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Luna Lovegood (luna_llena) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-05-17 17:50:00

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!dropped, day 08, dean winchester, location: library, luna lovegood, nymphadora tonks

Day Eight - Mid Morning
Who: Luna Lovegood, Tonks and Dean Winchester
What: Collecting the Girls
Where: Library
When: Day 8, Mid Morning
Rating: TBD
Status: Active

If it had not been for Tonks' presence, Luna would have tried to immediately find someplace to hide. Something that might have been problematic as she was quite claustrophobic at times, and when the threat of Death Eaters lay upon the immediate world heavily, she would have been terrified to be in a small place. As it was, she sat in a far corner of the room, her back firmly against a wall and one shoulder against a bookcase.

That Dean was coming, it eased her terror, if only a little. The Mark, the strange entries in the journal that she had read this morning, they all pointed to one idea in her mind, and it was one that had made her sleep fitful and grasped only in short intervals.

Luna was frankly terrified, and it was not something that she could or would deny. It was not the death that Voldemort's followers wrought, it was the torture, and the shackles, and the windowless, skyless cells. One of her hands slid into her jacket pocket and grasped the three blue Pixie Stix in her pocket, the move unconscious and unnoticed. With her knees pulled up against her chest, the small witch was more of a ball of frightened humanity than her usually dreamy self.

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hellsboy
2009-05-20 09:20 pm UTC (link)

Dean was focused on Luna, about to reach down and offer her a hand up because Tonks didn't seem to be taking things seriously enough. There was a time and a place for fooling around and this was not it. What did chocolate have to do with it? Then he saw Luna's expression, her smile beginning to reappear and he glanced toward the other girl. Stopped. Slowly his eyebrows raised and his look turned to a somewhat impressed one. "What do you know? Our very own Easter Bunny. That'll stop them in their tracks." He chuckled and almost reached out to see if the ears were in fact real but held off the childish impulse.

The site of the girl with bunny ears and hearing Luna begin to pull herself out of the debilitating terror she'd seemed to have been in sort of broke the spell of seriousness for Dean. He felt himself unable to stop smiling or hold back his other childish impulse. Asking for a request. "Can you do an octopus?" he asked, momentarily completely fascinated with Tonks. They must put something in the wizarding world water because these native girls had serious stress relief capabilities. He could really get into that.

He was so focused on Tonks that he almost didn't hear Luna. Breaking his attention away for a second, he turned toward Luna to offer her his hand to help her up from the floor. "We probably should leave, yes, but only if you're okay."

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polymorphic
2009-05-20 09:40 pm UTC (link)

Tonks winked at Luna when she spoke about the ears. Atta girl. And was standing as well once the blonde was picking herself up. "Moody got to a whole new generation, I see!" She grinned brightly in spite of the situation at hand. Her mentor could be a complete ass sometimes, but she loved that gruff man like an uncle.

Turning to Dean, Tonks' eyes got wide. "I've never tried an octopus! Remind me later and I'll give it a go, yeah?" Appreciative Tonks was quite appreciative. Dean took the fact that she could do that very easily. It could have gone a lot worse.

She looked to Luna again then, and lifted her eyebrows a little. "Alright?" Once given the go-ahead, Tonks would be ready to go as well.

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luna_llena
2009-05-20 10:48 pm UTC (link)

Rather than answer, Luna simply nodded. Now was not the time or place to break the laws of Time Turners to explain how the other witch's mentor had been killed less than a year before the pink-haired witch herself. So many senseless deaths that it had taken a good deal of healing for their world, in order for its inhabitants not to want to burst into tears or break something when thinking of all that had been lost.

Tonks's ability being explored reminded Luna, just as she was setting a hand in Dean's proffered one, of the magical experiment she had meant to show them both. Distraction, temporary distraction. Enough to keep her functional and not lapsing into thinking of things she already knew would be coming for her in her nightmares soon enough.

When asked twice if she was alright, if she was better, the blonde witch took the offered help to stand properly, before she answered. "The wandless Cheering Charm, I finished it. I know how now." Luna's fingers squeezed those of Dean's, drawing a measure of comfort from the relatively brief contact.

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