poise [isa]

[LUNA LACHESIS TRELAWNEY]

10 April 2027

It had been with a heavy heart and a begrudging hand that Luna had penned a note to Isabeau Boothby to ask for her help. First of all, Luna loathed to ever ask for help for anything. Growing up with two identical copies of herself, Luna had sought to differentiate and individualise herself. She had succeeded, for the most part. Whilst her sisters toiled away their time at Durmstrang, Luna had bagged herself a spot on a professional Quidditch team and a boyfriend to boot.

Said boyfriend was the reason why Luna had reached out to Isabeau in the first place. Isa wasn't Luna's first choice of friend, and actually she was rather low on the list. But Isa had something that Luna did not - a childhood's worth of poise and propriety. Luna knew that if she was going to meet Simon's parents, who were extraordinarily wealthy due to founding a distillery. Luna could hardly believe that the alcoholic butterbeer her peers had been consuming had been provided largely in part by Simon's family.

Thankfully, Isa didn't ask too many questions and invited Luna to her flat in Camden. Luna left practice immediately, not hanging around as she usually did for a drink or a chat. She kissed Simon farewell, promising to meet him at his flat later, before apparating to London to meet Isa. She popped into appearance in an alleyway near Kings Cross and set off at a trot northwards. It took Luna no more than ten minutes to find the address, and press the buzzer to be let in.

@isabeau

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There had been many months spent between Isabeau and @julian in their little love nest off Camden Town. The flat while original quite Kitschy and old, she'd slowly pulled back the elements she hadn't liked and added in small touches of her, and even smaller touches of Julian. Julian had arrived one day and never really left, and she sort of loved every bit of it. At first he had come and go quite a bit, while not staying with Isa his life had been a mystery to her. But piece by piece she had been able to pare that back and find out more about him. Months ago the gaps between seeing him were a lot longer; now they were barely existent. The nights started as him on the pull out in the living room, shifted to her staying with him on the pull out; eventually becoming him regularly creeping in to the small bed in the bedroom to curl into her. Now the only time she didn't see him was when he went away for the full moon.

That was the longest 24 hours in the month for Isa. But she knew it had to happen, if only just for his mental health surrounding the whole thing.

This months moon hadn't been too bad. He'd arrived back that morning weak and tired, but better than some of the other mornings post full moon. The easiest thing had been to curl up in bed and cuddle him when he needed it, but mostly she had sat and done some of her required reading by her home-school tutor. It was an easier way to pass the time as Julian recuperated.

When she had given her address to Luna earlier in the week she hadn't expected her to turn up unannounced. She had told her she had homeschool and that, even if some of her classes were online it wasn't the only reason she hadn't wanted Luna to just turn up. She hadn't told anyone Julian was here, and she had liked that. He was a little secret. They hid away in the flat. Luna turning up would barge right into that.

As the buzzer went; Julian jolted into life, suddenly on high alert. Springing out of the bed he pulled on some pants and went to investigate, silently shooting Isa a warning look to stay in bed. Her stomach dropped, knowing it could really only be one person. While Julian accepted the buzzer and then waited for the door to go, Isa pulled on his tee over the delicate bra and underwear she'd been wearing and padded along behind him. When the door clicked open and she heard Luna's scoff of shock at the image of topless Julian, she froze in the centre of the teeny living room. Julian's icy tone was as confused and defensive

"Trelawney what the fuck..."

LUNA LACHESIS TRELAWNEY

[LUNA LACHESIS TRELAWNEY]

Luna had thought she had been quite clear with Isabeau that she would be dropping by after her former housemate gave her the address she was staying at. They'd never been close, not by a long shot. Especially when Isabeau got the prefects badge and Luna was shunted to the side with her sisters. But it only made sense - Luna was much better at causing trouble and blaming someone else for it. Isabeau was a bit more buttoned up. Well, she had thought.

Luna's mouth popped open in surprise as Julian opened the door, shirtless. "I-" she started, wondering if she'd gotten the wrong place. His response to her at the front door riled her, and she straightened, fixing Julian with an equally icy glare. "Banagher. I'm here to see Isabeau. You haven't murdered her and are washing your clothes of her blood, are you? Though you wouldn't have the stomach for that," she sneered, falling back into her old ways so easily after months of rehabilitation. And the moment Luna realised that, she frowned. "Er... I'm sorry. I shouldn't have spoken to you like that. Is... is Isabeau in?" she asked, her voice much softer than anything either of them would have heard before.

@isabeau

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Isa had remained frozen in the centre of the small flat, waiting in fear to see what had arisen from the disturbance. Julian's t shirt hung limply, almost oversize from her thin frame, and even though she was more covered than she had been before, she felt a sort of exposure that she didn't like. This flat had always been her safe space from the world, her and Julian's safe space and now an outsider had barged right in. When Simon had asked to pass on her details to Luna, she hadn't quite expected this.

As she heard Luna dig at Julian, her stomach tightened with an anger she didn't quite understand at first, a possessive inkling that she didn't want the one she loved hurt. That jolted her to life a little more, she moved to pull some denim cut off shorts off the clothes horse in the corner and found herself pushing past Julian defensively, just as Luna began to reign herself back in. She was still caught off guard and unsure of what was going on as she stood and surveyed Luna with narrowed eyes. Eventually Julian shrugged it off and retreated back into the flat, letting Isa pull the door to an almost close behind her.

"What.." Still, she eyed Luna suspiciously, not immediately taking to the fact she had just barged in and insulted her....well whatever Julian was. Isa was even more dubious of the softer tone Luna was now using, only hearing something similar when she had wanted something from one of their dormmates.

LUNA LACHESIS TRELAWNEY