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FICLET: Of Determination (Zacharias/Marietta)
Title: Of Determination
Character Pairing: Zacharias/Marietta
Prompt: the fourth dimension
Rating: PG
Word Count: 720
Summary: If Apparating is going to give her hugs from Cho every time she does it, Marietta will be sure to practice day and night.
Author's Notes: The ninth fic of the series.
Link to Prompt Table: http://briony-tallis.livejournal.com/77461.html
Cho shrieks with joy as she appears whole-bodied in the center of the wooden hoop. "Mari, I did it!" Her face is flushed, and she throws her arms into the air, leaping back to her starting point so that she can hug her friend.
Marietta has not managed to Apparate at all yet, but she is happy enough for Cho, returning the hug. "I'll never manage," she says worriedly, staring down her own hoop, the circle on the floor looking so misleadingly innocent.
"Of course you will," Cho replies, patting Marietta's shoulder before turning away to try again.
Marietta glares at her hoop for a moment. "I won't," she insists, and looks around the room to watch the rest of her year attempt the feat. She can't do it herself until she sees everyone else do it; she hopes to catch some tips. However, it doesn't seem like many students are doing very well, with most of them simply spinning around in circles or staring endlessly at the floor. This is what Marietta has been doing, so she doesn't feel too bad about her failure so far.
Cho Apparates back and forth twice more, and it is only her constant grinning which keeps Marietta from becoming infuriated with her friend. It is nice to see Cho happy, even when she is reading Harry Potter's Quibbler interview over and over again. Marietta is infinitely relieved that Umbridge has banned the thing, so that she is at least spared from having to hear it during classes. But thinking about Cho and Harry is not going to help Marietta Apparate at all, and so she tries her best to stuff them out of her mind.
Closing her eyes, Marietta visualizes the hoop before her and pushes forward in mind and body. There is a terrible squashing feeling, and with a rush of air, Marietta opens her eyes to find herself standing within the hoop. She has a terrible headache and has apparently splinched some of her hair off, judging by the multitude of strands lying on the floor behind her. Still, she has managed to do it, and she needed a haircut, anyway. She smiles, pleased with herself, and Cho Chang hugs her again.
If Apparating is going to give her hugs from Cho every time she does it, Marietta will be sure to practice day and night. But this sort of thought is not at all welcome to the brain of a girl dating Zacharias Smith, not least because the boy would be furious if he knew she was thinking it. Marietta sighs and steps out of her hoop to try moving herself magically again.
Magic is rather amazing sometimes. Marietta's parents have taken her on a Side-Along once or twice, but she has never been able to conceive of moving her body solely with the power of her own magic. It's not something witches think about; magic is simply taken for granted when you've grown up with it. But now that Marietta is actually doing it, it strikes her as the most incredible thing she has ever done. If only she could control her mind, too, with nothing but magic. She can move herself physically through space in every direction, up and down and all around, anywhere she can imagine (she's not that great on a broom, but theoretically it is possible). If only she could move through the fourth dimension as well, flinging herself through time until she reaches a safe era, a time when she is not endlessly miserable and confused.
Instead, she will just keep practicing in the dimensions she can master. She will just keep accepting these pleasant hugs from Cho, and worrying about what Zacharias will think. She is happy with Zacharias, despite everything, but these thoughts of Cho will not leave her, no matter how hard she tries. And not even magic can help her, so she'll just keep stumbling on through this murky teenage period of woe, unable to see what lies ahead of her.
Zacharias is waiting for her after the lesson. "I see you miraculously managed to avoid splinching yourself," he says with a smirk. "A pity."
Marietta forces herself to smile back at him, even as she can still feel the warmth of Cho's arms around her. "Hilarity," she says wryly.
Character Pairing: Zacharias/Marietta
Prompt: the fourth dimension
Rating: PG
Word Count: 720
Summary: If Apparating is going to give her hugs from Cho every time she does it, Marietta will be sure to practice day and night.
Author's Notes: The ninth fic of the series.
Link to Prompt Table: http://briony-tallis.livejournal.com/77461.html
Cho shrieks with joy as she appears whole-bodied in the center of the wooden hoop. "Mari, I did it!" Her face is flushed, and she throws her arms into the air, leaping back to her starting point so that she can hug her friend.
Marietta has not managed to Apparate at all yet, but she is happy enough for Cho, returning the hug. "I'll never manage," she says worriedly, staring down her own hoop, the circle on the floor looking so misleadingly innocent.
"Of course you will," Cho replies, patting Marietta's shoulder before turning away to try again.
Marietta glares at her hoop for a moment. "I won't," she insists, and looks around the room to watch the rest of her year attempt the feat. She can't do it herself until she sees everyone else do it; she hopes to catch some tips. However, it doesn't seem like many students are doing very well, with most of them simply spinning around in circles or staring endlessly at the floor. This is what Marietta has been doing, so she doesn't feel too bad about her failure so far.
Cho Apparates back and forth twice more, and it is only her constant grinning which keeps Marietta from becoming infuriated with her friend. It is nice to see Cho happy, even when she is reading Harry Potter's Quibbler interview over and over again. Marietta is infinitely relieved that Umbridge has banned the thing, so that she is at least spared from having to hear it during classes. But thinking about Cho and Harry is not going to help Marietta Apparate at all, and so she tries her best to stuff them out of her mind.
Closing her eyes, Marietta visualizes the hoop before her and pushes forward in mind and body. There is a terrible squashing feeling, and with a rush of air, Marietta opens her eyes to find herself standing within the hoop. She has a terrible headache and has apparently splinched some of her hair off, judging by the multitude of strands lying on the floor behind her. Still, she has managed to do it, and she needed a haircut, anyway. She smiles, pleased with herself, and Cho Chang hugs her again.
If Apparating is going to give her hugs from Cho every time she does it, Marietta will be sure to practice day and night. But this sort of thought is not at all welcome to the brain of a girl dating Zacharias Smith, not least because the boy would be furious if he knew she was thinking it. Marietta sighs and steps out of her hoop to try moving herself magically again.
Magic is rather amazing sometimes. Marietta's parents have taken her on a Side-Along once or twice, but she has never been able to conceive of moving her body solely with the power of her own magic. It's not something witches think about; magic is simply taken for granted when you've grown up with it. But now that Marietta is actually doing it, it strikes her as the most incredible thing she has ever done. If only she could control her mind, too, with nothing but magic. She can move herself physically through space in every direction, up and down and all around, anywhere she can imagine (she's not that great on a broom, but theoretically it is possible). If only she could move through the fourth dimension as well, flinging herself through time until she reaches a safe era, a time when she is not endlessly miserable and confused.
Instead, she will just keep practicing in the dimensions she can master. She will just keep accepting these pleasant hugs from Cho, and worrying about what Zacharias will think. She is happy with Zacharias, despite everything, but these thoughts of Cho will not leave her, no matter how hard she tries. And not even magic can help her, so she'll just keep stumbling on through this murky teenage period of woe, unable to see what lies ahead of her.
Zacharias is waiting for her after the lesson. "I see you miraculously managed to avoid splinching yourself," he says with a smirk. "A pity."
Marietta forces herself to smile back at him, even as she can still feel the warmth of Cho's arms around her. "Hilarity," she says wryly.
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I like how you describe her confusion, as though it's something that she's very much aware of and yet not able to solve. I love this line: "If only she could move through the fourth dimension as well, flinging herself through time until she reaches a safe era, a time when she is not endlessly miserable and confused."
Great work!
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