"And I could help you with your hair." Less said sweetly. Oh perfect! Now she was going to dread the sleepover.

"Because she needs all the help she can get" Marcus muttered under his breath. He turned his head to the other woman. "I apologise for leaving before without introducing myself. Marcus Lawson and you're Alessia Lupa, I heard you say your name before" he added in explanation, in case she wondered how he knew her name. Well of course he already knew who she was, Zan had already told him the details. But Marcus would make his own judgements on the woman.

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Axe closed his eyes briefly for a moment as he heard that aggravating voice in his ear again. He turned to face her once again and smirked. "Yes that is true and the best look ever was when you were wearing that paper bag on your head. Honestly woman, you should think about going back to that."

He would have to remember to purchase some flesh eating plant of some sort and have it delivered it to her personally. Axe moved around on the seat as though he was trying to get comfortable but in actual fact he was thinking of the tattoo on his behind with her name on it.

"Riiiiiiiight right, Mr. Lawson. You can continue your false bravado but I'll always see through your facade...right down to the skinny-jeans wearing, guitar strumming boy you once were."

Anastasia smirked broadly at that nuisance of a man and flicked her hair over her shoulder. He just never let up, did he? And she knew she was getting to him now...just look at him squirming in that seat. Ha. That sap was probably praying for Pepe's speech to come.

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"And I could help you with your hair." Less said sweetly. Oh perfect! Now she was going to dread the sleepover.

Which, actually, she was starting to hope for too, if it meant she wouldn't have to talk to Alessia any longer.

"You're too kind, Less, really. I just went shopping to Madame Primpernelle's over the summer so that won't be necessary." Yeah, and Annie was going to let her near her luscious red locks when Hell froze over.

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"Because she needs all the help she can get" Marcus muttered under his breath. He turned his head to the other woman. "I apologise for leaving before without introducing myself. Marcus Lawson and you're Alessia Lupa, I heard you say your name before" he added in explanation, in case she wondered how he knew her name. Well of course he already knew who she was, Zan had already told him the details. But Marcus would make his own judgements on the woman.

Snort. He was the one who needed help, honestly, now Marcus was eavesdropping on her other conversations too? He really was a match for that intern girl.

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"You can bet your last galleon I will," Anastasia muttered under her breath, not bothering to make eye contact with the Healer. She took a deep sip of her goblet and then blinked when a vaguely familiar voice addressed her.

Caroline rolled her eyes. Didn't even trouble to hide it. Give it a rest! Obviously Bunbury needed the last word. Fine, let her have it. Cari had already proven her worth, and the feast had already begun. And Anastasia Bunbury... had been snotty. Well that's a marketable skill... somewhere. Maybe.

NOT!

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Marcus instinctively reached out and caught the few loose curls that had fallen down. He immediately froze however when he realised what he was doing. Oh. Crap. Students. Professors. All. Watching. He cleared his throat and dropped his hand back onto the table. "Yes, well I suppose to someone who has been trained in this area would find it easy." Of course he could repair broken bones too but as for the rest of it, he was at a loss.

"Well they're at least well behaved. No trouble on that table what so ever." Actually they were kind of a little boring but maybe they thought he was some kind of points taking, detention giving nasty Professor.





Axe closed his eyes briefly for a moment as he heard that aggravating voice in his ear again. He turned to face her once again and smirked. "Yes that is true and the best look ever was when you were wearing that paper bag on your head. Honestly woman, you should think about going back to that."

He would have to remember to purchase some flesh eating plant of some sort and have it delivered it to her personally. Axe moved around on the seat as though he was trying to get comfortable but in actual fact he was thinking of the tattoo on his behind with her name on it.

She froze. Absolutely completely froze. There was no movement.

This is not appropriate.

No doubt Marcus was merely a tactile person like Cari was herself, but it looked baaaaad!!! No no, she didn't need help fixing her hair. Well she did. But it was a lost cause. He must have realised it wouldn't do to fix her hair for her because Marcus removed his hand almost immediately.

And then she could move again. So she resisted the urge to wind her lose hair around her fingers in her nervous habit and instead tucked it behind her ears.

Kay... now what? Oh, talking!!! "Um, well, hands are probably the trickiest bone break, but... Well it's not easy, or it would be boring... but... I... So were we actually well behaved? How... Not what I remember..." Wow, her years in the school there were a few Ravenclaws who were SO NOT well behaved. Evie had to share every single one of her Ravenclaw years with Juno Novak, Jamie Reiss, and Tagren Sevens. They knew how to make trouble if ANY Ravenclaws did. And she herself had had to contend with Hawken Terrell, and Kayleen Harrison - Merlin that girl was insane. It's the brilliance, it addles the brain. More Ravenclaws go completely bananas than any other house.

I think I'm going that route myself...

Antonio smiled widely. Besides being with his daughter, there was nothing more he loved than to talk about her. "Her name is Antonia Michelle," he told Alessia proudly. "I didn't choose the name, my wife Bethany insisted on naming her that, not that I argued much, of course." He laughed. "She's Antonia after me, of course, and Michelle after Bethany's father, Michael. "She's three years old now and getting bigger every day," he said honestly. "Every time I see her, she's changed. It won't be long before she comes to school herself. And that picnic would be wonderful, and I'm sure that there are more people that care about you, Alessia. Not that it isn't great that you have Professor Kazimeriz, he's awesome, but you know what I mean." Antonio thought Alessia was great, he didn't understand why others wouldn't like her as well.

"Actually, I have," Antonio said, and it was true. Despite enjoying his time with Antonia and Bethany, his true calling was here, teaching at Hogwarts, and it always would be. He knew that was something all the professors could understand, as they all had the same passion in their blood.

Antonio sighed as he saw the Hufflepuff boy, Ricco, get in trouble by acting up at the other end of the staff table. The term hadn't even begun yet and already two houses were in minus points, including his own, with students already serving detention. It looked like it was going to be an exciting term, he thought disgustedly. Didn't the students ever learn how to behave?

Feeling the anger start to drain away, Jake looked back again and decided to just turn and face the teachers and stay that way. If he didn't end up... wandering.

"Yeah," he murmured, nodding at the professor, but sensing she wasn't prepared to carry on. He had his legs crossed in front of him and his hands shoved into his pockets, but, ever the restless twelve-year-old, he's feet started jiggling up and down, eager to carry him off to somewhere else. Casting a quick glance over at Kazi, Jake sighed through his teeth and stared up at the ceiling.

She smiled at him, "Mr. Lawson, a pleasure to meet you..." anyone who hates that rabid bunny woman, is a friend of mine... she thought to herself as she extended her hand to him in greeting. "Please. Call me Less."

"Well, let me know how the products are once you start using them." She said smirking. "Excuse me a moment," she said trying to shut the bunny up.

"Mr. Lawson, you play guitar? Our headmaster is an accomplished concert pianist. He is truly magnificent, though he will tell you he doesn't excel at it... maybe one day you and he will give us a concerto..." Mr. Marcus Lawson seemed very very nice.

"Antonia... beautiful name. Children are such a blessing." She said looking at her plate. She could never have children, she knew that... she envied those who had been able to reproduced... She had her students... it was why she returned to teaching.

Heading up to the staff table, Reese Upstead was going to find out why Jake was up here. It was only the beginning of the term and Jake was already in trouble. Tsk. Tsk. Well, she assumed he was in trouble. Maybe he wasn't. Who knew?

She made to the staff table and walked over to Professor Morgan, Professor Bunbury, Jake...and Professor Kazimeriz. She wished Kazimeriz wasn't there, she was still a little bit scared of him since last year. Luckly, her horns and everything went away. Kazimeriz was also part of the reason she was NOT going to get into trouble. There was no way she was going to have another detention like the one she had last term.

When Reese got close enough to Jake, she crossed her arms and said, "Jake...what are you doing up here? Don't tell me you got in trouble on your first day of school." She turned her attention to the three Professors and smiled.

"Professor Bunbury...Professor Morgan...Professor Kazimeriz," she said, naming all the teachers that were the closest to her brother, "How was your summer?" If she was going to be up here with Jake, she might as well get into some sort of conversation with the Professors.

Hearing the familiar foot-falls, Jake turned to look up at his step-sister, who was crossing her arms at him.

At him.

Oh no she diii-iiiint.

Folding his own arms across his chest, Jake stared up at his sister and raised one eyebrow. "I like the view of the hall," he muttered in a mocking way.

Don't tell me you got in trouble on your first day of school.

"Okay, I won't," Jake shrugged his shoulders, before looking over to the professors that Reese addressed. Especially Kazi. Oh yeah, MEGA GLARE!

Reese rolled her eyes and sighed at Jake's answer to why he was up here. Because he liked the view? Mmmhmm. Like she was suppose to believe that. Theeeeeen, he said he wasn't going to tell her. She didn't REALLY mean it. She wanted to if he had gotten in trouble and she cared about it. She didn't want Jake starting his year off bad. It just wouldn't look good.

"Jake..." She said, keeping the firmness in her voice, "Seriously, why are you up here? What did you DO?" She moved her eyes to Professor Morgan and Professor Bunbury and smiled at them. Maybe they knew what happened. Maybe they'll explain why Jake was up here.

"Reese," Jake nodded, using the same tone as Reese had. "Seriously..." he faltered here, looking for a kind of loop-hole. And then he found it, the golden question. "What did I do? To get up here?" he asked, in an inquisitive tone. "Why, I do believe I moved my feet and managed to walk up here," he informed the girl, jiggling his feet up and down. "I didn't DO anything."

Enough with the mocking! Reese began to tap her foot on the floor, waiting for Jake to come up with the right answer she was looking for. She stopped tapping her foot on the ground when Jake said...what? He moved his feet and managed to walk up here. Sigh. That was a typical Jake Upstead answer. Yet, that wasn't the answer she was looking for.

"Okay- so... you walked up here," she said while eying Jake, "Are you in trouble, Jake? Is that why you walked up here?" She heard Jake whisper something, but didn't really catch what he said. She just let that slide, because what he whispered probably wasn't helpful.

"Yep, walked up. Using my own two feet," Jake went on, acting as though this was an impressive revelation. In trouble? Pfft. "What would possibly give you the impression that I'm in trouble, Reese. I'm not like that, surely?" he grinned, showing the sibling teasing here.

"I didn't do anything, Reese," he said again, louder this time, looking out over the rest of the Hall. "Don't have a go at me."

"Well, that's good to know," Reese said as Jake explained how he used his own two feet to walk up here. "Well, let's see. I noticed you followed Professor Kazimeriz up here and- oh, I don't know- I just assumed you got in trouble. Maybe I shouldn't have assumed that," she added. Maybe she was wrong, maybe Jake really didn't get in trouble. Maybe he was just up here to chat with Professor Morgan and Professor Bunbury.

"Okay, okay..." Reese said, raising her hands up in the air slightly, "You didn't do anything wrong. I believe you."

Once were, was correct. He wasn’t that guy anymore thankfully. Axe was tempted to retort and then decided to hell with it. He would just simply ignore Anastasia Bunbury altogether because if there was one thing Annie hated most in the world, it was being ignored.

With that thought in his head, he allowed himself a small smile and turned his back on her completely and faced Caroline fully. The view was much better on this side anyway.

Oh crap he had made her uncomfortable and he hadn’t wanted to do that. Marcus wanted to apologise to her but she had started talking about bones and behaving students. She seemed a little flustered and he had no idea of what to do.

“Would you like to come in and sit in on my first class?” Wait. What? Marcus groaned inwardly, he had no idea what was wrong with him. At least with Annie, he knew where he stood with her. They loathed each other, so he knew exactly what to expect from her. But he just seemed to make an idiot of himself.

Well the offer was out there now, so he guessed he should follow it up. “You know give me some moral support and actually you may just come in handy. From what I’ve seen from some of these kids already, they like violence a lot.” He gave her a smile and hoped that she would say yes. “But I understand if you are too busy.”

Marcus took her hand and gave it a shake and a smile with it. Alessia, seemed to carry that same sort of loathing for Annie, as he did. Yes, score he had just found an ally. “Alright Less, it’s lovely to meet you also.”

Axe wanted to strangle Annie, right about now. Could she not keep that big mouth of hers shut for longer than five minutes. He gave less a tight smile. “I used to play guitar, I haven’t played in a long time.” Oh the headmaster played piano, Marcus used to play piano until he decided that it simply wasn’t loud enough for his tastes and went to guitar instead. “Well like a said I haven’t played in a really long time and I would be extremely rusty…um yeah…” He didn’t know what else to say, but he would love to hit Annie over the head with his guitar.

"No pressure Mr. Lawson." Less told him with a smile. "If you do not wish to, we won't make you."

Looking around the room from his spot, he only half paid attention to his sister. He didn't generally ignore her, but he was just too overwhelmed with this place that he couldn't help himself.

There were so many people there.. So many that looked older than him. He wondered how much more experienced than him a lot of them were. And the Professors... What were they like?

He shifted his glance to the Staff table and saw all the tough looking Professors. A few looked rather mean. But some nice. And a lot of the females were rather pretty.

And that's when he saw her. The gorgeous redhead woman that went into the shoppe with one of the male Profs.

She was a Professor. Awesome!!

Smiling, he got up and headed over to the Staff table and straight towards the pretty woman. "Hi!" he said to her. He like had no idea why he was there or what he would say to her. But whatever.

From her spot at the Gryffindor table, Anna glanced up to the staff table, trying to find Professor Pierce amongst the assembled crowd. Her Head of House didn't seem to be anywhere in the vicinity, though. Her face wrinkling in confusion, Anna stood from her seat and headed over to where the staff and a good many students were eating and chatting. Anna made her way through the crowd, mumbling "Excuse me...coming through...excuse me" as she went.

Finally at the staff table, Anna scanned all its occupants, her eyes never coming to rest on the one person she was looking for. Where was she? Sighing a bit, Anna turned to the first available staff member she saw---Mr. Masterson, the groundskeeper. "Hello, Mr. Masterson. How are you today?" she asked. "I'm looking for Professor Pierce, my Head of House, but I can't seem to find her..."

Constantine was about to answer Miss Kohan's question when another student came to the table. "Oh, hello Anna," he smiled gently, eating another piece of his roll. "I am excellent, thank you, and yourself?" He paused for a second to listen to her question before smiling sympathetically.

"Oh, Professor Pierce will not be returning, my dear," placing the roll down onto his plate to place his fingers together. "Professor Dumont is your Head of House now. Congratulations on becoming Head Girl, by the way," he smiled again before leaning back in his chair to grab the roll again.

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Feeling the anger start to drain away, Jake looked back again and decided to just turn and face the teachers and stay that way. If he didn't end up... wandering.

"Yeah," he murmured, nodding at the professor, but sensing she wasn't prepared to carry on. He had his legs crossed in front of him and his hands shoved into his pockets, but, ever the restless twelve-year-old, he's feet started jiggling up and down, eager to carry him off to somewhere else. Casting a quick glance over at Kazi, Jake sighed through his teeth and stared up at the ceiling.

Anastasia took another sip of her water (it kept her from having to speak to Marcus) and glanced down at Jake again.

Erm, the poor lad looked like he needed a distraction, since he kept shooting death glares at Kazi. "How was the uh, rest of your summer, Mr. Upstead?" Annie tried to ask kindly. Tried being the key phrase here, since she really didn't understand the meaning of the word nice.

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"Well, let me know how the products are once you start using them." She said smirking. "Excuse me a moment," she said trying to shut the bunny up.

MehehmeheI'muglyandweirdmehehemelookitmeeeee, Anastasia mocked Less in her head, not listening to the witch's words whatsoever. Especially not now that she was addressing Marcus. Eww. Let them have each other, the bumheads.

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"Professor Bunbury...Professor Morgan...Professor Kazimeriz," she said, naming all the teachers that were the closest to her brother, "How was your summer?" If she was going to be up here with Jake, she might as well get into some sort of conversation with the Professors.

"Hello, erm...." No lie there, Bunbury didn't remember this girl's name. "My summer was fine, thank you." She bit her lip as she struggled to recall why this girl looked familiar, and coming to no conclusion, she just settled for tuning out the child's conversation with Jake.

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Looking around the room from his spot, he only half paid attention to his sister. He didn't generally ignore her, but he was just too overwhelmed with this place that he couldn't help himself.

There were so many people there.. So many that looked older than him. He wondered how much more experienced than him a lot of them were. And the Professors... What were they like?

He shifted his glance to the Staff table and saw all the tough looking Professors. A few looked rather mean. But some nice. And a lot of the females were rather pretty.

And that's when he saw her. The gorgeous redhead woman that went into the shoppe with one of the male Profs.

She was a Professor. Awesome!!

Smiling, he got up and headed over to the Staff table and straight towards the pretty woman. "Hi!" he said to her. He like had no idea why he was there or what he would say to her. But whatever.

Annie was still tuning out the children and conversations around her when a Hufflepuff boy seemingly popped out of nowhere, quite literally.

"Hellllllllo," the redhead greeted him slowly, eying him carefully to see if he planned to dungbomb her or poke her with a stick or something. Why else would the kid have approached the staff table, hmm?

Oh, oops. Anna hadn't seen that the groundskeeper had been in conversation with the school nurse. She glanced at both apologetically, then smiled when Mr. Masterson greeted her in return. "Glad to hear you're doing well, sir. I hope Roma is well, too," she replied. Boy did she ever love Mr. Masterson's little pet dog. Once the school year got good and started, perhaps she could stroll out on the grounds and have a run with Roma like she did last year. "I'm alright. Thank you for asking."

She frowned when Mr. Masterson told her Professor Pierce wouldn't be returning. Anna had gotten along well with her now former Head-of-House. "Oh," she simply stated, not really sure what else to say about Professor Pierce's leave. On the plus side, Professor Dumont was now her Head-of-House, and he was really just as nice. "Oh? Well, I'm confident he'll do a wonderful job. I'll head on over shortly and give him a proper welcome." Anna glanced down the table, on the lookout for Professor Dumont. It was still slightly hard to find someone in the crowd. She turned back to Mr. Masterson with a smile. "Oh, thank you. I'm really honored to have gotten the position."

Alice got a sudden idea of going to meet the professors. It seems weird but there was no other way to pass the time since she was getting bored all with formal talks and chichats.

She excused herself from George and Sarah, "I'll be back guys, behave." she smiled before went on her feet.

Slowly she apporached the staff table, stood there, choosing which one she should be talking with. A beautiful redhead attracted her who was sitting at the corner of the staff table. EAsy to reach. Haha.

Alice walked over, "Hello Professor!" she smiled shyly, as smoothened her robes, still didnt miss to notice the boy who she met at the DA. She smiled at him too..formally said, "Hi!"

Still smiling, he continued, "so like you are a Professor here? What do you teach?" She was so pretty. And she looked so young. It was no fair that she was a teacher! Dani was going to tease him relentlessly. Sigh.

He was going to ask her another question when suddenly he heard someone else talking to redhead. Trying his best not to frown, he turned his head to the girl he had met in DA and said, "hey."

Vindictus had grown quite irritated after searching throughout the Great Hall for Paris Hill and he couldn't find her anywhere at the feast. But there was one person whom he could rely on to deliver the important goods and she had her back to him while conversing with Neo. "Anna! There you are!" he called out rather loudly.

"Roma is doing excellent," he nodded before taking a small chomp out of the piece of bread. "Granted, she's a little bit bigger than the last time that you saw her, but she's slightly depressed. I got my wife a puppy to be with her while I was here, but the puppy and Roma got attached...so now, Roma misses him." He sighed a little and took another chomp, "though, I'm sure Roma will forget all about it once the children are running loose on the grounds."

Constantine looked down to see where Dumont was, not having much luck. "I'm confident he'll be spectacular," he smiled again, returning his gaze back to Anna. "As for the head girl position, I don't think that they could have made a better choice."

"Oh, hello Max," he added the sudden voice that was very recognizable.