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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 30, 2007 20:31:23 GMT -5
"Coasters should already be on the coffee table, I can grab napkins with the rest of the silverware," Felicity answered. "And I guess I could grab the last plate as well while I'm at it." She didn't figure Cherry would offer to grab anything and she wasn't about to request either of her parents to do so, nor was she about to ask Drew as he'd already done more than enough for her in the course of the night.
Following Cherry's lead, Felicity walked close behind her into the living area and set one of the plates in her hands in front of her dad and the other in front of the seat Cherry had just taken up on the sofa, closest to the kitchens. With the seating arrangement, it left two seats on the sofa, the middle and the one closest to her dad, and two chairs. Felicity figured it would be easiest to just set plates in front of those who were there and allow Drew to leave one on the table for her mum and keep the other to himself for wherever he took a seat.
"I just have to grab another plate and a few other things," the Gryffindor told her father, though didn't move, wanting to catch Drew's eye to see if he was going to stay or go with her, though it wasn't necessary.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Sept 30, 2007 22:25:09 GMT -5
Drew followed the girls in, offering the dessert plate to Mrs. Hjort, making sure that the unpoked piece was closer to her. As Cherry took a seat, he figured he'd end up on the sofa as well, but wasn't sure exactly.
"Need help?" he asked Felicity, pretty sure she could manage the last little bit on her own, but still figuring he'd better check and make sure. If she said yes, there'd be some suspicion as to why it took two people to grab a plate and some forks... and if she said no, manners dictated that he should probably stay standing until she returned.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 30, 2007 22:36:30 GMT -5
"No, but you can help me anyway," Felicity teased in response. While it really was not necessary for Drew to leave the living room to help her grab a few spare things, extra hands were always a nice thing to have, and that way she'd be less likely to drop something and have to make a return trip to grab whatever it was that was dropped, though with as few things as needed to be grabbed, the blonde doubted she'd really drop anything.
Letting her brown eyes fall to her dad's blue, she tried to relay with a look that it was just an extra set of hands being given up and nothing else, before turning to walk back to the kitchen. "Come on Drew, you can make sure I don't drop anything."
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Post by Drew Thornton on Sept 30, 2007 23:13:23 GMT -5
Had it been just the two of them, Drew would have made some tease about her being a klutz, but in front of her parents, he kept it to himself, figuring it wouldn't earn him any points. They might think he was serious or something.
He placed his plate and glass on the table and followed Felicity towards the kitchen. If nothing else, he figured he could hold the door open for her, but even then he wasn't sure what exactly he'd be helping her with.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Sept 30, 2007 23:25:45 GMT -5
Once in the kitchen, Felicity turned around and wrapped her arms around Drew's neck. While she kind of wished he'd talk a bit more in front of her parents, she wasn't about to push him to. The blonde knew he wasn't normally that silent, and figured it was because of the circumstances of her dad seeming not to like him, and the uncomfortable scene of kind of always being watched by someone in her home.
"I'm glad you came with me," she grinned up at him. Even if she could only take such a short moment to wrap her arms around him, she'd rather have the shortness of it than not being able to do it at all. Standing on tiptoes she kissed him lightly and then went in search of napkins.
"All right, I've got the napkins and forks, if you want to grab the cake?" she asked before taking off towards the doorway but waiting for him before heading to the living area.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Sept 30, 2007 23:48:42 GMT -5
Just being under the same roof as her parents made him jittery but ironically her quick hug and kiss settled his nerves a bit. She was either trying to get him killed off or he was making a much bigger deal about it all than he should. At the moment, he was assuming it was the latter of the two.
"Me too," he answered with a grin as she let him go and found the napkins. "I really like your family," he told her as he grabbed the last plate, just in case she thought he didn't. In a lot of ways, they reminded him of his own family. The main difference was, of course, his own family liked him for the most part.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 1, 2007 0:22:58 GMT -5
That one little statement was enough to make the girl not only grin foolishly, but want to jump around and shout with a bit joy, as well as push him into a bank of snow and kiss him all over again, but she refrained.
"I'm glad you like them," she told him softly, wishing she could say the same about his family, but not having properly met them, she couldn't. True, she'd spoken with his sister before, but only at the Quidditch game. It really meant a lot to her that he'd say something of the sort, even if not all of them seemed to appreciate him very well. "I'm pretty sure most of them like you, too."
Stopping quickly, she stood up straight again and kissed his jaw gently before continuing to where everyone was waiting for the two to return with the missing items.
Taking a seat on the sofa, in the middle so as to put Drew near her father if he sat there with her, she hoped her dad would be civil with conversation and perhaps come out liking Drew a bit more than when the evening started.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 1, 2007 19:59:40 GMT -5
Drew would take her word for it, only because she knew them better, but so far it hadn't seemed as if they cared for him much. He tried to tell himself that it wasn't a big deal, that he wanted to date Felicity and not her family, but he knew it didn't work like that. Her family was a big deal to her and if they didn't like him, he knew it would be a problem. On the bright side, they seemed to be tolerating him fairly well considering he hadn't been tossed out on his bum or strung up by his toes. That probably counted for something.
Drew followed her out to the living room and took the open space on the sofa, handing the cake in his hand over to Felicity before taking up the plate he had put down for himself. He wasn't sure if he was expected to sit there and wait to be spoken to or not, but he figured he had to do something.
"Mrs. Hjort, Felicity said you're a herbologist," he started, hoping it was a safe topic of conversation. The subject wasn't one of his best, but at least it was a start.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 2, 2007 11:06:46 GMT -5
Taking the offered plate, Felicity scooted over closer to Drew after he'd taken a seat, only to receive a disapproving look from her dad in return. However, she ignored it as the conversation had begun by Drew and was directed at her mum, therefore the attention of her brown eyes had focused on her mum's answer.
"Yes, that's the easiest way to put it I suppose," the older woman answered with a playful tease. "I don't really think I could be called an Herbologist, but I do work in the area." A disgruntled sound was uttered by Ib as he disagreed with his wife. As far as he was concerned it was her job, it was what she did to make a bit of money, though he wished she wouldn't feel the need to do so and that they reallly didn't need the money. "It was my best subject while at school, and it was the quickest and easiest way to gain a bit of income when I needed it, and I keep it up for a few people I know about the area, both magical and muggle alike."
Smiling kindly, she was glad to hear her daughter spoke of them, whether a little or a lot, at least she had mentioned them.
Returning her mum's smile, she Feliciity remained quiet, a task she wasn't sure would be easy to keep going. This was the time she knew would be for pleasant talk, getting to know one another within the time alloted, which could be good for Drew or not.
"Andrew," Meadow continued, knowing her husband would know where to go with the conversation at hand. "You said you wanted to become an Auror? That's a fine line of employment, how did you decide on such?"
It was a simple request to know a little about the person her daughter was so obvisouly interested in. Turning to her husband, though they were a few feet apart, she told him it was like a wizard version of a policeman.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 2, 2007 21:21:35 GMT -5
"That's what I tell my Muggle friends back home," Drew mentioned, breaking into a crooked smile, even though he personally thought it was more like joining the Marines. He wasn't sure he really wanted to share the actual story since it wasn't one of his best moments, but he didn't have a back up so he decided to just do the best he could with it.
"It was my first year and I was mouthing off in Defence class," he started, hoping they'd excuse his stupidity as being young. "The professor challenged me to a duel, saying that if I didn't like the curriculum then I had to prove I could move on. She's a little thing, only comes up to my elbow, but she used to be an Auror and gee if she can't throw me over her shoulder without even breaking a sweat." As he spoke, it was pretty clear he admired the heck out of the woman but of course he'd never admit it out loud. "So, we dueled and she made her point-- I hadn't been doing my best with the lesson. That's when I started thinking that being an Auror would be something I'd like to do."
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 2, 2007 21:51:16 GMT -5
The beginning of his story didn't go over too well with Ib, mouthing off in a class? His first year, no matter how young he may have been, he should have had manners enough to know not to do such a thing. Glancing at Felicity, he momentarily wondered if the two had met in a detention of some sort. Felicity wasn't a horrible person, but she often found herself in such situations that called for manners and she would forget them at critical times. But surely, at her age, she knew enough not to do such a thing. It only made one more thing for the older man to not like about the young man in his company. Thankfully the man was already aware of the term muggle, and had not taken offense to it.
And a duel on top of it? Just what kind of place had the man sent his daughter for schooling? A professor going around dueling a student? That was incredulous. Felicity at times could barely stand on her own two feet without help, and they were dueling? With magic? Not knowing much of such a life, he could only imagine the kinds of things they did to one another in situations of the sort. Dueling?
Allowing a few small giggles to escape, Felicity could just imagine a younger version of Drew dueling Raynor. It was quite a vision to her, even she herself didn't care for the subject, it was only one more thing she would have to request Drew's help with, though the class was no longer within the curriculum.
Meadow smiled absently, finding such a way of finding ones way in life quite humorous. The older woman herself hadn't ever dueled a day in her life outside of short lessons that briefed on the subject, but she imagined it would be quite a time. Though, it also brought into mind that of what he would be doing if he completed training, it wasn't the simplest of jobs, and with the madmen that seemed to be running about on occasion, she wouldn't like to be someone waiting for contact from the one on the job. It would be quite an interesting life, she was sure, depending on many things, but definitely one she herself wouldn't want.
"I take it dueling is a part of being an Auror?" came a rough voice. Ib was curious as to what he would be dealing with while his daughter was intrigued by Andrew, it would mean a lot of late nights listening to his wife explain things, but maybe he could wraggle her into letting him read a few of the books she'd taught Felicity out of so he could get a better grasp on such things. Felicity had tried explaining a few things to him, but he hadn't fully grasped the concepts of many of such things. "And dueling is like normal dueling? Excuse me, I mean dueling like...muggle dueling--except with wands and magic?"
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 2, 2007 22:47:37 GMT -5
Drew didn't take offence of the use of the word "normal", but he did take note of it. In his opinion there wasn't really anything "normal"... or maybe all of it was normal. Either way, part of him was starting to wonder if Mr. Hjort's dislike of him had a bit to due with the fact that he was a Wizard.
"Yes sir," Drew answered the man, keeping his wonderings to himself. "It's how you protect yourself and also how you disarm the person you're against. Kind of like the Muggle way. You practice, work on your aim, block attacks, do actual harm as a last resort."
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 2, 2007 23:07:31 GMT -5
In fact, being the boy was a wizard had absolutely nothing to do with Ib's not caring for the boy, the only reason he didn't like him was because he was interested in his daughter and she was interested in him. The slip of the word normal had nothing to do with such a fact, but what was normal for him was different than being normal for another. And being he had no part of the wizarding world, other than his wife and daughter's part in it, it wasn't normal for the man. Almost any boy Felicity could take a liking to would need to endure the man not caring for him, really there was only one young man Ib could bring himself to think of that he might possible endure liking, and that was only because he'd known the boy for quite a time and had much respect for his father.
Nodding while thinking it all over, he made plans to ask Harold more about police work and what was involved, and he was planning on how to go about asking Meadow if he could look into a few of her books so he could get a better grasp on all of this. While both Felicity and Meadow were usually patient in explaining, it wouldn't do in some situations.
"Drew's very good at wandwork," Felicity ventured. "His aim is pretty excellent. I mean, I haven't seen him duel, but he's helped me with a few things that I don't understand very well and he's very helpful." Of course, she thought of the time he'd helped her with the gems that had been stuck around her belly, and how he'd kept his hand on her side and rubbed at her skin gently afterwards to be sure they were all gone, but she wasn't about to freely admit that bit of information. Though, he had helped her many other times with practicing.
"And he's always telling me to practice when something doesn't come so easily to me," she smiled a bit shyly and bit on her bottom lip lightly. Felicity hadn't actually admitted that she'd been struggling with wandwork too much, other than a few times which wasn't nearly the case, though she was pretty sure her mum had gotten that bit of untold information.
"And Felicity, have you decided on what you'd like to do, yet?" her mum asked, bring Ib out of his thoughts. It was something they'd been speaking of amongst themselves, and while she wasn't happy to bring it up in front of either Cherry or Andrew, she felt it was probably safe under the circumstances. Ib and Meadow wanted to know what their daughter wanted to do, so they could plan accordingly. If she decided something in the wizarding world wasn't for her, they wanted to try to send her to a university, and would need to start saving immediately if it were the case.
"No, not really," came a soft voiced answer. Really, she hadn't thought too much about it. Drew had made a few suggestions a while ago, but none of those had really appealed to the blonde. And she wasn't good enough with wandwork to go into the Ministry of Magic, or at least she didn't think so, but there weren't too many other options left open after that in the wizarding world. On the other hand, she wasn't so sure she wanted to go into the muggle world either.
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Post by Drew Thornton on Oct 3, 2007 0:13:09 GMT -5
Drew took this moment as an opportunity to eat his dessert and quietly avoid eye contact, feeling a little uncomfortable with the change of topic. It wasn't that it was all that private of a subject, and even though he had asked Felicity the same question a few times, it just seemed to be something better saved for a different time. While he was glad the focus was off of him for the time being, he felt bad that it had narrowed on Felicity.
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Post by Felicity Hjort on Oct 3, 2007 21:33:18 GMT -5
"You know Felicity, you really need to decide on what you want to do," came the softened response of Ib Hjort's voice. If she was going to live in the muggle world, he and his wife wanted to put her through a university, to give her more options; if she chose to stay in the wizarding world, she would need to have plans so they could know how to best help her. "I know you don't finish school for another couple of years, but it can't wait to be decided on for very long."
While the words were not meant to make the blonde feel upset, she couldn't help the faint colour that touched her cheeks out of embarrassment. To bring such a subject up in front of both Cherry and Drew was horrid enough, especially as Drew had been asking and she still hadn't an answer, and now her parents were asking in front of others. The future still seemed so far away, and it wasn't something she was going to weigh lightly, it was just she wasn't skilled enough for something that appealed to her, and what she was skilled in wasn't what she really wanted to do.
Sighing lightly, knowing how the subject was something not properly to be discussed at the time, Meadow gave a weak smile to Ib to tell him to stop the conversation, she shouldn't have brought it up so easily.
"Andrew, tell us about your parents, what line of employment are they in, if it's not intruding too much, dear?" the red head inquired of their guest. Sometimes requesting family information wasn't to be done, and she didn't want to tread on too many toes, and it took the focus from Felicity for a few moments.
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