Title: Rumours and Things
Prompt: #33 "If I could go back in time..."
Rating: PG13
Pairing: Blaise/Dean
Word Count: 365
Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.K. Rowling and publishers. No offence is meant by this fan fiction and this is made purely for fun.
"You love it, don't you?" Dean asked. "Gossip."
"Hmmm, it's more that I find it interesting," Blaise said. "Especially when I hear five versions of the same thing. Things get twisted or lost along the way, people add speculations. By the time you hear the truth the rumour's become a different story."
"Why do I get the feeling that you might have started a few rumours during school just to see what they turned into?" he asked.
"You should trust those feelings of yours," Blaise said, chuckling.
"So, what did you take from your experiments?" he asked.
"That we hear what we want to, often rely on unreliable information, and speculate the irrelevant too much," she said.
"Speculate sounds about right," he muttered, thinking back on the Chamber of Secrets and the rubbish they had all put Harry through. "Come to think of it, if I had believed all the rumours that flew around school I'd have thought you were a womaniser. There was also one about you and Malfoy fighting for Parkinson's attention."
"Us fighting over Pansy…" she said, snorting and then laughing, her diaphragm vibrating against his. "That's as hilarious as me being a womaniser. I hardly said a word to most students unless I had to, much less seduced girls."
"You were quiet," Dean mused.
"If I could go back in time I'd probably be a touch more social," Blaise said. "My pool of friends after Hogwarts was a bit pitiful. You've seen me speak to half of them already."
"I'd probably go back and stop Seamus from eating that space cake he had at a party we went to summer after fifth year," Dean said, thinking back. "I turned around for a second and when I look he's halfway through what I heard was his second. I don't think he really remembers much of it, but neither do the Muggles we were around, since they had to be Obliviated."
"Is that the Muggle version of alihotsy scones?" Blaise asked.
"Mmmm, yes?" he said uncertainly.
"You don't remember what alihotsy is," Blaise said.
"A magical plant…" Dean tried.
"Whose leaves can cause hysteria and uncontrollable laughter," Blaise finished.
"That might be worse."