❛ my first instinct is to protect you, no matter the cost. ❜ ( marlene & sirius, oop )
yearning / pining meme ( accepting ) + @white--ra66it // sirius
they don't really TALK ABOUT THIS PART very much. until it finally happens all at once. graduation moves into next steps - and they're suddenly faced with the future in the last few months of class before they're supposedly going to be set free into the greater world. a more frightening one, by all estimations, realizing all too well just how twisted the reality was facing them on the other side of this. that the newspapers were lying and there were all sorts of whisper networks, firing off the most strange and awful kind of news.
but between herself and sirius black, they exchange looks. they know. don't they grow up around the indoctrination? how aligned it felt, with the worst that they'd heard as supposed punishment for something that could not be controlled nor was it anything other than a circumstance of birth. what else could it be? and from that BASE NOTION, so spawns a war that consumes them both, marking lines that proved violent within the sand.
and yes. there are moments. dangerous and close, their lives are on the line, and they know that it's true, anxiety lancing hot within stomachs, an acidic slash of awfulness whenever on the run, or trying so desperately NOT TO PANIC. marlene's almost been caught so many times, and even now, she calls for sirius to bail her out of a place she shouldn't be, her voice a whisper, the panic, alive. "i need you-" the whisper is low, knowing well what kind of things she's buried about what she's done to carry on this long within a war of attrition. and merlin. she wasn't sure if she could lose any more.
❛ my first instinct is to protect you, no matter the cost. ❜
"don't be foolish, sirius. i just need a distraction. i'll get you, you trust me with that fact, but i can't..." she's pinned into her position, like a moth who's wings had been sectioned out on a slide. damn. damn. knowing all too well how reckless her boy in red COULD BE when he wanted to be. "the cost of you is too high. so please. promise me. you'll be careful. i'm sending my location. lure them to the east exit, and i can make it out of here the way i got in."