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Verity (veritas_amor) wrote in strugglewithin,
@ 2008-12-10 21:44:00

Entry tags:

caleb warrington, katie bell, remus lupin, september 1997, verity de luca

RP: Mayhem Abounds
Date: 10 September 1997
Characters: Verity De Luca, Michaela De Luca, others?
Location: WWW
Status: Public- quite. Come on people, you know you want to. Just ping!
Summary: Verity has to bring Michaela along to work with her. And watch a mischievous two year old. In the joke shop.
Completion: InComplete

Verity's father was working. Her mother had a charity tea. Callum was off doing something or other that Callum did. And the house-elves were busy. Apparently her Mum thought Spring Cleaning in September was a good idea. And so no one else could watch Michaela during the day, and so now she was at the joke shop with Verity.

Verity loved her daughter. She really did. But having a two year old in a place where things routinely exploded was not a good idea.

"Mickey! Don't touch that. Come here. Sit here, color. Mick- I said don't touch that!"

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bellsy
2008-12-10 09:12 pm UTC (link)

It was time.

Katie had put it off long enough; ever since she had moved into Diagon two weeks earlier, Katie had thought about going in to see the twins' shop. Or, more specifically, to see the twins themselves.

Being a year younger than most of her school friends, she had had a year "off" wherein she hadn't seen any of them. But catching up again with Angelina and Alicia was different; they were girls. And they understood her. But she had lost contact with the twins, and Katie's favorite thing in the world to do was avoid an awkward situation. And it was bound to be a bit awkward, at least for her. Especially after their final year...

But it was time. Katie needed to see them, before... well, she didn't want to think about that. Alicia had filled her in on the general going-ons of the twins, so she knew... maybe she shouldn't take them being there for granted.

So, Katie thought to herself, pushing open the door to the brightly -colored but still mildly small shop and stepping through the threshold, here goes.

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veritas_amor
2008-12-10 09:41 pm UTC (link)

Michaela had gotten into the color-changing lollies when Verity hadn't been looking (she was ringing up a customer) and now her hair was a bright shade of turquoise, which clashed horribly with her light pink smocked little dress. It was sort of cute, though, and Michaela seemed to like it, so Verity let it go. For now.

Plus Mickey hadn't called her Mummy yet. Which was good. She was sort of on edge about that happening here today. Because no one knew, and she sure as hell didn't want them finding out this way.

The door opened, and Verity looked up from where she was trying to get the till drawer to shut. "Katie Bell, right? It's great to see you! Glad be done with school?"

Hmm, should she get the lads? She really didn't want to get exploded, maybe she shouldn't go back there.

	veritas_amor 2008-12-10 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	"Apparently," Verity said dryly. "Since I left school. They needed the help and I needed a job. And yeah, this place is absolutely incredible." She shrugged, bouncing Michaela a little. "What about you? Any idea what you're going to do?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cowarrington 2008-12-10 11:15 pm UTC (link)
	"Weasley marketing strategy? Put the sweets at house elf level to draw in the little ones in a 'your kid ate it, you bought it' ploy?" The Weasley twins were clever, he'd give them that. Caleb shook his head. "I have no idea. Bright and clashing, would be my guess." What did he know about the workings of eight year old female minds? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	veritas_amor 2008-12-11 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	"Exactly." Hmm. Bright and clashing. Verity crouched down, plucking through the bins, and within moments had a selection of six lollies, two pink, two orange, and two a violently bright chartreuse. If there were two girls, there needed to be an equal amount of each color so that there wouldn't be fights. "Here. How's that?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cowarrington 2008-12-11 06:04 pm UTC (link)
	Caleb stood over Verity as she rifled through the bin with an appreciative little half-smile on his face. She still had the nicest rack he had had the pleasure of examining at a close and unobstructed distance. "That should satisfy the holy terrors. Thanks, Verity." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)