Jude was looking on as the entire scene seemed to unfold. Oh shucks. There goes Slytherin's negative point lead. Oh well, he was sure they'd get returned eventually. But still... it isn't nice to remove points for paranoia.

Seeing Hayley run towards him, Jude struggled with his robes, the blanket, and the wet towels next to him until he was back into a sitting position, wrapped snugly and getting warm into his blanket. Maybe he should grab another... they weren't very big.

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Had somebody said her name? Kiri looked up. Most students appeared to be preoccupied with themselves, wringing out their wet robes and talking to each other. Her gaze shifted down the table. And there was Raiden! He stood amidst a crowd of teachers. An older Gryffindor student was fussing around him, too.
She was relieved to see him. Obviously everything was alright, but it was good to see him nonetheless.

Kiri put down the feebly protesting Sol and waved at Raiden. He looked as scared and confused as she felt, but didn't seem to be in injured or anything. What the teachers were doing there, Kiri didn't know, but he was hugging a cat close to his chest. It was the first time she realised he had a cat (if it was his). "Stay here," she told the pygmy puff, and stood up. Slowly and still a little shakily, Kiri squelched over to him, wet robes sliding on the ground behind her.
"'scuse me," she mumbled as she passed one of the teachers.

"Raiden," she said quietly when she stood next to him. "Hi." She let herself sink onto the bench, unsure of what to say - not that she knew if she could say much more. "Are you okay?"

Raiden's stomach flipped nervously as Kiri stood and came over; she was soaking wet, and probably cold as anything, but she was okay. So why was his stomach suddenly in knots? Roscoe headbutted him in the chin again as Kiri as on the bench, and Raiden glanced down at the cat and set him on the bench as well. The little thing ran right over to Professor Truebridge and headbutted his leg, miaowing for pets.

That was odd.

He disregarded it and knelt in front of Kiri. "You look REALLY wet... you should've gotten out right away, what if... something had happened to you?" he asked, voice strained slightly. "I wish I could remember the spell to get the water out of clothing... I remember Nicholai Toussaint using it but I can't remember what it is."

He smiled at Anna as she handed Kiri a phial of pepperup potion; that would warm Kiri up good! He nodded in response to her words and added a small "See you later" to the end of it all.

"I'm okay, Kiri... are YOU okay?"

Hayley sniffled a bit as she approached Jude, "My eyes hurt," she said lamely. "Can I sit with you?" Hayley was upset, and confused, and scared of basically EVERY teacher in the school now. She let out a big breath of air *sigh* "I just want this all to be over," she said, "I wanna go back to my comfy bed that I was lying on when all this happened." Ahh..the comfortableness! "Jude, why do you think the dungeons were flooding?"

Kiri nodded. She watched silently as Raiden let the cat down on the bench, her eyes following it as it set off to hunt mice, or whatever it was cats did. To see Raiden kneel in front of her like that was a little odd, and even now it send tiny tingling spikes into her spine. She stretched out her hand and briefly touched Raiden's cheek. It felt... natural. Where her fingers touched him, they burned. (Or so it seemed.) "'m okay," she mumbled. "Wet robes is all." When she shifted on the bench, water droplets plunked down onto the stone floor.

She was interrupted by the arrival of the Gryffindor girl who had tended to Raiden earlier. Kiri removed her hand hastily, and, taken by surprise, took the little phial that was being handed to her. A Head Girl badge was gleaming on the girl's robes, so she felt safe to pull out the stopper and down the potion in one go. A great warmth, not unlike the warmth she felt when Raiden was around, spread through her body. The girl had been right, it really helped, although Kiri was now more aware of the wet robes clinging to her legs than before. Her brain still seemed a little frozen, however. A little lost for words, Kiri pointed at the cat. "Is that, err, yours? I didn't know you had a cat."

Jude shrugged. "Oi 'unno..." he said, scootching over a bit, not that he needed to, the floor was very big and there was plenty of room. He patted the spot next to him, "Si' down..." he said, offering her one of the many blankets he was settled next to. Ah. She mentioned her comfy bed. Poor comfy bed. "Ya know all ou'ah comfeh beds're gonna be all we' an' all ickeh whe' weh ge' back..." he told her. "I's go'a be more comfeh ou' 'ere now..." he said, offering her a small smile. That was good, such an improvement. He could now speak full sentences without bursting into another coughing fit.

"Maybeh... Maybeh de squid wan's ta ea' us?" he asked, but shook his head, "Neh, prolly no'..." he changed his mind. "Maybeh... Maybeh de 'ouse elves acci'en'ly broke a poipe or fou'ah?" He giggled. House elves. Hahahahaha.

"Oi 'unno... whoy d'you tink de dungeons was floodin'??" he inquired.

Hayley sat down and pulled her knees up to her chest, wrapping her arms around them. "Yeah...but the teachers would use spells to make the beds not wet and icky, wouldn't they?"
Hayley returned his smile with an un-enthusiastic one. Gah. "I thought that people were trying to kill us..." Wow, that sounded ridiculous to her now, "But maybe your right, maybe it was just a broken pipe...still, that was a lot of water, I hope they get it cleaned up soon." Hayley was shivering a bit. She wasn't wet, but she'd gotten all worked up, and now she had kinda crashed a bit.

Wet robes were bad though! Kiri might get a cold, or pneumonia, or any number of horrible things. She could get... wrinkly toes! She was all drippy and damp and poor Kiri... He needed to dry her off RIGHT NOW before she caught a cold.

"What's the spell to dry people off..." he mumbled, scratching the back of his head. "Ter.... Terg... OH." He took out his wand and pointed it at himself first. "Tergeo."

Well that was nice. His socks were dry now! Yay. He'd sort the rest of his clothing out later. He pointed at Kiri and murmured 'Tergeo' again, several times, siphoning off water with every go.

"If you stay all wet, you could get sick," he said absently, rubbing the back of his neck and he flicked his wand again. When she asked about Roscoe, he didn't even glance at the cat. "That's Roscoe... I've had him since first year. He's very friendly. He was down in the dungeons when they flooded... but the professors saved him. Did the potion make you feel better? It's really hot isn't it."

"What are y-" Having the spell performed on her felt strange, but as it was Raiden doing it, it felt even stranger. Kiri could almost see the water evaporate wherever Raiden's wand was pointed, leaving magnificently dry robes and a lingering warmth - the threefold reason for that being the potion, Raiden's spell, and Raiden himself. Some of the numbness disappeared from her limbs along with the water. Kiri's spirits lifted simultaneously.

"Thank you," she said gratefully when Raiden was done. Most of her clothing was dry now, the pieces that weren't merely damp (and those were the ones Kiri was not going to say anything to Raiden about).
It was bearable. And Raiden had even taken care of her clothes first, completely neglecting his own! What if he got sick now, caught a cold or something... He always seemed to be in poor health anyway. "Go on, dry your own clothes now," Kiri urged him, surveying the Great Hall now that the dread of the water was subsiding. "I'm okay, I think. The potion helped. And you helped even more." She patted the robes that were no longer soggy and dripping water. "See?"

Kazimeriz continued walking toward this staff table as was only appropriate, looking for Reynard, when he was approached by a golden retriever patronus.

The old man bent down and it whispered a message to him. He nodded and continued on toward the dias, slowly. So slowly.

So much chaos...

Anna stopped mid-walk and took in a long, deep sigh. The events that had unfolded in the last hour or so had exhausted her, yet she'd continue to distribute the potion until the healer announced that everyone affected had been given a dose. After collecting her thoughts and willing herself to push on, she continued her walk down the table, still on the lookout of anyone neededing a potion.

Whoa...

Without hesitating, Anna immediately stopped what she was doing and took a seat at the Slytherin table. Man, when Professor Kazimeriz yelled like that, he meant some serious business. Maybe they'd found the cause of the flood in the dungeons, though. Maybe they'd found the headmaster or the school nurse, too, though. Or maybe, just maybe...no. Anna wouldn't think of any negative possibilities. Everyone and everything would be okay. They just had to be. Eyes on the staff table, Anna sat still as can be, the tray of potions perched in her lap.

She didn't know what was going on she just knew she was tired and wanted to go to her room, but it was flooded.

She groaned, all her clothes and shoes! She wanted to cry.

And Steven was nowhere to be found. She needed someone to lean on just now and everyone she cared about wasn't around.

Bed, blanket, bed, blank- Nancy's forehead collided with the table in front of her with a loud Bang! as it was simply too much for her to cope with. Her body was ice cold, her cheeks felt hot and her head was throbbing from where it had hit the wooden table. But now it was all much more quiet around her, almost as if she was somewhere else, somewhere but the Great Hall with all the students' screams. Somehow it felt like she was far far away as the noise gradually became more and more distant until finally they were completely gone. Just gone. It was a nice silence that followed. Very relaxing...

Another wave of shivers rocked through Nancy, without her noticing, though, as she was someplace else. Somewhere in a far far away place. Away from all the chaos. Not even Kazimeriz' booming voice reached her ear. At last she could sleep.

"Nancy!" Paris cried as her friend seemed to sleep under the current of concisenesses. She jumped up and ran over to her as she seemed to sway in her seat. "Someone help!" She hugged Nancy to her body to keep her steady.

Nancy stirred slightly in her almost unconscious state of sleep as something or somebody touched her. Where were all those voices coming from all of a sudden?! She wanted to go back there, back to the silence, the soothing silence. Back to where she could sleep and just not be freezing. She wanted to go back there. As the noise gradually became louder and louder, Nancy winced, she wanted it to go away again.

But what was that warmth that slowly started to make its way down her spine? Was it body heat? Was it a potion? Had Evangeline found Clifford and had come back to her with the Healer? Nancy absentmindedly shifted her head on the table until at least one ear didn't have to bear the noises around her. With her eyes still tightly shut she furrowed her brow as her surroundings slowly started to give her a really bad headache. Why couldn't she just go back to that silent place? Maybe if she tried hard enough she could...

She didn't know what was wrong, but Nancy was shivering and her head was lolling. Paris shook her, "Nancy, wake up honey please," She told her. She was really scared now. Nancy was acting all funny. She tapped her cheeks gently trying to gt her to wake up.

Ruby spotted Clifford and she sighed, then he did the steam charm on her and suddenly her clothes felt lovely and dry "thanks Clifford" she replied gratefully he then he showed her the phial, "erm ok" she said taking one "if i must " she downed the potion and made a funny face, "yuk i don't like that potion" she said aloud

All of a sudden she spotted Professor Kazimeriz up at the staff table, all of a sudden a golden retriever patronus apperered and it looked like the Professor was talking to it........"what is going on?????" she wondered

As the noises around still didn't cease Nancy pressed her head against the cold, wooden table as hard as she could. Go away. Go away. I want to sleep and I'm cold. GO AWAY! At the last thought she accidently banged her head on the table in front of her too hard as she was trying to drown out the noises and go back to that silent peaceful place she'd just been in. Ouch! That had hurt but instead of bringing her fully back to reality it now knocked her out completely. And back she was in her soothingly silent place, with a blanket and a warm, cozy bed...

Shana shrugged her shoulders.She wasn't going to say anything else.The more she said the angrier Reese would get And the more Reese rubbed off on her the more she'd want to say.Shana sighed and rolled her eyes.Well...I'm gonna go down that end of the table.See ya around. she shrugged her shoulders,which seemed to be the only thing she could do right now and walked slowly to the other end of the table.

Dru shook her head sadly. She hadn't seen Diane since the flooding and it worried her a bit, along with the days events in general. She rubbed her eyes in an attempt to prevent her tears from forming. Luckily for her, it worked.

She slowly and slightly clumsily climbed out from under the table and stood next to Cam for a moment. She was wringing her hands from nerves and was looking at the floor, causing her dark hair to fall into her sight.

"I'll... go... walk... look for Diane," she muttered to Cam before she walked over to the door of the Great Hall and almost bumping into it as she hadn't looked up. Dru didn't so much as flinch, she just carried on her solomn little way.

As she was sat at the table, Vanessa couldn't help but notice someone resting their head on the table. Were they okay? Excusing herself, the little hufflepuff got up, and approached where the person, a slytherin girl was, noticing that Paris, the slytherin captain. Glancing between the pair, in a worried way, she stood by Paris "How long has she been like this?" She asked, looking at the girl. She looked cold.

Ethan was lost in the world of Bunbury's specially brewed tea, the after effects of the pepper up potion and a general sense of Anti-Kazimerizness so he just nodded and mumured vaguely when he was addressed by various students for various reasons. This was probably a good thing as he'd have been mortified and possibly done something impetuous if he'd taken any notice whatsoever of the old man's accusations toward Cari and himself. He heard Kazimeriz doing his yelling thing and slowly stood up, still clutching the pick teacup.

Hmmm. Where had Annie gone? He slowly walked over to the staff table, idly picking cat hair off the inside of his jacket. Did Gingersnapple have kitty cat jealousy? He made a mental note not to wear this particular jacket anywhere near Bunbury's fat cat, just in case. He headed up to the staff table, keeping one eye on the students.

What he wouldn't give for a couch right now.

A dry couch..

On the verge of complete exhaustion, Rachel entered the Great Hall almost blindly. She had already forgotten that she had been following Kaika and so wasn't phased by her whereabouts. Taking a few steps, her gray bloodshot eyes surveyed the Hall and finally landed on the Slytherin table. Not particularly caring that she didn't really belong there, she made her way over as quickly as she could with dragging feet and droopy eyelids and took a seat, no clue who she had sat next to. You mustn't collapse, you can't - remember you have to set an example! What if someone notices you? Then they will think that it's alright to just faint anywhere, because the Prefect did it! Trust Rachel to remember to think about setting an example for other students when minutes before, she couldn't even remember what the Great Hall was.

She stared at the plate in front of her as if it were from another dimension. Large, round, hard... Noooo, I want it large, rectangular and soft... Her eyes began to sting even more, and as a result they began to water. Fantastic, now I'm crying. Groaning, she picked up a napkin and dabbed her eyes, wincing as the rough texture came into contact with the puffed skin.



ARGH! Jumping about a foot in the air, it took all her willpower not to shriek as Professor Kazimeriz ordered for silence. Well, at least I found him all right... Ears ringing, she didn't even hear the next part of his lovely, delicate speech. Her heart raced a mile a minute and she grabbed hold of the table, alarmed to see that her hands were shaking.

Turning to the people she had next to, she was surprised to see none other than Head Girl Anna Greingoth right beside her. But... This is the Slytherin table... "Anna," she croaked out, almost jumping again at the sound of her hoarse voice. "I was the last one out - did they by any chance hand out blankets?" she said, struggling to form words with her frozen lips and chattering teeth.

Natasha walked towards the Slytherin table, curious about what was going on, but she quickly sat down. She glanced around, as she hadn't really been down in the dungeons for long, and wondered how bad it had got. But she decided to just wait before she started asking questions.

Lyra looked up from her book ,that she had been reading, alarmed. She was so lost in it that she didn't really follow everything that happened around her. She looked around trying to find out where that sudden noise came from and noticed a professor she didn't know but heard rumours off standing on the dias yelling for silence. Lyra placed her book down and looked his way, curious what he was about to say.

Water, flood, dungeons, cold, exhausted, frozen, sick, headache, blue, Rachel's thoughts were disarrayed and completely random as she focused on staying awake until she was dismissed to her bed. She tried not to think about the long climb to the Ravenclaw tower and instead thought about her warm bed, the chocolate frogs she had hidden under her pillow and the long-awaited sleep that she would have following this disastrous event.

She rested her head in her hand, and almost felt her eyelids closing. No, no, stay awake! After talking to Anna, she must at least be able to stay awake to hear the answer! Think, think, think of things that will keep you awake!! Her brain frantically searched for something to keep her occupied while her body wanted to simply curl up in a ball and sleep right here.

Aha! OWLs! Think of your exams! Almost instantly, she felt the exhausted settle on her but she no longer felt the need to sleep. OWLs... Scary stuff. She couldn't imagine the fact that in less than a year, her future will be settled. Everything she will be all depends on how well she does these exams- Why is everything black?!?!

THUNK! The fifth year's head hit the plate loudly as she passed out. Darkness.