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[juniper minerva mcgonagall]

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At this point in time, she really didn't care whether or not Rhys had taken her on trips. They made do with the time they had, and she had always known that he probably didn't want to travel after doing as much as he did for the bank. That was part of the deal with dating a cursebreaker. She learned fast because of that. "We went camping the one time," she reminded him. Once. In seven-ish years of dating. If it had really mattered to her that much back then, she would have made it known to him. Just because she rolled over plenty of times when it came to him running off everywhere didn't mean she was a doormat the entire time.

More importantly anyway was the fact that her pant leg was giving her the toughest fight she'd ever been in. Trying to roll the ankle up to her calf was impossible, and going past that would never happen. Considering her tattoo covered the entire side of her lower leg now, Rhys would never be able to see the whole thing this way. He had removed her cup from her other hand and was somewhat holding onto her as she struggled with her leg. It just wasn't working the way she wanted it to. "I'm just trying..." she trailed off at another failed attempt. Rhys then told her to sit down, and she listened, returning back to her chair.

She really should have realized what she was doing at this point, but it made sense to her in her now drunken state. The pants needed to go. With fumbling fingers fueled by whiskey, she found the button and zipper, and started to peel them off. "Trust me. I'm just trying to show you something," she laughed at herself as she continued to shimmy them down further. It wasn't like Rhys hadn't seen her without them before.

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[rhys alexander greyback]

i've been waiting for this silence all night long

it's just a matter of time

April 14, 2028
juniper minerva mcgonagall

Juniper finally listened to him and returned to her chair, seemingly giving up on whatever she was trying to do. It was like she was trying to lift her pants up her leg, but Rhys knew firsthand the limitations and difficulties of women’s pants. They made you work to remove them, whether by the wearer or someone else. But Rhys was having a difficult time thinking. Logically, it didn’t make sense and his brain buffered before he registered what Juniper was doing. The sound of the zipper hit his ears and he glanced down. Juni was taking her pants off.

”Erm—“ Rhys felt his face flush a little. Even though they’d dated for almost seven years, lived together for much of that time and all that was registering was that she was taking off her pants. And in this state of distracted inebriation, Vasilia almost felt like a footnote, he should’ve been ashamed to say. But this wasn’t his first rodeo down this path. Plus, this was Juniper he was talking about. Rhys realized he was gawking a bit. Picking his jaw off the floor, he dropped back into his seat and reached for his plastic cup, taking Juni’s cup and pouring it into his own.

”I—uhm—“ Part of Rhys wanted to protest, seeing as he was not a single man. But he was a man, and a beautiful woman was taking her pants off. Of her own accord as well. ”Show me what?” Rhys may have remembered his words, but he’d forgotten how to look respectfully like déjà vu to years ago during their better times together. (Not to mention this reminded him of a faint memory of a time at Club Indigo with a stripper.) Rhys's gawking as such in public would have earned him a hard smack upside the head from Rob, Sienna, Nell, or anyone else who thought he’d found a good match with Vasilia. But it was like they didn’t know Rhys at all. Gathering himself, Rhys drank more Bourbon as he waited for an explanation—stopping himself from making a stripper-related remark.

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[juniper minerva mcgonagall]

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Juniper could hear him stumbling over himself, trying to find words to account for her sudden disrobing. She honestly didn't care. "Don't make it weird," she joked as she managed to get the waist down to her knees. Doing this while sitting was easier at first, but now she was seeing the fatal flaw in her technique. Half standing up again, the rest of the way went quick. Juniper suddenly became well aware of the fact that her pants were around her ankles, and despite everything she had just said to Rhys and thought about in her head, she could feel her face starting to burn. Whether or not it was from embarrassment or the whiskey, she wasn't too sure though. Maybe a bit of both. The real problem was that another part of her brain was still telling her that she couldn't move around well like this, and she tried to yank her right shoe off as well to free the leg. It didn't work, so she stayed where she was, still wobbling in place.

"See? Look," she tilted her leg to the side so that he could see the whole tattoo. Now that she was back on track, she momentarily forgot about everything she had just done. Once again, it didn't matter to her. "I got the green mark covered finally. Found a magical tattoo artist that used the color to make the dragon." And Juniper was damn proud of it too. Prior to this, she hadn't leaned one way or the other when it came to tattoos. But this? This immediately changed her mind. She doubted she'd get any more, but having the splotch covered made her feel so much better about everything. Now she could wear clothes that weren't pants again! That really didn't change too much for her, but she could if she wanted.

"So? What d'you think?" she asked, still flaunting her leg. "Common Welsh Green," Juniper added, as if that wasn't already obvious. There was only one dragon that looked like this and also happened to be green.

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[rhys alexander greyback]

i've been waiting for this silence all night long

it's just a matter of time

April 14, 2028
juniper minerva mcgonagall

”Me?” Rhys questioned Juniper indignantly. ”You’re the one stripping.” It wasn’t enough to snap him out of it entirely. But watching her try to figure out her pants situation was a little funny. The bourbon made this seem both attractive and funny. ”You—erm—need some help?” Rhys offered innocently. Or as innocently as he was capable of at the moment. A mischievous glint in his eye. Rhys seriously doubted either thought they would end up like this after agreeing to a drink. But now to the real point or Juniper’s real goal. She had given up on removing her pants entirely, instead turning her leg to show him something.

Rhys leaned forward, putting the cup back on the desk. The green mark was indeed gone, and he blinked a few times, wondering if his mind was playing tricks on him. For years, it was ingrained in his mind because it was on Juniper’s leg—a part of her. Much like Juniper could tell when Rhys came home with a new scar, even if it was small. ”Wow…” Now it made sense why she was ripping her clothes off.

”That’s some excellent work. When you’d get it done?” He glanced up as he asked the question. Still, it felt like the end of an era. That green splotch (courtesy of Eleanor Ollivander) had played a part in bringing Juniper and Rhys together. He was still acutely aware that Juniper was pantless, but he was glad she shared this with him. It wasn’t awkward, not as one might have thought between exes.

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Stripping? Her? All she was doing was pulling her pants down to show him her leg tattoo. A little more forethought and three to four less shots of whiskey would have told her that was exactly what she was doing right now. But drunk Juniper didn't care. Those inhibitions were long gone, probably closer to when she decided it was totally fine to follow Rhys to his office after heavily drinking. Because that totally looked good in front of all of the students and their colleagues that were there in the pub too. Whatever. It was too late to care now. Innocently removing her pants to show him something cool really didn't process correctly as 'crossing the line'. They were adults.

Rhys offered his help when she started to struggle with her shoe, but she waved him off. "You have a girlfriend. What would she think of you helping me take my pants off?" Juniper drunkenly teased. She hadn't even thought about Vasilia the whole night, though the other woman barely entered her thoughts to begin with. Aside from being the one that was dating Rhys, of course. Alas, she was not here and the door to the office was closed. Juniper didn't feel too bad about showing off her leg. It was a great tattoo after all.

"Amazing isn't it?" she said proudly as Rhys commented on it. The level of detail was beyond what she had ever dreamed it could look like, and thankfully there were no side-effects of it being placed over the green spot. That had been her biggest worry too. There was no telling what sort of residual magic was left over from the potion. If it maintained it's color for a decade, she half expected it to reject the ink as well. "Late August," Juniper answered as she turned her leg again to give him a better view. "Got it at Mystery Ink in Diagon."

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[rhys alexander greyback]

i've been waiting for this silence all night long

it's just a matter of time

April 14, 2028
juniper minerva mcgonagall

Rhys didn’t initially respond to the comment about his girlfriend. Juniper had a point, but mentally, Rhys did the equivalent of a nonchalant shrug. It wasn’t as if Vasilia knew what Rhys did when he wasn’t home—at this point, it was for the best. The latest round of fighting had left Rhys feeling adrift, but for certain, he didn’t want to hurt her further than he already had. But he threw up his hands as Juniper refused his help. ”Fine. Fall on your face.” Merlin, he hoped she didn’t try to walk or anything like that with her current balance or lack thereof.

The tattoo was pretty awesome. He had seen so many while traveling and considered one of his own but hadn’t pulled that trigger. Plus, magical ink would probably help with dealing with his scars. Cursebreakers were typically littered with scars resulting from magical injuries or some kind of poison. Stuff that muggle tattoo ink would never win against. But after an unspecified amount of time, Juniper finally pulled her pants back up, and Rhys handed her more bourbon since he’d drank hers while trying to keep himself from getting too riled up in the situation. This banter and conversation felt normal and comfortable with Juniper, just like in the past. Suffice it to say he was having a good night.

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Falling in her face was probably the healthiest outcome that could happen right about now. Juniper knew she wasn't thinking straight, stripping down to her underwear in a locked school office with her ex that was currently seeing someone else. If someone else had told her they'd done the same, she would have gawked at them and called them an idiot. Clearly she had lost a few marbles whilst drinking. When she woke up tomorrow morning, she was going to be begging that none of her students or colleagues saw any of these antics. Because it was not a good luck. Professionally, of course. She wouldn't have cared if they had bumped into one another at the Leaky Cauldron and then done this. At Hogwarts was different for sure.

Falling backwards into the chair, Juniper gave up on her shoe and decided to return everything back to where it belonged. The upwards shimmy was just as difficult sitting down as it was trying to peel them off only a minute ago. "Well...I should be...going soon. I think," she said through gritted teeth, pulling harder on her pants to get them up. Why were things so hard whilst drunk? "Probably going to stay with my parents," Juniper mumbled to herself as she finally managed to get things back to the way they were. "So don't worry about me!" It was an easy walk to Hogsmeade after all. And would be nice in the evening April weather.

[THE END]

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