Qaz entered the building and went straight to her baby’s cage. ‘How is my fella this morning? Mommy brought you a treat.’ Qaz reached in her bag and pulled out a small container of yoghurt and some raisins. Placing them in the cage, she said, ‘We’ll see what you think about raisins. Mommy likes them’

Mommy, yummies. Tak tak

Qaz stroked his fur while she watched him eat his treats. ‘Mommy can’t stay. Mommy has lots of work to do, but she’ll be back later and I’ll bring your playpen and toys so we can have lots of fun. You be a good boy.’

Chaos was still eating when she left.

The door opened slowly and Becca pushed her way into the nursery. She didn't have anything in particular planned today - she just wanted to check up on her niffler before heading off to go do some studying for finals.

She bent down in front of Daisy's cage and opened the door, sitting down cross-legged in the process. She pat her lap a few times and spoke, "C'mon, girl." Daisy obediently walked out and went straight into Becca's lap, sort of burrowing into her robes that were draped across her lap. She sighed.

"You know, Daisy, I hope you've been happy this term. I mean, I spent as much time with you as I could - the nursery is pretty far out of the way of other classes and activities except for when there's Care of Magical Creatures class, or some outside activity for a different class." She paused and stroked Daisy's soft, fine fur. "You should be happy, though, right? I mean, you've gotten to play games and you tried a bunch of new foods.

"Look at these other nifflers," her voice was lowered now. "Their lives are dull and unexciting. They must not have very good owners. And I'm not saying that I'm a good owner, but I think we've had more fun than most of these other guys in here, you know?" She stopped stroking Daisy and put her back into the cage. Becca's face definitely showed signs of sadness. "I'll visit you again tomorrow. But just so you know..." It didn't even occur to her that it may have been slightly awkward to be talking to an animal. "...You've been a great pet." She nodded to Daisy reassuringly, then gently shut and locked the cage.

As she left, Becca realized how much things had changed. Before, she had really wanted a phoenix or a crup. She was extremely disappointed upon getting a niffler. But... it all worked out. Daisy wasn't so bad after all.

Run! Run! Huff, puff, pant, pant.

Hugo had been unable to sleep, eat or even think for the past few days, knowing that his baby Georgie had been ill. When the bell had signified the end of the previous lesson, he'd pelted back to the Dungeons to dump his books in the Slytherin Boy's Dormitory, before slipping into his comfy sweatpants and Ralph Lauren tee. His school shirt, trousers and tie were thrown on the floor somewhere, but he couldn't worry about that now! He'd practically fallen off his seat in the lesson; his agitation showing by his writing that had got progressively messier with each minute that passed. Eventually, he been asked to open the window and get some fresh air so that he didn't pass out with stress!

Sprinting down to the stone building, Hugo found himself huffing and puffing like a dog in a chicken pen. He arrived at the Nursery's door with a sprinkling of sweat smeared across his forehead, and a stitch in his side. Chest rising and falling madly - it was a bloomin' long way from the Dungeons! - he pushed open the door and rushed to Georgie's cage. "Geeeee? GEEEE?" He wailed, fingers trembling as they desperately tried to unlock her cage. UH! He was panicking! What if she wasn't okay? Ahhhhh!

...and then a very healthy and bright looking clabbert launched itself at him.

"AHHHH!" Hugo exclaimed, falling back as his pet pounced on his chest and grinned down at him. "Gee! You're better!" Yep, there was definitely colour in her mottled green cheeks - she looked perfectly fine. PHEW! Panic over! He chuckled as she charged around him, looking about excitedly for treats and yummy stuff. He settled his backpack down on the floor, and pulled out her usual meal, before emptying it into her bowl and placing it before her. He peered into her cage and frowned. Yuck. It was... dirty to say the least. Wrinkling his nose, he pulled on his sexeh pink rubber gloves. "Stay there and eat up, Georgie," he asked, placing her away from the cage's entrance so that he could clear it out.

Hugo began to clear the hay, putting the old, dirty stuff in the compost bin, and replacing it with bright, golden new hay. There! Muuuch better. He cleared her bed, and layered it with the soft feathers that she loved, before filling up her water dish with the usual; warm milk and honey. Yum.

Once she'd eaten up her food and lapped at the yummeh beverage, Hugo returned her to her soft bed. "Theeere. You, missy, have only just got better. So you still need REST!"

William continued to nurse his Crup, her warmth slowly beginning to cool down. He sighed a huge sigh of reliefe as he began drinking by herself, her tongue lolling out to dip into the cool water. He stroked her furr, giving her encouragement as he slurped up the drink, her blue eyes lightening ever so slightly. "That's my girl." he said soothingly, his own eyes now calmer. He was still worried but since she seemed to be getting better he knew the end was coming. Taking off the blanket he scooted away from her slightly, hearing her whine. "You need excersize girl." He said, getting out of her cage and gesturing for her to come out. "The fresh air will do you good I promise." he said soothingly as he waited.

She seemed to be reluctant to come out, her eyes pleading with him. He sighed again, before getting up and walking over to the supply shelves and picking up some lettuce and another bowl. Walking back over he sat down again, tearing the leafs into tiny shards, small enough for her to eat if she wanted too. Nothing too thick or strong he knew, for upset stomaches the best thing was normally crackers and water for humans, but for magical creatures he was only guessing. Placing the bowl beside the now empty water bowl he re-filled the water bowl with the Aquamenti spell and slipped back out of the cage, closing it up.

"I have to leave now; if exams weren't coming up then I'd stay, you know that." He said sadly, his hands on the cage. Looking down at her again he smiled, "I'll come back very soon I swear." He said, picking up his bag and shouldering it before turning. Good thing she didn't whine for his attention or else he would have run back.

Ok. Chris was hurrying down to the magical Creatures Nursery to visit Owen. He really needed it and was missing him. He had a wonderful day so far and liked to complete it.

he opened the door and walked over to the holding cage. He stepped over the gate and called "Owen! Where are you?" As soon as he finished calling. Owen came running around the corner and pounced on Chris. "Well its good to see you too, Owen!"

Chris sat down and brushed his Kneazle and then petted him for about 15 minutes. He then remembered he had to go meet Lizzie. "Sorry Owen i have to go. But during the summer you will get to go home with me and we can spend all day together! Bye!" and Chris waved and then was out the door.

He couldn't stay away for long it seemed. Only a day had passed and already he couldn't concentrate without seeing her smiling blue eyes. he was hooked he knew it. He also knew he could never leave her, no matter how bad it was. He knew already he wanted to keep her with him, during the summer time she would be benifical to his sanity.

Walking up he smiled she looked better already. The last time he had seen her her eyes were drawn, her beak looking paler than normal. Even her fur looked waxy. now though, her fur was rich and thick again, her blue eyes bright and shining as she gave a small bark at him. He felt bad he couldn't stay too long this time, he had finished one exam and another was coming so he needed to study. ugh, even saying the word made him depressed!

Picking up a bucket he filled it with a drop or two of soap and grinned, "Guess what time it is girl? A nice warm bath will help you out." he said taking his wand out and filling the pail with warm water. She sat perfectly still, her tail banging on the ground in an exasperated way and he chuckled. He went carefully though, knowing she wasn't feeling all that great. He finished quickly though; and took out her leash, the rope he had painted black and pink and took her to the open area.

"Go, run girl." he said, waving as he sat down, taking the journal out and writing in it. This journal thing was getting easier he thought, wondering if he should get one for his own musings. However weird they were. That thought brought a chuckle to him as he glanced up, noticing Ziella holding a ball. "Bring it here Zie." he said, gesturing. She trotted softly over her blue eyes shining. She was at least two hands tall now, full grown by the look of it, her forked-tail looking much more dangerous than normal. He was slightly worried she might hurt someone with it and thought he had better ask professor Morgan if anything could be done with it.

Throwing the ball he grinned as she chased after it, her tail dragging before she picked it up and barked with the ball in her mouth. She brought it back and he decided to see if now was a food time to see if she remembered his commands. Standing up he dropped his arm, lifting an eyebrow as she dropped the ball. "Good girl!" then he put his hand down, index finger pointing. She tilted her head before sitting down. "Good!" He said happily, clapping his hands. Next, lay down he thought splaying his hand out as he dropped it. She laid down, hands on her paws. "Excellent Zie!" he said grinning as he bent down and roughed her up some.

He looked at his watch and sighed. "Okay, girl got to go now. Need to write a letter to mom." he said happily, rubbing her ears before kissing her head. Leading her back to the cage he closed it after she got in and walked away, turning to wave at her.

Chris came into the Nursery with his camera. he knew it was close to the end of the term but he still wanted to send a picture of Owen home to his parents so they could see him. Along with the photo he would send a list of items to buy in Diagon Alley before Owen got there so he could feel at home.

"Come here Owen." Chris said happily. His Kneazle came barroling out of his little bed and started running in circles around his feet. "Calm down Owen." chris said happily. He snapped the picture and then said. "Ok Owen i have to send this to mom and dad and then i will be right back." he then turned around and left for the castle.

Copernicus knew he was supposed to wait for Cela for their next flying adventure, but he just needed to visit Tiberius to let the little Abraxan know how amazing and cool and perfect he was first. Cope climbed into the stall and let himself be shoved against the door by the growing creature. "Okay, lad, okay... that's enough." He gently shifted out from his corner.

After a quick refill of the mash bucket and the water trough, Cope pulled out the curry and comb to make his Abraxan practically shine. Tiberius nuzzled the mash and enjoyed munching away while his coat was brushed. Soon, Tiberius was clean and the bucket was empty... but it was obvious Tiberius was still hungry.

"I'll have to up your feed," he came around and gave Tiberius a hug. "But you're such a brilliant one, Tib. Honestly. Your wings... and you flew and didn't get tired for such a long time. And you carried me!" He stroked Tiberius's neck for a while longer.

The truth was that after dreadful first visit to the Aimee the Puffskein, Willow was completely forgotten she was supposed to be taking care of a creature. It was really a good thing that Professor Morgan regularly fed and took care of the creatures, because, well . . . Willow was certain that had the Care of Magical Creatures Professor not done this, Aimee would probably not be inside its cage, alive.

Yes, the Puffskein was alive and not thanks to her.

Sighing one heavy sigh, the girl took out her protective gloves (she was still refusing to touch the puffskein with her bare skin) and opened the little creature's cage, before carefully curling her hand around Aimee's tiny body and taking it out. And then she placed it on her lap. "Now, you'd better not go anywhere. Stay in my lap, and don't even think about going for a walk," called the girl sternly and giving Aimee the Puffskein with an equally stern look.

"Wow, wow, wow," murmured Willow, noticing how unclean the creature's cage looked. Aimee was a puffskein AND a little pig. Wrinkling her nose and wearing a disgusted expression on her facial features, the Ravenclaw captain reached for her messenger bag and took out a little plastic bag and clippers. With the clippers she picked up the poop that undoubtedly belonged to the puffskein and then stored it inside the plastic bag that she would later throw away . . . somewhere. She still had to figure out where exactly.

Done with that, Willow put Aimee on her palm. Unwillingly, the girl started to pet it and the puffskein started to emit some kind of humming sound. Huh. Raising one dark eyebrow at it, Willow put it back inside its cage and then -once again, after taking it out of her bag- from a little brown package, took out spiders that Aimee would no doubt end up eating. That's what the book she'd consulted said: Puffskeins supposedly ate anything - from spiders to leftovers. But giving leftovers to a creature sounded just wrong.

Shrugging, she stood up, took off her gloves, and pushed her hair to the back. "See you later, Aimee the Puffskein." And with that, she exited the nursery place.

Walking down to the nursery he held a baggie full of treats and smiled as he approached Ziellas cage. She was already up and ready for more training he noticed her ears perfectly straight and sitting tall. "Hey girl, advanced training today yes?" he said rubbing her fur before dropping his bag in her cage and taking her out. "We're going to learn a few things today; rolling over, leading, and the best yet playing dead. That's a fun one, I once saw this muggle dog do it in a movie, and it looked so fun!" he rambled on, not noticing her tilt her head as they walked towards the open area. "Okay, first lesson, rolling over." he said his commanding voice loud in his ears. He sat down and rolled on the ground. "Like that." he said laughing as he shook sand from his hair.

She frowned at him before laying down and whining. "I know it's hard I know. You can do this. You're stronger than those other Crups yes you are Zie. Try again." he said his hand going up to show her to move. She blinked before dropping to the ground and rolling. He clapped his hand, dropping a treat onto the ground at her paws. "Good girl!" he said excitedly. "now, again." he said rolling his hand in a circular motion. She dropped once more, her tongue dripping saliva as she finished rolling and barked. "Yes, good good!" he said happily, dropping more treats down. "Go run around for a bit." he said gesturing to the open space. "Get some adrenaline out[ of your system." he chuckled watching her bound off.

He gave a small short whistle and watched as Zie came bounding back to him, sitting down obediantly. "Excellent, want some food, bet you're starved!" he said, patting his thigh to show her he wanted her to follow him, without the leash. This would be the last thing he would teach her today, the days were getting way to short for his liking he mused as they slowly walked back, her muzzle nudging his hand, her nose wet. Making it back to the cage he kept it open as he dropped a nice big helping of mixed food - lettuce, meat, anything else he could think of and watched her eat. The bowl was empty quickly and she looked up for more. "More? you'll get another belly ache, but okay." he shrugged, putting more meat into the bowl. When she was finished she crawled into her cage and laid down, eyes drooping. "Okay, have a good sleep, I'll be back later to check o nyour." he said stroking her fur for a few more minutes before picking up his bag and leaving.

It was, once again, time to visit Aimee the Puffskein with piggy-like tendencies. Taking seat on the floor -not without wincing first, of course, because the floor was rather unclean- Willow eyed Aimee's cage, stick her gloved hand inside of it and took out the little puffskein. "Are you hungry? You'd better be, because I've brought you cookies." They could eat cookies, yes? The book did say anything. . . Chewing on her bottom lip as she pondered this over, the girl shrugged it off and took out the cookies from the insides of her pockets.

Opening the brown package the protected them, Willow placed the cookies in front of Aimee the puffskein and watched the little furball eat them eagerly, as it produced the same humming sound it had before. Huh. Was it sick, or something like that? Surely not! She hadn't done anything wrong to it, which was a lot considering that this was Willow, who didn't know much about Magical Creatures.

"You'd better not die, Aimee," mused the girl, eyeing as the little creature ate the second lemon cookie, made by her house elf Cerulean back at home. "Because if you do, I'm going to fail Care of Magical Creatures, and my father would not be very pleased with me if that happens." The opposite of pleased, really. Willow could almost hear the extremely long lecture she would receive if that ended up happening.

She shook her head. "Are you done? I have to go back to study for my Herbology OWL." Not easy. Especially when instead of being focus on what you were reading, your mind was elsewhere, pondering about someone stuff. Sighing under her breath and thinking that she'd been right along about those kind of stuff being massive distractions -not that she could do much about it now or ever, really- the girl carefully grabbed Aimee once again, and put it back inside its cage, before leaving half of another cookie inside for her to eat it.

As she stood up and brushed the filth from her roves, she listened the puffskein emitting that same humming kind of sound. Weird. "Later, little furball." And as she took off her gloves, the girl exited the Nursery.

A book tucked under her arm, Melina entered the Nursery for the first time in her life, feeling honestly guilty about not doing so earlier, but the truth was that the moment she heard that Jarveys ate gnomes, she had become scared. No, not exactly scared. She simply couldn't even think of approaching that being because... well... those poor gnomes! True, they were usually evil in those fairytales she had read but stiiiiill... Well, she didn't like the idea of feeding any creature a gnome. Nuh uh. But it looked like she'd have to go there anyway or else she'd go on summer holidays with a heavy heart. Yes, yes, she would.

Once she was inside, Melly immediately made her way for the Jarveys section. It didn't take her long to find out which one was hers seeing as it was the only one that had no name on its cage yet. Uh oh. She had been sloppy, very sloppy indeed. She bit her lip and knelt down on the floor by it, her loved book on her side.

"Hey there, little one," She called softly. "I'm Melina, but you can call me Melly," She added once the creature opened its eyes to look at her. Ah, well, at least it had pretty eyes. They were grey and veeeeery big. Gnome eater or not, she couldn't help but smile. "You talk, right? I read you did. And I think I'll call you Rumple, short for Rumplestilskin, you know? I think it'll suit you, but we'll see," She nodded to herself as she picked the bag she had carried with her and placed it on her lap as she waited for the reply she never got. Hmm... The Jarvey hadn't learned to speak yet, had it? Well, it was her fault and her fault only. Still, she had to admit it was good, for that meant that she could teach it polite language instead of the one she knew they spoke. Yes, she'd do that.

"Do you like lettuce?," She asked, smiling as she showed the creature a green leaf, only to make it send a hissing sound in her way. "Err... I take it that's a no," She sighed. "How about this?," She showed it a bit of raw meat. It appeared that the Jarvey did like that one for it was soon as close to her as the cage allowed it to. Now that was just... Urgh. Nope, its eyes may be cute but she didn't like him that much. Nuh uh. "Alright then," She mumbled, throwing the meat into the cage.

Finding it was better to leave before she saw Rumple eating it up, which she doubted to be able to make it, she picked he bag and got up. "I'll - err - see you soon, Rumple," She stared at it for a second and, before she could see anything else, ran away from the nursery.

"You don't know my name, don't you?" Asked Willow, as she cleaned Aimee's cage and watched her eat cheese with the corner of her forest green eye. It had been a long day, really; the fifth year had been the entire day locked up in the dormitory studying for her OWLs, and had decided at last, before going to the great hall for dinner, that to come and pay a visit to the little furball.

And to also clean the cage, of course, because like the little pig she was, Aimee's cage was quite a mess. "I'm going to stop feeding you cookies, really. I don't think your body likes it too much." Clearly. Wrinkling her nose, Willow continued to clean it. "I'm going to ask Cerulean to send me some food for creatures . . . puffskeins . . . you do eat anything, after all." Hmmmm. "Do you like Muggle food for animals?" How was the creature supposed to know? It was still young. Right? "I guess I can ask her to send me that, too, just to try and all."

Talking to a puffskein. Willow Kovac was talking to a puffskein. The world was sure going to end soon.

"Anyway," she said, as her gloved hand curled around Arimee's body and put it back inside the now clean cage. "I have to get back now. Dinner, and all. . . Oh, any my name is Willow. And you can call me . . . Willow. It doesn't really get much simpler than that." Shrugging, she picked up her messenger bag. "See you later, Aimee." Dinner and then back to study.

Ugh. At least summer holidays were really close.

The little boy smiled happily as he stepped into the Nursery, his eyes spotting Ziella straight away. How could you not notice her? She was beautiful to say the least; her coat glistening in the bright sunlight. today William was dressed casually, his robe open to the heat, his tie loose around his neck. His sneakers kicked a stone as he stopped at her cage and sat down, not caring if he got his awesome jeans dirty. Naw, he wanted to play today, and finish the training. "Hey girl, it's good to see you bouncy today." he said happily, ruffling her fur. She barked quietly, her tail waggling erratically making him laugh. "You're frisky today, that's good I have so much planned today!" he said grinning as his blue eyes shone brightly. "Come on, let's get up and walk around eh? You look like you just ate so some good excersize would be good for you." he said bending down to hug her.

Wiping the dirt off his pants he practically ran towards the open area, patting his knees as he ran backwards to bring her along. Skidding to a halt and catching his breath he watched as Zie flew by him running in circles. Yup she was frisky. Better get her tired he thought whistling once to bring her to him. Taking out the now brutal looking ball he shuddered and threw it high into the air. "Fetch!" he called out, watching it sail towards the other end of the area. Zie ran off after it and caught it, jumping into the air and landing on her paws. "Good girl, come here." he called after her.

Standing still he watched as he obediently trotted back to him and dropped the ball. Dropping a few treats onto the ground William frowned, what was he to teach her now? Oh right, playing dead. Ok, no problem he thought snapping his fingers and grinning when Zie looked up expectantly. "Now, you're last lesson grasshopper, if you choose to accept it is to lie perfectly still, eyes closed but not asleep. Got it?" He said smiling as she tilted her head at him. "Good, it's like this." he said laying on the ground, arms crossed, eyes closed. He lay perfectly still until he felt her muzzle nudging him and jumped up grinning. "See?" He said roughing her up some as she panted.

The command is laylay." he said, his hand perfectly still by his side, two fingers out. She watched his movements before laying down, head on paws. "No, not lay down, laylay." he said snapping his fingers to get her up. "Try again, you can do it." he said softly, watching her. She whined a bit before laying down, head between her paws, her body perfectly straight. Her eyes remained open though and he shook his head, "Good try girl, come here." he said snapping his fingers once more as he handed her a few treats. He sat down beside her and petted her for a few minutes, "I know it's hard, but try learning magic. It's much harder, what you're doing is so easy, it's not funny. Complicated spells, incantation, wand work, plus the writing! I've never written so much n my life before and I'm only a first year." He said, giving her encouragement. "You're strong girl, you're mind id fit, you're healthy. One more try for me?" He asked, getting up. She tilted her head and waited while he put two fingers out and said, "laylay." she dropped to the ground, eyes closed perfectly still.

"Excellent! See?" He exclaimed bending down and petting her, hugging her tight. "Good job girl,that's a good girl." he said, depositing the rest of the treats on the ground for her to eat. He took out a chocolate frog from his pocket and opened it, glad the summer was almost over so he could eat as much as he wanted. Chewing it quietly, he patted his thigh and began walking back. He noticed she wasn't following though and turned, watching her run around the area more. Shaking his head he threw the ball, watching her chse after it and catch it, before throwing it herself and catching it again. He couldn't help but laugh, it was too cute. After ten minutes of free play he gave a whistle and she ran towards him, stopping to a trot as he walked back to her cage. "You be a good girl, eat all your food and drink all your water and I'll be back tomorrow. It'll be a nice visit, no more training I swear. Just you, me a ball and a surprise." he winked, petting her a bit more before filling up her food and water bowl. Picking up his book bag he turned and left, hearing her eat.

Just a few hours after she left the nursery, Melly walked back in, this time not feeling as relunctant to meet Rumple as she had before. And why? Well, because she had found that other students had been giving their jarveys pellet! Woohoo! No more need to having to run to the kitchens to get raw meat or to have to run away before Rumple at it! Wasn't that absolutely and simply great? Now she COULD treat Rumple like it deserved to and maybe, juuust maybe, she could teach it to eat other things instead of gnomes and stuff. Truth to be told, she doubted that would happen but she could always hope, right? Like Peter Pan had said, "All you need is faith, trust and pixie dust". Now, she didn't have pixie dust (not yet anyway) but she did have plenty of faith and trust, so why not give it a try?

Just as she was done with those thoughts, she kneeled by Rumple, only to find that it had curled into a white furball. Aww... He actually looked very, very cute. How come she hadn't noticed it earlier? Oh. Right. The gnomes.

"Hey Rumple, you awake?," She asked the tiny thing in a whisper, an honest smile dangling on her lips. But, again, no answer came, which, in a way, was an answer for itself. Rumple was, indeed, sleeping, and Melly couldn't help but wonder just what it was that was going through the tiny thing's mind. It would better not be dreaming of chasing gnomes or she wouldn't be happy. Nuh uh, she wouldn't.

Sighing as she realised that she was doing nothing there seeing as he was in dreamland, Mel merely changed its water before walking out of the nursery again. However, she didn't do it without peeking at the little bundle one last time and grinning at it. Yes, they were going to become pretty good friends, she was sure of it. First, though, she needed to make him trust her and for that he'd need to be awake. As for her, she'd have to bring something that would captivate his attention. The question was, what would that be?

Elizabeth went down to the nursery again, not moving quite as fast as before. Finals were underway, and she needed a break. Which she was going to visit Macavity during, since the little kneazle was always entertaining. And, true to form, as she came up to the kneazle cages, she saw Macavity inside his, playing with a ball that she knew hadn't been there before. In fact, she was fairly certain she'd seen one of the other creatures playing with it on at least one of her previous visits.

Rolling her eyes, she laughed a little as she unlatched the cage door, reaching inside and confiscating the toy. "Macavity, that's not yours," she said to the kneazle as he turned to look at her. "Sneaking out and taking things don't make them yours." After depositing the ball near some of the other cages, since she wasn't entirely sure who her kneazle had taken it from, she picked him up and walked outside. Stopping in the little fenced in play area, she put him down. "How about we enjoy the sunshine for a bit," she said as she then sat down on the ground, her back leaning against the gate. Relaxing a bit, she watched as her kneazle prowled around, investigating the corners like he was trying to figure out how to escape. "Come on, remember last time you wandered around outside of here, you got scared of the Abraxans?," she then reminded him with a smile. Macavity turned and sat down, looking at her with his head tilted to one side a little as he meowed. Apparently he did remember.

After like fifteen minutes or so, Elizabeth stood up and went over to where Macavity was prowling now, scooping him up. "Okay, time to go inside," she said quietly, unlatching the gate and exiting, only to head back inside. Blinking, she waited for her eyes to adjust to the change in lighting before heading over to her kneazle's cage. Cleaning it out with her wand, her other hand still carrying him semi-awkwardly, she gratefully put him inside after she finished. She was fairly certain he was grateful, too, since it couldn't have been fun being held like that. But she wasn't about to put him on the ground to go stealing more toys. Refilling his water dish, she then dug around in her bag and took out several cat treats. As long as Bella never found out they were gone, she would be reasonably safe. Dropping the treats in Macavity's bowl after she filled it with food, she scratched him on the ears before withdrawing her hand. "Okay, little guy," she said. "I should probably head back and do some studying. You be good for Professor Morgan, and maybe I'll take you home with me after next term. And I'll try to keep visiting you." She stuck her fingers through the bars of the cage, letting him nuzzle them for a little while, then stepped back. "I'll see you later," she then said, watching as he went over and ate the treats, before turning to head back to the castle. She was so going to have to figure out how to convince her mother she could take care of two animals.

William walked slowly down to the nursery for the last time. It felt like years since he had been there, though that could have been the exams talking. He hated finals, but he needed to pass and so he had no choice. Walking into the building he smiled, seeing Zie out of her cage. Did he forget to close it last time he wondered as he approached her. She met him half way and he grinned, bending down as she nearly tackled him. "Hey to you too." He said, a hint of sadness in his voice. "Come on then." he said, patting his thigh and walking towards the open area.

"How are you girl? You're looking much much better now, got enough sleep? Remember the present I promised last time I was here?" He said stopping and siting down, crossing his legs, taking out the small bundle of paper. "Here, unwrap it with your claws only." he said laying it on the floor. He watched as she sniffed it, her blue eyes twinkling as she ripped into it, paper tearing easily. Soon the present was unwrapped; a small blue and bronze eagle. "It's a stuffed toy, see?" He picked it up, showing her. "It's my House Bird, and eagle. Something for you to remember me by you know? I'll be here next term though so don't get too sad." he said as he placed it by her body.

"I can't stay long but I wanted you to know I love you girl. You're my best friend, which is sad eh? I don't have many friends here yet, but hopefully next term will be better right?" He asked, rubbing her behind the ears softly. "You'll like it here with the others, I know you've made friends already, the Kneazles seem to like you." he said smiling softly. Gosh he was sad he thought rubbing her back as she lay beside him, toy under her paw. They sat there for awhile longer, hi taking out his Ancient runes textbook and reading to her. She sighed, her muzzle on his knee as he continued reading, putting her to sleep. "Boring isn't it?" He asked softly, waking her up, "Sorry but I need to memorize this." he said as he closed the book up and standing. "Come on girl, back to your cage." he said.

He began walking, turning his head to see her carrying the toy in her mouth as she followed along back to her cage. He looked up at the bright sunlight and sighed once more as they stopped, her going into her cage. He cleaned up the paper and other refuse and gave her more food and water, giving her one last pat on the head. "You be a good girl Ziezie." he said hugging her once more before getting up and shouldering his bag. "Wish me luck and take care of Eagle okay?" He said, waving sadly as he turned and walked out of the nursery, not looking back.

And once more, Evangeline found herself making her way into the nursery, too eager to be with with Greenie to notice the forms that were on the entrance. Having had to skip the last CoMC due to being too sick to be outside, she still had no idea they had the possibility of adopting her pet.

From now, she had no such thoughts in her mind anyway. "Greeeeniie?" Evangeline called, but soon regretted it as soon as she approached the Clabbert's cage. AWWW!! He was sleeping! How cute was what?! Evangeline honestly couldn't bring herself to wake him up, not when he looked so peaceful and cute and squeee!

Infact, she wanted to get into the cage, snuggle up to him and sleep. Hehe.

Slowly opening the cage, hoping she wouldnt wake him up, Evangeline knelt down. Then she managed to refill his bowl with fresh water, taking the other bowl she had brought him from her bag and filling it with milk. She wondered if he'd like that. Hmmm. Then, she refilled his food dish with dead beetles and some coconut sweets. Though not many because they werent good for him.

Unable to resist hierself, Evangeline reached out and slowly and gently stroked Greenie's green skin, recoiling her hand when the Clabbert moved. EEP! That was close. "Sweet dreams, sweetie." She smiled and arranged the feathers in which he was sleeping in before closing the cage and slowly leaving.

After having being scared by one of those horrible jarveys' and their equally horrible vocabulary, Willow finally found Aimee's cage in a corner. "I hope you apprecciate what I do for you, kid." Kid? Aimee the Puffskein was NOT a kid. "Furball, I mean." Cough. Placing herself in the floor in a way that she was facing the puffskein's cage, Willow put on her gloves and like usual, took out the puffskein, so it could stretch its legs. It did have legs, right?

Well, that didn't really matter.

"So I asked Cerulean to send me muggle animal food," started Willow once again, watching the little thing nibbling on her shoelaces. Ew. She would have to get rid off that later. "And she did. Would you like some? It probably doesn't taste as good as cookies, cheese or anything like that, though." Of course it didn't, but whatever. Aimee had better like it, too. Taking out a little beige bowl, and then added some of the muggle food for animal on it, before pushing it to Aimee. The little puffskein sniffed it a couple of times -Willow raised one of her eyebrows at this- and then started to it, the same humming sound coming out from it.

That was it. She would just have to go to the library and find out what that was.

And she was going to do it now.

"Aimee, I¡ll be back. I have to go to the library." Placing her quickly inside the cage and leaving the bowl with food with her, the girl grabbed her messenger bag and headed to the library.

Once she was done with some really nasty homework, Melina suddenly found herself back in the nursery. Erm, strange much? Yep, definitely strange. Not that she cared that much. She had been a poor mother to Rumple, so she'd make up for it. Hmph. Or try to anyway, since she was pretty sure that the jarvey hated her for neglegecting him for so long. She knew she wouldn't trust someone who had ignored her for so long. Sigh. She was a horrible mother, indeed. No wonder Copernicus's princess wasn't herself. And why was he thinking of him again when it was very dangerous to her mental balance? Merlin, Melina, get a grip on yourself!, she told herself with a head shake. He's got his princess already, so get over with. It wasn't as if she knew him well, anyway.

"Hi there," She mumbled pathetically as she reached Rumple, immediately letting herself fall on the floor in front of its cage. This time he was awake and his grey eyes were shining so brightly that she couldn't help but smile at him, even though she had doubted she'd find the courage within her to smile to begin with. It had been a sad smile, yes, but a smile nonetheless.

How could she have been so evil to that poor, little, absurdly cute creature?

Smiling still, she opened his cage and offered him her hands. "Come on now, Rumple. I wouldn't harm you," She told him earnestly, her blue eyes shimmering with something close to happiness. That glimmer was nothing compared to that one that appeared on her eyes as Rumble, after eyeing her and her hands suspiciously for only Merlin knows how long, decided to climb up to her tiny hands. Once he did that, even though it was mostly his belly that were on her palms (he was far too big to fit in them like a newborn kittie would), Melly grinned cheerfully and brought it to her chest. "See? I told you I wouldn't hurt you, Rumple," She whispered to him, bending her head to peck the jarvey's head.

"Now let me see, have you got enough water?," She asked herself, one of her hands petting it while the other served for support so that he wouldn't slip to her lap. Stretching her head, she peeked into his cage and sure enough, there was still plenty of water in there. "Not a big fan of drinking, eh?," She giggled as she noticed that the place where his food was supposed to be was gone. Funny how she always got healthy eaters as close friends - if you could call a baby jarvey a friend, that is.

She was about to place food into his food plate when she realised that to do so, she'd need both her hands since she'd have to rummage through her bag to get the pellet. Hmm... She'd do it later.

"You don't mind, do you?," Melly asked him. "I won't stay long, anyway, so you'll have your food quick. I have to get ready for the finals, you see?," She tilted her head, making a bit of her red hair fall on its white fur. The contrast was rather pretty. "Nasty things, finals. They don't let you pay the proper attention to more important things like your friends or your family who wants a letter from you. A letter that you can't write since you're too busy studying. And those poor books? They get alone too, because they're used to being read every day," She sighed. "But what can we do? One must do sacrificies, right? The Little Mermaid lost her voice so she could be with her prince and we must study and lose important moments in our life so we can be somebody," She rolled her eyes at herself. "Though, between you and me, I don't think that's the most important thing. Grades, that is. Quite overrated, they are, in my opinion, but who listens to little Melly's opinion, anyway?," She smiled kindly at Rumple, who was staring at her. "And you're an intelligent baby, you know?"

Peeking at her wristwatch, she frowned and sighed. "And I have to go study. Behave, alright, Rumple? And don't listen to the other jarveys," She nodded. "They say horrible things, which I do not want to hear you saying or I'll be very disappointed," She nodded seriously at him. One second later, though, she was pecking its head again and smiling.

Placing it back in its cage, she quickly put the pellet in its food plate, closed the cage and blew it a kiss. "See you tomorrow, Rumple. Wish me luck!"

Celandine had practically forgotten that this whole business was homework by this point. She loved visiting her abraxan. Her amazing, talented, beautiful, flying abraxan! She skipped through the nursery and out to the stable, immediately jumping into the stall with the constantly-growing creature and wrapping her arms around Cassiopeia's neck in a firm and excited hug. "Oh you were wonderful! You know you were!" Cela told her, giving her a nuzzle before setting to the fun business of mucking out the stall.

Magic meant it was done in fiarly short order, and Celandine next fetched brushes to give Cassiopeia a bit of pampering, paying extra special attention to her wings and humming while she worked. It was strange how small Cela felt now, in Cassiopeia's presence, sort of like Cela herself wasn't growing at all.

"All done!" Cela gave the abraxan a pat on the rump and put the brushes away.
"Mash time!" she announced, fetching the mash mixture, which still contained a small amount of butterbeer since Cela didn't want to rush the weaning process at all. Once she had filled the feed bucket and shut the stall again, Cela skipped back up to the castle, planning to be back later that day for another flight with Copernicus and Professor Morgan.

Around thirty minutes later, the fifth year Ravenclaw captain was back in the Nursery, a heavy book pressed against her chest; it was a book that was only about Puffskeins that the girl had borrowed from the library. Really, she needed to know what on earth was that humming sound Aimee made aalll the time. Hopefully it wasn't a bad thing like she was sick or was going to do die soon, or something remotely close to that, for Willow was one hundred percent sure that if that happened, her Care of Magical Creatures final grade would suffer the consequences.

Heaving a heavy sigh, the girl opened the cage and let Aimee come out of the cage once again, and then proceed to take seat in the floor before opening the book and hiding her face behind it, shoting furtive glances at Aimee with the corner of one of her forest green eyes as she did so.

Puffskeins did eat anything. No wonder why the little furball had eaten all the food Willow had placed on the tiny bowl.

And the also liked to eat their owner's boogey's while they slept . . . Eww.

Oh. Oohh. Willow raised a dark eyebrow at what was written on the book; she the humming sound that Aimee produced -and that was doing now as it played with Willow's shoe laces- meant that she was content? Huh. Who would have thought that Willow Kovac could perfectly take care of an animal, eh? Not her, certainly. Maybe she should write to her dad about it. . .

. . . And speaking of which, she had a letter to finish. Closing the book slowly so she wouldn't startle the puffskein, Willow pat it gently for a couple of seconds and put it back inside its cage, not without having removed the bowl first and then putting it back inside her cage. "I have a few things to do, little one. See you, er, tomorrow?" She didn't know. But it had to be soon, that was for sure.

Standing up and picking up her belongings, the fifth year left the nursery and headed to the Ravenclaw common room.

Skipping happily, Anna headed down the rows and rows of creatures, bee-lining her way to Blaze's cage in the very back corner. The back corner of the nursery sort of seemed like a sad little place for a beautiful phoenix to be. Blaze needed to be in a wide, open space---a place where he could spread his wings and stretch any time he wanted to. A place like---Anna's home. Anna had already owled her parents and let her know she was bringing home three pets with her at the end of term. She'd have Charlotte, the owl she'd had since she was eleven-years-old; Piccadilly, the baby crup (who wasn't ao much a baby anymore) that Cale had bought her in Diagon Alley; and now Blaze, the Phoenix she'd adopted from Professor Morgan. There was just one thing left to do now---tell Blaze. Anna was sure he'd agree to the move, though. She and Blaze had gotten along wonderfully throughout the school year, and Anna felt rather attached to her pet now.

"Surprise!" Anna exclaimed, reaching the back corner and jumping out to surprize Blaze. The bird looked unamused at the surprise, yet quite happy to see Anna. "Okay, so I bring several things with me today---food, drink, treats, and...news. First of all, let's get you out of that cage." Anna unlatched the cage and watched as Blaze scurried out and spread her wings. The bird looked up at Anna expectedly, asking her approval for what he wanted so badly to do. "Go ahead. I'll be here when you return," she said, waving her hands towards the sky. Anna watched her bird until he'd flown out of sight. While Blaze was gone, Anna cleaned and refilled the water bottle on the side of his cage and then prepared a tasty bowl of food and treats. When she was done, she leaned back on the wall and watched the other students while she waited on Blaze.

Half an hour later, Blaze had returned. The bird climbed onto Anna's arm and pecked at the food for a bit. "Okay, so I have news. Professor Morgan's offered us an option regarding our friends---that'd be you---hear in this little nursery. We have the option to either leave you here and allow you to live as you always have, or...we can adopt you and take you home to live with us. That'd mean that you would leave this nursery...leave Hogwarts...and live in London with me. I'm also graduating next term, so we wouldn't be returning to Hogwarts many more times," she explained. "I've chosen to adopt you..." To say that Blaze was a bit excited would be an understatement. To say that Blaze was thrilled would even be an understatement, as well. Blaze was completely beside himself in happiness. As a matter of fact, he jumped around so much that the water bottle and the bowl of food knocked over. Anna giggled and began to clean up the mess. "I'm glad to have made you day...you week...your month...and even your year, I'd dare to day. It's time for me to go. It's finals week, and I have more homework than I think I've ever had," she said. Anna finished cleaning up the mess and put Blaze back in his cage. "Be good, my darling bird." Anna turned and left the nursery, heading back to the Common Room to start on her ten tons of schoolwork.

Pulling her long, dark hair into a ponytail to keep it out of her face on this exceptionally warm, late Spring day, Mariel stepped foot into the nursery for another visit with Felix. Her visits were becomming more frequent as the term drew to a close. Was she actually thinking she might miss him over the summer?

Immediately walking over to her jarvey's cage, Mariel's smile at the sight of Felix being awake this time fell slightly at seeing the state his cage was in. It was absolutely filthy having been a while since she, or apparently anyone else, had last cleaned it. After greeting Felix, she went over to the supply shelves and retrieved some fresh bedding before returning to his cage.

The second year gently pulled the jarvey out of her cage and her wand out of her pocket. After administering a few cleaning spells to the cage, she added some fresh bedding and set Felix back inside. "Oh, guess what?" she chattered excitedly to him as she watched him play with the rubber ball she had given him on an earlier visit. "We won the Quidditch Cup and I caught the winning snitch," she added, pretending not to hear the string of inappropriate words he was muttering as he was chasing his ball. It's not like he could help it now that he had grown into that habit. It was just a part of who he was. She watched him for a few more minutes before deciding that she needed to get back to the dorm for some extra studying before finals. After telling Felix goodbye, the 13 year old hurried out to head back towards the castle.

Never mind, she'll talk to the Professor later on, apparently.

"Hiya, Seven!" she said, getting the crup out of the cage, for some reason he was heavier today, which was odd, considering that she'd taken the thing in her arms the day before. Pfft. He probably just ate.

Now, for the major part of the visit, what was she supposed to teach him? Sit. Done. Stay. Done. Play Dead. Done. So, that will bring us to 'Roll over', right? Sigh. This was not going to be easy.

"Okay, Sev, remember 'Play Dead'?" she asked, and the crup did exactly what she...ummm, well, she didn't command it, but she did say it...which was, sort of, not great because he'll probably get confused with mixing both Play Dead and Roll over. Awesomeness.

"I see...you do remember" she said, and tried to smile, "Now...forget the 'Play dead'...try to roll while you lay on the ground" her hand made a few circular motions, "Like..." she tried to make the crup do it with her own hands, "...this" and it worked that way, but the thing needed to do it on his own, "You think you can do that?" she asked, at which point Seven tilted his head to one side. Not a good sign.

"Or we'll leave it to another day?" yes, that sounded better, because other finals were calling out for her, "Yes, another day" she said, with a nod, and placed him inside his cage again.

This was pointless, how was the crup in need of knowing those stuff?

Either way, Kaika hurried out the Nursery.