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Dean Thomas (artisgratia) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2011-12-01 21:45:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 05 2003, character: dean thomas, character: ron weasley

Drink up, me hearties
Characters: Dean and Ron
Setting: A muggle pub in London mid-afternoon (say, 2 PM) Wednesday November 5th
Summary: Dean drags Ron out to a pub to see how he's doing, though he already knows the answer to that.
Rating: Worksafe, but will probably have some cursing

Dean sighed as he finished putting away the last of the clean dishes. Lunch with Justin had been nice, but Dean had mentioned his concern for Ron and how he was seeing him later the same afternoon. Dean had the feeling that this would not be the easiest drinking session he'd ever had.

Dean picked a muggle pub not too far from the Blackpool area. He might run into a few folks he knew, but they were unlikely to know Ron, and thus even less likely to come up and offer sympathies for his loss. He'd let Ron know where to meet him and then headed over. Shortly thereafter he was seaed at at table, with an eye peeled for Ron at the entrance.

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pigwidgeoned
2011-12-08 06:09 am UTC (link)

"We were trying to be good dormmates. Didn't want you to feel left out or anything." It would have been impossible for Dean to have been left out with Seamus always being around, but it was an amusing joke none-the-less. Ron shrugged a shoulder and simply said, "Maybe," though he wouldn't be going anywhere else after this.

Ron took a longer drink before he would reply to Dean's question. It was an easy question and it wasn't one that he really minded answering per se, but he still felt awkward for some reason. A little bit like himself but also still uncomfortable about being here to begin with. "Mum mostly. Ginny didn't care, though I thought she would. Haven't heard from Perce about it yet. No one else has said anything really. Most people are afraid of me right now. Think I've gone a bit funny and am going to end up in St. Mungo's pretty soon, I bet." He'd wondered that himself a few times—he actually wondered if it wouldn't be so bad of a place to go. He could spend his time with Lockhart, answer some fanmail like Harry had done in second year.

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artisgratia
2011-12-09 03:48 pm UTC (link)

"Better ones would have said, 'Shove off mate, you smell. Go have a bathe before you come back'," Dean continued. "Seamus must have no sense of smell if that's the case," he added with a small smile.

He snorted at the last thing Ron said. "What do they expect, you to act like nothing's happened? Or do they expect textbook displays of grief? You can't predict how someone responds in a situation like this, but what you can do is be who and what they need to get through it. If you can and if they let you." He shrugged one shoulder. "Likely people are tiptoeing around you because they don't know how you're reacting yet."

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pigwidgeoned
2011-12-09 11:17 pm UTC (link)

Ron smirked. "It is Seamus you're talking about here. You know that he spends most of his time blowing shite up in his face."

Ron listened to Dean's explanations, a bit surprised that he actually sort of understood where Ron was coming from. Well, a little anyways. He shrugged as well, drinking his larger, not really sure how to respond to all that. "I dunno, mate, but to be honest, I don't really care either. I'm not worried about what they think of me and if they want to help me. I don't want their help. No one is going to be able to help me through something like this."

Ron's voice dropped to almost a whisper when he said, "I'm not sure there is any getting through this.

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artisgratia
2011-12-13 02:37 am UTC (link)

"Well if anyone were to set fire to his own nose and burn off the ability to smell, it'd be him," Dean conceded.

Dean listened to Ron and felt, well not pity, but a sure of sympathy. He couldn't pretend to know exactly how Ron felt; he hadn't been as close to Harry. his own best friend was also his boyfriend and he couldn't imagine Seamus being gone. He didn't even want to try. "You need someplace you can be when you want everyone to just shove off. I'd suggest telling only one or two people where it is, but not when you go. If only in case something happens, they know where to find you, but wouldn't be likely to actually follow you there and bother you. Anyhow,you might very well just need an escape, at least for a little while."

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pigwidgeoned
2011-12-17 07:03 am UTC (link)

The idea sounded nice. Getting away on holiday, being on his own, doing whatever he wanted for himself, whenever he wanted for however long he wanted. Even if it sounded nice, it wasn't going to happen. There was too much shite going on right now and the DMLE was up to it's neck in death and no one had any idea who or what or why and as far as he could see, none of them were going to get a holiday until they figured out who was behind all this.

Ron sighed and took a drink from his larger. He held it up to Dean in a gesture of thanks. "It's a nice idea, but it wouldn't be possible. Not now. And maybe I just need to get back to work anyway."

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artisgratia
2011-12-19 08:02 pm UTC (link)

Dean nodded. "What you often want or need most is hardest to get," he murmured, more to himself than to Ron, and then finished off his drink. At Ron's last comment Dean pursed his lips. "Working might help. Might help keep your mind off things." Possibly. If anything it'd give Ron some kind of focus, he hoped at least.

"Another?" He gestured at Ron's lager with his own empty one.

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