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[ares edward lestrange]

boredom's not for me.

JANUARY 4TH 2025

Saturday’s usually tended to be busy at Hog’s Head but with some convincing that the new year and the celebrations of the holiday’s wouldn’t bring around too many customers, Ares managed to convince the owner to allow him to have access to the bar alone for the rest of the day. With his reunion with his youngest sister being just the day prior, Ares decided for the three Lestrange children to come together and talk their afternoon away with a couple of Firewhiskeys. Ares’ favourite. And with some convincing, he managed to rope Andy as well as Ariadne through owls to join.

With his fingers drumming against the counter top, Ares found himself growing bored of waiting. Blue eyes crossed from the decor in front of him up to the obnoxious clock the bar had and back down again. It was a simple waiting game that Ares had to wallow in, but refused to do so quietly. Instead, his hand twisted, — wandless magic being used leading onto music suddenly playing from the old jukebox in the far corner.

Hopping over the counter top, the Lestrange smacked his hands together, deciding what drink to conjure up for himself, he snapped his fingers, wandlessly charming the bottles to come in his direction — his brow raising as he looked through his options as if he didn’t know all of the bottle’s names by heart.

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Ariadne had been pleasantly surprised when the offer from her brother had come in.  After the events of last year, the Lestrange children had to figure out their lives as individuals, without the yolk of their family name dragging them down.  Ares had bought a bar, and Andromeda, after some time, had gone into the Hit Witch program at the Ministry.  Aria had pursued her relationship with James Potter, now that she was finally free to do so, and took up a post at the Maternity Ward of Saint Mungos.  After so many lives lost at the hands of their family, Ariadne wanted to bring life into the world.  With her skills at Healing, she could have had her pick of the wards to train in, but she was happy with her ward, with her life.  After everything, they all deserved some happiness after all.

Aria tucked her scarf into her trench coat, bowing her head against the January wind before entering the Hogs Head.  She had Apparated to the outskirts of the village; she could have of course gone straight to the bar, but her brother wasn't one for immediate surprises.  Pushing the door open, she untangled the scarf from her neck before spotting Ares behind the bar.  Smiling softly, she went over to him, removing her coat and hanging it on the hook by entrance.  "Ares," she greeted, taking a seat on the barstool.  "You look well," she told him, scanning him over once.  He did look well, better than he had the last time she saw him.  "Is Andy here yet?" she asked, looking around for their younger sister and failing to spot her.

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Andy had just seen her brother the day before and was invited to spend the afternoon with her siblings by him. She almost said no... because she honestly felt that instinct whenever her brother asked her to do anything. But, really, she was excited about it. She hadn't spent that much time with them as a unit... she had almost spent more time with her Longbottom siblings. Not 'time' exactly but... 'quality' time. Rather than just being a part of the Lestrange family furniture, they were actually able to be together as family.

That was both strange and wonderful.

She didn't apparate there, but instead took the train. Sometimes Andy liked to just slow down, especially since she was usually in such a hurry to get away from something or someone. She slowly walked down the village street, taking her time. She wore leather pants, a white sweater, and a leather jacket. She was getting really into black wardrobe these days.

She heard Ariadne say her name from inside the Hogs Head, and stepped in. "Present," she answered.

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[ares edward lestrange]

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BEFORE ARES’ MOUTH could even open, dark eyes diverted over to where Andromeda had appeared from. The pint of beer that settled before him from his conjured wandless/non-verbal magic rose once Ares wrapped his hand around it, greeting both of his sisters equally. Gulping down the bitterness and froth together, Ares’ lips smacked together before he grinned, settling it down on the wooden counter. ”Thank you sister. I hope you’re well also, how’s the rascal?” Rascal referring to her significant other of course. He hated the time their father would torment Ariadne, simply because she chose to love a Potter over a potential pureblood.

”And Andy. Glad you actually took up the offer. We have much to discuss! Much to talk about!” Catching up amongst the three of them was long overdue, especially with Ares disappearing for what was almost like ten months. He blamed the media coverage and his name as a Lestrange that gained the attention, the mysterious ‘accident’ that left his parents for dead. He was glad he skipped out on town the moment he did. Now the eldest was back, ready to join their family. ”But we should start with…You.” He said, turning his body so his index finger pointed at their youngest sister: Andy. ”Ms Longbottom.”

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Ariadne just smiled serenely. Unlike their parents, Ares and Andromeda had been supportive of her relationship with James, mostly because they could see how happy he made her. That hadn’t been enough to save her from her fathers’ wrath however, but their parents were dead and buried, and they were the only three Lestranges left, not including little Sebastian. “James is well, thank you brother. He’s getting used to being on a Quidditch team again, but he seems to enjoy it,” she responded with a delicate shrug of her shoulders.

Ariadne’s eyes flicked to the door when Andy entered, then back to her brother as he began speaking. He asked Andromeda first, calling her Ms. Longbottom, and she tried not to flinch. The Longbottoms had taken the two girls in under their protection, and while Aria had kept the family name, Andy had legally changed her own name. Aria knew it didn’t necessarily mean she loved her siblings any less than the Longbottom children, but it was still so strange to hear.

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Ares greeted her, and Andy moved to sit beside Ari. She leaned forward to kiss her sister on the cheek, before rolling her eyes at her brother as he mentioned her last name. Wow, he really had been gone for a long time, hadn't he? "Yes?" Andy asked, wondering if there was more to his query than just her surname. She wasn't sorry that she had changed it. Her parents never loved her, they only wanted the two kids. It made sense that Ari kept hers. She had always been part of the family, unlike Andy. Well, that's how she had felt. Though, after what their father had done to Ariadne, Andy wondered why she hadn't changed her own name sooner.

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WHILE ARES APPROVED OF ARIADNE’S long-term happiness, like many he didn’t really approve of the person she had chosen to be with until the elder Lestrange had gotten to know the Potter. With a quirked brow, Ares rose his pint-glass, the foam of the beer he had conjured sticking to his lips until his lips swiped away at it, before lips smacked together in a wondrous beer. This one was always his favourite out of the many the Pub sold. ”Quidditch team? Who’s he playing for now then?” The eldest son questioned, resting back against the bar.

Andy’s late arrival meant many things to Ares. It hinted how little she cared for family ordeals, and the disrespect to take up the name of the Longbottoms only proved that thought. In the time Ares had been gone, things had changed drastically, now that the three didn’t have parents to ‘look up to’, but for Merlin’s sake, he didn’t expect Andromeda to drop their name. ”Why the name change?” He questioned immediately, dropping the bomb as quickly as it needed to be dropped. It wasn’t a topic to tread around lightly, but instead needed direct answers…Right away.

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“The Arrows, Chaser,” Ariadne replied, sipping from her glass slowly as Ares inquired after James. She knew her brother hadn’t exactly liked James when she first introduced them, but after everything, their happiness was paramount to him, and she knew that. James made her finally feel like she could truly be herself, and he loved her for it.

Ariadne’s brow furrowed slightly as Ares began to question Andy about her last name change; she could hear the tone in her older brothers’ voice and she wasn’t a fan of it. “Let her be Ares, it’s her decision and she’s an adult now,” she told him quietly, casting a sympathetic look to Andy. The Longbottoms were better parents than their own were, and Andy especially had become very close to the family. It hadn’t surprised Ariadne one bit and she supported her sister one hundred percent.

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And there it was. Of course he'd be upset about it. Ariadne cut in first, telling Ares to let her be and that it was her decision. Andy waved a hand as her sister looked to her, indicating that she was alright. She smiled at Ari, then turned back to Ares. Her look was that of pleasant... curtness. ”I changed my name because unlike the two of you, my parents never wanted me around in the first place, so the name'Lestrange' was giving begrudgingly anyway,” she started. ”I found another family and not that I don't consider you family,” she paused, ”but as far as parents go I wanted to honor the names of those who were good to me,” she sat up a little straighter. ”Plus, I figured I'd probably get the last name anyway via Phil so no harm done,” her brows knit together a little on that, bitter, and she folded her arms in front of her chest. ”So now that that's done, can we talk about something more interesting? Like when's the wedding?” she turned to Ari with a smirk”kidding, kidding.”

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LIPS TURNED UPWARDS IN SLIGHT surprise. ”Good on the Potter.” He murmured over to Ariadne. Quidditch hadn’t been a joy of Ares’ since his schooling days in Hogwarts, but even then, he found amusement picking up women who swooned over him, messing with a few younger years here and there and being a complete dick to his younger sisters. Oh, how he missed the good ole days. Now the three of them were barely adults, orphans and completely and utterly different. ”Oh. I’ll leave her be…After she answers me.” He said, raising a hand in Ari’s direction before turning his attention to the youngest of them all. Judgemental was one thing Ares always avoided to become, but when Andy was tarnishing the Lestrange pride without giving it an opportunity to change for the better…Judgemental was all he could be.

The way the youngest Lestrange stared upon the eldest was…a fake sort of friendly. He listened in quietly, allowing Andy to vent out her reasons why before he lifted his mug, taking a swing at the final amount of his beer. Once finished, Ares slammed it against the counter, before hitting his hand against the counter with a grin on his lips. He pushed away from it, standing in between his two sisters now. ”Should we all feel sorry for little Andy? Because she was…A mistake?” He remembered hearing that for the first time from his parents. It was cruel, but Ares didn’t have much confidence to stand up to his parents back then. It was until he moved out when it all came rushing in. ”Or should we feel sorry for poor old Andromeda because now she can’t marry Phil. Since law says it’s kind of illegal to marry your siblings.” Ares grinned then, folding his arms. ”It’s whatever I suppose Ms Longbottom. It’ll take me a while to get used to that.” Ares turned now, his back to Andy while he smiled at Ari, knowing his choice of words was a dick move.

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Ariadnes’ nostrils flared when Ares had the gall to call Andromeda a mistake. “She was not a mistake,” Ari declared hotly, her fingers turning white as she clutched her glass. “She was a surprise, and our parents did so hate surprises,” she added with a knowing glare in Ares direction. She had begun to put together, piece by piece, what exactly had gone on the night their family home had been destroyed, and although she did not know everything, she knew that Andromeda and Ares had gone there uninvited, and knowing her parents, violence had been the only solution. “Technically, Phil and Andy are still unrelated by blood. There are plenty of people who marry their cousins after all, especially in the royal family,” she told them pointedly. She finished her glass and placed it down on the counter with a thump of finality.

“No, no engagement just yet,” she told Andy after a moment of tense silence, a small smile creeping onto her lips. “We’re just enjoying living together at the moment; he was away for several months so soon after I moved in, it’s been quite wonderful learning everything about each other and how we work together as roommates as well as a couple,” she explained.  "I'll have a glass of white wine please, chardonnay if you have it," she added cooly towards their elder brother.

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Ares started listing the reasons he should feel sorry for her. That she was a mistake. That she couldn't marry Phil. When he suggested that they couldn't even legally marry, ever, she clench her fist under the table. Why did that bother her so much? Her and Phil had been broken up for over a year now. Heck, she even had a boyfriend. But that statement, that stubborn statement that she could never have Phil like that even if she wanted to? That caused her blood to start turning black. The color black that it turned right before she killed the first bastard who deserved it that happened to cross her path. Ms Longbottom, he called her. Until that moment she had relished in having the name, feeling a new sense of confidence because of it but he made it sound like... like it was a bad word. 

But then, like a clear bell bringing her back to reality, Ari spoke. She stood up for her, stating that Andy wasn't a mistake and although their dead parents would disagree, it meant a lot to hear it. She said their parents hated surprises, to which Andy felt a little pang of guilt. If her and Ares hadn't tried to surprise them almost a year ago... she swallowed. She felt her blood shifting from the black sludge that was so familiar to the normal red again as Ari spoke. If she wasn't there, this may have been a very, very bad day for the Hogs Head. “Technically, Phil and Andy are still unrelated by blood. There are plenty of people who marry their cousins after all, especially in the royal family,” Ari said. Andy swallowed even harder at those words. She blinked, breaking her stare on Ares, shaking her head and looking down before Ari answered the question about proposals Andy smiled as best she could, "that sounds nice," she commented, her eyes on her sister. She turned back to Ares to answer his previous question, "firewhiskey. Neat." 

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ARES’ COULDN’T HELP BUT GRIN again. Anything he usually said would flare up Ariadne’s anger over Andromeda. She had truly learned a lot inside that mental hospital. His hands came together during the awkward silence that hung in the air, especially after the eldest brought up how Andy could never marry Phil. He saw how annoyed Andy got at the mention of it all, just from the twitches of her facial expressions. It was all laughable. ”Fairly disgusting don’t you think?” He asked, moving closer to the bar now. ”I don’t think Andromeda wants to be known as the incest-by-law wife of Phil. But then again who knows.” Ares paused, index and middle finger moving to bring the Chardonnay in his direction, twirling the wine glass in his left hand. ”Maybe she’s into something like that.”

He loved pissing of Andy. It was like a child’s routine, needing five-a-day with their meals. Ares was the same, except he needed his five-a-day to piss Andy off. It was the least he could do after she pretty much tortured him. ”Chardonnay for you and…A neat…Firewhiskey for you.” He said, after fixing up Andy’s drink by his own hand and not magic. He then used his hands to guide the glasses to the girl’s hands respectively. ”Besides this little hiccup is there anything else I should be aware of? Any plans on fixing up the Lestrange manor, or maybe a new family home for us soon?”

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Ariadne finally saw it, that smirk Ares was trying to hide from his face. She realized he was just doing this to get a rise out of Andromeda, something he was quite good at. Ariadne didn’t want him to see she had him figured out though, so she settled on taking a long sip of her wine. “I don’t think it’s disgusting actually. The Longbottoms did a good and noble thing by taking Andy and I in officially, especially after what our dearly departed father did,” she said casually, reminding Ares of the torture she had suffered just by falling in love with a Potter. “Plus, Phil and Andy’s relationship had been established in a romantic way far before that happened, so it’s not weird because of that.” She set her wine glass down with a tone of finality. “And if you have a problem with that Ares, we are happy to take this party elsewhere, without you.”

With that established, Ariadne was glad to change the topic, even if it was to their destroyed manor. “The manors’ grounds are yours to do with what you like Ares, so if you want to rebuild a place for Sebastian and yourself, then by all means you should feel comfortable with that.” Ariadne took another sip of her wine. “James and I have been meaning to do a complete makeover of the Grimmauld Place home, top to bottom. Bringing it to the new millennium if you will. It’s a bit...outdated,” she said with a chuckle. “We want it to feel like our home, not his fathers’ godfathers’ ancestral home, if you will,” she added.

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Andy used all of her energy to not clock her brother in the face right then and there over the bar, but she let Ariadne handle him. It wasn't true, though, that Andy and Phil became romantic before she was taken in by his family. It was after... by only a few weeks, but still. She didn't think she needed to correct that. Her and Phil were still incredibly close before any of that happened, so that counted enough, right?

Andy took her drink from Ares, careful not to touch his hand with hers. She knew her blood was probably pumping hard and he could probably sense that through the pulse in her hand or something if he touched it. Hell, he could sense it without touching her. Taking a long sip of her firewhisky made her feel better, though, and she breathed a sigh as the topic of conversation ended. "Agreed, Ari. Ares, it's all yours," she suggested. Technically Ariadne probably would have been the one to receive the home, being the most loved child, but since she said he could do what he wanted with it then that was that. She nodded at Ari as she said her and James were talking about redecorating. "I'd love to see it. I'm sure that place is terrifying," she shuddered. They were related to the Blacks, after all.

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