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Greta grimaced, and then chuckled, "Why does the word confess make me feel as though I've done something wrong that I need to admit to and then face disciplinary action for?"  Although, maybe that was the right word for it.  It was difficult not to feel like her fancying of Fabian was a huge imposition, and she hadn't even told him yet!  Though she couldn't imagine ever telling him, or even a scenario where it would come up.  Greta knew that she had evaded the question entirely, but it wasn't as though she could say any of that out loud, and so she simply shrugged with the hint of an apologetic smile.

Greta shrugged a little, and started to pick at her cuticles.  Of course she'd thought about going on a date with Fabian.  She was pretty sure that Emmeline had caught her doodling his name in one of her notebooks once, which was a little mortifying and something that she didn't want to happen ever again.  But she hadn't ever really thought about specifics, because she was sure that anything they would do together would be really nice.  It just wasn't something that was ever going to happen, and that was okay.  It was nice to daydream, to think about things in an abstract way, and sometimes her mind got a little carried away, but she couldn't exactly say all that out loud, so instead she simply said, "I don't know. I guess I haven't really thought about going on a date with anyone.  If you have any recommendations, you’ll definitely have to let me know for when the time comes for me to go on a date, because I don’t even know where I’d start!"

Marlene made a guttural noise in the back of her throat, eyes narrowing, "Mostly intact? I think you need to pull your head out of your arse, mate."  It was pretty fucking rude to insinuate that she didn't feel any of the losses that her friends had.  Sure, she hadn't lost her Dad, but she still was close to Mr. MacDonald and was still grieving his death.  She may not have been as close to Peter as James or Lily or Sirius had been, but that surely didn't mean that his betrayal hadn't hit hard.  She may not have been tied up and tortured in the Lestrange house of horrors, but that didn't mean that she couldn't feel disgusted for what had happened to Emmeline.  It wasn't the same, she knew that, but it didn't mean that she'd come out of it all completely unscathed, especially when the people around her were hurting. "And I hardly think it's fair to play who's loss is more profound when we're in the middle of all of this destruction.  That’s not fucking helpful."

"No.  Absolutely not.  What a ridiculous insinuation."

Alecto barely blinked before she answered, "Amycus, the Dark Lord, Bellatrix, Ivy and my mother. In that order." She probably would have added Freya to the list instead of her mother if it wouldn't have been cruel to ask her to live without her twin, but Alecto had no intentions of pretending that she would have saved Annalise.

"Well, first of course I'd have to save my parents and my Grandma.  But that only leaves two other people and there are so many people that I care about!" Greta paused for a moment, running through the list of people in her head that she would want to save. In a no way hierarchical list, there was Emmie and Dorcas and Fabian and Evan and Mary and Paulie and Regulus and Sybill and Rita and Lily and Alice and ... she realized that the list could probably go on. But then again, she probably wouldn't even want the malicious people in the world to die in a burning building - that seemed like such a beyond horrific way to go.  Tugging on her ear, she laughed a little nervously, "Gosh, hypotheticals are so interesting, aren't they? You just never know what you would do in a situation until you were actually in it, and I really hope that I'm never in that situation and that I never have to choose.  I like to think that I would give up my spot out of the building for someone else, but I realize that wasn’t the question.  I also think it would be kind of bizarre for everyone I know to be in one place at the same time!  I just really don't know.  I’m sorry!  I don't think that answered the question, but I just can't pick five people out of everyone I know."

"Oh yes, absolutely. In a heartbeat. I know that some people are really attached to their magic, and I don't blame them for that, but sometimes I think that magic just complicates things a whole lot.  And, honestly, maybe we'd be better without it."

"Nobody. They can all burn for all I care."