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Tonks, if you please (tonks_please) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-08-22 15:19:00

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complete, day 12, nymphadora tonks, severus snape

Day Twelve
Who: Tonks and Snape
What: While Tonks is on her way to track down Marcus, she runs into someone very unexpected...
When: Around 10 am
Where: Outside the library
Rating: PG, at most.
Status: Complete

Unusually for her, she'd spent the entire day yesterday thinking. Just trying to find ways to get off planet, so that the next time she and Marcus tried, it wouldn't be as unfocused, as random. Unfortunately, she'd never been the best at laying plans. Usually she just saw them carried out. With a sigh of frustration, she got dressed in her usual jeans and t-shirt, with pink hair today, and headed out into the hallway. She would find Marcus, but he wasn't in his room when she knocked.

At least the storm had stopped, she realized as she stepped out into the morning air. It had passed as though it had never happened. She found that a part of her had been worried it would last forever. The sun rose her spirits, and she found herself grinning as she made her way into the main building, tripping her way down the hallway.

When she was right in front of the library, the door suddenly opened, knocking into her and sending her flying. Muttering to herself irritibly, on her hands and knees, she raised her eyes to see just who had knocked her over. She saw black, a lot of black...

"Bloody hell... watch where you're going, will you....?"

Her voice trailed off as her gaze travelled higher. Black robes... a wand held loosely in a long fingered hand... and that face, the face that had terrorized her years at Hogwarts. Or, at least, the time she'd spent in Potions.

The witch sprang to her feet, surprise written on her face. She'd had no idea that he was here, and found herself just as uncertain about what to do about it as she would have been if this same man had asked her to identify polyjuice potion in first year.

"Prof-- Snape!"

It was her long habit to call him Professor, but at the last moment, she realized that she wasn't his student anymore. They'd been in the Order of the Phoenix together. They hadn't exactly been best mates, of course, but that didn't change the fact that she was his equal. She wasn't a student anymore. Still, she was more than a little disconcerted to see him there, and it showed.

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severelyseverus
2008-08-26 09:41 am UTC (link)

Snape did in fact continue to look more and more sour and unpleasant as he once again wrinkled up his face in disgust and exasperation with the young witch's comments and clumsiness. Clearly she just did not get it.

"Tonks, please, stop. I have heard enough. You do not understand, do you? Your parents aren't more or less safe with you gone. Molly Weasley isn't worried about her children. None of that exists for us anymore! We have been torn from our former homes, torn from our former times to live here forever! Nothing that has happened or will happen in Britain matters to us any more. We will never leave this place and we must begin to accept that fact!"

He hoped that his emphatic delivery would drill some sense into Tonks's head. Her sentimental attachment to their place of origin was starting to give him a headache.

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tonks_please
2008-08-26 06:23 pm UTC (link)

She looked up his with a stubborn set to her jaw, and crossed her arms over her chest. It hadn't occured to her before this point that he wouldn't want to do everything in his power to get home. She'd figured he might be quite as eager to get home as she was.

"Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? But you're wrong. I'm going home. How could you think I would ever forget about them? Those are my friends and family there, in danger of dying, while I'm here enjoying myself. Not going to happen, and it's smashing for you if you're able to forget, but I won't."

She gave him a look like she thought he was pretty much pond scum. Or perhaps even lower than that, if it was at all possible. Clearly, she was disgusted, and in the heat of her feelings about that, she completely forgot to be scared of him.

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severelyseverus
2008-08-26 08:51 pm UTC (link)

Snape felt secretly angry at the disgusted look Tonks gave him. Not that that was anything new to him. He was often frustrated by the lack of respect he received from nearly everyone. How obtuse could they all possibly be? His ideas made perfect sense to himself. It was, he suspected, the curse of the especially clever.

"You are so naive, madam! What do you think will happen when you escape? You don't know where we are, and you don't know when we are, if we are anywhere or anywhen at all! What if you escape to find you are in a far galaxy? What if you return to our world to find it is the year 5000 AD? Better yet, what if you return to our world to find it is the day before you left, and all your worrying about what happened in your absence will have been for nothing? Nothing, that is, except for the exceptional work you will have done developing your ulcer! Do not think that there is nothing about our home that I miss, but I can assure you that the list of those things that cannot find here is very short indeed. You may work yourself into a state if you wish, but I choose to see our residence here as a break, as a vacation, as it is so clearly meant to be. I realize that some here choose to assume that this Planet has sinister intent, but I see no evidence of that. I think you and others of your ilk have read too many children's adventure stories. Perhaps you should find some of them and form a heroic order to fight against our imaginary oppression!"

Snape sneered at Tonks, feeling certain he had put her in her place.

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tonks_please
2008-08-26 11:43 pm UTC (link)

She was irritated, frustrated, and a little but sorry for him, but somehow still determined to make him understand her point of view. It was a vain hope, and deep down she was starting to know it, but she wouldn't be herself if she didn't try. Although, he was more than ever terrifying like this, biting out each word and looking at her. She felt like she was back in first year again.

"I don't think the Planet has a sinister intent... I know it does. It took us from our homes, Severus Snape! I don't know what you call that, but in the Auror business, it's called kidnapping and isn't a very nice thing to do! I don't want to be a toy for this lonely little Planet to amuse itself with. I don't. I was taken from the middle of a bloody war, and I want to go help finish it. It's the same with Marcus, and all sorts of people! Even the ones that don't have wars have family, friends... we shouldn't be forced to stay here. We'll just have to take the chance that something will go wrong. It's better than doing nothing."

She crossed her arms over her chest and glared at him, waves of scorn and irritation coming off her. In the middle of her arguing, her hair, in response to her mood, had gone bright red.

"It's better than not trying, because you might fail. Like some people clearly chose to do."

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severelyseverus
2008-08-27 09:38 am UTC (link)

Snape crossed his arms and glared at Tonks. It was obvious to him that he was not going to persuade her of a single thing. He had heard her kinds of arguments before in other situations. They were all rote tropes and clichés, though he suspected that she really did believe them. Next she would be going on about personal freedom, and their right to choose to bang their heads against the wall. Snape rolled his eyes.

"Yes, Tonks, we were taken against our will, but that's how natural forces work sometimes. It may be against my will to fall when I jump of a high tower, but it will happen anyway. I will not call our change of venue kidnapping until I am certain that this Planet is sentient. Even then, I need much more convincing than you can provide before I believe that the Planet's will is ill where we are concerned. I have no proof that this place wants anything but our comfort and stimulation. If you refuse to see that, I don't think we have much else to say to one another."

He closed his lips tightly, and watched irritably for her reaction.

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tonks_please
2008-08-27 11:00 am UTC (link)

She shook her head, and despite the fact that he was now glaring at her just as much as she was at him, she felt a little sad for him. But that didn't stop the annoyance, which was still rather odd to be feeling. In his class, she'd never gotten into any trouble that she could help. There was a simple reason for this, of course. She was scared of him. That had never really stopped, until now.

"You know, I'm surprised to hear someone who's supposed to be so much cleverer than everyone else make such a stupid arguement. I'm surprised, Snape. Yes, a person you steps off the edge of a tower is going to fall, just like we got taken to Mirage. But there's one huge difference. The person who stepped off the edge made a choice, and knew they were going to fall. I didn't exactly choose to be brought here."

Having made her point, and knowing it would likely irritate him beyond belief, she decided she might as well go one step farther.

"I feel sorry for you... it's because you don't have any friends that you don't want to go back, isn't it? And you're so selfish, that you don't even care about the war that's likely to tear our world apart. Well... I just pity you, that you don't know what it is to actually care about something enough to do anything for it."

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severelyseverus
2008-08-28 09:24 am UTC (link)

If Snape had been the type to sputter, he would have sputtered then, in annoyance, irritation, and exasperation. Nothing he said was getting through to this woman, and he suspected nothing would. She was amazingly stubborn and was starting to get belligerent about it. This conversation was going from unpleasant to painful. It was time to end it.

"I'm surprised by you, Miss Tonks. I always deemed you to be an intelligent witch, but this stubborn unwillingness to accept certain unpleasant facts seems very stupid indeed! I never claimed that free will had anything to do with our situation. Neither of us chose to be here, but here we are.

Now, since you have reduced your rhetoric to the level of hurling personal insults, I find I am no longer amused by our meeting. If you have nothing more pleasant to say, I will take my leave. Good day, Miss Tonks!"

With that, Snape gave an angry flourish of his black cloak and turned to head away down the hallway.

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tonks_please
2008-08-28 09:32 am UTC (link)

"That's fine! You can go! I'm still sorry for you and you can't stop me from being! Sad, lonely bitter old man!"

She nodded firmly at his retreating back, saying the words as loud as she could. She wasn't sure how effective they were, since she didn't usually go around trying to hurt people's feelings, but he'd really annoyed her with his cavalier attitude about their prediciment.

With one more shake of her head, she finally uncrossed her arms and turned around. She had Marcus to find, someone that was just as passionate about leaving this rock as she was. Someone who didn't think she was stupid for wanting to go home. She smiled slightly and headed off to try and find him. She had things to discuss with him.

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