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RP: The Miracles Of Accidents

Jun 11, 2007 13:54

Date: June 11th, 2005
Characters: Ginevra Weasley and Rodolphus Lestrange
Location: The River
Status: Private
Summary: Rodolphus goes to the river to sketch and the woman who was once his friend stumbles upon him.
Completion: Incomplete

( The Miracles Of Accidents )

place: the river, june 2005, rodolphus lestrange, ginny weasley

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shh_ginny June 11 2007, 18:17:53 UTC

"It's too nice to eat inside, Lyda." Ginny laughed as she pushed the door open, waving at the sweet receptionist as she stepped out into the sunlight. Standing on the pavement, she contemplated apparating home for lunch on the porch but reconsidered, opting to have lunch on the bench by the river then stroll up to the animal shelter on the way back to pop in and say hi to Greg while she was out. With that in mind, she disapparated to the bridge and crossed to the other side, her sack with its ham sandwich and apples clutched in her hand as she stepped over the small railing ( ... )

shh_rodolphus June 11 2007, 18:22:46 UTC

Rodolphus was lost in his art, trying to recall the proper angle and shading he had done in the first sketch. He had already given up on two sketches, but the third one was turning out right. Rodolphus hummed absently as he drew, and he was startled out of his work when he felt something on the other side of the bench roll and hit his leg.

"Who-" His head jerked to the side and his eyes widened at who was sitting on the opposite end of the bench.

"Gin." He said, shoving the sketch he had done of her out of her sight.

shh_ginny June 11 2007, 18:26:35 UTC

"Ginny. Only your brother gets away with calling me Ginevra." She shrugged, her heart thudded madly in her chest as she tried to sound calm. A million arguments had been driving her insane since the incident in the forest and nearly every one of them had bade her to stay away from the dangerous wizard and yet, now that she was here, the only thing she felt was how much she'd missed him.

shh_rodolphus June 11 2007, 18:29:06 UTC

Rodolphus just stared at her for a moment, his pencil hanging limply in his hand.

"Rabastan does usually get away with more than I do." He said, and blinked, realizing how idiotic that sounded.

"How...have you been?"

shh_ginny June 11 2007, 18:36:23 UTC

"Maybe. I suspect it's because he actually tries and you don't." She tilted her head to the side, regarding him for a moment. "The fact that he's as tenacious as a bloody dog on a bone doesn't hurt, I suppose."

Ginny looked away with a sigh. "I'm doing all right. You?"

shh_rodolphus June 11 2007, 18:38:11 UTC

"I suppose."

Rodolphus bit his lip.

"Well, my headaches are better."

He raised the hand that had held his ring.

"Rabastan thinks that either my wife cursed it or some lingering magic affected me."

shh_ginny June 11 2007, 18:46:13 UTC

Seeing his hand without the band was jarring and Ginny's hand went to her thigh, gripping it hard. "She nearly took my leg off. I guess it's not so hard to believe she'd do that to you. What do you believe?"

Ginny took the sandwich out of the sack and pulled the wrapping back to take a bite. "I'm sure there was a time when you'd have done the same to me, if not worse, given the chance."

shh_rodolphus June 11 2007, 18:48:18 UTC

"My wife was insane. I will not deny that." Rodolphus spoke softly. "She was paranoid enough to think I would harm her, and likely cursed the ring to make sure I never had enough concentration to bespell her."

Rodolphus shrugged.

"And would you have not hurt me all those years ago, simply for my last name? Wouldn't you have done the same to Rabastan without knowing his story?"

shh_ginny June 11 2007, 18:56:34 UTC

Cursed the ring to make sure I never had enough concentration to bespell her...

The words sank in against the backdrop of blood rushing to her ears as it came together that she wasn't just sitting next to 'Rod'. She was sitting next to a wizard who very likely had little use for a wand and was no longer suffering enough confusion to keep him from casting. Ginny swallowed, her breath coming in short, shallow bursts. ""And was she far from wrong? Would you have?"

Without meaning to, Ginny looked up sharply at him. "It wasn't simply for your last name. I'll grant you that she made you famous but you were there at her side. You made your choices. If he had won, I don't suspect you'd have been very remorseful."

shh_rodolphus June 11 2007, 19:00:39 UTC

"Of course not." Rodolphus said, frowning. "I loved her. Gryffindors are not the only ones with loyalty, contrary to popular opinion."

He nodded.

"No, likely not. I will not lie to you...Ginny," It sounded so strange to call her that. "I was a terrible person. When the Dark Lord was not threatening us all with death at any sign of treason, my wife was whispering in my ear and telling me that I must do everything, else she not love me."

Rodolphus laughed bitterly.

"Love should not be conditional. In her case, it was, and I would have done anything to make sure that the one woman I have loved beyond right and reason did not leave me."

shh_ginny June 11 2007, 19:16:17 UTC

"That's true but I doubt you were sorted wrong." Ginny looked at her sandwich and thought of Pettingrew suddenly and she put it down with a grimace. "Some might say you were just saying your own neck though."

She tilted her head, looking at him sideways. "A lot of things that shouldn't be conditional, are. You keep using the past tense, Ro... Mr. Lestrange. Was. Loved."

shh_rodolphus June 11 2007, 19:20:04 UTC

"Oh, I do sincerely doubt that. That damned hat is very rarely wrong."

Rodolphus raised an eyebrow when she called him Mr. Lestrange, but he didn't comment on it.

"I do still love her, but she did try to murder me. I do wonder occasionally if perhaps my love was misplaced. Not that we can choose who we care for and who we do not. Bella...I do not regret marrying her, but I do regret that I was not the man she cared for in her life."

shh_ginny June 11 2007, 19:41:58 UTC

"Yeah, sometimes we care about people that we have no business caring about. No matter how much we don't want to or tell ourselves we shouldn't." Ginny murmured darkly, sighing.

She shuddered at his words. "Don't say that. That's worse than knowing who you are, to hear that." Ginny blinked off tears. "That you'd wish to be like him. Please say that's not true."

shh_rodolphus June 11 2007, 19:44:29 UTC

"Love can take ahold of our hearts and minds without our consent. That is simply its nature."

Rodolphus frowned.

"No, I do not wish to be like him. I wish only to be significant enough in her mind that she would do more than wave me away when he spoke. I was a faithful servant, yes, but to her, not him."

shh_ginny June 11 2007, 19:57:59 UTC

"Knowing what she was, I'm not sure that was a better argument, Rod... Mr. Lestrange." Ginny shook her head, unsure why she was even trying to understand, why she was still sitting there.

"And now?"

shh_rodolphus June 11 2007, 20:00:33 UTC

"Would it truly wound you to call me Rodolphus?" He said, eyebrow raised.

"Now, I'm not sure. My passion for almost everything is dead, save for my art."

His hand was resting on the sketch he had done of her.

"I regret so many things. I have for a very long time. But I will not deny that I still love her. She was my first, and likely the only woman who would become so familiar with me."

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