fandomtownies | the graveyard ; thursday evening

Sam actually hadn't been out much since the other day. He'd laid low, taken some time to recharge his batteries and was out again. The graveyard probably wasn't the most normal place to be but Sam was far from normal. In fact, he was actually contemplating raising the whole graveyard just to give the resistance some extra bodies. They'd listen to him, he'd control them and he'd feel like crap about it later.

The graveyard wasn't large but there were enough tombstones that Sam knew he'd have to cut himself and bleed a lot just to get the whole cemetery up and about. It wasn't something he was looking forward to, no.

There was a knife in his pocket though and he was crouched down near one gravestone, trying to stay hidden while he wondered if this was a good idea. Well no, he knew it wasn't a good idea but he wondered if he should do it anyway.

He wasn't great in a fight but he could bring an army of undead so that was...something, right?

[FB for resistance only but open post, shore shore. Sam's not really gonna raise anyone but he's contemplating it, at least!]

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Annie was out on patrol again tonight, which shouldn't really shock anyone who knew her work ethic. She didn't know why she ended up around the graveyard, but she did, and it was a good thing she did.

"A little late to be out here," she noted in a you're-not-supposed-to-be-doing-this sort of voice.

Man, there were a lot of these...good little boys and girls. Sam cursed under his breath and wondered what he'd have to do to get out of his one.

"Can't a guy pay some respects in peace?" he asked since he'd been seen and all.

"Oh! Sorry," she said. "But you really should get that in earlier in the day. I would just let you off with a warning, but some of the others..."

Yes, Annie had to be good cop here. She really didn't like that part, honestly.

"I just got some friends buried here," Sam lied, standing up but staying where he was for the moment. "It's not always easy to get out during the day. Everyone should get to mourn a little, right?"

Pour it on there, Sam.

"Okay, okay, I get it, you're guilt-tripping me," Annie said, "but seriously, there's a guy with arrows."

Sam tilted his head, almost seeming confused for a second. "Are you...trying to warn me? You sound like you're almost helping me. Isn't that like...not your thing?"

Maybe he'd hit his head somewhere between this morning and now.

"I'm not helping you," Annie said, "I'm giving you a warning and telling you to disperse." You couldn't really disperse when you were just one person, but it sounded good. "I just want everybody to follow the rules. And also I like when people don't get shot or otherwise hurt."

She highly doubted Umbridge would be okay with her going to therapy for watching what some of the others did, so she tried to avoid it.

"Yeah, well we're alike there," Sam told her. "I don't like when people get hurt either."

It happened way too much lately.

"You could come with me, you know," Sam tried after a second. "Where I am, we're trying to stop anyone else from getting hurt."

She folded her arms, looking suspicious. "What's that supposed to mean?"

That sounded a lot like rebel talk...

"It means people need to stop getting hurt," Sam told her, shaking his head. "It needs to stop. What's the point of it all?"

"The point is that we should all be able to live a nice, peaceful existence here, with rules and order and a chance to get an education without all the silliness," Annie said. "But some people just have to make things difficult and then other people decide to take things too far, so see, if people stop making things difficult, then everything gets easy again."

"And your solution is just to...fall into line?" Sam asked, shaking his head. "Listen to the insane person in charge? Doesn't sound like a good idea to me."

Okay, so he was giving himself up but he didn't care.

"She's not insane, she's just... thorough," Annie tried. "And I'm way better off than I was when I got here because of the structure here. Maybe if everyone just took advantage of it, they'd be better off, too."

"Insane," Sam repeated, shaking his head. "The people down in that place she calls detention are testament enough to that. You been down there? You should visit."

Not that Sam had been down there but he'd heard stories.

"I've spent my whole life being good to avoid detention. Why would I go down there voluntarily?"

The reason was that it creeped her out and she didn't like it, but why tell him that?

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"To see that you're wrong," Sam told her, shaking his head. "Because you are. And you're nice and don't deserve to be ruled by someone like her."

"I'm not ruled by her. I'm telling you to get out of the graveyard instead of dragging you down to detention, aren't I?"

See, autonomy!

"Which I appreciate!" Sam said because he did. "You're still ruled by her but this proves that you're not brainwashed."

He glanced around, making sure she didn't have any backup with her. "Last chance. I'm outta here in like ten seconds."

"I'm not going with you," Annie said. "In fact, I should just bring you in for inciting rebellion."

She didn't want to do that. Really didn't want to.

"You're not gonna do that," Sam said, already taking a few steps away from her. "You don't wanna which means you're not really as into law and order as you think."

Which gave him some hope. "Thanks for letting me go though. I'll owe you one for that."

How he would pay that back, he didn't know but still.

"Just don't let me see you doing this again." Because then she would have to bring him in. Not making her could be the payback.

"And no inciting rebellion!"

Sam shook his head but did disappear without another word. He'd probably do this again and he'd probably get caught but he wouldn't care.

At least he wasn't gonna go back and incite anything...

...tonight.

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