Rp: Getting Caught Up

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Date: 20. November, 2001
Characters: Ginny Weasley, Alicia Spinnet, various NPCs, mentions of other characters.
Setting: The new pub
Content: G, maybe PG for a little language
Status: Open: Private, Complete


They had been transported 5 million years into the past, to a place that was but a fraction of where they had used to be. They had been working in the same building for weeks, and yet all Alicia and Ginny had managed to talk, were a few fleeting comments in passing. As luck would have it, they had either been on different shifts, or if they had been on the same shifts, they had been in two different locations... or too busy to talk about anything else but the patients they were treating.

Back in school, they had never been particularly close, mainly due to the age difference, but they had been on friendly terms. Things had changed a little after the war, and especially after Ginny had finished school and started her training at St. Mungo's. Again, they hadn't been as close friends as Alicia was with Angelina and Katie, but she considered Ginny a friend, and it pained her that they hadn't had more time to get caught up now that they were here.

Alicia found that rounds had taken forever today, however, once she had changed out of her scrubs and into her every-day jeans and t-shirt and crossed the center square to the new pub, she found that maybe they hadn't. At least Ginny wasn't there yet, which could only mean that somebody's rounds were taking longer than hers had. Taking a seat at one of the tables where she could see who was coming and going, Alicia took out her datapad and started replying to some of the messages that were waiting for her. There weren't any from Ginny, which was good, but quite a few from Sam, all of which she replied to with one quick message, and one from Viktor. That one made her smile. In the two weeks since their first date, they had seen each other when they had been running or shared lunch during their work days. Far from enough for Alicia's liking, but it was what time had allowed, and as she sat there waiting for Ginny, the messages started flying back and forth, planning a second real date tomorrow or the day after.

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[tt_ginny.insanejournal.com]

"Naive, maybe. Foolish, no," Ginny admitted softly. There was something in Alicia's voice and Ginny didn't know her well enough to attribute what it was to anything overt. Her friend was a cautious type, though, and to hear her talk now, Ginny was surprised by her gentle joy. It wasn't like Alicia was dancing on the tabletop but there was something deeply sincere in what she was saying. "He might be a good bloke but he's still a bloke. And a bloke who either didn't date before or he was remarkably good at avoiding the press."

She popped another chip in her mouth, and almost choked on it a second later when Alicia continued. "Court… courtship," she half-choked, half-whispered, leaning even further forward across the table, her eyes wide but she kept her voice down now. "Viktor Krum wants to court you? Merlin! Alicia! That's… Merlin, I'm a bit speechless here." Ginny pushed her plate away then. She wasn't jealous but some part of her warned that stuffing chips in her mouth wasn't going to do anything to help her own romantic prospects. "Well, all right, not too speechless. Does he have any single friends?"

[tt_alicia.insanejournal.com]

With a small smile, Alicia gave a non-committing shrug. She could see what Ginny was saying and knew that she was right, but she really couldn't see Viktor intentionally hurting her. Oh well, naïveté, she figured, was part of being in love, wasn't it? At least she was pretty certain that love didn't grow from taking calculated risks, but from going in fully aware that it might cause you heartbreak, yet still sincerely doubting that it would happen to her. "I think a bit of both," she told Ginny. From Viktor she knew that there had been other women and from the papers she knew that there hadn't been anyone serious enough to introduce to the surrounding world.

"Viktor Krum is courting me," she corrected Ginny with a worried frown hoping that Ginny would get the chip she was choking on lose. "Believe me, I had the same reaction when he more or less spelled it out for me, but it..." again, she shrugged, "we want the same things in life and for the future, so why not be upfront about it rather than go into this thinking it's only temporary?" The few chips on her plate was calling to her again, and just as she popped one into her mouth, it was Ginny's turn to make her choke. "As a matter of fact..." she coughed, then chuckled when she had her throat cleared. Hadn't Viktor talked about it not just being him who'd changed his mind about seeking a future here? That most of his team had as well? "But, you're busy with your training, so..." Grinning too brightly, she popped the final chip into her mouth and winked at Ginny.

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"Wow, just wow," Ginny agreed, nodding although some part of her brain was just immersed in a mixture of disbelief and amazement. "No, that's a great way to approach it - but I have to admit, that's a lot braver than I would feel. Though, maybe not if it was Viktor Krum doing the asking."

"Busy, not dead!" she chuckled, lifting a hand to signal the server that they were done. Both their datapads chimed softly and they rose, joking mildly as they chatted while walking toward their respective homes.