6 - Warm
"Harry, meet Rosalee."
"Nice to meet you." The British wizard said, politely shaking hands with the woman.
The woman replied in kind; "Nice to meet you too."
"Would you like some tea, coffee, hot chocolate?" Harry offered, leading his after-closing guests to a table. "I find that I much prefer the warming taste of hot chocolate these wintry evenings" he mused aloud.
Monroe, used to Harry's habit of plying every visitor with food and drinks before being willing to engage in any real conversation followed him agreeably. "Yeah, sure – hot chocolate would be a nice change. Hey, do you still have any of those Pumpkin Pasties left?" the wolf turned to the woman at his side; "they are surprisingly good."
Rosalee, to her credit, seemed perfectly willing to go along with it, even as something in her stance told Harry that he was not quite what she'd expected.
It was heartening, the way she put her trust in Monroe.
So, instead of getting left-over goods from the kitchen, he silently Apparated to his apartment above the store and got the last two Pumpkin Pasties from his own refrigerator.
Because some things were more important than that tantalizing taste of home.
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