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RP: Talk about Business...

Mar 24, 2008 12:50

Date: March 24, 2003
Characters: Su Li
Location: Barr's place
Status: Private
Summary: Su goes to Barr's talk talk about business. Sometimes the talk doesn't stay strictly on business, though.
Completion: incomplete

( Business talk... then girl talk? )

march 2003, su li, barr dunstan, place: private residence

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anon_barr March 24 2008, 17:56:04 UTC

There was something to be said about a good night’s sleep. True, Barr Dunstan still didn’t sleep a lot, but now it was for less straining reasons than paranoid insomnia, which made her far better at waking up in the morning and actually feel like she had rested. Her morning had been spent in a deliciously languid speed, at least until Dean had left. There was never any hurry or stress when she was with him. It was just them, and though she still worked when he was around, it never became stressed ( ... )

anon_barr March 25 2008, 18:28:12 UTC

Barr looked at Su for a moment longer. “You should be in charge of personnel,” she murmured as a thought to herself, before she got back up, and began wiping off the excess oil from her friend’s skin. Her mind was turning again. New ideas and solutions were forming, and once she had them in order, she would talk to Su about it.

Right now, Su was what was important to her, the focal point having changed the moment Su had admitted that it wasn’t work that was making her tense.

“Has something happened, Su?” she asked, and pulled the big fluffy sheet up to cover the bared back again. “Or should I mind my own business?”

anon_su March 25 2008, 18:35:44 UTC

Su was glad when Barr pulled up the sheet. She sighed and closed her eyes. "I'd love to be charge of personal," she said slowly, "But I'm good at paperwork more, so..." She smiled softly. It was Barr's hospital. Barr's idea. Barr's choice.

"Well, I've been avoiding Annwn to be truthful. You know me," Su said, laughing a bit, "I came around for awhile and then found myself... well, I did something I don't do. I don't have sex a guy during our second meeting."

Su couldn't believe that she had said the words aloud. She'd never said what happened aloud before. In a round about way to Charlie, but not to anyone else. She felt herself blush and wanted to bury her face in her hands, but didn't. Who cares?

A little voice inside her answered her inaudible question, You do.

anon_barr March 25 2008, 18:56:52 UTC

“I know you’re better with paperwork,” Barr said and with a wave of her wand summoned a large, clean bathrobe, and handed it to Su. “We’ll get back to that later, right now, it seems that something else is on your mind.”

She gestured for Su to go sit in the big, stuffed chair by the coffee table, with a blanket draped over the arm rest. “He must have been some man for you to have sex with him like that,” she said, and summoned tea, teapot and kettle from the kitchen. “And no, I’m not berating you for it, partly since it’s not my place to do, but even more so because it would be hypocritical for me to do so.”

With a softly murmured Aguamenti she filled the kettle, and tapped it with her wand to make the water boil, as she measured out the tea to put in the tea pot, only to add the water and let it steep. She hovered it across the table, closer to Su, so she could help herself if she wanted something to drink.

“What happened Su?” she asked gently. “Did he hurt you?”

anon_su March 25 2008, 19:49:42 UTC

Su helped herself to some tea, wrapping herself in the bathrobe.

"We came here to talk about the hospital..." Su was slightly uncomfortable. Barr was her friend, her house mate, but at the same time, did Barr really care? "See, I came to Annwn for the excitement and I got what I wanted. Kind of. No, he didn't hurt me. Not at all." She closed her eyes. That was partly a lie, she supposed. He had hurt her, but not in the way Barr meant.

"He just wants to be friends. Barr, I don't do that. I didn't even have sex until I left Hogwarts. While everyone, as you know, was running around with each other, I just didn't. Perhaps it was the house I was raised in... Perhaps it was just being uptight, but it wasn't me. Then I meet this... this guy... he was drunk for the most part of our first meeting. Then I found him again.. and things happened. They just happened. I started to see a wizard in London when I went back. After he told me that he only wanted to be friends ( ... )

anon_barr March 26 2008, 10:00:35 UTC

“I don’t think nearly as many as you think were running around with each other at school,” Barr ventured carefully, not wanting to dismiss Su, but not wanting to generalised either, since she hadn’t been one to run around either, “but please, Su, don’t feel bad about what happened. It’s… human. Sometimes you just meet somebody you can’t keep your hands off.”

She wet her lips and thought for a moment. “Yes, you came here to talk about the hospital, but something… someone has made you hesitant to come here, and then it’s hard to work on a hospital, in the town you’re trying to avoid.”

Leaning forward, she rested her elbows on her knees. “Su… this isn’t just my hospital. It’s Annwn’s hospital. I just set the wheels in motion, and for this to work, people need to be comfortable with it, and you…” she smiled reverently, “you can do so much wonderful in areas of this that I can’t begin to fathom. That’s why I’d like for you to not worry about what has happened, partly because of this, but mostly… because you have nothing to be ashamed of ( ... )

anon_su March 26 2008, 12:02:35 UTC

Su listened to what Barr had to say. It was true not everyone had been running around in secluded corners at Hogwarts, but she had came across enough couples may accident to know it wasn't rare by any means.

Tilting her head to the side, she said, "No. No he hasn't. No one has. Why? Are the festivals exciting? How many, or do you know, are there?"

It seemed a little abrupt to bring up these festivals now, but she was more thankful than ever at the change of topic. Barr was right. Sometimes people meet and just can't keep their hands to themselves. Sometimes they can't help themselves. It's human; it's natural. If she saw him again, it'd happen again... and that was okay.

anon_barr March 26 2008, 12:14:15 UTC

“I don’t know if they are ‘exciting’, per se,” Barr tried, “but… uhm… let’s say that they are often enough and of a caliber that keeps things from being… un-exciting here in town.”

She knew she wasn’t making sense, and really, all she had wanted to do was to let Su know that she hadn’t needed to worry about not getting excitement here in town.

“I’m not making much sense, am I?” she apologized and chuckled slightly before she drew in a deep breath. “I guess what I am trying to tell you, is that you shouldn’t be worried about excitement, and if I’m hearing you correctly, then that man doesn’t sound completely opposed to… am I correct if I call it ‘no commitment other than sex’?”

Mentally she kicked herself. Su deserved to know what she was getting herself into here, but she just couldn’t get the words out, they made sense in her head, but when spoken, she knew they would sound like betrayal and luring.

anon_su March 26 2008, 14:58:19 UTC

Su looked at Barr quizzically. What on earth was Barr talking about? What were these festivals she mentioned?

"Well, if you want to actually make sense about these festivals, Barr I'll listen." In fact, Su wanted to know. The way Barr looked told her she might have to go on a mission to find out what these festivals were before she committed to moving to Annwn.

Su was so shocked by the cryptic mention of these festivals that she almost didn't hear what else Barr had said. "He's not opposed? Well, I'd say not, but it was never really mentioned." Sex without emotions? Mentioning it outright like that... The idea was very appealing to Su.

anon_barr March 26 2008, 15:50:19 UTC

“I don’t know if he’s opposed,” Barr chuckled, “but obviously, he’s not opposed to being around you, or I doubt he would have wanted to be your friend ( ... )

anon_su March 26 2008, 16:25:23 UTC

Su listened intently. This was the first time she had ever heard of this. It wasn't like she was hiding under a rock when she came to town... Obviously people didn't want to talk about it. Even Barr seemed reluctant.

People were bound to Annwn? Did that mean they couldn't live a life outside this town... the living or the formally dead? For some reason, she never thought she'd see one of the formally dead out among the living for obvious reasons, but to hear the living, who had free riegn in the world might not be able to was unsettling.

"Bound themselves to the town? Do you mean the living? Do you mean they have to stay here or face a penalty like death?" Barr had mentioned nothing about the ramifications of breaking that 'blind', but the question slipped out before she got a chance to stop herself ( ... )

anon_barr March 26 2008, 16:43:36 UTC

”Honestly, I don’t know what it means to be bound to the town,” Barr told Su straight out. “I know that when the Dead goes outside the town, they turn non-corporeal, but the Living. I don’t know. I’ve seen Living come and go, even going travelling outside the town, so no, I don’t know what it means to be bound here. Then again, feeling at home in a place, isn’t that to be bound to a place as well?”

She sent Su a smile. “The Winter Solstice was a beautiful fest, where people really enjoyed the Holiday and had fun, and… there was something special about it. Like a fairytale, only… realShe grew quiet, when she realized she had reached another bad festival, one that ought to have chased her from the town, but instead had made her want to get more involved in the place. “February second, was Imbolc,” she said quietly. “That was another bad festival, and now, only a few days ago, on the twentieth, it was Easter, or rather ‘Ostara’, that was celebrated with a fantastic Egg Hunt in the Avalon Orchard.” She sighed dreamily and looked up at Su ( ... )

anon_su March 26 2008, 16:51:26 UTC

Su rubbed her forehead. Things just didn't make sense. Why would this... power bind them to the town but not tell them how or why or anything like that? And why not everyone that comes to town. Things just didn't make sense.

"You left out the third festival," Su said quietly, her mind having a hard time understanding all of what Barr was saying. This town seemed so peaceful, so amazing that it needed to seem to be capable of what Barr was leading to. or maybe it was and Su had been so blinded by a certain handsome wizard to see the mystery and... danger it held.

Su just didn't know anymore, and listened for Barr to go on.

anon_barr March 26 2008, 17:22:15 UTC

Barr nodded. “I did leave out the third festival.” Her admission was quiet, and as she tried to gather up enough momentum to actually get started on that one, she got up, and went to get her cup of coffee. For a moment, she held the cup in her hands, just looking down at it, before she vanished the leftovers and poured herself a fresh cup, and returned to her seat ( ... )

anon_su March 26 2008, 19:58:45 UTC

Su couldn't believe what she was hearing. Kidnapped?She looked at Barr with wide and somewhat fearful eyes. The words, "Nothing happened to us", echoed in her head, but they seemed to be so wrong in the context ( ... )

anon_barr March 26 2008, 21:20:34 UTC

”I’m not sad, I’m not really upset about it either,” Barr said meeting Su’s eyes, seeing the worry and the fear there. She wanted to assure her, make her see that while it was wrong, it could have been much, much worse. “I’ve had some trouble sleeping, well… falling asleep, simply because I fell asleep here and woke up there, and…” her smile turned a little dreamy as the reason for her refound ability to fall asleep came to mind, as an image of Dean’s face as he slept. “Well, I don’t have that problem anymore ( ... )

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