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Scorpius Malfoy ([personal profile] alsoagreengrass) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2010-12-30 05:36 pm

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Removing the snow from atop the wooden picnic table had been easy enough and Scorpius, now with his robes properly charmed to repel water and insulated to protect him from the cold, is lying atop of it.

With an almost half-empty bottle of (pilfered-from-his-friend) Ogden's Old forgotten beside him, a fire curling in his belly, and an old, charred broom at his feet.

He had been working on a modified charm for the broom. It hadn't turned out as well as he would've liked, as evident by the charred (and still smoking) remains of bristles.

He's obviously not too bothered by the experiment gone wrong. Maybe the firewhiskey helped or maybe it's just one of those days. Peacefully perfect - or perfectly peaceful - and he can't be bothered to care.

He's just going to enjoy the oncoming night, gloved fingers curled loosely around the neck of the bottle.

[OOC: Back! Open until it scrolls.]
parkerlee: (Really Dude?)

[personal profile] parkerlee 2010-12-31 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
"No. I don't know."

Is the sky doing something it normally doesn't? Not that she can tell.

Parker sets the bottle down on the table with a bang.

"Scorpius, sweetie. I'm being a bitch out of love, here. You have more sense than this. So what's with the booze and the fires? What's going on?"

Maybe it is just a teen being a teen. God knows, there were a few parties back in high school that had involved a bonfire and a couple of more beers than had been good for her.

But that had been a party scene. Not a solitary endeavor. And that's part of what worries her.
parkerlee: (Really Dude?)

[personal profile] parkerlee 2010-12-31 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
"You just grabbed a bottle of stuff that just about singed my nose hairs just from sniffing it?"

Parker sighs, sets the bottle far out of the way, and hitches herself up onto the table.

"Some things, huh? Well, I haven't seen you for a while. Or so it feels. Why don't you catch me up?"

Her eyebrow goes up, though her gaze softens a bit.

"I'm all for moving on from the bad. But the sneaky thing about the bad? Even when you're working on moving away from it--which is a good thing--it has this nasty tendency sometimes to circle back around, come up, and bite you in the ass again."

Been there. Smarted from that.
parkerlee: (Really Dude?)

[personal profile] parkerlee 2010-12-31 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
She's pretty sure he's beating around the bush. But he is talking. And that's something, especially given how unforthcoming young men can be.

So she'll go along for now. It it gets too cold, she can always hustle him inside and get some coffee into him.

"Yeah, that's good. That's great, even."

"So, how did that go?"

She really hopes Scorpius hasn't gone and gotten his heart broken. She might have to hurt someone.
parkerlee: (Yellow Alert)

[personal profile] parkerlee 2010-12-31 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay. Yeah, I can see that."

Milliways sometimes likes to make macrame knots out of time.

"So, you have a date lined up with a girl you like."

"That doesn't explain why you're out here having a one-man frat party."

parkerlee: (Really Dude?)

[personal profile] parkerlee 2010-12-31 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
"You do realize I'm not dropping this, right? Seriously. I was a bulldog in a past life."

Tenacious doesn't begin to cover it.

Parker picks up the bottle again. Exhibit A.

"Call me a drama-llama if you must, but you could have killed yourself like this, you know. If you had kept drinking and just stayed out here. What if your heater charms wore off? Or you decided that a swim in the lake sounded like a good way to cap off the night?"
parkerlee: (Really Dude?)

[personal profile] parkerlee 2010-12-31 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Oddly enough, I would have found it less worrying to find two of you out here."

Parker pulls her legs up so that she's sitting indian-style on the top of the table.

"So, what were you doing to the broom, anyway?"

[OOC: Bed is beckoning, but I'd love to continue in slowtime.]
parkerlee: (Really Dude?)

[personal profile] parkerlee 2011-01-01 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Just as well."

Parker rests her elbows on her knees.

"Those videos they showed us in school of accidents from drunk driving were gruesome enough."

"I hate to think what the result of drunk broom flying would look like."
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[personal profile] parkerlee 2011-01-01 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
"In other words, you're not as think as I drunk you are?" Parker asks, dryly.

She cocks her head at him as he loses verticality again, and restrains herself from ruffling a hand over his hair.

"Okay, honey. You're going to have to rewind and start over for me, there."
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[personal profile] parkerlee 2011-01-01 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
There's a pause. Not a long pause. But a pause.

"Oh."

So. At least some of this boils down to heartbreak (or at least heartbruise) after all.

"Scorpius. Hon. Listen to me."

Parker scoots closer so that, even at such an odd angle, she can look Scorpius in the eye.

"This stuff that you're talking about? It's not stupidity. Or idiocy. It's just....growing up. It royally sucks a lot of the time. And it's the hardest, most confusing thing you are ever going to do in your life. I don't care if you're Einstein crossed with that guy who won all those round on Jeopardy, it's hard to figure out."

She's in her twenties. And while she knows a hell of a lot more now than she did at sixteen, there are still things that need figuring out sometimes.

"So.....," she adds, venturing into what she realizes is territory that might get her shut down. "You like a guy?"

She wouldn't have called that one.
parkerlee: (Sweet Girl)

[personal profile] parkerlee 2011-01-01 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Parker's mouth quirks into a bit of a smile.

"Well, the good news is that it's a temporary state. The bad news is that the only way out is through."

The only thing you can do is keep moving, no matter how rough it gets.

"Can I ask you something? When you told him, you know, hypothetically, what did he say?"
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[personal profile] parkerlee 2011-01-01 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Just curious."

She's glad this Albus kid didn't react badly. In Parker's experience, the possibility of liking another guy is a risky thing to admit to for a lot of teenage boys, even in this day and age.

Maybe it's different in Scorpius' world.

"I'm sorry that things are rough right now. I know how sometimes things can feel so bad that you just want to get a break from them any way you can."

When Parker had experienced it, drinking had been off the table as a means of escape, since that was what had contributed to the whole mess in the first place. She had, instead, opted for righteous fury there for a while.

"But why don't we strike booze and hypothermia off the list, okay? Because that is going to lead to me having to haul your butt to the doctor and making sure you get better so that I can then kick your ass and have a good cry because you scared me half to death."

"Deal?"
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[personal profile] parkerlee 2011-01-01 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Eh. Don't be."

It's not like that's the sort of thing you can help. Growing up.

Parker wags a finger at him, but it's with much more good humor now.

"But no more talk about you being stupid. I don't tolerate blatant lies about my friends."

Parker sits back a bit, palms resting on the tabletop.

"How about I buy you a coffee or something." She casts her eye over the sad looking broom. "We can get one for Mr. Clean, here, too. He looks like he could use some caffeine."

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