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Tweak says, "i'm freakin' out man"

EDGECOMBE, marietta c. (edgecombed) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2012-01-29 01:21:00

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!status: complete, ^date: november 13 2003, character: anthony goldstein, character: marietta edgecombe, character: michael corner

Characters: Michael Corner, Marietta Edgecombe & Anthony Goldstein
Setting: Diagon Alley, Flourish and Blotts, 13 November 2003, 1:23pm
Rating: PG-13 for language probably
Summary: Chance run-in that will probably result in arguing and disgruntled ex-DA friendlies.

Since the Kissed were mostly getting cleaned up by now, Marietta found it a fine time to stroll about Diagon Alley to see the mess they might have made. It was interesting to see something you had been involved in creating chaos across the wizarding world. A lot of the store fronts had been torn to pieces and there were still body parts from them lying around the streets. Apparently the only way to stop them had been to rip them to pieces. How very noble of them; and they called themselves good, yet were okay with ripping apart defenseless bodies who had no brain or souls.

Marietta made her way into Flourish and Blotts which had made it out mostly unscathed it seemed. She wondered if they had any books that mentioned anything about Pandora and was searched through the stacks for anything Gellert Grindelwald when she saw one Anthony Goldstein in the shop as well. She never had much contact with him at the Ministry, but she knew that he was an Obliviator and also an enemy because of his current ties to Dumbledore's Army. Well, if they were current, but considering what was going on, she would not put it past them to not be. Maybe this would be a perfect chance to try and find out just that. Anthony was one of the quiet ones, she remembered back from their days at Hogwarts, though he always ran with Michael Corner who was a loud mouthed, foul creature and Terry Boot who was hard to remember much either way. Yes, Anthony was definitely better to get to when he was alone and Marietta was feeling quite good thanks to her Lady's triumph the past day.

She walked up to Anthony and pulled a random book from the shelf near him, flipping through the pages without actually paying them any mind. "Well hello, Anthony. How are you today? I hope this mess hasn't caused your department too much trouble." It was always better to start with something pleasant if you were fishing for information.

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logiclogiclogic
2012-02-02 12:48 am UTC (link)

Anthony looked over at Michael briefly before looking away again as he talked. Sure, the things she said was the main reason the thoughts were resurfacing again, but it wasn't as if he'd pushed them down very well to begin with if all it had taken was one conversation with an unpleasant person to have him focusing on it all again.

Even still, he nodded, more as a show for Michael than out of genuinely believing the words he was saying. "I think it helped that I apparently make for an easy target." He didn't feel any certain away about that; he was just stating it as a fact. He'd long ago realised that his tendency to shy away from confrontation if he could wasn't very convenient when it came to confrontational people.

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mlcorner
2012-02-04 02:02 am UTC (link)

Michael shook his head. "You're not an easy target, mate. She's just completely batty." And it was true to some extent. Marietta was a nutter but some people did consider introverted people to be 'easy targets' whatever that really meant. Michael didn't care though. He wouldn't stand for it no matter what they thought. And okay, maybe if someone had come after Anthony and said he had been involved with Pandora like Lavender said Bianca might have been, Michael would have been just as angry as Justin, but Anthony was his best mate; he knew him backward and forward and there was no room for doubt. If it had been Ernie, Michael would have understood Justin's reaction, but Bianca...well, he just didn't think that Justin was quite as good of friends with her to know her that well. But either way, he understood the sentiment behind it now, considering he'd have done the same for Anthony.

"Forget about her. She's going to talk her way into her own mess. She's always been very good at it. Meanwhile we have some larger to consume and I might just need to drink you under the table." He grinned, trying to brighten the mood because this was never supposed to be an uncomfortable afternoon anyhow.

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logiclogiclogic
2012-02-04 06:00 am UTC (link)

Anthony wouldn't have expected anything other than for Michael to disagree with him. It was just what he did. Anthony, however, was well aware of the fact that he was very much an "easy target" or sorts. Not that he planned to argue with Michael on it. Some things just were not worth getting into that sort of mess.

"And I will absolutely let you, too," Anthony stated, matter of fact. It wasn't the drinking that was important in this after after all; it was more that Michael happened to be very good at distracting Anthony even when he didn't want to be and Anthony had high hopes that considering he felt quite the opposite at the moment that he wouldn't spare another thought towards the disastrous conversation for the rest of the day.

Well, he could hope.

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