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SEVERUS SNAPE

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damn it claire you're a terrible person

[personal profile] pushfall 2014-10-24 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Mine grow back.

[ Not that she has any inclination to go seek Draco Malfoy out, but it's a point that she can't resist making. The way that Severus describes him, the impression and image that she gets, he doesn't seem like the sort of person she would immediately go looking for if she had a choice, and there's only one cold shoulder on this ship that she's been interested in relentlessly pursuing in a way that doesn't end with her breaking someone's nose.

She sits up, departing with a faint squeeze around his middle and leans her back against the head of the bunk, legs stretched out and crossed at the ankle in front of her. ]


He'll have to come around eventually. Going at it alone is no way to make it, here.

[ Or anywhere, but who cares about anywhere when they're here? ]
pushfall: (⚕ excess until we stop hearts)

[personal profile] pushfall 2014-10-25 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Claire snorts with minimal amusement, scrubbing her hands over her face and back through her hair. Parts of it are still damp. She needs to brush her teeth. She needs to get the dogs. She needs to get to work on a million tasks. She wants to stay here. ]

Good morning. [ Her legs swing themselves around, thick socks pressing into the cold floor, and she pushes herself up creakily, standing and stretching with delayed gratification before turning back around to face him and reaching for his wrist. ] Hey.

[ She pulls at him, trying to tug him to standing. ]
pushfall: (⚕ tape me up then break me up)

[personal profile] pushfall 2014-10-25 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep. It's mine now.

[ No, not really. It's too chilly, for starters, even if she does have to admit that his has more character than hers does. That picture of Texas is still the only focal point that her quarters can boast. But no.

Primarily, once he's standing, she's more interested in occupying the space between them rather than the space around them. It's just an embrace, but she's lived a life filled with hugs good morning and goodnight and goodbye and everything good and bad in between. Warm comfort is what she knows best, what she was raised on, and it's easier to communicate everything that you want to say like this than it is to spend minutes that feel like hours agonizing over the right thing to say when there is no right thing.

Life sucks, here and at home, and Claire knows that no one has really ever been gentle with him, and she hopes she can impart some of what she feels he deserves better this way, with her arms looped over his shoulders and neck and one foot nearly treading on his, than she can by fumbling around with starts and stops and sentences that ring hollow or have no destination. ]
pushfall: (⚕ sleeplessly embracing you)

[personal profile] pushfall 2014-10-26 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ With one hand on the back of his neck, Claire holds on just a moment longer than is probably necessary. Trying to convey something, she doesn't know what, and just hoping that it translates all the same. That maybe she doesn't always understand completely what's going on with him but that she's here to hear it anyway, do what she can. That's nothing new for Claire, even if their circumstances are, which is why she doesn't need to carefully examine it the way she did and does and will continue to do the other facets of their relationship. This is natural for her. She's not afraid to be a support system for him.

Eventually she lets go, sort of lingers in his personal space to bring both palms to either side of his face and kiss him, briefly, before stepping back to find her shoes. ]