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Who: Gellert, Lithium and Albus.
What: It's time to shift a curse.
Where: Fayren forest.
When: Early december-ish.
Notes: There might be mentions of blood/death and of course the nastier aspects of the curse. I will update if necessary.

He was ready. The shift will require a potion paired with a spell, which makes it a more convoluted process, but he is confident is will work. Still, to be cautious, he sends his Phoenix Patronus off to alert Albus. The bird will relay a simple message:

"I'm ready. Meet us in Fayren."

Once he has all he needs, Gellert ties his hair back and Apparates to the mouth of the cave. He peers inside and grins, knocking on one of the walls.

"Rise and shine, darling, it's time to free you!"

If it all goes well. It has to. He refuses to accept any other outcome. Lithium has suffered enough for ten lifetimes - if not more.

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He shakes off any dizziness caused by the travel, hanging onto Albus with one arm around the man's waist. He looks pale and exhausted, but desperate too. Gellert won't rest until he sees her.

A smile blooms on his lips as she swims to the surface and he has no shame in throwing his arms around her neck in his joy.

"Lithium!"

All of it had been worthwhile and in his relief, he feels his eyes burning strangely.

"I'll see you well fed with or without him." that part is whispered into her ear before he pulls back, "I can't believe you endured that damn..." his lips tighten, "It's dead. It can't touch you again."

Albus smiles when Li reappears, staying kneeled at the edge of their small platform as she swam closer. He watches Gellert as he embraces her, watching his joy with gratitude in turn -- while also careful to watch that Gellert did not fall into the water in his weakened state.

Looking at Li, he says, "It is good to see you in your true form. And able to enjoy it, as well."

Somehow, she wasn't surprised that she had Gellert's arm around her neck as she tread water before them. Though his comment did get a slight flicker of her ears as he mentioned getting her back to well fed. Somehow she felt they would have to do a little hunting without Albus around.

Still, she nudges her head against Gellert and perks up when they told her the curse was gone. Was it really gone? They defeated it? She whinnied softly and felt relief and joy at the news! She pulls away from Gellert's hold after a moment and swims around them, twisting and thrilled!

She stopped beside them again, shifting back to her human form with a look of joy on her features as her black hair floats around her shoulders and not even caring she was nude at the moment.

"It feels amazing to have my true form again." She hesitated for a moment. "Are you sure it's gone? Absolutely positive? I don't want to go back to that hell ever again."

He is soaking wet and feeling light-headed from joy and from expending all of his energy on breaking the curse. The water swirls from her activities and he has to close his eyes, clinging to consciousness by bare inches.

Then he isn't. Everything goes black and he tips forward, heading for the water's surface - and it definitely won't keep him afloat. He really is sorry. The effects of harboring dragon blood in his body and tapping into their blood pact has left him at his limit.

Albus moves fast, the wand still in hand, immediately leaning over the side of the little platform as Gellert tips forward. As Gellert hits the water, he casts a spell that lifts him back up next to them, where Albus immediately scans him and notes all of his signs of illness.

"I need to get him back to his house," he says, quickly casting a spell to dry him off. He'll understand if Li wishes to stay at the lake, but he needs to take Gellert somewhere where he can rest and be looked after, somewhere he can heal properly.

If Albus hadn't managed to catch him, Li would have. Thankfully, he acted fast enough. Watching Gellert pass out had Lithium really worried as she moved in closer to the platform.

"Then go. If you want, I'll come with. I owe you both my freedom from that nightmare.. and the lake's not going anywhere if you need help making sure he's okay."

The indistinct sound of Albus's voice begins to wake him - of course hitting the water had helped too. Gellert opens his eyes with difficulty, feeling drained of all of his energy and strength. It takes him a moment to remember and then he hears Lithium.

"Why 've you changed...?" he begins to feel panicked. Had he broken the curse? He had been so certain he had rid them of it. (He has also forgotten that she can change her shape as she wills. Forgive him, he isn't on top of his game.)

"Everything's all right, Gellert," he says soothingly as Gellert starts to unsettle, wrapping one hand around his wrist, running his thumb over the inside of his hand. Glancing at Li, he holds out his otherhand to her, saying, "Let me Apparate us all away, then. I'd ask you to look after him while I get some potions together that might put him at ease. Besides, I think he'll feel more at ease if he knows you're all right."

She shifted closer when Gellert started to panic and reached up to brush her cool fingers against his cheek. "Listen to Albus. I'm fine. I just can't talk to either of you in my true form." Next she glanced to Albus and nodded as she reached to take his hand.

"Yeah, you're probably right. I'm gonna need a robe or something when we get to wherever you're taking us. Unless you like a nude woman wandering around." At least she hasn't lost her bluntness. But, she was also willing to help take care of Gellert. Hell, she owed him as far as she was concerned.

He lets out a long breath, stumbling back a step to rest against Albus. His fingers curl towards the touch and he nods carefully, understanding that he might not be seeing things right. The cool fingers calm him further and he covers her hand with one of his own, giving it a squeeze.

"Albus can give you a robe." he smiles tiredly, "You can wander around in just your skin all you want, Li. It would be an interesting experiment."

His poor neighbors.

He smiles slightly at their jesting, slightly relieved to see Gellert aware enough to joke a little. But he wastes no more time talking. Instead, he wraps his fingers tight around them both before Apparating, tugging them cleanly through the air and landing in Gellert's bedroom.

Albus wastes no time, using the wand to levitate Gellert onto his mattress as he addresses Li. "There should be some robes in his closet. Please look after him while I gather some potions. If he starts to act strangely or grows worse, please alert me."

And then, without waiting for a response, he dashes into the other room to look for what he needs.

"An experiment I doubt Albus would appreciate." She sounded slightly amused at least. The next thing she knew, there was that tugging again and they were in a bedroom. Li nodded as she listened to Albus's instructions and moved to grab a robe from the closet while he settled Gellert in bed.

"Will do. Though, hopefully I won't have to shout for you." She hoped. Li was tying the robe shut as he dashed out the door and made her way back towards the bed to sit on the edge to keep an eye on her blonde friend.

"...Don't think I can thank either of you enough for this."

Deep down he thinks Albus is being too vague. He has always acted strange; how will she know the difference in time to save him? But he keeps that to himself and instead enjoys the soft mattress. His body is feverish - perhaps from experiencing such strong Magic - and he begins to shiver, his teeth chattering faintly.

"Aw Albus can appreciate a beautiful female too." he glances at her when she is close, smiling as if the endeavor was nothing at all, "It was easy for us. Don't worry about it."

Albus does not hear much of what they say as he darts about Gellert's home, sending 'Accio's flying through the air as he summons every potion he might possibly need. He is perhaps overcautious in the number of draughts he summons -- but then again, he has not dealt with a curse of this nature before.

When he returns, there are several bottles hovering in the air about him, and he plucks three from where they dangle before sitting on a chair next to where Gellert lays. "Here. Take these first. They should make you start to feel better."

"Easy my tail. You're feverish and you're shivering." The fact that her curse had this much of an affect on him really worried her. It was really gone, right?

Lithium pulled the blankets around him, tucking him in and rubbing his shoulder to try and get some warmth in him when Albus came back in with several bottles hovering around him.

"Hope there's something for chills and fever in that mess. If I would have known the curse would do this, I would have insisted on another way." Li was just.. worried, okay?

"So? This is nothing." Gellert grins in the face of her fussing, but the blankets do feel nice. Now if only she could light them on fire.

Or not. The deep chill will surely go away eventually. Maybe if he sleeps first...

Albus's voice rouses him and he narrows his eyes accusingly. Not that he could ever be truly mad at the man. There is something about Albus that repels that emotion.

"...fine." he frees a shaking hand to take a vial. This is probably a bad idea.

He wears the tiniest of wry smiles when Gellert stirs, handing him the vial.

"My apologies, but you need these," he says. "The first one should dampen your fever. If you can take the rest, then the last will help you sleep all of this off.'

Li gives a faint snort at his candid attitude and shifts out of the way so he has an easier time reaching for the vials. She was more keeping an eye on Gellert to make sure he actually took the brews.

And perhaps ready to move further out of the way if it seemed like they wouldn't stay down. "You sure he's going to be able to stomach these?"

"Potions...are Magic. Once I swallow, they will do their duty. I won't bring them back up." Gellert doesn't know why she inspires him to...teach? Maybe this is how Albus feels with his many students. Strange.

He downs the first vial and then the second, grimacing at the taste. But his shivering quiets almost immediately and his body relaxes against the mattress.

He smiles a little more at Gellert's patient instruction, his own thoughts migrating the exact same way -- perhaps he had rubbed off on Gellert more than anticipated if he was taking to teaching so easily.

"There. That should end the fever," he says, before plucking a few more from the air by him. "Here, now just take these -- these should boost your strength and hopefully quell any further aftereffects from making you ill again."

Li was no stranger to teaching others either but, she was also willing to listen and learn as she glanced towards the vials again. Magic in liquid form? Then again.. what he had her swallow had been some sort of magic itself.

Hopefully they knew what they were going then because Li had no idea.

"Eventually, one of you is going to have to explain these potions to me and what can and can't be done with the things. But, for now... as long as they work as they should, Gellert should be able to sleep some of this off, right? "

"More?" he groans and takes the next vials, downing them as quickly as he dares. Once he finishes, he collapses backwards with a long sigh.

"Let me put it this way: those without Magic cannot make potions. Surely part of our power is transferred into the brews. Some of them even require certain feelings and thoughts." his eyelids are beginning to feel unnaturally heavy and he barely refrains from yawning, "Albus, yours are always...sort of strong..."

He smiles at that, reaching down to stroke Gellert's forehead. "Yes, well, they have a particularly receptive patient today," he says. "Go to sleep and rest a bit, Gellert. I imagine you'll feel oceans better once you have."

"I wonder if I would be able to brew potions then.. Can magical creatures do things like that?" She glances up towards Albus, genuinely curious now that she was free of the curse.

Eventually she turned her attention back to Gellert, watching him and moving to gently tuck the blankets around him more. Maybe it was the mother in her coming out a little, who knew. "If you want, I'll stick around with Albus until you wake up again."

"Is that another word for weak?" Gellert feigns a frown, but it doesn't last. Li's question intrigues him and he tries to focus a moment longer to answer. Could a Kelpie brew a potion? He would be willing to test it.

But maybe later...

The warmth is tugging him down and his eyelids are closing.

"Mm..." he can't help relaxing around the pair of them and in the next moment, he is asleep.

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