in the air.

"Ethan," she cried out, raising her head to see the little boy running towards her on his chubby but sturdy little legs. Tears trickled down her face as the child approached and clung to her. Leaning down, she picked him up, hugging him to her chest as she wept quietly into his fine blond hair, an exact copy of his father's.

"Mother, where did you go?" the child asked, looking up at her with eyes as brown as hers. Slowly, the child reached up a small palm to wipe her tears.

"Nowhere darling," she managed, kissing his forehead, then the crown of his head, then each of his cheeks. She had missed the boy far more than she could ever put into words. "I'm right here, mommy's right here."

"Mother," the young Murray corrected, snuggling into her happily. "You will stay with Father and I?"

There was nothing in that moment her son could ask of her that she would say no to. Azalea felt her own control weaken as the white surroundings began to morph into the nursery of Murray Manor, the familiar furnishings and paintings coming into view as more and more of her subconscious gave into Joshua's will.

"Of course darling, whatever you want."

And with those words, any semblance of Azalea Harrington disappeared, leaving behind only Lady Murray.

The sworn wife of Lord Joshua Murray and the mother of his son, Lord Joshua Ethan Murray the Second.

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