luetta proudfoot will not be disarmed. (foible) wrote in impetuousrpg, @ 2011-05-02 14:10:00 |
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Last night was not a good night. Just as Demelza had come home to start getting ready for the Charity Ball, Diggory had made a Floo call to inform her that their father's girlfriend had now been ungraded to their father's fiancee and they'd all been invited to dinner to celebrate with the newly engaged couple. Cue fake smiles and unfelt congratulations. She was trying to be happy, but honestly? He couldn't have picked a worse time. They were but two days away from the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. And sure, perhaps Carey was a Muggle and his family had done what they could to protect him from the war of their world as it began to spill out into his. But she wasn't pleased -- because she felt like everyone cared more about protecting Carey than he did about protecting his family. Because she felt like he was leaving her, again. Because she didn't like this change and she wished everything could go back to the way it was, when they were living in St. Ives and everyone was happy and none of her friends had died and her worst nightmare was only about the Thing underneath her bed. But that was wishful thinking. Presently, Demelza stood at the counter of an apothecary, waiting for the store clerk to finish bagging the ingredients she needed for a new batch of Dreamless Sleep Potion. She'd run out a couple of weeks ago and had at first thought that the nightmares had stopped. But she'd been wrong, and suddenly her flatmate had been giving her strange looks in the morning, asking if she was sure she'd been sleeping well. "Sorry, how much for that again?" she queried, realising she hadn't listened to a word of what the store clerk had said. He looked a little impatient, too. Whoops. |