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Padma Jyoti Patil (tothewildforest) wrote in tinworth,
@ 2009-10-24 00:36:00

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!complete, character: padma patil, character: theodore nott, date: october 2003, place: private residence, place: tinworth

Characters: Theodore Nott & Padma Patil
Locale: Robinswood
Date: 23 October 2003
Warnings? Tame indeed.

Padma had dismissed the Featherweight Charm on the books that she had packed while they were stacked precariously still in boxes one upon the other, but she did not want to cast it again. She liked their heft, the solid feeling of the tome-fashioned structure alongside which she teetered in stockinged feet. Her first mission once alone within Robinswood had been to locate a foot stool, a want Theodore had no doubt gone very, very long without, if ever having required such assistance.

It served her well now, as she both levitated and sorted by hand her collection into stacks that had more to do with want and feeling than they did any proper categorization. She grinned as she recognized a book of verse whose cover was so worn she might not have known it, at first, if she had not been responsible for its sorry state.

She crossed her legs underneath of her on the foot stool and began to read.

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miseenabyme
2009-10-26 01:01 am UTC (link)

Theodore had been contemplating the space and finance required to set up Weather Wards long enough to create an outdoor shooting gallery at Robinswood with the costs - though not financial - of simply going back to the one he had already created in the shelter of the forest around Bramblebrook. In search of the Floo Directory, he had headed to the library, but now stood in the doorway, arms crossed over his chest as he watched Padma, lost in her literature.

"Got stuck, did you?" he asked quietly, smiling to himself.

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tothewildforest
2009-10-26 01:34 am UTC (link)

Glancing up, Padma blushed in surprise.

"Would you believe me if I said this was what I intended?"

She closed the book, for it was one she had read several times and did not require that she remember where she left off, should she decide to return to it.

It was shameful, really, how little progress she had made. Most of the books that had come from the boxes had simply end up stacked on the floor, waiting for her order or whim to float to their appropriate spaces on the shelves Theodore had cleared for her. She was almost certain she did not have room enough for all of them, but was not sure how to ask for more. This was Theodore's home; she was not yet comfortable thinking of it as anything else, despite her possessions scattered about in every room, if primarily this one.

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miseenabyme
2009-10-26 01:37 am UTC (link)

"No." Theodore stooped to kiss her before proceeding to the drawers of the desk. "But I don't mind if it was or not. How are you faring? Do I need to move more of mine?" He didn't yet confess his musings that on library would not be enough for both of them, especially as the years - and books purchased through them - accrued. There were three rooms hardly ever used by Theodore or Miles, if Padma wished one to be a library of her own one day it would be easy enough to convert.

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tothewildforest
2009-10-26 02:09 am UTC (link)

"I'm not certain. Not yet, anyway."

Padma's reply was noncommittal, and she rose from the stool with more interest in Theodore's intentions than the books that demanded her attention. She crossed over to him, and as it was impossible to look over Theodore's shoulder without the step stool, she put her hands on his arms and peered around him instead.

"What are you doing or not doing?"

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	miseenabyme 2009-10-26 03:53 am UTC (link)
	"I'm looking where to Floo for Weather Wards; I want to get a quote on setting up somewhere for me to shoot, this winter. I stopped, last year, or went up to Bramblebrook, until the snows got too deep." Theodore reached an arm up, and back down to wrap around her shoulders as he flipped the little book open to the back in search of 'wards'. "Do you need help?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

tothewildforest
2009-10-26 04:11 pm UTC (link)

Theodore's love for this gentleman's sport was, for Padma, as charming as a nineteenth century novel. Here she had encountered it first, her experiences with wizarding culture having been shaped by Indian parents and grandparents.

Still she grinned, not having touched a bow herself in many years, and only then because Theodore had wanted cheering. Their leisure since had not allowed for such things.

"Surely Miles has a talent for such things?" Padma stated blankly, not entirely sure what it was that Miles did, and not at all certain if he did it well.

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miseenabyme
2009-10-27 08:37 pm UTC (link)

"Well, sort of." Theodore wasn't sure if Miles had any specialty with Weather Wards or not. Sawbridge was listed, as was a greenhouse and nursery, though Theodore suspected they might offer smaller scale, more specialized work than he was in the market for. "I think he mostly does the securities aspect of things, but I could ask. And if not him, then he'd know who to talk to about it, likely." Potentially have an employee discount too, which was never a poor idea.

Theodore closed the Floobook, and turned his attention to the boxes, which had turned into piles. "You need more room," he declared, gauging the available shelf space with what littered the floor.

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	tothewildforest 2009-10-27 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	Leaning her head against Theodore's arm, Padma turned in study, too. "I could build a little house for myself out of book covers," she mused, "with all of Dickens for a door, perhaps, and Hogwarts textbooks for a roof. I studied in the Prefect bath often enough to waterproof them all." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miseenabyme
2009-10-27 09:18 pm UTC (link)

Theodore raised his eyebrows, looking down at her. "You studied in the loo? Padma, there are times when you just put the books down, you know."

He would have to shelve out the space around the magical windows, mimicking the dreary October sky revealed in the real ones above, and extend existing shelves to envelop the doorways. Theodore wasn't sure about the space above the fireplace, and was reluctant to offer up the little wine cellar, but if push came to shove...

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tothewildforest
2009-10-27 09:32 pm UTC (link)

"In the bath, Theodore. The bath."

Padma stressed to disguise her embarrassment, settling down on the floor in front of a stack of Muggle novels. She sighed.

"I could part with some of them. Donate to the library, perhaps? They are most of them harmless, despite having been in the collection of a witch."

She flipped open the first randomly, reading a few lines before grimacing and placing it in a new stack to be given away.

"How many must I give up, do you think? I want very much to share the library, and not dominate it."

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miseenabyme
2009-10-27 09:50 pm UTC (link)

"You haven't got to give any away," Theodore said finally, distracted by imagining a slightly younger Padma pruning in some lavish secret Hogwarts Prefects bath, with a tower of books around her in order to obscure the best bits from view. "I'll just expand the shelves. You can go get in the bath," he pointed to the wall that sat adjacent to the sunken pool with it's low ceiling and watery lights, "and read; I'll work on duplicating some storage space, and by the time you've put down the book I'll meet you in there."

Nevermind that his shelving would be slightly subpar to the rest of the room given his attention would undoubtedly be elsewhere. Ikea, he had learned, was rather in vogue.

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tothewildforest
2009-10-27 10:06 pm UTC (link)

It was difficult to reject his proposal when Padma had spent the afternoon poring through books in various states of dust gathering, and the morning on a walk that seemed unseasonably chilly when contrasted with a hot bath.

She stood, but hesitated.

"It hardly seems fair that you should work and I should not."

She slipped a book from a shaky pile of contemporary verse, but waited on.

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miseenabyme
2009-10-27 10:23 pm UTC (link)

"I think the hope of interrupting you before your toes prune so badly you want to get out is motivation enough for me," Theodore said, pulling his wand from a pocket. Honestly, he would be in a hurry enough to try and finish before she'd even had a chance to get engrossed in a book; though creating shelves sturdy enough to support armloads of hardbound books would take at least as long as filling a tub and getting undressed.

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	tothewildforest 2009-10-27 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	As though in thanks, or perhaps thinking he needed further encouragement, Padma stepped around the books to kiss Theodore's cheek near his ear, a hand tugging shirt tails from slacks and lightly tickling his side. She ducked around him and out the door before he could respond, book tucked happily under her arm. (Reply to this) (Parent)