Caroline's actually having a pretty nice day at work. Mostly because she's got a bunch of baby valravns with her today. They're at about that stage. Currently, they're all nestled and mostly dozing in a basket-turned-nest behind the counter. Adrastia goes between milling around on the counter and Caroline and watching over the little ones. Apparently it's her day to help babysit.

Suddenly there's a surprising amount of noise outside. Caroline looks up from the basket and peers out the storefront, but she can't see anything. What or whoever is causing a ruckus is outside her line of sight. She glances over at Adrastia. The large valravn is curious but more concerned with watching one of the babies flap halfheartedly in the basket. ...Okay. It's probably okay then. Caroline tenses and draws her wand anyway. There's really no telling.

chapter one: when grumpy met... grumpy- caroline meets sully

chapter two: an unexpected breakfast- things you see in a graveyard

chapter three: questionable seafood- meet eddie, aristotle, and a couple of dementors

chapter four: quoth the raven, “creepy shit” - hello adrastia, hugs, sully gets in a fight, bill shows up

chapter five: doctor boo- crane's car breaks down

chapter six: awk block- eddie visits caroline for tea and extreme awkwardness

chapter seven: everything happens so much- crane visits knockturn alley, eddie and caroline awkward about and work things out, sully and crane almost have sex in public

chapter eight: the morning after- caroline and sully troll each other over breakfast the next day

chapter nine: tea, a date with awk and ed(die)- eddie and caroline have an actual date and awkwardness ensues, but it's mostly ok

chapter ten: an auror and other scavengers - crane buys a pet, an auror visits borgin and burkes, caroline doesn't like cops

chapter eleven: you have the right to remain tragic- auror dent visits again, caroline still doesn't like cops

chapter twelve: owl be seeing you- an old friend finds sully during breakfast. a friendship pact is sealed with bacon.

Caroline is a bit of a wreck right now, to be honest. She's on her way to Eddie's house. For tea. Which is a date. She's never been on a date before. She does not want to admit to anyone ever how long it took her to decide what to wear or how much she kept fussing with her hair. She finally gave up and called it good, because otherwise she'd still be fussing instead of wandering through London following Eddie's directions. She's paying less attention to her surroundings than she normally would but is still far from oblivious. If she didn't constantly keep an eye out the way she does, she probably wouldn't have lived long past graduation, honestly. Besides, Eddie said there's a trick to finding his flat.

And... there, that should be the right street. She turns down it, and really, it's more of an alley. It's a very obviously muggle area, but there's something about the close, overgrown nature of this little side street that makes Caroline think of wizards. Which is accurate, given that she does know a wizard lives here. Finally she rounds a corner and reaches a building at the end of the alley. This must be it. And Eddie said... yup, there's the stairs around back. Good.

Soon enough she's up the stairs and fidgeting nervously at Eddie's door. Come on, Caroline, just knock. This can't possibly be more awkward than the last time they had tea, right? She smooths out the largely nonexistent wrinkles in her clothing and pats at her hair just enough to know it hasn't gone crazy. Then she takes a deep breath and knocks on the door.

Another day at Borgin and Burkes, and Caroline is bored out of her mind. She hasn't seen Sully in several days, and business has been pretty slow. She's dusted everything she can dust. Ugh. She pokes through another book that's caught her eye, but it's turning out to be a disappointment.

"At this rate, I might go back to freelancing," she grumbles to herself. "At least I wasn't bored back then." Well, she wasn't. But no, she's not actually that bored.

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someone tell me how to take the knight bus to givesashitville