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Tweak says, "I'm a little drunk on you"

Lucy Spinks (addingvalue) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-09-01 20:07:00

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character: hannah abbott, character: lucy spinks, character: susan bones, status: complete

Express Day
Who: Lucy and OPEN.
What: Lucy's having a nostalgic moment.
Where: The Leaky Cauldron (at least to begin with).
When: Monday, 6pmish.
Rating: SFW.

It was barely a week since Lucy had last been on Diagon Alley. Then, she'd been directed towards Finnigan's, stood outside it for about twenty minutes and then fled. It was just too strange, that it had been opened by someone who'd been in her own school year. It had been too personal a connection to part of her life she thought she'd left behind her.

Then on Monday morning on her way to work she'd seen a tiny blonde girl holding tight to an adults hand - trying to get a caged owl into the lifts at Tufnell Park station. September 1st hadn't been a significant day in Lucy's life for years, but just seeing that she knew what it must mean. The Hogwarts Express would be waiting at King's Cross... All day, Lucy had been trying to distract herself from memories of Susan, Justin, Ernie and Hannah all crowded into one train compartment, talking over one another in their eagerness to share what they'd been doing over the holidays.

So now here she was again, standing in the courtyard of The Leaky Cauldron. She hadn't brought her wand with her, hadn't had any reason to think she would need it when she'd left the house. Part of her wondered whether she'd have been able to activate the doorway even if she did have it. She'd been standing there alone for five minutes when the door to the Leaky behind her opened and Lucy stepped aside, not wanting to be in the way.

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susanamybones
2014-09-12 03:16 pm UTC (link)

She watched an expression of intense guilt cross Lucy's expression, and tilted her head slightly. "It's all in the past now anyway," she said lightly. "We're in the midst of a baby boom and a cultural renaissance, and dark wizards are getting less blood-crazy and more just comfortably crazy-crazy."

"That sounds amazing actually," she said enthusiastically. "You should set up a meeting with Alicia, her charity is excellent as well! Although you may have read some of her entries in your journal? Anyway, I'm so glad you're happy." She gestured around vaguely. "Oh a couple of years. Seamus inherited the place from his Uncle, and when the Department of Rejuvenation decided to cleanse Knockturn Alley and turn it into a reputable shopping street, he reopened. It's a bit less stuffy than the Leaky Cauldron, more popular with the young crowd."

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addingvalue
2014-09-16 11:14 am UTC (link)

Looking around, Lucy could see what Susan meant about a younger crowd, and she nodded. Everything else - cultural renaissance, Alicia, Department of Rejuvenation - went over her head a little. It was too much to take in all at once, her friends being here, her friends being together and whole and... She tipped back the last of the pint Susan had bought her.

"Can I get the next round in?" she asked, before flushing slightly as she thought that through. It was instinct, to share rounds with friends, but here... "Actually, I've only got n- muggle money."

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