Cut from the Same Mold ((Julian))

[Drake Manning]

If one thing was for sure, it was that Drake had never been one to get too close to people. For that reason, he never really took the time to get to know the people who he had spent over six years with living in the same room while at Hogwarts. People like Julian, Pyro, and Caleb- Drake simply tolerated them. To his pleasure though, he never really had any problems with any of them. The four of them seemed to get along just fine, each letting the other three live their lives without much interruption. At the same time, it was impossible not to learn some thing about the people you saw every day. For instance, Drake knew that Pyro had an unruly temper, Caleb seemed quiet and reserved, but there was a lot more under his surface. And then for Julian, Drake had always seen him as the one who most reminded Drake of himself. Julian was, for lack of better words, a womaniser just like Drake was. In fact, there had almost been some sort of unspoken respect between the two of them, or at least Drake felt so. Thus, when Julian went and got married, it surprised Drake more than anything that he knew of Julian. And, even more, Julian's choice of a wife wasn't someone who Drake would have thought he'd pick. Cass was... well, Drake didn't know what Cass was, but she wasn't someone that he figured he'd be chasing after.

Drake had gotten out of the shower and had finished drying his hair before wrapping his towel around him and heading back into the bedroom where he'd get dressed for class. He was half tempted to just skip class today, but he knew that he shouldn't. He'd already been warned enough about having his prefect status revoked, and as little as he cared about it to begin with, it did come with some useful benefits. Drake didn't want to lose those benefits for the last half of his final year of school. Pulling on his class robes, Drake saw Julian was sitting on his bed across the room. Pyro and Caleb had already left for the morning. Despite his better judgment, Drake was curious to ask Julian a few of the questions that had been creeping up every time Julian was around. And so, without much worry or care, Drake asked the questions he'd been meaning to ask. "So, Julian, why'd you up and get hitched anyways? I didn't think you were the type to settle down. Cass is that good, eh?" he asked, a slight sort of sarcasm in his voice as he raised his brow and waited for Julian to respond. Drake knew that even if he had offended Julian that Julian wouldn't be afraid to let him know. And if that was the case, Drake would drop it. It was how the respect between boys their age worked. They offered their words, perhaps threw a punch or two at worst, and then they got over it. They didn't hold grudges like girls. Or, at least most of them didn't.

[Julian Fallon S7]

Julian's week had just not been going right. He had went behind Cassandra's back and admitted a deep secret to Olivia, one that they had agreed stayed between the two of them until the time was right. He hadn't been given much choice though. It was either explain it to Olivia, or be sent only Merlin knew where. Olivia wasn't one to play around, the dark side seemed to have gotten her again.

Julian sat on his bed, contemplating skipping his classes for the day. Only Cassandra would get mad at him, but he just wasn't feeling up to facing her after letting the cat out of the bag. He hadn't even had the chance to tell her that he had done it yet, he could only hope that Olivia wouldn't spread the truth around school, as some rumor that it was the only reason that the two had gotten married. The marriage was, well, it was what most would call a mistake, but Julian hoped that they could make it work. Only there seemed to be a new problem, Cass had taken up really well with a sixth year Hufflepuff and had seemed to all but forget about Julian.

He turned to Drake to answer his question, until he heard Drake's last words. "Don't take this conversation there, Manning." Julian usually wasn't one to lose his cool, but he had too much on his mind. Report from the goblins were that they weren't getting any jewels out of the mines as Julian had promised. He reassured them that the jewels were there and that they had to just keep looking. They had to be there. Calming down a bit Julian found himself able to talk without growling. "I'm not sure what about her made me want to marry her. I can tell you that there was a lot of liqour involved though, for both of us. We didn't actually know it had happened until the next morning. Granted, marrying her wasn't my intentions." Julian left the end of his answer at that to let Drake believe what ever he twisted out of it.