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Tweak says, "It's for my prince."

Melinda Bobbin (_melinda_) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-01-31 22:35:00

Entry tags:

character: bryn cadwallader, character: cho chang, character: genie de la lune, character: gregory goyle, character: lavender brown, character: marietta edgecombe, character: melinda bobbin, character: viktor krum

Who: Melinda and OPEN
What: Sweet Nothings’ pre-open pre-taste party
Where: The rooftop above Sweet Nothings
When: Saturday January 31, 2005 - Evening
Rating: SFW, will update if/as needed

Being back in Sweet Nothings’ kitchen this week had felt like coming home. Mark, the baker she had hired to make up for the workload her mother would no longer be doing, had fit right in. Sure, he wasn’t much of a decorator, but he could bake and even better; he could adapt and spar verbally when it came to recipes and procedures. Between the two of them, getting everything ready for tonight’s party had gone smoother than she had planned for.

So now, the buffet tables were laden with cakes, pastries and dessert. Layer cakes had become the perfect backdrop for the cupcakes, rather than forego the breakfast pastries as she had first planned, she had now piled them onto trays at angles that lead the eyes to the tarts and cakes. Finally, on the table by the wall, with the London lights as a backdrop, they had set up the table with what would be this year’s Valentine’s menu. Strawberry & Champagne and Chocolate Heaven Cupcakes with champagne truffles, surrounded the Raspberry Kisses and the Red Velvet Heart Layer Cake, and though she still hadn’t decided whether to go with them or not, Melinda had also filled a couple of stands with chocolate covered strawberries and cheese cake stuffed raspberries. Even if they didn’t make it onto the Valentine’s Day menu, they still went perfectly with the champagne served from the make-shift bar right by the door.

With the wards in place, the rooftop was nice and warm, the music at a volume where you could talk – except on the area assigned as the dancefloor – and the fairy lights made it all seem, well, magical.

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Genie and Lavender

angustifolia
2015-02-02 06:22 pm UTC (link)

Getting to know Cormac's friends more was something Lavender wanted to work on, especially as it seemed like whenever they were busy any time they did have together was often spent in private. Mac always spoke really well of Melinda and as Lavender liked popping into Sweet Nothings for a treat on occasion, accepting the invitation to the pre-re-opening party made so much sense.

While Mac had gone to fetch more drinks, Lavender had drifted towards one of the displays of cakes. Releasing a longing sigh, she didn't know where to begin. They all looked so good.

Someone approached the table beside her and even under the heady combinations of chocolate and vanilla that hung in the air, Lavender could tell that it was a woman. She turned and gave a smile. "This may be the most delicious-looking table I have ever seen in my life."

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Re: Genie and Lavender

wolfinboots
2015-02-02 11:21 pm UTC (link)

Genie couldn't help but take another long, deep breath. Moon above, it smelled so divine that she had to keep a whine of longing from her throat. "I think you might just be right," Genie said, taking yet another deep breath, trying to figure out by smell alone what one she wanted to try first. With her metabolism, she could indulge however she wanted. However, the scent that came with it had her blinking slightly and looking immediately over at the woman she'd just responded to.

There was something... yes, very familiar in the scent, even if the scent itself wasn't familiar. She looked over the woman a little frankly, but that was in character with her. Her gold-flecked eyes were warm.

"I'm not sure what I want to eat all up first," she said with a smile, finally glancing away.

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Genie and Lavender

angustifolia
2015-02-03 04:54 pm UTC (link)

Lavender wasn't a stranger to being stared at, not with scars on her throat that were rarely hidden. Besides, she was a self-confessed people-watcher herself, not to mention trained to make quick appraisals.

A familiarity nagged at her, but since she couldn't pin it down immediately, Lavender reached for one of the black forest cupcakes. "I think I'm going to go for this one." The chocolate heaven ones looked insanely good too, but dark chocolate usually won out when Lavender needed to make a choice. Besides, she could always convince herself that the cherry in it was sort of vaguely good for her.

"So, I'm Lavender. And I feel like I should know your name, but for some reason I'm drawing a blank, sorry." Lavender just hoped she hadn't ever arrested her. That would be embarrassing.

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Genie and Lavender

wolfinboots
2015-02-05 01:19 pm UTC (link)

Genie noted the scars as she looked back up, but her gaze slid over them almost as a matter of course. She was so used to them in her household that it actually took them a moment to register. It was then she identified the extra element to the very nice scent of the other woman -- she reminded her keenly of Alexander. She wished in that moment she'd dragged him along, so he could see someone else who didn't seem ashamed of her scars.

Her gaze went back to the decadence. She practically purred as she chose her own. "Red velvetttttt," she said. Her tongue darted out to taste the frosting and she sighed happily.

"I'm Genie," she said, dragging her gold-glinted eyes back open from where she'd been enjoying the frosting. She remembered Lavender now -- Gryffindor. "We were in the same House, I think, though I was several years under you."

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Genie and Lavender

angustifolia
2015-02-05 05:52 pm UTC (link)

"Red velvet? Ooh, I didn't spot those." They could be number three on her list of things to try, Lavender decided, because after this black forest cupcake she was definitely going for the chocolate heaven. And after three cupcakes she would likely need something savoury or be on too much of a nice buzz from all the sugar to really put too much thought into whatever she was going to eat next. She would definitely need to go for a run tomorrow: hopefully Cormac would be able to motivate her in the morning.

"Gryffindor? Yes, that must be it." She sighed. "A lifetime ago, it feels like." She'd tried to protect younger students when she'd been in seventh year, but some of them stuck out in her mind more than others; Lavender felt bad that she didn't have a better recall of Genie other than maybe a bit of pouty, half-joking complaining to Parvati that there were so many younger girls who were taller than her.

"How's the cake?"

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Re: Genie and Lavender

wolfinboots
2015-02-07 04:24 am UTC (link)

"Mmmm, my cupcake, mine," she said, playfully shielding it from the other woman with a hand and grinning at her. She winked. Genie mused that she'd never gone for chocolate nearly so much before she'd become a werewolf, and wished there was some kind of survey or something to see if there was a correlation.

"God, tell me about it," Genie said. "It was a lifetime ago for me. I've been out on the fringes of the magical world since the spring before the end of the war. It's like I've lived a whole different life since the last time I was in the Common Room with my mates." She still wished she could have finished her education.

"The cake is brilliant and I think I wish I could keep Melinda in my kitchen forever, because these are just so good."

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Genie and Lavender

angustifolia
2015-02-10 12:19 pm UTC (link)

"Looks like you're slightly less on the fringes today," Lavender commented gently, trying to work out a rough timeline. Even if she didn't know Genie's age, that meant she had dropped out of school early. That had to be tough.

Lavender swallowed a bite of cake. "Oh, god. If I could hire my own personal chef, they would have to be as good as Melinda. Otherwise, what's the point? Cake is so important," she added with a grin.

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Re: Genie and Lavender

wolfinboots
2015-02-11 01:11 pm UTC (link)

"I'm trying a bit," Genie admitted. "It helps, being around a magical community again. The country and all, there's not any great concentration of witches and wizards in any one place." Which was sad in some ways, but convenient in others.

"I know! Dessert is possibly the most important part of every meal." She eyed Lavender's cake contemplatively. "Yours is good, then?"

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Genie and Lavender

angustifolia
2015-02-19 07:01 pm UTC (link)

Lavender nodded in understanding. Despite now living in London, she'd grown up in the countryside and both had their own sort of freedom when it came to magic use.

"Oh, yes." She wiped a crumb from the corner of her mouth. "Highly recommended." At the edge of her vision, she spotted Cormac looking around, presumably for her. Lavender picked up one of the red velvet cupcakes, smiling. "I think my boyfriend might be searching for me, so I'm going to take him this. It was nice seeing you. Again."

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	Re: Genie and Lavender wolfinboots 2015-02-21 04:32 am UTC (link)
	"Nice to meet you, Lavender. Go enjoy your hunky man," Genie said, glancing where LAvender had and seeing a definitely nice looking fellow. Mmm, yes. She told herself to ignore the urge to flirt with both of them and turned her attention back to her cupcake. "Have a good rest of the evening." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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