Startled, Travis turned his transparent gray eyes to Jason, who had fallen to the floor. "Oh, dang. You alright, dude?"

"Anything is more comfy than these seats", Lillianna smiled.

" No, I am hurt Travis" Jason told him. "Hopefully you and Lillianna or you and Cale or you and Anna can help me up" Jason told him. "Unless you young girls want to help" Jason told them.

Lillianna pulled him up with no effort. It seemed so strange she could do that by how fragile she looks.

"Nice to meet you, Travis," Anna replied, shooting him a friendly smile. "I'm Anna Greingoth, your female prefect." She shook his hand, still smiling, and then decided she should probably welcome him to Hogwarts. "Last year was your first school year with us...right? In that case, welcome to Hogwarts. I think you'll find it a huge improvement from last school year."

"Oh, you know what I mean, Weasley," Anna said with a giggle. She leaned over and whispered into his ear, "Boys...you know, that kind," she jokingly said. "And we'll just have to see about that pillow fight. Us girls got into a few pillow fights of our own last term. We've been practicing, and we're ready for battle. I get Cale on my team, though."

That was when Anna noticed Jason suddenly fall out and land on the floor. "Erm, Jason? You okay down there?" Anna asked. "What happened to your back?"

About to reach over to help Jason, Travis stopped himself, raising an eyebrow at the girl who had help his friend up. Hmmm, how strange...This girl looked like she could be broken by the wind. He gave her a small smile, turning back to his plate.


"Pleasure to meet you, Anna," Travis smiled at her welcome. "Thanks, I can hardly wait for classes to start." His grinned faded a few seconds after that, remembering that Irial was supposed to be here with him and Caitlin. Not off dying in some war. Argh! Dammit Irial, you better come back alive!

"Yes?", Lillianna asked Travis. She had a strange feeling he might say something. Lillianna brushed her long brown hair behind her back.

Jillain just nodded after the hello, then averted her attention back to Jillian--at least until Jason had fallen to the floor.

"Mermaid's fins!" she exclaimed, her eyes widening. "You okay there, mate?"

Jillian grinned as she watched Daphne almost starstruck meeting the new Prefect. She giggled at the thought of Daphne might liking this Cale person.

Jillian got into her planning, her hands formed images of the places they'd go to and the things they'd be doing. She was going on and on, babbling, smiling here and there as she added more stuff in her ever-expanding list.

She stopped though when she thought she heard something from Daphne. The girl was looking at some blank space. Jillian tilted her head a bit, then stared hard on that very same space but saw nothing but that. "Hey, whatchoo lookin' at? Daphne? Who you talkin' to?" she waved one of her hands in front of Daphne's face, making sure the girl was still with her.

"Hmmm?" Travis turned to the girl he hadn't introduced himself to. "I wasn't going to say anything...um, I'm Travis, by the way."

" Thanks Lillianna" Jason told her. " I fell on the train and hurt my back before we got here" Jason told everyone. "So if it is girls against boys in a pillow fight and if Cale is on the girls side, what does that make you Cale?" Jason laughed. He tickled Anna ,his cousin on the cheek. "No, I am not feeling great because I hurt my back doing one of my pastimes- no not eating, excersising" Jason told Jillian

"I'm not that fragile or strong.", Lillianna said. "I'm Lillianna by the way"

"Your welcome.", Lillianna smiled.

"Oh cale can be a girl with a u", Lillianna laughed.

ooc: gtg soon.

Cale looked up as a very familiar voice greeted him from behind. Even though he had just seen her...oh, two seconds ago, he still couldn't help but smile. "Of course not pretty lady, take a seat," he told her with a chuckle.

"It's...well...overwhelming," he admitted with another chuckle, looking around in awe at the Great Hall. He felt like a little kid in a candy store, the way he was oogling at everything and everyone in sight. Now THIS was his dream come true. Not last year, his first year since being homeschooled--no, this was much better.

"Is that even possible?" the prefect joked, looking at all the delicious food around them. "How could you be full?" he asked with a playful grin, grabbing a chicken leg and dropping it on his plate with a thunk.

"Really?" Cale asked, wrinkling his dark eyebrows. He his reputation proceeded him? Hopefully it was for something good and not something stupid, like...how his sideburns looked ready to take over the world. "I hope you know me from hearing good things about me," he joked, half serious as he voiced his thoughts aloud.

"Interesting, so this is your first year at actual Hogwarts as well?" he asked. "Coopers and Belles can hardly be considered schools. Now this place is a real school," he said with a grin, resisting the urge to do a quick scan of everything in the room--again.

Suddenly, there was a loud commotion, and Jason was on the floor. Wha? When did this happen? "Jason--what in the name of Merlin are you doing on the floor?" he asked, offering to help him up with everyone else in the vacinity. "How did you fall off the bench?"

"Hey, why am I on the girls side?" Cale asked, pretending to be shocked as he joked with his friend. At least he seemed ok after his fall a few seconds ago. "I'm a MAN!"

"Oh, it's very possible," Travis assured Cale with a nod. He padded his stomach. "All those sweets fill me up quick. But I can probably take in a serving...or two." He grinned, conceiling his inner turmoil, and ate a spoonful of mashed potatoes.

" You know that and I know you are a man Cale, but Anna said you were going to be on the boys side and I could not resist teasing you about it "Jason told Cale. "See, I can't say Revolution anymore to tease you" Jason said to Cale. " I will go to the nurse as soon as she is ready" Jason told Lillianna and the rest. " You are very strong Lillanna" Jason said. " I will watch Gryffindor play and win the Quidditch cup this term." jason told everyone at the table.

Bree had somehow become separated from Mariel after she'd got off the train and been pushed to the front of the crowd of first years. It was big. It was bigger than she'd imagined. Bigger even than her mother had ever said. Maybe the Hall grew. It's ceiling definitely looked as if the walls could do with some expanding to fit.

The older crowd was staring up at them now, standing on the dais. Some teacher, at least she supposed the person was a teacher had placed a small stool with her parents' famous Sorting Hat. She swallowed hard, burning her throat as she did so. Her last name began with an 'F'. 'F' was the sixth letter of the alphabet.

Her name was called and she closed her eyes briefly before walking to the hat trying to look nonchalantly at the ceiling which was still grey but also had some stars showing. She sat down and the hat was slipped over her head. It was dark in here. Surprisingly so considering its threadbare appearance. Even through the dark felt she could feel the eyes of everyone trained on her. She played with her fingers on her lap, waiting for the hat's proclamation.

"GRYFFINDOR!" exploded in her ears and she jumped.

The hat was removed and she could see again that everyone was looking at her. Through the ringing in her ears she could hear the applause the accompanied the many pairs of hands rapidly crashing together.

It was lucky that there were coloured tapestries showing which table was which or she would never have been able to figure which table was hers now. She walked forward rapidly and turned to the right to take one of the available seats, left open for first years. She ended up sitting across the table from the indignant girl from Flourish and Blotts (ooc: Ama). She smiled shyly, as one does when one has been through a rather trying ordeal and sees even a vaguely familiar face. She turned to watch for Mariel's sorting, trying not to look too self-conscious.

Startled yet again, Daphne sat straight up, bumping into Jillian. Alarmed she steadied the girl herself while grumbling and adjusting her robes with the excuse of making her look proper. "Ladies should sit with their back straight," she informed her friend before turning her attention elsewhere.

Davis, wherever he was, and if this was his idea of humor, was so going to be pelted with smelling salts.

The conversation between the males was slightly interesting. Something about a sport involving pillows and how the big burly one had fallen and injured his back in the train. Scratching her cheek, Daphne did her best at appearing interested in the subject of smacking each other in the face with pillows.

And how Mister Cale's sex was, at the present time, unverified.

"Well, I...on the train the girls talk a lot in the corridors," she began trying to explain herself, cheeks (and ears hidden by wavy blond hair) turning pink but yet again she was interrupted by the rest of the chatter and left it at that. It was best to seize the opportunities fate handed you.

Fate was telling her to keep quiet and stop inserting her dainty feet into her mouth consecutively. Daphne respected Fate greatly and would heed her commands.

"I don't..." she swept Cale a sideways glance. "I--if he says he's a man..."

His sideburns sure looked manly enough...in a sense.

Jason always the nice guy even with back hurting says "Hi to the new girl sorted in Gryffindor" " My name is Jason Potter Weasley and yours?" Jason asked her.

"Ooooh," Cale said, pretending that he understood what she meant by sharing the fact that girls talked to one another in the corridors. They were talking about him? Mister Clumsy Prefect? Nuuuuuuuu, that was impossible.

Of course, it COULD be true, and Cale just had a lot more fangirls than he dared think, and if it was his ego was about to take a bit of an unnecessary boost. But it wasn't like that was anything new. His ego had to be about the size of the Astronomy tower by now.

He chuckled as the young girl tried to defend him in his little argument with Jason. "Don't worry about it," he assured her, since Daphne was blushing enough to rival him on a normal day. "Jason just likes to tease me. He knows how I'd destroy him in a pillow fight," he joked, turning to his friend again with grinning mischeviously.

"Oh, Jason, did I tell you? I saw Shel!" he exclaimed, hardly able to keep the excitement out of his voice.

" How is Shel doing?" Jason asked Cale. "Well with Shel on our side along with Chris and Travis,, no wonder Anna, the sweet "evil eyes" prefect wantsyou on her side Cale because the girls will ose when we include you on the boys side Cale" Jason told him. " OW. OW" Jason says still hurting.

"Bree," Bree said sharply. She disliked being classified by recently completed actions. Even if this Jason didn't know her name he could have asked her. She was finding herself distinctly disliking this particular boy for no apparent
reason. Maybe she was just be prejudiced but she couldn't help it.

Jillian's lower lip stuck out a bit, a small pout formed on her face. "No fair. You're so lucky you got to go to a co-ed school when you were first year." she interrupted. "Wish I did. Belle's school was too girly. Arranging flowers--bah! Like arranging flowers would ever help you in a duel or something."

She crossed her arms very childishly and her brows furrowed. "Ministry shouldn't have split the school in the first place. First year could've been a blast. Boys en't afraid to goof around." she added, knowingly. Her brothers were much more fun to play with than her older sister. And her little sister was only an infant. They couldn't really hang out much.

Her expression changed though as Cale declared his manhood. She was giggling so hard that she had to clap her hand over her mouth to control herself and get herself to stop. "Sorry, sorry." she said, waving her hands in front of her. "Oh, I'm Jillian, by the way."

Jillian blinked. That wa an unexpected answer. "Erm, okay, but I'm not exactly a lady. But for you, I'll sit up straight, see?" she then sat erect, copying Daphne's example. Now the tricky part was to stay that way. Jillian was used to slouching so this back straight thing wasn't really working out.

She rubbed her back as she listened to the boys guffaw and converse. "I think me back's cramping." she whispered to Daphne, unsure if she was listening.

Jillian bit her lip. Yep, signs point out that Daphne does like the Prefect. How adorable. Jillian thought as a smirk formed on her face. That smirk turned into a snort when Daphne spoke that last sentence. "'Course he is! Lookit his manly physique! Buff..." she started laughing again.

"You seem really sweet, Travis," Anna complimented. "I'm glad we've met, too." Anna nodded when Travis mentioned being ready for classes. "I'm usually not this excited to get back into the swing of things, but after last school year, I'm ready for some normalcy. You know...the regular professors I've always had."

That was when Anna noticed Travis' smiled had faded, and he seemed to have suddenly gotten upset about something. "Is everything okay? You see upset."

"Oh, sorry to hear that, Jason. I hope you'll be okay. I think it'll probably be sore for a few days, and then you should be okay," Anna replied. "Just keep an eye on it. Besides, as prefect, I should let you know that if you keep up your good behavior, you'll be allowed to try out for the house team again. Good news, huh? Good luck!"

"Oh, and let's see...."If Cale is on the girl's side, what does that make him?....erm, popular," Anna replied. "Not that you're not popular, because you know you're a great friend to us all, but he is my boyfriend. Where else do most 16-year-olds want to be than with their boyfriend?"

"Thanks," Anna said, smiling at the "pretty lady" comment. It was exciting to be at school sitting in the Great Hall next to Cale and all the other boys. No Ministry professors breathing down your neck....no Cooper...no Belle. Ahhh, this was the good life.

"It is overwhelming, isn't it?" Anna asked. "Wait until you see our Common Room, though. Oh, and you have visit the lake. It's one of the most popular hangouts. You'll love it there!"

"Oh, and you're on the girl's side, but I said so," Anna jokingly said, winking at Cale. "I thought you would want to be with all girls." Anna shook her head playfully at Cale. Boys will be boys...

Well Jason sees this girl Bree did not apparently like him. No big deal, he has many girls who are friends more than he has male friends. In face Jason just made a lot on the train, in Diagon Alley and here at the table. He has pleny of family to keep him having fun. "Cale on the girls side, since when do boys against girls mean a boy on the girl's side but I think we will take Astrid on the boy's side because I know she likes all boys" Jason told Anna. "I can't play Quidditch because my back is not good" Jason told Anna.

Bree spotted Mariel being sorted and applauded quietly. Bree watched as she sat down at the Ravenclaw table with her back to Bree. No chance to wave then. She slumped over the table, resting her head on her arm and staring mildly about the room.

She was getting hungrier now. After the butterflies had melted away the empty feeling returned. She had got lost on the train and not been able to get lunch. As such she wanted food. Now.

"Nice to meet you Jillian," Cale said with a smile as the other young girl at the table introduced herself. "Actually, last year was my first year too--I was homeschooled up until that point. So this is my first year at Hogwarts, technically...and I'm like, 16 going on 17, so that's really sad," he explained with a grin, pushing a stray curl out of his face.

"We didn't get to talk much, but all I got from the conversation was he's back," he explained as he took a bite of potatoes. He didn't really want to mention the bit about how Shel had managed to make him believe he was actually going to camp out in the Forbidden Forest and have house elves deliver him food. That was just humiliating.

Cale grinned mischeviously and raised his eyebrows. "Of course I want to be with the girls--just as long as no one mistakens me for one, obviously. You know me too well," he chuckled. "The Common Room? I can't wait!" he exclaimed. Gah. He was getting hyper again. And spazzing.