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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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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