RP: What happened to this place???

[sly_boots_pansy]

Date: 7 October 2001
Characters:  Pansy, Vicky, Terry, Zach
Status: Public
Summary: Pansy finally drags herself away from her tv addiction to notice that some things have changed at the Leaky.
Completion: Complete

After her encounter with C., Pansy decided she might have been a bit too reclusive of late and that perhaps she should make a few changes.

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[vickys_charm]

Vicky wasn't sure why she ventured into the Leaky alone on a Saturday night, but without work her flat had started to feel stuffy and suffocating, and she hadn't realised she wanted to get out until it was too late to get someone to go with her.

Dressing in a dress she'd bought when out with Padma the other day, she checked herself out in the mirror before deciding that she looked good enough to leave

[sly_boots_pansy]

Pansy blinked, murmuring a wandless charm to dry up the slight spill of her drink. Looking around at the sound of her name, she found a pretty brunette looking at her, blushing as if she'd been caught with her hand in the cookie jar. 'Vicky?' she repeated. She looked the girl over, contemplating her dress. 'Brings out the natural highlights in your hair,' she finally decided. 'The dress, I mean. The color.'

Pansy smiled. 'You know me from Hogwarts?' she said. 'But I didn't know you?' That described most of the people from Hogwarts, actually. Maybe the school robes detracted from everyone's appearance...maybe that's why she didn't remember so many obviously attractive people. She smiled again, warmly, her brow raised inquisitively.

[vickys_charm]

Vicky blinked a couple of times at Pansy's cryptic comment about her hair. How could her name bring out anything in her hair? The knut dropped when Pansy mentioned the dress, and she smiled and blushed at the same time.

'Thanks,' she said finally, feeling warm by the way Pansy looked at her. When she glanced up her mind filled with the images of fantasies she'd long thought were forgotten and she quickly looked down on her Cosmopolitan again.

Taking a sip of the drink, she tried to will the images of her teenage fantasies away.

It didn't help. If anything the alcohol made them quite a bit more vivid. The fact that she knew a lot more of what could go on between two women didn't exactly help her push the thoughts away either, but she forced herself to meet Pansy's gaze anyway.

'I didn't exactly know you, more like noticed you,' Vicky admitted with a shy smile. 'You were noticeable, I guess, because we weren't even in the same house.'

[sly_boots_pansy]

'Well, I have always been noticeable...' Pansy agreed with a sly wink. She smiled warmly at the other girl. 'Even with the ghastly school robes,' she added with a twinkle in her eyes.

She watched as Vicky took another sip of her drink, watching the way her lips moved on the edge of the glass. Suddenly, she said, 'So Vicky of Hogwarts, could I talk you into joining me at a table? I don't often get to chat with people from school these days.' Pansy smiled encouragingly.

[obnoxious_prat]

Zach entered the Leaky and went straight to the bar. It had been a long week, and he felt like getting pissed, though he knew he'd just have a drink or two. Nick was working and his housemates were both off doing whatever it was they did to occupy their days, which meant the house was ridiculously quiet.

He didn't particularly want to be social, but he liked the noise at the pub. Since Tom had redecorated, it always seemed to be pretty crowded, which made people watching more entertaining. He ordered a firewhisky and some chips when he remembered that he'd not eaten anything for lunch. When his drink arrived, he sipped it and scanned the pub for anyone interesting to watch.

[boot_t_licious]

Cigarette hanging loosely from one hand, Terry reached over for an ashtray. His arm managed to knock over what was left of his drink, the liquid dribbling across the wood towards someone else.

"Fuck. Sorry; accident." He offered an apologetic smile, fumbling for his wand to clean up the mess.

[obnoxious_prat]

The pub wasn't too active yet, but it was still pretty early. He wondered if anyone would do karaoke. That was always worth a snicker or two. He turned back to the bar to get his drink just in time to notice the person beside him knock over their drink.

"No harm," he said. He pulled his wand out and cleaned it up since the bloke seemed to be having difficulty getting his. He glanced at the guy and wondered why he hadn't run into guys that looked that good until after he was off the market. Course, loving Nick didn't mean he couldn't look. Didn't have any interest in going beyond the looking anyway.

"Looks like you need a new drink," he said. He caught Tom's eyes and nodded towards the empty glass before he picked up his own. "You're Boot, aren't ya? We were in DA together a million years ago."

[boot_t_licious]

"Ta," Terry said with a grin. He felt a little embarrassed that his wand didn't seem to want to extract itself from the pocket of his robes.

"Yeah, I'm Boot. Terry. And you're Smith, right?" Smith was an easy enough name to remember and it was easier to put the name to the face now that the wizard had spoken. "Merlin, I haven't thought about the DA in ages. Seems like a lifetime ago."

He picked up his glass from where it was lying on its side, frowning slightly and meaning to order another one when he could get Tom's attention. The Leaky certainly seemed to be busy since its makeover, although Terry had only popped in a couple of times since the reopening, thoughts of what he'd got up to with Chambers still vivid enough to make him blush.