parvati patil x lavender brown historical au headcanon
for the @hprarepairnet and @slytherdornet tropes challenge
trope: abduction is love
lavender brown is a born and raised aristocrat
she’s funny, she’s smart, she’s eloquent, she gets what she wants
however, at the moment, she’s mostly bored
she’s at another ball, wearing a gown she loves, but she has been to dozen of these parties and there is nothing there that catches her attention
so, she decides to explore
she slips away and walks around the empty house, hoping to come across a balcony or something so she can get some fresh air
the fourth room she enters does have a balcony
it also has a gorgeous stranger with her hands full of jewellery turning to look at her
parvati was not expecting someone to walk in on her
but here she is, red-handed, caught by a vision in pink, with plump lips and perfect curls
lavender jumps at the sound and opens her mouth to scream, but the stranger pulls out a knife and tells her “you scream, you’re dead”
so lavender freezes, her mout still open, her eyes wide
this was not the kind of adventure she’d been looking for
parvati taps her chin with the point of her dagger and purses her lips in thought
she had taken off her mask (stupid) so she couldn’t let the girl go. but she really didn’t want to resort to murder.
eventually, she shrugs. “guess you’re coming with me.”
before lavender really knows what’s going on, parvati is coaxing her onto the balcony and down the wall, somehow managing to catch her when she slips
she drags her off to an unsavory part of town, to the attic of a building that’s only reachable through another balcony
inside, a couple of other girls are hanging around idly
one of them arches an eyebrow when they come in
“really? we’re kidnapping now?”
parvati shrugs again. “guess so.”
initially, the lady does protest: lavender is opinionated and not about to be locked up forever
but she finds herself mending clothes and lapping the girls up when they’re injured and somehow begrudgingly realising that they’re not all bad
and before lavender even knows what’s happening, she’s caught up in the biggest adventure of her life: falling for a criminal
she doesn’t admit for a long while, but then her father gets sick
and he’s still looking for his little girl
she begs parvati to let her go back to him and parvati trusts her enough not to betray them when she does
however, returning to her life as a lady is much, much harder than she ever could have imagined
so after her father’s death, she is “stricken with grief” and “overcome by mourning”
no one is surprised when lady lavender brown dies shortly after her father from her intense grief. instead, she’s lauded for it, an icon, an example of daughterly love
and somewhere, in an attic filled with stolen items, a vision in pink is laying in the arms of a slender thief, laughing
