Shy little Eloise Moreau found herself the proud owner of Ollivanders after his death in the war. Now she's left to cope with the loss of her mentor while attempting to run a business.
When Charlie Weasley drops by one day in hopes of buying a new w...
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Eloise had gone over two weeks without hearing from Charlie. While she originally assumed that he must just be busy, she couldn't help but grow more and more concerned about his disappearance from her everyday life. She waited at the Leaky for an hour and a half the previous Friday, and that was days ago. When she sent him a letter, it was returned unopened. She stopped by the joke shop and asked Ron, but he was super vague and said that Charlie hadn't been around there much. She had wanted to pry, but Ron had rushed off to help a customer.
Since she hadn't been hanging out with Charlie nearly as much as she usually did, she found herself being much more productive in other aspects of her life. Her apartment and the shop were tidier than they'd been in months, and Eloise had even taken the time to organize her kitchen cabinets, switch her closet fully to her fall and winter wardrobe, and reshelve all of the books in her office that she had been avoiding putting away for the past few months. She even had lunch with Keira twice, which was usually difficult to do because of Keira's rigorous training regimine. She tried to breach the topic of Charlie's absence with her friend, but it seemed that Keira didn't pick up on the seriousness of the situation and brushed off Eloise's worrying as a side effect of her crush, which she had yet to fess up to.
She sitting in her office at the moment, skimming a book about the properties of bamboo as a wand wood without actually absorbing any of the information. Eloise couldn't help but wonder if he was upset with her. To just drop off the face of the earth without notice... It really wasn't like him. So she did what any sane witch would do. She began writing a letter to his mum.
Dear Mrs. Weasley,
Very sorry to bother you, but I was writing because I'm beginning to get worried. Charlie has been notably absent for the past few weeks, and I just wanted to check in to make sure that he is doing alright and that all is well with your family. I've written him but my owls came back with the letters unopened, and it really just doesn't seem like him.
On a happier note, I'd love the recipe of that sticky toffee pudding you made last month when I came for dinner, I had forgotten to ask before I left.
With regards, Eloise Moreau
She signed her name with a flourish, cringing at how desperate her letter came off. But really, if Charlie was just ignoring her, she had the right to know. And his mother would surely talk some sense into him. Or at least gently break it to Eloise that he wanted her to leave him alone.
She was really just having a hard time wrapping her head around the fact that he would suddenly cut her off like he had. She had been under the impression that everything with them was going really well. She ran the letter the the owl post down the street and hurried back to get some work done on that dreary Thursday.
Another task that she had become much more efficient at over the past couple of weeks was actually making wands, and producing them in a greater quantity than before. When Eloise worried, she had to keep busy. When Ollivander first disappeared, she made more wands in those few months than she had during the first years of her apprenticeship. When Bekah decided to move overseas, Eloise read entire shelf of Ollivander's library. And while sometimes it made it so that she would forget to take care of herself, the knowledge that Charlie would be upset with her for that served as a reminder to eat a few meals a day.
