Maeve

[rkdavies]

Today had been utter rubbish. In the past year, Roger actually couldn't think of a day that had gone worse. He hadn't slept, too worried with watching Lavender toss and turn between being given more potions. Then he'd had practice that couldn't have gone worse short of a serious head injury

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[melodicmaeve]

Maeve wasn't exactly loving this day herself. She hated seeing Lavender that way, and with the other bits and pieces she'd been told about the long term effects... She felt awful for every time she had ever wished bad on the younger girl, even though she never would have wished something like this on her. Add in the fact that Lily knew Lavender was sick and at St Mungos, even if she didn't know anymore, and Maeve having to try to carefully answer questions about that... It was exhausting, even with the couple of hours sleep she got once home.

Hearing the knock, she dragged herself to the door, running her fingers through her hair.

"Roger." She blinked, surprised to see him there. It barely took a second before she was throwing her arms around him in a hug though and leading him in. "Are you alright? Is she alright? Did something happen?"

[rkdavies]

"Hey," Roger breathed, wrapping his arms around Maeve to hug her tight. There may be nothing between them other than Lily and a lot of platonic feelings, but Roger let himself cling for a moment. Until just then, he didn't realize he'd needed a hug that badly.

"I don't know. I mean, nothing's happened or Mum would have told me. I haven't been back today. I haven't had time." Even as he followed her, Roger felt incredibly guilty. He really should be at St. Mungo's, not here. But it was too conflicting in it's complexity, so Roger tried to ignore it.

Shoving a hand through his already incredibly disheveled hair, Roger shook his head. "You probably know more than me, really."

[melodicmaeve]

Maeve considered him a friend (well, most of the time), so she didn't think twice about him clinging to her. He'd had a rough 24 hours, she wasn't surprised he needed a hug.

"I'm sure she's fine. She had plenty of people ready to do anything she needed, and the best Healers on her case." She tried to reassure Roger, letting him sit and heading to grab him a drink. "Besides.... she's pretty drugged up at the moment, I don't know she'll really remember who was or wasn't there today. It's more important you look after yourself for now."

[rkdavies]

"It doesn't really matter if she knows or not. It's the principle." Plus, his own anxiety that Lavender was going to slip away in the most permanent way when he'd only just gotten her back.

"I'm fine, Maeve, really." It was obvious by the bags under his eyes, though, that he wasn't. At least not completely.