7. PercyAubrey
red. girl. in. a. sea. of. black
i was spinning free, whoa,
with a little sweet and simple numbing me.
-[Sweetness, Jimmy Eat World]
He is standing in the corner at a Ministry Party (when will these things ever stop?) clutching a flute of wine and looking supremely bored. He has spent the last hour in conversation with Augustus Garnett, a newbie in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement who has a penchant for rambling enthusiastically. The first five minutes of talking to him were pleasant, the next five tedious, the fifty after that absolutely dull, but now Percy is finally free of him (Garnett has gone off to pester the Minister, bless his soul) and can do as he wishes.
Everyone is circulating freely, and more and more guests come in through the doors each minute, bubbling over with laughter and chat, but Percy is content to stand back and watch. He never has been one for social gatherings, and today is certainly not going to change that.
He wants to dance, actually, (maybe just a little), but he decides against it. There is far too much at risk. High-ranking officials are here tonight, and being Percy Weasley, a boy desperate to please, he pushes the thought to the back of his mind.
Until she comes in.
She is red in a sea of black, clothed in a small scarlet dress that contrasts beautifully against her pale skin. Her hair is crimson, shining in the florescent light and not quite unlike his own, but it is her eyes that get to him, that strike him to the very core. There are stories there, hidden behind the pupils, there is knowledge there, the information of a thousand books, but there is also life, and a liveliness he has never seen in anyone else before.
Like lasers, tiny, shooting beams of light, their eyes are drawn to each other from across the room. It is her who reaches him first, it is her who reaches out to take his hand.
The question that bubbles forth from her lips is the one thing he's wanted to hear all night.
"Dance?"
And so on the arm of a strange but beautiful girl, Percy Weasley drops his hesitation and lives.
a/n: Suggestions for the next pairing? Let me know;)
xoxo,
-Sianatra
