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SEVERUS SNAPE

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[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.

1/2

[pushfall]

I didn't sign up for this. I would have remembered choosing this as an elective.

[pushfall]

I'm weirdly glad you liked him.

[darkart]

[ hey wait he didn't say he LIKED anyone ]

So this is a hereditary affliction, this continued cheerfulness in the face of all opposition.

[pushfall]

[ Bizarrely tolerant says a lot for someone of his caliber. Claire would know. She took the classes .]

I like to think of it as aggressively positive determination. How ever will you cope.