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[personal profile] therealpm
I was not retired. I chose to move into an alternative field after a long and fulfilling political career.

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Date: 2011-10-15 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
*Watches Peter fetch more ingredients*

It's a fair enough assumption given the current circumstances. As much as I - similar to most politicians - enjoy listening to my own voice, I would appreciate an answer. What are you planning, Peter?

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Date: 2011-10-15 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
*stirs cauldron*

Really, John. That tone may gain some traction in the House, but it has no place here.

*shreds a fernlike plant and sprinkles it into the mix*

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Date: 2011-10-15 05:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
I wouldn't need to attempt that tone if you would simply share your intention.

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Date: 2011-10-15 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
*strains some of the larger lumps out of the mixture with a silver sieve*

It is not your place to interrogate me, especially not in my own home.

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Date: 2011-10-15 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
I wouldn't need to press the point if you would just tell me what it is you are planning to do.

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Date: 2011-10-15 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
*looks up and smirks*

Rather arrogant to assume you have a right to know, isn't it?

*stirs the cauldron again*

I have already told you that it is none of your affair.

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Date: 2011-10-15 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
We're politicians, Peter; arrogance is a given.

How am I to know that I do not need to know what you're doing unless I know what it is and deem it so that I do not need to know?

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Date: 2011-10-15 06:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
Speak for yourself.

Whilst your mastery of the script of Yes Minister is impressive, I am given to understand that the show is due to close soon and that they will not require any more actors to step into the role of Sir Humphrey.

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Date: 2011-10-15 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
Stop trying to derail the conversation. What is your plan?

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Date: 2011-10-15 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
John, you are not James Bond, and it is absurd to pretend otherwise.

*sniffs the mixture gingerly*

*begins to line up bottles on the desk*

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Date: 2011-10-15 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
All I want to know is that you're planning to do - tell me that and I shan't bother you any longer.

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
I am planning to bottle this potion and then retire to bed.

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
And what are you planning to do with the potion once it has been bottled and cooled?

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
*Begins pasting labels onto the bottles*

Nothing that will require your intervention.

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
Do you know, for some reason I'm reluctant to believe you.

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
*carefully writes a serial number on each label*

I am deeply wounded by your lack of trust, John.

*selects a small funnel and begins to pour the liquid into the first bottle*

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
*turns away and continues to fill up each bottle carefully, exactly to a mark at the base of the neck, then stoppering each one with a dark blue cork.*

*files each one away in meticulously ordered and labelled cabinet*

*wipes down all surfaces, scrubs clean all utensils*

...

...why are you still here?

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
Well, it's either continue to be here and annoy you or go home and get yelled at for being here and annoying you. And putting off the inevitable for just a little longer seemed like a good idea.

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
*dries hands on a rose-patterned towel*

In that case, you can toddle off upstairs and find something to drink.

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
After 8pm? The claret will do nicely.

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
Well, I shouldn't really... what with Sally giving up smoking, I'm not really meant to drink...

Still, I suppose a single glass wouldn't do too much harm...

Where's the bottle, Peter?

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] therealpm.livejournal.com
Cupboard under the stairs. Corkscrew is in the... ...left-modt drawyer in the kitchen. Mind the overhead cupboard, I still haven't got around to getting rid of the demon infestation and they get nippy in the cold weather.

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Date: 2011-10-15 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bamfbercow.livejournal.com
Still? Well, you're the one that has to live with it, I suppose...

*Leaves to sort out wine*

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