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Hestia Abbott (eagleofdelphi) wrote in all_roads,
@ 2008-04-25 21:29:00

Entry tags:

*thread-inprogress, dominic abbott, hestia jones

Dealing with tempers; Abbott's [HJ, DA]
WHO: Hestia, Dominic
WHERE: the Abbott's
WHEN: Wednesday, 12 January, 2000; lunchtime, following Dominic and Hannah's talk
SUMMARY: Hestia is still wound from the Ernie situation. IN-PROGRESS THREAD.
RATING: PG-13 at least for language.

"YOU ARE FIRED!"

It didn't matter that Hestia couldn't fire someone who, in part, was protecting hr on a higher dictate than one Auror to another. She was damn well going to see it happen just for how long they had been standing here without it ending her getting her way.

Bloody men. Bleeding controlling gits. Fucking bastards.

Oh, the joys of pregnancy.

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regretfulde
2008-04-26 01:43 am UTC (link)

Dominic winced when he heard Hestia yell at the auror. He was surpised that half of the planet didn't hear it from the sheer force of the fury behind her words. Not entirely certain that this was the best situation to be walking into unarmed, he still went none the less.

"Hestia..." his voice was soft as he came up behind her, resting a hand on her shoulder. "Please, stay. Going to your own home tonight won't help anything, and it will just upset Hannah. Please, it would mean a lot to me if you would just stay and try to work this out with me."

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eagleofdelphi
2008-04-26 01:51 am UTC (link)

Despite being professional, it could not be denied that the Auror Hestia had been facing down with looked relieved to see the Minister arrive and suddenly found himself very busy on the opposite side of the room.

Hestia, however, wasn't exactly looking relieved. It fact, on top of being very furious looking, her mouth had a decidedly sulky set to it that only increased as she spun to face Dominic. Oh, he must think himself so clever, talking all softly and smoothly after shouting at her. Argh! And using Hannah too!

"What, so you can yell at me more?" she spat. "No. Thank. You."

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regretfulde
2008-04-26 01:55 am UTC (link)

Dominic groaned, both at the sulky look of her mouth and at the tone of her words. This was not even a little bit good. "I should have been more careful with what I said." Dominic said, in the interest of keeping the peace. "But you knew full well that Hannah was already upset by Macmillan joining the Order, and you describing the things that might happen to him didn't help matters. None of us behaved very well, but going home now before it's safe will only make matters worse."

He looked at her beseechingly. "Please stay."

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eagleofdelphi
2008-04-26 02:06 am UTC (link)

"Yes, you damn well should have," Hestia said grumpily, crossing her arms over her chest. So maybe, maybe, she hadn't been in the right in saying that where Hannah could hear, but he had yelled. Yelled!

"In case you've forgotten, I am carrying your baby and you shouted at me. Is that how you treat the mother of your unborn baby? IS IT?"

Nothing like having a private conversation in front of witnesses!

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regretfulde
2008-04-26 02:21 am UTC (link)

Dominic looked pointedly at the other people in the room, hoping that they would either leave or that his glance would give Hestia the idea to take their argument elsewhere.

"No, it's not how I should have treated you. You know as well as I do that sometimes our desire to keep Hannah and this new baby safe clouds our judgement, and it did in that instance. I just wanted it to be clear that she was upset, but I went overboard. Let's go to our room and talk about this." he glanced again at the men in the room. "Please?"

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eagleofdelphi
2008-04-26 02:37 am UTC (link)

"Yep, that's what I thought," Hestia said, the statement loudly declarative as though she had just won something in his admittance of it not being how to treat her, which really, she hadn't won anything, but right now she was certainly going to think so. His pointed look wasn't lost on her and she made a face at him before abruptly exiting the room and marching up the stairs. On the way past Hannah's room, she looked in quickly, but didn't spot her and stopped. Where was she?

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regretfulde
2008-04-26 02:46 am UTC (link)

Following quickly after her, Dominic rested his hand in the small of her back. "She's in Teaghan's sitting room." Dominic said quietly, knowing that Hestia would understand the significance of that. Hannah had lost her mother and, in the wake of their fight, had feared loosing Ernie too. "Come on, we're nearly there." He nodded his head in the direction of their room, wanting to get her behind closed doors where they could get this all out in the open and, hopefully, begin to fix their problems.

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eagleofdelphi
2008-04-26 03:06 am UTC (link)

Oh.

With the knowledge of that, Hestia suddenly deflated, shoulders rounding as she let out a noise of self-disgust. Hannah wouldn't possibly have needed to go there had Hestia herself not started talking about the things that would happen to Ernie. She had been awful and not Hannah had retreated to Teghan's room because Hestia had failed at being any sort of good role model or pseudo-parent or friend.

"I'm a horrible person. You win."

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regretfulde
2008-04-26 03:12 am UTC (link)

That certainly had not been the sort of victory that Dominic was looking for. He wasn't even certain that he had been looking for a victory at all. What he had wanted was for time itself to turn back to before Ernie had caused trouble for them all.

"You're not a horrible person." he said, moving his arm to rest over her slumped shoulders, his hand rubbing her arm gently. "Not in the least." he guided them down the hallway slowly, not saying another word until they were in the bedroom. "You were worried about Ernie and, peripherally, about Hannah, and that's nothing to feel badly about. We all acted foolishly."

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eagleofdelphi
2008-04-26 03:18 am UTC (link)

It didn't matter what he said, as far as Hestia was concerned. She was horrible, he had yelled because she was horrible and no amount of retraction would take back she had been horrible to Hannah. She wasn't even thinking about blaming Ernie anymore, though no doubt that would come again.

When they were in the bedroom, she turned to him and slid into his arms, resting her face on his chest a moment before she started to cry.

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regretfulde
2008-04-26 05:06 am UTC (link)

Dominic pulled Hestia close, saying nothing for a long moment as he stroked her back. "Shhhh..." he said finally. "No one thinks that, Hestia. We're all going to wake up tomorrow morning feeling like asses over this, but no one is going to blame you for it." He kissed the top of her head. "you can ask Hannah when you feel up to it, I'm certain she would tell you that she doesn't blame you." Not that Hannah ever blamed anyone, Dominic realized, but he knew that Hestia DID want Hannah to both like and love her, and he hoped that that small reassurance helped.

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eagleofdelphi
2008-04-26 05:17 am UTC (link)

"It's not just that," Hestia sobbed and it wasn't. She'd been an Auror for years, trained more than her fair share of them but none of them had gotten into her heart like Ernie Macmillan. She was fond of more than a few yes, but just as she joked she didn't have favourites, she hadn't until he had come along. Whether it had part to do with his connection to Hannah or would have happened on its own didn't matter. The point was, it had, and she was more afraid for him than she had ever been for anyone.

"It's him too. Dammit, I can't lose that idiot kid."

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regretfulde
2008-04-26 05:21 am UTC (link)

Dominic closed his eyes. He knew that, at least, he would have were he thinking even a little, but he had wanted to fool himself into thinking that this had all been about Hannah. And it wasn't. The Macmillan boy had somehow wormed his way into this family, Dominic's family, and now there was no way to get him out without hurting the two people most important to him. Damn it all.

"I know." he said, kissing her forehead. "I know." He wanted to tell her that she wouldn't, but she knew as well as he did how quickly order numbers were lost when they were in wartime. He couldn't bear to think of that just now, because Hestia was in that organization too. At least Voldemort was gone, and it was only the madness of the Lestranges they were dealing with this time.

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eagleofdelphi
2008-04-26 05:38 am UTC (link)

Shaking her head, Hestia wasn't sure he did know, because she was just now only beginning to know, to understand what she had done. The problem was, she knew she wouldn't have changed it had she realized as it was happening. And that was the part that was hard to accept, that she had done her best as an Auror member, in the Order, and would consciously toss that aside.

"I failed at my job," she sobbed, choking on the words. "I failed. I got too attached and I kept him away from what danger I could, kept him from the Order because of it, and that's not the way to help us fight. It's not. And the worst part is, I don't care. I'd rather keep failing at my job then let him anywhere near the damn Order."

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regretfulde
2008-04-26 05:52 am UTC (link)

"Your job is to protect people, Hestia, and at that you have succeeded. The rest of it is just red tape and rubbish." He squeezed her tightly. "The Macmillan boy is just that, a boy, it's not as though you were pushing to keep the next great hope from the Order or anything like that. It would be years before he was any real use to them and besides, if we are giving out awards for being the most selfish, certainly I would win in a heartbeat. I would keep you away from the Order if I could, and you're far more valuable to them than he is."

He rubbed her back, trying to make the sobs go away. "No one could fault you for getting attached to him, Hestia. You spend far too much time around him at work and here because he's dating Hannah not to get attached."

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eagleofdelphi
2008-04-26 06:16 am UTC (link)

"You're not attached to him, not at all!" Hestia wailed. She knew it was unreasonable to point out, but really, he was making excuses for her feelings that she didn't need. She also knew he wasn't right about Ernie or his usefulness. This was a war, whether it was an officially declared one or not, and they needed every able body. What more, she had trained Ernie herself, and even if she hadn't, he was talented. He was valuable whether Dominic wanted to see it or not.

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regretfulde
2008-04-26 06:23 am UTC (link)

Dominic winced at the force of her wail. He wanted to point out that she and the baby both needed rest, that it would all be better in the morning or something of that sort but he didn't dare. "That doesn't matter, the point of the matter is that I'm sorely outnumbered when it comes to my view of Macmillan, and trust that for most people, getting attached to him is quite easy. Perhaps I would even like the boy were he not my daughter's first serious boyfriend."

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	eagleofdelphi 2008-04-26 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	"It doesn't matter if it was easy or not," Hestia protested and it might have started to become clear this most recently mood swing had an argumentative bent to it beyond the tears and fear. "The point is I care about him too bloody much to do my job or let him be the Auror he can be if he wasn't saddled with a whining cry baby of a trainer!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

regretfulde
2008-04-26 05:53 pm UTC (link)

"Had he not been 'saddled' with you he would have been killed long ago." Dominic said determinedly. "You know full well he would have rushed back into that training center whether you were there or not, and without you there he would have started dueling alone with one of the Death Eaters and gotten himself killed...or worse." There were, after all, far more painful ways to go than a single killing curse, and the Macmillan boy might have been captured and flayed alive for all they knew, had Hestia not been there to help. "Don't you get it, Hestia?" His thumb wiped at her tears, as he hated it when she cried and wanted to remove all traces of them as soon as he could. "You both need one another. He needs you to shout at him and get him on course when he strays from it and you need him for....well I don't know why on earth you need the Macmillan boy but I trust that they involve sentimentality or something of the sort."

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eagleofdelphi
2008-04-26 06:06 pm UTC (link)

For as quick as his thumb was, so too were Hestia's tears and she though she wasn't opposed to showing emotion by any means, she really didn't much like this, as she wasn't a frequent crier but felt helpless to stop it. Any attempt to get it under control was just set off again by the things they said, which right now just felt more like an argument that anything else.

"You just want to argue with me!" Or, conversely, she just wanted to argue with him but that wasn't how she saw it at all right now! "Argue with me and take jabs at him whenever you get the chance!"

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