Who: Neville Longbottom & Nephthys Spinks
What: Lunch and company
Where: Caffè Puccini (a muggle cafe a block from the Ministry)
When: Monday afternoon, about 1pm 4th March
Rating: PG at most
Status: Closed; Incomplete
Nephthys was a creature of habit where work was concerned. She showed up at work at the same time every morning. She took her lunch at the same time every afternoon. She went to the same cafe, sat in the same window booth with a book and returned to work at the same time every day. Every evening she left work at the same time. A lot of people would have pointed out how incredibly boring that was, but for someone as shy as Nephthys was habit was comfortable, familiar and it didn't make her jumpy at the thought of it like new things, places and people did. She could have even been called high strung because of her reactions to new experiences on more than one occasion. Mostly she found someone or something to hide behind.
She liked Puccini, though. The people were nice and they knew her. They didn't bother her or creep her out. It was a calm place to be which was sometimes more necessary than usual considering the Department of Mysteries wasn't the most normal of places to work all the time. Neph's inner music nerd also had a deep love of the place just because it was named for the Italian composer. When she was in Italy her uncle had taken her to see Madama Butterfly and La bohème both. Little fifteen year old Nephthys had fallen in love with the man's operas then and when she'd first seen Caffè Puccini she couldn't stop herself from going insane.
Just like every other day Nephthys sat in her booth by the window, eyes alternating between a muggle fiction novel about Faerie and the Sidhe and the outside world where people wandered past going about their lives. Watching people was always interesting because of the things people didn't realise they did. The way they would look in every window to see their reflection or continually finger the third button of their coat or constantly tuck their hair behind an ear even though it never fell from it. People were always most interesting when they forgot anyone was looking, Nephthys included.
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
