St.Mungo's
Creature Induced Injuries Specialist
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23 years old
Gryffindor Alumnus
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Meg
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Post by Clayton Bradshaw on Sept 25, 2016 3:29:35 GMT
The joy of having Clay over was that he could make himself feel at home anywhere he went. He had no problem going through one's fridge and start cooking a meal. He had a bad habit of offering the owner of the house a drink. But that was probably the delight about having him over as it took him a few minutes to realize he was doing those things and would laugh at himself and apologize. He hadn't really run into problems with his forwardness so it was hard for him to control himself. Sometimes it was the very reason people allowed him to continue coming over. Today he was probably overstaying his welcome at the Ashland residence. He hadn't exactly forced his way in the kitchen but came to the door of the house with a container of his mom's famous spaghetti. No one could turn down that woman's meatballs. He had also armed himself with a few books that he had recommended to his friend. He was very aware of the situation Theo was in. But he was ignoring it. Mostly because he had no idea how to talk about it. He thought he understood the whole not controlling what you are doing thing but he never liked assuming he did. He had worked with a very small number of werewolves with his job and he had seen the effects on a person from a full moon. Was that even the same thing?Clay found it best to just ignore it all for the person. He assumed that going about with business, as usual, was the best thing to do. Even if Teo was under house arrest. But that didn't stop him from updating the man on all the gossip from their work. "That blonde nurse," he said not knowing the woman's name at all, "She and the healer-in-training, Brandon I think, starting going out," he spoke as he helped cleaned up the plates from the small meal they just had, "And they got caught snogging in the supply closet. Only reason the whole place is bursting right now. one known couple and suddenly we are all back in Hogwarts."Theo Ashland |
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31 years old
Gryffindor Alumnus
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Mego
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Post by Theo Ashland on Sept 25, 2016 18:10:04 GMT
Now here was a visitor Theo didn't mind in the least - he'd grown rather adverse to people showing up at his house while he was under arrest (for pretty good reasons, he thought), but honestly, Clay was too nice to cause him trouble. And, bless him, he didn't have the same bloody questions everyone else had. He didn't have any questions at all, actually. Clay just had spaghetti and gossip and books and Theo couldn't be more thankful. Whatever Clay's reasoning was, it was fine by him; Theo didn't want to talk about what happened, or what was happening now. He felt he'd done that enough for a lifetime already.
He did want to talk about what was going on at the hospital while he was gone, though. He was a glutton for gossip, and completely unashamed of it. And really, St. Mungo's was riddled with it - he couldn't avoid it if he tried. He grinned as he took up the dishes and put them in the sink, turning the water on to rinse. He looked back over his shoulder at Clay. "Hannah?" Blonde nurse...blonde nurse...there were a few of them that he remembered. Theo knew most of the people in the hospital, for better or for worse. To be honest, he was usually in the midst of the drama himself. He had to admit it was kind of nice to be completely removed from it and just talk about it for once. He shook his head and laughed at Clay's observations - he could just hear the tittering and the giggles among the staff at this new romantic development. "Rookie mistake; typical. It's the empty patient rooms on the fourth floor you want, no one ever goes up there." He joked, mostly.
Finished with the rinsing of the dishes (he'd have to get someone that still had their wand to finish washing them later), Theo turned back to look at Clay. "And how's your girl?" There was another reason Theo liked Clay so much, though he didn't realize it until recently. No, not that the bloke's girlfriend was the captain of Theo's favorite Quidditch team (that was just a convenient bonus)...just that Clay was a good person. He treated people right. Theo thought he could stand to learn a few things from the younger man; having your life torn apart was humbling in that way.
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St.Mungo's
Creature Induced Injuries Specialist
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23 years old
Gryffindor Alumnus
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Meg
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Post by Clayton Bradshaw on Sept 25, 2016 20:10:38 GMT
Clay nodded his head at the name, "Yes that one." he said rather excitedly. it was like all the juicy details were coming back to his head for just knowing the name. "Hannah and Brandon. Maybe I'll let them know about that one. As claiming one of the exam rooms as in use didn't work." he said with a laugh, "Though the situation wouldn't be as funny to the mother of the little girl that was going in there." he went to the fridge to claim a drink for himself. "The big guy even came out of his office to tell them they had one more strike before suspension. Which, personally, I didn;t know was a thing."
"Cass is coming over later so we can stuff our faces with gallons of ice cream so I would like to believe that we are doing fantastic." the couple tended to spend their time in interesting ways. Sure he made sure they got out and went on real dates but ice cream and cuddling were always a lot more fun. "Don't get to see her too much during this time of the year with practices and games so we try to get together and do dinner or desert in this case," he was smiling wide. Just thinking about Cass always brought up his mood. Talking about her made him forget who was around for a moment, "I got five tickets to her next game if you would like to join us?" He felt his body freeze and his good mood destroyed by his own words. He tried not to look at Theo knowing what he had just said. "Shit" he mumbled to himself. He had tried everything in his ability to keep everything that was really going on right now. He avoided looking at Theo and took a sip from his glass to try to think of what to say to get the subject changed.
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31 years old
Gryffindor Alumnus
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PLAYED BY OOC NAME
PLAYED BY Mego
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Post by Theo Ashland on Sept 28, 2016 16:03:26 GMT
The story just got better and better, thanks in part to Theo's prompting. He grinned, honestly a bit amused that for once, it was someone else getting in trouble at work and not him. He supposed someone had to take up the torch while he was gone - and this Hannah and Brandon were taking the job very seriously. Getting caught out by little girls - seriously, rookies - and even having the Big Guy called on them. Theo shook his head and laughed. "He doesn't usually mean it." Theo lost count of his strikes long ago - and though he did like to believe he charmed his way into that situation, the director of the hospital was a generally pretty nice bloke. "Seriously though; for the sake of the children, tell the poor kids about the fourth floor," he grinned. "Anyone else causing trouble? Besides you, of course." And as nice as Clayton was, no one was a safe target from Theo's teasing.
Theo smiled genuinely as Clayton talked about Cassabelle - it was too adorable, even if it did make him feel a bit wistful. It made him think of Mali, of course, and how he hadn't been able to have that with her yet, that level of comfort with another person. He'd fallen in love with her only to have her taken away from him. Just have to live vicariously through other people's happiness for the time being, he guessed. It really wasn't hard. Clay was an easy person to be happy for despite any feelings of envy. "Sounds fantastic," he agreed with a nod, walking back to the table to sit back down. Once he was down, he looked thoughtfully at the wood grain for a moment, mulling over Clay's words. He didn't get to see his girl often, either... "That's rough. How do you make it work? Is it the ice cream that does it?" He grinned, but his question was genuine. Having no idea when he was even going to be able to leave his own house, Theo figured he better figure out how to 'make it work' here soon.
It only took an instant, but Theo's grin dropped instantly when Clayton spoke again, making Theo an offer he very much had to refuse, house arrest and all. Shit. The awkwardness was made all the worse by the way the younger man tensed up; they'd done a pretty good job today avoiding this exact subject, the both of them, but now that it was here...it took up all the extra air in the room. Theo drummed his fingers on the table, rubbing the back of his neck with his other hand, trying to work out some of the nervous energy that always popped up with a repressed feeling. It wasn't anger, just tension. He could feel it in his shoulders, his jaw, his chest. It wasn't Clayton's fault any of this was happening, and he wasn't mad - rather, he was in the same boat as the healer. He had not a clue what to say. He cleared his throat and gave it a shot anyway, ever avoidant of how he really felt. "Um. Think I'll take a rain check on that, mate."
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