August 24th, 1876 wins	A surprise set of twins join the already rather large, boisterous Bixby family. Sloane comes flying out first, robust and full of noise. Shortly after a twin, Sawyer, follows, but it immediately clear that the second infant is not as healthy as the first. The midwife highly suspects that he won’t make it the night. However, the youngest Bixby proves stubborn at least, and survives, huddled close to his large sister in their bassinet.
January 1877 The Loss	Unfortunately young Sawyer’s resolve is not enough to see him through a severe chill the winter following his birth. He passes away during the night, Sloane wakes from her separate cot and cries, but it’s too late for anyone to do anything. Her entire body is also blue- giving the nanny a near heart attack thinking she too had caught the chill when it was in fact, the first real demonstration of her metamorphagus ability. Having been the easier of the two babes, Sloane becomes inconsolable at night, missing her twin next to her, even as an infant; nobody gets a lot of sleep in the Bixby house for a while.
Summer 1877 Hogsmeade!	Moving on from the loss of Sawyer the family packs up and moves to Hogsmeade along with just about everybody else it seems. Maybe a fresh start will give the whole family something to look forward to.
1878	Alvin heads off to Hogwarts to join Rufus and is sorted into Ravenclaw.
1879 Quidditch	For her third birthday, Sloane is given her first toy broom. Toddling around after her big brothers, in a quidditch-dominated family was hard without her own broom! It barely hovers a few feet off the ground, but she zips around the backyard with ease, terrorizing the family owl as she went.
1880	In a display of actual magic and not an accidental morph, Sloane manages to summon an apple from a nearby tree for a snack.
1881	Harrison heads off to Hogwarts and though Sloane is used to her brothers leaving in the fall, the more of them that leave, the more lonely she gets! She looks forward to their stories of school. She starts to long for her turn, though it is a ways off yet. She starts with a governess for schooling and is less than thrilled, she would much rather be outside adventuring.
1882	Sloane becomes more aware of her metamorphmagus abilities, and tries to harness them with little to no luck. There has to be something to occupy her while she’s stuck at home with only Wallace for company! The ability continues to plague her to the current day as it never cooperates when she wants it to, but always manages to pop up when it’s least wanted! Rufus graduates and joins the professional quidditch league.
1883	Sloane breaks her arm for the first time after falling out of a tree in an attempt to give herself bird wings using and fly. Little did she know she couldn’t even do that if she wanted, but that didn’t stop her either! Her governess tries to teach her more focus in an effort to help, to little avail.
1884	Wallace leaves her as the sole child at home and Sloane turns a little grumpy about it. He’s not the best company, but he’s better than the governess! She turns even more rebellious, often found in the garden avoiding her studies, working on being able to change her appearance instead. Plague and doom this summer, but fortunately the Bixbys come out unscathed, though Rufus did catch
1885	Alvin graduates and Sloane is thrilled to have him home during the year. He wavers between following in the family footsteps of quidditch, but finds himself fascinated by making brooms instead and soon finds an apprenticeship with a well-known British broom maker.
1886	Sloane breaks her arm again, this time test-flying a broom that Alvin had been working on (without his permission of course) and lots of trouble ensues. She pouts her way through it, thinking that if it was a good broom she wouldn’t have fallen, because she is an [i]excellent[/i] flier! Her mother disapproves of her thinking, while her father finds it amusing. Fiona worries that her only daughter will end up a cripple before she even reaches Hogwarts while Carson knows she’s just trying to keep up with her brothers.
1887-1888 First Year	HOGWARTS HO! Sloane is quickly sorted into Gryffindor and makes fast friends with her roommates. She tries out for the house quidditch team and doesn’t make it; she’s devastated and disappointed. She does join the club quidditch team instead and vows to try again next year!
1888-1889 Second Year	Sloane makes the house team as seeker FINALLY!
1889-1890 Third Year	Third year starts off on a rough note; a misunderstanding between Sloane and Cameron on High Street only escalates to the point where they spend most of the year not speaking. Things kind of recoup after Cam breaks his leg on the quidditch pitch and they tentatively reconcile.
Summer 1890	A misadventure in the Black Lake while rescuing a kitten from an overturned rowboat, has Sloane losing her wand in a battle with the giant squid that Ned and Cameron save her from. The kitten is kept and named Splash. Rufus plays in the world cup in which a spectator dies. Subsequently Selwyn who had been named quidditch captain is ousted once beaters are banned from Hogwarts quidditch and Cam is named captain. For her birthday, Cam sends her a charm bracelet and a huge fight ensues from the letters following. A howler is sent. Cam corners her on High Street and they fight some more, before Sloane finally learns what caused all of the drama the previous year. This time they actually make up. Ned has sent her a very useful book on metamorphmagi abilities and Sloane actually starts to make progress controlling hers.
1890-1891 Fourth Year	Little sisters are sorted and feelings are revealed. After a particularly close and deep palm reading session, Sloane tries to push down her feelings for Cam and bolts, but he follows and admits his own feelings. They enter a tentative little romance. Not long after, one of Sloane's best friends, Sisse, finds out and they fight over it. Sloane is gutted, but will not be brought to feel like she was in the wrong. It is the catalyst that starts some fissures in the friend group though, a fact she cannot deny and makes her feel immensely guilty for.
1891-1892 Fifth Year	This year has been weird. Things with Cameron have cooled off significantly, just like a switch flipped in the opposite direction and everything is a bit of a mess. They spend time together, but not as much as they used to and it’s different somehow. She gets her courses for the first time, ugh. Alice decides this is her last year at Hogwarts and Sloane is drifting a little, anchoring herself to Lester, as always.
1892-1893 Sixth Year	Her OWL scores both sucked and didn’t. She got what she needed to continue on in the classes she wanted. Others she failed miserably. It leaves her with the opportunity to both play quidditch or go into magizoology after graduation, if she can keep her grades up. Things are still weird socially and she misses Alice, but she’s pushing through.
Summer 1893	A freak summer storm sees Sloane struck by lightning from the sky over the lake while on her new broom. Just like that Sloane ceases to exist.

History is Complicated

It is hard to qualify one’s own life story when you do not remember it at large. Sadie is told she still suffers from the same accident that took her parents when she was five years old. It affects her long term memory, though she sees snippets of a happy family and friends in her dreams every once in a while, nothing is concrete. Nothing sticks and she cannot hold on long enough to truly give the memory any ground to take root. There is a recurring dream of a body of water, dark and cold, but she doesn’t know if that is just another accident she can’t remember or if she actually enjoys swimming. Nobody will let her try. Things have been especially bad since her riding accident in the summer of 1893. Anything she had once remembered about her life had slipped through her fingers again, leaving her without any sense of self before July. Sadie knows she enjoys being outside and the sunshine, she loves feeling a breeze through her hair and often spends time in the family garden because it makes her feel reminiscent. Riding was once her best sense of freedom, the rush of the speed, the feeling of flying— it feels like home. However, the head injury leaves her with chronic headaches and she often wakes up feeling like more of her thoughts are slipping away. She is not allowed to ride much anymore and only at a slow pace when she finally does. She spends her free time reading, soaking up as much of the outside world as she can before she suffers from another “episode” and it all goes beyond her grasp once more. She is not allowed a wand for fear of her fits, but does work with a tutor in many other subjects, including astronomy and herbology. Her schooling is a bright spot in her day and Sadie enjoys working in the greenhouse on the property as well as using the telescope in the observatory. Her aunt and uncle have been invited to spend time with Euphemina’s mother in Hogsmeade for the holidays, which leaves Sadie excited to peruse the magical town she has heard so much about. They will be hosting a party near Christmas and Sadie cannot wait to meet both her extended family and the residents of the town.

May 1894

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