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chandler p. midgen ([info]thelibrarian) wrote in [info]valesco,
@ 2008-12-10 21:03:00


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Entry tags:chandler midgen, wendy midgen

Wendy!
Chandler stayed hopeless out into the library, the middle, empty space where the visitors walked to and away from the various aisles of books. It was his favorite part of the library, the center circle where he could watch who came in and who left, who stayed the longest, what books they might be taken out---Chandler was terrible at dealing with people, but he certainly enjoyed watching them and trying to figure out their story.

Like the woman looking around, seemingly lost. She was very pretty, and looked to be on some sort of a mission. She wasn't here to read for pleasure, Chandler was almost sure. No, no, she was searching for something, and it would probably be something for another person, because you don't come to a library, looking around in such a confused manner, when you had time to figure something out for yourself. Yes, she would probably soon come to the information desk to ask him a question of where to find this book and---holy God almighty it was Wendy Tremaine.

He promptly dropped from his standing position, crouched and attempting to hide under the circular desk. His assistant, Lisa, stared down at Chandler in complete confusion, but her attention was taken by--oh, oh that was her voice.

"Can I help you?" Lisa said sweetly, and Chandler bit back a whine pressing further back into the knobs of the cabinet under the desk.



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[info]thelibrarian
2008-12-13 05:21 am UTC (link)
He caught the book.

He caught the book instead of the girl, and something did not seem all that right with this picture.

Chandler had simply grabbed out for the quidditch tome, because--that was what he did. He made sure his books were okay. How he hadn't been sorted into Ravenclaw, he'd never been able to figure out, because these books were his life, and the shock that just bolted through him at the sight of it teetering to the ground mad his stomach convulse so--he caught it.

But not the girl.

He stared down at the tiny woman on the floor, eyes wide with confusion and worry; what was she doing down there? OH! OH, oh--he hadn't caught the right thing. Chandler made a choking sound and put the book onto a nearby table (carefully!) and bent down to help Wendy up. Or--just to check to see if she was conscious, because that was a fall. That was a fall! He let her fall!

Oh, what a horrendously bad first meeting this was turning out to be.

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[info]darlingwendy
2008-12-13 05:52 am UTC (link)
Falling wasn't a thing that Wendy was really adverse to.

Being a Quidditch player, getting unseated was something that happened quite a bit. The fall was actually kind of pleasant, because you knew sooner or later you were going to hit the ground and seeing the world go by in a vertical blur wasn't a perspective you got to see from all the time

But smacking your head as a result of falling got old very quickly and never ceased to raise a black and blue protrusion on some unfortunately visible part of her face.

It took her a few seconds to realize that she'd gone from standing upright to laying flat on her back, wondering why she had a perfectly lovely view of the ceiling above her before a man's faced loomed into view.

"Oh," she said, smiling up at him a bit deliriously. She really wasn't sure how hard she smacked her head. "You're rather pretty." And he really was! Even if his catching reflexes were slightly off. He probably wouldn't make the best Quidditch player, now that she was thinking of it.

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[info]thelibrarian
2008-12-14 03:21 am UTC (link)
Oh. He was rather pretty?

Chandler blinked at Wendy for a bit, trying to compute those words, but he really couldn't. Wait---no, no he couldn't understand how someone could think he was pretty. Well, wasn't 'pretty' a term used for females? Was she saying he was feminine? That would be absolutely counter productive, and Chandler hoped his mind was just leading to the wrong conclusions. Pretty. Wendy Tremaine thought he was pretty. Pretty as in...cute? Cute could be good. Cute could be very good, actually, and...

Wendy thought he was cute?

Oh.

Chandler blushed furiously and barely kept himself from letting out a noise of discomfort (but not the bad discomfort, this time--which was rare) as he put his hands out to help Wendy to her feet. He actually managed to hold back any sort of ridiculous reaction at being this close to her, and patted down her arms when she was finally upright. These floors were dusty.

"Are you okay? I--I know a few--head...healing spells." Chandler gave her a shaky grin. "Books are always falling on me. And--I'm always falling, too. I mean--not that I think you fall a lot because---you don't look like you're clumsy like--me."

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[info]darlingwendy
2008-12-14 05:59 am UTC (link)
She stood as still as possible whilst he brushed her arms off, not abashed in the least for what she'd just said regarding the attractiveness of the man's face. At least she was being honest. And goodness knew what other horrifically inane or unnecessary or what-else-have-you things she'd said to other people without having the excuse of a hit head to use. She had a fond tendency of sticking her foot in her mouth. But as she stood patiently, she studied his face very closely,

It wasn't like Wendy was really good with faces and names, but she remembered enough that if she saw someone who looked at all familiar, it bothered her until she could figure out who it was.

And upon closer studying, she did know this man, she just... knew nothing else besides that one fact! And that he worked in a library. And that he was sometimes clumsy. And--oh, he was speaking.

"I am clumsy!" Wendy interjected cheerfully. "It's probably not good thing, since I'm a Quidditch player, but I am completely uncoordinated if there's no broom in the vicinity. What's your name! Do I know you?"

Except as soon as she said it, she realized there was no absolutely no segue and all he really got was "Wend--" before she probably almost dropped that ridiculously huge book on his toe. "I'm, er, Wendy, by the way! Wendy Tremaine. In case that--you know, jogs your memory, because I don't know how many Wendys you know, and how often you run into them, or how often they drop books on your toes--did I drop that on your foot, by the way because if I did, I'm--" she stopped herself with a slightly self-deprecating smile and looked up at him again after taking a deep breath, "-- sorry."

Well, she knew she was talkative; she just didn't realize smacking her head made it that much worse. At least, Wendy thought that was why neither her mouth nor her head could shut up.

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[info]thelibrarian
2008-12-14 06:40 pm UTC (link)
"I--I'm?" he sputtered, trying to catch a spot within her rambling. Not rambling, but--okay, it was rambling "I'm...Chandler. Midgen. Chandler--Midgen. My foot is fine."

Now, did he tell her they went to school together? That could prove awkward, he wouldn't want her to think he was trying to make her feel bad for not remembering him from school. She was a rather busy, famous quidditch player, after all. She probably met hundreds of new people every day, that would not leave enough room in her head to remember a quiet and shy bloke like him. Because--they weren't even in the same House, they didn't have the same group of friends, they just---he just kind of noticed her all the time.

"I--I think I remember you from school--Hogwarts," he mumbled quickly, cheeks reddening again at his pseudo-lie. It wasn't as if he didn't think he knew her from school. He could just blame his completely stunned state on the fact that she was a famous quidditch player, which played nicely into his near hyperventilation earlier.

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[info]darlingwendy
2008-12-14 07:33 pm UTC (link)
"Dodderidge!" she blurted out-- but she moved on hurriedly before he could give her a tremendously bizarre look and ask how hard she really did hit her head, "Maddox Dodderidge--you were--his friend!"

That's right! It was all coming back to her now-- Chandler Midgen. Ra--no, Hufflepuff! Quiet. Studious, she'd never really talked to him for long, if--well, if at all? Was that right? But no, Maddox was a Head with her, and she was sure someone like Chandler had to have been a Prefe--yes! Yes, he was, she was sure of it--she did know him, after all! Well, well-done, Wendy's brain. Thank you for not putting her in too much of an embarrassing situation this time around.

"Chandler Midgen! I do remember you now; I thought your face looked familiar."

Wendy tilted her head to get a better look at him, now successfully being able to mentally compare it with that of his school-aged appearance. Growing up had done very nice things to him, in her opinion. She sort of wished she had been that lucky.

Ooh, but... what did she do now, now that she'd affirmed that they went to school togeth--

"So you work in a library, now! That's very successful--I think I remember wondering why you'd never been a Ravenclaw, because you were so much smarter than everybody else in there!"

Wendy puffed out her cheeks and gave him a slightly doleful look. She didn't even know why she bothered thinking when her mouth clearly had a mind of its own.

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