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Severus Snape ([info]severelyseverus) wrote in [info]labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-03-16 20:39:00

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Entry tags:complete, day three, nymphadora tonks, severus snape

WHO: Snape & Tonks
WHAT: A surprising visit
WHEN: Day 3
WHERE: Snape's residence
RATING: PG? G?
STATUS: Complete



Snape, needing to recuperate from an atypically social day, had decided to spend this day at home. Alone. His previous day had featured time on the town with a drunken pirate and surprisingly congenial conversation with a young woman to whom there was more than there first appeared to be. After all the time he had spent alone on Mirage, he was not used to so much social contact. On the Planet, he had had a suite of rooms furnished exactly as he had liked, with the ability to summon whatever other things he might require. After a while, he had even stopped going to the dining hall for meals. He had been spoiled, he supposed.

Today, however, despite the need to leave the apartments to eat, he would, he had decided, spend the day alone if at all possible. Already, he had begun collecting ingredients for potions. Looking through the market for various common reagents, he had brought some back to his rooms, along with some jars he had acquired. He had decided to spend the day testing them and assessing them, measuring them and weighing them, and carefully filling jars with them. It would be relaxing.

He was not, therefore, expecting the knock that came on his apartment door.



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[info]severelyseverus
2009-04-08 11:42 pm UTC (link)
Snape nodded, satisfied with the reaction he had observed. Clearly Tonks was shocked by the news. He wasn't sure she was as appalled as he had expected, but definitely knocked for a loop. What had she expected? She and her fellow obviously hadn't been using protection. If she hadn't wanted this, Snape was not sure he could measure his disdain for her recklessness. He felt badly for the child, however, when the witch elaborated her quandry.

"My dear witch, I am very certain. The potion I made is very accurate. Life, as you know, has a very potent and distinct magical quality. The new life growing inside you could not but be detected in your fluids. I take it you are upset by this news? If you are worried about breaking up your little family, why don't you just stay here?"

Other than the fact that he could not imagine any kind of joy in raising a child, he couldn't really understand what Tonks' problem was. In his experience, most pregnancies ended without any death or disfigurement on the part of the mother or child. Perhaps it was her man, Marcus, that she was afraid of? Would he welcome this news?

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[info]tonks_please
2009-04-09 01:36 am UTC (link)
Tonks did start crying then, not much, just a couple of tears trailing down her pale cheeks. But she also smiled slightly, and kept her hand protectively on her stomach. It still felt flat, but in some undetermined amount of time, she would have a baby. "I'm pregnant..." She whispered the words softly, trying to internalize them, figure out how she felt about them in the end.

But the suggestion that she stay here made her glare at the wizard disdainfully. "You may be happy sitting around here doing nothing while people die at home, but I'm not." She gasped softly and put her free hand over her mouth. "Bloody hell, I'm sorry, Severus. That was really rude of me. But I won't give up on going home." But the words were not said with the force that she would have before she knew of her growing family, that was certain.

She stood still for a moment, and then nodded. She needed some time to think this over, to decide how to tell Marcus. She would have to, she knew that much, but realized that she really had no idea how he would react. "I'll talk to you later... oh, um... do you think you could just sort of not mention this to anyone?"

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[info]severelyseverus
2009-04-09 11:33 pm UTC (link)
Snape watched Tonks impatiently as she absorbed the news further. He was jolted out of his unpleasant complacency by her words, however. It was not so much the feeble defiance to his perfectly reasonable suggestion that surprised him, but the tender apology that followed.

"My dear witch, I understand your desire to help your friends, but there are two things that your should consider. First, if this place is anything like the last place--which it strongly appears to be--people here are from various times. You don't even know when now is. How do you know you won't return at exactly the same moment you departed, free to save whichever lives you choose? You don't; so until you do, you might as well not worry about it. Second, chances are you are not leaving; in which case your child will be born here. At that point, you will find yourself in the same situation as many emigrants to foreign lands. Their children feel at home in the land they were born in, and the parents feel it is less cruel to the child to stay. So, feel whatever outrage you wish to now at my happiness, rude or not. I do not believe you will feel so outraged for long."

Pleased to have got the last word, Snape crossed his arms, waiting for his "guest" to leave.

"Fine. I shall leave it to you to tell the space-man."

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[info]tonks_please
2009-04-10 01:21 am UTC (link)
Tonks waved off all the things he said impatiently, and then wiped the tears from her cheeks. She sort of hated herself, really, for allowing herself to cry in front of him, of all people. She sighed and shook her head, but what could she do about it now? The speech he made, however, didn't fall on totally deaf ears. She was far too intelligent to discount anything said by someone as smart as Professor Snape.

"Alright. Thank you." The last two words were whispered, and she smiled slightly at him. He had, after all, helped her. After the smile, she turned, walked to the door, and left. She had a lot to think about, a lot to decide, and Severus Snape wasn't going to be able to help her with any of it.

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