Re: A Small Café

**Pansy Parkinson-Malfoy** June 2nd 2011, 12:27 am

"Yeah, probably anything you wanted to. Works better for some things than others, but that's how anything is really." She shrugged, moving her hands out of the way as the waitress brought their plates to them. "It's just me right now. She's got us each working alone, and as things proceed she'll decide to either partner us up or let us keep on alone, depending on how our theories progress." She nodded toward his food, noticing he was waiting for her before he ate his own, and she picked up a fork to being eating as well.

**Draco Malfoy** June 2nd 2011, 2:41 am

Draco picked up his fork and took a bite of his food, smiling as the delicious flavours of the pasta spread through his mouth. He smirked at her and ran his foot up the side of her leg where their ankles were still joined under the table and looked at her plate. "How is it?" He hadn't ever been a huge shrimp fan but her plate did actually smell incredibly good.

**Pansy Parkinson-Malfoy** June 2nd 2011, 2:44 am

"Very good," she told him with a tiny smile, spinning her fork around again to gather up a few noodles before she speared another shrimp. "Part of me is terrified of what I might learn, exploring arithmancy as divination. The future can be a scary thing, and it's horrible enough seeing what happens in a normal amount of time. But to see it before everyone else? I don't know. Part of me wants to find a way out of this project, but part of me is so incredibly curious that I can't fathom studying anything else for a long while." She took a small bite, chewing slowly and almost nervously. Her hand in her lap kept fidgeting with the hem of her dress, and she hardly noticed his foot moving along her leg.

**Draco Malfoy** June 2nd 2011, 2:51 am

Draco gave her a slightly worried look but wiped his face clear of emotion before she noticed. He took another bite of his food, giving him time to think before he replied. "Well what is it that concerns you? If you did the futures of people you don't have any emotional investment in then it won't be that bad will it? You'll just have to be sure not to go prying where you don't want answers." He put his foot back down, still leaning against hers, and took her hand under the table, squeezing it for a second before letting go. "You'll figure it out."

**Pansy Parkinson-Malfoy** June 2nd 2011, 3:03 am

Pansy's eyes remained on her plate for a little while, only looking up at him once he squeezed her hand. "Of course other random people would be fine. But the temptation to see what would happen to people I care about? To you? To myself? I don't think I'll be able to resist it. And I'm just afraid of what I might find." Or what she wouldn't find. What would the outcome be if someone were to die and you search for their future? What would the number combination spell out? Straight zeros typically meant nothing when using arithmancy on objects and things, but what if she got zeros when working out someone's future? Someone she cared about? Death omens were the last thing she wanted to find. She gave him a weak smile and tucked back into her dinner, welcoming little mouthfuls of food as the kept her from talking.

**Draco Malfoy** June 3rd 2011, 5:40 pm

Draco noticed her smiled but let the topic go, reasoning that moving on from this topic might be the best thing at this point. He didn't want to soil this evening with more miserable thoughts. Instead he let the silence hang there for a moment before speaking again, "Have you heard from your father since that weekend at home? He's not been in touch with me but I'm expecting he will some time in the next week."

**Pansy Parkinson-Malfoy** June 4th 2011, 4:54 pm

Pansy sighed softly, shaking her head. "No, actually. Usually he writes to me every few days, at least every week. But it's been more like every other week recently. I suppose he's just busy." She looked down at her dinner again, twirling her fork in the noodles distractedly. "So you have another meeting or something next week?"

**Draco Malfoy** June 5th 2011, 7:06 pm

Draco shrugged and ate some more food, "Supposedly but he hasn't contacted me so it might have changed. It's not supposed to be a big one though, more of an assignment session I think." He squeezed her knee with his hand and waited until she looked at him to give her a small smile, "Right now though that doesn't matter."

**Pansy Parkinson-Malfoy** June 9th 2011, 5:27 am

Pansy listened as he talked, her eyes remaining focused on her food as he said that there was a meeting supposed to be happening soon. She hoped it wouldn't be a long one, and not an intense one either. She hated being forced to just sit around and wait and worry for him to come back so that she could make sure he was okay. She suspected there had been a time or two after meetings that his mother had kept him at home a few extra days, healing him or tending to some injury or other before letting him return to school, but she didn't like to dwell on it. Upon the pressure on her knee, she looked up at him again, managing a small smile. "Right. This was a good idea, we hadn't really gone out in a while."

**Draco Malfoy** June 12th 2011, 8:51 pm

Draco could see she was still mulling some of the more miserable things over but let her think about it all for a bit, knowing there was nothing he could do to cheer her up until she managed to work this out in her head. Picking up his fork he shook his head, "We haven't, do you need anything from hogsmeade while we're here? Or just want to look in any of the shops?"

**Pansy Parkinson-Malfoy** June 13th 2011, 1:53 am

Pansy shrugged lightly at his questions, thinking it over while she twirled some more noodles around her fork. "I always go look at books while we're here, and I haven't come in ages. And I'd hate to make you go clothes shopping, maybe I can make it out here sometime later with Daph." She laughed and took a bit of her dinner, washing it down with a sip of water. "But books would be nice to go look at anyway. You know I always find a new one to buy somehow even though it would seem by now that there isn't a book on the stars that I don't own yet. I think I'd like to see what they have on arithmancy though, I've already looked over most of what the library back at Hogwarts has."

**Draco Malfoy** June 14th 2011, 10:53 pm

Draco smiled and ate some more of his own meal, almost done with the pasta now. "I think you might be better off shopping with Dee but if you want me to go with you I will, though I think I'm better company in the book shop. And if you manage to find a book on stars you don't own I'll be very surprised."

**Pansy Parkinson-Malfoy** June 15th 2011, 12:39 am

A little grin stretched across her lips and she prodded the rest of her dinner with her fork. "Yeah, I think we'll just stick to books today. And by books, arithmancy ones. I'll hopefully find better luck with discovering a useful on one that subject than I would with one on stars." She poked at a shrimp and started to twirl some more noodles half-heartedly. "I won't make you hang out while I try on things and ask if they look alright and ponder over them for far too long." Smiling at him, she sat her fork down, deciding she was most likely finished with her dinner though she'd only eaten half of it.

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