Dirty martinis on the moon [open]

[lysandra malfoy]

The night was quickly fading, and the street that had just hours ago had boasted a glamorous night life of intoxicated club goers was shrinking away from the dawn light, ashamed of the drunken stragglers and smell of vomit lingering on its cobblestones.

Slouched on the curb was Lysandra Malfoy, her dirty blonde hair lank and smelling vaguely of tobacco as she leaned drunkenly against her newfound companion, picked up somewhere between the Vipertooth lounge and that odd place with the techno dance music that sounded vaguely Swedish…or maybe French?

“You see, it - it never used to be like this Andrè.”

“Andrew.”

“…I like Andrè better. See tha’ bar on the corner there? Tha’ used to be the most exclusive club on this damn street. And we had our own V.I.P lounge. I tell ya, with the Zabinis as friends we could have flown to the moon, first class all the way. Maybe tha’s where they all are t’night. Drinking dirty martinis on the moon. They got no use for someone like me anymore. Someone with responsibilities."

She spat the last word like a curse.

Unfortunately for Andrè/Andrew, Lysandra could be a horribly maudlin drunk at times.

“Let’sss…lets go to the beach. The beach in St. Tropez!”

She could also be wildly impulsive.

Clambering to her feet and teetering precariously on sky-high heels, she blinked owlishly for a moment and then dragged her companion up with her, intent on walking to St. Tropez if need be. Or…on second thought, perhaps just to that all-hours restaurant on the corner there.

With considerable effort (Lysandra’s companion suffering a bitter hangover and Lysandra herself still hopelessly drunk), the two managed to navigate their way inside, to a little table covered in cheap checkered plastic cloth.

“Jus’ two potions please. No food”, Andrè/Andrew mumbled, and the waiter quickly presented them with two orders of the only potion an all night eatery could be expected to stock.

“Arrowroot, sage, lily spores and gillywater. You’ll both be feeling much more human in a moment, I’m sure.”

“Wa’s so good about being human?” Lysandra piped up before downing the hangover cure with one gulp and a grimace.

Almost instantly came the rush of unpleasant icy cold, and then the slow ease back into lucidity which left her toes tingling and her cheeks flushed.

When the checkers in the table cloth stopped dancing before her eyes she lookup up to find Andrè/Andrew already gone.

“Oh, fantastic.” She murmured in a much more familiar, un-slurred aristocratic drawl; dropping her forehead to her hands as the waiter placed the bill at her table. Now the pressing question was, how the bloody hell could she scrounge together a few sickles and apparate back to the manor before her family noticed she was gone?

[meredith malfoy]

Lysandra's immaturity never failed to amaze Meredith. She had been wandering the streets of wizarding London for what seemed like hours. She'd been tasked with keeping an eye on Lysandra as soon as she had entered school. She'd always been somewhat childish, but Meredith had always though she'd grow out of it. Especially since she had a child now.

But no, she had to go doing things like this. Getting wasted at midnight when there were people who knew here about. She was making bloody idiots of every single one of her siblings. As Meredith entered the diner Lysandra was in, she caught the tail end of her conversation and watched as the man she was with high tail it out of there. As she approached the table she heard her sister speak, evidently sober. Resisting the urge to grab her by the ear, she instead dumped a couple of sickles onto the table motioned her to come along.

"What do you think you're doing?" She asked sharply, glaring at her. "Mother was worried sick, not to mention Charis."

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[lysandra malfoy]

Oh this was just brilliant.

Lysrandra flinched in surprise as a few sickles clanged loudly onto the table, lifting her head from her hands to see the most unwelcome form of her sister towering above her. And how did she always manage to look so perfectly pissed off while staying so perfectly poised? Apparently that part of the Malfoy gene pool skipped siblings here and there. Along with the platinum blonde hair that Lysandra still refused to believe was natural, the workaholic ambition that she just couldn’t understand…oh, this wasn’t a good train of thought to be following so early in the morning.

“Meredith!” She smiled, exuding a brightness that seemed so natural not many would notice the sarcasm. “I was just meeting a friend for breakfast, that’s all. I didn’t think Charis would be awake yet. Actually, you muse have walked right past him on your way through the door.”

The ‘creative’ gene may have eluded her also, but Malfoys were nothing if not brazen liars.

Rising a little slower from her chair than may have been necessary (those potions take effect slowly, you know), she tried to hide a wince and focus on her sister while the world took it’s time to stop spinning.

“I…” she started, but lost her train of thought as she realized the odds of Meredith running into her in a place like this, a place where she could already see her sister’s hand twitching as if resisting the urge to run a finger along the grimy tabletop just so she could look down her nose at it and make some fantastically witty comment of disgust.

“Were you following me?”