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[Perhaps the journal picks up the sound of Neville's arrival as he is unceremoniously deposited on the icy southern lake sometime in the dead of night. If not that, then it might catch the dull groaning as he slowly wakes and struggles to pull himself upright. If not that, then certainly the furious squeak from sneakers lacking traction on slippery ice would catch the journal's attention, as would the dull thudding as Neville collides with some child's forgotten snowman on the westernmost bank. A sharp intake of breath, then] No wand. Bastards. [In fact, even though Neville hasn't yet noticed the presence of the book at all, he seems perfectly aware that someone is listening, even if it isn't quite who he expects.]

It's still not enough! [The words, though a bit rasped and wheezing, are spoken with the stubbornness of one who rather expected this displacement.] You think you can just Portkey me someplace and be done with it? You won't get me -- not any of us -- to back down that easily. I know you're here -- show yourselves, you bloody cowards!

[The dead silence is less than encouraging. It means that if he wasn't being watched, then he'd been sent far enough that he wouldn't need supervision. Accio wand. [The incantation is intoned softly through clenched teeth. It doesn't escape him how ironic it was that in his desperation to recover his stolen wand he's resorted to a summoning spell that usually required the use of his wand in the first place. The spell fails spectacularly, leaving Neville to suppose his captors laughed, wherever they happen to be.

Still, the place he'd been sent certainly merits some investigation. If he'd been sent here via portkey, then some other innocuous-looking thing might well be the ticket home. It might appear off for a young, underdressed, blackeyed, fairly beaten and emaciated man to be picking up small stones with a thoughtful expression, but finding an alternate portkey is simply the most plausible way back to the more important matters he'd left at home.]

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Yes, Longbottom, I've cursed both of them. I've cursed all of them, victory is mine. [There's a snort then.] Get over it, like I'd waste my time.

[He doesn't like the sound of that snort. Draco's exuding a confidence he hasn't seen in almost a year. There's a piece missing, aside from the impossible claim that this is a vision of Draco from somewhere in the past.] You don't seem to have a problem wasting my time with this.

You happened to land on my lake. Clearly this is entirely your own fault. [Hey, he has to make up for his loss of time somehow. Everyone else is a good six months or more ahead of him, he can't let them win just because of that. Despite how much what Neville's just told him spooks him a bit, he's not going to let him know that.]

You can't own a lake, Malfoy.[Although that would explain the painful landing, not like the new scrape on his cheek is very visible against the trainwreck calling itself his face at the moment.]

Sure I can. Ask anyone here and they'll tell you it's mine. [Unfortunately, Draco doesn't like him enough to fix Neville's face for him :|]

You shouldn't be so possessive over a piece of your prison. [Whatever, Draco. He probably wouldn't know what to do with your help if he had it. Hermione's just going to do it later anyway, so nyyah.]

When there's nothing else here, you take what you can get. [The huge vibes of "do not want" are probably radiating more than usual between both of them.]

I'd rather take the next portkey back to Hogwarts, thanks. [Is it possible to not want one another's company more than they already do?]

Right, good luck with that. I've been trying to find one without success thus far. [You know, in Luceti a lot of the impossible things suddenly become possible.]

If you've got time to be claiming real estate, then you aren't trying hard enough. [And when he does find a way back, it'll give him much pleasure to not invite Draco.]

You shouldn't make such stupid assumptions. [Neville you suck.]

You shouldn't be so quick to call other people stupid. [no u.]

You shouldn't assume I'm wrong.

Nor should you assume that I have any intention of listening to you.

...get the fuck out of my sight, Longbottom.

Gladly. [Though he's as wary as before that Draco will hex him when his back is turned, the urge to create some distance between them is overriding his caution. He doesn't give Draco the satisfaction of running, but he does take several steps away from the lake, though not quite in the direction of town.]

[He's not going to stop him, but he's just going to watch him walk away. Yeah, you better run, Longbottom. Ugh, ugh, ugh.]

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