Flower Petals

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Ginny lay in bed thinking about her.
Thinking about her

And Paula lay in bed thinking about her.
Thinking about her

Ginny wished she hadn't been so stupid, and Paula wished she hadn't been so hopeful. They both thought about each other every night before the slept and every morning when they woke. Without any deviation they woke, drenched themselves in regret, and slept. Neither of them knowing that the other felt the same way, that the other loved them.

Paula stared into the bathroom mirror at the manor feeing her vertical scar with her finger tips and wincing. She had no idea had many people she'd killed, how many days she'd been blacked out, but she didn't care. She'd been so desensitized by the darkness around her that she scarcely noticed that her life was passing her by until a day like this one with a new kind of emotion, hope.

She heard screams coming from the front door and the slam of the wood against the walls, running down clutching her wand she saw a woman kicking and screaming with a burlap sack over her head.

"Let me go you fucking Nazis!! Ever taken a muggle history class!! GUESS WHO LOST!" Scratching at the death eaters who dragged her to the basement she screamed over and over "Kill me! I don't like suspense!" Paula followed them down pointing her wand at her head the entire way until they threw her again the cement and slammed the iron bars against the lock.

Scrambling to her feet she threw the bag off.
"The axis powers were a bunch of PUSSIES!!" She screamed running to reach for her wand out of the death eaters pockets. Paula kicked her arms through the bars, her face coming into the light as she said

"Paulie?"

Alstroemeria

They stared at each other through the bars neither breathing or blinking. Paula looked down on her snarling slightly and Alli looked up at her from the ground.

"Paulie it's Alli." She whispered staring into her eyes.

Paula grabbed Alli's bag from the guards, searching it for magical items or an extra wand, and when she didn't find one she shoved it through the bars. Alli clutched it to her chest, saying one more time

"Paula."

Paula walked away without a word, tracing her scar while walking up the stairs.

"...Alstroemeria?" Alli heard behind her in a calm and sweet voice. She turned to see Luna and a smile so huge and bright it rivaled the sun spread across her face.

"Luna oh my Merlin!" She said running to her and tackling her, hugging her so tightly Luna coughed "you absolute dummy why are you here?"

"Been here a while now darling. The food is quite bad!" Alli started to laugh.

"Oh Luna I'm so sorry!"

"No no! Just another adventure I suppose."

She hugged Luna again. Breathing deeply outwards.
"Luna we have to find a way ou-" she begun and was interrupted by a man walking down the steps. She hid behind a column, not knowing what she was getting herself into, dragging her bag with her.

"Good afternoon Luna." The man said

"Hello Peter is it story time already?" She laughed

"Only if your interested." He smiled.

Luna sat criss cross on the dusty cement intently.