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Started July 05, 2019 by Deleted user

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Tolly watched the exchange with interest, though he didn't interfere. The lady obviously just needed some help, and Cas was probably the only guy who could give it to her. It was best to stay out of their way.

“So what can I help you with?” Cas asked
“Memory loss.” The girl said quickly before shyly pulling her hood over her head “I-I mean I want to lose a memory.
Cas went rigid “loss of a memory?”
The girl nodded and hugged herself “y-yeah…”

Tolly hummed, giving her a curious look. Just by looking at her body language he could tell what sort of memory she wanted to lose, so he set down the broom and wandered over to Cas' side. "I'm sure Cas can help you out with that, miss. He's an amazing potioneer."

“So I’ve heard.” She nodded and glanced around “he did this, didn’t he?”
Cas looked up at her “you know who did this?”
She nodded with a heavy sigh “yeah, he was bragging about it this morning.”
Cas looked back at tolly before reaching over the counter and taking her hand “did he hurt you?” He asked softly, starting to connect some pieces

Tolly watched the conversation go by, pieces already snapped together into a hazy picture of what had happened. He didn't know who this 'he' was, but he knew what he'd done. Had a vague idea of the kind of person he was. "Are you okay?"

She nodded “yeah, just a few bruises here and there.” She mumbled “I just don’t want to know about him anymore. Anything he’s done or what he plans to do or anything at all.” She glanced at the two “I want nothing to with him.”

Tolly nodded, reaching forward to take her hand gently. "We understand completely. Why don't you sit down by the entrance while we pick out ingredients?"

She nodded and sat by the door where not much debris was. Meanwhile, Cas had pulled out a few vials and a mortar and pestle. “We shouldn’t do this.” He said softly to Tolly, glancing up in worry “this won’t help her, not the proper way.”

Tolly bit his lip, shooting her a worried glance. "I… I disagree. Knowing that guy– having to be around him– it's not gonna be good for her. She's obviously thought the decision over, if you don't give her a safe way to forget she's not just going to give up. She's gonna turn to something more dangerous to do the job."

“Yeah but this is essentially just as dangerous. What if it erases more than what we intend?” He looked over at her, desperately wanting to help. “Plus what happens when he figures things out? She’ll just seek her out and harm her over again.”

"It's not more dangerous, Cas. You haven't seen the kind of shit they advertise. You… You haven't seen what it does to the people who are desperate enough to try it." Tolly shook his head as if he was trying to dislodge that train of thought. "This is safer. She feels comfortable here, she trusts you. Are you really just going to turn her away?"

"No of course not but what's going to happen when he figures out his girlfriend purposely forgot him? you think he's going to let her go? you think thats going to stop him from coming after her again?" he paused for a second and turned away from Tolly. "I won't have her hurt again." he glanced up at the girl and sighed softly

"Then we can take her in Cas, but you can't leave her with those memories of him. You just can't. She'll melt her brain out trying to forget him, and then we'll all hate ourselves." He gave the girl a glance too, offering her a wave and a soft smile before he turned back to his boyfriend. "She needs your help, Cas. Promise you'll give it to her?"

“I wasn’t thinking of leave her,” He shut his eyes for a moment to think before walking around Tolly to the girl. He crouched down beside her and spoke softly “we’re going to help you okay? But I am not giving you what you want.”

Tolly watched nervously, hoping the girl wouldn't just bolt out of the shop. She was probably a little heartbroken by Cas' offer, but… she seemed smart. Surely she'd stick around long enough to hear him out.

Cas helped her up from her corner and brought her over at the counter.
"Alright, so this plan of yours, you you think it'll really work?" she asked, sitting at one of the stools that hadn't been destroyed. Cas nodded, pulling out a few vials and jars from the pile. "Tolly, can you get the jar with purple liquid in the back?"he asked, looking around behind the counter for something.

Tolly kept his confusion off his face as he went back to fetch the jar, walking back with it in his hands after spending a few minutes staring aimlessly the seemingly endless shelves of ingredients. "Here you go, sweetheart. Are… are you really going to help her?"

“Thank you, and yeah. Just not the way she initially wanted.” He said softly, mixing all the ingredients together save for the purple liquid. He found a glass bottle with a cork and added the liquid to it, filling it half way. He added the other ingredients and shook up the bottle. He set that aside and pulled out a small info card. Cas started to write the instructions on how to use the potion. “Alright, one to two drops of this in whatever drink you can give him should work. give this to him for 7 days and he should forget about who he is to you completely. He’ll still remember you as a classsmate and in casual conversation he’ll want nothing to do with you. Ok?”

Tolly swallowed and nodded, stepping back so Cas could get to work. He winced softly when Cas explained the dosage, but he didn't do much more than shuffle back a few steps and then turn to the shelves so he could reorganize instead of thinking about all the things that could go wrong here.

The girl thanked them both and left the store with a hopeful smile. Cas smiled softly and glanced over at Tolly. “What’s wrong love?” He asked softly as he started to put back the ingredients

"It's nothing, sweetpea." Tolly gave Cas a weak smile, meandering over to wrap him up in a hug. "I think you found the best solution you could."

Cas leaned into him and reached up to kiss his chin “nothing can turn into something, tell me,” he pressed gently, watching Tolly worriedly

Tolly sighed, kissing the top of Cas' head. "He's gonna be mad when he finds out. And… confused before he does. Scared. It's never good to make people like that scared, they lash out."

"Hopefully he doesn't find out..ever." he turned in Tolly's hold and gazed up at him "do you want me to stop her? there are other ways to get her help, not just potions. there's therapy and adults that could help, probably better than what I could do."

"He'll find out," Tolly said, kissing the top of Cas's head. "Not now, not for a while, but… soon. Because guys like that have friends who push them too hard to let them stop being awful, even if they can't remember the point of it."

“I didn’t think of that…” he glanced to the door “we should go after her.” He glanced up at Tolly, his words cementing worry in his consciousness

Tolly nodded and dropped his arms, grabbing Cas' and so he could pull him out the door. "Yeah, it's… we should go before she doses him."

He nodded and grabbed the keys to lock up. He followed Tolly close and let him lead him around

Tolly let go of him once they were outside, too caught up in looking for the girl to yank him around. She was;t in view anymore, and that made him anxious. "You check the street to the right, I'll check to the left of the shop."

Cas nodded and broke off to the street to the right, weaving through the campus and scanning around for the girl while also keeping an eye out for the group of boys an her boyfriend. He decided to go to the main building to ask any of the counselors or teachers