#pottyprongs

Assigned watch with James over the head quarters for the night, Marlene couldn't help but shake that something didn't seem right from everything that happened. If Marlene had learnt anything from the last three years it was that everything had a catch. A piece of a puzzle that never truly fit in the place where they wanted it to and now was no different. Sat at the table at the back flicking the pen between her fingers as she looked over at the newspaper clippings she'd gathered a frown pulled onto the edge of her features. That was until James came in and she raised her head to meet him. "Hey-.. can I ask you something? I can't get out or my head the feeling that there has to be something else to this.. something that we're missing. Has the ministry found anything yet?"

"I know what we should do." He said suddenly, looking up at his friend. "Shots. This evening would be better with some shots." Grabbing a menu from the bar, Remus scanned it, although he knew fine well what he'd be ordering. "Two jäger bombs please Lilias, get the camera ready for when James ralphs."

Marlene hated to admit, but the whole event was putting a quite strain on her. Having avoided events organised by the ministry for three years this summer, finally attending one left her riddled with anxiety that she dared not show. She'd managed to put on a mask for the majority of the day. Hiding behind her perfectly faked smile as she always did, with shots of fire whiskey to keep her anxiety dulled enough to manage. With with sobriety knocking on the door and the run in with Larkin Mulciber, the threat of impending doom couldn't help but feel like it was sitting on her chest. Suffocating the joy that she had found earlier in the day.

Taking a shaking drag from the cigarette in her hand, the witch wiped the corner of her watery eye trying to ease her breath. Until the familiar dark hair came around the corner. Shit. "I'm not in the mood Potter-" The witch said before he even got close as she took a step back. Knowing that as soon as James saw her face, he'd be able to see right through her. Annoyingly, even after time her faked smiles were never enough to convince him. "Can't you go and find someone else to annoy? Go find Sirius I'm sure he'd love to hear whatever you were going to tell me-"