Jasper enjoyed the sight of the great hall. It was a comfort to see the place. The ceiling projected the sky outside and Jasper was glad he was in from the weather, though of course he wool be out there again all too soon feeling as though either Sabine was the liar or Kasper.

Jasper turned about and saw Kasper heading towards the great hall, as he entered and called Jasper Jazzy, Jasper pulled out his wand, gave it a wave. The doors closed with a thud that echoed off the walls of the empty great hall. Just the two of them stood there and Jasper kept himself still and tall though Kasper was nearly the same height. His brother had grown since the summer holidays but still looked so young.

Watching his brother closely Jasper's mind was racing. He still seemed the same, there was nothing about him that suggested he was some kind of woman beater, that he was having his way with his brother's girlfriend. He was just ... Kasper. There was nothing more to him than that and the more he looked at his brother's face, the more he could see their mother. Jasper softened towards his brother though wouldn't let it show. They were family, how could Jasper not know his brother was crazy? He wouldn't. He would know. Sabine had to be lying for some reason.

"What happened to Sabine?" He wasn't there to beat around the bush. He was curt and to the point of his whole visit. He had no greetings for his brother, he wanted to get to the bottom of what was going on, he wanted to know one way or another what was going on. Sabine and Kasper, were they really a thing? Had they been a thing before? Was Sabine lying to hurt him more? It was entirely possible, she'd hurt him once, she'd do it again.

Jasper waited and watched his brother's reaction. Kasper stuttered over Sabine's name and looked to the floor. He had no idea that Sabine was once his brother's fiancée. Jasper had thought that perhaps his brother had been smart enough to figure it out for himself somehow but he should have known better. Kasper was far from dimwitted but it wasn't like he'd ever shown much of an interest in anyone's life but his own. Jasper just thought that was the way Kasper was, he was teenage boy after all, what cares should he have for other people, even if they were family?

Kasper didn't answer Jasper's question and Jasper didn't much care for games right now. His anger was starting to get the better of him and while he wanted to keep it contained for not knowing the truth just yet, but it seemed it was too much to keep locked inside, he wanted to release it and after having Sabine talking in his ear, telling him it was Kasper's doing and Kasper not denying anything just yet, he wanted to lash out at his brother. "Answer my question or watch me drag you back home and lock you away until you decide you can give me a Goddamned straight answer." Jasper's voice started to rise and he slammed his hand on the table next to him feeling that Kasper was lucky it wasn't a punch to the face. Jasper wasn't being all that successful in letting his rage just fester in his chest, waiting to be released at home or somewhere else. He gritted his teeth. He hated to admit it to himself but he felt so much like his father. It was something he had spent his whole life trying to avoid. He didn't want to be that man. He wanted to be better than that but this whole situation just had him on edge.

Jasper couldn't relax. He'd seen Sabine again and she was horrific, what was worse was she put the idea in his mind that it had been Kasper. Well what could he believe? To start he'd thought perhaps Kasper had done it for him, figured out who Sabine was and hurt her for breaking his brother's heart. It was a far stretch but plausible he supposed, or at least wanted to believe. Still that theory was out with the hippogriffs. Next he wondered if the two knew one another from this school year but Sabine had it in his mind that the two knew one another from previously having dated. Now he couldn't be certain but something in his gut was telling him that Kasper was indeed to blame for what had happened Sabine, at least physically. Mentally she would always be a bitch. She proved that when she broke his heart and she was proving it again by dragging him into this whole detestable situation.
hat was going on, he wanted to know one way or another what was going on. Sabine and Kasper, were they really a thing? Had they been a thing before? Was Sabine lying to hurt him more? It was entirely possible, she'd hurt him once, she'd do it again.

An heir and a spare. That was the old saying. Jasper was always the prize child because he was the first born, he was born the right gender, he was planned and he was wanted more than anything else in the world to his parents, he was the heir to the family fortunes and he was actually a good child and, for the most part, a perfect student at school. Prefect, head boy and between his 3rd and 6th year, on his house quidditch team. Kasper was the spare. He didn't need the sorts of life lessons Jasper was receiving at five years old through to the time he started Hogwarts, Kasper didn't need to spend his school holidays from Hogwarts learning how to manage the family accounts, how to hide what needed to be hidden, and there was more that needed hiding than Jasper had ever imagined. He thought his lessons would have ended when his father died, but he was so very wrong.

Jasper was primped and primed to take over the family name. Everything was left to him when his father died. Jasper had set aside a small fortune for his brother and even before the death of his father was doing up the old stables so his brother wouldn't have to live in the main house, so he could have his freedom if he wanted it. He set aside money for his mother to keep up her enjoyable lifestyle but the main thing among everything else was the properties, the investments, the gold, they were all his that he shared with the remainder of his family.

Jasper had thought he'd be able to share everything with Sabine, that she would be there for him and he her, she would never have to work, even he didn't have to work but he chose to. He could have allowed his wife to live the perfect life, only she had chosen another path. Perhaps a perfect life was too good for her, perhaps she was too young to want to settle down. He supposed she just wasn't ready and did the childish thing of running away instead of talking to him. He had thought she was more mature but it seemed not.

Jasper was now having to deal with the consequences of falling in love with the wrong woman. She'd dated Kasper before, she was dating him now and Kasper brought up the drugs. Things started clicking together in Jasper's mind, before he had even been dating Sabine, just messing around, she'd told him about her ex, the abusive one that forced her to take all sorts of drugs, cause dangerous situations and beaten her to within an inch of her life. Could Kasper honestly have been the boyfriend that had pushed drugs on her? The boyfriend that had beaten and broken her body? It made sense, in the back of his mind it was there, ready to click but Jasper hadn't been willing to connect the puzzle, not until Kasper mentioned drugs. It was happening all over again for Sabine. Kasper brought up the drugs and Jasper had seen the broken body for himself. He never thought he would have to see Sabine that way, he thought her days of drugs and abusive boyfriends was behind her but the evidence was piling up against Kasper.

Jasper stood straight and silent as his brother talked. He didn't care if Kasper made out that Jasper was having a tantrum, Kasper could have turned his back, he could have walked off or even just not answered until he got his own way but he knew too well that Jasper wouldn't make idol threats. Jasper would have pulled Kasper out of Hogwarts, informed the headmaster of what had occurred and locked him away until he was ready to grow up, it would be that or face imprisonment. He was an adult in the wizarding world, but he was still Jasper's little brother and Jasper wanted to deal with this, keep it between them. If this got out it could potentially damage the family name and Jasper would never risk that.

Their father would ask once, take the first answer as 'good enough' whether he believed it or not and would have stuck to the story. Father also wouldn't have gotten himself involved in such a trivial matter to him but Jasper had to. It was Sabine. "Did she get the drugs from you?" Jasper wasn't there to answer any of Kasper's questions. He wanted to know for certain if Kasper was her drug pushing, abusive ex. He felt he all ready knew the answer but he had to give Kasper the chance to come clean or even flat out deny it. He was keeping his composure, telling himself that he couldn't afford any more outbursts, he needed to keep calm and to the point, just like he had done with Sabine.

Jasper kept his face calm and still. His breathing was calm and untelling. He watched and listened to Kasper. He wanted to believe that his brother was telling in the truth and that his connection had just been a jump too far. Perhaps it was. His brother didn't seem the type to beat a woman and if he did, why would he beat his girlfriend? It tore Jasper's heart apart to think that Sabine and Kasper were a thing, an item, but why would she lie about her boyfriend? Why did their relationship appear to be so toxic? If sabine was on drugs then perhaps she had imagined it was Kasper that had hit her. Perhaps she'd made up everything about them having been ex's.

Jasper took a deep breath and thought for a moment.

There was so much to process and Jasper needed a drink. He wasn't the drinking sort exactly but he used it as a stress reliever. Jasper hated that he was more like his father than he'd ever thought possible but he would be a better man than him, he would be sure of it. "If that's your story then okay." Jasper held his right hand out for his brother to shake, he wanted more than anything for Sabine to be lying and his brother telling the truth. Family meant more to Jasper than some woman but he couldn't shake the connection he'd made but it was either trust Sabine or trust Kasper. The Sabine he had known would never have made up things like this to him, she would never have lied and she would never have let herself get back into this state again, then again he never thought the Sabine he knew would leave him so it went to show just how much he knew. Kasper, well Jasper had no reason to ever believe that Kasper would have lied to him, they were brothers and there had never been any need to lie.

Jasper watched with caution as Kasper waited before shaking hands. The shake was strong, just as they'd been taught. A true Wilkes gave a proper handshake, not a feeble flick of the wrist like some pure bloods. A man was to be intimidating and respectful in order to be respected, a flick of the wrist was neither intimidating nor respectful for people of such perfect blood.

Jasper held his brother's hand in his own and looked him dead in the eye. "I did not come here to answer your questions, I came here to ensure the Wilkes name will not be tarnished with talk of you hitting a pure blooded woman." Though even in the day and age they were in, it still was not respectable for a man to be hitting a woman, no matter what her blood status, but Sabine being a pureblood was a subjects for gossip and possible humiliation to the family name. Though of course that was not the reason Jasper had come today. He'd come because he'd seen the state of the woman he'd once loved and it had not been a pretty sight.

"Keep your girlfriend safe, keep her looked after and presentable, and get her off whatever in the name of Merlin she's on. She'll make you look like a fool if this continues and you'll tarnish the family name. I won't have that." It was true, if Kasper could not handle Sabine then why were they even together? She was never like that with him. She was off the drugs, she was never abused or hurt ... at least not until the supposed rape, but could that be a lie? It was entirely possible. She'd probably lied about Kasper having beaten her. If she was off her face on drugs then she could have easily imagined another man was Kasper. Jasper wasn't sure what to believe, either story was plausible and he needed to get away from it all to think it through, to make up his mind about what were the lies and what was truth, if anything at all. For all Jasper knew the both could have been lying. Both could have been on drugs. Kasper could have hurt Sabine and not even realised. It made Jasper made to think that his brother could possibly be involved in such disgusting muggle things but if Sabine was on them again, it seemed like there was at least a chance Kasper was on them too.