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[alt_regulus]

It's dark as pitch

behind you, the bright one

there, low in the south, with the Lyrids shooting

like hexes towards you, past you

   there: one

       another

 

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[alt_pansy]

Hello.

Did you write that?

It sounds like you.

I like it.

[alt_regulus]

Oh, hey there.

I--

yes, I wrote it. Didn't really think about how it would sound to anyone else.

[alt_pansy]

I think that's often the best sort of poetry. The real kind.





I don't sit around the Common Room blabbing on and on about chocs and prezzies, you know.

I don't want you to think that.

[alt_regulus]

That girl is not very nice, is she?

I saw it, but I knew better.

You were worried?

[alt_pansy]

kind of.

About lots of things.

I don't know.

I'm sorry.

[alt_pansy]

And no, she is not.

Did you have anyone at school you didn't get on with?

[alt_sirius]

Have a good chat?

I've been watching. Didn't want to interrupt.

[alt_regulus]

Oh, now. That's not creepy at all.

[alt_sirius]

You should know.

Anyway, I didn't mean it like that. I just meant

I didn't want to chase her off.

[alt_regulus]

Yeah. Thanks for that.

She's a good

kid

person

She thinks about other people, you know, and also she just thinks. About what things mean, about what people are about. She thinks.

[alt_sirius]

I've noticed that.

Not that I've had the

No

Yes, you're right.

So. It's poetry again? Does London still have tatty coffeehouses where everyone wears berets?

ORDER ONLY

[alt_alice]

You just keep drawing one another in, don't you?

Please be careful, love. I know how you can get when you talk to him.

Re: ORDER ONLY

[alt_sirius]

I know. 've been drinking thinking about it most of the day.

Promised myself I wouldn't, though. Not tonight.

[alt_sirius]

You're between Mars and Jupiter, here.

And there's one - right past you.

[alt_regulus]

Yeah.

So where are you?

I don't mean where where, but what kind of place?

I'm in the great park. Nothing but wand light here. And you.

[alt_sirius]

Me? Why, I'm at the Elysian, of course, waiting for you to drop by.

[alt_regulus]

Right.

Nice chatting, then.

G'night.

[alt_sirius]

Oi, you started off wanting to talk. So? Talk to me.

I've been waiting all this time.

Just

She's right, you know. It's important to know whose opinions matter.

Trouble is sometimes the ones who matter aren't the ones you want to care about, but you do, nevertheless.

It's not as easy as saying you're done.

[alt_regulus]

Oh, look.

I'm just tired of it.

Just tired.

Can't we just

Right.

Never mind.

[alt_sirius]

Don't

I wasn't taking the piss, all right?

Fine.

I'm outside, as well.

Somewhere... quiet.

[alt_sirius]

Hey.

You know when I called you goblin?

You know I meant it as a term of

well.

I didn't mean anything by it.

[alt_regulus]

Yeah, I know.

[alt_sirius]

Look, it's getting light out here. Where I am. Which I'm still not telling you but, you know, only because.

I should get some sleep.

Go to sleep, little brother. It'll be better in the morning.

[alt_regulus]

That's a good idea, I think.


Good night, arch-traitor Black.

[alt_sirius]

Good night goblin, Pirate.