Gabriel had no intentions of buying anything without knowing if it was going to work or make him look like a girl or something. He didn't want that. So he had a few bottles of stuff that was supposedly for MEN and had taken them over to the... well it said testing centre, it didn't say anything about only certain things being available for testing. Right?

So. Moisturiser. He sat down and started by sniffing them, making faces and putting aside the ones that smelled like flowers or wet dog.

.... oh. NO.

What in Circe's name was HE doing in DIAGON ALLEY?

James had wandered into Primpernelles with a list of things he was supposed to pick up for his mum, and almost immediately spotted Gabriel Nott-cool.

.. what the heck was he even doing?

Jimmy wandered closer, carrying an armful of pink and girly bottles. He snickered when he realised that Gabriel was trying stuff out for HIMSELF.

"Touching up your make up, Gabby?" He spoke up in a mocking voice.

"Its moisturiser you bloody tosser." Gabe spat back acidly, after looking up and seeing a face he did NOT wish to see. He was an idiot, that James Wilkes. Had a blown up sense of self entitlement and in Gabe's expert opinion, nothing to back it up.

Except for the part where occassionally Wilkes got a little rough. It was kind of fun pushing him to that point though, since Gabriel never ended up looking like the bad guy.

Spying the girly bottles in Wilkes' arms (at least Gabe had MANLY products arranged in front of him) he added, "I thought you'd have known that Jemima, considering you've got a lavender and... bubblegum is it? Scented lotion right there."

"Its not the same thing!" Right? James eyed the bottle in his arms with some difficulty, juggling all the bottles so he could get a look at the label. "I'm not putting this crap on me, its for my mum." Evidence! He needed evidence! Thats what they all said!

Jimmy held up his shopping list, clearly written in a girlish cursive, several products listed and summed up with a lovely message from his mum.

SEE?! For his mum.

He smirked, obviously smug that he had evidence that he was no sissy.

"Aww and is Jimmywimmy being a good wittle boy for mumsy wumsy?" Gabe snickered at the message and sat back, arms crossed over his chest.

He held one hand up. "I guess I believe you." He paused. "When I saw your mum last night she definitely looked like she needed all the help she could get." Gabriel gestured at the bottles Wilkes' held and the shopping list which was quite long really, even without that lovely message tacked on the end there.

!

Okay, Jim's mother was ANNOYING but she was lovely and NOBODY insulted her. Especially not bloody Gabriel NOTT. James, spluttering a little, dropped all the bottles he had but one, opened it and SQUIRTED the pinky purpley contents right at Gabe, huge thick globules of the stuff getting all over the other boy, particularly messing up his hair.

Butthead hair.

Whaaaat....?

Gabe closed his eyes and spat out a glob of the lotion he'd just been squirted with. Oh hell no. He picked up a bottle and unleashed it, a blueish tinge to the thick cream which squirted all over James, messing up his shirt which looked like it might stain.

Gabriel stood up, one bottle in each hand, and ATTACKED.

Running out of ammunition all too soon, James ducked, as much to get away from the girly gunk being squirted at him as to pick up a few more bottles and resume his own attack. One of them got good distance, the shampoo within arcing out in a rainbow sheen and splattering on target. The other sort of dribbled down Jimmy's hand, landing in a puddle on the ground and causing him to slip over.

Ehh why was he aiming for his MOUTH all the time? Gabe coughed up a few bubbles and almost lost his grip on the bottles he was squirting with because of how slippery it all was.

When Jimmy slipped over, Gabriel laughed cruelly and moved closer, dumping half a bottle right on his head.

Sometimes Jimmy lost it. Kinda went hulk. This was one of those times. Unable to see because his eyes were closed so that the lotion stuff wasn't going to get in his eyes, he stood up in a rush and tackled Gabriel.

Problem was it was hard to hit someone when you couldn't see, so it just sorta degenerated into a blind, soapy, bubbly, goopy, lotioned, wrestling match. He tried to wipe his eyes on his shoulder without letting go, though his grip loosened a bit when he did.

Well at least he could see now.

"Get off me!" Gabriel was not a fighter, for one thing he thought violence was uncouth and lowbrow, for another he just kind of sucked at it.

He might have looked like he could take care of himself, but unfortunately he wasn't all that strong and Wilkes had the definite advantage.

Or did he?

Gabe took the chance when he wasn't quite being pinned down so hard and elbowed James in the face, making a decent attempt to knee the other boy in the groin while he was at it too.

The elbow made contact and Jimmy narrowly avoided unpleasant blacking out by twisting out of the way.

It was slippery but James got a good grip on Gabe's wrist, along with what would be an unpleasant bruise and a split lip, and managed to twist Gabe's arm up and around into an arm lock. He slid backwards, tugging the other boy with him and breathing heavily, grumbling under his breath. Oh how he really wished he could just hit him...

... maybe... maybe just a little bit? Nobody would even know right? Right? It wasn't like they had an audience or anything...

He deserved it. the butt monkey had insulted his mother and tried to knee him in the junk!

"...I'm not paying for any of this." The mess. There was a huuuuge mess.

Gabe spluttered, somehow finding himself restrained to the point where if he struggled it hurt. He stopped moving and glared over his shoulder.

"Well why bloody not? You're the one who attacked me, Jemima."

The Magical Menagerie ALWAYS got Neptune. She couldn't ever just walk past and not pop in to check with the kneazles and cruppy puppies. So, she was a little behind Jimmy.

Apparently TOO far behind.


"James!" His name rushed out of her mouth in a breathy gush. There was concern and scolding and disbelief in that one word. Her eyes scanned the other boy, restrained by Jimmy.


GASP! "Is he a robber? Omgosh, Jimmy," Neptune's hands went to her mouth, half hiding her face, "Did he HURT you?"

The girl name thing was only funny when HE did it. Jimmy wasn't impressed and he twisted Gabe's arm quite savagely in retaliation.

"You're an idiot and ought to know better than to insult somebody's mother."

More savage twisting.

????

Oh.

Errr... how to spin this? Hmm. Truth. But played up? Yes. That'd work.

A martyred expression crossed James' face.

"He tried." Jimmy angled his face so Tuney could see his swollen and split lip. "But violence is NOT the answer." Except if he was the one answering the question. Jimmy twisted Gabe's arm again. Accidentally of course. "He isn't trying to rob the place, that I could tell anyway. I was just minding my own business, trying to get stuff for my mum, you know," He nodded at the list lying a short distance away, "And this guy was here putting moisturiser on and decided to insult my mum!"

Not that that explained the mess. Or the bubbles. Or the fact that both boys were covered in primpernelles beauty potions of some sort or another.

Oh no not another Wilkes fangirl. They barely ever had a half a brain and this one was clearly no exception. A robber? Hardly. Gabriel was legit here, a genuine customer who'd been keeping to himself and minding his own business.

"Owww." Gabe shifted, feeling like his arm was going to be pulled right from its socket. Clearly James was a menace.

He laughed, a short bark of disbelief when James harped on about violence. Whatever. Gabriel knew better. At the third twist of his arm, Gabe got a bit desperate and shifted backwards, trying to headbutt Jimmy in the nose.

And failing because Gabe was kind of lame like that.

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A martyred expression crossed James' face.

"He tried." Jimmy angled his face so Tuney could see his swollen and split lip. "But violence is NOT the answer." Except if he was the one answering the question. Jimmy twisted Gabe's arm again. Accidentally of course. "He isn't trying to rob the place, that I could tell anyway. I was just minding my own business, trying to get stuff for my mum, you know," He nodded at the list lying a short distance away, "And this guy was here putting moisturiser on and decided to insult my mum!"

Not that that explained the mess. Or the bubbles. Or the fact that both boys were covered in primpernelles beauty potions of some sort or another.

"Your mother! Noo!" Neptune gasped, her mouth still hidden behind her hands. Jimmy had a REAL nice mother, too! It'd have suited this young man better to BE a robber over a Mother-Insulter.

Neptune toed the very edge of the mess. She didn't really wish to get her shoes all mucked up. Shoe integrity or help Jimmy? EEeeep!


Awww his LIP though! Neptune wibbled from her safe place outside the mess. Maybe she could take her shoes off...

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Oh no not another Wilkes fangirl. They barely ever had a half a brain and this one was clearly no exception. A robber? Hardly. Gabriel was legit here, a genuine customer who'd been keeping to himself and minding his own business.

"Owww." Gabe shifted, feeling like his arm was going to be pulled right from its socket. Clearly James was a menace.

He laughed, a short bark of disbelief when James harped on about violence. Whatever. Gabriel knew better. At the third twist of his arm, Gabe got a bit desperate and shifted backwards, trying to headbutt Jimmy in the nose.

And failing because Gabe was kind of lame like that.

GASSSPPPPP again! He was trying to HURT Jimmy! Neptune forgot the mess, her shoes, and stomped over to Messy and Messier. She scoped out a relatively "clean" spot on the Mother Insulter's chest and PRODDED him. "You are a very ill behaved young man. Are you disturbed? Where is YOUR mother?" Neptune was going TO. TELL. ON. HIM. She eyed her finger for any mess, then waggled it in his FACE. BAD. Very BAD boy!

Jimmy ignored Gabriel as best he could, having to move a little to avoid the attempt at a head butt.

He was so lame.

"Yeah. My mother! Obviously he's got no respect for his betters, this guy."

Jimmy watched in amusement as Tuney stomped over. She looked cute when she stomped, though he'd not actually tell her that, it was more fun to call her a brat and watch her pout usually.

He twisted Gabe's arm again and then took the opportunity to push himself to his feet and let the other boy go, hopefully face first in a pile of lotion.

"What's your problem? Jemima snogged you so much you can't think for yourself? He's the one that started all this." Gabe answered and flicked a globule of shampoo at the girl. "If you had half a brain you'd see that this, like every other mess he's ever gotten me into, is all his fault."

Face first indeed. Gabriel got a mouthful of shampoo and ended up sneezing a few bubbles as he slowly managed to get to his feet, rubbing at his arm which was pretty darn sore after all that manhandling.

It was hard not to slip either, the floor was covered in so many different things, not to mention Gabriel himself was all greased up too.

"You're an idiot and I hate you." He grumbled.

Neptune was just about to scold Jimmy for that whole "betters" comment - really, one shouldn't say such things TO the more unfortunate - but Mother Insulter stole the words from her with HATEFULNESS.


And then he FLUNG .... STUFF at her! Of course, not expecting such barbarism in HER direction (innocent, hello!), the glob of EW hit her. It slopped against her chin, then ran down to the front of her dress.


Then MORE HATEFULNESS.


Neptune was SO sure she'd never been treated worse. Never. Pitiful, she was so pitiful, and turned her big pitiful eyes to Jimmy. They had been ATTACKED, her and Jim, and his poor lip looked so SAD and she was now a TOTAL MESS. Her eyes got awful wet.

Nuh uh. You just didn't go around insulting Jimmy's GIRLS. And Tuney was definitely that at least.

He could insult her, and often did just because Neptune could be such a brat at times, but not Gabriel, Gabriel didn't get to do that.

So James launched himself at Gabriel. Tackling imminent.

Violet walked over to the testing center, she didn't want need anything since she thought she was beautiful enough but she did want to see what kind of losers actually tried all that stuff. She heard the voices of some people, she went over to where she heard them. Her eyes widened, and then she started giggling. "You guys have stuff on you." she said, stating the obvious. This quite amused her actually, so she beamed at them.

And there it was. The violence. Bad kid that James Wilkes. Gabriel went down again, partly due to the force of the tackle and partly because the slippery floor.

Because standing in a pile of shampoo and a smear of moisturiser wasn't exactly grippy.

With an almighty woosh, the air got knocked out of him as his back hit the ground and Gabe tried to fight the irreversibly crazy and violent Jimmy off of him.


Not quite able to see where this other girly voice was coming from, considering the problem he was facing at that moment of being tackled and beat on by someone with absolutely no breeding whatsoever, Gabe did happen to agree with what the girl said.

"I'm going to have to shower... after I get this THING... off me." He answered between breaths. "Don't know... where its been."

Probably, knowing Wilkes, Gabe would be safe as long as he didn't get any where near his mouth. Even hands were a bit of a concern.

"Get OFF!" Why did it feel like he was a broken record today? Gabe tried to punch his attacker.

O_O!!!!!!!!


"Jimmy, DON'T!" He was going to get HURT by the AWFUL BOY!! It was too late though. Jimmy was mid-flight, and indeed, tackle imminent.

Neptune Bott began to fret. Wet, messy, fretting. WHY wasn't someone swooping in to SAVE her? She'd NEVER, in all her life, been through such TRAUMA. A real fight!

... what if her MOTHER found out? If she kept Neptune out of Hogwarts because of some blond, lotion stealing MONSTER....


Seeing an ally, Neptune rushed to the girl arrival and took her arm, then dragged her to the messy scene (as best she could, anyway). "Kick the blond one!" Neptune showed her how, aiming at blond Mother Insulter's side/bum.