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onedayroger (onedayroger) wrote in odaat,
@ 2019-06-01 17:10:00

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!complete, Ω 1998 06, → st. mungo's, ⭒ lisa turpin, ⭒ roger davies

Who: onedayroger & onedaylisa
What: Roger visits Lisa at St. Mungo's
When: Three Weeks after the Battle of Hogwarts
Where:St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
Warnings: N/A
Completion Status: ~~Ongoing~~ Complete

Roger walked through the halls of St. Mungo's trying his best to ignore the moans he heard coming from the different wings that branched off from the main hallway. He navigated his way to the back of the hospital and he pushed open the last door on his right seeing several of his fellow schoolmates laid up in hospital beds. He scanned the room looking for Lisa's tightly curled brunette hair. He saw her lying in the last bed on the left still unconscious. He sat down in a metal chair at her bedside and exhaled a deep breath.

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onedayroger
2019-06-03 03:10 am UTC (link)

"The morning after the battle," he responded still attempting vague answers, "I flew from Belgium. My brother and I were there for the war, he should be drowning in a sea of paperwork at the moment."

He saw a light flash in her eyes as she mentioned her parent's visit but watched as it was replaced with the same confusion again. He hadn't fought in the battle and it felt shameful to admit seeing as the room was full of those that did fight.

He watched her eyes turn soft, like their night at the Astronomy Tower, and it made him want to tell her everything.

"I came here to see you," he admitted, his heart beating faster, "I needed you to be okay."

He could feel his heart beating in his throat and no matter how many times he gulped he couldn't seem to return it back to his heart. He pulled a water glass and pitcher from her bedside table and pour a glass for the two of them before taking a sip hoping it would help.

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onedaylisa
2019-06-04 04:48 pm UTC (link)

"You came to see me?" Lisa hadn't heard from Roger since he'd left. She didn't blame him, she didn't exactly stay in touch with anyone in England when she fled to Paris with her parents. Neville's emergency signal was really the only way anyone would have been able to get in touch with her, anyway. It still seemed off. She'd loved Roger when they were younger, but they'd both grown up.

"I'm okay," she said, her thoughts finally catching up with the conversation. "Concussions suck," she thought out loud and then gave him an exasperated smile.

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onedayroger
2019-06-04 05:32 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, I guess they do," Roger replied, his words trailing off, "I'm glad your okay and that you have had so many visitors." He drained the rest of his water glass and let out a small gasp.

He looked at her pained expression. It was all too much to explain to her, at least in her current state.

She seemed to have changed, not just grown up but changed in a way that he couldn't understand.

He gave her a more upbeat smile, "So what're your plans once you get discharged?" He hoped changing the subject to the future would keep her more upbeat and him from dwelling on the should'ves and could'ves.

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onedaylisa
2019-06-05 05:37 pm UTC (link)

Lisa laughed, "Just Mum and Dad," she admitted. She wasn't sure if any of her friends from school even knew she'd come back, let alone that she was in here. Her parents had stopped in quite a few times since she'd been awake at least. She wasn't sure about before.

She thought for a moment on his question, "Honestly? I'm not sure. I was working in coffee shops and bartending in Paris, that's all I've ever really done..." She wasn't sure if the Leaky Cauldron was hiring. "I suppose I can go back to that." Was she moving back to England though? She didn't know. "I think Mum and Dad are planning on moving back if they haven't already. What about you? Are you headed back to Brussels?" Surely he had a life there.

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onedayroger
2019-06-05 05:57 pm UTC (link)

"I don't think so," he admitted, "it was beautiful for sure but it's not where I want to be."

He thought to his years walking Diagon Alley and the surrounding city of London during the summer holidays. Catching a football game on Sundays and listening to the Quidditch matches when he could.

"I think I stay in London," contorting his face into a smirk, "it's too much a part of me to leave. Maybe, I'll open a flying school and teach Quidditch fundamentals or something."

He shoulders dropped for the first time since he had walked in and he relaxed back into his chair, "It's exciting to think about, isn't it?"

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onedaylisa
2019-06-05 07:30 pm UTC (link)

"Oh! Somewhere new then? I can definitely recommend Paris, it's beautiful. Have you ever been?" She wondered what he'd done the last two years. Had he been in Brussels the whole time? Or had he left when most people had fled?

"A school? Like, outside of Hogwarts? Or for little kids?" Lisa would have loved learning to fly while still so little - she'd never quite got the hang of it once lessons started during first year.

"I don't know about exciting... Overwhelming, for sure." She laid back a bit further, mirroring his relaxing move without realizing it. "I've never really thought of life after the war, it's been so... Constant, you know?" Lisa had grown up with Harry Potter, after all. Normally she would have been thinking about her future for the last year, not about fleeing her country and drowning her anxieties in bad relationships and booze.

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onedayroger
2019-06-05 07:41 pm UTC (link)

"I probably would have enjoyed Paris more." Roger chuckled as she leaned back in her hospital bed. "Brussels was my brother's idea, he's quite the survivalist. Had a safehouse and everything set up already when we got there. I don't think I'll ever fly the way muggles do ever again though, too scary."

He saw her turn when he mentioned the flying school. He had thought about it when his broom had been locked away in Belgium and it felt so simple that someone would have had to think about it before but he had never heard of one.

"Yeah," he continued, "just something for wizards and magical muggles just to get them accustomed to flying before Madam Hooch gets ahold of them. Do you remember trying to get that broom to move for the first time?"

He made and face, crossing his eyes as a few strands of hair fell into his face.

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onedaylisa
2019-06-05 07:49 pm UTC (link)

"You flew the muggle way? Like in a plane? That's fascinating!" Lisa was a halfblood, but had never been in a plane. She found it amazing that a plane could fly.

"Oh please, you probably came out of the womb with a broom in hand, I'm sure you didn't have any problems first year. Me on the other hand... I'm still not very adept." She understood the intellectual aspects of flying magic, but it had just never clicked physically for her.

"How do you think you'd go about doing that? Starting a school, I mean?" It was nice to talk about something totally unrelated to the war or her injuries for the first time in weeks.

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onedayroger
2019-06-05 09:10 pm UTC (link)

"I don't know if I'd ever get the hang of muggle flying," Roger admitted shuddering at the thought. "It's a little too confining for me." He let out a chuckle as they continued to talk.

"I'm sure the first thing would be to talk a lender at Gringotts and make sure the capital is there to jumpstart the business. I'm trying to decide if I want it to be a profit or nonprofit first, to be honest." As he began to brainstorm he realized how much would have to go into this for it to work.

"I might talk to the owner of Quality Quidditch Supplies and see if they can point me in the right direction, maybe even donate some of their more outdated models as practice brooms."

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onedaylisa
2019-06-05 10:00 pm UTC (link)

"Did it feel like you were in a sardine can?" She asked with a giggle.

"Donations would be great. And money of course." How did one go about starting a business? "I'm sure people would appreciate something fun like this, though, kids nowadays haven't known much... fun." She scrunched up her nose, thinking about the younger children, remembering watching kids leave Umbridge's detentions crying and in pain, saying goodbye to her younger friends before fleeing with her parents... It wasn't a comforting thought, but knowing that people like Roger were doing things - or at least, planning to do things - to make the future more carefree and fun made her feel good.

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onedayroger
2019-06-05 10:20 pm UTC (link)

"It's a little terrifying," he let out a wheezy laugh, "it that thing starts going down you can't disapparate out of there. You've got nothing but muggles around you!"

Roger looked around realizing his was almost shouting in an otherwise quiet hospital ward.

"I really think the only comforting thing was hearing a voice without seeing the person. At least that felt like magic."

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onedaylisa
2019-06-11 06:09 pm UTC (link)

Lisa chuckled lightly, "I'm sure the Ministry would make an exception if you were disapparating from a plane going down," she gave him a look.

The laughter seemed to have been too much though and she leaned further back into her pillows, dizzy suddenly. She was really looking forward to her brain getting back to normal.

"Roger, since you're staying in London, do you think you'll visit again?" The dizziness seemed to be dragging her down, back into the depths of sleep.

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	onedayroger 2019-06-11 08:01 pm UTC (link)
	Roger watched as Lisa leaned her head back against the pillow her eyes shut tight. "Definitely," Roger's mouth curled into a pleasant smile, "get some rest." Standing up from his chair he turned and walked towards the door. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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