She wished to run. She wanted her legs to take her all the way to Liverpool and further, for her to come home ( if she still had a home ), take her sister and keep running. To where, she didn’t care. Just away. Away from the bullshit in the Prophet, from the probing questions that the Aurors had asked, from the looks thrown her way, from the horrible truth that she knew. This was the mere beginning. There was so much more to come, and none of it looked particularly good.
She hadn’t gone to any of her classes, hadn’t gone to any club meetings, hadn’t been anywhere but nowhere. She walked the Hogwarts grounds until her feet bled with blisters and she felt the muscles in her leg ache. She sat at the lake, an empty notebook on her side, begging her to write. She sat at the owlery, feeding the birds treats and sending her sister letter after letter, apologising endlessly. Glenda didn’t know why she was at Hogwarts. She didn’t want to be, after all, wanted to be somewhere else. A place that’d feel safer. ( But her father had been in a safe place, and he’d still died. )
“You know what’s funny?,” she started. She was sat in the courtyard, a Herbology textbook lying on her lap for show, a cigarette dangling in her fingers. “Apparently, I’m part of a drug ring.” Eyes looked up, to keep her tears from falling. “Can you imagine? My scrawny arse? A drug dealer?” A humourless laugh spilled past her lips. “Fucking hilarious.”
“That’s actually the most absurd thing of this all, you have neither the ORGANIZATIONAL skills nor the ambition to be an important member -- or even member -- of a drug ring. You being scrawny is really only part of the reason why, definitely not the whole reason.” Rosamonde said this confidently, without teasing, as if ve’d been asked this question as part of a job interview. As part of something serious. Of course, ve recognized the melancholic tone of Glenda’s ‘jokes’, the way she’d been keeping the textbook in front of her even though she wasn’t studying. Ros wasn’t in the habit of pitying anyone or doing them favors, but, ve’d known Glenda for over six years -- it would’ve been cruel to let her be alone during a time like this.
Not that Ros wasn’t capable of being casually cruel, but, how could ve be in this situation? Glenda was rendered an orphan, her little sister subjected to the same fate, Ros knew what it was like to worry about younger siblings -- being more PROTECTIVE of Capucine than ve liked to admit for fear that someone would use it against ver ( it was a true weakness, but not one ve was ashamed of ). Lily had asked ver to keep an eye on Glenda, stay with her when ve could, so she did.
Despite the fact that Glenda wasn’t ver best friend ( hard for anyone to be a close friend when everyone was kept at more than an arms length distance ) Ros also noticed Glenda’s absence in almost everything ve did. That was one of the reasons it was so easy for ve to agree to keep Glenda company, they spent many days together, even if not on purpose, being in the same year and house. Plus, they shared a mutual love of music. “They interviewed Capucine as well, not me though, yet. I expect to be called in but it’s quite SUSPICIOUS that the majority of people they’ve interviewed have been people of color, isn’t it? And by suspicious I mean racist.”