[THD] Break glass in case of emergency (Cosimo)

Sebastian and Cosimo sat towards the back of the dark smoky pub. Sebastian had asked Cosimo to come to France to get a drink with him. He knew of a hole in the wall place that would serve underage wizards which made it the perfect place for Sebastian and Cosimo to catch up. Sebastian had liked Cosimo from the moment he met him, it was hard to call someone a true friend but he had always felt that Cosimo was one.

Sebastian lifted his glass to tap cosimo's "cheers mate it's been a while since we've done this we needed this". As Sebastian tilted back his drink his eyes gazed up at the roof, and he noticed something crawling across the rafters. "Cosimo do you see that?" As he looked closer he realized what it was.

It was a flobberworm, Sebastian despised flobberworms he thought they were incredibly disgusting. As he came to the realization he suddenly felt something touching his neck. He jumped up and slung the flobberworm off of his neck to the ground pulled out his wand and shouted "Confringo". As the blasting curse touched the flobberworm it exploded.

Sebastian turned around to see that there were more flobberworms crawling around the pub. "No wonder this place serves minors, it's infested with these things". Sebastian in a rage turned to the barkeep "what is wrong with this place man?". The barkeep smiled a toothless grin and said "I'm a squib and can't afford no extermination, tell ya what you boys get rid of em and you drink free anytime you come in". Sebastian turned to Cosimo with a questioning look on his face "well what do ya say mate?".

@Cosimo Marconi

Cosimo wasn't a stranger to alcohol, even though he was very much underage. He'd tasted things like beer and rum when he was probably around twelve, or maybe even younger. As a kid, Cosimo had grown up around all kinds of shady personalities offering all kinds of shady things. He'd roamed the streets with a group of older boys doing stupid things like destroying property and picking on other people. Mostly petty stuff, though some of the older guys had been into more serious crime. Still, it wasn't every day that a fifteen year old could actually sit in a bar and get a drink served to them, especially when it wasn't wine or beer.

Holding out his glass for his friend to tap against, Cosimo nodded. "Haven't spend time with the boys for a while," he said gruffly. Everyone knew his best friends were Esperanza and Rizka. He liked the girls a lot - and Rizka could take on any guy in a fight, he thought - but there was something different about spending time with other young men. Something about the energy that he sometimes preferred. Cosimo followed his friend's gaze upward as he sipped his rum and coke, blinking as he saw what the other guy was seeing. Cosimo quickly tilted his head back and finished his drink, then placed the glass on the table with a gentle thud.

Cosimo's eyes went to his friend's neck as Sebastian got up and blasted the flobberworm previously attached to his neck. Cosimo got to his feet more slowly, his gaze wandering around the pub as he searched for more of the little creatures. "You're such a woman," he teased with a well-natured smirk, knowing full well that any of the girls he hung out with might punch him for a comment like that. Still, he drew his wand too. There wasn't a worry about getting in trouble for underage magic in a bar that was clearly full of wizards, right? That was how the trace worked? Cosimo didn't pay attention in History of Magic class. He had Jaspar to do the homework for him in that one.

Oh, okay so the bartkeep guy was a squib. Cosimo was from a pureblooded family but since his mum had only recently fallen back into their good books after years of estrangement - after getting pregnant and having him young - he didn't carry any of that weird pureblooded superiority sentiment. His first instinct was to say no and make some comment about how he wasn't a maid or whatever, but then he thought what the hell. It wasn't every day that you got to wave your wand around at weird slugs and get free drinks for it. "Sure," he said, brandishing his wand. Cosimo had never really been all that good at wandwork but there was nothing difficult about a simple stupefy or a confringo. "You lookin' forward to heading back to school?" he asked his friend as they turned back to the flobberworm infested bar.

Sebastian jumped on top of the table in a comical fashion, and pointed his wand at the next flobberworm he saw while closing one eye as if he was aiming and shouted "CONFRINGO". Sebastian tilted his head back and laughed maniacally, He had always enjoyed a good maniacal laugh. He hopped down from the table and smiled at Cosimo "Of course I'm looking forward to going back to school, the girls, the magic, the unlimited food, and did I mention the girls?". Sebastian had an infatuation with girls he couldn't help himself at times he enjoyed the chase almost as much as he enjoyed the catch itself.

Sebastian grabbed his second drink off the table tilted the glass back and let the whiskey slide down his throat, giving him a bit of a burning sensation and warming his body making him shake his head as he removed the glass from his lips. "This place may be a dump but the whiskey is always strong". Sebastian aimed his wand behind his back and sung the curse this time "Cooooonnnnffffrrrriiiinnnnggoooooo" the blast exploding another flobberworm across the room. "Oooouuuu extra points for behind the back and distance"

  Sebastian exploded another flobberworm and turned his toothy grin on Cosimo "Sorry about my explosive personality it just comes naturally". He laughed slightly at his own pun and gave Cosimo an exaggerated wink.  "I think I'll stun a couple of these things to bring home, my brothers in town  I'm sure he would love to wake up with a few of these in the morning". Sebastian once again put his wand behind his back but now he had started to feel a little woozy from the alcohol. When he shouted the curse he could tell it was heading in the direction of Cosimo so he quickly shouted "Rennervate" the awakening charm to follow in the same direction. All Sebastian could hope for was that the charm did not hit his friend and if it did the counter would come quick enough to wake him that Cosimo would only laugh about this mishap.

"There are girls out of school," Cosimo said with a shrug. He only half meant it though. Sure there were girls outside of school, but not such a large collection of them. Not ones all the same age as him, or in such close proximity to him. The Papillonlisse tower was full of them; pretty, girly girls. Cosimo didn't think much of most of them, but once around them he found himself doing stupid stuff for the chance to be closer. They didn't even need to be veelas for him to come up with impressive and believable lies to impress them. Maybe it was just his stupid adolescent brain, but Cosimo thought almost all of the girls at Beauxbatons were kind of hot. All of the ones over like thirteen, that was. His thoughts wandered to a couple of their female professors too; Beauxbatons really was full of pretty people.

Cosimo finished his drink, chuckling at his friend's words. Explosive. Ha. Cosimo wasn't exactly the shiniest galleon at gringotts; sometimes puns like this one sort of went over his head or he took a long time to get them. He figured he made up for his lack of book smarts with street smarts; he knew his way around a bar or a pub, he knew his way around the streets of his town. He could shift in and out of places like this with ease. He didn't need to be able to get word play or read books to do it. The teenager pointed his wand at some of the slugs, lazily throwing spells their way. He wondered if this whole thing really was feasible. Sure, the barkeep was going to be discreet about their ages and all but was it worth it if they had to put hours into this job?

The Italian tried to duck out of the way of a spell, but instead he was struck right in the face with a stunning spell. Everything disappeared for a moment before he was immediately woken back up, flailing as he fell on his ass. "What the hell?!" He barked at his friend, a dark frown cutting his expression. "You tryna kill me or what? Stupefy!" The teenager bellowed the spell back, jabbing his wand right at his friend. He was satisfied when it hit Sebastian in the chest, stunning him.