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Located on the South side of Diagon Alley in London, past a number of other shops you notice a quaint building. It is a café in this fairly busy part of section. What makes this different from the other shops? Their logo for one, resembling a wispy stag that moves every now and then in the window, illuminating from a quite distance in the evenings. One can't help but chance a glance as they pass by.
Approaching the café you get a large sense of security as a warm haze falls over you upon entry. There were tables outside the place, where diners could have their meals and chat among themselves as well as indoors. Heading on the inside you are greeted with the sight of many Patronuses floating throughout the walls behind the other stag logos of the café. The flooring a pleasant velvet red, further emphasizing the pleasant warmth one would experience whether for a quick stop or a romantic scenery.
Floating around you see the wispy forms moving around the walls featuring creatures such as phoenixes, zebras, otters, horses and many other magical creatures. Perhaps your own will join the walls if you stay long enough? The tables are compact and decorated with candles that automatically light up keeping the darkness at bay. Along with additional small booths near the back for more privacy. The Menu illuminates right behind the counter as you approach to order. As soon as you sit, you can't help but feel as if you're right at home.
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Breakium Emendo *items served all day
- Apple & Berry Bircher Muesli - 11 Sickles
- Cheese / Chocolate Twist - 12 Sickles
- Croissant - 13 Sickles
- Fruit Salad - 14 Sickles
- Porridge - 12 Sickles
- Yoghurt - 13 Sickles, 10 Knuts
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Sun-kissed and rejuvenated from the summer break, Remy Gaeltheos was enjoying her time wandering around familiar parts of London as a newly qualified adult. While she was busy with her new schooling schedule, she was thrilled by the possibility to slip in a coffee break in between studying. Besides, she had only just started her next education venture, so it was just about settling in thus far. And settled in already, she was!!!!
The blonde felt a little bad for not making this date meet up happen sooner, but she had been busy sunning and travelling Italy with her big sister. She knew Atlas wouldn’t mind, and gosh, she was ever so excited to see him, secretly hoping he hadn’t replaced her as a best friend. Supposedly, they were too old for the BFF thing now. Not deep down.
Remy ordered a mocha and a bacon, brie and cranberry panini, before sitting down at a quiet corner of the cafe to wait for her friend.
Hitting up Espresso Patronum wasn't nearly as fun without Remy being the barista. Sure, he could have thrust a complicated for the sake of being complicated order on some random person or some noob just trying to earn enough to pay the rent...but he wasn't that sort of brat and taking out certain frustrations and impulses on unknowns made him feel like too much of a jerk. No, we were not going to discuss how doing the same things to friends was still a jerk move. The ones who knew him knew, you know? All this to say that he had rarely stopped by this place since Remy had left it which had meant he needed to figure out other means for lunches - which basically meant he was packing himself the bare minimum from home to pinch sickles and knuts wherever he could.
His shift had gone a bit longer than anticipated due to an indecisive customer and him just barely holding it together as he explained the differences between silver and copper bearings again, so it was with pure unfiltered relief that he smiled when he saw her. A smile that almost immediately turned into a smirk. "So...any inclination to hop behind the counter and prepare my usual?" he teased while leaning his shoulder against the wall beside her table. "For old time's sake, obviously."
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Switching jobs was never an easy transition especially since she had gone from removing spirits to working with living patients. So it was very nice to get to see her husband on a shared lunch break in DA Becca mused as she sat one of the tables at the patronum, and waited for Darej to arrive. After perusing the menu she had ordered a dragon feast panini for her hubby, and a ham & chimera chicken sandwich along with coffee for them both. Maybe she'd even indulge herself and get dessert later if there was time left before she had to get back to St Mungos to continue her shift.
What Darej wanted to discuss in the middle of the week with no kids running around their feet was a puzzle. Becca had a bunch of guesses, but doubted that none of them came close.
The window seat was a great place to watch people walk by outside, and he saw Victoria enter through the door at exactly noon on his watch. He caught her wave but pretended not to notice by sipping his cappuccino. Daniel placed the cup back on the table after it burned his tongue.
If she thought her hug would make him flustered, she was... correct. People didn't often hug him because he had an aura around him that had a 'stay away from me' vibe, but he let Victoria do it. His ears were the only parts of his body that turned red as he waited for her to sit. "I have nothing to complain about." Even if he pretended not to care, he had a good time with his family during the summer. They had taken a vacation to Seychelles, and when he returned, he began his wandless magic classes with his mentor. Though now that Hogwarts had started again he could only correspond with Professor Khanna with post owls. "Classes are difficult but manageable" he said as he looked down at her tray. A salad and tea. The complete opposite of what he had bought. "How are you these days?"
Of course Daniel didn’t wave back. He was Daniel after all. But the hug…she knew she’d get him with the hug. The red ears did not go unnoticed, either. V took a seat and had a sip of her tea.
“What are you going to school for again?” V felt awkward that she had to ask, that she hadn’t remembered. But he probably hadn’t remembered what she was going to school for, either. “My classes aren’t too bad yet. And I’m living with Serena,” she added, smiling at the thought. “And Stewie and I are….still…” confusing. Were they together? Were they not? She and Stewie still had no answers. “Are still close.” Was how she chose to end that statement. No need to give Daniel the details if he didn’t want them. This all also reminded her of how much of a huge crush she had had on Daniel up until very recently, and now they were having a lunch together.
It made her lips curl into a smirk as she said, “What a nice date we’re having here, Mr. Yoon.”
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Switching jobs was never an easy transition especially since she had gone from removing spirits to working with living patients. So it was very nice to get to see her husband on a shared lunch break in DA Becca mused as she sat one of the tables at the patronum, and waited for Darej to arrive. After perusing the menu she had ordered a dragon feast panini for her hubby, and a ham & chimera chicken sandwich along with coffee for them both. Maybe she'd even indulge herself and get dessert later if there was time left before she had to get back to St Mungos to continue her shift.
What Darej wanted to discuss in the middle of the week with no kids running around their feet was a puzzle. Becca had a bunch of guesses, but doubted that none of them came close.
Darej was on his lunch break from work, which was relieving since he could meet his wife around the same time. These days, their kids were now within the Primary Wizarding School's safe hands now that they were growing up leading to what he wanted to discuss with Becca.
"Hello love," Darej greeted with a quick kiss to her. She already had one of his favorites ordered before he took his seat with her. "Thanks for ordering. How's your day going so far?" He asked. He had already cleaned his hands so he was quick to take his first bite of the panini before he brought up what was on his mind. "When I had dropped the kids off this morning, I saw an advertisement with a 4 bedroom 2 bath flat available around the corner." "As cozy as our place is, they are getting older now and I imagine the boys will want their own space by the time Ciara's old enough to share with Tiana," He drew out a copy of the floor plan for her. Their current space had been fine when they just had Connor and then some adjusting with the twins, Tyler and Tiana. But with Ciara, there was quite a bit more accommodating that they were just getting used to. But now the timing seemed about right for them. Especially when it's within walking distance from their jobs and the school. "What do you think?" Of course, he hadn't checked out the place, he wanted to see it with Becca by his side if she was interested in it.
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The woman agreed to Bowie’s request and so he sat in the seat opposite her after carefully placing his coffee down onto the table. “Thank you” he replied graciously, tucking his chair under so as to not take up too much space in the busy coffee shop.
It had seemed that his table companion had completely misconstrued what he meant when he said ‘one of those morning’ to mean exclusively her but she didn’t seem to be too offended by the apparent accusation and so the twenty-eight year old chuckled softly. “I meant in general. I’ve never seen this place so full.” Not during term time anyway but then again he didn’t frequent it that often. Bowie liked to vary his afternoon coffee breaks, it was about as much excitement as he could get out of the hour he allowed himself.
Now Bowie wasn’t a Ravenclaw but by process of deductive reasoning he established that this woman must work in one of the many stores of Diagon Alley if she was talking about the kids going back. “I daren’t even go here in the summer holidays. Too clumsy, would probably accidentally bowl over a small child.” He laughed. Sometimes his long blonde hair blew in front of his face and caused a hazard, sometimes he was just overly-excited about what he was doing and sometimes he was just extremely distracted. He’d been compared to a Golden Retriever on several occasions and it was likely accurate. “Just on my caffeine break from work.” He raised his coffee cup in a little ‘cheers’.
“I’m Bowie.”
"Ohhh," Nettie said with a small laugh, blushing a little at her misunderstanding and looking around the cafe. "Yeah, I think everyone is celebrating the fact that there are no more children hanging around anymore," she noted with a grin. That was why SHE was here at least. "If their shops are anything like mine, they have a backlog of work to try and get through."
"Nice to meet you Bowie, I'm Nettie," she replied, taking her coffee cup and mimicking his cheers with a smile as she took a sip. This Bowie fellow had a LOT of hair. She was a little jealous, to be honest. Her hair was horribly thin no matter what she did and here he was, with a whole mane of it! "So what brings you to the alley today?" she asked conversationally.
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The sudden influx of patrons due to the mass migration of students back to Hogwarts made perfect sense but also it was strange that they had picked that particular day to all come. Maybe it was due to the midweek slump where everyone needed a caffeine supplement to boost their productivity. “I visited here a couple of weeks ago and.. well I don’t think most of those children should go anywhere near coffee” he chuckled. Not that he could say anything considering he was (and still often WAS) one of those excitable children. “Still it’s nice to be able to walk down Diagon without tripping over a small child.” No but seriously, it HAD happened.
His assumption over her working at one of the shops was clearly correct. “Which shop do you work at?” he asked with genuine interest. Bowie wasn’t the best as reading other people so wouldn’t even want to hazard a guess, he was the sort of person who just wanted to get along with everyone and therefore judging others based on their appearance was something he never wished to do.
“Likewise.” He took a quick sip of his coffee before setting it back down on the table with a little too much vigour and spilling a bit over the side. “I’m doing some work at a recording studio just around the corner and this was the best coffee shop I could think of ” he answered, subtly wiping up the mess with the sleeve of his colourful jumper.
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Hitting up Espresso Patronum wasn't nearly as fun without Remy being the barista. Sure, he could have thrust a complicated for the sake of being complicated order on some random person or some noob just trying to earn enough to pay the rent...but he wasn't that sort of brat and taking out certain frustrations and impulses on unknowns made him feel like too much of a jerk. No, we were not going to discuss how doing the same things to friends was still a jerk move. The ones who knew him knew, you know? All this to say that he had rarely stopped by this place since Remy had left it which had meant he needed to figure out other means for lunches - which basically meant he was packing himself the bare minimum from home to pinch sickles and knuts wherever he could.
His shift had gone a bit longer than anticipated due to an indecisive customer and him just barely holding it together as he explained the differences between silver and copper bearings again, so it was with pure unfiltered relief that he smiled when he saw her. A smile that almost immediately turned into a smirk. "So...any inclination to hop behind the counter and prepare my usual?" he teased while leaning his shoulder against the wall beside her table. "For old time's sake, obviously."
The feeling of a hot coffee running down on a chilly day like today was perfection, but she did secretly think she could have made this one better than what it was. No offence to the current barista, of course. Remy missed working here but it was time to think of the future!! She had already finished her panini when Atlas arrived, very aware that he was running a little later than she was expecting him. Remy was impeccable with time-keeping, as ever. Always on a schedule, always had a thousand lists buzzing around her little head.
Her face lit up like a Christmas tree when she saw him, turning into a little chuckle at his comment. "No, sir. I'm officially a full time coffee enjoyer, not maker." Okay, okay... it was fun making coffee too, with the patterned froth on top which she had mastered. Remy stood up and grasped hold of him into a cheek-to-cheek smooshing hug. She didn't care if he wasn't up for the hug, because it felt like it had been a billion years since she had seen him, and Merlin's Beard, she had missed him so much.
"Hey." Remy freed him after only a short moment, because she wanted to look at that beautiful face of his.
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The sudden influx of patrons due to the mass migration of students back to Hogwarts made perfect sense but also it was strange that they had picked that particular day to all come. Maybe it was due to the midweek slump where everyone needed a caffeine supplement to boost their productivity. “I visited here a couple of weeks ago and.. well I don’t think most of those children should go anywhere near coffee” he chuckled. Not that he could say anything considering he was (and still often WAS) one of those excitable children. “Still it’s nice to be able to walk down Diagon without tripping over a small child.” No but seriously, it HAD happened.
His assumption over her working at one of the shops was clearly correct. “Which shop do you work at?” he asked with genuine interest. Bowie wasn’t the best as reading other people so wouldn’t even want to hazard a guess, he was the sort of person who just wanted to get along with everyone and therefore judging others based on their appearance was something he never wished to do.
“Likewise.” He took a quick sip of his coffee before setting it back down on the table with a little too much vigour and spilling a bit over the side. “I’m doing some work at a recording studio just around the corner and this was the best coffee shop I could think of ” he answered, subtly wiping up the mess with the sleeve of his colourful jumper.
Nettie chuckled and shook her head. "Oh, absolutely not. I don't think I was ever that enthusiastic about going back to school," she said. Those who knew the blonde well would probably agree to disagree - but as far as SHE remembered it, she was a perfectly well behaved child. "It is nice to be back in the company of adults," she added in agreement.
"Flourish and Blotts," she answered, taking a sip of her coffee. "I'm a book binder," she elaborated, which hadn't necessarily been the career she pictured for herself, but she enjoyed it nonetheless. She actually liked it far more than she had anticipated, and here she was, three years later, still working with her beloved books.
She bit her lip and tried not to laugh at the mess he made, but then he tried to wipe it up with his jumper - and she was not about to let him mess up his sweater like that! "Here," she said quickly, handing him a napkin. She supposed she could have cleaned it up with her wand as well but...she had napkins more readily available. "What are you doing at the studio? Are you a musician?" she asked curiously. He certainly had the hair for it.
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Of course Daniel didn’t wave back. He was Daniel after all. But the hug…she knew she’d get him with the hug. The red ears did not go unnoticed, either. V took a seat and had a sip of her tea.
“What are you going to school for again?” V felt awkward that she had to ask, that she hadn’t remembered. But he probably hadn’t remembered what she was going to school for, either. “My classes aren’t too bad yet. And I’m living with Serena,” she added, smiling at the thought. “And Stewie and I are….still…” confusing. Were they together? Were they not? She and Stewie still had no answers. “Are still close.” Was how she chose to end that statement. No need to give Daniel the details if he didn’t want them. This all also reminded her of how much of a huge crush she had had on Daniel up until very recently, and now they were having a lunch together.
It made her lips curl into a smirk as she said, “What a nice date we’re having here, Mr. Yoon.”
As V took a seat, Daniel bit into his panini. It wasn't bad, but he'd had worse. He wanted to experience the cooking of the house elves at Hogwarts again though. It had a 'different' vibe to it. He swallowed the bite and said, "Behavioral sciences and Rune studies. I'm hoping to get a job in curse-breaking,"he stated. He had been fascinated by it since he was twelve. "I heard you decided to go to university as well" which surprised him. Not because she wouldn't be qualified to attend university, but because he had the impression she didn't enjoy studying. But he had only tutored in a subject she had been bad at so he hadn't really seen a different side.
"You do?" He inquired when she mentioned living with Serena. "And how is that going?" He would prefer to have his own place and live alone once he moved out of his parents' house.
Daniel had been completely unaware that Stewie and V had dated...or might have dated while at Hogwarts because he had not cared about relationships, neither his own nor those of others. "Hmmm" he replied as he took another bite of his bread when her next statement nearly caused him to choke on his food.
"Very funny, Miss Gellar" He said with a roll of his eyes. "I wouldn't take you to a cafe for a first date, though" he said quickly and took a swig from his HOT cappuccino. It burned his tongue again but he pretended like nothing had happened.
Of course what Daniel was going to university for sounded super fancy and smart. A curse-breaker, eh? Victoria found herself smirking at him as she picked at her salad. "I think you'll be great at that. You're great at all that academic and magic stuff." Both of which she struggled with. Especially with RUNES? Blegh. V couldn't imagine studying that subject area in depth at all. "I did. For journalism. It's pretty interesting so far...there's some stuff I don't enjoy, like the entry-level writing course, but it has to be done," she shrugged. And she only needed an average grade in those classes to get to the higher-level Journalism classes, so. Yeah.
"I love living with Seri. We're both moody, but we know how to keep to ourselves when we feel snippy. I want to convince her that we can have a cat. I want a kitten. It feels weird not having a pet." Ever since her dog had died a year ago, she felt like she needed a pet. A dog seemed like too much work on her own, so she felt like she could settle for a cat.
Hehehehehe. V veeeeery coyly bat her eyelashes at him. "Oh? Where would our first date be, then, Daniel Yoon?" she asked as she took a bite of her salad from her fork then gave the fork a little swirl of her wrist, playfully, at him. She was unaware he had burned his tongue either the first or this time, and had she known, she would have been amused. Regardless, she enjoyed flustering him. Seeing his cheeks redden, or even just his ears, would make her feel insanely gleeful.
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Nettie chuckled and shook her head. "Oh, absolutely not. I don't think I was ever that enthusiastic about going back to school," she said. Those who knew the blonde well would probably agree to disagree - but as far as SHE remembered it, she was a perfectly well behaved child. "It is nice to be back in the company of adults," she added in agreement.
"Flourish and Blotts," she answered, taking a sip of her coffee. "I'm a book binder," she elaborated, which hadn't necessarily been the career she pictured for herself, but she enjoyed it nonetheless. She actually liked it far more than she had anticipated, and here she was, three years later, still working with her beloved books.
She bit her lip and tried not to laugh at the mess he made, but then he tried to wipe it up with his jumper - and she was not about to let him mess up his sweater like that! "Here," she said quickly, handing him a napkin. She supposed she could have cleaned it up with her wand as well but...she had napkins more readily available. "What are you doing at the studio? Are you a musician?" she asked curiously. He certainly had the hair for it.
Bowie wasn’t unenthusiastic about going to school, in fact there was very little that had him lacking in enthusiasm as he tried to remain upbeat about everything but he too couldn’t remember bouncing around off the walls and being as loud as some of the latest batch of students were. “I can’t entirely blame them, Hogwarts IS the most exciting school in the world” he chuckled. Sadly Bowie was not the perfect example of a mature adult either. “I can’t guarantee I’m the most adult of adults but I’ll try with the intellectual conversation.” Try as hard as he could anyway but he wasn’t the most well read.
Speaking of being well read, his companion obviously WAS of the intellectual type considering she worked in the bookshop. “Ah must’ve been absolutely chocka with kids buying their textbooks then.” Not his favourite part of shopping, those things were heavy and as a surprisingly small eleven-year-old who hadn’t learned any charms yet they were difficult to lug around.
There were no concerns over getting his sleeves dirty, his jumper was already a little holey and well loved and it was nothing a decent cleaning charm couldn’t handle but alas she handed over the napkins and the man would feel rude refusing them. “I do a bit of everything. Guitar, piano, vocals.. whatever they need me for really. I studied magical music production too at university so I can do all the technical side as well.” He was too much of a pushover to be a frontman, he didn’t have the showiness or pizzazz to make a name for himself and so he was satisfied being in the background.
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The feeling of a hot coffee running down on a chilly day like today was perfection, but she did secretly think she could have made this one better than what it was. No offence to the current barista, of course. Remy missed working here but it was time to think of the future!! She had already finished her panini when Atlas arrived, very aware that he was running a little later than she was expecting him. Remy was impeccable with time-keeping, as ever. Always on a schedule, always had a thousand lists buzzing around her little head.
Her face lit up like a Christmas tree when she saw him, turning into a little chuckle at his comment. "No, sir. I'm officially a full time coffee enjoyer, not maker." Okay, okay... it was fun making coffee too, with the patterned froth on top which she had mastered. Remy stood up and grasped hold of him into a cheek-to-cheek smooshing hug. She didn't care if he wasn't up for the hug, because it felt like it had been a billion years since she had seen him, and Merlin's Beard, she had missed him so much.
"Hey." Remy freed him after only a short moment, because she wanted to look at that beautiful face of his.
Being someone who, when it mattered, believe that five minutes early was already ten minutes late...Atlas was genuinely feeling like his skin crawling off his bones would be more comfortable than arriving late. Perhaps it was a good thing that his irritation with incompetent customers had him riled up enough to be distracted by that discomfort and instead he was channeling it all in to pestering Remy. Almost like the days before things got so complicated and the pair of them just chilling in front of the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room. Almost but also not even remotely close.
Speaking of close, Remy sure wasted no time in getting reacquainted. While he did make exceptions, Atlas remained a not so touchy feely kind of bloke and had naively not anticipated her performing such an act out here in such a public setting. It was probably the setting that had him more resistant than the gesture itself. Embarrassment creeping across his cheeks, his fingers sort of lightly reciprocated the hug by drumming themselves on the small of her back. "Uh...bummer...don't trust anyone else not to spit in my order."
And, honestly, if he were a barista he would be tempted to if someone like himself came in asking the most egregious of orders just to see if they could pull it off. The spite ran thick in his blood, you see.
"Hey yourself," Atlas chuckled, the air filling his lungs once again and even more so once he rolled his shoulders to loosen up again as his limbs returned to his sides and hands slipped into his pockets. "You're looking good." She always did though so maybe he should tell her something she didn't already know. "...and already mostly through your lunch I see."
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Minjae appreciated Adi's words, but even more so that he didn't press any further. It was a subject he preferred not to discuss with anyone other than his therapist. "I had many friends to help me get through it all," he said, smiling genuinely.
There was a difference between occupying yourself with things to distract yourself and completely engulfing your entire existence by playing video games all night because you were afraid to sleep. On the plus side, he'd become a fantastic MMORPG guild leader as a result. A feat his parents were not grateful for at the time.
Minjae looked a bit confused as he noticed the head tilt, followed by the question about how he knew all of this. He thought it was obvious, but he guessed that to someone who didn't know him, he sounded more like a coffee addict who frequented this establishment. That wasn't far from the truth though. "Oh, I've worked here for a couple of years" he explained. "I worked part-time before starting at the Ministry. I'm now a spirit relocation officer," he added.
To be honest, he hadn't seen the 'hippogriff breeder' coming. "I had no idea hippogriffs and dragons could get along," he said. "Are they both in the same reserve or are they sectioned off?" He liked hippogriffs but didn't care much for dragons. To him, they were a bit scary. "Oh man, I'm terrible at Gobstones. I lost a lot while I was at school" he laughed. "Have you won many competitions?" He had to go to tournaments if he played professionally, right?
He shook his head. He hadn't tried the Patronus charm in a long time. But his life was coming together, and he could confidently state that he was happy these days. "I suppose I could try again" His happy memory from back then was of his best friend being accepted into residency to become a Healer. He wondered which thought he should use these days.
That was something Adi could understand. “A strong support system is always important, and I can tell you this applies to more than just whatever we faced at Hogwarts. I’m sure you figured this out already.” Adi smiled wisely; he hoped Minjae was not one of those who only focused on the negative aspects of his life. Those were not always the important moments even if they were the defining moments. In Adi’s opinion from knowing the younger man for only a short span of time, he would say that Minjae was a fine fellow, in terms of dedication to his brother and being a decent human, at least.
Ah, that would explain why Minjae was so familiar with the Espresso Patronum. “Your Ministry job must be interesting! Does it get rather difficult dealing with spirits and the other requirements that come with the job?" Adi thought it might but what did he know of the job description? The older man chuckled. “Both sets of creatures are always kept at a great distance away from each other. We don’t usually take chances with them mingling because that can be disastrous. I always say that both creatures have great egos and can get feisty if rubbed the wrong way. I let persons visit the Reserve if they want to, so the invitation’s open to you should be you be interested.” Adi had often been told by those he met how bad they were at Gobstones. “It takes a lot of focus so don't worry about being bad at Gobstones. Is Quidditch more of your thing? Sometimes I find that one person more often than not is good at one or the other.” Modestly, he continued, “My team has won a fair few. I have been playing for the Hereford Hippogriffs since I graduated from Hogwarts.” In a few years, he’d be of retirement age.
“Give it a shot. I bet you will surprise yourself.” Adi had the suspicion that Minjae’s life had improved a lot from the days of Hogwarts and there may be a lot of happy memories from events after.
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Being someone who, when it mattered, believe that five minutes early was already ten minutes late...Atlas was genuinely feeling like his skin crawling off his bones would be more comfortable than arriving late. Perhaps it was a good thing that his irritation with incompetent customers had him riled up enough to be distracted by that discomfort and instead he was channeling it all in to pestering Remy. Almost like the days before things got so complicated and the pair of them just chilling in front of the fireplace in the Gryffindor common room. Almost but also not even remotely close.
Speaking of close, Remy sure wasted no time in getting reacquainted. While he did make exceptions, Atlas remained a not so touchy feely kind of bloke and had naively not anticipated her performing such an act out here in such a public setting. It was probably the setting that had him more resistant than the gesture itself. Embarrassment creeping across his cheeks, his fingers sort of lightly reciprocated the hug by drumming themselves on the small of her back. "Uh...bummer...don't trust anyone else not to spit in my order."
And, honestly, if he were a barista he would be tempted to if someone like himself came in asking the most egregious of orders just to see if they could pull it off. The spite ran thick in his blood, you see.
"Hey yourself," Atlas chuckled, the air filling his lungs once again and even more so once he rolled his shoulders to loosen up again as his limbs returned to his sides and hands slipped into his pockets. "You're looking good." She always did though so maybe he should tell her something she didn't already know. "...and already mostly through your lunch I see."
She would have been offended to hear that he wasn’t expecting a proper hug from her, or that he was embarrassed by it, despite her knowing what he was like. Of course, she was none the wiser and didn’t regret her closeness, so he’d better just get used to it again!!!! Remy faked a shocked expression, “Me?! I would never.” Not even to her worst enemy, actually. “Although I’m sure I heard a rumour that their custom has decreased dramatically in the last few months.” Wink, wink.
Aw. Now it was her turn to feel embarrassed.
“Thanks, Flobberworm, you’ll make me blush. You’re looking pretty good yourself.” That was an understatement, of course. Her friend was always easy on her eyes. “I’m thinking of going up again for something sweet. Want me to get you anything?” Baring in mind that she wouldn’t take no for an answer!
“Tough day at work?” She casually asked, realising that there must’ve been a reason for Atlas turning up a little behind schedule.
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She would have been offended to hear that he wasn’t expecting a proper hug from her, or that he was embarrassed by it, despite her knowing what he was like. Of course, she was none the wiser and didn’t regret her closeness, so he’d better just get used to it again!!!! Remy faked a shocked expression, “Me?! I would never.” Not even to her worst enemy, actually. “Although I’m sure I heard a rumour that their custom has decreased dramatically in the last few months.” Wink, wink.
Aw. Now it was her turn to feel embarrassed.
“Thanks, Flobberworm, you’ll make me blush. You’re looking pretty good yourself.” That was an understatement, of course. Her friend was always easy on her eyes. “I’m thinking of going up again for something sweet. Want me to get you anything?” Baring in mind that she wouldn’t take no for an answer!
“Tough day at work?” She casually asked, realising that there must’ve been a reason for Atlas turning up a little behind schedule.
If she did get offended she would get over it like she always did. She was reliable in that way. "Entirely my point," he nodded, quite pleased she saw his logic. It took someone real special to put up with him, pass his tests, and while let down time and time again he had nonetheless found a very finite elite few (read: two) who hadn't betrayed him. The likes of which...he may delve into today, may not. Did it really matter at the end of the day when people showed you precisely where their priorities were and you made your choice in how to respond to it?
Atlas rolled his eyes, hopes of that nickname dying as Hogwarts faded into the distance of the past squashed, and considered the menu from memory. He wasn't going to say no to be treated to something, meant he got to indulge in his fickle behaviors without guilt nagging him, but that would also mean he needed to know what that something was that he wanted. "Eh...sure," he replied nonchalantly so as not to look too keen on accepting being treated. "I mean, as long as your offering...I'll take a cortado and lemon posset," he concluded with a smirk before slipping his cap off in one hand and raking his fingers through his blond hair with the other. "Less rough and more taxing. Answering the same questions over and over again...you know, customer service woes."
Atlas flourished his hand with a dismissive air and flopped into one of the seats at the table to wait. "I'll hold down the fort. Make sure no chairs walk off on their own accord or nothing."
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