Arriving at their destination, having used only the faint light that had filtered through the windows to find their way down the two flights of stairs, Adrienne let her boxes float down to the floor a little way away from the door to Professor Lupa's office, feeling grateful they'd gotten there in one piece, and hadn't fallen down the stairs or anything. That would have been bad. Through the haze clouding her mind, she also was thankful it seemed the school ghosts were all elsewhere too. The less possibilities of being seen, the more impact their actions would make when they were seen the next morning.

Turning to Ainsley, she nodded slightly as she made sure they both had gotten their boxes to the office, then spoke in a whisper. "Okay, let's start stacking." Creeping over to her boxes, still making no noise with her movements, she murmured a few spells before picking the first box up and heading to the door. Placing it squarely in front of said door, she made sure it seemed the spells would hold, then went back for the next one, alternating with Ainsley as they steadily continued barricading.

ooc: Check out the Slytherin HoH's office thread for exact details as to what they are doing. ;P

"Oh, yes prsfessor, thanks for your precious time" she said and left with a smile on her face.

Alessia was sitting on the fluffy, working on her next romance novel, when she smelled something yummy... Like cookies... but not really. She stood and walked towards the door. The smell was divine. Like a cookie and meat... or something... divine.

No No... she was on a diet... the smell would soon be gone... wouldn't it? It's not like she was by the kitchens... it was probably some student passing by with something yummy in their hands. Finish your book Less, she thought to herself.

Reaching the fifth floor safely, Ainsley inwardly sighed in relief that no one seemed to have spotted them and they and their packages had all made it without falling on their faces especially with the staircases the way they were. "Right," she replied setting the floating boxes in her care down near the others before she started working on her own stacking taking turns and alternating with Adrienne.

As she worked the Gryffindor set the spells like the older girl did insuring that the wall of boxes would stay steadily in place like they were supposed to. Eventually after some time they both came to the last of the boxes, the office door well and securly blocked by the numerous spelled boxes and the girls finally stood back quietly to admire their work.

Miles' need to get closer won out and ignoring Fia's hand on his shirt he crawled forward behind the bench and watched as the stacked box after box on top of each other and in front of the door. Frowning slightly he stared at what they were doing. Wait...wasn't that a professor's office? Looking puzzled he watched them work and inched forward even more until he was barely hidden by the bench.

Seeing the Gryffindor put the last box up he tried to back up but his hand slipped causing to fall onto the floor and his wand to fall out of his pocket with a slight clatter. Grabbing his wand quickly he gave up pretenses and stood up with his wand in his hand. "So....what are you two up to?" Fia was going to kill him. Please stay hidden.

What in the name of...?

Moving up closer to the peeeeeople, Jake cleared his throat. "WHADARYOUDOING?!" he asked, voice loud and abrupt, doing his best to pretend he was a teacher. Then he frowned a little. "I've been waiting to see Lupa..."

Pshhh. Rude people.

As the wall of boxes steadily grew, it was getting more difficult for her and Ainsley to set the next boxes up. Eventually, after Adrienne got tired of trying to stand on her tiptoes, she started levitating her boxes and carefully setting them down. It tested her skills, but she was fairly ertain she could still manage it. And she had been keeping an eye on Ainsley as well, since she wanted to make sure the younger girl wasn't having any problems. Or at least any problems other than the same ones she was.

At one point she thought she heard movement inside the office, when the wall was just over her head in height, but since nothing else happened, she continued stacking, almost single-minded in her purpose. And, sooner than she would have expected, the wall was complete. Joining Ainsley in standing back to admire it, she jumped a little as she heard a faint clatter.

"Miles?!?!," she said in a stage whisper as she turned to see the younger Ravenclaw standing there with his wand, and then she wrapped her robe around her again protectively. "Nothing," she said evasively in response to his question. "What are you doing down here right now? And where's Fia?" His appearance had cleared up some of the pleasant haziness in her mind, but she still instinctively knew she had to get out of the situation before anyone else caught them. At least Miles could most likely be convinced not to say anything, even though she didn't know his stance on werewolves.

But then another voice broke into their predicament, and she jumped even more before her head swiveled to find out who was yelling. How is it we managed to get down here at this hour without anyone appearing, but now they're showing up out of nowhere?, she mentally complained, before her blue eyes took in the figure of Jake Upstead. Blinking, she glanced around as she realized how strange this all had to look, and then wondered if Reese and Kiri had had this many problems with their half of the plan. Probably not. "Um . . .," she said in response to the Hufflepuff's statement that he had been waiting to see Lupa. She really wasn't sure what to say.

Ainsley froze as she heard something fall to the floor, hoping it had come from her companion but then she foolishly realised it had come from the opposite direction. Turning as Adrienne spoke identifing the student she didn't know, she blinked as if trying to clear her vision or in this case her mind.

Letting the other girl talk, the Gryffindor tried to think of something but was interupted from her thoughts by another voice casing Ainsley to jump with her companion. Great way to show you belong in your house, she mentally berated herself as she worked on calming her breathing. As Adrienne started to say something and broke off, she exchanged quick glances with the other girl before looking back at the boy she had seen around but never really met. "She's probably not here," she replied, the words coming to mind and out before she could think really.

Miles looked past shoe girl as she seemed to try to hide what she was doing and a small smirk played on his face. Did she really think he hadn't watched the whole thing? Leaning casually against the wall he shrugged not about to give up his girlfriend and best friends position, "I'm not sure. What're YOU doing down here right now?" That was the question. At least he wasn't up to anything tricky or suspicious.

Well...mostly...following two girls down to watch them do whatever they were doing would probably be considered suspicious by most.

Then everything happened fast and he turned to find some strange Huffie yelling at his fellow house member and the Gryffindor. Thinking quickly he moved next to shoe girl he looked at the Huffie. Where did he come from anyway? Whatever.

"Now the question my fine fellow is what are you doing so far away from home?" Glancing past the boys shoulder he tried to relay a message to Fia for her to just stay put and not say a word wondering only slightly how cool it would be to have mind reading abilities. Later...

Leaning casually against the wall again he looked at the Huffie and then down at his watch, "Waiting for professor Lupa? At this hour?" Raising an eloquent eyebrow he looked at shoe girl and then at the Gryffindor. Hmm...

"As a matter of fact the Gryffindor is right, Lupa isn't in there. So...it appears your undoubtedly tireless efforts to sneak up from the Hufflepuff dorms here is a waste. Ahhh such a shame." Studying the boy curiously for a moment he turned to the two girls with a wide grin, "Thanks ladies I think that's it I'm sure you're both tired so just head on up to bed. I appreciate your help in bringing the rest of my boxes down and helping me," he said putting a slight emphasis for their benefit on the my. With a nod of his head down the corridor he looked at the two girls again thinking how cool it would be for mind reading abilities. If he got busted they'd owe him later for this. Simple. But this Huffie looked like a squealer and if only one got in trouble the better.

Crossing his arms across his chest, Jake puffed himself up a bit. Being short had its downsides.

Haha.

"IIIIIII haven't sn-snuck up fuh-from anywh-where," he said bitterly, frowning at the guy. "I'll huh-have you kn-know..."

Okay, so, it probably would have sounded a teeeeeeny bit more epic without the stutter. "I've buh-been sssssittin' here ages."

BURRRRRRN.

Jake continued to eye them all and scowled. She better be there. This is important. "What the huh-huh-heck are you d-doing?" the boy repeated, looking... none too happy.

BUT

Butttttt

But.

But it looked like Jake wasn't getting an answer, and he was farrrrr too tired to push it, so he looked once more at each student, frowned, shrugged, and turned away.

And left... quietly.

Adrienne had pretty much trailed off into silence, her mind unable to come up with a good excuse as to what exactly they were doing on the fifth floor in the middle of the night. Grateful that Ainsley had at least had the presence of mind to answer Jake's question, and thinking that at least they had finished the plan before all of this had happened, she turned to glance at the Gryffindor girl. The thought about how she'd heard something inside the office while they had still been stacking flitted through her mind, but at this point the spells had all been cast and she wasn't exactly certain of the counterspells. It was in other people's hands now, even if she had felt the need to undo everything. Besides, Lupa was a werewolf, and they were just trying to make their thoughts known.

A tiny voice popped up in her head reminding her that they weren't exactly her thoughts, and that at the beginning of term she hadn't had any problems with Professor Lupa or the headmaster, but it was pushed back by something else in her head and she blinked. And then Miles had shifted over to stand next to her and her blue eyes went to him in surprise. "What?," she said faintly as he started speaking to Jake, and then her housemate was looking at her and Ainsley. Carefully making her expression innocent, she waited until he turned back to Jake before shooting a worried galnce at Ainsley. "We need to get out of here," she mouthed wordlessly at the Gryffindor before turning back seconds before the attention was back on her. "Your . . .?," she said as Miles spoke, before snapping her mouth shut as she realized the younger boy was covering for them for some reason. "Of course," she said then, smoothly changing her tone to a less confused one as she also sent out a tendril of her ability, simply to try and decipher what he was doing. "It was no problem," she continued slowly, as she determined he wasn't about to blackmail them. At least not now. And Jake had given up for now, and she turned back to watch him leave. She thought she could handle Miles, and Fia, since something (other than her perfunctory search) told her the younger boy was lying when he'd answered that he hadn't known where the Huffie girl was, but Jake was another story. He was a wild card.

But at least they had an out for now, seeing as Miles had given it to them moments before. "I think we will head back to bed," she said, nodding in Ainsley's direction. "Come on. I'll walk you to your common room." At least Gryffindor and Ravenclaw were both in the towers. Made things easier. Reaching a hand out toward the younger girl, she headed toward the stairwell, her free arm still wrapped around her midsection, holding her robe around her pajama-clad form.

"Umm...you're welcome," Ainsley replied as she heard the Ravenclaw boy...Miles, she remembered from Adrienne's words of introduction, claim the boxes they had placed as his own. In essence covering their backs should Jake or any other people caught on to their involvement and it caught her by surprise. Seeing her companion recover and go with the flow she opted to follow along with the older students.

Glancing again at her partner in crime, she caught the other girl's mouthed words and nodded ever so slightly showing she understood. "Yeah we probably should," Ainsley echoed in agreement bringing all three of them on the same page to make their stories the same. She took the Ravenclaw's offered hand and proceeded to follow Adrienne towards the stairs to head back the way she came.

Alessia turned to the door... what were all these noises. She went to the door and tried to push it open.

...

She tried again...

What is this? The door wasn't budging. And she with no wand...

"Hello?" She said to the people on the other side. "Anyone there?"

She ran to her vanishing cabinet and stepped through. She had another way out of her office, thank Merlin...

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She tumbled out of the vanishing cabinet and tried to push out the door.

"Anyone there??? Please! Anyone!!!" But she knew if the culprits were outside her door, then they wouldn't help her.

She opened the window and leaned out looking for someone, ANYONE to help her! Who was on the grounds... who could help her?

Destiny was wandering the halls with her face in a book. How she managed not to walk into anything or anyone was a miracle. But she had thought to soon. She walked right into stacked boxes? And these boxes bark? Destiny jumped a mile in the air. What is Lupa getting at having these boxes outside her office? Covering her ears to drown at the barks Destiny yelled loud,
'Professssssor! How do I stop the barking!?' If she could hear her.

Fia began to freak out when she heard a few things at one time. Upon listening to those building the boxes, they said that no one was in the office, but then she heard the professor call out from behind the boxes and it sounded like dogs barking. She jumped from her hiding place, giving herself up. DARNIT!

"Professor! I didn't know you were in there!"

She turned to Miles with a look of horror on her face. "I specifically heard them say that she was not in there." Oh man! They were going to be in trouble. She had NO CLUE as to what they were doing, they were just being nosy and following people with the boxes.

Miles was heading back to his hiding place planning on waiting out to see what happened when a banging sounded and someone started yelling from behind the door, "Fi...we should g-" he was cut off as she sprang up from behind their hiding place. Reaching out he tried to stop her but it was too late. Great.

Scratching the back of his head he got back up and sighed, "I know but...I don't know what they did in the first place...my magic's good but not that good to undo whatever they did. Maybe I should go for the headmaster?"

Fia looked at Miles as she was absolutely scared out of her mind. "Let's go! We don't have much time!" They were both only fourth years and their magical knowledge was not wide spread enough for this type of magic. "I don't want to run away from something like this. Professor Lupa needs help."

She turned to the Slytherin girl that showed up. "Can you stay here and talk to the professor while we run and get help?"

Destiny jumped again when two students jumped out of nowhere. Well it seemed like nowhere because Destiny was too busy holding her ears to actually notice where they popped out of.

She nodded at the older girl when she said what sounded like 'stay here' but didn't really hear the rest.
'So someone did this to the professor? But why?'

Miles took Fia's hand as she looked scared and led them down the hall, "Come on Fi!" Dragging her down the hall toward the stairs he sighed, "We need to get help come on!"

Barely paying attention as Fi asked the girl to stay miles reached the stairs and raised to the headmaster's office. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Maybe he shouldn't have stuck up for them. This would get him in more trouble than he wanted.

Evelyn had her arms crossed, one hand playing with a curled piece of her dark hair, and she was staring intently at the ground as she walked to Professor Lupa's office...place. She had been feeling rather...down lately, even angry, and it would just take over her.

She wondered at first if it had something to do with the voice in her head, but she hadn't heard it since that day at the lake with Josh and Lyra. Maybe it was gone? But wouldn't she be feeling better then? Not angry and depressed. Hoping that asking the Professor a few questions would help her out, but when she rounded the corner, she had to cover her ears. What the...

"Destiny?!" Evelyn asked, almost having to yell, spotting the other Slytherin girl and a ton of boxes blocking what seemed to be a door. "What is this?!"

'What!?' Destiny saw Evelyn, but she couldn't hear what she was saying. 'I think I set them off when I walked into them.' she said pointing to the boxes. 'Two older students just went to the headmaster, to help.' 'And they better hurry.'

"WHAT?!" Evelyn shouted, taking a hand off of one of her ears so she could hear Destiny. Even though she was now standing at least four feet away from the other girl, she could only see her lips move. "I can't hear you- ARGH! SHUT...UP!" She pounded on one of the boxes that was blocking Professor Lupa's doorway with her fist, hoping it would make whatever it was quiet.

Bad mistake.

The noise only grew louder. Wincing, she covered her ears again, slowly moving so she was now crouching on the ground. It was seriously starting to give her a splitting head ache.

The barking was getting too much for her to handle. She kept scanning the grounds and finally, there he was... "MISTER MASTERSON... COSTANTINE!!!! PLEASE HELP ME! I'm trapped in my office and I can't get out!!!" She screamed out of the window.

Goood lordy, that woman had lungs. Five floor up...and she still managed to get him to hear that? Impressive.

Instantly, Constantine started running into the school with Roma the German Shepard at his heel. Both beings were panting away as they finally managed to reach the office, Neo covering his ears while Roma pinned hers back. "What in heaven's name is going on!?," he managed to yell over the bloody barking dogs.

Destiny was still holding her ears. She just waved Evelyn off. It was no use tryinng to talk to her. She just shrugged her shoulders.


'Mr. Masterson!' Boy was she happy to see him. 'I came up here and it was like this. Two students went to get the headmaster!' Could he even hear her?