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Tweak says, "Just a little too slow!"

Susan Amelia Bones (susanamybones) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-10-04 20:15:00

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character: lucy spinks, character: susan bones

RP: Lucy and Susan's Excellent Adventure
Who: Lucy and Susan

What: Susan and Lucy go shopping for clothes for Lucy

Where: London

When: Saturday, 4 October

Rating: SFW, possibly some swearing from Susan.

Susan got to the Leaky Cauldron slightly before she was meant to meet Lucy. She'd taken the time to change some Galleons over to Muggle pounds - a process which, though arduous, had proved to be highly amusing given the deeply affronted manner with which the Goblins had handed her the money.

She settled down at the table and began rummaging around in her new bag, impatiently setting the camping stool and packed up Wizards tent back in the correct compartment before grabbing her book. She'd only read a couple of pages when she looked up and saw her friend. "Hell darling," she said with a huge smile. "Ready are you?"

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addingvalue
2014-10-17 04:17 pm UTC (link)

Lucy bit her lower lip lightly. She'd never thought about putting charms on shoes... That would actually be really useful! She'd tried the sticky gel things you could buy to put in shoes but never found they really worked. "How long do the charms last?" she asked, wondering whether she could ask Susan to cast them for her and have them hold up until her event. She didn't like the idea, but she was curious about how well they would work and whether she could really walk in heels for the first time. "Red lipstick? If you say so."

She considered the dress Susan pulled out and frowned. "Can we get something a bit more... colourful?" If she was going to go for the fierce young woman look she thought black was a bit boring. She picked out a similarly-shaped dress in deep electric blue. "I suppose this wouldn't go with red lipstick?"

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susanamybones
2014-10-18 03:11 pm UTC (link)

She turned and looked at Lucy in surprise. "Well I mean, I'm not a charm mistress so I couldn't make them last indefinitely, but I think I could definitely manage a month depending on how much you wear them?" She looked down at her own shoes and squinted, considering. "Yeah I reapply the charms about once a month generally?" She continued walking for a moment, giving Lucy a deeply amused look. "Red. Definitely red. Just a suggestion though."

She nodded and put the dress back. "Absolutely, colourful is definitely the way to go as well, though a little black dress is something every woman should have in their wardrobe. She looked at the blue dressed and grinned wolfishly. "Okay so that I like, you have to try it on," she said enthusiastically. "As for the lipstick, it'll just be a case of going for a cold-red as opposed to a warm-red. Suit your colouring much more I think anyway."

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addingvalue
2014-10-19 09:14 am UTC (link)

Lucy absorbed that information, but kept quiet. She really didn't want to ask for help - ever again if she could manage it - but actually being able to wear heels for once... She pushed the dilemma away. She could decide later, when they'd actually found some shoes. Until then, there was no point worrying.

"Alright," she agreed, hooking the coat hanger with the blue dress over two fingers. "Shall we find a few more to try on, too?" She generally found it was more efficient that way than trying one thing at a time. She shrugged at Susan's comments about lipstick. "I wouldn't know the difference between cold-red and warm-red. You'll have to find me something right." This, at least, she was willing to ask for help with.

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susanamybones
2014-10-19 02:04 pm UTC (link)

Susan hummed to herself as Lucy fell silent again, no doubt getting prickly about the idea of Susan performing the any sort of magic for her. It was a shame, she mused, that Lucy seemed so obstinate about magic; it would have made her life immeasurably easier. Well, in the present it would have made things easier, during the War perhaps not so much, but still. She shook her head and focused on not smacking into pole.

"Absolutely," Susan replied, picking up an emerald green dress in a similar style, and after a moment, a deep burgundy one as well. "How about these," she asked, handing them over. She smiled slightly at Lucy's declaration but shook her head. "It's not anything esoteric, it's just..." she looked around for inspiration to try and explain. "It's the difference to a red thats got more orange in it, and a red that has more blue in it? Does that make any sort of discernible sense or do I sound like a madwoman?"

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