[ If there's one thing that he never expected to irritate, Lucius is thinking as he stares blandly at a sheaf of parchment just dropped on his desk by one of the mid-level Central managers, it's simpering and sucking up. He'd taken it for granted back in school, after all, and some of these...people are just picking up where they left off. Too much time with Bellatrix and Rodolphus, he thinks, in departments where it's a little less overt when it's still there.
Perhaps it's that influence that has that gaze remaining bland and unimpressed when he first looks up. Or maybe it's that the voice doesn't entirely register, not until he pairs it with the face. It's been a while, after all, since he and Petia were in the same place at the same time. When she'd dutifully married Sheridan Wallace, he'd left for Norway. When she returned to Russia and ultimately married Fedorov, he was staying near Wiltshire. And, of course, he thinks, there was many a society hostess leery of putting him and Petia ParkinsonWallaceFedorov Parkinson in a ballroom together.
He might...regress.
In any case, it only takes a moment for his expression to warm with a smile. It's only a little sardonic. ]
Really, darling? But I haven't redecorated at all.
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Perhaps it's that influence that has that gaze remaining bland and unimpressed when he first looks up. Or maybe it's that the voice doesn't entirely register, not until he pairs it with the face. It's been a while, after all, since he and Petia were in the same place at the same time. When she'd dutifully married Sheridan Wallace, he'd left for Norway. When she returned to Russia and ultimately married Fedorov, he was staying near Wiltshire. And, of course, he thinks, there was many a society hostess leery of putting him and Petia
ParkinsonWallaceFedorovParkinson in a ballroom together.He might...regress.
In any case, it only takes a moment for his expression to warm with a smile. It's only a little sardonic. ]
Really, darling? But I haven't redecorated at all.