Gabriel was hyper aware of every noise just outside the Great Hall double doors. Since the large room had emptied considerably...and he was left to sit and think...and calm down...and then stress himself again with more thinking. The sounds of fighting seemed to be the only thing he could focus on.

...and then...there was Eden.

His fellow Seventh Year was muttering something...and Gabe was aware that he should've been listening...because it was (most likely) not rhetorical, but...the noise was getting louder. It was happening. The spiders were about to bust through those double doors....They were going to die. Everyone...

...but the Headmistress came through, instead...and Gabriel quickly stood up, his legs full of nervous energy. They...were back? But...if they'd gotten through, that had to mean that...the spiders were gone?...But that didn't make much sense. There had been so, SO...many of them, the spiders. How had their small forces trumped...that?

Seeing Culloden following behind not long after, the Ravenclaw shakily walked towards the older man; dragging Eden along with him (since she wasn't letting go, which was fine. Gabe really didn't mind that right now.) When he was close enough, within touching distance, he threw his arms around the potions' master. Tightly. HUGS. HUUUUUGS...and some tears.

This had been a very emotional day...and all he really wanted to do was to go home.