...oh.

Raiden was very lucky the sink was behind him. Hands gripping the edge of it, he stared very determinedly at Sarah's feet. A muscle in his jaw twitched from his clenching his teeth so hard. Yelling was not going to help. At all. Taking a few deep breaths, doing his best to calm down, he finally spoke.

"Damn it. She did something stupid." Raiden looked at Jack, clearly fighting the urge to freak out. "A few weeks ago... right before I she disappeared, I guess, we got into a bit of a fight." One hand moved to the back of his neck and he rubbed it furiously. "She told me to not go to the Hog's Head. She said it was a bad place, or something like that. She wouldn't tell me what was wrong, or how she knew it, and she said she couldn't tell the Professors or the Headmaster either... She said something about maybe going to the Hog's Head herself. I don't know what she was on about or how she knew it but..."

Torin watched as the others arrived. Good, they were all here now. Well, all of them except Cela. But she would be back soon, he had to believe that they would find her. He needed to think so, because he didn't want to imagine what would happen if they didn't. He really liked her, she was a good person and really nice.

Then he heard what Raiden said. "Hogsmeade.. Everything is related to Hogsmeade. Those weird coupons..."

Jack turned to Reese. "Your badge was found near the Forbidden Forest...that's where we were during Care of Magical Creatures. That was actually the only lesson where I happened to witness these things being found," he added. He hadn't been at that flying lesson, and he wasn't sure where Kazi and his students had been when they found stuff. He hadn't caught that info while he was at the Headmaster's office.

He looked up as Livvy entered the room. YAYYYY! He hadn't seen his co-partner in forever, and it was nice to know that someone else with a badge hadn't gone missing, thank GOODNESS. Now they just needed to find their other Ravvie female. "Well, to make a long story short--people keep finding bloody robes and prefect badges, and Tate has decided to put us on lockdown." He explained. "We're supposed to be extra alert and on top of our games, and if we see anything amiss we need to go to Tate IMMEDIATELY."

Suddenly, everyone was talking about the coupons. Jack's eyes went from person to person as they spoke--he had seen these coupons, but he had never gotten one himself. And, the Hogs Head...that bartender WAS kind of creepy. And kind of a jerk. He hadn't been very chipper when he had visited with Reese.

"Raiden, why couldn't she tell Tate?" he asked. He could feel his heart starting to race. "If she did indeed go to the Hogs Head, there's a very good chance that creepy bartender might have done something to her..."

"Maybe we should go now..." he said, thinking out loud right now. Poor Raiden looked like he was on the verge of ripping his hair out. "Maybe we should go tell Tate now. I know she told you she couldn't tell the Headmaster but--if she's in serious trouble, does it really matter? It might make you feel better to get it all off your chest. I'll go with you for support," he added. "After that we can go to Healer Ashford if you want...for Calming Draught," he said.

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"Raiden, why couldn't she tell Tate?" he asked. He could feel his heart starting to race. "If she did indeed go to the Hogs Head, there's a very good chance that creepy bartender might have done something to her..."

"Maybe we should go now..." he said, thinking out loud right now. Poor Raiden looked like he was on the verge of ripping his hair out. "Maybe we should go tell Tate now. I know she told you she couldn't tell the Headmaster but--if she's in serious trouble, does it really matter? It might make you feel better to get it all off your chest. I'll go with you for support," he added. "After that we can go to Healer Ashford if you want...for Calming Draught," he said.

"I don't know," he admitted. "She just told me she couldn't. Maybe she had no way to prove whatever she knew or something, and thought they wouldn't believe her. All I know is that-"

They were all talking about those coupons. Which reminded him of another thing she said during that conversation.

"She asked me if I'd gotten any of those coupons... she told me to not use the Hog's Head one, if I got it." Swallowing, he let go of the sink and nodded to Jack. "If I hadn't gotten angry at her... I might've been able to get her to tell Headmaster Tate what she knew... we might not be in this situation right now." Sigh. "If you want to come with... you don't have to. I can go myself."

And he didn't need the nurse. He hadn't had a calming draught all term, he certainly didn't need one in this situation. He needed to figure out what the hell was going on. He needed for Cela to not have done something so ridiculously stupid, because it was making him feel guilty.

"Is he in his office?"

When Jack mentioned it wad found during the Care of Magical Creatures lesson, she frowned. That was the one of the classes Reese hadn't attended during this term, and she really regretted it now. But she hadn't been feeling good that day! So she had a logical excuse. But, wait... it was found near the Forbidden Forest? She wrinkled her eyebrows at that statement, but didn't say anything. Weirrrrd. Now was the time she wished her memory of what happened would come back, but it didn't. Not even when she knew where her badge was found at.

Coupons, coupons, coupons! That was what the subject had been switched to before Reese knew it.

She blinked her eyes as she looked from Chris to Raiden to Torin, and then she looked back at Jack. Had she told anybody that SHE got a coupon? Errrm, now she thought would be the perfect time to bring that up. "I got a coupon," she announced. "Well, I had a coupon. I got it from Healer Ashford and it was for a free butterbeer at the..." There was a pause before she added, "The Hog's Head." She had only paused before saying that because Raiden had mentioned Cela telling him not to use the Hog's Head one.

As soon as Jack said that words 'maybe we should go', she looked at him. That was one fast meeting!

Jack was starting to sweat. Grossssss. And poor Raiden...Jack didn't want the poor guy blaming himself for what had happened. Cela was a very determined girl, and Jack wasn't sure that, even if they hadn't gotten in a fight as Raiden had described, that that would have stopped her.

"There's no use in wondering what might have happened," he said with a sigh. "What you can do now, though, is relay the information to Tate, to help Cela," he assured the Slytherin with a head nod. "He's in now, and I'll come with, just in case this forces Tate to take even MORE extreme measures and I need to pass another message on to you guys," he added with a sigh. He wasn't sure how much worse it could get, they were already on lockdown, but you never know. "Plus, I have some questions about these coupons," he muttered.

Likeeeee why were all these teachers passing out coupons if, apparently, they were bad? Could there possibly be someone on the inside helping this creepy bartender? He wasn't sure if Tate would tell him, but after what happened to Reese, he was sure as heck going to try and get answers if it would prevent Cela from ending up in the same position.

"Well, other than that...I was pretty much done. Basically, we're increasing patrols, and we're not to let ANYONE leave the castle. If anything suspicious shows up, you should go straight to Tate," he said.

"Alright," Raiden mumbled, avoiding the eyes of the other prefects in the bathroom. This was something... he should've brought to the attention of the staff weeks ago, when Cela had spoken of it. If she hadn't wanted to, then he should've. Ugh. With a shrug, he moved toward the door. "Ittekimasu."

He had never spoken to Headmaster Tate before. Raiden wasn't particularly confident that this was going to be the best of first meetings.

**Ittekimasu = I'm leaving.**

Jack...was not sure what Raiden just said, but he figured it was something like peace out or goodbye. As he left, Jack turned to the other prefects.

"I'm going to go with him, just to ask some questions..." he said. Yeah. He wanted to ask about those coupons. "If I find out anything, I'll let you all know! For the time being, please alert the rest of your house about the lockdown thing if someone who wasn't at the Headmaster's office hasn't done so already," he said.

"And...that's it." he said. Meeting was done. With a wave goodbye, he followed the little cat dude to Tate's office.

One minute Miles was listening intently to what was being said knowing almost all of that already. He wanted to go search the forest where all that stuff was found but he wouldn't go in there by himself, no way no how. The next minute...he was staring blankly ahead of him not taking in a word of what was being said. The sight of people leaving grabbed his attention and he shook his head. What was this? Maybe he should owl his mum....

He walked to one of the sinks and turned it on. Running his hands under the cold water he splashed some on his face and looked up at the mirror. He looked the worse for the wear that was for sure.

Torin nodded at Jack and watched as he and Raiden left the room. Well, this was quite the disaster.. Cela missing, a lockdown... Raiden seemed to be really upset, poor boy.

He looked around at the others and then noticed Miles washing up at the sink. He really didn't look so great, and he wasn't sure if it was related to what Jack had just told them.

"Are you okay, Miles?"

Miles looked at Torin in the mirror and thought quickly. If he said no word would surely get back to Fia. Well that settled that, "Yeah...I'm..um...fine. Just hot and tired." Rubbing his face on his sleeve he wiped the water off and turned around. "Just a bit woozy still I guess. Passed out on the pitch at the site of the bloody robe" He rubbed the back of his head and sighed, "Been a day I tell you...did you know Fia and Brody are half sisters?" Now there was a bombshell he hadn't expected.

He didn't really buy that, as was obvious by his expression, but he didn't comment. Obviously Miles didn't want to talk about whatever was up, and he wouldn't pry. Partly because it was late and he was tired. So Miles was lucky there. "Yeah, I'm upset about all this too. Especially seeing as Reese got hurt." That still bothered him. He was just glad that he had been there to take her to the Nurse, seeing as Jack was so upset he hadn't been much of a help.

Then suddenly the subject changed to Brody and Fia. He went with it though seeing as he had wanted to talk to him about that anyway. "Brody talked to me a bit about it. She was rather.. um.." He wasn't sure how to describe it. "You know..." He assumed that Miles would know because Fia had to be feeling the same way too, the poor girl. He really liked Fia.

"She was rather put off by the fact that she had kissed you too," he added without thinking. Why did he say that? He had no idea.

"Yeah..." He'd been having a hard time too. In fact he was sure they all were. And Cela was still missing.... He looked at Torin glad he hadn't asked or pried more into what was wrong unlike others would have.

Glad Torin went with the change in topic he nodded. He'd figured she had talked to him about it. "Yeah...about the same as Fia but...really though it's a bit of a shock I think she's happy that she has a sibling. She's always been an only child, like me."

And then...low blow. Clenching his jaw he looked at him, "Did she. Well not like she has to worry about that anymore anyway." He didn't know why but the fact that Torin had said what he'd been thinking bothered him greatly but he wasn't put off that that had happened. In fact he was a little grateful cause it reaffirmed his relationship with Fia.

He had no idea about that. "Yeah, I can get that. It's good that she has a sister." And he had a feeling that it was easier for her to take in than it was for Brody because it was her father that had cheated on her mother. "I just can't believe it 'cause Brody always has believed in her parent's love story." But knowing her she still would after this. Because that was what she was brought up with and she loved her parents so much.

He totally didn't notice that he had hit a nerve there. "Yeah, seeing as you're dating her sister. But it's all good really seeing as it was all done to make me jealous." He shrugged. He had known about that for months.

And so much was happening at once.Everyone got talking about those damn coupons, and Sarah was slightly distracted by the throbbing she now had in her hand.Not surprisingly Raiden was upset by what she told him - going on to say about Cela in the weeks leading up to her going missing.As she was probably the Prefect that Sarah knew the least, she had no idea about any of it.But she certainly sounded a little like Wesley and her investigations, only more dangerous.Please say she's alright...

Rubbing her hand, she nodded as Jack concluded the meeting so he and Raiden could go see the Headmaster with their information.It was short and sweet, but they had found out all they needed to at that point.Now they just had to tell everyone about the lockdown.Did they do that in their common rooms?

Smiling at Chris as she passed, Sarah made her way over to where Torin and Miles were talking.Clearing her throat, she then sighed. "Sorry to interrupt guys," she said quietly, "but Torin, do you think we'd better go and inform everyone about the lockdown? Maybe in the common room or something?" She didn't know really how to handle this.Ohhh the pressures of authority.

Oops. He had sorta started to forget that there were others in the room when he had started talking to Miles. He was thinking about the whole Brody/Fia thing and forgetting that they had just had a meeting about the school going on lockdown. Showed just how tired he was right now.

He turned his attention to Sarah when she asked him about making the announcement in the Common room now. Sounded like a good idea to him. "Yeah, I think that's a good idea."

Oh good, so it wasn't a rubbish idea.

Sarah nodded and ran her non-throbbing hand through her hair.Boy this was a - tough - situation.Now all they had to do was a head count and get everyone in the house to listen to them.EASY!.......Yeah.

"I'll meet you there, shall I?" she asked, not sure whether he and Miles wanted to finish their conversation first.She had after all interrupted them in the middle of it.Giving them both a weary smile, she turned on her heel and headed for the exit.

Aww, she was leaving? He didn't want to leave Miles right now because they were talking about the issue with Brody and Fia, but he knew that he had to. And he did want to tell the Common Room anyway because he wanted his Housemates to know. Brody wouldn't like this much though. She liked going to Hogsmeade.

"I'll be there in a second," he called out just before she left the room.

He turned his attention back to Miles. "I'll talk to you about this more later?" He really wanted to do that because it was something they were both involved in as the boyfriends.

And with that he left the room after Sarah.

All this coupn stuff had Chris terrified. He had recieved a coupon himself from the Care of Magical Creatures Professor Lawson, and sighed only slightly when he remembered that his was not for the Hogs Head. He just might not spend his though, just in case.

Chris wished Raiden and Jack good luck as they left to go to Headmaster Tate's office and then smiled back at Sarah and followed her and Torin over to Miles. He didn't seem ok but if he said he was fine.

He then heard Sarah repeat what Jack had said about warning the students. "yeah we should probably go to our Common Rooms and tell the others." he nodded. He walked over to Gold and said, "You want to do this together?" he then waved to the others. "See you all on patrols. And be safe guys." he couldn't stand for another one of them to be taken.

There was not much in this that Gold did not already know. Most people would, in fact. If they had not been living under a rock, at any rate. Of course, that did not mean she was not worried. Not to mention, Hogwarts ... and lockdown? That was not a nice thought.

All the worse that that thought was a reality, now.

The only good thing about this meeting, she would contemplate later, was that she had been able to touch and TICKLE Raiden's ears. They were, after all, extremely adorable. But, for now, she had no heart to think of that. Because worry was taking over her, and it was never, ever good when that happened. She was usually a really calm person, and a thing that could make her anxious really was something to be anxious about.

She nodded to Chris, stepping closer to him when he asked if she wanted to tell everyone this, with him. She didn't have the heart to do this alone, anyway. "Yes," she said, with a little nod, as she followed him out of the Prefect's Bathroom. Bad stuff. BAD stufff.

Miles frowned at Torin and was trying to gather his scattered thoughts enough to make a reply when he was interrupted. Figures. Listening to the two of them talk he turned and looked into the mirror, at his features. The bags under his eyes the slight stubble on his face. Before he knew it everyone was gone leaving him and his reflection. "Yeah...better go up and tell everyone...the bad news..." he said to himself. Or you don't have to...you could stay in here and let everyone else handle it. You could just hide away... No...no no...now he was losing his mind. "It's all in my head...it's just an issue I need to work out. Maybe...I just need more sleep." Yeah keep telling yourself that. "You're a figment of my IMAGINATION!!!!" he yelled, slamming his hands into the mirror watching it crack. "Oh god..." what had he done.... He looked down at his hands and saw it was bleeding.... "Fia..." turning he walked out of the room stuffing his hands into his pockets. "I need to find Fia...."

Miranda sort of stormed into the prefect's bathroom after running all over the school, trying to find the Captains. And finally, she found Brant...along with the Prefects. She smiled and nodded at them all, heading straight towards the other captain. "Brant, I just came from the Headmaster's office... I asked if we could help the Prefects during this lockdown thing, and he said yes. So... if you want to help..." Uh, what were their names? "Chris and the other's, you should go and talk to them." She finished, hoping he had understood what this was all about. If not, then it might be better for the Gryffindor Prefects to tell him what was going on.

"I got to run, need to find the others. But I'll talk to you later, okay?" She smiled, hesitated, and then turned around, heading towards the door to continue her search.

Brant looked over towards Chirs, after Miranda just ran in and told him he could help with the prefects and head boy and head girl. "Thanks Miranda, yeah I'll see you later" he yelled after her. "Hey Chris, I think I know whats going on, but erm You don't have to fill me in all the way, just little bits on what I should be looking for, when I start my patroling?" he said while plopping back down on the chair, he was sitting on.

Hmph! These kids got it good at this school he thought to himself as he looked around the bathroom. Not like the school he had attended.

Remí heard the sound of footsteps approaching and he backed up into one of the cubicles and closed the door. He stood up on the toilet seat and looked above to see some pipes running along the ceiling.

Perfect!

This was...

Empty?

Wand drawn, Truebridge stalked into the bathroom, trying to spot where the man had gone. Maybe he could give him a swirly.