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Tweak says, "y'all"

james potter is SUPERBADASSNINJAAWESUM (staghearted) wrote in flippedrpg,
@ 2012-08-03 15:09:00

Entry tags:

ch: knap: james potter, ch: xbwl: james potter, p: annalisa, p: torrin

Who: James² (xbwl & knap)
What: hanging out after the gym
When: after this (backdated to... Wednesday, I think)
Where: the gym --> elsewhere?
Warnings: TBD

James was angry, unbelievably angry. He was aware in the back of his mind that it probably wasn't rational to be this annoyed, but he'd long since reached the limit of his tolerance for people preaching to him about the big picture and the greater good. Yes, Moody had been straightforward rather than manipulative about it the way Dumbledore had been, but she was still asking him to keep secrets from and act without his family, and James simply wasn't having any of it. He didn't believe enough in the cause she was preaching, he didn't have anything in the way of loyalty to her, and everything she'd said in her attempts to reason with him had only pissed him off more. He needed to have a rational conversation about it with his family, but not right now, maybe not until after they'd finished having Christmas. He'd decide that once he had worked off his anger.

It was a hilarious coincidence that the newest version of himself, the one from Cakemonster's world, had also decided to go to the gym as well. He had seen that just before he'd closed his journal and set off for the gym, heading straight for the punching bag and the weights. He noticed the other James there, and nodded to him, but kept his distance, focusing on what he'd come here to do. He was feeling much better by the time he headed for the showers, and let the water wash the rest of his anger down the drain.

Hilariously but unsurprisingly, he nearly bumped right into his alternate self on the way out of the gym. He burst out laughing, and lifted a hand to adjust his glasses. Not that the near-collision had been their fault; he was just a little preoccupied, and it seemed like the other James might be as well. "Well, hey," he said. "Want to grab a bite to eat or a drink or something, other-me?"

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staghearted
2012-08-04 06:06 am UTC (link)

"I'm right there with you, mate," James said. "I can't even tell you how relieved I am that it wasn't Harry in my world, too. Things got pretty messed up for us, but we're all alive. And not worrying much about Voldemort, at least in my time. I don't know about the future."

He took a drink from his own glass of water, and dug back into his food. "Yeah. I know he must have turned us in, but I still can't imagine it, you know? I'd have to see him again to believe it, I think. But the only Wormtail here is one that never pulled anything like that."

It was kind of funny, really, telling all this to another version of himself. He'd talked to other people about it, but not a James, yet. Somehow, hearing another James react to it in almost the same way made him feel like he was being normal and reasonable in his opinion of the things that had happened to him. Sometimes he felt overwhelmed and tired and jaded from it all, and he just wanted to be energetic and optimistic and happy again.

He chuckled. "I always thought I'd marry Sirius, if I went for a bloke," he said. "But instead, Sirius is sort of married to Lily and I'm sort of married to Remus... it's going to be hilarious once we're all used to it." He nodded. "Marauders are good at that, yeah? Kicking each other's arses when they need to be kicked."

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