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SEVERUS SNAPE

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[pushfall]

[ Okay so that's kind of funny. It's probably not supposed to be. ]

Why is Charles having an existential crisis? And how bad is your hangover?

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[darkart]

No idea. Family issues, perhaps. [ hahahahahaha. haha. ha. ] Better now. I don't drink for a reason but every few years I forget, apparently.

[darkart]

Or violence inspires that forgetfulness, what do I know.

[ fINE admitting it happened ]

[pushfall]

[SIGH. Although she's more pleased that he's actually telling her something for a change than she is frustrated at his habit of getting bloodied. She's hoping it was Sirius as much as she's hoping not. ]

How to patch yourself up more than you probably should have to, for starters. Asking how you're doing is probably a moot point by now.

[darkart]

Fine on that front. Black got the worst of it. This time.

[pushfall]

He deserves it.

[ She has no way of knowing that but she feels like it's something she's entitled to saying, for whatever reason. ]

I hope you're not saying 'this time' like there's going to be next time. Nosebleeds don't need to be a regular thing after jumps.

[darkart]

[ .. He does deserve it. But why does Claire think so? ]

I'm done intervening.

[pushfall]

[ ~*~Friendship~*~ ]

You intervened? That's. Well that's kind of surprising.

[darkart]

[ stahp ]

All I do is clean up after these people.

[pushfall]

[ No never. ]

What were you cleaning up this time? How big of a broom did you have to use?

[darkart]

This is nothing.

[pushfall]

It's something.

[darkart]

We all have our lots in life.

[ He'd snap or argue but he's just so damned exhausted about it. He doesn't even have the motivation to be annoyed at her. It's unfair to everyone he's been annoyed at (cruel to) before, but such is life. Luck of timing.

The fact that Claire's respecting his need to be approached in a less combative way helps, too. ]

Will you be speaking to me differently, now?

[ --now what ]

[pushfall]

[ Now what, indeed. ]

Why would I speak to you differently?

[darkart]

You know I'm paying attention.

[pushfall]

If I cared that you were paying attention I would have stopped talking to you a long time ago.

[darkart]

All right.

I spent time with whom I believe is your uncle, on the colony.

[pushfall]

[ She's not why she feels some measure of relief, but she does. It's not the end of that conversation, at least not for her, but talking about Peter has easily always been one of Claire's favorite things. ]

Peter? He's definitely the much warmer side of the family compared to my father. Hopefully. We can all get a little intense.

[darkart]

He is a bizarrely tolerant young man.

[ Severus YOU'RE TWENTY FOUR JESUS CHRIST also yeah, this means what she thinks it means, that he just himselfed at Peter, who went along swimmingly. What a trooper. ]

[pushfall]

[ Obviously this is where she gets it from. Maybe. A little. ]

He's not your student, you know. You aren't in a classroom.

[darkart]

He is a bizarrely tolerant dude.

[pushfall]

Stop it.

[darkart]

Your indecision wounds me.

[pushfall]

Your inability to find a happy medium between stern teacher and washed up surfer hurts us all.

[darkart]

I'm afraid this is just how I'm wired, Ms Bennet.