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Tweak says, "NAKED TIME!"

Fred Holden Weasley II (fredandahalf) wrote in bravenew_rpg,
@ 2009-11-04 23:07:00

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2023: 11/november, character: fred weasley, character: saoirse mclaggen

Who: Fred and Saorise
When: Tonight.
Where: The WWW flat.
What: Weirder things have happened.
Rating: PG-13? Language, and drinking, and A KISS.

Fred Weasley had not had a lot of sleep this past weekend. So, when he had asked Saorise McLaggen to take him home, he had not quite known what he was doing. It had come back to him slowly over the past few days though. He had asked Saorise McLaggen, Macmillan's girl, to take him home. It was something that might truly have blown his mind, if he were the sort to use such terminology. What really struck him about this entire incident (other than her willingness to do it) had been the fire.

Fire? Apparition did not involve fire. Unless it was the typical May day ritual of jumping over a fire. Fred did not really think Saorise prescribed to that state of mind. So, he had called her out on it -- just for a laugh -- he had called out McLaggen on her use of the Floo Network and learned she could not apparate. Fred should not have cared, should not have been interested, should not have suggested --

This. He lay stretched out on his living room sofa, waiting for her to floo. He had the gillyweed on the coffee table, along with his extensive pipe collection and a bottle of wine. Just in case. George was fortunately at Shell Cottage for the evening, and Fred did not expect him until the next day. So, there was Fred, waiting, arms behind his head, dressed down in his usual casual trousers and t-shirt and closely shaved hair.

Waiting for Saorise McLaggen to come to his flat. Some things, he thought as he counted the speckles on his ceiling, were really quite bizarre.

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sophistic
2009-11-05 04:25 am UTC (link)

Saoirse had no idea what she was doing. Well some, but not why, particularly. All she knew was that the past three days working with her Grandmother and Bruce in the Mrs. Skower's corporate office in Glasgow had been some of the worst of her life. Not that it was hard work, or that she begrudged them for it, (well yes, she rather did come to think of it), but it was a reminder that they were losing her grandfather while meanwhile the stockholders circled her like sharks, already trying to see if she'd sell when she came into her inheritance.

She'd spent the days going over personnel files and learning faces and financial records to see just how things were run. And she'd worked herself until she couldn't think about much else.

Especially not Eric. Or, for that matter, Kieran.

She'd woken up in his bed on Sunday, tired and groggy but oddly relieved that she'd made a decision. The rest of the morning with him (including a repeat of the previous evening's activities) and breakfast had been pleasant enough, but she'd been glad to go home. Just... home. To walk Tinsworth and go to the vegetable stand and walk in the cool autumn air with her hair blowing a bit too hard in the wind from the Northeast. To just be her, more her than she could remember being in a very long time. Since she was a little girl, even, maybe, if she was being very honest.

She was looking to have that feeling again. To just forgetting that some of the rest of it existed for a while.

And that might explain why she went into the green light of the fireplace, Tinsworth following her expectantly and sitting neatly at her feet as he waited for her to state their destination. To him, Flooing was now old hat. She practically expected him to yawn.

When they emerged, shedding soot and floo powder, Tinsworth trotted out and began to examine his surroundings as Saoirse brushed off her white blouse and long skirt, looking at Fred waiting on the couch as if he had all the time in the world.

"Good," she said, extending the bottle of wine in her hand to him. "You have wine. Me too."

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fredandahalf
2009-11-05 04:33 am UTC (link)

Fred heard her in the grate, but he waited a moment before turning his head. She looked - well, to be honest, Fred had never really looked at Saorise before. She had always been this blob in his mind, this authoritative blob who would put him in detention if he put too many toes out of line. When he saw her in his fireplace, it just seemed - beautiful, real, beautiful. He stared perhaps a moment too long.

He remembered then their purpose, and he sat up, thinking it polite. Taking the bottle of wine from her, he sat on the table next to his. "Do you want to sit down?" He continued to look at her as if he didn't quite - believe this. True, he was Fred Weasley and, true, he could handle pretty much anything but this --

Macmillan's girl, the head girl, Slytherin, McLaggen, in his living room. Fred Weasley had done some pretty crazy things in his life, and this was starting to rank at the top.