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erniedtmac (erniedtmac) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-10-17 22:55:00

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character: ernie macmillan, character: gemma farley, character: neville longbottom, character: pandora montgomery, character: pansy parkinson, character: vikesh moon, character: wayne hopkins

Who: OPEN
What: Finnigan's Dance Club - a quick Salsa lesson and then everyone par-tay!
Where: Finnigan's - The Roost
When: Friday, October 17 - 9pm - 2am
Status: OPEN / Ongoing

Even though several members of the greater wizarding community were off enjoying their dates from the Fawley Foundation fundraiser, that didn't mean that everyone else couldn't have a fun night out. It was Ernie's once-a-month dance lesson, and he'd chosen a simple Salsa for the night. Those who were interested were welcome to join in the short, half-hour group lesson to learn a few steps - and later, Ernie was more than happy to give a few one-on-one lessons to any man or woman interested - but for those who weren't the music was pumping in the room specially designed by Dominic to be fun and flamboyant - something like Ernie himself. Neither the music nor the pouring of drinks would end until last call.

[A/N - Feel free to start your own threads below, and/or start one for a private salsa lesson with Ernie]

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-19 07:50 am UTC (link)

Wayne shrugged at the idea of going back for NEWTs. Too much time had passed, and he probably wouldn't have gotten a ton of them, even if he had stayed. And, you know, not gotten a girl pregnant at fifteen.

"I guess that depends on how much madness you're in for," he told her, grinning and knowing that he was doomed. But what a way to die.

"I can tell you that, at the very least, I know the basic steps for salsa. Because I saw them in a film once." He polished off the last of his drink and - well, he didn't slam the glass back down, but it landed with more force than he'd intended - he regarded her.

"What about you? What are your talents?

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

pandacharms
2014-10-19 08:09 am UTC (link)

"And seeing them in a film totally counts, right?" she said dryly. She had seen a grand total of one so far. She didn't have much time to explore the muggle world or even her television yet, but she'd made time for one out of curiosity. It seemed like an interesting form of entertainment.

Her fingers flicked at the barkeep and she ordered another drink for herself since this one was finished. She immediately took a sip of it when it arrived. For a small person, she could hold a great deal of alcohol in relation to her size, something she would grudgingly admit came from practice.

"My talents. Why, darling, I'm charming, can't you tell?" she said with a bright, almost ironic, smile, rolling her wrist in an elegant gesture toward herself, letting a small wave of magic charm some shiny things along the hem of her dress. "And maybe a little dangerous if you cross me." Her smile was just a little sharp, but not threatening. "I was serious about the dueling thing."

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-19 08:56 am UTC (link)

Well, if she was anything, she was definitely charming. There was no arguing about that. And, like the idea of Susan being a hit witch, Wayne found it a little scary.

"Totally counts," he told her. Films totally counted as lessons, probably.

"Well, then, I won't cross you. I'd rather have dangerous people on my side, thanks," he told her, grinning. "The dueling I grew up with was more like trying to smack other people with towels." True story.

It looked like she could keep up with him, drink-for-drink, and that in itself was rather telling. It told Wayne that the look he'd seen in her first probably matched his own more than he originally imagined.

"I'll do my best not to step on your feet, then."

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

pandacharms
2014-10-19 09:14 am UTC (link)

Pandora looked down at her hand and sighed. Healing charms helped but if you really looked, you could still see a few places where there were faint scars on the knuckles, most from her time as a Death Eater when sometimes punching someone out worked better than the alternative. "I have an unfortunate tendency to hit people, or so I've been told," she said with a sigh and a faint pout. "But it's less permanent than my hexes, usually." She smiled at him, propping her chin on her fist on the bar. "I competed for several years, dueling. You might enjoy it, it's quite fun. And you don't have to have NEWTs so long as you can send someone flying across the room." Of course, she was also told that her sense of fun was rather skewed, so.

"You want to give it a go?" she asked, tilting her head toward where there was dancing going on.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-21 12:40 am UTC (link)

Wayne blinked. Then he got it, and rolled his eyes with a grin, and put on a look of mock fear.

"Give what a go? Dueling? Punching? Sending each other flying across the room? Because I just thought we were going to dance. Not that I'm opposed to those things, though."

He liked this woman. Maybe he could take up dueling instead of boxing? Though you can't duel by yourself. Maybe he could get her to teach him a thing or two, and they could spar.

Or dance, but whatever.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

pandacharms
2014-10-21 04:53 am UTC (link)

Dora laughed and held out her hand, feeling comfortably warm from the alcohol and a trifle forward for asking him to dance rather than waiting for an invitation. "Dancing first. Perhaps I can show off the other stuff another time," she said. "Besides, Seamus would be upset if blood got on the floor."

She tugged him out to the dance floor just as another salsa tune started, hands and arms going automatically into the correct positions.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-21 06:03 am UTC (link)

Wayne winced theatrically. "Yeah, blood on the dance floor. Sounds like either an awful indie band name or a genuine health hazard." He let her lead him out, and began, as usual with him, on the wrong foot.

"Sorry," he said, actually wincing as he sort of bumped into her. "I miscounted. Please let's don't try the dueling next?" Then, inexplicably, Wayne found himself biting his lower lip to keep from giggling.

"Mulligan?"

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

pandacharms
2014-10-21 06:08 am UTC (link)

She snorted softly, perhaps a little more amused than she should be. "Band name. There you go, it's a good one,"she said, shaking her head and grinning. "Some hellacious music, that." She didn't wince, not quite, as he started out wrong. She wasn't that crass and besides she'd asked him to dance.

She giggled faintly, and with a deft, especially considering she'd had a couple of drinks, bumped him back just so to get him back on the correct foot. "Mulligan, yes. You can do this. Just so," she said, and started counting softly and leading a little more than a lady was supposed to.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-21 06:19 am UTC (link)

It only took her nudge to get Wayne's feet under him, so to speak, and he soon had the basic salsa steps down, with less hip motion than was displayed by the experts. What had they called it? Cuban motion? It'd been eons since he'd seen that film, anyway.

"Better?" he asked, after a moment. "I'm not going to incur your wrath, am I?" He winked, sure she wouldn't hex him for that, but it was a fun idea. Wait. What?

Maybe he needed more to drink.

"Did you know," he began, putting on his trying-to-impress-someone hat, "salsa is named just like the dip? Because it has lots of different ingredients from lots of different kinds of dance?" Wayne didn't remember where he'd picked that up, and it sounded like it could be true.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

pandacharms
2014-10-21 09:44 am UTC (link)

Dora grinned a bit, proud that she'd managed to knock him into rhythm. As he got into it, she did more, with a natural hip movement that spoke of some dancing experience and a few foot flourishes to back it up. The hem of her dress swung pleasingly as she led him into guiding her into a twirl. It made her head spin just a bit, coupled with the alcohol she'd already hadn this would likely be the giddy portion of her night.

Her eyebrows raised. She didn't know if she bought that or not, but it was clever. "Really now?" She asked. "Are you having me on?" It was a reasonable explanation for salsa, anyway. "I've never really had much real Spanish or Mexican or whatever food. My parents preferred France."

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-22 03:53 am UTC (link)

"Totally underrated," Wayne told Dora. "Amazing food. Lots of different spices and seasonings. One of my favorites is a tamale - it's made and served in the husk of the corn it's made with. It's hard to explain. One of my mates back in Cardiff, his mum was Mexican." And they had nearly always eaten at her house, too.

"And tortilla soup. I bet Romeo here knows a recipe or two." It wouldn't surprise him, to be honest - it'd surprise him more if Romeo didn't. "That was actually my introduction to tequila, too." He pulled a face. "Why does everyone have a bad tequila experience story?" Wayne did his best to lead her into an ordinary, non-fancy spin. Rum always told him he could dance.

"Anyway. So your parents like French. What do you prefer?" he asked.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

pandacharms
2014-10-22 05:13 am UTC (link)

"Seamus told me the other day it was good. Just never done it, really." Her travels had occasionally included Spain but she'd not done much there. "It sounds good though." She gave a little shiver at the mention of tequila.

"Because tequila is evil and should never be drunk by anyone. Evil. More evil than so so many things," she said with a definite nod. She spun again, laughing softly under her breath. Dancing and alcohol was fun. She'd forgotten that, probably because she usually fot too drunk to think when she really drank.

"Eastern European and middle eastern," she said after thinking for a moment. "It's most of where I've been, but good stuff there. Never turn down some good Indian food either."

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	Re: Pandora and Wayne waynecymraeg 2014-10-22 10:39 pm UTC (link)
	"There's this great curry place near where I live, in London," Wayne said. He wasn't asking her out, not really. It was just... It was nice. Talking to someone totally new, who he didn't have to lie to about magic. Or alcohol. "They stay open til two." He watched her as he sort-of-led, sort-of-followed. "What's your position on shots?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Pandora and Wayne

pandacharms
2014-10-22 11:13 pm UTC (link)

"Mmm. Curry," she said with the relish if someone who hadn't had any in a while and who enjoyed it quite a bit. She eyed him just a bit, knowing her decision making was already a little muddled. She had a guy she would admit to crushing on right now. But food and alcohol wasn't necessarily anything more to her. But ... her thoughts trailed off, distracted by dancing and alcohol.

"Hmm. So long as they aren't tequila shots are very nice," she said in a show of bad decision making that only happened when she drank seriously. "What do you have in mind?" Obviously he was no stranger to this descent into a bottle of something. Which shouldn't be reassuring and yet for some reason it kinda was, for once.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-23 12:02 am UTC (link)

"Well," Wayne began, "There's a host of shots that aren't tequila." And we seem like we can keep pace with each other. "And some of them are quite fun."

Wayne sized her up again, realizing for the ninetieth time that she was from another league - or another planet - than him.

He wasn't trying to get into her knickers. He wasn't. It was just...

...he hadn't had a drinking buddy in the magical world. Ever, now that he thought of it.

"At least, I only know of Muggle ones. Maybe there's a magical one or two you could introduce me to?"

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

pandacharms
2014-10-23 01:31 am UTC (link)

"Mm, true," she conceded, thinking of a few she'd had before. It had been a while since she'd done shots. It seemed like a reasonable enough idea at the moment, and they were tasty shots of concentrated evil.

"There's a few places aside from here and I assume the new club," she mused, "But I haven't been to them in a while so I can't vouch for them. If you're willing to risk me in the Muggle world, let's do shots and curry," she said with sudden decisiveness. The song was winding to a close. "Dip me and we can go," she said with an almost wicked grin. "Don't drop me."

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-23 01:54 am UTC (link)

Wayne laughed. "I'm not going to drop you." And he didn't. His head was spinning in the best ways.

Until, much later, it was suddenly spinning in the worst ways.

It had been a while since he'd woken up without a clue of how he'd gotten there. He was probably due.

Consciousness kicked Wayne in the head, daggers of light stabbing into his eyes with vengeance.

Shit. Shit shit shit shitshitshitshit--

Well, he made it to the bathroom, anyway, he thought glumly as he retched into the sink, tasting alcohol and curry. Wonderful.

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pandacharms
2014-10-23 02:03 am UTC (link)

She woke up to the sound of gagging. That in itself was unusual because she always took out her hearing aids before bed, because her ears always hurt later if she didn't. She moaned softly and buried her head in the pillow when light tried to get at her, and curled up because her stomach protested as well as her gag reflex.

Her hands went up to cover her ears, to discover that, yes, they hurt too, but not as bad as everything else currently did. She heard the sound again and her eyes pulled open frantically, darting around to find not the source but the loo. She darted with surprising speed in there to reach the toilet, trying to recall where the fuck she was and why the fuck she was there and who the hell had given her tequila because she seemed to remember there being a promise of no fucking tequila. Her memory was, predictably, spotty, and she hated herself for going on a bender for so stupid a reason as her fucking siblings ignoring her again.

It wasn't until after she was done emptying at least some of what was in her stomach that she realized she didn't have on nearly enough clothing, because the floor was fucking cold and so was the toilet bowl. Her legs curled up protectively.

"Where the bloody hell am I?" Dora asked him in a raspy voice, peering up at him through eyes slitted against the light. Her Scottish accent was in almost full force, her being too hung over for her subconscious to even care about clipping off her words like usual.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-23 02:11 am UTC (link)

Wayne took a shuddering breath, turning on the tap to splash water on his face, and to rinse the sink.

Oh god, he thought. Dora. And-- "We're in my flat," he told her, resigned. He never took anyone back to his. Too much kid stuff and too small and...well, it was kind of a shithole.

Belatedly, he realized he was just in his boxers.

"Shit," me mumbled, before getting another punch-to-the-gut with nausea.

"What happened?" he finally asked.

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pandacharms
2014-10-23 03:27 am UTC (link)

Dora groaned softly as he gagged again, taking a series of deep breathes through her mouth to try to control her nausea. "Well at least it has a roof," she muttered to herself. She'd had worse. The gutter was called a gutter for a reason.

She rested her too warm forehead on the back of the toilet, the only place where the cold felt good. It soothed the raging pounding behind her eyes a little. "I'm not sure," she said after a long and miserable moment. She really needed not to do this, even if it had been a long time since her last back slide. "I seem to recall fucking tequila though." She glared at him, though it's usual strength was somewhat mitigated by the fact she felt utterly miserable.

She looked over him, also half naked, and hoped that maybe she hadn't totally fucked up. Not that he would be, just... she hated when she ended up sleeping with a stranger. Hated it so much. And she had a guy she liked. Really liked. She didn't want to ruin that. She tried to subtly adjust her twisted bra to at least be decent.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-23 04:22 am UTC (link)

Wayne look down at Dora, assessing with his fuzzy brain. They were at his flat, which he never did. They had been drunk, which he had...Okay, he had done that.

More than once.

This month.

Fuck.

Had they…? He wasn't sure. Could go either way.

Wayne's brain went into worst-case scenario mode. Please, God, please, let her not be pregnant.

"Tequila?" He was pretty sure he would normally stare clear of the stuff. Then again…

"Did I say anything along the lines of 'reposado is probably different?'" That had been a tactical error in the past.

So, repeating past mistakes, then.

"You okay?" He asked finally, mouth feeling disgusting and dry. Belatedly, he ran a clean washcloth under the tap and handed it down to her.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

pandacharms
2014-10-23 04:54 am UTC (link)

Dora tilted her head in thought and then nodded. "Yeah I was still sober enough at that point to remember you saying that. Damn you for that anyway." It was said without any heat though. It wasn't like he'd poured it down her throat. Still. Ugh.

"If okay means my head is splitting, I hurt all over and I'm completely unarmed, then yeah, I'm okay," she said, taking the rag with a thankful expression and pressingb it to her face despite the fact it took away her ability to read his lips. Oh that felt so much better.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

waynecymraeg
2014-10-23 05:13 am UTC (link)

Wayne scrounged up another washcloth and did the same for himself. Feeling the nausea withdraw and hold behind the danger line, he sighed.

Leaned his back against the wall, and slid slowly down until he was sitting on the floor, at the same level as Dora.

This has to stop, Wayne. Delicately, he folded his washcloth and wrapped it around the back of his neck.

"Fuck," he said again.

"Hasn't been this bad in a while," he observed, not intending it to be aloud.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne

pandacharms
2014-10-23 05:53 am UTC (link)

Dora finally pushed the washcloth over to be between her cheek and the side of the upper part of the toilet. Well at least the world wasn't spinning anymore. Mostly. She sighed and opened her eyes, feeling weary and miserable.

"Hitting you a lot, huh?" She replied quietly, a sympathetic expression around her eyes. "Been a bit for me." Fucking ball. She loved the dancing but seeing them had really set her back again, and it still ached in her chest.

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waynecymraeg
2014-10-23 07:45 am UTC (link)

Wayne thought a bit before responding. It took longer, the thinking.

He hadn't meant the hangover, or the puking, or the cold sweat he was in. He'd meant...his desperation to make it all go away. That was what hadn't been too bad in a while.

"Wish I could say I didn't do this, this isn't something I do, but...apparently...." Apparently it is.

She looked about in as bad of a shape as he was. The look in her eyes, the one that had drawn Wayne to her as a selfsame spirit, it was still there. But sadder, as he imagined his eyes were.

"So, what's it for you?" Wayne asked, without thinking. The harshness of his voice made him wince, and he amended his question in a lower voice.

"Something specific, or more..." He waved a hand. "...general thing?"

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