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Tweak says, "My bum itches."

Seamus Finnigan (openbottle) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-04-05 11:49:00

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character: dean thomas, character: hermione granger, character: seamus finnigan

Battlescars: Sleeping and Nightmares
Who: Members of Battlescars
What: Battlescars meeting: sleeping and nightmares
Where: Finnigan's, The Den
When: Sunday 5th April
Rating: TBD

OOC: Right. Let's try out our first threaded Battlescars meeting. I think, at least this time, I'm going to go with the free-for-all approach. In my experience, support groups don't really suit A-B-A-B conversations, the way we'd usually do threads, so basically just jump in with your characters when you like. We can have multiple comment threads if necessary and we'll just assume they're happening at different times. If this doesn't work too well, we'll try something else next time. As added incentive - if your character posts even one comment to this thread it will count as one piece of activity for the month.

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weasley_now
2015-04-11 07:38 pm UTC (link)

Hermione didn't want to know the contents of anyone's dreams. She had watched Vincent Crabbe burn to death, Harry actually die, Ms. Bagshot turn into a snake, and Dobby knifed among others more times than she cared to count. The thing for her was while she hadn't necessarily seen all the deaths her mind knew the how and filled the details in for her likely in a way that was more intense then the reality.

"It's good that you're able to find some control," she interjected. "Mine don't occur often enough but when they do there is no rhyme or reason to them." Perhaps hearing from others what, why, and when could help her pin point when her's might occur.

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openbottle
2015-04-13 12:35 pm UTC (link)

When Dean mentioned taking his potion daily, Seamus had to fight back a confusing mix of emotions: panic, anger, sadness. Battlescars wasn't a place for the two of them to have a private discussion and Seamus had learned early on that when he responded directly to Dean he often fell into that trap. He was here to lead the whole group, not to focus exclusively on his own best friend. He was glad when Hermione filled in the ensuing silence, helping him to hold his tongue and move on to more general topics.

"Mine too," he said quietly. He'd never shared the exact nature of his nightmares in Battlescars, or with Dean, but he'd mentioned having them. "Sometimes, the morning after, I can put the pieces together and figure out why. If I'm worried about someone that I worried about during the war - which was basically everyone -" He gave a wry smile at that. Who hadn't been worried, and who hadn't there been cause to worry about? "That tends to bring the old nightmares back. But sometimes they just happen, out of nowhere. And even when there is a reason I'm not very good at spotting it until it's too late."

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