Delanie nodded as the others talked about Chanel. Of course they liked it; it was stylish, classy and trendsetting, just like she was. "Sounds like me," Dee laughed when Diggy spoke of the spending spree his female family members did at Chanel. She'd been wearing Chanel for as long as she could remember.

And then the girl was talking about Torin. She nodded, shoving her hands into her pockets. "Yep. Torin is my adopted brother/best friend. And yeah, I'm on Twitter a lot." It was the way she kept in touch with her best friend and her boyfriend! "I take it you have a Twitter then, and you follow me...?" Obviously. The majority of the people that followed Delanie were people she didn't know.

Lucy turned to the boy when he apologized to her. "Oh, it's okay, really!" She said as she grasped his hand and shook it enthusiastically. Wow, she needed to stop eating so much candy. "I bump into people...all the time," She said with a laugh. Especially if she was running with her eyes closed.
"Oh, and I'm Lucy McLean! It's nice to meet you, Diggy!" She said with a toothy grin.

Turning back to Delanie, Lucy listed to what she was saying about Torin and Twitter. "He's your...adoptive brother?!" She said, her eyes growing wide. Okay, that made...sense? Lucy nodded at her question, and started playing with her hair, twirling it around he finger. "Yeah, I have a Twitter, and I guess I follow you. Hmm, probably. I follow a lot of random people," She said and then suddenly stopped what she was doing and jumped a little. "Oh my gosh! I totally forgot about Bubbles!" She said with a frown. That darned Pygmy was always getting lost. Okay, maybe not always--she barely took her out, but still. She had to find her. perhaps Diggy and Delanie could help?

He nodded. "Yeah I agree." he said. Girls and shopping. It was enough to make Diggy want to cry. Why couldn't they just go in a store find what they want and buy it. No, it had to be a all day affair. Giggling and squealing and then trying on all the clothes and shoes in a store! "I have a twitter too." Even though he hardly updated it these days without his phone.

And now this girl was grinning at him and pumping his hand like she was a body builder. His cheeks juggled with the enthusiasm of the hand shake and he was grateful when she finally let go. OW! That girl was strong! What was she eating. He gave her a wincing smile as he tried to rotate his shoulder blade. "Thats a really strong handshake. Are you a beater or something?" he asked her.

He looked around not seeing what Lucy was talking about. "Erm..whats a Bubbles?" he asked.

Delanie nodded. "He adopted me first, but then my father and I adopted him," she replied. Her brow furrowed when she replayed her thoughts in her head. That really didn't make sense... "Long story." She listened as Lucy talked about Twitter. But then she was talking about bubbles. "Bubbles?" Delanie repeated, completely confused. Why was she talking about bubbles? They had nothing to do with Twitter!

She pursed her lips as she considered Diggy's last sentence. "You know, I think I actually follow you on Twitter..." She remembered seeing his picture before. He was a handsome young boy, after all. "You should log in sometime."

Ok her story was making his head hurt it was so confusing so he thought it best to let it go. Before he said something stupid. "You follow me?" he asked curiously. "I haven't log in awhile. I might just log in and follow you." he told her with a cheeky smile.

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"I don't think this counts for 'fine'," Raiden mumbled in return. He was tiny, he was terrified, and Neptune Bott was all passed out in his lap AGAIN. It was like a miniature version of Diagon Alley. At least now, since she wasn't screaming and sobbing, Raiden could sorta think. Not that anything he thought was particularly helpful.

Looking down over his own miniaturized body, Raiden sighed.

"This is the second time this term that something like this has hap-" Staaaaaaaaare. "Lina... you have... your ears."

Wait a minute. WAIT.

"What do you mean, 'it'll probably wear off in an hour or so'?" he asked, little eyes narrowed slightly.

She tried to look up, but of course she couldn't see them. She felt them once more and looked a little annoyed. "Yeah... I don't wanna talk about it." She cleared her throat and looked back to Raiden. "Well, I mean... this is obviously a standard de-aging potion. If you could permenantly de-age, then you would never die, right? So it has to be temporary. These things never last very long." Though she said it a little too quickly.

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Though 'dead', Neptune opened one eye to the very large, very Ravenclaw, and very much 7th year boy. Did she WANT a HUG? Well OBVIOUSLY she needed one and then some! Neptune, in all her three year old glory, looked up at baby!Raiden, then nodded a TEEENSY little nod up to Big Boy Barry.

Little did he know though that HUGS wouldn't cover it. She was gonna latch on to him like a barnacle to a ship. Then BARRY would get her FIXED! Very good plan. Fail proof, even. If only she wasn't still SILENCED.

Lina would pay for this and then some one day. One sweet day.

She glanced over as Neptune nodded to the Ravenclaw. Uh huh. She shook her head and turned her attention back to Raiden. "Anyway, you obviously just ate something that didn't agree with you." She wanted to tell him. Wanted to tell him sooooo badly. But while she could ask Raiden not to tell on her, it wasn't likely the others would let her get away with this. "You didn't deserve it," she said solemnly, looking to Neptune again. "But she did. If she won't act her age, I think it's only fitting that her age reflect her instead. After all, she's acting as though she's in Piaget's second stage of psychological development, as though she were the center of the world and no one else matters. And that's not fair to you, or to anyone."

She tried to hide the real hurt she felt from it, though unknown to her, her new ears betrayed her. It didn't matter. Raiden was cute and innocent. So was Neptune, she supposed, but she felt strangely protective of the boy. Especially now. And she knew he wouldn't understand how she felt. He would probably only be upset that she did this. That was okay to her. Neptune deserved this. And she would take responsibility for it when it came down to that. But for now...

Right now she just wanted to watch Neptune, de-aged, freaking out. She wanted to make Raiden into a baby... She didn't seem to like it too much when it was done to her. But she wouldn't make that connection, would she? Oh well. Lina felt vindicated anyway.

She was right of course. It was most likely just a deaging potion, and of course those wore off and stuff. And she, being Lina, would of course know how long the effects would last. She was a genius with potions... and most other things. Still... exasperated with the entire situation, annoyed that someone had somehow slipped him and Neptune de-aging potion, Raiden's little cheeks filled up with air and puffed out. Think... think. Someone in his dorm? It was obviously the candy in his pocket, considering... well they'd both been affected soon after eating it. But who had given it to him?

In the midst of wondering about this, Raiden's eyes turned to Barry and a strangely childish urge gripped him. He wanted to tell Barry no, he could not hug Neptune. He had to bite his tongue to keep himself from saying it, but his little arms tightened slightly around Neptune even as she nodded for hugs from the older boy.

"Nobody deserves to have someone sneak potions on them. No matter how they act, it's not nice." And Neptune had her reasons for being the way she was. If he remembered correctly, she hadn't really... been away from her family very much until now, had she? It was the way things had always been for her. Eventually she'd grow out of it. He squeezed the chibi-Neptune absently.

Why did Lina look so sad?

"You said Miss Kaydy's your mum?" And she'd seen him before, in the hospital? Somehow, Raiden couldn't remember seeing her. Sad.

Lucy giggled as he complimented her hadnshake. "Nope, not a beater. But I AM a reserve on the Gryffindor Quidditch team!" She said as she let go of his hand. The poor kid, she hoped she didn't hurt him.
At the mention of Bubbles, though she got a worried look on her face again.
"She's my purple Pygmy Puff and I lost her!" Lucy exclaimed, looking around her wildly.


Listening to Delanie, she forgot about Bubbles again because her brain just did not have that much capacity! "Ohhh, I seeee," She said, nodding her head. Long story--Lucy shrugged her shoulders and then they were back at Bubbles.
"Oh! Yeah, she's my Pygmy Puff, as I was just telling Diggy here. Hey, do you guys think you can help me look for her?" Lucy asked with pleasing eyes. Bubbles had been given to ehr by her best friend and she wasn't about to lose her. "She's purple and fluffly," Lucy added, so they would know what they were looking for. And with that, she bent down on her knees and starting searching. "BUBBLES!! OHHH, BUBBLESSSS!!"

"Hm?" She blinked and looked at the little Raiden. She gave him a small smile and sat him. She even scoot close to Raiden so that maybe Neptune would get all jealous and stuff and not allow herself to be carried away. "Yeah." One ear twitched lightly. "When I woke up, she and papa were the only ones there, monitoring me. She's the one who told me they found me. They never told me in what condition, just that I'd been out for a week. They couldn't find my parents, and there was almost no record of me. I couldn't remember anything either. And they offered to take care of me."

She shrugged a little, looking up at the cherry blossoms. "After that, they became mama and papa to me. Mama even taught me how to play violin and do gymnastics, because when I first woke up, everything felt funny and I had trouble moving right."

He smiled at her enthusiasm about Quiddicth. "Well thats nice," he said still massage his shoulder. The girl was built like a mac truck. He would hate to get punched by her big hands. Why were the girls here bigger than him anyways. What were those elves feeding them! He was going to have to pump some iron or something. "Well its ok I will help you look," he told her before she started to truly panic. "Purple and fluffly," he nodded making sure that was an accurate description.

Diggy set down his bucket. His dad would have him mucking out the dragon keep for a month if he knew Diggy had left a girl in peril. His dad was chivalrous like that. He got down on his hands and knees and started pushing aside leaves, and calling. "BUBBLES!" This was going to fun, he could see it already.

Why couldn't she have a proper pet like a dragon or a crup or a spider or something?

Neptune kicked at Lina when she came closer. Dead or not, that foul beast that kept THREATENING her and saying the meanest things anyone had EVER said to her was NOT going to SIT next to her.

NEVER.


KICKKICKKICKKICK.


But apparently she was staying a BABY and with Raiden for FOREVER. She PINCHED him and gave him LOOKS and then started the whole crying thing all over again. WHY they were TALKING stupid things while she was SO CLEARLY in distress, she'd NEVER know.

Or FORGIVE. Never.

Owwwwwwwwww.

Raiden winced at Neptune's pinching, bottom lip wibbling again as he grabbed at her chubby little hands with his own. That wasn't nice either, Neptune. Not at all.

"Neptune stooop. Don't cryyyyyyy." He squeezed some more, despite the looks and pinching. "Lina knows about potions... it'll wear off soon."

Maybe they should go to the nurse though... She could probably reverse it right away, and then Raiden could find out who had slipped him the candy.

It took him a minute, but Raiden finally made it to his feet, and he pulled Neptune up onto hers as well. Glancing at Barry and Georgie, he decided it best that... they go on with whatever they were doing before, and turned his attention back to Lina.

"Miss Kaydy was always really nice to me. Any time something hurt, she'd fix it right away, and she was always there when I was scared. She made my mum feel better a lot, too." He wobbled slightly; everything was so out-of-whack with what he was used to. The shortened legs, the little arms... "We should go to see the nurse, Lina. Even if it will wear off, she might be able to fix it right away."

Georgiana looked from Barry, to the two screaming kids and the other girl, shaking her head slightly as he asked if they should go, that would probably be a BAD idea at this point in time. Especially considering the little girl was looking incredibly displeased. And now she was kicking at the older girl as well!?

"Er...do you have any idea at all on how this happened to the two?" And was it needed hospital wing wise? She severly doubted it, but it didn't hurt to ask eh? Georgiana smiled at the little girl, she was obviously upset. Pfft, who wouldn't be? "Relax, don't worry. We'll get you back to normal as quick as possible." They just needed to find out what happened first!

She winced as she got up, running her side. "Kay kay..." Yeah, Raiden was gonna hate her. Oh well. Enjoy it while it lasted. She looked through some vials and found one she was looking for. She uncapped it, drank a little, then capped it again and put it away. Once she felt some of the pain edge off, she nodded to him. "Okay fine, let's go... I mean, it's not like the rumor I heard first year when they said if you go to the hospital wing you don't come back, right? I was in there just..." Oh yeah, that time... that she used a potion on someone else...

"Anyway!" She started the way, staying close, obviously ready to catch them if they fell again. "Yeah, mama's really good like that. She has that sweet soft smile that makes you feel like everything's gonna be okay, and her voice is really comforting too." She giggled a little, tilting her head at him. "It's kinda neat, knowing she took care of both of us. You could almost be my nurse brother..."

Delanie laughed. "Perhaps you should," she told Diggy.

Ooh! Bubbles was a Pygmy Puff. Right. Well, that made sense. "Sure, why not?" She listened to the description and nodded. Pointing to the left, she said, "I'll look this way." Looking around, she drifted further into the garden, the sounds of Diggy and Lucy calling the puff's name drifting behind her. Of course she wasn't going to call the pygmy's name; she wasn't going to yell back! Still searching, she listened closely; maybe she could hear it. Walking deeper into the garden, she almost thought she wasn't going to find it. But all the sudden a purple ball of fluff appeared, teetering from underneath a bush. "Bubbles!" Delanie exclaimed gleefully. Yippie! She had been the one to find her. Leaning down, she gently picked the puff up and held Bubbles close to her chest. "You guys, I found her!" she yelled as she took off running to where Lucy and Diggy were. Smiling, she opened her hands and held the puff out to its rightful owner. "I think she belongs to you."

Neptune Bott had had quite enough. Though her dress was hanging off of her like drapes, and her little feet were bare, AND she was silenced - the fit of the century was about to take place.


Drumroll, please.



FIRST, Neptune PUNCHED Raiden with her little gooey baby hand. Then she BOLDLY tried to get at LINA with all fists and kicks. Her mouth was open and she was OBVIOUSLY screaming, though no sound was coming out. If only Raiden hadn't been holding her back, Little Baby Neptune would have GONE BOLDLY for Lina the evil hag.


Poor nice Hufflepuff girl - hopefully she didnt take any blows during the small battle. Neptune KICKED and HIT and SCREAMED (silently) and had NO PLANS to stop until she was FIXED. Or she passed out. Whichever came first.

Lina let out a little squeak and jumped back, the blinked at the silent Neptune. Wait, didn't she? Oooooohhhhh!! That was right! She re-silenced her! Oh, well... if she was screaming, she wasn't undoing it. No way no how. But at this rate, Neptune was going to knock them all over. She was tempted to stun the girl. She tried to move around behind Raiden to catch him if he fell, and instead stumbled into him and the little fists and feet of Neptune both. If she didn't already have a pain killer in her system, she knew it would hurt a lot more.

He giggled, "Well I will have to do just that." he informed Delanie.

He was pushing back leaves and bushes looking for the thing. A puff that didn't make any sort of noises. Why didn't she put a bell on the thing? He was on his hands and knees in the middle of a garden looking for a purple pygmie puff. His brothers would laugh themselves silly. And of course he had to wear his 7 For All Mankind jeans. His sister would kill him if she saw what he was doing to a pair of jeans that cost almost a thousand euros.

Oh thank Merlin Diggy wouldn't have to walk around carrying a purple puff ball. He smiled as Lucy got her pet back, he would be upset if he lost his crup. "There she is all safe and sound," he told her. Glad that was over with. "Maybe you should put a collar on her with a bell or something," he suggested.

GASP.

Normally... Neptune's little fists wouldn't really hurt very much. Sixteen year old Raiden's normal body had been through much worse than getting punched by a girl. Heck, this past summer he'd been beaten up on by two of them, and a bludger.

However, this five year old version of himself had had no such experiences. There were no semi-solid muscles in his chest and stomach to keep things from hurting as bad as they should've. So when Neptune's pulled and pushed and moved and managed to swing her little fist into his equally little side, it hurt. HURT. The little boy gave a squeak and very nearly let go of her completely, but she was swinging and kicking at Lina and it was all he could do to hold onto her so she couldn't rip the now older girl apart.

"Nep- tune- stop- it!" he gasped, amazed that she somehow managed to attack Lina even with her dress getting all in the way. "This isn't- going- to- help-"

And then Lina bumped into him, and that was all he needed to put him off-balance. He was already pretty much holding the flailing toddler's whole weight; all it took was one little bump and he was tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipping backwards, Neptune coming right along with him and landing on his chest/stomach/entire body as he met the ground.

...

And then, the five-year-old wailed almost as loudly as Neptune had earlier.

Lina shifted to keep from falling on the smaller children, landing hard on her side. Oh, she was gonna be bruuuuiiiised! She would definitely being taking a healing potion later. As it was, she wasn't exactly numb, so she could feel every blow, even if it was muffled. Man! This was a lot more fun before the other students interfered. Well, she was just going to have to do this the right way. She pulled her wand and unsilenced Neptune, tucked it away, then pulled Raiden out from under her. She forced herself between the two and closed her eyes, preparing for the blows to come. Raiden wasn't gonna get any more hurt because of her!

If the Slytherin thought that Neptune cared that she was being all valiant in her efforts to protect Raiden from her: then she was SOOOO WRONG.

AND!


AND to add to the NASTINESS of Lina, SHE had made RAIDEN CRY! In addition to all the OTHER things she'd done.


Neptune, though little and itsy, tore into Lina as best she could. "YOU MADE HIM CRY! YOU DID ALL OF THIS! I HAAAAAATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!"


Where was Durskurk when you needed him? UNFORGIVABLE! What Lina had done WAS Unforgivable and most DEFINITELY called for his Unforgivables as punishment for her CRIMES.


Neptune BIT Lina when she couldn't do anything else.

Lina winced to most everything, her ears flattened against her head, then squeaked a little as she was bit. She bit her tongue to keep from crying out, her eyes tearing up. But she wasn't going to cry, and she wasn't going to scream. She kept taking deep breaths, holding Raiden as gently as she could and still keep him from her. Just hang in there, she thought to herself, and would have thought to Raiden if she thought he could hear. Hang in there...

This was TERRIBLE. Just TERRIBLE. Neptune was kicking and shrieking and Raiden could not breathe and his chest was starting to hurt and he had only wanted to look at the cherry blossoms, MERLIN WHY.

Even as Lina tugged him out from under Neptune, and got in between him and the flailing toddler, he could tell that something was off. That familiar sharp pain that he hadn't felt in such a long time was starting to present itself; pushing himself away from Lina, the little boy grabbed at his shirt, little chest heaving as he forced himself to breathe.

Apparently, going back to five years old had also reset his heart to its previous 'issue' status.

"STOP," the little boy all but shrieked, dropping once more to the ground and pulling his knees straight up to his chest, little hands covering his ears as his eyes squeezed shut to block out the fighting. Breaaaaaaaaaaathe. Breaaaaaaaathe. He was not going to have an attack. He hadn't had one in years, this was NOT happening.

Lucy could now hear Diggy calling out the little Pygmy's name and she grinned, knowing it was pretty much useless because she had no idea what her name was. But just as she was about to check in her robes again (because that little puffball loved hiding in there), she heard Delanie calling out to them.
Lucy ran over to her, a wide grin on her face as she held out her hands for her. "BUBBLES!!!" She squealed loudly and took her in her arms, cuddling her. "Don't you do that to me again!" She said with a little force, but the Puff just purred a bit, and...went off to sleep?! Ugh.
Turning back to Delanie, she smiled. "Thanks so much for finding her, I owe you one!" She said happily.

Lucy turned again so she was facing Diggy this time and thrust the Puff ball in his arms. "Thanks so much for helping as well, Diggy! And here, this is how she feels!" She said with a squeal. "Isn't she just so soft and cuddly?!" She added and then took her back, patting her again, even though she was asleep.
But then he suggested that she put a collar on with a bell. "Well, I don't know where I can find a collat that small. But I don't even take her out that much, so it's not really a problem," Lucy said, looking down at Bubbles, who was now snoring a bit.
"But that's not a bad idea, maybe I'll consider it!" She added, nodding he head up and down and up and down and up and down....ohhhhh, getting dizzy. STOP. She blinked a few times and then looked at both of them expectantly.

Delanie smiled to Lucy. "You're welcome. Don't worry about it." She looked at her Betsey Johnson watch. Eep! Was it really that time already? Looking back up to Lucy and Diggy, Dee said, "I'm really sorry, but I have to go! I'm supposed to be meeting a friend! I'll see you two later, okay? And I will Tweet you! It was nice to meet you both!" Turning on her Louis Vuitton heels, she walked quickly back to the castle. She was late!