SHE'S ALL THAT ➭ SIRIUS BLACK ❨2❩ ✔︎

ACT FOUR, SCENE FIVE

TEXTS
SAGE & ROWAN

rowan
so you know how my mum's a psychologist?

sage
no.
i don't want a shrink
i'm fine

rowan
sage, you know i love you with everything in me
but you are not handling this well at all
and neither am i
none of us are, but you are handling everything exceptionally poorly

sage
i just lost the love of my life and four of my best friends were murdered, on my BIRTHDAY, a year apart
and one of our friends was secretly a traitor, who sold out two of said best friends
you'll have to excuse me for struggling to cope with losing half of my friends

rowan
there's no set way to cope with loss, but merlin, love, you are pushing everything down
you're bound to explode soon
and i know you're trying to be strong for harry
but you need to get help
and i hope you know that this is coming from a place of love

sage
i. don't. need. a. shrink.

rowan
if you don't get help just to make yourself better, fine. but get help so you don't unload all of your trauma on harry.
you love him too much to hurt him like that

sage
i can't do it without sirius.
the plan always was that if something happened to lily and james, we'd raise harry together
i was never supposed to be doing it alone
and i love sirius with my entire soul, but i hate him so much for what he did
he was my person, the one human on earth that i could tell my secrets to
i can't do this without him.

rowan
yes you can.
you are the strongest person i've ever met
if anyone can come out on the other side stronger and better, it's you
you might be a slytherin through and through, but we both know that sorting hat took nine whole minutes to decide between slytherin and gryffindor. you are braver than you even realize.

sage
you promised to never bring up the fact that i was a hatstall ever again
it's not something i'm proud of

rowan
why?
because it means you're more complex than people think?
why is it so hard for you to let people in?

sage
because the people closest to me get hurt.

rowan
well, call me a miracle then, because i'm perfectly fine

sage
if i agree to go see your mum, can we stop talking about this?

rowan
sure :)

sage
fine.

rowan
you have an appointment in her office at 2pm on monday, 11 january
she's so intrigued by you that she's giving you free therapy
so don't be late, sagey baby

gn besties