I WISH, WISH FOR SOMETHING MORE/*

[amelie]

PUT A RIBBON ROUND MY NECK AND CALL ME A LIBERTINE

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i will sing you songs of dreams i used to dream. i will sail away on seas of silver & gold
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Amelie was the Hogwarts newbie to the staff, having arrived in the summer. And what a half year it had been. Sure, it had been normal for the most part, but the virus now running rampant around the quarantined castle was going to be the thing to remember from this term. Students zombified, students dying, students having extreme flu-like symptoms. But only the half bloods- Amelie had noted. Never the purebloods. It was odd, almost like it had been planned, but Amelie had hoped that human nature and the battles between wizards would never quite have got that far.

She was an optimist, and liked seeing the beauty in little things, and this was too much for her. Since the outbreak she'd moved permanently into a small flat in the Hallows, since she usually lived at Hogwarts and in France, and she hadn't visited the school much since. She had helped some ambitious students with a vaccine- she hoped it succeeded, but otherwise spent her days biting her fingernails, drinking copious amounts of herbal tea at the popular coffee bar and small coffee shops, and reading a lot of books. Mostly muggle literature, in French. She was particularly taken by the work of Sartre and Camus, two French philosophers. She didn't bother telling anyone, no one would listen anyway and no one would care.

It was with that thought that she sighed. Walking through the streets, she was about to enter the park. The sky was a grey blue, with clouds threatening to rain on the entire town. This was the Highlands of Scotland after all.
Her sigh had been for her soul. She had friends here, but no one with which to constantly argue about the pros and cons of Existentialism over Absurdism. She lacked a soul mate- an affinity with anyone she had so far met. Sure, there were some people that she thought she could get along with, but she had never approached them. Instead, she watched them get on with their lives and devised stratagems to make people around them, and themselves, happy. It was pleasing work, but she couldn't help but feel a little detached herself.

Though perhaps that was just what she was like. Amelie mused on this as she walked through the park, eventually settling on a bench buried in the hedge overlooking the lake. Before that she had flitted from bench to bench, spot to spot like a restless floating piece of paper. The bench was cold and hard, but Amelie didn't really mind. It wasn't particularly cold, but it wasn't terribly warm either, but her layers of clothing made up for that. She wrapped her old leather jacket around herself as she sat, more for comfort than anything. She watched the ripples on the lake, watching them lazily scatter across the surface when a small child skipped a stone or a fish flapped its tale. Amelie smiled kindly. It was small things like that that made her day.

She had been sitting there for a while, merely watching the world around her, taking in small details which no one else would see, when a person sat next to her. She didn't look at them, and they sat in silence for a long while until the other person broke it.

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[astoriamalfoy]

Astoria stepped into the bright sunshine with more than a smile on her face, she almost could rival the sun with her expression. There was that way about her really, especially when she held onto the leash of her golden retriever. Leaning on her knee despite wearing a dress to coo softly in a rather childish manner. Making sure to rub the dogs ears in order to calm the animal down from apparation they began down the park. There wasn't really anyone around which meant a chance for her to gently hum and walk without the interruption of anyone. This included a chance for Annie to have some silence away from the sounds of the school, since her owner had begun dragging the poor animal in with her to the office.

Comforted only a little at the mood her dog was in she couldn't help but want someone to talk to, her animals were lovely but it was nice to actually talk. People were almost like sunlight when it came to her daily life, being on her own was something that wasn't usually a choice she choose. Which is why she spent her time around people, there was just something about not being alone that made a person happier. At this moment she almost could picture a cloud over her head and turned her thoughts to those she considered happier. Picturing her husband and son and right away some of her cheer came back to her cheeks then bought from her thoughts with a tug of the leash. Finding she had stopped in the middle of the concrete path she noted Annie's enthusiasm, almost as if she knew her owner wanted another human. There was one sitting on a bench all alone, and then Astoria sought her opportunity and nearly rose her eyebrows up in shock simultaneously.

Having that knack for faces she identified a co-worker sitting right on the bench all on their own, she only saw opportunity there. A chance to get to know someone she hadn't had the chance with setting up her office and seeing patients that already flowed through her doors. This woman seemed rather zoned out, something that Astoria was sure would be stopped once she approached her. Taking a seat next to Amelie she couldn't help but realize an awkward silence over them both, realizing that the woman must have been in her own thoughts. With a smile passing over her features, "Forgive me, I couldn't help but not take a seat, my name is Astoria, I'm the new counselor at Hogwarts, I'm pretty sure your one of the teachers correct?" Astoria inquired politely deciding to give the other a chance to say her name, although she already had noted the first name from memory.

W O R D S;; length okay?
T A G;; Amelie Chevalier
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