nancy was walking down the seventh floor to the sixth .....
looking what to do...
she was in the stail...when suddenly the ladder began to move, taking it to another direction...

Ranch wandered down a stair case when...it began to move. He sighed, now he would be completely and totally lost. Great. He gripped the railing tightly and waited for it to stop.

Tavelon was hurrying back to the common room, making his way down the stairs when-...

Of course, the staircases like to change. But Tavelon wasn't bothered with that on that particular day. The staircase stayed in place.

Tavelon continued down the stairs, unhindered.

O___O ZOMGMOVINGSTARICASES.

He was practically twitching his way among the halls. Sliding down the staircases was giving him a RUSHH of excitement he hadn't felt in a while. The thrill of getting caught or getting eaten by Borr was still fresh in his mind. The jellyroll almost made him PEE HIS PANTS for crying out loud.

Danger was his middle name.

... Okay JUSTIN was really his middle name. Technicalities don't matter. Fun did. BRING ON THE FUNNNN.

Torin was getting tired of lugging this cake around the castle looking for Xanderman. Where on earth was the Ravenclaw? Would he have to go all the way up to the towers to give it to him?

Plus there was the fact that other people would want to eat it. Oh well.

And then there he was right in front of him. Well, more like sliding past him.

"Xanderman!"

NAME CALLING.

Xander tried to stop as best as he could from continuing the sliding down-age of the staircase. It was giving him buttburn anyway. He tried as gracefully as he could to get down, but it failed. He fell, but his hair broke his fall. THANK YOU HAIR.

"Torinnnn-man-dude-superman," he said. HEHEHE. Cue jaw drop at the look of the cake. "Caaaaaaaake."

He watched as Xander tried to stop. And fell.. "Are you alright?" He seemed to be though as soon as he saw the cake.

"You like? It's yours." He held it out towards where Xander was, wanting him to see that there was a Xanderman symbol on it.

Xander's jaw probably would have hit the floor if it was even physically possible. Because by the looks of that cake, it was intense. AND AWESOME. But fiiiirst.

"Any, special ingredients?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. "As in... LOVE potion?!" Bahaha.

XANDERMAN SYMBOL O____O.

"That... that is genius. You are the best."

He snorted. Typical Xander. "Yes, there is love potion in there. You caught me." He sighed and shook his head before giving the boy a wink.

"So this cake gets the Xanderman seal of approval then?" It better seeing as how much work he put into the thing.

EWW EWW EWWWWW LOVE POTION. Wait... he was kidding. At least, Xander hoped he was kidding for all of the candy in Hogsmeade.

"Of course it gets the Xanderman seal of approval," he said, reaching his hands out for it. "I can't wait to eeeeat it."

MMMMMM. It looked so delicious.

Well, at least he liked the cake. And got that that love potion bit was a joke. Or at least he hoped that Xander got it. You never knew with some people. And well, Xander could be a crazy kid at times.

"Well, here you go then." He held the cake out for the boy to take. And now both Xander and Brody had their desserts. He just had Sylvia, Reese and Bunbury left. And he had a feeling that Reese would not go down too easily.

"Hehehehe," he said, happily taking the cake. Now, to get away from the staircases so he wouldn't drop it. "Whereee should we go to eat it?"

Hmm. He couldn't go to Torin's common room, or bring Torin to his. So... someplace where no one would attack his cake.

"Where to hiiiide?"

Hide? why did they need to hide? "Can't we just have it in the Great Hall?" Why couldn't they eat it at the table?

He looked at Xander as if he was insane.

This was just getting worse and worse. And worse. And worse. How had things snowballed so out of proportion? Anastasia had tried to speak to Upstead. That had failed. She might have lost her temper and maaybe sat by while a plant slapped the boy silly, but really, he wasn't dead! He was hardly injured! He had to be faking it all!

And now she was being chased by a CRAZY CHILD who called HER a FIEND. They were all out to get her!!!!!!!!!

Bolting out of armor gallery barefoot with her messy hair bouncing like the tail of a red rocket, Bunbury careened onto the moving staircase and clung to the banister for dear life. Oh thank Merlin it was swinging away from the third floor already. YES. Escape at last!

Never mind that she had no plan for what she was going to do when she go off this staircase.... exile in America, maybe? Milan? Paris?

Antarctica?

She was just a terrified bunny seeking shelter. Poor, innocent little Bunny.

Tino's sneakers skidded to a halt at the banister. There she is! Making her escape! He watched with the sinking feeling of dismay as the staircase swept away, Bunbury cascading down the steps like a flailing pink flamingo. Tino stamped his foot, cursing through his teeth and lamenting the fact of his ordinary, boring human existence. If only he could become so angry he morphed into The Hulk!

His pale knuckles were shaking on the stone railing. "You . . you," Tino spat, searching his mental reportoire of literary descriptions, "You---BAD! You BAD BAD LADY!"

There, not exactly poetry, but it got his point across. Like a flash, Tino spun and headed for the alternate passage to the second floor, hoping to cut the Herbology teacher off at the next level.

Still standing in the staircase with Xander, Torin suddenly saw Bunbury run past him. But she didn't look like she usually did. She was in a panic, her hair was a mess and she had no shoes on.

He wanted to see if she was alright, but before he could ask her she was gone. One thing left for him to do... He took a quick picture of her retreating back before she disappeared from sight.

[B]Abby runs down the hall of the second floor as fast as she can. What have I done. I didn't mean to upset Jake. I just wanted to... I just wanted to play detective again. When will I ever learn? I'm not qualified to be an auror not yet. Abby takes the stairs two at a time. She has to get to Lawson office now. If you know what's good for you staircase, you won't vear off my course. Understand! Abby not paying attention to what's she's doing. She passes students so fast she nearly knocks them over. Then Abby sees a mass of red in her path. She manages to avoid whatever it is. Abby makes her way to the first floor. She jumps off the last step and runs in the direction of Lawson's office.

Vivianne was going nowhere again...

Like usual... she had no idea where to go. She just sighed. She found herself at the moving staircase. Was she going up or down? Wherever...

She just wanted to talk.. now why wouldn't anyone keep her company? Daisy was kinda busy with something she had no idea of. The staircase again continued to move and it just amazed her. She could stand there for ll day until she get tired watching the stairs move into that way and that way and that way.

It's nearly December. Oh... How could time fly so fast now eh? She still have a lot of things to do... She stepped her feet at the first step of the stairs, moved up and settled at the middle. She looked down and watched the other stairs. This is just great. Her eyes darted to the portraits at the walls.

Reid shuffled towards the moving staircase, head down with his hands in his pockets and headphones in his ears. He was bored and since he didn't know where anyone he could talk to was he had decided to just get lost in the audio for the movie. The movie which had caused his so much trouble last summer. Luckily though it had turned out well, it was the only thing that did with everything else being a disaster.

Reid stepped onto the staircase, moving in the upwards direction until he reached nearly the middle. The only reason he stopped was because he saw a pair of feet on the step ahead of him. Somewhat recognising the person, but not completely recalling who they were from the sight of their back he hesitantly laid a hand on the persons shoulder while removing his headphones from his ears.

AS she studied a portrait of a group of middle aged man looking back at her, she almost screamed when she felt some hand on her shoulder. She immediately turned around and almost lost her balance... luckily she had gripped the railings so she didn't. She still hadn't looked at the boy. Oh!!! "Merlin's beard... are you going to kill me?" she said as she looked at the boy. If the boy's trying to make her fall she should have just told her. "Reid?" she smiled when she suddenly saw the boy's name. "I thought it was some silly student," she added.

"Hey Via," Reid said, rubbing the back of his neck in slight embarrassment. He hadn't meant to make her lose her balance like that. "Sorry about that and you know I could be a silly student." Reid said, looking her over slightly and noting changes from last year. She looked more grown up since the last time they'd spoken. "How have you been? I haven't spoken to you in forever?" he asked in curiosity, finding that he really did want to talk to her. It would be nice to be normal and speak to someone that wasn't involved in that fiasco for once.

She really didn't get angry with that, it was her fault she almost fell. She was standing too close at the edge of the step. She loved it how Reid look when he acts like that. "Oh i almost forgot.. you are a silly one," she chuckled. She hadn't talked to him for over a year now... that was very very long. But still she hasn't forgotten him. Even though many years may pass. "You haven't changed," Via told him. "It's been a year since a i last heard your voice. I've been great... doing great.. How about you?" She had waited for the time to talk to him again. She was actually lost for words... she doesn't know what to say..."Seemed like we all had a busy year last year and last summer. Haven't seen you at all at Diagon alley."

"Yea I've been better but things are fine I suppose." Reid said shrugging his shoulders to show that it wasn't really all that important. "It's been too long, I guess I haven't really spoken to a lot of people in awhile and yeah I wasn't in Diagon Alley over the summer. I was working in L.A, Paris and London while promoting the movie I was making so most of my time was spent in the muggly world. The only people I really saw from school were Rachel and Livvy who were vacationing with the cast while we worked." Reid informed her, before stopping, thinking that maybe he was talking about himself too much. "I'm glad you think I haven't changed though. I'd hate to since I kinda liked who I was." he said, giving her his trademark grin.

"Wow!!!" she just said as she heard him say he had been working on different places and on a movie. "So you might have had a great summer. You've been into many places. I just spent mine at my real parents home in Chicago with my family. I don't remember you telling me you love movies. All i know is that you were into modelling." Coz the last time she saw him he taught her how to walk on the ramp and she's never going to do that again.

"And what's the title of the movie?" she asked him. "WHo knows i might get a copy and watch it with Dad." Rachel and Livvy, "...and you didn't invite me?" she pouted. "How could you?" she said again. Then she smiled, "No i'm just joking even though i'd love to come you wouldn't invite me and i wouldn't be able to come either." She tapped his back with her hand, "So you guys had a great time with that eh? I bet the movie is worth it. I could imagine the muggle Hollywood, you know it right? Dealing with famous actors and actresses."

She missed that grin so much... yeah. "You still look like the old Reid i've met. You haven't grown any beard," she said checking his face as she laughed. "And i like who you really are.. so you don't have to change."