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Michael Corner (keepmike) wrote in mockery_rpg,
@ 2008-02-15 09:07:00

Entry tags:

anthony, michael

It's Valentine's Day!!
who Michael and Anthony (and others at the Hog's Head?)
when Valentine's Day, around 1:30 pm
where The Hog's Head, New Moon Restaurant, and 1657 Chocolate House
rating PG-13, for now
status In progress

Michael had talked to Aberforth the night before. Their conversation - held between Anthony waiting on customers was short, choppy, and ridiculous. Aberforth insisted Anthony had to work ALL day Valentine's, and Michael was desperately trying to convince the man to let Anthony off around 2 pm. He'd changed his plans a bit, once he'd done enough research to find the 1657 Chocolate House. He had a feeling Anthony would love that place, but he wouldn't want to go there first before eating, and it closed at 5. He'd ended up changing restaurants and reservations settling on a later lunch, followed by a visit to 1657 Chocolate House, ending with them devouring a decadent chocolate cake he'd ordered from some posh Muggle bakery in London and drinking a bottle of wine in front of their fireplace. But he couldn't share any of that with Aberforth (as he was pretty sure Michael would kill him), and even though the man was staring at him with a knowing twinkle in his eye, he couldn't come up with any good reason for Michael to have part of Valentine's Day off.

Eventually, he'd settled for selling his soul to the devil, and promised Aberforth that he would make up the time Anthony was missing, but Aberforth could choose when. Six hours. He owed Aberforth six hours, and he had a feeling Aberforth was going to drag them out, taking an hour here, two hours there, just to drag it out as long as possible. Whatever. It was a small price to pay for making Anthony's Valentine's Day special.

"Come on," Michael said as Anthony made his way back to the bar from serving drinks. He was disheveled and sweaty and if Michael couldn't convince him to change clothes and go to lunch, he just might scream. "Let's go for lunch. Aberforth said it's all right. We'll be back before you know it. It's..." he lowered his voice, "it's Valentine's Day, and I took the day off to spend it with you, and I've hardly seen you."

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incendiary_wit
2008-02-19 02:09 am UTC (link)

Anthony had hardly thought about Valentine's Day, at least not past the fact that 'fruity girly drinks' were half off at the Hog's Head. He and Michael hadn't celebrated it last year, understandable given the conditions, and he must have just assumed that they wouldn't this year. Or he just hadn't thought about it. He'd never really had a reason to think about it before. Yet another point on the 'why Anthony was a bad boyfriend' chart.

Stopping as Michael stole his attention, he leaned on the bar with an eyebrow raised slightly. "You-" he began, but then cut himself off. Abe had said- Merlin, that meant that Michael had planned something. Anything. Had, again, done more than he himself had.

"Shit, Mike, I didn't know you were planning something," he finally got out, sounding a bit surprised and his lips upturning into a slight grin. "How did you-" Pausing a moment, he straightened up and glanced down at himself. "I look like shit."

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keepmike
2008-02-19 02:58 am UTC (link)

"Well, I didn't really know I was planning anything either," he said softly. People were staring at them now, and he flushed darkly. "Umm... you wanna... we've got time... if you want to go get ready."

He nibbled on his bottom lip and shifted on his feet awkwardly. Merlin, he should have planned this part better, so that it wasn't happening where everyone in the Hog's Head could see them. At least Anthony hadn't given him a hug and a kiss, yet, where everyone could see. He wouldn't know how to react to that.

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incendiary_wit
2008-02-19 05:14 am UTC (link)

After a bit of a laugh, Anthony shook his head. "You are just-" he began, but then cut himself off suddenly, his smile widening just a little. He didn't seem to notice anyone looking at them, though he was just barely avoiding leaning over the counter and snogging Michael senseless.

"Give me five minutes," he finally said, already rounding the counter to head upstairs to their room.

Once in their room, he stumbled across a few revelations. One was that he desperately needed a haircut. Another was that he had no idea how to dress himself. And a third was, unfortunately, that he apparently acted like a girl when it came to getting ready to go out. After mentally telling himself off for picking out all the reasons why he looked horrid, he headed back downstairs, only going a minute or so over his five minutes.

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keepmike
2008-02-20 04:52 am UTC (link)

Michael was a patient person. Besides, he could wait on Anthony forever. He barely prevented himself from reaching for Anthony's hand as Anthony. He looked amazing, even after just changing his clothes and brushing his hair. Michael smiled. "Come on, then," he said softly, shoving his hands into his pockets.

He lead Anthony out into the street where there was enough area to apparate, and only then reached for his hand. "We're headed for lunch... I got reservations... apparating's quickest...so..."

He wasn't about to apparate someone without warning. He knew how people hated apparating, but Michael hated portkeys more. He was convinced after reading Stephen Hawking's books that portkeys did something strange to the space-time continuum, and could destroy the entire universe, where as apparating could only destroy his own structure. He'd much rather cut off his own nose than destroy the universe.

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