Hiding

[Ian Hunt]

"20 minutes since we left the kitchen."

[Madeline Speare]

"I know that, but what time did we leave the kitchen?" I ask.

[Ian Hunt]

"I don't know. I'm a man remember?"

[Madeline Speare]

"You suck," I tell him. I walk over to a table,"This old thing is still here," I laugh,"I thought I had broken this,"

[Ian Hunt]

"Thank you." I say, watching her. "How did you break it?"

[Madeline Speare]

"Well I broke it more then once," I laugh,"Once because I ran into it and then again 'cos I hit a bludger at it."

[Ian Hunt]

"A bludger...another quidditch fan? What the hell is wrong with people?"

[Madeline Speare]

I grin,"Quidditch is my life, why? Something wrong with that?"

[Ian Hunt]

"I hate the game. Without reason, I just hate it."

[Madeline Speare]

"I don't understand you sometimes," I mutter shaking my head.

[Ian Hunt]

"I don't understand you most of the time."

[Madeline Speare]

"Thne we're even," I smile.

[Ian Hunt]

"Yeah, we're even." I agree.

[Madeline Speare]

I shake my head and start up the stairs,"Big house, long hallways, lots of stairs, god tis is definitly a pure house."

[Ian Hunt]

"Definitely." I say, glancing up at the high ceilings.
The Hunts house had very high ceilings.
I'd never noticed much until Row told me about dad topping himself by hanging himself from the rafters.
Good riddance.

[Madeline Speare]

I looked at him,"Whatcha looking at?"

[Ian Hunt]

"Just looking around." I shrug, starting up the stairs after her.

[Madeline Speare]

"Wonder if we ever had a dungeon," I laugh,"Now that would be pretty cool,"

[Ian Hunt]

I laugh. "Yeah, that would be pretty cool. I doubt it'd be upstairs though."

[Madeline Speare]

"Well my parent's were odd like that," I laugh.

[Ian Hunt]

"Okay, so let's look for a dungeon on the first floor then."

[Madeline Speare]

I laugh,"You know I think my mum and dad would have liked you," I smile.

[Ian Hunt]

I smile, "That means a lot, huh?"

[Madeline Speare]

"If you want to mean alot then go right ahead," I laugh looking at a protrait of them on the wall they were dancing. I laugh lightly,"You know they used to dance with eacth other all the time."

[Ian Hunt]

I smile. "Nice."

[Madeline Speare]

"I remember, every morning my da would walk into the kitchen wrap his arms around mum and just start dancing, like no one else was there," I say tears pricking my eyes."I always thought they were crazy doing that, even if we had company over he'd walk right up to her and start dancing." I say more to myself.

[Ian Hunt]

I watch her for a moment, not really sure what to say.
I'd never really been close to mine, but she'd obviously been close to hers.

[Madeline Speare]

I smile weakly wiping away my tears. I shake my head letting my bangs fall into my eyes,"I'm sorry, you probally think I'm stupid, living in the past and all."

[Ian Hunt]

"I don't think that's stupid at all." I say.

[Madeline Speare]

"I miss 'em," I say quietly leaning into him.