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Draco Malfoy (ab_draco) wrote in abaeterno_rpg,
@ 2022-02-14 10:07:00

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!complete, c: draco malfoy, c: remus lupin, l: okeano

RP: Draco/Remus
Who: Draco/Remus
When: February 14th
Where: Remus' room at first
What: Draco checks on accommodations both in terms of hotel and the full moon

Draco found the hotel welcoming enough. The rooms were spacious, the food was good, but he was getting claustrophobic. He did not like the idea of being trapped in a giant bubble, with the sea potentially able to break through everything. He kept both potions and gillyweed always with him just in case. At least Bella was safe on the bus.

He decided that a distraction was in order. Theo was on his list, but first Remus. They had to figure out about the full moon. He hadn't asked the night before, but he realized that being underwater, he had no idea when the full would be. Or if there would be one at all.

The walk to Remus' room was a brief one. They had been split on two floors and Remus was in the same one as his. He knocked on the door, smiling when Remus opened the door. "So how are you feeling in such a big room?" he teased. "And may I come in?"

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ab_draco
2022-02-19 03:14 pm UTC (link)

"Now, that I could tell even with the brief encounter I had with him," he said with a chuckle. "No, we always want to start long discussions, just not about this one subject." He wasn't going to change Remus' mind and he could pick his battles, unlike most Gryffindors who never met a challenge they didn't like.

"That's fine, and I'll keep my wand close in case people do want to get too close. There are ways to keep them at a distance without hurting them." A simple confundo would do and he could do that without a wand, ensuring that the people didn't see anything. "He seemed to do a lot of things to piss off other people. That might not be the start of a long and happy life. It's like he didn't learn anything from generations of Blacks, and his parents were of age when they had him, so he has no excuse. My grandfather was thirteen when Aunt Bella was born. As you can imagine not a very good age to rise a child."

While knowing that the theory was correct assuaged some of his worries, it was still not enough. He wanted certainties. "We'll put it in the list of things we need to figure out, and we should definitely learn how to go back." He looked at Remus, trying not to laugh. "I know that these clothes aren't as proper as ours, but I've seen how you dress. They can only be an improvement," he teased. "And I'm sure it's not as bad as you think."

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galarusblaidd
2022-02-20 02:21 am UTC (link)

"Fair enough. We do at that, don't we?" Remus chuckled quietly. His friendship with Draco might be the most surprising discovery since arriving on the bus. But, it was also one of the most welcome, precisely because they could just sit and talk about...pretty much anything at length and neither seemed to get bored with the conversation or the company.

Certain the younger wizard would have security well in hand for the full, Remus simply nodded his agreement. Sirius was always a different matter, however, it seemed. "Sirius' way of fighting back was often actual fighting in whatever way he felt able. Flaunting his distaste for his family's positions and actions was another way of fighting back for him, particularly when he was younger and had no other way. And, he was very much all or nothing. I think, in his mind, if he could accept that there was something not horrible about his parents and the family legacy, he would have to accept the bad things they did to him, as well. I cannot even imagine being a father at thirteen, though. Then again, at thirteen I was barely able to comprehend having friends. Forget sex, marriage, and cementing bloodlines."

Huffing good-naturedly, he shook his head. "Says the man who talks of having perfect skin he can't take out into the sun," he retorted. It wasn't the clothes that were the problem so much as the man revealed beneath them that bothered Remus, though. He wasn't normally a vain man, but he'd learned during his first year at school that his scars were guaranteed to draw attention, questions, and sometimes not-so-quiet revulsion. "I like my heavy, non-revealing denim. Everything here is either skimpy or sheer." He'd tried to get a full shirt, but his options were either vests made of more opaque material that would still show off the scars criss-crossing his arms, or long-sleeved shirts made from see-through materials. The predominance of skin-tight trousers at least covered the scars on his legs, although those were fewer and most recent being a product of encounters with other werewolves and not self-afflicted.

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ab_draco
2022-02-20 03:28 am UTC (link)

"We definitely do. It's almost like you're not a Gryffindor and can string more than a few sentences together," he teased, with a small smile. "If you start accepting that a certain dose of entitlement is a good thing, we can move forward in your path toward being a Slytherin."

Draco snorted. "That is a ridiculous way to subvert the way things are done. The best ways include smiling and saying 'as you wish, Father' while doing what needs to be done. Granted, it took me until I finished school to figure that out, but at least I did. He didn't seem to have grown past Hogwarts." He shrugged. "My mother's line was all... questionable. Her and Sirius' grandfather was sixteen when his eldest was born. They weren't the first ones. It was the perfect way to control them. Imagine if they could have ensured that Sirius had fathered a child at twelve. His parents would have basically raised the child and the family line would have survived."

Draco chuckled. "That's because I get sunburned." Still, he understood about vanity and wouldn't dismiss it as easily. "You don't need denim to cover what you need. Or twill. You really did adore your twill. There are plenty of glamours to take care of that problem. Slytherins are really good when it comes to our appearance. It won't change the way the clothes look, but it'll change what people see."

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galarusblaidd
2022-02-20 07:48 pm UTC (link)

Remus laughed. "See? The hat was supposed to put me in Ravenclaw, but was confused by the werewolf part and picked Gryffindor instead." He was fairly certain Draco teaching him any sort of entitlement was doomed to fail. But, he kept his silence on that point and simply smiled. Remus would make a lousy Slytherin, really.

"The war demanded different things of all of us. Prongs had to grow up because Harry was on the way. If you ask the others, I was born a grown-up," he added with a fond huff. "Peter...well, I guess I never knew his true motivators, did I? And Pads...in some ways, I think the war was just an extension of what he'd always hated as a boy, tugged at something inside him that wouldn't let him see past those childhood nightmares." What Draco described made a terrible sort of sense and Remus couldn't help wondering what that sort of life might have meant for Sirius' younger brother once Sirius was cut off from the family and Regulus was still young enough to be malleable. "Almost makes one wonder why they didn't take such measures, at least with his brother, given Sirius' intractability."

There was a pause as Remus considered the response, then a quiet laugh escaped him. "Honestly, not something I considered. I'm not sure I know those types of glamours." It wouldn't solve the problem of the clothing being so...not enough. But, at least he wouldn't be embarrassed by having all his scars on display.

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ab_draco
2022-02-20 08:26 pm UTC (link)

"Now, that I can believe. It seems confused by a lot of Gryffindors. People always think that it's the Hufflepuffs that go there if they don't fit anywhere else, but really, it's when the hat realizes that a child is too stupid to go into any of the three that it places it in Gryffindor, because only an idiot would be go into the house of the braves," he said, laughing.

Draco sighed. "Seems like there are always a lot of excuses when it comes to Sirius. Sometimes people are just broken and nothing will fix them. Look at the Dark Lord, Aunt Bella. Maybe Sirius didn't want to take over the world, but he was just as broken." He smiled. "From all that I've heard, Regulus was the model child and was loved for that. They would have given him the spouse he wanted since they knew he would comply with the family's desires."

He chuckled. "And this is why you need a Slytherin as a friend. Come on, let me show you some spells and then let's take a walk. It'll be easier if we know where we want to go on the full."

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