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Mia had no interest in the portrain whatsoever and so her eyes never left Salander's face even though he was looking everywhere but her. "Something you and he have in common then." Seeing how he had been hiding from her for the last month or so.
The look on Sal's face as soon as she had uttered Nik's name was rather frightening. Mia wondered what on earth had gone on bewteen these two down in the south pole?
"Hmm, so you and Nik didn't see eye to eye and that makes him a bad person does it?" Mia raised her eyebrow at him. "I seem to remember a certain person last year at Sugarplums not being very nice to...Diggy." She was sure that had been the guy's name.
She gave him a pointed look and was just about to say more when an owl she had never seen before landed on her shoulder and dropped a letter into her hands. Mia was about to shove it into her pocket thinking it was another letter from Parke when she noticed the handwriting and her face took on an excited gleam and she quickly opened it up and began to read.
SPOILER!!: Nik's Letter
October, 2073
Mia,
I hope you are doing well and I am very sorry it has taken me so long to write to you. I didn't think this internship would take up so much of my time, but I am not complaining at all. I am enjoying it immensely. The man I intern for, Konstantin Fedorov, says I am a natural at this stuff. I'm not quite sure which stuff I am a natural at, but a compliment from that man.. he doesn't give them often.
And Moscow! It is not at all what I expected at all. The buildings here are so colorful and the streets are so crowded; I might have gotten lost a few times. I did however, manage to visit a few places and I can't wait for you to get here so I can show you. Elk Island Park, I think you would really enjoy seeing even though it will be cold by the time you get here. It'll probably be even nicer in the winter, though. So, just remember that and remember that I will be here to warm you up.
I was thinking just the other day that we have known each other for a little over a year now. Strange how fast time goes by and although I regret how we met, I will never regret where that meeting lead us.
I miss you. A lot. And I can not wait to see you.
Love,
Nikolai.
P.S. Tell the Healer woman I said hello. I'm just kidding.
She read through it three times before looking up at Sal with a huge smile on her face. "And you reckon he's not nice." She said waving the letter in Sal's face. "This is the Nik I know."
Aww man she just
had to mention Diggy.
His face scrunched up grumpily
"Diggy was.... Diggy is....." he stammered. Ok the Gumball incident wasnt exactly one of his finer moments he had to admit
"Diggy's different. How the heck was I supposed to know that the runt was a 6th year?" he grumbled. Or that he was going to be a future fellow Snake. Or that it was even upon his prompting that Salander submit his bid for the TriWizard Tournament as well? True there was quite a bit of humble pie he had to painfully swallow about Diggy-- not that he was gonna admit that aloud.
He then gave Mia one of those perplexed-wounded looks
"And geezus Mia, to compare Diggy-- or me-- to a guy like Nik...." he started then stopped, clenched his jaw and looked away. Must.... keep... big...mouth...shut....
Oh the temptation to just let go....
He glanced up when the owl flew in and dropped a letter for Mia. Thankful he was initially for the distraction, until the Hufflepuff brunette started reading the content aloud. And kept reading and reading and reading.....
He blinked, and for a moment saw himself grabbing the letter from her hands, tore it apart with his teeth, spat it to the ground, stomped on it repeatedly, grabbed his wand and burned it several times.
Of course no such thing happened. Because when he blinked again the letter was still in Mia's hand and she was still waving it in his face.
Wait something about the letter said....
"You're going to Russia? When?"