This was the scariest corridor Theo had seen in his entire life. And here he was, walking down it all by himself. Even though he was totally used to living in the dungeons and coping with it's dark and gloominess, this was a whole other level of gloom. Particularly because at the end of this corridor, was Professor Lafay.

Theo had ants in his pants because he REALLY needed to pee.

Which totally didn't help matters at all.

He took a deep breath, and knocked on the office door after helping West with the trunks like she had asked him to do. He wasn't sure WHY he was summoned to her office, though? All he did was do his homework.

"In!" a voice said from inside the office.

In a matter of seconds, he was already at the door of Potions Lady. He was shaking slightly, but he doubted it was because the cold air of dungeons. This was definitely the scariest place he'd ever been to, and the manner of the Professor wasn't comforting at all. Hadn't she said it herself in the lesson? 'I'm not a nice person...' Still, she HAD TO have mercy or pity, Forrest wasn't sure which one applied to his situation. He was able to contain the tears, but his face wasn't very comfortable either--in fact, it was visible for everyone to see he was distressed to no end. Knocking feebly at the door, he took a step back and tried to control his trembling.

"In!" a gruff voice said from inside.

It made the most sense to come here first. That's what she was telling herself. The dungeons were the closest, and Professor Lafay will know what to do. She kept running as fast as she could until she reached the Professor's office door where she skidded to halt and knocked on the door rapidly. "Professor Lafay?" she asked at the door with a determined voice. She hoped that the potions mistress wouldn't be upset for being disturbed, but the students really could use some help at the moment and Eliza felt confident that Lafay was the one for the job.

Please answer...please...come on.....! She waited with baited breath, her hands tight at her sides, eyes checking behind her for anyone who might've tracked her here.

"In..." the annoyed voice said.

Annabeth arrived at the obscure corridor at the dungeons. She wanted to see the teacher. Potions was definitely her preferred subject. Potions, not the teacher. In her opinion, Professor Lafay didn't seem to like being a teacher, she didn't seem to like the students.
"She doesn't need to like me. All that I need is to learn more and more, and nothing will frighten me, nothing will stop me." She muttered to herself.
She sighed. She made a fist and was half way to knock on the door when she gave up and turned around.
"Hey, Anna! Don't let the witch scare you!" She said in a trembling low voice. Then she smirked. She was a silly girl of being afraid of a teacher. Then she turned and stared at the closed door, took a deep breath and gently knocked on the door.

"Come in." She said nicer than usual.

Although it wasn't a Greenhouse, Oakey did not like this part of the Castle as much as any other Hufflepuff would. Especially since it belonged to Dragon Lady Lafay. So for her he just slipped the paper under her door, and would wait...only 10 seconds. if Oakey didn't hear anything on the other side of door move. He was Outahere.

Why? Why did she needed to do this? She DIDN’T wanted to tell professor Lafay what she had done and why she needed to visit her. She was almost afraid to tell the head of her house what she had done and why she had been punished! She tried to hide her face behind a cloth, trying to hide the mud she was covered with. SHE REALLY HATED PROFESSOR BOTROS FOR DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO HER!

Lightly shaking the second year old stopped in the corridor and waited for the moment when professor Lafay would open her door and… what her response would be… The second year old closed her eyes and shivered.

There was a letter under her door... but it seemed stuck. She opened the door and summoned it up to her hand.

... ok...

Before she turned, she saw another student in her doorway.

"Duvessa... unless you knock, I won't know you are here. Come in." She said a little annoyed. "What is it? Wait? What's wrong with your face?"

Oh no, she had forgotten to knock because she was SOOOO stressed! And now she needed to explain what had happened with her face! NOOOOOOOO! She had hoped that professor Lafay wouldn’t ask her about her face, not so directly because now she had no other option than to tell her the truth, this was really a bad situation…

She opened her eyes and sighed, “I’m sorry professor, I will knock if I come here again” not that she planned to visit professor Lafay again…

She still tried to hide her face behind her pink cloth but… she needed to show the professor why she was here and… she HATED it, she cursed the professor AND Forrest again for this in silence, this was not her fault, this punishment was way too drastic!

She tried to enter the office from professor Lafay but because she still tried to hide her face she had no good view and… she almost tripped over the doorstep! The second year old needed to let go of the cloth so that she could prevent that she would fall to the ground and the pink cloth had fallen to the ground instead, her face was now visible and professor Lafay could see what was wrong with her. Oh noooooo… She looked shocked up at the professor and wanted to run away, as fast as she could, but she knew that if she would run away she would be punished again, and maybe worse this time!

"Duvessa!" She said going back to the door, "Sweet Circe, get in here. I have asked you a question, I expect you to answer me." She said still holding her child on her hip.

ooc: Post in the office next

Doing the fox trot down the corridor leading to Hecate's office now, Airey couldn't help but lead a spirited rendition of Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows. His voice was practically booming through the corridor, echoing off the walls a bit which he found somewhat amusing for whatever reason. Chuckling now and again, he did not stop their dancing when he leaned forward to knock on the Potions Mistress' door. "Oooooooooh Hecaaaaaaate! Come out come out wherever you are!" Pause as he figured out another song to start singing. "The night is young and you're so beautiful, Here among the shadows, beautiful lady, open you heart......er....doooooooor!"

He was more than happy to serenade the woman and he was POSITIVE that she would be happy too. Happiness was practically oozing from every pore in his body. Sort of like how ice cream was dripping off his suit and face. HEHHEE. Had Medea looked at herself? She looked so cute with all that ice cream melting off her.

Suuunshine lollipops and rainboooows everything is sure to come your waaaaaay!

This song! How come no one else was singing? Forget the fact that it was late at night and everyone was settling in bed or...were IN bed. Hecate couldn't be though. It was ice cream hour."Hecate! HECAAAATE!" Hehehehe, would she come out and jooooin them? She had no idea what Airey was singing, but sheeee continued with SUNSHINE LOLLIPOPS AND RAINBOWS...

...everything that's wonderfuuul is what i feel when weeee're together!

*ooc: different timeline than in the office*

Hecate has been in her room sleeping. Her wards went off and startled her awake. Perfect, someone was at her door. Merlin. She was going to take points from whoever was there. She put on a robe, stepped through her vanishing cabinet and re-appeared in her office. She frowned when she heard a man singing... and then a woman calling her.

Who in Hades' blaze... She opened the door and saw, to her surprise, Medea and Airey...

"Uhmmm," She closed her eyes. She was about to ask them what in the world did they think they were doing waking someone in their sleep and acting like two lovesick puppies, and not in a nice voice... Instead, she asked "How may I help you?" through gritted teeth.

Oh look! There she was! Airey spun Medea again with extra bounce in his step this time before striking a pose just in time to greet the Slytherin Head of House. "So HAPPY to see you," he grinned with both arms up in the air. Some more ice cream happened to drip off his robes and onto the floor of the corridor.

Drip drip drip.

Oh my goodness that was kind of hilarious, wasn't it? The way that the ice cream just sort of dripped off his suit like that. Like ice cream rain! Wouldn't that just be AWESOME!?

"Well, you see, Medea and I were having some ice cream and stargazing time up in the Tower Patch and..." Okay, so he wasn't going to go into all the details because his brain was telling him not to whereas his emotions were telling him to just go for it. He had never experienced so much push and pull within his own brain before. "...and we were just SO HAPPY that we felt we just had to share that happiness and come visit you! Shall we dance?!"

Yeah, his brain was in full on panic mode right now, but his happiness seemed to be making his body move on its own accord.

Oh! Lafay was awake! Though she didn't look too pleased. As she should be. Honestly, why did she think this was a good idea again? Airey gave such a fantastic summary of why they were there however, it would turn that frown upside down right away. Hopefully.

"Please, do join us, Hecate! I bet you're a lovely dancer." Medea held out an ice cream and nutella covered hand, as sticky as a child's, gesturing for the woman to join them while clinging to the astronomy professor with the other. Until she noticed what the potions mistress was wearing. "Oh, vot a vonderful robe! Pajama party! Oh, Hecate..." Letting go of Airey, she reached out touched the older woman's arm with both her sticky hands. "Ice cream pajama party."

Ahem. Her mouth just raaaaaaan with words she was inwardly hoping would go through the woman's ear and right out the other. In fact, the whole arm touching business could go unnoticed as well. They kinda needed their defense professor to have both hands, right? What was the reason they were here again??!

She may have been tired, but her reflexes were impeccable. Her wand was out and pointing at Airey's check in less than a second. "Come any closer Flamsteed, I'm setting your suit and tie on fire..." there was going to be NOOOOOO dancing.

Her eyes widened in horror... then they went from Flamsteed to Medea, and then to her ice cream covered arm. She close her eyes, and counted to ten. Then she shook her head like a boxer and tried counting to ten again.

This was odd though...

Airey wasn't any different from usual, albeit bolder, but Medea was never someone to speak the way she was...

... The ice cream... they were both covered in it... Why was that?

That kid in the last detention... he believed there was something wrong with the Ice cream, but she ignored him and couldn't remember what he had said. "Professor Romanos, Professor Flamsteed, how much Ice cream did you ingest?!"

"OH! I do like pajama parties!" Or at least he thought he did. But he wasn't dressed for the occasion. He needed to go back to his office and put on his suitjamas. But then that would mean not wearing his ice cream suit. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Fire did she say? Why, if his suit were on fire then... "This suit is on fiiiiiiiire! This suit is on fiiiiire! It’s walking on fiiiiiiiiiiiire! This suit is on fire!" Nothing like a song to fit every situation, yeah? It just made him even MORE happy to be able to sing about his current situation. Come on, Hecate! Let's have another one!

"OH! The ice cream! You haven't had any of it have you?! I made Medea a rose out of ice cream. In case you were wondering. Ice cream can make the best sort of sculptures if you use the proper instruments and charms." Did she know that? Did she really care? Logic told him that she would not be amused by any of this, but she SHOULD be because it was all HAPPY talk.

Oh, right. Her question. "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....I think it is all I have had for the past few days really. Miss Ella showed me how to eat it with pickles. Odd combination, but Hogwarts' ice cream really just goes with everything!" WHAT A HAPPY THOUGHT!

That was a terribly good question. One she still didn't know the answer to. And one she had no intentions of really answering since one, Airey was singing and his singing was utterly BRILLIANT, did she ever mention that to him?? And two... "Ooooh, my rose!" There was a frown! She almost had a frown on her face!! Almost. She ended up smiling somewhat in a sad down at the corridor. "Ve left all of it up on the roof."

Bummer.

Staring at the astronomer, she started to nod HAPPILY and point at him. "You know vot...?!" Could Lafay mind read?? Because she just remembered something BIG!! "I just remembered vhy vere here!" It unfortunately wasn't to show off the potion mistress' dance moves, thank Merlin. Honestly, she was afraid the woman really would set Airey on fire if that happened.

Her happiness still wouldn't let her let go of the woman's arm though. Lucky them. Leaning a little more towards Lafay, Medea raised up a hand as if she were telling a secret. "Pssssst! Something is vrong vith Airey." she whispered loudly, not so subtley pointing to Airey. And it wasn't because of his odd ice cream choice either.

So...you know...don't set him on fire.

THAT WAS IT! Her wand tip turned red and fire ate at his tie, burning it to dust from the bottom, up to his neck.

"STOP SINGING!" Merlin the man was annoying. "And who in Hades is Ella?!"

"Wait? What?! Nothing is wrong with this man, this is his normal self, but with the volume turned up a bit... now you. YOU there is something wrong with." She turned and walked into her office and then back out with an empty vile. "Let me take a sample of that ice cream, Medea..." She said reaching for the woman... Would she hold still? We would see.

Airey was finding it completely impossible to not smile at the moment. Not even when he realized that they had left her ice cream rose up in the tower. "Not to worry, I placed plenty of charms on it. Shouldn't melt or anything until we head back up," he said with some more bouncing and grinning.

Next thing he knew his tie - one of his favorites actually - was on fire. "OOH! MY TIE IS ON FIIIIIIIIIIIIRE! MY TIE IS ON FIIIIIIIIIIRE! IT'S WALKING ON FIIIIIIIIIIIRE! MY TIE IS ON FIIIIIIIIIRE!" he sang again, obviously ignoring the woman's warnings to stop singing. And then his tie was no more. His brain was going insane seeing what was left of his tie, but his mood did not change. Well, it DID change. It became even happier.

"AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIII IIIIII will always love yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo oooo!" he sang to the tie ashes on the ground.

Oh! Hecate wanted ice cream? "I have some ice cream up in my office!" Yeah, he had missed the point. Wasn't it funny how the ice cream was melting into puddle on the ground? Ants would probably be by eventually if it weren't cleaned up.

Ants. HAHAHA. That was a funny word.

Oh dear...

She should've mentally yelled to Lafay to not set Airey on fire a little louder, but it did bring up his excellent singing abilities again. HOW WONDERFUL! Clapping excitedly, she happily bounced on her heels, until she heard the totally wrong accusation against herself. Utterly flabbergasted, she was. In a perky sorta way. "Meeeeeeeeee?" Heeer? The one she was pointing at? Herself?

Maybe. Maybe not. Definitely maybe...

Though with Lafay's return with a vial, Medea's eyes widened. Woah woah woah woah...woah. "Hecaaaate! Vhy didn't you say you vonted some?? Ve could've brought some down by now for you! AIREY! Ve should've brought some down!" Not just the puddles of ice cream either. She DID have some everywhere...on herself...though. Flinging her arms forward, she waved them around to get the potions mistress's attention. There was some theeere! TAKE IT ALLLL!