Friday Night Outing

[tt_lily]

Date: 1 March, 2002
Characters: Lily Evans
Setting: Worlds End Pub
Content: Safe for all
Status: Open: public


Lily had spent the better part of the last two weeks working constantly. So when opportunity arouse to have a Friday evening off for nothing but relaxation, she seized it. One rule of relaxing was that she did not have to cook; this meant a trip over to the Pub for dinner. While she was wondering if it ever would cool off, she did enjoy the warm temperatures especially when she had left winter, even in October. She dressed in a skirt and white top and headed to the pub.

Once arrived, she found a small table and sat, talking briefly with the waitress before ordering. And now the evening was hers worry-free.

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[tt_luna]

"Oh hello," Luna said in an airy fashion as she drifted by the table in which Lily sat. "You look familiar have we met before?" She wasn't sure if she had actually met the girl before or that she felt familiar for another reason? Then again she had heard Harry talk so much of his parents in the past she probably would have recognized them from anywhere.

"I am Luna. As in the moon... My middle name and my first name are the same you know, well in meaning. One is Latin, one is Greek. Though I am supposed to be studying the rocks here as I am a geologist."

[tt_lily]

Lily jumped a small amount. "Hello. No, I don't think we've met. I've only been here a couple months." Had it really been two months? Time flew. "I don't think I'm from your time either. I'm Lily, it's nice to meet you." Lily thought this girl was definitely different. "Well, the moon is a rock. So you could study the moon."

[tt_luna]

"My friend's mum name was Lily." Luna said with a shrug of her shoulders it wasn't an unusual name and hadn't she met a few supposedly dead people already? It was just another day to Luna.

Luna nodded. "I could. It makes the tides bigger you know? The moon. You should be careful of the tides they can get pretty strong especially when the moon is full but it will not be full for a while." As most Ravenclaws she was full of information.

"What do you do here?"

[tt_lily]

"Well, I do have a son. He's somewhere around your age, I believe. He's not here though. Maybe he'll come around. Of course, in my time he was just a few months old." Lily felt like she was rambling, but this girl seemed fun to talk to nonetheless.

"I have a friend who isn't too fond of the full moon; I don't blame him though. But I work over at the ark. Where is the office for geology?"

[tt_luna]

Luna stared out the window a moment seemingly lost in her own head, her own thoughts. It was a look that anyone that knew her would recognize. Before the war Luna probably would have spouted some nonsensical theory of Nargles or something of the sort but that was the thing about wars, they tended to change the way you thought about things. Not that she had stopped believing in Nargles.

"You must mean Harry." It was more of a statement than a question. "He will come eventually. I think he would like it here. Here were he could be just Harry." Something Lily's son had insisted several times to several different people.

You know Luna wasn't exactly sure. "I don't have an office," well, she did somewhere but she had never stepped foot into it. "My office is out there." She gestured to the world outside the window. "It is interesting and I like to feel the sun on my skin even if it gives me sunburns. What do you do at the Ark?"

[tt_lily]

Lily nodded, "Yes, Harry. Do you know him well?"

She thought of her family and then back to the job. "Right now I work with animals of lower threat - kneazles and such. I have done research on the field though. Chasing butterflies, it seems.

"What made you interested in geology?"

[tt_luna]

Luna nodded. "Harry and I are friends. I like him. He always helped me find my shoes when people hid them on me." It was one of her favorite memories of Lily's son.

"It's interesting and they needed someone to do it. There is enough people working with the animals and this lets me stay outside. I don't like to be inside."

[tt_lily]

Lily looked a bit confused but went with it. Shoes. Right. "I heard he was a good person." What else could she say? He was a fairly decent infant. Not overly a crier.

"I started working with animals in Godric's Hollow. I would have loved to do things with Charms but I would have felt so out of date."

[tt_luna]

"He is a good person," Luna said with certainty happy to leave it at that. It wasn't like Harry was there or anything and there wasn't much that needed to be discussed as far as he was concerned at the moment.

Luna nodded. "You could always learn or still do it. It's nice to do something that you love but long as you like to work with animals. I was studying unicorns back at home. They were fascinating."

[tt_lily]

"Now that is something I would find so intriguing. I've never seen a unicorn." She thought about what Luna said, "I suppose I could ask Kingsley about that. I've read a couple of books since I've been here - just basic textbooks- about Charms. It hasn't changed too terribly much over the years.

"Do you have any other family here?"

[tt_luna]

"Baby unicorns are gold you know until they mature." Luna had always been more interested in the baby unicorns as so little was really known about them. In an adult you could use the horn of a unicorn for potions and the mane hairs could be use in wand cores. If you were desperate you could also use the blood of a unicorn... "They provide us with so much and yet we know so little about them."

"I am sure he would let you if you want or let you work on it and switch when you are ready. He is reasonable."