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WHO: Raven and Tonks
WHERE: Tonks's MAC apartment?
WHEN: Thursday Night, late
WARNINGS: None? Maybe some drinking.
SUMMARY: Raven and Tonks talk about suddenly arriving family.
FORMAT: Para to start then whatever.


Raven yawned as she walked along the hall, covering her mouth with the back of her hand. It had been hours since Charles arrived, but between that and the ten hour shift she'd worked that afternoon, she was reaching the point where she was having trouble keeping her eyes open and her skin not blue. But she had told Tonks that she'd come by, and somehow she suspected that having her mother show up was a lot more stressful than Raven having her brother pop up.

Not that Raven really knew, since she didn't remember her own, and Charles's mother had been...distant. Still, she knew other people's moms! And she wouldn't have wanted that sort of person in the city with her, she suspected. So...here she was, just as promised.

She leaned against the doorframe, pausing to make sure her 'blonde' guise was still up, and then gave a knock and waited.

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Raven had no idea. It wasn't just that Tonks' mother had shown up. Andromeda brought the future with her. To put it simply, there were a lot of spoilers.

Tonks had never wanted to be told what happened. She was not going to remember her time in the City if she was eventually sent back. To Tonks that meant that she couldn't change anything even if she knew. Why worry about it? Why stress about something that you couldn't prevent? It had been going well for her, until now.

Andromeda didn't even have to tell her everything. It was just there, on the network, for everyone to see. How was she suppose to deal with this? Tonks didn't know.

After she had gotten her mother settled, gotten her a few groceries and some money out for in the morning, Tonks had retreated back to her own apartment in the MAC. Sleep didn't come to her and soon Tonks had found herself longing for firewhiskey but settling for the Muggle version instead.

When Raven knocked on her door, Tonks answered it wearing an over-sized yellow t-shirt and a pair of blue shorts. "Wotcher Raven. Thanks for dropping by."

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Raven forced herself to stand up a bit straighter as the door opened, and nodded at Tonks at the greeting. "I said I would, so here I am. Took a while to explain things to Charles, really." She shrugged as she stepped into the room, looking around.

Raven was in a pair of jeans and a grey blouse, though whether they were real or shape-shifted was anyone's guess. She covered her mouth to stiffle a yawn and then grinned at her friend, moving to sit down on the couch without so much as a by-your-leave because standing up was exhausting at this point.

"So...your mom, huh?

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Tonks brought Raven over a glass. The bottle and Tonks' own cup was sitting on the coffee table. She wasn't bothering with shot glasses.

She sat down next to Raven. "Yeah, my Mum. You're lucky. It's just your brother." Tonks reached for her glass. "D'you know how far ahead he is or you are yet?"

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"Thanks," Raven took the glass and leaned over to the table to pour some lovely booze into it, then leaned back into the cushion and tugged her legs up under her.

"Not a lot. Maybe a day?" Raven shrugged and took a sip from her glass. "What about you two?

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At Raven's question, Tonks downed the rest the contents of her glass. It would've been impressive if there had been more than two swallows left. "Two and a half years."

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Raven raised a pale eyebrow at that sudden bout of drinking, but decided it was best not to comment on it.

"Ahead or behind?"

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Tonks closed her eyes for a moment. "Ahead."

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"Oh," Raven wasn't sure what to say to that. After a few seconds of silence she leaned over to get the bottle and poured a bit more of it into Tonks's empty glass. Not as much as the other probably would've poured, but some.

She set it back on the table with a thud, then leaned back again. "...Is that good or bad?"

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"It's so bad Raven." Tonks reached up and brushed hair dark plum-colored hair off of her face. "You have no idea."

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"...What did she tell you?" Raven turned so her side was resting against the arm of the couch and drew her legs up under her completely, facing Tonks.

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Tonks didn't turn around to face Raven. "Everything. I get married. I have a kid. My dad dies. I die. My husband dies." Like she had said, everything.

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Raven had not been expecting that, and for several seconds she just stared at Tonks, her eyes wide, thoughts of her own exhaustion suddenly gone.

"...Tonks. I'm..." She frowned at her friend. "...I'm sorry."

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"I haven't even cried yet Raven. Why haven't I cried? I loved my dad." Tonks shakes her head. She has never had any problems expression emotions. Often, she wears her heart on her sleeve.

So what's the problem with her now?

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"...You're probably in shock, Tonks." Raven reached out to take the other girls glass away from her. After that news, drinking really wasn't what she should be doing. She set it on the table, and then shifted some, her hands resting on her lap, not sure what to say.

"...Maybe you should be with your mother?"

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"Maybe. I dunno." Tonks shook her head. "I don't want to be with my mother. I'd rather like to avoid her and everyone else from my world for a while." She knew that it wouldn't be possible, however.

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Raven frowned faintly. "That'll probably be impossible, Tonks." She shifted forward though, and put one arm around her friend in a half-hug.

"But for tonight it'll just be you and me, okay? We can...talk about whatever you want. Or anything else." A little pause and a small grin. "At least until I fall asleep."

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"Yeah, I know. I'm going to have to get some things for my Mum tomorrow, food and such." At least she could avoid Remus for a bit.

"Thanks Raven." She laid her head on Raven's shoulders. "Oh, I forgot. How did things go with Charles?"

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"Sure," she gave the other a squeeze and just settled in next to her, leaving her arm around her as she took a sip of her own drink.

"...Uh, alright? I think he's pretty overwhelming...like I was when I got here, honestly. But he's Charles, so he's already making friends." She smiled faintly. "He always seems to be good at that, somehow."

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Tonks was mostly a good daughter. She had a job. She had quite a bit saved, actually. She could provide and assist her mother until Andromeda found a job, longer if she had to.

"Well, at least he has you to help and you have me to help, so there's that." An idea crossed her mind, "D'you have any embarrassing stories about him?"

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"Hmm," Raven set her glass on her knee, fingers tapping against the side as she thought about it.

"Okay, Charles has this way of trying to pick up women, right? He talks about his work, being a mutant, trying to make them feel special, by making them different. And it works...sometimes." She grinned. "Of course, Charles doesn't always get drawn to the...smartest...women in the world."

"So sometimes, when he starts slipping 'oh we're all mutants' into the conversation, instead of getting a pretty face hanging on his every word, he gets a glass of booze in his face. Or in his hair. Or down his shirt."

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"Oh, he's one of those is he?" Tonks considered that and then yawned sleepily. "Hmm, I was expecting something a bit more dramatic like you walked in one him while he was... Or one time you pulled down his trousers in public, that sort of thing." She wasn't making much sense but she was getting tired.

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"Well, I'm not sure I know you well enough to tell you if I've pulled my brother's pants off, Tonks," Raven grinned and gave the other another squeeze.

"But yes, he's one of those. He has a whole system, really, flirting and everything. We can almost never go to the pub when he hasn't tried to pick up some empty blonde thing." She rolled her eyes and shrugged.

"It can be pretty funny most of the time, though he tends to forget I'm there."

Raven was talking just to fill the air. She could tell Tonks was tired, and figured boring the girl to sleep would probably be a good deed.

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"Point." She had some hysterical stories to tell but she hadn't had enough liquor or jello shots for that.

"Empty blond thing, hrmm..." Tonks voice trailed off. Her eyes were so heavy. "That's rude of him. We should teach him a lesson if he does that again..." She yawned again.

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"Well, hopefully he'll take some time to settle in before he's out flirting with random people," Raven kept chattering away quietly, and she gently rubbed Tonks's shoulder as she talked with the arm still hooked behind her head. She was actually feeling that exhaustion sensation herself, but all things considered, her night had been far better than her friend's.

"Although knowing Charles he'll find people on the network. Still, I doubt there are many empty blonde things behind brought in here." Except herself, really, but she wasn't going to say that...and she wasn't really an empty blonde thing. "But if he does, I'm sure we can come up with something."

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(( OOC: Continued here (http://capeandcowllogs.livejournal.com/1644384.html?thread=56865376#t56865376). ))

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