Regulation and Control

Who: Viola Marlowe and Great Aunt Brunhilda (NPC)
What: Stubborn and frustrated young witch seeks out the only person who can help her get what she wants- the first person who supports and encourages her to be herself.
Where: Aunty Hildy's cottage in Swindon
When: Mid-May, 1996
Rating: G
Status: Narrative; Complete.

( What an odd bird. Not that the robes and the dozen dogs and cats roaming about the cottage yard didn't make her seem odd enough, but now she didn't know Gwen's proper name? )

Who: Seren Fawcett, Michael Fawcett, Sian Fawcett
What: Tails, Funny Sounds and Mailing Herself
Where: Michael Fawcett's workshop
When: September 1983
Rating: G
Status: Closed;Complete

( Can I fit in a box? )

Who: Andrew Barnes and Ben, Amelia and Jonathon Dunstan.
What: Cancelling birthdays.
Where: Around the Dunstan home, near Alfresford in Hampshire.
When: July, 1987
Rating: PG
Status: Closed; complete

( You're talking out of your ass, Ben. )

Who: Viola Marlowe and Michael Warrick (NPC)
What: Vi's first shag doesn't end up being the experience she'd anticipated
Where: The professor's office, University of London
When: December, 2004
Rating: I'm gonna be really really picky and give it a PG since it contains the words 'bra' and 'knickers', but seriously, it's probably G unless your imagination wants to colour the picture in more completely for you.
Status: Narrative; Complete.

( Well, yeah. Sure. You were brilliant. I didn't figure you for an insecure bird, Vi. )

( UNIDENTIFIED UNSPEAKABLE FOUND IN RIVER THAMES - by O. Mendes, The Cynic, 07.07.08 )

Who: Jaden Dorny and Oliver Mendes (NPC)
Where: Jaden's flat in Stoke Newington
When: January 2008, early morning
What: A small drabble between co-workers.
Rating: Very light R for sexuality
Status: Closed; narrative
Notes: I've started doing all of my childhood drabbles for Ruth, but somehow this tiny little scene wanted to pop out first. I hate it when my NPCs demand living space in my head.

( they say heartbreak is good for the skin, but all it's helped is my drinking )

Who: Morag MacDougal and Samantha Harker (NPC)
What: Morag tries to pick up a girl, but ends up being the one picked up. Awkwardness of epic proportions (among other things) ensues.
When: September 2004
Where: A Muggle club.
Rating: PG-13
Status: Closed; complete

( She was beginning to wish she hadn't done this. )

Who: Seren Fawcett and Graham Pritchard
What: Discussion of Seren’s becoming an unspeakable, recent events, the war, space, experimentation (on test subjects! Get your minds out of the gutter, people!), and general flirting.
When: Saturday, July 5 (Backdated)
Where: Graham’s flat
Rating: PG for a bit of snogging and mild language
Status: Closed; complete

Part one of two

He was curled up in the corner of his couch as he sat. For once, Graham was not reading despite the stack of books that teetered next to the sofa, threatening to collapse with a slight touch. Instead, he was staring into the distance, his mind considering everything that Seren had said, and Trout, and trying to find the place between where he could make his fear and his wishes mesh, or if such a thing was even possible.

His head rested against his arms as he leaned forward. Seren had said that she'd accepted the position after speaking to MacFadden and not before. It surprised him that she believed in his promises, regardless. Had she not chosen the offer, MacFadden could have simply Obliviated her silly. It was easy to agree to a thing when you had the potential to undo it whenever you chose. It was one of the reasons, Pritchard thought to himself, that they'd declared the Obliviation Charm an unforgivable in other parts of the world. There were some things that particular cultures could not agree with.

( There is no definitive line. Everything is situational. Circumstantial. )

Who: Seren Fawcett and Graham Pritchard
What: The war, space, cheese, Charlie's Monkey Imperius Curse, and general flirting.
When: Saturday, July 5 (Backdated)
Where: Graham's flat
Rating: PG for a bit of snogging and mild language
Status: Closed; complete
Part two of two

"Why did you leave?" Graham asked, his fingers resting on her thigh for a moment, tracing imagined scars through the fabric of her skirt. "Or did you leave, truly? You speak of it like nothing or no one else and you're always on the verge of going back." He wondered whether it was for this bloke, Radu, of which she had so often written but that didn't seem to be it at all. No, he thought that perhaps it was for the land itself - the trees and the grass and the stones. He knew what it was to love a land, to find in it the peace that you could never obtain from people.

( In a way I will always be in Romania... )

( Mysterious, unmarked, brown-paper wrapped parcel sent to Nicolas Vaisey )

Who: Lavender and Lanette Brown
What: Lane develops a fear of heights and Lavender takes proud in her, ahem, strength.
Where: Alex Jacksons orchard, Cotswolds
When: Summer of '69. Or, you know, '94.
Rating: PG for language
Status: Closed; complete

( Come on, Lanette, what’s flailing around like a bloody windmill gonna do you for? )