Stars Aligned PV Helen

XXXXX𝕬pril 14th, two days before the Wonderland Waltz. Hogwarts was becoming a frenzy of elatedness and final preparations, rushed outfits to match this season's dress code and their final touches, as well as the more significant issue of last-minute dates and broken hearts. The scene reminded her of her own schooling days when balls were the height of the school year, as much as it seemed silly when looking back at it as a grown woman. She felt empathy for her previous self – a skin now shed, with only a few remains and ever so many memories – always taking what others thought of her as her worth and caring oh so much about her appearance. After all, what was she without her part-veela visage, she would tell herself? If her parents didn't want her, she would make sure others did, and that was the most straight-forward way to do so. Now that she had grown out of that phase of her life, the trauma she had gone through straightening her back and halting her vain perceptions of life, everything had changed. Helen did, naturally, still care about her appearance – that much was inevitable. However, it was certainly not what everything revolved around nowadays, and was much more of a side occupation than it had been when she was fourteen years old.

While sorting the stack of returned books, the woman thought about how negatively her previous reality had actually affected her, unconsciously impeding herself to fully live and make true friends that would actually stick. All of these life lessons had been learned the hard way, but maybe, now that Helen worked here in those very walls, she could guide a few lost souls back to the straight and narrow path to find their true place in the world. She herself had made many friends and acquaintances on her own journey, each conversation real and unpolished, unlike her teenage experience which had only led to more pain at the time.

As Helen continued her work, she hardly registered the sound of someone entering the library. Now that she had worked there for around five months, it was like a clock ticking in the background, noticed at first but quickly fading into the back of her mind. Only when the voice began to speak did she think to look up, the man's tone quiet so as to not disturb those who were responsibly studying – or attempting to, for that matter, which would prove increasingly difficult with the ball coming up – but still with a dramatic flair to it, despite his broken English.

"You are exactly who I look for, Madame Librarian. Let me introduce, and we can discuss how we help each other. I-"

The part-veela looked up without much of a second thought, as she always would, and her jaw dropped. To stifle her surprise, she quickly turned her expression into a simple "Oh!", but that nonchalance hardly mirrored her reaction on the inside. Aulis? It was impossible, and yet, here he stood, directly in front of her, obviously just as dumbfounded as she was. During her travels, Helen had taken a job as VAV – Visiting Assistant Vedma – at Koldovstorez for the 2021-2022 school year, as professor of Astronomy. On her very first day she had met Aulis, and they soon became close friends, joked to be brother and sister due to their matching blonde hair and blue eyes. Memories flooded Helen's mind, flashbacks to the moments they had spent together and laughs they had shared. Stargazing on cold winter nights, the reflection of the stars in the blue of their eyes, telling each other stories and falling asleep while sitting around the hearth after having sipped tea and read each other’s tea leaves. On some days, they would even wake up in the cold in their enchanted sleeping bags around a campfire and wonder how they had survived the cold night, before returning to teach as if nothing had happened – each memory a souvenir to the past, echoes of their young voices playing on repeat in her head all at once.

But then all of it ended, and once the part-veela had departed from the school, the two only managed to stay in contact through owls for a limited amount of time before losing touch. More than three and a half years had passed since then, and still, nothing seemed to have changed between them, as Helen returned the grin on Aulis' visage. "Sure you did, as if you would ever call me madame librarian", she replied with a joking expression. "It's been so long! It's a joy to see you again, Aulis, but what brings you here?"

Could it possibly be that he had moved up through the ranks, from Divination professor to Headmaster of Koldovstorez? Helen certainly wouldn’t put it past him. After all, it was Aulis Vorozheykin that stood in front of her here and now, and if anyone deserved the job, it was him.

ooc notes ; you were crazy speedy at writing that oml :3 I love Aulis so much, somehow I actually managed to get this out today!!
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