No day but today

[Jackie Lupin]

[...because we are the RENT geeks ♥]

Jackie smiled wearily at the portrait in front of her. The Mihael common room entrance. No longer a student, her entry wasn't permitted ... but it didn't keep her from looking from time to time. She missed the laughter between Joseph and Nova. Joseph, hah, she laughed at the memory. My first true boyfriend, really. Closing her eyes, Lupin smiles, lifting her pale hand limply and running her palm over the portrait. Just behind closed eye lids, she can see Shadow smirking in a corner, and Cole patronizing the loonies for not listening because he was prefect, gosh darn it.

Unaware of doing so, Jackie lets out a harsh laugh, eyes dancing with mischief and amusement. She missed all of it, Jamie Frost, Harmony and Eric trying their hardest to keep from snogging ... Queety's random moments, new students eying them all as if they'd lost their minds. "... and we grew up. The girls didn't believe me when I told them it would all end someday. But it did." The 'girls' in question were the Musketeers themselves ; all grown up and had moved on long ago. Heck, Violet was practically married. I miss you's.

Lupin sighs, shoving her hands into the pocket of her jeans, the white hoodie she was wearing keeping her warm compared to the drafts of the halls and common rooms. Fire or no fire, she was freezing. [Besides, when she didn't have to work, Jackie would do anything she could to wear her usual muggle attire.] "... and everyone left. Yet, here I am."

[Professor Cole A. Halliwell]

Take me for what I am,
Who I was meant to be...
And if you give a damn
Take me babym
Or leave me!

Blue eyes traced around the figure of the girl standing oppisite him, the body of Cole Halliwell hidden away in the shadows as he stared absent mindly at his old friend. She hadn't seen him while she reminisced, and he let the girl have her peace while she thought it all over. Truth be told, the very reason Professor Halliwell himself was here was to do the same thing Jackie was doing at that moment, and he sighed inwardly to himself as he thought over his time at Hogwarts as student, little more than a year ago.

Nova and Joe. Gosh, how long ago it seemed since Cole had seen them. He remembered their fire-fight (literally), the Mihael Civil War, Chloe and Shadow's relationship... rumours about Jackie and Shadow... the race to be the first to the sofas at the beginning of term that Jackie always won... It had been an eventful couple of years while Cole was a student. And then his prefect and head boy years. Truth be told, he missed it an awful lot, but was glad to be rid of it only because now... at this point in time... he was at his happiest. Celeste and he...

Talking of relationships, Cole smiled as he looked at Jackie. The young woman and the young man had never developed that sort of relationship despite being quite close friends. He supposed that given enough time it would have been inevitable, though the pair were sometimes as close as siblings as opposed to lovers. There had been many-a-rumour, of course, yet the pair never took the plunge. It was probably for the best, that way there were no tensions... they would always remain friends and not have that akward moment of 'Hi. This is my ex-girlfriend... Jackie...' when they met a new partner. Not that Cole was planning a new partner any time soon.

"You come too then, I see...?" came Cole's voice clearly and cutting through the silence as he stepped out of the shadows, his teaching robes adorning his body still as he approached Jackie. "And there was me thinking it was only me..."[/font]

[Jackie Lupin]

And there was me thinking it was only me ...

Jackie laughed, delighted at the familiar voice and turned to meet ocean blue eyes. How odd, she thought, that Cole hadn't changed since they had last met up. Then again, while others saw a difference in Cole Halliwell, Jackie Lupin still saw him as the same boy she grew up with. It was funny, now that she thought about it, how much Cole had pestered her the first time they met. From there, a friendship grew and oddly enough, people thought they had a thing. She smirked at the very idea. Yes, her and Cole were close ... but Lupin looked up to Halliwell as an older brother, something she never had.

"It's good to see you, Cole - io. Funny, isn't it? We both teach the same thing and yet I last saw you once at your wedding. How have you been?" Stepping forward, away from the portrait, Jackie stands upon her tip - toes to embrace Cole, still short in comparison to all her male friends. [And shamelessly, some female ones as well.] "Two great minds think alike, wouldn't you say?"

[Professor Cole A. Halliwell]

"Well, as that Potter-geezer and that Voldemort one proved, not always..." he snorted and gave his friend a cuddle, lifting her off her toes momentarally before placing her back on the ground and kissing her gently on the cheek. It was just one of those things that they could get away with without people getting the wrong idea, even at the age they were at. He grinned a little and stepped back. "You're looking so much healthier, " he said, marvelling since the last few times he had seen his old friend, she hadn't been the best of sorts.

He put a hand on the oil canvas of the painting, feeling the brush strokes of the past gently on his fingertips, smiling. "I miss it in there," he said with a smile. "Sometimes, at term change when the students are all not permitted access, I go in, just to have a look... it's the same, you know, the same sofas, the same everything... it's jsut missing that..." he sighed. "You know how some things have a certain,.. smell? Or like.. a feel? It's like that. Something of the pas that's only renewed, not quite the same as it was..." he shook his head, tearing up for just a slight moment. "But I'm being the sentimental arsehole that I tend to be most of the time. I've been good, thank you for asking... how about you?"[/font]