Once upon a midnight Dreary

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Eboni had been anxiously gazing around the room at all the people as she wandered around. Too many people, she had to get out. But as she darted towards the exit, she came close to one man as he extended his arm that held his drink, causing him to spill some of it on her. “Oh no,” she exclaimed, feeling so stupid and embarrassed. “I’m so so sorry. I wasn’t looking where I was going…” She dropped her gaze to the floor and tucked a piece of her long dark hair behind her ear.

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Ahh, she wasn’t a big fan of Apparation. That much was obvious from the face she made when he mentioned it. There were plenty of witches and wizards who never bothered with it; it was risky, after all, unless you were absolutely confident in it.

“Hang on tight then, chook,” he said with an easy smile, offering his arm. “I can do Side-Along easy enough, we don’t want to be out in t’streets too long these days.”

Once she’d got a firm grip, it was only a few moments before he’d whisked them to just outside her front door. “This the spot?”

Eboni did hang on tightly, maybe a little too tightly unless that was all in her mind. Even apparating with someone else, it was one of the scarier things in the Wizarding world. At least to her. To the rest of them, it was a perfectly safe and normal way to travel. “Yes, this is it,” she nodded, and even managed a small smile of gratitude. “Thank you for bringing me home.”  She averted her gaze to the ground as her anxiety started to build up again, one dainty finger brushing her dark hair behind her ear. “I did have fun, too... A little. I just...” She fidgeted awkwardly, hoping she wouldn’t offend him in any way. “I get nervous around people, even those I kinda know pretty well. It’s a curse.

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Eboni had been anxiously gazing around the room at all the people as she wandered around. Too many people, she had to get out. But as she darted towards the exit, she came close to one man as he extended his arm that held his drink, causing him to spill some of it on her. “Oh no,” she exclaimed, feeling so stupid and embarrassed. “I’m so so sorry. I wasn’t looking where I was going…” She dropped her gaze to the floor and tucked a piece of her long dark hair behind her ear.

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“All right then, stop with me,” Frank said. “I won’t be long, just gonna let a few people know I’m off and then we can get cracking.” And true to his word, he did get it all done as quickly as possible, farewelling the friends who’d be most worried if he just disappeared from a party without a trace before finding his travellign cloak and making sure Eboni had her things.

As they stepped back outside, he flashed her a grin. “Well, that’s done with. Where are we off to, then? I forget if you said you can Apparate.”

Apparating... The witchling couldn’t help but grimace at the word, because she’d never had the stomach to try anything that had such horrific consequenses should you fail at it. Most wizards mastered it and used it for travel as oftena s possible, but dear Eboni stuck to the safer alternatives for travel, at least when travelling alone. She still felt rather embarrassed to admit the reason behind it, so just said, “Um, no. I can’t. But I can give you my address.” And she did so, trying to mask her nerves.

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Eboni had been anxiously gazing around the room at all the people as she wandered around. Too many people, she had to get out. But as she darted towards the exit, she came close to one man as he extended his arm that held his drink, causing him to spill some of it on her. “Oh no,” she exclaimed, feeling so stupid and embarrassed. “I’m so so sorry. I wasn’t looking where I was going…” She dropped her gaze to the floor and tucked a piece of her long dark hair behind her ear.

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He frowned slightly. “It’s up to you, chook, but if the noise’s a bit much for you anyway I won’t mind if you stop out here and wait…” He wasn’t quite sure what was making her so anxious, but he didn’t want to upset her by pushing her either way.

The young witch lightly chewed on her lip as she weighed up the options in her head. It was very loud and crowded inside, most parties were. That wasn’t her environment at all, and it was probably a wonder to everyon why she’d turned up. Mostly, it was politeness. If she hadn’t, they might assume instead she was rude and cold.

“Um, I think I can manage now,” she quietly responded. “Coming outside for a little fresh air has really helped.”

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Listening to all this with a grim expression, Bobby nodded as he took it in. She was being pretty damn vague about the details of who these people were, which wasn’t a great sign, but the way she spoke convinced him she was telling the truth about the events themselves.

“Doesn’t look like the house helped you hide from anythin’ else, though,” he said mildly. “You ain’t got any family or nothin’ who’d help you out, sugar? No-one we can try an’ reach for you?”

A drive-thru appeared in the distance, and he headed for it. On top of everything else, she looked half-starved. “Let’s grab some food an’ then you can tell me a bit more, huh?”

The mention of her parents made Eboni shrink in her seat, so much guilt and pining for her family engufling her that it made her chest tight. She had to pull back the tears, too. She’d cried enough over her parents. Instead, she just nodded at the suggestion of getting something to eat. She hadn’t had a proper meal in so very long.

She didn’t speak another word, though, afriad if she tried to speak right now she would start crying and not stop for a long time.

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“Think nothing of it,” he said lightly. “We all need to help each other out from time to time, right? It’s just one of those things. I’m glad I happened to be here.”

It was no big deal to him, really - all she’d needed was a pointer on something fairly minor she’d misunderstood. Remus was used to much more exhaustive and time-consuming effort when it came to helping people with their homework… Peter, for example, really tended to struggle with a lot of it.

“Tell you what,” he added with a grin, “come and find me after McGonagall’s had a chance to mark it and you can tell me what she thought.”

Still overwhelmed by the older boy’s kindness, Eboni gave a nod of acknowledgment. “Thank you again,” was the last thing she said before gathering her things and leaving the table.

The next time she saw Remus,  Eboni had a big smile on her face. “Remus,” she excitedly called to him. However, as soon as she caught everyone looking at her for the very out of character otuburst, she soon reverted back to the shy, anxous girl everyone knew her as.

So, once they were closer to eachother, she dropped her voice to almost a whipser. “I just... I just wanted to um... Tell you my essay went very well and I honestly could not have done it without you. So,thank you.” She bowed her head, internally convincing herself he was throughly embbarssed by her behaviour and probably wanted her to leave him alone now.