RP & Owls: The potions re-stocking begins...

[shh_adrian]

Date: 23 March 2005
Character: Adrian Pucey, anyone else who wants to stop into the potions lab at the hospital. Owls to: Ginny & Slughorn.
Location: Epsilon St & then The Hospital
Status: Public
Summary: Adrian walks to the hospital, musing on situations, gets there to find the potions problem and sends out some owls to begin correcting the

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[shh_ginny]

Ginny had slipped back to her dorm when she received the owl from Adrian at the hospital and quickly jotted off a reply.

Adrian

[shh_adrian]

Red,
Don't want to interrupt, I know you must be busy with classes and such, but I wanted to reply before you headed back here. Luna owl'ed me not long after I wrote you and it seems the wheels are in motion to get the potions restoration going again.

Things at the flat were dark last night... And cold. Nowhere near as warm as next to you, though I don't know that it had anything to do with the heat. Is this a possible invitation I feel coming on? With all those spare bedrooms after all.

When you get back to Stoats, I'll probably still be here, there's a lot of work to be done and I've begun a couple of small brews with my private stores. It's not much but hopefully it will at least help them get through until we can get proper work done. Stop by while you're hear? I can't wait to see the tattoo - have you decided where to put it? Someplace not many will see (or rather, possibly, nobody but me), I hope.

Either way, I'd love to come by the house tonight, so I'll be seeing you later.
Yours,
Adrian

[shh_ginny]

Ginny had just returned, wincing, from lunch with Gustav and Kirtin where she'd gotten a matching dragoon tattoo with Gustav while Kirtin fed her a beer dutifully since she could not move while the process was completed. Each step was a tinge of pain but she gritted her teeth and simply glared at Gustav who laughed at her. Limping down the hall, she held her arm out to the hospital owl and simply ducked into the library to reply - not wanting to even contemplate the trip to her dorm room across campus. The dragon that curled along her hip chose the minute she picked up a quill to move, painfully and she dropped it hissing before it stopped. Picking up the quill, she evansico'd the ink spot.

Adrian

[shh_ginny]

Ginny burst through the doors of the hospital at 4 p.m. on the dot, stopping only to grab her case files from behind the reception desk before heading up to second, not even bothering with her Healer robes. She was relieved to see her patients had been unmolested and took her time updating their charts.

Her watch read 4:50 p.m. when she finished and Ginny limped up the stairs to the third floor, wincing now that she was alone. Peeking into the potions lab, she smiled to see Adrian hard at work and took a second to watch him before she limped into the room.

Tossing her patients charts on the counter by the door, Ginny limped over to where he stood and, with a quick look around, stole a long, deep kiss from him before she turned on her heel and limped back to the door, grabbing her charts as she pushed the door open.

"See you later, Adi." She called out as the door swung shut behind her.

[shh_adrian]

Adrian had been checking his notes on a particular combination of roots when he heard files slam onto a counter suddenly and there was a bright red flash of hair before warm kips covered his own. He wrapped his arms around Ginny quickly and allowed her to steal his breath with the surprise visit and deep kiss.

Watching her leave, with her casual goodbye, Adrian couldn't help but grin and, as he leaned back over his notes and shook his head with disbelief and happiness, he went back to singing the same song he'd been trying to get out of his mind all day...

..."If we must live for the moment, love till the moment is through..."

The lyrics held much better meaning this time around though, and Adrian promised himself just a bit more work before he would call it a night and meet Ginny and Connie at the house on the hill.

[shh_slughorn]

Horace got home after a hard afternoon in Exeter, and found two owls waiting for him. He scribbled hasty replies to both, and sent Paracelsus off with them:

Adrian Pucey,
Stoatshead Hill Hospital

Mr Pucey,

I'm in receipt of your owl, and will be at the hospital shortly. It would help if you could prepare a list of potions in order of your need for them. I will bring my portable kit and everything I have in hand that might be useful, after I've dealt with any immediate problems I'd prefer to work from my own laboratory at home. If your actual brewing facilities have been damaged I can supply bench space.

Your offer of ingredients etc. is greatly appreciated, we'll discuss it once the immediate problem is resolved.

Horace Slughorn

He got his potions kit together, warned Retcon that he would probably want a very late supper if he made it home at all, took the Floo to the hospital, and followed his wand to the potions department.

[shh_adrian]

Adrian was finishing up with his notes and preparing the last of the ingredients that he would need for a sleeping draught when Prof. Slughorn arrived, looking the same as ever. Adrian looked up and for a moment felt very much like a student again.

"Professor, how good of you to come. I've just finished going over the list you asked me to put together for you." He nodded toward a spare bit of parchment lyin gon the counter furthest from his half dozen cauldrons. "Mostly the basic potions are in the most need - ennervates and sleeping potions, as well as pain soothers. The more complex ones, I'm afraid we'll need to deal with later as I've not much in the way of ingredients for any of them right now."

[shh_slughorn]

"Fortunately I have components," said Horace. "Not huge quantities, but I've just finished stocking my laboratory and have most of the basic ingredients to hand - enough for two dozen or so doses of a basic pain soother, maybe fifteen ennervates. And by great good fortune I've been testing my equipment, and made a big batch of the Draught of Living Death, I wasn't actually planning to use it, but it's still in the cauldron - ought to be all right if I pop home and decant it tonight. It's much stronger than the usual sleeping draught, of course, but I think there's about a dozen doses."

"And I have this." He reached into his potions kit and pulled out a tiny glass phial containing a golden liquid. "Felix Felicis. If we can't cure all of your patients, maybe some of the more serious cases would benefit from a little luck."

[shh_adrian]

"Wow, thank you, Professor." Horace's offer of the extra ingredients would be a large help and Adrian only hoped that his offer to trade would be enough in his old Professor's eyes once they set the terms of the trade