InsaneJournal

Characters: Michael Corner & Dean Thomas
Setting: The Leaky Cauldron, 11 November 2003, 6:32pm
Rating: General Public
Summary: Dean wants to talk to Michael about Lavender and Michael is working.

Michael felt like he needed a break from work, even though he hadn't really been that busy lately. He hadn't picked up any extra shifts like he normally did because he'd been working on the dreamless sleep potion, which might be part of the reason why he was tired, but he figured most of it was worrying about Lavender. And having her around the flat was a little bit...confining to say the least. He wanted to help her, don't get him wrong, but now that she was there he felt like he'd made a bit of a mistake offering his place up so quickly. But then again she was having trouble with so many other of her friends right now he couldn't exactly expect her to just find somewhere else and regardless of how awkward it felt, he still wanted her somewhere he could protect her. It was a double-edged sword regardless of how he looked at it. He had to say that he was pretty glad to go to work, even if it meant leaving her there alone because he needed the time to himself. Dean had mentioned he'd be stopping by and it would be nice to catch up with him but he knew he was worried about Lavender and Michael knew that Seamus and Dean had both had disagreements with Lavender about Bianca, though Dean was generally more level headed than Seamus was so he could trust Dean to not lose his cool even if Lavender might. And knowing Lavender these days, well it was probably safe to say that she would lose her cool pretty often. It probably didn't help that her flat was broken into earlier that morning, not long after they'd moved her out of it. So it was sodding lucky they got her out when they did. And he'd felt a bit of a prat for feeling suffocated with her around when they found out because Merlin knew that she would be terrified after hearing that and why wouldn't she be? He had set who knows how many wards before leaving for work and had Lavender set her own and they set up a password as well so that no one could get into the flat without it. If it wasn't for the new information that Weasley had got them, Michael wouldn't have felt any hope at all at this point. But it was tainted now, because if Weasley had dueled with a brunette and there was a ginger breaking into Lavender's flat, was there two people now? Or was someone playing tricks on them? Michael thought about it as he wiped the counter and kept an eye out for Dean to arrive. He was going to take his break when he got there and hopefully it wouldn't be terribly sullen.