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Jaime Elizabeth Davies (finder) wrote in silverage,
@ 2011-09-01 07:12:00

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!log, jaime davies, sirius black

The shop was hers ...
Who: Jaime, Sirius
What: shopping?
When: Thursday some time
Where: Arcana Cabana
Rating: TbD, probably low
Status: Private, ongoing

She maintained it was his fault. If they hadn't gotten a bulletin board (like she'd asked him to), then she wouldn't have been tempted to put up the flyer, and he wouldn't have decided that since she'd done that, the shop was all hers until Halloween was over.

Jaime had thought he was bluffing, but apparently he was either way the hell better at carrying a bluff than she could ever hope to be, or he was dead serious about it.

Either way, she'd written up all the things she'd wanted to order and handed it off to him for approval, and she'd started to move some of the more valuable, questionable, and genuine articles to less central places. She'd also put ridiculously high price stickers on the genuine things so that the wrong sorts of people wouldn't try to buy them. There were actual artifacts and magical things in here, and ... well, the general public just didn't need that.

So with the store currently somewhere between arcane and Halloween-ish, Jaime was busy arranging a display of Halloween decorations in the minimal space she had to work with. If nothing else, this had taught her that posting up flyers wasn't exactly the best idea ever because it made her actually have to work in the shop.

Well, maybe she'd get lucky and it would take off or something.

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finder
2011-09-02 05:40 am UTC (link)

"Nope," Jaime called to the voice. "I mean, do you have an appointment?" Though come to that, she was pretty sure she'd taken the 'appointment only' sign out of the door in case it scared off the more timid would-be shoppers. She figured Balthazar could put it back up after Halloween when the store was his again.

She leaned back from the display she was currently in the middle of beating into submission, and she grinned. "Are you stalking me?" She teased him, fairly certain that that was the guy from the bar a few weeks back. She was pretty sure it had been a few weeks, and not more recent, but sometimes her memory fuzzed. Especially when there'd been drinks involved.

"Anything I can help you find, or are you just browsing?" she asked since she was, technically, working.

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the_grim
2011-09-02 08:50 pm UTC (link)

"Am I supposed to have an appointment?" He called back with a grin, attempting to navigate through the store towards the voice and he chuckled when he recognized her from the bar.

"I am, actually. Is that what I need an appointment for? To stalk you?" Grey eyes glanced around the shop and if someone else was here, he didn't see them ... which he didn't think meant anything in here. "Looks like you could squeeze me in. Unless your job is to clean the place up; in that case I reckon you have a lifetime's worth of work ahead of you."

He tried to recall her name and was having a bit of difficulty. He remembered her asking whether or not his name was with an I or an E, but that didn't help with what hers was. Oh well.

"I'm just browsing at the moment," he added as an after thought.

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finder
2011-09-02 08:59 pm UTC (link)

"Hah. That is awfully presumptuous of you. Assuming I can fit you in. I'm busy," she pointed out with a gesture to the display. "But lucky for you, we've made exceptions to our appointment rules, at least until after Halloween."

Jaime grinned. "Until then, my job is everything. The owner's a sarcastic ogre who misplaced his sense of humor like, thirty years ago," she continued, wondering if Balthazar was listening. If he was, he was probably laughing about it. Expressionlessly, of course.

"All right. If you get to a point where you'd like to do more than look, let me know. I'm here to help," she pointed out. Well, here to help, to set the store up, to work. And so on and so forth.

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the_grim
2011-09-03 04:52 pm UTC (link)

"You can just continue on with your every day activities while I stalk you. You don't really need to fit me in unless you plan on calling the authorities. It doesn't take much work to be stalked, after all," he pointed out logically as he moved closer to inspect the display case she was working on.

"Perhaps his sense of humor got buried under something in here," he added with a slow glance around. It did look like an interesting place, though. He did wonder if they actually knew where everything was, but surely there was some sort of inventory system in place.

"Are there really actual magical objects for sale here?" Sirius asked curiously.

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finder
2011-09-03 04:58 pm UTC (link)

"Guess you've got me there," Jaime said. "I don't really plan on calling the authorities. I'd just scream and let the ogre kick you out. He's pretty terrifying," she assured Sirius. "You wouldn't want to stalk me here ever again once you lay eyes on him."

She did glance toward the stairs, but she figured even if he was listening, he wasn't going to come interrupt. "It's possible. I tried to find it for him once but it proved an impossible job. So I gave up." Jaime nodded knowingly before she shouldered a box into position, fixing it with a glare as if that would hold it in place.

Jaime nodded to his question. "For the right price to the right person, there's magic here," she assured him. She was counting on him not believing it, but ... well, Balthazar could yell at her later. But come on, with a name like Arcana Cabana, wouldn't people expect a little magic, even if it was nothing but silly parlor tricks?

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the_grim
2011-09-04 06:28 am UTC (link)

"Ogres don't scare me," he replied with a nonchalant shrug. "Not even ogres with no sense of humor." It was vaguely amusing to him to wonder if ogres even existed in this world, but for all that, maybe some had shown up here the same way he had.

Arching his brows, he regarded her with a mix of doubt and amusement, "I don't imagine I can meet the right price. Not without a friend of mine beating me senseless for spending all my rent money. Is the price cheaper for the right person?"

He honestly wasn't sure whether he believed her or not. For obvious reasons, he knew it wasn't impossible and the place certainly looked the part, but he wasn't sure she would have gone about advertising it like that if it were. Unless she was just ... being ironic or some such thing.

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finder
2011-09-04 06:34 am UTC (link)

"I'll pass that along to him," she replied with a cheeky grin. "Maybe next time you come in, you can meet him." Though if he came in again before Halloween, it probably wasn't likely. Then she figured too that Balthazar would be super humorous just to spite her. Seemed like a thing he'd do.

"Might be," Jaime replied with a grin. "You could possibly work it off if it was something you really needed," she added thoughtfully. "We could work out some sort of payment plan, I bet, if you found anything that caught your eye that was currently outside of your price range." She could relate to the rent situation though. Well, in theory. She wasn't paying rent since she was working here.

"But I might have to ask the ogre. I mean, owner," she teased as she turned her attention to the display; she could chat and work at the same time.

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the_grim
2011-09-04 07:50 pm UTC (link)

"Maybe we should just start with decorations I can afford before setting me up on a magical object payment plan," he decided and he still sometimes found it odd to have to watch what he spent, but strangely working for a mechanic didn't exactly bring in the big bucks.

He clapped his hands together, taking an appraising look around the store before fixing his gaze on Jaime once again. "So, as a girl, which of these decorations would you least want to see in your room?"

He was still debating whether or not he wanted to do Ginny's room as well, but he wouldn't want her to feel left out.

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finder
2011-09-04 08:04 pm UTC (link)

"Least want?" Jaime grinned, then shook her head slightly. She imagined it was probably for a prank of some sort, the way he'd phrased it. "Well, I have some stuff in boxes I haven't put out yet. Rubber rats and spiders and things like that. A spider in my bed would probably freak me out," she began. "Or even one wedged up in a corner. There's some toads too I think," she reflected, unsure if those had arrived. Or even been ordered; she'd gone through the lists a couple of times with adding and subtracting.

"Though I don't mind toads so much," she said with a shrug. "The warts they give you are kind of a downer," she teased. Then she wondered if he'd even heard that old wive's tale. Maybe it wasn't the same in England.

"So who's the lucky girl?" She prompted with a grin.

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the_grim
2011-09-05 09:52 pm UTC (link)

"S'about what I thought," he agreed with her assessment of rubber rats and spiders. Of course, he could charm them to move about and for all that he could just transfigure things he already had at home to look like spiders, but at the same time there was something amusing about just using the Muggle versions.

"Better stay away from the toads then. Scaring is one thing, but I don't want to have to look at a bunch of warts on my roommates," he replied just as teasingly.

"Two girls, actually. Roommates," he repeated. "At least until I decorate their rooms and then they kick me out."

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finder
2011-09-05 11:20 pm UTC (link)

"Wow," she said before she caught herself. She figured it was pretty telling of her general mindset when he said he was living with two girls and she made it sexual. After all, she was living with Balthazar and there was nothing remotely sexual going on there. She rolled her eyes at herself and tried to wave it off.

"We do have wart-free toads," she said as she tried to get things back on a shopping track and off a sex-with-roommates track. "Probably have a box of them in the back somewhere. Also, you may want to consider buying some of our fine Halloween chocolates to make up for your decorating of their rooms," Jaime added. Because clearly she was the master of upselling and she was going to make Balthazar so very proud of her business skills.

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the_grim
2011-09-09 04:57 am UTC (link)

Sirius regarded her curiously, cocking his head to the side, one brow arched. "Wait, was I impressive somehow and I missed it? I like to keep track of these things..."

He belatedly assumed that it was probably the having two female roommates comment which had been surprising, but it seemed perfectly natural for misplaced people to band together, propriety be damned. Of course, with the way she had phrased the question, he realized it could have sounded as if he were romantically involved with both of them. Which was comically disturbing, especially with Ginny. Yes, I'm dating my godson's wife from the future...

"Probably not a bad idea. The chocolates, I mean," he agreed with some amusement. Not that he expected Lily or Ginny would get truly angry over something as innocent as Halloween decorations. Still, it never hurt to have a few extra nice points saved up for the inevitable moment when he stepped over some line or another. "I always like to have a little something up my sleeve for those extremely rare instances of me winding up in trouble."

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finder
2011-09-09 05:01 am UTC (link)

"I guess you must have," Jaime agreed to his having missed his impressiveness, though she grinned a little when he didn't deny her unspoken implications. Not that it was any of her business, what he did with his roommates, female or otherwise.

"Well, once you've gotten your decorations picked out, let me see and I'll let you know how much chocolate per roommate you should purchase," she bargained with a grin. It would get him shopping and give her time to finish with the set-up of her various displays.

Assuming he was going to buy decorations and then chocolate, but she saw no reason he wouldn't get a little something. She was a very charming saleswoman after all.

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