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SEVERUS SNAPE

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[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.

[darkart]

Well, I'll pass on drinking.

[pushfall]

Probably a good plan of attack. What were you drinking?

[ Don't think she's done talking to you about Peter, sir. ]

[darkart]

[ So ask him about it, madam. ]

I haven't a clue as to the exact nature of space liquor. Something 'like' cognac, I believe.

[pushfall]

[ Give her a minute goodness. For now hahaha space liquor. ]

I've never had cognac. If it's anything like tequila, I feel sorry for you.

[darkart]

I'm not exactly a connoisseur of anything concerning it. Tequila sounds very American.

[pushfall]

I'm pretty sure it's very Mexican. [ You know. In all her infinite liquor wisdom. ] I had it in Mexico, anyway. It was disgusting. I can't imagine cognac being any better. Or space liquor.

[darkart]

It's pretty shit, yes.

[ Enjoy him saying that. Typing that. Whatever. ]

[pushfall]

[ Too bad smirks and snickers don't show up in texts unless there's a choice to display them involved. Maybe it's for the best, though, considering his last twenty-four hours. ]

So what did you and Peter have to talk about?

[darkart]

On-board motivation.

[pushfall]

I can't imagine either of you with pompoms.

[darkart]

Indeed, a terrifying thought.

I don't understand why 'it's difficult' is a reason for anyone to fall into complacency here.

[ Hopefully he doesn't need to clarify Peter didn't argue against that; if he had, Severus would have had some choice words about him already. ]

[pushfall]

To me that sounds like a reason to be less complacent. Maybe everyone else is just lazy. Or too terrified to do anything other than assimilate. Maybe it's just easier.

[darkart]

Easy isn't realistic. In any situation.

[pushfall]

I think some people just give up because it's easier. No one who's fighting ever says they're complacent. For some people giving up is easier than fighting. It isn't a reason. It isn't an excuse. It just... is.

[darkart]

I don't think I'll ever understand.

[pushfall]

That says a lot about you as a person. Maybe not so much about your capacity for sympathy.

Weirdly enough I meant that first part as a compliment.

[darkart]

Sympathy and understanding are not the same thing; some people are disturbed by that.

Easy has never been an option. From afar it seems like waiting boredly for death.

[pushfall]

We group them together often enough. Most people just consider them a hand-in-hand kind of deal.

Nothing about life is easy. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. I'd rather go down swinging, and that actually is hereditary.

[darkart]

Most people are idiots.

Are you bored, here?

[pushfall]

[ She's not going to argue the first point. ]

I'm directionless. Before I came here there was... a lot happening.