RP: Kicking Back After Work
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Date: 25. April 2002
Characters: Alicia Spinnet, Lisa Turpin, Remus Lupin and OPEN
Setting: The World’s End
Content: Worksafe
Status: Open: Public
…and then she needed to tighten the stitch juuuuuuust. With a sigh, Alicia watched how suture easily ripped through the fragile skin of her grape number she-stopped-counting-after-the-first-bowl. After Doctor Sloan had given her the task of suturing up a cut grape yesterday, she had spent her free time trying to make that happen, her goal being to learn suturing without leaving horrible scars behind without using magic. By the time she had left the Med Center yesterday, she had reached a point where she could sew the grape back together, though it would still shift when it was picked up. Today’s goal was to fill that lack in her skill-set.
Annoyed, she popped the massacred grape in her mouth, wincing when her tongue registered the sutures she had conveniently forgotten about. With a sigh, she spit the fruit into the rubbish bin, and sliced another grape in half.
It had been a very slow day, and about an hour – and several injured grapes– later Alicia had tied the final knot, slowly sitting up straight and with a small gasp noticed that the grape in front of her now had been sutured together with eight perfect stitches, tight enough to keep it from shifting yet without tearing the skin. That had earned her an approving nod from the older doctor, who had tossed an orange at her – which she had easily caught, much to his amusement – and had informed her that tomorrow she would be working on her running subticular stitches.
Sending Viktor a message that she was going to the pub and that he was welcome to join her when and if he could, she packed up her things, changed out of her scrubs and carefully carried the sutured grape with her across the Settlement Center to the pub. Gently she set it down in front of her and ordered celebratory plate of chips and an ice tea.
Characters: Alicia Spinnet, Lisa Turpin, Remus Lupin and OPEN
Setting: The World’s End
Content: Worksafe
Status: Open: Public
…and then she needed to tighten the stitch juuuuuuust. With a sigh, Alicia watched how suture easily ripped through the fragile skin of her grape number she-stopped-counting-after-the-first-bowl. After Doctor Sloan had given her the task of suturing up a cut grape yesterday, she had spent her free time trying to make that happen, her goal being to learn suturing without leaving horrible scars behind without using magic. By the time she had left the Med Center yesterday, she had reached a point where she could sew the grape back together, though it would still shift when it was picked up. Today’s goal was to fill that lack in her skill-set.
Annoyed, she popped the massacred grape in her mouth, wincing when her tongue registered the sutures she had conveniently forgotten about. With a sigh, she spit the fruit into the rubbish bin, and sliced another grape in half.
It had been a very slow day, and about an hour – and several injured grapes– later Alicia had tied the final knot, slowly sitting up straight and with a small gasp noticed that the grape in front of her now had been sutured together with eight perfect stitches, tight enough to keep it from shifting yet without tearing the skin. That had earned her an approving nod from the older doctor, who had tossed an orange at her – which she had easily caught, much to his amusement – and had informed her that tomorrow she would be working on her running subticular stitches.
Sending Viktor a message that she was going to the pub and that he was welcome to join her when and if he could, she packed up her things, changed out of her scrubs and carefully carried the sutured grape with her across the Settlement Center to the pub. Gently she set it down in front of her and ordered celebratory plate of chips and an ice tea.
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Date: 2013-04-25 07:01 pm (UTC)"How are you doing tonight?" She asked as she put in the chips and ice tea, only to hear Paul cursing in the back that she should just shout out the orders like any other barmaid in the world. She smiled and looked to Alicia, "I mostly use the datapad just to drive him crazy," she admitted.
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Date: 2013-04-25 08:24 pm (UTC)With a shrug, she couldn’t help but chuckle; “Well, his response is every bit as entertaining as diner lingo, so…” Picking up a chip, she took a quick bite, then gestured to the room around them. “Quiet tonight. People’ve figured out that hangovers aren’t as tolerable when you can’t cast Silencing Charms on the walls?”
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Date: 2013-04-27 05:05 pm (UTC)Lisa nodded and smirked in agreement about Paul. "Some of the families that come in mumbled about him, but I keep them in line. And him, it helps," she laughed.
At Alicia's point about the hangovers Lisa cocked her head and put a hand on her hip, "You know, come to think of it, I could make a killing getting people drunk Saturday nights and selling them hangover remedies in the morning," and laughed again.
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Date: 2013-04-27 07:47 pm (UTC)Dipping a chip in her tartar sauce, Alicia considered Lisa’s suggestion. “Better yet,” she mused, “you could make a hangover special brunch. Serve up the works of grease and fries complete with a virgin bloody Mary and a hangover potion… or a couple of Aspirins for the Muggle crowd. That way they’ll be staying longer than just to get potion and then go back home.”
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Date: 2013-04-29 02:43 am (UTC)When Alicia suggested a hangover brunch Lisa lit up. "That's brilliant! And I know off the top of my head a few fellows who would be in nearly every weekend for it. James Potter has made this his brunch spot even without any hangover potions in the bloody marys." She smiled to herself thinking that she had 'regulars' and quite liked it.
"So, other than everything at work, without magic and all this drama, how are you liking life here? I always knew who you were in school - hard to miss one of best Chasing trio in the history of House teams," she laughed, "But how are you adjusting?" It was in Lisa's nature to make new friends and to honestly want to know how people were feeling... Despite her bookishness and brains, it came to her sometimes that she might have been born to be a barmaid.
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Date: 2013-05-02 07:56 pm (UTC)“Thank you, thank you, I have my moments,” she chuckled at Lisa’s assessment of her suggestion. “If I was one to have hangovers, I’d go for it, but I think I’ll settle for your regular brunch instead” Picking up another chip, she swirled it a couple of times through the tartar sauce as she considered Lisa’s question. The mention of the trio she had been part of made her lips twitch into a wistful smile. “Oh, I knew you too, well, that you were Ravenclaw at least,” she started before she shrugged and ate her chip. “I’m missing my old friends and loving the new ones I’ve made here. I’m no longer burying myself in work, which is an improvement, I think, so… yeah. How about you?” She gestured to the place around them. “More plans for this place or do you have something else entirely in mind?”
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:44 pm (UTC)"Adrian Pucey has offered to help out with it, he's a brilliant gardener, if the herbs he's been bringing around say anything for his talents. And I'd love to have a second floor put on for lodging sometime, too, I live out back but with the settlements expanding and people traveling to see family and the like between them, it just sort of makes sense, right?"
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Date: 2013-05-08 09:57 pm (UTC)Picking up her grape, Alicia rolled it – gently – between her fingers. “I didn’t know Pucey gardened,” she mused aloud. “That he makes some of the best Potions, yes, though I’ll never admit to having said that, but that he actually could grow things too?” Slowly she shook her head, put down the grape and went back to her chips. “Seeing as how we’ve no Knight Bus here or even regular cabs for the Muggles, lodging could be for some of those in need of your new hangover brunches.”
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Date: 2013-05-11 02:22 am (UTC)"And please, don't admit to Adrian that you like his work, I'm pretty sure he'd take out on an ad on our datapads or something, bloke's got an ego to rival even Potter's. But yes, I guess even a Slytherin potionsmaster can get his hands dirty sometimes. I'm clueless about things like that, so I was grateful he brought it up." She chattered as she handed Alicia her new drink.
"Oh taxis, I'd love if they brought those around, think there are any plans to?" It was funny for Lisa, to think of all the things they would make like here 'permanent'.
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Date: 2013-04-25 07:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-25 08:32 pm (UTC)“Doing quite fine, Professor Lupin,” she smiled at him, chuckling as the tirade from the kitchen came to an end with a spectacular expletive. “Impressive. How about yourself, sir?” There was something uncanny about sitting in a pub, next to your professor – even if he technically wasn’t your professor anymore, he looked every bit the way he had looked when he had been teaching – and not have to worry about having points deducted for ordering an adult beverage. Of course, Alicia wasn’t drinking alcohol, but still.
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Date: 2013-04-25 08:36 pm (UTC)Remus did find it odd to be conversing with former students so freely, especially since they all had gained about ten years of age since he had last known them.
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Date: 2013-04-25 08:44 pm (UTC)When Professor Lupin hesitated, Alicia shook her head and gestured to the chair. “No, no, you’re not interrupting anything. I was just celebrating a smaller victory, and thought I’d do so by eating greasy pub food.” With a HouseElf in the house, even on evenings when she couldn’t feel bothered to cook, their supper was usually delicious and nutritious, which at the same time made pub food both seem subpar and yet oddly fulfilling at the same time. “Viktor may join me later, but so far I haven’t heard back from him yet.”
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Date: 2013-04-25 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-25 08:54 pm (UTC)Chuckling softly, she placed the grape back on the table before she shrugged. “It’s a small thing, but it’s taken me… hours, well, days actually, to get this right, so it’s a small victory, but still a victory.”
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Date: 2013-04-26 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-26 07:25 pm (UTC)Putting the grape back down, she shook her head. “Neither, actually, or well, both, perhaps.” Alright, that didn’t even make sense to herself, so she held up a hand with a disarming smirk. “I’m stitching the peel back on.” With a shrug, she sighed. “I’ve specialized in Artefact Accidents, you know… cauldron explosions, broom crashes, broken bones and torn skin, all those hands-on, physical injuries, the ones you can’t heal with potions alone, so aside from doing pregnancy tests and administering potions I’m pretty useless as a Healer right now.” Trailing her finger along the edge of her glass, she glanced at if for a moment, before she continued with a small smirk. “So when a Muggle surgeon from Three offered to teach me how to do with sutures what I usually do with magic, I jumped at the chance… even if I was a bit surprised that I’d be embroidering fruits in the process.”
She looked back up at her old (well, older than her, at least) Professor. “How about you, Professor Lupin? What are you doing these days?”
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Date: 2013-04-26 07:31 pm (UTC)"Oh. In between working I just spend time with friends. Catch them up on what they've missed. It's great to have everyone together again. What have you been doing?"
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Date: 2013-04-26 07:57 pm (UTC)“You did what you had to do,” she agreed, “and lived to tell the tale. Seems like you did the right thing then, yeah?” Tilting her glass gently towards him in a quiet toast, she took a healthy gulp. “Ah, I’ve been doing pretty much the same thing as you, except that I’ve had to make new friends here and every day I hope and pray that I’ll see my old friends’ names on the new arrivals list.” With a regretful shrug, though, she continued. “Been working at the med center, learning Bulgarian, planning our wedding and volunteered in one of the after school clubs for the younger kids, both magic and Muggles as a project to bridge whatever gaps might be between the two groups.”
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Date: 2013-04-26 08:02 pm (UTC)"Have you two set a date?"
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Date: 2013-04-26 08:27 pm (UTC)“The wedding’s… agreed on, but no, we haven’t set a date,” she chuckled. “There’s just been too much happening to get any further than talking about how we want it done. Uhm…” Alicia paused for a moment. “Not to change the subject, but… you should come down to the club sometime. We try to do a different topic each week, like we started out with the very simple fact that magic and Muggle people really are very much alike. We’ve had Healers and Quidditch players in, the Dragon Keepers were a hit, and I think it’d be lovely for them to see that some witches and wizards are more than just people, and that though it may be scary because that’s what they’ve seen on film, it really has to do with the personality of the witch or wizard.” For a moment she chewed on her lip. “Would you be willing to talk to them about lycanthropy, Professor Lupin?”