hannah & mark (woodenfans) wrote in valesco,
@ 2013-09-23 19:30:00

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Posted for this Friday!

It had been a long, long year for St. Mungo's.

Mark stood with a long flute of champagne in one hand, taking slow, deep breaths. The rearing of the ugly virus' head had given the year a bad, bad start, but here they were. Lives had been lost, but so many had been saved. Mark felt bittersweet about celebrating the year, but he knew events like this needed to be held to keep the hospital running. The donations were used to buy new supplies, potion remedies, and to provide for better training for their healers. Everything was being spun into a positive manner, Mark just wished that it didn't have to be such a lavish event to do so.

"Do you think it's too much?" he said to his wife, looking down at Hannah with a worried smirk. If anything, the night provided a reason for his wife to doll herself and look even more fantastic than she normally did. They deserved a night out, especially now that their trio of children was complete.

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Matthew! :*

takeyoudown
2013-09-23 09:46 pm UTC (link)

Delilah hopped on one foot at the top of the stairs to put the heels she took off to somewhat run to the entrance back on. She was late, which wasn’t exactly out of the ordinary but this was a blind date and being late to one of those was so much worse than a regular date. She didn’t even know who the poor bloke was and he probably thought he was being stood up just because he didn’t know that this was just how she was.

Charlie was going to murder her. He told her to be on time, late wasn’t an option. She was certain that there was an underlying threat not to mess this up. Why did she even agree to this stupid idea. Oh right, she set up her stand by ‘friend’ date on an actual date for the night leaving herself desperate enough to go out with someone of Charlie’s choosing. And he was certainly no help with the advice of ‘just meet him there, he’ll most likely be with Kendall. Don’t be late.”

Shoes in place, Delilah smoothed out her dress and turned to look for this ‘super nice Hufflepuff’, Matthew. There weren’t many people left standing out near the entrance, so it didn’t take Delilah long to spot the familiar face of Charlie’s former teammate standing next to someone she didn’t recognize. She made her way towards the two, but before she finished crossing the hall, Kendall spotted her and grinned, then promptly said something to his friend before giving him a slap on the back and leaving giving her a small wave. Boys. She wasn’t in Hogwarts, and certainly didn’t need her hand held through an introduction of a blind date, but still.

“Nice to see you too Kendall!” she shouted after him, then calling him a rather unpleasant name under her breath forgetting for a moment that Matthew was standing right there and that was his friend. Cringing slightly at the realization she turned to face her date. “I am sorry, that was rude. And I am very late, which is also rude. I would say that I’m not normally like this, but that would most likely be a lie.”

She wrinkled her nose again as she heard her own words. “Sorry, I’m not doing very well at this. Hi. I’m Delilah, its very nice to meet you.”

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summerbys
2013-09-23 11:52 pm UTC (link)

Matt had been ready to puke while waiting for Delilah. Kendall had only given him his blind date's name because she had been running late and causing him to break into a cold sweat. Delilah, Delilah. Would a Delilah think he was interesting? Delilah was a different sort of name, he was just Matt. Matt, the...that nice chap! That nice guy. He didn't have any attitude problems, he didn't have crazy ex-girlfriends to worry about, he just had---a past he'd like to forget, and that's what kept the constant smile on his face.

"She ditched me for Courtney," Matt tried to joke to Kendall, letting out a nervous laugh. "It's the accent. Everyone loves an Australian accent."

But then, Kendall was disappearing and there was Delilah shouting after him and bloody hell. He didn't know what to say. She was---much prettier than the troll he was terrified she'd be (awful, awful thing of him to think!), and she seemed to have no problem hollering in public at world famous quidditch players. So Matt did what he usually did: he smiled and laughed, putting his hand out to finally meet Delilah.

"I'm Matt," he said with a slight shake of his head. "Summerby. I'm not very good at this either."

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takeyoudown
2013-09-24 01:21 am UTC (link)

Distracted by his laugh and the fact that he didn't seem offended at the fact she just shouted at Kendall at a formal event, Delilah almost miss his introduction altogether. "Ah, well..." she started shrugging her shoulders, "I suppose we can just be bad at it together then. Sorry again I was late. Charlie specifically told me not to be, which usually guarantees that I will be, though I really do try to be on time."

Only a few minutes and Delilah felt that this night was already starting to turn for the better. Being late always put her a bit off, and to be honest she wasn't quite sure what to expect from her date. She was trusting Charlie, who had disapproved of all of her previous boyfriends, to set her up. And all she got was that he was nice. Which usually meant one wasn't fairing well in the looks department. Delilah had never been happier to be proven wrong, Matt was fairing quite well.

The last name sounded familiar but she couldn't really place it. Definitely a quidditch player though, as fit as he was. "So I suppose its safe to assume you play quidditch as well? And don't take that as you aren't good enough to be known, I'm sure you are, I just can't even name players on my brother's team let alone the rest of the league. I'm getting better though."