A/N: For The Future Mrs. Grint, who wanted Lucius to ride an elevator. )
This is appearing before the hiccups drabble that was requested simply because Lucius refuses to let me write him with hiccups. It will be posted as soon as I break him down. Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season.
Lucius stood in the lobby of the Muggle office building, before the lift. He was trying to figure out how to make it open.
"..Alohamora!" and yet the doors stayed closed.
"Abra Cadabra!" and yet the doors stayed closed.
"…open please?" and yet the doors stayed closed.
Finally, a young man walked up and pressed the 'up' button for the lift. He gave Lucius a funny look when the jumped as the doors opened. Lucius and the man boarded the lift, and the man pressed the button for floor twelve.
"What floor do you need, mister?"
"..twenty…five." Lucius was examining the numbered buttons.
"Twenty-five it is." The man pressed the button, the doors closed, and then a very strange thing happened.
With a slight grinding noise of metal on metal, the lift moved up. It was nothing like the lift in the Ministry, oh no. This lift gave Lucius the feeling he was floating as it flew up through the floors, and when it stopped on floor twelve, he felt as though an imaginary hand was forcing him down to the floor. Very strange indeed.
The man stepped off, and Lucius made to follow.
"Didn't you need twenty-five mister? This is twelve."
"Oh…oh yes. Of course." Lucius coughed and stepped back into the lift, the doors closing and the machine moving up again. He'd gone up a bit (the little box above the numbers said it was floor seventeen) when another Strange Thing happened:
The lift stopped, and the doors opened. Without Lucius pressing any sort of button.
A woman got in, and pressed the button for floor twenty-eight.
"Mornin'" She said politely.
"Good…morning." Lucius said, weary of this new stranger who could stop the lift from outside of it.
Eventually floor twenty-five came, and he stepped off when the doors opened, glad to have his feet on solid ground again. After he stepped out, the lift doors closed and whisked the woman away again to a whole different part of the building.
When Lucius left that afternoon, he decided to take the stairs.