The rhythm of my heart was set to an irregular beat inside my chest as I rose in the lifts, heading towards the Auror department. This was a little risky. I hadn't been within a hundred yards of Moody's lair since the Prewett's murder; all part of my policy of keeping-my-head-the-fuck-down. But, I reasoned, with Shacklebolt safely engaged in mourning for his dearly departed Dorcas, I would surely slip through unnoticed. I wanted to celebrate another victory for The Dark Lord and it definitely pleased my sense of irony to do so with a young impressionable Auror. She seemed... innocent. And that was something I hadn't come across for quite a while now. She was exactly naive - she'd certainly caught me on my little train of suggestive flattery - but all she'd said bespoke goodness. Today, with my glorious good mood, I really wanted something to enhance that
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The words were forming squiggly patterns on the parchment...
I snapped back into full conciousness at the sound of my name, half expecting to turn around a see Moody for some reason. Moody with a less aggressive voice, two proper eyes, more hair, more height and a more... swarve body language.
I dropped the incomprehensible parchment onto my desk and stood up. Not really sure what to do, I went to shake his hand. "Hi, you must be Augustus." Crikey, that name tripped off the tongue. "Still in a good mood?" I never had been very good at maintaining a smooth conversation.
I just managed to inject a little refinement into my grin before it spread easily across my face. "The very same." I stepped around the cubical wall with a boyant little skip in my step - it was a while since I'd done something un-Dark-Lord related. "Absolutely," I replied with another lazy grin, offering her my arm, "and it's improving every second, especially since I managed to find you amongst all this chaos." I motioned towards the innumberable scrolls of parchment which were being thrown around the Auror department.
He really was very happy, which seemed slightly out of place in these depressing time. But I wasn't about to dampen anyone's mood. Cheeriness made a difference.
He offered me his arm, which startled me slightly. What era was this guy from? I suppose I just stared at it blankly for a moment or two, my hand hanging in mid-air. Well, there really wasn't anyway to back out of it now. I gingerly put my arm through his.
I smiled at his comment. "I generally forget the clouds of parchment and yelled orders in my little cubby hole." I checked my desk one last time to make sure that I had finished everything I needed to do for now, and then we started walking towards the door. "So, what is this place like then?"
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I snapped back into full conciousness at the sound of my name, half expecting to turn around a see Moody for some reason. Moody with a less aggressive voice, two proper eyes, more hair, more height and a more... swarve body language.
I dropped the incomprehensible parchment onto my desk and stood up. Not really sure what to do, I went to shake his hand. "Hi, you must be Augustus." Crikey, that name tripped off the tongue. "Still in a good mood?" I never had been very good at maintaining a smooth conversation.
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"The very same." I stepped around the cubical wall with a boyant little skip in my step - it was a while since I'd done something un-Dark-Lord related.
"Absolutely," I replied with another lazy grin, offering her my arm, "and it's improving every second, especially since I managed to find you amongst all this chaos." I motioned towards the innumberable scrolls of parchment which were being thrown around the Auror department.
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He offered me his arm, which startled me slightly. What era was this guy from? I suppose I just stared at it blankly for a moment or two, my hand hanging in mid-air. Well, there really wasn't anyway to back out of it now. I gingerly put my arm through his.
I smiled at his comment. "I generally forget the clouds of parchment and yelled orders in my little cubby hole." I checked my desk one last time to make sure that I had finished everything I needed to do for now, and then we started walking towards the door. "So, what is this place like then?"
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