June 29th, 1978

Lantieri Risk Management Services. or rather as her father called them, 'bag them and tag them'. you see, Raymond Lantieri and his father before him had a particular set of skills that made him very good at finding and taking care of people. This business was a family business, and if her mother was still around, Emilia would have no part in it. Sadly, that wasn't her choice.

She had her very own case, She was suppose to track this man, just track him and find his home location. There wasn't much information on this man, just a picture, a name and where he's often seen, Which happened to be a pub in london called The Dragon's Scales.

Emilia stepped off the trolley and headed west. There was a particularly old pub that had her name written all over it. It was a corner pub, a little filthy looking, but its smell was very welcoming, almost like freshly baked bread. She made her way in and it was a real rustic looking pub, "I could dig this." she commented to herself before taking a seat at the bar.

"what'll ya have"

"Surprise me" she replied before taking a look around, she located the target. He was surrounded by a couple friends, she could tell from how they were interacting they were probably friends.

"He's taken you know?"

A voice came towards her, drawing her attention from the target. She turned in her chair and gazed at him. He was handsome, he pulled the long flowy hair off very well. He was pulling the 5 o'clock shadow as well, almost as well as his hair.

"But, you should know that I'm not," a smirked slipped onto his face followed by a wink.

"I could only imagine why you're single" she commented back, she couldn't help but feels drawn to him while the same time she knew he'd be bad news. "Oh, let me guess, I adore guessing games." she added as her hands folded on the bar. "You have extremely high standards and no one is good enough." she continued.

The man chuckled, looked away and then back at her, smiling. "you know, I like you, Would you like to join me and my friends? you see we just finished our schooling and thus, the celebrating."

her hand moved to her face and rubbed her chin. "You didn't say I was wrong."

"you know, the offer's about to expire."

She paused for a moment, and before eyeing his pack of friends. "I could use some fun."

He stood up and gestured for her to do the same. Emilia grabbed her drink which it arrived in the nick of time. He guided her to his group of friends.

"Another pretty girl has fallen for padfoot's charm ay?" one of them said, he was standing next to the target, he had several scars on his face, reddish brown hair, dark eyes. He was almost abnormally thin and tall, or it just wearing ill-fitted clothes.

"Oh Moony, You know you're the only one for me" The man known as Padfoot said. Emilia's eyes examined them, they seemed like a bunch friends without a care in the world. "gents, This is…." Padfood started before he realised he didn't know her name,

"Just call me Emilia," She took a sip of her drink.

"Ahh, Well, Emilia, I'm Remus, This is James, Peter, and the lonely man next to you is Sirius." The one previously known at Moony, he pointed to in a circle starting with the one to his right and ending on the man to her left. "Do you live around here Miss Emilia?" Remus continued.

"I do, in fact. take the trolley for a few stops and there's my new flat."

"ahh, How are you finding london so far?" Remus was making casual convocation of course. "I enjoy it, I currently work at the new flower shop below. infact, you know, gotta pay the rent somehow." she laughed lightly to herself. Of course she wasn't going to tell them her real job, but she wasn't lying, She did help out her nana at shop every once in awhile. It also helped that her nana was her landlord and didn't charge her for rent. Sometimes things just work out in her favor.

"do you all live together?" she asked, It wasn't uncommon for very close friends to live together too.

"with Peter?" Sirius made an almost disgusted face, "Oh no, I do live with James in a small town just outside of London, while, Remus lives in London and Peter lives… somewhere, not important really" he added before taking a drink.

"Your boy here" she motioned to Sirius "mentioned you were celebrating? for graduating?"

"Ahh, yes, Our school years are behind us and the real world begins, Cheers" Remus said as he raised his glass, the others followed, and clinked their glasses before chugging them. Emilia did not chug hers however. She only planned on drinking this one drink.

As much as she wanted to avoid drinking, one drink led to another and another and soon enough Emilia was in a drinking contest with the target, James.

James finished his drink much faster than Emilia. Emilia could hold her alcohol most of the time, but James was very good.

"Yur grate" she point at James as she stood up. "Itshometime" she started towards the door. when she felt something appear under her arm.