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Tweak says, "who's afraid of virginia woolf"

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

Entry tags:

!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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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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