Tweak

InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "I like tea~"

Username: 
Password:    
Remember Me
  • Create Account
  • IJ Login
  • OpenID Login
Search by : 
  • View
    • Create Account
    • IJ Login
    • OpenID Login
  • Journal
    • Post
    • Edit Entries
    • Customize Journal
    • Comment Settings
    • Recent Comments
    • Manage Tags
  • Account
    • Manage Account
    • Viewing Options
    • Manage Profile
    • Manage Notifications
    • Manage Pictures
    • Manage Schools
    • Account Status
  • Friends
    • Edit Friends
    • Edit Custom Groups
    • Friends Filter
    • Nudge Friends
    • Invite
    • Create RSS Feed
  • Asylums
    • Post
    • Asylum Invitations
    • Manage Asylums
    • Create Asylum
  • Site
    • Support
    • Upgrade Account
    • FAQs
    • Search By Location
    • Search By Interest
    • Search Randomly

Lizzy Miles ([info]prittyprincess) wrote in [info]indarkness_logs,
@ 2010-10-17 03:44:00

Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend!  Next Entry
Entry tags:!dropped, 2032 10, lizzy miles, severus snape

RP: Memories
Characters: Lizzy, Severus
Time/Date: late morning, October 17
Location: Algul Siento, beach
Warnings/Rating: None
Summary: Lizzy angsts
Status: Closed



She'd woken up that morning feeling a bit better than she had yesterday. She'd talked to Ari, and she understood a little bit what had happened, and why everything was suddenly different. It gave her a bit more courage to explore a bit, and she began to check out the room she'd been given. It wasn't all that different from her first room, except that Cheshire's stuff wasn't around. Peeking across the hall showed her Ari's name on the door across from hers, and she wondered if that meant that Ari was coming over here eventually, and she liked that idea. She hoped it would be soon, but it either wasn't now or Ari was not answering her knock. She wasn't sure which was true.

Heading back to her room, she began checking nooks and crannies she hadn't bothered with before, and flipping through the closet and things. It was at that point that she noticed something that looked... familiar, in a sort of way. Something that didn't look out of place with her things, but at the same time she hadn't expected to be there at all, and she tugged it off the hanger to regard it more fully.

It was a simple jacket, worn and pale in colour. More of an overcoat really. It had a large collar, and heavy fabric, clearly meant to endure harsh weather. It was huge, meant for a fully grown man and not a small eight year old girl, and Lizzy's fingers trembled as she held it because she knew exactly who it was meant to belong to, and until that moment she truly hadn't realized how much she missed him. How much she wanted him to be here.

Tears began prickling in the corners of her eyes, and she used the jacket to wipe them away, hastily sniffing a bit to get rid of the worst of her encroaching sadness. She was a big girl. And it wasn't like Saul wanted to be here with her anyway, looking out for her. It wasn't like he ever wanted to be anywhere near her. She just forced him to be, because of her own loneliness. Her own helplessness.

Even still, she wrapped the jacket around her shoulders. It fell loosely on her, covering her hands entirely and falling down to her knees, but she pulled it around her as though she was cold. Memories washed over her, then, and she closed her eyes and just let herself remember what it had been like before she had found herself kidnapped all those months ago. Back when it had just been her and Saul, trying to get by as best they could.

She was not finished exploring the island, of course, but it didn't seem as relevant just then. She'd head out of her room, sure, but maybe she didn't need to explore every inch of the island today. Maybe she could just wander along the beach and watch the waves and just remember better times.

It had been raining a bit, but it seemed light it was starting to let up. Lizzy blinked in the sun as she moved along through the island, navigating the wet sand and watching the jungle with curious eyes, wondering what sort of dangerous things lived inside it that she had to worry about, and felt a pang as she realized that was never something she would have had to worry about with Saul around. He'd been able to protect her, watch out for her, and so often she'd just taken that for granted.

Was this the sort of thing that Tyler meant, when he talked about being a good person and things? But she'd never ordered Saul to watch out for her. Maybe he'd... liked her better than she thought he had, after all.

Somehow, she thought, that made the separation from him even worse. But maybe finding his jacket meant that he was going to show up at some point. She allowed herself to think about that as she walked along the beach.


(Post a new comment)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-17 03:32 pm UTC (link)
Now there was a sight that was oddly familiar.

Severus had gone down to the beach to have a look around, because Mercy had mentioned how she thought it might be nice to live near a beach. He imagined she would like it here, if she ever got the chance to come here. Apart from that whole kidnapped bit, of course.

When he had made the decision to check out the beach, however, Severus had not expected to see a child wearing an overlarge jacket, and the spectacle made him smile. Granted, he had only worn his father's overcoat as a child to hide the fact that he'd been wearing his mother's blouse underneath, but it still reminded him of better days. That was -- roughly -- how he'd looked when he'd met Lily for the first time, long hair and all.

Still, this wasn't a play park in Manchester. The jungle was dangerous, and possibly even the beach, if there happened to be jellyfish. A young girl shouldn't be wandering about all on her own. He made his way over to where she walked along and fell into step beside her, clearing his throat. "Good morning," he said quietly, with a small smile.

(Reply to this) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-18 01:45 am UTC (link)
She glanced up when she sensed a presence next to her, but she was really kind of absorbed in her own thoughts and didn't really think too much about it. She thought that she recognized him, but it took her a moment to remember his name in her current foggy state.

Readjusting the sleeves of Saul's coat so that they were above her elbows (of course, they fell down almost immediately) she blinked up at Snape a bit and nodded her head a bit absently. "Good morning," she said. And then more pressing questions made themselves apparent to her. "Do you know what this place is, or when we're going back?" she frowned a bit, readjusting the coat again. "Or when the others are coming over? Ariana's name is on the door across from me and we don't know where Ches is, but he must be coming back."

Severus was an adult, right? That meant that he should know the answers to her questions cause he would have read them on the network, right?

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-18 02:10 am UTC (link)
He shouldn't have been surprised, considering the girl's frightened entry on the network, that she immediately launched into such questions. Unfortunately, however, they were not questions to which he had acceptable answers. Hopefully his non-answers wouldn't frighten her any more than she was already.

"I'm afraid I don't know when the others are coming," Severus answered, shaking his head with a soft sigh. Or if, to be honest, but he didn't want to tell her that. "They haven't said." He paused just a moment, thinking back to the condom conversation, and asked, "You're Lizzy, correct? Ariana has mentioned you."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-18 05:35 am UTC (link)
She nodded, not really surprised exactly, that he didn't know when everyone was supposed to come over. She'd known that it was a long shot. Just because he was an adult didn't necessarily mean that he had all the answers. She knew that from experience. "Okay," she said, because what else was she going to say?

Maybe earlier this morning she'd have had something else to say, but at the moment...

"Lizzy," she said with a nod. "Lizzy... Miles," her breath hitched on the last part. She'd taken on Saul's last name when she started traveling with him, her own being too easy to trace and track. "Ari's my best friend," she added. She suspected he would think 'on the island' but that wasn't true.

She swallowed thickly, rubbing her eyes on a too long sleeve. "You're Mr... Professor... Severus Snape, right?" She figured it was probably better to confirm names now, when he'd asked hers, than getting it wrong later.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-18 05:10 pm UTC (link)
"That's right," Severus agreed with a nod. He hadn't remembered specifically mentioning to Ariana that he had been a professor at Hogwarts, but perhaps Lizzy had spoken to Harry or someone. It didn't especially matter where she'd heard that title in relation to him.

He had noticed the slight unsteadiness in her breathing when she'd said her surname, followed by wiping her eyes on the sleeve of that overlarge coat. Severus harbored no illusions that he could help the girl with whatever might be troubling her just now, but his curiosity got the better of him, regardless.

"Is something the matter, Lizzy?" he asked quietly, raising his eyebrows. He didn't expect her to tell him, either, if there was. She would probably rather confide in Ariana, if she had a choice, but seeing as Ariana was not here, perhaps a friend of a friend would be close enough, for the time being.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-19 12:25 am UTC (link)
She nodded, looking away at the water for a minute before she heard his question. She realized that she should try to be more social. She had never been very good at making friends, but there was no reason why she couldn't try, here. She didn't really want to answer the question, but... she didn't think she could deflect it very well, so...

"No," she said, kicking at some sad. "Yes. Maybe. I don't know. This was in my closet this morning." She held up one of the big sleeves so he would understand what she meant, in case it wasn't obvious. "It's... not mine," she clarified further. "It belonged..." she trailed off, looking bitter and lost, kicking at the sand again. "He's not here." She said finally. "I don't know how they got his jacket or why they gave it to me because he's not here and if he's not here by now he's not coming and I don't know why they wanted to remind me."

She sulked briefly before she looked back up at Severus. "Did they leave anything for you?" she asked.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-19 12:50 am UTC (link)
The kick quite belied the professed 'no', and so Severus wasn't the least bit surprised when Lizzy amended that to a 'yes' in the same breath. "I can see that," he said softly, trying his best not to smirk, when she mentioned -- quite unnecessarily -- that the coat was not hers. The urge to smirk, however, was short lived, in the wake of all the rest, and he sighed softly. Tormenting a child this way ... they really could sink no further, could they?

"Not so far, no," he answered with a shake of his head. "But I'm sure my time is coming soon." Then, before he even thought about the action, he reached out to stroke his hand lightly over the girl's hair. "I'm sorry, Lizzy," he said quietly, frowning.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-19 01:28 am UTC (link)
She was confused by the gesture, the feel of him stroking her hair, and she blinked a few times before she looked up at him again. There was a time when she may have shied away from it, angry and annoyed and frustrated and... well, generally overwhelmed with emotions. But maybe she was growing, because though the urge was there below the surface, the action felt nice and she knew the intention was to comfort. She let it happen, sighing a bit.

"It's stupid," she said, scowling faintly. "It's not like I want him here, because I don't because then they'd just be mean to him too, and it's not like he'd be able to stop them because they'd just block his powers the way they block everyone else's. But I don't want him to not be here either." She tried to cross her arms and found it a bit difficult with the sleeves because she couldn't quite tell where her hand was, scoffed and pouted further, and then just left her arms by her sides.

"I want to go home," she said quietly. The words had never been more true then that moment for her.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-19 01:50 am UTC (link)
"I know," Severus said quietly, in response to the tirade. Because he really did know. Probably everyone there understood what she was going through, to be honest. Every single one of them had a loved one they would have wanted there (except him), but none of them would want to expose their loved ones to such a thing. (Though he probably wouldn't mind seeing Dumbledore have a taste of his own manipulative potion, for once.)

And again, most of them wanted to go home, as well, even if he ... didn't. In light of that, perhaps he wasn't the best choice to comfort her, come to think of it. Well, he never would have been the best choice to comfort her, but keeping her from getting wrapped up in the tentacles of a Portuguese man-of-war? That he could do.

"It's not stupid, Lizzy," he told her quietly, shaking his head. "It's not stupid at all."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-19 05:00 am UTC (link)
"It feels stupid," she muttered. "It feels dumb and stupid and it's just a jacket. It's not like it's him, even if it kind of smells like him and that's just weird because that means that it is his jacket, and they were around him and stole it and... and I hope he killed them," she said viciously. "Or hurt them or something, and that's why he's not here because they thought he was too dangerous."

She thought that might be mean, but it was what she wanted, and dammit but she was sad right now. She was allowed to think and say things that made her feel a bit more happy.

"It's just a jacket," she repeated. "It's not Saul. And it's not really like if it was him he'd... come flying in to save us all or anything." Those ideas were wishful thinking on her part, she understood that. Saul would be depowered if he ever got this far. But she couldn't help but dream that someone would save them, and why couldn't that someone be Saul? It could.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-20 12:05 am UTC (link)
Severus tried to repress both a smile and a snigger. Vicious little thing, wasn't she? Though he couldn't exactly blame her. A small portion of the snigger still managed to escape, even if he fended off the smile by biting the insides of his lips.

He cleared his throat as a cover, however, and shook his head. "Be that as it may," he began, and then shrugged slightly. "Even if it feels stupid, I doubt there's a single person here or on the old island who has not -- at some point -- wished for someone they knew before to come here and help out." He raised an eyebrow and added, "Even an old man like me."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-21 01:31 am UTC (link)
She managed a small smile at his repressed snigger, feeling like she's said something right. She was allowed to be upset, and be mean, and be frustrated with the situation.

"Everyone tries so hard to pretend like everything is okay," she said. "Like we're all happy and we all like each other, and sometimes we do, but... but I think if someone was given the option to go home, even if it meant someone else had to suffer for it, I think a lot of people would want to take the chance to go home." She kicked at the sand again. "I mean, it isn't like they would have to stay here and suffer the consequences."

Her eyes peered out over the water. "Maybe that's why there were earthquakes, and we got sent here. Cause people went home." Her eyes suddenly felt sore in the corners, and she wiped at them with the long sleeves, frustrated. She didn't want to cry.

Sniffing a bit, she looked up at Severus, "Who do you want to come here?" she asked, suddenly curious.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-21 04:46 am UTC (link)
"A lot of people probably would," Severus agreed quietly, with a nod. He wouldn't, of course, but he also wanted to stay for his own selfish reasons. So in his case, it would rather be a question of whether he could stay if someone else suffered for it.

The first question that sprang to mind was how much they would have to suffer. Still, he didn't think he could choose that path, even if wouldn't have had to witness it. He would still know, and he was not that type of person. Not any longer.

"I doubt that," he answered, in regards to the earthquakes. "If only because I doubt our captives would ever be so kind as to offer a choice."

The last question caught him off guard, he had to admit, and he turned his head to face her, eyebrows raised, before answering. "My old employer," he said, with a wry grin. "Even if I couldn't stand the man. But he had an undeniable talent for planning and strategy." And he might like to see his sister again, though Severus stopped just short of saying that.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-21 09:19 am UTC (link)
"A lot more than people probably think, too," Lizzy said quietly, kicking at the sand again. She wondered if she would. It would depend on who was going to suffer, and whether or not she knew or liked them. If she didn't know them, didn't like them, what did it matter if it meant that she got to go home?

... If she even wanted to go home. She was starting to think that all she really wanted was for Saul to come here. Was that worse?

She decided not to remark on his earthquake comment. She disagreed, but she supposed she could leave it at that for now.

"If you don't like him, why do you want him here?" she asked, her brow furrowing. "Cause he has planning and strategize? Does that mean he's good at games or something?"

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-21 07:55 pm UTC (link)
'Mind games, yes' was the first thing Severus thought to say, but he decided against it. "You could say that," he finally answered, nodding. "And I don't have to like someone to recognize that their particular talents could be useful." Just as he had not hesitated to contact Potter and Black regarding the dearth of Wolfsbane ingredients, if he thought having the Headmaster here could save lives, he would tolerate the man. That would be a small price to pay.

He started to ask who this Saul fellow was, but he decided against that, as well. Lizzy would tell him if she wanted to, he imagined, and if not ... her silence likely meant she wanted to think about something else. But whoever he was, he was reasonably certain that Saul wasn't her father. She likely wouldn't have called him by his Christian name, if he had been. He still thought of his father as 'Da', after all, even if the man had been dead for twenty years, now.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-22 01:54 am UTC (link)
Lizzy thought about that. You don't have to like someone to recognize that their talents could be useful. "Like Chase?" she offered curiously. She knew that Chase was strong, and had powerful magic which could be - and would be - useful if and when he chose to use it to help them, but she still didn't like him very much because of what happened at the pool and because Tyler didn't seem to like him very much. "Cause he's strong and everything," she clarified, because it was clearly necessary to do so.

She thought about the rest of his words for a minute and about Saul and frowned a bit. "So they bring... some useful people over, but not others. Why do they pick and choose like that? I don't get it. What are they hoping to find out about us? People say 'experiment' and 'observation' all the time like it's supposed to mean something, but I don't get what you can learn from just sort of watching people. It doesn't make any sense."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-22 02:15 am UTC (link)
Chase. The name was vaguely familiar, but Severus did not recall exactly in what context he had heard it before.
"I suppose," he answered, noncommittally. Only afterward did it click. This Chase was one of the 'mean people' Ariana had mentioned, and she had said that they avoided him because Lizzy did not like him.

He shrugged, frowning slightly. "Only they could say what they really hoped to learn, I imagine," he answered with a sigh. "I personally think they simply enjoy watching our misery. There is nothing educational about it." Yes, he had told Mercy he liked to think that there was some higher purpose to it all, but that was before they had brought him here, and left her there. Now, he really couldn't be even as optimistic as that.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-22 02:23 am UTC (link)
She pushed the sleeves of her sweater up again, only to have them fall down and thought about that. About acknowledging that even someone like Chase had his uses in a way. She didn't think she liked it very much, but maybe it tied in to the sort of things that Tyler said about being nice to people. Not that she thought she and Chase were going to become close friends any time soon - she really didn't like him - but it was interesting to think that maybe if she needed to she could put aside that dislike and... either accept his help or maybe ask for it.

Not tomorrow, or anything like that, but maybe some day. She nodded her head. "Why didn't you like your old boss?" she asked suddenly, realizing she'd never thought to ask and he hadn't thought to mention, but it was really more of a passing curiosity.

She thought about what he said about the people in charge, and about there being nothing educational about what was going on here, and she nodded her head in agreement, though it didn't sit entirely right with her. She was determined that there had to be more to it than just observing their misery, or they'd bring more people here to do worse things to them, wouldn't they? But maybe not. Maybe this was all there was.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-22 02:50 am UTC (link)
'Because he was a git' was the first thing that sprang to mind, but he didn't think that Lizzy would know that word, so he didn't bother. Even if Dumbledore had been a git. The next term that sprang to mind, however, wasn't much better. He didn't think she would know 'hypocrite', either.

"Because he wasn't very nice," Severus finally answered, with a shake of his head. "He pretended to be nice, and almost everyone liked him -- or even revered him -- but underneath it all, he was a cold, scheming, heartless -- wretch who used people without compunction. He simply did so with a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye."

Of course, she probably wouldn't know the term 'compunction', either, but he had been too busy editing the 'bastard' out of his tirade to worry that that word might be over her head. And there was also the fact that the old bastard had covered up his attempted murder in school, but he didn't want to get into that just now, either.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-24 02:00 am UTC (link)
She thought about that for a minute, complete with frowning and scratching of her head. Or at least attempted scratching. What really happened was that she rubbed her hair with a large sleeve. But she knew all about people who pretended to be nice who were not actually very nice, even if she couldn't figure out what some of Severus' words meant. She understood the gist of what he was trying to say.

"How do you know he wasn't very nice?" she asked curiously. "Did he say mean things behind people's back, or are you just one of those people who knows what everyone else is thinking?"

Or maybe both, she thought belatedly, and then she realized that if Severus really was one of those people who could tell what everyone else was thinking, that might make her uncomfortable, and she eased away a very tiny bit as though increasing the distance between the two of them would help protect her thoughts from his mind reading abilities.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-24 03:07 am UTC (link)
Severus had to chuckle at the second question. He could, if he wanted, read a fair number of people's minds, but it wasn't really something he wanted to do. Not under normal circumstances, at any rate. Under dire circumstances, like when someone had just tried to kill one of his students, yes, but not normally.

"He knew that I would be on his side no matter what, so he didn't bother hiding the way he was from me," Severus finally answered with a slight shrug. He paused briefly, when Lizzy moved a bit further away, wondering if she had perhaps stumbled on something, and he automatically reached out a hand to catch her, if she appeared about to fall. She didn't seem to have stumbled, however, so he drew his hand back and continued.

"He had a carefully crafted -- mask that he showed to the rest of the world, but I got to see the real person behind the mask, and it ... wasn't a pretty sight." He'd nearly said facade, but he caught himself this time. That word was likely a bit over her head, as well, but he was fairly certain she could comprehend what a mask was.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-24 04:00 am UTC (link)
The sudden hand gesture startled her, and she blinked and flinched from it on impulse as though worried that she was about to be struck. When she didn't feel the contact of his hand, she peeked out of one eye to see what was happening and relaxed a bit, falling back into stride next to him as though nothing unusual had happened.

"You must have liked him, then, if you were going to be on his side no matter what," she remarked. "Even if you think you didn't. Unless he was making you stay on his side. Was he making you?" she hesitated slightly, not certain she wanted to hear about it if he was, because it would remind her of Saul. Did... Saul feel like Severus did? Did he secretly hate her because of her... cruelty? She was better now. Would he still hate her now if he showed up? She curled his jacket around her shoulders tightly as though that would somehow make it better.

"Why didn't you make him take off the mask when you were around the rest of the world?" she asked. "So everyone could see what he was really like? Wouldn't that have been better?"

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-24 04:48 am UTC (link)
"No, he wasn't making me," Severus said, with an amused smile, shaking his head. "I supported his cause, not him. His cause was a worthy endeavor even if I thought him not so worthy to be its champion." He shook his head again then, wondering once more if his choice of words would be over her head. But Lizzy didn't appear shy when it came to asking questions, so if it had been, no doubt she would say something.

He sighed softly when she mentioned unmasking Dumbledore. That was sound logic, as far as it went, but ... "Not really, I don't think," he answered, frowning slightly. "For one thing, he was very charming, so I doubt anybody would have believed me. And for another, I had no wish to undermine his cause by exposing him. That would only lose us some much needed supporters. It was better to leave their figurehead fully intact." Even if the statue did indeed have feet of clay.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-24 06:25 am UTC (link)
"His cause?" her brow furrowed. She didn't understand the concept at first thought, mostly because she wasn't clear on what he meant by cause. "You mean, you thought that what he did was good things, even if he was a bad person?" she asked, but that didn't make any sense either. "Why would he do good things if he was really a bad person?"

And why would so many people believe that he was a good person, the way Severus was suggesting? It didn't make any sense to Lizzy. But for her, things were very black and white. Perhaps different shades of black and white than others, but black and white all the same. There wasn't a lot of room for grey. Things were right or wrong and that was it.

"Adult relationships are weird," she decided, kicking at the sand a bit before she grinned up at Severus with a small giggle. That was obviously the only solution to her confusion, unless Severus was mistaken on some of the details that he was sharing with her.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-24 05:59 pm UTC (link)
That was actually a very good question, and one he had asked himself many times. Still, he hadn't come up with a suitable answer that covered all of Dumbledore's particular quirks, in many years. "I'm not really sure," he finally said, quietly, shaking his head. "I think, on some level, he did good things because he knew that was the right thing to do, but on another level, he simply enjoyed being in charge, and having troops to rally behind him. So the better the cause, the more people he could attract to follow him." He was basically drunk with power, and he likely would have become Minister of Magic, if that job hadn't come with so many tedious details to oversee. Better to have Fudge installed, whose strings he could still pull ... for several years, at least, until Fudge had become confident that he could manage quite well on his own, thanks.

He sniggered when Lizzy concluded that adult relationships were weird. "They are indeed," he answered with a warm smile and a nod.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-24 07:29 pm UTC (link)
"But wouldn't people know?" this was the part she was stuck on. "He had to be at least a little bit good, right? Because otherwise he wouldn't know how to pretend? Some people pretend to be mean and you can tell that they're really good, and some people pretend to be good and you can tell that they're really bad because of the things they do. Like... like the people in charge here, they pretend to be good when they post things to the network and stuff, but you can tell that they really aren't because then they separate us from our friends, or give us jackets of people that we miss back home and things, and you know that they don't do that to be nice. I don't understand how you can be the only one who knows that he is really mean," she frowned, and then shrugged.

She had no reason to assume that Severus was lying to her after all. He must really believe what he was saying or he wouldn't say it, right? And just because she didn't get it... didn't mean it wasn't true.

"Maybe they don't want to bring him here because he's smarter and meaner than they are," she said suddenly. "He's better at pretending than they are, and that's why they don't want him here, cause they don't like people who can do things that they can't. That's why they... limit our powers and things."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-24 09:03 pm UTC (link)
Severus still didn't want to get into the matter of his attempted murder, and how Dumbledore had covered it up, but he had to wonder if he was indeed the only one who saw the Headmaster for what he had been. Dumbledore had been charming when he needed to be, and he could read people and gauge their moods even without Legilimency, and he could react accordingly to project the image they already wished to believe was true. But still, something about him had been off. A hollow shell, doing the right things for the wrong reasons, and ... he couldn't put his finger on it, exactly, but he still knew.

"I'm probably not the only one," he answered finally, with a shake of his head. "I'm sure there were others who had their misgivings about him, but he was so well liked by so many that I imagine they were hesitant to say anything. And possibly for the same reasons I was," he finished with a shrug.

"Quite possibly," he said, nodding thoughtfully at Lizzy's speculation. "He was an exceedingly powerful wizard, with knowledge of spells that they couldn't begin to comprehend, I imagine. I'm sure they would have a time disabling all the things he could do, if they didn't know about them. Not to mention, if anyone could work out their little games, it would be him."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]prittyprincess
2010-10-28 06:12 am UTC (link)
Lizzy nodded. That made a bit more sense. If there were a bunch of people who were secretly thinking that Severus' boss was a mean person and none of them really wanted to say anything because he was doing nice things and... but that still didn't really explain why he was doing nice things in the first place.

Of course, Lizzy was starting to be of the mind that she was never going to understand this. Maybe she'd speak to Ariana about it when she got over to this island. Or maybe she'd network her about it later or something, and they could talk about how weird adults were.

"Well, I hope they do bring him here then," Lizzy said, her focus on the sand, on the water, on the trees in the distance, on her feet as she stumbled a bit, on the hotel, on that funny shaped rock, on that weirdly shaped cloud, on Severus, on her jacket, on the hotel, on the trees again. She thought that maybe she'd had a second part to that sentence - something about needing strong people - but she'd sort of forgotten it before she could say it with her focus as scattered as it was.

"I think I might go back inside," she said finally, swinging her arms and their too long sleeves at her side. "Maybe see if there is something to eat." There was a beat where she just sort of stared at the hotel, like she expected to be inside of it now that she'd made that decision, and then she remembered manners. "Did you want to come?" she asked, blinking up at him innocently.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]delicate_power
2010-10-28 05:51 pm UTC (link)
Severus still wasn't entirely sure that he wanted Dumbledore here -- or at least not the Dumbledore he had known. Maybe a younger version, from before he himself had attended Hogwarts. A Dumbledore who didn't know him and wouldn't hold his past over his head. That would make him a bit more tolerable, but just a bit. Still, he nodded when Lizzy said that. He would have been an asset here, even if Severus would most likely avoid him at all costs.

"That sounds like a good idea," Severus answered, with a small smile, when Lizzy mentioned going inside and getting something to eat. The smile broadened, however, when she invited him along. "It would be my pleasure to accompany you, madam," he said, placing a hand against his chest and giving a slight bow. Then he held his hand out in the direction of the hotel and added, "After you."

(Reply to this) (Parent)

Home | Site Map | Manage Account | TOS | Privacy | Support | FAQs