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[alphaophiuchi]

Filtered from Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, and Mille Feuille
[Draco's voice is soft, almost distant when he speaks - it's not really that out of character for him to be out of sorts on holidays, particularly as of late.]

Another year here. I've been here...a little over two now. Watched people come and go. Not cared, most of the time.

[there's a

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[white_polaris]

Simply because love ones leave our sides, does not mean they leave our thoughts and hearts, Draco. [And as she has lost one of her best friends, her daughter, and even the man that would become her husband in this place, she does have some idea what it feels like to lose someone.]

[alphaophiuchi]

[girlfriend three times over, boyfriend once, numerous friends, and his mother. Oh, and his father's asleep.]

That doesn't make them any more here.

[white_polaris]

No, it doesn't. [She knows that when she goes back to her world, everyone will be dead.] But they are here, Draco, in your heart. And there is the chance they will return physically or you to them.

[alphaophiuchi]

Maybe. Or they'll just stay gone. Or, better yet, they'll come back and not remember a thing about me.

[white_polaris]

Then you rebuild and start fresh. You use what you remember about their likes and wants to make a friendship grow strong once more.

[alphaophiuchi]

You know, sometimes it's not really that easy.

[white_polaris]

I know. But that is when you must do it most.

[alphaophiuchi]

And if they hated you before all that?

[white_polaris]

If you were able to do it once, why couldn't you do it again, Draco? Hate is not so unmovable. It can be tempered as it was once before.

[alphaophiuchi]

Circumstances are different.

[white_polaris]

They are always different. They are every changing, but regardless, you could do it, if you wished.

[alphaophiuchi]

Did you ever get your daughter to be marginally less of a disappointment? Or did that not work out so well for you here?

[white_polaris]

Do not speak of Small Lady as if you have any idea what she was experiencing! She was never a disappointment, Draco Malfoy!

[alphaophiuchi]

Whatever you say, ma'am.

[white_polaris]

[For future reference, Draco, try not to insult your boss's daughter.]

What Small Lady was going through and what you are going through are not similar. Loss hurts, it never gets easier no matter how many times it happens.

But you have to get back up, you have to keep trying no matter how often the circumstances change.

[alphaophiuchi]

[for future reference, he hates his life.]

I wasn't comparing myself to her. [he bites back his next comment, because he does like the extra income that having a job brings in. But he most certainly does not look happy.]