"But what if that one doesn't open, and the praying doesn't work AND your not dreaming?" She shot back just as cheerfully, pulling out another candy wand. "Do the people jumping with you just watch you fall to your death or does somebody jump after you? And what if their parachute doesn't open? What if no one's parachute opens. Does it become an endless cycle of people jumping out planes trying to save the others?" Arya looked up at the professor with bright eyes as she stuffed more candy into her mouth.

She had ignored all the insignificant details about the sport, she would never jump from a plane or building anyway. All her questions stemed from her innocent curiosity......and the candy. "New York City. Do people jump there? Or how about Los Angeles oooor the Grand Canyon? Do they jump over water? " Now that she would do, still not from a plane though. Not knowing much about quidditch, she let the other answers pass without more questions. "ADD, what's that? Is it like a timer that's set to go off when you jump from the plane incase you like.....pass out or forget to pull the parachute open?" She began to rock on her bean bag, still looking up at the professor waiting for more answers. All this suger was really starting to get to the girl.

She sucked on the wand for a moment, giggling at his question. "It tasssste like strawberries. Mmmmmm, want one?" She pulled another liquorice wand out of her pocket and waved it about for him to take. Or not...she didn't care, more for her.

Fallon sat in the class and listened as the Gryffindor talked about sky diving. She had heard about it, but thought that people that did it were just crazy. Like insane. Her attention was dragged away from the lesson by Student Lawson, who had just consumed a huge amount of chocolate. Fallon knew that every student that went now was in BIG trouble. She couldn't help but feel a little more nervous about her presentation now. She giggled as Student Lawson started to roll around the floor in laughter. She eventually was able to control herself so that she could pay attention.

Mmhmm, she was totally making a mental note of all of this. Since, for one, her writing hand was still stuck to the stupid hammer, and two, she was definitely going to try this. Leaning closer to her friend, Evelyn giggled quietly before speaking. "We should soooo go and try this sky falling thing with brooms."

Now that she thought about it, was it possible to apparate in the middle of the air? So like, they almost hit the ground and then, BOOM! Apparated somewhere else! She would've definitely have asked the professor Lars dude, buut he was talking about the abc's or something like that.

"Will do, Professor." she muttered, smiling slightly as she heard his last request. Pfft, yea right. He'd be the second to try it. She was doing it first!

Pshaw!

Destiny KNEW, she just KNEW she wouldn't make a good skydancer. One, she didn't know how to dance, and TWO, she couldn't even ride a broom fast and this Professor Guy wanted her to DROP from the sky at this crazy FAST speed?

No way.

"Mmhmm, parsleyshoots, that's what I said!" she grinned, since she knew what she was talking about and all. She wasn't really paying much attention to what he was saying about how heavy these things were. She didn't need to know the answer, since she wasn't going to ever wear one. They'd probably give her a ugly blue one..

Destiny's eyes widened when the Professor Guy answered her second question. The answer was NOT at all what she expected and she was soooo glad she was wrong! "TEN bags of CANDY!? Can WE ALL go into the forbidden forest RIGHT now and look for people in TREES!?"

She wanted this candy.


Oh no!

Evelyn was crazy! Wanting to do this extremely rebellious thing. "Do you have a parsleyshoot!?" she asked, wondering WHY Evelyn never showed it to her. Some friend, eh? "Buuuuut, if YOU want to do it, I'll go to the Astronomy Tower with you and WATCH! I could warn you if there are trees nearby. No..wait..I'll want your candy so I won't warn you."

Candy comes before friendship.

Just kidding.

"NO!" Jake yelled, a huge grin on his face.

Hehe, so fun.

He only wanted fun in the class.

And... the boy didn't have a clue what they were learning.

Rawrr.

Why in the world would she have a parselyshooter?

Unless Destiny was talking about those parashoes... Which she didn't have either. Who needed one of those when you had a broom! Mwaha!

"Oh c'mon Destiny. It'll be fun!" YUSH! Jumping off the Astronomy tower with nothing but a broom! Perhaps they should put a cushioning charm on the ground below first though or something. SOMETHING where they wouldn't die if she miscalculated. Otherwise, she was blaming the Professor Lars dude.

Completely missing what Destiny said about candy, Evelyn glanced around for a moment before she finally spotted the professor.

"Profeeeessssooooorrrrrr!" she whispered loudly, waving at him to get his attention. Yush! Look at her!

"Can i talk about something too? If we still have time?" Mmhmm, because she remembered seeing something a few years back and looking up information on it when her parents were at work. hehe. They still don't know.

Blink.

Blink.

Everything the Gryffindor had just spewed out of his mouth had gone in one of Axe's ear and then straight out the other.

Is this what the kids felt like when he was up there conducting a class?

"I shall take your word for it Professah Saaaaar." They were still MENTAL in his opinion but then he was afraid of heights so he wasn't going to approve either way.


Turning to look at Gold, Axe shook his head and grabbed hold of her robes. "Nooooooooo. It's dangerous I tell you. And you could die and then Gryffindor would have no awesome Prefect left and they will all be sad and won't do their homework and they'll come last for the house cup."

A little snicker left his lips as he let go of Gold's robes. He just remembered that they were already coming last best not say that out loud though.

He was still snickering as he turned his attention back to the front of the class when a figure out of the corner of his eye caught his attention and he turned his head in the direction of...

Oh crap!

"Jake don't you da-"

Too late!

Marcus was now flat on his back with a very crazy fifth year Hufflepuff on his chest. "Get...off...me" he wheezed from having the wind knocked out of him.

Looking over to Evelyn, he gave her a sort of grimace because he still had Jake on his chest.

"Of course you can." Marcus groaned from the weight of Jake and he gave Evelyn a pleading look. "Do you think you can give me a hand here? Please?"

Staring wide eyed at the scene, Evelyn did nooooooot know what to do. Jake just tackled a Professor.

....

Eh, well it was Professor Lawson.

Leaning away from the two of them, Evelyn shook her head with a look of horror and disbelief at the Professor's request. "I'm not touching him." she said, shaking her head slightly as if that would help Lawson understand that there was NO WAY she was getting anywhere near Stutters.

She might catch the stutter disease or something..."Unless I'm allowed to use magic."

"I would think the answer to that should be obvious," Xylon said. He would have taken her question lightly, even as a joke if the topic had not been so serious for him.

Okay scratch that. Because by the time she had paused to take a breath Xylon was clueless. Completely clueless. Does it become an endless cycle of jumps? "I'm sure it will if you're in charge," he said holding back a little sigh. Be nice kid, be nice. I don't want to be driven insane, I'm only seventeen. I want to surf and become a dragon-keeper and have kids.

Wait. He hadn't thought that last bit.

Merlin, tell him he hadn't!

"Yes and yes and yes," He wasn't even sure which questions he was repsonding to now. They were all a jumble in his head. "---- and I just explained what an AAD is, Miss Lovegoods." MustNotSigh. "It's a device that automatically opens a parachute container at a preset altitude or time. So to answer your question, yes. It does help if 'forget'."

Though Merlin! He knew he would pity someone who could 'forget' to pull a parachute open.

He grinned at the candy wand. "Keep it, Miss Lovegoods, I'm sure you'll enjoy an extra one." Professors didn't suck on strawberry-flavour wands in class did they?

Xylon smiled lightly.

"Good luck."

Xylon could feel Professor Lawson's pain now. To have to deal with students such as..... them. Seriously! It obviously took huge amounts of both courage and patience.

---- and the strength to resist the urge to bang your head against a wall.

"Parachute yes," he said, deciding to ignore that Destiny had mispronounced the noun once again. Then the corners of his mouth tugged up into a rare smile. Merlin needed to meet Destiny and declare that there was someone who could duel and defeat him, after all.

Because she would drive him mad with her insanity awesome.

"We can if you promise to stay silent for two whole days," he said. Pshaww. Nil. Zilch. Impossible.

Well.

That was illuminating.

"Mr. SorryButIDon'tKnowYourLastNam, you will get off Mr. Lawson right now or I will be compelled to take drastic measures." Such as the levitate the kid right off their actual Muggle Studies professor.

He doubted that Jake would listen to him but it was worth a try. No one could say then, that he hadn't warned the Huffie.

Xylon grinned.

"You had better, sir." Unless he wanted to be tortured to another lengthy explanation!

"Gryffindor would still have Chris," Gold pointed out cheerfully. She wanted Chris. For snuggles and hugs and stuff. The next part of Professor Lawson's statement, however, made her roll her eyes.

"We're already in last place," she pointed out.

Meh.

BUT! Time to get back into DA SPIRIT! Which meant, of course, that she needed to annoy Xylon. So she grabbed Jake [Gosh, had the kid actually tackled a professor? Oh well, this was Hogwarts. One could expect anything to happen] and tried to pull him off Professor Lawson. Who - the great Professor Lawson - was now on his back.

Of course, she didn't actually grab Jake. That is to say, she only pretended that she was trying to pull him off. Merlin forbid, she actually grab a boy who wasn't EliEliElii or Aaron Rose, without any warning whatsoever. Unless, of course, the boy was in danger - which Jake wasn't in - and grabbing him could help rescue him.

Sooo yes. She pretended to grab Jack, pretended that she trying to pull him off Professor Lawson, pretended to have lost her hold on him, all of a sudden, pretended to fall back because of the sudden surprise and, of course, further pretended to quickly right herself.

"I've hurt my back," Gold said, eyes round and she perched herself back on to her bean bag and did her best not to grin. She made her eyes go all wiiiiide, and stared at Xylon. "I've hurt my back, Professor Saar, sir! Call the ambulance! Call the ambulance, Professor Saar, sir!"

Yes, no hospital wing.

Since this was a Muggle Studies class.

Destiny didn't like when her questions weren't answered, and Evelyn had just ignored one. "Do. You. Have. A. ParsleyshootOrNOT!?" Unless these people that have parsleyshoots are in some secret club and the first rule of this club is not to talk about parsleyshoots.

The Professor Guy must not be part of this club, since he was talking about them.

Letting out a breath, Destiny rolled her eyes when Evelyn tried to talk her into doing this crazy and rebellious thing. "Fine, fine, fine. I'll do it, but only on one condition." she said, holding up one finger, "I get to wear a cape."

'Cause capes were AWESOME!

See? Destiny did say it right, so she had no idea why the Professor Guy was correcting her. Professor's were strange, and that was the reason she was ignoring Lawson over there getting attacked by Jake.

Strange.

She did not like the next answer given and her jaw dropped a little. "But--" she started, but remembering what he said, immediately clasped a hand over her mouth. She REALLY wanted this CANDY and would try her hardest not to talk.

Slowing removing her hand from her mouth, she raised it high in the air, and mouthed the words "How am I supposed to participate in class if I am not allowed to talk, hmmmm?"

Okay..

So unless the Professor Guy could read lips really well, he would probably have NO idea what she was trying to say.

Oh well.

Still staring wide eyed at the Professor and Jake, and Gold's rather weird attempt to get Jake OFF, Evelyn turned her head slowly towards Destiny when she heard the rather impatient question.

Why?

"Why would I have a parsleyshooter? It's called a parashoes!" Bahaha! Destiny didn't know what it was caaalllleeed! Which seemed likely, since the girl wanted to wear a cape when they went sky falling with brooms.

Woot WOOT! "Deal." she nodded, a smug smile on her face as she went back to staring at the Jake vs. Lawson wrestling match going on. That is, until the image of Destiny flying with a cape came into her mind...

Whaaaat in the world?

"You spoke," Xylon pointed out cheerfully.

Maybe a little too cheerfully. But why would he be cheerful at the prospect that she had said something out loud? It wasn't like he was worried that if she actually didn't, he might have to sneak her into the Forest after all because despite his faults (and he had many of those, most of which he found perfectly amazing) he was not the kind of guy to back out of a promise. Even if that promise led to (very certain) doom.

Then Destiny was mouthing something at him. Xylon tried to read her lips and failed spectacularly at it. "No idea what you're saying," he mouthed back at her, certain she wouldn't get what he had just. Unless she could read lips well of course.

"Parachute," Xylon corrected with a resigned sort of air, the kind that said, 'go on. Call it a poogashow if you want to. I give up.'

Why was he listening to their conversation again?

Oh yeah! Because he was the temporary professor and he could.

Mwaha.

Take deep breaths. Take deep breaths.

Xylon took a DEEP breath.

"Do you need to go to the hospital wing, Miss Laksh?" He asked. He didn't even remember what an ambulance was. He was sure he had read the word in a muggle studies textbook and equally as sure that it had something to do with hospitals but what it was, he had no idea.

Bwahahahahaha.

"Nnnope."

Jake? Get off? Why?

"Yyyyou got more chhhocolate?" the boy asked, that being his only condition to... well... do nothing. But they didn't know that.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOBODY was to help the Axe-man.

Turning to Evelyn, Jake gave her a piercing STAAAAAAAAAAAARE and shook his head sllllooooowwwwwllllyyyyy.

Nobody was to remove him.

HE WAS HAVING FUN.

"I'm fffine here, thhhanks," Jake grinned, and proceeded to kind of wrestle Lawson.

Needed sugar.

And, thinking about it, he grabbed a handful of the man's shirt, so he wouldn't be taken away. Looking back at Lawson, Jake gave him the eyes. "You wwwwouldn't let him ddddo something to mmme, would yya?"

...

CHOCKLIT!

Fallon watched in shock as some kid named Jake practically tackled Lawson. This class was just getting better and better. Of course the kid was asking for chocolate. Now Fallon wanted chocolate. She looked in her bag to see if she had anything. She almost lost hope but she found one lonely little chocolate frog near the bottom. She had just gone to Hogsmeade recently so she knew it was fresh.

Fallon pulled it out of her bag and made sure the frog didn't jump anywhere. She popped the yummy chocolate in her mouth. She didn't even look at the card. They weren't important. She turned her attention back to see that Jake was still on top of Student Lawson. Nothing will ever top this class.

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many things were happening right now, but Miranda was too busy staring into nothing and imagining the things she could talk about. Squint.

Hopefully, this wouldn't make Lawson want to take her five points for showing her brain disconnection again. Hehehe. NOT that her brain had disconnected from anything... like.

Anywho, WHAT were they talking about? Eyyy?
Looking around, she noticed the Gryffindor Prefect in need of some...medical help, was it? Jakers was attacking Lawson, and Lawson was looking like he needed help. Or something.


Meh, nothing new then.
La la lalala LaLALALALAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Xylon considered his options. He could use magic to slacken Jake's grip on Lawson. Impedimenta. Knockback jinxes. The list went on. But there was the possibility that that could go wrong. Hurt the kid or even Lawson. So Xylon raised an eyebrow.

Time to levitate Jake off the Lawsonator.

Which Xylon did.
Or at least tried to.



OOC: Leaving it to you to decide whether or not Xylon succeeds.

Patroclus had no clue what was going on!

So he decided to continue hie On-his-back-Turtle-Style Dance! Squishing into his beanbag, he began to wriggle and gig like a worm!
Destiny and her Turtles he laughed silently to himself!

Dance. Boy. Dance.

WhatinthenameofMERLIN?

"Mr. Hudson, what exactly are you doing?" Xylon asked. "I understand that my lesson has been an exciting one but, really, this is not acceptable within the classroom."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Jake yelled out, his hands clutching Lawson's shirt tightly as his feet were levitated up into the air, making him glad he had another, slim fit type, t-shirt under his school shirt.

Don't wanna be displaying the belleh.

"WWWANT CCHHHOCKLIT!"

Dude.

Seriously.

He wanted some.

If he could survive this class, Xylon was sure he could live to the ripe old age of ninety and not have a single regret in his life.

"Mr. -" Oh man why didn't he know this kid's last name? "Mr. Jake!" Because something's better than nothing, right? Possibly. "Let go of Mr. Lawson's shirt immediately!"

"I'll give you chocolate if you do," he added as an afterthought.

Best. Class. EVER.

Seriously.

Gold had not had this much fun in any other class, this term. The knowledge that she could annoy Professor Saar was awesome. "Nooooo!" She said. "I want an ambulance, Professor Saar, sir, I've hurt my back. I'm telling you I've hurt my back, Professor Saar, sir."

POUUUTTT.

She waved her hand in the air.

"Professor Saar, sir! Can you tell me what the 'A' and 'S' and 'E' in BASE Jumping REALLY mean? Professor Saar, sir!"

".... and I want an ambulance."

"Miss Laksh ma'am, I have no idea what an ambulance is. But since you do, feel free to get one for yourself."

He smiled sweetly. Until she spoke again. Come on he had just answered that question! Is this what Professor Lawson felt like when he taught? People asking questions that had already been answered!

And he knew she was doing it on purpose.

"Antennae, Spans and Earth, Miss Laksh ma'am!" he replied. MustBePatient. "Miss Laksh ma'am!"

Hehehe.

Gold was having plenty of fun, as - one look at her face and - anyone could have told. Her green eyes flicked towards Jake and Professor Lawson, wiiiiideniiinggg at Xylon's words.

"I want chocolate too, Professor Saar, sir!"

OOH. He had answered her question. Gold, swallowing another chocolate frog and looking decidedly hyper [not that she could have helped it, after all that chocolate], waved her hand in the air, again.

"But Professor Saar, sir!" Her green eyes were still wiiiide. "I don't know what antennae or spans or earth mean here, Professor Saar, sir! How do you jump from the earth, Professor Saar, sir?"

How, indeed?

Marie watched as Jake tackled Lawson. She thought she had been brave to stomp on his foot but Jake had her beat with this one... maybe. It appeared he was only trying to get chocolate while she had been trying to hurt him... not that she would do that again.

And what is it with everyone going nuts after eating chocolate?

Oh, an idea popped in her head as she watched Jake being levitated from Lawson. It seemed to be the perfect time for her to try and get that saw back from him... you know since Jake had him distracted and all.

Leaning over towards him she carefully started to pull the saw out from under him. Very slowly at first to make sure he wasn't going to feel it moving from under him... then when it seemed he didn't notice she quickly pulled it out the rest of the way...

YES!

The saw was hers again. She quickly slid it under her bottom hoping it wouldn't be seen and taken back from her.

Who would have ever thought Jake would be useful to her.