... and the SCREAMING reconvened as if Neptune had never stopped. She hadn't, actually. There were only little breaks in the one syllable screech for her to take little gasping breaths.

Raiden was so glad he didn't still have the kitty ears. The screams would've deafened him, he was sure. As it was, he could hear a slight ringing sound, and he winced before grabbing for Neptune's shoulder.

"STOP STOP STOP IT'S OKAY, STOP," he yelped. How... how did you get a small child to stop crying?! Raiden vaguely remembered his mum giving Shiro a big squishy hug and not letting the kid go until he'd stopped... hmm. Maybe? He'd try that. "Neptuuuuuuuuune stop!"

He tugged on her again. GIVE US HUGS.

Lina went to cover her ears, wincing at the sound of the screaming, to find that they had... moved? She blinked a little and reached up, finding cat ears instead. "What?! How did--" She held up the candy she had been eating and frowed. "Dang it, wrong bag..." She'd had no intention of using them on herself, and so never came up with an antidote. Dang it. It would figure. Whatever... She tucked the candy away while muttering and tried holding the new ears down to block out Neptune's screaming. "If you don't stop, I'm silencing you again!" she tried to yell over the screaming. Of course, she could barely hear herself.

Neptune's control of her own body was SO off. Nothing was working as it should She would have HAPPILY gone to Raiden for him to pick her up and FIX HER (because he was a Prefect for a reason: to fix THINGS), when he tugged on her she just.... fell over again.


"I want my MOMMA! Or the Headmaster!"

Merlin, have mercy. Neptune was on the ground again and Raiden just wanted to go hide until this was all over, because surely it was only a nightmare. Tugging on her again, he managed to get one short arm around her and squished her.

"Calm down. Calm down, it's okay," he mumbled, patting her back. "Don't cry, we'll... we'll go to the nurse and she'll figure out what happened and it'll be okay."

This was totally hypocritical, seeing as how he still had tear marks all over his face and his eyelashes were all stuck together and wet. But... well. Neptune was far louder than he. Completely different.

Yeep! No! She scratched her head lightly, looking at them like they'd both gone insane. "Ano~ Guys..." She pulled a few vials from her pocket and looked each of them over. Finally selecting a calming draught (and deciding against something more potent) she walked over and held it up. "Rai, calming draught. Either Neptune should take it, or... Well, she's going to take it."

"IT IS NOT OKAY!!!!" Neptune screeched and clawed at Raiden. She was sort of torn between letting him help her and running away from his freaky little version of himself. Cute, but freaky.


But to reiterate - IT WAS NOT OKAY.


And when Lina approached, Neptune's SCREAMS returned and this time she sounded more like someone was KILLING her. Lina, EVIL GIRL, probably WAS trying to kill them. First she'd incapacitated then, NOW she was going to FINISH THEM.


"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The difference between this situation and the one with Shiro and Raiden's mum was... well... his mum was significantly bigger than Shiro. Raiden, however... was now only a few inches taller than Neptune, and definitely not in any position to contain the flailing.

So when Neptune started clawing, Raiden let out a yelp of pain and almost let go.

"Neptune you have to CALM DOWN this isn't going to help ANYTHING." His little arms attempted to squeeze harder, to keep her from going all crazy. More than anything he wanted to let go and cover his ears, because she was screaming again and his hearing was never going to recover from that... "You're right, it's NOT OKAY but it's GOING TO BE, WE WILL FIX IT."

He could barely hear himself over her. The calming draught Lina had was forgotten, as... well Raiden didn't have a hand with which to take it. And he kinda wanted to cry again, because her clawing had huuuuuuuuurt and he was still freaked out himself.

Lina rolled her eyes then walked closer, wincing as she couldn't block out the sound of the screams. Frustrated further, she pulled her wand again. "Silencio!" Quiet Neptune! "... Kill you?" An eerie coldness entered her voice. "Dear girl, if I wanted to kill you, you would be dead already. Besides, I'm not willing to waste my Hogwarts career on something like you." Neptune was terrified of her! Oh, it was so hard not to smile. And laugh. She tucked her wand away again and knelt. "Raiden, if you could manage to hold her down, I can try to get her to drink some of this. Hopefully she'll calm down enough that we can discuss this."

Neptune was decidedly giving up and admitting defeat. She was little, she was dying, her throat HURT from the screaming and this was THE END.


So, she was gonna play dead.



She'd NOT be taking any Lina-brewed potion though, REGARDLESS of whether or not she was dead. NO. SHE. WOULDN'T!


Neptune hugged Raiden one last time and then let the Baby!Bott dead show begin. She became noodlely and limp, save for the BIG tears that were consistently falling down her cheeks.

"Linaaaaa," Raiden whined. "Don't do that, it's not helping."

That being... the whole 'I could've killed you already' thing. Surely that wasn't going to help ANYONE. Raiden held onto Neptune, even after she'd gone all limp and stopped any movement whatsoever.

Well. This felt awfully familiar. Had... had she fainted?

"Neptune?"

It was decidedly harder to shake someone with this tiny body, he realised. Raiden's bottom lip jutted out and he gave a half-hearted wiggle, trying to get her to move.

"Whaaat?" She sighed. Well, at least she wasn't screaming. "Okay, now that rat bot is dead..." Oh, maybe that would provoke a response! No no, not yet. "She's fine, Raiden. You both are. I'm sure this will all wear off in an hour or so." She sat down next to him shaking her head. "Wish you hadn't met me yet?"

"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.

Barry had decided there was no immenent threat. Apart from the crying girl, who he recognised as Raidens girlfriend it was all well. There was the ears sprouting out of Raiden which looked cute on his five year old head. But nothing to worry about. He looked over to Georgie to see what she thought. He felt bad for messing up their date. "Do you want to go?" he asked only for her sake.

But it was kind of amusing watching the little babys talk knowing who they really were. They had forgotten he was there which was al-right with him. But Raidens girlfriend was still whining. "You want a hug" he asked awkwardly opening his arms

His mother's birthday was coming up and he wanted to do something special for her. He wasn't into buying things like his sister Paris. But he could make something for his mom. And that was where he found himself wondering around in the gardens.

He had a bucket from the student shed with a spade and a pocket full of Tiger Lily seeds. They were his mother's favorite and he knew he would have the best present of all. Diggy was swinging his bucket and looking for a good spot to plant his flowers.

His thoughts wandered over to Natasha and he felt his cheeks flush as he thought of her smile, maybe he would do something special for her too. His dad was always doing special things for his mom so maybe thats how you made a girl fall in love with her. He made up his mind as he found the perfect spot for his flowers.

Delanie wandered around the student garden with no direction. She was bored, had nothing to do and had run out of books to read. So she decided to go exploring, but wasn't having much fun. Sigh.

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.

Lucy McLean was running. Why? Because she thought she had lost her Pygmy Puff, Bubbles. And because she had closed her eyes while running silly girl she ran head straight into someone--a girl to be exact. As Lucy collided with her, she quickly opened her eyes and looked down. "Hehe, whoops!! Sorry, didn't see you there," She said sheepishly and got up, dusting off her clothes. Then she looked back down at the girl, forgetting her manners. "Oh, my bad," She said and then extended a hand to her so she could help her up. Hmm, she was quite pretty.

He wasn't looking where he was going he just intent on getting the perfect spot before anyone else did and he ran smack right into a group of people. He teetered for a minute before regaining his balance. He looked up at, "I'm sorry." he said noticing for the first time that he had ran into two girls. "I wasn't looking where I was going." he explained. His face burned with embarrassment as he looked at the two girls hoping they weren't going to bit his head off.

The next thing Dee knew was BOOM! Someone had slammed into her and she had fell to the ground. Immediately she was seeing spots. Oi! She had just gotten out of the hospital wing! And now she thought that she might have to go back. "Oww," she whimpered. That hurt! She looked up at the red-headed girl. She moved fast! Already the girl was standing up, holding out a hand for her. "Um, it's okay," she said awkwardly, standing up and brushing off her very expensive Dolce and Gabbana pants. Oh no. There was a hole in the knee! Trying not to be frustrated-it was an accident, after all-she whipped out her wand and fixed the hole.

And just as the hole patched itself, she was hit AGAIN! For sparkle's sake! This time she held her balance by grabbing onto the other girl's shoulder. Looking over to who hit her, she couldn't be mad at the boy. He was such a cute little thing! "It's okay," she assured him. "We all have her clumsy moments."

Looking to both the strangers, Dee smiled and said, "I'm Delanie. Delanie Chanel." Why not be friendly? Even if she was a little depressed her pants had gotten messed up, she was able to fix them and was going to be nice about it.

He looked at both girls properly. "Dolce and Gabban," he said looking at the girl who fell to the ground's pants. His sister had the same pair of pants, though she had them last year.

He held out his hand, "I'm really sorry about that. I'm Dillon Greenwood. People call me Diggy." He explained. She looked very posh for a Hogwarts student, she must some money. He thought.

Just after Lucy helped the girl up, though, someone ELSE had bumped into them! But rather than falling to the ground, Lucy was help upright because the girl was holding onto her shoulder. "Phew!" She said as she finally stood up right and looked at the kid who had bumped into them.
"It's okay, I'm clumsy all the time...I mean, hi! I'm Lucy McLean," She said to both of them, as they were doing introductions now anyway. Cute kid. And then she noticed Delanie's pants because Diggy was talking about them.
"Oh my gosh, Dolce and Gabbana?! I love their stuff!" Lucy squealed and then admired her pants. "Especially your pants!" She added with a grin. Sigh. Oh, how she loved shopping.

Delanie nodded. The kid had known what type of pants he was wearing! Oh, glitter. He was adorable; she wanted to pinch his cheeks! She was a sucker for the younger students. They were all so cute to her! Taking his hand and shaking it, she replied, "It's quite alright, Diggy. Nice to meet you!" She beamed at him, her blue-gray eyes sparkling as her smile reached her eyes. And her dimples were showing, too. Mercy!

She turned to Lucy, who was now squealing. Oh jeez; this girl had more energy then Dee did, and she was, like, the QUEEN of energy. She blinked a few times, trying to adjust to the sound and smiled. The girl looked familiar... where had Lanie seen her before? Probably Twitter. "Chanel is my favorite couture house, and not because that's my last name," she said. "Nice to meet you, Lucy. You look very familiar..." Oh well. She stuck her hand out for the other girl to shake.

Lucy giggled a bit when Delanie talked to Diggy--she had forgotten what was like to be young. Well, not that she wasn't young anymore. She had just turned 16, but still.
When she turned to her, though, Lucy smiled. "Ah, my mum is a sucker for Chanel," She said, nodding her head. That's probably where Lucy got her eye for fashion from. And her dad made her love all kind of animals. Taking her hand and shaking it, Lucy narrowed her eyes a bit at her. "Hmm. Wait--are you friends with Torin Kane? And are you...on Twitter a lot?" She said. Something in her memory made it seem like she knew Delanie, too. Weird.

Diggy took a pace back from the girl. It was like she was turning on the high beams of her car. The smile and the dimples were a bit blinding. Did this girl graduate from the Paris School of Charm or something? Dillon smiled in return. He hadn't seen so many teeth since his sister had been on the cover of Potioneers Society. "Nice to meet you too." he said as he shook her hand.

He nodded, "My mom and my sister Paris are like huge Chanel fans, and its my sister Willow's middle name. They buy tons of Chanel stuff every year." His sister even had a replica Chanel closet at home. It was all blah to Diggy.

He turned to the other girl that he had ran into. "I'm sorry about running into you," he wanted to make sure he apologized to each girl. He did have manners. "Diggy Greenwood." he held out his hand for her to shake as well.