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Andromeda Tonks (markformarriage) wrote in flippedrpg,
@ 2012-08-21 19:16:00

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ch: bdh: andromeda tonks, ch: unwind: andromeda tonks, p: annalisa, p: ashton

Who: Andromeda Tonks^bhd and Andromeda Tonks^unwind
Where: Andromeda^bhd room in Omicron block
When: Tuesday afternoon
What: tea time with themselves
Warnings: none?

Running a brush through her hair, Andy checked her reflection in the mirror before leaving her room. It felt sort of odd, going to have tea with herself, but they had such different lives, it really was just like a separate person.

Andy hadn't spent much time outside on the playground. It sort of reminded her of her daughter that she never got to see grow up. Instead, she'd spent most of her time since arriving at the Compound just exploring. She'd been to the library and the gym, though she hadn't used any of the equipment yet. She was mostly just getting the lay of the land.

Heading down the hall from her room, as she was in Omicron as well, Andy reached Andromeda's room and knocked gently on the door. This was sure to be interesting.

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andspiralling
2012-08-22 12:42 am UTC (link)

"Alright," Andromeda said. She had accepted that nickname as well from certain people, but if there were only two of them, they didn't both have to have a nickname, necessarily. Andy hadn't requested one of her, so she was more than content to remain Andromeda.

The room was minimalistic, but Andromeda had been able to decorate it somewhat in her time here; she had little else to do most of the time, really. With the materials from Christmas World, she had been able to add splashes of color by tying patterned cloth around the legs of tables and chairs, and the pictures of her family she'd been given back when she had been in Psi were in their frames on the walls bedside table, the books Omicron had given her for Christmas on the shelves. She also had a small cream-colored rose plant that was starting to flourish, from when Petunia had been here, and a bonsai that she'd purchased as a gift to herself in Christmas world, on impulse. It wasn't quite like home, but she'd managed to make it relatively homey.

The tea and treats were on the coffee table beside the bonsai, and Andromeda offered Andy a seat before pouring her a cup, then sat down herself. "This whole place must be strange to you," she said, lifting her own cup. "I thought I had gone completely mad when I first arrived."

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markformarriage
2012-08-22 01:10 am UTC (link)

Taking a seat, Andy looked around the room, taking in all the little things Andromeda had done to decorate. Andy's room was still mostly bare. She'd only been there a few days and had yet to accumulate anything, but maybe there would e shopping in then next world. She could only hope.

"It's very strange," she agreed, accepting the tea cup. "Just a few days ago I was in this hideous pink room, waiting to be taken apart for my magic. Now I'm here, with family, and it's just all very different."

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andspiralling
2012-08-22 07:16 am UTC (link)

Andromeda didn't like to think about what had been happening before she got here. Didn't like to remember the blood on her hands, or the sight of it going down the sink; remembering how it had gotten there in the first place was even less pleasant. How she'd felt when she arrived here wasn't particularly fun either: she'd thought she'd fallen and hit her head, or succumbed to madness. Either way, the place explained in her grandson's crayon scribbles had seemed like some kind of perfect, torturous mixture of heaven and hell. To have her family, but to have to face her future and past as well as the terrible decisions of her present, to meet and then lose other versions of Ted and Nymphadora all over again. To be faced with her grandson's judgment, and then to hear her scientist say that murder would simply result in paperwork for him-- it was so much to take in.

It didn't stop being overwhelming, either. Even now, she was wondering how in Salazar's name she was meant to deal with this younger, more innocent version of herself. She could handle the conversation, certainly, but it would have some effect on her emotional state to be sure; she felt very old and bitter by comparison to the woman sitting in front of her. Even though she had been making progress lately, had made a proper apology to Teddy, had been more social, she was still so very far from being the person she should be.

For now, she decided, the focus should not be on her, but on the newcomer.

"It's an improvement, surely?" she asked. "At least a little. Not having to be... unwound." A small flicker of emotion crossed her face. "That's such a horrid word."

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markformarriage
2012-08-22 12:15 pm UTC (link)

"It is certainly an improvement," Andy said, giving her older self a smile. Then the smile faded. "You're right... it is a horrid world. I feel, awful, because I never thought much about it. My sister was being prepared for this her whole life, and it was just the way it was. I was going to miss her, after she was gone, but it's just the way things were done."

She sighed, and set her tea cup down. "Then when Mother marked me... It like a punch to the stomach. If you're not raised with the thought that you won't reach your twenty-first birthday, suddenly having it taken away from you, and knowing that it's coming.... it's terrible."

Andy stopped then, and took a moment. She and Ted never really talked about how she felt about being Marked very much. They just knew that they had to keep going until she was old enough. Actually talking about her realization of the horror of her world... it was hard.

"I'm sorry," she said then, picking her tea cup back up. "I really am happy to be here."

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andspiralling
2012-08-23 10:13 pm UTC (link)

"I can't imagine it's very pleasant anyway," Andromeda said. She could certainly sympathize with the feeling of being punched in the gut with the horrible reality of her circumstances, but she had not liked living with the feeling of dreading her fate, either. She wondered whether Andy being marked for unwinding had spared Narcissa, or whether they had simply had two of their daughters unwound. She wouldn't have put it past her parents to do the latter.

She sipped at her tea, allowing the younger woman to have a moment to take it all in. At the apology, she shook her head. "It's perfectly alright. You're allowed to be happy to be here and uncomfortable with the circumstances that make you happy to be here, too. That's precisely how I feel about it."

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markformarriage
2012-08-23 11:22 pm UTC (link)

Andy reached for a scone and took a small bite then. "It's very strange," she said. "Back in my world, I hadn't seen my husband for three weeks. I knew I was never going to see him again. But now... I feel like there's this little glimmer of hope that maybe he'll get brought here as well. I don't want to get my hopes up, though."

She continued sipping on her tea and thinking about what her life had become. Everything was so new, so strange. She didn't even know where to begin.

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andspiralling
2012-08-24 09:23 pm UTC (link)

"There was a version of him here before, when I first arrived," Andromeda said. "From the Games world. But he left, and I haven't seen any version of him since." She gave the other Andromeda a small, sad smile. "Back in my world, my husband has been dead for two years. And my daughter, as well."

She lifted a hand to brush a lock of her hair back from her face, and sipped at her tea. "This place does hold the hope of seeing lost loved ones, but it can also take them from you all over again. It's both a blessing and a curse, really."

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	markformarriage 2012-08-24 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	"Dead?" Andy asked, frowning. "Ted and Dora?" She dropped her head a bit and shook it. "I can't even imagine that." Sighing, she took another bite of her scone. It was hard enough being taken away from him and their daughter, but to have them dead... It was awful. "How long do people usually stay here?" she asked. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

andspiralling
2012-08-25 07:22 am UTC (link)

"Yes," Andromeda said. Remus as well, and Sirius, and so many others that she had known less well, but Andy was already overwhelmed enough with the news about Ted and Nymphadora. By way of some explanation, however, she offered, "In the war."

With all the practice she had in maintaining her composure, the pain of it didn't show in her face, although a tinge of sadness was evident in her tone. She'd had two years to cope, and although she wasn't coping well, she wasn't weak enough to break down and cry.

She had gotten halfway through a biscuit, but now found her appetite lost, so she occupied herself with pouring another cup of tea and blowing lightly on the hot liquid. "It depends," she said. "On what, precisely, I'm not sure. I showed up at the same time as another version of us, from colour world, and she couldn't have been here for more than two weeks. For me it's been..." she paused to calculate it in her head. "Approximately three months."

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markformarriage
2012-08-25 01:45 pm UTC (link)

"Three months," Andy said, pushing some hair behind her ear. "I think three months was the longest Ted and I stayed anywhere when we were on the run. We stayed with some of his family when we first left, but we couldn't stay long, so we moved a lot. We were in Doncaster for three months though, when Dora was born. We had been there for about a month before I went into labor. Then we didn't want to leave until she got a bit older."

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