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Harry Potter (justcallmeharry) wrote in flippedrpg,
@ 2012-08-19 19:56:00

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ch: thg: ginny weasley, ch: thg: harry potter, p: c, p: mish

Who: Harry and Ginny^THG
What: Hanging out
When: Sunday
Where: Treehouse #4

Harry still wasn't used to all of the compound's antics. He never really had time to get used to it. The moment he actually started to understand what was going on he had been taken back several years and thrust into a new place again. Now that he had gone through the motions of understanding the compound twice, he felt like he should have been more used to it but it still hadn't sunken in yet.

He had avoided the world they flipped to at sixteen because he had no interest in walking around a playground with children running rampant without any real chaperones but now with things mostly righted he found he wasn't nearly as frightened as he once had been. He found himself at the bottom of Treehouse 4, staring up at the rope.

The last time Harry climbed a tree had been in the arena but he didn't have the luxury of hiding under a wooden roof. He pursed his lips but did not want to dwell on the past and climbed the tree, his body automatically going through the motions he had once known so well.

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bat__bogey
2012-08-23 08:36 am UTC (link)

"Sixteen..." Ginny fell quiet, letting that thought simmer in her mind. Sixteen would've been better.

The quiet falling over them was soothing, at least to Ginny. She was glad just to have him here. He didn't even need to say anything. But his comment forced a bit of a smile out of her, though it was barely there. "I was still innocent then. Well...as much as I could be. I'd only lost mum back then, and I didn't really understand the concept of everything going on around me. Not the way I do now."

Ginny huffed a breath through flaring nostrils, a hand lifting to push stray locks of red from her face.

"What purpose was all that? Making us all kids again, just to make us relive those memories? It makes me wonder if we'll remember all this when we go home..."

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justcallmeharry
2012-08-23 11:38 pm UTC (link)

Harry considered, for a brief second, telling her that she was just as cute now as she was at six but decided against it. It was not only inappropriate but ill-timed. That moment, it seemed, had passed. He let his hand fall to the back of his neck, massaging out the stress that had manifested in him after all the commotion of the last few days.

"It gets better." He told her, and it did. The trauma never truly left but Harry had been at a point in his life, before he was taken, to move on, to get ready for whatever their hellish world's future had in store for him. "Either that or you get better at pretending it does."

He moved over to her side, finding it slightly more cramped but hopefully it made her feel more supported. "They won't do this again Ginny, this little experiment's over now. As for if we remember? I don't know but I don't think there's really any point on dwelling on that now."

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bat__bogey
2012-08-24 12:01 am UTC (link)

She wasn't sure if she could believe Harry. Even though he came from a later time. Even though he'd lived the post-games life much longer than she did, or than she cared to. She couldn't see it getting better. She stayed quiet and still, up until the point where he'd moved up beside her. Ginny shifted, and leaned herself up against him, her head tilting to rest against his shoulders. It was cramped, but he was right; it was, at least a bit, comforting.

"I can't help but dwell on it. I can't help but dwell on a lot of things. I look around, and I see everyone else enjoying their time here. And I'm just ... grumpy. All the time. I've barely even talked with anyone besides you; not even Dora or Pansy. I haven't talked to either of the Ginny's since we ended up here." She heaved a sigh. "Part of me just wants to go home already. I know this place is better. It's safer. There's more fun to be had, but ..." Her words cut off, and she fell quiet agian, not even sure where she was going with her rant.

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justcallmeharry
2012-08-24 12:21 am UTC (link)

Harry let his arm wrap around her but didn't pull her any closer. He just let it rest there to let her know that he wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. "Racing thoughts, bad memories- that's expected Ginny. You're only human. If I was taken from the first few days, hell, the first few years, after my games, I would be in the same position. You're holding up a lot better than the rest of us would."

He was tired and he hadn't realized it before but he was. Harry wasn't particularly good at all these emotional situations, something he must have learned from Ron, and although he had the practice now, it still wore him out. It wasn't as uncomfortable now but it was still every much as difficult as it had been when he first comforted someone.

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bat__bogey
2012-08-24 05:42 am UTC (link)

"...you think so?" Ginny had honestly thought she was being ridiculous. That she was falling apart at the seams. The concept that she was handling this better than most would came as a surprise to her. With each passing day, she felt more and more like a scared little girl.

Ginny tilted her head and looked up at Harry, letting her body relax against him and in his arm. Her arms loosed from around her legs, hands sliding up and down along her calves.

"You look tired."

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	justcallmeharry 2012-08-24 05:55 am UTC (link)
	"Better than I would." Harry said with a half shrug, careful not to joggle her as she rested her head on his shoulder. He couldn't even imagine what it would have been like for him after the games. Harry was in a very bad place back then that had only recently begun to get better. "I usually do." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bat__bogey
2012-08-24 06:01 am UTC (link)

"...thank you, Harry. That ... actually helps a lot." Ginny managed to push a smile forward. Her head tilted again, pulling her gaze from him and staring off down towards the ground.

She nodded her head a little at his response. "I know that feeling. I haven't been sleeping well, really, either. Nightmares. Doesn't help that I've been holding up in my room alone. I was thinking about sleeping out here tonight. Now that we're not kids anymore, I imagine we'll be flipping soon. Might be our last night in this world..."

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	justcallmeharry 2012-08-24 06:08 am UTC (link)
	Harry smiled back at her feeling hopeful that he may have actually done something for her. He knew that he couldn't fix the world's problems but sometimes he really wished he could. If only to see the people he loved happy. Harry bit his lip, "Don't you have a curfew?" He reminded her gently. "Maybe you can talk to your scientist about a roommate." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bat__bogey
2012-08-24 06:13 am UTC (link)

"I do. But, I'm already out here. I've barely even seen Dame Zeta, anyway. I doubt she'll even notice." She paused, contemplating the idea of a roommate. "I don't know. Maybe. I think I'll just try to tough it out, for now."

Legs unbent at the knees, stretching out along the ground in front of her slowly. She brought her hands up to her thighs and ran them down along her legs, smoothing the fabric of denim jeans. "Would you...stay here with me tonight?"

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justcallmeharry
2012-08-24 06:16 am UTC (link)

"Are you still jumpy?" He asked before backtracking, "I mean- you don't have to answer that if you don't want to." He told her quickly, not wanting to remind her of any of her weaknesses. Harry himself was still jumpy at times but it had been a long while since his games.

Harry let his legs stretch out next to hers before looking at her for a long moment. "Yeah, I'll stay, but I don't want you getting in trouble."

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