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hopalongcharlie (hopalongcharlie) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-06-10 16:15:00

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character: charlie weasley, character: dominic chambers, character: genie de la lune

RP: Celebratory drink testing
Who: Charlie, Dominic, Genie
What: Finishing the club up and testing some drinks out for Pride next month
Where: Wingbeat
When: Wednesday 10th June
Rating: NSFW - Swearing

Having gone through and checked all of the work Dominic had now finished Charlie had invited him up to the office to finish up the paperwork and sort their arrangements for payment. Now all that was done too and he offered Dominic his hand. "Well, I think that's us finished up apart from the final bills, and I'll pay them up the week they arrive. Well, on my paperwork Wednesday."

He smiled broadly at Dominic as he stood. "And now that I technically no longer employ you, how do you feel about getting potentially very drunk on a Wednesday afternoon by helping me try out cocktails ready for Pride next month?" He stretched as he stood working out the slight pull in his arm caused by the no longer tiny ball of fuzz that was Echo, his cat, sleeping on his arm almost all night. "No idea what's coming, I asked Genie to come up with stuff a couple of weeks ago, she likes playing with combinations."

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hopalongcharlie
2015-07-14 07:53 pm UTC (link)

Charlie rolled his eyes and smiled at their reactions to his protest against glitter bombs. In truth he couldn't actually think of a good objection to glitter bombs in other places, even if the idea made him twitchy. He sort of feared it getting into the cover on his stump and all the little edges rubbing him something awful. But he wasn't going to say that. "Well that's okay then," he said aloud. "Actually that's not a bad idea, a glitter bomb cocktail. That I can cope with," he mused.

He nodded his acquiescence to Genie's point about crib sheets. If anyone wanted to bitch they were welcome to, he was pretty sure they were only going to run that one for Pride weekend. "That one can stay just for Pride. It's a bit of a pain in the arse for most of the time by the looks of it," he said and reached for the new drink when it appeared. He'd watched what she was pouring and the sip he took was rather more cautious than Dominic's. "Speak for yourself," he said, amused. "You know all things sex are pretty much a lost cause with me!" he said to her. "Although drinks are an exception," he pointed out. "I'm only leaving it because I want to be faintly coherent later." It really was a rather good cocktail. He took another small sip and then pushed it away, not wanting to totally impair his judgement of the later ones.

He looked over at Dominic and shrugged about the vodka. "We get plenty of samples of stuff from the suppliers, and they're usually pretty handy for cocktails. That stuff is like your vodka and cranberry all in one. No colour though, which is sort of a shame," he explained. It wasn't actually something you could use to replace the cranberry juice in drinks but it did make a good option if you wanted the flavour but not the colour.

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wolfinboots
2015-07-17 08:32 pm UTC (link)

"For pride once a year, we can handle a glitter bomb," Genie said with a grin. She agreed with Dom, naming was half the fun of a new drink, though she wasn't as good at that part of the creation process as the combining alcohol part of the process.

"True, though I think this thing sex might get the green light," she teased, winking at him. She chuckled warmly. "Awww, coherant thought is highly overrated!" she declared.

"There's all sorts of flavours but I do like me some cranberry," she admitted to Dom. "We can always add colour if needed though, I think, though at that point it's just easier to use the actual cranberry juice."

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knowhow
2015-07-20 12:09 pm UTC (link)

"A lost cause?" Dominic asked, misunderstanding totally - his brain was only functioning at about 60% of its usual rate, after all. "You?" He gestured to Charlie, looking between him and Genie in some confusion that both of them seemed to just except this as fact. He knew confidence didn't always map exactly to appearance, but surely Charlie couldn't think he was a lost cause? He seemed plenty confident in himself in other areas. "I can't imagine you have trouble finding people who're interested - even if your standards are exceptionally high." It just didn't make sense, and the thought that Charlie might not be looking didn't, for the moment, enter his head. Nor did it occur to him that Charlie might not want to talk about his sex life with and in front of his employee.

Dominic put his cocktail down, not wanting to finish it until he felt more clear-headed. He didn't like the feeling of being confused or like he was missing something. It was one of the stereotypical Ravenclaw traits he actually did share. Unsolved mysteries nagged at him relentlessly for far longer than was really warranted. "I know muggles do vodka in all sorts of flavours," he agreed, his mind not totally on what he was saying. "Vanilla is nice, cherry is horrible - too fake. I guess I'm still not really used to the fact that there's a wizarding nightclub industry too. Until you opened this place, I'd only been to muggle clubs."

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hopalongcharlie
2015-07-20 08:08 pm UTC (link)

"Coherent thought is very important when you're the one setting the wards!" he pointed out to Genie and turned to Dominic, having realised, rather too late, that he had definitely been flirting. He chuckled and shook his head. "If I was interested I'm pretty sure I'd find people, but I'm asexual, so..." he trailed off, spreading his hands in a shrug. "This isn't news to Genie, I tell all the staff pretty much as soon as they're hired." He frowned slightly and cleared his throat. "So, yeah, sex things are lost on me. Well, I understand a fair few, but don't really care on a personal level. Unless they're drinkable," he said, nodding to Genie and grabbing his drink back to have another sip.

Charlie considered the drink. "I think I like the deceptively colourless thing it's got going on," he said. "And yeah, juice is easier than that stuff." He shrugged. "We mostly use the same booze suppliers the pubs do, they just like to give us the weirder stuff that pubs probably won't sell. And I'll be honest I'm pretty sure they get some of the stuff from muggle suppliers themselves," he said. He'd been to a number of muggle bars and clubs in his time and was fairly sure he'd seen some of the same names there. "It's good for muggleborn people who want something they've heard their parents drink too."

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wolfinboots
2015-07-22 03:55 pm UTC (link)

Genie grinned at him. She'd appreciated that he was up front about things, otherwise she sometimes took continued refusal when someone wasn't taken with hurt feelings. However, it freed her up to flirt in a more friendly way and to make friends with him, hopefully, at least, without other things in the way.

"Yeah. I've served in Muggle places up til now, really. So I can go both ways." She smirked to herself. "But I'm enjoying learning and experimenting with things here that I haven't gotten to do before." especially when things were too expensive.

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knowhow
2015-07-24 01:58 pm UTC (link)

"Ah." Dominic couldn't help being disappointed. He wasn't particularly proud of it, and he'd shake it off before too long but he'd had something of a crush on Charlie for a few weeks now, while he'd been working there, and this news was a little like crashing into a brick wall he hadn't known was there. "Right, gotcha," he added, hoping he could at least cover the disappointment. He didn't want to make Charlie feel awkward, or like Dominic wasn't understanding of different sexualities. It was just... unfortunate. If he'd found out up front it probably would have been easier to handle. "Sorry, I thought you were just being too self-deprecating, or something."

He met Charlie's eyes briefly before looking away, focusing back on his cocktail and knocking the rest of it back in a way he hoped looked more casual than it felt. "I like learning about the new stuff - or the magical stuff," he said. "Next time I come in I should get you to show me some wizarding-only spirits, Genie."

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hopalongcharlie
2015-07-24 07:25 pm UTC (link)

"No, I, er, I get offers. Don't always notice them, but I do. It's part of why our sexual harassment policy is so strict," he said. He refused to apologise for his sexuality these days, although there had been a time when he had done so. "I know what it's like for people to get persistent and realised how much worse it could have been if I wasn't, well, me." It had only really been the one time, but that had been more than enough for Charlie to put himself in the shoes of his sister, or someone even less capable and keep an eye out for persistent dickheads (not that they were always men).

"And no apologies necessary," he added after a few seconds. "I don't exactly advertise it, but it's not a secret. Plus I'm aware people don't expect it."

He shrugged and turned to Genie, hoping that she might manage to pull them out of this conversational ring of fire. "So, any more drinks that people think are designed to make the staff blush and do a much better job on the punters?" he asked with forced cheer. Truth be told there were a few drinks he'd heard of before that would make him blush, but it was only obvious because tended towards pale and freckled rather than actually brown even when he'd seen too much sun.

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