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Marlene McKinnon ([info]pureclover) wrote in [info]asphodel,
@ 2008-04-10 22:53:00

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Who: Marlene McKinnon and Benjy Fenwick
When: Thursday Night, April 9th
Where: Sirius Black's residence, Order meeting
Rating: TBA
Status: Incomplete



Another lovely meeting at another lovely Gryffindor domicile. Marlene could just gag from all the lovely of it all. Not that she would let them have a meeting at her flat, but the fact that this was deemed the safest location really did worry her. This was Sirius Black, better known than just about anyone else his age for that lovely ruckus he made leaving his family. But there was only so much that she could point out before they would just stop listening to her altogether.

Half the time she did not know why she bothered coming to most of these. Sure she believed in all this, but really did she have to listen to the idiots go on and on about how they needed to stop this and that. Sure they were all willing to jump in on some dangerous mission to fight Death Eaters, but did any of them actually care about information gathering? Bloody hell, she never thought that she would want more Ravenclaws in a group.

At this point she had to get a smoke. It was true she had to stay for a bit in case Dumbledore. Pulling out a pack she went over to an open window. Bloody Gryffindors, with all their bad boy image, couldn't even really handle cigarettes. Shaking her head she lit one and took a drag before sighing as the nicotine hit. Merlin she hated this group, hated them oh so much.

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-11 11:46 pm UTC (link)
Unlike most other meetings where Benjy would often speak up, voice his thoughts about how bloody lazy they were being in some aspects (the Death Eaters were just outside their door, for Merlin's sake, they could just start rounding them up anytime they wanted to!) and make his blood pressure rise several points, he was being relatively quiet. Dumbledore had begun to speak and everyone's attention was explicitly on him and not wavering. Nodding when Dumbledore said something he agreed with, he looked around the room to see what everyone else thought. His eyes fell on Marlene McKinnon just as a small breeze caused the smoke from the cigarette she was smoking to blow back inside.

Crinkling his nose, he discreetly and quietly made his way over to her, leaning against the opposite of the window with his arms crossed. "They say that those things can kill you," he said quietly, keeping his eyes on Dumbledore.

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-12 12:05 am UTC (link)
There was nothing getting done and at this point in the evening she just could not bring herself to care. She had jitters that were slowly being calmed by the cigarette, keeping her from just yelling at all of them. At least they preferred to leave her alone, since she was not one of them. Merlin, half of them probably thought she was a spy or a traitor of some type. Not that she had much more faith in any of them. If someone was going to turn traitor it certainly was not her, it would be too suspicious.

She looked over when someone move toward her. Great, Fenwick, just what she bloody needed. Taking another drag she just looked back out the window to blow the smoke out so that his sensitive little nose would not have to deal with it. "Well then it'll just be who gets me first, now won't it?" she replied, low and sarcastic.

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-12 04:57 am UTC (link)
Benjy noted the sarcasm in her voice; that was all she could ever reply with - sarcasm or disdain. It was never anything but either of the two. Sometimes he wondered why he even bothered talking to her, much less approaching her. Arching an eyebrow, he shrugged his shoulders.

"Or they'll both get you at the same time. You'll be so winded when you're chasing down a Death Eater that you'll kill over just as they throw the killing curse at you." It was his pitiful and awful attempt at trying to make a joke, something to lighten the bloody situation, but there it was anyway.

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-12 01:23 pm UTC (link)
No, Marlene could not stop her sarcasm, at least not surrounded by people like this. She had to be on her guard, almost as much so as if she was actually tracking a Death Eater. Sure everyone here wanted the Death Eaters gone, but the enemy of my enemy was not someone Marlene was very comfortable being friends with. Plus they would not have allowed her to anyway. For all their talk of being different, they were still all the same annoying kids. Just now they had a bit of a taste of war.

Not that she was much different, but she found herself just naturally better than them anyway. Raising an eyebrow at Fenwick she knocked a bit of ash off through the window. "Right. Of course, why didn't I think of that." she drawled darkly before looking out the window. "I'll leave the chasing down part to you. Wouldn't want to have to break a nail." It was mostly a joke, mostly.

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-12 07:39 pm UTC (link)
He took note of the joke, or whatever semblance of one it was, and his lips quirked slightly as he watched Dumbledore instead of her. "Right, can't have you doing that, can we?"

The Headmaster was still going on about how they needed to stick together, not point fingers at anyone, and of the latest developments that had reached both him and Alastor Moody. "Sometimes these meetings are so bloody boring. Can't the two of them just pass out missions, tell us when and where to go, and be done with it? Why go on and on about latest developments or banding together?"

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-13 03:49 am UTC (link)
"No, we can't." she said mildly, not bothering to look in the direction of Dumbledore. Looking out the window was really much more entertaining than anything that old man was going on about. "Would hate for my image to get ruined and all."

At that comment she turned her head and looked at Fenwick critically. Did he really not understand why the old bastard was going on about unity and shite like that? Of course not, it was never a problem for their little house, they were always in the gold. "Maybe because you're going to be dealing with more people like me in this organization if this war keeps going on. And by all means ignore information, because the body count just isn't quite high enough for the Dark Lord's liking."

Shaking her head she took an aggravated puff. "What doesn't help is that the missions don't really get us anything other than more deaths or injuries, which makes things just a bit harder, don't you think?"

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-14 01:43 am UTC (link)
Frowning when she started criticizing and accusing him of not actually listening, he looked over at her. "Who said I was bloody ignoring anything?" he asked, annoyance seeping his voice. She was always so quick to assume things about him and it was one of the things that pissed him off the most. She didn't even know him for Merlin's sake. And what the hell did she mean that he'd be dealing with more people like her if the war kept going on? He decided to ask her.

"What do you mean we'll be dealing with more people like you if it kept going on?" he asked, echoing his thoughts. "If you mean people who think they're better than everyone else, well, they can go take a flying leap off a broom for all I care. We don't need them, we're doing fine without them." He finished with an affirmative nod, glancing over at her to see if she was going to counter it with something else, though he knew she would. She always did.

Though, he had to agree with her next point and shrugged her shoulders. "They seem to think it helps when we go check in some insane guy's house and only find a sword. Pointless, but what else can we do? Act like them? Like the Death Eaters and go on a frontal attack, killing everyone in our way who might be associated with them? We wouldn't be any better than they are."

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-14 03:47 am UTC (link)
Marlene looked at him and just could not help but smirk. Merlin, they were all this dumb, weren't they? She was not sure if she could handle just how moronic they all were. "People like me. People from Slytherin, people who don't fit into your little cookie cutter of love and equality. Because guess what, people are different. But that doesn't mean they should die for it." She knew more people like her were coming, she had ideas on who it might be too.

Taking a drag she blew out the window and moved to lean against the sill. "We need information gatherers. A spy would be painfully nice right about now too. Can't stop them if we don't know what they're doing, can we?" Sure you could go when they started an attack already if you go alerted, but Marlene would have preferred being able to stop the attack from happening in the first place.

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-14 04:58 am UTC (link)
Part of him wanted to object and echo some of the words Dumbledore had been saying: they were all in this together, they needed to unite under former house unity - but he knew how easier said than done that was. Case and point with him and McKinnon. They were from different houses yet they couldn't stand to be in the same presence with one another for longer than a few minutes. "Maybe, but that's what Dumbledore says we need to do. And look, we let you in," he said, pointing at her.

Crinkling his nose as that offensive smell, he waited until the air cleared before taking a breath of fresher air. How the hell did she stand that stuff? "Dumbedore doesn't seem like the type to use a spy, but, and I can't bloody well believe I'm saying this, I agree with you. Someone on the inside would help a shite load. Then we could counter their attacks and everything else they're doing."

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-14 04:25 pm UTC (link)
Marlene raised an eyebrow at him. Oh, she was let in, was she? By those ever lenient Gryffindors who just felt they were so much more moral than she was. Bloody bastards. Not like she could blow up at him right now, but Merlin were they so naive on their own weaknesses. "Oh, and I'm ever so thankful that I got let in." she drawled darkly. "You people need me, otherwise I doubt that you'd have just 'let me in'"

She already did enough working with the firm to gather some information. Granted it was mostly business in general, but business contracts and finances could be much more telling than a lot of things. The Order needed to diversify if they were ever going to win this war. "Oh he's the type all right. Wouldn't put it past him for a minute. He already sends you lot off to certain death half the time."

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-17 02:59 am UTC (link)
"We were all bloody let in," he snapped back at her, shaking her head. Sometimes he just wanted to pull his wand out and hex her, she was so annoying. "Dumbledore chose all of us, remember?" Not a single one of them was more special than the other, not even her. Sure she was a Slytherin, but that meant shit where Dumbledore was concerned, and it was like she wanted someone to hand her a trophy for being the first Slytherin in the Order.

He had to agree that Dumbledore had sent them into near death missions, but he didn't say that. He didn't want to give her that satisfaction. "He's in charge," he said with a shrug, glancing over at her.

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-17 03:06 am UTC (link)
She shrugged. They did not get it now and they were never going to get it. "Yeah, he did, which is exactly why I wasn't just let in. You make it sound like I was begging to join up almost." she said, her voice staying as mild as possible before she took another drag. Surrounded by their friends, they had no idea how much she really had wanted to say no. Having to listen to them just want to throw themselves out there was painful.

"Being in charge does not mean that we can't argue." But it was true, he was in charge, and he held all the information that they had. Without that precious information, there was not really much that one could argue with.

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-17 03:14 am UTC (link)
"You weren't anxious to join up?" he asked, frowning a bit. He had wanted to be apart of an organisation that fought against all the pureblood egomania for as long as he could remember; for as long as he knew that there was such a thing as pureblood mania. It was who he was. Sure, he was pureblooded himself, but he could give a shite about having a pure bloodline and letting in muggleborns. Hell, some could cast a better hex than he could, so why not let them in?

She just didn't get it either. At least not in his opinion, she didn't.

"Yeah, we can argue, but he's bloody Dumbledore. I don't know anyone who would argue with him." To Benjy, Dumbledore was like Merlin himself - he deserved the respect he got and Benjy gave him all that he had.

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-17 03:31 am UTC (link)
Looking at him like he was completely crazy, she attempted to try and take in just what he had said. But still, it did not make any sense. Was he really that dense? If he was it was likely the rest of them were. "You do realize that I grew up with many of the people we want dead and gone. And until not that long ago, they were the people I spent time with, not you people." He was not the one throwing hexes at people that he had fond memories with.

If any of them might possibly understand, it would have been Black. But that would have been impossible, since he had rejected everything about that life back in sixth year or something like that.

"Not without getting slaughtered, no." There was no arguing with Dumbledore, not just because of his power but because the entire group just followed him. At least being part of this gave her some minimal organizational protection...

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-17 03:51 am UTC (link)
That look she was giving him was condescending and he furrowed his eyebrows at her, trying to figure out why the hell she was looking at him like that. "What?" he asked before she went on to explain that many of the people who they were fighting against were her former housemates. "I realise that," he interrupted and crossed his arms.

"But they all proved to be bastards and you're better off without them - better than them period." It went without saying that he was complimenting her for the first time since he had known her, but he didn't dwell on that fact. He thought it best that she was here. It was another person they didn't have to fight and it was another person like him that chose to believe differently.

Again, he shrugged his shoulders. "With war comes death," he said, keeping his voice neutral. "People die. Over half the people in this room likely will by the time this thing is over, but we all know that and we're still here."

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-17 03:58 am UTC (link)
Marlene shook her head and leaned against the side of the window. She could not help but smile just a bit, but really he was ridiculous. They were still the people that had been there for her before. Most of the people here still were not about to give her the time of day. Not that she made it easy, but this was foreign territory. "Well thanks, but I only will be if we come out on top."

It was nice to be complimented though, it had been a while since she had been. Well, not really, her clients did it every day. But having someone her age and not trying to get into the law assistant's pants was nice too.

"That's not the kind of slaughter I meant. I meant that other people don't like someone arguing with Dumbledore. Really, I'd rather not think about anyone dying. Makes it less messy for me."

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-17 04:13 am UTC (link)
When she thanked him, he merely shrugged his shoulders as if it meant nothing. But it was actually the first time he had ever heard her use a modicum of gratitude to anyone here. The reason as to why they didn't like her was because she thought herself better than all the rest of them; she acted like they should give her something all the time for joining up with them. "Oh, we will come out on top," he assured her. "I know we will."

"Can you blame them?" he asked, leaning against the wall behind her. "There's a lot of people who respect him, both here and out there. They say that even Voldemort respects him to a degree."

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-18 03:10 am UTC (link)
While she did not think she was better than them really, it was a hard behavior to shake. The fact that she really did not feel comfortable with the group of die hards was just icing on the cake of it really. She was a spoiled rich girl, and she was working to change that. But they all seemed to expect that she was going to be like Black in her conversion. "And after how many people are dead? Death Eaters, us, muggles?"

She winced visibly when he said that name. "You know you shouldn't say that name. Why do we even have to let him have a name?"

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-18 03:19 am UTC (link)
"As many as it takes," he said defiantly. In order to win a war, it took sacrifices, sacrifices from all sides and including theirs. It was the cost they were having to pay to make the next generation have a better life than the one they were having. At least then things could be peaceful, just as he remembered it when he was younger.

He glanced down at her, momentarily surprised that she winced at his name. Hadn't she heard it uttered more times than he had in the Slytherin dungeons? "Sorry," he muttered, a bit reluctant to apologise to her, but he meant it nonetheless. That name was a sore spot, one that sent people into cold sweats. "There's nothing to fear in a name though, it's just a ruddy name."

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-18 03:30 am UTC (link)
"Too many people dead already you ask me." she said simply. There were so many people that could have avoided dying, if only they had known. But they did not. All these attacks were just happening out of the blue. There looked almost like there was no stopping them because they had no way of finding out where they would be. Marlene hated it, she hated worrying if her family would be the next one hit for being 'blood traitors'.

Looking at him she put out her cigarette and flicked it out the window. "It is just a name, but a name he wants to be called. There's power in being called something you want people to call you." Looking past him over at the meeting, she shook her head again. "Nothing is ganna get done tonight."

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-18 03:46 am UTC (link)
That was something he could definitely agree with and he nodded to show that. Too many people had died. People he had gone to school with and people he had only met briefly through the Order, but they were people he had known and it was sometimes hard. However, he had developed a wall, a pretty strong wall, to keep himself from getting bent out of shape over it all. He might seem indifferent to it, but it was the only way he could react now. He wasn't even twenty and he had seen more death than people twice his age.

"It's still just a name," he commented, not agreeing with her about that. "A name that sounds like a pompous arse created it." Yup, he was insulting Voldemort, but really, it was a name that sounded ridiculous. Like some fancy automobile or drink. Glancing over at the meeting, he shrugged his shoulders. "It's usually always talk," he said and then looked back at her, thinking for a second

Want to get the hell out of here?" he finally proposed, gesturing with his head to the door.

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-18 03:55 am UTC (link)
She could not help the twitch of a smile that happened at that. "Yeah, it kinda does." she agreed softly, trying not to laugh really. "Maybe he just pulled letters out of a hat and smooshed them together." Still, no one in her family would say his name, and neither would she. Leaning back against the wall, she sighed but really she could not help but agree. "It is, and talk does not get anything done really."

His question caught her off guard and she raised an eyebrow up at him before a smirk grew and she pushed herself off the wall. "I think that might be the smartest thing that I've heard all night." she said coyly, trying not to laugh. But really, it was the best thing she had heard all night. She was getting tired of all this inaction.

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[info]benjy_fenwick
2008-04-18 04:06 am UTC (link)
Now that was something he hadn't expected, a bit of a smile on her face. Shocking; who knew she could even smile? He sure as hell had never seen one from her since he had met her their first year. She had made fun of him their first year, he remembered, for being a stupid Gryffindor and for getting lost on the first day of classes.

Covering his mouth with his fist, he gave a chuckle. "Bet he did it just like that, threw the letters in a hat and came up with it that way. What a moron." He couldn't even come up with an inventive name; Benjy thought Lord Voldemort sounded like some evil villain he had saw several times on Sunday morning cartoons when he would venture over into one of his muggle neighbor's houses.

Benjy was actually surprised that she agreed to come with him. He had expected her to flat-out refuse since it was well known that they didn't like each other. "And it came from me," he pointed out, reminding her of how many times she had questioned how smart he was (he was plenty smart sometimes, just hated to use it and lacked a bit of common sense). "I'm sure the thing is about over with so they won't miss us much," he muttered, glancing back at Dumbledore. He listened to the speech for a few beats longer before leading the way out of the room.

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[info]pureclover
2008-04-18 03:24 pm UTC (link)
Marlene did not know anything really about cartoons, but she did have to admit that the name was ridiculous. But it held power in their society, so no matter how silly it really was, there was something there in that name that made her cringe. "Well you don't have to be all that smart to kill people, apparently. Or get other people to kill them for you. You just have to be cruel." It was a sobering thought really. She knew how smart many of their enemies were.

But, hell, she really had had too much of this heavy thinking for tonight. Shrugging, she looked at him with amusement. "It's been known to happen, I've heard." she teased softly, before looking over at the rest again. "And I doubt we will be missed. The main ones are all over there to begin with." she drawled almost under her breath as she moved to follow him out. Really, out was a lot better than in at this moment in time.

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