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Dorcas Meadowes (dorcasjmeadowes) wrote in loremrpg,
@ 2011-03-31 11:18:00

Entry tags:

!complete, !incomplete, dorcas meadowes, remus lupin

Characters: Dorcas Meadowes & Remus Lupin
Setting: Back dated: Friday, September 25, 4 P.M., Entrance Hall & The Lake.
Content: SFW
Summary: Dorcas and Remus take a walk.

By the time the end of the week had approached, Dorcas was looking forward to the peaceful tranquility that the lake always seemed to offer her. After being out with Narcissa at all hours the previous two nights, Dorcas found herself a little worn out and restless, and the idea of spending time with Remus was more than appealing. Whenever Dorcas found herself spending time with Narcissa it was always done at one hundred percent, with their friendship there was no such thing as simply soaking in each others' company. So, regardless of how much fun she did have during the past week it was nice to have a little break from her Slytherin friend.

After Remus had agreed to take a walk with her she had tucked away her journal and quickly made her way down to the entrance hall. She leaned against the wall next to the window, occasionally smiling at some of the students she knew before slowly letting her eyes linger on the activities outside and the students. There had been no breakthrough regarding everybody's current hair situation and Dorcas was finding it a little tiring. Sure, it had been fun the first few days but tomorrow would mark the one week anniversary of her blueberry hair and something irked her about the idea of getting used to seeing students with bright pink hair.

She moved her eyes towards the staircase awaiting Remus' arrival, hoping her blonde hair would return before the weekend's end.

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dorcasjmeadowes
2011-04-09 10:33 am UTC (link)

Dorcas laughed slightly at Remus' comment on Narcissa. As far as she knew, Narcissa had no idea who was behind the prank though it wasn't like it would be hard to put two and two together. All things considered and despite how easy it would be to figure out, Dorcas' lips were sealed. "Don't worry your secret's save with me. I can handle her. Besides, I kind of like you in one piece." She replied teasingly. She wasn't sure why she had said that but it just slipped out. She found clarity in her conversations with Remus and she didn't really need to think about what she was going to say, this, was bound to cause some slip ups. Dorcas bit her lip and fiddled with her cardigan sleeve before returning her eyes out to the lake.

When Dorcas heard Remus chuckle at her attempt she blushed slightly and slugged him softly in the arm as a 'hey' escaped her lips. She watched the movement of his wrists carefully before picking up another stone to try again. She tried flicking her wrist as the stone escaped her grip. She felt her cheeks grow pink as it made a splash. She glanced up at Remus, expecting him to laugh at her. Dorcas quickly bent down to grab another stone off the shore and tried concentrating a little harder, replaying her friend's movement in her mind again. This time the stone skipped once. Well, she had made some improvement. She beamed about at him, quite proud of her effort and felt the need to give him a victory hug but she refrained, instead doing a silly victory dance.

When Remus had made a comment about how it was to be around her she flushed again and grinned. "Clearly they're just jealous of my stone skipping skills. I mean, I'm a professional now." She said sarcastically with a grin on her face.

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prefect_wolf
2011-04-09 12:58 pm UTC (link)

"I'll consider you my personal protector then?" he replied with a laugh. There was some seriousness behind it, however. Narcissa, in his opinion, was scary the way only women could be scary. He blushed deeply when she mentioned liking him in one piece. He rather liked her in one piece as well, but he held the words back. Stupid nerves were getting the better of him again.

He watched Dorcas as she tried to skip the stones, not even chuckling when she missed the first time, but he smiled and even clapped when she got the stone to skip just once. For a second Remus though she was going to hug him, something he would have welcomed completely. But Dorcas's victory dance made him laugh.

"Now you can show them up the next time they tease you about skipping stones," Remus reached over and gave a rather awkward shake of her shoulder. "And once you get that down, it's just a matter of practice. You'll be showing them up in no time." He wasn't just being nice, he meant it.

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dorcasjmeadowes
2011-04-10 10:56 am UTC (link)

She nodded her head and smirked. "I'll be your knight in shining armor." She replied playfully, giggling slightly at the thought.

After she finished up her rather ridiculous victory dance, she curtsied and laughed again as she noticed Remus' applause. She began to wonder what caused the change in her mood. Only a few hours earlier, she had been tired, restless and worn out. Dorcas found it strange. She found it strange that she had suddenly become silly and a little out there, something that rarely happened around people other than her family. Dorcas felt her face change, letting her thoughts change her expression entirely. Her eyebrows creased together and she felt her lips curl up as she let her thoughts run away with her. She settled on the lake being the reason of her changing mood. The lake always had an affect on her, it wasn't Remus' looming presence, right? She looked up at him, considering the thought, but as quickly as she had looked up at him her eyes flickered elsewhere.

"You just wait. My brother will be gobsmacked. His older sister skipping a stone? Something he feared the world would never have the pleasure of witnessing." She felt a strand of her interfere with her face and quickly tucked it behind her ear as she looked out onto the lake. The sun was definitely fading and her thoughts started to wander back to the castle and more importantly dinner. She smiled back up at Remus before continuing. "Practice does make perfect. You'll have to watch over my practices though, I mean until I get it perfect." She said cheekily. Dorcas couldn't lie to herself, it couldn't just have been the lake that caused her changes in moods, Remus must have had something to do with it, no matter what her mind had decided moments earlier. The thought of spending more time with him was promising.

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prefect_wolf
2011-04-10 02:23 pm UTC (link)

Remus rolled his eyes at the idea of Dorcas being his knight in shining armor. "Oh because that won't be immasculating at all." He finished with a bit of a laugh. "Let's just keep that between the two of us, though. My mates would tear the mickey out of me if they knew. Course if they knew it was from Narcissa I think they would understand."

It had been a wonderful time wandering around the ground, and Remus didn't feel overwhelmed by prefect duties, or homework or even his mates like he often did. The grounds were perfect and cool and calm and being about Dorcas, well, he swallowed hard at the thought, it was probably the most comfortable he had felt around a bird in a while. And that thought made him incredibly nervous.

"I'll have to be there when you should him up, then," he smiled, looking around the grounds. "And I'll help you as much as you like until the lake freezes over at least. You should be a quick study so I doubt it'll take too long." Remus gave her a soft shove on her shoulder as he teased her.

Without thinking he checked his watch, not really noticing how long they had been out there. He suddenly found her was starving and in desparate need of food. "Reckon we should head up to for some dinner?"

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dorcasjmeadowes
2011-04-11 07:43 am UTC (link)

Dorcas laughed a little at Remus. No matter how many times she had heard people say it, she still couldn't consider Narcissa intimidating. Dorcas often wondered that was only because Narcissa seemed to be on her best behavior when around her. Maybe that was why Dorcas tended to be around her so much, Dorcas had thought up the theory that if she was around her Slytherin friend enough, she could make her a kinder soul. "Oh come on, she's not that scary. She's rainbows and butterflies most of the time." She replied with a hint of playfulness in her voice.

"Of course. I'm sure Arcas would love to meet the bloke who delivered this miracle." She smiled slightly before frowning at the mention of the approaching winter. The season was bittersweet for Dorcas. On one hand, she rather liked the snow. It had a beauty about it that other people often overlooked. And on the other hand, winter meant her precious lake was frozen and it also meant that she had to wear those god awful sweaters her mum knits. At least the latter didn't affect Dorcas until she went home for the holidays.

Dorcas let out a light sigh before shrugging. She knew that they better start heading back but she had rather enjoyed their walk. Though, even she knew it was for the best, since the sun was slowly disappearing, the air was rather cold without the warmth the sun had earlier supplied. "Probably would be best, yeah?" She said before they started to head back.

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prefect_wolf
2011-04-11 10:26 pm UTC (link)

"Oh yes, all rainbows and pretty things," he smirked. Dorcas was brave, that was for certain, or maybe just had known Narcissa long enough to know better than that. "Most of the time, course her ugly sign is nearly as scary as...well...it's a woman's fury, I don't think there's anything worse than that."

Winter was always Remus's least favorite time of the year. Everything about the cold made things more lonely and depressing than ever. His nights spent in the shack were the worst yet; the nearly frozen wooden floors, the rattling of the panels of glass in the shack. It made him shiver.

"I know, I know, back to reality," Remus sighed, wishing they could stand down on the banks of the lake for the rest of the day. Especially with Dorcas around. But his stomach growled and he knew they needed to head back in. Without thinking about it too much he held out his arm to her and smile.

"Shall we, m'lady?" He was just being silly, or really meant it, or both. He wasn't sure.

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dorcasjmeadowes
2011-04-14 02:35 am UTC (link)

Dorcas shrugged and matched Remus' smirk with one of her own. Maybe he was right. Dorcas never really saw any other side of Narcissa apart from the one she knew. But she had heard some talk and whenever Narcissa's name was said around some of the younger students the look on their faces were priceless. They also didn't suggest that Dorcas' Narcissa was the same Narcissa everybody knew. "Suppose I can see how she could be a little scary.."

Dorcas bit her lip lightly, smiling at Remus' silliness. She hesitated for a moment before a huge grin spread across her face. She raised an eyebrow before playing along. She did a small curtsy, laughing again realizing how silly she was being. "Kind sir," she said playfully, her head slightly tilting to one side before linking her arm with his. Her head dropped slightly as she chuckled to herself. She could only imagine how ridiculous they looked, her with blue hair and his lavender but she didn't mind seeming ridiculous to any onlookers. She also didn't mind because it was Remus, she was starting to realise how completely comfortable she was around him. Her smile grew as she started to realise this, not wanting to read anything into it in fear of what it could mean.

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prefect_wolf
2011-04-14 03:07 am UTC (link)

Remus figured he could stop trying to help Dorcas see the rather scary side of her friend. After all, what happened between girls was a completely foreign topic to Remus. In fact he almost preferred Dorcas never saw that side of her friend; it would be like Remus seeing any of his mates from an outsider perspective, something he liked to turn a blind eye to.

Her curtsy followed by linking her arm in his made Remus grin broadly, his stomach doing a tiny flip. Her blue next to his lavender made him chuckle, but for a few moments he didn't care. Right now, Remus's arm was linked with Dorcas as they made their way up to the castle. If he thought about it too much, well, he was terrified of what all of this could and would mean. But each time he looked at her it got a little easier. They were baby steps, but they were steps in the right direction.

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