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resident-gay-bitch · 2 months ago

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Marylene: Marlene confesses her feelings for Mary and it goes better than expected (1.7k words)

Marlene can’t believe she’s doing this.

She’s about to lose her mind over it, but it’s better than doing nothing, right?

Sitting alone and sobbing about it isn’t going to get her anywhere. Taking action will.

Well, hopefully.

If it all goes to shit she might just end up sobbing in a corner even more than usual, which would be mortifying.

She can feel Sirius and James peaking around the corner behind her. They’re the two that convinced her to do this. Finally, It took months of them trying to pep her up, making bets on the quidditch pitch about it, and Marlene was quite dishonest about it. Far too much of a wimp.

But, well, she believes her wimpiness is justified in all honesty.

Mary Macdonald is the most terrifying person she’s ever met– and she means that as a complement. Really, she does. Her intimidating nature comes from her almost bloody ethereal beauty, and her mad fucking confidence. Not to mention she’s got ten times the brain that Marlene does. Who wouldn’t be terrified of that?

Even Sirius was when they went out for a month in fifth year, apparently he’s never tried too hard to impress a girl as he did with Mary. And Marlene understands that viscerally.

Mary’s talking with Roman, and she’s playing with the end of his tie, and he’s winking at her, and blah blah blah. The usual. All the blokes in Hogwarts flirt with Mary. And Marlene gets it, trust her, if she were a bloke she’d be outright flirting with Mary on the constant too.

But she’s not a bloke, is she? And that's the bloody problem.

But, well, last week Mary found out Marlene was queer. On complete accident of course. She just happened to overhear her talking with James and Sirius about it after practice, Marlene didn’t even realise she made her way down from the stands yet.

She took it really well, surprisingly, and has even gone so far as to attempt to figure out Marlene's type. She thinks there's no fairness in Marlene going to the ball alone next week, she’s determined to find her a date.

Which is the problem.

Because Marlene doesn’t want a date to the ball. She wants Mary.

Finally, Roman fucks off after what feels like a centry of lame flirting and suggestive eyebrow pumps, and Marlene takes her stake. She glances back at the boys over her shoulder, and they give her assuring nudges and wave her in Mary’s direction.

And it’s now or never.

Never.

Never sounds great right now.

Yep, this is too bloody terrifying. She’s choosing never–

“Marls!” Mary calls, “What are you doing lurking about over there? Were you waiting for me? Oh, sorry, love. Roman was just asking me to be his date to the ball again, I don’t know how many times I have to tell that boy I’ve already got a date.”

Marlene swallows. She knows Mary has a date, and she hates that fucking annoyingly fit bloke viscerally.

“Marls?”

She spares a sideway glance at the boys again, and still, they give her forceful encouragement.

She must have looked for a second too long, because Mary catches sight of them hiding, and in an attempt to not be seen, they trip over themselves and fall into the hall. Marlene rolls her eyes at them, complete gits.

“What are you two creeps doing?”

“We’re not creeping!” Sirius defends.

“Yeah, we’re just here to support Marlene!” James adds, and Marlene cuts them a deathly glare.

“Support Marlene with what?” She asks, looking back at her.

Marlene just groans, and Sirius whacks his best mate in the chest.

“Oops… Sorry, Mckinnon!” James mutters nervously, the two of them scurrying back behind the wall again.

“What’s going on, Marlene?” Mary asks again, concern on her gorgeous face now.

Right, bloody well now then, isn’t it? Fucking hell, trust those two to muck it all up.

“Marls? You’re worrying me.”

“Erm, I’ve got something to tell you.” She muttered, checking her surroundings. And sure enough, as they made sure, they’re alone.

“Okay, well… what is it?”

“I know this is fucking stupid for a whole lot of reasons, but I just need to ask, okay?”

“O… okay?” Mary says weerily.

“Would you– Would you like to, erm…” She takes a deep breath, spitting it all out in one, ripping off the bloody bandaid, “Would-you-like-to-go-to-the-ball-with-me?”

“Sorry?” Mary asked, scrunching up her nose.

“Would you like to go to the ball with me?” She asks again, so nervous she’s beginning to sweat, and maybe she might throw up. Yeah, she’s probably gonna throw up.

Mary cocks her head, “Oh, honey, I’m going with Marvin, remember?” She smiled kindly, “I’m not sure if Lily’s said yes to James or not yet, I’m sure she’d be happy to go with you.”

Marlene sighed, looking down at the ground as she ran a hand through her messy hair, “No, Mary, uhm… I don’t mean as friends.”

“Hm, I’m not sure I follow?” Mary asked, and Marlene peaked up at her through her lashes, definitely on the verge of vomiting now, “Are you asking me… romantically?”

Marlene does not want to answer. She just wants to run away and hide forever. Maybe she’ll find a nice cave to hide in and join a pack of wolves, lost to the forest and all civilization forever. Yeah, that sounds nice, doesn’t it?

She flinches when a pebble bounces off the back of her head, and she turns around to see Sirius and James peaking out around the corner again, nodding their heads at her aggressively.

By the time she looks back at Mary, the girl seems a little flustered, “Uh, yeah… Yeah, I mean romantically. And I know you’ve got a date already, so I know it's stupid for that reason alone, but I just needed to ask you.” She began to ramble, refusing to meet Mary's eye as she spat it all out, “I just need you to reject me, I think… I dunno. I’ve fancied you for a while, Mary– bloody years, at this point. I just… I think you’re fantastic. Smartest, brightest, kindest, most wonderful person I know, not to mention you’re probably the most gorgeous person I’ve ever laid my eyes on. And I just can’t keep it to myself anymore. I just needed to tell you, to get it off my chest. I’d like to try and move on, so we can keep being friends, because I value your part in my life more than anything else, Mary. I… I love you, and it’s the best thing in the world to love you, but it’s one sided and that’s killing me.”

Mary blinked at her, lost for words by the looks of it. And Marlene is about four seconds away from vomiting all over Mary’s shoes.

“I’m sorry.” She mutters, burying her hands in her trouser pockets before rocking on her heels, “I know it’s weird.”

“It’s not weird.” Mary says flatly, and Marlene isn’t sure what to do with it.

She can hear James and Sirius whispering behind her, but she’s choosing to ignore them completely. She thinks she’ll hex them later.

“I’m wearing a purple dress.” Mary said eventually, catching Marlene completely off guard, “You already know that. But, I’d like it if we could match. You said you were thinking of wearing a suit? Perhaps you could wear a purple tie?”

“Sorry?” Marlene muttered, her chin jutting forward in disbelief.

“I know you don’t typically wear purple. But… for me?” Mary asked, looking at her through her gorgeous lashes as Marlene has seen her do a hundred times when flirting with boys.

She can hear the boys behind her kicking up a fuss.

Marlene takes in a sharp breath, taking a small step forward to whisper, “Are you saying yes?”

Mary nodded, “I am.”

Wondering for a moment, Marlene leans forward again, whispering even quieter, “Romantically?”

Mary leant in to whisper back, “Romantically.”

“I wasn’t aware you liked girls?”

“Me either.” Mary whispered with a sly smile, “But over the past week the idea of you being with any girl that isn’t me has made me rather upset and angry. I fancy blokes, but I also fancy you.”

“Oh… wh- ah… what about Marvin?”

“Marvin can find another date.” Mary shrugged, “I was kind of hoping you’d ask anyway.”

Marlene's heart is in her throat, “Is this a date then?”

“Well, I figured you were asking me out on one, so yes. Is that okay with you?”

“Obviously that’s okay with me.” Marlene said, her voice rather tight as she can’t fucking believe a word shes hearing. Honestly, this might be a dream.

“Okay, good then.” Mary sighed, standing up straight and holding the stack of textbooks in her arms out to dump in Marlenes, “Since we’re going out now, you get to carry my things.”

Marlene gapes, catching the stack of books as well as the satchel Mary hands over to her, almost dropping everything in the process.

“I have History of Magic now, and I’m already late, so we better go. Do you have a class to attend? Or would you like to sit in class with me?”

“Uh, I’ll sit with you.” Marlene nodded, beginning to follow Mary down the hall.

She glanced back over her shoulder at the boys who were jumping on each other in celebration, and Marlene grins, tossing them a wide grin and a thumbs up which has her stumbling with the books in hand.

She’s always been jealous off all the boys who got to carry Mary’s things around for her. Honestly, she’s always thought she could be a much better boyfriend than all of them combined, and well, she’s finally getting her chance to prove it.

Even with a tremendous armfull, she still opens the classroom door for Mary, pulls out her chair, and organises her desk in just the way she likes.

And Mary holds her hand.

She holds. her. hand.

“You’re very strong, Marlene.” Mary whispers to her once they’re settled, “Those books are rather heavy.”

Marlene might just pass out, “Eh, it was nothing, really. You should see me work out, I can lift more than Sirius.”

And Mary props her elbow on the table and begins to twist a perfect curl around her well manicured finger, bites her lip as she looks Marlene up and down, “I’d like to see that sometime.”

And Marlene does not care how obviously she’s blushing. She’s got the girl.

Merlin's hairy ballsack, she’s got the girl.

I really really love marylene so much they deserve more popularity in this fandom!

i've been meaning to write more and more of them, so please if you have any marylene headcannons or fic ideas please drop them in my asks box id be so happy to recieve them!!

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halcyon-autumn · 9 months ago

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Okay new theory in the vein of "The Ratgrinders are Jace's pawns" - I wonder if Kipperlilly might be trying to protect all of the Ratgrinders, the same way she's trying to protect Oisin while she acquires spell components.

I'll buy that the at minimum Kipperlilly was involved with Jace's plan to restore a corrupted Ankarna from at least Sophomore year, perhaps swayed by the idea of bringing back a goddess of Justice (she's talked about wanting things to be fair at the school). Rueben's potential to musically harness lots of people's rage would also make him a natural recruit. Lucy would be necessary as a cleric, but probably a hard sell since Yolanda Badgood was convinced that she'd never change her deity. I'm imagining the following scenario:

Kipperlilly acquires the Devil's Honey for Jace, not for herself; Jace was using her to do the dirty work the way Kipperlilly is now using Aelwyn.

Jace convinces Lucy Frostblade to change her deity, perhaps using the Devil's Honey himself, or maybe magically. Maybe he was planning to give Lucy the honey to have her lie to Ankarna and say she believes in her, maybe it was a way around Oblivati Mori, or maybe Jace wants it for himself. Idk.

Jace is the one to sign the Ankarna glyph on Lucy's paperwork (the one that the Bad Kids initially couldn't read). Yolanda says that such paperwork would have needed her signature, but maybe not if the Vice Principle of the school signs off.

Lucy changes her mind/breaks free of control and withdraws her paperwork.

Jace kills Lucy, and Porter helps (sorry but it's sus that he was talking to Arianwen and Kalina after Kalvaxus died). They either blackmail or magically coerce some of the Ratgrinders into helping - at least Kipperlilly, probably Rueben as well. Maybe all of them? He could have blackmailed Kipperlilly with the sketchy stuff she'd been doing for him.

Jace, a powerful sorcerer, is the one to brand poor Lucy with Ankarna's symbol, the same symbol he put on Lucy's paperwork.

Reuben uses the devil's honey to convince himself (and maybe the other Ratgrinders except Kipperlilly) that they had nothing to do with Lucy's death (hence the devil's honey that Fig saw bleeding out of his mouth during his Dream). Kipperlilly could have been the one to do it, and maybe the Dream indicated that Rueben had been affected by the Devil's Honey?

Reuben now doesn't know about Lucy's death, and Jace either by magic, force of personality, or blackmail gains enough power over Reuben's life to start convincing him to do things like demand that Frosty Fair be held at the Thistlespring tree. Idk how aware Reuben is of the weird magic rage symbols.

Kipperlilly decides to run for Class President to get enough power to protect her friends from Jace and Porter. It would explain why she's absolutely furious that Kristen, who doesn't care, is upstaging her.

Kipperlilly is either still forced to collect stuff for Jace OR she's collecting stuff for her own ends, but now she's using Aelwyn the way Jace used her. Maybe all of the money she has is either money Jace gives her to purchase stuff OR he tried to buy her off or something?

Jace uses a powerful spell to kill Yolanda Badgood when she finds Lucy's body and brands Yolanda's body with the same symbol of Ankarna.

It would make Kipperlilly such an amazing foil to Riz - taking on more and more stress to try to protect her friends, trying to work her way through an impossible situation. And the idea of the Ratgrinders all murdering Lucy never felt right to me - I think that even if some were involved, it's more complicated, and the big bads are Jace and, unfortunately, Porter.

#feel free to tell me if there's details I've forgotten #idk after tha last episode I find Kipperlilly suddenly a LOT more compelling #I think she's probably done some crappy stuff #I DONT think she willingly killed Lucy #get her on the Complicated Women podcast someone #Jace feels like a bigger enemy to me if only because Kipperlilly is so easy for the bad kids to hate and therefore maybe a red herring #kipperlilly copperkettle #fantasy high #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high theory #rachelle chats

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