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zacharias is a particularly good finder (overlooked) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2012-01-12 17:00:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 11 2003, character: marietta edgecombe, character: zacharias smith

Characters: Zacharias Smith & Marietta Edgecombe w/ Healer Crumplebottom
Setting: Healer's offices, Tuesday one o'clock
Rating: PG
Summary: Zacharias needs confirmation that Marietta is pregnant and Marietta has schemes in place to assure that he thinks she is.

This was not the way he wanted to spend his break today. Honestly, Zacharias would have preferred to spend it in the offices trying to catch up on what he missed last week and that was a revelation that floored him just as much as the reason why he here. It was strange to think of who he had become over the past year, let alone how the past two weeks changed him.

Almost a year ago, Zacharias Smith never imagined himself as someone who would enjoy a regular job or even all of those things that being an actual grown up entitled. In that regards his mother's plan to cut him off in the hopes that he might grow up had actually worked. Except for the rather obvious part where he was still the rough around the edges young man who didn't have the patience for tact or playing nice. And of course there was the fact that he was sick at the thought that Marietta might actually be telling the truth.

In some way his life felt like something of a joke that simply forgot to be funny. Just because he had a job, didn't mean that he wanted to become a father anytime soon. Scrubbing his face he glanced down at his watch wondering exactly what was keeping Marietta. If they had to do this, he wanted it over and done with it. That way he would know and could move forward, as scary the reality was he didn't like being strung alone in the unknown.

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overlooked
2012-01-13 04:02 pm UTC (link)

Zacharias refrained from rolling his eyes when the healer was paying him any attention. Sure, vomiting might be a sign of pregnancy, but it was also common part of an eating disorder and Marietta was absolved from nothing until he had a confirmation. He didn't see how her being pregnant with a bastard child fit into her new found happiness, but then again she probably did take pleasure from seeing him suffer.

He didn't have to wait long for his confirmation that she was indeed pregnant. His stomach churned a little at the thought that there actually was some horrible fat ginger child growing inside of her. However, that still didn't mean it was his. There had been no promise of monogamy between them, she was just someone who could give him what he wanted and sometimes needed. "Yes, we would like the paternity test as well, just to be certain." His tone was a bit strained as spoke. It was filled with barely veiled contempt and perhaps just a little bit of fear that he might actually be the father.

Unlike what he assumed most couples felt in this moment, there was no joy or happiness here today. It was just a feeling of dread with the burden of a potential responsibility that he didn't want.

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edgecombed
2012-01-13 11:31 pm UTC (link)

Marietta watched the healer as he walked over to the potions cupboard and browsed through a number of vials with labels on them, finally settling on one that he pulled out and shuttered the cupboard again. He poured the liquid contents into a bowl and turned back to Marietta, bringing the bowl with him.

"Ms. Edgecombe, if you would please present me your finger. I will need some blood from you for the test." Marietta held out her index finger to him and he raised his wand to the pad of it; she felt a small prick and a bubble of red blood pooled out of the cut and fell into the bowl of potion. It changed colour instantly and the healer waved his wand over the cut on her finger and it vanished. He took the potion back to the his work station and turned to Zacharias. "Mr. Smith, if I could get a sample from you? Any DNA would work, either hair, blood or saliva."

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overlooked
2012-01-14 12:36 am UTC (link)

He smirked a little as she was required to bleed for this bit. It served her right to have to bleed for putting him through this. Zacharias on the other hand, had no intention of bleeding for her - not for this at least. Nor was he going to pluck any hair from his head for this one. So a nice wallop of saliva would have to be enough.

"How long will it be before we know the results?" He asked, his tone neutral, not wanting to give anything away. Zacharias almost wished that he knew more about how this sort of thing worked so he didn't have to ask these sorts of questions. Only there wasn't regularly a need to know this sort of thing and hoped that would remain true in the future too.

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edgecombed
2012-01-14 01:40 am UTC (link)

The healer offered him a swab and retrieved it from him, dropping it into the bowl, making the potion change colours once again. Crumplebottom covered the bowl with a flat glass plate and looked at Zacharias. "It will take approximately ten minutes, Mr. Smith. I will leave the two of you alone and return in a moment. I am sure it goes without saying, but don't touch the potion, please."

Marietta watched as the healer walked out the room, her gaze turning to the potion on the table to her right. It was an odd purplish colour, which probably meant absolutely nothing seeing as she wasn't even pregnant, but that didn't really matter. She looked at Zacharias pointedly. "So if it does happen to be your child, what are your plans for it, exactly?"

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overlooked
2012-01-14 07:09 pm UTC (link)

Ten minutes. That was quicker than he had anticipated thinking he would have to wait days for any answer. He glanced over at the potion only thinking about touching it in that he was told not to, but he didn't want to invalidate the results. Zacharias looked back over at her with that last question.

"So you're finally admitting that it might not be mine?" He looked at her expectantly for a minute. It shouldn't be a relief that she would even imply that, but it was like. There was no way the child could be his.

Zacharias shook his head, rubbing his hand over his face. "And I won't get into hypotheticals with you." Besides he imagined that she already knew the answer. Marietta might not have come from exactly the same kind of family that he did, but there were similar attitudes.

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edgecombed
2012-01-14 09:22 pm UTC (link)

"Honestly? No, I'm just trying to humour you. You're under some stupid delusion that this could never happen to you. It's about time you wake up. You've about ten minutes to do so." She glanced over at the potion bowl. She had only been trying to make conversation but really, she should have known better.

Marietta wasn't particularly certain what the Smith family would want to do with a bastard child. She could understand if they would want it terminated to keep any sort of scandals from surfacing, but it might be a blessing in disguise if it meant making Zacharias marry or if it meant a child carrying on the bloodline, Halfblood or no. She had never thought about it before since she had never expected to get into the situation, nor had she ever planned to put herself in the situation just to watch someone else suffer through it. Sometimes sacrifices had to be made though and she was willing to make them.

"I suppose I'll leave that conversation for a few minutes from now then," she shrugged. She didn't really feel like arguing with him. Believe it or not, he was one of her only friends and considering the rocky roller coaster that was her friendship with Cho at the moment, he might be her only friend soon.

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