A/N: Meta-fictional inspiration: Jostein Gardner's Sophie's World, Michael Ende's Neverending Story, and The Anime With The Most Horrible Title Ever - Princess Tutu, that isAmong others.
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#27 - overflow
that's not how the story goes
- in which we learn how to deal with being fictional -
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Once upon a time, Pansy Parkinson read a story about stories.
"Hey Ron..."
"Yes?"
"Do you ever think your life would make a good story?"
"Not really."
"Why not?"
"I'm kind of boring."
"Right. All that occasionally kicking Dark Lord-arse is really dull."
"That's not really me, you know."
"Whatever. But don't you ever get the feeling everything is just a story? That everything that happens to us and everything we do is because we're just some characters in some book and someone decided this was the way it goes?"
"Not really. Don't you go nuts thinking like that? I would."
"Meh. But what if - just if - that is how it is?"
"Then I'd... get out of the story or something. Like this." Ron took a step forward. "See, I'm out of it now."
Pansy laughed, and stepped up to stand beside him.
They kissed, and the words of the story overflowed, and blew around them like a storm.