Beyond The Darkness : RP: A Night Out At The Club

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* june 2005, - complete, rodolphus lestrange, romilda vane

RP: A Night Out At The Club
Date: 5 June 2005
Characters: Rodolphus Lestrange, Romilda Vane
Location: The Casino of Sidi al'Nasir
Private/Public: Private
Rating: PG
Warnings: Excessive flirting
Summary: Rodolphus takes Romilda out for a night of fine dining and subtle seduction.
Completion: Complete

Rodolphus adjusted the collar of his tuxedo and straightened his bow tie. He had given the house elves strict orders that he was not to be disturbed this evening, no owls, no urgent messages, nothing. Rastaban could deal with anything that came up. He had more interesting and certainly far more pleasant plans. He’d briefly contemplated cancelling them in the light of Severus’ escape but had dismissed that just as quickly. He didn’t want to give Romilda a chance to second guess either him or herself.

Once he was ready he pulled on his cloak and apparated to an alley just around from the club then walked up to the front doors. He was quickly admitted and he handed his cloak over to the attendant.

"I have a young lady portkeying in shortly," he said when the attendant returned.

"Do you wish to wait for her here, sir, or in the saloon?" the attendant said with a single nod.

Rodolphus considered the matter for a moment. "I believe I shall wait for her myself."

"Very good, sir," the attendant replied. "Would you like a drink while you are waiting?"

"No, thank you," Rodolphus replied. "I shall wait for my guest."

"Very good, sir," the attendant replied before gliding off to his corner.

Rodolphus clasped his hand behind his back and began to pacing idly as he waited for Romilda.

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bd_romilda
2007-06-06 20:33 (link)

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"Just so long as they remember to make their smalls fire retardant they should be fine," she added with a hearty chuckle and a wink. Again, she put her head to the side, listening as he spoke. It was true, they had all been told how monstrous the Lestranges were, yet her own eyes were showing her something totally different.

Romilda thought back about her time at school, and when Hermione Granger tried to make her free the house elves. She thought it was crazy then, as she had no idea how they would cope without them. "Unfortunately some of us have learned the hard way to live without them when we have had not other choice. Elves are loyal to a fault, and I wouldn't leave my son with one nearly every day when I work if I didn't trust them."

"I think perhaps the Muggleborns need to have a greater understanding of things. I know Colin and Dennis were constantly asking questions, and I had to think of how to answer them to explain away things I had always taken for granted. I had no idea how a floo worked, but had to find out to explain it to them. Mind you, I had to ask them how electricity worked. It seemed rather fascinating -- how they manage to adapt for the things they can't do without magic."

She saw genuine surprise in his face at the mention of Dennis' kidnapping. "Well yes. He was gone for over a year, and then Colin found him again. He went missing again just a couple of months ago, and is back again now. Dennis won't talk about it, but he's adamant it was Death Eaters. Why else would someone keep him hostage?" She shrugged. Rodolphus' response was one she expected. It would be very frustrating if she thought one of Rosie's girls was doing something behind her back and not telling them.

Something niggled in her mind as she took another sip of her wine. "You say you want people to argue intelligently and logically with you, yet you seem a little... frustrated that your... employees are acting independently." Okay, she was being bold, or stupid, but she felt she needed to understand him a little better. If this club was for people to do so in a civil manner, then she felt she could ask him the question.

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bd_rodolphus
2007-06-06 20:50 (link)

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"Hmm, I shall have to look into that," he said with an expression of mock-worry. "I rather like myself just the way I am."

"Indeed. Very few house elves do well outside of a home and family," he observed. "Though they have their own magic, they do rely on our protection."

He nodded. "Muggles are ingenious but I see no reason to bring their methods into the wizarding world when we do perfectly well with magic. At least your friends had the sense to ask about our world."

"Interesting," he said thoughtfully in regards to this Dennis. "Has he said nothing at all about what happened to him?"

He chuckled at her question and raised his glass in a salute to her, not at all offended by an intelligent question.

"Perhaps the better way of wording that would have been that I have no objection to my people coming up with their own plans and schemes but I do like it if they inform me about them if there is even the slightest possibility that the effects of their scheme is going to affect more than just themselves. I have some wide ranging and long term plans of my own and I don't like having them upset or delayed because I don't know what's going on. I dislike unpleasant surprises."

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bd_romilda
2007-06-06 21:53 (link)

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He was making her think of things long forgotten. House elves. The idea of muggle technology being integrated with magic. All crazy talk. She knew if she spent too much time thinking about it, her head would hurt.

"They are good men, and very good friends. Dennis said nothing because he claims he did not remember." She gave a worried look. "I think he does. I can see that there is something in his eyes that was not there before."

She returned the salute, pleased to see she had not offended him. "I don't think anyone likes unpleasant surprises. Pleasant ones, however --" she left off her statement, giving him a saucy little smirk. "Didn't you say that the chef has created some new delectable dessert concoction? Perhaps I only came tonight because of that?" So she was being cheeky - it was in her nature, and she wanted to get away from all this serious talk.

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bd_rodolphus
2007-06-06 22:03 (link)

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"Perhaps he simply does not want to remember," Rodolphus said with a hint of melancholy. He preferred not to remember the years in Azkaban and the effects of the Dementors after all.

He shook the mood off and smiled wickedly at Romilda. "Oh, I love pleasant surprises," he said with a hint of suggestiveness. "They're always enjoyable and often... invigorating."

He laughed and pretended to look crushed. "Thrown over for a dessert. What has my life come to? Perhaps I shall have to find a way to convince you otherwise." He let a bit of amusement and heat show in his eyes. "Whatever could I do to outdo the allure of chocolate?"

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