Valentina Proudfoot (stvalentina) wrote in snitchers, @ 2017-10-07 00:07:00 |
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Entry tags: | char: christopher stebbins, char: valentina proudfoot |
Who: Christopher Stebbins and Valentina Proudfoot
Where: Hogsmeade
What: While doing a bit of shopping in Hogsmeade, Valentina and Chris meet.
When: Saturday, October 7, 2002
Rating: Probably low
The decision to come to Hogsmeade this weekend had nothing to do with Ari, as surprising as the thought was when Val realized it. No, the decision centered wholly around a botanist Cicero frequently worked with who had greenhouses in the town. It was a task he could have easily completed himself by owl or floo, but he'd told her that establishing professional relationships and connections was of as much importance as learning to brew the most complex potions and was therefore an integral part of her apprenticeship.
And so she'd gone to see the botanist, flexing her acting skills again as it was a professional interaction she hadn't had to explore yet. But she achieved what she'd been sent out to do, managing to keep her mind off the fact that Bill still hadn't really talked to her since her stupid admission to him nearly two weeks ago, aside from those brief messages after the announcement about werewolves. It stung more than she wanted to admit, but she was doing her best to stay focused.
Since she was in the town she'd spent so much of the last seven years in, she decided to pop in a few of the other shops. Val had a full bag of things she probably didn't really need by the time she came out of the third shop, and that's when her resolve to stay focused crumpled. Because there he was. The man who had made her believe that love could be real and then crushed her over the summer. It wasn't a Hogsmeade weekend for the students, so she hadn't expected to see him there, and yet there Ari was.
Spinning to head in the other direction, she mentally sent out a plea that he hadn't and wouldn't see her.