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arrogant_black (arrogant_black) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2010-10-24 11:01:00

Entry tags:

merlin, regulus black

Who: Regulus and Merlin
What: Meeting
When: Noonish
Where: at Merlin's shop
Rating/Warnings: Maybe swearing, most likely low
Status: In progress/Closed.

Regulus knew he couldn’t stay in that flat. Sirius said he was going out and just on that phrase alone it sounded as if he would be back before long. Even Regulus knew such pronouncements did not bode well for a peaceful night’s sleep. Or a peaceful rest of existence.

After securing lodging for the night Regulus walked out of the flat, out of the building and chose a direction. He couldn’t arrive at Severus’ yet; both had a limit for how much they could handle each other. It was true that Regulus liked to see where that limit was from time to time, but he really needed a place to sleep and he couldn’t risk being kicked out of another flat today. To pass time he had a whole, newly reconstructed city to explore.

It was rather amazing how different everything seemed without those inferi lurking around every corner. It was positively delightful.

After walking some distance, some turns down one way, then another, Regulus found himself along a street with smaller single shop fronts that made for some distracting window shopping. Apparently he had money in a bank somewhere, but Regulus wasn’t sure where, and not that he had much interest in baby bonnets or cook ware.

He was just about to give up on the steet, turn at the next block when one store caught his eye. Some kind of magic trick shop. Regulus paused, odd sensations coursing over him. This was the kind of thing muggles found hilarious, but he should find insulting, or so his mother would tell him. As a child he’d never been allowed in on of these places, and as an teenager learning the extend of his own autonomy he’d already started espousing his parents’ ideals without question. Now presented him with an opportunity to stick everything he’d been taught to them.

He hesitated a bit more, staring at the front a moment longer, but then he was pulling open the door and walking inside. He found a sales rack and started looking, giddy from defying a set of people who didn’t exist in this place or time.

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magicalsecrets
2010-10-28 02:00 am UTC (link)

"Sorry." He nodded slightly. It was definitely a lot. He didn't mean to overload Regulus with all of this so quickly. Colligo was like that when you first showed up.

"Do you want to sit? There's a chair and some tea in the back." Merlin suggested. The sorcerer motioned to the small door behind the counter where there was a stove and pair of plush chairs. It was packed with stacks of cardboard boxes too, since it was technically part of the stock room, but Merlin didn't mind.

"Don't worry about not remembering either. It's not unusual. I don't think you were here that long either..."

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arrogant_black
2010-10-28 06:16 pm UTC (link)

Regulus gave a half worried smile and laugh to the comment about not worrying.

"Sure, why not, I'm processing improbably things, I might as well have tea with Merlin." Regulus found it oddly funny to say that.

He didn't mind the confining quarters, so much, the tightness did remind him a tad bit of how the inferi had closed in around him, but he focused on the fact that these were boxes and not reanimated dead corpses.

"Okay, just lay it all out, what else should I know about this place?"

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magicalsecrets
2010-10-29 01:45 am UTC (link)

Merlin fixed them some tea, and sat down beside Regulus after pouring a cup for each of them. He also set out milk and honey, both of which he liked in his. He took a sip or two as he thought about the question. What else was there? People came and went. He'd been here once before. The experiments he supposed.

"Well, you saw the zombies. Things like that happen now and then. For a while we could only tell the truth. Last halloween we all turned into our costumes. It usually wears off in a week or so." That was the biggest thing really. The weird things they were all subjected to.

"Otherwise that's it. People come and go constantly. Sometimes people you think are dead...If anythings happens to you here, usually you end up right back in the library. Most of the time with no memory of what happened either." He'd been in Colligo long enough that he was mostly used to it all.

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arrogant_black
2010-10-29 05:23 am UTC (link)

Well, at least now Regulus had confirmation of what he'd suspected about dying in this place. Attempting that again was off the table, Regulus supposed he should resign himself to the fact that from here on out he was alive and would keep being so until who knew when.

At least he had tea to get him through this. He didn't add anything to his tea but just sipped it, listening to Merlin.

"Crazy shit for about a week and then it leaves. Got it."

He leveled a look at Merlin, "Alright, you know my brother?" Now that his mind was full with stuff he didn't want to process yet he decided to move on to something that might actually be humorous.

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youngmagician
2010-10-30 12:55 am UTC (link)

Merlin rolled his eyes and nodded. "Yes. He showed up and immediately started calling Severus names, and generally being a jerk. We sort of got into it after that. Mostly harmless pranks, I guess. I had a box of fleas and leeches explode in his face, he messed around with the things it my shop."

Honestly, he did sort of enjoy their fights because it was good practice for his magic, and was a great distraction when he was upset. Not that it made Sirius any less of a jerk as far as Merlin was concerned.

"He's also really good friends with Morgana. I mean, I'm glad he's good to her, but I just - She gets in the middle of all our arguments if she finds out, and it gets her upset..."

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