Title: A Woman Scorned
Team: Caerphilly Catapults
Position: Chaser 1
Round: QL Daily Finish the Lyrics Competition
Prompt: Red
Additional Prompts used: NA
Hogwarts Assignment 7: English Language Studies task 2
Prompt: Write about your character meeting up with another.
Scamander's Case: Erumpent, female
Prompt: (trope) friends to lovers
Gather Your Party: Barbarian number 2 Battlerager
Prompt: Emotion: Fury
Gotta Catch Them All: Type: ground number 7 Hippopotas
Prompt: (Dialogue) "I can't even look at you right now."
Geek Pride Gaming Edition: number 22 The Sims
Prompt: number 2 (emotion) flirty
Easter Special Event: Colour Me Spring number 13; Easter Egg Hunt number 6 Astronomy Tower
Prompt: (colour) ginger; (food/drink) Tea
Bejewelled II: Ruby fuschite
Prompt: (dialogue) "You're not the boss of me."
Writing Club: Quotations number 18; fight club number 15; days of the month number 20 national look-alike day
Prompt: "I'm not gonna ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it's what you just said."; (trope) friends to lovers; Write about a doppelganger or twins
Word count: 1592
Betas: Rose, Lily
A/N Set in an AU where pairings and even family trees may be massively different. There is no evil Voldemort in this universe and therefore none of the prejudice present in canon. Allow your imagination to run wild with this series of tales.
Warnings: Some homophobic/chauvinistic opinions although they do get called out
Ginny arrived at the magical entrance to Wonderland to find Luna already waiting there for her.
"Hi, Luna," Ginny greeted the blonde-haired girl. Luna was dressed in Muggle clothes but she was wearing her trademark orange radish-like earrings.
"Oh hello, Ginny," Luna replied, looking slightly startled as the radishes on her earrings bounced about as she turned to look at Ginny. "I was away with the Nargles there."
"Erm…right" Ginny said, suppressing a laugh. "Well, are you ready to celebrate having finished our N.E.W.T.s? No more exams for us! All we need to worry about is the results."
"Oh, yes," Luna said enthusiastically. "Although, I'm sure we don't have to worry about our exam results too much."
"Let's go then," Ginny said brightly, linking her arm into Luna's and leading the way into the theme park.
"What shall we do first?" Luna said dreamily, gazing at Ginny, her eyes wide but with a soft look in them after they had paid their admission.
"Let's go do the Muggle section first," Ginny said, looking at the map they got when they paid for their admission and not noticing the way Luna was looking at her, "while it's still early and quieter. Then when we've had enough there, we can come back here and get a cup of tea and something to eat."
"Sounds good to me," Luna replied, still in her dreamy voice as Ginny once more linked arms with her and they made their way to the Muggle section. Ginny looked longingly at Luna but Luna didn't notice as she gazed around her with interest.
They had a very enjoyable time in the Muggle section going on all the rides, working their way methodically around the park.
"Only one ride we haven't been on," Ginny grinned, as she looked up at the biggest roller coaster in the park. She shook her head tossing her beautiful, long, ginger hair out of her eyes and behind her shoulders.
"Can we not go on that one?" Luna asked, a note of concern evident in her tone.
"It looks fun," Ginny stated.
"No, I don't think we should. I have a bad feeling about it," Luna said hesitantly.
"I'll go on by myself if you don't fancy it."
"I wish you wouldn't."
"You're not the boss of me," Ginny laughed. "Look, there's hardly any queue. I won't be long."
"Please don't," Luna said as she watched the progress of the roller coaster train climbing the first ascent to the first drop. "Look." Luna grabbed Ginny's hand and pointed up at the train as it shuddered violently on the climb. Ginny and Luna stood watching, hand in hand, as the train gave another violent shudder and a figure was thrown from the train and plummeted to the ground. They both gasped and clapped a hand to their mouths simultaneously. The ginger hair of the person falling flashed in the sun—but that couldn't be right– the sun was currently hidden behind some clouds.
"She's a witch," Ginny breathed, squeezing Luna's hand tightly. "Look, she's falling much more slowly than is natural. That was the flash of a spell."
"No-one else seems to have noticed," Luna observed, looking about.
"Good, otherwise they'll want to know why they won't find a dead body, but I don't think I fancy going on that ride anymore," Ginny said, with a dry little laugh as she let go of Luna's hand to tuck a loose strand of her ginger hair behind her ear.
"Shall we go and get a cup of tea then?" Luna asked, looking shyly at Ginny as she held out her hand.
Ginny looked at Luna's hand, and blushed, but took it with a small smile.
"I can't even look at you right now," Ginny said, still flushed. "But is this a date?"
"If you like– I mean if you want it to be?" Luna replied quietly.
"I think– I would like it to be–" Ginny replied just as quietly, "–if you want it to be?"
"Oh, yes," Luna said enthusiastically and she blushed too.
They walked in silence, back towards the magical section, hand in hand and occasionally gave each other small, shy smiles. They ambled slowly through the magical section.
"How have we danced around this for so long?" Ginny asked, as they made their way slowly back towards the little café for a cup of tea.
"I just never thought you would be interested in me in that way," Luna said, surprising Ginny. Luna was normally very perceptive of this sort of thing.
"Of course I am. You're very pretty and kind and funny. What wouldn't I like?"
"I'm not as pretty as you. You have the most beautiful shade of ginger hair. It's like the fire of a sunset."
They both smiled shyly at each other again as they entered the café.
"Gosh, it's busy," Ginny said.
"You get a table and I'll get the tea and some cake for us," Luna said before she drifted away from Ginny with her usual dreamy look upon her face.
Ginny found a free table and sat down, thinking about the delightful turn her day had taken. She was sitting at the table with the same dreamy look that was usually present on Luna's face when a voice interrupted her thoughts.
"I'm glad you managed to find us a table, Lils," a dark-haired man said, setting a tray on the table. "I wasn't sure if you'd manage to find one." The man looked up across the table towards Ginny and his eyes widened. "Oh! I'm sorry," he exclaimed, "I thought you were someone else."
"You thought I was Lily?" Ginny asked, with an amused expression on her face.
"How'd you know?" The man marvelled.
"You said 'I'm glad you managed to find a table, Lils' so I guessed that was a nickname for Lily."
"Hmm…you're smart and sassy like her as well as being her doppelganger. Apart from your eyes. You could be her double when she was your age."
"Sirius," a woman called to the man from a few tables over. "Wrong table."
"I've realised," the man called Sirius replied. "But in my defence, Lils, she's your doppelganger."
The woman called Lily came over to the table as Luna arrived with their tray of goodies.
"Wow! Ginny you've got a doppelganger!" Luna exclaimed.
"It's uncanny, isn't it? Apart from the eyes," Sirius replied, picking up his own tray. "Sorry to have bothered you." Carrying the tray, Sirius followed Lily back to their table.
"She looked like she could be your mother," Luna said, sitting down and pouring out a cup of tea each. "I got us some gingerbread cake, too. I hope you like it."
Ginny leaned in towards Luna and with a soft smile on her face whispered, "I like it but not as much as I like you."
Luna laughed cheerfully as leaned in closer to Ginny, their lips were now so close they could feel each other's breath on their lips. Ginny's breath caught in her throat as Luna's lips drew closer and closer, their first kiss imminent.
"Ginny! What are you doing?" came an angry voice making Ginny and Luna jump apart. Ginny recognised the voice and she was furious.
"I'm on a date, Ronald!" Ginny fumed, turning to face the youngest of her brothers. "And I was having a lovely time until you so rudely interrupted us!"
"But she's a girl!" Ron spluttered.
"Oh, how very perceptive of you," Ginny replied acidly.
"But you're not gay! You aren't allowed to be gay! I forbid it!"
"You're not the boss of me!" Ginny seethed. "I'm a grown witch. I can do what I like and what makes me happy!"
"But you can't be happy with a girl. You need a man to make you happy. To have a family," Ron blustered.
"I'm not gonna ask you if you just said what I think you just said because I know it's what you just said. I can't even look at you right now, Ronald! You make me so angry. How dare you presume to tell me what I need to make me happy! How dare you presume to tell any woman what she needs to make her happy! We don't need men to tell us what is good for us or what will make us happy! And straight or not, no woman needs to rely on a man to be happy. This is not the Middle Ages! It is not illegal or wrong for me to be with a woman, so why don't you just run along and get back to whatever you were doing before you so rudely interrupted us!" Ginny fumed, glaring at her brother who still stood there with his mouth hanging open. "What are you doing here, anyway? You'd better not be following me or Morgana help you, Ron, I will curse you with the Bat Bogey Hex so intensely that it will take St Mungo's a week to undo it!"
"I– not your business what I'm doing here," Ron said bristling, while Ginny laughed derisively.
"So, it's not my business what you're doing here but you felt it necessary to insert yourself in my business? You're such a hypocrite. You just wait until I tell mum that you're stalking me."
"I– not stalking–on a date–" Ron flushed blotchily.
"You're on a date?" Ginny sneered. "Who's desperate enough to date you?"
"Ron?" came a girl's voice.
"You!" Ginny said contemptuously.
"You!" said the girl, matching Ginny's contempt.
