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r. lupin (tufty) wrote in silverage,
@ 2011-08-20 10:22:00

Entry tags:

!log, ginny potter, remus lupin

not going down on Friday
Who: Remus Lupin + Ginny Potter + Anyone in the Wizarding House! Or guests of the Wizarding House?
When: ~~this~~ Friday night, after Lily left the house ~~to dance on tabletops, take too many shots, kiss but forget...~~
Where: The Wizarding House (basically that one with Lily, Sirius and Ginny)
What: Remus is ~~not going down on Friday~~ is a little under the weather on a Friday night so he's being an unhappy homebody.
Rating/status: ~PG depending on his mood?/ongoing.

Lily had announced that she was leaving, but Remus couldn't even bother to tell her to have a good time. She'd know, he thought, and he left it at that as she closed the door behind her.

A moment later, he finally decided to move, drawing his blanket closer to him, draped over him like a heavy coat, as he took up his cup of tea and finished it. As he placed it back on the dining table, the steaming pot took a life of its own and poured tea into his empty cup; bless magic. He pushed himself slightly off the table and clumsily collected the sheets he had scattered under him: maps, a calendar, a couple of unfinished letters, the falconry's calling card and finally, a perfect moon chart to last him a year. The thought frightened him, but he had to be realistic.

He sighed as he placed a gray hand over his face. He was merely days away from another full moon night, and with all the snow, it was not going to be fun even with Sirius around. After his change, sure, but...why couldn't he have a "normal" transformation, he wondered? As if being stuck here in a strange New York wasn't enough...

And would they have space to move around? Remus had been working on that. So far, though, he hadn't had much luck. He couldn't seem to find any real forests in New York City -- just parks. How nice. As he sought for the list he'd made of them, his elbow had pushed off his map and moon chart of the table and he sighed as he looked at them scattered on the floor.

Next he sought for his wand among the mess of sheets...

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tufty
2011-08-20 07:53 am UTC (link)

"Everything," Remus told her sincerely, his expression remaining to be something...relatively pleasant for the most part. "Every single thing you had just said. But let us take it slowly, shall we?

First, you mentioned I have a son. By the name of Teddy and why," he laughed again, "for the life of me I would name him Teddy, I would never know. But for the benefit of the doubt, let us believe that his name really is Teddy Lupin, and that there really is a Teddy Lupin. It's all fine, I suppose..." He picked up his cup and drained it again.

Then placing it back on the table, he said to it, "Except my kind does not breed."

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bat_bogeys
2011-08-20 07:59 am UTC (link)

"You named him for Tonks' father," Ginny said, a little irritated by his disbelief. "And clearly your kind does reproduce because your offspring is over to our house at least a couple of times a month for dinner." She also doubted very much there was any question of parentage because Tonks loved him and had worked so hard to get him into the relationship to begin with, so it wasn't likely she'd cheated on him. Ginny wouldn't believe it of her anyway.

"Though honestly if you're just going to contradict everything I've got to tell you about your future that I'm living in, then I don't see much of a point in bothering with this discussion." She wouldn't mind the disbelief so much if he wasn't being so condescending about it. She'd liked Lupin well enough as the man she'd known; she wasn't sure what to make of him at this age.

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tufty
2011-08-20 08:19 am UTC (link)

"Clearly to you, but not so clearly to me," Remus said to her simply. "You forget, I am supposed to have lived in your past, Ginny, as have your mother-in-law and Sirius Black. Convenient, is it not? That we should not know anything about your life.

In that regard, I must ask you to pardon me if I feel the need to contradict your version of the future," he continued steadily. "You must understand how difficult it is for me to trust you right off. After all, Ginny, think about it. How would you feel if someone came strutting right in, claiming to be your grandson from a future you would probably never know about, the way you did?" He shrugged...for effect. "To even say that it is easy is an understatement."

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bat_bogeys
2011-08-20 08:25 am UTC (link)

"In this situation? I'd see no reason not to believe it. What do I have to gain by lying to any of you, especially about things like this, when Neville can easily tell you whether or not I'm being honest about it?

"No, nevermind, I'm sure he'd be some great pretender as well." She exhaled. "You're just being very condescending about it all. It's one thing to disbelieve. It's another thing entirely to mock me just because you aren't able to accept it. You've accepted well enough that you've been thrust into 1964, so why should the rest of this be so unbelievable?"

She did wish then she had some sort of proof. Pictures, or something, but he'd likely just disbelieve those as well. But she couldn't tell him anything about himself at the age he was that she hadn't heard through stories, and there were few enough of those. So if he was going to continue to discount everything, her original point stood. She didn't think either of them were in any frame of mind to deal with this. She knew she was more easily frustrated than usual right now and she had a feeling if he kept this up things were not going to end well.

Shaking her head, Ginny rose. She had to go post her note, anyway. "I think I'm going to call it a night," she said as she lifted the note to indicate that she was going to tend to that bit, first.

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	tufty 2011-08-20 08:43 am UTC (link)
	"What do you have to gain? I wonder." Remus smiled again to her. "But I am glad that it is clear to the both of us how much I trust you, Ginny Potter -- you and your version of history and relationships," he said as he stroked his wand with his thumb. Out of habit, really -- more out of habit than anything else, he promised. "Have a good night, Ginny." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bat_bogeys
2011-08-20 08:53 am UTC (link)

She was honestly kind of disgusted with the whole thing if only because he was calling into question things she knew to be solid truths. "Well, that's a shame," she replied to him, brown eyes glittering. "Hopefully you'll come around one of these days," she added before she turned to leave the room.

She wondered if he'd always been this untrusting or if it was the situation or some other combination of things. No matter. It wasn't as though she had to talk to him, after all.

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