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Apr 17, 2018 18:41:36 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2018 18:41:36 GMT -7
The Leaky Cauldron was generally not a place that Dom frequented. Like, ever. Well, okay maybe not entirely. She came here over the summer once or twice to meet up with her sister, but that wasn't really by choice. She came here because it was what her sister wanted her to do, not because it was her location of choice.
However, she found herself here once again today, though without the excuse of coming here to meet her sister. Her eyes skimmed the room, darting from side to side as she tried to spot someone she could chat with. If no one was here, she'd just pass through and go into Diagon Alley, but she figured she could check here first. It wouldn't hurt anything, of course.
Then she spotted someone she hadn't seen for a long time. At least, she hadn't spoken with her for a long time. Nefertiti Bulstrode. Nefe. In their first few years at school, Dom had been friends with the girl, but she'd pulled away and become more introverted and less willing to be around others and Dom didn't fight it. She was going through her own struggles those last few years, what with being in love with a boy who was dating someone else and then having him die and come back a year later as a ghost. Those last few years, she hadn't been the best friend, even if Nefe would have accepted her friendships.
She still approached the girl. "Hey, it's been a while," she greeted with an easy smile.
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May 1, 2018 16:24:02 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 1, 2018 16:24:02 GMT -7
Hogwarts had been forever ago for Nefertiti, or at least, that was what it felt like for the young woman. So much had changed since she first entered the Great Hall for the sorting ceremony all the way up until this moment. People had died, been hurt, and sides had been picked. Some would say that Nefertiti had picked the wrong side, but she would surely disagree. She was right where she belonged, both mentally and physically. She was in the prime of her life, she had a nice job, a nice place to stay, a good group of friends…what more was there to ask for really? At least for her, no one knew about her place among the purifiers unless they were a part of the group itself. Not even her mother knew about it, not that she cared much, she traveled back and forth between London and Egypt a lot, mostly just to live her life now that Nefe was old enough to care for herself. That day, heels clicked against the ground, head high up as she watched people. Her light brunette curls with pink highlights bouncing up and down, though they didn’t have to be pink. Pink just went with her mood and demeanor that day, but it could easily be changed with her ability. She pulled her blaster closer to her, her purse hanging from her shoulder. She was in need of a refreshment, maybe something a bit more, at least she’d get some peace and quiet. It wasn’t long after she sat down that she was ripped from the peaceful bliss that she hoped for, but it was by someone from her past. Dominique Weasley, a girl from her grade, and from what she remembered – had been smitten with Ethan, the guy that Elaine had killed. A slow grin appeared on her face, “Dominique Weasley, as I live and breathe,” she started, “It had been a while, hasn’t it?”
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May 5, 2018 21:46:52 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 21:46:52 GMT -7
Dom wasn't entirely sure what kind of a response she expected from her old friend, but the smile she got was a good thing, wasn't it? She knew that the two of them kind of lost contact, which was probably her fault after all that happened at the end of school last year, but she wasn't going to bring any of that up. There was no reason to ruin a perfectly good meeting with an old friend by talking about the past.
She smiled back in return, chuckling at Nefe's words. She always did have a way with words, though that was one of the reasons Dom felt like the two of them got along as well as they did. "Yes it has. Are you busy or do you want to catch up for a bit?" Normally Dom wouldn't bother to ask a question like that, she'd just jump in to whatever she wanted to say, but she didn't want to bother Nefertiti, especially since they hadn't talked in so long. She'd make sure the girl was up for it first.
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May 15, 2018 12:53:09 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 15, 2018 12:53:09 GMT -7
There was only a small handful that Nefe still spoke to that had graced the halls of Hogwarts. Having graduated not long ago, her list had grown smaller and smaller each passing day. She had changed from the young girl that lost her father to Azkaban when she was just a young tot; now she was a mature young woman that mirrored his mindset. If only her father were still out in the world, she was sure that he would have joined the Purifiers as well. Though, her father wasn’t one for female empowerment, so he probably wouldn’t have enjoyed Elaine Dupree being the leader. Call her father old fashioned, but he still lived in the little bubble that men were the ones that would dominate the world, while woman hide in the background. How wrong he was, that man. She hadn’t seen him, nor spoken to him, since the moment he was ripped from her life, and really, she didn’t care to. She enjoyed her mother’s company; she didn’t need a dominating man in her life. Maybe that was why she hadn’t dated in a long while, wanting nothing more than to be an independent woman that she knew that she was. Much like Dominique Weasley, another independent young woman. Though, she was sure the girl was still bent upon the death of Ethan Johnson, an older young man that had passed away. Though, from what she heard, he had been a ghastly ghost that haunted Hogwarts last year, and probably still was, though she never had the good graces to have witnessed his presence, not that she cared to. She had never befriended Ethan, nor knew him other than from rumors. She wasn’t one to dwell over spilled blood of muggleborns. Those muggleborns that she had befriended in her first year, slowly disappeared as time passed on. Hanging with them was undoubtedly a death sentence, one that Nefertiti was not willing to sign, unlike the red-headed Weasley before her. She quickly shook her head, a smile still on her face, “No—I’m not busy, not at all. I’d love to catch up,” she said quickly. The words died on her lips, sounding foreign to her usual words. She wasn’t one to catch up with old friends that had died hard on her list of continuation relations, but she was willing to let Dom slide on that. Plus, there was an old saying that she slowly was following; 'keep your friends close but your enemies closer.’
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May 15, 2018 16:44:21 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 15, 2018 16:44:21 GMT -7
Dom couldn't help but smile a little more when Nefertiti said that she wasn't busy at all. That was great! Dom, at the moment, was unemployed so she rarely had anything specific that she needed to do with her time and was always looking for some type of distraction. That would seem quite typical to most people who knew her, but Dom wasn't her normal self at the moment. Not that she was going to show that to anyone. She was very good at putting on a show and letting people see exactly what she wanted them to see, most of the time.
She moved to sit down across from her old friend, looking at her curiously. "So what have you been up to since graduation? I'm sure you're working somewhere, but it's kind of hard to keep everyone straight." That was true. With the amount of people that Dom considered friends, it would be a miracle if she could keep them all straight. She wondered how many of those people knew what she was doing right now, whether or not they were judging her for "wasting" her time and not knowing what she wanted. Whatever. She didn't really care what they thought. She'd figure things out soon enough. She shook her head slightly, pulling her thoughts back to the conversation at hand as she listened to Nefertiti
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May 19, 2018 17:18:07 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 19, 2018 17:18:07 GMT -7
Nefertiti watched with a close eye as the red-headed Weasley sat down across from her, the curiosity in her eyes clear and cutting through her. Sometimes she wanted to tell people that curiosity killed the cat, but people didn’t care too much for that type of attitude. Nefe plastered on a smile, placing her fingers on the side of her head as Dominique asked where she was working. “Yeah, I’m working somewhere,” she said with a small laugh before continuing, “I’m an intern at the Ministry, Department of Mysteries to be exact,” she finished. “What about you? What kind of job do you have?” she questioned with a raise of her eyebrow as her fingers fell to her lips.
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May 26, 2018 16:41:54 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on May 26, 2018 16:41:54 GMT -7
Dom listened intently as Nefertiti said she was working in the Department of Mysteries, then she grinned. "Guess it's pointless for me to ask what you're doing there then," she teased lightly. She knew, as did most, that the people in the department of mysteries were very tight-lipped about what they did. With reason, she assumed. She wasn't curious enough that she'd pry about that though. In all honesty, those kinds of mysteries didn't intrigue Dom too much.
Then Nefe was asking about her job. Dom shrugged. "I haven't found anything that suits me yet," she answered nonchalantly. Honestly, a part of her wished she knew what she wanted to do, but she didn't. She had no idea.
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Jun 20, 2018 14:14:22 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 14:14:22 GMT -7
A small laugh left Nefe’s lips and she nodded her head, “Sadly, we are sworn to secrecy,” she said with a small smirk on her lips. Not that the young brunette would share much, she wasn’t one for small talk about her life. She learned that when she was younger, keeping people as far away as possible stopped them from asking questions that you didn’t feel like answering. Something that she learned the hard way when people asked about her estrange father. Some knew the truth and others knew the lie that Nefertiti slowly started telling to get out of the limelight for her father’s past crimes. Dom quickly revealed that she was jobless, having not found something that suited her yet, and she internally cringed. She wanted to wrinkle her nose, but refrained. Maybe being unemployed was for some, but not for her. she enjoyed having things to do even if it was boring. “So, does that mean you still live with your parents or something? What do you even do with your spare time?” she questioned, her voice sounding much more interested than she felt.
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Jun 21, 2018 23:01:01 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2018 23:01:01 GMT -7
Dom chuckled in return and nodded, “I can understand that, I guess.” Obviously she wasn’t going to try and push her old friend into telling her stuff that she wasn’t supposed to. She didn’t think it would work either. When Nefe wanted to keep something to herself, she did a very good job at it. Dom knew that from experience and she didn’t want to upset her friend after not seeing her for so long.
Then her friend started asking questions about Dom’s lack of direction. She gave an easy shrug, “Yeah, I’m technically at my parents house still. I don’t spend a lot of my time there, since I’m looking for something that interests me and spending a lot of time meeting with people, but yeah.” She sighed a little. “I’m trying to decide what to do now.” That was the main thing of the matter. After losing Ethan, and seeing him again, Dom didn’t know what she wanted to do with her life. She just wanted to be able to enjoy things again, but was having a hard time figuring that out. Sure, she had Vic and her group that was planning on taking down Elaine too … she was doing a lot to help her sister with that, but that was confidential. Even if leaving it out made her look like a lazy, no-account jobless person, Dom didn’t care.
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Aug 17, 2018 13:49:41 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 13:49:41 GMT -7
Nefe found herself leaning forward as the Weasley girl revealed that she did still live at home but mostly stuck to the outdoors than she did there. She nodded her head, “Maybe I can help?” she questioned, pretty much wanting to keep the conversation going as long as she possibly could. Dom could let something slip, perhaps something that could help out the Purifiers. “Are you interested in anything? What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of jobs that would be interesting to do?” she questioned with a raised eyebrow. “Quidditch? Maybe a job at the ministry? Or even back at Hogwarts?” she questioned, rambling on and on.
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Aug 18, 2018 19:08:50 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2018 19:08:50 GMT -7
Dom laughed when her old friend asked if she could help. "Well, do you have any jobs that you think would fit me?" Dom teased, quirking an eyebrow at the girl. Yeah right. Sooooo many people tried to find jobs for Dom, things that would keep her interest, that she would enjoy, but none of those things were for her. The one thing she thought she wanted to do, she couldn't. Not anymore. Quidditch was tainted by all her memories of Ethan. Maybe someday ... but she loved him, still, and he was gone. Dom shrugged when Nefe asked what she was interested in. "Exploring?" Dom laughed, "I don't know. I hear a job and my first response to all of them are no. I can't think of a job that sounds good to me." She wrinkled her nose. "I don't want to do Quidditch professionally, I'm pretty sure the ministry would suffocate me and I have to get experience before they'd consider me at Hogwarts." Dom laughed again, "Sorry. I'm not trying to shoot down all your ideas."
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Aug 28, 2018 17:20:09 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2018 17:20:09 GMT -7
She laughed a little at the teasing, she had to give it to the red-head girl before her, she did miss her friendship. She doubted that it would ever come back, due to her current alignment, but damn did she miss it. Pretending to think, she tapped at her jaw as she looked Dom over for a quick second. The girl was quick to push down all the ideas she threw at her and she frowned even more deeply. She couldn’t help her if she didn’t know what she wanted at life. “I know—you can work at Honeydukes, if you wanna travel all the way to Hogsmeade,” she said with a laugh. She loved Honeydukes, even to this day, but rarely traveled back anywhere close to where the castle stands today. Hogsmeade wasn’t somewhere she wanted to visit these days, and sadly, she missed it. “I mean come on—who doesn’t want free or discounted candy all the time?” she asked with a teasing laugh.
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Aug 29, 2018 16:31:18 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 16:31:18 GMT -7
Dom couldn't help but grin while her friend laughed. She loved doing this. Running into old friends (or new ones) and lifting their day. Helping them laugh, even though she had a hard time doing it sincerely. With all the crap going on in her life that wasn't much of a surprise, but she generally ignored it. She preferred to pretend to be light-hearted and happy as she always had. Life was much more enjoyable that way. She started to shake her head automatically when Nefe suggested another idea, but paused when the word "Honesydukes" registered in her mind. She tipped her head to the side, actually thinking about it. "You know ... maybe I'll look into that one. I was debating a while ago about looking for a job in Hogsmeade ... and the idea of free candy is definitely something that I would be interested in." She smiled, a bit more sincerely than before. "Nice job! You actually gave me something to think about." Not many people could say that when it came to the Dominique Weasley job search. Many gave ideas, few were actually looked into.
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Aug 31, 2018 17:04:21 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2018 17:04:21 GMT -7
[googlefont="Open Sans Condensed:300"] THE DANGER IS I'M DANGEROUS [attr="class","next"] A huge smile appeared on the brunette and pink-haired witch as Dom agreed that maybe she should look into Hogsmeade and that the free candy was undoubtedly something she was interested in. A laugh left the Egyptian’s lips as she smirked brightly at her old friend, “See there you go, glad to see I found something that both wasn’t thought of yet and something that you can ponder on. I mean, you’d be close to the castle and could see some old friends from Hogwarts if you worked there!” she said, way more enthusiastic than she felt inside.
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Sept 1, 2018 21:06:52 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2018 21:06:52 GMT -7
Dom was quite proud of herself. She knew that sometimes Nefertiti could be quite serious, but she was smiling, and even laughing a little bit. Granted, that was probably laughing at Dom, but Dom didn't care. She didn't mind having people laugh at her. In all honesty, she generally just liked the chance to make people happy, whatever that reason was for. If her joking about getting a job just for the treats did that, then it was worth it to her. She grinned back at the other girl. "Nice job. You did better than everybody else. In the very least, I can go work there and eat treats and see friends while I figure out what else I want to do with my life." It actually was a pretty idea and Dom was pretty excited about it. "So what else have you been up to, apart from work? Are you dating anyone or anything?" Dom was just trying to find some reason to talk to her old friend, to maybe really get a chance to talk.
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