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Herbololgy. A fine subject indeed. He enjoyed it almost a much as potions and arithmancy. And healing? Very noble indeed. Parke turned to face Mia and gave her an almost scrutinizing look before nodding. "A healer of sorts. I could definitely see that", he said warmly.
He was taken aback by her horrified expression. What was wrong? He pondered her query for a moment before responding. "Well, I suspect if I didn't like any, I'd have to pick the one I'd believe to be most tolerable. As for falling in love... "I'm not sure if I believe in love. It all seems rather suspect to me. From what I understand, marriage is to be a type of permanent business partnership. I'd rather choose a partner like that based on like-mindedness and mutual benefit. I don't think I'd ever consider gambling on a partnership with such a fickle emotion as love." Really, isn't that what everyone thought? She must be confused?
Parke stared at her intently as her cheeks reddened. The color they brought to her face looked quite nice. And she'd called him Mr. Ives like he'd requested... perhaps... "I'll make you a deal, Miss Gibbon. You can call me Parke, as long as we aren't in the company of others. If you'd like."
And then she said something that snapped him out and away from those lovely thoughts and made him frown. "I'm nothing like them. I could care less about bloodlines and wealth. I was utterly disgusted every time I heard someone speak about muggles as if they were nothing more than dogs. Or proclaim themselves to be almost Godly because they had pristinely clean blood lines. Or talk about those who aren't as financially fortunate as though they're parasites. I am NOTHING like them."
Somewhere during his rant he had started to raise his voice. He hadn't even noticed. And now he felt terrible. One was never supposed to raise their voice to a lady. "My deepest apologies", he said sincerely, anger deflating. "I don't know what's wrong with me. I didn't mean to make you the brunt of my anger. It was completely misplaced, and morally repugnant. Will you allow me to make it up to you?"
Mia looked at Parke in surprise for a moment. "You can see that? How?" Was it possible that the Slytherin boy was like her. Although she hadn't checked out his aura sometimes she liked to figure people out the old fashioned way. By just talking to them.
Well it seemed they had sort of the same thoughts about love and marriage. Of course Mia didn't think like that anymore and she had never thought of marriage as a business partnership more that she couldn't imagine herself with the same person year after year. But again things had changed since Nik.
"I think you are going to have a very interesting time at Hogwarts, Mr Ives." Mia couldn't help smiling. "I do believe you will be thinking differently before you know it." The girls at Hogwarts could be rather irresistible at times and she was sure that Parke was going to discover that.
Any other girl probably would have found that comment rather patronizing but Mia merely beamed. "Okay. And you can call me Mia when no one else is around too." Because that was only fair, right?
Ooookay.
Obviously she had said the wrong thing. Mia held up her hands and leaned back away from him. "Woah. I didn't mean it like that. I just meant that you all went to the same school, studied the same things, attended the same parties which meant you really wouldn't have much too talk about."
She certainly knew not to ever say something like that again.
And then he was back to his formal self and apologising. "It's quite okay. I probably shouldn't have said that." Mia put her hands down and straightened back up. "What did you have in mind, Parke?"