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lavender is sure that living is worse (lavishly) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2012-01-28 17:44:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 13 2003, character: hermione granger, character: lavender brown

Characters: Lavender Brown & Hermione Granger
Setting: Starting at the Rising loaf, around 1pm
Rating: safe for work
Summary: Hermione runs into Lavender, it may or may not be awkward, they will eventually start discussing George's ides about a patronus message system.

Everything felt weird. And by weird she meant amazingly unsafe. Lavender felt like each step was one taken on frozen lake that might not be frozen through. It also didn't help that yesterday she had chosen to leave London rather than stay and defend. Instead, Lavender Brown ran home to Eastbourne to curl up in her childhood bed that her mum still maintained just in case Lavender ever wanted to come home. She didn't want to go home, not exactly, she just didn't have anywhere else to go.

At least the upside of going home was that when she came into work this morning she could bring a friend with her. Baby Girl might have not been allowed to poke around the kitchen, but she was welcome in the front of house. It was nice, it meant that once she was through for the day in the back she had someone to hang around with. Baby Girl didn't make it any safer, but it was a lot less lonely.

After finishing up in the kitchen for the afternoon, Lavender grabbed her bag and jacket before going out through the front to collect her dog. At the moment, Baby Girl was getting some attention from a family with a young child and rather than interrupt Lavender took and open spot on small sofa near by and waited for Baby Girl to spot her. The only downside to that was it gave her a few moments to consider how heavy everything really was right now - it was almost enough to make her sick.

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hermoniny
2012-01-29 01:56 am UTC (link)

Hermione had been given instructions to stay home and rest after her run in with the living inferi. Her arm was basically healed, but still sore from the wound of the previous day, which she had learned had only been made worse by the inexperienced person who tried to heal her. She didn't blame them though, they were just trying to help. But Hermione didn't want to stay home, there was too much to do, and her old department wouldn't let her come in and wear herself out, and her new department wouldn't let her begin training until she was fully healed. So instead of laying about being useless, she decided to go against the Healer's suggestion and venture out. And if Ron gave her an earful for it later, she'd just have to remind him that she never broke the rules before she met him, so really, it was his fault.

Not completely sure where to go, Hermione wandered a bit absently until she reached Diagon, then wandered more in there. She stopped finally at the Rising Loaf for a snack, and thought maybe she would get something for Ron, who was probably having the most stressful week ever. She stepped inside only to find a very friendly dog greeting her, who she gave a small pat and a laugh to before moving further in. That was when she caught eye of Lavender, and though part of her felt awkward enough to pretend she hadn't seen her, the other part of her felt bad for even thinking it. Michael had made it sound like Lavender was having a rough time, and even if they weren't friends per se, she still felt like she should be polite and say hello if nothing else. She slowly walked over to where she was sitting and out a slight smile on her face. "Hu Lavemder," she said quietly, not wanting to startle her if she hadn't seen Hermione yet. "How are you?"

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lavishly
2012-01-29 02:22 am UTC (link)

Lavender looked over at Hermione, her face tugging into a very casual smile. "Hello," she said. That was the easier thing to say because the question that followed the greeting was one of those subtly loaded on and the answer always dependent on who was asking and what sort of intention they had. And Lavender wasn't sure that Hermione really wanted to know.

Luckily, that was the point where the chocolate lab finally made her way over, nudging at Lavender's hand. She made a small face at the dog before giving her a good scratch behind the ears as she settled into a sitting position next to her. It was strange to think for a point in her life, the point directly after Fenrir came into it, that she was scared of dogs even her own who wouldn't hurt anyone.

"I'm not bad," she said doing a decent job of making sound just a little bit believable, when she was anything but. "Did you come in to pick something up? We have a lovely almond bread today and the apple spice cake is quite good too."