Barry was oblivious to what was going on arounf him he was fixed on Camira a word came to his mouth that was familiar "Yaxley" he muttered. Where had he heard that before? Hmm Barry knew he hadn`t met the girl last year and in his first year he had stuck round his cosons. Wait that was it! This girl was Monicas freind what was her name? um yes "Camira Yaxley!" exclaimed Barry. Wait why was he staring at her? She was with people as well! "Um sorry 2 he muttered. She was with Nico and some other slythrin girl he had wandered into there teritory he bent down and scrambled up his notes about the letters hoping to be ignored

Nikki looked at Nico and sighed, "Houses don't matter" she stated simply, house were stupid and the rivarly was even stupider. "I'm sorry, you're confusing me... first you say it's a date now it's just hanging out" she said, furrowing her eyebrows, no one had ever been so confusing as Nico was, she didn't know what to do really.

She gapsed when he pushed her away and watched Camira punch him in the mouth, she walked over and stood there, "You need people Nico, you're not alone in this, you have friends that care" she stated, she sighed when he made a comment about Maddox and her "So you think I'm going to be like Maddox and leave you?" she asked softly, she had never felt more hurt by him. Great first he cofuses her now he hurts her.

She listened to him rant about Kayla not loving him and she walked over to him. She bent down, lifting his chin with two fingers so he was facing her, "Nicholai... Renauldi stop it" she said softly, she didn't know if he would get angrier by her saying that, but it was worth a try.

Nicholai barely heard Camira speaking, lost in his own headspace. Slumped against the wall he watched her approach and tensed up as she punched him on the mouth. He could taste the metallic tang in his mouth and it worked like a charm at fueling him up again. He pushed off the wall and began pacing again.

"You want to help me? Find out who took the photos. Anna and Cale are keeping their eyes open, Mari too. But they want me to report them to the headmistress. That isn't what I intend to do." His brand of justice was a little different. He stopped again, facing the wall and looking sideways as he heard Barry.

Nicholai growled slightly under his breath and flicked his wand at Barry, causing all his notes to fly into a neat stack in Barry's hands.
"Now is NOT a good time." Nicholai ground out through grit teeth, he was looking for target practice and really it wouldn't be so good to hex one of his little sisters friends. He tried to smile at the kid but only managed a grimace.

"Its a date that neither of us really want to go on." Nicholai half-snapped.

Staring at the stone wall Nicholai listened dully. "I hope not. Not Maddox either." Nicholai stroked the tooth pendant. "I just don't want you guys not to be friends with her... and if that means choosing her over me then do it."

Nico looked up as Nikki lifted his chin with haunted eyes. He flinched and stepped back from her, against the wall. Renauldi? She was saying that he was like his Uncle?

He bent over with his hands on his knees and stared at the ground for a moment.

"I have to go." He told his feet, looking up under his lashes to see if Camira and Nikki had heard him. It was hard to speak properly- his lip getting a little swollen.

He straightened up and in just a few moments had his regular cool and distant mask in place.

"Camira... I'll see you in the library in the morning. Nikki... I don't want to lose you. I don't want to... be like him. Look after Kayla for me. And find out who took those damned photos." Nico gestured to the photos that Nikki still had before turning and walking quickly up the corridor heading for.... somewhere else.

Goodness. He didn’t even do anything when she punched him. Something really was wrong with him. “I’ll make sure to keep a look-out”, she said seriously. And talk to Kayla, she thought to herself. They wanted him to report the person. Pfft. “I’m not surprised. I wouldn’t be wasting my time with the reporting either.” At least he was kind of more calm, wasn’t he?

Oh, he was leaving. Maybe that was a good thing. He definitely needed some alone time. The library? Oh, right. She’d completely forgotten about that. “I’ll be there”, she said, before watching him walk away. That had certainly been…interesting.

Nikki stared at him, waiting for an explosion, but all he did was flinch away and from the look in his eyes, get scared. She knew he didn't want to be like his Uncle but calling him that was the only way to get him back to himself.

She stepped away and watched him stared at the ground, she nodded slightly when he said he had to leave, she couldn't help feeling bad for calling him that... No, it was the only way she reminded herself.

She listened to him and smiled softly, "I know Nico" she said softly, he wasn't his uncle and she didn't want to lose him either, "I promise Kayla will be fine" she added, that just showed he really did care about Kayla, if only she was there to hear it herself. She nodded again, she had to find out who took those photos, she looked down at them before pushing them in to her pocket. She looked up and watched him leave. She really hoped she got through to him, if she didn't there was almost no hope.

Barry wasn`t stupid who did Nico think Barry was? Now was not the time to think now was the time to run away he muttered a small thank you to Nico eyed Camira he had to talk to the girl sometime it had been a long time he douted she even remembered him and then he ran upstairs hopefully to the common room

"So, having fun in the hospital wing?" he asked as he caught up to her in the corridor.

"Fun isn't the word... sometimes I wonder how these kids stay alive when they are at their homes." She said shaking her head. "I am learning a lot though and the healers at St. Mungo's who are reviewing the work I send in, say I'm doing really well..." She shrugged.

"I suppose that's a good sign. Job security and all that," he said, managing to keep it serious to the very end. But, after a short pause, he snorted and started laughing. "Well, at least you're getting experience and that's the important thing."

"Are you teasing me, Professor Bontecou?" She said raising an eyebrow. "I'm not a person many people make fun of..." She said looking ahead.

Megan stepped into the corridor "Where AM I"she muttered to herself trying to find her way in this school was impossible it was so big her old school looked like a shoebox compared to this. she leaned against the wall and tryed to figure out where she was

It was fun for Eve to think she had never been there before. there were still so many mysterious and unknown places at Hogwarts. Eva kept dreaming awake. She leant agaisnt the wall and waited for Daphne.
What made her choose this place?, she couldn't help wondering.

Daphne happily skipped down, wearing a new outfit, happy to be out of her school uniform. Her navy long-sleeved dress swished with her steps. She saw Eva staring out in a daze. "Why hello! Funny seeing you here!" she joked, her voice echoing around the stone hall. She looked around, it was completely deserted. Walking over to her friend, she casually leaned against the wall.

"I like finding odd places like this. I got lost once and ended up here. It's like one of those places you're not supposed to be in, like it's a secret," she smiled, sliding down the wall to get to Eva's level. Daphne herself pulled out a book to study for her Arithmancy final exam. She was not looking forward to that at all. It would surely lower her marks for the year.

"You are strange, Daphne." Eva said with a chuckle. "I never thought someone like you would like a place like this. It's... surprising." she told the other girl. She pulled from her notebook; the one where she had been drawing the ravenclaw girl.
"I understand it. I get lost a lot of times. One I end up in a Trophy Room I had no clue it existed." ehe he. She remebered the desert Trophy room, herself and Sebastian. The boy in question had found out a little more about his history and Eva had been there to support him. Of course she had showed up like a surprise... the girl had no idea where she was back then.

She glanced at daphne's book.
"What's that? Arithmancy?" Arithmancy was one of Eva's favourite subjects, along with Muggle Studies. She smiled:
"Can I take a look at it?" she asked.

Daphne was shocked! She never would describe herself as "strange." "Oh, I'm not! Not at all!" she defended, though she knew Eva didn't mean it as an offense. "Plus, don't you think this place is flattering for me?" she stood up and twirled around, dancing in her dress. She looked around the dimly lit hallway, the walls bare. No paintings, no curtains, no tapestries. This place could use a decorator. "Besides? We're the prettiest things down here!" she laughed, returning to her spot, returning to studying.

Perhaps she was focusing too hard, but she swore Eva asked to see her Arithmancy book. Pulling her head out of the text, she happily obliged. "Reading that shan't do me any good, I fear," she said sadly, handing it over to her Hufflepuff friend. "Need to study, too?" she asked, wondering if Eva were as lost as she was.

Eva raised an eyebrow. Then, following the other girl's line of thoughts she burst out in laughs.
"Of that I'm sure." she replied to Daphne's comment about them being the prettiest things in the room. "My mother would L.O.V.E to deocrate this!" she excalimed.

The girl shrugged.
"I don't think so. I just want to see and remember and were the last subjects." she was smiling when she picked the Arithmancy textbook. "I love arithmancy. You don't?"

Daphne looked around. It would be an interesting project to ambush the dungeon with paintings and curtains and ribbons. "As would I! Perhaps at a less busy time we could have a blast down here. Nobody's ever around, we could decorate it and nobody would know it's us!" she laughed, really growing on the plan.

Resting her head against the cold stone, she imagined the dungeon with a much friendlier atmosphere. Daphne couldn't believe Eva loved Arithmancy, she despised it. "Oh, I really, really don't. I love practical things, like Transfiguration, Charms, even Potions. But Arithmancy just doesn't make sense to me. It's not something I can do with a wand," she lamented, lowering her head in her hands. "I'm going to fail it!" She leaned back again, trying to relax and telling herself she would get through the exam just fine.

"Yeah, right..." she commented, not believing they could actually do it. But then again, why now? "We can talk to the Headmistress what she says." Eva suggested, although she wasn't thinking about it for real. She had the feeling that the Hogwart's Heasdmistress could even be open to consider it, though.
Who knows?

"You can't be so pessimist! Arithmancy is very logical. It deals with numbers and, while you can be mistaken when you perform a spell, in Arithmancy everything makes sense. The numbers always tell the truth." she explained. Eva liked school in genereal, but she wasn't fond of on Magical Creatures or Potions - she hated those two subjects. The rest wasd pleasent to learn.

Standing up, she walked the length of the deserted cooridor, carefully examining the walls. Eva wanted to get official permission for this, but Daphne disagreed. "You think they'd really let us? A bunch of students taking over a section of the school?" she asked, shaking her head. "I think we may need to go rogue on this one." Her face broke into a devilish smile, the plot really growing on her.

Returning to her perch beside Eva, Daphne wanted to put her mind on more pleasant things than her forthcoming examinations. "I wonder where my cat is," she remarked somewhat randomly. Her feline friend, Angelica, had been roaming the grounds a lot lately. Her owner barely saw her all week, only at nights for bed. "Have you got any pets?" she asked. Students at Hogwarts had the most interesting animals, she loved hearing about them.

"I don't know." Eva shrugged. Were they really considering it? Seems like it, she thought. And maybe, who knew, it could be fun.
"We talk to the Headmistress and explain her everything we intend to do. Yet, I don't know what she'll think of it. Then, we'll tell her we want to be home decorators in the future." she added with a smirk.
"If there were more students interested, I think the Headmistress would start to consider it." she looked around. Now she was really loving the idea. "We can try..."

She glanced at Daphne and reminded of Missy. Eh eh. Eva was enjoying a quiet week without Missy. It felt good, although she missed the fat orange cat a lot.
"Yup. I share a cat with my boyfriend." she answered vaguely. Wow, it sounds strange, she thought. She decided to explain the whole story.
"My muggle grandmother offered me a cat this summer, because my twin sister has one. Missy is the most lazy, food-addicted animal I've ever seen. And she's always sleeping." she paused. "I'm not really fond of cats. I rather dogs. Then, my cat met my boyfriend and she loved him. He loved her too. It was love at first sight." she joked.
"So, me and Sebastian decided to shared Missy." she added the conclusion.

Daphne looked around, up and down the corridor. There was no one there but those two. "Oh Eva, we can just do this now!" she said passionately, standing up and pulling out her wand. She tapped one stone and mumbled a few word. The grey granite turned a light violet colour. She did the same until five surrounding stones were that colour.

She stood back and examined her handiwork. The spellwork wasn't perfect, the shades were slightly off from stone to stone, but nothing dramatic. She turned back to her friend. "You in?" she inquired, mischievous eyebrows raised.

Daphne couldn't imagine sharing an animal with anybody, though Eva didn't fancy the creature, so it seemed to be a nice arrangement. "That is strange, but what ever works, right?" she nodded, gazing down the hall, wondering how she would proceed. She didn't really want to colour the entire hall purple. Maybe it would be sets of stones in different hues. That would be nice and playful and a good way to practise.

"You are crazy." Eva said as she stood up to help her friend with the... decorations. "Are you sure purle goes along with a place like the Dungeons?" she asked with a grin.
"Of course I'm in. There is no way I'm going to let you do this alone." she said with an accomplice smile. She grabbed her wand and watched as Daphne decorated the corridor, trying to remember the exact words of the spells.

She turned her head when Daphne commented the strange arrangement she had with Sebastian.
"Yeah. I think so." Plus, she had never wanted the cat, right? Although she was starting to like Missy. Sometimes.

Back to painting the corridor...
"What colour fits better in this place?" she asked, studying the place.

This was probably the last person Eva expected to see. Now there were two Evas... or two Eleanors.
She imitated her twin sister by crossing her arms on her chest too.
"What are you doing here?" Eva was clearly not happy with this interruption.

"Well, Daphne, this is my sister Ellie." she added. After meeting Ellie Daphne certainly would consider best Eva's opinions about having a twin sister. Yes, because the two Bluebell girls didn't share closets or the last name.