RP: Change of Plans
Date: 11 August 1999 | lunchtime
Characters: Lisa Turpin; Beck, Colleen, Daniel, Karen and William Turpin (NPCs)
Location: Beck and Colleen's house, Redcar, North Yorkshire
Status: Private
Summary: Lisa has lunch with her family and gets a bit of a surprise.
Completion: Complete
Lisa had been restless all morning. Her evening with Terry kept replaying in her head, and there were only so many things she could clean or straighten to keep herself busy. If she'd thought having snogging on the brain the past week had been torture, and if she'd thought doing a bit of snogging would help alleviate it...she'd been very wrong. She'd been right about having a fifteen-year-old bloke's brain in her head, though, because surely it wasn't typical for girl of her age and experience to have sex on the brain so much. Especially sex with one's best mate.
Then again, it had been a long time....
Shaking her head, she had decided drastic measures were necessary, and had gone immediately into London to call her parents. So far Lisa had always had lunch with her family on Sundays at her parents' house, but they were more than happy to see her today instead, thankfully. They were already planning to have lunch at Beck and Colleen's house in Redcar. Lisa had smirked a bit when her mum asked if she could get there. It was a good thing she'd found an apparition spot the day Colleen took her shopping, otherwise she'd be in for a long walk. It was rather funny sometimes the things her family didn't understand about magic, because they were always the things she'd never think to mention.
Once back in Diagon Alley, she turned and apparated to Redcar, then made her way to the front of the house. It wasn't large, but it was nice and had a second bedroom. Lisa had already taken as many chances as she could to ask her brother when it would become the nursery, which made him blush something awful, but usually only made Colleen laugh.
Beck answered the door almost immediately, a strange expression on his face. Lisa scrunched up her eyebrows, trying to make it out. "What is it?" she asked, not even bothering to greet him.
He didn't answer immediately, but when she moved to step inside, he blocked her, shifting his weight from one foot to another before saying, "Don't kill me, Kit. But Colleen may be a bit...nervous."
"Nervous? Why on earth would she--?" Lisa wasn't sure how, but there was something in his face, in his tone, that said said everything, and suddenly she knew. "Oh god, Beck! You told her, didn't you?"
He almost winced, glancing over his shoulder for a moment. "It wasn't as if I could keep it from her forever. She's part of this family now, too, you know."
Lisa glared at him. "Of course I know. I love Colleen. And it was bound to happen one day...I just wish you'd waited until I was here, that's all."
Beck breathed out an audible sigh of relief that would have made her laugh if she wasn't now feeling a bit twitchy. She'd never had to worry about anyone finding out the secret before, never had to cope with wondering how they'd take it. She had been very young when she got her Hogwarts letter, and she'd been too excited for herself to even give other people a thought. But now it was different. She had a very relaxed sort of relationship with her sister-in-law, and she really didn't want that to change because of something like this. They'd only really just begun getting to know one another.
"Why now, all the sudden?" she asked in hushed tones, once they were inside the house. She could hear her parents and the others talking in the sitting room.
Beck ran a hand through his hair, looking a bit sheepish. "She kept asking why I was so worried about you all the time, and eventually I couldn't keep making up answers."
After a moment of pause, during which she studied him, Lisa reached out and gave him a tight hug. "You don't have to worry about me. I'm okay, really. Good. Really, really good." She gave him a kiss on the cheek as she pulled back. "Please tell me you at least eased her into the bad stuff, though."
"Haven't told it all yet," he said, nodding. "Just the basics, and that there was bad stuff. I thought the rest might be better coming from you, yeah?"
"Yeah," Lisa agreed.
The idea of having to go through everything, even just an overview, wasn't terribly appealing. She hadn't come to lunch prepared for this sort of conversation, and it always irked her when she wasn't prepared. But then maybe they wouldn't need to get into Azkaban or even the war at all today; there was plenty about the magical world she could talk about other than those. When they walked into the sitting room, everyone looked up at her, immediately quieting.
"Lisa, hi!" said Colleen, starting to standing, then apparently deciding against it. She bit her lip, glancing at Beck.
Bloody hell. This was worse than talking about Azkaban--at least then they'd made awkward small talk for a few minutes. Her parents looked as if they expected Lisa to say something, and Daniel only looked mildly amused by the whole thing. Lisa shot him a glare, then turned a smile to her sister-in-law.
"Well," Lisa started, "I hear Beck's told you about my freakish life, then?" She rolled her eyes at her brother.
"Oh no! I don't think you're a freak," Colleen said immediately, jumping up from the couch. Beck was right--she was definitely nervous. Jittery, even. "I think it's lovely that you're...."
"A witch?" Lisa supplied.
"Rhymes with that, at least," said Daniel.
Lisa took two more steps into the room and kicked him, and her mum smacked the side of his head. She was glad to see he winced both times. But by making the movement, she could now see the far side of the room, and she was momentarily confused. There were stacks of boxes all labelled with familiar brands of crisps, sodas, biscuits, beer and all sorts of other things, and they hadn't been there the last time she had.
"What's all that?"
Colleen grinned then, looking a little less anxious, perhaps for the shift in topic. She walked over to the pile, gesturing like a spokesmodel. "It's for your beach party, of course. Oh, Lise, it's going to be brilliant! Jeffrey's going to be out of town, so we've got the house the whole weekend if we need it. I wasn't sure what wi--your friends would like to eat, so I got a few different things...."
"A few? Colleen, how--"
How many friends do you think I have?, Lisa almost said. Only Beck's pleading expression made her pause. It was obvious Colleen had put a lot of thought and work into this already. It was almost as if she was trying to...what? Impress Lisa? Make up for whatever "bad things" Beck had told her? Both were ridiculous thoughts, but one glance at Daniel's face told her she probably wasn't far off.
Lisa sighed. "How many people are we talking?"
"Oh, the house can sleep a dozen or so, more if you've people sharing beds or sleeping on the floor. But out on the beach itself? Oh, I don't know. I've got food enough for maybe--"
"Five hundred," Dan sniped, earning himself another smack on the head.
"You've a lot of friends from school, though, right?" Colleen asked hopefully. "Beck says that sometimes wi--witches and such don't always know about the regular world, and I just thought it might be fun if...." She gestured to the boxes again.
Bugger it. "Thank you," said Lisa, moving to give her sister-in-law a hug and glaring at the rest of her family over the other's shoulder. This was their fault for letting Colleen obsess, though she suspected Daniel more than any of the others. Perhaps a harmless little Wheeze.... "It will be fun. Best party of the year."
Now she just had to figure out who the hell she could invite to the thing.
Characters: Lisa Turpin; Beck, Colleen, Daniel, Karen and William Turpin (NPCs)
Location: Beck and Colleen's house, Redcar, North Yorkshire
Status: Private
Summary: Lisa has lunch with her family and gets a bit of a surprise.
Completion: Complete
Lisa had been restless all morning. Her evening with Terry kept replaying in her head, and there were only so many things she could clean or straighten to keep herself busy. If she'd thought having snogging on the brain the past week had been torture, and if she'd thought doing a bit of snogging would help alleviate it...she'd been very wrong. She'd been right about having a fifteen-year-old bloke's brain in her head, though, because surely it wasn't typical for girl of her age and experience to have sex on the brain so much. Especially sex with one's best mate.
Then again, it had been a long time....
Shaking her head, she had decided drastic measures were necessary, and had gone immediately into London to call her parents. So far Lisa had always had lunch with her family on Sundays at her parents' house, but they were more than happy to see her today instead, thankfully. They were already planning to have lunch at Beck and Colleen's house in Redcar. Lisa had smirked a bit when her mum asked if she could get there. It was a good thing she'd found an apparition spot the day Colleen took her shopping, otherwise she'd be in for a long walk. It was rather funny sometimes the things her family didn't understand about magic, because they were always the things she'd never think to mention.
Once back in Diagon Alley, she turned and apparated to Redcar, then made her way to the front of the house. It wasn't large, but it was nice and had a second bedroom. Lisa had already taken as many chances as she could to ask her brother when it would become the nursery, which made him blush something awful, but usually only made Colleen laugh.
Beck answered the door almost immediately, a strange expression on his face. Lisa scrunched up her eyebrows, trying to make it out. "What is it?" she asked, not even bothering to greet him.
He didn't answer immediately, but when she moved to step inside, he blocked her, shifting his weight from one foot to another before saying, "Don't kill me, Kit. But Colleen may be a bit...nervous."
"Nervous? Why on earth would she--?" Lisa wasn't sure how, but there was something in his face, in his tone, that said said everything, and suddenly she knew. "Oh god, Beck! You told her, didn't you?"
He almost winced, glancing over his shoulder for a moment. "It wasn't as if I could keep it from her forever. She's part of this family now, too, you know."
Lisa glared at him. "Of course I know. I love Colleen. And it was bound to happen one day...I just wish you'd waited until I was here, that's all."
Beck breathed out an audible sigh of relief that would have made her laugh if she wasn't now feeling a bit twitchy. She'd never had to worry about anyone finding out the secret before, never had to cope with wondering how they'd take it. She had been very young when she got her Hogwarts letter, and she'd been too excited for herself to even give other people a thought. But now it was different. She had a very relaxed sort of relationship with her sister-in-law, and she really didn't want that to change because of something like this. They'd only really just begun getting to know one another.
"Why now, all the sudden?" she asked in hushed tones, once they were inside the house. She could hear her parents and the others talking in the sitting room.
Beck ran a hand through his hair, looking a bit sheepish. "She kept asking why I was so worried about you all the time, and eventually I couldn't keep making up answers."
After a moment of pause, during which she studied him, Lisa reached out and gave him a tight hug. "You don't have to worry about me. I'm okay, really. Good. Really, really good." She gave him a kiss on the cheek as she pulled back. "Please tell me you at least eased her into the bad stuff, though."
"Haven't told it all yet," he said, nodding. "Just the basics, and that there was bad stuff. I thought the rest might be better coming from you, yeah?"
"Yeah," Lisa agreed.
The idea of having to go through everything, even just an overview, wasn't terribly appealing. She hadn't come to lunch prepared for this sort of conversation, and it always irked her when she wasn't prepared. But then maybe they wouldn't need to get into Azkaban or even the war at all today; there was plenty about the magical world she could talk about other than those. When they walked into the sitting room, everyone looked up at her, immediately quieting.
"Lisa, hi!" said Colleen, starting to standing, then apparently deciding against it. She bit her lip, glancing at Beck.
Bloody hell. This was worse than talking about Azkaban--at least then they'd made awkward small talk for a few minutes. Her parents looked as if they expected Lisa to say something, and Daniel only looked mildly amused by the whole thing. Lisa shot him a glare, then turned a smile to her sister-in-law.
"Well," Lisa started, "I hear Beck's told you about my freakish life, then?" She rolled her eyes at her brother.
"Oh no! I don't think you're a freak," Colleen said immediately, jumping up from the couch. Beck was right--she was definitely nervous. Jittery, even. "I think it's lovely that you're...."
"A witch?" Lisa supplied.
"Rhymes with that, at least," said Daniel.
Lisa took two more steps into the room and kicked him, and her mum smacked the side of his head. She was glad to see he winced both times. But by making the movement, she could now see the far side of the room, and she was momentarily confused. There were stacks of boxes all labelled with familiar brands of crisps, sodas, biscuits, beer and all sorts of other things, and they hadn't been there the last time she had.
"What's all that?"
Colleen grinned then, looking a little less anxious, perhaps for the shift in topic. She walked over to the pile, gesturing like a spokesmodel. "It's for your beach party, of course. Oh, Lise, it's going to be brilliant! Jeffrey's going to be out of town, so we've got the house the whole weekend if we need it. I wasn't sure what wi--your friends would like to eat, so I got a few different things...."
"A few? Colleen, how--"
How many friends do you think I have?, Lisa almost said. Only Beck's pleading expression made her pause. It was obvious Colleen had put a lot of thought and work into this already. It was almost as if she was trying to...what? Impress Lisa? Make up for whatever "bad things" Beck had told her? Both were ridiculous thoughts, but one glance at Daniel's face told her she probably wasn't far off.
Lisa sighed. "How many people are we talking?"
"Oh, the house can sleep a dozen or so, more if you've people sharing beds or sleeping on the floor. But out on the beach itself? Oh, I don't know. I've got food enough for maybe--"
"Five hundred," Dan sniped, earning himself another smack on the head.
"You've a lot of friends from school, though, right?" Colleen asked hopefully. "Beck says that sometimes wi--witches and such don't always know about the regular world, and I just thought it might be fun if...." She gestured to the boxes again.
Bugger it. "Thank you," said Lisa, moving to give her sister-in-law a hug and glaring at the rest of her family over the other's shoulder. This was their fault for letting Colleen obsess, though she suspected Daniel more than any of the others. Perhaps a harmless little Wheeze.... "It will be fun. Best party of the year."
Now she just had to figure out who the hell she could invite to the thing.