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Dean Thomas (artistdean) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-05-07 17:11:00

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character: dean thomas, character: lucy spinks

RP: Splish, Splash, Splosh
Who: Lucy and Dean
What: A slightly surprise meeting
Where: Susan's house, pool room
When: Thursday 7th May
Rating: SFW for now

Dean cleaned up as usual on a Thursday and headed for Susan's pool room. It was far easier now he could just come here rather than going to the public pool. For one thing he could be far more flexible now he didn't have to stick to the regulated swim times, and also it was a bit of a saving on his wallet too. Especially since he could drop in for extra time if he wanted. Of course he'd built up enough of a routine that he still arrived somewhere around six most weeks and swam for at least an hour.

He'd dumped most of his stuff on one of the chairs before ducking into the cubicle to change just in case of visitors. He started with a few leisurely lengths before pushing back out of the pool, deciding he could do some diving practice. As usual he dived in from the deep end, going as far underwater as he could before surfacing to breathe and then swimming the rest of the length and back normally mostly sticking to front crawl. He was already leaning over to dive in for his third round of this exercise when he heard the door opening. He looked up, not realising he was basically at the point of no return and promptly belly-flopped into the pool with an "Oof!" and the vague sense that he'd seen a small woman in the doorway.

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addingvalue
2015-06-04 12:51 pm UTC (link)

Lucy chuckled. "Brothers need that sometimes, from what I hear," she agreed. Before Hogwarts she'd had a few guy friends she'd considered almost as close as brothers. For a moment, her posture drooped as she wondered what would have happened if she'd stayed at school in Sheffiled, grown up with Edward and Ben. Then she pulled herself up again - she'd never know and there was no point mooning over it. "Sisters too, so make sure you give as good as you get. They sound like they can take it." She smiled, mostly just joking since she didn't know his family well enough to actually advise.

"I love it," she agreed. "After school it was basically the second thing I found that I could actually be good at." Even now, she enjoyed knowing that lifting a little extra weight each session would improve her time on a challenging wall. The physical reality of it paired well with her late discovery of some mathematical ability.

At his word, she headed for the pool again, sliding into the water and diving under immediately to slick her hair back from her face. "I'll try to stay out of your way," she called up to him. "Unless you want to race?"

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artistdean
2015-06-04 08:02 pm UTC (link)

He smiled faintly. "Yeah, they get it back too. Jess less now she's up in York for Uni, but it just happens over the phone instead." His relationship with his sisters had pretty much always been good. There had been some wobbles when he was first at Hogwarts because he saw so little of them, but they'd gradually improved their relationship over the years.

He'd been about to go and grab his goggles anyway when her question came. He didn't mind a race, but he wasn't doing it without protecting his eyes a little, plus it wasn't too easy to do dive practice with another person using the pool. "Let me just put these on, then, sure we can race. Any particular stroke or distance? I can't butterfly very well though so that's out." He loped over and grabbed them from the side of the pool where he'd set them down and quickly fixed them over his eyes and slid into the pool.

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addingvalue
2015-06-05 05:49 pm UTC (link)

"Oof," Lucy said, grimacing slightly. "That's a long way from here." She still wasn't used to thinking of distances in terms of apparition and other magical means of transport. For a start, she didn't even known how to apparate, or have her licence, and brooms weren't all that practical during the day. "I'm so grateful my phone works here. It's one of the things I worried about when I moved."

Lucy readied herself against the side of the pool, feet braced against the wall. It wasn't exactly a proper racing start, but it was her version of one. She didn't expect to win. Dean was a regular swimmer, plus he had a hell of a lot of reach on her with his arms - but at least she could swim well enough to make it competitive. "Crawl's my stroke of choice," she said. "Or backstroke - but if I do backstroke in a pool I'm not familiar with I'll crack my head on the side and then you'll have to rescue me."

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artistdean
2015-06-05 08:06 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, I mean I've apparated up a few times, but she's doing Biochemistry and has a social life and stuff so she's pretty busy," he said and shrugged. Jess was building a real independence for herself. He winced when Lucy mentioned her phone though. "Mine works at home usually, but not at the studio or if I'm the other side of the Leaky. I've caused a couple of minor panics staying there, but thankfully my parents know Susan's address just in case, and they answer owls if they get them." When he'd holed up with Seamus right after he'd broken up with Ophelia in particular had inspired a few interesting messages.

Dean moved himself to the end of the pool, a couple of arm spans between himself and Lucy. "Crawl it is then, I'd rather not break your head. There and back again?" he suggested. He had no idea if she could tumble turn, and he tended to find it a bit tight at the shallower end they'd be heading for (plus he wasn't that practised at it), and he had a feeling she was built a little more for speed than he was. A lot of his swimming was endurance based, although he also tried swimming at speed a few times every session or two. He waited for her assent before nodding. "On three then? One, two, three," he counted down evenly, the one hand he'd been gripping the edge of the pool with releasing as he launched himself forwards.

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