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Tweak says, "Is THAT the SAME outfit!?"

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

artistdean
2014-08-26 11:33 am UTC (link)

"Nooo, no sleeping yet. Dancing," he said with determination, wriggling them further apart and trying to spin himself, arms in the air. Of course that only made him stumble, giggle and almost fall to the floor. "Oops."

"And no squishing, squishing is bad." He reached over to pat Seamus' head and missed by several inches. "Maybe I should si' down," he said, feeling less and less coordinated and slurring slightly. Those umbrella drinks were more alcohol than he'd drunk in a long time.

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

susanamybones
2014-08-26 11:48 am UTC (link)

Susan looked at Seamus with vast amusement. "Dean is 'handsome' because he is handsome, and because of a conversation we had a long time ago. You are sweetcheeks because you won't let me call you Shay, and because I can't call both of you handsome as that would be dreadfully confusing."

Momentarily thanking her lack of high heels - a fact that she would have vehemently denied under oath in front of the entire Wizengamot - Susan stepped out of the way of Dean, who currently had all the grace and poise of a troupe of ballerinas attempting to dance on lego bricks, on a cruise liner, during a hurricane. "Squishing is bad," she agreed, having escaped squishing. "Why don't we go sit down, handsome," she added, shooting Seamus significant eye contact.

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

openbottle
2014-08-26 01:48 pm UTC (link)

Seamus wrinkled his nose. He'd never been able to explain why but he just didn't like 'Shay' as a nickname. "There are other things you could call me," he said, then bit his lip knowing he'd just given Susan the perfect excuse to heap insulting or embarrassing pet names on him forever more. "Dean's handsome, but I could be..." His hands moved aimlessly as he tried to think of adjectives that could describe him. "Charming? Funny? Best best friend ever?"

He nodded enthusiastically along to Susan's suggestion of sitting. He didn't much fancy being brained by Mr Giraffe. "There's two chairs over there," he said, pointing with his elbow while he tried to get Dean to stand still - a job that required both hands. "You two sit, and I will build sandcastles at your feet and look up at you like the giants you are." Though, actually, without her heels Susan was ever so slightly shorter than he was.

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

artistdean
2014-08-26 02:22 pm UTC (link)

"No, but you're my best friend ever," Dean said with a pout. What Dean mostly called Seamus was idiot, but he generally said it with a lot of affection.

Dean laughed and squirmed as Seamus tried to hold him still, breaking away towards the chairs. "To sit!" he said, enthusiastically. He was slightly less drunk that his sheer enthusiasm suggested, but only slightly. He was just so joyful that he couldn't help playing into it. And being silly with his friends was just a thing of pure joy in a way he didn't experience often. He was joyful, just not like this.

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

susanamybones
2014-08-26 03:13 pm UTC (link)

"Alright Charming, whatever you say," Susan replied to Seamus so sweetly, that it was almost as though sugar syrup dripped from her mouth instead of words. "Besides," she said, turning a mock-stern glare on Dean. "You're both my best-friends. I'm a Hufflepuff, I'm constitutionally allowed to have several."

Shaking her head slightly at Dean's euphoric antics, she followed at a more sedate pace, graciously taking the seat proffered by Seamus. Dean's joy was utterly infectious, and she leant back in utter contentment. "I'm a very lucky girl you know," she said as her lack of motion allowed the impressive amount of alcohol she'd consumed to rush through her body. "I'm sitting here with Prince Handsome and Prince Charming. It's almost like we should be off looking for the Fountain of Fair Fortune."

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

openbottle
2014-08-26 04:07 pm UTC (link)

As he'd said he would, Seamus sat in the sand at their feet, between the two of them, but with his head tilted back to rest against Dean's knee. "I am the best friend ever," he said, looking at Dean, a little upside down. It wasn't, perhaps, the most flattering view. "But yours, yes." He loved Susan, and Ernie, and all the others. Sometimes it amazed him he had room in his heart for so many people. Other times, it seemed like the reason he couldn't seem to fit a boyfriend in too. Still, Dean was his best best friend and everyone knew it.

Seamus tucked one leg under him, endeavouring to build some kind of structure out of the dry sand. It didn't work, not without water to cement it with. Mostly, he was able to produce a roughly triangular pile of sand. "Mmm. But we already know how lucky we are to have what we have," Seamus pointed out. "The fountain couldn't do much, could it. I mean, the tales say it's not actually magical."

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

artistdean
2014-08-26 04:29 pm UTC (link)

Dean flopped down into the chair rather heavily purely because he lacked the coordination to be gentle about it. Then he settled himself in to just sit for a while, smiling as Seamus lent against him.

"Definitely lucky. I have lovely friends, and a lovely party, and lovely presents, well the ones I've seen were lovely," he said thoughtfully. He was tempted to pull his wand out and summon the unopened presents, but the sensible part of his mind thankfully intervened before he tried that.

"Y' need water, doesn't stick without water," he said, nudging Seamus gently with his food. He remembered trying to make sandcastles with dry sand on a variety of trips to the beach.

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Re: Dean, Susan and Seamus

susanamybones
2014-08-26 04:54 pm UTC (link)

"Yes," Susan agreed winsomely from her relaxed position. "You are the best friends ever. Which is why half the people in this room think you've had a shag before." Not for the first time, Susan idly wondered what exactly it would take for the two of them to admit their feelings for one another. After a moment's thought, she rather regrettably thought it might involve some sort of threat to the planet culminating in Seamus getting in a spaceship to destroy an asteroid as they'd seen in a movie Dean had made them watch a few weeks previous.

"We're all lucky," she replied with her eyes closed. "We are here, you know? There is nothing stopping us, nothing terrible..." she made a rather esoteric hand gesture which she thought proved her point rather more eloquently then words would have at that particular moment.

She cracked and eye open and shot Seamus a withering look, before giggling. "You can't build a castle without mortar, charming. You need water, or the blood of the innocent, or some sort of delicious alcoholic libation... something like that."

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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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