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friendlyjustin ([info]friendlyjustin) wrote in [info]finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-09-25 23:16:00

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Entry tags:character: justin finch-fletchley, character: wayne hopkins

Well, nice meeting you again.
WHO: Justin and Wayne
WHEN: End of morning, Friday 25th Sept.
WHERE: Diagon Alley, then Finnigan's.
WHAT: Looks like Justin bumps into someone he knows..
RATING: PG
STATUS: Ongoing/ask before joining.



Justin strolled around on Diagon Alley, checking the window fronts even though he wasn’t going to buy anything. He wasn’t really shopping, just passing time. Smiling, he noticed inside the Quidditch shop a father and his daughter, looking at brooms. The little girl wasn’t yet of Hogwarts age, but she seemed so passionate that Justin was sure she’d be playing once at school. Chuckling, he kept looking over his shoulder as he started walking again.

This week had seemed endless since his birthday party and he sighed, replaying some of the events. There were a number of things he shouldn't be doing and he had done a bunch of them anyway, starting by hiding it all from Ernie, which had backfired as soon as he drank alcohol. He really needed to be more careful now, in case Ernie would try to keep an eye on him.

Lost in his thoughts, he never saw the other man walking opposite to him and he bumped right into him. “Damn, I’m so, so, so sorry.” He apologized quickly, even before he looked at the other man.

That’s when he recognized him.

There was no way he could forgot him, ever. He hadn't come back, causing him his first heartbreak and now.. now he was standing right there in front of him. “Wayne?” he asked in an uncertain voice even though he was really certain it was him. Of course it was!! Justin would never, ever forget those eyes.



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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-26 03:56 am UTC (link)
Justin bit his lower lip and grinned. Yep, this was Wayne alright. He shook his hand and after what was a bit longer than acceptable for a handshake, he pulled Wayne to him and hugged the other man briefly before letting go, releasing a shaky breath. He wasn't used to physically touching someone he hadn't seen in so long, except for patients and he wasn't too sure what had brought him to do it.

“I’m doing fine. How..” He made a vague gesture with his hand. “How have you been?” He asked even though he wanted to ask where had he been this whole time? “It’s really been a while, you..” He shifted on his feet, suddenly way too nervous for the situation. “You didn’t come back.” Justin added quietly.

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[info]waynecymraeg
2014-09-26 08:55 am UTC (link)
“Yeah,” Wayne breathed after a moment. “Yeah, I...didn’t. Sorry, I...well. It’s a long story. But it’s good to see you doing so well.” As in, not dead or in prison or obviously suffering from long-term spell damage as a result of the war. As in, in one piece.
Ruling out how did you do doing the war and who all is still alive and who turned out gay, Wayne settled on “So, what do you do?” It was the only question he could think of that wasn’t terribly invasive or painful.

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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-26 02:25 pm UTC (link)
Justin tilted his head. Wayne seemed hesitant to talk about not coming back when they were at school, so he didn’t push it. Himself understood why some people didn’t want to go too deep into their past. Except for those who knew him, like Ernie or Susan, Justin didn’t like to talk about this part of his life either.

“Um, I’m a..” He blushed. Of course he would have preferred to be a Healer like Ernie, but his grades in Potions hadn’t been enough for him to pass on to NEWT level, thus stopping him from being able to enroll in Healing. “I’m a Mediwizard.” He loved his job and wasn’t ashamed of it, quite the contrary. It’s just that he didn’t like not achieving his goals.

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[info]waynecymraeg
2014-09-26 09:08 pm UTC (link)
"That’s,” Wayne replied, “fantastic. And obvious, now that I think about it. You always were talented like that.” Wow, Wayne thought to himself, try to say something more inane and/or stupid.

“Want to grab a drink? It’s…” He checked the time on his Nokia phone. “Probably socially acceptable at this hour. We can catch up.”

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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-26 10:23 pm UTC (link)
Nodding, Justin smile. “Sure,” he answered. “There’s Finnigan’s right around the corner, on Monument Alley. It’s Seamus’ and if we are lucky food will be good today.” He told Wayne excitedly with a very large grin. Of course it had nothing to do with seeing Seamus.. not at all. Hah!

“He’s been having problems with cooks lately.” He made a gesture that could look dismissive but he just didn’t want to go too deep into it.

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[info]waynecymraeg
2014-09-26 10:37 pm UTC (link)
"Seamus Finnigan, from Gryffindor, right? Our year?” Wayne was usually good with putting faces to names, but it had been almost a decade, after all. “So he’s got a pub of his own, that’s pretty cool. Shame about the cooks.” The idea of applying niggled at his brain, but with Wayne full-time at Maccy D’s and his side job in, ah, recreational herbology, his weeks were well packed. Plus, he reasoned, McDonald’s doesn’t quite count as preparing actual food for people to eat.

“The beer’s all right, though, right?” he asked, digging into his pockets, trying to gague how much money he had on him at the moment. Hard to tell without spilling his pockets onto the street, though.

“Lead the way. Don’t think I’ve heard about Monument Alley. Is that part of that new thing?” He’d heard very little about goings-on in the wizarding world, until his mum told him something new was going on in London, and to go be with his kind. He assumed she meant either wizards or people his age. Maybe both. Either way, she threw him out on his ear and told him to find somewhere else to live.

“So what else is everyone else up to?” He figured that question could be innocuous enough, or at least be dodged if it were dangerous.

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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-27 12:35 am UTC (link)
Leading the way, Justin smiled. Heh, just like old times! It really did feel like they’d only parted at the end of the semester and were catching up after summer. “Monument Alley is kind of a revamp of Knockturn Alley.” He told Wayne. “Got cleaned up and all.”

“And yeah, that’s the Seamus Finnigan you remember.” He told Wayne, blushing a little. “Or not quite, I mean..” He ran his hand through his already tousled hair and smiled shyly. Seamus was way better looking now than he had been back at school. Besides, Justin had had a soft spot for someone else back then.

“Um, Ernie’s a Healer at the Janus Thickey Ward. Hannah’s a Midwife and Susan works in the Auror Department. Potter, Weasley and Longbottom are there too. And um..” He tried to think about who else did what. “Lavender Brown is a Hit Witch.”

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[info]waynecymraeg
2014-09-27 12:46 am UTC (link)
Wayne nodded along - all his classmates’ chosen careers seemed ideal for their personalities and talents, at least as Wayne remembered them.

“Hit witch, Lavender Brown,” he repeated. “That’s...terrifying. Not surprised that so many of the Gryffindors went the Auror route. So do you work with Ernie, then?” he asked, following Justin towards what he assumed to be Seamus’s pub. He probably had enough for the first round for both of them.

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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-27 12:52 am UTC (link)
“I don’t really..” He said, then he cleared his throat. “I work in the Emergency Room mostly. I like the weird shifts and sometimes it gets really busy, it’s kind of fun.” Justin wanted to avoid talking about that ward as much as he could. He didn’t mind people close to him knowing about his healing time at the ward after the war, but this wasn’t really something he felt comfortable talking about in a catch up conversation.

“I did spend a week there, covering for someone else. It was kind of fun to finally be able to work together.” It was true that while his week had been emotionally hard and draining, he had been looking forward to work with his friend.

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[info]waynecymraeg
2014-09-27 12:56 am UTC (link)
"That must have been cool, to work with a friend rather than trying to turn coworkers into friends. It doesn’t surprise me at all that everyone has cooler jobs than me, though, granted, the jobs cooler than fast food is quite a broad field.” Wayne wasn’t normally self-conscious about his terrible job, but it was coming back to him how much more talented and qualified and, well, rich, his Hogwarts classmates were.

The number of his former classmates working to support a child they barely saw was probably in the...ones. Probably just him, he figured.

Justin led them into a pub that, while it was still early in the afternoon, seemed to be...well, “buzzing” was probably pushing it, but they weren’t the only customers.

Wayne picked a two-seater table near the window, to make best use of the daylight while it was burning. He reached a fist into his pocket, withdrawing what turned out to be an assortment of Muggle change, straw wrappers, some AA chips, and...aha! He plucked out a few galleons from among the mess spread out on the table. “I can get the first round.”

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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-27 01:00 am UTC (link)
Justin sat across from Wayne, but still had a view of the bar. “”What? No, no.” He said, shaking his head. “I wouldn’t dream of it.” He told his former classmate. He really didn’t like to let his friend pay for him because even though he was pretty much on his own, he was still better off than most people.

“Well, let me tell you that if it wasn’t for people working in the fast food industry… there would be no fast food and I’d starve.” He said seriously to Wayne. “Okay, I might not always be eating fast food, but still.. restaurants need to run for those poor blokes who can’t cook to save their lives.” Even with You Tube, he hadn’t managed to make pancakes for Seamus, for Goodness’ sake!!

He looked down at the table and his eyes narrowed, though not accusingly before looking up at Wayne. “You doing okay about these, though?” He asked, as tactful as he could, nodding towards the AA chips.

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[info]waynecymraeg
2014-09-27 01:10 am UTC (link)
“Nah,” Wayne shrugged dismissively, self-consciously picking out the wizarding money and shoving the rest of the mess back into his pocket. “It’s not really a thing. Always got snagged around step three. No biggie.”

The less said about that, the better. “Did you finish out all seven years, then? Leave and get twenty A-levels? Travel the world? What all have you been up to?”

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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-27 01:16 am UTC (link)
Justin could understand that Wayne wouldn’t want to talk about AA, just as much as he didn’t want to talk about what had happened to him during that year. He froze for a moment, trying to figure out what to say. Anyone who knew that he was a Muggleborn knew that he either went on the run or got captured and the question wasn’t often asked.

“I um..” He swallowed, his saliva really thick and making it hard for him. “I went back.” he looked away, his face flushed as a flash came to him. They weren’t really happening as often as before but once in a while, he’d get triggered especially if questions were being asked by people he hadn’t shared this with before.

“So, um..” He ran his hand in his hair again. “Why didn’t you come back though? I know a few parents got scared but um..” Justin mostly wondered why Wayne hadn’t owled.

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[info]waynecymraeg
2014-09-27 02:29 am UTC (link)
"Oddly enough," Wayne sighed, rolling his eyes at his own stupidity, "I was just stupid, and it was my stupid ass that...let me start over." Taking a deep breath, Wayne steeled himself. He'd be telling this story a lot in the coming weeks, he figured. May as well start here and now, with Justin.

Where to start, though.

Wayne shifted his weight in the seat, drawing his wallet out of his back pocket. Opening the billfold, Wayne picked out a photo from between bank notes.

It was a cute picture, and seeing it always made him stop and smile, even though it was frayed and taped over.

"His name is Rhys," he said, handing the photo to Justin. In the picture, a little boy of about six was smiling broadly, showing off his three front missing teeth.

"He turns eight this November," he finished, knowing that Justin would quickly do the math, then understand why Wayne hadn't returned to Hogwarts. Even at age sixteen. Though, Wayne and Llinos had both been fifteen when....

Wayne waited to breathe until Justin said something.

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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-27 02:55 am UTC (link)
He picked up the picture and studied the features for a while before he even said anything. “You have a son..” He said. It wasn’t really a question, but he was mostly stating a fact so that it would compute in his own mind. Sure a few of the people he knew had children, but no one had had a child in their teenage years. “Wow..” He whispered almost in disbelief.

“He’s got..” There was something about Rhys that made Justin smile and he chuckled. “He’s definitely yours, he’s got that glint of mischief in his eyes. Just like you.” He blushed and gave the picture back. Himself had thought about having children at some point, but he wasn’t in a relationship and it could take him a while before his level of comfort brought him there.

He could understand why Wayne hadn’t come back now. He had a family now.

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[info]waynecymraeg
2014-09-27 03:53 am UTC (link)
"Yeah." Wayne let the moment sink in.

"So," he continued, "the natural upside of having a kid at sixteen means you can't use magic because of the Trace, plus the mom being a muggle, plus moving to the welsh countryside to live with her gran and help with the kid, means you just..." He shrugged. "Slip through the cracks."

Being a depressing statistic can help save your life, who knew?

"So yeah. Cause I stuck around, made it ten times better than most kids in our situation, which trust me...not an anomaly."

He drummed his fingers, waiting impatiently for his pint. A moment later, it thumped on the table in front of him, and he took a long drink.

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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-27 01:42 pm UTC (link)
Justin said thank you for his soda and stared at Wayne. So much responsibility so early.. “Makes you a better man than most, in that case, you know..” It was sincerely spoken. Wayne had always been a good person and the fact that he had given up school to help raise his child made him way better than a lot of men he even knew in the Muggle World.

“How are you handling it though?” He knew he should probably be giving Wayne back. It had probably taken him all he had in terms of courage to tell Justin what had happened and why would Justin himself hide? Besides, it was really an innocent question.. it had nothing to do with that nagging question in the back of his mind: Was he still with the Mum?

His hands started to shake and he panicked a little at the idea of telling him how things had gone for him while Wayne was away. Sure thing, Wayne would probably just look at him with pity like the rest of them and he didn’t want that. Everyone’s experience during the war was different and just as bad.

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[info]waynecymraeg
2014-09-27 08:02 pm UTC (link)
"Nah, it's fine," Wayne dismissed, waving a hand. "Like I said, not exactly uncommon."

Well, then. He'd told someone, and the world hadn't ended.

He'd also made it sound casual and easy. It hadn't been, but he didn't want anyone's pity.

"So now I'm in London, because my mum threw me out on my arse and told me to, and I quote, 'get a fucking life and be with my own fucking people.'" Wayne embellished his statement with air quotes.

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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-27 09:56 pm UTC (link)
Justin frowned. “Now that’s just terrible.” He told Wayne though it wasn’t pity he was expressing. He was miffed at her. “But wait..” He was also very confused Wayne had said he had been living with his girlfriend’s gran to raise the baby and now his mother had kicked him out?

“There is a part you missed in between raising the baby and living again with your mum, I think.”

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[info]waynecymraeg
2014-09-27 09:58 pm UTC (link)
Wayne blinked. "Oh. Right. Um."

Where's he leave off? What'd he skip?

"Llinos - that's her name - didn't need me so much once Rhys started in nursery, so I moved back in with my mum. I figured, save on rent, send more money to Llinos and Rhys...I had steady work, but I guess I took my mum's hospitality for granted." And she'd put her foot down about the pot.

"So here I am."

Wayne finished with a shrug and punctuated with another long drink of beer.

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[info]friendlyjustin
2014-09-27 10:10 pm UTC (link)
He tilted his head on the side again. She had dumped him once Rhys had started nursery!? And didn’t Wayne’s mother understand that it was better for everyone if he didn’t have to worry about rent and supporting a child!? He buried his indignation, frowning as it really couldn’t be deep enough for him to not show at all.

He sipped his soda before he even relaxed about it. “So here you are.” he replied, nodding and biting his lower lip.

“Um,” he cleared his throat. “How much do you know about what happened after you left?” he asked carefully.

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