Who Caradoc Dearborn & Bee Wagtail What Fetching a drink together, which is certainly not a date! When December 30th, 1997 Where Jekyll & Hyde Pub, Edinburgh Status Closed/Incomplete Rating ???
The impromptu meeting of the Order of the Phoenix set Caradoc Dearborn back a couple hours from the time he was supposed to meet Bee in Edinburgh for a drink, but she hadn't seemed to mind and he was glad for it. He would have suggested they do something the next night instead, but he thought it would be a bit horrible of him to suggest he spent her New Years with him when she probably had a lot of other more interesting, more fun, young things that she probably had to do with her time.
Caradoc wasn't an insecure man, by any means, he just didn't see it as anything but rational to think that Wagtail was being nice and that they were friends and that none of this had anything to do with the possibility that she might be interested in him. He was old enough to be her father, after all, and she was attractive and young and...just full of life. He was attracted to her, of course, no one in their right mind wouldn't be--but he never would that thought it went both ways.
He's slipped out of the meeting a bit sooner then he'd expected to, and managed to apparate to the pub from the Burrow before she got there which made him feel better. He hadn't wanted her to be stuck waiting for his geriatric ass, afterall.
After finding himself a nice booth close to the door, he ordered himself a drink to wash down some of the delicious food that Molly had provided at the meeting, and settled in to wait for Bee.