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Title: Seeing You Soonly
Author:
laundrylove
Rating: PG
Prompt Set: 100.1
Prompt: 068. Letters
Word Count: 1,443
Summary: Ariana is missing Gellert, and coerces Albus into helping her write to him. This is their exchange over several days.
Warnings: erm, the word 'bloody' is spelt out.
Notes: Dude, I love the font I used for Ariana's signature. Love it.
Dear Gellert,
I have missed you. Al is helping me write you a letter to tell you that I have missed you. He’s writing down what I say. I can say any word and he will write it-nitwit! See? Isn’t that funny, Gellert?
I hope you will come back and visit soon. I think Al hopes so too. He keeps telling me not to say that, but he promised to write whatever I said, so he has to. Blubber! He has to write that down too. I think it’s a funny word. Al says it’s stupid. Actually, he said it’s b-l-o-o-d-y stupid. I can’t say that word, because it’s naughty. I don’t see why he can say it and I can’t, though.
Maybe your Auntie will let you come back soon. I miss you very, very, very, very much (I had to stop saying ‘very’ because Al says he wasn’t going to write down a hundred million ‘very’s. I think that’s silly, because no-one can say ‘very’ a hundred million times).
Please write back soonly.
(Al says soonly is not a word, and Abe says so too, but I like it a whole lot.)
Love,
Ariana
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Dear Ariana,
I was pleased to find that you had written me. Albus has written me quite a few times, but there’s nothing like getting a letter from you.
My Auntie says that I may come to see you all again very soon (soonly!). Tell Albus that I hope so, too. It is quite boring around the house with only Auntie Bathilda to talk too. It’s nothing like speaking with you and your brother.
I have included a photograph of myself that Auntie Bathilda snapped when I wasn’t paying attention. I think it looks-horridly? That word does not look right. Perhaps I am mixing up the tenses? Bah to English words, I say! They are confusing-I much prefer to say that the photograph makes me look wie eine alberne Ziege! (Please let your elder brother knows that that means ‘like a silly goat.’ And do apologise to Aberforth if that offends him.)
Rest assured, Ariana, that I have missed you as much as you have missed me.
Take care,
Gellert
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Dear Gellert,
Ariana is dead asleep-at barely ten o’ clock! Usually she’s up until midnight. But Aberforth took her out into the garden to-day; tired her out completely. I’ll be lucky to get her up by eight in the morning, tomorrow.
I am writing in lieu of Ari. She was pleased beyond words when she received your reply, and I thought it best to write you myself and translate her childish babbling-the gist of it is that she misses you very, very, very, very, very, VERY much, and wishes that you would come soon. She adores the photograph, as well, and has gone around the house shouting wie eine alberne Ziege for days. It’s becoming quite the irritant, to tell you the truth.
The actual photograph she hung in her bedroom, beside a couple of snapshots of she and myself a few years ago. She enjoys it immensely.
All of us hoping you shall come to visit soon(ly),
Albus
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Dear Gellert,
I cannot believe Al already wrote to you! It made me so mad. I wanted to write to you myself. He says he is sorry, but I don’t believe him.
I think you look pretty in the photograph. Al and Abe laughed at that, I don’t know why. Abe says that boys can’t be pretty. Why not? I think you look pretty. Maybe I’m saying it wrong. I think you look well? That doesn’t sound right either.
Perhaps you will stop by soonly. That is my favorite word-I love saying it. Please, please, please, please write back to me. I miss you a whole lot.
Love,
Ariana
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Dear Ariana,
Don’t be angry with your brother- I am sure he is very sorry for making you upset.
I am also very pleased you think me pretty. A compliment, coming from you! May I please have a photograph of you and Albus and Aberforth? I think it would be very nice to hang up in my bedroom.
Have you really been speaking in German, like Albus said in his letter? You know, I could help you to learn some more words if you would like. Would you like to learn how to speak in German? I know that it makes my Auntie angry when I babble on in my native tongue too often. (And, Albus does not understand the language, nor does Aberforth! Wouldn’t you like to be better at something than them?)
I promise, I will visit soonly! Auntie is keeping me busy with household chores-she has not had a male around since Uncle died, and I have been doing much work.
Yours,
Gellert
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Dear Gellert,
I made up with Al. He apologized lots and lots and looked sad, so I gave him a kiss and made him feel better.
I chose a photograph from the piles Al has in his room to send to you. He really let me come into his room to see them! Isn’t that neat? He said that I needed to tell you the date it was taken: December 24th, 1898. That’s Christmas Eve last year, when Al and Abe were home from Hogwarts. See the lady standing beside us? That’s Mama. I think Abe looks a whole lot like her.
Yes! I would love for you to teach me some German! I can already say gehen sie- that means ‘go.’ And I say that Al looks like a silly goat. That is very funny.
Please tell your Auntie that we all miss you.
Love,
Ariana
P.S. See you soonly!
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Dear Ariana,
I am glad to hear that you and Albus have made up. Thank you very much for the photograph-I showed it to Auntie, and she said it was ‘darling.’ Your mother looks like a very lovely woman, and I agree, Aberforth does resemble her quite a lot. I think you look lovely, too-a very pretty smile.
Of course; when I finally do come over, I will begin teaching you. German is not nearly as complex a language as English, you know. However, I think I am becoming better at speaking you and Albus’ language. I can even say your alphabet backwards! Z, Y, X, W, V… etcetera, etcetera. I don’t believe you can get the full effect from writing. Ah well. When I visit, I will show you and Albus, and Aberforth, if he so wishes.
My Auntie just came into the room, and I told her that the Dumbledore family wanted me to visit-she says I may come tomorrow!
Seeing you soonly,
Gellert
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Dear Gellert,
I had to hurry and make Al write this for me, because if I don’t it will get to you too late. I am very happy you’re coming tomorrow! That’s very, very soonly. We’ll all have lots of fun when you get here, and maybe Al can take out the photographs again (Al said, “Don’t bet on it.” I guess that means “We’ll see.”)
Please show me how you say the alphabet backwards! I think that’s amazing, because I can’t even say it the regular way. That’s why Al and sometimes Abe have to read all your letters to me.
I’m also very glad that you liked the photograph. It makes me happy that you say I have a pretty smile. I don’t think Abe likes it, though, because he snorted like one of his goats when he read that part. (Al started laughing really hard when I told him to write that down. It must be something only boys understand.) But somehow I thought that I would look like Mama, since we’re both girls. Al says that I look like Daddy more, though. He left a whole lot longer ago than Mama did, and I’ve seen photographs of him-we both have curly hair and blue eyes. Maybe that’s it.
I miss you a lot. I’m glad you’re coming tomorrow.
Love,
Ariana