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Lucy Spinks (addingvalue) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2015-07-30 16:19:00

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character: lucy spinks, character: zacharias smith

Paperwork & Lunch
Who: Zacharias and Lucy
What: Lunch after sorting paperwork
Where: Starting in the Ministry
When: Thursday 30th July, lunchtime
Rating: SFW

Zacharias had been incredibly helpful with showing Lucy the way to the right department and answering all her questions. There wasn't a lot they could do about the floo network yet, though Zacharias had shown Lucy where to go for next time, but they'd got all her apparition licence paperwork filled in and she was registered with a Ministry-approved tutor to start lessons in the next couple of weeks. It was certainly an enormous improvement on the last time she'd been in this building, though she still felt slightly uncomfortable facing down the Ministry officials - still not entirely certain she belonged.

"You were amazing," she said when they walked out of their last meeting, the relief of knowing the ordeal was over allowing her a genuine smile. "That was so much easier than I thought it was going to be." She paused, not sure where they were headed now and not wanting to accidentally walk into any area she shouldn't be. "Thank you for coming with me. It helped a lot. Do you still want to go for lunch?" Since Zacharias hadn't been able to make it to her birthday, she was keen to spend some time chatting about non-administrative things - but also aware that he might still be busy.

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addingvalue
2015-08-04 09:12 am UTC (link)

Lucy nodded her understanding. "Sounds like work's been busy for you," she observed. "Do you think it'll calm down soon?" She really didn't understand what Zacharias did at all, so she had no idea whether it was work that came in waves of busy and then calm, or how much control he had over the amount he took on. Presumably, he was allowed to talk about that - as long as he didn't give her any details of what the work actually was. Lucy doubted she'd be able to follow it if he did.

She stepped into the lift, leaning against the back wall as she tried to remember the last book she'd read. "I just finished a book about Anne Boleyn," she said. "A fictional account, definitely not something that stuck to historical fact. It was totally sensational - but I quite enjoyed it. Now my sister is trying to convince me to read some new thing about vampires... but it sounds ridiculous."

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unspeakableness
2015-08-09 05:36 am UTC (link)

He nodded a little at her comment about it sounding like work had been busy for him. With various deadlines and projects, as well as a whole other batch of work for the Committee on Experimental Charms, sometimes he wondered how he managed to find time to sleep without a Time Turner. "I'm not sure," he answered honestly. "I think so, but I'm not sure at the moment. I guess it depends on how some things go." Which was true. Vague, but true. If things fell into place, then he thought he'd have more free time than he currently had. If not, well, he supposed he'd be working late.

Once inside the lift, Zacharias pressed the floor button the cafeteria was on. Zacharias listened as Lucy spoke, and part of him thought these books were possibly Muggle. He assumed so, at least. Especially if her sister were trying to get her to read one about vampires since, if he were remembering right, she was a Muggle. Sometimes he liked historically based books, but other times he wasn't that into them. Still, he asked, "What's the Anne Boleyn book called?"

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addingvalue
2015-08-10 04:13 pm UTC (link)

"Well, I hope they do," Lucy said as the lift start to move. "Stacey says you've been working too much." A smile played around Lucy's mouth as she remembered the conversation in question. It had been so good to see Stacey and Megan together again, like being back at school - but better. "Do you enjoy it, though? I know you can't talk about it much."

Lucy hesitated for a moment at his question, trying to call the book cover to mind. "Oh, The Other Boleyn Girl," she recalled. "I suppose it's supposed to be more about Anne's sister - but it's about both, really." Lucy's Tudor history was sketchy at best, she'd covered it a little in primary school and she could remember the order of Henry VIII's wives, but had no idea whether Anne Boleyn even had a sister. "There are more coming out, or maybe they're already out. I don't remember." The arrived at the right floor, and Lucy let Zacharias precede her out of the lift with a laugh. "How nice to arrive the proper way this time," she said. "I crashed into someone on the stairs last time I was here."

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