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He cursed as he dropped the lit stack of parchment to the ground. His brother's flare for dramatics never got old, did they? Feeling surly (he could have singed his hand), Rhys let the fire burn out on the floor instead of putting it out himself. He felt no such inclination to stop a scorch mark from being forever embedded into his brother's floor.

"Yes, you do," Rhys called back after his Theo's retreating form. Feeling quite like a shadow, Rhys let out an irate sigh and quickly followed him into the next room. Shaking his head, he took out his wand and cast a charm Snape had taught him in school that kept any ears overhearing a private conversation from doing so.

"You need to legally protect yourself. And since you refuse to do it through other means..." he trailed off, extending his palm out to help imply where the sentence had been doing. Will had told him about a slip up or two he had had with Anneliese, and Rhys was sure, absolutely, that he would react with the same resolution and swiftness if it came to Juliet, so why Theo was so adamant about letting Holly come around was not practical.

Holly was a smart witch, a smart halfblood witch that had no doubt experienced her own personal strife and difficulties in the war. What made Theo think that his direct involvement in all of that would make everything be alright?

"Carry on?" Rhys echoed. "Carry on with what? Do you think she is coming back?" He shook his head. "That one day you are just going to wake up and she'll be sitting at the kitchen table? It's over. There's no more time, you can't just sit here waiting for her fear to expire. What if she decides to turn you in? I can't help you then Theo, no one can, and what will you have to say for yourself? That you waited?"

Despite the Muffliato Charm, Rhys still spoke in a hushed, strict tone. Theo may be blinded by his lingering love for Holly, but Rhys was not. He knew the implications of what would happen to him if Theo was turned in as a Death Eater, and truly did not want that to happen to his brother or him.