Aaron's Flat

[Holly Palmers]

*is so unimaginably appreciative right now*

Thank you, Aaron, for being so understanding. I-er-I need to be back in it, in London, I'll owl Sebastian or Yaxley or something, but if you don't think it would be too much of a problem, I was hoping I could stay until that settles itself, and until I'm sure you have Chris or someone else in here.

*finally lets go of his arms*

This way I won't have to think about you getting hurt--I'll be able to focus better and know you'll be safe.

[Aaron Tayllore]

*squints up his eyes at her and smiles ironically*

I'm not a vulnerable idiot, I think I can manage to stay alive somehow without you.

*let's a heavy awkwardness settle in, but is not at all effected by it and hopes very much she is, since she's the one making ridiculous claims to cover up her own insecurity and lack of control over human emotions and fears*

*kicks back on the bed and pulls off his shoes*

Well if we're not going anywhere...

[Holly Palmers]

*stands up briskly, wondering why she even tries to be civil sometimes*

I was trying to show that I still care, thank you.

*marches to the door, thinking she better send a message to Sebastian as soon as possible, before the tension breaks to something irreversible*

I'll sleep on the couch until I'm out.

[Aaron Tayllore]

*sighs, closes his eyes, and sleeps*

*thinks to himself that of course she's going to sleep on the couch, like hell would she get his bed*

[Holly Palmers]

*makes a lot of unnecessary noise repacking her trunk*

[Holly Palmers]

*having sent her trunk over to Sebastian's already she hung around the rest of the morning, partly because she felt bad having stayed over those extra few days and decided that cleaning was a good way to to make up for 72 hours of awkwardness, but mainly because Aaron was still asleep and as long as he was it was basically like he wasn't there*

*finally decides to leave around 11:30. She was taking the noon train back into London*

*leaves a present on the kitchen table with a scripted tag labeled Aaron and tastefully decorated wrapping paper*

*shuts the door behind her softly*

[Aaron Tayllore]

*wakes up and goes out into his extremely clean house...*

*sees the presents on the table, opens it up, and pauses for a moment, trying not to have a sob-fest*

*loosens up a floor board and sticks the bookins down into their hiding place, he didn't really want to look at them*

*wonders whether she wanted him to hold her back and felt like she couldn't let him even though she wanted to*

*wonders whether she had used him as a easy free place to live and hide out*

*wonders whether she broke up with him to get back at him the pressure he had put on her because she was a death eater in training, or whatever*

*wonders where she's going, and wonders if it's somewhere near Sebastian... hates Sebastian*

*remembers out in the courtyard when Sebastian asked him for advice with dealing with girlfriends*

*decides to go visit Valley*