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[mayfield_mods]

[Wednesday morning is a particularly warm day in Mayfield. With the sun in the sky, it seems like the perfect time to go for a swim down at the rec center. Luckily for you, although the pool has been closed off the past two days, it seems as though this morning, someone has left the door unlocked

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[inheritedtales]

[Hermione doesn't often going swimming, but it just so happened the last few days she had wanted to. What she arrives to makes her heart flip and turn cold at the sight. She's seen dead bodies now, loads of them. More than she wished she had to and her heart clenched at it.]

[She took a breath, digging for her wand and trying to settle the shakiness. Because, despite it all, the war in her own world had lingering effects. Pointing it she whispered the familiar enchantment.]

Wingardium Leviosa.

[Watching the body as she levitated it to the edge of the pool, Hermione thought of several words. Bury your dead with dignity, whispered vice-like in her mind. This wasn't a normal Mayfield death by the stench of it. She shook her head before making her way to the place where she'd levitated the body.

Feeling her heart beat several times faster, she moved next to it to see what all was wrong.

[mayfield_mods]

[The man is clearly dead. No one with that amount of their face and skull missing could possibly be alive. One of his eyes is completely gone, leaving nothing but a gory socket, and there's blood all over his too-large uniform.

He stirs.]

[inheritedtales]

[Her stomach flipped and she felt the sudden urge to vomit at the sight. It took all she could not to. Eyes growing wide as saucers, Hermione immediately stood, took a step back and raised the wand. Voice cracking as she whispers just loud enough to hear, if it could be heard in the first place.]

How? This isn't possible.

[mayfield_mods]

[A low, mocking laugh, tinged with pain.]

You must be new in town if you're still questioning what's possible.

[springtime4me]

Oh my God....

[It is with a great deal of panicked effort that Hitler manages to drag the body into the shallow end.]

Why would they do something like this?

[mayfield_mods]

[The body moves, although only slightly, as Hitler touches it.]

[springtime4me]

[he gasps and recoils in surprise, but then tries to turn the man over so his head is out of the water.]

Sir? Are.... are you alive?

[mayfield_mods]

[He splutters, coughing, as he's turned over. A large part of his face is missing from a gunshot wound through his eye, and blood is pooling on his uniform, which identifies him as Officer Grady, but he is alive.]

[mayfield_mods]

[When she touches the body, it will move slightly. This man is alive.]

[mayfield_mods]

[He coughs and sputters and then speaks.]

Save your breath, your help is worthless to me.

[sturmbahnfurher]

[The Major's journey to find mistletoe or wolfsbane has taken him throughout the entire town. And when he finds the gate to the pool open, he decides he might as well check and see what might lay beyond it.

And he just stops as he sees the body. He'll get into the pool and begin to pull the body to the shallow end and towards dry ground.

And once that is finished, proceed to unceremoniously prod the body with his foot.]

[mayfield_mods]

[The man coughs]

Yeah, I know you're there.

[sturmbahnfurher]

How lovely.

Now that we acknowledge one another's existence, I have a question for you.

[And he'll start to take the revolver out of his jacket.]

Do dead men feel pain?

[mayfield_mods]

Yes.

[He chuckles weakly.]

But none you'll be able to inflict on me.

[cruelmiracle]

[Bern will move the body out of the pool, but once that's done she watches it curiously.]

[mayfield_mods]

[He's alive, despite the nasty gunshot wound through his eye and the blood all over his uniform, which labels him as Officer Grady.]

Oh, one of the know it all little brats.

Come to have a talk?

[cruelmiracle]

If it's interesting enough. You broke the rules, then?

[mayfield_mods]

You're involved, so it won't be. I think I'll take another gunshot wound instead.