Pouting, Jake was still sore that he had, in fact 'lost' this one. Not that you could win or lose it. He did, however, nod. "Fine, catch ya later, sir," he mumbled to the old man, turning towards Professor Morgan as he was literally released.

If you feel sick, you come to see me or the other nurse.

At that, Jake shook his head a little violently, backing away and down the steps of the dias. "Professor Morgan says I don't have to," he blurted out, shuffling backwards. "And... I... I wasn't being insub-" again, Jake broke off, wondering if maybe he should, for once, just shut up. "Yes ma'am."

Try to stay out of trouble.

"I shall... try," Jake nodded, looking back to Willie, then back at Professor Morgan, nodding towards the Hufflepuff table. "Can we go now?" he asked in a hushed voice, the voice of someone who had been firmly scolded and wanted very much to crawl under a rock and sob.

Or run to his prefect.

Professor Truebridge wasn't intentionally late. He really wasn't. The thing was, he knew the feast was starting, which meant of course that he really had to double and triple and quadruple check his protections on his office and his quarters so that Kazimeriz wouldn't be able to... get revenge or something.

Stunna shades on, he slowly walked up the centre of the great hall, cringing inwardly at the lack of available seats. The one available was far too close to Kazimeriz and to Lupa for him to be comfortable, so he levitated it right to the edge of the table where he could make a quick escape if it became necessary.

He sunk into the chair, not even looking up to see who he had situated himself next to, except to confirm that it wasn't Kazimeriz or Alessia Lupa.

Paranoia.

Iliana gave Kazi a grateful nod and said. "Thank you, sir." Then she put her hand on Less' shoulder and leaned down to whisper in her ear. "I'll be right back." She said, moving around the back of her chair and towards the steps of the dias.
As she approached Caroline, Iliana smiled at her and mouthed, 'Thank you' as discretely as she could. No need to anger Kazimeriz further but that Cari was an angel.

Hearing Jake's angry little voice again, Iliana had just one more mouthed word to say. "Sorry." Would he ever learn?! She thought with an exasperated sigh.
Rushing over to Jake's side, Iliana grabbed the boy's hand and started to pull. The sooner she got him away. The better. "Come along, Jake." She said. She showed no emotion in her voice.

"'M coming, 'm comiiiing," Jake mumbled, stumbling a little as Professor Morgan pulled him along. Quickly regaining his balance, Jake moved up to try and keep up. "What's the big hurryyyyyy?" he whined, a little taken aback by the abruptness.

Spotting Zan, as he finally decided to make an appearance Axe, breathed a small sigh of relief. Now he could get away from bloody Annie and he could stop making a fool of himself in front of Caroline.

He stood up and made his way over to his friend. "Bout bloody time mate, I thought I was going to have to put up with all these women on my own." Axe let out a chuckle and slapped his friend on the shoulder. "Where you been? You've missed out on all the fun."

"Let's just get you back." She said, quickening her pace even more. "Then maybe you can tell me all about your summer." Yes, that's right. Distract him. She was going to have to have a serious talk with this boy once the feast was over. She had to find a way to set him straight. For his own good, of course. There was no way she was going to be able to keep him out of trouble if he kept on down this path. Detention would be the least of his worries.

She squeezed his hand gently, hoping that he knew how glad she was to have him back here. She never could seem to stay mad at him long.

"Hmmm." Ethan poured himself a drink and adjusted his shades. "I'm curious as to why you feel that our associates need to be 'put up with'." Zan swayed slightly at the shoulder slap and took a sip of his drink. "I've been in my office."

He lifted his shades and peered at Axe. "Your definition of fun... usually leaves much to be desired and so I find myself thankful that I missed it, whatever it was." He looked out at the students for a few moments and finally shrugged. Had he missed the speech?

"Well just Annie, really." Marcus stopped for a moment and looked at Zan, oh great!! He was pretty sure he had never told Ethan about him and Annie.

He followed Zan's gaze over the great hall. "You never told me the students were a violent lot. I've put three in detention already, one broke a girls hand and one wanted to toss a kid down the table." Marcus shook his head, "I hardly call it fun, even I didn't do crap like that when I was a teen." No he'd been too busy serenading the girls and ah...other activities.

"I've never found it necessary to 'put up' with Annie." Ethan turned his head and shot a cool gaze at his friend, though he was distracted soon enough by Lawson's next comment.

"Violent?" He considered it, "No more than I ever was." But then, what was worse; breaking someone's hand or expelling their entrails? Meh. "Misunderstood, most of them. Next time, glue their hands and foreheads to the table." Zan took another sip of his drink.

Nope he obviously hadn't told Ethan about Annie and he was in no mood to go into it now. "I have my reasons" Axe muttered under his breath. Yeah like the woman went out with him just so she could get closer to Jimmy, the front man of the band. Everyone wants the singer!!!

"You had your reasons Zan. These kids just seemed to do it for the fun of it or because a little firstie is annoying them. I mean please, it's ridiculous." Axe looked at his friend for a moment and smirked, "Thank you for the idea though."

For the sake of Merlin's socks, the woman was scary. As she began talking directly to her, using her LAST name, Melanie stood there staring at her with utter loathing, her eyes growing wide as baseballs as she leaned in closer on the table to speak.

She blinked as she asked her the question with the most obvious answer in the entire world. Of course she'd heard Vindictus, she didn't need a hearing aide. Melanie was only trying to bide time by pretending like she hadn't. Probably a poor choice on her part...

Permanant?! that was the only word that registered in her mind, hearing her professor's threat promise. They were going to keep Jake there permanently. How was he going to play Quidditch?! And-and classes and other stuff that may or may not be important...But what about QUIDDITCH!?!?!

Melanie let out a small, annoyed huff as Kazimeriz, like Vindictus and Bunbury made it very much obvious she'd best leave now, along with everyone else, or they were going to be deducting house points.

While she still desired to stay and argue, even unsuccessfully, for her friend she was also loyal to her house and had no wish to loose any points and letting them down. As Ana had said earlier they were already in the negatives... though they weren't the only ones it still wasn't a good way to begin the term, not at all.

"Fine." she stated reluctantly, starting to trudge her way back toward the Hufflepuff table, only looking back once or twice, tugging on her earlobe and hoping nervously whether she'd made the right choice.

Alessia touched her best friend's hand upon her own shoulder and nodded and then watched her take off with one of the students.

Hmmm... Alessia couldn't hear the new DADA professor, and what he was saying to UnTruebridge, but she could tell he seemed at ease with the man. Probably didn't know what type of person he was.

She looked around the large room and then to the Headmaster's chair... it was empty. The feast was practically over... she sighed. She stood gently and to no one in particular she said, "I think I'll excuse myself and make my way to my sanctum, I have some papers I need to tend to," and, before heading out, she nodded to each professor and staff member, including the rabid bunny but not UnTruebridge.