Who: MULTIPLE THREADS! Expected: there are some plans. Unexpected: how would I know?
When: Right after
this-with flexibility. All sparked by
this after
this.
Where: The Clinic
Format: [hates choosing] Whatever I start with, do your own thing!
What: Tonks visitations. Lupin's return. Shirley in da house. Trepkos the Grouch. AND MORE.
Warnings: Ow ow
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and because it's slow and annalee only visited for the morning, she is reading. it's one of lupin's books, and the chair is something of a habit; she sits in it whenever she reads while at the clinic. she might as well claim it as her chair.
not that she would. the pixie snoozing on her shoulder and using her hair as a blanket totally would, though.]
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He's not silent as he lowers himself into the seat opposite her, but doesn't try to claim her focus from the book until she grants it to him.]
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it's only a few moments, and she is shutting the book. no bookmark, she always remembers her place. shirley tilts her head, as she looks at him. you first!]
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Thank you for being here when I wasn't.
I never meant to leave.
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She hadn't meant to drop any eaves on their conversation. It was just that she heard them, heard their words, heard who and what they were talking about. Tonks frowned. No.
Tonks sat down. She drew her knees up to her chest with her back pressed against the wall. She was going to wait for him. ]
Please don't lose your soul Remus.
[ She is going to say as soon as he exits that room. ]
((OOC - Occurs after this thread is over. ))
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There's so much he needs to say to her. So crushingly much. Too much, it seems, to know where to begin, where to start, how much to put on her, so instead it's leaking out to others, but she will overhear…
Or be told.
He stands still a moment, caught between too many opposites. Fury and sorrow, defensiveness and shame, love and… realism.
Then he moves silently to the same wall, uses it to lever himself gingerly down, and draws up his own knees, like hers, to sit beside her.]
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She's not worth it. You're worth so much more.
[ She knows Remus but she is not ready for a confrontation.
Tonks will be damned, however, if she's going to let Remus become a monster for her or for anyone else. ]
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He's not sure he agrees. Not to denigrate himself, but not to underestimate Bellatrix. Not to dismiss the others she's hurt.
But it's not worth debate. Even if he could confront, this much was true: it would not be about Lestrange. There was too much else for them to face.
None more important right now than the fact of being able to sit here together.
On the floor between them, he turns over and opens his hand, for hers.]
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