Order Only: Private Message to Remus

[alt_sirius]

How's the trade tonight? Doing all right alone?

If you need an extra pair of hands, Mac seems to be settled in fine and said he'd not mind if I came to help. Now that we've a live boomslang, I could take polyjuice and come as Dora for a while.

Maybe it'd be better to have someone around to, er, keep you calmer?

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[alt_lupin]

I'M FINE.

[alt_sirius]

And that, love, is exactly why you probably need someone else there.

Or do you plan on running off another paying customer, like yesterday?

[alt_lupin]

I didn't run him off. I just told him he needed to watch where he was swinging his walking stick and a few minutes later he left.

[alt_sirius]

Right.

Just like you were perfectly calm last night when you were looking for your cardigan? And how you had nothing but sweet words this afternoon when you realised your goblet hadn't been washed from the last dose of potion.

Bloody Erebus, Moony.

[alt_lupin]

Someone had moved my cardigan! It was possible I hadn't left it on the chair where I thought but there is NO CHANCE I had hung it up on that hook -- for one thing, it got pulled all out of shape.

I may have overreacted a bit about the goblet.

[alt_sirius]

Have you read what you just wrote? Since when do you care about whether your clothes get pulled out of shape!

And Bea's rattle? Was that an overreaction as well?

Just admit that you've been on edge, will you? And consider it as you're dealing with people tonight. We can't afford to ruin our reputation as a welcoming place.

If you need unwinding, we can work on that as well.

[alt_lupin]

Well, the sweater has a little hole in the knit from where it hung on the hook, is what I mean.

I don't know why you and Dora both got so hacked off because I was annoyed at MYSELF for stepping on the rattle. It's not as if I was yelling at either of YOU.

[alt_sirius]

Mm-hmm.

'What in Merlin's name was it doing in the middle of the floor?! Why didn't anyone pick it up? Can no one in this household put anything away properly?'

Yes, you were clearly annoyed at YOURSELF.

Why don't you open one of the bars of chocolate? I'll come through and you can take a break.

[alt_lupin]

All right, fine, since you're so insistent.