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❝ℜowena ♦ ℜavenclaw❞ ([personal profile] wiseeagle) wrote in [community profile] piecrafts2012-08-24 02:31 am

❥ prompt post :

Because I am addicted to image prompts and they can lead to random shenanigans without the difficulty of making new posts!

❥ post image, quote, what have you
❥ make up scenario
❥ ????
❥ profit
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IMAGE UNO

[personal profile] boldlion 2012-08-24 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not every day someone loses their best friend. Godric dealt with it in various ways, most of the time it involved not talking about it. Ever. With anyone.]

[He laughs, continues teaching, continues stealing Rowena's books, stealing pieces of Helga's pie, teaching his students how to break the rules. None of them ask.]

[But Hogwarts has still lost Salazar and that will never go away.]

[And sometimes... sometimes he doesn't want to ignore that.]

[He finds Rowena, of course, in the library, huddled over some books. And before he second guesses himself -- not that he ever really does -- he comes up behind her, wraps his arms around hers and hides his face in her shoulder.]
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[personal profile] boldlion 2012-08-24 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
[The tone and concern in her question is mildly surprising, though Godric's always known she was kinder than she usually let on. He might have smiled, another time.]

[He draws in a breath, a sigh, but lets his name hang in silence for a while. Her hand and the contact is a little more than he expected. He didn't know what he expected, really; he was still working on just what had pushed him here in the first place. There was the obvious answer, but today was no different from the others in the moving on process.]

[When he finally speaks, he doesn't realize what comes out until after, voice muffled]


Sorry.

[For what? Disturbing her? He doesn't even know.]

[But he doesn't move]
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[personal profile] boldlion 2012-08-25 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs, but it's hollow and not anywhere near his normal boisterousness. Her attempts to comfort, however, don't go unnoticed, and at contact from her fingers, Godric tightens his hug, just for a moment.]

Interrupting? [It's a light offer, because he's still not sure.]

[Except maybe he is -- well, not sure what he's apologizing for, but in coming to terms with why he's here. Rowena and Helga are the only two things left he's sure about anymore, in their steadiness, in all their closeness. Losing that in Salazar is taking a toll on him, more than he wants to admit, even mentally.]

[His instincts always figure things out before his brain does, anyway.]
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[personal profile] boldlion 2012-08-25 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He actually does break into the smallest of smiles at her question; everything about it so familiar and so Rowena and she's trying that he can't help when he does. Maybe that's why he's here, too, because if there's anyone who knows him well enough, it's Rowena, and that's how she works. He's an open book most of the time, but she has the experience in closed ones, too]

Tragically, no. I'm afraid you're unlikely to get any more than just the one.

[And if he's being honest, he's not even very sorry right now to have interrupted. He rarely is. Godric is a weird mix of selfless and selfish, and though he likes to tell himself that the selfless part wins most of the time, it doesn't. Not always.]

[And selfishly, he wants his best friend back. He knows Salazar was in the wrong, but years and years of camaraderie can't easily be forgotten. Selfishly, he doesn't care what Rowena might have been doing before he found her just now, because even if she's not the comforting sort akin to the likes of Helga, it's the eagle he instinctively sought out, and at the end of the day, Godric always trusts his gut. Her familiar shape in his arms is grounding.]
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[personal profile] boldlion 2012-08-26 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He helps the process along by loosening his own arms once she realizes she's trying to move; he might have hugged her with little provocation, but had she shown any signs of discomfort, he'd have let go right away.]

[Though when she turns to hug him, immediately his arms encircle her once more. He lets out a sigh, quiet but grateful. Her head against his chest is surprising, moreso than anything else she's done, and he lightly rests his chin atop her hair.]


Would it be too much to ask avoid bragging about it? Can't have anyone thinking Godric Gryffindor regrets many things.
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[personal profile] boldlion 2012-09-01 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
My eternal gratitude, shrouded with gold.

[The banter is nice. Familiar. It might not be as lively as the standard, and it's ill likely to end in some sort of duel (this time), but it's them. And it's not something that's happened very often lately, each of the remaining three founders quietly closing themselves off in ways they never really had before.]

[So he continues with it, for now, as if they're fine, normal, back to a battle of wits Rowena is sure to win eventually; even if the circumstances of being closely knit in a hug that demonstrate something more mournful than the old friendly rivalry. A rather sad undercurrent trying to pull them out to sea.]


But I suppose I can try for bronze, if you prefer.
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[personal profile] boldlion 2012-09-04 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Gold it is then. Though does my gratitude not help reach that potential equivalent?

[Small steps, maybe -- getting the three of them back to their best. A mourning process for a lost friend that will never really end, but Godric knows better than anyone that you can't give up. He had students to teach. A school to run. Two friends that remain that he swears he will never ever let down.]

[He failed Salazar, and Salazar failed him. Perhaps it was only the longevity of their friendship that kept the split from happening sooner. What makes it worse is Godric knows his friend was wrong, so completely wrong and full of prejudices that as much as it hurts, he knows it could have gone no other way.]

[With that train of thought, Godric finds himself idly hugging Rowena a little tighter.]
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[personal profile] boldlion 2012-09-28 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
[NO SUCH THIIIING]

[He laughs. It's a little more genuine than his previous ones were.]


So what you're saying is my debt will last forever? It just might be worth the pleasure of your company.

[Which to him right now (and always, really), is worth more than any amount of gold. As much as Salazar was his best friend, Rowena was his favorite person to interrupt while working. That's something that will never change, and continuing that trend now is helping. It was something largely for them alone, untouched by Salazar and his departure, even if that was part of the motivation behind Godric's doing so now. But it's unchanged. It's still them, even with the grief underneath. She's still Rowena with her books, and he's still Godric with a penchant for pestering, though he swears she enjoys it. Mostly.]

[And he'll cling to that in the face of everything else.]

[He notices something about her stillness, and so his grip loosens around her. He can be perceptive, sometimes.]