"I think so." Vanessa sighed, brushing her hair back, even though it looked rather messy now. She smiled at Lyra, the girl seemed okay, and she had all her clothes and stuff, so that was good. "We just need some teachers now." Vanessa nodded, looking around, at least then they'd know that to do.. "I...have no idea...but hogsmeade is quite close so..."

Vanessa smiled at the little boy, aww he looked so cute, although he did look really scared. She kinda wished she could sit and make sure he was okay, but she was still having to make sure everyone else was. Hopefully the girl he was with could calm him now.
"I'll come see you later George." Vanessa nodded, with a smile.

"I know he is." Vanessa smiled, glancing at Torin, he better not pull Alice's hair again. It wasn't nice! "But im sure he's only playing, and he better not do it again." She nodded being serious. She didn't need this when there common room was flooding. "Come find me if he annoys you anymore."

Alice shook her head, "No Vannie, you didnt know him well," bitting her lip, "This's not the first time. He did once before too," her fingers twirling and untwirling her wet hair. "He has been behaving rude to me, he didnt like me." she felt pathetic. He's a meanie, flirt. Not like Fyo. Her Fyo. Her face was glowing at the thought of him.

He smiled a little sadly as he kept crying. "Because all my stuff was there, and the spares I have too, I spent all my money on them" he sniffed "And all my homework that I spent hours on is gone"

George nodded as his face was buried on Alice's arm "Okay" he mumbled to her.

OOC: Thanks again, everybody for helping me out

Wesley nodded. She understood. Vanessa was busy, and Wesley didn't want to bother her. "Okay. Thanks!" Biting her lip, she wondered when a professor was going to show up. They were probably busy with the flood itself right now. Or doing other important stuff. She felt better, knowing that the House-elves were going to be okay. Wesley wondered where they would be staying- and what all the students were going to be eating from now on.

"Great!" Wesley cheered, glad the other girl could help.

Wesley nodded again, placing some of the blankets back on the table so her stack was smaller.

"OKAY!" Wesley exclaimed after Rhea gave her directions, happy to get started.

Wesley walked very carefully over to an older looking girl, protectively making sure her blankets wouldn't drop. The Hufflepuff didn't look totally wet, but she was shivering and dirty. "H-here y-you g-go," Wesley said shyly, handing her a especially fuzzy bright yellow blanket.

"Look Vanessa! Blankets!" Wesley said, forgetting her shyness and proudly displaying the yellow and black fuzzy blankets. "Rhea did it! Do you want one? You look kinda wet." She held out a black one. Dark colors drew in more heat didn't they?

Vannie? Where? Wesley looked around. She knew a Vannie- Reese had talked about her on the train. But there was only two other guys besides Vanessa and -Wait! Vanessa is Vannie?, Wesley didn't know that, I just knew Vanessa was nice! And she is- any friend of Reese's must be nice, Wesley thought, Wait! Doesn't that mean she's in that one band?, Wesley curiously stared at the prefect for a moment, I wonder what instrument she plays? Wesley bit her lip, resisting the urge to ask; it would be awkward to just bring up a subject out of no where.

Blinking, Wesley remembered the other girl. "Oh! Sorry!" she apologized for her pause, "Do you want a blanket?" She held out a soft one, smiling timidly. The extremely small first-year had never seen this girl before. She hadn't seen a lot of people at the table though. I wonder if she's in the band too.

"Hi. Do you want a blanket?" Wesley asked softly, offering the crying boy a sunshiny yellow blanket. She would have given him a darker color for warmth but figured he needed a happier color. He looked so sad; Wesley felt terrible. "I'm sorry," she said simply, trying not to butt into the conversation but failing slightly. Wesley was lucky she hadn't brought anything too important to Hogwarts; she could replace anything she had lost, although her parents would be angry. As long as no one died, Wesley was pretty happy. But sadness was contagious.

About ready to cry too, Wesley looked up at a taller boy. "D-do y-you w-want a-a b-blank-ket t-too?" she questioned nervously. Holding out a blanket, Wesley flinched slightly. He looked scary. Or maybe just intimidating.

Wesley turned around and waved happily at Rhea. There was still loads of people to give blankets too.

Sarah sat looking round at everyone.They were talking and handing out blankets and taking blankets....Still there were no teachers to help them.Admittedly the water hadn't been high when they all got out,just up to the knees,and no-one had been in danger of drowning,but surely someone should be here?
Having warmed up,Sarah unwrapped the blanket from around her and folded it,before placing it on the table in front of her.She reached forward and grabbed a goblet,filling it up with what was left of the pumpkin juice in the jug.Taking a gulp,it was only as the liquid touched her lips that she realised how thirsty she actually was.Draining what was left was tempting,but as the kitchen level was now flooded it was unlikely that they could get more,so instead she nursed the goblet and drank as slowly as possible.Glancing sideways she saw Ryder still sat there....and people still milling around.When are we going to get help?

That's what he was worried about. "Relax, dude. I dont think you will get in trouble for that. It's not your fault." He patted the boy on the shoulder encouragingly.


"Fortunately I didn't really get wet 'cause I'm so tall." He just loved that. hehe. "Well, this is really weird. What kind of crazy school is this?" He shook his head.

"I'm bad, huh? Does that mean that you need to teach me a lesson?" It was just too easy.


"Aww, did I hurt you? My mistake." He smiled at her evilly. For some reason it gave him satisfaction to bully her.

Alice pouted. There was some reasons for this boy to cry. Sometimes like Sarah. "Awe, i'm sorry George. Dont worry I can fix your problem," she leaned, gently kissed on his head. "And for homework part, we can get some extended time, atleast i'm hpoing," she was solacing him, as wiped off his tears from his lovely face.

A rather soft voice was distracted Alice's attention from that boy Morin..or Lorin?..or ? whatever his name was. She was glad atleast she got distracted before she went to even more bad mood. Thank Girl. Alice shook her head, "No thank. I'm okay," she gave her a warm smile to that girl.

Now he started bullying George?! No way Mister. Just get off your pretty bad head from here. She wanted to shout like that. But no. She didnt want to get into trouble again. No points deduction. No more. Calm Alice.

No apologizies!? Oh..he was full of himself. Rude. She looked away, "Watch yourself before doing anything to others," she muttered, still feeling upset.

George looked up as someone spoke to him, he took the blanket and nodded "Thank you" he sniffed and tried to blink back the tears.

George smiled and nodded "Kay... I hope not" then he started picking on Alice, George got bravery from nowhere "Hey, can you leave my cousin alone? She did nothing to you" he spoke in a tone that suggested he wasn't scared of the boy and that he was going to do anything to protect her.

He shook his head "You can't fix what's already been broken, not this time." he sighed and then nodded as she said they could get extended time "I hope so" he mumbled as the tears stopped falling.

Alice put the blanket around him and pulled him closer to her. "I know we cant fix all. But crying for something we cant fix is not good George," she explained, gently ruffled his hair caringly. "I'll help you with your homework too," she re-assured the first year cute boy. Her lovely cousin.

When George was trying to defend her, Alice leaned down, "Dont be engaged with that boy. He's a bully." she whispered, not wanting to put George in something an unwanted problems.

He smiled and leant his head on her comfortably "Alice, how do you always get it right?" George asked her admiringly and then smiled "Thank you Alice" As she leant down to whisper to him, he nodded and then pulled the blanket around him more snugly as if it would protect him.

Ryder just nodded, "I did," he said, "but I hope that the library has more, but luckily they were only covering a month or so." He knew that that wouldn't really make much sense to her. But he needed to tell her soon. It was begining to feel very odd, sitting here, especially like this, when she really didn't know much about him. He felt like he was holding something back, and he had to tell her before it drove him nuts. They should be waiting for a teacher, but now that he was thinking about it, he really wanted to tell her now. He wasn't sure on how she would react but he had to do it all the same.

Ryder wasn't paying all that much attention to what was going on around him. He kept finding himself looking down at Sarah. He may be cold, but he was happy to just sit like this. His mind though kept wandering back to what he was keeping from her and so, he pulled back from her a little and asked, "Would you like to get out of here for a little while? I'd really like to talk to you." He hoped she said yes, it really wasn't something he wanted to talk about in front of everyone.

"Oh I'm glad," Sarah smiled up at him,then realised how that may have sounded. "Not glad that they were in there....just that there weren't many of them.You're right,I'm sure the library have more than one copy of each.I'll help you look if you like,next time we're there." Why did she feel slightly nervous and flushed all of a sudden? She cared whether he would take what she said the wrong way.Why?

Sarah had been glancing down at her goblet,picking at a mark in the metal,when Ryder spoke again.He wants to talk? Actually talk? Well that was different,so far he had clammed up when Sarah had asked him about himself.Of course she wanted to get to know him better so she wasn't going to say no. "Yeah I'd like that.Doesn't seem to be much happening in here,and I'm sure we'll find out the situation eventually.Shall we go for a stroll to the Bamboo Forest? It's been ages since I went there....and it's pretty...and quiet."
Smiling,she swung her legs round and stood up,smoothing her now dry robes out and waiting for Ryder to follow.

He snorted at her comment. Like he was scared of her. She was UGH... He couldn't stand her. He didn't know why he hated her. It was beyond Bunbury now. It was more than just her interference in scoring with a Professor he had a crush on.

"And what are you going to do if I don't?" There was challenge in his voice. He wasn't scared of her.

He was this chick's cousin? "Okay, I'm sorry, dude. I'll lay off of her. 'cause I like you." He shrugged. This wouldn't stop him from disliking that girl though.

He wondered yet again why he disliked her so much. Hmm.. Well, one thing was for sure: Reese wasn't right that it was 'cause he liked her; nope. That was just laughable.

Alice's face was lighting up as she saw him smiled. Oh boy, that's all i wanted. She smiled, "It's nothing." said calmly, looking down at his less worried and reddened face from all the crying. "Anytime cutie. Now want some chocolates?" she was trying to cheer him up.

The way he was looking at her was just Ewwwwww... Where did you come from..oh sorry escaped from? a Zoo?! Gah. Why dont he leave her alone. Stop bullying me and go flirting with more girls and women. She raised her brows at him as he was asking such a silly question to her. Oh..that's all you could come up with? Poor you.

"Try me again. I'll show you," she said curtly, looked away again. Go away boy before i lose my control.

"Thank you" George mumbled to him. Not wanting to get involved in a conversation because Alice had said he was a bully, but also wanting to talk to him because he'd been nice, George went silent.

He smiled again and nodded "Chocolate sounds good, thanks Alice" he mumbled to her with a smile. He then looked up at the boy who'd been nice to him as Alice was rude to him "Can't you two stop?" he asked a little tearfully "They're no reason to not like each other!"

Lyra sighed as she looked around the Great Hall. "Is this where we are going to sleep?" No one was attending them like they did for the Slytherins. "I'm not staying in my PJs all day, but I'm not leaving my clothes here either." Nope! She sure wasn't and she was not going to class until someone gave her a place to put her clothes and shoes.

Dominic was pleased that Vanessa seemed to take on the role of answering questions. She was doing quite well at it, so the sixteen year old just sat quietly and waited for the opportune moment to assist. Oddly enough it didn't appear like there were many professors present - and if there were - they weren't offering insight as to their sleeping arrangements.


Speaking sleeping arrangements; the sixth year glanced up and tilted his head to the side at the sound of a familiar voice asking about if they would be sleeping in the Great Hall. Figures she wouldn't stay in her PJs all day but wouldn't leave her clothes there either. "Perhaps a Professor could lend you some space to put your clothes then, if they are that important that you're soo worried," Dom spoke up in a quiet tone, especially on the last part. Well he could think of one Professor . . . A certain redheaded Professor, who Lyra's antics seemed to remind him a bit of. Yes, she would certainly lend Lyra some place for something so material like clothing.

Well... Jake had certainly looked better. Like some of the other Hufflepuffs, Jake was soaking wet. But only because he'd just had a shower... and the water was seeeeeping through and making his clothes all wet. Jake... wasn't feeling great. Sure, Vindictus gave him the other half of the puking pastille, but the panic and the whole ordeal of the seventh floor was enough to shut Jake up.

Lacking his usual hyperness, Jake, on his own right now, beelined for a place at the Hufflepuff table, waiting for Clark or... someone.

He was supposed to have pumpkin juice... and something to eat. But... he really didn't feel like it. Instead he just sat, staring into space.

Clark Landers jumped from the door to the front of the Hufflepuff table, then ran to where Jake was sitting. Well, you couldn't really tell it was Clark, cos his face was obscured by a gigantic teddybear with a heart that said "You're the Beary Best".

Clark was such a good friend. (Or a terrible one if you were embarrassed easily.) He presented the bear to Jakers and started to sing from notecards he pulled from behind his back.

"Get well soon Jake. Get well soon Jake. Ple-a-se do! Ple-a-se do! Cos we need some help, cos we need some help," at this point, Clark lowered his voice to a whisper. "With Mission WB, with Mission WB." (the song was too the tune of Frere Jaques.)

Dani had walked in just behind Clark, but had taken her time walking over to the table. Smacking Clark, not so hard, in the back of the head, she said "Leave him alone about that, he's still recovering. We can bug him later." Then she noticed the teddy bear. She loved teddy bears, "Oooh how cute." For a moment she sounded really girly. She gave Jake a hug. "You feeling any better?" She eyed Clark before sitting down next to Jake and patting the other empty spot, "Sit down."

Clark sat down next to Jake and Dani. Pinching Dani tightly, he smiled at Jake. "Have any food yet?" he stole a piece of meat off a Hufflepuff girl who wasn't looking. "Ack, roast beef. One of the meat products I'm NOT allergic too, and it has to taste like cow brain." Which was a delicacy in France. But whatever. He ruffled Jake's hair. "Feelin' any better boy?" he cackled.

Oh... wow. Okay.

Looking round at his two friends, Jake gave a small smile but refrained from saying anything just yet. He wasn't really in the mood to shout at Clark at tell him how he was having NO part in Mission WB.

Cool bear, though.

It.

Looked.

Snugglesome.

"I'm okay," Jake nodded, huggling the bear and using it as a niiiiiice pillowlow.

Yes.

Pillowlow.

"And I'm not hungry."

Dani jumped when Clark pinched her. "Oww Clark." She scooted a little bit away from him. "Why are you being mean?" She pouted. Grabbing a roll, she buttered it and then set it in front of Jake. "You need to eat." Seeing that he wasn't going to she added. "If you don't, you'll start getting sick again." He looked tired. She worried about him a little bit. Okay, maybe a lot. She'd worry about Clark too if the roles had been reversed. They were her best friends. But she hadn't forgiven Clark for the water balloon incident yet.

Clark gave Dani a hug. "I'm sorry DaniKinz," he muttered. "And Jake? Just eat. We'll give you chocolate if you eat this roll and drink two glasses of pumpkin juice..." his offer lingered in the air. Jake couldn't resist chocolate, could he?

He was glad Jake liked his new bear. It used to be his dogs chew toy-until he discovered he was allergic to dogs. At least his mum had cleaned it (he hoped) and stitched it back up.

Clark poured a glass of pumpkin juice. "It's really yummy."

Shaking his head, Jake buried his face in the fur of the bear.

It.

Smelt.

Funny.

Ahhhh well.

"No, I'm not hungry," he retorted, pouting a tad. Dani was being all concerned. It felt quite... comforting. "I feel... fine."

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