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Peter Pettigrew (p__pettigrew) wrote in hogwarts_dawn,
@ 2021-03-19 15:59:00

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character: peter pettigrew, unused: cassandra trelawney

RP: Peter/Cassandra
Who: Peter/Cassandra
When: Afternoon, 19 March
Where: Cassandra's new office
What: Peter has good news about the green houses

Peter had been thinking about his conversation with Sirius since it happened. The only thing that seemed to distract him was working on the greenhouses. Those were things that he could do and do well. Once he'd gotten an idea, though, he worked nonstopped. Eating and working from his room and barely leaving it, until he'd gotten the spells all worked out.

With a parchment in hand, he started to run through the hallways of Hogwart until he reached the seventh floor. Offices. They were going to have offices here. He wasn't sure why they needed one. He finally saw her through an open door. "I know why we need the office. So I don't have to run to show you something," he said a little out of breath. "This was much easier when I was eleven."

He went in, parchment in hand. "I think I know how we built the greenhouse, which really- what an idiot! I should have thought of it sooner. What's the one thing that we have plenty of? Weeds right? Things are basically spilling over from the Forbidden Forest, not that I think we should go in there, but we can magicall sever what's come out. We can use the weeds, with the right spells, which by the way I have, to create the structure that keeps the glass in place." He finally took a deep breath. "And hi how are you? Sorry, I've disappeared. I was working on this and got... distracted."

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p__pettigrew
2021-03-20 12:29 am UTC (link)

"My mum is a Muggleborn, so I always knew about magic but my dad died when I was little, so while she worked I stayed with my grandparents," he started telling her. "They knew about magic too and so did my uncle and aunt, but my grandparents' siblings, nephews and nieces, they had no idea. I knew since an early age that some people had magic and some didn't, but we couldn't tell the people with no magic about it. When you grow up like that, you never really question it."

It would have been easier if he'd liked to be on his own. "I wanted the company and James and Sirius- They were popular and being around them made me feel good. that was my fault." He sighed. "People are stupid, aren't they? The things you see would happen regardless. The fact that you see them should scare you, not them, and you need time to adjust too."

He nodded. "That seems like a wonderful idea. So we'll be working out of your office, not that it really matters for now since there's a department of two at the moment," he said, laughing.

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blondemagic
2021-03-20 12:57 am UTC (link)

"No, I suppose not," her brow furrowed thoughtfully. Cassandra worried still for those who were older. For a child, it was still a life of wonder. Things could change and be accepted. Hopefully, they would have a good plan by that time.

This time she did get up, dragging her wheeled chair around behind her. She settled in beside Peter, just reaching to take his hand. That was... alright, surely. It wasn't too terrible a thing. "It's an understandable thing. Now, you're a grown man, looking at the world from the other side," she shrugged a shoulder slightly. Cassandra huffed a soft laugh, shaking her head slightly, "Nothing is certain. Not even my visions. There are always... ambiguities waiting for someone to insert something - like a trap. And Seeing them was a... badge of honor. Being frightened was not allowed."

She clicked her tongue at him, smiling, "Our office. I just get the bigger desk."

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p__pettigrew
2021-03-20 01:14 am UTC (link)

Peter looked at the chair and laughed. "Where did you get that chair?" Did you raid the entire Muggle Studies office?" It probably would feel like some kind of novelty if you came from a different century, or if you were a pureblood.

He squeezed her hand. "Do you know what I find about all the people with chocolate frog cards? They are people who others don't fully understand. I imagine you most of all, because knowing the future is the scariest thing in the world. Life has no real meaning if things are meant to go a certain way, and I understand what you're saying, but fear and nuances rarely go together well. What I'm saying is that they are your visions and you can be proud and afraid at the same time if that's what you feel."

He nodded. "Our office. I can work with that not that I'll be here much. Once we find that spell, it's build build build for me."

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blondemagic
2021-03-20 01:32 am UTC (link)

Cassandra grinned broadly, "Yes." She might have taken a bunch of things that she thought were interesting and cute. Glenda had told her to help herself. Cassandra opened a desk drawer and pulled out a colorful stick with a rabbit head on top. "I don't know what P-E-Zed is but look," she was so happy with her PEZ dispenser despite not knowing what it was for and happily pulled the head back and forth. No candy came out as it was long gone.

Wasn't he just so sweet? Peter was very special and his friends, such as they were, didn't really understand that. "It is not the visions that I am afraid of anymore - it is the death that will follow them eventually. Either it will be sudden and painful or it will be slow and agonizing as I gradually lose a sense of self." She would not say it out loud but she would rather die painfully than gradually go mad. The latter would have been terribly... embarrassing. "How horridly morbid. Let us ignore that."

Cassandra smiled fondly at him, "I just don't want you feeling like you're intruding at any point."

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p__pettigrew
2021-03-20 01:47 am UTC (link)

Peter chuckled. "This is a candy dispenser. Pez is the company. Here, let me show you." He took it from her and pulled it open. "Here, you'd put the candies. They were standard size and you could buy different flavours. Then you closed them up and when you pulled the head back, a candy would pop out. I remember loving them as a kid. They weren't even that great candies, but I loved how they'd come out."

That was a much easier discussion. "You've hinted before and you certainly don't owe me any explanation, since you don't really know me from Adam, but why do you think those are your options. There must have been Seers who didn't die a painful death," he said. "Maybe the reason people go through that is because they are alone, dealing with this visions."

He nodded. "I do appreciate it. A lot. You didn't have to trust me, not even for what happened with James and Lily, but because you don't know me, but you've been kind from the first moment."

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blondemagic
2021-03-20 01:59 am UTC (link)

Cassandra watched him as if this were the most fascinating thing she'd ever seen. Muggles thought of the strangest thing - though she was sure there were magical alternatives by now. Still, it was very cute. "I might have to find some sweets to put in it - just so we can use them properly."

Ah, now that was a question. She frowned slightly, "After a... serious vision, it's very painful. The headaches are always getting worse and my memory is worse already." Cassandra paused, meeting his eyes for a moment, "There are other options, of course, but they are things like the childbed - like my mother." And that option specifically struck terror in her, visible in her eyes, in the tension in her shoulders.

Cassandra shrugged her shoulders, "I liked you from the first moment, as I've said. Besides your question about the moon - there was just something about you."

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p__pettigrew
2021-03-20 02:14 am UTC (link)

"These things have existed for decades. I bet they still exist. They still taste as bad, but probably have even strangers containers." After all, you didn't buy Pez for the qualify of its candies. If the containers got dull, kids would stop buying them.

"Childbirth isn't as dangerous as it once was," Peter said because that he knew about that and it would help put her mind to easy, but he had no idea about the visions. "Maybe things have changed. I mean you haven't had visions since coming here, have you? Were they bad? Maybe you'll have less and it's part of this little trip. I don't believe that the future is written for you."

Peter wasn't really good at talking to women, but he didn't have a problem with Cassandra and that was the greatest proof he had. "I felt comfortable talking to you, too. That- it doesn't happen."

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blondemagic
2021-03-20 02:28 am UTC (link)

"Maybe we can look when we're in Dufftown," she suggested with a smile, though she didn't expect they'd have much time. She also thought that maybe she might look for something... Small and sweet in a different way. There might be objections to her passing out a litter of kittens if she could find them but she thought the wee things might lift collective spirits.

Cassandra couldn't entirely believe that though she wanted to. She slowly sucked in her bottom lip, "Well... Not about the collective us or anything pertaining to the magical world anyway. I have little mundane ones every day - the weather in the afternoon, a spoon falling on the floor, someone losing a button. Large ones, not so much, but that too is worrisome." Peter was trying to make this so positive but she couldn't help it. She knew her reality. "You just don't want me to collapse," her tone was teasing, trying to make light of it.

"I can't help but wonder what it would have been like if we had grown up in the same time," she thought aloud. Perhaps things could have been different for him, at the very least.

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p__pettigrew
2021-03-20 02:40 am UTC (link)

"Sure. As long as there's a candy store, they'll have them." He didn't care how small or out of the way the shop was, he couldn't imagine one who didn't carry those candies.

He shrugged. "Or maybe you won't have as many important ones, which might suck in terms of new cards after your name but you might have a much longer life. The point is that we don't know, and as I said, I don't believe that things are preordained. If they were, then we can just sit down and ignore life."

Peter wasn't sure that it would have been a good idea. "You probably would have gone to school with us, seen how popular James and Sirius were and would have never noticed me. So maybe it's best that we didn't."

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blondemagic
2021-03-20 02:50 am UTC (link)

She certainly didn't give a rat's arse about new bloody cards. That whole thing was ridiculous and just a way to get children to buy sweets. But then again, so were the PEZ dispensers, she supposed. "Which means I will do as I have always done and live while I wait. I am not the kind to just... waste away."

Cassandra made a face at him and gently poked his side, "You need to understand that I am not that sort. I was never interested in popularity and I'm still not." She lifted her hand, a finger curled under his chin to make sure he was looking at her properly. "I am not going to stop being your friend unless you purposely hurt me. I picked you."

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p__pettigrew
2021-03-20 05:02 pm UTC (link)

"That sounds like a good idea, but that doesn't meant that we can't do some research on the subject. You can't be the only Seer in existence and there must be Seers in different countries," Peter said. "Maybe there are solutions and potions that didn't exist in your time. It's been over a century and I have no idea because it was never something I had to worry about but there's a difference between not being paralyzed by fear and willfully ignore a possible problem. When the borders open up, we need to look into it."

Peter shrugged. "It wasn't anything about you and more about me. I always disappeared with Sirius and James around. It was some sort of spell that made me and Remus become invisible and people only saw them." He probably shouldn't have been so used to it, but he was. He smiled at her. "I don't want to hurt you, so that's good."

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