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Tweak says, "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE"

Alicia Salvatore (spinspinspin) wrote in resurrectio_rpg,
@ 2009-05-07 16:59:00

Who: Alicia Spinnet & Marcus Flint
What: Alicia can't take sitting her and Katie's flat anymore and goes out to find a drink.
Where: Belsize Park, London
When: Thursday Evening
Rating: R+
Status: Complete.

It felt unreal to her. Every single second she was looking up at the front door expecting Katie to walk in with food, or with a smile. Maybe coming in to tell her something strange that happened at practice. It was just not right. Katie wasn't supposed to be dead. Her roommate was gone, one of her best friends in the whole wide world was gone. The girl that had never once stopped being there for Alicia was now gone. It broke her heart every second she thought about it. What was worse was living in in a place where everything reminded her of Katie.

She could have gone somewhere, but it still didn't feel real, and leaving the flat to go stay somewhere else would make it all to real for Alicia. She didn't want it to be real, it wasn't supposed to be real. Alicia couldn't believe that Katie would just fall like that. Katie as a strong flier, she was always comfortable on a broom. She used to joke with her that she was better in the air than on the ground. It was something Alicia had actually been jealous of. She wished she was the effortlessly good in the air. She wasn't though, she never would be.

Hiding her face in a pillow, Alicia let out a loud scream before tossing the pillow and knocking over an unlite candle before storming out of the flat. Maybe it wasn't the best time to get a drink, but screw that, she wanted to get something strong and go back and write down things and look at pictures and take shots. It sounded like a good plan to her. Alicia had a hard time sharing her emotions, and a really hard time right now with it.

As she headed out she wandered around for a while in a daze, everything reminded her of where she and Katie had walked, or laughed, or even argued. She looked over to a bench where she, Angie, and Katie had sat eating ice cream on a warm day laughing. Blinking quickly, her swollen eyes fighting back tears, Alicia saw the store she wanted. As she headed in she went straight for the whiskey. It only took a moment to buy it, as she waited in line, she forced herself not to look around, it would probably just make her cry.

As she paid and nodded a thank you, she could barely see the tears were nearly falling down her face. As she hurried out of the store, she took a sharp left running nearly straight into a person, only stopping a moment before running into the taller person... The taller man... The taller Chaser... Marcus Flint. "Flint?"

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marcmywords
2009-05-07 04:30 pm UTC (link)

Marcus wasn't sure how he was feeling. Was he okay? No. But why? He had never been close to Katie Bell. In fact, he was pretty sure the blonde Gryffindor hated him, as he was constantly teasing her. But still, he couldn't help but feel sad about her death. And Marcus did not like feeling sad, about anything. The last death he had had to deal with was his mother's and that had been hard and painful enough for a lifetime; he did not want to feel anything remotely similar to it. But again, he couldn't help it no matter how hard he tried to ignore the feeling.

After asking Scotia to accompany him to the funeral -- he still wasn't sure why exactly he had done that, though, asking her; he guessed he just didn't want to go alone but the truth was there was something comforting about having Scotia with him there -- Marcus decided to go for a walk. He needed some fresh air, clear his head and think of something that wasn't Katie's "accident", which he was so not buying. He was completely sure someone or something made her fall off her broom.

Marcus was trying not to think about it when a girl almost ran into him. A girl who knew who he was. He looked at her and recognized her immediately. "Spinnet." He said with a nod, surprised to see her out.

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spinspinspin
2009-05-07 04:36 pm UTC (link)

Taking a step back the look on her face was between confused, angry, and just plan hurt. None of those expressions were really going away, and it actually had nothing to do with the fact that she thought Flint was arsehole. He was one, that wasn't going to change anytime soon. In fact he was really a jerk. He'd never been nice to Katie, and at that moment anyone who hadn't been nice to Katie was on her shit list (well more than they normally were).

"What, you just feel like finding ways to irritate people?" Okay, even she knew that wasn't exactly rational, but rational wasn't something that Alicia was feeling at that moment, nor was she going to rational, and perhaps she wanted to pick a fight with someone, she was angry, she was really angry. How could no one have noticed something was wrong with Katie? How come she hadn't noticed that morning? That morning when she'd tossed an apple at Katie as she was heading out the door to go to practice. They were supposed to finish the weekly cleaning that night, and now...

Shaking her head, from the memory her eyes narrowed at Flint, she had to look up as Flint was a lot taller than she was. Angry was starting to take over her expressions, regardless of anything else, even though it was clear to anyone that she was forcing herself not to cry every few seconds.

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marcmywords
2009-05-07 04:46 pm UTC (link)

Marcus was expecting her to walk away. It's not like they had anything to talk about. He gave her his condolences and he wasn't about to do it again. It had been awkward enough through the journals. He had stood in front of the open journal for ten whole minutes thinking of what to say. Never again.

But when Spinnet opened her mouth again, he could only quirk an eyebrow at her. "Any other day, I would love to. But not today, Spinnet." He could guess what she was going through. All that pain, anger and blame that never seemed to go away no matter what. But he wasn't going to be a shoulder to cry on, hell no. First of all because he wasn't friends with her and second, he just didn't do that crap. If she wanted to cry or something, she could go find one of the Weasleys or Johnson or Wood.

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spinspinspin
2009-05-07 04:52 pm UTC (link)

That bothered her, why couldn't people just be themselves. Why did he even care? It wasn't like he appeared to give a crap about Katie. He didn't even know Katie! He was mean to her, so maybe he knew how to be mean to her.

She was furious, and the site of Flint made her really angry, something about that really just... It wasn't right, she wasn't supposed to run into people that she hated, or that hated her, or hated Katie. She wasn't supposed to have to run into jerks. She should be around her friends and other people.

It actually bothered her that he seemed to not be such a jerk at that moment. It was irritating. Before she could even think about it, she let her free hand reach up and slap him swiftly, and slightly hard. When she pulled her hand down to her side a couple of tears fell out, but she didn't say anything, she wasn't sure if she felt bad about it or not. "That's for being a jerk to her." She said, again before thinking about it. Alicia had thought a number of times about slapping him for anything slightly mean he'd said to Katie, and now she just sort of couldn't hold back anymore.

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marcmywords
2009-05-07 05:04 pm UTC (link)

That slap caught him completely by surprise. Marcus closed his eyes for a moment to control himself and not yell at her for slapping him. Sure, he had been a jerk to Bell, he couldn't deny that; but he wasn't sure he deserved to be slapped now. However, it was obvious now that Spinnet was suffering on the inside, and he still remembered the punches he threw at his friends because he just needed to hit someone to let some of that pain and anger out.

"You feel better now?" He was ready to leave. As much as he understood what she was going through, he did not appreciate being slapped out of nowhere in the middle of the street. He had better things to do, honestly. So unless Spinnet wanted to apologize or something, he'd leave

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spinspinspin
2009-05-07 05:48 pm UTC (link)

"No." She half yelled at him. She was so unsure about anything, and the last thing she wanted to do was not have someone standing in front of her to beat up. Not that Flint totally deserved it, he kind of dead.

Alicia shut her eyes taking a deep breath. She took a step to the side, turning to lean her back on the building. Even though she wanted to beat the crap out of him, she knew what Katie would say "Ali, you don't need to beat him up. He probably has his reasons for being mean. Besides he wasn't really mean the last time I talked to him." It sucked hearing Katie in her head sometimes, but it was hard not to now that...

Taking the bottle of whiskey out of the brown paper bag in her free hand she opened it taking a sip. Flint could walk away, if he wanted to.

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marcmywords
2009-05-07 06:37 pm UTC (link)

He wanted to leave, but some invisible force prevented him from doing so. Instead, he found himself sighing and turning to Spinnet. "That's very classy, Spinnet." He said, nodding toward the bottle. "Come on, I'll take you home." Why was he being so... not mean to her? That wasn't him. Something was obviously wrong with him today. He was blaming the shocking news, though it didn't make him feel any better. He still couldn't understand why he was feeling like that over Bell's death. They weren't friends for Merlin's sake. He shouldn't feel that sad about her death.

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spinspinspin
2009-05-07 07:21 pm UTC (link)

"Because being classy is at the top of my list right now. Really in front of you." She said rolling her eyes at him at him as she took a sip of the whiskey, more like a really long sip of it. "You'll think whatever you want to of me." She said simply shrugging her shoulders.

"Wait." She said giving him a puzzled look. "You want me to let you take me home? Did you hit your head or something Flint? Shouldn't you be laughing at me?" She asked with an annoying tone to her voice.

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marcmywords
2009-05-08 07:32 am UTC (link)

Marcus just sighed and tried hard not to roll his eyes at her. "Oh, I already do." There he was, trying to behave like an actual human being for once in his life and she was being a bitch. Why couldn't he just leave her there, not caring what she did with her life?... Damn feelings and empathy.

He was starting to think he did hit his head that morning. "Well, is either that or let you get drunk here so everybody else can laugh at you. Up to you if you want it to be just me or the whole United Kingdom, Spinnet."

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spinspinspin
2009-05-08 01:12 pm UTC (link)

A curious look crossed her face. He seriously wasn't acting like the Flint she loved to hate. He wasn't supposed to be standing there actually having something that might resemble a heart. He wasn't supposed to care. Wasn't he supposed to be one of the bad guys? He was one of the bad guys. He was Marcus Flint, so why the hell was he being nice?

"Fine." She said, the angry look not leaving her face. She pushed off of the wall, although she pushed a little bit to hard. Her hand coming up quickly to rest on his chest to keep herself from running into him full on. Dropping her hand quickly, she looked up. "Sorry." She muttered before turning back in the direction she was heading in when she nearly ran into him.

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marcmywords
2009-05-09 07:06 am UTC (link)

Marcus gave her a little smirk. For some reason he was finding this very amusing, he being the sort of nice guy and she looking at him with an angry look on her face... Yes, clearly something was wrong with him today. But hopefully by the time he left her at her place, he'd go back to the mean and intimidating Marcus. He liked being that Marcus, it was way easier than being nice.

He gave her a little nod when she apologized and looked down at her for a moment before following her.

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spinspinspin
2009-05-09 10:29 am UTC (link)

It was just weird, walking with Marcus Flint somewhere that didn't involve Quidditch or being in trouble. For some reason it just didn't feel natural. Nor did she like the fact that for some reason she REALLY didn't want to lose his company. She wanted it, actually she didn't want to be alone, and she didn't really want to be around more people that would probably just make her cry more. At least Flint made her angry rather than really sad, although it did make her sad when she thought about how telling Katie she walked with Flint somewhere would go.

"Damn." She whispered really softly to herself as she pushed the thoughts out of her head.

Lucky for both of them. "It's not far." She said looking over at him.

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marcmywords
2009-05-09 02:13 pm UTC (link)

Marcus was feeling a little awkward walking next to Spinnet and not fighting or throwing snarky comments at each other. That was what they did at school, and continue doing now. It was strange being with her like that, being nice. But hopefully it'd be over soon.

He looked at her and nodded lightly. "Alright." He had an urge to ask her if she was okay, but he wasn't sure if he should as that or if she wanted to hear it from him... Damn, being nice was so hard. No wonder why he never tried it.

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spinspinspin
2009-05-09 02:17 pm UTC (link)

Why? Why was this happening. Why was he walking her home, why was he taking the time to do that? Why was Katie dead. Why wasn't she coming home. It just was hard

"Okay, you have to say something. It's weird enough walking with you, can't you say something? Talk about the weather. I don't care, just say something." She said after a couple more steps. Honestly she just didn't want to think, and if he was talking, she wouldn't think as much. She could think about what a jerk he was, or whatever it was he decided to talk about. That'd be a hell of a lot easier than just walking with nothing.

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marcmywords
2009-05-09 02:23 pm UTC (link)

Marcus was glad she opened her mouth, Walking in silence was way more awkwardness that he could handle, honestly. But what could he talk about? He had no idea what to say to her, nothing came up to him.

"You're still as annoying as you were in school, did you know? Or maybe even more." He said, kind of in a matter-of-fact way. But well, she was annoying, even when she was going through a hard time like now.

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	spinspinspin 2009-05-09 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	"There is the Flint I remember." She said shaking her head, rolling her eyes. "So your idea of conversation is telling me I'm still annoying. Ever think I'm just annoying to you because you're a jerk? Or was that too much to think about?" She asked, it felt a lot better to be snarky with him. It was a hell of a lot easier than just walking with silence. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	marcmywords 2009-05-09 02:33 pm UTC (link)
	"Pretty much, yeah. And ever thought that I'm a jerk because you're extremely annoying. But of course you'd never think that, right? You Gryffindors always thought were better than us." Marcus felt much more better when the snarky comments began, more comfortable around her. This was something both were good at, and it was definitely not awkward. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

spinspinspin
2009-05-09 02:37 pm UTC (link)

"Hmm. Let's think here. You could have been in any house and I'd still think you were an arse." She said with a half laugh. "And you always thought you were better than us. The thing is, at least we aren't out right mean for no reason at all." She said rolling her eyes. It was so much easier to talk like this than have an actually conversation being friendly, or even polite. Polite and Flint didn't go together.

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marcmywords
2009-05-09 02:41 pm UTC (link)

Marcus wasn't going to deny that. She was right. He could've been a Hufflepuff and he would still be mean and a real jerk -- though he was really glad he wasn't placed in that House. "Because we were, Spinnet. As simple as that. And we were mean because being mean is fun. Or are you going to tell me that you're not tired of being a good little girl all the time?" He was feeling like himself again, talking to her like that. He shouldn't try being nice ever again.

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spinspinspin
2009-05-09 02:43 pm UTC (link)

"Please, I'm not some good little girl. I'm not as mean as you are, in fact, I don't really think anyone is as mean as you are." She said shrugging. "There are a lot of ways to have fun, insulting people out of no where, or picking on nice people who don't or can't stand up for themselves, that's just pathetic. Does it make you feel better about yourself to be cruel?" She asked out of curiosity, and she was being a bitch, and she knew it, and frankly it was a hell of a lot easier than dealing with anything else.

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marcmywords
2009-05-09 02:49 pm UTC (link)

Marcus smirked widely at her. "I'll take that as a compliment." He liked being mean. Being mean was so much easier than being nice and caring about people. "People are cruel, Spinnet. Sure some people aren't, but most people are. And does it make me feel better? Yes, it does. It's great to know you have the power to make someone cry just by the sight of you. Does it make me a jerk? Of course. But I like it." He wasn't going to lie to her about it. He liked being cruel and mean, it was pretty clear by the way he acted.

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spinspinspin
2009-05-09 02:56 pm UTC (link)

"Let me get this straight. You like being a jerk." She said with an almost amused look. "You want to make people cry when they see you, what afraid that if you care you'll get hurt? Is that too much for you to handle. Too weak to actually have feelings past hate, anger, generally being a jerk." She said trying to see if she'd get something out of him, not that she'd care either way, it was just well... What else were they going to talk about? The fucking weather? No.

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	marcmywords 2009-05-09 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	Marcus laughed a little. He, of course, wasn't taking the conversation too seriously. If he'd had, he wouldn't have liked being called 'weak', at all. "What makes you think I don't care? I do care, just not about everyone." He said, the smirk hadn't left his face yet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

spinspinspin
2009-05-09 05:45 pm UTC (link)

"What maybe two people?" She asked with a shrug. "Or is that more than you can handle?" She asked as she pointed to cross the street and head down a smaller street.

Alicia sighed as she looked at the street, she had to force herself not to stop walking and turn around and run. Instead she looked over at Flint for a moment, half studying him before opening the bottle in her hand and taking a large drink of it.

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	marcmywords 2009-05-09 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	"I care about the people that deserve it." Sure, those people were just two, his two sisters, but still... Well, and Scotia.. Yeah, he cared about her too. He turned his head to where she pointed and followed her. "Are you going to take all that to yourself or are you going to share?" He asked withn an anrched eyebrow, looking at her and the bottle. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)