Theo was starting to dislike this game, because so far, he had gotten ALL the gross ones... just his luck really. And now he was gonna let Ella squirt water into his mouth? Did he trust her with that? Not really, but his mouth tasted gross, "Fine. Don't miss." And he opened his mouth nice and wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide....

KERplonk...

SOMETHING slimy and hard shot straight into his open mouth, and went straight to the back of his throat. Theo rose to his feet and started choking dramatically, but he managed to pull off his blindfold first. WHAT WAS GOING ON... DYING. HE WAS GOING TO DIE.

COUGH COUGH, WHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZE...

His eyes were watering and everything.

If he could speak he would be very cross.

As Asher was trying to figure out which fruit his bean was, he suddenly heard a great commotion. "What is going on?" he shouted as he pulled off his blindfold. "Excuse me, you are supposed to have your eyes covered." Asher stated, but soon realized that the boy wasn't just playing around. There seemed to be something seriously wrong with him.

Not knowing what to do, Asher started yelling "Help! Help! Help!" while pointing at the boy in distress. It was all quite overwhelming for him and Asher soon started crying at the site. Sobbing, he fell to his knees and hoped someone would help the choking boy soon.

Everything seemed to be going swimmingly and they'd even got another person to test the beans, a Slytherin it seemed. Ella didn't know her name but she got a smile cause the blonde was being friendly and such. Yup.

And then....everything went downhill

Ella was about to squirt water into a very sassy!Theo's face mouth when he started choking!

O_____o

The blonde freaked out for all of 5 seconds until Asher started yelling and sobbing and she knew that she should probably, y'know, help.

The sixteen year old got behind the boy and started giving him the Heimlich maneuver, something she'd learned from her Granddad when she was like 8.

So...he was going to live, yeah?

MEEEEEP!

Okay, everything is going on well. Theo with his water from Ella, Professor Flammy with his boss!taste buds. Hufflepuff being entertained by his Hufflepuff student leader. And... Sky, right? Yeah she was part of the Quidditch team and okay. She was fine. But then...

WHAT. WAS. HAPPENING.

?!?!

Spitting Professor. Choking teammate. Sobbing Hufflepuff. ALL OF THIS HAPPENED IN A MINUTE? REALLY? Kat did not accept the badge for this. NOPE. "Uhm... hey, dude. Can you stop crying? He'll be okay............" Kat said to the Hufflepuff whose name she did not know. Goodness she didn't want this to happen. AND ETHAN MCCARTHY WHEN ARE YOU GETTING OUT OF DETENTION?!

Then Theo. Since Ella did her heroic act of de-choking him, Kat just blinked. Was he okay now? "... Theo, are you okay now?" Do you still want a glass of water. Like... Kat could go get one right now if he needed to wash down the bean that came shooting inside his mouth. MERLIN, Dylan would be so angry if he saw all of this. Nobody was supposed to harm him Terror Twins.

Uhm... Flammy too. "Do you need a glass of water, Professor?" His face looked like whatever bean he ate made him constipated. Was everyone OKAY now?

Asher watched as the boy was saved and calmed himself down. He felt quiet silly having cried, but he didn't think he was overreacting. The boy COULD have died. Well, maybe. Either way, Asher was done with the bean challenge. He wanted out of there before more students saw his red and wet face. "Um, I don't care to play anymore. I think I want to go to bed."

He thought for a moment, then decided that he would just go and check out one of the other contests. One where none of the bean challenge students or Professors was at. "Thank you, Ella" Asher said to the kind Hufflepuff who helped both him and the choking boy.

"BANANA!" he exclaimed a few seconds after the bean had left his mouth. Three down and two more....uh?

The astronomer quickly removed his blindfold when he heard all the comotion and found his sight greeted by Miss Ella performing that muggle technique on Mr. Kinsley. Either that or she just REALLY wanted to hug him. Although judging from the look - or lack there of - from the Slytherin he was pretty sure the later was false. Besides, didn't she have a Mr. Summers to give all those hugs to? Were hugs exclusive? He did not know these things you see.

Right. PROBLEMS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE!

Wand out, Airey thrust it towards Mr. Kinsley, "Accio Bertie Bott!"

Then a glance towards the Slytherin prefect. "I'll need something with a bit more flavor than water to get that horrible taste out of my mouth."

And Mr. Stinson was leaving?! NO! He should stay and enjoy and have FUN! There were so many beans left in the cauldron and Airey was SURE there was an ice cream flavored one in there somewhere.

Theo triiiiiiied to cough it up himself, but it wasn't working, so he just flailed at everyone around him to help him out. Or they could just watch him die, PFFT.... Oh okay, Ella was helping him, which he didn't mind at all because all he wanted to do was get this bean up and then go home. Not just to dormitory home, but real home.

When was the next break? Summer?

UGHhhhhhhhhhhh..

WHHEeeEEEEZZZZE.... COUGH... Theo tried to be as still as he could when Ella performed the heimlich maneuver on him, until eventually, the bean was wedged up enough to allow him to cough. He coughed hard, almost gagging, then the bean shot out onto the table in front of him. It was all soggy and stuff, ewwwwww... The Slytherin breathed heavily in and out and rubbed the streaming sweat from his forehead.

"Can I..." Breeeeeeeathe... "...have water?" And not the kind where he had to open his mouth to retrieve it. That obviously wasn't working for him. Once he had somewhat caught his breath, his attention turned to Ella. "You saved me!" And he got up and engulfed her in the biggest hug ever.

As for Professor Flamsteed... well, he got looks, and even a soft grumble. Theo expected an apology immediately, and also an A on their next homework assignment.

Which was a small ask seeing as he tried to KILL a student and all.

Forrest was STILL hungry, but he didn't want to miss the fun, so he made his way to the challenge areas with searching eyes. He needed food and... his eyes settled on Bertie Bott's thing. He nodded to himself gravely. That was it. He quickly fished two sickles out of his pocket and inserted them hastily at the turnstile. Sweeeets, he chanted to himself and walked to it excitedly.

Now, where to begin? He didn't have a friend to compete with, did that matter much?

This. Was. A. Disaster.

Ella just continued squeezing Theo and hoping the bean came out because he just wasn't allowed to go out like this. Didn't he know that? People Ella was fond of simply weren't allowed to be in situations like this and besides, Dylish would kill Ella if one of his terror twins died at her station. Merlin's beard. Panic-y blonde captain here, okay?

Meep!

At least Kat seemed to be comforting Asher...sort of. The sixteen year old just sort of gave her completely freaked out expression and then a couple things happened.

1. Airey summoned the bean from Theo's throat...after identifying another bean correctly. Um. Yeah. ...Blink. Was he not phased by this or?

2. Theo started coughing which meant he could breathe which meant he wasn't dead and THANK MERLIN! Ella was relieved, okay? Like...SO relieved.

3. Asher was leaving. Ella didn't really blame him because he'd just witnessed a classmate choking but like...ugh. This station wasn't meant to be that frightening. Apologetic looks for you, little Asher. "I...er...you're welcome." She guessed. She'd need to find him later and make sure he wasn't too traumatized.

And then hugs. Was Kat getting him water? Ella didn't know but she squeezed the boy back and nodded, a bit dazed. "I um...I think Airey helped by summoning it but I..." She wasn't wibbling, okay? Nope. No one was seeing any wibbling. "You'renotallowedtodieever,okay?" Just saying. "Thatwasabittoofrighteningforme." Fright Fest wasn't meant to be that literal, y'know.

And...Forrest.

Ella just stared. Could they just casually carry on the competition after a near-death by choking? Err...


"Hi there." Shuffle.

Well, let's face it. This challenge was kind of a tragedy already. What could Kat do? She can't just change the bean Professor Flamsteed ate from banana to another flavour with just a flick of her wand. Now... I guess she and Ella had it under control since everything was starting to be not-so frightening.

Uhm okay.

Too bad the young Puffer left. He could've finished the challenge, but instead he didn't. Curse that choking banana bean. After things that happened, Kat just allowed him to leave.

Something with a bit more flavour? Did they have Butterbeer here or something? Juice? Maybe Flammy could be a little more specific with that he wanted exactly. "I'll go check what they have at the seating area, Professor." And no... she wasn't going to summon it because she still didn't know what drinks they had because the last time she checked, there were only mud cups and those cupcakes with gross finger thingies. Whose brilliant idea was that?

Oooooh, hugging. Kat would be wiggling her eyebrows at this if Theo didn't have a girlfriend... but he did so that would be really inappropriate. However, she found all of this really cute. Aww. "I'll get water for you too, Theo," she said... because this time, she wasn't going to squirt water from her wand... and so that she didn't break the hug between the Hufflepuff captain and her teammate.

Hehe. Oh, and a small wave for ANOTHER Hufflepuff (Forrest) who arrive.

She'll be back in a minute or less.

.........................

Now Kat was back (she went as fast as she could, OKAY?) with one glass of water for Theo and one glass of some red juice (probably Kool Aid cos it looked like one of those drinks they'd have in Muggle Studies) that was supposed to look like blood. She didn't know if that had a name, but it was for Professor Flammy. And nope... there is absolutely no bananas in that drink. Hopefully.

SPOILER!!: Emm...

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“Hello.” the red head said smiling at the guy as he ruffled his hair. That staring thing, it was kinda creepy. But the good news was, if this guy did turn out to be a creep, atleast she was somewhere familiar. It was Hogwarts, and even though it no longer felt like home, it was safe. It was always safe… well, except the year there were man eating plants… and the time… okay yeah, but it was safe now.

“That’s your sister?” she asked looking at the little blonde girl. She was tiny, and looked incredibly young. And there didn’t seem to be any family resemblance either, but she wasn’t sure if siblings usually looked alike or not, and the lighting wasn’t helping either. “He licked her finger?” Em asked, looking at the kid who now had his arm around the girl. “He must like her.” Because that sounded like something she would do. She would have no qualms about licking Max’s finger… that thought made her frown, and it made her tummy hurt. She bit her lip, as she gazed in the direction of the quidditch pitch, unable to see anything past the far torches.

“Yeah, fancy.” She said still gazing off into the distance. “Wait!” she said turning back to the guy beside her. “We planned to meet here.” She smiled and gave him a punch in the arm. “That’s for being a flobber worm.” The girl shook her head at the question. “No, not really… Maybe at the death day party but I don’t remember. Its usually really pretty though. And, food sounds okay I guess.” she said moving closer towards the buffet table. Seeing the spider cupcakes she shuddered. ” Or, no, I think I’m good. Not hungry. We should go. From here.” Why? Why would someone make those things?

Finnlay couldn’t help but smile – and then grumble at the smiling thing when he saw the boy in question hug his sister. Fine, fine, maybe the kid was all right. He had met him before, heck he’d endured a four hour car ride asking the kid about his friendship with his sister…he might have at one point asked him what his intentions were.

But when this girl said that he must like her, his jaw had just dropped. “He might, but they are young…and it might sound weird but I don’t want my sister to hurt him or him to hurt her” the kid had seemed really enamored with his sister when he had seen him run in…and he might have heard about the face licking.

His sister had yelled loud enough for him to hear her. ”What? A flobber worm?” he asked frowning in a playful way. ”So where to? You like Bertie Botts?” he asked glancing at the challenges and started to head over.

Nerida paid for the challenges decided to start with the Bertie Bott's Challenge, just because she loved those things! Even the weird ones...Though she has never come across a vomit one yet, thank goodness!! "Heya Ella and Kat!!" she said as approached them. "So has anyone vomited or died yet because of a flavor?

... He didn't want them to get hurt? Emmaleigh frowned and shrugged and dryly commented. "Thats nice and all, but apparently life is all about heartache, and hurting people, and ruining relationships with everyone you know, and having your heart broken and..." The young woman trailed off when she realized what she was saying. That... She hadn't... "I... Sorry." she frowned. That was definitely too much information. "Its just being back here..." was horrible.

"yes, a flobber worm." she said with a frown. "You know those small boring things that live in damp ditches. Classification X. Mucus used to thicken potions.Those things that they managed to talk about for an entire semester at WU" That had been the absolute worse. There weren't many things more depressing than knowing you had to sit through another lecture on the most boring creature imaginable. "Botts? Yeah, I guess, the good ones anyways." the girl nodded and shoved some money into the collection thing.

Following along, Emmaleigh began to ramble a bit. "I know a Bott, or well, went to school with one. She was a few years older. Not sure if she was a Bott, Bott though... but its not a common name is it?" Some how, between the nerves, the dark eerie lighting, her own clumsiness, and weakness for the ground, Em tripped, and landed on the cold hard ground. "Merlin." she mumbled, pushing herself up.

Wiping herself off, she glanced around. It was fairly hard to see, but she did recognize Ella. Brilliant. Making sure not to fall again, she carefully sat at the table, making sure there was room for Finn beside her. "Now what?" she asked, looking at the young man.

Ethan was late.. as in almost missing the entire event late. But that was the fault of the detention he still didn't feel he earned and did not want to talk about. It had put him in a rather terrible mood, so much so that he wanted to skip this thing entirely.. and he would have, but he knew Ella and Kat were counting on him to help with one of the challenges. The Bertie Bott's challenge.

The thought of those beans turned his stomach.. even more so than it had already been. If he never saw another of those jelly beans, either the good flavor or bad.. didn't make a difference at this point, it would be too soon. And of course it would be one of the first things he saw out of detention. Fantastic.

Knowing that he had very little time left, he rushed down towards the edge of the forest, his eyes squinting in the compromised lighting to try to make out his station. As he neared, it became more apparent as to where he should be. There were the two leaders he was to be working with, standing near a table with a cauldron full of beans.. along with Airhead and a bunch of students. "What's up?" he greeted a bit flatly to his fellow student leaders, who seemed to be a little frazzled. What happened here? And what was he needed to do now?

When hugging ended, Ella just kind of picked up her bowl of ice cream off the table and stress ate it all up because really, she was completely freaked and ice cream always helped. It always did.

Nom. Nom. Nom.

The new additions to the table weren't missed and Ella gave Kat a faint smile, knowing they'd need to carry on despite the ridiculous happenings at this station. WHY was she always around for stuff like this? I yi yi. And...was that Emmaleigh with some dude she didn't know? Um. The blonde fidgeted for a minute before offering the older girl a small smile and wave.

Then Nerida was there and asking questions about death and Ella's eyes widened. "No one is allowed to die at this station!" She squeaked, waving her spoon around. That rule was being put into motion starting NOW, okay?

Ethan.

Oh thank Merlin. Ella hurried over to the older boy, ready to have a little student leader conference. "So...Professor Airey is freakishly good at this, he nearly killed Theodore, and I want more ice cream." Breatheeee. "Other than that, this has been going just swimmingly. ...Oh and could you maybe explain the rules to these newer arrivals?" Ella was taking a break. And by that, she was just going to watch quietly for a few minutes.

Minerva walked in quietly. She had just come from her dorm after taking a mental break, a huge mental break and a potion she needed hair . Why did he have to be at this station. For the love of anything why this station. She wibbled a bit thinking about everything he had just been put through and now he was working the jelly bean station. Visions of that ice cream popped in her head. She looked down at the small bowl she had went and got from the kitchen for comfort before coming out here. The jelly bean vision just made her not able to eat it, but she still wanted it.

Taking another bite as she walked up to the table she heard Ella say ice cream. "Here you can have this if you want. I can't eat it.. " She saw the beans on the table and frowned looking at Ethan she sniffled and blinked her puffy eyes. "HI" is all she said, but the look was more I'm here if you need me. She wasn't going to let him do this without her there for support.

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... He didn't want them to get hurt? Emmaleigh frowned and shrugged and dryly commented. "Thats nice and all, but apparently life is all about heartache, and hurting people, and ruining relationships with everyone you know, and having your heart broken and..." The young woman trailed off when she realized what she was saying. That... She hadn't... "I... Sorry." she frowned. That was definitely too much information. "Its just being back here..." was horrible.

"yes, a flobber worm." she said with a frown. "You know those small boring things that live in damp ditches. Classification X. Mucus used to thicken potions.Those things that they managed to talk about for an entire semester at WU" That had been the absolute worse. There weren't many things more depressing than knowing you had to sit through another lecture on the most boring creature imaginable. "Botts? Yeah, I guess, the good ones anyways." the girl nodded and shoved some money into the collection thing.

Following along, Emmaleigh began to ramble a bit. "I know a Bott, or well, went to school with one. She was a few years older. Not sure if she was a Bott, Bott though... but its not a common name is it?" Some how, between the nerves, the dark eerie lighting, her own clumsiness, and weakness for the ground, Em tripped, and landed on the cold hard ground. "Merlin." she mumbled, pushing herself up.

Wiping herself off, she glanced around. It was fairly hard to see, but she did recognize Ella. Brilliant. Making sure not to fall again, she carefully sat at the table, making sure there was room for Finn beside her. "Now what?" she asked, looking at the young man.

Finn blinked over to Emmaleigh and raised an eyebrow when she said everything about getting hurt. ”Hey, you know that shouldn’t happen,” he sighed and glanced over to her. And then she was explaining what a flobber worm was. And he was laughing again.

He chuckled, ”Yeah…we won’t know what flavors they are – I hope you find some good ones” he smirked over to her and beamed. ”I don’t think that it’s a common name” he admitted with a laugh.

And then he blinked she was falling and he was leaning down to catch her – but she had already pushed herself up before he could do anything to help. Glancing over to her she just smiled. ”Are you alright?” he glanced over ”you want me to tie the blind fold on you?” he asked smiling down at her.

”And, good luck.”

"Sorry," she said crossing her arms and looking down. "I didn't mean too... sorry." Sorry for bringing it up, sorry for being hurt, sorry for being Emmaleigh.

The red head shrugged. "Isn't that the point of the beans? not knowing what flavor you're going to get."

"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks." she said, face reddening, and eternally grateful that the lighting would mask it. "Happens all the time, nearly got me eaten." She brushed her hair out of her face, and frowned at the memorie. It was one she quite hated. She was Ella's wave, and gave her one in return. Right, so they still weren't talking either. '"Blind fold? We have to do this blind folded? uhhh, sure, I guess." She said grabbing a yellow one and handing it over.

"You to." she said quietly, suddenly nervous about the beans.

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"Sorry," she said crossing her arms and looking down. "I didn't mean too... sorry." Sorry for bringing it up, sorry for being hurt, sorry for being Emmaleigh.

The red head shrugged. "Isn't that the point of the beans? not knowing what flavor you're going to get."

"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks." she said, face reddening, and eternally grateful that the lighting would mask it. "Happens all the time, nearly got me eaten." She brushed her hair out of her face, and frowned at the memorie. It was one she quite hated. She was Ella's wave, and gave her one in return. Right, so they still weren't talking either. '"Blind fold? We have to do this blind folded? uhhh, sure, I guess." She said grabbing a yellow one and handing it over.

"You to." she said quietly, suddenly nervous about the beans.

Pulling the fabric around her eyes and tightening it, Finn just smiled. Yeah, she had super soft hair…did she know that? He wondered as he stood there and tightened the blindfold before finally tying it off.

Finn just smiled to Emmaleigh (even though she couldn’t see it through the blindfold) and attached his own as well. ”Ah, yes, I’ve already got mine on” he smirked again and smiled when he heard that the girl was saying.

Thanks for the blindfold” he smiled, and then reached into the bucket and pulled out on of the beans. To his luck it was a rather bright white looking one…almost looked like it had a swirling shimmering mixture inside of the bean’s shell. ”Oh…this tastes, vaguely disgusting.” He laughed, ”Soap, I think its soap” he added with a laugh.

Emmaleigh bit her lip and tried not to fidget nervously as the blindfold was tied on. He seemed to be taking an awfully along time. "Is everything okay?" She asked quietly? There wasn't any bugs or anything were there? NO spiders? Please don't let there be spiders.

"Yeah," THe girl said quietly, and reached towards the bucket, and fished a bean out. "Here we go." she said mostly to herself, and popped the bean in her mouth. If she had been able to see the bean, she probably would have hesitated. It was brown, and there weren't many things that were brown that could taste good.

She kinda rolled it around in her mouth a bit. It didn't have a whole lot of flavor this way, but it was definitely gross. When she finally bit into it, she gagged. This, she knew this, and it was so disgusting. It tasted just like that stuff smelled. Spitting it out quickly, she said the flavor aloud. "Dog food. That was dog food. The nasty canned type." She spit again, trying to get the flavor out of her mouth. "That was nasty."

As the event started to wind down and the torches steadily burned lower, a thick, cold fog began to move out from the forest. It remained low to the ground at first as ice crystals thickened and solidified over the grass.

It seemed winter or something more sinister had not yet left Hogwarts.

Ella was actively supervising. That was a thing, yeah? She was sort of still traumatized about the whole Theoman nearly choking to death thing and yeah, she wanted a break.

Then...it got cold. Not just like breezy, nighttime cold but COLD cold. Like... wintery cold. The sixteen year old hugged her arms across her chest and looked at the others who were at the challenge. Did anyone else think this was weird?

Maybe she should have brought a blanket.

Brrrrrrrr!

Ethan's eyes grew wider as Ella rushed over and gave him the update on what he had missed. Nearly killed Theodore?! "Wait.. what?" The Ravenclaw looked between Flamsteed and the younger Slytherin boy then back to Ella as he eyed her, hearing her request for ice cream. That was pretty much the last thing he wanted to hear about right now and he glanced back to the rest of the group. "Everything is under control now, though?" He asked the Puff captain. Seemed like it, anyway.. and rules, yeah he could do that.

He made his way over to some older.. well, they weren't students anymore, were they? He didn't recognize the boy, but the girl seemed familiar. Ethan was about to point out the blindfolds, when he spotted someone else familiar approaching. That was sweet of her to come and he really didn't expect her to be here after what they had recently been through. "Hi, Min," he greeted the girl with a smaller smile than he attempted. His eyes fell on the bowl of ice cream in her hand.. but he was not saying anything else about it. Hadn't he said enough? He was just tired of even thinking about it. Though he did find it curious that she had passed it off to Ella.. Shaking his head a bit, he tried clearing it from his mind.

"So.. do you just want to hang out?" he asked, turning his eyes back to Minerva. He didn't expect she'd want to try any of these jelly beans, but he was glad she came to see him.. it was hard enough being around them and being reminded. Trying not to look at any actual beans, he glanced over at the game players. Oh.. the newer arrivals he was supposed to find a blindfold for.. though it seemed they found a couple themselves. Good for them. He kept an eye on them as they played when suddenly an icy chill blew through him. "Really wish I had brought my cloak," he mumbled as he shivered and hugged his arms around himself. Winter really seemed to be hanging on this year.

So tonight was being really eventful. One teammate nearly choking to death, Professor Airey being, well, Professor Airey and speaking of air, did it get COLD AND FOGGY all of a sudden or what? Was this a part of the fright fest or was this going to turn out to be one of those weird things that happens at Hogwarts that no one's ever been able to explain? One look at the booth runner told her that it was the latter. Great. Sky pulled her jacket around her, not that it did much good as cold as it was. A cold that could seep through leather? Yeah, that didn't bode well. "I have a bad feeling about this....."


Let's just hope no one dies this time, okay?

Ella nodded seriously at Ethan, shuffling a bit. "Things are under control now." Mostly. And Min got smiles and curious looks for the ice cream. She didn't want to eat it herself? That was...but then again she knew things and...yeah. Of course she didn't want it.

The sixteen year old began to eat despite the cold, feeling a bit better with each spoonful. She continued as she watched the grass started to freeze. "That's...not right." Was anyone else seeing this too?

Bad feelings? Ella glanced at the Slytherin in between bites and said, "Oh I'm sure it's just..." And then glancing off towards the viewing area, she saw something. It was too dark to make out what but it certainly wasn't anything the student leaders had planned for and it was frighteningly out of place.

Side stepping closer to Ethan, the blonde tugged on his sleeve and motioned with her head for Kat to join them. "Do you see that too?" And she pointed with her spoon.