[ Nothing worth having has ever been easy. She understands that. Her friendship with Gretchen was complicated and hard. Every other relationship she has had has been difficult. Severus, in his own way, has been much the same, though whose fault that is remains up in the air. Claire can't ask him the questions she might otherwise, if he wasn't who he was, because she has a feeling that asking him to imagine his life without magic would not be remotely the same as imagining hers without the regenerative power packed into her blood and skin and cells and bones. As a result, she's quiet again for a while, drawing on the tabletop with the eraser end of the pencil. ]
Did Peter - did he tell you anything about us, when you met him? About him? About me?
[ She's going somewhere with it. It's just taking forever for her to build up the momentum to get there. And this is not at all what she came down here for, but somehow it's alright, too. ]
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Did Peter - did he tell you anything about us, when you met him? About him? About me?
[ She's going somewhere with it. It's just taking forever for her to build up the momentum to get there. And this is not at all what she came down here for, but somehow it's alright, too. ]