Hmmm... the Booky Nook...

Salander strolled lazily into the Library. He looked around slightly amazed, given that it was his first time to even enter the scholarly halls. In fact, if not for this rendezvous, he doubt he'd ever set foot in this area at all.

He spotted the potential cohort by the large windows. "Hey there Hailey! A little... preoccupied now are we?" he smirked.

"Sorry I took so long." Jimmy had actually been distracted, in his usual way, by a pretty girl, even as he was on his way to see another one. Hailey in this case. But, he'd showed up hadn't he? Yes he had. With the usual crooked grin firmly in place. He loosened his tie as he approached and shot a cursory glance at the stained glass windows. Cursory and dismissive. Attention went to Hailey instead.

"I brought candy." He told her, offering some chocolate truffles and gummy worms from a little bag. "This is the part where I say something charming about how you're sweet enough without them though."

He nodded a greeting and smiled at Salander too. The guy was alright in Jim's books. "'sup." Went with the manly greeting there. "Help yourself." He indicated the candy supply.

Once a familiar voice was heard, a smirk grew slightly on Hailey's lips; of course it was going to look suspicious to be talking to a Slytherin guy alone but she didn't care, what needed to be discussed could only be spoken here where she hoped that no prying ears heard.

"I'm always preoccupied Salander, you should know that a brilliant mind such as myself is always trying to come up with the next best thing to wow these students." she put her hands behind her back for the moment, looking around the area to see if there were any unwanted visitors about.

Just as Hailey was about to discuss her new idea with Salander, she noticed Jimmy appear and tried not to break her concentration as he was speaking to her, at least the people that she wanted to speak with, not exactly at the same time however, were just in the same area. It was definitely beneficial to her future endeavors to have both of the boys around, even though her trust level for both of them was still less than it normally would be.

Candy? Of course that piqued the girl's interest since she hadn't managed to escape the school yet but that was only due to some brilliant ideas. "You don't need to say something like that though Jimmy, cheesy lines will not work on me because I don't need this turning into some 1990s romantic movie." She took a little of the candy then fixed her robes slightly seeing as there was no way that she was going to be seen with wrinkles in her Slytherin robes.

Salander's smirk grew into a mischievous grin. "Mighty fine words there Hailey...." he started, then turned to see them joined by Jimmy. He returned the nod to his wing-man and politely shook his hand at the offered sweets. "Oh no thank you, I just.... brushed my teeth." Which technically was true, after the rather gnarly lesson of DADA, he squeaked every inch of himself clean, but Salander just really wasnt much of a sweet tooth.

"And thats why I didn't say it. You got enough romance from me already." Jim answered, supremely unconcerned, but adding a standard Jimmy-style grin. James S. Wilkes was not concerned about wrinkles in his robes. They were clean and pressed and all those other things that came from bribing house elves to pick up after him. Jimmy himself appeared to have been scrubbed and showered quite recently himself. His hair was still damp. Aside from the untucked shirt and the loosened tie, he actually looked quite presentable.

"Suit yourself." James answered, looking for a patch of wall to lean on, or a comfortable seat to lounge upon.

He tossed one of the truffles in the air and caught it with his mouth, attention back on Hailey.

Okay time for random conversation is over, Hailey wanted to get right down to business since she wasn't exactly sure how much time they would all have before other people decided to show up. She rearranged her face to make herself look more serious, then ate the truffle before she started talking; no need to be talking with food in your mouth, that was immensely impolite and disgusting.

"As much as I'd love to speak with you two about other things, I've got something of a more pressing matter that needs to be discussed; as you Salander know, I devised and built a 6 foot ramp out of snow and ice near the Front Gate. That was surely a feat to make people talk but I'm looking for accomplices who can help me, you might ask why this might be beneficial to you; well I'm after making a name for myself and power, anyone associated with me shall be known." she said, before putting her hands behind her back once more.

Grayson felt much better after getting every last bit of ick from the DADA lesson off of herself, even though she figured most of the others had been way worse off than she'd been. Somehow she'd managed to stay reasonably unscathed, which she attributed to her wily ability at avoiding things. Not that she really equated the food fight with getting out of trouble, but somehow it worked. And not having half-separated frosting covering one hand, and the vestiges of green potatoes in her hair was better than the other possibility. Now she needed to retrieve her school bag from back down in the DADA classroom, but for some reason she got distracted halfway down, at the library. And she detoured to investigate.

Nearing the stained glass windows, she heard voices and a calculating look crossed her face. Almost mischievous, but a bit more, well, knowing. Plots were afoot, and she wanted to be involved. She just had to hope the talkers wouldn't shut her out. Coming closer, she registered who it was, and a quick grin flickered across her expression. "Hi Hailey," she said to the girl she'd met down by the front gate, then turned the grin on the boys. "Jimmy, Salander." But she turned back to Hailey. Had she really heard the word accomplices? 'Cause that sounded pretty awesome. And sneaky, but mostly awesome.

He raised his brows at the Slytherin girl's proposition. He was just about to speak when he shifted his head towards the familiar voice that just joined them. "Grayson!" he smiled. For some reason he wasnt surprised seeing her interested in their little discussion group. If anything, he expected it, if her stunt by the stairs was anything to go by.

He shifted his attention back at Hailey and started "You have a more whack out idea than a six foot ice ramp?" he grinned and a devilish glint in his eye, "What exactly do you have in mind?"

D'aaaaaaw. Hailey was adorable when she was all SRS BZNS. James grinned quietly to himself, but listened attentively enough. He kept himself entertained by occasionally tossing a piece of candy in the air and catching it in his mouth.

He winked at Grayson when she joined them and offered the bag of candy with pantomime. The question at hand was, would he offer to be the brains, the brawn or the beauty in this operation?

Clearly James Sacheverell Wilkes had the chops for all three, but which was most pay off, least effort?

As she finished speaking of her whole accomplices idea, Hailey noticed Grayson walking over to the group and a sudden light bulb went off in her head; since the girl was more than willing enough to help her with the ramp, it gave the Slytherin the impression that she had found another helper for her brilliant plans. "Ah perfect timing Grayson, I was just telling Jimmy and Salander about my idea for accomplices to assist me with my future plans; interested?" she was about to direct her attention to her new plan however there were other things that needed to be brought up.

She smirked slightly at Salander's reaction to what she had said about having bigger ideas other than the ramp. "Of course I do, that ramp was only a little preview for my future ideas. I can't tell you hear what my next idea is for this is a rather open area, prying ears will listen in and thwart my plans." Well of course she had a meeting area for things like this where she hoped that no one would interrupt them.

In sudden realization, her gathering was now consisting of two Slytherins and two Ravenclaws; one of the best alliances possible since you could combine in this school. As she thought of that, her eyes scanned around and looked at Jimmy for a second before grinning slightly. She knew that he definitely would be helpful to her, it was just a matter of how.

Grayson had grinned again as Salander noticed her. She already knew from experience he was useful in awesome sneaky situations, so him in tandem with Hailey and Jimmy just helped convince her even more of how she wanted to be involved in whatever was going on. She apparently already had the reputation, anyway. And she didn't want to change that, because it was way too much fun. She bit back a giggle, though, at Jimmy's greeting. Ooh, candy. Glancing into the bag, she selected a truffle then graced him with a smile. Seemed they were being quiet now. Waiting for what was next.

So she turned back to Hailey, nomming on the chocolate, as the other girl responded to her arrival. "Count me in. Totally," she said, swallowing the last of the truffle. She didn't even care what the plan was. The ramp was cool, so anything else Hailey had planned would be the same. And besides, she'd wanted to get involved in things again ever since she got back. It was hard being on her own. So she nodded seriously as Hailey kept speaking. Awesome plans totally needed secret locations to discuss. She almost suggested the RoR, as that was what her and Raven had used last term. But then, everyone seemed to know about there, so it was useless to mention. Hailey had the plan, so she'd let her lead until she had valid suggestions.

It wasn't safe around here to talk about anything around here since Hailey had an idea that there were others around, call her slightly paranoid however she didn't want anything that she was saying to fall into the wrong hands cause it would spell the end of present and future plans and she wasn't about to let that happen.

Once Grayson said that she was in with the whole accomplice thing, she nodded then looked at the window for a second before deciding what the next move was going to be; obviously the best idea at this point was to relocate to an area that was convenient for her. "Alright, since we don't have much time here before people realize we're up to something so; I would like you all to meet me down in the Dungeon Corridor, at like 5pm only because I don't want to be wandering around the school too late without a good reason." Hopefully there wasn't going to be a problem with that.

"Except thats really far away from our dorm." Jim pointed out, gesturing at Grayson "And would be wandering around late for no good reason for us. Suspicious even. It only leads to the Slytherin common room and the detention block, right? So what would a Ravenclaw," He made a face at the name, "be doing down there except something shifty?"

He tossed another truffle in the air and ate it.

Once Jimmy spoke, Hailey raised her eyebrow slightly at him; she wasn't about to reason however she had to strictly for the point that these people were to be her accomplices eventually. "Well do you have a better idea? Cause I'll make an exception regarding the meeting place." she put her hands back at her sides for the moment and waited to see if anyone had a better idea.

Trying to make her truffle last as long as possible, Grayson had simply listened as Hailey had gone on to name a meeting place. It hadn't even occurred to her that there could be an issue, since as far as she was concerned, they were going to do something shifty. And awesome. But shifty, so it hadn't occurred to her that they would try to look otherwise. Which was odd, considering she prided herself on her ability to remain out of trouble. So to speak. But when Jimmy had spoken, she glanced over at him."That's true. But isn't curfew like ten oclock or something? If we can't get back up to the dorm by then, we have more issues than just looking suspicious," she pointed out. Not to mention the oddity of the two of them being out past curfew together, given the tendency for gossip. Not that she usually thought about that stuff, although now it made her wonder if she could manage to get snuck into the Hufflepuff common room if they were out past curfew down there. Best friend in the House and all.

But she glanced back at Hailey as she'd responded. Other options? She'd had one. "Um, well, I don't know if it really helps, cause it sort of would be a problem for you guys, but last term I used the Room of Requirement for a lot of planning and stuff," she said. Including when she'd been protesting Potions classes and teaching herself. "Unless anyone knows an abandoned classroom or anything like halfway between." She certainly didn't, although she occasionally wondered about the secret passages that had been around ages ago. Most of them had been collapsed, though, that she knew of. Not to mention she didn't think they wanted to wait for exploration before they had their official meeting.

Salander shifted his eyes from Hailey to Grayson to Jimmy. Then his eyes drifted around the silent hall before returning back to the Slytherin girl "I dunno watcha have to worry about Hailey, anybody else here are too busy studying or asleep. Besides, isnt there some kind of soundproofing-charm to make sure we arent overheard? Muffin-waffle whatever...."

The lad sighed. He slid his eyes at Jimmy and raised a brow, the "Well thennnn..... if you want to have some kind of super secret spy room and the Dungeons are too far for poster boy here, then maybe we can just go to one of the other stuffy rooms-- the armory? the suits or armor? even the trophy room? " the he looked at Grayson when she suggested the RoR "... or there, specially if we have to build anything and we have to hide it temporarily."

"Muffliato." Jim supplied with a snort. "I have one better than that." He paused and dug into his pocket, then pulled out what looked like a sneakoscope, except a little... different. He tossed it to Hailey. "For you, sweets.Consider it a gift."

He threw himself into one of the comfy chairs, feet up all casual-like. "I tinkered with it." He explained. "It works like a regular sneakoscope, only backwards." He paused. Did they.... get what he meant? "It'll whistle if anyone is paying attention to anything... they shouldn't be." So. Instead of whistling if someone was being sneaky near them, it'd whistle if someone noticed them being sneaky.

"I suppose Grayson and I can always pretend like we're just looking for somewhere to snog." James added lightly, watching Hailey as he said this and recalling a bit of snogging with her. It'd been a pretty good date really.

Hailey looked at the sneakoscope and smirked slightly, this definitely would be useful to her and it would cut down on her being distracted from the plans that she was supposed to be coming up with it. "Well thank you Jimmy." she completely was oblivious to fact that he had called her sweets but it didn't really matter now.

Once she heard his next comment, a slight crimson tinge etched into her cheeks and she raised her eyebrow slightly. "I... I'm sure you could get away with that reason.." Yes it was official, Hailey St. James was blushing and she was slightly embarrassed that it had to come about while she was trying to focus on the big picture.

As soon as Grayson had finished speaking, it seemed like Salander had felt it necessary to add his two cents. Swallowing the last of her truffle, she'd turned her attention to him with a faint grin on her face. "You never know who might be listening," she pointed out. "Even if they look like they're studying or whatever. They could still be paying attention to us." Not to mention there was the librarian, too. She imagined they could always try to pass their meeting up as something for a class, but that would involve whoever caught them not having actually heard them. And before she could assist the Slytherin with the correct spell, since of course she knew that one, Jimmy had. So apparently her input wasn't needed there. She did know the spell, though.

But he'd gone on to pull out a sneakoscope and throw it to Hailey, talking about what he'd done to it and everything. And her interest was piqued, eyes lighting up even more than they already had been. "That sounds awesome," she said, "How'd you manage to figure . . ." Her question trailed off as she heard his next musing, and she blinked, eyes widening a little. Well, yeah. That could work, if they found they needed an excuse for being out wherever they decided to meet. But she'd never really thought about that, not really. Not the excuse part, what was actually said. As Hailey spoke again, though, she turned her head to look at the other girl. To see her blushing. Hmm, she thought. Maybe something had happened like her and Fin in Diagon Alley, except Hailey and Jimmy. As long as it didn't hurt whatever plan they were going to be working on.

Vlad frowned slightly and started counting off languages on his fingers. "Vell... there's English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Finnish, Norwegian... and... alot more. I just alvays foound lagvages easy to remember, vhere as magic and magical theory, I had to vork very hard on."

The young man smiled at Savannah. "I came to read, of course," he chuckled. He'd been expecting her to say the same thing, only say what she was reading for, and then he'd have replied with his own answer. "Just some private study. I've actually been here a few times to look up about Dark Magic, but the hassle was ridiculous."

Hmph.

"Don't you have... exams at the end of the year. I vould have thought you were here to study."

Mainly because that's ALL Vlad did. Well... used to do.

Finn really couldn't help but be annoyed at her Brother. It wasn't fair for him to make her cry like that, and then not even bother to hug her or anything. He didn't like it, and he didn't like seeing her crying either. When they got to the library, he headed for the stained glass windows, he hoped that they'd maybe distract her a little, because he really didn't want to see her crying again.

He stopped walking, and looked down at her, smiling. "Do you want to talk about it?" He would fully understand if she didn't and it was totally up to her, but he knew that sometimes talking about stuff helped.

Lexi plopped down in a chair and sobbed quietly with her face in her hands. She just needed to get it out. Once she felt like she was all done crying she looked up at Finn as she sniffled a bit. "He is just... We can't have a conversation without him making me angry. He told me he punched Sabel in the face. We talked about my not coming home over the holidays and he didn't seem to care that I was so ill. It was just... I don't get it," she said in little more than a whisper. "I wonder if he really cares sometimes," she said quieter still.

She really did seem so upset, and Finlay really didn't know what to do. He normally was the cause of girls being upset, it was weird being on this side. He needed Jim...he'd know what to do. Finn knelt down beside her, taking one of her hands. "He's a toss pot." Yeah...that was totally his new saying. She was spaking really quiet, and it did worry him. "I think that he does care about you." Of course he would he was her brother. "But I'd stay away from him....if he keeps upsetting you like this."

Lexi wiped her face with the sleeve of her robes again. This was turning out to be a dreadful term for sure. Lexi blinked at Finn when he said she should stay away from Dylan. "How am I supposed to stay away from him. He's my brother. We have to go home sometimes and he will be there. So will the rest of them," she said with a little wibble. She was really starting to think maybe she should go home to the Kennedy's. She just seemed to be hurting the Denvers so badly. "He has a funny way of showing me that he cares sometimes, you know," she said with a sniffle.

Finn sighed, getting up off the floor, and sitting in a chair opposite her. "I meant while you are at School Lex..." He said, looking at his hands. He was scared he'd just upset her more. "I hate to see you crying Lex..." Hence why he had found himself wanting to punch Dylan. Thankfully he had been able to resist the urge. He leant back in the chair, sliding it down a little. He didn't really know what to say to here. "Boys are weird with there feelings Lex." He would know....he was a boy. He smiled at her. She wouldn't cry anymore would she?