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Janelle Dorny (false_dorny) wrote in strugglewithin,
@ 2008-12-24 14:53:00

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*complete, janelle dorny, padrig cadwallader, september 1997

Rp: Celebrate good fortune
putting this where it should be, it was in her journal

Date: 22 September 1997, afternoon
Characters: Janelle Dorny and Padrig Cadwallader
Location: Madam Malkin's
Status: Public
Summary: Janelle is Celebrating
Completion: Complete

Janelle was celebrating her new job and to do this she would head to Diagon Alley, no longer would she bitterly look at the closed up shop that had once been her employer. At least now she was working for a strong business and if by change there was some sort of boss muggleborn they could easily be replaced by another senior staff member, the chances of being out a job because a muggleborn were slim now. All it mattered on was her talent at the job and really she wasn’t stupid she could manage front desk, answering owls and directing people where to go or getting other employees, she was bound to have to run a few errands or two. Really it wasn’t going to be like complicated Transfiguration.

She was wandering Diagon Alley and celebrating the way that Janelle Dorny did, and that was by shopping. She was walking past windows looking at the displays hoping for something to catch her eye. She figured she might purchase some new robes for her job. Plus nothing felt better than brand new robes on freshly washed skin, as long as they were made of good material.

With a more of a skip in her step than previous days she entered Madam Malkin’s, always a good place to start. She looked around at the fine wears, and headed towards the silk options, it had been a while since she had purchased new silk; of course it was more of a summer fabric. Her hands ran over a pale pink set of robes of silk, they were lovely.

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false_dorny
2008-12-28 03:05 pm UTC (link)

"Yes I don't intend to spend a lot of time outside," Janelle figured what was the point in going outside when you could get around by other means.

Janelle was pleased that he was willing to stick around to help her choose plus it allowed her to get to know her co-worker a bit more. Janelle slipped behind the curtain and pulled it closed behind her. She pulled on the new robe of ivory loving the feeling of the silk. Running her hands over the fabric as if smoothing it she opened the curtain of the dressing room. "I am liking more than my last job, but I do miss the old birds and their stories."

She stepped out and did a spin, "What do we think?" She asked looking over shoulder at him before turning back around to face him.

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caddishly
2008-12-28 03:20 pm UTC (link)

While he waited he pondered exactly how much it would anger Marietta to know he was here. Probably a lot. Which meant that one, he wouldn't tell her, and two he would stay however long he felt like.

He raised his eyebrow at the royal we. "I think you'll find if you hang around the newsroom long enough that half of them are old birds. And we think the robes look very nice."

His eyes flickered down around how they clung to her frame and he looked back up again. "Not for work, perhaps, but nice."

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false_dorny
2008-12-28 03:36 pm UTC (link)

"But is it the same as the old birds with their tea?" Janelle shrugged her shoulders as she looked down at her robes. She liked them and if he said they looked nice then that definitely put them in the possibility pile.

"Well onto the next ones," she said with an excited tone, Janelle did love shopping. She closed the current behind her and picked out another pair to try on. This time she went with a heavier pair more suited for winter of a nice grey colour.

"I think these would be more winter and work appropriate," she said as she pushed open the curtain and did yet another spin for him. "What do you think?"

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caddishly
2008-12-28 03:39 pm UTC (link)

He had stood up by now and pulled off his outer robe, leaving him in only a shirt and trousers, and pulled the new one on over top. It brushed his shoe tops, severe black, the sleeves actually long enough for his arms. It looked... powerful somehow, and it made him feel almost obscenely pleased.

A reflection in the mirror was Janelle emerging again and he looked up in the mirror to meet her eyes.

"I think those are very good," he said. "They make your eyes stand out."

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false_dorny
2008-12-28 03:47 pm UTC (link)

Janelle caught sight of him in his robes and smirked, "Now those look good on you," she nodded her head with a grin brushing hair over her shoulder as she looked down at her own robe. "Really do they?" Well if they did make her eyes stand out and were warm it was worth the purchase. "I think these are going to go in the definite pile,"

She slipped back in behind the current deciding the leave the pink behind and just went with the black robe to try one next. "I think this one shall be the last I try on," she said from behind the current. Janelle had left black behind when she had left Hogwarts but it could be nice to wear again. She felt like she would look a little dark in these and wasn't sure if it was a look for her.

Pushing back the curtain she came back out, "I'm not sure about these?"

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caddishly
2008-12-28 07:34 pm UTC (link)

"Alright, let's see it then," he said, taking off the robes and straightening his tie. He hadn't put his own robes on yet when she walked out, and he looked at her for a long moment in the black one.

"Get those," he said after a moment. "They suit you. Different from the usual, maybe. But I like them." Not that it mattered, he supposed whether he liked them or not, but she looked different in them. Less frivolous maybe, more a woman than a girl.

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false_dorny
2008-12-29 02:37 pm UTC (link)

Janelle was pleased at the reaction she got. "Well different can be good and in this case I think so," she nodded her head and slipped back behind the to be dressed the same as she had been when she entered. Janelle decided on the heavier fabric robe and the black ones at Pig's suggestion. She left the others in the dressing room as she game back out.

"Thanks for the help with this," she gave him a bit of a flirtatious smile that could not be helped. "I think I would have been here forever if it were not for your help."

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	caddishly 2008-12-29 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	"I highly doubt that," he said, a bit acerbically but still amused. "Possibly only most of the afternoon." He took his own robes up to the clerk to pay for them and then looked over at her. "Well, I'll see you around the Prophet then?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	false_dorny 2008-12-29 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	"Yes most of the afternoon I agree," she said with an amused tone as she headed to the clerk to way behind Pig. "Of course you will, we shall go to lunch one day." She said with a warm tone and smile. "After all you are the only one I know." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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