Anyone want drinks tomorrow? I'm buying and as such I reserve the right to say no to you if I don't feel like dealing with you.

*walks into the Five Dragons in a wizarding corner of London, and orders a glass of wine before finding a table* *she's glad to be back in England for a bit, and more glad still to have got off work almost at normal-people time, and she settles back into her squashy armchair cheerfully, looking round to make sure Fred hasn't arrived yet*

*she's early, and hadn't expected him yet, so she spends some time drinking her first glass of wine and going over tomorrow's schedule before she looks up again for Fred*

*walks into the pub feeling a bit more cheerful than she has in days, as she's finished work on the house and is back in her flat with Pansy, which suits her much better, thank you very much* *she looks round and doesn't see Seamus and, since she considers it undignified to jump up and down trying to see over peoples' shoulders, makes her way over toward the bar counter for a better look*

*finally deciding she must have got here first, she slips onto a bar stool and orders a pint, then gets drawn, half against her will, into a discussion of Cardiff City versus Newport County football clubs* *she's only the vaguest idea of football, really, something about a ball and nets and kicking things and blood, but the opportunity to make snide comments in Welsh to the barman about the Brit who's taken Newport County's side is too good to pass up*

*she's learning about free kicks and penalty kicks and something called a corner kick--who knew there were so many kinds of kicks, it's really a bit ridiculous, isn't it?--when she sees Seamus walk in and gives him a wave*

*she sleeps badly and wakes up late, feeling groggy and out of sorts, and it takes her a moment or two to remember where she is* *with a sound that's half a groan, half a sigh, she rolls out of bed and shrugs into her dressing gown before heading for the shower* ( Read more... )

note left on top of two stacks of reports, both easily twenty high, left on the Major's desk late Monday afternoon

Major Robinson,

Here are the finished reports through the end of the week. Per our many, lengthy, and exhaustingive discussions, I'll be out of the office most of this week, subject to emergency callback. The Four Merry Frenchmen have been handed over to the prosecutors' office--their Mysteries file is pending closed.

Thanks for understanding.

2nd Lt Greengrass

Who: Roger and Daphne
Where: Mysteries
When: Friday morning

( I didn't sleep much last night...I was with a girl. )

*manages a few hours of sleep before she jumps--well, stumbles--into the shower, out of the shower, and gets ready for work* *she walks to the Ministry, needing to clear her head, and stops for coffee on the way* *she heads into the Atrium, gives a testing snarl to the security wizard on duty and is pleased when he looks down at his paperwork quickly*

*she reaches her office, unlocks it, and shifts papers round her desk for a while, wanting nothing more than to go back home and be lazy* *she flips through her file box, realises she's missing one she needs for her latest busywork report for the Major, and heads out to the file room*

*on her way back down the hallway, she sees Roger's door closing and narrows her eyes* *she knocks on the door, and has a moment to hope, devoutly, it's not the Major puttering round, before she hears him say something she can't quite hear and, grinning, knocks again just to be a pest*

*got home from France late this afternoon and put in a few more hours at the office before deciding she was too damned tired to concentrate any further* *when she got Adrian's owl she nearly sent him back a refusal, but her talk with Maj and thoughts of how long it had since she'd actually done anything fun--well, beating up on bad guys is always fun, so non-work-related fun--made her reconsider*

*she got to the pub early and remembered to eat dinner on time not standing up at the kitchen counter for a change, and the server's just cleared her plate when she sees Adrian walk through the door* *she lights a cigarette and waves him over to the table, and signals the server, as she expects Adrian will want a drink*