Robert followed Lyra into the professor's office, clutching her hand. He hadn't been to this office. He didn't even take this class and he was was feeling a little nervous. Allowing her to continue to move him wherever he still had that same utterly confused look on her face, "Listen...listen to what Lyra?" Just then he heard the Gryffindor girl speak and he stood next to Lyra. He glanced at her curiously and put his arm around her for whose comfort he wasn't sure but SOMEONE needed some. He was burning with questions but he had a good idea that most of them would be answered just by listening and so instead contented himself with playing wall and doing just that.

One... two... Four Students in her sanctum...

...YAY PARTY!!!!!

"Hello dearest! Of course, of course... no bind cannot be untied." She said smiling. Sit sit all of you... I believe today we have chocolate cake..." she said pointing at the cake in the middle of the fluffy. "Espresso anyone?"

Anna smiled politely and then took an offered seat. "Thank you, Professor Lupa," she said, happy to hear the professor's comforting voice. No bind can not be untied? Excellent! That was one line she definitely needed to hear. "I would love some chocolate cake and expresso, but perhaps I can get to it as soon as you've heard my story. It's quite a long story, you see..." Anna shifted in her seat, glanced over at Cale, and then looked back up at Professor Lupa, ready to begin her story.

"I guess you can say that it all started last term in the library. You see, we'd gotten word that there was a hidden treasure somewhere in the school, and we'd all set out to find it. It was believed that this treasure was important to the school as a whole, so therefore it was important to us," Anna explained. "Anyway, the former Slytherin prefect, Will Jones, discovered a book in the library. I had reason to believe it related to the treasure, so I asked to see it, only, he wouldn't let me see it. He kept telling me he only had a comic book in his bag, but I'd seen a piece of the book and knew it wasn't a comic book. Seymour took this the wrong way, ma'am, and now he hates me---really hates me---for being rude to Will. I wasn't being rude, though! It was a misunderstanding on his part!" Anna took a breath, preparing herself for the next part of her story.

"Nonsense... I'll get it." She said summoning the coffee pot and poured it in five little demitasse cups... She loaded hers with sugar before passing it on to the cute gryffindor prefect... Rawr! If she was only a few years younger...

She tried to listen, but the boys were just soooo cute.... "OH!!! Wait wait! Seymor was the prefect's dog?"

Cale wrinkled his brows. "Erm, professor...Seymour is a student," he said, jumping into the conversation for the first time. "And, in Anna's defense, it definitely WAS a misunderstanding on Seymour's part...Anna here wouldn't hurt a fly!"

He blushed and turned back to his girlfriend. "Erm, yeah...continue the story," he said with a smile.

Lyra nodded her head at the beautiful chocolate cake and espresso that was before them. She would gladly have some but her ears began to hear the story that Anna began to speak about. She came in here for Seymour? Who's Seymour?

Slytherin...Slytherin...Slytherin...Slyth-Oh YEAH! Book dropper boy!

"Thank you, Professor Lupa. I guess I could use some coffee and cake. It may help me relax just a bit," she said, still obviously upset over the hurricane of events going on in her life. "The prefect's dog? Oh, no! Seymour's no dog! At the time, he was a first year Slytherin student, so that'd make him a second year this school year," Anna corrected. Although, now that she thought about it, Seymour did sometimes act like he was Will's dog. He was a loyal companion and stood beside Will no matter what. Nevertheless, he was no real dog.

"Thank you, Cale," Anna said, smiling and giving his hand a squeeze. "I appreciate you taking up for me." She released his hand and turned back to the professor. "So anyway, from that moment on, Seymour has made it quite clear that he hates me. A few weeks ago, Professor Kazimeriz addressed me in one of the corridors. He said he needed to talk with me, but he never got a chance to tell me what he needed. Seymour, who'd been listening nearby, dropped all his books on the floor. Professor Kazimeriz made me go and help him get them all up. I'd have done it without being asked, but Professor Kazimeriz is just not the man you walk away from without having permission to do so." Anna sighed, remembering that horrid day. That was the day that all this mess had started. Ugh. Stupid day. "So I went to help Seymour pick up his books, and I was very polite about it, too! Only, as soon as I'd picked them all up, Seymour knocked them to the floor again. He refused my help. Professor Kazimeriz came over to ask why he'd done that. He wanted to know why it was Seymour hated me so much..."

Robert took a seat and pulled Lyra down into the chair next to him as the conversation continued. As the professor spoke and then the Gryffindor boy spoke he stifled a laugh. Could've been a dog of a boy... Not wanting to get involved too much he sat back and continued to listen wondering what all this was about and why Lyra had dragged him into it.

"Oh a student, Yes how insightful" she said batting her lashes at the cute cute boy... "Cake?" she said as a slice came flying towards him on a little plate.

Another slice of cake went flying to the girl, along with the small cup of coffee.

"Seymour did that? What a bad dog- I mean BOY! I will have to talk with him..." she said as another slice of cake went flying to Anna, with the coffee. Hmmm Anna was squeezing Newell's hand.... hmmmm she narrowed her eyes at the the hands... "No PDA in my office please." She said her voice a tad more bitter.

Another slice of cake and coffee went to the boy... he was cute too... the slice was larger than the girls... both boys cakes were larger.

"Continue Anna please..." she said smiling.

"Erm...sure," Cale said as a plate of cake was sent his way. He blinked in shock--had the professor just batted her eyelashes at him? Oh lordy. Blushing, he felt like sinking into his chair as Anna continued her story. Especially after they got yelled at for holding hands. Hmm, had the professor yelled at them out of jealously? Gah, this situation was getting weirder by the minute.

"Yes, ma'am. He knocked the books to the floor and then picked them up himself. There was pretty much nothing I could do to convince him I meant well," she said, accepting the cake and smiling in appreciation. "Thank you, Professor Lupa. Nothing like coffee and chocolate cake to make a girl feel all better." PDA? Who was exhibiting PDA? Anna glanced over at Robert and Lyra, thinking maybe they'd snuck a quick kiss or something. Were they even dating? She didn't think so... Ahh, wait. Hadn't she squeezed Cale's hand a moment ago? She did! "Oh, excuse me, Professor Lupa. I was only thanking him for standing by my side. I tend to do things like squeeze his hand by instinct and habit, sometimes without thinking about it first. My apologies," she said.

"So Seymour told Professor Kazimeriz that he didn't like me, because supposedly I'm a different person when not under the supervision of the school staff. That's what he said, at least. He said I was very bossy, rude, arrogant, and self-centered, which just isn't true, Professor. You can ask any of these people sitting in here today, and I'm confidant they would tell you I'm not the person Seymour made me out to be!" she explained. "He then proceeded to tell Professor Kazimeriz that I tried to steal a textbook from the library. Only, he was referring to the time I tried to get Will to share the treasure-hunting book with the rest of the school. He just carefully worded it to make it sound like I'd done something terribly wrong. Cale was there, though. He can tell you that it didn't happen that way. He even ended by saying that I favor my own house and pick on the others," she continued. She glanced over at Lyra and Robert, two people not in her own house. "You see I'm here today with a Hufflepuff and a Ravenclaw, as well as someone from my own house. My best friend Reese, is also a Slytherin. My own father was a Slytherin."

Robert's eyes widened as he saw a plate with cake on it come his way but he let it sit untouched. Instead placing his arm around the back of Lyra's chair as the conversation continued around him. He still was lost as to what was going on and trying to sort it out in his head wasn't helping any. Then there was what had happened in the Room of Requirement eating at him... I really should go apologize to Mariska... He glanced at Lyra and sighed. This was getting too complicated now. She was with Cayden and you're with Lyra. That's it say that ten times in your head until you bloody REMEMBER that. He looked up finally as he heard the end of the girl's, Anna he thought he heard her called, speech. So him coming had some use in it after all.

She winked at Newell as he took the cake.

"Anna, I'm surprized at you! Don't you see?" she said smiling. "Besides the fact that bossyness and arrogance are Gryffindor traits and are not necessarily bad, I mean look at the great Harry Potter, don't you see what Seymour is doing?" She said leaning forward and taking her hand. "He's trying to get your attention... pulling your pigtails if you will... He's in love with you Anna!" She said clapping her hands.

Cale dropped a piece of cake on his lap. In love with Anna? Heck no! He wouldn't allow it. "WHAT? Erm, no offense professor but I think Seymour might just be...well, a cruel little kid," he finished lamely, before scoping up the piece he had just dropped on his lap and dropping it on the side of his plate.

"Professor, with all due respect, I don't think Seymour likes me, let alone loves me. You see, he has quite the crush on Celandine Toussaint, only, she's Plymouth Morgan's girlfriend. Also, if Seymour liked me even just a little, he'd save me from this mess I'm in. The problem is...he's doing everything but saving me," Anna explained, stopping to take a sip of her coffee. "You see, Professor Kazimeriz believed Seymour. He punished me by telling me I was to be Seymour's new ambassador. I'm to help him socially and academically, and if I can, I'll be rewarded. If I can't, well, he threatened to revoke my prefect's badge."

"The problem is, Seymour won't even speak to me. He won't even come near me to allow me to help him. Professor, to be honest with you, I'd be nice to Seymour with or without this punishment, but he won't give me the chance. Professor Kazimeriz is calling a meeting soon to discuss how this whole ambassador thing is coming along. Only, if I can't get Seymour to even come near me, I can't hold up to my end of the agreement. I'm afraid I'm about to get into a ton of trouble, and I have no clue what to do to get myself out," she said, a few tears starting to spill again. "I've got to find a way to prove myself to Professor Kazimeriz, and this can be my chance. Seymour's making it impossible, though. Professor, I work hard to keep my grades up. I don't want them to fall because of a situation I have no control over. Please help me..."

"No, No..." she leaned over to Cale and took his hand. "No offence at all darling..." she patted his hand and winked at him again. "but children are cruel when they don't get what they want... he's 12, Cale, love, he's a child and he is in love with Anna... Think back when you were twelve... and someone you liked didn't give you the time of day... I'm sure you may have been mean to her."

She turned to Anna, but did not let go of Cale's hand. "Believe me, I was Slytherin myself once... I know their minds... He loves you, and I think Professor Kazimeriz knows it too, which is why he's trying to pairing the two of you up. So you can show the boy he's young and he needs someone his own age." She said smiling.

Anna's face wrinkled in confusion, and she glanced at the professor out of the corner of her eyes. What on Earth was she being so flirty with Cale for? Cale's 18, for Merlin's sake...and with Anna! Ahhh, well. Anna had no worries about losing Cale to anyone, not even a professor, anytime soon. Anna rubbed her eyes, a bit confused about the way the conversation was coming along. There was no way that Seymour Addams liked her...not as a friend and definitely not as a love interest. "Professor Lupa, that still doesn't change the fact that Seymour won't come anywhere near me, and if I don't make some sort of effort to be his ambassador, then I'm doomed," Anna said, hoping the professor would understand what she was saying. "I need a favor of you. I need you, if you will, to help me understand more about Professor Kazimeriz. What is it that I'm missing here? Please, Professor. I need you to help me..."

She let go of Cale's hand and turned to Anna. "Professor Kazimeriz is like a father to me... or a grandfather... He's very sweet when you get to know him... but he is set in his ways and you should always obey him... even when you don't think it's right... he IS right. Believe me... I know." she said... "What exactly do you need to know about him?"

"I don't doubt that he's the man you say he is. I understand that I must obey him, and I have no problem doing so," she truthfully said. She softly sighed, not really sure what she exactly needed to know, just knowing that she did, in fact, need to know something. She just needed help...a little guidance, if you will. "First of all, I need to know what I should do in order to get Seymour to talk with me. I can't stay true to my promise to Professor Kazimeriz if I can't get Seymour to cooperate. I'm going to be in a ton of trouble if I don't complete my punishment," she said. "Secondly, I have a question about these ghosts floating around Hogwarts. Why are they so friendly with Professor Kazimeriz? I mean, I understand he's a well-respected man, but is there some other reason they're so friendly with him?" she asked.

"To answer your first question... the way to any man's heart is through his tummy... More cake Cale?" She said letting the plate levitate before the boy. "So get the boy some chocolates, tell him it's a piece offering. The boy seemed to be friends with the other prefect, tell him Prefect Jones would have wanted him to get along with the other houses. Tell him you want to discuss his friend and clerify you adored him... Or something like that." She smiled at Anna. The second question had her a but nervous. "Well... uhmmm" she couldn't very well tell her... "Probably because he's nice to them and respects them... so they do the same." She smiled.

Anna glanced over at Cale once again, hoping he'd speak up and help her convince Professor Lupa that Seymour Addams no more wanted to date Anna than he wanted to date a frazzling slug. All the professor seemed interested in doing was flirting with Cale, which normally would have driven Anna insane had it not been for the fact that she knew Cale loved her with all his heart. "Professor, Seymour doesn't love me, and I don't want to get to his heart. Not in that way, at least. If I handed him any sort of food right now, he'd either spit in it, knock it over, or hex me into oblivion and back," she explained. "Let's just say---hypothetically---that Seymour won't accept the food. What then?" she asked.

Anna eyed the professor suspiciously when she stumbled over her words concerning Professor Kazimeriz. Ohhh, she'd struck gold! Only, Professor Lupa didn't seem willing to share secrets anytime soon. "There are a lot of people here, professors included, who're nice and pleasant to the ghosts. Professor Kazimeriz is in a different league with the ghosts, though. It's very important that I know why, Professor Lupa," Anna said.

"Then you come back to me and I will call him to my office with you and we can speak together... he will NOT refuse me." She said smiling. But you are to be your sweetest to him missy. And no escorts... If you bring Mr. Newell, I will have to confiscate him and taking him away." She giggled.

"Then I believe you should ask him..." Alessia said.

Anna sighed, knowing at this point, her only options were to present Seymour with the candy, wait for him to reject her, and then report him to Professor Lupa. "Alright, so I'll go and present him with a box of candy," she said, glancing over at Cale. He was going to freak out about this, no doubt. Knowing him, he wouldn't allow this to happen. It had to happen, though. She had no other choice. "When he rejects, I'll send him to you," she said.

"Ask...him about the ghosts?" Anna asked, sinking down in her seat. She couldn't ask Professor Kazimeriz about his connections to the ghosts! He'd kill her---literally! "As in...Professor Kazimeriz? It's hopeless then. He's not going to tell me, Professor," Anna sadly said, looking down to the ground. "That was my last hope, too..."

"Oh Papa Valon is a sweet man... just be humble and sweet and let him know you mean no disrespect." She said smiling.

"...and that will work?" she asked, surprised that part of the solution was that easy. She considered that for a moment, wondering if she really coupld simply approach Professor Kazimeriz in a nice, polite manner. She supposed it wouldn't be too hard, although, she did want to try reaching out to Seymour just a few more times. Maybe she'd get Reese to help her? Reese could hunt for him in the Common Room. Seymour had to be in the Common Room at one time or another. That's it! She'd get Reese and Evee to help her. "Alright, Professor Lupa. I'll take my chances! I'll give Seymour a few more tries, and if still have no luck, I'll send him to you as you requested. As for Professor Kazimeriz, I'll try the nice, respectable approach."