Merry Un-Birthday // Cyrus & Sybill
January left, taking with it a haze of confusion and unknown truths. A month was spent hiding in her flat and then healing. The tender care of her friends and her... something more than a friend... bringing her back to herself. And she felt alright. The flashbacks had subsided, the confusing visions now aknowledged as hallucinations instead of truth. She had been tortured, she had been beaten, but it was fading with every kindness, every tender love that she shared. Every day she felt more and more like the vibrant girl in touch with the other realm that she was.
February came and Sybill began to leave her flat again, the cold air hanging in the air like the weight of the war. But, like a blanket wrapped around you to keep away the chill, Sybill clung to the people in her life that would make her feel herself. And that meant even the ones who didn’t want her around.
Or the one, rather, the one who’s birthday she had forgotten in her stupor.
So it was with a large grin and a hastily wrapped package in her hand that she threw her floo powder into the fireplace, clearly calling out the name of her favorite slightly unsavory shop. “Borgin and Burke’s”
She came tumbling out of the fireplace is a mess of soot and tangled limbs, the package still gripped in her hand. She coughed, pushing herself up to a sitting position and brushing soot off of her slightly stained and tattered clothes -- she needed to go shopping for more but who could go shopping when there was a war going on? Honestly she had better things to do, like look for the perfect gift to make up for the fact that she had been indisposed on her friend’s birthday -- right. Yes. She had to attend to making up for her unfortunate absence.
She stood, glancing at her reflection in a glass case and wiping soot off of her cheek and smoothing down her hair. She had thought about wearing her finest jewelry, knowing Borgin’s affinity for sparkling things, but didn’t want to take away from his fragile pride. He did always insist on being the most adorned person in a room.
“Cyrus? Cyrus!” Sybill walked through the shop, humming the tune of one of her favorite movies growing up. She had always loved the color, the fantasy of it all, even before she had been part of the wizarding world fully, she had dreamed of wonder and excitement, a world that didn’t quite fit in the neatly pressed boundaries of the starched collars her mother insisted she wear as a child.
Finally a glimmer in her periphery indicated she had found her target, and Sybill spun around to face him. “Cyrus Borgin, today is your unbirthday, for some of us were woefully absent from your actual birthday! A very merry unbirthday to you!” Dancing towards him, she hummed the song from Alice in Wonderland, spinning in a circle as she clapped her hands together, careful not to disturb her wrapping. She waited until she knew he was just at the point of annoyance, about to expel her from his shop, when she stopped just in front of him, suddenly thrusting the package toward him.
“Go on. You’re the unbirthday boy” she shook the package slightly, eyebrows raised over large, expectant eyes. “Though I would be careful if I were you. That took quite some effort to procure for you, and I would hate for it to break before you’ve even been amazed by it.” She grinned up at him, rocking from the tips of her toes to her heels, energy coursing through her.