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Tweak says, "Hold your fire!"

Seamus Finnigan (openbottle) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-08-24 14:10:00

Entry tags:

character: alicia spinnet, character: dean thomas, character: dominic chambers, character: ernie macmillan, character: george weasley, character: hannah abbott, character: harry potter, character: lavender brown, character: oliver wood, character: seamus finnigan, character: susan bones, status: complete

Dean's Birthday!
Who: Open to: Dean, Seamus, Dominic, Susan, Ernie, Alicia, Lavender, Oliver, Harry, Hannah, George.
What: Dean's birthday party
Where: The Roost
When: Sunday afternoon/evening/night?
Rating: SFW - for now

There had been no big shouts of 'surprise', Seamus knew Dean far too well for that. He'd just lead him up to The Roost after Battlescars and let him push the door open to reveal a sandy floor, warm salt-and-coconut scented air and a 'Starry Night' sky. There was a bar at one end of the room, stocked and ready for people to help themselves (Seamus wasn't working tonight, though he'd doubtless end up there showing off his cocktail skills at some point). Along the side wall were tables for the food, already containing Aunt Rose's jerk chicken and Seamus's attempt at a pineapple upside down cake, vastly outdone by Aileen Finnigan's cherry cheesecake next to it. The rest of the large room was scattered with deckchairs, apart from a small decked area for dancing. The music of steel drums floated from nowhere and despite the bleak grey sky outside the room glowed with sunlight.

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

openbottle
2014-08-26 05:25 pm UTC (link)

Seamus lifted his head slightly from Dean's knee to shoot a mock-glare at Susan. This again. "If you were a Gryffindor, I'd dare you to go a whole week without implying we are more than friends." He didn't really care if people assumed they were together, but it galled him that their closest friends thought they should be and couldn't see that they were happy as they were.

He looked down at his sand-pile and shrugged, running his fingers through it. He'd be finding sand under his nails for weeks, no doubt. "I think Dominic might kill me if I tried interfering with his work, even if it was just to add water." He smiled, packing the sand back down with his hands to make it flat, and then drawing a smiley face in the surface with his finger. "Still works for this, though!"

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

artistdean
2014-08-26 06:54 pm UTC (link)

"What he said," Dean said, pointing vaguely in Seamus' direction. He could have come up with something to add, but he just couldn't be bothered, the comments were old, repetitive and boring.

He could't help but smile at the smile Seamus drew in the sand. It was a nice thing. Cheerful. Absently he shuffled some sand with the foot of the leg Seamus wasn't resting against to make a bit of a ledge for his feet, it didn't stay very well, but it was sort of entertaining to do.

"Yes. On the plus side, no sand anywhere painful yet, and before anyone decides to change this I will remind you I'm the birthday boy and that's mean!" he said, holding up a forefinger up to stop them and make his point.

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

susanamybones
2014-08-27 01:22 am UTC (link)

"Oh come off it, you wouldn't know what to do with yourselves if I weren't an interfering wench," she shot back with an easy smile. "Still, since it's your birthday, and since you imply that only Gryffindors can do dares - I hereby promise to not imply anything untoward for a fortnight."

Susan watched Dean and Seamus abstractly play in the sand and shook her head slightly. Boys would always be boys, even two war-damaged boys who were madly in love with one another.

Susan snorted. "I can tell you both from painful experience that any activity involving nakedness and the generous application of friction in a sandy location leads to ridiculous amounts of sand in places where it absolutely shouldn't," she said with a grimace, remembering a particularly interesting experience in Cornwall. "So as long as you don't get naked, I promise you won't get covered in sand - from me anyway, I can't speak for Charming here."

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

openbottle
2014-08-27 08:13 am UTC (link)

"I think the point is that we already know what to do with ourselves and you keep implying we should be doing other things," Seamus pointed out. Though 'implying' was far too generous a word for Susan's tactics. "You'll never last a fortnight." He looked up from where his hands had smoothed the sand once more, erasing the smiley face. "What do I get if I win?"

With a finger, he carefully drew the letters of Dean's name in the sand, adding his own so that the two words crossed on the 'e' of Dean and Seamus. "No nudity in my pub. It's a rule." He added Susan's name across the 'u' of his, and Ernie's to the final letter of Susan. "No sex in my pub either, Susan," he shot her a mock glare. He didn't think she'd really... (He hoped not, anyway.) He stared at the criss cross of letters he had made, trying to find a way to add Hannah or Dominic or Luna. In the end, after a look around the party for inspiration, he managed to add George, followed by Ginny. Or rather, Ginn - he shuffled back, leaning even more against Dean as he tried to create the space to add the 'y'.

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

artistdean
2014-08-27 11:44 am UTC (link)

Dean had given up on looking at what either of them was doing, and instead he was looking up at the 'Starry Night' inspired ceiling. He wasn't quite sure if he was just that drunk or if it was actually moving. He couldn't remember from when he arrived. He idly followed the swirls of colour with his eyes, his head moving ever so slightly. "Good things. Can't think. And two weeks of peace too!"

"You get naked in your pub," Dean pointed out, still fixated on the ceiling. "Well, your flat. Guess that's different." Not aware of what Seamus had been doing he was confused by the extra leaning and tore his eyes away, peering at Seamus. Taking a second or two to work it out he obligingly shuffled his leg a bit to give Seamus more space. He squinted a bit, trying to help with spaces for more names, but couldn't work it out and gave up with a huff.

"My mum's cousin's kids are mean, still sand where it's painful, less fun getting it there." He hadn't visited them in years, and quite frankly couldn't afford to now but they'd been as a family not long before Cat came along. The family didn't actually live that near a beach, but near enough to make a day trip or two.

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

susanamybones
2014-08-27 01:28 pm UTC (link)

"I could totally last a fortnight, Finnigan," she said, shaking her head defiantly. "Let's say if I mention anything of the sort over the next ten days say, you get to dare me to do something ridiculous - as long as it won't get me fired. What do you reckon Dean?" She narrowed her eyes, mentally calculating exactly how long she would have to go without mentioning the big, purple, glitter-covered, pole-dancing elephant in the room. She was also completely certain that they would both make it as hard for her as they humanly could. "Besides, you're both horrible, horrible men and I don't know why I put up with you," she added with a look of mock-anguish on her face. "Maybe I should just not talk to you both for two weeks? How would you like that hey?"

"I can't believe you just suggested that to me Seamus Finnigan. I would never get naked or have sex in your pub," she said in mock outrage. It was a blatant lie of course, there were at least two possible scenarios where she'd at least get naked in his pub, but the proper forms needed to be observed. "I have been naked in your flat but that is entirely different, as this was the closest place and Ernie and Hannah had to re-inflate my lungs, heal my shattered pelvis, and regrow six of my ribs - as you'll well remember!"

Her expression softening, Susan reached over and patted Dean's arm affectionately. "I'm sorry, handsome. That's a much less fun way to er, well achieve an un-fun end. Still, I hope Cat kicked sand in their faces in retaliation!"

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

openbottle
2014-08-27 03:58 pm UTC (link)

Seamus shook his head, not taken in by Susan's attempt at trickery. "Ten days is not a fortnight, Bones. Two weeks." He grinned at the idea of two blissful weeks without Susan nagging at either of them to 'admit' or 'realise' their feelings. He leaned back comfortably against Dean's leg, making full use of the extra space Dean had helpfully provided and looked at her - feeling smug. There was no way she could go two weeks without mentioning it. "You love us too much not to talk to us for two weeks. Besides, where would you drink?"

He rolled his eyes and tipped his head back, unknowingly mimicking Dean's absorption with the charmed ceiling. "Apparently everyone gets naked in my flat. And yet there's still no sex happening. What a waste." He waved away Susan's explanation, not liking to remember the awful wait while Ernie and Hannah had seen to her. They were supposed to be thinking happy thoughts, like Peter Pan. "That was not an invitation for anyone, other than me, to have sex in my flat!" he added hurriedly.

The leg he'd curled under him was beginning to tingle with pins and needles so Seamus kicked it back out, framing his handiwork with two bars of denim. He should probably have worn shorts... He wasn't sure he actually owned shorts, but he could have transfigured something. He reached up for Dean's hand, giving it a squeeze that was meant to say no one here is going to throw sand on you. Dean would know what he meant.

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

artistdean
2014-08-27 05:38 pm UTC (link)

"He's got a point, you'd totally not last without a place to drink for two weeks. And ridiculous dare is fine, after all we have two weeks to come up with something," he said. If she made them come up with something now it would be seriously lacking, his brain was definitely not up to normal speed.

Dean made a soft sound of agreement about the waste from lack of sex. "Poor Seamus, woe is you." He would have said he'd never been naked in Seamus' flat but it would have been a lie, what with him sometime stealing a shower if he'd stayed over, or been sweating a lot after a bad episode.

Tipping his head towards Susan he grinned. "Nah, I was about seven or eight, Jess was a toddler, maybe two, Cat hadn't arrived. Mum might have been pregnant, can't do maths now. They got told off though, they were meant to be looking after me. They were ten, twelve maybe?" He shrugged. "I don't remember it much, but there was a lot of yelling, scary women."

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

susanamybones
2014-08-28 02:21 pm UTC (link)

"Fine," she said, her resolve falling into place. "Two weeks!" In all honesty, not badgering Dean and Seamus couldn't possibly harder than say, taking down a ring of dark wizards, or indeed filling out the paperwork for an "unscheduled transformation event" for a colleague who still had residual charms in their system and tended to try and spit at anyone who came near them. At least, she fervently hoped that Seamus and Dean wouldn't be too outrageous with her over the scenario. "Do I, Finnigan? Do I love you?"

She gave Dean the sort of look that would have made a giant pause, and then prudently decide to head in the opposite, then smiled. "I suppose I can give you both two weeks to think of something horrendous, not too horrendous though," she added with a warning finger. "If I lose, which I'm not saying I will, but if I do, I don't want to have to do something horrid. If I do it will definitely only be Seamus who will be the only one to not be getting laid in his apartment." She underscored her words by poking her tongue out, and poking Seamus good-naturedly in the arm.

Susan laughed lightly. "Oh handsome, even then you had strong women looking after you. It must be some innate talent you have?"

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