[Open] The same old fears

[bookish_lioness]

WHO: Hermione and OPEN
WHAT: Hermione comes back from the dark future and sees that she's short one best friend and has gained a whole lot of headaches.
WHEN: Backdated throughout Drakonis
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Sad things. If we didn't get to play out something in the dark AU but you want it to have still happened, let me know and I can handwave it.

To the Library

The library is, first and foremost, a place of refuge for Hermione. After returning to Skyhold and seeing her injuries seen to, she spends the majority of her first few days back in a place that could give her some semblance of normalcy. Of course, "normal" is a matter of perspective, given that things won't be normal until she's in her proper home, whether that means her parents' house or Hogwarts.

Still, she pores over various books to see what she can find on time travel, hoping that she and the others have indeed done the right thing by opting to return to the present and doing what they can to fix matters before they become unfixable. She'll have to be excused if she's, understandably, a bit distracted if she's interrupted.

Throughout Skyhold (or Hermione Granger and the Search for the Boy Who Lived)

More so than worrying over the morality of fiddling with time, Hermione comes to worry over how long it's been since she'd last seen Harry. She assumes at first that he's out on a mission, but when she finally brings herself to use her sending crystal to try and contact him, she receives no answer. But she'd only ever used it once before, and never for a private message; perhaps she'd done it wrong?

So she begins focusing more and more of her time walking about Skyhold, asking around to see if anyone has seen him. At first she doesn't seem concerned, but as the days wear on and she doesn't hear about him having gone off on any sort of mission, she begins to worry. People go missing all the time, but they weren't Harry. Where could he be?

Throughout Skyhold, Post-Kirkwall Announcement

Though her name isn't marked off as one of those who are being ordered to go off to Kirkwall right away, the fact that she's being forced to go at all doesn't sit well with her. She doesn't have a high impression of the place, but then, she'd only ever been there during a grim future that will hopefully never come to pass. Maybe the Seeker's disdain for it had been nothing but theatrics or a personal opinion.

Regardless, Harry's name isn't listed among those being forced to move, and that only makes her that much more determined not to go. After all, what if he returns from wherever he is and can't find her? So though her behavior doesn't change and she continues to search for Harry, there's also a side of steely determination and indignation in her eyes as she goes about her business, particularly whenever someone mentions the impending move.

Wild card!

Choose your own adventure (so long as it's somewhere in Skyhold)!

Comments

[wontforgetyou]

He hadn't really considered that a certain place might be more romantic than others, to be fair. His imaginings had focused more on what it'd feel like to kiss her, rather than where - but he supposes he can see why the other places might not have been such good choices. If they'd been in the middle of a battle, they'd have other things to worry about. And the thaig in the future...well, he may have never seen one, but given how bleak everything sounded, depressing was probably a good way to describe it.

Still, it also sounds like maybe she'd not mind something a bit more romantic in general, and while he doesn't really consider himself an expert on what makes something romantic, he's got a few ideas that might just work. Assuming he can pull them off, anyway, but that doesn't stop him from giving her what he hopes is a confident sort of nod.

"Aye, I think that could be managed."

At least, at some point. For now, there's other concerns for the time they have left. They've that got Harry to find, whether he's in that cellar-level library or not, the and he offers a hand out for her to take if she wants to do so.

"Come on, let's keep going for now, though. See if we can't turn up Harry first, eh?"

[bookish_lioness]

Hermione's smile twists into a wry smirk at Jamie's assertion. In her experience, most men wouldn't know romance if it hit them on the nose, and she doesn't expect Jamie to be any different. But the fact that he's at least willing to try for that - and that he'd want to be romantic towards her - is more than good enough for her.

She takes his hand automatically, giving it a little squeeze. She can't help taking a bit of a shaky breath at the mention of Harry again, but she nods in response anyway, trying to get herself to focus more on her concern for him than on her previous fretting over whether or not to tell Jamie about what had happened between the two of them in the future. There's no reason to fret now. Well, there probably is, but it's a new and undiscovered reason, and she's willing not to think on it for too long, not when they have other things that need taking care of first.

"Thank you, Jamie," she tells him as she continues to walk. "I appreciate you helping me to find him. And... I appreciate you in general most of all, of course."