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Greg Goyle (goyle_g) wrote in finnigans_rpg,
@ 2014-10-05 09:15:00

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character: blaise zabini, character: gemma farley, character: gregory goyle, character: millicent bulstrode, character: pandora montgomery

Happy Housewarming
Who: Greg, Pansy and open to invited guests.
What: Housewarming - drinks, food, Slytherin socialising.
Where: Greg's flat above McHavelock's Wizarding Headgear
When: Saturday night (let's pretend I didn't forget and fall asleep yesterday)
Rating: SFW? I'll update if not.

Pansy had organised the party, arranging and rearranging Greg's new furniture to suit herself while Greg looked on, moving what she told him to move and otherwise making himself helpful. She'd arranged for food and drinks, too and Greg tried not to wonder where the money was coming from. He doubted it was from his own suddenly inadequate Gringott's vault.

He had technically approved the guest list when Pansy had owled it to him earlier in the week, but he'd already basically forgotten who was on it. Marcus and Pansy, obviously, Astoria and Draco. Other Slytherins from their circle - Greg trusted Pansy's judgement on that. The wards were still up, but his door was open so that anyone could walk in from the street and up the stairs past Mrs McHavelock's shop.

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Re: Greg and Pandora

goyle_g
2014-10-09 03:59 pm UTC (link)

"I don't even know how many there are," he admitted. As far as he was concerned, Mrs McHavelock had an inexhaustible supply of cats - as well as a similar supply of complaints about him, the way he was treating 'her' flat and... everything else. Between her and George Weasley's customers, Greg would have gone back home if that had been an option. As it was - he kept telling himself he'd get used to it. "Thanks. That'd be good."

He nodded, sipping at his drink as Pandora more or less echoed his own thoughts. It was amazing what one could get used to. Greg just hoped he'd get used to think fast. He didn't like feeling uncomfortable in his own home, though wards might help some with that. "Where are you moving to?"

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Re: Greg and Pandora

pandacharms
2014-10-09 09:54 pm UTC (link)

"Not really sure yet, actually?" Pandora confessed, taking another sip of wine. "I was offered an apprenticeship and position and so I'll be wherever it's decided I should be put." She made a concerted effort to not be worried about it all. She wanted to snare the opportunity and take advantage of it, though if it was somewhere nice like she suspected, she knew it might spoil her if she had to go back to a tiny stamp of a place again later. "I should be finding out tomorrow. I don't have much, though, so moving won't take that long."

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Re: Greg and Pandora

goyle_g
2014-10-10 04:05 pm UTC (link)

Greg nodded. It wasn't too dissimilar to his own situation, except that Pandora had found a job first whereas he'd just been told to go find a flat and had picked the first one to present itself. "Still in the UK?" he asked, because as long as she was, she'd still be able to apparate easily to social gatherings. When you were a witch or wizard, that was really all that mattered. "I hope your new job is better than mine."

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Re: Greg and Pandora

pandacharms
2014-10-11 01:45 am UTC (link)

"Yes, here in London, I know that much," she said with a smile. "I'll have everyone over once I get settled and know what my schedule might end up being, since I'm still with the shop too." And her aunt didn't actually know about the new gig, so that would be interesting. "Thanks. It'll be... invigorating to say the least. What is it you're doing now?" she asked him.

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Re: Greg and Pandora

goyle_g
2014-10-11 07:41 am UTC (link)

"That's good, then." It was more something to say than something Greg particularly felt. He still wasn't used to London, but his mother had thought it was good for him to be here - something to do with it being a good way to improve their reputation after the war. Greg assumed the same was true for Pandora. "Sounds like you'll be busy. I'm working for Weasley." He didn't bother to specify which one. It wasn't something he really wanted to think about except during the hours he was actually at work.

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Re: Greg and Pandora

pandacharms
2014-10-11 08:58 am UTC (link)

"I like busy," she said, shrugging one shoulder a bit and sipping at her wine. Busy gave her outlets; busy gave her goals; busy gave her no chance to think on her past any more than she absolutely had to at any given time. Her eyebrows raised, surprised at this. "Oh, are you at the club?" she said, mistaking which Weasley he was working for. "A bouncer?" Her gaze swept over him, assessing and a little appreciative. "You have that tall, dark, muscular thing that would definitely do well for that."

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Re: Greg and Pandora

goyle_g
2014-10-11 11:34 pm UTC (link)

Greg shook his head, barely registering that there was a compliment in her words. As far as he was concerned, it was simple fact. Yes, he was tall and muscular and had dark hair. "Too noisy." Even so many years after his hearing had been restored, he still had some trouble with places designed to be loud. They were just... overwhelming. "George Weasley, at the shop." He didn't think he'd have liked working nights, either. He had his routine and he was sticking to it. It was about the only thing in his life that hadn't changed.

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Re: Greg and Pandora

pandacharms
2014-10-12 02:58 am UTC (link)

"Hm, can be, I suppose. I've not been yet, but I want to go dancing sometime." She prefered, in her pureblood heart, the formal dancing she'd learned as a child; but she could settle for a beat in her blood on occasion. "Well, that's not too bad. At least it won't be boring," she said. Not a job she'd want and she was a bit surprised at Greg, but sometimes you did what you had to do, she knew this intimately.

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Re: Greg and Pandora

goyle_g
2014-10-12 07:56 am UTC (link)

Not a fan of dancing of any kind, Greg scowled. He'd learned as a child, but had never been graceful or good at delicate movement so his parents had given up fairly quickly. "I don't like it," he said simply. It was true. The customers, the products - none of it suited him at all. It was just what he had to do. Get a job, and he'd got one. "Potter keeps coming in to stare at me."

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Re: Greg and Pandora

pandacharms
2014-10-12 08:16 am UTC (link)

"That's too bad," she said, and swayed her hips for a moment and grinned. "It can be a lot of fun, especially with the right partner." She tilted her head to the side and looked at him. "Well, you could try to find another, while you're still working this one," she suggested. "Oh gods, is he? That's awful. I've not had trouble with him yet, but some of the Aurors who buy from the shop lurk and watch me sometimes."

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Re: Greg and Pandora

goyle_g
2014-10-12 11:36 am UTC (link)

"I meant I don't like working at the shop," Greg clarified. He was quite used to people misunderstanding when he chose simply not to reply to a topic he had nothing further to add to. He didn't particularly like dancing either, but that wasn't what he'd meant, so he explained. He frowned again. He hadn't thought of trying to find another job. He supposed he could. There were other shops, maybe ones whose owners weren't connected to Potter. "I'm supposed to work on Diagon Alley or Monument Alley." That ruled out a lot of things.

He nodded, scowl deepening as he thought about Potter. It was rare that he could empathise with someone, but he could understand Pandora's problem with this. "He doesn't want me to sabotage Weasley's business."

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Re: Greg and Pandora

pandacharms
2014-10-13 03:38 am UTC (link)

"Can't say I blame you there. It doesn't seem like a place I'd enjoy either." She shrugged then. "Well, there a bunch of jobs along those two. Keep an eye out, someone could be hiring. If I hear of anything I'll let you know."

She snorted and gave him a commiserating look over her glass. "Oh yeah, like you'd jeapordizeyour payday for something like that." BBesides, she really couldn't see Greg doing sabotage. Wrecking a place, sure, but sabotage? It didn't seem like his particular skill set.

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	Re: Greg and Pandora goyle_g 2014-10-13 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	Greg smirked slightly, pleased that someone better with words than he was had said something not unlike what he'd told Potter. "That's what I told him." Not in as many words, of course, but that had been his general meaning. "Why would anyone bother?" he asked as an afterthought. He couldn't see any benefit to anyone in sabotaging Weasley's shop. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Greg and Pandora

pandacharms
2014-10-13 10:46 pm UTC (link)

She grinned, and it was a slightly wicked expression. "No point in going for the shop. If you're going to get revenge, get it on a personal level," she stated, shrugging a shoulder. "Spread rumors, be a cockblock, let a secret slip. Unless you can utterly destroy a shop, there's no point." She was a go big or go home person sometimes, but if she didn't think she'd succeed or thought she'd be caught, it was a no go. Dora was known for having a bit of a vengeful, vindictive streak though. "Besides, you don't have anything against him personally, right? So you're right, what's the point?"

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Re: Greg and Pandora

goyle_g
2014-10-15 01:47 pm UTC (link)

Greg frowned. He was a Slytherin, but not a particularly devious one and besides, he wasn't creative enough to come up with most of Pandora's suggestions. "I don't like him." Partly because he was a Weasley, partly because he didn't like his job. But it wasn't enough to prompt Greg to actually do anything more than complain. Besides, he was supposed to be being 'good', whatever that meant nowadays. "But he's not worth the trouble." By which Greg really meant he wasn't worth troubling Draco or Pansy to think about.

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	Re: Greg and Pandora pandacharms 2014-10-16 01:31 am UTC (link)
	"No, he's really not," she agreed. She smiled up at him and toasted him slightly with her glass. "I'll let you get on with some of your other guests," she told him, "but if I can do something to help out with this place or whatever, do let me know." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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