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7thborn

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Jan 07, 2012 11:46

ron, 07, the temper matches the hair, stupid noble boys, tl;dr time, family, it's a quiet angst, diaries are evil but privacy is needed, what big brother doesn't know, a chamber's worth of secrets, youngest and only girl of the lot, canon says: ginny is rarely weepy, claire bennet, departures, stupid noble reasons, harry potter, special place for the boy-who-lived, be a gryffindor, fred

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wandbreaker January 7 2012, 16:52:43 UTC

Fancy getting drunk?

7thborn January 7 2012, 16:53:24 UTC

No, I leave that to my brothers.

wandbreaker January 7 2012, 16:54:19 UTC

Why let them have all the fun?

[Sigh.]

7thborn January 7 2012, 16:56:24 UTC

You can join them if you like. I might go for a fly. They wouldn't dare follow me.

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shifts January 7 2012, 16:54:37 UTC

There's never any real substance to tell if they're gone for good.

7thborn January 7 2012, 16:57:25 UTC

I usually let myself wait a week. It's been that long for Claire and Fred, months for the others. Feels pretty substantial to me.

shifts January 7 2012, 17:00:51 UTC

City's always been on this side of surprising.

I'm guessing all that flying stuff's on hold, then?

7thborn January 7 2012, 17:04:08 UTC

I haven't much cared for it's surprises lately, then.

Not for me. I'm not coming down if I can help it. Afraid so. I'll make up for it later, Eames. Promise.

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anotherbiscuit January 7 2012, 17:02:48 UTC

My door is always open, Ginny.

7thborn January 7 2012, 17:05:22 UTC

Thanks, Professor. I'll try to remember that. I'm It's fine, though-just how the City is.

anotherbiscuit January 7 2012, 17:18:45 UTC

Of course. However, should you find a need for a distraction quiet (though not too quiet of course) place, I will be here.

7thborn January 7 2012, 17:32:11 UTC

Actually, Professor, I have a question. Maybe I shouldn't even ask it, you being in the future and all.

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intheblanks January 7 2012, 17:39:05 UTC

Might explain the quiet. Music's been turned off, time to pack up and go home.

7thborn January 7 2012, 17:39:43 UTC

Excuse me?

intheblanks January 7 2012, 17:46:00 UTC

The curses have stopped. People are leaving at a rate of knots. In alignment, that feels like something shutting down.

7thborn January 7 2012, 17:59:13 UTC

Oh, really? Like the end of the world they've been threatening for years now?

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[action] aperfectthird January 7 2012, 17:58:52 UTC

[He doesn't bother with replying via text, because what good will words do? What can he say that hasn't been said a thousand times before?

I'm sorry. What can I do? Are you certain? Where are you?

He may not like Potter, but Ginny loves him, and she's been here so long she deserves to have some sort of happiness. To have the City take it away so suddenly and cruelly, and so shortly after Fred, is unthinkable, and it makes him feel weak and useless that he can't do anything to fight the power keeping them all here.

Words won't do any good, but he can take action, and he can hear footsteps in Potter's room. Taking in a breath, he adjusts his tie, flexes his fingers to keep them from shaking, and knocks, pushing the door open just slightly.]

[action] 7thborn January 7 2012, 18:58:19 UTC

[She had cut herself off from the network after a certain point. The barrage of words, either of comfort or distraction, fell on unseeing eyes not too long ago and she needed to get away. How often has Ginny herself offered the same for people who have lost others? How often did it actually help? Finally being on the other side of it after a disarmingly peaceful stretch of time is like a blow to the stomach and she finds herself struggling for breath at the most innocent reminders. The bracelet on her wrist from Fred, the apartment that still has Claire written all over it... and Harry, Harry everywhere-photographs, empty voicemails that have nothing but his laughter before the phone ends it, always too soon. He was just here. They all were ( ... )

[action] aperfectthird January 7 2012, 19:22:46 UTC

No.

[Once is a mistake, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern. Someone vanishes, he tracks down his remaining siblings, they tell him to go away, and he says no. Twice now, so it's a coincidence, but he has an ugly feeling of certainty in his heart that he doesn't care to acknowledge that it's probably going to become a pattern before too long. He pushes open the door and steps in, closing it behind him (but not all the way; even now, he leaves an escape route open, just in case).

It's hard not to take the hardening of her eyes personally, to remind himself that she's upset, isn't mad at him (well, probably not, maybe she is), but he crosses his arms over his chest and pointedly does not bugger off.]

What are you looking at?

[action] 7thborn January 7 2012, 20:02:45 UTC

[She isn't mad at him, no, but if he keeps this up she'll be hurling words and hexes at him in no time. It's hypocritical and she knows it, shoving away friends and family in a time of absolute grief when she had just lectured George on doing the same to her. But this is different. Siblings should bond together after losing one of their own, but this was Harry. And she knows he isn't special to just her, she knows the others will be pained by the loss of a friend, but this is different. He's different to her. And it was supposed to work this time, it was supposed to be better. And they were supposed to go together ( ... )

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