open RP: Primavera is annoyed, reprise. (enabling)

[missprimavera.livejournal.com]

When Primavera gets truly annoyed, she doesn't want to be anywhere near Hufflepuff. Morfin might try to cheer her up, and that would annoy her even more. So, just as the last time she was very annoyed, she wanders off.

She finds a windowseat that is either the same one she'd resorted to before, or a very similar one, and sits down with her skirts flounced around her and her traincase of perfume oils in front of her, dabbling idly as she looks out the window onto the grounds, watching the leaves dapple the lawn in the afternoon sunlight.

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[missprimavera.livejournal.com]

Primavera held out one slender arm, for Lily to sniff at her wrist. "I'm wearing Sed Non Satiata (http://www.bpal.org/index.php?showtopic=19433)," she answered.

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Lily took a deep breath. "I like that," she grinned. "Mind if I sit down?"

[missprimavera.livejournal.com]

"I don't mind," says Primavera, pleasantly enough, and waves one hand vaguely toward the other side of the windowseat, the half behind the open traincase. "All these are Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab." It's like a puzzle, to match a person with a scent, and she looks thoughtful. "Is there a specific note that you feel suits you? A flower, or a food? or even a concept?"

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Lily sat down and thought for a moment. "I'm not sure," she said slowly. "My favorite flower is the lilac. And I love Jaffa Cakes," she grinned. "Minor chords are always lovely - they make you feel like you have to crawl out of your skin, just to take in all the beauty."

Lily shrugged. "I don't know if that helps at all."

[missprimavera.livejournal.com]

"Oh, but it does," says Primavera, and begins to rummage. This is what she fishes out of the pile and holds out to Lily, a tangle of tiny vials in the cup of her two joined hands:

Veil (http://www.bpal.org/index.php?showtopic=768)

Les Fleurs du Mal (http://www.bpal.org/index.php?showtopic=218)

Vice (http://www.bpal.org/index.php?showtopic=7)

Santa Eularia des Riu (http://www.bpal.org/index.php?showtopic=15688)

Cordelia (http://www.bpal.org/index.php?showtopic=456)

"And I suppose this one is maybe a teeny bit reminiscent of Jaffa cakes," Primavera hedges, adding Kali (http://www.bpal.org/index.php?showtopic=2457). "Only a bit."

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Gently, Lily took each of the vials in turn. When she smelled Veil, she smiled at Primavera. "Oh, that's lovely," she said. "Very warm and soft. It reminds me..." She laughed a bit and shrugged. "It sounds a bit mad, but it reminds me of Harry. When he was little and I used to rock him to sleep."

She opened Les Fleurs du Mal, but quickly closed the vial and put it down. She frowned. "It reminds me of something," she muttered. "I don't know what, but I'm not too keen on remembering."

Sampling both Vice and Santa Eularia des Riu, she simply enjoyed the aromas and put them both aside. They were nice, but not something that tickled her fancy.

When she uncorked Cordelia, however, she couldn't help but grin. "Oh," she said, taking another deep breath of the perfume, "this is perfect. It's - well, it makes my stomach all go in knots. Reminds me of my first date with James, or the day we got married. That kind of nervous delight." She laughed as she put the bottle down. "I don't suppose that makes any sense at all."

The final vial she smelled and then quickly blushed. "That's...that's brilliant," she murmured. "Merlin, that's wonderful." The perfume brought all sorts of delicious and hidden thoughts to mind. Blushing even more deeply, she quickly put the perfume away.

"How do you do that?"

[missprimavera.livejournal.com]

"You could call it a hobby," shrugs Primavera, but she's flattered. She studies Lily's choices with curiosity. They say a bit about Lily's personality, and she makes a note to herself: Never give her Le Serpent Qui Danse, or Nosferatu. Veil, Cordelia, Kali ... "I don't wear those, they're not my style. You're welcome to them if you want. The Lab gives out little free ones like that with big orders, you don't owe me anything for it or anything like that," she adds, knowing that some people around Hogwarts take a very quid pro quo approach to items changing hands.

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Lily grinned broadly at Primavera. "Thank you," she said as she took the three vials. "I - well, I'm afraid I came to Hogwarts without anything and my money situation is such that I'm looking quite favorably upon the sex trade. Little things like perfume can really make a difference."

With a little wave of her wand, Lily encased the three vials in a foamy bubble-like material and stowed them carefully in the pocket of her robe. "So, Primavera, what brought you to Hogwarts?"

[missprimavera.livejournal.com]

Primavera, having gotten a sense for Lily's personality from her scent choices, isn't about to tell her that the way Primavera gets money is by mugging people in Hogsmeade. Instead she says, "Small luxuries can make you feel like a princess," and smiles. That's true at least. When she was on the run from London to Bangkok, she learned that much.

"What brought me here? I thought I was escaping from someone ... but I died along the way. So I'm not sure how it happened that I came here, and I'm not all that sure I want to know, either ... just sure that here's better than there." She closes her eyes and shudders, shaking off the memory. "What about you?" She has no idea of all that has transpired around Lily.

[lilypotter60.livejournal.com]

Lily grew quiet. "I - well, I died along the way as well," she said. "I was at Hogwarts once before, as a student. Then, after I left, I got married and had a son. One night...well, let's just say that a war I was fighting in caught up with me. They killed my husband and myself. My son survived; now he's here at Hogwarts as well." Lily skipped over the fact that James, too, was here. Here and younger and hating her. Her eyes grew dull, just for a moment, before she was able to shove all that to the side. "I guess dying isn't what it used to be," she tried to smile.