She hadn't been expecting him to sit back and let her push him around but the strike still took her by surprise. The hand she'd had on his shoulder had immediately withdrawn to clasp her stinging cheek but Tig had stopped herself halfway through the motion so now it remained by her side. She was still seeing stars but was determined to act as though it had been had been no more than a gentle tap.
He really didn't want to be around her, did he?
While her face still smarted, the smack had at least dulled her temper for the time being which meant she could actually think. Why would he be so apparently desperate to avoid her? It wasn't as though he'd ever implied that he found her physically repulsive, unless he had a violent aversion to the damp but that seemed silly. It also wasn't really the first instance in which he'd behaved so seemingly irrationally, the last time she'd seen him he'd used the imperius curse on her. He'd used it on her to make her go away...
Her eyes widened with realization and her lips twisted into a smug grin. "I know what you're not telling me," she murmured tauntingly. It wasn't quite true, but she was confident now that the root of it lay in her becoming an animagus. Whether he'd achieved it himself now she wasn't sure. If it were her she wouldn't have come back until she'd succeeded, so why was he still put out? Had he only completed part of it and come back to await the final stage? There had been lightning just the other day, but wouldn't he be treating her normally if that were the case? Unless he'd ended up turning into something humiliating or botched it, those had been her greatest fears and ones that would have made her furtive and irritable. However, he looked perfectly human as far as she could tell and she couldn't believe he'd be so incompetent as to make a mistake. He must have turned into something pathetic like a pigeon or a snail.
He really didn't want to be around her, did he?
While her face still smarted, the smack had at least dulled her temper for the time being which meant she could actually think. Why would he be so apparently desperate to avoid her? It wasn't as though he'd ever implied that he found her physically repulsive, unless he had a violent aversion to the damp but that seemed silly. It also wasn't really the first instance in which he'd behaved so seemingly irrationally, the last time she'd seen him he'd used the imperius curse on her. He'd used it on her to make her go away...
Her eyes widened with realization and her lips twisted into a smug grin. "I know what you're not telling me," she murmured tauntingly. It wasn't quite true, but she was confident now that the root of it lay in her becoming an animagus. Whether he'd achieved it himself now she wasn't sure. If it were her she wouldn't have come back until she'd succeeded, so why was he still put out? Had he only completed part of it and come back to await the final stage? There had been lightning just the other day, but wouldn't he be treating her normally if that were the case? Unless he'd ended up turning into something humiliating or botched it, those had been her greatest fears and ones that would have made her furtive and irritable. However, he looked perfectly human as far as she could tell and she couldn't believe he'd be so incompetent as to make a mistake. He must have turned into something pathetic like a pigeon or a snail.
