adrenaline withdrawals ~ Lyra Malfoy, OPEN

[Lyra Trix Malfoy]

Lyra twirled her wand in her pale fingers as she leaned back in her office chair, black booted feet propped up on her polished desk. The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Beast Tamers Division was experiencing a slow day. At noon Lyra and her coworkers had flipped a galleon to see who would have to stay in the office while the rest went out to lunch. Lyra lost. As her fellow Beast Tamers talked and ate in some restaurant in downtown London Lyra was stuck on desk duty, bored almost out of her mind.

The twenty-seven-year-old Malfoy daughter sighed. Her thick layered brown hair was tied up in a messy bun, several strands slipping free to hang loosely around her face. One strand fell in front of her hazel eyes. Lyra blew at it, pink lips pursing together. The lock of hair fluttered out of her face. Lyra sighed again. A bruise on her forearm, exposed by her short sleeved green V-neck, was finally turning yellow-green instead of the deep blue-purple it had been. Her back itched and she adjusted her seat, easing the pressure against a rather nasty cut on her back she had gotten earlier in the week that had yet to heal. Her skin was a tapestry of similar, long-healed scars, the largest the length of her thigh and the smallest as long as her pinky. She prided herself on her scars, they were testaments to her work as a Beast Tamer, each one with its own story to tell.

Lyra dropped her feet to the floor with a thunk and scooted her chair closer to her desk. There had to be something, anything for her to do. A few pieces of parchment sat in her inbox. She set her wand down on her left and reached for them. The first two were inter-office notices, nothing too interesting just the usual updates she already knew. The next three were reports of supposed sightings of magical creatures near human settlements, probably just false alarms but two Investigators had already been dispatched to look into it. Lyra set those to the side and looked back to her inbox. It was empty.

Lyra threw herself back into her chair with a barely audible growl. The magically powered clock hanging above the Beast Tamer Division’s door read 12:20. Her coworkers weren’t due back till 1:30 and there was absolutely nothing for to do

[/b]. She had already read the books neatly ordered in the bookshelves set against the back wall; of all of the days to forget to bring Olde and Forgotten Bewitchments and Charmes[/b]. She had been bringing it to work with her every day this week but since she hadn’t been able to really read it she had decided to lighten her bag today. Stupid her. Now would have been the perfect time to practice her spell casting.[/center][/font][/color][/size]

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tags: anyone!

[Theodore Remus Lupin]

It had been a long weekend, not uneventful in the least. Teddy had spent Friday evening and all of Saturday with his boys, hanging around the school grounds and going to Hogsmeade for the afternoon on Saturday. The had originally planned to spend Sunday together as well preparing for his Monday morning classes when he had gotten an urgent owl from a friend in Egypt that said he was needed to help with an injured hippogriff who had landed itself near a pyramid with a broken leg and broken wing. Since he was the one that had helped them with so many things over the years, he was the first to be called. So he had apologized to his sons and left to go help the poor creature.

He spent the afternoon in Egypt mending the creature to the best of his ability, but not without receiving some large cuts from the pained creatures talons. It had been kind enough to him before he tried to move it, and even more apologetic and kind after it was healed up and taken to a safe place to rest. He could see it in the creatures eyes, it had been sorry for hurting him and had not been thinking, just in pain and not happy to be touched. Teddy spent the night there, cancelling all his classes for the morning portion of the day at the school, wanting to keep an eye on the hippogriff for the night.

Monday morning came and he said his good byes to his friends and the creature, giving them instructions on how to properly care for it the next few days until it was fully healed and then left to drop off some papers at the ministry in The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. Upon arrival at the ministry, he realized he was still dressed in the prior days clothes, a pair of dirt and dust covered jeans and a long sleeve shirt that was now torn down his left sleeve and covered in his blood from the hippogriffs talons.

Wandering around he realized quickly that he showed up during everyone's lunch hour, and he would be lucky to find anyone at all to drop his papers off to. It was just a simply notice reporting the injured creature, the care it was given and where it had been found and where it was brought. During his years of travel, he would pile these up in his bags and carry them around for months before turning in large stacks of them. But back then he was treating animals of all shapes and sizes every day, sometimes several creatures per day as he traveled. But now, he figured before he lost the paperwork in the piles of papers he had yet to grade on his desk, he might as well bring them by.

Finally, he saw a woman sitting at a desk and looking rather bored, and he made his way over to her. "Hey, I know you probably aren't the person that needs this paperwork, but I haven't seen anyone else around." he said as he made his way over to her.

words, 532
tags, trixxx <3 i mean lyra
notes, kinda a shitty post, but i felt teddy was the best response to this thread! (:

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[Lyra Trix Malfoy]

Lyra tapped her foot against the polished tile floor, the heel of her boot making clicking sounds with each tap. Her hazel eyes found the clock above the office doorway. 12:40. Damn. Only two minutes had passed since she last looked at it. She sighed for what felt like the millionth time that day and flipped a page in the office copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander. She had caved and fetched the red leather-bound book from the bookshelves about ten minutes ago. She had randomly opened the book to somewhere in the middle and was now she was rereading the lengthy section on magical creatures in Africa.

This time wasn’t the first time she had read the office’s copy of Fantastic Beasts

[/i] but each time she did she always found she hadn’t seen before. Occasionally shee came across bits of parchment that had been slipped between the pages by her predecessors, adding to Scamander’s work. The notes were informative and interesting. Some were just stories, fact or fiction she wasn’t sure, of creature encounters and others were little tidbits of information such as which spells worked best on which creatures or what tracking methods to use.

Pale, slender fingers held up a yellow piece of parchment covered in blue ink scribbles. The parchment had been stuck between two pages describing the mating habits of the Erumpent. Whoever had written this tidbit probably had the worst handwriting Lyra had ever seen, worse even than her father. She squinted her hazel eyes and look closely at what she thought might be words, bringing the parchment so close to her face it almost touched her nose.

Lyra studied the parchment for several minutes before sighing. She didn’t think she was ever going to figure out what the parchment said. She closed her eyes in defeat and lowered the parchment, setting it back in between the pages of Fantastic Beasts[/i]. Tiredly she rubbed her temples. The office was quiet, peaceful, the only noise being the soft ticking of the office clock. [/font][/color][/size]

"Hey, I know you probably aren't the person that needs this paperwork, but I haven't seen anyone else around."

Lyra’s eyes popped open and she squeaked in surprise, nearly falling out of her chair. Red spots bloomed on her cheeks as her eyes met the gaze of the man standing in front of her desk. He was handsome, either in his early forties or late thirties. Dressed in a pair of dirt-smeared jeans and a torn long sleeved shirt he looked like he had been through quite the ordeal. Lyra quickly schooled her features into a friendly expression, hoping against hope the man hadn’t heard her squeak; Beast Tamers weren’t supposed to squeak, they were supposed to be tough.

“How can I help you, sir?” she asked with a smile.[/center][/font][/size]


words: 479
tags: Teddy!
notes: thank you so much for replying! I is so happy

[Theodore Remus Lupin]

Teddy couldn't help but need to suppress a small grin and chuckle as he seemed to startle her and she fell out of her chair. Hey, even the toughest of Beast Tamers or Auror's or anyone else in the world could get caught off their guard and have a moment like that. But because Teddy was usually very loud and hyperactive, he wasn't used to his presence going un noticed for so long and getting the chance to surprise someone like that.

She brought herself back up and started to quickly polish herself back up to the way she had been before. She was younger than him, but very pretty and her appearance was that of an experienced Beast Tamer, which would explain why she looked so extremely bored sitting around office sitting. He had met a few beast tamers along his travels, each one with different stories to share and histories to pride themselves in. Each and every one of them had been filled with knowledge that he gladly received from them to further his own plethora of knowledge and help him in his lifes work of taking care of creatures of all shapes and sizes.

“How can I help you, sir?” she asked with a smile. He gave her a polite smile back and set the paper work on the desk. "I've just spent the weekend in Egypt tending to a wounded hippogriff. I just figured I would drop the paperwork from that off before I headed back to the school." he said simply, not noticing the fact that one of the deep cuts on his arm had split open again, causing new bright blood to appear on his ratted up shirt that was stained with dark and dried blood from the day before.

words, 300
tags, Lyra!
notes, sorry this post is so short and so shitty... :/ i had wanted to do better than this but getting ready for work i kinda rushed through it. sorry ):

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[Lyra Trix Malfoy]

Lyra could see the twinkle in the man’s eyes and knew he was trying not to laugh at her. Well, she thought as her cheeks burned, at least he’s polite. Still smiling politely as her grandmother had taught her when in the company of strangers, Lyra listened to the man’s explanation. He said he was looking to turn in some paperwork about an injured hippogriff he had found in Egypt while he was on his way back to school and set the paperwork on her desk. “School?” Lyra asked as she picked the paperwork up, turning it around so she could read it.

She scanned the parchment, hazel eyes flicking back and forth. The paperwork had been filled out very thoroughly, giving clear details and cataloging the hippogriff’s injuries. Lyra glanced back up at the stranger. She was impressed that he seemed to have been able to take care of the half-bird, half-horse creature fairly well, if his report was anything to go by. Hippogriffs were notoriously finicky. They liked few people and allowed fewer still to touch them, let alone heal them. The fact that this stranger seemed only a little worse for wear after dealing with an injured hippogriff was…impressive.

Lyra glanced back down at the paperwork. This kind of thing really wasn’t part of her job description but Lyra didn’t see why she couldn’t hold onto it till the people who did deal with injured animal reports returned from their obscenely long lunch. All she needed was this stranger’s contact information just in case the animal healers wanted to do a follow up. “This appears to all be in order,” she said. Reaching for a bit of parchment and a Muggle pen—her coworkers always took the micky out her for using them but she always ignored them—she slid them across her desk towards the stranger. “All I need is your contact information.”

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words: 320
tags: Teddy!
notes: sorry it took so long. take your time on replying, no worries (: