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

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Entry tags: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
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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?"

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Re: Pandora and Wayne
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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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Re: Pandora and Wayne
[info]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
[info]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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Re: Pandora and Wayne
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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
[info]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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Re: Pandora and Wayne
[info]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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Re: Pandora and Wayne
[info]pandacharms
2014-10-23 07:55 am UTC (link)
"Yeah. Me too." It was a simple confession, and quiet, but one she never really made and never to a virtual stranger. But what the hell, they'd obviously done something together, though she still wasn't sure if they'd done each other, so to speak. She'd need a little time alone to figure that one out.

Dora sighed, thinking in as much as her head would let her. But hell, he seemed like a kindred soul of sorts, even if not the same sort Richard was. Wayne had likely never wanted, truly wanted, to kill someone, let alone done it.

"You know part of it. I saw my brothers and sister the other day," she said, voice full of wistfulness. "But..." she hesitated, bit her lip and then sighed. "Well..." she uncurled her left arm, letting it stretch out where the Dark Mark stood stark against her pale skin, glamour faded sometime in the last few hours. She didn't say anything else, letting it speak for her, her gray green eyes waiting for judgment.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne
[info]waynecymraeg
2014-10-23 08:05 am UTC (link)
Wayne was startled to see the Dark Mark, but only because it was such a stark contrast against the color of her skin - and he hadn't remembered seeing it before.

He shrugged. "It's just a scar, really."

So, family shit, plus residual guilt, he figured. He reserved any further conclusion-drawing to when his head was a bit less...throbbing.

It took a second before Wayne realized his was sort of similar. He held out his left forearm, the one with the new badger tattoo stretched across it. Stacey did good work - you could barely see the patch job from before.

"Under here?" he began, tracing the center. "Was a name. We...we were fifteen. And I..." He cleared his throat, mouth tasting sour and deadly.

"I ruined her life. Aborted my own future, too, but she...had potential."

He couldn't say more for now. He let his eyes slide shut. He hadn't turned on the overhead light, but sunlight was still streaming in through the door open to the main room of his studio flat.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne
[info]pandacharms
2014-10-23 08:31 am UTC (link)
Her smile was brittle and sharp and utterly without any joy. Just a scar. God she wished it was just that. "It's far more than that," she said softly, curling her arm back in protectively against her body. She didn't have the energy to even begin to explain what it was though. Especially not with her head like this.

Dora peered at his tattoo, recognizing that a new one had been put recently. "Well, you didn't kill or maim her, I presume, so ruining her life is a little harsh on yourself, don't you think?" she ventured quietly. Her gaze wandered around, away from the light of the doorway. She spied a small toothbrush next to a big one and felt her brain throb as it tried putting pieces together. She waved a hand at the door and it shut part way wandlessly, shielding them from the worst of the evil sun.

"The potential is still there, likely. Sometimes you have to wait to use it though." Between the hospital and Azkaban she'd lost nearly two years of her life. The war had taken another. Tentatively she stretched out her leg and poked her toe to his foot. "We all make mistakes." She wasn't sure she'd label hers a mistake, per se. She didn't regret why she'd done the things she'd did. But... therr were similarities. Enough that she felt for him.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne
[info]waynecymraeg
2014-10-23 08:39 am UTC (link)
Wayne hadn't meant to trivialize the meaning of her dark mark, merely to tell her it didn't bother him, but he didn't press the issue.

"Yeah, I guess we do." She was right - everyone makes mistakes. It was just that Wayne's mistakes seemed to literally follow him around, inviting him to repeat them.

For instance, now. Third verse, same as the first. God, but he hoped they hadn't fucked. Not that she wasn't-- it was just...yeah.

"Well, there's family and there's family," he said, vaguely. The ones you hurt people for, and the ones you hurt yourself for.

"So, do you..." He didn't know how to word the question for her, so he just answered it for himself.

"I just need to forget me. Everything I've done was because someone needed me to. At least this," he said, waving a finger around to indicate getting smashed, "I can control. Until I can't."

Bloody hell, he couldn't control it. The full force of that realization hit him. Shit.

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Re: Pandora and Wayne
[info]pandacharms
2014-10-23 08:50 am UTC (link)
This time her smile was softer and full of understanding. "Yeah." She paused and the remaining alcohol in her system encouraged her to continue. "I did it for them, you know. This." She gestured at thr Mark and all it entailed. Julian knew, and Tristan. She'd told Healers and Aurors. Mils knew, or likely suspected. "My little brother was killed before I took it." She lapsed into silence, her gut panging hard at the thought of Perseus, even after all this time. She took a deep, shaky breath, hoping she wouldn't throw up again.

She listened, eyes watching his face. Her lips twitched though not in amusement as she saw realization sweep over him. It was a deep understanding, and a realization she'd made long ago yet still kept fucking up with. "It quiets my nightmares," she told him as he processed his thoughts. "Makes me stop thinking, if I have enough." She knew perfectly well it was self medication. That didn't stop her from sliding into it even when she didn't want to though. "But it's not controllable. That's the point sometimes."

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