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Tonks, if you please (tonks_please) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-02-25 10:25:00

Entry tags:

complete, day 33, nymphadora tonks, sarah williams

WHO: Tonks and Sarah Williams
WHAT: SLUMBER PARTY!
WHEN: Day 33, evening
WHERE: Sarah's room
WARNINGS: PG-13?
STATUS: Complete

Tonks really didn't know quite what to think about the whole thing. In truth, she didn't have all of the story, and she knew that. But she did know that someone was hurting, and she was too good-hearted to just sit back and let that continue. She'd liked the girl in their conversations, and thought it was more than time for them to meet in person. So she headed over to Sarah's room, stopping briefly in her own to pick up some pajamas. The rest, she figured, the Planet would provide.

First, however, she did stop at the kitchens, and picked up some ice cream. She couldn't decide for flavors, so got four different kinds. Two were normal, chocolate and vanilla, which she figured a muggle would hopefully like. The other two were wizard flavors, pumpkin and a special one that changed with each spoonful, much in the way of everyone favorite jelly beans.

Loaded down, she finally made her way to Sarah's dorm, and then to her door. The golems had been very helpful, all she'd had to do is ask where the girls room was and she was pointed in the right way. So, less than half an hour after their conversation, she found herself outside Sarah's room with her hands full. She knocked with an elbow, because that was all she could manage, and then blew some of her bright hair out of her eyes because she couldn't use her hands. Like her shirt, her hair was a brilliant, lovely green. She also wore a black skirt with black and pink leggings underneath.

As she waited for Sarah to open the door, she wondered what would happen. To be honest, as long as she had a good time, she didn't really much care. She'd been doing a lot of ringleading for trying to leave the Planet, and could use a nice break.

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sarah_williams
2009-02-25 12:53 pm UTC (link)

Sarah had half expected Tonks's offer to be just one of those polite things one does to make another feel better but never really follow through on. She'd been lying on her bed, hugging Lancelot to her chest and thinking about everything. She had just let her mind go anywhere it wanted, which was something she hadn't done in a very long time because there were so many things she just hadn't wanted to face. Searching her soul was not a favorite pass time for her because it usually dredged up truths about herself that were ugly.

So when she heard the knock on her door she was startled. Sitting bolt upright, she dropped the stuffed animal on the floor. Her first thought was that Jareth was at the door wanting to talk. She quickly dismissed that as she remembered Tonks suggesting ice cream and makeovers. She hoped beyond hope that was who she would find on the other side of the door when she answered it.

"I'm coming!" she called. Sliding from the bed, she quickly threw on a fuzzy blue bathrobe over the casual sweats she'd put on after she'd come back and decided not to go out again for a long time.

Relief rushed through her as she pulled the door open and there stood a very female person on the other side. A female with green hair and arms full. "Tonks?" Sarah asked, reaching to take some of the other girl's load of ice cream.

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tonks_please
2009-02-25 02:00 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, that's me!" Tonks, of course, had a very pronounced accent. Somewhere between the upper class one of her mother, and the Cockney one of her father. Needless to say, it led to an interesting effect all told. She grinned at the brunette. "I didn't know what to expect, since we've never met in person."

She willingly gave up some of her burden, and then gestured at the other woman once she had a free hand. "I'm overdressed! But I brought pajamas in case we wanted to do the whole sleepover thing." She held her an oversized Weird Sisters shirt, on which the band, of course, was dancing around playing their instruments. That and a pair of shorts made up her night clothes.

"Can I come in? I think you have to invite me. Not because I'm a vampire or anything, but because this bloody planet has weird ideas of propriety. It can kidnap us and force us into odd group activities, but Merlin forbid we go into each others rooms without an invitation!" She chattered on happily as they transfered ice cream from her hands to Sarah's.

"I got lots of flavors, cause I didn't know what you would like." She handed over the cartons one at a time. "Chocolate, vanilla... thought those were pretty basic... and then pumpkin and this one might be kinda new for you." She held up the last container. "Every spoonful will taste different, I don't think muggle ice creams do that."

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sarah_williams
2009-02-25 02:17 pm UTC (link)

"Oh um, come in, please," Sarah said, backing up and, taking the ice cream that Tonks had given her, she put it on the vanity. She wasn't sure what to think of all of this yet but Tonks's energetically buoyant chatter and presence was so infectious that Sarah found herself smiling in spite of her previous seriousness.

"Don't worry about being overdressed or anything," she said, her voice sounding flat in her own ears compared to Tonks's upbeat accents. "I'm just... not planning to go anywhere anytime soon so I figured I might as well be comfortable."

Offering her guest the vanity chair, the only other place to sit in the room besides the bed, she sat down on her comforter, pulling her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them. Try as she had before, she still could not shake this childhood bedroom with its girlish stuffed animals, keepsakes and posters and playbills from her mother's performances.

"And um, sorry about the clutter. I can't make it go away, even if I clean it. Which I tried earlier."

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tonks_please
2009-02-25 03:02 pm UTC (link)

"Thanks!" Tonks smiled encouragingly at the brunette and stepped in as requested. She glanced around at the room, which had the right amount of clutter for her tastes. Not nearly brightly colored enough, of course, but then Tonks favored colors that might actually stand a good chance of making someone's eyes bleed.

"If there's one thing I've learned, it's that a girl should only be as dressed as her hostess. It's only polite." Once divested of the ice cream, she ducked quickly into a corner and changed. She left her clothing in a neat little heap in that same corner, and made a mental note to not forget them there. "Now I'm prepared for anything!"

Dressed in her very comfortable, and not even remotely glamorous, night clothing, she seated herself at the offered chair. "I like your room, though. It's really pretty." She smiled at the girl and then drew her legs up so she was perching cross-legged on the stool. Somehow, despite her horrible clumsiness, she managed to not fall off.

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sarah_williams
2009-02-25 03:26 pm UTC (link)

While she waited for Tonks to change clothes, she picked up Lancelot from the floor and brushed him off as though the fall to the floor had dirtied him. She set him back on her pillow and settled back into her sitting fetal position, feeling small and cold in spite of the sweats and bathrobe.

Oh, thank you," Sarah answered politely to the compliment on her room. "It's the room I grew up in, well until I all but destroyed it when I was 15."

She pushed escaped strands of hair behind her ear and looked around at all of the familiar, memory triggering things in the room. The glass dancer music box. The panda bear slippers. Her drawing pencils on the vanity beside the four cartons of ice cream Tonks had brought. She let out a shaky sigh and forced a smile to her lips again.

"So, um, thank you for coming over. What happens with these makeover and ice cream sleepover things? I've never actually been to one."

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tonks_please
2009-02-25 03:35 pm UTC (link)

Tonks had to be a good judge of character, and observant. It was a requirement for her job, and she never could have done as well as she had without those crucial skills. So she noticed Sarah was upset. In fact, by what she was seeing, upset didn't seem to cover it. She watched, feeling empathetic as the girl picked up the bear and set him on the bed.

"Destroyed it? But it's like this now?" She frowned slightly and then shrugged. "It must mean something to you, then, if it goes this way... you said you tried to change it, right?" She was pretty sure she remembered the other girl saying something to that effect.

There were a lot of really interesting things in this room, and Tonks couldn't see why anyone would want to destroy it. But if Sarah had wanted to, surely she would have had a reason for doing so. She couldn't presumse to understand what the girl had been through, especially considering the bits that she already knew.

"Oh!" She grinned, back on familiar territory. "Well, first I think I should brush your hair." She got up from her position on the chair, almost falling on her face as she did so, but she quickly righted herself. Then, she walked over to the bed, snagging a brush off the vanity as she went. Once at the bed (having, of course, tripped several times on the way over) she settled down behind Sarah comfortably. "Okay, so now we talk and I brush your hair. Then, we switch."

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sarah_williams
2009-02-25 03:48 pm UTC (link)

"Yes," she answered. "It looks exactly the way it did the day Jareth took me to his labyrinth. The clutter and everything. I can clean it and change it around but always goes back to the exact setup when I come back or wake up."

It felt strange to admit that to anyone but she'd had no one to admit anything to in her life. Something about the way Tonks presented herself made Sarah feel she could trust her implicitly and seemed to invite confidences. Or maybe Sarah was just desperate to talk to someone. She decided it was a bit of both.

"It reminded me of him - er still does really. So I had a fit, I guess. That was the first time my father and step-mother tried to have me committed..."

Sarah felt herself suddenly want to smile again as Tonks endearingly made her way through the room in the most clumsy way Sarah had ever seen anyone walk. She was finding it next to impossible to stay in the foggy depression she had been slipping into before Tonks had arrived.

"Brush my hair? Okay. That sounds relaxing actually. What do we talk about?"

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tonks_please
2009-02-25 04:34 pm UTC (link)

"Huh." She thought about that for a short time. "My room looks just like the one I have back home." But she'd made a conscious decision for it to look that way. In fact, each morning, she changed the color scheme to match her hair. Marcus' room, however, had changed, but not by any sort of direction on his part. So it could obviously vary.

She settled down behind the other woman, brush in hand, but snapped her fingers before she started using it. "Wait... ice cream!" She pulled out her wand and flicked it. "Accio chocolate ice cream!" The bucket obligingly flew over, and she spoke directly to the Planet. "Hey, can we get two big bowls and two spoons? Thanks!"

The eating utensils appeared, and Tonks dished out two big bowls of the cold dessert. Truth be told, she sort of thought Sarah could use some fattening up. The girl was practically emaciated. With her bowl, she ate with one hand and brushed with the other.

"You have gorgeous hair." It was, too. Dark, flowing, beautiful. Of course, Tonks could make her hair look like that, but this girl naturally had it. It made a difference.

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sarah_williams
2009-02-25 05:12 pm UTC (link)

"You're fortunate then. It must be very comfortable for you." That had come out automatically but it suddenly clicked why her own room was so stubbornly this way. Ultimately we do what we want to do, she'd always lived by that creedo. So deep down somewhere she wanted to be reminded of this all. That thought made her feel a little nauseous and she was grateful when Tonks mentioned ice cream.

Watching Tonks get the ice cream from the vanity and then into the bowls was bordering on delightful to Sarah. She'd seen magic before, obviously. Jareth had done plenty of magic. But not with a wand and not like this. She watched with slightly wide eyes and her smile began to appear more sincere.

With the bowl of ice cream in her hands and Tonks brushing her hair, Sarah felt soothed somewhat. She picked at the ice cream a little but not much of it disappeared from her bowl.

"Thank you," she replied to the compliment about her hair. "It's not as pretty as yours though. Your hair matches my eyes." Which was such a silly, irrelevant thing to say that she almost felt foolish. "I'm envious of your magical abilities. It must be so great to be able to do all of that with a wand. And you catch dark wizards too, don't you?"

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tonks_please
2009-02-25 05:23 pm UTC (link)

"It's alright." She shrugged slightly. "I mean, I think it's important that people go out of their comfort zones a little sometimes, you know?" Which was why, she supposed, she'd allowed herself to fall in love with a space man from another time and place. She nibbled at her ice cream thoughtfully between strokes with the brush.

The wand rested on the bed where she'd put it down after her charm. It was, in a way, a sign of trust because Tonks would be in a great deal of trouble if she ever lost it or had it stolen. Not that it would work all that well for anyone else, but she did need it. But she didn't think Sarah would grab for it, so she relaxed enough to set it down.

She could feel the girl relaxing under her touch, so she set her nearly empty bowl of ice cream aside and focused her whole attention on brushing her hair. She knew how comfortable it could feel, and she wanted the other woman to relax a bit.

"Yeah, it does!" She clearly didn't think the comment was stupid, and in fact, she sounded delighted by the comparison. "But my hair can be any color, really...I'll show you later." She set the brush down and began to but Sarah's hair into a loose french braid. "So... you're pretty upset, yeah? Wanna talk about it?"

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sarah_williams
2009-02-25 05:36 pm UTC (link)

Having had more than her share of being outside her comfort zone recently, Sarah didn't nod a response to that. Instead she nibbled at a spoonful of ice cream not really tasting it a whole lot.

"Really? Any color? That's fantastic. Now I really envy you!"

Sarah would never had reached for the wand. It never would have occurred to her that she could make it work because she didn't have any magical powers of her own. She was fascinated by it though and thought maybe she would ask Tonks later to show her some more of what could be done -- if that wasn't against rules or anything.

"Yeah, a lot happened today. And yesterday," she answered and she did feel more relaxed, lulled into saying more than she might have otherwise. "We tried to call a truce because of the past but it just... ended badly."