RP: Do Not Operate Heavy Machinery
Date: 2 May 1999 Characters: Cassie Fawcett, Charlie Weasley Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Weasley Location: London Private/Public: Private Rating: PG Warnings: Bitching, drinking, swearing, and wedding bells Summary: Cassie has had her hearing. It's time to drink. Charlie will drink with her. Charlie really is her favourite man alive.
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Six months. Six bloody months.
Cassie threw back her shot of Firewhiskey and slammed the shot glass onto the counter.
Goddamn Duncan. He'd shown up looking all clean, and groomed, and responsible.
He'd made it sound like she was a disobedient hellion, and he'd been in total control of the situation. She might be a disobedient hellion, she thought bitterly as the bartender poured her another shot, but she'd saved that ungrateful bastards life.
Even Charlie testifying that she was a capable Keeper hadn't helped.
Six fucking, goddamned, miserable months. Behind a desk. At some dragon monitoring agency that wasn't even officially part of the goddamned Ministry.
And then another hearing. And maybe they'd let her go back to the Reserve. MAYBE.
She might never work with dragons hands-on again. She should have let the bastard kill himself.
She took her second shot and wondered where the hell Charlie was. He shouldn't be letting her drink alone on an evening like this one.