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Dominic Chambers (knowhow) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-07-20 16:28:00

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character: dominic chambers, character: pandora montgomery

Driving
Who: Dominic and Pandora
What: Driving, maybe Sunday Lunch
Where: Finnigan's, garage, Surrey!
When: Sunday 19th July, midmorning onwards [backdated]
Rating: SFW

By mid-morning it was already obvious that Sunday was going to be blue-skied and hot - and Dominic was tired of the city. He'd packed his bag with a bottle of water, his muggle wallet, mobile and two notebooks before he'd remembered offering to take Pandora out for a drive. A couple of owls later and they'd arranged to meet up at Finnigan's. Dominic checked his bag again, added a second bottle of water, then slung it over his shoulder and apparated into Monument Alley, just outside the pub. He ducked his head inside, just to check she wasn't waiting for him, then pulled his sunglasses out of the front pocket of his bag, along with a cigarette and lighter.

He was just reaching the end of his cigarette when he heard a faint 'pop' of apparition and looked up, spotting Pandora a few feet away. He straightened, stubbed the cigarette out against the wall and then gave her a way. "Excellent timing," he said, smiling. "You ready to go see Surrey?"

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knowhow
2015-08-12 01:27 pm UTC (link)

Dominic raised an eyebrow at that - he wasn't really used to giving anyone hope. As far as he was concerned, Seamus was the one who'd put himself in that role, by choosing to make the pub what it was, accepting former Death Eaters into Battlescars, striving to make everyone feel included. Dominic had just had some of that feeling rub off on him. "Death Eaters didn't do anything to me during the war," he admitted. "I wasn't at the battle, they didn't come to my home and try to kill me. But the Ministry threatened to hold my parents hostage, and kept me in a cell for weeks." And yes, he knew that it was the Ministry under Voldemort's control, and that the Snatchers had been formed by Voldemort... But the entire Ministry hadn't been peopled by Death Eaters. There had been plenty of supposedly 'good' people who'd been too scared to stand up and stop what was happening. "So maybe it's harder for me to see one group as good and the other as bad. I like to judge people as individuals - and you've never done anything to me."

It wasn't something Dominic usually talked about, but out here in the peaceful countywide it seemed less like some dark secret he was keeping. Maybe suspecting that Pandora had secrets of her own was helping too. "You don't hate me because my parents are muggles, do you?" he asked bluntly. "I mean, I assume you wouldn't be here if you did." Maybe if they made it explicit, they could move past it quicker.

He let himself be distracted by the duelling talk. "I've never considered duelling with weapons," he admitted. "I think I'd definitely enjoy seeing that." Maybe he could even get Pandora to show him a few moves, because the idea of combining magic and a physical weapon was right up his alley. "There are probably others who would too. We're all just doing it for fun, really, and what could be more fun than seeing something new?"

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pandacharms
2015-08-14 04:15 pm UTC (link)

"The Ministry is stupid," Dora agreed. "And I tried to do as little as I could to everyone." She'd had her reasons, something some people realized and some people didn't. "The Ministry has done a lot to a lot of people." And still did. It made her mourn, sometimes. Especially since her childhood ambitions had been to work her way up in the ministry.

Her eyebrows raised and she shook her head. "No, I don't. I've never much cared about blood values, despite appearances otherwise." Her finger tapped her forearm. "I like a lot of our traditions, but new is also all right. I was forced to join up to protect my family." Her accent was a bit more clipped, but she figured she owed him that much information, for as nice as he'd been being to her. "Muggles scare me sometimes, but I was never allowed among them when I was a child." She shrugged. If she ever was lucky enough to marry and have a child, she'd hopefully change that a bit. Her parents had been very protective in that regard, at least of the girl children.

"Sword play is fun," Dora told him. "I'll see if Rich would be all right with you coming to watch sometime. He's very good." Though she was learning very quickly. She did grin. "New can be fun. Liek this -- this is fun." She gestured at the car, and the drive. "I've never gotten out much like this."

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knowhow
2015-08-17 03:31 pm UTC (link)

Dominic shrugged. "There's good people and bad in every organisation." He knew good people in the Ministry, and he was simultaneously sure there were people still there who would drive him to fury with their outlook. Even before getting to Hogwarts and learning about the divide between purebloods and muggleborns, Dominic had had opportunity to learn that.

"Good then," he said, giving her a quirk of a smile. "And I don't hate you for being pureblood, or for what you had to do during the war. I'd say we should shake on it, but my hands are a bit busy." Speaking of which, he turned onto a wider road he thought he recognised. If he was right, there was a nice pub at the end of it with a beer garden and a duck pond. It was more the kind of place he associated with Luna than Pandora, but the food was good enough that the deliberately 'quaint' atmosphere wasn't worth worrying about. "Muggles scare me sometimes," he agreed. "Some of them." He didn't say it, but his mind had gone back to the recent bombings.

Dominic nodded, letting the topic drop for now until she'd spoken to her sparring partner. "I'm glad you're enjoying it," he said. "And now - I think it's time to stop for lunch." He gestured to the pub sign that was just close enough to be legible now.

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