Percival Ignatius Weasley (rogueweasel) wrote in attheclose, @ 2011-01-12 13:21:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: penelope clearwater, character: percy weasley, date: 1997 - 07, etc: backstory, etc: complete, location: diagon - business |
Who: Penelope Clearwater & Percy Weasley
What: Percy is worried for Penelope, and requests that she meet with him after several months estranged.
When: Early July, 1997.
Where: The Fig & Olive, a cafe in Diagon Alley.
Rating: PG, probably.
It wasn't that Percy hadn't expected Penny to respond to his owl, nor had he anticipated that she would decline his request to meet. His sweating palms and dry mouth had more to with simply not having seen her in months, and in his suspicions that whatever he chose to share with her this afternoon would be grounds to lose his job. Or worse.
They were rumors only, really. Hearsay. The paranoid delusions of witches and wizards who hadn't the stout faith he did in their Ministry, that beacon of Wizarding culture, achievement, and justice. Percy didn't believe what he'd heard, of course. He couldn't.
But he had to tell Penny anyway.
It was a hot day even for July, but Percy sat in his working robes and stiff tie, hair neatly groomed, polished shoes planted flat against the cobblestones beneath the table of the outdoor cafe. The sheen of sweat on his brow shone on a face otherwise somber as Percy waited for Penny, who had been his friend, who had been his girlfriend, and was now sure to be a stranger.