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[smith_badger]

So that all may know and to stop the questions, yes, I am perfectly aware that my left eye is swollen shut. I have come to this realisation because I am incapable of seeing out of it. Also, no, no-one hit me. Very simply put (although quite embarrassing, to tell the truth) I blacked out and smacked a door handle on the way down

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[feralmoon]

You should have just stuck with the stairs.

You don't need to keep stuffing food in my mouth. I'm fine. I told you, I'm always this skinny.

[smith_badger]

The stairs didn't seem realistic. But the hitting the door handle did, simply because that is what happened. Or what I'm saying is happened, but I'm not too sure that there's a difference, as reality is shaped by perception and I perceive that as having happened.

I shouldn't be able to see through you. That's a bad sign.

[feralmoon]

So, you're consciously forcing yourself into denial? How lovely.

You exaggerator. You cannot see through me. I keep telling you, I've always been like this.

[smith_badger]

Denial - it's not just a river in Egypt. A river which, apparently, I get to see over the summer. Maybe. I don't know yet. I haven't made up my mind whether to accept the apprenticeship or postpone for a year and see the world. Be a feckless, footloose traveller for a while. I've never done that before - it could be fun. But, you're right, in that no-one actually believes me, but if I said the truth, no-one'd believe that either. So I say what is expected and all are happy. Well except for those who do know the truth.

Look, just accept my concern graciously, would you? After all, with your mother and all, it's perfectly understandable. I just don't want you to get sick, is all, and not eating because you're too apathetic to do it is a good way to go about it. And don't think I can't see through the whole "my cat keeps me awake" schtick, because I can. You're going to have to sleep sometime.

I'm not good with the whole listening thing. In fact, I'm awful at it. But, yeah. You know where I'm going with this.

[feralmoon]

Why wouldn't they believe it? It's happened before. Of course they would believe it. You're not hiding it because of a fear of not being believed.

Look, I can't help it, okay? You're not the best about acepting help either, you know.

I know you're awful at it. I do know where you're going with this. But Bia really has been keeping me up.

[smith_badger]

No, they wouldn't. Because they know I'm quick with a wand, they know that I'm good at DADA and so forth, they know that I don't allow people to sneak up on me or anything like that. They wouldn't believe me, so I'm not going to say it, because what's the point? I'll only be called a liar again.

I'm fine. I'm not the one who hasn't eaten, hasn't slept, her mother's not here at the moment, all that stuff. I'm just a little strung out because of school, is all. You, on the other hand, are not. So accept the damn help or else I'll tackle you to the ground and make you. And trust me, one of the things you learn from an older brother is how to tackle someone.

I'm resolutely ignoring that slur on my ability to be articulate and stuff. Because I Can. And Bia's been keeping you up every night?

[feralmoon]

They're sodding idiots. That's all I have to say about that.

Oi, don't tackle me. I'll break.

What? I didn't make a slur. Did I?

Yes. She has. Mostly.

[smith_badger]

Self-absorbed as well, I might add. But what can you do? If they're not the slightest bit concerned that the Boy Wonder's been asleep for a week after Malfoy hexed him (and you can't tell me that's not a co-incidence, there's no such thing), then smaller things than a Hufflepuff who can't keep his feet under him sort of fade in comparison.

Hah! I told you you had to eat! So there, you've even admitted it yourself. So there. You have to, because you yourself admitted that you were too fragile. So there.

Yeah, you did. I'm just pretending it didn't happen. It's a good system.

I'd offer to take her off your hands so you can sleep, but I don't think that's a good idea.

[feralmoon]

Oh, Merlin's sake, that's not what I meant! I'm smaller than you and you're a lot stronger than me and...oh, sod it. I'm kind of hungry anyway.

I'm sorry. I really didn't mean to. I don't even see it. What are you talking about anyway?

[smith_badger]

I sincerely doubt anyone has ever died from coping an elbow to the ribs. They may wish to, but I doubt they ever have. And that's probably the worst that'd happen. I never really thought about it, because you learn how to fall too with older siblings. That, and I spent all of my summers black and blue anyway from falling out of trees, the roof, anywhere elevated. People thought I was a battered child. It was vaguely entertaining.

Ah, never mind. It won't cause the end of the world.

[feralmoon]

I said break, not die. And I don't have any siblings, and I don't like heights, and I've never had anything worse than a cut finger before. The contrariness of this is sort of amusing.

I still feel badly though.

[smith_badger]

You didn't miss a lot. Generally a lot of "Mu-um, (insert name here)'s done this to me!" Most of the time, it was me getting told off. What can I say? I was an impetuous, inquisitive child. How was I to know that Danielle would have disliked my paying out her dancing classes (mum got her revenge by making me go to them for a year, thanks mum, I would have preferred soccer, thanks)? But you've never broken anything? Never liked heights? Wow.

But now I know where to go when I don't want anyone to find me! Woo! Simply put, most of my housemates have a thing about heights too, so it's all good.

It is rather amusing, isn't it? Aurelia the only (and protected) child, and Zacharias the middle, rambuctious child. That, and the A-Z thing amuses too. I'm too easily amused, it seems.

Don't.

[feralmoon]

No for both of those questions. I'm not much for playing around in the contact sort of way that you boys tend to, so I've never had an oppertunity to break anything (not that I'm complaining in the least), and you've known that I dislike heights for a while now. I was excused from the flying lessons in our first year because I had a panic attack on my broom and crashed. In fact...weren't you there?

Heh, I'd never thought of the A - Z thing before.

[smith_badger]

Really? Well, I suppose if you never really had older (or younger for that matter) siblings, you wouldn't know and thus you wouldn't have had the opportunity. The broken bones just seemed to happen, it really isn't anything more sinister than that.

No, my flying lessons were with the Ravenclaws. I think yours would have been with the Slytherins, because I remember hearing something about how Malfoy did something and something else and I forget the other stuff, because it happened years ago.

We're the Alphabet!

[feralmoon]

How can broken bones not be sinister? I mean...they're broken. Broken is bad. Sinister is bad. And I forgot my point.

Hm. All right. I seem to have blocked most of those memories so I really don't remember who was there. Plus, as you've said, it happened years ago.

We are the alpha and the omega. I like the sound of that.

[smith_badger]

No, broken bones just hurt. They're not the end of the world. Really. The sheer number of times I've broken something playing Quidditch...it's actually vaguely obscene.

The Gryffindors and your housemates. And yes, I am being a cheeky little monkey. I can't help it.

The beginning and the end. That's kinda catchy, really.