Covent Garden Flowers, Wednesday

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Peter was here again, arranging roses and carnations and...honestly, he'd have no idea what most of these flowers were if he hadn't seen them in the catalogues. But he was making pretty bouquets and mildly disturbing vases of the things, and he was enjoying the distraction and the patterns he could make.

He was pointedly ignoring both the feeling he needed to work on his magic and memories again, and the computer in the corner that seemed to have it in for him. He knew he was still learning the whole Windows 10 thing, but there was no excuse for it to keep beeping and asking him questions, and really, it was just a bit creepy.

There was a sign in the window again today: Help wanted. Flower or computer experience a plus! To which he had added, Employee discount! and managed not to add, if you can get the damn thing to cooperate.

The flower shop was open for business!


[Open post! No OCD.]

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[crimson_sister]

Lucille had been considering for a while that she should buy some flowers for the room, now that she wasn't living there alone, and as there was now a flower shop in the town, that was the obvious place to go.

As she entered the shop, she was met by the scent of flowers.

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Peter looked up when she came in. He smiled and waved at her. "Lucille, right? Hi."

[crimson_sister]

She inclined her head slightly. "Good morning," she said. "And Peter? Have you settled in yet?"

Despite that he had stolen her favorite spot at the Perk the first time they met, he had proven to be rather pleasant.

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Peter waved at the shop. "Mostly. Still not sure how I ended up running this place, but it's not bad. Did you come to say hi, or did you want some flowers?"

He belatedly realized how abrupt that probably sounded. "Either's okay. Sorry. I'm still getting used to small talk again. How are you doing?"

[crimson_sister]

"I am fine, thank you. I came here to buy flowers." Lucille smiled at Peter. Failures at small talk didn't bother her, as he wasn't in any way annoying, at least not since stealing her place. Lucille herself was perhaps no expert in that herself.

"For my room," she added. "I hope my roommate is going to appreciate it." She hoped Cassandra would notice.

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"Friendly roommate or romantic roommate?" Peter asked. "I've got all sorts of flowers."

[crimson_sister]

"Oh, we are friends," Lucille replied quickly. "I just want her to feel at home as she moved into my room recently."

Why would he ask that?

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Because there were roommates and "roommates". Peter'd known both.

"Okay, then." Peter waved at the selection of things. "Do you know what colors she likes? Or what flowers?"

[crimson_sister]

Lucille hadn't figured out that part yet.

"I don't know what she likes," Lucille said. Did Cassandra even like flowers? "As they are for our room, I guess we should both like then, so I will choose something that suits my taste. Something dark red? Roses perhaps?"

Lucille just went with her favourite flowers, not considering that they might be considered too romantic.

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...but this wasn't at all romantic, really.

"I have roses," Peter said, "but if you're not going for romance, what about yellow, maybe? I think those are supposed to be more friendship-meaning. Or a mix of yellow and red, if you really like red."

[crimson_sister]

"I like white too," Lucille replied. "Roses, or maybe lilies? Do you have white lilies?"

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Those were for funerals, Lucille.

Well, heck, maybe they'd cancel out the roses.

"Sure." Peter pointed and walked over to them. "I have red and white ones, too. Then you'd have both colors in one flower."

[crimson_sister]

"They are very pretty," Lucille agreed. "Do you have white ones too? Just to compare?"

It was something romantic about funeral flowers, wasn't it?

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If she said so. "Here." Peter ducked around to the next section and showed her those.