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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junebugs
2012-11-08 04:41 am UTC (link)

June wished Regulus hadn't immediately been nice to her. It would have been a lot easier to explode. She sagged against him, wrapping her arms around his neck. "My fucking father is what's wrong."

She frowned, pressing her face against Regulus's chest for a moment, then pulled back enough to look at him. "I thought he'd be in a good mood today because Narcissa just had her baby, so I tried talking to him about my future. We were meant to meet about it tomorrow anyway. And I told him what I wanted, but he doesn't care. He never listens. It started out with him telling me he was going to marry me off to Viktor Krum and wouldn't I like to be like Narcissa, throwing mindless parties? Instead of being an old spinster career woman. And of course he fucking won't acknowledge that there's a middle-ground. He doesn't want me to be like my mother, but he's doing exactly what her parents did." She let out a shakey breath. "And he doesn't approve of you. First he tried to convince me that you were after me for your own gains, which is fucking stupid. Like getting close to my father is good for anybody. Then he told me your father knocked up Narcissa and her daughter is your... half-sister I guess. And then we both got really mad and he pulled his wand on me and kicked me out of his office."

June looked up at Regulus. "I... sorry. If you didn't know. About Narcissa and your dad. It doesn't even make sense to me, because you told me about... you know, about your dad having a boyfriend, but I wasn't going to say anything to him. Just... fuck, I hate him sometimes."

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regularblack
2012-11-08 05:14 am UTC (link)

Regulus arched a brow and looked back at June for a moment. "I'm sorry that your father was being a royal thunder-cunt. It makes me want to punch him in his handsome little face." He kissed her forehead and pulled back with a sigh.

"However, my father is gay." He told her and shook his head. "And he's been secretly dating a man for years. He's not fucking Narcissa. But, I know a few people who are. And one you wouldn't be very happy about."

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junebugs
2012-11-08 05:22 am UTC (link)

"It makes me want to curse him or find some way to do what I want to do anyway. I'm not going to be some bitter, lonely woman, locked up in a big, empty house all the time. I refuse," June said firmly. "I'll... run away to America and join the Muggle circus as a fortune teller if I have to."

She frowned a little at that revelation. "A few people? Like who? My father isn't fucking her, is he? The baby's got black hair. He could be, if he wasn't completely wrapped around Uncle Abraxas's finger."

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	regularblack 2012-11-08 06:28 am UTC (link)
	"The muggle circus? In America?" Regulus liked the sound of that. He could throw knives or something. He smiled to himself and then kissed her forehead. "I think that sounds like an amazing plan and you should take me with you." "No. Not your father." Regulus pulled back a little and looked at her carefully. "Your brother." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

junebugs
2012-11-08 06:35 am UTC (link)

Their plans to run away and join the circus were going to have to be put on hold for a moment. "Narcissa fucked my brother?" June made a disgusted face. "I don't even want to know how you know that. God. Merlin's supposed to marry her son."

June ran a hand through her hair. "So Merlin knocked up Narcissa and someone decided to blame it on your father. My dad's a twat who's going to marry me to whoever suits his interests the best and then not let me actually do anything with my life. I guess we should decide what the best way to get to America is and which circus we want to be part of. It would just... be really fucking nice if someone in my family could pretend for five minutes that they cared how I felt. It's my life."

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	merlinsbeard 2012-11-08 06:38 am UTC (link)
	"Neither one of us have lives." Merlin informed his sister as he found her in the courtyard, having went looking for her when he'd seen how upset his father had been when he'd come in for a lesson. He eyed Regulus carefully, reaching out to touch her arm. "What's wrong?" "Besides your father being a prick?" Regulus asked, frowning at the other boy. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

junebugs
2012-11-08 06:57 am UTC (link)

June turned to look at Merlin, eying him carefully. "If you're here you must have seen Dad," she said. "At least you got to have some say in who you're going to marry. Even if you did have sex with his mother."

She ran a hand through her hair, trying to calm herself down. "Dad wants me to marry Viktor Krum and spend the rest of my life throwing parties and having babies. Because I'm a girl. Because he doesn't seem to think I inherited anything but my hair colour from him. He pulled his wand on me today, hexed me when I thought about pulling mine to defend myself, and then ordered me to leave his office. I couldn't even work up the nerve to tell him to go fuck himself. I just told him I could use wandless magic too and slammed the door with magic behind me."

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merlinsbeard
2012-11-08 07:06 am UTC (link)

Merlin winced when she said that she'd slept with Narcissa. He wasn't going to dignify it with an answer. Instead, he shook his head and sighed, glancing at Regulus for a moment, to size him up.

"I won't let him marry you to Viktor Krum." Merlin promised her and he wrapped an arm around her, pulling her to his chest. "Do you hear me? I'll save you from this. Okay?"

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junebugs
2012-11-08 07:12 am UTC (link)

June let Merlin hug her, sighing against his shoulder. "Yes, you're going to go have a conversation with Dad and then he's probably going to torture you for a few hours and then you might get your way." She gave in, grumbling and hugging him back. "And I'll still be a stupid fucking girl who needs saving like some awful character in a book."

June pulled back. "I work hard. I'm smart. I have ambition and talent and he thinks if he puts me in a nice enough box I'll forget all of that. Maybe his present to me on my seventeenth birthday will be a lobotomy so I turn nice and agreeable for him."

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regularblack
2012-11-08 07:18 am UTC (link)

"Don't give him any ideas. Father is excellent in the ways of obliviating." He shook his head and glanced at Regulus. "If you're going to continue to date my sister, you're going to have to stand up to my father. You'll have to make him see how much you want her."

Regulus looked at the other boy and sighed. "Can't I just run off and elope her?"

"No." Merlin informed him with a frown. "You'd need the consent of an adult."

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junebugs
2012-11-08 07:24 am UTC (link)

June nodded. "Plus, I'm not sure that eloping would really solve the problem. Even if we got my mom really drunk and then dragged her somewhere to give me permission to get married. Although your father would probably be okay with it, since he's already written my father about us getting married."

She sighed. "The problem if that I'm a girl and my father has no respect for women. I think the person who came closest in his eyes was Narcissa, and now she's had this baby that Dad thinks belongs to Sirius Black, for some reason." June gave Merlin a pointed look. "Not that the truth would make Dad like her again. He only liked her because she takes care of kids and throws parties and generally acts like he thinks a woman should."

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regularblack
2012-11-08 07:05 pm UTC (link)

Merlin looked down at June for a moment and let out a soft sigh. "I'll tell father Winter is mine." He told her and then shook his head. "It'll take the noise off you for a few weeks, probably. And then I'll convince him that he can use Winter as a bargaining chip with men if he lets you have your own life."

Regulus stared at June, then at Merlin. "You're not as much of an arse as I thought."

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junebugs
2012-11-08 07:28 pm UTC (link)

June laughed a little, glancing back at Regulus. "Merlin is like me," she told him. "People focus so much on our father that they tend to forget we're people with thoughts of our own."

She looked up at her brother again. "Merlin, I don't like the idea of your daughter being used as a bargaining chip with dad. She's... my niece, I guess. I mean, Narcissa's raising her, so maybe she'll be less... whatever I am, but it's still a horrible thing to do to a baby. Trade her for me."

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	regularblack 2012-11-08 07:55 pm UTC (link)
	"I have no feelings for her. I love you." Merlin told his sister as he looked her over carefully. He reached out and touched her hair. "She looks a lot like you." He sighed softly and shook his head. "My daughter will have a good life. She's being raised as a Malfoy for now. And we'll just betroth her to the Bulgarian Minister's grandson." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

junebugs
2012-11-08 08:00 pm UTC (link)

June still wasn't sure she liked this. Merlin should have feelings for his daughter, but she knew their father had fucked him up. "All right," she said. "But make sure she and the Minister's grandson know each other. She shouldn't have to marry a stranger."

She hugged Merlin for a long moment, closing her eyes. She was doing her best not to feel too relieved or too hopeful. Who knew what their father would decide to do. "Thank you."

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