the inscrutable drystan b. fawcett (brythonichero) wrote in valesco,
@ 2012-02-28 21:31:00

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adrian mattias, anton chang, arista sykes, billie trimble, carys llewellyn, delilah spinnet, derek dobbs, drake parkin, drystan fawcett, galvin gudgeon, geoffrey brand, glenda prewett, griffith kirkham, group, hamilton nott, holly troy, iwan quigley, joey jenkins, magnolia mattias, marissa macfusty, michal conway lynch, miles lufkin, mirabelle jasper, odette boot, rose knightley, rupert brookstanton, savannah davies, seth wadcock, veronica zeller, victoria cadwallader, zoey moran

End of Season party! For the 3rd

Drystan did not usually consider himself a sore loser. He had experienced enough defeats in his career to understand that winning was sometimes as much luck as it was skill—the latter of which he had plenty, the former he was starting to doubt he had any. He would even go so far as to say this was one of the top seasons he'd ever played. Losing the Cup might not be such a hardship, in that light. But to lose to the team he considered the most unsportsmanlike in the League was just an insult to injury. To have lost to them for the third time in the season was, in his perfectly reasonable and justified opinion, grounds for murder.

But a lifetime sentence in Azkaban would leave behind a wife and three children who would likely be just fine without him, but he'd miss them. So mass murder was off the table for tonight, at the very least.

Press snapped pictures outside the admittedly-abandoned looking building of 23 High Street, and Drystan knew there were more inside. Entering the rundown lobby, by-passing the elevator with the out-of-order sign, they made their way up the long flight of stairs to the grand doors of the first floor landing and into the—holy Mer—

Of course, the invitation specified formal wear, but Drystan hadn't honestly been expecting a high-brow formal occasion from the Kestrels. It was a ballroom. There was emerald green positively everywhere. There was something that looked suspiciously like a string ensemble. A bar, where he fancied he would spend as much time as possible, was in the corner. Platters with hors d'oeuvres and glass flutes zoomed by. Having stopped moving, wearing a stupefied expression, Bess had to tug his arm to get him to continue his stride.

"Hell," he muttered, pulling a grim face at the ostentatious yet somehow tasteful décor. Lifting their linked hands, he kissed the back of hers while surveying the spectacle before him.

"Five minutes? Five minutes isn't too soon."

ooc: Quidditch players/personnel + their guests! BLACK TIE! Party is on the first floor in this cool but creepy rundown building. Have fun! :D

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mattias
2012-02-29 09:15 pm UTC (link)

Adrian was really unsure why they had allowed press into this event, as it only proved to be a great annoyance. No, he did not want to talk about his trade with his ex-fiancée's brother, just as equally as he did not want to address the current status of him and said estranged fiancée and child. Why would that be appropriate material to discuss? The press was relentless, and it made him feel like it was impossible to approach Maggie without fifty other eyes keenly watching on with bated breath. That wasn't how he wanted to be with her, it was difficult enough with just them, openly including others would top the list of stupid things he had been doing all week.

He pressed his lips together stoically, shifting in his chair only slightly as a standing figure blocked his view. He had just been watching the-- thing--- that--- Maggie. It was always Maggie. They had ended up across the room from each other, and it would be a bold-faced lie if he didn't admit he had spent most of his time tonight split between watching her and looking down at the ground.

Suddenly--- where was she going? Was she leaving? He hadn't--- Adrian shot up just as quickly as Maggie had, lingering for a moment before swiftly deciding to casually follow her. There could be something wrong, or she really was leaving, and he didn't want to leave any of their encounters without an exchange... just as he had decided he had lost her, he hadn't.

A small, albeit anxious, smile appeared as he looked at her, and Adrian quickly shoved his hands into his pockets. "I thought--- you might be leaving. Or something," he began to vaguely explain, moving his shoulder slightly as he spoke. Pausing for a moment, he released one of his hands to rub the back of his head. "It's kind of unbearable in there, right?" Unbearable was an understatement.

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maggiepie
2012-02-29 11:15 pm UTC (link)

"Suffocating," she said with an equally shy smile. Maggie took hold of her skirt and sat up a bit, crossing her legs at her ankles as she turned to face Adrian. She had been trying to examine him all night; Maggie had taken a vow of silence, but she was keen to see how his shoulder was doing after his splinching. Sworn to secrecy, break her wand and hope to die, Tony had made her promise. She couldn't imagine what had made Adrian splinch himself, because at his best friend had at least managed to hide that. The news of the trade might have done it, Maggie knew the feeling all too well. When she had found out about her move to the Tornadoes she had wanted to disappear and never be found. If she hadn't been with Adrian at the time she was sure that they would have found her in bits and pieces, wailing and wailing about it.

Her hands were folded together on her lap, and she fought the urge to rest them on the slight swell of her stomach. She was showing much earlier than she had with Josef; that first time she'd been nearly six months before anyone could really believe she was pregnant. Even if she wanted to keep this news from Adrian, she wouldn't be able to for long. She would just have to figure out how to tell him, what to say...Maggie wanted to find some sort of normalcy with Adrian based solely on their feelings for each other, but if she told him about the baby then his feelings would be skewed. If she didn't tell him, well..that would be worse than the reason they'd broken off their engagement, Maggie believed.

"You've always looked very good in blue," she said, her smile a bit bolder now. Maggie felt pretty for the first time in weeks, and it made her feel better, a little like her old self. Maybe she shouldn't have been avoiding going out in public all this time. She gave her head a slight nod to the side, "And gold. Very good in gold."

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mattias
2012-03-01 03:35 am UTC (link)

Oh. She was talking about--- his trade. If it had been anyone else, Adrian knew he wouldn't have been able to hide his muted displeasure about this recent switch in his career. He liked the Catapults, they had been a good match for him, and for Braga to suddenly trade him because they hadn't won the playoffs was--- not right. United was... a very good team, there was no denying that, but how well would he be able to play when they all hated him? Somehow, Adrian Drystan Fawcett's well-established hatred smoothing over, let along everyone else adjusting peacefully to losing one of their past season's members.

But that was not something he wanted to discuss with Maggie. Related, yes, but not--- that. "About that...." He walked to sit with her on the steps, not feeling it appropriate to be talking at her. With her... that was better. And you couldn't do that on different levels.

"My, uh--- I didn't bring this up before because I hadn't thought it to be a problem, but with getting traded to United I'm not as sure..." Adrian started, and then he shook his head. That didn't make sense. Where to start? It was a long, tangled story...

"I really wanted to come back to the UK," he began again, resting his hands on his knees. "But, my contract with Braga doesn't expire... for ages, so they made an amendment to it. I said I'd sign anything, and at the time it seemed like a good idea but... the one that I had with the Catapults, and now United, they control it. They-- it's--- they can pull me back to Portugal at any time. And I didn't-- we had been doing well during the regular season, so I hadn't thought of anything about it. Then I got a letter in the post about United..." Adrian trailed off, hoping Maggie would understand what he was saying with the little information he had given her. To be honest, even he didn't understand most of what he had signed, just the 'translations' of what it meant he could do.

"I though I should tell you, now that it's changing," he sighed, and reached to scratch the back of his head again. This news was something he had never told anyone before--- not even his mother, certainly not anyone here, either. "You look really beautiful tonight," Adrian blurted, disliking the short silence he himself had created.

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maggiepie
2012-03-01 04:46 am UTC (link)

What exactly was he telling her? Maggie stared at Adrian as he explained these strange details she had never even had an inkling of. She had never heard of a team owning a contract that way, but apparently they pulled and tugged at Adrian's professional strings like he was simply a puppet. They could literally change his life from one day to the next! Look! They already had, Caerphilly was now in the past and he was heading to Puddlemere. What if they decided that their own roster back in Braga wasn't competent enough and wanted to bring him back to play? Would he have---Maggie blinked rapidly, looking away for a moment to collect her thoughts.

Would she have moved to Portugal if his contract demanded it? That would mean---it would uproot everything. Could she deal with living literal countries apart from her husband while she continued to play on the Tornadoes or any other team in the league? Would Adrian be okay with that? This--this news, not news, this secret flooded her mind with so many more questions, but they all came back to one thing. Would she have stayed with him while all those uncertainties hung over their heads?

Maggie blinked, turning back to look at him after the compliment. Her cheeks instantly grew red and felt that familiar warmth she'd been longing to feel for weeks. Her heart had begun beating faster as her thoughts ran about Adrian's ridiculous contract and the many variables it added to their life. Their life. It was still how she thought about them, and Maggie smiled nervously before she leaned forward, hesitating for a moment before kissing him softly, quickly. A bit like he had kissed her at Tutshill when her nerves had gotten the best of her.

"I'd go to Braga with you," she said when she pulled back, looking Adrian in the eye. "If you wanted me to--I would." Maggie bit her lip, knowing that she couldn't make such a statement and not tell him the rest of what she knew. This was the hardest thing she'd have to say; it could determine the rest of their lives, "I--if anything it would be better for the baby to be near her dad."

She paled, but kept the nervous smile. This was it, and her heart was pounding between her ears.

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mattias
2012-03-04 09:00 pm UTC (link)

The reason he was telling her wasn't with the expectation for an immediate response, Adrian hoped she knew that. He began to worry that he had conveyed it wrongly, inappropriately, that she thought he was telling her this as a defining... thing. He didn't want to pressure her, make her think he was controlling her, just as-- because she needed to know, he had to have someone else know. Not as this ending---

Huh? Adrian blinked, his mouth opening slightly as he took in her last words. What baby? Josef? It would be strange for her to refer to their one and a half year old as a baby.... Wait! She! Josef wasn't girl! Now thoroughly perplexed, it took Adrian a few couple of moments to finally understand what Maggie was saying to him. She would... be alright with going back to Braga... because... it would be better for the baby to be near him. The baby--- their baby? Maggie was pregnant! With a child.

A child! What a feeling to have, knowing he had a child. He had--- gotten old enough that a true, proper family was not something that scared him. A child, a family, was something Adrian could say that he wanted, and for the past year had been picturing it all being with Maggie. Of course, that picture had included them being married already---

What excitement that had shown up on his face flattened a little. This made everything even more confusing and tangled, if that was even possible. Was-- would--- she-- Adrian wanted to be excited, but there was a tiny part of him that suddenly felt this news, this life-changing news might ruin what they were rebuilding. He looked to Maggie for any indication how she was feeling, if she was excited and happy, or miserable and--- she just looked nervous. He kind of felt nervous, now that he thought about it. But that was normal, wasn't it?

With that thought, Adrian screwed his mouth up tight in determination. Regardless of the situation, it was still his first child, which he felt like he had been waiting for for a long time, now. That would be enough to propel him through... all this mess that they had created. For now, at least. So, a small smile formed on his face as he looked at her, even if his head felt like it was becoming dizzy from all this thinking.

"Really?" he asked in a small voice. "My--- a girl?" Adrian wanted to say so much more, but he couldn't configure it into tangible sentences. "That's--- that's--- amazing--!"

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maggiepie
2012-03-05 03:48 am UTC (link)

The nervous laugh she let out bounced off the walls of the empty stair case. Maggie was shaking with anticipation of his reaction, hoping that he didn't grow angry, that it wasn't a bad thing because once a woman accepted she was going to have a baby it wasn't something that you could easily take away and---Oy, she had not realized how much she was shaking and had to grasp onto the frilly fabric at the front of her dress to try and keep her hands steady. This was much better than how she broke the news to Braith; she was in love with Adrian, and the idea of a child with him was a wonderful thing. It was. Maggie didn't need a piece of paper to tell her that she loved him, or wanted to be with him. Maybe---maybe they would never be together like they were, but she didn't need to be married to be happy. She didn't need that ring, she didn't.

Maggie was done with worrying about what people thought about her. She was done keeping secrets to keep a good face, she was done lying about how she felt when she was a mess on the inside. None of it was good for her, none of it was good for Adrian, and none of that was any good for her children. It had taken her a long time to get used to the idea of being a mother, but once Josef was born Maggie knew that he'd always been meant to be hers. This baby, this girl was meant to be hers and Adrian's. It was a lovely way to think of it, and Maggie was focused on thinking only in the best of senses.

If she didn't, she would lose her mind and she certainly did not want to miss out on anything else in life.

"Y-yes, it's a girl." Her hands had stopped shaking for the most part but her voice still wavered. Maggie had to take a few breaths to stop her tears, but at least she wasn't feeling sad and miserable like she had been for the last two months. She pressed her lips together, trying to smother her smile because she still wasn't sure what all of this meant. "I'm---I'm still very much in shock about it all, to be honest..."

She sighed, involuntarily leaning against Adrian's shoulder. This was a terribly exhausting evening, and she hadn't even danced.

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mattias
2012-03-05 07:30 pm UTC (link)

But terrifying! Really, really, really---- terrifying! He--- it--- they--- they-- what--- how--- it kind of felt like his brain was going to implode. Adrian wanted to be happy--- he was happy!--- but he couldn't help the creeping, heavy thoughts that were now following his initial reaction. There were many things they still needed to work on, and now a child was thrown into the chaos that was their relationship? Adrian couldn’t help it, he felt his stomach twist at that thought.

Obviously this news was meant for a later time, when he and Maggie were in a better place but.... but that didn't mean he would love this child any less. That would not change how he felt about her, and he would always love Maggie--- it just made all of this even more complicated, if that was even possible! And confusing? Or less confusing? Adrian shook his head, starting to become unable to decipher his own thoughts.

And he had thought he would be the one with the life-changing news (that he honestly thought would upset her much more than it did). That--- it--- when--- wow. Alright. His only ease rested in the fact that Maggie appeared just as anxious as he felt. That made him feel a bit better. He nodded to her, still completely unsure of what to say until the shock wore off. That was better than rambling his rambled thoughts, right?

Adrian let out a light sigh, somehow comforted by Maggie's weight pressed on his shoulder. He quietly wrapped his arm around her back, resting the side of his face on the top of her head. This was going to be a very different off season.

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