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Droo 
Hecate locked the door with her wand. He wasn't just going to leave.
"Stop acting like a martyr and sit." She said keeping her voice calm. "You aren't leaving until I feel this conversation is over."
Now she was angry.
"I'm not sure if you've read the meaning of the word Apology. As I am still your professor, let me give that to you. It is an acknowledgment of some fault, injury, or insult with an expression of regret and a plea for pardon." She looked in his eyes. "Apologize to me, because you realize you did wrong. Because you want to make it up to me. Not because it'll make you feel better about yourself. That's not an apology."
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The door was locked.
The.
Door.
Was.
Locked.
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"I'm not acting the martyr... not intentionally, anyway," Jake responded, doing as he was told anyway and sitting down.
He listened, and then shook his head. "Maybe I did realise I was wrong and all that. I didn't say I wanted to feel better about myself, I said it was about being a better person. I realised I was wrong and when I did, I came here. But-"
And there was a but. A big one.
"When I did come down here, I was greeted the same way I always am by you. You roll your eyes at me and you make me feel like something unpleasant you've stepped in. And when that happens, you don't want to tell that person how wrong you were."
Jake frowned slightly and sat back, folding his arms across his chest just for something to do with them. "And so when I told you why I came here and why I was apologising, I was telling you the truth, just not all of it."
It was just that... when he DID come down here and Lafay was how she was, he automatically didn't WANT to make it up to her anymore.
"I
do apologise."
And she had no idea how hard that was, because Jake did not apologise. If he did something wrong on purpose, he was rarely sorry. And if it was by accident, he rarely noticed.
BAH. The young man rubbed a hand over his face, over his eyes and then through his head. This was not working.