InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "Hey Stud. You want to dance?"

michael corner is reluctantly growing up (mlcorner) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2012-01-09 22:15:00

Entry tags:

!status: complete, ^date: november 11 2003, character: dean thomas, character: michael corner

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.

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

mlcorner
2012-01-17 09:33 pm UTC (link)

Michael took a drink of his pumpkin juice just as Dean mentioned that he thought that way about Seamus and began to cough on his drink, which seemed to go down his throat the wrong way. He was not really prepared for that sort of comment, or at least what it might imply about himself and Lavender, and it put him a bit on edge. He certainly didn't have a problem with Seamus and Dean's relationship, but other people thinking of him and Lavender in such a way - well he wasn't ready for that quite yet. Or ever, really. When he was able to speak again, Michael said, "Yeah well, she's hard to get through to sometimes so I can understand that. I don't think she is ready to sever her ties with everyone, I think she's just overwhelmed."

Michael nodded in agreement, a frown creasing his brow. "Yeah, it's about time to get together again. We've got plenty to discuss, what with Ron's situation and now Lavender's. I wish we could meet because of something good happening and not something awful." That was really all that seemed to happen these days though.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

artisgratia
2012-01-18 03:22 pm UTC (link)

Dean's eyes widened as Michael suddenly choked. "You all right, mate?" His concern was tempered though when Michael continued speaking - if he could talk he wasn't choking. Wondering if something had just gone down the wrong pipe or what, Dean was silent for a moment. "Well good. I hope this will all blow over soon enough."

Dean finished the last of his drink and nodded. "Isn't that the truth? Well at least we did just mange to get some of us together for Justin's birthday. Seamus's is at the end of the month. Maybe we'll do something then."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mlcorner
2012-01-21 10:04 pm UTC (link)

Michael nodded slowly. "Yeah, yeah. Fine." He certainly was not fine, but Dean need not know any of that. He nodded in agreement. "I hope so too."

He knew that Justin's birthday had been a good thing, up until Zacharias had shown up and sort of ruined it. He shouldn't have let the bloke ruin the entire night when it had been nice up until then, but it was difficult to do so when he was such a bleeding prat. And Justin had not reacted very well either so when the bloke of honour wasn't enjoying himself, how was everyone else going to? "Yeah, that's true. And Seamus' birthday, yeah? That sounds good. Maybe we can celebrate the end of these bloody nightmares along with it." He was being overly hopeful, obviously, but he had to be or he'd never be able to believe that Lavender and Anthony would be okay.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	artisgratia 2012-01-22 12:32 am UTC (link)
	Dean's expression was more curious than concerned, but since Michael said he was fine, he let it drop. "Right so, I'll meet with Ron tomorrow morning and then you just let me know if Lavender's all right with me seeing her memory and drawing whoever was in her place. And maybe by the end of the month, we'll have something to celebrate yeah?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mlcorner
2012-01-22 09:12 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah mate, that sounds good. I'll ask her about it as soon as I get a chance." Michael smiled a little. "And maybe we will. Well I better get back to work before Tom decides I'm better off not working here. He'll give all my shifts to Seamus and I can't have that. My regulars would be very disappointed because they are not into sandy hair."

Michael smirked and stood up, offering his hand to Dean for a shake. "It was good to see you, even under the circumstances. Thanks for coming round."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

artisgratia
2012-01-23 04:00 pm UTC (link)

Dean stood as well, taking Michael's hand. "He'd better not give Seamus extra shifts. Sometimes it's hard enough to see him as it is." He grinned at the sandy hair comment. "Well I'll let you get back to your shift then. Would hate to disappoint your regulars and deprive them of your shining and glossy dark locks."

Dean nodded. "I was good to see you too. I'll come round again just to stop and have a drink, yeah?"

(Reply to this) (Parent)

(Read comments) -