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Ilaria Zora Vlăduț has never needed anyone. She has Alva, she has the mountains, and she has the dragons. That has always been enough.
When Charlie Weasley arrives at the Romanian Dragon Reserve with his easy smile and his ridiculous ginger hair, she doesn't think much of him. She's seen plenty of enthusiastic new keepers come and go. They never last.
But Charlie is annoyingly good at his job. And even more annoyingly, he keeps showing up - beside her at feeding time, across from her at the fire after a long shift, in the empty space she didn't know she'd left open.
She doesn't do family. She doesn't do warmth. She doesn't do the kind of people who look at you like you matter.
Charlie Weasley has never been very good at being told no.