Kurumi arched an eyebrow. Was Jezz...taking a jab at her with the melting comment? She knew it wasn't to be malicious, because Jezz didn't have a mean bone in her body that she knew of, so she smiled and stuck her tongue out. "Yeah...like what I always do." Kurumi could have pretended to be hurt by the comment but, meh, it wasn't that important and she was far to focused on this thimble work at the moment.

While Jezz worked on her next arrangement, Kurumi traced tight but delicate circles over her last thimble. "Floreneo," she whispered, and the thimble took on a very odd shape that looked more like the a small black lamp. Kurumi recognized it, however, as being the same as the one in the middle of the coffee table at her home back in Japan. "I think...I am going to use this one for an arrangement for the study tables in the common room," she mused mostly to herself. "Or maybe on the table by the fireplace." Kurumi often sat in the chair there to read.

Before she began arranging flowers in this vase, she heard Jezz suggest a place for her previous one. "Hmm...maybe by the hour glasses." Not that she really wanted to go near them to see just how far behind Gryffindor was this term. *sigh*

Picking up more flowers than usual this time, Kurumi began to put some into the vase, shifting things around and sprinkling water in it now and again until she was finished with her third and final arrangement. Thankfully, Kurumi had planned things out well and had left no left over flowers and leaves, so Professor Bentley could sleep well knowing that none of her, erm, babies had gone to waste.

"So...I suppose our common room will be the last stop on our trip dropping off these arrangements, where shall we go to first? I need...the Great Hall...staff table perhaps, and the common room."

Jezz laughed and stacked her three vases in her basket so that she could easily transport them. "At least you can be semi prepared for you things to melt. Who knows what could happen to my stuff. Maybe some more bouncing balls or something crazy like that."

She shifted a little thinking about the hour glasses. She almost felt like a failure. She hasn't pushed herself hard enough but things would be different from here on out. She looked at Kurumi's last vase and smiled. "Well I need to go to Professor Bentley's office, the kitchens near the Hufflepuff's and then I'll place one outside of the Gryffindor common room." She had it all mapped out. "So how about we meet back up in the common room. I have some things I need to talk to you about that I haven't talked to anyone about."

Kurumi giggled and set her third arrangement off to the side. How was she going to carry all three of these things around without breaking them? Meh, she supposed she would be able to figure that out once she actually started carrying them. Live and learn as it were. As long as she didn't drop and shatter one of the vases she was a happy lion.

"Alright," Kurumi nodded, feeling a little bit concerned about just what it was Jezz had to share. It sounded like something serious and Kurumi just hoped that she would be able to give some sort of advice despite not being in any sort of state to give it. "I'll meet you there then, the common room I mean."

Dusting off her uniform's skirt and putting away any supplies that she had borrowed, Kurumi very carefully balanced all three of her flower arrangements in her arms and made her way out of the greenhouse. "Thank you flowers," she called over her shoulder. Since, you know, they had been find enough to allow her to take some of them to use for her assignment. Off to make special deliveries we go!

Busying herself with preparations, Seren scurried around the greenhouse. Her Prefect would be here any second now.

"Right, Xavier, check... spade, check... fertilizer, check.. water's a given. Erm..." Pausing for a brief moment she considered what she could ahve forgotten, when suddenly, the answer was provided by the snappish Xavier himself.
"Treats!"

Like a woman on a mission, Seren left for the stores cupboard, she was certain she hadn't used up all of the meat scraps ffrom earlier that morning yet. Of course, she had been right. With her gloved hands, her favourite blue gloved hands at that, she collected the remaining scraps and returned to Xaviers side. It had been a while since she'd given a one on one tutorial, but it was nice to get out of the office again.

Kurumi had all but sprinted back to her common room to change and grab her Herbology equipment. She didn't literally sprint, seeing as running in the corridors was frowned upon and she still needed to set an example even IF she was in a hurry. After making sure that Walnut and her pygmy puff were not at odds with each other, Kurumi had grabbed her Herbology bag, some extra parchment and a quill, and hurried back down to the greenhouse. She nearly tripped on the frame of the door as she entered, but managed to catch herself on the handle of it before she face planted in what she assumed was dragon dung.

"I'm here, professor," she said in a slightly exhausted voice as she approached the woman and Xavier. Kurumi removed her gloves and her hand hovered over her goggles. Would she be needing those? One thing she would need, because she could feel her nose getting itchy already, was her surgical mask. Quickly slipping that over her mouth and nose, Kurumi pulled her hair out of the way so that the elastic could sit firmly on the back of her ears. She then noticed the...scraps of meat. "Are those...to distract him?"

AHA! and here she was!
Spinning on her heel, Seren turned to see a slightly exhausted looking Kurumi. Merlin! did she run here? Blinking a few times before fixing one of her bright bright happy-go-lucky smiles on the girl, Seren then clapped her gloved hands together. "Brilliant, glad you made it."
She still found it somewhat amusing that the Prefect opted to control her allergies the muggle way. Magic would have been so much easier. Nevertheless, each to their own.

"Yes, more or less... I'm assuming he's quite hungry, so it's best if he snacks on these instead on us."
Just one of those things, it was always best to feed a plant properly rather than risk losing a finger... or an arm... or more. "Ready to get going?"

Kurumi really should be used Professor Bentley's overly cheerful demeanor when it came to dangerous man eating plants. Because, you know, the whole notion of distracting the plant so that it wouldn't feed on them was, well, it was morbid.

Tugging on her mask a bit more, making sure that it was covering her nose and molded against it as best as paper and elastic could, Kurumi slipped her gloves on and pulled them up as high as they would go. Less area for Xavier to try and grab at. "I think so," she nodded. Was she ever really READY to face a hungry plant? Not really, but this guy needed a home away from the Gryffindor common room to ensure that no first years accidentally became lunch or dinner.

Was it just her? or did Kurumi seem nervous around Xavier? They'd shared a room for quite some time, surely they'd have bonded, no? Mmm, it didn't matter all too much, Seren was perfectly aware that flesh-eaters were not the most popular among magical plants.

"Good good," she answered with a nod. "First things first, we need to dig him a home." Indicating to a section of turned soil in one of the vast flowerbeds, she then extended the spade to Kurumi. "About a foot deep.. and then some, should do the trick."
Because she wasn't about to just stand there and bark orders at the girl, Seren opted to engage in some light chit chat.
"I haven't had a chance to catch up with you, did you enjoy your holiday break?"

Now that Kurumi knew what Xavier was, she felt on edge. Up until her bringing the plant to Professor Bentley's office, the thought of it being a flesh eating plant hadn't crossed her mind. He had just been an adorable little sapling that had been nearly drowned when the snow dragon of last term had appeared and some students foolishly conjuring fire to attack it. Now, well, now he could grow up to be something to eat people.

Morbid.

Kurumi accepted the spade and tucked the sleeves of her robes into her gloves so that they wouldn't get in the way. Nodding, she walked over to the flowerbed and began digging around the middle of it - too close to the edge and his roots would get cramped and everything else. It didn't take too long, it was only a foot after all, and soon Kurumi had a hole that was more around a foot and a half deep. She then took out a piece of parchment from her pocket and scribbled down some notes. "All done, professor."

Xavier hadn't eaten her while she had been digging, had he?

Stroking the Bloody-Red Roses leaves whilst Kurumi worked, Seren's mind wandered around the greenhouse, thinking of how best to approach the next lesson. Not that she hadn't planned it all out already, of course she had. Though there were always those few nagging details that drifted through your thoughts during times like these. Taking a small strip of meat, Seren held it up with her gloved finger, the meat dangling precariously in front of one of it's bright red blooms.

At a speed which surprised even her, the Rose had taken hold of the meat scrap with it's sharp thorns and swiftly directed it to a hole which opened at the centre of it's petals. Quickly snapping shut, sharp jagged teeth bloodied in the process.

It wasn't until Kurumi spoke that she realised it was time to move onto the next step. "Right, now... using the spade just loosen the soil around the edge of the pot, he'll be easier to remove that way." Otherwise the Prefect could pull at the pot for an hour.
"I'll hold on to him, you just worry about getting that pot off."
Staring at the bright red mass of petals, Seren was pleased that she was holding onto the meat scraps, she rather wanted to keep her nose. She got a firm grip on the bushling as she lifted it from the ground, her gloved fingers conscious of the sharp thorns.

Woah, wait, what? Kurumi needed to stick what where? That meant getting close to the plant, yes? Kurumi had sort of scolded it earlier that morning for having Walnut's tail in its mouth and teething on it. Xavier hadn't actually tried to eat it, it really looked like an infant trying to deal with the weird sensation of having teeth grow in. "Professor," Kurumi asked as she took a small step closer and and slowly inserted the spade into the soil nearest her. "Do Bloody Red Roses...teethe?" Xavier was still, erm, young in terms of plant years and it was sort of interesting to perhaps be able to compare plant species to humans. Creepy, but interesting. "I only ask because that is what he seemed to be doing this morning...with Walnut's tail."

Working delicately, Kurumi moved the spade up and down against the rim of the pot, working into the soil and, hopefully, not hitting any of its roots. She didn't want to think about what Xavier would do to herself or Professor Bentley. Those meat scraps probably wouldn't be as appealing. Once she had made her way all the way around, Kurumi placed her right hand on the pot and pulled...only to find that it didn't budge at all.

Fudgesicle.

So...back around she went, this time pushing the spade so that it forced the dirt to move inwards and away from the edge. That SHOULD have made it easier, yes? And back to tugging she went. *tug tug tug* This time it WAS moving slowly downwards. Just a little more...

The bushling was tiring her arms out a little more than she had expected it to, then again that was likely her fault for not busying herself enough over the winter months. Nodding, and with some skillful handiwork, Seren fed the Rose another strip of meat. "Of course they do," she replied smiling, "even plants need to get their teeth from somewhere." Being germinated with them was a scary thought. "Some develop more quickly than others, the Bloody-Red Rose develops reasonably quickly, though the teeth remain fairly sensitive until the reach adolescence."

Holding Xavier firmly but with great care, Seren waited as Kurumi attempted to remove the pot. No such luck it seemed. Poor Xavier, his roots must be so uncomfortable.

Relaxing her grip slightly as Kurumi loosened the soil around the edge of the pot once more, she allowed her gloved fingers to run gently along a few of Xavier's leaves. "That's it, give it a good tug," she encouraged as Kurumi gave it another shot.

Kurumi continued to pull and tug on the pot as Professor Bentley spoke. "Does that mean that there are...plant pacifiers?" Or chew toys? Great, thanks Professor Bentley. Now you had your prefect thinking about plants like babies or pets. Not that Kurumi thought poorly of plants. She did enjoy Herbology and it was one of her favorite subjects after Care of Magical Creatures and Transgifuration, but it was still sort of odd to think of them in that light. Just ignore how quickly she had taken to calling her metal egg by name and thinking it was actually a living thing last term. "Or does the gnawing on raw meet accomplish that?"

More little tidbits for her to write down and remember...once she removed this bloody pot that is.

Upon hearing Professor Bentley's instructions to 'give it a good tug,' Kurumi took a deep breath and flexed her arm muscles. 1...2...3! She pulled down hard and toppled over backwards as the pot came free. She SHOULD have been embarrassed about this, but she was more relieved that she had been able to remove the pot. How many Gryffindors did it take to replant a Bloody Rose? She was sure there was some sort of punch line waiting to be written for that one.

"Depends which way you look at it..." she answered, trailing off.
Pacifiers for plants... now there was an interesting marketing concept, not that it would work, generally speaking. "They'll use whatever they can get their teeth on. Be it meat, an object, a fellow plant or your cat... they will find a way to accomplish the task. Meat is usually their first preference, sort of like killing two birds with one stone if you know what I mean." Was one way of putting it. A lot of flesh-eating trees in particular tended to annihilate anything it attempted to teethe on. They were little darlings though, in their own way.

Again, Kurumi tugged, this time finally freeing Xavier's roots. "You alright?" she asked with a light chuckle as she peered at her flyingPrefect.

Did Professor Bentley realize just HOW ironic what she was saying was? You know, with the whole KILLING phrase in there. Because, if a bird just happened to be flying by and the plant got a hold on it to gnaw on and what not...then it would literally be killing two birds or more. "I see," she nodded with just a little hint of nervousness in her tone. Another plant? Wasn't that technically cannibalism?

Now on the ground, Kurumi pushed herself up and dusted her robes off just a bit. "I'm alright," she replied with a small giggle.

Bouncing Blueberries!

... She wasn't scaring her own Prefect was she? Why was it that students seemed to clam up at the idea of flesh eating plants and their ... habit to feed. Really weren't humans just as bad? Killing for food, even if it wasn't as gruesomely done, the end result was the same. Death.

It was merely the circle of life. The way things ought to be.

"Good good, you'll be fine." Because clearly she wasn't going to let anything happen. Xavier was going to have to get used to this new arranged diet, instead of indulging in the hunt.
"Now before he place him in the hole, you need to just shake out his roots so he can breathe a little easier."

Nodding once again, Kurumi double and triple checked that her gloves were on properly before she reached out for the plant's roots. Xavier squirmed a little under her touch, and it made her wonder whether or not the plant was ticklish or agitated by the whole ordeal. The prefect decided to go with ticklish to help her calm her nerves that Xavier might decide her small nose looked like something to grab on to. Gently, Kurumi began to massage the roots, loosening the soil around them and removing any excess soil. He did look sort of funny with that pot shaped mass of dirt attached to him, but it was gone now.

"Do we need to add any fertalizer into the hole first?" she asked, feeling a little less nervous around the plant now that it seemed like he was ticklish. Everything had its weakness, even flesh eating plants.

Now that Xavier wasn't so restricted he seemed to relax a little. And by relax, he didn't seem as cranky and grabby, snappy as before. "Good job," she said watching the prefect massage the excess soil off the roots. Seren was fairly certain that Xavier appreciated the gesture.

"Just a light sprinkle as we'll be adding a bit more afterward. Check the moisture of the soil first though, if its too dry you'll need to sprinkle a bit of water in there as well." Plants did not like dry homes at all. It would be the equivalent of being told to sleep on dry grass. Not a comfortable experience.

Bowing her head slightly in appreciated for the praise, Kurumi turned her attention to the hole she had dug earlier and removed the glove on her right hand to poke around in the soil. That was the best way to test for dryness, right?

Hmmm...it seemed a little too dry, so Kurumi removed her wand from her pocket. "Aquamenti," she said, waving it around slightly to sprinkle the dirt with some water and then added a bit of fertilizer. That should do it.

Slipping her glove back on, Kurumi kind-of-sort-of reached her hands out for the plant, only it wasn't too obvious. Or maybe it was. "Just set him in then?"

Seren continued to watch as Kurumi worked. It was so nice having a one on one... it was easier. Why couldn't ALL the students work like this, but in sync? Perhaps that was something to work on.

"Yep, tuck him in, just watch for the thorns, they're rather sharp."
She held the bushling out to Kurumi with one hand, using her free hand to tempt it with another snack. It wouldn't do either of them any good if it decided to snack on the Gryffindors hair, that would be rather awkward.

Xavier DID tug on Kurumi's hair when she accepted the plant, gnawing on it a bit but quickly spitting it out when it saw the fresh meat being offered to him by the Herbology professor. SO much better than hair! Kurumi had sort of just froze when he had gone for her hair. Sudden movements were bad when this sort of thing happened, right?

And thank goodness for dragonhide gloves as Xavier wrapped one of his vine-leaf-whatevers around her arm. As gently as she could, she plopped the plant into the hole and attempted to remove her arm from his grasp, which was proving to be sort of difficult since he didn't want to let go. "Um, professor, can I have one of those meat scraps?" she ask with a surprising calmness in her tone.

Aaaaawww look at that, they were bonding! Seren grinned brightly, folding her arms across her chest and continued to observe the lovely interaction before her. Xavier knew who his mummy was, he was being rather gentle in his movements, not just simply lashing out as they often did.

"Of course you may," she replied, unfolding her arms and handing over the last two scraps. "He seems to like you," she added, not being able to resist. He was like a little child, holding onto his mother, such a sweetheart.

Kennedy made his way to the greenhouse without a word to anyone. His mood was just too foul to speak to anyone. That and he feared that he might take out his frustration on anyone who poked him the wrong way. It was all Wayne's fault. He was still refusing to call him father. That man didn't deserve that title. Especially with what he was doing now. It made Kennedy feel like running.

Running didn't sound like a bad idea, but then...that would be the cowards way out. Just like his father had chosen all those years ago.

The boy shook his head. This wasn't the time nor place to be thinking of such things. He went to get a few utensils he'd be needing. Then he glanced around.

What flowers seemed most appealing?

Well, all of them did. Even the ones most would say weren't "pretty". His eyes landed on white lilies and it reminded him of a certain red head. With a ghostly smile, he made his way toward them. Kennedy gently took the stem in between his index finger, and thumb and with his free hand he positioned the clipper blades so that the stem was in the center.

Clip. Clip. Clip.

After gathering enough lilies for to vases he stood up straight. He wanted a bit of variety. So, he walked over to the daisies. Those were his mom's favorite, so those will do. He clipped a few and made sure they were comfortably laying on his arm.

Time to do some flower arranging.

Kurumi took the scraps with her free hand and sort of just looked at Professor Bentley when she commented further. Liked her? Well, she supposed that was true, but not in the manner that the professor's tone implied. Kurumi was pretty sure that Xavier wanted to do a different sort of bonding with her than she was comfortable doing.

Dangling the piece of meat in front of the plant, it became distracted long enough for her to pull her arm free and push some of the dirt back into the hole to keep him in place. "I just hope he remembers that fact when he gets bigger," she said, finally responding to Professor Bentley's comment. Like, you know, when he was big enough to devour people big.

Alyssa entered the greenhouse intending to do her regular pruning and cleaning. But then she noticed Professor Bentley and Kurumi working on something and so decided to give them some privacy. 'I might as well go check on my fireseed plant while I'm here,'Alyssa thought to herself, so she made her way further in to the darkest section of the greenhouse where the pots of fireseeds plants were growing. She patted the Ivy. "Hello Wasima. How are you doing? Thank you for keeping this place nice and dark. Alyssa whispered to the Ivy. She then walked over to the darkest region of the greenhouse until she found her pot with her name written on it.

Alyssa quickly put on her dragonhide gloves and then picked up her plant. Her plant looked like it was flourishing beautifully. Alyssa then tested its soil and noticed that it was a little on the dry side and needed some watering. So she placed the pot on the workstation and went over the supplies cupboard and brought out a watering can. She took out her wand and pointed it into the watering can and said "Aguamenti" filling the watering can with water. Once the can was filled she said, "Finite" to end the spell. She then put on her goggles and prepared to warm up the water.

Pointing her wand inside the watering can, Alyssa rotated her wrist and making a circular motion with her wand, she traced a circle inside the watering can and said "Chaundensis" to heat up the water. She waited until the water started to bubble and steam was rising from the water, before she holstered her wand again.

Picking up the watering can with both hands, she slowly brought it over to the pot. She lifted up the watering can and poured a small amount of water on the soil covering the fire seed. She took great care that she only poured enough to moisten the soil because she didn't want to drown the seed. Once she determined that the soil was sufficiently moist, she lay the watering can down onto the ground.

She examined the fireseed plant and removed any dead leaves from the soil, before placing the pot back into the darkest area of the greenhouse. Making sure that her pot was safe, she then returned to the supplies cupboard and took out a broom, a dust pan and a bucket and carried them to the mddle of the greenhouse. She picked up the broom and started sweeping up the ground. As she swept, she took great care to avoid any of the other pots of fireseed plants growing in the darkness. Once she had swept up all of the dirt, she swept up the pile of dirt into her dust pan and then emptied the contents into the bucket. She picked up the bucket and carried it outside the greenhouse and poured the dirt onto the compost pile.

She then carried the bucket back into the greenhouse where she had worked earlier and placed it down next to the watering can, and the dust pan. Taking out her wand she cleaned all the tools saying "Scourgify". She then returned all the tools back into the tools cupboard before making her way to the front of the greenhouse and out the door.