[HP]Blue Soul

"Charlie? Charlie!"

"Eh? What's the matter? Mrs. Betty?"

Charlotte was awakened by Mrs. Betty, who was sitting behind the cash register with her chin propped, light-headed.Mrs. Betty looked at her worriedly. She didn't know that her lips were pale, her face was flushed, and her forehead was covered with fine sweat.In fact, she has a wonderful feeling that her whole person has been divorced from reality.

Mrs. Betty said: "You don't look well, are you too tired? I just said that you have been too busy recently, and you don't know where you slipped off after work. Is that the direction to Police Officer Davis? "

Charlotte shook her head, "Well - nothing, I'm fine, nothing wrong." She couldn't tell Mrs Betty what she had done.Because she needs to continue to learn fighting at the Boulder Boxing Gym on weekly rest days, so in order to observe the condition of Marianne (the Hippogriff), she can only go to Allen Manor after work every day, by the way A delicious dinner cooked by Xingxing, and then take the Xingxing brand Apparatus Express to return to Spider's End Alley smoothly.

——No matter how many apparitions she has experienced, Charlotte feels that she can't bear one more time, but next time she still needs to bite the bullet and continue, because even Ellen knows how scary the spider's end at night ...

Charlotte wanted to stand up, but her head was so heavy that she had to put her hands on the cash register to keep from falling down.This caused Mrs. Betty to exclaim for a while.

Mrs. Betty forcefully pulled Charlotte out from behind the cash register, touched Charlotte's forehead with her forehead, and the hot touch spread from the touching skin, and she exclaimed: "You have a fever! No, I have to take you to the clinic."

Speaking of which, Mrs. Betty was ready to go to the back room to put on a coat and take a purse, but Charlotte held Mrs. Betty's hand, and she said: "I have cold medicine at home, I'll just go back to sleep. Going to the clinic is quite a hassle It's..." Cokeworth's clinic is next to the town police station, a bit far from the pet store, and Mrs. Betty needs to drive her there, and if she doesn't make an appointment in advance, it may be a loophole. Why don't you go back and try Severus to send it Return the potion.

Mrs. Betty also knew what the clinic was like. She stomped her feet angrily, cursed "Damn clinic", and then looked at Charlotte: "Then I'll take you back. - Don't refuse, look at you like this , I am afraid that you will faint on the way, I am worried."

Charlotte reluctantly agreed to be escorted by Mrs. Betty.Mrs. Betty quickly changed her coat and hat in the bedroom, changed the sign on the glass door of the pet shop to "leave temporarily" and locked the shop door, and drove Charlotte back to Spider's End.

After putting Charlotte on the bed, Mrs. Betty left.Before leaving, he muttered something about Charlotte not listening to advice and moving out of here, but Charlotte didn't listen to him at all.

When the house was completely quiet, Xiaobai, who had finally woken up, climbed up Charlotte's arm and onto her forehead. Charlotte felt a coolness on her dizzy head, which was so comfortable that she let out a cry. Sighing, she felt a little more awake.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Charlotte took out the refreshing agent sent by Severus from the drawer of the bedside table, quickly opened a bottle and poured it into her mouth. A strange taste like stockings came from her mouth. She slipped it from her mouth to her stomach, and the taste of the potion was even more wonderful. Charlotte seemed to be able to think of the strange ingredients in those formulas. Spit it out again.

After a while, the effect of the medicine began to take effect, and Charlotte saw from the mirror behind the door that her ears were constantly emitting steam like a steam locomotive, which looked like a pot of boiling water. She even felt that the sound of boiling water would come out of her mouth in the next second.The scene looked odd, no wonder Severus told her not to drink in the presence of people, Charlotte thought.

Charlotte remembered the letter from Severus received a few weeks ago, in which Severus encouraged her to be Mr. Allen's assistant, and she also stayed up late to read a "Fantastic Creatures Weekly", the articles in the weekly magazine She is full of interest, and Alan's research is very suitable for her. She has already begun to think about what role she can play in Alan's next research, which means that she wants to be an assistant.Maybe she'll put her name in Fantastic Creatures Weekly, as Lily's letter said?If so, how should she sign it?Using the initials like Mr. Allen, when it comes to this, she finally confirmed through the signature on "Fantastic Creatures Weekly" that the paper in the Muggle magazine she saw before was written by Allen himself. The wizard who published the paper in the melon world——

[You look a little funny like this. 】Xiaobai's hissing voice in her ear interrupted her endless thoughts. This is the first time she has been in a daze like this for a few days.

Xiaobai was coiled on her shoulders, and his head held up was shaking in the rising steam.

"I think you're funny too, how long will this effect last?" Charlotte asked selfishly.

[I don't know, ha——] Xiao Bai yawned again.

"Maybe I should give you some of this. You don't seem to get enough sleep every day." Charlotte lifted Xiao Bai, who was still swaying, from his shoulders, and touched the pattern on Xiao Bai's body. "Do you really want to go back to Raven Forest?"

[I thought about it before. 】Xiaobai curled himself even tighter in Charlotte's hand, 【It's gone now, I feel a very familiar aura in your body, which makes me feel at ease—】Xiaobai's voice became lower and lower , and slowly her head rested on her coiled body, making a small hissing sound.She fell asleep again.

"Okay - fell asleep again." Charlotte exhaled, put Xiao Bai on the pillow, and lay down.Still steaming from her ears, Charlotte only felt her thoughts start to drift again, and she began to think of all kinds of things that had happened recently.

She met Mr. Gary, a carpenter, two days ago, and he asked her how she was doing with the big-horned deer. However, since the accident at Christmas, she did not continue to draw the big-horned deer because she was too busy, not only for the examination She studied hard for the junior certificate of pet caregiver, and also went to the Jushi Boxing Gym to learn martial arts from Wistar. In the past month, she began to go to Allen Manor every day to see magical animals.Too busy - really too busy -

Last week, after practicing against her for two rounds, Wistar said that he had nothing to teach her. Even if she encountered a dragon, she was fully capable of fighting it. He even suggested that Charlotte Especially going to participate in the national fighting competition in the second half of the year, it will definitely cause a sensation.Of course, Charlotte thinks that Weistar's words are definitely exaggerated. She is more benefited from her speed and strength. She dares to say that as long as someone who is a little smarter can break her speed, she can step on her. Under her feet, such as guns, such as instant spells, so she still hopes to be stronger, and she is beginning to look forward to the summer training that Severus said, although she has no such thing as summer vacation——

Mrs. Betty told me not to work too hard the day before yesterday, and she should relax her mind, because in two weeks, she has to go to London to take the examination for the junior certificate of pet nurse. Mrs. Betty, as her guarantor and recommender, will take her Let's go together so that she can go together in Mrs. Betty's car, so she doesn't have to worry about the road. It's Mrs. Betty who really works hard for her. She can't bear to leave her alone in the pet shop. She is already Busy enough, there are really more and more families with pets in the small town——

Just thinking about it, Charlotte fell asleep at some point, and the steam in her ears lasted for several hours before finally stopping.Xiao Bai woke up briefly again, crawled to Charlotte's pillow, and fell asleep again leaning on her forehead that was no longer hot.Besides Charlotte, Xiaobai liked this pillow the most. She felt that there was something under the pillow that made her feel very at ease.

When she woke up the next day, Charlotte saw Xiaobai curled up when she opened her eyes. She was not frightened, or she would no longer be frightened after being baptized by such scenes countless times.She got up and looked at the clock on the table. It was already past 8 o'clock. If she delayed for a while, she would be late for work. Although Mrs. Betty did not force her to go to work on time, Charlotte must insist on going to work on time .

After a big stretch, she quickly got up, washed and dressed, went back to the bedroom and manually wrapped Xiao Bai, who was still in a daze, around her wrist, and took out the fresh-keeping magic from the kitchen cabinet brought back from Allen Manor Sandwich, and hurried out the door.

The smelly water river in Spider's End Lane still smelled like mud that had accumulated for tens of thousands of years.Charlotte passed Severus' house, the door was still closed and the curtains were drawn tightly, as if no one had ever lived in it.When she walked to the bridge, she suddenly saw a shaky figure on the bridge.

She slowed down, and as she got closer, the figure became clearer and clearer, and her heartbeat began to speed up, because it was a strange but familiar figure to her, it was a figure that she saw every time she saw Ai on the bedside. Every time I look at the portrait of my baby, I can't wait to cut him into pieces. That is Batty Strange, the murderer who has disappeared for nearly a year.

Charlotte's breathing became more and more rapid, and she wondered whether she should rush to the nearest Evans' house as quickly as possible and use the phone there to call Sergeant Davis, or—

Batty Strange is undoubtedly still drunk. He is hanging half of his body on the railing, cursing and stretching his arms towards the river below the bridge, as if trying to fish something out of it.Now, as long as someone pushes him from behind, he will fall directly into a fairly deep river.

Should we do this?Charlotte started fighting inside, and the inner demon was telling her: Go push, push.And another voice told her: Don't, don't be another him!

Her footsteps became slower and slower, and she stopped helplessly under the bridge.At this time, her nose seemed to be out of order, and the smell in the stinky river could not float into her nose at all. Her brain seemed to be pulled left and right by something, and everything in front of her began to appear double, as if she had two pairs of eyes looking at it. with all this.In the shadows, Charlotte saw Batty Strange fall from the bridge, her breath was suffocated, her eyes suddenly opened wide, and everything in front of her eyes returned to normal in an instant, and she walked quickly onto the bridge.

In the water under the bridge, the chubby man was struggling non-stop. From his full beard, Charlotte saw his flushed face and whiter lips. The chubby man was not far from the shore. He's still awake so he can get ashore with a little swim, but he's not sober.

Should we save him?Charlotte looked around, but found no one. The drinks bottles and packaging shells piled up by the river trembled in the wind, as if mocking her sudden flood of sympathy.She took another look at the fat man who was about to lose his hold, turned around and ran quickly towards Evans' house.

Mr. Evans and Petunia had just left the house. Charlotte only saw the car quickly disappearing from her sight and Mrs. Evans standing by the side of the road. She was about to turn around and go back to the house. She said, "Charlotte Te? Where are you going in such a hurry?"

With red eyes, Charlotte tried hard to hold back the feeling of vomiting that was about to come out of her throat. She tremblingly said to Mrs. Evans: "Mrs. Evans, can I borrow the phone? I want to call Officer Davis. a phone call."

Mrs. Evans frowned immediately, took Charlotte's hand and walked into the room: "Of course. What's wrong with you, you are shaking all over! Quick, the phone is over there on the table superior."

Charlotte nodded indiscriminately, picked up the phone with trembling hands, pressed several times before dialing the correct number, and soon someone answered the phone: "Cockworth Police Station, may I help you?" Is it yours?"

It happened to be the voice of Sergeant Davis.

"Un-Uncle Bass, I-" Charlotte let out a sob, "I-I saw Barty - Barty Strange on the bridge in Spider's End."

"What?" Police Officer Davis screamed on the phone, and Mrs. Evans, who was standing beside Charlotte, also covered her mouth in surprise, and Officer Davis' voice came from the phone again, "You Where is it now? Don't move there, I will go there with someone to see, you don't want to go there again, you know?"

Charlotte held back her tears and nodded, only to realize that Officer Davis couldn't see at all. She gave a vague "Yes" and choked up and said, "Uncle-Uncle Bass, you-you're the best-the best Sooner—maybe—maybe—"Maybe Buddy Strange is still alive...

"I'll go right away! I'll hang up first, and I must not go next to Batty Strange! You know!" Police Officer Davis hung up the phone in a hurry.

Charlotte put the phone back in place as if she had lost her strength. She could no longer restrain her tumbling stomach, rushed to the bathroom of the Evans house, and threw up on the toilet.

Mrs. Evans followed in worriedly, patted Charlotte on the back, and said, "It turned out to be that person—it was terrible. Fortunately, you are fine. Are you okay, Charlotte?" Then she went to The kitchen poured a glass of water.

Charlotte finally recovered a little bit. She wiped her mouth with some toilet paper, took the water glass handed over by Mrs. Evans, rinsed her mouth, and after washing away the dirt, she stood up and faced Evans in front of her. "Thank you," said the lady.

Mrs. Evans took the empty glass, took Charlotte to the living room, poured another glass of water from the kitchen, and said to Charlotte: "Drink some, how old are you—" Her eyes also started to turn red I got up, "I have to encounter this at such a young age. I don't even dare to think, what if we--I don't know what Petunia and Lily will do."

Charlotte was pressed by Mrs. Evans and sat on the sofa. She took a big sip of water and suppressed the discomfort in her throat. She thought about how she would feel if the fat man was still alive. He was on trial, or—if the man died...was she a murderer?She had a chance to save him...

There was a siren whizzing by, and Charlotte stared blankly at the gate, as if she could see what happened on the bridge through the gate, and Mrs. Evans looked like Charlotte who had lost her soul , couldn't help shedding a few tears, she sat beside Charlotte, gently hugged Charlotte in her arms, and said softly: "It's okay, it's okay, Officer Davis will take care of it. "

Charlotte leaned her head into Mrs. Evans' shoulder, and she suddenly felt that she was now in Ava's arms, as gentle as a warm spring nourishing her restless heart.

After staying for an unknown amount of time, Charlotte finally got up from Mrs. Evans' arms. She gratefully said to Mrs. Evans, "Thank you, I feel much better." She sniffed and raised her head slightly. The corner of her mouth twitched, "I'm just too scared - it's good to find him, he should have paid for what he did." Her last words were more like convincing herself.

"Yes, sure. He'll be punished," said Mrs. Evans firmly.

"I'm really sorry to disturb you for a long time." Charlotte glanced at the clock hanging on the wall and it was nearly 10 o'clock, and she thought of Mrs. Betty, "I-I think I might have to go to the pet store, I was supposed to go to work, I didn't tell Mrs Betty, I think she must be worried about me too."

Mrs. Evans nodded, and said empathetically, "If I were Mrs. Betty, I would definitely be in a hurry. You should go quickly. Officer Davis will probably go there to find you."

"Yes." Charlotte said, "Then I'll go first." She pushed open the door, turned around and bowed to Mrs. Evans, "Thank you very much, Mrs. Evans. Goodbye .”

"Goodbye." Mrs. Evans smiled helplessly.

When Charlotte arrived at the pet shop, Mrs. Betty was a little surprised, but she was not in a hurry. She said, "Didn't I tell you to rest all morning yesterday and not come over? Why are you still here? Are you feeling better?"

"Ah, did you say that? I—I didn't hear it." Charlotte remembered that Mrs. Betty had muttered something before she left yesterday, but she didn't hear it very clearly, maybe she just missed the most important thing Then, "I took cold medicine, and I didn't have a fever."

"But you are very pale," said Mrs. Betty incredulously.

Charlotte touched her somewhat chilled face, and thought of the people struggling in the water before, she said dryly, "I saw Buddy Strange on the bridge."

"What! That damned guy! Where is he now?" Mrs. Betty jumped up when she heard Buddy Strange's name, her hair seemed to explode. Open, as if the next second will burst into flames.

"It should be at the police station," Charlotte said. "After I saw him—I went to Evans' house and borrowed a phone to call Officer Davis."

"So that's the case. No wonder I just heard the siren. I thought someone died in Spider's End again..." Mrs. Betty said suddenly, and Charlotte trembled when she heard the dead man, " After the winter, there are a lot fewer dead people there. I don’t know what those people think. Those with arms and legs don’t know how to support themselves. Never let Quinn drink."

Quinn Cavill, Mrs. Betty's only son.

"Anyway, it's good if you catch it. I don't know where I went to have a good time this year. Ava will be happy when she finds out—" Mrs. Betty took out her handkerchief and wiped her tears, "My poor Ava baby."

Charlotte's nose was also a little sore. She sniffed her nose lightly and touched the soft little white on her left wrist. This action always calmed her down slowly.

It wasn't until after 2 o'clock in the afternoon that Police Officer Davis came late. As soon as he entered the door, he looked at Charlotte with a very complicated expression. Charlotte was shocked, thinking that Officer Davis knew about her. He did not save him, but what he said was: "Batty Strange died. It was determined that he died of drowning. There was still alcohol in his body. He should have fallen off the bridge accidentally and drowned when he was drunk. gone."

"The wicked will be rewarded with evil!" Mrs. Betty clapped her hands and applauded.

"Then he now..." Charlotte said hesitantly.

"When the case report comes out, he will be buried in the prisoner's cemetery. I don't think you would be willing to hold a funeral for him?" He took a deep look at Charlotte.

"No, of course not," said Charlotte softly.

"Just let him rot and stink with the convicts," said Mrs. Betty viciously.

Officer Davis spread his hands, twisted his nose, and said, "Anyway, this case is closed. In the legal sense, he is still your stepfather, Charlotte.——everything he leaves will be directly You inherit, of course, he has nothing but the house, and now the house in Spinner's End is yours."

"What kind of property is that!" said Mrs. Betty with distaste. "Spider's End! I'd say it's worth £100 now. —Oh, I hope you don't mind too much, Charlie."

"You're actually right." Charlotte had to admit that no normal person would buy a house in Spider's End.

"Let's stop here. At the end of the case, you may need to go to the police station, Charlotte. Sign something or something—" Police Officer Davis pushed the door out after finishing speaking, half of his body was stuck in the In the door, he turned back and said, "I will pick you up when the time comes."

"Thank you, Uncle Bass." Charlotte said gratefully.

Officer Davis waved his hand and drove away quickly.Xiao Bai, who woke up, twitched Charlotte's fingers lightly, because she touched them too often.

"The matter is finally settled, Charlie. I have to continue working." Mrs. Betty picked up a cage, and the white cat inside was looking at Charlotte or more precisely, the little white on her wrist.

Charlotte pulled her sleeves to cover Xiaobai who was about to stick out her head, nodded, and stood by the shelf, she said: "Then I will replenish the shelf, and I will help when I finish it." you."

"Ok."

Seeing Mrs. Betty enter the back door, Charlotte heaved a sigh of relief. She lifted Xiao Bai, who had fallen asleep after struggling, and sighed.Since she often took Xiao Bai with her, this pet shop has not had a noisy atmosphere for a long time, maybe she should keep Xiao Bai at home occasionally?Or send it back to Allen?

After a busy afternoon, Charlotte stood on the bridge for a long time when returning home.Don't know when Lily or Severus' next letter will be, but she can't wait to start writing, she wants to tell Severus about it, she wants Severus to tell her, all this she Nothing wrong.

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