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Date: 22. April 2002
Characters: Cecilia Proudfoot, open to Sirius Black
Setting: A cave by the coast in Australia
Content: PG
Status: Open: Private, Complete


When drunk, the water seemed warm, though now when it was running down her body, Cecilia could have sworn it was melted water from some unseen glacier. It wasn’t though; it was simply rain water that was streaming down the rocks above the cave Sirius had found for them to take shelter from the thunderstorm that had halted their progress for the day. It was a frustrating break to make, although they most likely had at least a week before they would reach the settlement, and yet, it wasn’t entirely without benefits.

Like the makeshift shower the protruding rock was turning the heavy rain into; a nice change from her daily washes in the ocean. Aside from the chill of the water, getting the salt from the sea water and her sweat rinsed off made her feel more clean than she had since the morning she had left to meet Sirius.

Picking up her discarded clothes, Cecilia washed her underwear and socks, scrubbing them against the rocks as best she could, before she rinsed off her shirt and shorts. Though dirty her shirt and shorts were only damp when she put them on, foregoing her underwear and returned to the cave. It was better than being dusty and soaked in sweat, she figured as checked their makeshift system of leaves and branches that gathered the rain and re-filled their water bottles, bringing the filled one back into the cave.

With a small smile, she sat down next Sirius and handed him the bottle before she placed her knickers, bra, socks and boots close to the fire Sirius had started, hoping they would dry sooner rather than later. Once they were dry, she could switch, wearing her underwear while her clothes dried by the fire. “How long do you think it’ll last?” she asked him, inching her feet a bit closer to the heat. Just like every other time she had gone exploring, she had brought a change of clothes, and just like all those other times, she had shrunk it to keep it from taking up precious space in her backpack… a decision she had been sorely regretting for the past week. “The rain, I mean.”

They could be a lot worse off, she knew that, and she knew that they had been living relatively well off the food they had found on their journey. But the one true comfort she had, was knowing that Jamie was taken care of, though she still missed dearly, and had felt even further away from him when she had found her battery to be completely dead this morning.