the adventurous nicodemo a. penrose (otets) wrote in valesco,
@ 2008-10-01 22:10:00

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[MARNIE???]
There were some days at the Ministry where Amery just felt like blowing everything up.

Of course, he was never entirely happy at work, but there were just some days that pushed him over the edge.

In fact, Amery was literally at the point where he was snarling at practically everyone who crossed his path. There were few things he really enjoyed about his work, and on days like these, even less.

Paperwork that needed proper filing, presentations to see to, superiors to answer to, inferiors to demand answers from--

Frankly, he couldn't wait for the day to be over.

He was turning the corner when he was suddenly smacked into a body and stumbled slightly. "Excuse me," Amery snapped, dusting off his robes where they'd be disturbed. "I doubt it would pain you to watch where you were going."

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avant
2008-10-03 03:16 am UTC (link)

"Oh!" Okay, so if he was born in Russia, chances were ... "Do you speak Russian? I've been thinking I should start learning more -- I'm sure the other girls are saying horrible things about me behind my back."

Which was probably true, but she at least offered it up in a teasing way. Ballet dancers could be horrible bitches when they were being competitive, after all.

Marnie was very good at patently ignoring other people's moods ... even when the moods were terrible. Letting other people get her down would do her no good in the long run! Or the short run, really.

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otets
2008-10-03 03:26 am UTC (link)

He blinked. "I do speak Russian; it's my first language."

That was rather point-blank. Did he say that he was sure they didn't? Because he really knew nothing of this girl. It was entirely possible she was an enormously unpleasant and manipulative (although, somehow, he doubted it). He settled for saying nothing on it, just to avoid unnecessary awkwardness and simply waved it aside. "I can see how it would be useful to speak more Russian, if that is the case."

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avant
2008-10-03 03:28 am UTC (link)

"I think they're mostly upset that someone who's French is in their company in the first place." She smiled broadly when he told her that he spoke Russian, though.

"Oh, that's perfect!" And yes, she is taking his statement that it might be useful to speak more Russian as an invitation to teach her some more. So ...

"You're sure you wouldn't mind teaching me? I mean, I'm not all that ... smart." Ha. Ha. Ha. No, really.

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otets
2008-10-03 03:33 am UTC (link)

Well.

Well, that was certainly, rather emphatically, not the turn Amery was expecting the conversation to take.

"Teach you, I don't... how--I hope you realize that you not only jostled me, but ultimately steered the conversation to wrestle me into teaching you a foreign language? I almost feel as if you've engineered the entire meeting because you had prior knowledge of this."

Teach her! That was... teach her?

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avant
2008-10-03 03:36 am UTC (link)

Marnie burst rather abruptly into a fit of giggles that took her a few moments to overcome. She took a deep breath and flashed him a cheeky smile.

"Like I said, I'm not exactly all that smart. Do I look like a girl with a plan, really?" And how on earth could she possibly have known that he spoke Russian in the first place! He was putting all too much faith in her ability to look into the future.

After another pause, she added, "And I don't recall wrestling you into anything. I mean, if we wrestled -- I'm pretty sure I'd lose." Just sayin'.

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otets
2008-10-03 03:49 am UTC (link)

He was kind of burly.

But that was not the point! He didn't teach. Did he look even remotely like someone who was patient? Someone who didn't ridicule those who butchered the accent of his mother tongue? Someone who really agreed to do favors for strangers whom they had only met through physical collision?

Although, she did have a bit of a contagious feel to her. Not that being around this girl made him feel happy, necessarily, but he was certainly intrigued by her. And there was something catching about her, perhaps a little something that reminded him of Louisa. Which must have been why he suddenly heard himself waffling aloud.

"I--I suppose. I don't promise to teach you much," anything, really, "or be extraordinarily patient. Unlike you, I generally try to avoid encouraging and educating the discouraged uneducated."

Maybe he ought to have been concerned that he didn't radiate violent vibes.

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avant
2008-10-03 03:53 am UTC (link)

Marnie wasn't exactly the sort of girl who concealed her emotions well. Thusly, when he agreed to teacher her something she flung her arms around him for a brief hug that probably had her ignoring most of what he said after 'I suppose'.

Otherwise she'd have told him that then there was no way that people would ever get more educated and things were probably just going to get more and more annoying.

She grinned. "As far as paying you -- well, I'm kind of poor -- but I make really good muffins. And I have rabbits, if you're ... like, into playing with bunnies or something." Hey, Mycroft liked them a lot, why not other men?

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otets
2008-10-03 04:03 am UTC (link)

He staggered back slightly, not entirely sure what to do with the squealing bundle of ecstatic joy that was suddenly in his arms, so he stiffened slightly and stepped back all to happily to escape any sort of overt form of physical contact. Perhaps it was the sort of environment he was raised in, but there was something about physicality that, generally, spooked him.

But she was, overall, pretty harmless.

"Er, m-muffins are fine," he said, wondering if he was the only person who found the idea of him playing with rabbits or some other form of furry rodent as amusing. "This entire fiasco started by a pressing need of mine to be in Conference Room 3, but if you owl me here, I'm sure it will find its way to me somehow or the other."

Surreal? Yes. Unbelievable? Rather. And yet he was still in such a state of surprise, he had agreed.

That was probably the most surprising.

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avant
2008-10-03 04:11 am UTC (link)

Marnie often had this effect on people: shocking them into agreeing with her because they had no idea what had just happened. She grinned a little and then nodded, almost asking him for his post address before she realized he'd said that she could owl him here.

Sometimes she forgot that wizarding owls could just go and find someone based on their name.

"I'll do that, then. Enjoy the -- er, conference." Since he was going to a conference room and that was probably what they did in conference rooms, right? Confer? In conferences?

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	otets 2008-10-03 04:17 am UTC (link)
	"I--er-- I will. It--was a pleasure," he managed to say curtly, before sweeping away. ... No, really, what had just happened? (Reply to this)(Parent)

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