"He might be paranoid-Vindy poisoned him and he was puking ALLLLL over the seventh floor corridor." He turned to Dani.

"I really might go get the Nurse-don't want him to get sick again. And Dani, congrats! I didn't know!" he exclaimed. "Why didn't you tell me? I thought we were best friends." he put his hand on her shoulder. "I would really love to be best man, thanks for asking."

Dani poked Clark in the side really hard. "I didn't know either." She stared at the table, confuzed. Wow. Did she have a boyfriend? Weird. Clark was not making it easy on her to figure out what was going on. "Maybe we should go talk to Professor Vindictus, he did tell us to take care of Jake."

Paranoid? Vindictus? Poison? Huh? The thoughts that were going through Nancy's mind at the moment - in particular that last one - were easily readable on her face. What exactly were they talking about?! "Vindictus poisoned Jake?!" Nancy could not think of anything appropriate to reply so she just settled with rephrasing the Ravenclaw's statement.

Okay, and now the whole thing got even more confusing. Vindictus had apparently first poisoned Jake and then told Dani and her friend to look after him. Right, cause this so made sense. Not. "Yeah...Vindictus would be good." Nancy muttered still lost in thought about what the heck was going on. Although maybe the professor could explain things better than those two.

"He apparently gave him a choco frog with a puking pastille inside it and he ate it. If he's not gonna eat..." Clark stood up. "He really should so he can feel better. I can get the nurse. In fact, I should. Coming, Dani, Nancy?" he asked the girls. "Or you guys could go get Vindictus for help. He might know what to do. Ya, I get Avalon, you get Vindictus, and they force-feed Jake."

Clark leaned down to tie his shoe. "He really needs to eat."

Dani nodded. "Okay." She said, standing up. Hopefully Jake wouldn't hate her for going to get Vindictus. But if he died she'd.. well.. She didn't want to think about that. "Nancy, you want to come with me?" She wasn't going to say it out loud, but she was kind of scared of Vindictus now. She wanted a witness if he tried to kill her as well.

Jake.

Was.

Her.

Boyfriend?

How had that happened?

He smiled "George" Looking up at the bigger kid, he drew the blanket closer "What's your name?" he asked quietly as he watched the other kids fussing over two sleepy kids.

He nodded at the boy; he liked him. Too bad he was Alice's cousin though. "I'm Torin. You're a First Year, right?" He looked like it, but you could never know for sure. Some people just looked younger than they really were.

"Nice to meet you Torin" George smiled hesitantly "Yeah, I am a first year. How about you?" he asked, trying to be poilte, or as polite as he could be.

"I'm in 4th Year, but I'm new here. I come from Greece." He nodded. He really missed his home. It was nice here, but too cold. Just thinking of the cold made him shiver.

"Oh, all my cousins are new here" George smiled "And look, our common room floods in my first year, not too helpful, is it?" He sighed as he thought of his stuff that was covered in water now.

"That might have happened, George, but look on the bright side. At least now you will get to meet more Ravenclaws. And you also get to see another Common Room. This is the only year that this has ever happened." So he wasn't too thrilled about the flooding himself; he was still going to try to cheer this boy up a bit.

"True" George smiled "It'll be different, I know that" he appreciated Torin's attempt to cheer him up. It was actually working. He smiled again and hugged Alice's arm again.

Dominic looked up startled at the sound of someone addressing him. He had been lost in some kind of reverie between loss of his common room -- his home of two years -- and other thoughts, which probably are best left to the unspoken. Biting his lip, he looked up to meet the gaze of his fellow prefect, as she sat next to him.

"I'm... As well as I could be," Dom nodded, trying to be encouraging. "I'm not sure." Instinctively, his eyes flickered up to the staff table, which appeared mostly void of staff members. And then around the Great Hall. Shaking his head, he sighed, deciding he needed to go for a walk or something. Fresh air was needed and it seemed people were leaving anyway. "I think I'm going to head for a walk. See you later, Van--essa" He smiled sheepishly, as he almost used a nickname on her, but then realized her full name was his nickname for her.

With that, the sixth year rose from his bench and left the Hall.

Vanessa smiled at Dominic, well at least he looked like he was coping. They needed to really, to show the other badgers that they were fine, so that hopefully they wouldn't worry too much. "We'll be fine Dom....I mean it's only water." She spoke, although she didn't sound very convincing, mainly because she really didn't believe it herself. "We have to be okay." She sighed, resting her chin on her hands. At least they had gotten out.
"Oh...bye Dom." She smiled at him as she watched him leave. Sighing she glanced around the table, all the badgers seemed to be okay now, so she decided she might go and find Miles or something. Standing up she took once last glance around the table, before leaving.

Kita walked into the Great Hall and noticed that the Hufflepuff table was close to full. Looks like i'm not the only morning person here she thought. She looked up at the ceiling and smiled. She walked to the Hufflepuff table and sat down. She helped herself to some toast and wondered what she will do later on...

And, she was rushing down from the Pitch...or up, clearly Kaika was not paying attention to where she went, but she had to make sure Cy Andrus was doing okay.

Perhaps, she should've left him in there with Professor V, but he was panicking a bit, so better not. And, the hospital wing, yes! But, Cy was sort of coming around, which is why she decided to place him in the bench, and get some water herself.

"Cy? Cy? Are you okay?" she asked, poking the little boy's shoulder.

Miranda flew inside the entrance hall, it seemed her hand had frozen onto the broomstick while the other had attached itself firmly onto Kaika's bat and broomstick.

Still in her panicky state, she didn't even slow down when she reached the Great Hall, but flew inside aswell, tired to stop but ended doing a little loop in the air. "Whoooaaa!" she cried, almost colliding with the Gryffindor table.

Turning in the air, Miranda flew down to land but couldn't stop rightaway. With a grimace, she closed her eyes as she saw the space between the Huffie table and the Ravenclaw one full of students. Ohmygosh I'm going to land ontop of everyone!

"GetoutoftheWaaaaaaaaaaaaaYyyy!" she yelled as she skidded to a stop on her behind. Luckily, her robe had frozen over on that spot and felt minimum burn.

Coming into the warmness of the castle, Cy began to regain some consciousness. His iced over, pale face began to attain its old color.

Now set up on the bench, he finally opened his eyes. It was blurry for about fifteen seconds before the person in front of him became clear.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

It was his captain, Kaika Lockhart. And he was at the table with her. WHY, oh WHY, would he be in this situation. “YOU,” he said groggily, yet surprisingly loud. “’Must be a nightmare.” He stated simply, taking his first deep breath. BAD IDEA. Cy coughed violent 5 times, each time water shot from his lungs and onto the table. His last cough landed in Kaika’s lap.

“Oops.” He said, eyelids half open, but that mischievous wry smile was very much on his face now.

Sarah had no idea where she was but realised that she most be in the castle she was so confused how on earth had she managed to get into Hogwarts without realising it, she was so shocked, She quickly found the hufflepuff table and flew down to the ground, she found a spot to land, she wondered how on earth she had gotten into the castle, this was scary. She sat down on the table with her broom at her feet. "Okay how are you all?" she hoped that everyone else was okay.

Emalyn left her broom in the entrance hall and tore into the great hall, running straight for the Hufflepuff table.

"Everyone all right? Everyone here? Where's Cy - oh, okay, well..." she trailed off, stopping in her tracks. Cy was sitting up, which was a good sign, but coughing. She sat down across from Kaika at the table, careful to avoid sitting near the first year's aim of fire (or water, rather). She was really hungry, so she grabbed a roll and nibbled on it as she surveyed the scene before her. Thankfully everyone was okay.

Phew.

Yes. She should've left the kid to die in there. Or throw him away with Bartholomew. Great company for Cy. Not so much for Bartholomew's.

And, then Miranda..."Hey! Careful with my broom!"

There were more important things to be caring about at this precise moment, and all she could say was 'her broom'. "Er, I mean, are you alright?" she asked Miranda.

But her face turned away as someone said 'YOU'. "Well, you're welcome" she said, narrowing her eyes at Cy. A nightmare. Yes, it was. Because there was no Quidditch. And, what happened next was a nightmare indeed.

EWWW.

This boy won't be seeing light anytime soon.

"I'm assuming, you're alright" she said, coldly, and placing her glass of water down, she didn't feel like drinking it now.

Sarah. Great. She was safe. "Well, I'm fine" despite the fact that Cy practically spat all the water inside him to the Captain. Dramatic, indeed. "Are you...okay?" because if Professor V had been panicking, then the players are entitled to do so as well.

And...Emalyn seemed more than alright. She was even eating. That was something Kaika wasn't going to do until she forgets the thing with Cy. And, she wasn't really hungry.

The quidditch match was over and Hufflepuff won, forfeit or not, and that was a reason to celebrate (even if they were all sentenced to a watery doom). Fireworks proceeded their way into the Great Hall and above the Hufflepuff House Table, spelling out an invitation in the colours of yellow and black:

Dear Hufflepuffs and Huffie Supporters,

In light of our recent win on the pitch (go team!) a party is being held in the Room of Requirement. Hope to see you all there. Free T-Shirts will be available!!!

Lyra & Varius

Cyrus just laughed as she said ‘you welcome’, “You’re my hero.” The Aussie stated, winking in QUITE a sarcastic fashion.

He finishing coughing up water, at least, and good thing too because it was painful. His brown eyes were quite a bit more lively, and he looked back to Kaika. “I’m peachy mate.” He said, grabbing a pumpkin pastry off the table. The first year simultaneously took a bite and swallowed. It didn’t go down the best. He set the biscuit back where it came from… he didn’t want the rest.

Then, the COOLEST thing happened. Fireworks started spelling out something… wait, oh… hold on a second. OHHH! Cy jumped to his feet suddenly, standing on the bench.

“AWESOME!” He yelled out, subsequently coughing deeply. Regaining his composure, “Let’s go, sounds like a rippin’ party.” With that, the first year jumped off the bench and ran towards the Room of Requirement in fits of coughs.

Tammy walked into the Great Hall to see some fireworks spelling out an invitation. TO A PARTYYYY! xD. She needed a good party. Now who to tell? Eva. NO they were arguing. Peter. Yeahhh, but who else? Gah, and she ran abck out to find Peteer.

Water trickled into the great hall. It seemed to cover the floor around the Hufflepuff Table.