“We need to go, Hugo,” his newly assigned partner whispered feverishly to him over the hurl and whine of the storm. He turned a little and in the yellow light bleeding over them from the flickering light of the streetlamp, he observed her properly for the first time since she had been attached to his hip – entirely mutually reluctantly, of course. She was a delight. Newly qualified. An expert in her field. She was hardly suited to the jaded veteran of mind manipulation whose aesthetic was a juxtaposition to hers. Film noir alcoholic detective didn’t really go with young optimist. But Merlin, if she wasn’t a spark of life. It almost made him sick to see it in her face, knowing that eventually a bad mission or too much paperwork or merely just the humdrum of life would steal it from her. She was a pragmatic cynic, of course. That was one of the first things she’d told him when he’d firmly announced he didn’t need a partner. She could do acerbic misery just as well as he could. She just chose not to. Allegedly, anyway. He had yet to see anything other than the beauty of a youth untouched by strife, marred only by the strain of unyielding ambition.
I've decided I need to get Hugo out of the toy box a little bit more often and I was going through what he might be up to and I decided (along with the Ministry) that he probably shouldn't be alone as much as he is. He also has a new apartment, in which he has a spare room that he had every intention of turning into a home office. Instead, he was given a partner who, due to not having a home of her own in the capital, was immediately installed in his spare. I think the Ministry are all-too-aware of the fact that Hugo's really ready to derail and they think that maybe having someone around will perk him up a little. They know he's beyond sunshine and rainbows (and she's probably not, either) but they want to at least get him smiling again because most of the interns have never seen it. Plus he scares them. He needs softening up a bit.
So, I've got some ideas for her. They're all general. They don't have to go into the app if you'd like to make her but they're good to get the juices flowing, I guess!
001. She's probably in her early 20s cause in my mind she's only just qualified to be a Obliviator.
002. She's very, very, very ambitious -- like, Minister-in-waiting ambitious. I feel as though she may have qualified early in that case because she works reaaaaallllyyyy hard.
003. Probably bc she's ambitious, she's quite honest about what she wants and is forthright. Basically, she doesn't take much of Hugo's crap. Haha.
004. I think she does a really charming thing where she dances barefoot in the kitchen to terrible 80s dance tunes once she's a couple of glasses of wine into her favourite bottle of rosé. She's a rosé drinker. She has absolutely no regrets. Hugo thinks it's the cutest thing in the world.
005. She's probably as Slytherin. I also feel like she knows lots about Muggle stuff. It probably brings out the Arthur Weasley in Hugo. He, too, would like to understand the true purpose of a rubber duck. I'm tempted to say she's probably the daughter of a Half-Blood and a Muggle-Born or something like that.
006. She's probably really really good at blending in. I'm thinking now that knowing lots about Muggles would make her stick out in Slytherin with all of their traditions and stuff so she's adaptable in that sense. She's a born blender!
007. She's fundamentally a good person.
008. She probably either hates Quidditch with a passion or ADORES it.
009. I expect she has a series of really pernickety habits that Hugo tries to upset just to wind her up because her angry face is adorable hilarious.
010. She can make Hugo say "yes ma'am." If anyone can whip him into shape, it's her.
So, I ship them far more than I did to begin with. Oops. Platonically or otherwise, they'll be funny and great and the threads will be fun! Gimme a shout if you're interested, folks!
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