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zacharias is a particularly good finder (overlooked) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2012-01-12 17:00:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 11 2003, character: marietta edgecombe, character: zacharias smith

Characters: Zacharias Smith & Marietta Edgecombe w/ Healer Crumplebottom
Setting: Healer's offices, Tuesday one o'clock
Rating: PG
Summary: Zacharias needs confirmation that Marietta is pregnant and Marietta has schemes in place to assure that he thinks she is.

This was not the way he wanted to spend his break today. Honestly, Zacharias would have preferred to spend it in the offices trying to catch up on what he missed last week and that was a revelation that floored him just as much as the reason why he here. It was strange to think of who he had become over the past year, let alone how the past two weeks changed him.

Almost a year ago, Zacharias Smith never imagined himself as someone who would enjoy a regular job or even all of those things that being an actual grown up entitled. In that regards his mother's plan to cut him off in the hopes that he might grow up had actually worked. Except for the rather obvious part where he was still the rough around the edges young man who didn't have the patience for tact or playing nice. And of course there was the fact that he was sick at the thought that Marietta might actually be telling the truth.

In some way his life felt like something of a joke that simply forgot to be funny. Just because he had a job, didn't mean that he wanted to become a father anytime soon. Scrubbing his face he glanced down at his watch wondering exactly what was keeping Marietta. If they had to do this, he wanted it over and done with it. That way he would know and could move forward, as scary the reality was he didn't like being strung alone in the unknown.

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edgecombed
2012-01-13 12:48 am UTC (link)

Marietta could not be in a better mood if she tried. There may not have been any nightmares that evening, but she had still achieved the goal of obtaining the dream database from Lavender's flat earlier that morning. And maybe she was running on little sleep but that was nothing a little make-up couldn't conceal and if there was anything that Marietta was good at doing, it was covering things up with make-up.

These plans she had put into place a few days ago to ensure that Zacharias did not get away with his smug sense of self entitlement felt like an eon away now. Not that she would ever give up on it, of course, because she was Marietta and she did not let challenges go unchecked. Marietta stepped into the floo at the Ministry and stepped out at St. Mungo's public floo station. She wiped off her coat and walked toward Healer Crumplebottom's officer, right at one pm.

Normally she would have arrived a bit early, but she didn't really see the need. It wouldn't take them that long to get through all this and she'd already met the Healer so she didn't have to fill out any paperwork, thank Merlin. Really all she had to do was take the potions and have the spells cast and they'd be done with this. She saw Zacharias was already standing by the Healer's office and nodded to him with a smile. "Hello dear. How's work?"

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overlooked
2012-01-13 01:45 am UTC (link)

Zacharias stood up, flashing her an annoyed sort of smile. She wasn't late, but he just felt like a fool waiting for her. Waiting in general just wasn't something he liked to do. "Probably better than yours," he said noting that she was done up just a little bit more than usual and that was saying something. "And here I thought that things were going exceptionally well for you."

It was probably the closest he would come to asking how her day was going. Right now he didn't care. This was something he needed her to do before he could even start to make sense of it. Hopefully she was just as bothered by it as he was, like that would somehow make any of it better. When in reality the only thing that would do that would be the healer telling him what he suspected to be true - there was nothing of his growing inside whatever hostile environment passed for her womb.

"Let's just get this over with. So I can get back to the office and make sure that the interns are staying in line." A week away had shifted the dynamics of the office and that just wouldn't do. Despite his tone and evident attitude, he held the door open for her just so he wouldn't be written off as a complete bastard just yet.