Molly and Cain came into the bar straight from the hospital, and Cain had ensconced Molly in a booth before going upstairs for a long, hot shower.
Tired of being cooped up and hovered over, Molly decides to sneak out back for some fresh air. Seeing Asar-Suti and a table full of seeds makes her smile, and she walks with only a tiny limp to take a seat across from him.
"I honestly hadn't expected to be here. We've been spending a lot of time in London. I'm going to be having a baby in August, and it wouldn't do for my pregnancy to advance here while time stood still at home. It would be just a little suspicious."
She grins and puts a light hand to her slightly expanding belly. It's not really very visible yet, unless you look - she's wearing a thick sweater.
"I just wanted to let you know that I wouldn't be able to help out much this season. I don't mind pitching in when I am here, but I wouldn't be very dependable."
"Well, Molly," Asar-Suti said, "I wouldn't expect you to. Of course, Morgan was pregnant, and so was Eilinel at some point, but it doesn't mean that I always have to have a pregnant woman on the team. If you just want to putter in gardens a bit at times, you might want your own patch. I' thinking of offering them this year. Would you like some tea or coffee?"
"That would be lovely. I wouldn't mind growing a few potions ingredients, so I can take cuttings back to London. The magic there is different, and I am curious to see if they will grow, and if they will retain their magical properties if they do."
She nods to the cups.
"A little tea would be lovely. I'm supposed to stick with herbal or decaffeinated, but one cup of regular won't hurt."
Asar-Suti smiled and handed her a mug; it was purple and green, of course.
"I think that might be best," he said. "Let those that get paid pick up the hard work while you just potter in the sun a bit. I'll set a patch aside for you when we clear the space."
"Why can't you get back to the Wizarding World?" Asar-Suti asked, astonished. "Problems with that - Lord Mouldywarts, as Gil calls him, and his band of bigots?"
"I don't know about mouldy warts, but there are some nasty beggars called Death Eaters running around. They...they killed my parents last year, and a boy names Arthur, who tried to help them. We had already decided it wouldn't be safe for me to go back very often, but I sacrificed my ability to go back to that horrible clock that was here, threatening the bar. It bought us a little time to figure out how to destroy it, I think."
"Whatever that awful clock took, it should have given back when it was destroyed," Asar-Suti said. "Unless something really went wrong there. And yes, the death eaters are Lord Mouldywarts' people. He's got a slightly less ridiculous name, really. We had a run-in with those people when we went out in the Wizarding World, I think it was for my birthday last autumn..."
"I think Gil is from a few years after my time at Hogwarts. I heard from another witch that the war ended, but a new one started about a decade ago."
She sighs sadly.
"The door never returned for me after the clock had gone, and I haven't been able to Apparate or open a gateway to it, either. I don't know why, but I've made my peace with it, and I got to say goodbye to my brothers. I have a new home now."
"A different version of Earth, where my husband is from. There is no wizarding world there, and my magic doesn't work there without help. We actually live in his world's version of the house I grew up in, in my world."
"I actually met his world's version of me. That was bizarre. I came here from 1969. It's 2007 in his world, so the Molly there is in her fifties. She thought I was her daughter at first...I hadn't meant to meet her, it just happened."
Tired of being cooped up and hovered over, Molly decides to sneak out back for some fresh air. Seeing Asar-Suti and a table full of seeds makes her smile, and she walks with only a tiny limp to take a seat across from him.
"Planting time again, I see."
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She grins and puts a light hand to her slightly expanding belly. It's not really very visible yet, unless you look - she's wearing a thick sweater.
"I just wanted to let you know that I wouldn't be able to help out much this season. I don't mind pitching in when I am here, but I wouldn't be very dependable."
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She nods to the cups.
"A little tea would be lovely. I'm supposed to stick with herbal or decaffeinated, but one cup of regular won't hurt."
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"I think that might be best," he said. "Let those that get paid pick up the hard work while you just potter in the sun a bit. I'll set a patch aside for you when we clear the space."
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She sips her tea with a happy sigh.
"I can't get back to the wizarding world, so it will pay to have what I need here or at home."
Home being Cain's world.
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She sighs sadly.
"The door never returned for me after the clock had gone, and I haven't been able to Apparate or open a gateway to it, either. I don't know why, but I've made my peace with it, and I got to say goodbye to my brothers. I have a new home now."
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So there were versions of Earth where there were no wizards, and magic didn't work. He'd been wondering, sometimes.
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She laughs a little at the memory.
"I actually met his world's version of me. That was bizarre. I came here from 1969. It's 2007 in his world, so the Molly there is in her fifties. She thought I was her daughter at first...I hadn't meant to meet her, it just happened."
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