Cleaning Tables

[grimcarebear]

"Do they honestly have to put so much grime on this thing? It's like it's never been cleaned before a day in it's life!" Remyses Darkstrum sighed as he began to scrub the bar area. Glasses were out to those few wizards and witches who wanted a late night drink. Not that he could blame them. Seemed everyone needed a drink these days.

He set to cleaning up the glasses next, glancing around the room. It was pretty quiet for the Leaking Cauldron. No quiet chit chat, no rough and tumble songs. Not that that usually happened either. The Leaking Cauldron had never been a place of rough noise and brawls. How unlike the Muggle bars he had gone to with his fellow dance fellows at his Dance Studio. He laughed and shook his head. He blew into the last glass, spun it around, and dropped it lightly on the bar edge before spinning to his seat. Pretty d**n uneventful..not sure how he felt about that...he was always one who liked a little spike, a little intrigue...but with things as they are, he never heard about as much stuff as he used to.

Where was that new Barkeep in training he was supposed to have help him? A Coven DuBois or something like that....must be French. Great. French. Not that he had much to say about Foreign changes. He got pointed at all the time for being Egyptian. Not many in London, that was for sure..and certainly not many in the Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and Diagon Alley areas. He was in a league of his own it seemed. And good help was hard to find these days.

[coven]

Coven peeked in through the window with a faint smile, before opening the door. Moving inside he, caught sight of the man behind the counter and arched an eyebrow. Foreign...not something that you saw every day. But, he couldn't exactly complain; the man wasn't half bad looking, though he could tell just from the Barkeep's posture that he wasn't even slightly inclined to return the sentiments.

All the better, he mused, as he moved closer and leaned over the bar. Offering a large, pearly-white smile, he stuck out his hand. "...I suppose your cross look is over my lateness. You'll have to forgive me - I didn't mean to keep you waiting." He offered. "Name's Coven DuBois...and you would be...?" He asked. When he'd applied, the woman hadn't told him exactly who it was that he would be working with when he came to shadow, so he was in the dark on the matter.

[grimcarebear]

...I suppose your cross look is over my lateness. You'll have to forgive me - I didn't mean to keep you waiting. Remy's eyes shot up to the newcomer, eyes narrowing."Who..."Name's Coven DuBois...and you would be...? Remy snorted, slamming the rag aside."Remyses Darkstrum. You're my new barkeeper in training?"He rolled his eyes."Well...nothing wrong with being pretty I guess..."

He moved back and threw him a rag."How much experience you have with barkeeping? Well...better late than never. You can go ahead and help me with finishing up cleaning the tables and helping what customers are left..."He said, nodding back toward the few people scattered about.

[coven]

"Well...nothing wrong with being pretty I guess..."

Blinking a few times, Coven tilted his head, before a laugh exploded from his mouth. "I'm sorry, but did you just call me...pretty?" He shook his head. Well. He'd judged this one wrong, it would seem. "Pretty, maybe, but always effective." He cocked an eyebrow and grinned again. "And, I can honestly say that the pleasure is mine, Remyses."

"How much experience you have with barkeeping?"

He shook his head, shrugging. "Not much - enough to know how not to spill things, but..." He shrugged, agreeing with his new trainer's diagnostic that it was best for him to start easy. Picking up a clean rag from a nearby table, he began to wipe down one of the tables, collecting the empty glasses from it and bringing them over to be cleaned. Once he'd set a spell to those, he went to a man sitting at the end.

"And what were you drinking, sir?" He asked with a pleasant, if less flamboyant smile. Once he received his answer, he poured the man another since his glass was near empty and leaned back against the back counter. Huh...not so hard as he would have imagined.

[grimcarebear]

Remy watched the newcomer work and snorted."Eh...kid ain't too bad." Remy finished cleaning off the counter and moved back to sit down."So....I'll let you see how you do on the first couple tables...if you need help...ask..."

He watched Coven move about some more and grunted."What's a good looking kid like you doing wiping tables? You seem pretty good for other work..."