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[treatinferiors.livejournal.com]

[Regulus isn't here right now, in this drafty, dingy home. Relatively more maintained than usual, but the dust is gathering and the curtains are tearing at the seams. Frantic footsteps and loud shouting can be heard, dimly. Muffled. Indistinct. Sometimes a phrase makes it through. "Turned out like the blood traitor."]

[The parchment focused on a tapestry. Vast and well cared for, except for the holes strategically burned into it every once in awhile. There's one more hole than there used to be. One less person that lives here. One less person part of this family.]

Comments

[madblackblood.livejournal.com]

Who is they?

[negative-five.livejournal.com]

I didn't trick him!

[madblackblood.livejournal.com]

So you're to blame, then?

[negative-five.livejournal.com]

I didn't do anything wrong! I'm his friend! Just because your family decides to act so medieval that you need to punish people for being decent, that is not my fault!

[madblackblood.livejournal.com]

Insult my family and you will come to regret your words, girl.

...which are you? Muggle or Mudblood? If you were a pure witch, I'd know who you were. And it'd explain my cousin's sudden departure.

[negative-five.livejournal.com]

Since Regulus clearly isn't part of the family anymore, I have no qualms about insulting them. I care about him, and since no one else seems to feel the same way, I don't see why you should deserve any of my respect.

I'm a Muggle, but that shouldn't matter!

1/2

[treatinferiors.livejournal.com]

I don't know her. I've never seen her before in my entire life. She doesn't know what she's talking about. It's probably some sort of-- some sort of virus. Combined with her muggle intellect, it's no wonder she's misunderstood. It won't happen again.

[madblackblood.livejournal.com]

A virus has tied you to this girl? [She...might buy that. She's had it happen to her.]

[treatinferiors.livejournal.com]

It's the most reasonable explanation.

[madblackblood.livejournal.com]

So you do not know her?

[treatinferiors.livejournal.com]

No. Not at all. But... it's the community's fault, not her's.

[madblackblood.livejournal.com]

Still. How very irritating of her.

2/2 [locked to rachel]

[treatinferiors.livejournal.com]

Rachel. If you consider yourself my friend, at all, even in the slightest, find somewhere safe to stay and do not leave it.

[locked to regulus]

[negative-five.livejournal.com]

Why?

How could you say that?!

[locked to regulus]

[treatinferiors.livejournal.com]

Do you want her to kill you? Because killing you is the least awful thing that she can, and will, do. Just follow along, please.

[locked]

[negative-five.livejournal.com]

... fine. But... you don't actually think those things, right? That I... tricked you?

[locked]

[treatinferiors.livejournal.com]

If anything, I tricked myself.

[locked]

[negative-five.livejournal.com]

By doing what?

[locked]

[treatinferiors.livejournal.com]

For a little while, I almost believed that none of this would matter.

[locked]

[negative-five.livejournal.com]

... being friends with me?

Do you... regret it?

[locked]

[treatinferiors.livejournal.com]

...Not as much as I probably should.

[locked]

[negative-five.livejournal.com]

You... you really mean a lot to me, you know. You should know that.

[madblackblood.livejournal.com]

It does matter. It matters quite a great deal.

Let me put it to you this way: insult my own blood again and you will learn the difference. Graphically.

[negative-five.livejournal.com]

Fine.

[madblackblood.livejournal.com]

Good. Stay away from him.