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Adrian Pucey (everupward) wrote in pandorarpg,
@ 2012-02-17 23:23:00

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!status: incomplete, ^date: november 16 2003, character: adrian pucey, character: kinjal bhatia

Catching up
Characters: Adrian & Kinjal
Setting: 11 AM - brunch at Ciao Trattoria in Diagon Alley
Summary: Adrian takes an old friend out to lunch
Rating: Worksafe

It had been far too long since Adrian had had a day off. He'd had to see his mother the night before and it left him riddled with irritation heavily mixed with guilt. She was still suffering from nightmares and their conversation were growing more and more unpleasant. She insisted he wasn't working hard enough to solve the problem, and that he should be focusing more on how to get her well. He'd left, barely keeping his temper and gone home, just so he didn't have to spend more time with her.

Of course he'd suspected she'd have another nightmare that night, which was why the guilt was still eating at him. If only she wasn't so damned unpleasant, selfish, and unbearable, she'd have his support and concern. As it was, he barely ever wanted to be near her. But he'd pushed all that from his mind in light of today. He had a brunch meeting with Kinjal, and a date planned for later, with Melinda.

He dressed both well and for the weather, Apparating over to Diagon Alley, to Ciao Trattoria where he'd intended to meet Kinjal. After arriving early, he spoke to the host, greased the manager's palm and got a rather nice table. He sat down and waited for her to arrive.

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freeforalls
2012-02-18 01:54 pm UTC (link)

Despite her late hours, Kinjal was a typically early riser. There wasn't really a reason to it -- it just was. And considering that last night's sleep had involved yet another nightmare, it had only aided her at getting up at a time she wasn't even quite sure counted as being part of the morning.

She's been doing a very good job of not actually letting the fact that every other night was plagued by the insanity bleed into her everyday life. After all, what good would it do her in the long run. She was mostly confident she would find herself a solution in the long run, after all.

But at the moment, she was due to meet Adrian for a bit of brunch and she was looking forward to both the meal and the company. She arrived at the restaurant they were due to meet, dressed... close to a way she was sure would've actually met her mother's approval, even if her entire family liked to pretend she lost all etiquette knowledge she'd learned as a child.

After being pointed in the right direction by the host, Kinjal made her way over to where Adrian was already seated. "Nice table," she said with a slight grin instead of the more standard sort of greeting.

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everupward
2012-02-18 03:49 pm UTC (link)

Adrian didn't have to wait long. He expected Kinjal to be punctual - sometimes you couldn't shake good breeding, whether or not you tried - and he wasn't disappointed. He stood as she was pointed in his direction and remained standing. He smiled at her greeting. "It was early enough that I didn't have to fight for a table, so I just, ah, asked for a nicer one that we'd have otherwise gotten" Adrian replied.

He realized it had been far too long since he'd seen Kinjal, properly anyway. there was that time when he'd recognised her at the Honeypot, which was a bit surprising for him. He rarely went, but even so he'd certainly not expected to actually recognise one of the dancers as someone he knew and relatively well. "Please, sit," he gestured to the chair across from his and didn't sit until she did. "How have you been?"