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Maisie Anne Cattermole (amaisieing) wrote in wished,
@ 2010-07-07 00:08:00

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!2003: 07, !incomplete, alfred cattermole, maisie cattermole

Who: Maisie and Alfie
What: Sibling luncheon!
When: July 6, 2003 around lunch time.
Where: Muggle London, Papa Leno’s Italian restaurant.
Rating/Warning: Probably low/Cuteness?

Although things had been rough on and off, lately Maisie had just been working a little too much. She had most of the things she’d ever wanted. She lived in a great flat with a nice view, she had pinched her knuts and saved up enough to live pretty comfortably, and she had a job doing something that she loved. The thing she lacked, however, was enough time spent with her family and her friends. She was a bit lonely, even if she didn’t often say it, though the weekend had been alright because she got to spend a little time with Ellie, and then she’d made arrangements to meet up with Alfie for lunch. That morning, she’d even contacted a friendly acquaintance of hers, and it was looking like she might end up with a roommate after all.

The youngest Cattermole had a little bit of a bounce in her step as she walked down the street in muggle London. She had apparated into an ally near the restaurant she’d agreed to meet Alfie at for lunch, and then proceeded to walk the rest of the way. Even the weather seemed to be at least somewhat cooperative. It wasn’t totally sunny, but it wasn’t too overcast either. She reached Papa Leno’s in relatively short order and slipped into one of the booths, taking the seat that faced the door so that her brother would be sure to spot her. It had been too long since she’d seen him, she thought. It didn’t seem fair, but they did both have separate lives to live.

She chewed on her lip anxiously, her feet bouncing restlessly, as she looked over the menu. She already knew what she wanted, but it gave her something to do. Maisie always had a hard time sitting still, especially when she was excited over something. Every bit of her behavior was normal for her, a familiar habit. She gave an unconscious sigh, and glanced at the door again. Why she had to show up entirely too early was beyond her. What she did know was that she wouldn’t be able to wipe the smile off of her face once her brother arrived. He was, after all, her favorite and only brother.

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alfiecat
2010-07-07 04:24 am UTC (link)

Alfie had spent the morning working for Neville at the stall - he thought he was getting the hang of it, enough so at least that Longbottom felt comfortable leaving the shop to him for a bit and going to run errands while he worked on his own. All in all, it was pretty good work, and the hours and pay were better than he'd ever made at any of his little side jobs. Enough that he could actually take his sister out to eat with his own money, not Julien's, which was an entirely new thing for him.

He remembered where the little Italian place was, and came through with a grin, automatically finding his sister in the crowd and coming to slide into his seat across from her. "It's my lucky week, I guess. All the people who I love that are stuck with horrible Ministry hours have been able to get time off to hang about with me."

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amaisieing
2010-07-07 04:36 am UTC (link)

Unless Alfie insisted, Maisie was certainly going to try to pay for her own meal. It wasn’t as though she didn’t have it, and she felt guilty accepting such a thing from Alfie when she knew he didn’t have the same high income. She had been happy to hear that he got a new job, and one that she knew he’d be really good at as well. Helping out in their grandfather’s grocery had paid off, it seemed. She always wanted good things for her siblings, so anything that made them happy was ace in her book.

Maisie perked up immediately when she saw Alfie, resisting the urge to get up out of her seat and pounce him. She had been known to set people off balance with hugs before. She just settled on looking terribly excited, grinning so widely that it almost hurt, “My hours are not actually that horrible. And I get loads of entertaining stories to tell as a result,” she teased, her blue eyes bright, “But I’m so glad we could get together. I’ve been missing you like crazy! It seems like it’s been ages since we got to do something like this.”

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alfiecat
2010-07-07 04:46 am UTC (link)

"You should go round mum's more, then," Alfie laughed, "She's been dragging me over afternoons since I've been out of a job." Teaching him how to cook, so it had worked out well for him at least. Julien had been getting the best of those lessons, and he was less likely to burn things now.

"Missed you too, though. Your stories ... you'll have to tell me the full version of the lamp chasing bit. Anything interesting today?"

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amaisieing
2010-07-07 04:57 am UTC (link)

As soon as her brother mentioned their mother, Maisie felt a little pang in her chest. She didn’t get around home as often as she might like. She supposed that she always thought they were busy or something when she wasn’t. It just kind of seemed like after she’d left school...things had changed. She kept the smile on her lips, however, and even gave a bit of a laugh, “I should. I mean, I never know when they’re home or not anymore...but that’s a sorry excuse. Next time I’ve got a free few minutes, I’ll have to pop in...she’d like that.” It was easy to get caught up in her own little world, but Maisie really did know what was important. Doing things wasn’t half as important as who you were doing them with after all.

“That was about the worst case we had all week. People have taken to calling it The Devil Lamp,” she made a bit of a face, screwing her nose up at the thought. But she’d tell him anyway, “Well, I didn’t have to go in at all today, but I did get word from a girl that I remember from Hogwarts a few years under me, Rose Zeller, I dunno if you remember her. She’s looking for a roommate though, and I offered to let her take a gander at my place...she’s coming by tomorrow. I’ve been toying with the idea for a while. I could use the company. You know how I hate being alone.”

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	alfiecat 2010-07-10 12:51 am UTC (link)
	Alfie shook his head, and waved for the waiter so he could order a coke and get an extra menu. "I don't remember her, was she in Gryffindor?" Because that would explain why he done much more than think he'd heard the name before. It didn't matter, though, he liked the idea of his sister having a roommate. He didn't like thinking she was all alone in her flat. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

amaisieing
2010-07-10 01:05 am UTC (link)

Maisie took a sip of her water and tucked a little hair behind her ear with a grin, “Nope. She was a Hufflepuff, actually. We bonded over The Weird Sisters,” She knew as well as anyone else that just because someone was in your house, it didn’t mean that you even knew their name, especially if they were younger. People formed groups and hung out together, leaving everyone else out of the loop. That was just how it happened sometimes, “I hope it works out though. If it doesn’t, I suppose I could always just find someone else, but I’m not so interested in putting up an ad. The thought kind of creeps me out, everyone knowing that I live alone and whatnot,” She already played loud music at odd hours of the night to keep out strange noises. She didn’t exactly need something else to be paranoid about.

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alfiecat
2010-07-10 01:16 am UTC (link)

"Right, and you'd get perverts, and then I'd have to kill them, and then I'd go to Azkaban and you'd have to marry Julien...." Which had made sense when he'd thought about it, but not so much when he said it. Alfie snorted, though, and took a drink of his coke.

"Don't go getting a roommate that's a bloke, okay? Because I'd hate to have to sleep on your sofa all the time."

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amaisieing
2010-07-10 01:23 am UTC (link)

Rolling her eyes at her brother, Maisie couldn’t help but grin, “I don’t think Julien would have me, Alfie. I’d be a poor replacement for you, I’d wager. Not quite tall enough, and my hair is way too long,” she joked, though she disliked the thought of anything bad ever happening to Alfie. She generally stayed away from all subjects that could potentially hurt anyone in any way, feelings or otherwise.

She got a little bit of a wicked glint in her eye though, when he gave his warning, as only little sister’s could, “Aw, why not, Alfie? I like blokes. Blokes are loads of fun, and I bet they’d even offer a bit of protection, yeah? Maybe I should get two or three of them as roommates. That would make me super safe, right?”

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alfiecat
2010-07-10 01:25 am UTC (link)

Alfie quite literally turned red with the effort it took not to yell at her to stop it. He'd almost accepted that Ellie was able to have relationships, though she hadn't really that he'd seen, he wasn't ready to accept that his baby sister thought blokes were loads of fun.

"Seriously, you don't want me on your sofa every night either, do you? Hexing every bloke that comes through the door..."

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amaisieing
2010-07-10 01:44 am UTC (link)

Seeing her brother turn red wasn’t exactly her intention, but she had to say that it was a nice bonus. She knew that it probably wasn’t a treat for him to think about her and boys, but it wasn’t any more of a treat for her to think about him or Ellie having a relationship. Siblings just weren’t meant to think carefully about those kinds of things, she thought.

She looked at him thoughtfully for a moment, “Wouldn’t Julien miss you?” But then she gave a little bit of a defeated sigh, “Fine, fine. I won’t get a boy roomie...at least not yet. Maybe in a few years if I’ve actually got a relationship to speak of, because I’ll have you know that as of right now, my romantic life is nonexistent. No worries.”

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alfiecat
2010-07-12 10:16 pm UTC (link)

"Julien would miss me when he's home," Alfie grinned, then shrugged. "You'd probably understand a lot more of what he talks about when he comes home than I do though, he's about a thousand times smarter than me, if you haven't noticed." And Alfie would never tell him, but sometimes he got a little bored of not understanding anything his boyfriend talked about when it came to charms and theoretical work.

"I didn't really know you were looking for a roommate again, though. I figured when you really started looking, Ellie might move in with you." He had no idea why he'd thought that, but Alfie sometimes assumed a lot of things that didn't make much sense.

"You hear about her day care idea?"

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amaisieing
2010-07-13 01:42 am UTC (link)

It was true that Maisie was pretty brilliant in charms and transfiguration, but she wasn’t much of a bragger, and she definitely wasn’t about to say that she would understand the things that Julien talked about. He probably knew loads that she didn’t. Just because she could reverse most charm and transfiguration mishaps and was an animagus, it didn’t mean that she was smart like Julien, “I don’t know, Alfie,” she said truthfully, “I probably wouldn’t go so far as to say a thousand times smarter. I mean, he’s an intellectual though. No doubt about that. I probably wouldn’t understand much more than you though. I’m more practical. Yeah, I have to consider how something works in order to judge what is best to use in a situation, but theory is sometimes a bit over my head.”

When Alfie mentioned that he thought she might take Ellie as a roommate, Maisie felt a bit surprised, but tried not to show it. She never really thought much about the possibility...she just thought Ellie probably wouldn’t be interested. Plus, she didn’t know how well it would really work out. As much as Maisie loved Ellie...she always felt like she was striving for something when they were together, something that never felt quite like it was there. Alfie and Ellie had always been closest and Maisie...well, she’d always been the one on the outside. To consider Ellie sharing her flat was kind of a foreign concept, “I was just considering it, and Rose suddenly mentioned she was looking. I didn’t think a whole lot about it when I asked her, honestly...I don’t know, I guess I just thought Ellie wouldn’t want to. I’d probably cramp her style or something.”

She nodded pleasantly though, when Alfie asked about the day care, the knot that had formed in her stomach loosening a little bit, “She mentioned it a few times, yeah. I might very well end up being her own, personal AMR Squad member when it’s all said and done. Lots of magical children in one environment will probably make for a nightmare of accidents on occasion.”

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alfiecat
2010-07-13 08:34 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea." Alfie hadn't even thought about the possible dangers of having so many magical children all in one place. The accidents that could happen. He wondered, suddenly, if Ellie had thought of all the ways to safeguard herself. He didn't want to see his sister, either of them, hurt because she was trying to do something good.

Then again, Ellie probably had it under control. Right?

"I can help safeguard the place before she gets it open, I guess. Not the charming and such, you're better at that, but I can... I don't know. Pad the walls or something." Which made him imagine a gaggle of wizard toddlers in straight-jackets, and he started to laugh.

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amaisieing
2010-07-14 04:23 am UTC (link)

At the mention of safeguards, Maisie gave a bit of a grin, laughing right along with her brother, “Wall padding might very well come in handy. You handle that, and I’ll handle the charms. Well be a perfect team,” She liked the thought of helping out both of her siblings, of spending time with both of them, bonding over something. So often, she felt as though she didn’t entirely belong that anything of the sort always made her happier.

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alfiecat
2010-07-16 08:10 pm UTC (link)

Afie snorted, but he was smiling still - he liked the idea of them working together. It was a shame they couldn't do something where they all worked in the same place more often.

"Oh, did I tell you? I got the job for Longbottom? He's going to teach at Hogwarts, I guess, so he needed someone else to run it and then take care of the produce and everything. He owned that fruit and veg stall that you see in Diagon..."

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amaisieing
2010-07-18 04:38 am UTC (link)

Her smile grew a little brighter when Alfie mentioned the produce stand that he was going to be looking after now. It was something she knew that her brother would be good at, and probably even somewhat enjoy as well. They'd always had a rather good time working with their grandfather, "You mentioned it briefly when we made plans, but saying it in person is so much different. I'll have to stop by there sometime and take some things off your hands. You think you'll like it?"

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	alfiecat 2010-07-27 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	"I think it'll be the best paying job I've had," Alfie said with a shrug, but his smile said that, yes, he thought he'd like it. "Longbottom's a good bloke, too. He's letting me almost take it over completely, really. And everything he doesn't sell in a day he sends to different charities." (Reply to this) (Parent)