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Lucy Spinks (addingvalue) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-10-02 14:57:00

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character: lucy spinks, character: wayne hopkins

Sandwiches
Who: Wayne and Lucy
What: Sandwiches, swapping lifestories, who knows?
Where: Leicester Square/Covent Garden
When: Thursday evening
Rating: NSFW - Language (I predict)

Knowing she was meeting Wayne after work, Lucy had worn a t-shirt under he work blouse. It paired oddly with her formal black work trousers, but who could be bothered to carry jeans to work and change properly? When she'd finally wrangled the numbers for the latest bus trip into some kind of order, she unbuttoned the blouse and left it at her desk to take home another day. She always wore flat shoes to work, so at least she was sorted there. The trip to Leicester Square station was easy, and one she'd made before, so all that was left was to stand outside and hope Wayne either used the same exit or thought to walk round and find her. They hadn't exchanged mobile numbers, but Lucy was fairly sure she'd recognise him. She hoped.

She bounced on the balls of her feet as she waited, wishing she hadn't skipped rock-climbing yesterday but knowing she'd had to in order to take off from work as early as she had today. She'd have to nag her housemates into a game of football this weekend, or the pent up energy was going to be the death of her. But for now, she was excited to see Wayne again!

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waynecymraeg
2014-10-03 10:16 pm UTC (link)

Wayne spent a solid half-hour getting lost in the Underground system, which worked well considering he'd planned an extra half-hour in his timetable in order to get himself found again.

That still meant that he was running a little behind, and apparently had gotten off the train at the wrong place, so there were a frantic few moments when he'd walk a few steps, look around, walk a few more steps, and jump up to see over people's heads (but in what he was sure was a dignified fashion).

There she was! She...wow. "SPINKS!" he called, pushing his way through people toward her. He was going to have to get used to seeing his childhood friends all grown up. Or, well. Maybe not 'up,' in Lucy's case.

"Hello tiny person!" he said, grabbing her up into a hug-and-spin-around. It was what he'd called her often in school, mostly out of solidarity - after all these years, he was still only 5'7". A whole fucking inch taller than Martin Freeman.

"How the hell have you been?"

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addingvalue
2014-10-04 10:57 am UTC (link)

Lucy heard her name before she spotted Wayne and seconds later there were arms around her and she was off her feet being spun around. "Hopkins!" She wrapped her arms around his neck and laughed. Once he put her down she pushed at him. "Get back and let me look at you!" He did and she gave him a once over followed by a deliberate whistle. "Well hello handsome!"

She couldn't pinpoint why it was so much more comfortable seeing Wayne than it had been seeing Susan, Ernie and Hannah. Seeing them had been great! But she'd felt a little guilty the whole time, like she owed them an explanation, like she didn't quite fit with them now they were all grown up and living in the magical world with real jobs and homes and... Maybe it was knowing Wayne had left Hogwarts even before she had, maybe it was that they'd always been on a level with one another whereas she'd felt she relied on the others in a dependent way she'd never really liked. Whatever it was, "It is so fucking good to see you!"

She looped her arm through Wayne's and started to weave their way out past the crowd around the station and towards her favourite sandwich place. It was cheap and cheerful (at least, for London) but the food was really good; big filling baguettes and enormous muffins and salads. "I've been good! How much have you heard? I left Hogwarts the year after you did." She didn't even ask why he had left. People leaving school at that age wasn't something that was particularly unusual in the circles she'd grown up in.