Apologizes → Tiffany Lestrange

[Tiffany Lestrange]

She gripped at his wrist again, giving him a harsh look.

"Don't treat me like I don't know what I'm talking about." now she sounded a little defensive, if anything, but tried to keep her emotions in check as she spoke to him. "I don't deserve the condescension." 

[Broderick Bode]

Broderick pulled his wrist back and gave her a look "well I certainly don't know what makes /you/ think you have the right to tell me what I can and can not do" he stared her down sternly then looked at his pocket watch "I am not sure what you want from me here Tiffany you tell me to not care about you yet here I am trying to walk away and leave you alone and you have yanked me back twice now, make up your mind"

[Tiffany Lestrange]

"Because I don't want you to walk away & start worrying about me!" she insisted, letting him go when he went to pull away, not forcing him into anything. "Which is what I'm entirely sure you're about to start doing!" she was forcing her voice to stay under control, though it wavered as it tried to raise, her emotions started taking over. 

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ooc. forever listening to leighton singing 'fuck you' at the end of that song we reblogged tbh

[Broderick Bode]

Broderick gave her an unimpressed look "well unlike you worrying and caring are not emotions I personally can just shut off and not feel so I apologize that they inconvenience you but there is nothing I can do about it" he shook his head rolling his eyes.

[Tiffany Lestrange]

"Inconveniencing me but signing a death wish for yourself." she snapped back, trying to make him understand the seriousness of the situation she felt that he was stepping into. "This isn't meant to insult you so don't take it so personally. I'm trying to do the opposite of hurt you, right now, can't you see that?" her eyes were wide, serious, and almost pleading.

[Broderick Bode]

Broderick glared and narrowed his eyes "how?" he snapped.

[Tiffany Lestrange]

Opening her mouth to answer, Tiffany fell silent as a loud whistle rang through the street. Turning sharply, she spotted Brent looking at her impatiently before beckoning her rather wickedly toward him.

"Trust me, Bode." was all she said as she vanished into the crowd of people in the street.

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Thorfinn carrying Tiffany home was becoming a more regular occurrence, now, especially since he didn't stay at Lestrange manor anymore. Kicking the door open, he pulled her inside & laid her flat on the carpet of the living room, immediately summoning a towel to lay underneath of her. 

"Broderick?" he called, into the house, obviously alarmed, his tone sounding a bit panicked. "Can you bring me some tweezers?" He bunched Tiff's dress up so that one leg was exposed to the upper thigh, a deep, jagged wound running in a thick river of deep red along the length of her leg. The shapes of the wound were patterned, but messy.

[Broderick Bode]

Broderick emerged from his office and although he was concerned summoning a pair of tweezers he could not help snapping "why do you keep bringing her here?" he barked in annoyance, did she really expect him to /stop/ worrying if every other day she was plopped on his couch with a new injury.

[Tiffany Lestrange]

"Make him stop talking." Tiffany whined into a pillow, as she yanked it over her face.

"You stop talking." Thorfinn snapped, as if chastising a small child. He looked at Broderick apologetically. "She got caught on me & splinched when we landed here." he pulled a twig out of the wound that had gotten lodged in place when she fell as she landed, then set the tweezers aside & began cleaning the cut out.

[Broderick Bode]

Broderick continued to look unimpressed but obviously didn't say anything else, he sat down across from the pair and watched with an unreadable expression as Thorfinn worked on her leg.

[Tiffany Lestrange]

As he finished cleaning & poured the deep black liquid from his cloak pocket over the cut, Tiff groaned into the pillow, letting out all of the pain & ache from it in a single noise to relieve a bit of the sensation. Gripping the pillow tightly to her face, the sound came out muffled until she relaxed & her body went limp & calm, slowly sliding the pillow aside & breathing heavily, staring at the ceiling to try to get rid of the dizziness.

"Idiot." Thorfinn finally said, shaking his head at Tiffany with a hint of a mocking smirk on his face.

She raised her wand & fired at him without even looking up properly, a band of green shooting out & slapping him across the cheek causing him to yelp. Not enough to do any real damage, but enough to make her point. 

[Broderick Bode]

Broderick continued to watch the pair and snorted in amusement as she watched the green hand smack his roommate "pfft" he chuckled softly then turned to Tiffany about to ask if she is alright but deciding not to seeing how she flipped out at him whenever he did.

[Tiffany Lestrange]

Thorfinn snapped at Tiff, "Lay down." he nodded at the couch & stood up to go clean his tools in the kitchen as she did so.

Hobbling over to the couch, she lost her balance as the cut stretched & she felt a jolt of pain, causing her leg to spasm. Grabbing Broderick's thigh sharply for balance, she held on until she was sure she could stand on her own properly, then carefully lowered herself onto the couch. She was an idiot - she felt like an idiot. Thorfinn hadn't been entirely out of place with his name calling. Of all the dangers she'd been facing, lately, she had to go & splinch herself.

[Broderick Bode]

Broderick watched Tiffany as she laid back and smirked in amusement crossing his arms at the look on Tiffany's face "you're not an idiot" he added affectionately.

[Tiffany Lestrange]

"I don't take anything that man says to heart." Tiffany said softly, closing her eyes so that she could relax a little more. It was mostly true - Thorfinn did just happen to be right, this time. She laid one hand over her waist & the other at her side, sighing in a way that seemed to make her whole body just deflate a little more into the couch cushions. 

"My robes just got caught. Rookie mistake." she sighed, keeping her eyes closed.