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[kyasdaughter]

[Filtered to Break:]

Why didn't you say you were friends with Lucifer? He stopped by the other night.

[Filtered to the rest of the house:]

Um, guys, don't be mad, but I need to tell you something.

[Filtered to Snape, Harry, Raven, Sirius:]

It's been a week. Are you guys feeling any better?

[Yes. She is taking an unbidden interest in your

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[mister_hatter]

[He knocks on her bedroom door.]

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[mister_hatter]

I didn't know the whole story about that at the time.

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[kyasdaughter]

You know I trust you, right?

[Where the hell did this come from, Katara? But she's standing up, moving to the windowsill and stubbornly trying to take his hands.]

You're family to us. You know that, don't you?

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[mister_hatter]

What if I told you that were a mistake?

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[kyasdaughter]

[Taken back.]

What?

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[mister_hatter]

What do you really know about me, Katara?

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[kyasdaughter]

You like tea. You - used to be a servant in a household, but you always clam up when I ask you about that. [She pauses for a moment, hesitating.]

You're prideful. You helped me sleep once. And you're trapped here with us.

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[mister_hatter]

If you had to guess, how many people would you say I'd killed?

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[kyasdaughter]

-- what kind of question is that?

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[mister_hatter]

Just a guess. You could probably make one- factor in a dangerous world and a protective streak, and go on. Take a shot.

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[kyasdaughter]

What's gotten in to you?

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[mister_hatter]

All right. I'll start us off. Three. No, make it five- good first guess?

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[kyasdaughter]

[She's pretty suitably horrified.]

Is this some sort of game? A joke?

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[mister_hatter]

Double five is ten, double ten is twenty, then fourty, and then eighty-

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[kyasdaughter]

[And now a little shaken, her voice getting higher.]

Get out!

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[mister_hatter]

What do you know about me? Because we should still be aiming higher. Say one hundred, and you're getting warmer. One hundred and ten, one hundred and twelve, fifteen... one hundred and sixteen?