InsaneJournal

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.