They Like Me More {Conner}

[Georgina Parkinson]

Georgina decided that it was about time that she popped in to see her favorite cousin. Who was she kidding? Conner was her only cousin. But he was still her favorite. They'd spent surprisingly a lot of time together since they'd started Hogwarts at the same time. They were the same house and the same year, and how many people could honestly say their cousin was exactly the same age as them? It made things so much more fun.

It had been strange the first time Georgina had arrived at the house where Conner lived, seeing as her parents and his had a less than perfect relationship. Actually, Georgina's parents were a disgrace to the Parkinson name, and she entirely agreed with her uncle whenever he said that. She hated her parents, and hadn't actually seen them for years. Her aunt and uncle were much more approachable, and by far her sort of people.

Georgina flood to their house and stepped out of the hearth, wiping away dust that wasn't there. The room was quite, but she wasn't surprised. That wasn't the room they usually spent their time in. She headed along the corridor to find the lounge in which they usually stayed. "Any one home?" she rounded the corner, seeing her aunt and uncle in the room, but her cousin nowhere in sight. Surprise, surprise.

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There was nothing more Conner hated than spending time with his parents, so when the chance to go shopping for some Potion equipment and ingredients risen he jumped at it. Of course it was for his mother, but he couldn't care less and bought a few things for himself as well. Potions has always been a favorite of his, anyway.

About four hours from when he left he stepped back through the fireplace, not even bothering with dusting off dust his mother made sure was never there. However, on his way to the rather large kitchen he heard voices, which seemed unusual since his parents rarely talked... Calmly. He decided to give it no further thought, but the sound of a third voice stopped him in his tracks.

With an eyebrow raised, the bag of ingredients and equipment placed on the nearest table, he made his way toward the lounge curiously. He had no high hopes, it was obviously someone his parents got along with, and that was never someone you could be happy to see. And like expected, it wasn't someone he was happy to see.

"Georgina, of course." he said with a slight frown, looking towards his parents in question "What is she doing here?" in no mood for 'the Death Eater speech' was an understatement, but obviously they didn't know his true feelings towards the subject, but his feelings towards his 'dear' cousin was pretty much in the open. Though a lot was still hidden away safely.

"Don't be rude, son, she's always welcomed here," his father responded, first with a frown directed to him but ended with a delightful smile toward Georgina, and don't forget the approving nod from his mother. No words but clear frustration in his expression, he forced his eyes onto his cousin and asked as if his parents never spoke "What are you doing here?"

[Georgina Parkinson]

"Georgina, of course. What is she doing here?"

Georgie had been talking to her aunt and uncle for a couple of minutes when another voice appeared behind her, and with a small eye roll, she turned to face Conner. "Well, it's lovely to see you, too, stranger. You couldn't even pretend to sound a little bit happy to see me?" She smirked at the way her uncle stood up for her and basically berated Conner for the way he'd spoken. Georgie was used to it, with Conner, though.

"What are you doing here?"

"I thought it was about time I dropped in to see my favorite cousin. Is that such a sin?" Chances were, Conner was already counting down how long it was going to take before she said something about the Death Eaters - she knew him well enough. It was for that purpose that she was willing to make small talk and steer away from the conversation as long as possible, just to watch how he acted.

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The thing he hated the most about the conversations between him and Georgie, was that every time he opened his mouth lies mostly came out. It almost felt like he got cast as the worst character in the worst play ever written. However, it did have it perks, little a they may be.

"Well, it's lovely to see you, too, stranger. You couldn't even pretend to sound a little bit happy to see me?"

At first he thought of ignoring her, to simply turn around and vanishing, but that would only make matters worse and nothing he ever did was simple. He narrowed his eyes slightly as she answered his question he knew she wouldn't answer truthfully.

"I thought it was about time I dropped in to see my favorite cousin. Is that such a sin?"

For a second he had to fight a chuckle, he found her words amusing, how she described him as her favorite cousin when he was her only. He wondered if she really meant 'favorite toy' instead.

"No," he answered, eyes darting to his parents and back "Of course not." he went silent after that for a second, shuffling his feet and looking back into the hallway before his eyes met hers again "Do you want to talk somewhere more private or are you here to see my parents as well?" he couldn't miss his father's disapproving expression, clearly not liking the attitude Conner spoke with, but he said nothing. His father looked to Georgina like his mother did, with a sense of approval and pride. They never looked at him like that.

[Georgina Parkinson]

"No, Of course not."

Georgina watched him, curious at his body language as he looked at his feet then back out of the room. Someone clearly didn't want to have to talk to her today, it seemed. Well, well, well. There was a story going on today, wasn't there? He wasn't usually this bad for wanted to avoid her.

"Do you want to talk somewhere more private or are you here to see my parents as well?"

She didn't miss the bite in his voice but she was used to it and it didn't bother her any more. She could just ignore it and act like things were normal, and she was pretty sure that was likely to get on his nerves more than anything. Georgie looked at her aunt and uncle, returning their smiles before she looked back to Conner again, "Lead the way, favorite cousin of mine. I think it's time we spent a little one to one time together. It's been such a long time, don't you think?" She could see the nod of approval from his father but she didn't look at him, just kept her eyes on Conner, still curious about the way he was reacting to her.