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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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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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