Some AU-y type thing scene ... yes.

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Albus' brother, James, has a girlfriend.

Like - an actual girlfriend: not the bird-girl he doesn't like, and not Cora.

This, to him, is the strangest concept of all - that Cora isn't James' girlfriend.

They practically spend all of their time joined at the hip; at least that's how Albus sees it. Which is probably why it seems a little strange to him to find Cora in his bedroom when he steps in.


"... erm. Hi, Cora."




[note: James is 18, Albus and Cora are 17 - both in their last years of school. James works in his uncle's shop for now, which is how he came to meet Gwen Copplestone.]

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[honourbyname]

It's clearly not warning enough.

Not that Albus minds so much, in the end. He's not as outwardly affectionate as his older brother might be (particularly with Cora), but he really does adore Cora.

His arms wrap around her too, to give her a quick hug - and to steady himself from falling over from sudden impact.

He laughs again.

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"D'people tell you that you're awesome a lot?" she inquires, threading her arm through his in a somewhat more sedate expression of intense affection. "Cause they really should. Constant-like."

A wide grin.

"All fawning and admiration. Girls throwin' favours and swoonin' and stuff."

[honourbyname]

Albus turns a delicate shade of tomato red.

It's all really rather impressive.

"Well - um. No." He shakes his head, smiling bashfully. "No, they don't. I don't know that I'd - um. Particularly deal well with the attention either."

[ran-with.livejournal.com]

Aw, but it's kinda cute.

It really is impressive, however. Like something painted in neon-markers.

"They should," she says like a secret, - grin widening, wolfish and elaborately faux-flirty. It slides across her face like a joke, laughter-soaked and overdone. "I mean, I would."

[honourbyname]

"I - um. I think I can take it from you," Albus says, smile widening just a touch (all while maintaining colour), "but not really anyone else. Especially not at school or anything."

Not that they would.

School has always been something of a confusing atmosphere with the teasing and the ignoring and the also feeling like a second home.

It's ... complicated.

[ran-with.livejournal.com]

Cora resists the James-like urge to go for the instinctual pun. Albus' face is quite spectacularly bright already - and she's never been quite as good with the fine art of the double-entendre anyway. Sometimes it's for the best that these things be left to the experts.

She smiles instead, tipping her head to rest neatly on his shoulder, "They'd be lucky t'have you around to call awesome, Albus. Don't know what they're missin' out on."

[honourbyname]

"Well," Albus says, "um. You're pretty brilliant too, you know. I'm glad James thought to bring you to the house that day years ago - before I even knew about the bar."

He is so not going to stop being red in the face for a while, is he?