Comments | fiery_inception: A Move to Remember

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A Move to Remember

Apr 28, 2007 18:10

Date: Saturday, April 28, 2001
Time: Night
Location: Number 8 Ambrose Terrace, York
Characters Involved: Peregrin Derrick, Pansy Parkinson, invitation only
Rating: PG-13 (for the most part)

( 'It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.' ~Rita Rudner )

status: complete, status: invitation only, character: pansy parkinson, character: perry derrick

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freakedwithjet April 28 2007, 22:45:39 UTC

It was new and strange, but in a different way than it was for Perry. Pansy had moved into new and empty places before - she’d had her own flat at eighteen (just). But before, she’d seen the bare walls, pristine and blank and… scary, for only one day. Not even that. Just a few hours to measure up for curtains and shelves and personality ( ... )

inner_human April 28 2007, 22:46:27 UTC

Oh shit, had he really?? And... like that! That wasn't even how he'd been planning to bring it up, you don't just present these things like casual suggestions, they were proposed down on one knee with a ring and all-but wait, he hadn't been meaning to go that far in the first place! He was just asking-it was supposed to be a question. More like, 'Do you think we should get married?' or 'Now we've got a house, do you want to start thinking about the future more ( ... )

freakedwithjet April 28 2007, 22:47:17 UTC

Too damn right you didn’t propose to someone like that! Pansy knew that Perry was unconventional, that he liked to go against conceived wisdom but to just - fling the idea out there, like he’d proposed buying some new crockery or a plant pot. And then to say it was a “logical step”! What the fuck was he, suicidal ( ... )

inner_human April 28 2007, 22:49:04 UTC

Well, that was the problem with Pansy. She always had such a fairytale picture of what she expected out of life, what she wanted others to say to her and how they should treat her. But Perry's existence was not picturesque in the slightest. It wasn't as if he'd been planning to ask her "like that." There was no point in even trying to explain himself right now, so he simply waited until she had finished.

Was she serious? Did she really want him to repeat it? He wasn't going to.

He sighed, sat up and pushed his hands through his hair. "I wasn't-fuck. I just wanted to talk about it." Is that all right with you, Princess Parkinson?

...Thank goodness he was able to keep that thought to himself. His fingers combed through his hair to the back of his neck where they interlocked, and he glanced away, puzzling out his next words. Now he was wishing he'd just kept his mouth shut. He obviously needed more time to think this through ( ... )

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freakedwithjet April 28 2007, 23:09:59 UTC

The expression on his face! Pansy couldn’t help but laugh ( ... )

inner_human April 28 2007, 23:10:40 UTC

"I suppose you'd like me to send him a thank-you card?" His grin broadened with every second that he watched her. See, this was the kind of reaction he had expected (not that he was expecting anything of course). The quiet, coy Pansy that smiled like a child but was still stubborn and laughed at him, but in a way that he didn't mind. Not the little screeching banshee of terror she'd been five minutes ago. This Pansy he wanted to wrap in his arms and kiss, and with the warmth of her fingers spreading through him and the scent of her in his nostrils, it was very tempting. But he kept still (for once). He nearly laughed at her comment, and he regarded her with an expression that was both childishly pompous and awkward. "I'm sorry I don't have a cooler, more striking name that you can flaunt to your adoring public ( ... )

freakedwithjet April 28 2007, 23:11:19 UTC

Pansy grinned. “Only if I can be there to see his face when he opens it.”

Talking about her father was still difficult. Here they were discussing getting married, but if they did so, there’d be no family in the pews. What a strange idea that was for someone like Pansy; her family name tattooed into her skin but no family to speak of.

TattooedHer free hand rolled up the sleeve on her left arm and she looked at the blue-black ink there. Crap. Well, perhaps it would be ok - just because she was marrying a Derrick, didn’t mean she should forget that she’d once been a Parkinson. But did she still count as a Parkinson if none of the Parkinsons would acknowledge her? Could she really be a family on her own ( ... )

inner_human April 28 2007, 23:12:05 UTC

"You're such a sadist. And he worries about what I'll do to you?" Despite his insistence that marriage was no big deal, he sort of wondered how Adolphus would react to his daughter marrying a werewolf ( ... )

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