Date: 17 March 2005
Characters: Katie Bell, Cedric Diggory
Location: St. James' Park, Exeter, then dinner
Status: Private (albeit in a public place)
Summary: Cedric & Katie go to a football game, rather than a pub, for St. Patrick's Day.
Completion: Complete
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The British National Pastime )
"But when I said it might take a little before I was ready to see them -- as a them, not as individuals -- I could tell she didn't entirely understand why, if it were in public, and maybe was a bit hurt, or put out. I'm not sure she got it, or why I left Ron's party when I saw her there with Roger. She's much more logical than me. And it wasn't that they were doing anything, it was just ... " He shook his head, hoping Katie understood what he was getting at because he wasn't having much luck hanging words on it ( ... )
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He smiled at her observation that she did listen to him. "I know you do. But I also ... sometimes I think there are people who do like the competition side of it. There's got to be some challenge, something on the horizon, some new conquest. Maybe it's a male thing, but I know men like that. Maybe it's evolutionary but it missed me ( ... )
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"Hermione as replacement for Gwen or not," she told Cedric, "I know this is a novel concept - but stop thinking in terms of what worked, or even didn't, with Gwen. This is going to sound incredibly hurtful, but think about it - the two of you didn't work out. If it wasn't coming here, wouldn't there have been something else back in Toronto that would have ended things anyway? Don't judge relationships by that standard, it's never going to work if you do. Even the 'right' similarities with what you had with Gwen - each woman is unique, don't ( ... )
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Had he been doing that? Well, yes. Yes, he supposed he had. He blinked.
Katie was standing, and half apologizing, but he shook his head and stood too. "No, no -- you're right. I reckon I'm ... I just ... I want to know what happened. What I did wrong. Why do I keep screwing it all up?" And he suddenly felt very, very close to sobbing ... which would not do at all. He'd been trying to intellectualize everything but she'd managed to rip away the convenient rationale, exposing what was raw and red underneath it. He felt like a failure, and he kept thinking if he could just understand what had gone wrong by figuring out what had gone right, he'd do better the next time. But he was only setting himself up to fail again ( ... )
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