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Essery Elizabeth Oakby (oakbye) wrote in wished,
@ 2010-10-03 21:21:00

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!2003: 10, !complete, essery oakby, severus snape

Who: Essery and Snape
What: Chess & Kittens
Where: Snape's office
When: Tonight
Warning: TBA

Essery came back just a bit earlier than she thought she might, but it was still after curfew and, on seeing what she'd brought back, Sinistra had offered just to keep watch until the last few lights went out about Hufflepuff, too. Which left Essery with her hours free - and with one very new tenant in her rooms to contend with. Honestly, she hadn't been expecting to come back with one, her jokes last week aside. Still, how could she resist that smooshed up face and those blue eyes peering up at her from the box outside the M&S?

It did leave her with a problem, though. She'd wanted to spend the night in another hard fought chess game - Severus was quickly becoming someone who she looked forward to talking with, and after their last conversation... Well, she had been looking forward to playing. And she doubted he'd want the kitten running about his office. Still, she couldn't leave it in her rooms alone, and she couldn't stand him up. So she found herself at his office door in a pair of jeans and an old charity tee-shirt, knocking, with the kitten purring and trying to climb out of her arms.

As soon as he opened the door, she was already apologizing. "I know that you likely don't want him here, but I didn't want you to think that I wasn't interested in playing. I can't leave him alone in my rooms, though, so I was going to take a rain - " before she could finish excusing herself, the kitten had managed to jump out of her arms and past him, into his office, and she was cursing under her breath and nursing a new scratch to her forearm.

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oakbye
2010-10-06 02:27 am UTC (link)

"In all shapes and sizes," She agreed with a laugh, and for a moment she turned her attention to board to make a move - but the strategy she thought she'd had when they'd started, she'd completely forgotten about now. After she moved her bishop, she reached down to scratch at the kitten winding his way around her leg.

She couldn't really say anymore more on the subject without being too obvious, when she wasn't sure what she was interested in at the moment, and so she let it drop in favor of something that was safer, "You read quite a bit, I've noticed. You can't miss the books lining every wall."

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in_the_grass
2010-10-06 02:35 am UTC (link)

Severus wasn't paying as much attention to strategy as he might have, either. His prediction that their games wouldn't be long, complicated affairs seemed to be coming to bear. He didn't mind. "It's a hobby," he said with a shrug, advancing another pawn. "You run a charity and take in wayward animals and teach young children to sing more or less on key, and I read books. Mine's rather tidier, I think," he added, nudging the cat when it decided to rub against his leg - and pushing it a little more sharply when it refused to move. "But I'm sure you're to be thanked for your contributions to the choir."

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