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**Juliet Raphael** · 02-14-2012, 03:27 AM

Peak District is a vast area of land across central and northern England, most of which lies within the national park of the same name. The landscape is extremely diverse, open moorlands expand over the area, and they’re accompanied by enclosed farmlands, glacial edges, wooded gorges, pastures, caverns, and valleys. The Peak isn’t entirely uninhabited; a few of the trails run through small towns that cater to wizard and muggle visitors alike.

Most of the wildlife in the park isn't wild at all, but domesticated pets and farm animals. Common critters such as foxes, voles, and shrews inhabit the vast area with bats nesting in the roof of caverns. Most of what can be spotted here, however, are birds of all species soaring the skies at any time of year.

A pair of mountain bikes has been provided by Ms. Raphael and her team for the date, as well as a charmed map of the area so that no matter we’re the adventures ride, the two blinking dots on the map will show them their location should they find themselves misplaced. All of this sits with a woman from the dating service at an unofficial entrance to the park, ready to be picked up and worn out. Of course there is protective gear as well, though if the couplet is feeling a bit dangerous, they are more than welcome to go without on their trail ride.

BanaBatGirl · 02-27-2012, 12:24 AM

"Seriously," William repeated in a rather poor impression of Alysson's girl voice. Heh. "You never know, you might get your opportunity to be struck by lightning today." He glanced up toward the sky, but wasn't able to see much, considering the tree cover they were under. But if he had recalled the weather correctly, earlier the skies had looked pretty... mysterious........

DUNDUN!

He caught her smirking and didn't really know what to do about that, if anything, so William just continued biking instead. This was hard work, this carrying on a conversation whilst trying to look like an awesome conversationalist thing. Alysson sure made it look effortless.

"I have no idea where Kansiss is," he admitted right off the bat at her next remark. She sounded studious though, so that was cool. "I bet you're really smart then, huh. I mean, are there lots of things to do in Kansiss?" If he hadn't heard of the place, then he was assuming the answer to that was no, so... that could explain the studying.

Willy did like smart girls though, and especially ones who could read maps. "Cool. To the meadow it is then!" He grinned over at her and picked up the pace on his bike, lifting himself up off it a bit. "Race ya there!!!!"

Lislchen · 02-27-2012, 09:09 AM

Alysson shook her head at him again when he tried to imitate her, grinning nonetheless. Glancing over at him for a moment, she then followed his gaze upwards to the sky. Or where they sky should've been. There were mostly only branches and leaves. "Well, I at least know I'll be in good hands if that happens." She replied, winking at him as she refocused her gaze on the path again.

Good. Good. They were just going to drop the subject. For now anyway. Reaching up to put the back of her hand against her cheek to cool it down, Alysson quickly jumped right on the next topic. "Oh. It's...well, it's more or less right in the middle of the United States, really." You know, where DOROTHY AND TOTO were from. But then again, hardly anybody from the Wizarding World had heard that story.

Smart. Sure. "I guess so. Well, I was just really interested in most of the subjects, you know." She hadn't been one of those people who were inside studying all the time. She had had a social life too. "I wouldn't know. I only went there for school. So yeah, at school there's the usual to do. You know, go outside. Go swimming. Meet up with friends." She trailed off with a shrug, not really knowing what else to mention.

Awesome. She could really use a break from sitting on that bi- "Hey!" She exclaimed in surprise when he just raced off. Okay, she should've probably expected that. Laughing to herself she herself picked up the pace on her bike, putting as much strength into as she could muster. Soon she was close behind him again and the meadow was getting closer and closer...

BanaBatGirl · 02-27-2012, 07:41 PM

Ohhhhh oh! Now Willy was the one blushing, murmuring something about 'good hands' as he kept his gaze on the path and tried to NOT sneak peeks over at her again. Gosh. His date was SUCH a FLIRT. ~~But so was he, so it was okay.~~

"I guess I'm gonna need to brush up on my geography, eh?" William couldn't even read the map that related to where they were biking, so perhaps that was an understatement. Anyway. "Sounds cool, anyway, this Kansiss place." Well it would have been cool if he'd gone there when she had! But that got Willy blushing again so once more, it was eyes on the road.

Slowing down a little (because obviously the girl had to be allowed to win), Willy coasted into the meadow with a triumphant, "WOO HOOOOOO! We made it!" His bike eased to a stop and he hopped off, happy to stretch his legs. "High five, Aly!"

Lislchen · 02-27-2012, 10:25 PM

Good thing Alysson's eyes weren't on William right now or else she would've seen him blush. Again. And strangely enough she was already enjoying that way more than she probably should have. In a good way of course. Erm.

She giggled softly at his next statement, turning her head to look at him again. "Yeah...or you can just ask me in case you ever need help finding Kansas." Which he probably wouldn't. Unless he'd be looking for some kind of very rare creatures which only lived there. Not that she knew of any but you never knew. Maybe HE would be the one to discover them.

William was getting closer and closer. Seeing as this was a 'race', Alysson's goal was to overtake her date - even though he'd gotten a head start. Which she actually ended up doing just before they reached the meadow. And right now she didn't even care how only that she had won. Heh. Take that, Willy.

Laughing she then hopped of her bike and - quite unceremoniously - dropped it into the grass. Her feet felt like...well, they felt a little weird. Especially after having had so much to do the last few seconds, what with their race and all. She walked over to where William was standing, Alysson high-fived him with a happy grin on her lips. "We did it!" Whatever IT was, they totally did it.

Now, where was this picnic they'd talked about earlier?

BanaBatGirl · 02-28-2012, 01:26 AM

"Or that, yeah." Duhhhhhhh William, duh. Here was a cute girl willing to help you and instead you'd rather brush up on your geography?! He really needed a copy of that 'How to Date' book by Oliver Jenkins ASAP.

Heh his plan to let her win had WORKED! Woot! That was at least a +1 in the date book. "Good job, good job," he congratulated her, looking around the meadow after their high five. So he wasn't spotting any picnic baskets just yet...that was lame....wait! What was that, over there, in that little cleared, flattened down bit of grass?

"Hey," he nudged Alysson, "I think that looks like a picnic basket over there, d'ya see it?"

It had better be a picnic. He was STARVING.

Lislchen · 02-29-2012, 01:15 PM

YAY! She had won! And no, she didn't even care if he had let her win. Or THAT he had let her win really. Yes, she had noticed that - it was more or less her job to notice things like that. But that was his fault. Now she had won and there was nothing he could do to change that. Not that he particularly looked like he wanted to.

Alysson grinned at him when he congratulated her. "Thanks. So, what's my prize for winning?" She half-joked, watching him glance around the meadow. Not that she really needed a prize, winning as such made her feel awesome enough. Heh.

Feeling his nudge she glanced back up at him before letting her eyes follow his gaze towards...a picnic basket! They'd been right! And Juliet Raphael was AWESOME! "Yes!" She exclaimed with a happy smile, probably a little too enthusiastically, already starting to make her way over to the basket. She was hungry. And she had been a little too...err...nervous to have breakfast this morning too.

Almost there, Alysson turned around and walked backwards a couple of steps so she could look at William with a grin. "You coming?" There would be food after all!

OOC: Also there's a spell around the basket on her bike which protects the flowers and prevents them from falling out or getting damaged or something. *nods*

BanaBatGirl · 03-01-2012, 12:38 AM

"Oh you want a prize, do you?" William raised an eyebrow as a little smirk tugged at the corner of his lips. "What kind of prize were you thinking of?" He could think of a good prize ~~him, cough, obviously, he was quite the catch~~ but didn't want to sound.... pushy.

Not on a first date, anyway.

Will grinned at her reaction to the picnic basket, half expecting her to start clapping with glee. He nodded and followed after her. "Of course. Ladies first." He did glance back at their bikes though, wondering if they should wheel them over with them?

Naw. They'd be all right. It wasn't like it was gonna RAIN or anything...

Lislchen · 03-01-2012, 09:22 PM

What kind of prize did she want? ~~A second date maybe?~~ "Oh, I don't know." Alysson turned her head to look at their bikes - just to give her something else to look at. Glancing back at him after a moment she added with a small grin, "I don't really need a prize, winning is enough." Heh.

Though she would of course never ever say no if she got a prize.

Actually, maybe the picnic was her prize. And of course she would share with William. She turned around swiftly again when she saw him following her and quickly made her way over to the basket, crouching down next to it. Even though she really wanted to see the food inside it, she should probably spread the blanket first.

After having - more or less - successful done that, Alysson plopped down on it, pulling the basket towards her. Now finally she would get to look inside. Looking up at William for a moment with a smile she opened the picnic basket.

BanaBatGirl · 03-02-2012, 02:19 AM

"Are you suuuuure?" William inquired, making a very innocent-looking face as he followed her over to the picnic basket. "Because I was thinking that getting a second date with YOU would be QUITE the prize." And vice versa, because he was so awesome and all that.

He waited patiently for her to lay out the blanket and then settled down on the blanket next to her. William was content to just sorta watch her root around in the basket while he rested his arms on his knees loosely.

"Anything good in there?"

Lislchen · 03-02-2012, 08:00 PM

Alysson stopped on her way over to the basket, without turning around at first, though. He WANTED to give her a prize? And...what?! Trying to keep the surprise off her face when she did turn to look at him again, she tilted her head slightly to the side with a small grin. "What are you suggesting?" Was this his way of asking her out?!

HMM! There were quite a few things in there. "Well, there's...pretzles." Alysson held them up for William to see before placing them onto the blanket close to him. "And this looks like...err...somekind of spread?" It was either that or...dessert maybe? Huh. They would know soon.

As she continued her journey through the basket's contents, she - among other things - came across some grapes and two apples. Oh, and, "A water bottle" She tossed it at William with a smile, putting the basket back down.

BanaBatGirl · 03-03-2012, 09:25 PM

"I'm suggesting that you should go on a second date with me!" William repeated, wondering how that hadn't been clear the first time around? "I mean, only if you want to, and we wouldn't have to do what the matchmaker says we should do or go biking through a forest, you know, like we could get dinner or go bowling or you could choose." He tried to seem all cool about it and shrugged. As if the rambling way he had just asked her out wasn't awkward enough... heh.

He grinned as he watched her unpacking the picnic basket, ooh-ing and aah-ing at each thing as she held it up. Willy caught the water and unscrewed the cap, offering her a drink from the bottle first, in case they had to share. Ladies first.

"So, which thing do we get to eat first, madam?" Apples? Yum yum?

Lislchen · 03-05-2012, 07:06 AM

Heh. She'd just wanted him to say it again. "Well, I very much like this suggestion." Alysson replied with a smile, taking a small step into his direction. When he went on talking about what they could be doing, she just nodded quite happily. "Sounds great." It was a quite vague answer but they didn't have to decide NOW what to do for their next date right? She didn't quite know what she wanted yet.

Well, what she did know was that she wanted a second date with him.

Even though she even went to search through the basket a second time, there just was no second water bottle. Huh. So when she saw William offer his to her, she just smiled and took it to take a few sips before handing it back to him. "Thanks."

Noooooow, what to eat first? "I don't know? The apples look like a good starter?" Alysson offered with a grin, putting them both onto her palms and holding them out so he could choose one.

BanaBatGirl · 03-05-2012, 07:53 AM

Oh, she did? SHE DID?!! William had to try hard not to let a stupid grin break out on his face, and in the end, the grin won that war of wills. "Cool. Just owl me or something whenever you're free." Or he could owl her, but really, his schedule was pretty set in stone til the end of the school year. Surely she knew that.

"No prob." William took the bottle back from her and took a thirsty sip. Whew. Biking sure worked up an appetite on him, anyway. He eyed the apples and plucked the one out on the right. "I feel like you're one of those evil Muggle stepwitches, or whatever they're called, offering me the choice of two poisoned apples..."

Not that she looked like an evil stepwitch by any stretch of the imagination....

Lislchen · 03-05-2012, 11:46 PM

His grin was definitely contageous. Definitely. Also it made her blush a little. "Good. Yes. Definitely." He seemed incredibly happy about this, and somehow so was she. So she didn't even raise her eyebrows at his quite vague 'just owl me or something' but just returned his grin. It probably just WAS more easy for her to adapt her schedule to his, so it made sense for her to owl him.

Taking the left apple more firmly into her hands and putting them in her lap, Alysson couldn't help but giggle at his comment. Evil Stepmother? Her? "You don't trust me then?" She said with a nod at his apple, a challenging grin on her lips. She would save him in case his apple was indeed poisoned of course. Of course.

Then after a short moment of just gazing at him, waiting, she took a bite of her own apple - which obviously wasn't poisoned. "Also, I'm not very good at cackling." Since all the evil witches seemed to be doing that in the movies.

BanaBatGirl · 03-06-2012, 05:18 AM

"Definitely," William echoed, pleased that she was smiling as much as he was. This dating thing wasn't so bad after all.

Did he trust her? "Hmm, Ms. Law Enforcement Officer... you don't think it's too soon to be trusting somebody just like that?" Obviously the apple wasn't poisoned, since she took a bite of her own apple and because well, how would she have had time to plant a poisoned picnic before the start of their own date? Only a super!criminal could think that far ahead like that.... unless she had Juliet Raphael working for her....

No. William shook his head to clear his mind of such paranoid thoughts and also at what Alysson had said. "Good. You're too pretty to be an evil stepmother with a hoarse cackle."

And so he bit into his own apple too, munching it thoroughly. See? No poison here.....so far......

Lislchen · 03-06-2012, 01:59 PM

She raised her eyebrows a little surprised, chuckling lightly. So he DIDN'T trust her. Not even enough to be sure she hadn't poisoned the apples? "Well, there's only one way to find out if the apples are poisoned then." Alysson said, her eyes flickering back and forth between his face and the apple in his hands.

When he still seemed a little hesitant, she just shook her head, clearly amused by all of this and moved to lie down on her back on the blanket. He thought she was too pretty to be an evil stepmother? "Aw. Thank you. I also really couldn't think of a reason why I would want to poison you." She said, grinning up at him for a moment before letting her head rest on the blanket again.

Not yet anyway. Heh.

BanaBatGirl · 03-07-2012, 06:17 AM

"Well I'm finding out right now, aren't I?" William munched through some more of the apple and held it out so she could see it, just now noticing that she had lain down on the blanket. Ohhhhhh. She looked comfortable.

He finished up his apple and then lay down near her too, but not too close, you know, it was a big blanket. "So are you admitting that you were thinking about poisoning me? Is the date going that badly?" He eyed her with a twinkle in his brown eyes, suddenly reminded of something she had asked him earlier.

"Hey, you still wanna see my tats?" Willy propped himself up on his arm, looking over at Alysson hopefully. He only had two tattoos, for now, but they were pretty awesome if he did say so himself...

Lislchen · 03-07-2012, 10:04 AM

What did he expect her to do or say? She looked down at his apple for a moment, chuckling a little. "Told you." SHE knew it wasn't poisoned. Lying back down she smiled a little when she noticed him moving to lie down next to her.

Alysson even closed her eyes for a moment, only opening them again to shake her head at William, a small amused grin playing around her lips. "Didn't I just tell you that I DON'T want to poison you?" And no, up until he'd mentioned it she had not been thinking about it either. "And no, it's not a bad date." She added softly. Not at all.

They had just agreed to go on a second date after all!

His next words got her full attention however. Rolling onto her stomach, she propped herself up on both elbows to get more comfortable and at the same time be able to look at William. "I do." She said with a small smile, letting her eyes drop to his chest for a moment. He seemed to be quite excited about showing her too, it seemed. Heh.

BanaBatGirl · 03-09-2012, 05:33 AM

"All right, all right, I believe you." Obviously he did now, anyway. Heh.

She was lookin', all right. Time to show the tats. Willy sat up all the way and gently tugged his shirt over his head. He pointed first to the tattoo on his right bicep, turning slightly so she could see ~~his awesome abs~~ it properly. It was a handsome Romanian longhorn tattoo, with a long, thin flame of golden fire spewing from the dragon's mouth and twirling around his arm in a continuous ring until it touched the end of the creature's tail again.

"I got this fella in Romania when I first started working on the dragon preserve. We all did, actually, me and all the guys that started at the same time." He nodded proudly. "Touch it." See what it would DO. Hehe.

Lislchen · 03-10-2012, 08:35 PM

When he started taking off his shirt, Alysson glanced back down at her almost-finished apple for a moment. If only so she wouldn't appear to be staring at his chest too much.

When she finally did see the tattoo on his bicep, she was in fact only staring at it ~~instead of just admiring his awesome abs~~. It was amazing. Shifting up into a sitting position so she could get an even better look, she subconsciously inched closer, her eyes fixated on the dragon tattoo. She wasn't even paying much attention to what he was talking about. Something about Romania.

Touch it?! At this she did glance back up at him, a smile on her lips. "It's amazing." With that said she focused her gaze back onto the tattoo as she reached out her right hand and let her index finger trail the flame's path down to the dragon's tail softly.

BanaBatGirl · 03-11-2012, 08:20 AM

William didn't mind the staring, not that he truly noticed. Had he been an attractive female of about the same age as him, he TOTALLY would have been staring too. Hey, he was a good looking guy, aiight?

"Now it's amazing," he clarified, flicking his eyes up from the now moving tattoo to grin crookedly at Alysson. The dragon seemed to come to life at her touch, its flame of fire lighting up a brighter shade of red-orange as the dragon chased its own tail in a ring. A simple animation and wizarding modifcation, but a cool one anyway. It had definitely been worth a few extra coins.

He remembered his second tattoo on his side, near his left ribs, and moved her hand away from his arm and over to it. This tat was simple one, perhaps also animated, that was nothing more than Hogwarts' Latin motto in a fancy script.

"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus," William read off from memory. "Do you know what it means?"

Lislchen · 03-12-2012, 09:47 AM

The moment the tattoo started moving Alysson was tempted to pull her hand back so it wouldn't be in the way. But then she really didn't want to make the moving stop. And it felt kinda nice touching his skin too.

So in the end she just inched even closer, clearly a little awstruck by the whole thing. "It's-" She couldn't say amazing again. "-incredible." She didn't even notice his grin, she was way too entranced by the dragon coming to life. Yes, it probably wasn't that complex or anything to make it move but it still looked amazing.

Alysson did however look up at him for a moment when he took her hand and moved it to his other tattoo. Propping herself up with her other hand so she wouldn't lose her balance, she trailed the writing once again with her finger.

She'd definitely heard of it before but couldn't quite remember what it meant. It was Latin, she knew that for sure. "No. No I don't." She replied softly, glancing back up at him with a smile. "Enlighten me."

BanaBatGirl · 03-13-2012, 01:15 AM

William was quite content to just lie there for a while and let Alysson touch his tattoos. It felt rather nice, since she had such soft hands and was quite absorbed in the tats. Heh. Cute.

"Never tickle a sleeping dragon," he said with a nod. "It's Hogwarts' motto. I like it because well... I like dragons, and it reminds me not to be stupid." Or as stupid as usual.

Lislchen · 03-13-2012, 10:18 PM

When he translated it for her, Alysson looked back down at the words. While trailing them once again a little absently, she repeated what he'd just said more to herself than to him. "Never tickle a sleeping dragon." Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus. Of course, it was the Hogwarts motto. THAT's why she'd heard it before.

Hearing his next words, she glanced back up at him with a laugh. "Not to be stupid?" Alysson echoed with a grin, raising her eyebrows at him a little, clearly amused. She'd finally moved her hands off him, hadn't actually moved herself though, just looking at him for a moment, waiting for an explanation.

Did he tend to do stupid things?

BanaBatGirl · 03-14-2012, 12:10 AM

William hadn't even noticed that she'd taken her hands off him, not being particularly sensitive or ticklish himself. He grinned to see her grin and rested his hand behind his head, still resting on his side on the blanket and facing her.

"Yeah. Not to be stupid." Willy just bobbed his head for a moment as he tried to think of how to explain that one. "I'm really unlucky, as you might have gathered, but I'm also kind of... dumb about it. Sometimes I do dumb things without thinking out the consequences first."

So, in other words, he was still pretty immature. "But I'm not stupid like a box of rocks stupid," he did have two university degrees, after all. "I just have a tendency to jump headfirst into things that sound awesome."

Even though he'd been in Slytherin, he let his Gryffindoring side get the best of him sometimes.

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