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zacharias is a particularly good finder (overlooked) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2011-12-13 00:22:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 07 2003, character: justin finch-fletchley, character: zacharias smith

Characters: Zacharias Smith & Justin Finch-Fletchley
Setting: Sometime after 9:30 a.m., but before 10 a.m., in a cemetery around Peebles
Rating: worksafe
Summary: With his father's funeral fast approaching, Zacharias greets a guest he would rather not have to see today.

Yesterday was bad. He wasn't expecting today to be any better. Not when he was already over twelve hours into the an unwanted family reunion. It had been full of conversations he didn't want to have, all tainted by the image of Marietta Edgecombe throwing up yesterday morning. Merlin, that was the last thing he needed. Zacharias didn't need to become a father, he just needed to put his father into the ground and get on with his life. He would be glad when this was over, when life could return to something next to normal.

It was early still. The services weren't supposed to start until 10 am, which meant that he was going to stay away from it for as long as he could. So, he and Adelle were hanging out by the gate to the cemetery, not really talking about anything, but not entirely silent either. Zacharias knew they both needed the distraction. He couldn't imagine that she was taking this any better than he was - well, maybe a little bit better. But she had always been better than him.

The conversation shifted as Adelle started on the cliche of rain at funerals, only Zacharias wasn't really listening. He was fiddling with the umbrella that his mother insisted that he bring - she had even picked out his clothes for him as well. Not that he cared. He would give her that allowance, to dress him today, because it might win him something else later and he knew exactly what direction their conversations would lead to this afternoon. He was just about to say something to Adelle, to prove he was listening, when he saw him.

"Well, doesn't that just make my morning."

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basilisk_srvivr
2011-12-15 04:38 pm UTC (link)

Justin rolled his eyes to himself. Of course, Ernie. The one person he could always depend upon to stand up for him, no matter what, was his best friend.

"Ernie's Ernie," Justin explained with a shrug. "He and I've been through hell and back, more or less, so I'm not surprised. But he's just one bloke out of a million. That doesn't exactly make a general consensus, you know? And as for being in love with me-" He snorted, looking down at his hands. "I can guarantee that's not the case."

In fact, it was the reverse that was true.

"But that's not what you're upset about, mate. It's just the nearest thing to be pissed at, because if you're pissed at me, or Ernie, or anyone else... then it's easier than being pissed at your dad, right?"

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overlooked
2011-12-15 06:08 pm UTC (link)

He wasn't going to have some deep, moving heart to heart with Justin. Hell, he wasn't going to have that with anyone, not here this morning, not ever. There were things he didn't care to talk about, not even with Adelle who understood it all too well, and this was one of them.

"Please. I can be pissed at a whole bunch of people, my father included, and still sleep well at night." Because maybe Isaiah got what he deserved and maybe Zacharias was a complete bastard for thinking that. Honestly, he just didn't want to have to go through the show, to sit here and be something more like the perfect son he would never be.

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basilisk_srvivr
2011-12-16 12:12 am UTC (link)

"All right, be pissed. Not like that's any different from you any other day."

He made a face when he saw a woman sit down at the other end of the aisle. What disturbed him was her hat, some sort of black and white concoction that looked like a bag of dominos had exploded all over her head.

"What is it with women and hats, anyway? No matter how many I've talked to, I still don't understand it."

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overlooked
2011-12-19 05:05 am UTC (link)

Zacharias steeled himself. The services would be starting soon and at least then he wouldn't have to work so hard to ignore Justin. He still didn't know why the other man was here other than to somehow make this worse for him by rubbing salt in his proverbial wounds. At the very least he would have imagined that Justin would be gone to find the Macmillans and just leave him alone.

It wasn't exactly welcome or wanted, but he couldn't really do anything about it, not without making a scene. So, instead he simply had to endure. His sister would be over soon, too take her seat next to him, their mother on her other side. They would all settle and finally Isaiah Smith could be put in the ground and life could start to go on again.

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