THE SHARP-TONGUED GINGER | LILY
THE FABULOUS UNICORN | DORCAS
Dorcas had one simple task, and it was to go to Florean’s to retrieve ice cream for her cousin, Annie. However, the thought of getting ice cream was squashed when as soon as her feet hit the entrance to Florean’s, she heard a small child wailing. Her head began to spin in all directions to locate the child in case he was missing, a flash of red crossed her vision.
She moved through the swarm of people and slowly came upon two familiar people sitting at a table in the far corner of the restaurant, a small smile on her face. The smile was soon wiped off her face when she watched the small child pick up the ice cream into his quite small fist and fling it. Fabian ducked, and Dorcas was just short enough that it splattered against the left side of her face and into her hair. Her first reaction was to scream, her second was to cry. The noise that came out of one Dorcas Rose Meadowes was a mixture of both.
Her hands began to shake, then her whole body before the red in her face was very apparent from embarrassment. Fabian had been avoiding her, and she had intended to find him, and now all she wanted to do was run and hide. Her head went up when she heard the redhead who had just crossed her mind speak and she prayed he wouldn’t meet her eyes. She wanted to be able to turn around and sneak away, quietly. But, Merlin was not that kind to her.
With the ice cream still running, now melted down her face, she moved closer to the duo. A sad smile was on her face, and she bit her bottom lip before attempting to speak. What she was supposed to say now, she wasn’t sure. Especially with a small child around, so she took the approach of just nodding and mumbling ‘hi’ to him and acknowledging the second born of the Weasley clan.
Dorcas wasn’t sure if she was allowed, but she sat anyways. Her nails tapped against the table, “Taking Charlie out?” a forced smile and a stroke of her now beginning to hardened hair.
Seeing the entire situation from her perch near the counter, Lily Evans should have intervened sooner. Or at least said something, but what could she say? Fabian, don’t be a sod. You got what you deserved, Merlin, the boy was five and adorable as they came. But she was enjoying her alone time and her ill gotten gains, the ice cream cone she’d gotten for her herself she’d sworn she wouldn’t. It felt wicked in a way, promising to cut back on the sweets but she couldnt’ help herself with so much going on. Sweets were a bit of a crutch.
It wasn’t until ice cream had gone sailing and Dorcas had walked in that Lily stood. She knew her friend wasn’t going to murder anyone with a child there but she was sure that the daggers she was shooting wasn’t going to be avoided by Fabian. With a smile she walked over, letting out a sigh as she handed the little boy what was left of her own ice cream. “Hello lad, my names Lily. I’m a friend if your uncle Fabian’s. That wasn’t all that nice was it?” she wanted to see if Fabian would at least do something about the state of Dorcas before she did… but the red head was a fixed.
“Doe you look—sweet?” Oh that was a tease but she grinned, pushing her hair out of her face as she stood. Tipping her head, oh please Dorcas don’t kill me. She’d had enough of people attempting to do that lately but the idea of something so mundane happening was hysterical at best and her friend looked positively outraged.
When Fabian saw just whom the ice cream had hit, his face fell ever so slightly. He had admittedly been avoiding the petite girl ever since their rather unexpected kiss. He knew that she would have questions about them, about what they were. Those were questions that he didn’t quite have the answers to just yet. The high-spirited red-head had always been one to act on impulses before he truly got a chance to think them out. Honestly, the thinking out part of his actions tended to come after the fact. This was, perhaps, why the universe had seen fit to create another Prewett to grow up alongside him. In many ways, Gideon was like his out-of-body conscious telling him just how much his action would cause ruin. But, unfortunate for Fabian, his out-of-body conscious had been quite busy working at Flourish and Blotts as of late and thus he hadn’t been able to talk to him about what happened with Doe.
Which was why his throat immediately went dry at the sight of her and he wished to Merlin that the ground would just open up and swallow him whole.
But, of course, the ground remained perfectly intact and Fabian was still seated in the middle of Fortescue’s caught between the middle of a wailing five year old and a girl he couldn’t quite figure out his feelings for. Talk about being between a rock and a hard place. He had wondered if Dorcas would even approach him at all. He had to be honest in thinking that he probably wouldn’t if he had been in her place. It was probably quite apparent that he had been avoiding her. And well, he couldn’t quite blame her for not wanting to see him. He wasn’t going to make any excuses for his actions certainly weren’t honorable. He had been nothing but a spineless git as of late and knew that very well. But, much to his surprise, the brunette walked over and joined the pair of gingers at their table.
At her words, Fabian looked over at his nephew who was still red in the face and still had tears in his eyes but had otherwise seemed to have calmed down. It appeared that the appearance of Dorcas at their table had sparked his curiosity and he was now looking at her shyly. “Yeah—I uh..” He started, frantically grabbing at napkins that were on the table and handing them to her. “I’m sorry about that. Seems like he has inherited the Prewett temper,” He said. After he had given her the napkins so that she could hopefully clean herself up a little, he looked at her awkwardly. His mouth opened then closed and then he had opened his mouth to speak again when Charlie let out a squeal of delight.
He had been so hyper focused on saying something to Dorcas that he hardly noticed that Lily Evans had approached the table and handed Charlie more ice cream. Looking at the boy that was now diving into the ice cream like some sort of starved animal, he sighed deeply and turned his gaze up to the fellow ginger. It was then that the words Lily had spoken earlier seemed to register with Charlie. “Sorry,” He said to Dorcas before diving back in to his treat. Fabian had brought his hand up to his forehead and began to massage his temples. “You’ll get to deal with Molly’s temper when I bring this tyke back all hyped up on ice cream, Lils. I wasn’t even supposed to give him the first one,” He muttered.
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