my tears ricochet.

OPHELIA IMOGEN OLLIVANDER twenty seven. halfblood. beauxbatons alumna. ollivander's wandmaker. "we gather here, we line up weepin' in a sunlit room, and if i'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too. even on my worst day, did i deserve, babe all the hell you gave me? 'cause i loved you, i swear i loved you, 'til my dying day."

[doricntorrcs]

At the mention of her cousin, Dorian was careful to school his expression. He was fairly certain that Ophelia still assumed that they had a rocky relationship at best, but that didn't mean he wanted to be questioned on it because of something he said or did. "I'd expect no less. Though I would hope you would be happy for us if we did win against them." Because he knew that it would be tough competition. He had faith in his team but he also had seen the best of the Harpies too from working with them. "And I won't take it easy or be nice to them up in the air just because I worked with them. If anything, it'll make me push more."

[opheliaollivander]

"Mmm, I guess I would be happy and sad at the same time," Ophelia replied with a light laugh. "Good, I'm pretty sure half of them would get pissed off if you even tried going easy on them."

[bcnjaminollivandcr]

"I am more than okay with this. My dad will have to get over it, it's not his business anymore," Ben replied, "He wants it to be me but as long as I hand it over to an Ollivander, he'll be fine eventually. Besides, I'm used to being a disappointment by now. You'll be the favourite after this," he nodded, "I can do that. We can have a transition period. Plus, Clem is a great apprentice who knows a lot about it as well. You're okay with having an apprentice right? She's mostly there for the wandmaking."

[opheliaollivander]

"Oh yes! I'd love an apprentice, I've always wanted one," Ophelia said with a squeal. "Oh this is so exciting!" Ophelia then paused lightly, thinking about her ex finding her. "Wait... I don't have to like advertise it to the world right? We can just pass the business silently?" she asked cautiously.

[laurelcllivanders]

Laurel grumbled, but seemed to be open to drinking some water upon her cousin's request. "You and Dorian were sharing loaded cheese fries together?" The color had suddenly seemed to drain from the brunette's face. She hadn't been expecting Ophelia to bring him up at all, let alone to say that they'd been hanging out. "Why... why were you two doing that? You two know one another?"

[opheliaollivander]

"Yeah, I met him here. I would probably call him a friend now," Ophelia nodded. "I mean, it was before I knew he was that coach that you didn't really like, but he is really cool when you get to know him." Ophelia then got a little nervous, second guessing herself, she found herself falling into a habit of trying to fix and erase what she said. "Wait, you're not mad are you? I mean, I know you don't like him, but I just thought that it was because he was a man coaching an all girl's team. There's not something I should know about him, is there?"

[bcnjaminollivandcr]

"Who do you... Oh, you?" Ben asked for clarification, "Not that, I mean, I know you could do it but you were in France and too young to take it when it fell on me. I didn't think you'd be coming here," he paused, "It's yours. The shop, the whole damn franchise. You can have it. I'll talk to Dad and sort the paperwork out."

[opheliaollivander]

"Yes, dummy!" Ophelia said when he finally put it together. "Ben, you were raised to take the business, but I was raised to be a wandmaker. It's something that I always loved, something that I managed to keep when.." she paused, it was something she had for herself when Clement took most things away from her. "This was never your dream, and we both know it. You'd be okay with it? Your Dad would be? I mean... I don't want it to see like I'm pulling it from under your feet," she said apprehensively. She would be lying if she said this wasn't something she had always wanted. "You'd definitely have to help teach me the reins of the business side of things, but if we can do it, I'm a hundred percent in."

[doricntorrcs]

A little chuckle left Dorian at that. "Well I haven't had much time to stop and stand still to allow you to congratulate me so I wouldn't worry about it." Dorian gave in return, honestly he'd been keeping himself purposely busy anyway. "It's good to be able to get out there and play again. It's like I have got a part of me back again."

[opheliaollivander]

Ophelia smiled lightly. "I'm so happy for you," she said. She wondered what that was like, she was still working at feeling like her again since leaving France and leaving her ex. "I'll definitely be out there rooting for you. Unless it's against the Harpies, don't take it to heart, but I always have to root for my cousin in that sense."

[laurelcllivanders]

"Who said anything about throwing up? I know I like to party but I also have done it enough to know when to slam on the breaks," Laurel pointed out. "And as much as I love a good time, my immense dislike of puking keeps me from going too overboard."

[opheliaollivander]

"Okay, Okay, but at least take a break and drink a couple of glasses of water, and we'll order some loaded fries so you're not too hungover tomorrow, trust me, future Laurel will love me for this," Ophelia replied. "Oh and we'll get some extra cheese on fries, it's delicious, if you don't believe me, you should definitely ask that one old coach of yours, Dorian, we slammed down an order before."

[opheliaollivander]

closed starter - ophelia & dorian ( @doricntorrcs )

"Well there you are, the newest chaser for the Tutshill Tornadoes," Ophelia said. "I feel like I haven't had the change to congratulate you, so congratulations! How do you feel?"

[bcnjaminollivandcr]

Ben clicked his tongue, letting out a soft sigh, "Miserable is a strong word, O. Maybe at the start, yes. But I now have other things in my life that make me happy. I'm good at wand-making and I tolerate it. I'm not happy about it, it's not the joy of my life. It's not like it's my dream job," he explained and shrugged, "He always gave this line of succession spiel. It always has to be an Ollivander, when I have a child, it will go to the oldest. He all but said it would go to Laurel if it wasn't me. I couldn't do that to her. Not just because she's born to play quidditch but also because of the pressure, I had it my whole life."

[opheliaollivander]

"If only there was another Ollivander that existed," Ophelia replied, sarcastically. "Y'know, one who spent years training under their own father and is also a wand-maker. I wonder who that could be."

[jackhenderscnadams]

“Cousin, right,” Jack replied without an apology for the mistake, “I think I may have gotten him into some trouble here. Don’t be too hard on him. He seems happy whenever I see him but I reckon that’s mostly on his wife. I think anyone would be happy married to her.”

[opheliaollivander]

"Yeah, Gwen is great," Ophelia replied, "she's good to him. But no, you didn't get him into some trouble, I would've found out eventually anyway. He probably thinks I know already or something. I'm just more angry at my Uncle, moreso than I was before."

[bcnjaminollivandcr]

"Hey," Ben began with a grin which quickly faltered as his cousin continued, "Oh, you didn't know about that?" he asked, knowing she hadn't been around but assuming that she'd heard about the witches and maybe caught up, "I'm not miserable. It's just not the job I wanted. It's the job I'm expected to do. If not, you know my dad would try and make Laurel do it."

[opheliaollivander]

Ophelia raised her eyebrows at her cousin. "Are you really not, or are you just saying that because you don't want to admit it to yourself for the sake of Laurel?" she asked. "And what if your Dad had another person that he could have take over that's not you or Laurel?"

[taiturner]

Greta Onieogou as LAYLA KEATING ALL AMERICAN ◆ 6x04 "Black Out"

[opheliaollivander]

closed starter - ophelia & ben ( @bcnjaminollivandcr )

"Hey," Ophelia said when she caught up to her cousin. "Why didn't you tell me that you were miserable working for Ollivander's? Apparently some gossip witches told everyone that you did it for Laurel?"

[laurelcllivanders]

"Anyone up for dancing?" Laurel waltzed up to the bar with a half-empty bottle, sliding herself onto a barstool and leaning her weight against the wooden tabletop. "Or maybe shots first? Will you do some with me?" she turned to the person sat beside her.

[opheliaollivander]

"Maybe you should slow down a little," Ophelia said to her cousin, slightly worried. "I mean, I'm okay with holding your hair back when you throw up later, but I'd rather avoid the vomit phase."

[jackhenderscnadams]

“Well, wouldn’t she be next in line or whatever?” Jack asked, “Uh, I think maybe you should talk to your brother about this. I would have thought you’d know. Have you been away or something? The Gossip Witches are brutal.”

[opheliaollivander]

"Cousin," Ophelia corrected. "I knew about the gossip witches, I just guess that that happened before I left France, and no one mentioned it to me. I'll have to talk to him."

[clcmcntincdclacour]

"I just do what the boss says... well most of the time." There was the few times where she had taken a little artistic license with it but Ben hadn't seemed to mind thankfully. "How is everything going with your shop?"

[opheliaollivander]

end

“Why would you be scared of any of those things?” Dorian couldn’t imagine it because Ophelia gave off such a confident aura that it was hard to believe she didn’t have the belief in herself to be able to do anything she wanted.

end

[opheliaollivander]

end

[bcnjaminollivandcr]

"I'm telling you as your boss that lunch with me is an important part of your work today," Ben teased, "Oh, so you're just in it for a free meal," he joked.

[opheliaollivander]

end