Peter Pettigrew

Guard the Future RP - Closed Group

[flowerchildevans]

“Really? How come you’re overloading?” she asked curiously. Peter didn’t seem like the type to want to graduate early, at least not to her. He had a good life here with his friends, from what she could tell, and didn’t seem in a rush to enter the real world.

[marauderxpeter]

“I heard they’re trying to pull scholarships for a bunch of students,” Peter winced. “And that’s kind of the only reason I’m here, so I need to finish before they start pulling my aid.”

[dajovargas]

“Science is a lie.” Emm said compulsively, taking a sip out of her coffee on reflex. Peter was definitely 100% right and she was 100% not going to listen. Definitely not. Med school ran on coffee. She was here to take care of other people, not herself.

[marauderxpeter]

“I don’t think nurses are allowed to diss science,” Peter smirked over at her. “But you do what you need to so you can stay awake, I guess. Don’t want you falling asleep in med school.”

[talentformischief-blog]

“You know Remus is going to want his New York styled, so I figure we can see if that one in town still makes it on request, otherwise we probably won’t hear the end of it.” James laughed, pausing to think for a moment, “Thursday work for you? I think I’m class free Friday morning, so we’d be able to play later and all.”

[marauderxpeter]

“Yeah, Thursday’s fine. I have a morning lab Friday but I’ll catch a bus back to campus or something so I don’t have to wake you guys up,” he offered. “And New York style sucks. We should get deep dish, too.”

[marauderxpeter]

"Pete! Meet me in the courtyard! I got you something from home!"

Peter frowned in confusion as he read the text, but far be it from him not to heed it. “Be right there,” he texted back and grabbed his pack of cigarettes on the way out the door.

He met Remus in the courtyard shortly after, quirking an eyebrow. “Hey, man,” he greeted, trying to hold back a wide grin. It was always nice to see Remus after the summer break, but this time, he’d brought a present!

[braveheartlupin-blog]

Remus laughed and grinned at Peter. “Yes, I am extremely capable of selfishness. I am the most selfish one in our group don’t you know?” Remus smiled softly, a tint of pink appeared on his cheeks when he realized he couldn’t ever be as selfish as he wanted. He was mostly a push over. 

“What do they have today?” Remus asked as he nudged Peter to walk with him towards the cafeteria. “I hope they have mashed potatoes, I like the ones they make here.”

[marauderxpeter]

Pete fell into step easily with Remus and snorted as he did so. “So selfish,” he agreed. “I don’t know what they have but I’m sure mashed potatoes will be on the list. It’s all the comfort food for the poor incoming freshman who are away from home for the first time,” he smirked. He didn’t understand wanting to stay at home, really, but a lot of his classmates liked being home, apparently.

[marauderxpeter]

[James and Peter are about to do Peter’s first prank]

James: You feeling confident?

Peter: … Not really.

James: Good, ‘cause overconfidence will get you caught faster than anything else. Fear is good.

Peter: Oh, I have fear, and doubt, and really serious regrets. I should be fine.

James: All right. You’re ready then.

[marauderxpeter]

Late Night Messages || Closed

@daisyhtechgirl

Not many people used the school’s messaging feature. Peter doubted many people even knew it existed, actually, but he thought Daisy might since she worked for the school. It was late, but he typed her name into the search bar and noticed she was online. He let out a quiet breath and clicked to open a new chat window.

‘Hey. Don’t know if you remember me. Peter Pettigrew. Just wanted to let you know the computer works great again.’

And now, he waited.

[marauderxpeter]

Archived Thread - Daisy - Tech Help

Of course the only person working at the tech desk when Peter needed help with his computer was a girl. Why hadn’t he smoked before coming in here? Something about lung capacity or not needing it or something stupid like that. He regretted everything now.

“Uh, hi,” he managed as he walked up to Daisy and set his laptop bag on the counter. “My laptop blue-screened and I don’t know what to do.”

Daisy glanced up when she heard footsteps coming into the room, smiling politely as she did. The guy approaching the desk seemed nervous, apprehensive for some reason.

She listened carefully, before opening up the laptop and pressing the on button.

“Ok, that’s fine, it happens to all of us, even my laptop does this sometimes.” She replied calmly, waiting for it to load, “what were you doing with it before it blue screened?”

Yeah, this was why Pete hadn’t wanted a girl at the desk when he walked in. He grimaced and looked away as she asked what he’d been doing.

“Uh, I was just...looking--browsing, really--online. Not at anything in particular or anyone or any gender,” he added quickly, but it only made him wince all the more. Smooth, Pete. Real smooth.

Daisy almost laughed, but she didn’t, he looked a tad skittish.

“You want to avoid the Vixen videos, they’re all corrupted and’ll do this to your laptop,” she replied, tapping lightly on a couple of keys, “also the filming is actual crap on those.”

“Turn that kettle on, can you?” She asked, gesturing towards the kettle on the side, “help yourself to a coffee or tea if you want one.”

He was shocked by how easily she talked about it when he didn’t dare to do the same. Then again, she had to be used to it by now. After all, the male population wasn’t small here. There had to be a decent number of computer fixes that stemmed from the same issue.

“Good to know,” he nodded slowly and glanced over to the kettle when she pointed. “Oh, sure,” he said before turning it on and fixing himself a strong cup of coffee. “Thanks. So...this won’t destroy the hard drive or anything?”

“Nah, it’ll be fine,” she smiled reassuringly, “honestly, I’ve seen far worse than this. Including my cousin’s computer, now that’s something you never want to see on someone you’re related to’s computer!”

“I’m Daisy by the way,” she said, “I should probably have introduced myself since I’m mucking about with your computer.” Daisy added, taking a sip from the steaming mug that was on her desk, “Newbie and computer mucker-around-with-er.”

He snorted at that. “Yeah, I bet,” he answered, finding it easier to speak to her while his attentions were on fixing his own cup of coffee.

“Oh, don’t worry about it,” he was quick to shoot a smile back at her. “I’ve had weirder people doing weirder things before and not known their names.” He paused to think over how that had come out. “Okay, that sounded sketchy. I didn’t mean it like that--anyway, I’m Peter. I’m bad at speaking, apparently.”

“Yeah, he owes me a huge favour, I now know more than I ever wanted to know about his ‘preferences’.” Daisy laughed, wrinkling her nose, “so honestly, this is nothing. Oh don’t worry about that, my nickname at school was 'foot-in-mouth’ because I’d say things before thinking them through.”

She tapped away at a few keys, pulling up a new screen. She supposed her first day up in the office wasn’t going so badly, She mused, so she’d blithely said she was aware a certain type of porn was full of computer viruses, but she’d at least fixed a couple of computers so far.

“So what year are you?” She asked conversationally.

Peter snorted at that, fixing his coffee before taking a seat on the other side of her desk. “Well, we all have them,” he pointed out, though he wasn’t sure why he’d felt that needed to be said. Ugh. He was on fire today.

“Seems like we have something in common,” he added once she mentioned her old nickname. “I’m great at rambling.” And none of it ever made sense, really. “I’m a junior.” Then, taking a cautious approach to keeping the conversation going: “How about you?”

“That’s true, luckily the incident scared off my brothers from watching that on their computers so hopefully I’ll never have to live THAT horror,” she said with a shudder, “I’m a freshman, Computer Science.” She replied, cheerily, “I was going to go back to England for university, but I liked here better when I went and visited it.”

“Do you like it here?” Daisy asked, “like, how long does it actually take to stop getting completely lost all the time?”

He raised his eyebrows as she spoke. “You could have gone to school in England and you came here?” Peter didn’t think he’d ever get the chance to travel, but if he did, that was going to be one of his first stops. “I guess this is supposed to be one of the best schools or something.

“It’s not a bad place,” he added, a little more at ease with the conversation now that he wasn’t distracted by the embarrassment of what was on his computer. “The work’s kind of heavy, though. And you’ll find your way around eventually. Give it a couple weeks,” he shrugged. “And don’t use campus maps. Those things are the worst.”

“Well, yeah.” Daisy replied, “I was looking at Cambridge and a couple of others, and I was definitely considering it, because I’d have got to see my Dad a lot more, but I liked this place more when I came to visit it.” She explained.

“Oh, maybe that’s why I keep getting lost, I’m using one of the maps.” She added, consideringly, “it’s good to hear from someone who’s already been here a while that it’s nice here, it seems pretty open and airy.”

She glanced down at the screen, running the diagnostics scan once more,

“Right, this’ll be another couple of minutes and then it’s all sorted.”

Peter nodded. “Yeah, I might have liked to stay closer to home if it wasn’t such a boring place,” he chuckled. “I really only go back to see mom.” And he did that as often as he could.

“Yeah, get rid of those. They suck. You have any place in particular you can’t find?” He couldn’t guarantee he would know where it was, but campus was pretty easy to navigate once he had the basics down.

“Thanks again,” he nodded, though he couldn’t recall if he’d thanked her before or not. He needed a smoke. “Do I owe you anything?”

“Nah, I’ll work it all out I’m sure!” Daisy told him, cheerily, “I know what you mean, I’m back in Cambridge every chance I get, it’s gorgeous there.” She smiled.

“Nah, you don’t, it’s fine.” She said, glancing over the screen to make sure the problem was all resolved. She grabbed a bit of paper from the pile on the table, scribbling briefly on it.

“Any other problems, feel free to text me or call me.” She said, passing him both the piece of paper and the laptop.

Peter nodded although he had no idea what Cambridge was like. Maybe he’d find out someday. “Sounds like a nice place to visit,” he finally said.

He took the laptop back and looked at the number she’d handed him with it, his eyebrows raising. Was this actually happening? It had to be her work phone, right? But she’d said he could text her and landlines didn’t work like that.

“Oh, thanks,” he said and gave her a quick smile. “I, uh, I’ll let you know,” he nodded before heading out, bumping into the door frame on his way.

[ Finished thread ]

[marauderxpeter]

prettywitty-vancey:

“That’s just horrendous, honestly. A morning class that doesn’t allow for coffee is basically my own personal level of hell.” Maybe she had a problem (she definitely had a problem) but there wasn’t really much she felt like doing about it. Work needed to get done after all.

He chuckled at that. “You know, I actually read somewhere that you’re not supposed to drink your first cup until about 9:30 or 10 in the morning,” he said. “That’s when the natural chemicals that wake you up start wearing off and when you need the caffeine boost.”

[flowerchildevans]

“I like the way you think,” Lily said, “although I might not on that sleepless night.” She couldn’t really bring herself to do what he was suggesting, but it was nice to think of a solid 8 hours of sleep tonight, anyway.

[marauderxpeter]

“Probably not,” Peter snorted. “If it’s any consolation, I’ll be doing the same thing. I took way too many classes this semester.” He was just trying to finish the program as quickly as he could, knowing his scholarships wouldn’t last into his senior year.

[marauderxpeter]

"Pete! Meet me in the courtyard! I got you something from home!"

Peter frowned in confusion as he read the text, but far be it from him not to heed it. “Be right there,” he texted back and grabbed his pack of cigarettes on the way out the door.

He met Remus in the courtyard shortly after, quirking an eyebrow. “Hey, man,” he greeted, trying to hold back a wide grin. It was always nice to see Remus after the summer break, but this time, he’d brought a present!

[braveheartlupin-blog]

Remus smiled brightly. “Yeah we ought to get something, it’s about lunch time now! Want to hit the cafeteria or go off-campus?” Remus asked, putting his hands into his coat’s pocket. “I’m not really wanting to go back into the tutoring hall and help people at the moment. I can be selfish sometimes.” 

[marauderxpeter]

Peter gave a dramatic gasp. “You? Selfish? I didn’t think you were capable,” he teased and nudged his friend. Remus was obviously one of the least selfish people Peter had ever met. “Let’s just hit the cafeteria. They’ve got decent food this week, at least.” They always did the first week back.

[drdaisymayfielding-blog]

“Nah, I’ll work it all out I’m sure!” Daisy told him, cheerily, “I know what you mean, I’m back in Cambridge every chance I get, it’s gorgeous there.” She smiled.

“Nah, you don’t, it’s fine.” She said, glancing over the screen to make sure the problem was all resolved. She grabbed a bit of paper from the pile on the table, scribbling briefly on it.

“Any other problems, feel free to text me or call me.” She said, passing him both the piece of paper and the laptop.

[marauderxpeter]

Peter nodded although he had no idea what Cambridge was like. Maybe he’d find out someday. “Sounds like a nice place to visit,” he finally said.

He took the laptop back and looked at the number she’d handed him with it, his eyebrows raising. Was this actually happening? It had to be her work phone, right? But she’d said he could text her and landlines didn’t work like that.

“Oh, thanks,” he said and gave her a quick smile. “I, uh, I’ll let you know,” he nodded before heading out, bumping into the door frame on his way.

[heylookitsmissmary-deactivated2]

Mary looked over at Peter from her laptop with a blank face. “I wish I didn’t feel like this.” She said, shutting off the laptop. “I’m gad it’s not just me though.” She had been staring at a blank word document for hours now, willing the words to appear, only to have nothing magically form on the page. To make it worse, Mary knew the information she needed to write the paper, but just couldn’t bring herself to write it, which was becoming increasingly more frustrating. She hoped that talking to Peter might actually help unblock her mind and allow her to write something, but wasn’t counting on it. 

[marauderxpeter]

Peter wondered briefly what it was about Mary that made her so comfortable talking to other people the way she did. He’d always admired that about her. He smiled as she spoke, but turned back to his own books when she looked over again, lest she realize how intently he’d been listening. 

“Right. Well, don’t worry about that. Definitely not just you,” he agreed. “If I didn’t have to keep my grades up for my scholarships, I think I’d give up on this Bio homework, too.”

[talentformischief-blog]

“Enough to try and earn that extra credit, apparently.” James had to laugh - both at the absurdity of the situation, and his joke about it. Perhaps it was in bad taste, but he honestly wasn’t sure if there was anything appropriate to say on the matter, really. “So that’s it then? Guess it’s high time we all did something then, yeah? Remus had mentioned pizza earlier - you know how he gets about it. I’m thinking pizza and Halo night or something, yeah?”

[marauderxpeter]

He burst out laughing at James’ joke and nodded. “You’re not kidding,” he grinned. Maybe it was bad taste but James didn’t seem to care and neither did he. “Yeah, that’s about it. Pizza and halo sounds great to me.” He needed a break, which sounded ridiculous considering they’d only been through the first day, but he could already tell he was in for a rough year.

[marauderxpeter]

“It’s not as bad as it looks. It doesn’t even hurt anymore.”

[marauderxpeter]

Alexis walks up to Peter in the library. " hum, Excuse me... Is this sit taken?" she mutters pointing to the chair in front of him with a small smile

Peter glanced up at the newcomer and shook his head. “No, go ahead,” he said and glanced back down to his book. Of course a girl would ask him that. Weren’t there any other guys here? He’d never be able to focus now.

[alexis-mulciber]

She frowned a bit confused with what had just happened. “okay…” she muttered looking at her books hoping not to disturb th boy or make him any kind of uncomfortable.

[marauderxpeter]

Her change in tone made Peter that he might have reacted incorrectly according to her expectations. It was great to see that he was off to such a good start. “Sorry,” he said after a moment. “I didn’t mean it the way it sounded.”

[dajovargas]

“I need my own personal Starbucks, honestly.” She said with a laugh. Maybe she just needed to come in at a different time… but then she’d have to change her whole morning routine and that just sounded like a lot of work. Plus, with her current routine she sometimes saw Dorcas as she came out of the gym. Not like that was a plus, or anything.

“Just barely escaped that one, thank god. And you have it this early?”

[marauderxpeter]

“Doesn’t sound like a bad idea,” Peter agreed. He knew he could use his own personal cigarette store, so he could at least relate to her desire.

“Yeah,” he grimaced. “It’s the only time they offered it. Really sucks because it’s a lab so I can’t even bring in coffee.” No food or drinks allowed around bacteria. He guessed it made sense.

[drdaisymayfielding-blog]

“Well, yeah.” Daisy replied, “I was looking at Cambridge and a couple of others, and I was definitely considering it, because I’d have got to see my Dad a lot more, but I liked this place more when I came to visit it.” She explained.

“Oh, maybe that’s why I keep getting lost, I’m using one of the maps.” She added, consideringly, “it’s good to hear from someone who’s already been here a while that it’s nice here, it seems pretty open and airy.”

She glanced down at the screen, running the diagnostics scan once more,

“Right, this’ll be another couple of minutes and then it’s all sorted.”

[marauderxpeter]

Peter nodded. “Yeah, I might have liked to stay closer to home if it wasn’t such a boring place,” he chuckled. “I really only go back to see mom.” And he did that as often as he could.

“Yeah, get rid of those. They suck. You have any place in particular you can’t find?” He couldn’t guarantee he would know where it was, but campus was pretty easy to navigate once he had the basics down.

“Thanks again,” he nodded, though he couldn’t recall if he’d thanked her before or not. He needed a smoke. “Do I owe you anything?”