the beautiful derek d. dobbs (bigd) wrote in valesco,
@ 2008-06-15 20:14:00

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[Mer!]
Derek couldn't say it wasn't at least a little odd being back at Hogwarts. Even though he'd been a little sad to leave, Derek mostly enjoyed not attending classes anymore--that is to say, at least he started training to be a Hit Wizard. But even then, he had to admit some of the classes here had been more rigorous than training could ever have been.

And it was very weird that his work should bring him here, but with a suspected criminal in Hogsmeade and the general Dark Activity, Hit Wizards and Aurors were soon to be maintaining a watch over the general chaos of Hogwarts releasing for the summer. After reporting to Professor Dumbledore for information and general direction, he took a little walk through the grounds, remembering tidbits from when he had been in school. All of this, of course, was going quite peacefully until he saw a flash of blond charging from nowhere.

"Oi, oi, OI! WATCH I--"

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mymeredith
2008-06-16 04:58 am UTC (link)

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck---!"

That was the rather colorful string of words--or word, as it were--coming out of Meredith Fielding's mouth as she booked it down the corridor towards her next final. Which she was late for, oh shit oh shit the professor was going to have her head when she came in and she didn't mean to be late and all this running was doing a terror on the hair she had taken so much care with this morning and she was going fail this damn final and why had she had to fall asleep after lunch and possibly ruin her academic career and--

---when did she end up on the floor?

With thoughts going a thousand miles a minute about the possible ruination of her future at Hogwarts, Meredith hadn't even realized that she had just run smack into someone until her rump hit cold stone. And now her papers were everywhere and her book was--fuck fuck where was her book! She scrambled to grab up her scattered possessions, barely realizing that she had probably just thrown someone else down with her too. When the Hufflepuff finally did look up--and good ten seconds later--the experience was a rush of heat to her face.

She had just run into the most gorgeous man to step into Hogwarts.

"Oh shit."

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bigd
2008-06-16 05:16 am UTC (link)

It was nice to see training paid off in some respects. After spending months being battered by objects weighing nearly double the girl who just crashed into him, he just lost a bit of footing and stumbled into the wall.

Grinning slightly, he picked up a book he assumed she was frantically searching for in the wrong place and offered her a hand.

"In a bit of a hurry?" he asked cheerfully.

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mymeredith
2008-06-16 05:24 am UTC (link)

Meredith stared, dumbfounded, at the man in front of her, and it wasn't just because he was unbelievably good looking and she had just embarrassed the shit out of herself by running into him. She was actually now trying to determine whether or not he was serious, being all--all cheerful and happy when she was rushing off to her execution.

... but it was also a lot of the unbelievably good looking part too.

"Yeah, I'm---final, I'm late for---final, a final---" Oy, why couldn't she speak right? Or remember which final she was heading off to? Or stop flushing and acting like a moron?

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bigd
2008-06-16 05:34 am UTC (link)

"Oh, finals," Derek said, mildly surprised that he forgot it was the hectic last week of school. Gods, but he didn't miss that part of school OR training at all.

He was slightly taken aback by the mad rush the girl seemed to be in, but, as he recalled, he wasn't so level-headed and coherent when his marks/life hung in the balance.

"Are you sure you should be taking an examination in your condition?" he asked, smirking. But she was kind of cute when she stuttered.

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mymeredith
2008-06-16 05:44 am UTC (link)

His question only proved to cause her to look more confused than she already did, and Meredith tried to think of what in the hell this unbelievably good looking but extremely strange man could be talking about. This man that she kind of recognized, kind of but that didn't matter right now because---

"My condition? What are you---oh fuck it all, did I screw up my hair that bad?" she groaned. Meredith's hands went up to hastily smooth down the blonde curls, as well as her uniform. They seemed fine, surprisingly, but what if they weren't and she had not only just made an idiot of herself in front of very-handsome-slightly-familiar-man, but she had made herself look like a tossled idiot?

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bigd
2008-06-16 05:57 am UTC (link)

Whoops. This probably wasn't the best time to tease a frazzled Gryffindor (no, Hufflepuff, upon closer inspection of the robe) about exams. Or really, anything.

Derek grinned. Then again, it would be exceedingly entertaining, if not very mean, to tease her. Good thing he wasn't that terrible. Usually.

"No, no," he caught one of the hands that was pulling desperately at her very blond hair and orderly, if a little rumpled from falling over, robe. "I was only joking. Your hair is fine and not fucked up in the slightest."

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mymeredith
2008-06-17 01:52 am UTC (link)

He was touching her. Why was unbelievably good looking man touching her! Men that good looking weren't allowed to touch because---because---because they so weren't allowed to make you feel like a silly girl after you already felt like a silly girl for falling over in front of them.

No no no no, definitely not fair at all, and with that thought, she pulled her hand away. She attempted to make it look casual, but Meredith was sure that it was not. She really hoped she didn't offend him or something on top of it all.

"No? Not my hair? So wait--wait, what is it then? What's wrong with me?"

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bigd
2008-06-17 02:03 am UTC (link)

He had to bite his lip for a moment to stop from laughing. Part of him felt a floodgate of seven plus years of exam sympathy, and part of him felt horrendously gleeful that he was free to walk the corridors while others suffered through the final exams period.

And Derek honestly hoped he wasn't making her nervous. The poor creature was already in a rush, it would be incredibly unfair if she thought she offended him. He tried to make it perfectly clear that that wasn't the case.

"Oh, no, no, nothing is wrong with you...," Name. What was her name? She had crashed into him at an unnatural speed and he forgot to ask her her name. What a grasp on manners he had. "Sorry, I didn't catch your name in the giant crash," he said with an apologetic smile.

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mymeredith
2008-06-17 04:16 am UTC (link)

She narrowed her eyes at him for a moment. So if nothing was wrong with her, then he was... what? Had he been kidding? Because it was really not nice at all to kid with her when she obviously was in take-everything-seriously mode. Stupid good-looking men! Thinking they could just be there for her to crash into and look silly in front of and touch her hand and kid with her and---

And still, she didn't question for a second why she was still standing there speaking to him when she obviously had a final to get to.

"Name?" That question caught her off guard; it wasn't what she had been expecting at all, and she found herself answering it before she realized. "Meredith, I'm---yours?" Well, she couldn't call him Ridiculously Good Looking Man forever.

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bigd
2008-06-17 04:37 am UTC (link)

There was no real reason why he stood there, driving this already adorably frazzled girl to dizzying frazzled-er heights, but at this point, the "why" didn't really matter. When he asked her her name, a look of great confusion crossed her face and he probably should have sent her on her way to her final. But as she uttered her name--

Oh, Merlin. This one was too difficult to walk away from.

"Mine?" he asked, a very surprised and slightly shocked look innocently on his face. "Meredith, I hardly know you!"

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mymeredith
2008-06-17 04:48 am UTC (link)

Now Meredith's eyes widened, and--did he really just say that? Did he really just---ohhh okay that was it, this was ridiculous, he was ridiculous and she had a final to get to and she did not have to stand here and let him say stupid crap like that!

In a huff, attempting to veil the even deeper red that her cheeks now flushed, Meredith finally grabbed her book from his hands. She shoved it into her bag and turned her nose up at him in an attempt to look like she thought he was immature. Which he totally was, ugh.

"Alright, fine," she said. "I don't care who you are, then. I don't have the time to waste on you anyway." She pushed past him to continue down the corridor to her classroom.

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bigd
2008-06-17 04:55 am UTC (link)

As she snatched the book, he couldn't help but grin. Oh, but she was a fiery one, this one. He liked a little spirit every now and then. And goodness knows with his downright awful sense of humor, he probably needed it sometimes.

"It was a pleasure meeting you, Miss Meredith," he called after her, still chuckling slightly. "And I wish you the greatest of luck on your final!"

Derek had to admit it wasn't often that their were girls walking away from him, as little as he liked to think about the females in his past gloatingly, but he felt this one was probably much more different than any other girl he'd encountered.

And in all his amusement and wonder, it took Derek a few seconds to realize she never did get his name.

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