Love Meme: Reid and Regine

[aldersprig]

The meme is here: Give me the names of two characters and I will tell you why character A loves character B.

Here is clare_dragonfly's third prompt. Reid and Regine are from Addergoole. This was a wee bit tricky~

Reid and Regine

For all of her noble quest to show the value of half-bloods, when Reid met Regine, she still had many of the prejudices of the pure-blooded.

Reid had been dealing with those prejudices for nearly as long as Regine had been having them. He found them irritating on a good day, angering on a bad day, and on his worst days, they tempted him into shouting.

She had a good project, a good plan, and a good point, so he set his jaw and joined her program, and that would have been it - a carefully polite working relationship, line drawn and never budged, colleagues and nothing more.

Except one of those bad days happened through no fault of Regine's.

There was a phone call. It was a long-distance call, and such things were expensive. It was quiet, it was intense, and nobody but Reid heard it.

And that would've been it. He had long experience not blowing his lid, not showing his anger, but Regine chose that day, that exact time when he had just hung up, to ask/demand something in her particularly Grigori way.

And Reid exploded. He snarled and shouted and swore, all of it bloody with the rage that was his birthright and name-right, and informed Regine in no uncertain terms that if she had hired an expert in Mind Workings than she damn well ought to respect his expertise.

And Regine, in a move unprecedented for her, bowed her head and very humbly apologized. And then - and this might have been the kicker - she asked Reid if he would show her the Working she'd been asking about.

It wasn't a Magic Moment. It didn't change her forever. But it did allow Reid to talk to her as a colleague and, sometimes, as a friend, and that, in the end, helped more than anything else.

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Comments

[kelkyag]

What's Reid's Name?

[aldersprig]

"The Red-Handed"

[kelkyag]

A rather literal interpretation, then ...

[aldersprig]

Yeah. It was a literal name when given, too.

[kelkyag]

Story? :)

[aldersprig]

You know, I've never gone that far back in his history. *Adds it to the list* :-D

[clare_dragonfly]

Ooh, I'm looking forward to that!

[clare_dragonfly]

I figured I had given you two easy/fun ones, I would give you a challenge, too :D Anybody with Regine (except Luke, Mike, and Ambrus) would be a challenge!

It would be Regine apologizing! I love it :D

[aldersprig]

Yesss, pretty much, although Reid is at least closer to her than many.

:-D