RP: Here I am once again with my back against the wall afraid to show you... Date: October 19, 2000 Characters: Lavender and Malachi Location: their place Public/Private: Private Summary: Malachi and Lavender have a confrontation of their own after the pictures of her and muggle Prime Minister goes out. Status: Complete
Malachi had a subscription to the Daily Prophet. He had to keep up to date on what was going on in both worlds. It was to his surprise when he picked up this mornings edition and his girlfriend was standing over the muggle prime minister, half-naked, looking seductive. He hated it. He'd immediately tossed it below a stand of papers and tried to ignore it, not reading the article at first. It was wrong to see his girlfriend half-naked with another man - any other man. Yet alone a married man. Someone else. The article just called to him, making it so he'd read the words at least three times. Politics and publicity were lost on him before he even read the article. He debated whether he should actually even mention it, but the more he leaned toward not mentioning it, the more he knew he had to.
This wasn't something that was just rolled under the rug and forgotten. She'd been with many men, and he knew it, but he he didn't like it being thrown in his face like she was a whore. She wasn't a whore, and they all knew it. It was disrespectful and he at least had to try to comfort her. But he couldn't. Right now his own anger, thoughts, and feelings on the subject were far too strong to just set aside. How could she do this? How could she sleep with the muggle Prime Minister of all people? How could she do this to... to herself, to this man, to him? He wondered if it was when they were seeing each other, even if they weren't monogamous then. When was this? Why? It was just too much.
When he got home, his anger had continued to grow, making it harder for him think of anything else at all. No matter how much he tried to, he couldn't get the image of her, half-naked, with a man on the bed below her for the world to see out of his head.