Aileen heard a familiar voice. "Gabrielle?" she turned around and her face lit up. "It's really you!" she left the girl she had been talking to and went to Gabrielle and hugged her. "Hey, how are you?"

Gabrielle turned and saw his friend from childhood - "Aileen! It really you? I'm fine and you?" Gabrielle, meanwhile, have done their job...

"I'm fine, too." nodded Aileen and when she saw Gabrielle started preparing for cooking, she said. "So what are we going to cook? You know that I have never cooked in my life so I won't be able to help you much." she laughed.

Gabrielle smiled and said, "I heard that some cooks Muggles subdivided disgust, called it spinach, let's try it!" she said

"OK!I've heard of that. My mum even does this at home sometimes. It's the green stuff. What do we have to do?" said Aileen enthusiastically and looked at Gabrielle.

She knew that her friend is not so excited by this, because she disliked Muggles, but Aileen was determined to show her that Muggle things are not so bad.

Alcemee smiled at the Slytherin and replied, "Hi. Yes, of course you can join me. I don't know much about cooking either, but I know some. What recipe did you bring?"

Legend slowly entered the room, his eyes gazing down on the ground. Looking up slightly he noticed Katie, Mat and Free Willy all at a work station. Picking up his pace he walked right over and dropped his bag on the ground. Giving an small nod to William and Mat he focused back on the Professor.

“Hello Kay. It’s good to see you and ah I see you have brought your recipes. Good. Very good.”

“Hey Gold” Lawson replied giving the Prefect a warm smile, “We had a great summer. How about you?”

“Hello Madison. Please have a seat while we wait.”

“I am good Arya and how is yourself?” he asked as he wondered over to her table and peered over her shoulder to have a look at her recipe book.

“Hello Sophia. Why don’t you find a work station and have a seat while we wait for the others.” He gave her a smile before turning to the next student.


“Hey, how you doing Rhea?”

Well it was finally good to see some guys in here. Lawson was starting to get a bit worried that none of the male population was going to show. “Good to see you here guys.”


He nodded at Evelyn as she entered the room and tried very hard to keep the smirk off his face.

Lawson gave the next few students a nod and a broad smile as they entered the room.

And then he spotted Destiny and Marcus could not help but burst into laughter the moment he saw her apron. “I do hope that is just a joke” he said as he passed her table still chuckling. “Oh and two points for being prepared” he called over his shoulder as he moved to the next table.

“Hey Mina. It’s nice to see you.”


Lawson raised an eyebrow as Marie entered the room. She was definitely one person he had not been expecting to see participating in this club. The girl had never made it a secret that she wasn't keen on him or his classes, a bit like Evelyn and Destiny actually. Maybe she was here to torment him like the other two.

"Nice to see you Marie" he said knowing full well that would earn him a sneer.

"Hey Evan" Lawson called giving the boy a wave.

"Heya Cedric, good of you to come mate."

"Hello Amy. You won't be needing those right now" he said pointing to the quill and parchment.

Lawson nodded to the young ravenclaw as she walked into the room.

"Hey there Wesley" he greeted back with the same amount of enthusiasm.

Lawson smiled at the next three students, his excitement growing as more and more students arrived. "Hey there Katie, Mat and William. I am so glad that you all could make it."

"Hey there and welcome." Marcus gave the young girl a warm smile before he turned to the next student.

"Hello there, glad you could make it."

"Hey Daniel, I am doing good" he said rocking backing on his feet and grinning broadly at the Gryffindor.

"Well it's very nice to meet you too Katherine." Lawson gave the young girl a huge smile, it was nice to see such an energetic and polite person. "And yes we will be cooking whatever we want."


Marcus nodded at Legend as he made his way over to one of the work tables.

Looking out over the students, Lawson's gaze rested on the three Slytherin girls and he chuckled under his breath. "Evelyn and Destiny no one is forcing you to stay here. If you wish to leave then there is the door." He looked at Evelyn for a moment longer knowing full well she wouldn't leave not if she wanted that candy re-created that is.

"And Marie, I would just like to see you try and punch me in the nose." Lawson raised his eyebrow at her before turning his attention back to the rest of the students.

"Welcome to all of you. Now as you can see for our first muggle activity we will be cooking...muggle style. Now as eager as you all are to get started, I think we need to familarise ourselves with our surroundings. So have a look on your workstation and check out all the utensils."


ooc: Okay so first off I realise that there is a charms class running and you are doing cooking in there as well. Just remember that charms and muggle studies will be two different styles.

Secondly your work station contains all the usual kitchen utensils. If your character doesn't know what something is, link a picture in your post and Lawson will explain what it is.

Glancing up from searching through her bag, Katie smiled brightly at the Gryffindor. He seemed happy for a chance, it was refreshing! Though.. she had learned from experience by now, that could also mean he had eaten chocolate. Oh well, at least he was being his old-self. "Hey Mat. Because I'm the girl, and you boys.. are boys." the girl in the group, of course. It made perfect sense to her.

Returning her eyes to her task, Katie made a face and gave up for a moment, hearing William's voice very close. "So Mat says," She nodded to agree, because.. it was true, of course. Swiping back a curl that had gotten loose of her ponytail, the Hufflepuff put her hands on her hips. Her expression was one of playfulness, "I have two hyper boys and-" Katie paused, noticing Legend's appearance, she raised an eyebrow. "-a grumpy one? Hey Legend."

"I have a question for you guys," Katie announced, taking her bag from the countertop and moved it, along with Legend's, out of the way. "Does anyone have any thoughts on what we should make? A certain recipe, or anything? Because I think Professor Lawson is having us choose what we make, and if we are, we might want to start thinking about that now."

The fourth year went quiet as Professor Lawson addressed the club, focusing her attention on what he said. Then turned back to her the boys, adding, "And do as Professor Lawson said: explore the work station. Have any of you had.. any kind of kitchen experience before?" WHY did that seem so very doubtful to her?

As a thought came to her, Katie twirled around and raised her hand for politeness before asking, "Professor, it is alright if we work in groups, right?"

Why couldn't Katie ever shut up or leave him alone. Legend's green eyes glared at the Hufflepuff. GLARE. GLARE. Maybe she would get the point that she needed to STOP insulting him and shut up? Maybe? Reaching into his pocket he took out the familiar notepad and a Muggle pencil. Shut it. He wrote on the paper and showed her.

Food? Food? What about MACARONI!!!! That was the best food ever. However Legend KNEW that Katie would say SOMETHING mean about it. It was Katie how could she not? What was the next best thing to Macaroni and cheese? Spaghetti and Meatballs- or....just spaghetti and tomato sauce. He wrote down under his last sentence. Katie didn't eat meat. Weirdo veggie person.

Leaning agaisnt the workstation he wrote one last note threw the pad at Katie and then crossed his arms. Why was she all OHH IM SOOO SMART IM IN CHARGE. ALL the time? The last note was simple it only had five words. I can cook. And right underneath it it said: You suck

Oh no!

Evelyn had said something that really made Destiny cringe. Kicking the Professor. Okay, so it was a known fact the she really did not like Lawson, and yeah, she would like to kick him sometimes, but that kick from last term was not something she wanted to think about at the moment. "No, I don't think she should kick him. Just stick to the original plan!" Whatever that was. Did they even have a plan? Too late for that now, though. At any moment the Professor was going to grow wings and leap onto the three of them. Wait a moment! Aliens don't have wings! Silly.

Looking back at the Lawson minion, Destiny couldn't help but laugh. "Ask him to leave? Are you CRAZY!? He is going to EAT us!" He wouldn't let them leave. "Hey, what are you making there anyway?" she asked as she saw him taste whatever was in his bowl. It was probably some type of gravy that Lawson liked to pour onto the children he eats.

And then the Lawsonator spoke! About her apron! "No, sir. It is not a joke. I haven't washed my hands yet and I probably won't either." Perhaps he wouldn't eat her if he knows she was dirty. And wait! He gave her..points! HAHA! In yo' face everyone! Destiny knew she was special for being the ONLY one wearing an apron! She couldn't help but wonder if he would have given out more points if she wore a chef hat, too. Next time, for sure!

Now that she had points, there was no way she was leaving. Lawson was giving out housepoints, and she WANTED MORE! "I think I'll stay now." she said giving Evelyn a glare that told her to sit down too. Taking her cookbook off Marie, Destiny sat down at a work station and found the recipe she was going to work on. She snickered at Lawson's comment to Marie, and turned to face her other Slytherin friend, "And stomp on his toes." she whispered, then gave a quick thumbs up. Classic!

Destiny was pretty familiar with all the utensils set before her. She had used them all at least once and was sure she knew what they all did. Picking up a wooden stirring spoon, she held it above her head, "This is a SPOON!"

Original plan? What was the original plan? Either Marie was going to play dead, or she was going to kick the Professor! Whichever came first that is. But...

Wait, what did that one guy say? Well they couldn't do what he said NOW! It would be quite obvious to know if they wanted to leave if they did all of that. Glancing around at everyone, Evelyn frowned before standing up straight again and looking utterly...embarrassed bored.

Pssh. This was all a trick. First, he practically made her come to the club, and now, he's showing her to the door. Confusing! At least he didn't have the little human with him this time. That was one little plus side to all of this, and actually made it more bearable.

She stood still in her spot, staring at the Professor for a few more moments, even though Destiny already left to go sit back down at the workstation, and debated whether or not she should...just go. But, that wouldn't happen. Sighing, and with a defeated posture, Evelyn dragged her feet back over to the workstation and plopped herself down on a seat.

"Well done genius." she mumbled to Destiny before laying her head down on the counter before a muffle voice could be heard. "This...is a table."

Just in case people didn't realize that fact either.

"I'm well Professor." She said, slowly flipping throught the desserts. Those were the easy ones to cook right? "Sir Lawson.....I have a question." She paused to glance over some brownies. "I think I wanna make fudge brownies. But like, you can't have fudge brownies without a drink right? So I think while there cooking...baking, I wanna make a drink of some sort as well. Can I do that?" She stoped her flipping and glanced over her shoulder at Lawson.


Glancing away from her book, she looked over to all the dingdongs and whohas. She recognized many of them and even knew what some where used for, the others she didn't pay much attention to. All that she needed she to use, she sorta kinda knew how to use.

Marie was still trying to convince herself that it was a good idea to join this club when Man Lawson said it was nice to see her. Glaring at him with one eyebrow raised she thouht, 'Well of course it's nice to see me,' evereyone thought it was nice to see her... everyone except... no, she wasn't going to think about him right now, even though he was just across the room with Mina.

Marie was still trying to convince Destiny and Evelyn to stay when Evelyn said she should kick Lawson. Yes, that was an idea. She could stomp on his foot, punch him in the nose, then kick him when he was down. She started to giggle a little as she thought about how she would be able to pull that off when...

WHAT!?

Lawson was telling Destiny and Evelyn they could leave? No they can not leave, Marie won't let them. She was not about to stay in this club without them here now. NO WAY! NO HOW! How would she have fun if they weren't in class?

Crud!

He heard her say that? How could he have heard her when she whispered to Destiny? Did all these professors have super sonic hearing or something?

'I bet you'd like to see me try it... so you can throw me out of your little club here,' she thought. Like she would want to punch him now that he knew she was going to do it anyway. Pffft, what fun would that be?

But wait... he didn't say anything about stomping on his foot. Did that mean he didn't hear her say that? Hmmm, she would have to wait for just the right time to hurt that foot of his, but she had lots of time, she could wait. He still had that coming for tricking Evelyn into coming to this ittle club of his.,, not to mention he was still the one responsible for making Evan leave last term.

Ooohhh, that deserved a stomp on the other foot alone. Making her boyfriend leave like that. He probably told Evan not to write to her too.

Glaring at Lawson, Marie went back to her work station next to Destiny and Evelyn, who had decided to stay. Yes, she was now on a mission... stomp on Lawson's foot.... and if she gets away with it then she will stomp on the other foot, you know, just to make sure he knew she meant business.

Nymphy was a bit firmiliar with cooking. His uncle was never good, so fresh food was his responsibility. He took a shot in the dark!

Nymphy raised his hand. "Professor.... Isn't this a whisk? or a whisckyer or something?" he said. He probably sounded stupid but at least he was trying.

"Ooooooo.... and this is a laddle! I'm sure of it!!!!!!!!" he exclaimed.

"Could have been better, sir."

Gold was fine now, though. Which was exactly why she beamed at Professor Lawson, before letting him attend to the next student. Well, not attend. More like greet. How nice of him.

Cuuute.

Gold quickly sorted through the stuff, on her own workstation. There was much of the usual, and some stuff she didn't recognize. Where was Mr. T? She needed her Baker Extraordinaire.

She looked around the classroom, wondering if he was here. He had to be, he couldn't miss a club like that.

Or cooking, you know.

He didn't know if the professor was talking to him or someone else. It was always better to stay perfectly still in the situations. Any movements and the you would be left out in the open. A tasty meal for the predator professor. He was still replaying that horrible potions lesson over and over in his mind. It was making him paranoid. "Err. um...yes..thank you.." he sputtered. At least he said something.

He relaxed when the professor moved on to talk to the other students. That was always a good thing. He wasn't going to be eaten then. This was going to be good, he thought. Learning how to cook. That was good. Food was good.

Dillon looked up. Muggle cooking? Epp!! That was dangerous. He didn't even think his dad simply cooked the muggle way.

He was going to lose his eyebrows for sure. He raised his hand, "Um professor do we have eyebrow insurance?" he asked meekly.

"I am making Fudge Brownies," he replied returning his attention to his mixture after hearing from Professor Lawson, "you are more than welcome to help if you like." He grinned, his greens eyes staring through his perfectly messy fringe.
"And see, look you are allowed to go if you want", joking aside, Patroclus could help but smile at these girls, there were quite fun to be around.

Aileen smiled at the girl and said. "Oh, I've already joined my friend here. But you can join us. This is my friend Gabrielle. And I'm Aileen. Unfortunately I didn't bring any recipe, because I don't know anything about cooking, but Gabrielle said we could make something with spinach. It's the green stuff and I think it's quite good." she explained to the girl and then she listened to the professor.

Oh, this will be difficult. Aileen began to rummage through the utensils."Ok, this is a spoon and this is a saucepan. But what are the others?" she turned questioningly at the girls.

Maddie did as the prffessor said and looked at all her utensils. She dug around in her bag and put on her cute little apron. She made a quick list in her head of all the utensils in her drawers, and set out the recipe on the little cookbook stand she'd brought. This cake had better taste as good as Mrs Cavendish's.

Saucepan
Wooden Spoons
Cutlery
Whisk
Kitchen Knives
Mixing Bowls
Mechanic Beater
Oven... durhh
Scales
Plates

Gabrielle smiled and looked at Aileen "I'll look into the books on what we need ..." Gabrielle, meanwhile, looked aa said, "Well, let's do it?" she said

Daniel raised his hand and said, "professor, is there anything I can do to assist you in our first Project." he said reminding him of their agreement to help.

He wanted to participate in the tasks but his will to help overcomes them.

Selena could help but giggle a bit when she heard that someone needed insurance for their eyebrows. Was there even such thing?

Selena glanced at Maddie's work station. She had put on an apron and set out a book. "So what do you plan on making?" Selena asked a bit curiously.

Celandine peeked around the doorframe, her expression unusually timid. Cooking wasn't something she had any knack for whatsoever. One time she helped make a salad and stood near an oven while there was a cake in there...

... the thing was she didn't know there was a cake in there and the salad part all she'd done was shred lettuce and wash it.

She chewed her lip as she glanced around. Was this a bad idea? Should she just... tiptoe away?

Maddie showed her the chocolate fudge cake recipe
'It's a chocolate fudge cake' she said 'My cook, Mrs Cavendish, used to make it all the time... I hope the recipe works. What are you making?'