Lorcan managed not to growl with frustration. He had been expecting an answer like that. Keeping his voice as level as he could, which wasn't easy since he was almost carrying Lexi. He considered offering her a piggy back ride back to her tower, but decided that it was a bad idea.

"All right, how about this? We'll go to Gryffindor tower and you can have a shower and wash your hair. That might help you feel a bit... fresher?" He gripped her tightly as she slumped against him so that he wouldn't drop her.

"And then you can see how you feel and if you want to go and see Mr Kapoor and Headmaster Tate, then I'll go with you. If that's what you want. I'll wait in the corridor for you and if you decide to go to bed and talk to them in the morning, then we can do that instead. I'll do what you want."

He knew that she was scared, she was hurt and she was going to dig her heels in because she was stubborn. All he could do was be their incase she fell over.

Alexa felt like a child about to go into a tantrum. "I don't want to shower, I don't want to wash my hair.. I want to know what happened to me, Nems. I want to know who or what hurt me!" she said in a bratty little tone. She would have stamped her foot and crossed her arms across her chest had they been stationery.

Sighing in defeat though she said, "Fine... get me to my tower and I will decide from there."

Lorcan couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at her. Alexandra Kennedy didn't want to wash half of the Forbidden Forest out of her hair?? "Lexi, don't take this the wrong way but if you turn up looking like that they'll send you straight back to bed and you won't get any answers. Plus I'll probably cop it for helping you get there."

He slowed to a stop for a moment, still holding on to her. "I just want you to be safe Lexi. You're my... best friend and I just want you to be alright. So what ever you want to do, we'll do it."

He plodded on, supporting her as he went.

Alexa wanted to snap back something about his obvious jab at the state she was in but she couldn't. She knew she looked a hot mess so she couldn't argue with him. "Did Sabel ever go to the Headmaster? He needs to know that there are more like me up here," she asked, not caring if he got agitated withher for bringing him up.

She felt the Strengthening Potion start to cousre through her veins as they moved so she could actually hold a bit more of her own weight as they walked. "You are my best friend also, Lorcan. Hopefully we will all be safe soon enough... right now I think we are all in trouble," she said gravely.

Lorcan rubbed his hand over his face. He knew that she was annoyed with him for making her go clean up. "I dunno where he went but Mr. Kapoor told him to and he ran off. I think he would have."

"I know that we're all in trouble Lexi, but I want you to be strong again and then we can look after each other." He felt that they were going to be better off that way.

"Right," Wesley said, taking his expression as interested (and not willing to let the conversation steer of course). "But it's not working for you. You're tired. You should try a journal."

Yes. Yes he should.

"Hmmmmm," she mused to herself, tapping an index finger against her chin as she pretended to thing about it.

"Here!" Wesley suddenly chirped, as though she'd just had an idea, "How 'bout you borrow mine." Before he could say no, she had the leather bound Arithmancy notebook out of her bag and was holding it out before him.

"You can write everything down that's troubling you, and if it works, you can give it back to me and get your own. If it doesn't, you can still give it back. You can't loose."

"Umm... okay..." Carter said sitting down on the floor of the corridor near the wall.

"So how exactly does one of these things work? I just write down what I'm thinking?" he asked holding the journal at arm's length and then flipping it over a few times.

Crouching on her haunches next to the boy, Wesley grinned, unable to contain her excitement. "Yup. Write down everything. It'll organize all your ideas and make things clearer."

Then, giving a fake yawn, the Hufflepuff stood, pulling her bag up with her and slinging it over a shoulder. "I've got to go to my next class, but you try it out."

"Umm... alright..." Carter said flipping through. "See you." he said as she left. He continued flipping. He found some rather interesting stuff. Stuff that he was there for.

Violet stormed to the corrider and walked back and forth with her arms crossed waiting for Lina.

Lina was sighing as she walked out into the corridor, closing the door behind her. "What the heck were you thinking?" she asked as she grabbed the girl's arm. "No, wait, nevermind. We're not taking here. You're coming with me." With that, she dragged the girl off to the nearby trophy room.

Alexa reached that corridor after escaping the Headmaster Tatertot's wrath. Maahahahahah! *clears throat* She needed to find Samuel and help him. Gah! Where did he run to? She was a kid... he was like old... he can't have gotten too far could he have? SHe ran off giggling madly as she tried to find Samuel.

Mina glanced around the corner as she stepped into the corridor. She needed to get away from that voice. No, it was telling her to stop protecting Samuel. Stepping fully into the corridor, she gripped her wand tightly. Where was he? Hearing a faint giggling, she smirked to herself. That direction was where she was going now.

Alexa heard someone step into the corridor and stopped giggling. She spun around and held her wand aloft until she saw it was Mina. She smiled the last time she had seen her she was passed out somewhere. *whistle* "Hey, Mina. Come on, let's go," she called out to her as she waited impatiently for the girl to catch up.

Hearing the whistle, Mina looked up and saw it was Alexa. She smirked and ran toward the girl, the last time she had seen her she had HUGE feet. "Where is Samuel?"

Alexa grinned as Mina came running toward her. It seemed that they were the only ones that got away from the Tater's interruption. SHe smiled and said, "I don't know... I need to rest for a moment though"

Mina nodded and leans over a bit. "We can rest a little, but we don't have long. Those meddlers will be right behind us." she said. they would try to talk them out of protecting Samuel. They would try to stop them. "They tried to tell me Ravenclaws stick together. Ha, what is that supposed to mean?" she laughed as she took a breathe.

Alexa leaned over placing her hands on her knees and taking deep breaths. Gah it was difficult fighting an entire school really...

She snorted when she heard what the girl said, "Gah I can only imagine what they wopuld have said to me! Alexa, you are a nice girl... we play quidditch together.. blah blah blah." SHe giggled madly again. "Don't they understand we have a job to do and they area only getting in our way?!" she huffed as she stood up straight.

"YOu're right, we need to move to the next floor. They'll be after us soon," she said to the girl as she started to walk.

Mina snarled slightly as she thought of the words they had said to her. Did they think that mere words would stop them for the goal. they really didn't know them well if they thought they were easily swayed like that.

"Yes, onward." she nodded as she stayed in step with Alexa. They couldn't let them catch up to them and meddle more.

Ivory raced up to the third floor landing and cast trip jinxes on every available spot.
On the flight of stairs that led up to the fourth floor, she made sure to cast Glisseo.

They were not going to be following the Boss man anytime soon, not on her watch.

She'd been just about to go back to the second floor when she thought of something and smiled evily.

Aiming the fiery tip of her wand at the bottom of stairs that led to the fourth floor, she concentrated on thinking of flowers."Orchideous!" Roses with large thorns appeared before her as if they were growing from the top step.

"Engorgio!"

Her smile widened triumphantly as the roses grew to large proportions, the thorns large and deadly looking.

And now for the piece de resistance.

"Geminio!Geminio!Geminio!Geminio!Geminio!Geminio!G eminio"

With a final little flourish, Ivory examined the wild growth of thorny roses, then swung her leg over the banister and slid her way down to the second floor.

OOC, for Sarah, Kay and Brody

Lorelai squealed excessively as a bunch of HUGE roses and thorns decided to block their way. Right, now. They were flowers, and she had totally done this reversal thing in Transfiguration. Totally. Nodding her head, she flicked her wand once more, "Reverto!" Sighing a sigh of relief as the turned into little seeds on the stairs, Lori brushed them away swiftly with her feet and pulled Brody up infront of her.

MAANNN, that spell hadn't gotten rid of all of the flowers, which totally sucked. Frown. Brody and Sarah could have a go now. Yeeeah.

"Next lot of things are yours! She half shouted, as she glanced behind them. "GOGOGOGO! They're coming up behinddddd!"

Sprinting up the stairs, she suddenly found herself tripping and landing face forward. She fell? But she never falls! What the-

"What is THAT?!" she said, looking up from the ground to the stairs leading up to the fourth floor. "Is that supposed to be what the surprise is?"

HUGE thorns on the flowers. And the others! They were getting away! Dangit. Standing up, she quickly pointed her wand at the flowers, well actually now they were seeds, smiling as the girl just stuck the spell straight into her mind. That girl was smart. "Reverto!" she said, and the flowers were back! There was some serious thorn action going on there.

That has got to hurt if one of them fell on them. Eeesh. Good idea though. In the next second, she sent a trip jinx up to where the others were running, not caring who it hit, but hoping it would hit one of them.

Ivory rushed up the stairs her bloody matted air streaming behind her, observing how up ahead someone had reverted her thorned roses leading up to the fourth floor to little seedlings. No matter her fellow defender had fixed it.

Seeing the band of students attempting to rush onto the fourth floor staircase, she smiled hoping her earlier casted trip Jinxes and Glisseo on the staircase leading to the fourth floor would be enough to pause them for a few seconds.

"Stupefy!Incarcerous! Impedimenta!" A flurry of spells flew from her wand as her legs brought her closer to her opponents.

Running in a haphazard zigzag pattern to avoid being hit by anything, she brought up her shield as she rushed them.

Up Up Up. Eeep. Roses, and huge thorns. Okay Brody totally needed an eye test because she did not see that until one of the nice thorns gauged at her robes. "Ouch." Not nice. She pouted at the flowers. How dare they hurt her. "Reverto." She pointed her wand at them, hoping that at least some of them would disappear, so that they could get through.
"Come on guys." Woot. They were through, but so where some of those annoying people.

"Oi. Not so fast." Because that was totally unfair. "Stupefy!" She shouted, pointing her wand straight at Ivory, hoping that she would get her, because the n they could get after Miranda. They needed to save her. Oh, and now the floor had glisseno on again. Fun times.

Barry ran up the stairs, behind Evelyn that freaky girl who had made him all happy, no that was her friend. Ehh. He hated remembering it. Barry just wasn`t that nice. He`d gone red when Georgie had told him why he`d been acting weird. Hopefully everyone would forget.

He saw Kay, Sarah, Brody and some other girl up ahead. Why was he the only guy here? Where were the others? The girls were dealing with the obsticles he`d just have to keep up. He didn`t even know what was going on. But Evelyn had made more roses so he pointed his wand at Evylyn and muttered "Expelliamus" Suprise attack! But why was she stopping them?