Pride

I stopped taking my pills so…so you can’t control me anymore. I know what’s right and what’s wrong and you’re wrong. [Lux took an involuntary step back, scared that his reaction might be the same as Clio’s.] You said I didn’t have to do anything I don’t want to and I don’t want to do this. 

How are you supposed to know what's right and what's wrong when you haven't even done anything yet? Hm? You're a fifth year. A child. You don't know the first thing about a war or what it entails. There is no wrong in this fight. *Titus scowled even further and stepped out from behind the desk* Correction. I said that you didn't have to do anything until you felt the time was right. I didn't say that you could just get up and quit whenever you felt like it. 

Perhaps they had some place to go that was important as well. I’m not sure. But you should apologize if you hurt them. It’s not alright to ignore that. I do know you, which is why you’ll never apologize to anyone. 

It's not like they'll remember it ten minutes from now. And honestly, I couldn't care less as to where they were going or whether it was important it not. I was just merely trying to get by. *He shrugged* You certainly won't get by on just 'please' and 'thank yous'. 

[She clenched her jaw.] That doesn’t mean we were together.

Sure. Whatever you say. 

Are you sure about that? It doesn’t feel like it sometimes, Titus. [She sighed.] I saw him killing one of ours. A Death Eater. The half-blood scum was going to hurt one of us, someone who is actually worthy of a wand. That couldn’t happen. And he said he knew what I was. A seer, I assume he meant. No one else needs to know that. No one needs to know my secrets but me.

Well, it's true. Even without your powers as a seer, I would want you in our ranks. No doubt about it. *He raised an eyebrow at her next statement, folding his arms across his chest* One of our own? Do you mind telling me who is was? Trust me, no one else will know of this ability of yours. If they do, well, they're basically writing their own death wish.

I never did. We were never together. End of the story.

You were engaged to him, were you not?

Of course there’s something else. Do you think I’d just kill someone for the sake of killing someone? I’m may be many things, but I’m not like that. [She sighed and crossed her arms.] Do you think it’s easy, having visions, and keeping secrets and knowing things that are going to happen that you’re not going to be able to stop? To grow up telling people and having them look at you like you’re absolutely bloody insane? Or worse, having them look at you like you’re not a person any more, but a weapon? Having them look at you and think that you don’t matter, only what you see does? Can you really blame me for not wanting to tell anyone?

Ilena, you're not a freak. Besides, who gives a fuck what anyone else has to say about those visions of yours? In the end they'll be the ones begging at your feet for mercy. *He sighed, shaking his head slightly* You're just as powerful without your visions or that other hypnotic stuff you do, whether you believe that or not. You're a witch for Merlin's sake, not just some weapon that we come to only when needed.

I already told you. Weasley was a liability. He knew too much, and was too dangerous to our cause, and he needed to go.

Okay. I get that bu-...*He sighed, shaking his head* You know what? Nevermind. I'm not going to keep arguing with you if you keep feeding me the same thing over and over again. There's something else, isn't there? I know you too well. I just don't understand as to why you wouldn't tell me. Or anyone else for that matter.

So you've finally decided to talk to me again, then?

That depends. Are you ever going to tell me as to why you did it in the first place? You still haven't given me an answer.

Perhaps you’re right, but anyway. It’s not a big deal. I got what I needed. Do you often run into people without apologizing? 

All the time. If they were in my way in the first place, why should I bother apologizing? C'mon Bole, I thought you knew better than that.

The sex won’t be enjoyable for me, either, if I don’t put in the effort. So, yes, I am.

Right. *He nodded, leaning down to press his lips to her temple* My room. Five minutes.

I was never with Alaric. He is impossibly intolerable.

Now that's more like it. 

I was walking down the road...

Well...maybe you shouldn't have been in their way in the first place. Now that's always a thought.

I know sex is a group effort.

And? Are you willing to put in the effort?

You hurt people, Titus, and that’s not what I do.

Really now? *He scowled, sliding his feet off of the desk as he sat up in the chair* I'm pretty sure you were singing a different tune when you first approached me about it a few months ago. You can't turn back on this, you know that.

You don’t think so? Wow, that’s cute.

You know, you were much more pleasurable when you were with Pucey. At least you spent most of your time complaining about him rather than irritating everyone else, including me.

I…I don’t…I’m not an official member and at the meeting you said I don’t have to do anything, so I…I don’t want to join the Death Eaters. I like Hogwarts and everyone in it. No one should get hurt. 

Uhm, excuse me? I must have heard you incorrectly, but did you say that you didn't want to join us? Certainly this is a joke.

I’m not. And I don’t throw myself at people. I was merely suggesting that we should. But since you don’t want to, I guess I’ll just leave.

Now I never said I didn't want to. *He moved himself so that he could stand in her way* I was just saying that if I had to do all the work, well, then you might want to go find someone else.