Butterbeer

[Larissa Sedgwick]

The local village was silent through the heavy fall of snow. The roofs were neatly coated. Most of the people who lived there, were sat in their homes, reading books and taking in the warmth of the fire. It was like a fairy-tale. Perhaps, then, there was an up side to being stuck at Durmstrang for the winter. It was only a short boat journey over. Although, Larissa did feel a little odd.. Being around the village, she was one of the only students. Well, if she wasn't getting a present from anywhere else, she could certainly buy herself one. Larissa walked, carefully, yet, eagerly, through the thick blanket of snow, her eyes on the building selling sweets. She wondered what delicious variations of sweets, they sold, but she found disappointment grow as she noticed the lack of light.

Larissa walked for some time, making sure, still hopeful.. But, every shop was shut. The only place she could see with lights in the window- and she suspected that was where all the shopkeepers were- was the pub. And so it was, that Larissa walked through the snow in a pair of heavy boots and a large red coat, to the establishment. The cold was getting to her, and she was in no way used to it; her thin, pale skin, offered her no protection, and even with her thick, Durmstrang coat on, she found herself shivering. And then, she'd made it to the pub, she'd pushed open the door, she'd witnessed the sudden boom of noise, of merry people chatting to one another, she'd walked to the bar and she had ordered herself a butterbeer. It was a pity that she had yet to turn seventeen, or she could have had something stronger. As it was, she found the sudden warmth of the butterbeer, raising her spirits and turning her eyes bright blue. Well, this certainly didn't seem so bad.. And, perhaps, she could meet someone to talk to, someone who she could stay in touch with.

Larissa sat at the bar, away from the crowds, sipping at her butterbeer and giving the bartender, the odd smile. She heard the door to the building open, several times, yet, it was none of her concern, and she continued drinking, allowing herself the chance to wallow in self-pity.

 

[Selwin Snape]

After being annoyed by the muggles in the muggle world in his medical classes, he went into a corner at his university and apperated himself to Europe, not far from the Durmstrang Institute. He had been expecting cold weather, so he changed right before he apperated himself. He was really getting sick of the muggles annoying him again and again. Why couldn't they just leave him alone? The only reason he was keeping up with them was because his education was important to him. Being a doctor was very important to Selwin and he wanted to get his degree from Harvard Medical School, where he was currently attending. The fun part of being there was that he got to learn a lot about the Medical world, but the downfall was that he had to put up with all of the filthy muggles. Sometimes, they irritated him so much that he just wanted to blast the whole school, but he knew what he had to do to get his degree.

Having a heavy leather coat on, scarf, leather boots, Selwin walked through the snow noticing that all of the shops were closed. "Just my luck." thought Selwin to himself after seeing the shops closed. Though there was one place that might be open, which was the bar. So he started to walk towards the way of the bar. Reaching to the bar, he opened to door slowly, taking his scarf off right when he closed to door and hitting the ground with both his feet to knock off the snow off his foot. Looking around the bar, he noticed that one side of the bar, there were a lot of people, but the other side, where the bartender was, there weren't that many people, except for a girl. Selwin walked towards the direction of the bar, pulled out the chair and sat down. "One butterbeer." said Selwin ordering the Bartender for a drink. It had been a few days since he last had butterbeer, so it was time to refresh-in the taste.

 

[Larissa Sedgwick]

Larissa only noticed the man sitting beside her, when he ordered a butterbeer. She knew that a lot of men would only drink the strong stuff, like firewhisky, in an attempt to prove their masculinity. She turned her head, her blonde hair shining even in the slight flickering light. Her eyes went bright blue as she looked at him, and Larissa found her veela blood forcing her charm into play. She blushed, a little, still sipping at her butterbeer and batting her, suddenly long, eyelashes. Was this sudden change in body language, intentional? Larissa was ever the flirt, and no opportunity would go unnoticed.

She was taking long, smooth gulps from the butterbeer, allowing the warm liquid to slide down her throat. Finally, she stood the stuff down, chancing another, lengthly glance at the man. She decided it was time to say something. "A man," she started, suddenly focussed on him, "alone at a bar.. This tells me one of two things about you." Her words were gently slurred, but this only seemed to add to her charm and good-looks. "Either, that you are a man who wishes not to be disturbed- in which case, my foremost apologies." She paused again, deciding that this slight tipsiness would leave her once she had begun talking. After all, it was only the second time she'd had butterbeer, and the result of the first was meeting a Death Eater. "Or," she continued, still glowing with beauty, "you're troubled."

 

[Selwin Snape]

The bartender brought the butterbeer to Selwin. He never thanked anyone with the usage of words, so he raised his glass towards the bartender, giving the bartender a signal of thanks. Taking a sip of his butterbeer, it tasted very good, just like it had many years ago when he came to this very bar with two of his friend's. It wasn't often that Selwin would go somewhere with someone or a group of people, but when he did, he surely would enjoy himself. Noticing to his left, he saw a girl, a girl younger than himself, but she didn't look like she was from Hogwarts, but rather, looked like she attended Durmstrang. Looking at what she was wearing, he remembered the time when his friend Jason and him met at Obsidian Harbour during Winter break. Jason was from Durmstrang and Selwin was attending Hogwarts. Both had been good friend's for a while and the same day, they decided to have a friendly duel, as always. Out of no where, someone casted a killing curse upon Jason, killing him. Since that day, Selwin vowed that he would take revenge on the person who had killed one of his most trusted friend.

Gazing back at the girl, who seemed to be chugging the butterbeer down, and then noticed she was glancing at him. Selwin, trying his best not to draw attention to him kept sipping on his drink. Sipping on his second to last gulp, he noticed the girl say 'A man', then said 'alone at a bar.. this told her two things'. Selwin glanced at the girl for a few seconds and felt as if she was drunk. Selwin thought to himself, 'who get's drunk over butterbeer?' It was really funny for Selwin because this was the first time he had seem someone get drunk over one glass of butterbeer. He then heard her apologize to him if he didn't want to be disturbed and then saying that he maybe troubled. Selwin moved two inches towards the girl and said, "A man alone at a bar, yes. Is it hard to believe?" Not always did Selwin travel alone, but since he had been accepted as a death eater, he had to travel my himself, keep to himself or else people would be asking trouble from him. "And I'm not troubled." Selwin looked at the bar tender and asked for another glass of butterbeer as soon as he finished his current, then continued, "You don't seem to be doing too well right now." Selwin added as he glanced upon the girl again.

 

[Larissa Sedgwick]

Larissa raised an eyebrow at his comment. She really needed to get used to butterbeer, and not get tipsy, so easily. But, hey, she could do that when she was older- she had all the time in the world to destroy her liver, so why not have a little easy fun, until then? "I'm doing fine, thank you very much." Larissa didn't say this in a snarky way, but more a flirtatious one. If Mark had been there, he would have been all over her in this state.. Well, only because she would have forced him into it; Mark was a proper gentleman, when it came down to such things, and he would never have taken advantage of Larissa. It would be the reverse.

"Let's not talk about me for a moment, though, hm?" She spoke in hushed tones, eyes flitting over to observe the crowd at the other side of the pub, "Tell me a little about yourself.." She hoped that he would, in the least, make an introduction. Larissa was not going to let him go now, though, regardless of what he was like- She'd already prepared her talons to stick in him. No man was safe around Larissa, and women only got off lightly. Larissa had been in a relationship with another female, a long time ago, and she had enjoyed it at first; the whispers as they passed by, the sneaky kisses they shared in deserted corridors.. But she had quickly tired of the relationship, when Dakota had gained some self confidence. Veela charm didn't seem to work on the girl, and Larissa grew sour towards Dakota. It had all ended in Larissa shouting at Dakota, calling her scum and an idiot. Dakota, infuriatingly, had only sighed, shaken her head, and had walked off. Still, she'd put people off of dating Dakota, after all the rumors she had spread.

 

[Selwin Snape]

Selwin could sense there was more to this girl than just appeared to him. Gazing into her eyes, he felt as if he was suddenly being attracted to her and that could only be if someone was Veela. Was this girl a Veela? That was the question that was suddenly bothering him. Selwin's blue sparks helped him break the spell that get's released from a person that is Veela. There were many other girl's that Selwin had met who were Veela, but all were un-successful in attracting Selwin because his magic protects him and some of his dark magic as well. Selwin suddenly thought of an idea to have some fun with the girl. Even though it seemed she was trying to attract Selwin towards himself and was trying to work her charm on him, it wasn't working all that well, but Selwin thought it was best to give her the idea that it was working on him and to have some fun with her. It had been a while since Selwin had a few laughs with some girl's, so maybe tonight would be good for him to have a few laughs? Maybe it was, only time will tell. "Right, your doing just fine." said Selwin winking at the girl.

Selwin started to laugh on the inside when he winked at the girl. It wasn't normal for him to do that, but he felt as if he should relieve himself of some stress and have some fun. "So you want to know about me? You've only said a few words and you already want to know about me? So be it." said Selwin moving closer to the girl and talking in a hush tone that only she could hear. "The name is Selwin, and tell me a bit about yourself as well." said Selwin. It would seem she really did want to have fun tonight and it was in Selwin's intention to give what the girl wanted, for her to have a good night. With feeling positive energy around the girl, he knew that she was flirting with him, so he would want to have some fun as well.

 

[Larissa Sedgwick]

Larissa noticed the man winking at her, and her own eyebrow raised very slightly, in a suggestive manner. Was she intending to take this anywhere? It wasn't like she'd be cheating on Mark. They weren't officially an item.. Yet. Still, the flirting was mostly harmless and it gave Larissa a chance to take her mind off of other such things. She wasn't surprised that he said very little of himself, and she shrugged, slightly, deciding it was okay to introduce herself. "I'm Larissa," she said, like a cool breeze on a hot summer's day. "I'm a Durmstrang student, newly transferred from Hogwarts in New Zealand where I was a Slytherin prefect." She made a point to leave out a key detail; her age. Where was the fun in flirting if the other knew it could not go very far? Larissa preferred to keep them waiting, even though it was only a year until she would have to either restrain herself, or go full-throttle. She'd been leading Mark on, for years, so, obviously, she had every plan to fulfill her promises to him.

"Great lover of Quidditch." She may have been tipsy, but Larissa could still think fairly straight. Quidditch seemed like a good enough subject to talk about. It was interesting and occasionally violent.. Like Larissa often thought herself. "I was played chaser. Though, I did play beater and keeper, a couple of times, back when I was an alternative." She smiled, thinking back to those beautiful games she had played in. She felt a pang of sorrow, as she allowed herself to miss an aspect of Hogwarts. She forced herself back to the present, to looking at Selwin with a slight smirk on her face. "Do you like Quidditch?" She asked in an innocent tone.

 

[Selwin Snape]

Selwin felt kind of awkward after doing the wink, he felt as if it wasn't needed. If this girl just wanted to have a talk with him, so a talk he shall give her. He thought about him being with Eden right now and that he could not cheat on her. Cheating on her was never the idea in his mind, he would never want her to cheat on him, and he would never cheat on her. Flirting will probably be ok if this girl wanted to do with him, but anything past that, he will draw the line. Feeling some negative energy around the girl, Selwin felt as if the girl was a little uneasy when he winked at her, and maybe that she also had someone in her life right now. Selwin just shook the feeling off and said, "The name is Selwin." Selwin took a sip of his drink and then gave a small smile to Larissa. "I apologize for the winking thing, I really didn't know what got into me." explained Selwin. He wanted Larissa to understand and to know what his limits will be. Though she may have limits as well, that made the situation much more understanding.

Selwin listened to Larissa explain about her transfer from Hogwarts to Durmstrang as he sipped on his drink. This reminded him of his Hogwarts times, some good, some bad, but overall, it was a good experience for him, because he got to learn a lot, made some friend's, really did have a good time. Though he was confused as to why the girl transferred from Hogwarts to Durmstrang. "I see. Just out of curiosity, why did you transfer from Hogwarts to Durmstrang?" asked Selwin. "I use to attend Hogwarts Scotland, was a Slytherin Prefect and a Head Boy before I graduated." said Selwin feeling proud.

Hearing the word 'quidditch' out of Larissa's sentence, it reminded Selwin that he still had to get new pair's of all his gear. He still had all of his gear, but they were getting too old. Plus, he was now a professional Quidditch player, so he had to start off with everything new. "Yes, I like Quidditch. I play Professional Quidditch for the Falmouth Falcons and I am a seeker." said Selwin with a smile. He sipped on his drink and reminded himself again that he had to get new gear and that he can't forget it because he will be in trouble when season rolls in and he doesn't have any gear ready.