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This drabble has been written as part of the October Event over at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments).

Prompt: "Nobody ever loves anyone properly, do they?"

Hopscotch Prompts: Firewhiskey (drink), giggle (word), Justin Finch-Fletchley (character), "You'll break it" (dialogue), temper (word)

Gringotts Prompt Bank: Female OC Name: Morticia Nox; Instead of said: Exclaimed; Instead of run: Sprinted; Instead of pretty: Gorgeous

Chocolate Frog: Bronze – Sullivan Fawley – Challenge

Stood up

"Another Firewhiskey please Rosmerta," Justin Finch-Fletchley requested after downing his seventh drink. He had been necking them back like there was no tomorrow for Dutch courage, and even though he was starting to feel a little woozy he was still feeling quite anxious.

His date was like no other woman he had even known; smart, fearsome and gorgeous to boot. Morticia Nox was for all intents and purposes his ideal woman and he couldn't stand the thought of messing up his one and only opportunity with her.

He glanced at his watch and noted that his date was nearly ten minutes late; he began to fear that she was going to stand him up.

"Are you sure you can handle another Justin?" Rosmerta asked him, quirking her eyebrow at him. She knew from his many previous visits to her pub that he had some trouble handling his drink.

"Course I can, what do you take me for? Someone who can't handle a few drinks?" Justin snapped at the woman, his temper flaring up.

His grip on his nearly empty glass tightened.

"Careful," exclaimed Rosmerta as she handed Justin a fresh drink, "You'll break it."

Justin ignored Rosmerta's last remark, slammed the cost of his drink on to the counter in front of her and walked away towards a booth in the corner of the pub.

Justin waited for another hour for his date to turn up, only to be faced with great disappointment.

"Nobody ever loves anyone properly, do they?" he mumbled into his glass as he resigned himself to the fact that Morticia, his one shot at true love, wasn't going to turn up.

A giggle from the other end of the pub caught his attention, and he looked up from his glass to see Morticia flirting outrageously with another man. He picked up his glass and smashed it against the wall and sprinted out of the pub before he did something he would later regret.

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