june riddle. (junebugs) wrote in notanother,
@ 2012-11-07 01:53:00

Being Tom Riddle's daughter frequently turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. For one thing, nobody had ever handed her a friendship like Merlin had been handed Draco's. She'd grown up with Merlin telling her that he and Draco didn't want to play with her and been too shy to ask Pansy if maybe she wanted to be friends, even though she knew Merlin wouldn't have minded that. At school, everyone acted afraid. Most Slytherin families tried really hard for boys anyway, and who was she supposed to be friends with, Astoria Greengrass?

She took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Her father respected intelligence and ambition. She was descended from Salazar Slytherin. She could sit down with her father and have a frank conversation about her future. The worst thing he could do was... Well, honestly she didn't want to think about the worst thing he could do because the worst seemed pretty darn worst to her. Ending up married to some dirty old man in Albania or Romania or wherever he was trying to strengthen his hold in Europe. June put on her best dutiful daughter face and knocked on the door to her father's office. Narcissa had had her baby. Everyone had to be in a good mood now, right?

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	riddles 2012-11-07 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	Tom frowned at that. His daughter didn't know the sacrifices he'd made to get to where he was. Or the sacrifices her brother had made. Or what Merlin had been through to become the man he was becoming. He frowned at her and stood. "Is that what you want?" Tom asked his daughter, arching a brow. "Do you want the same treatment as your brother?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	junebugs 2012-11-07 11:06 pm UTC (link)
	June hesitated. She knew some of what Merlin had been through and she wasn't sure she really wanted the same treatment as him, but she wanted the relative freedom he got. She wanted to be her own person. "I want you to treat me like a person and not a convenient gift to be given to the most strategically important ally." She looked up at him. "Please, Dad." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

riddles
2012-11-07 11:13 pm UTC (link)

"I treat you like a person. I treat you like you are my daughter and I'm trying to find the best way to support your future." Tom frowned at his daughter and shook his head. "Do you have any idea who you are? What people want to do to our family?"

He shook his head. "Do you have any idea what I've done to make sure this family succeeded. That the world would be better for us? You want to be treated with respect, and yet, you don't respect me. The things I've done for you."

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junebugs
2012-11-07 11:19 pm UTC (link)

"I know who I am. I know who you are. I know what people want to do to us," June said. "Why can't I try to do great things too? You can't really think the best way to support my future is to marry me to someone I don't even know."

She stood up too. "I know what you've done for me, Dad. I go to a great school because of you. I live better than most people because you worked hard for what we have. I'm in a better position that most of the world, but I want to do something with that. Something beside throw parties or raise children. Maybe that life is right for some people, but it's not right for me. I'm your daughter."

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	riddles 2012-11-07 11:22 pm UTC (link)
	Tom reached into his desk and pulled out a letter he'd put in there days before. He frowned at her for a moment and then held it out to her, doing his best not to sneer. She was his daughter and in his own way, he loved her. Kind of. "Your boyfriend wants to marry you." Tom informed her. "You barely know him and he's asked his father to bid for your hand." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

junebugs
2012-11-07 11:27 pm UTC (link)

"I know," June said, reaching out and taking the letter from her father. "We discussed it. Why do you think I mentioned him to you? We both have to marry and we like each other. He wouldn't stop me from doing whatever I wanted to do with my life."

She was doing her best not to cross her arms over her chest or stomp her foot or do anything else that would make her father angrier than he already was. She just wanted a real life. "So what? He's not exactly the sort of man you want for me, is he? He's not calm or level-headed, even if he is smart and from a good family." He wasn't boring.

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riddles
2012-11-07 11:29 pm UTC (link)

"He's none of the things I want for you." Tom shook his head and frowned, looking back at June. "His mother and father were both Gryffindors. His father was nearly wiped from his own family tree for being far too rebellious and sympathetic towards Muggles."

He frowned. "I think he's using you." He told her. "For who you are. I don't think he cares about you personally. I think he cares about what you can give him>"

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junebugs
2012-11-07 11:37 pm UTC (link)

"Have you ever even talked to him?" June asked, frowning at her father. Regulus wasn't that kind of person. He was nice to her. He wasn't scared of her or her family. He was her friend as well as her boyfriend. "He's not like that. He's not that manipulative."

She ran a hand through her hair and shook her head. "He's a Black. What would marrying me get him that he couldn't already get himself with a bit of extra work?"

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	riddles 2012-11-07 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	"His father can't be trusted." Tom felt like he was about to explode in anger. He frowned at June and shook his head, then grabbed the picture of the baby that Abraxas had sent him. His newest grandchild of sorts. "His father impregnated his own cousin." Tom informed her, showing her the picture of the baby. "This is Narcissa Malfoy's latest child." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

junebugs
2012-11-07 11:48 pm UTC (link)

June blinked down at the picture of the little girl, bundled up in pink blankets. The black hair and big, grey eyes certainly didn't look like they'd come from Augustus, but she wasn't sure she saw Regulus's father in their either. She glanced at the photo and then at her dad and then back at the picture.

"I wouldn't be marrying his father," she pointed out. "And the Blacks have been prone to marrying their cousins for generations. You probably know wizarding genealogy better than I do. If Abraxas is sending you photos of her, he can't be that upset by it."

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