Matchmaker - OTA

[black_nimbus01]

After the previous day's disastrous reunion with his mother, Draco was feeling a lot like a dirty rag in the gutter. However, there was nothing like meddling (well, not technically meddling since he had permission from Meg) in other people's lives to provide a way to ignore the shit storm in your own. That was what Draco believed and so he was

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[call_him_joe]

Enter one very large, potentially imposing man who only managed to not be frightening looking because of the smile on his face and the jeans very liberally smeared in what probably looked like mud but was in reality potters clay. Honestly he could be one of the Weasley brothers in a pinch, with his long red hair pulled back in a ponytail.

Destruction ordered his usual large black coffee and an assortment of pastries before moving into the sitting area and scanning for a table.

[black_nimbus01]

Draco had to do a double take to make sure the man wasn't a Weasley. Could he subject Meg to a ginger? Well...he definitely wasn't a troll, despite his size.

The wizard adopted a large smile and waved at him. "Free seat, if you want it," he said, loudly.

[call_him_joe]

He arched his brow, people rarely offered him seats - and made his way to join the much blonder, much slighter man.

"Thank you, I was beginning to think I would have to take my repast and share it with the ducks in the park."

[black_nimbus01]

"It is rather busy today," Draco said. he had purposely picked the busiest day and hour to be there, for obvious reasons. "What's your name, Extremely Tall, Ginger, and Imposing?"

[call_him_joe]

"You may call me Joe," most people didn't notice that, that wasn't actually an answer to the 'what's your name' question. He was amused by the description and a smile creased his face.

"Mister?"

[black_nimbus01]

Just Joe? That was interesting. Not unusual for Haurvatat, but interesting.

"Nice to meet you, Joe," he said. "I'm Draco. Would you like some tea?"

He even had a spare cup and saucer. It could not be said that Draco Malfoy was never prepared.

[call_him_joe]

"My coffee is fine, thank you." He pulled a face that might be comical. "Never had much of a taste for tea."

[black_nimbus01]

"Then you've never had a proper cup of tea," Draco said. "So, what brings you to the cafe today, Joe?"

[call_him_joe]

"Perhaps not," though he doubted it. "I like to try the new pastries."

As if on cue the waitress brought him a plate heaping with pastries of various shape, size and flavor.

"As long as I have existed I can still be surprised by a good pastry." He gestured that Draco should feel free to help himself.

[black_nimbus01]

"Ooh, don't mind if I do," Draco said, and picked a tasty looking danish. "Are you one of the immortal population here? You said as long as you have existed. That usually means someone is much older than they look."

[call_him_joe]

"Not immortal, my kind can cease to be and eventually we will disappear entirely." But not until everything else did.

[black_nimbus01]

"That's new," he said, dunking a corner of the danish into his tea before biting into it. "Mmm, good pastry... I've never heard of that before.Have you been in the village long?"

[call_him_joe]

"A handful of months by the calendar here, hardly worth speaking about in relation to my own life." But this was the man who had spent just over three hundred years 'finding himself'.

He chose a glazed scone and broke it in half taking a bite, "Still warm."

[black_nimbus01]

"I love it when they're still warm," Draco said with a nod, and bit into the danish again. "Not really enough time to find yourself in a relationship...?"

[call_him_joe]

He arched his brow at the question, but he considered how to answer before speaking.

"I have been in relationships that took an instant to start and lasted millenia and relationships that were no more than a flicker that took ages to begin. At present there is no one I am particularly enamored of." Unless you counted Artemis, and she'd castrate him if he did so he preferred to keep her firmly in the 'friend' category.

[black_nimbus01]

"Would you consider going on a date with a young lady you haven't met?" Draco asked, his pen poised over the pad of paper.