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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 · 03-27-2012, 03:50 AM

Will tried to contain his excitement as he sat there and waited for her to open the water bottle. Hehehe. He finished his second sandwich pretty quickly and dusted the crumbs off his hands and onto his jeans, wondering WHY she hadn't taken a DRINK YET.

"I forgot to mention," Willy started, glancing over his shoulder. "I'm something of a...." he just now took note of her sitting up against him and realized a moment too late what was about to happen, receiving a faceful of icy water then for his effort. "....prankster."

He blinked water droplets out of his eyelashes and grinned at Alysson. "Whoops." He laughed, knowing that he deserved a splash in the face for trying to prank her.

Lislchen · 03-27-2012, 09:43 PM

Alysson just sat there for a moment, the bottle still in her hands and blinked quite rapidly a couple of times to get the water out of her eyes. Awesome, now her face and most of her hair and shirt were drenched. Reaching up to rub her hands over her face in an attempt to both warm it up - that water had been COLD - and somewhat dry it off, she shook her head a little, probably sending water droplets everywhere.

At his whoops Alysson finally turned her head a little to look at William...and couldn't help but grin at him, clearly amused by the fact that he himself wasn't exactly dry either. Without saying anything, only grinning, she leaned over him a little a poured the rest of the water which had somehow managed to stay inside the bottle over his head. There...no need to waste it, right? Heh.

"Yes...whoops." She agreed with a giggle and an eyeroll into his direction as she moved to sit cross-legged again and began wringing out her shirt. Now, what were they going to drink?

BanaBatGirl · 03-28-2012, 01:36 AM

Willy turned his head a little more to check out the drenched Alysson. She actually looked better wetter, was that possible? Apparently it was. Heh. He liked what he saw, and was relieved to see her grinning and not at all upset by the water bottle explosion.

No, why would she be upset? She had just poured the entire bottle over his head. No big deal, he was just soaked now!

"So... now we're out of stuff to drink," Willy drawled, blinking as a cold chill ran through his shirtless body. He shivered and leaned into her, soaking her further as he shook his head over her like a dog trying to get lake water out of its fur. "Brrr. You know how to give a man chills, Alysson."

Har har, geddit? He grinned at her goofily. "We might have to take a hike to find some water later, if you get thirsty." Willy gave her a shifty look and ran a hand through his damp hair, spiking it up unintentionally. He, meanwhile, was still hungry, so he reached for the strawberries.

Lislchen · 03-29-2012, 10:38 AM

Alysson reached up to run her hands through her wet hair, attempting to fix it somewhat. Good thing they didn't have any mirrors or something nearby, she really didn't want to see herself right now. But it had been William's fault so he would have to deal with the...err...consequences.

The consequences being, having to look at her with wet hair and a drenched shirt.

"Well, that's not my fault." Okay, it partly was but shh. When he leaned in again, hence getting more water onto her too, Alysson squealed a little at the coldness of the water. "Hey, stop it!" She leaned back slightly, though a little half-heartedly, not really getting further away from him.

Alysson looked up just in time to see him shiver, seeing as he was still without his shirt. Not that she was complaining or anything. Heh. There might have been a slight pinkish hue on her cheeks after hearing his next words but she leaned a little closer nonetheless. "Aww, d'you need me to...warm you up again?"

She just shrugged at first at his suggestion. "Oh, I'm sure we'll be...fine." She trailed off, seeing the look he gave her and couldn't help but grin at him. Her eyes went up his hair for a moment when he ran a hand through it, making it stand up. It looked very...touchable that way.

BanaBatGirl · 03-30-2012, 04:15 AM

No it was his fault they were out of stuff to drink. Not that William was going to admit that. He'd rather get lost in the woods looking for water than admit that perhaps one of his pranks had gone awry. Pshhhh.

Her blushing was cute. "I might," he leaned into her too, crossing his manly arms and faking a big shiver. "Brrrbrbrrr!" Hehe. He was a horrible actor.

William glanced up at the cloud-heavy, darkening sky and shrugged. "If you say so. At least if it rains, we'll have stuff to drink. AND look, we're already wet!" So in other words, he was saying he was content to sit on the picnic blanket for a while longer if she was willing to tempt the skies.

Lislchen · 04-02-2012, 11:16 AM

Alysson ran a hand through her hair one last time before giving up. Yeah, it really was no use. And to be honest, right now she really had other things on her mind.

Like the way William was pretending to be all cold and about to freeze to death. "You're a terrible actor, you know that, right?" She commented with a grin, laughing as he leaned closer too. Putting her hands on his chest, as if to stop him from coming even closer, she put on an innocent look. "But...you can't come any closer. I'm all wet too." And that wouldn't be very helpful in warming him up, now would it.

Not that she really wanted him to stop leaning in. Heh.

Rain? Without moving anything else, Alysson followed his gaze up at the sky, giggling a little at his words. They had wands so she was pretty sure if they really needed something to drink, they wouldn't have to wait for it to rain. "As long as there's no lightning..." She grinned and turned a little to wink at him.

BanaBatGirl · 04-07-2012, 04:11 AM

William put on a matching innocent look, though the corners of his mouth were threatening to break into a gigantic smirk at any moment. Her hands on his bare chest didn't help any either, but he wasn't about to protest.

"No no, see, if we... say, hug each other, the uh, body heat will steam our clothes and we'll dry faster." He bit his own tongue to keep from laughing at how ridiculous that sounded to him. Willy could only imagine that it must sound even worse, even more cheesy, to Alysson.

A rumble of thunder broke out as the darkening clouds loomed closer, and Willy actually did shiver at Aly's reminder. "I uh, I'm terribly afraid of thunderstorms," he half-fibbed. "Will you protect me from the lightning?" He turned his big brown eyes on her and did a good job at keeping a straight face... for all of five seconds. Then William was chuckling again, albeit much more quietly than usual.

Lislchen · 04-10-2012, 08:28 PM

Alysson raised her eyebrows at his explanations, not quite able to keep a grin from playing around her lips. WHAT was he talking about? "Body heat, hmm?" She echoed with her eyes on her hands which had started to trail random paths on his chest.

His skin did feel pretty warm under her fingers.

Looking back up at him, trying to keep the amusement off her face she cocked her head to the side a little. "Well, we better test your theory then." Maybe it would work. Heh. But you know, HE had been the one to bring it up so HE also had to be the one to test it.

Seriously, had he PLANNED this thunderstorm? She giggled some more at him claiming he was afraid of thunderstorms. "I would be too if I were you." Alysson commented with another wink before turning her full attention back to him. "I will throw myself in front of you when I see lightening coming your way." Yeah, no she wouldn't.

BanaBatGirl · 04-17-2012, 03:56 AM

Well that had worked better than expected. He had no complaints about her hands all over him. No, he couldn't even think of a complaint if he tried, though he also couldn't really think of anything else to say right then....

The memory loss was totally unrelated to her hands. Uh huh. Yup.

"Yyyou want a hug?" he repeated, staring at her hands and then at her face. There was a weird tingling in his arms that seemed to be pinning them to where they were, unfortunately. "Hhhhhhhhhug."

The thunder seemed to be closer now, and Willy tore his eyes away from Aly's to glance at the sky just in time to see a bolt of lightning flit across the landscape.

"I think we should probably move," he murmured, the lightning seeming to help him recover from his momentary bout of stuttering. "I really don't want to have to make you become a martyr for me." Flashing her a wink, William reluctantly scooted back from Alysson and started packing up the picnic basket. He felt a few fat, thick drops of rain trickle down his neck in the meantime.

Lislchen · 04-25-2012, 11:00 PM

Alysson stopped all movement and tried to meet his gaze with her mouth hanging open slightly in surprise. "Are...you okay?" The stuttering was somewhat worrying. Or had she done something wrong? Maybe he was just surprised that she'd agreed on the whole theory thing.

The weather really wasn't on their side it seemed. Instinctively pouting a little when William stated that they should probably move, Alysson watched him scoot away from her. "I guess so..." Bleh. She really didn't want to though to be honest. But then again, of course that thunderstorm looked pretty bad. And no, despite what she'd been thinking about earlier she really didn't want to be struck by lightening.

Getting up slowly she glanced around for a moment in search for something he'd missed when her eyes fell on...his shirt. A grin was tugging at the corners of her lips while she reached for it and held it up a little with one hand. "I think I have something of yours." Not that she necessarily wanted him to put it back on but they couldn't just leave it here either.

Actually.....now she kind of regretted that she didn't just vanish it. Ahem.

BanaBatGirl · 04-26-2012, 03:26 AM

"Okay? Yeah yeah, I'm fine." William was shivering a little, although he didn't entirely know it, as the temperature started to drop. Damn impending thunderstorm! Just when he finally had a date going well, the weather had to come along and ruin it all.

Well, maybe not all of it.

William looked up from packing up the picnic basket, having made quick work of that, and raised an eyebrow at the shirt in Alysson's hand. "I see," he mused, trying to sound all coy for some reason. "I have a feeling I'm not going to get that back, am I?"

Not that he was complaining, but it WAS raining more heavily now....

"Wanna make a dash for the trees?" Willy raised his voice a bit so that she could hear him over the sound of the wind and rain and thunder and all that.

Lislchen · 04-26-2012, 03:01 PM

Fine. Alysson gave him a hesitant smile as he tried to assure her that he was absolutely fine. "Okay..." Why was he shivering then? Unfortunately, there was just not much time to think about all of this now since the thunderstorm was getting closer and closer.

Or well, it was HERE already actually.

Her eyebrows went up a little innocently as she cocked her head to the side a little. "I didn't say that..." She wasn't going to deny that she'd been THINKING that but you know. Her eyes dropped to his bare chest for just a second before meeting his gaze again.

It HAD gotten pretty cold, though. So in the end she took a couple of steps towards him and held out the shirt with a small sigh. "I don't want you to become sick because of me though, so..." But that was really the only reason he was getting his shirt back.

She had to get even closer to him to understand what he was saying. The trees right. Anything to get out of that thunderstorm. She wouldn't have minded the rain. But all this wind and thunder was starting to get quite scary. "Oh but our bikes!" Her eyes flickered upwards for a moment, then to the bikes and back back to him.

Was it save to levitate them in this weather?

BanaBatGirl · 04-29-2012, 07:54 AM

"Contrary to my youthful, handsome appearance," William caught her staring at his chest again and began blushing, "I wasn't born yesterday." He snatched his shirt back, but just as he took it, a great rumble of thunder sounded and the skies let loose at full force.

Well. There was no time to put it on now. William stuffed the shirt under his arm and scooped up the picnic basket with one hand. He grabbed Alysson's hand with his free one. "Forget the bikes! Let's get to the trees!"

The bikes were metal. Metal attracted lightning.

William did not like lightning.

Lislchen · 05-03-2012, 12:06 PM

Alysson mentally snorted at his words and would have probably said something too if they hadn't been in the middle of a thunderstorm. It wasn't like what he'd said wasn't true - AHEM! - but it was still kind of amusing to hear him say it. When he snatched his shirt out of her hands, she may have pouted just a tiny bit. Not on purpose. Just...it meant he was going to put his shirt back on.

Or you know not. Heh.

But there really was no time to enjoy this fact, even though the thought made her blush a little nonetheless. Back to the bikes though. William was probably right. There was no time unless they wanted to be struck by lightening. Again. Well, for him it would be a again. So, no bikes then.

Squeezing his hand a little to show him that she was ready to go, Alysson turned away from the bikes again and towards the trees. "Okay, let's go!" She shouted over the sound of the storm, smiling a little despite the situation they were in. Somehow she still thought this was pretty funny. Probably the adrenaline or something.

They should probably run, right? This thunderstorm was BAD!

BanaBatGirl · 05-04-2012, 02:11 AM

"Runnnnnn!!!!!" William hollered, starting to lope toward the treeline and tugging Alysson along behind him as gently as he could. He knew he could be strong-armed and strong-willed sometimes, but he really didn't want to rip her arm out of her socket. Manhandling was not attractive ~~or so he'd learned.~~

Once they were under the cover of the trees, Will set down the picnic basket and pulled his mostly dry shirt out from under his arm. "Care to dry off, miss?" he grinned, offering it to her. Merlin that rain had been hard! He'd be blinking raindrops out of his eyelashes for ever!

Lislchen · 05-05-2012, 11:57 AM

So yeah, run did sound like a pretty good idea.

Alysson tried to keep up with him as best as she could when William started running towards the trees for safety. And safety really was the right word here seeing as the thunder was so loud now that she could barely hear their feet hitting the ground anymore. This was bad. William really did seem to attract thunderstorms.

Trees. Good. As long as they didn't stand too close to them they should be fine right? Running her hand through her hair to get it out of her face, she found herself still laughing somehow at all of this. She took the shirt from him and attempted to dry her face off with it. ~~Mmm. It smelled of him.~~

The rest of her was too wet to be dried off with a single piece of clothing so she returned the shirt once her face was more or less dry. "Thanks." Well, this date did not EXACTLY go as planned but she wasn't complaining. Somehow she was still enjoying herself more than she had in quite some time.

BanaBatGirl · 05-10-2012, 04:42 AM

William tried his best not to just stare at the dream come true that was a soaking wet hot chick standing right next to him in the middle of a secluded forest.

Tried being the key word here. Soon enough, he had his shirt back in his hands and was tugging it, wet spots and all, on over his head. Well that was that. Fun was over. Better not stare any longer then.

And soon enough, it seemed the rainstorm was too. "Huh, that's odd," William commented, pointing toward a spot behind Alysson where the sun was peeking through the clouds. "I do believe it's stopped raining!" Was he seeing things, or was that a rainbow forming just over her shoulder, too?!

It also seemed one very drenched, very angry Tour Guide was stomping across the field toward their bikes now too. Heheh. OOPS.

Lislchen · 05-12-2012, 11:25 PM

Alysson pouted a little without realizing it herself when he finally put his shirt back on. It made sense though. Seeing as it was still pretty cold AND raining. That still didn't mean that she approved of him putting his shirt back on. AHEM.

Oh but on the raining part. Now that she took a look around it seemed that the rain had stopped almost as suddenly as it had begun. And soon enough William was also pointing out exactly that, making her turn around to see what he was gesturing at. The sun. The sun was coming back.

"You planned all that, didn't you?" Alysson said with a amused grin as she turned back around to face him. She wasn't entirely serious, the way he'd looked a little ~~SCARED!!~~ uncomfortable during the thunderstorm, yeah, she was pretty sure that that had been real. It was still funny somehow. As if it had been his plan to get them both wet. Heh.

Out of the corner of her eyes she noticed some movement and as soon as she'd tilted her head a little to see what - or rather WHO - it was, she couldn't help but giggle a little. Without turning back to William at first she just reached out to tug on his shirt to get his attention. "There, look. We've got company." Oh. But that probably meant that....

BanaBatGirl · 05-14-2012, 08:57 PM

Willy chuckled as Alysson accused him of perfectly planning the day. "I wish," he mused, "I wish I was brilliant enough to plan a date like this." And brilliant enough to catch a girl like her. No, sadly, he'd needed to go through a matchmaking service to meet Aly.

His gaze trailed down to her hands on his shirt and he looked back up, more amused than ever now. "Well well, looks like it rained on SOMEBODY's parade." But not his, nope, he was happier than ever, other than the whole 'date was over' thing....

Watching the date guide lady throw them dirty looks as she guided the bikes out of the wet grass, Willy turned back to Alysson, putting his hands on hers. "So....... about that second date?"

Might as well make plans now, right?

Lislchen · 05-14-2012, 09:55 PM

Alysson giggled a little as she watched him with her head slightly cocked to the side. Really? "So I'm the first girl who got a thunderstorm on a date with you? I'm very lucky then." She joked with a grin, winking at him before averting her gaze to what was going on at the meadow they'd just fled. There might have been a slightly pinkish hue on her cheeks but she chose to ignore it. ~~Effie~~ The matchmaking lady was more important now.

Who looked downright furious. Oops. Hopefully the bikes were alright. "We should probably say goodbye." Or you know, wave. Which was what she did. Waving at ~~Effie~~ the woman quite cheerfully, Alysson just giggled and rolled her eyes when all she got in return was a glare. Hey, it wasn't her fault that it had started to rain.

Her gaze returned to meet William's quite suddenly when he put his hands over hers, her amused grin turning into an almost coy smile. "Yes...?" Was he already looking forward to it as much as she was? Her fingers had started to play with the fabric of his shirt absently while she waited for him to go on talking.

BanaBatGirl · 05-16-2012, 03:34 AM

"You're definitely luckier than I am," Willy chuckled softly. Actually, Alysson COULD be the first thunderstorm!girl he'd been on a date with, since... he hadn't been on many dates. Ever.

His eyes flicked briefly to ~~Effie~~ the matchmaking lady and then back to Alysson, who was much more interesting ~~and pretty~~ if you asked him. "Nahhhhh," he waved her off, "I think she's seen enough of us for now." But he definitely hadn't seen enough of Aly.

Whuda thunk this date would go so well? "Well, how about," he cleared his throat a little, as her hands were starting to become so distracting, "I give you my contact info, and you.... choose the date? I'll pick the place?" That was a LOTTA PRESSURE for him, but he would at least be able to bother Oliver for dating advice beforehand.

"Sound good?" He was already releasing her hands and reaching into his back pocket for a pen or something.

Lislchen · 05-17-2012, 08:41 PM

Luckier than he was? What did he mean by that? "You mean because I wasn't struck by lightning?" Alysson mused with a slightly confused smile, shaking her head a little. He wasn't referring to this date or anything, right? Because that would be...well, not good.

Yeah, good thing she'd gone for waving at ~~Effie~~ the other woman instead. She didn't look like she wanted to socialize or anything. So, enough about her and back to William. He was a lot more important right now after all. Well, not only 'right now' really.

Alysson nodded slowly, her gaze dropping down to her hands for a moment, watching them absently. "Sure, sounds great." And now she was REALLY curious about where they were going to go. Not that it mattered too much. She would most likely enjoy it no matter where they went.

When he removed his hands from hers she dropped them from his chest as well, still not looking back up at him. Until it finally sunk in what exactly he'd said. Glancing back up at him, she grinned and shook her head as he reached back, presumably for something to write. "Actually...I know where to find you." He would be at Hogwarts, right?

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