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RP: Guess who's coming for dinner?

Apr 13, 2007 18:46

Date: 13 April 2005
Characters: Arabella Figg, Caradoc Dearborn [Cai]
Location: Arabella's cottage on F Street
Status: Private
Summary: Caradoc comes for dinner and collects his house elf.
Completion: Complete

( It would be nice to have her house to herself again, most of the time )

arabella figg, place: private residence, caradoc dearborn, april 2005

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shh_caradoc April 15 2007, 22:10:47 UTC

Caradoc broke out in laughter at her set up for Mr. Potter. "The poor lad. I'm not so sure any more that he'll want to see you, then. Hopefully he found out you weren't really eccentric somewhere along the line, Arabella."

He nodded. "I think if she came by on Monday and Friday mornings it would work. The local market is still a bit lean. I've been supplementing in Exeter and Tregaron as needed, but once school begins, I'll have to shop on Saturdays. I'm thinking you could tell Cai on Fridays what you need, or if you'd like to accompany me, then Saturday I can shop. Cai can bring your groceries on Monday if you don't join me."

"I plan to keep her busy on the claim, so she'll be too busy to bother you too much. And please tell me if she shows signs of getting out of hand. I love her to pieces, but she's definitely got a mind of her own."

shh_arabella April 15 2007, 23:01:54 UTC

"It's possible he wouldn't want to see me, no," she said, feeling a bit sad at the prospect. She'd always liked Harry immensely. Even when he was little, she could tell he had tremendous magical energy, and it was awful to be forced to pretend to be a dotty old lady around him. "I should hope a good sponge cake or treacle tart would remedy that."

She nodded when Caradoc explained his plans about shopping. "That would be quite acceptable."

"Speaking of sponge cake," she said, "you look about done with your meal. Are you ready for pudding? I decided not to make sponge cake this time. Don't want to be too predictable, you know." She gave him another wink. Had she thought of him as a surrogate son, she'd not be winking, but a surrogate nephew was another matter. "I made an apple tort. I hope you like it."

shh_caradoc April 15 2007, 23:18:44 UTC

"Dinner was delicious, Arabella. I'm sure anything you made for pudding will be wonderful. I'm very fond of fruit anything."

Caradoc considered something he had thought of earlier to ask her. "Arabella, what do you think about visiting America? My family is having a large party the last weekend of April. It's a combination anniversaries, birthdays, Mother's Day celebration for all the events occurring in April and May. It's a family tradition, and as my new surrogate aunt, you would be very welcome if you'd like to join Cai and I for the journey."

shh_arabella April 15 2007, 23:35:41 UTC

"America?" Arabella raised an eyebrow. "I've not been past London to the east nor Torquay to the west. America would be quite an adventure." She thought for perhaps five seconds, then said, "All right! If you insist. How would we get there? By Portkey?"

shh_caradoc April 15 2007, 23:54:19 UTC

When she raised an eyebrow, he told her, "you'll get to meet my entire family. Every single one of them from my oldest, Jacob, to the twin girls who were born last October."

He smiled, "not just any portkey either, Arabella. It's an Albus Dumbledore portkey he made for me to be able to move the kids. The trip across was incredibly smooth. It will take us back and forth between my home in Tregaron to the school in New Orleans. We'll apparate from the school to my nephew's home outside New Orleans. If you'd like to do a little sight seeing in New Orleans itself, there's time for that too."

shh_arabella April 16 2007, 02:04:42 UTC

"Your entire family?" Now that sounded very interesting. Arabella had been widowed for many years and had no children, nor any living relatives. "You know I've no family of my own, haven't for many years. Are you sure your family won't mind a dowager aunt being dropped on them so suddenly?"

"Oh, an Albus special," she said with a smile. "That sounds lovely. I don't know a thing about that city. This would be quite an adventure." A frown suddenly crossed her face. "We won't have to use a taxicab while we're there, will we? Because taxicabs frighten me. Rather irrational, I'm afraid, but there you have it. And large crowds. As long as there aren't any large crowds about, I'll probably be fine." She paused, looking at him. "Goodness, you'll think I really am a crazy old woman now."

shh_caradoc April 16 2007, 03:56:40 UTC

Caradoc chuckled. "My kids have all been asking when they get to meet you, Arabella. They'll be delighted and it isn't as if with 26 of us that one more would be too much ( ... )

shh_arabella April 16 2007, 04:23:23 UTC

Arabella was pleased, and relieved, to hear that Caradoc's family wanted to meet her. "That's true enough," she said, laughing. "What's another one when you've already got 26?"

She listened carefully as he talked about the size of any crowds they might encounter. "Oh, one or two hundred people isn't scary. It's thousands of people all together that make me nervous. You know, the sort of crowd one might see at a football game. I suppose I'm skittish about large crowds because of an incident at Reading football stadium years ago. You know how rowdy British football fans can be. There was a bit of a row and I happened to be caught on the edge of the fray." She shuddered, wishing she'd not dredged up that particular memory, then took a deep breath and forged on. "Well, all in the past, dearie. I don't know about trolley cars but if it's not like a taxicab I'm sure I'll be fine ( ... )

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