Hulk? BEAM. Ella saluted her lovely green biting machine before offering her a smile. “I don’t see your face nearly enough, y’know.” Just saying, is all.

And Legs and Hair were making Ella giggle though she did her best to rein that in. Also, she decided Jake’s being scared of the spider was the perfect opportunity for her to smirk at him and so she did before asking, “How was that, the smirking? Getting any more believable?” She needed to know, obviously.

The blonde gave Kat a broad smile and a shrug. ”Anytime and thanks! I’m…excited.” ISH. She was excited-ish. More nervous but yeah… Also, the blonde had super!secret keeper!leader!blondie handshake ideas that they could discuss later. Yup.

Bee needed to stop that right now. Ella got a little squirmy and blush-y as the older girl smirked at her and the young badger pretended to be interested in her hair as she played with the ends absently. That’s right, nothing to see here.

Fistbumps for Elise. Yup, cause they were cool like that. Ella smiled at the girl before settling back into her seat. Yup, this wasn’t so scary after all.

BLINK.

It wasn’t nice to yell, y’know. Sheesh. Ella gave the LOUD ticket man a once over before squirming to pull her ticket out of her pocket. “Here you go.” She even gave the man a smile because even crazy ticket men deserved those. Maybe.

Also…”Dude probably needs gummy worms.” She mumbled quietly to herself.

Um...the squinting, why? Pout. Was something wrong with her shirt?

Looking down at her shirt, the Hufflepuff made sure that nothing was wrong with it, only looking up to ask Kat if something was the matter, but her question was answered before it was asked. The badge, of course. People were noticing her change of badge rather quickly. Mellow. Keep calm and act like it wasn't frightening. Yep that's what this badger was going to do. That and do her best as well. "How are you?" she asked and then mumbled before thanking her. "Thanks, I guess." Cue. Nervous smile.

There she was ELLACUTIE! BEAM BEAM! For a moment all anxiety was forgotten and Ness smiled widely as she saw her kiddo enter the compartment. But then it all stopped because Ella mentioned the badge and the nerves kicked in again. "Yeah, um ...thanks." She shrugged slightly. "But loook at yours, Miss Ferocious. I am so, so proud." She truly was and the smile that followed showed that.

New comer, coming though. The red head eyed the new Ravenclaw prefect then gave him a smile along with a nod as she realized she recognized him. "Haai." she greeted him then her focus went back to the Compartment door as a certain someone walked in.

Dylan...and his spider. Loooverly. It was difficult for her not to pull faces at the tarantula laying on his chest, but she wasn't the only one affected by this. Puffles her pygmy puff crawled inside her back pack clearly afraid. But heh, spiders were scary, alright? "Dylan." She gave him a nod in greeting and nothing more.

And see she wasn't the only one afraid of spiders. Jake was too, by the looks of it and he definitely got giggles for his little scramble. She didn't blame him though.

Head Girl, Dixon. Right. That was her and not some other person with the same name. Just some getting used to. Breaaathe in and then out. "Erm...keepitasNessieforme?" Huge mumble jumble there because not everyone in the compartment needed to hear that.

Biter, yeah she was correct. A lot of people, but there was always this many in the Prefects compartment, or that was to Nessie's knowledge at least. "The Gryffie Captain got a nod in greeting along with a smile.

One of Bee's favorites? This..this had to be good then, and it was worth a try, no? What was the worse that could happen, it was just a book. "I suppose it looks interesting." Pout. Hmmmm."Err, yeah...I actually need something new to read, wouldn't mind."Because she was not reading the Notebook yet again, she had seriously over read that book but of course still loved it. "I've got some books if you want too?" Aand now they were both sounding like real bookworms. Heh..Ness wasn't too bothered about that.

Smile, Elise was definitely another person Nessie was proud of today. "No problem." She gave her a polite nod. Aaand again she took a breathe in and out. "Yeah, thanks." Um...change of topic now, yeah? "So how was your summer?" Yes, safe topic, or so she thought.

Toooo much was going on in this compartment. Too many people talking. Heh. Ness felt a tad claustrophobic and decided she needed a breather, which was why she got up to head towards the corridor, but before she could even move out of her seat some man stepped inside.

Tickets? ........Um...since when did someone collect tickets?

Sigghhh. The red head put her back pack on her lap, rummaged through it, found her ticket and handed it to the man. "There you go." Ticket done, there.

After that she headed towards the door and paused. "Um...excuse me , guys." Did she even needed excusing? Probably not, she never did previously and why she felt like she needed it now she was unsure. Walking out she headed towards the corridors and began strolling along whilst thinking, thinking and thinking.

Naturally, she was squishing Jake. Because, like, ALICE HADN'T SEEN HIM ALL SUMMER AND HE WAS HER FAVORITE BOY EVER AND SHE MISSED HIM AND THIS REUNION CALLED FOR SQUISHING. Or something. She finally gave up trying to sit next to him instead and climbed onto his lap just like she always did, because that was so very captainlike of her and she felt like it. "Hi Cobbie. How was your summer? How was Paris? Did you kill Scany? I hope you didn't, because I need him, okay? he's my number one source of cake." And that was so very important.

Squish.

And then a Dylan appeared. She tried her very best to smile at him and not look too.. not happy or any other emotion she could have possibly been feeling (which seemed feasible to her, because she had decided that she had probably felt every single way one could possibly feel over the summer). "I'm fine. Are you okay?" Alice was asking for other specific reasons, he knew. Reasons that no one else needed to know, obviously.

Then more people were talking to her, and she wriggled around in Jake's lap to look at Kat. Wait. Kat was in here? Alice looked down to see a badge pinned to her clothes. "You got prefected," she pointed out helpfully. "They're just putting so much awesome in this compartment it's unreal. All the other compartments will be jealous." Envious of this one, she was sure of it.

And an Ella, too. Seeing her in there wasn't surprising, 'cause Alice knew about this new badge holder, but it was still cool all the same. "I don't see yours enough either. This year, okay? You and me and face seeing. It's happening." And she was CAPTAIN, too, did she get how awesome that was? It meant they could blow whistles and hold joint practices and work on their pep talks together.

Not that her pep talks weren't already great, you know.

She waved at Nessie and Oakey and that one duck obsessed kid, too, before glancing over at Beezus. "Hey Bee. Wait, what bites?" Alice looked at Dylan again and finally noticed the spider on his shoulder. Did it bite? Did it bite HARD? Could she hold it? "The butterfly's awesome." Gran was taking care of it while she was at school, and the old woman liked it a lot too, so she hadn't objected.

And tickets, too? She squirmed a bit more on Jake's lap and fished hers out, holding it out for the demanding collector man to take.

Really, Ella? The Honey Bee's smirk grew wider at seeing how the Hufflepuff reacted...playing with her hair and growing red and all that. Cute love, was all she could say. Their secrets were cute enough to make the Huffie Captain blush, and Beezus thought she might just have to make that blush even redder. Maybe later. Yep, definitely later....

"Okay then. I'll lend it to you when I'm finished? I'm actually nearing the end." She told Ness and followed it up with a quick nod, "And yes, sure. That would be wonderful." The Head Girl can choose what book she'll let her borrow, one of her own favorites would be a good. This was a bit of a surprise though, she didn't know the older girl was particularly fond of books. This just added to the few things they both shared - they like purple, fail at Transfiguration and now, they were book buddies. Plus, they were both bipolar or something like that.

Then Elise was bowing at her and she couldn't help but giggle silently , slightly sticking her tongue at her fellow 'Claw before she bit her lip. Merlin, Elise was going to KILL her if she told her what she was about to tell her soon. Meh. Oh, and she heard that...what she called the boyfriend? Yeah. "Elise, you know it's not Montmorendee. Montmorency." Okay? You shouldn't stoop down to that level, whatever that level might be.

Right then.

And Jaaake was being such a scaredy cat. Was he not a Gryffindor and all? Couldn't he see that he was a hundred times bigger than Charlotte? WHOAAAA. Careful there, Oakey Gunter. No falling backwards because she had a beautiful creature on her..............*blink*......where was Charlotte? She was near her shoulder the last time Beezus saw her before Oakey sufficiently provided the clumsy act of almost falling over.

She swirled about to find the tarantula, turning her head to and fro until.....CHARLOTTE WAS not ON JAKE'S ARM. She was. Ummmm. "Oops." Hurriedly, she recaptured the eight-legged creature before Jake could flail or whatsoever he wanted to do.

Meep!

She raised her eyebrows at Daichi too. Please tell me he did not lost his ticket. Fixing him with a look, one that denounced that she didn't want a negative answer to her inquiry, she mouthed out, "Ticket?" Nice and slow.

Aliiiiice. "Oh, you know...Charlotte bites." Beam! Was Jake still breathing? And the butterfly, hmm? Great to know that it was doing awesome. "I'm glad to hear that. You liked it, didn't you?" She wasn't sure if Alice was the kind who enjoyed those kind. But she gave it to her nonetheless, because for some reason it reminded her of the young lioness and really, it so happened that she was chasing butterflies that time so all was well.

When Nessie excused herself and slipped out of the door, Beezus threw the Ticket Collector another look. Was he scared of tarantulas too? Hmm. Ideaaaaaas.

Oh. Hey. There was a captain on his lap.

Jake ran a hand through his hair and looked at Ella as she smirked at him. He narrowed his eyes, wondering why he deserved that. It really couldn't be that weird that he disliked creepy-crawlies, could it? Still eyeing her, he nodded to her question, even if it wasn't directed at him. "Yeah. Very nice smirk. Keep working on that. Just not at me." Please?

Thankful for the distraction, he turned his attention back to the Ali on his lap. Lots of questions. Mostly about Paris and Stark. Why did she care about Stark, again? "Paris was great," he answered with a nod. "Anya had a lot of fun... ... And yes. Stark's still alive. Congratulations." There might have been a slightly bitter tone to his voice. Whoops.

As he was talking, he felt a slight tickle on the hairs of his arms. He brushed his elbow, not feeling anything. It was only when Beezus started walking over and reaching out to his arm that he saw the culprit. "SWEETMERLINICAN'T-" He stared at the Ravenclaw that was now cuddling the tarantula. And telling him that the thing bit. Was she making a joke or something? In one swift movement he lifted Ali off his lap and stood up. Without another word he dug his ticket out of his pocket and shoved it toward the ticket guy. "Here," he said, pulling the compartment door open.

Tipping his head back to the compartment, he flashed a friendly smile and faked a conversational tone. "Nice talking to you all. I'm going to patrol now. Have a lovely evening." And he was outta there.

There was a noise at the outside of the compartment. It was a mixture between a smacking sound and a thunk - like someone had fallen outside of the room...or something had been placed on the ground.

The noise came once more, this time it resonated through the door like a hand slapping against the compartment door. Yep. The person making the noises hoped she could skedaddle away before anyone came and looked through the door.

Outside of the door a large box filled with any assortment of sweets had been placed. Even frozen Florean's unmelting ice cream. On the door, a note now rustled in as the train jotted down the track.

Clicking his puncher in his hands and matching the sound with his tongue, the man looooooomed over the girl and gave her the proper stink eye for a good long while. His eyes eventually moved to her ticket and he snatched it from her. Did it give her a paper cut? Not that he cared.

Punching it, he tossed it back at her and then moved on to the next kid.
No. YOUR ticket. Where was it?

He staaaaaaaaaaaared at the girl who seemed to think she knew it all.

When she finally handed over her ticket, he didn't take it at first, but instead glared at her. He did punch it, eventually, and she found it being shoved in her face.

You're welcome.

Snatching her ticket, he punched it and unceremoniously handed it back to her.
STARE.

Mister Akumu hated waiting almost as much as he hated children sweating. This one seemed to be doing both which put the man in an even more unpleasant disposition. "TICKET!" he demanded again as he clicked his tongue in frustration.

What was this one trying to pull? "Tick.Et." he repeated.

A candy wrapper did not equate a ticket.
She got no smile back as her ticket was punched and returned.

And no. He did not need, nor did he want, any gummy worms.
After punching this one's ticket, he moved to give it back to her and saw that she was leaving. Rude! Creepy children were rude!

So instead he flicked it towards her seat. She could pick that up later. Mmmmmmmmhmmmmmmmmm.

Ew. That was all he had to say about where she was sitting. PDA with children. Ew.

Snatching up this one as well, he punched it and dropped it on her head before he STARED at the boy.
Not ew.

He took the ticket and punched it quickly. Oh yes, it was also shoved back.
Sweets that were not from the trolley? NO NO NO! This would not do!

Snatching the girl's box from her without a word, he stared at her and waved his index finger back and forth in front of her face with a grim look on his already grim features.

Clutching the box, he leaned forward and RIGHT in her face hissed, "Ticket."

Was he just preventing him from leaving now. The TICKET!Guy was standing in his way, and Oakey wanted to go find Ariana patrol.

He looked down at what he handed the man and smiled..."Eheh" he fake laughed as he went through his pocket again. "How did that get in there?" Ella didn't see that did she? She'd never let him live it down if she found out he sneaked a candy bar every now and then.

It wasn't in that pocket so he moved to his next one, then his back pockets. Then his coat pockets. "I may have left it on my luggage." Oakey said trying to keep his smile on the TICKET!Guy.

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Clicking his puncher in his hands and matching the sound with his tongue, the man looooooomed over the girl and gave her the proper stink eye for a good long while. His eyes eventually moved to her ticket and he snatched it from her. Did it give her a paper cut? Not that he cared.

Punching it, he tossed it back at her and then moved on to the next kid.

No. YOUR ticket. Where was it?

He staaaaaaaaaaaared at the girl who seemed to think she knew it all.

When she finally handed over her ticket, he didn't take it at first, but instead glared at her. He did punch it, eventually, and she found it being shoved in her face.

You're welcome.


Snatching her ticket, he punched it and unceremoniously handed it back to her.

STARE.

Mister Akumu hated waiting almost as much as he hated children sweating. This one seemed to be doing both which put the man in an even more unpleasant disposition. "TICKET!" he demanded again as he clicked his tongue in frustration.


What was this one trying to pull? "Tick.Et." he repeated.

A candy wrapper did not equate a ticket.

She got no smile back as her ticket was punched and returned.

And no. He did not need, nor did he want, any gummy worms.

After punching this one's ticket, he moved to give it back to her and saw that she was leaving. Rude! Creepy children were rude!

So instead he flicked it towards her seat. She could pick that up later. Mmmmmmmmhmmmmmmmmm.


Ew. That was all he had to say about where she was sitting. PDA with children. Ew.

Snatching up this one as well, he punched it and dropped it on her head before he STARED at the boy.

Not ew.

He took the ticket and punched it quickly. Oh yes, it was also shoved back.

Sweets that were not from the trolley? NO NO NO! This would not do!

Snatching the girl's box from her without a word, he stared at her and waved his index finger back and forth in front of her face with a grim look on his already grim features.

Clutching the box, he leaned forward and RIGHT in her face hissed, "Ticket."

The girl just glared at the ticket guy as he snatched the box. "Hey - thats an i'm sorry I could have poisoned you last year thing...no one will eat them because of the note...see...they don't trust me and cooking which is good" she made a face at the man as he just hissed at her.

"Its in my compartment." she muttered and pointed to the back of the train. "I will hand it to you then...because its not on me and I can't summon it." She further explained.

It was also because she just needed to grab it off of her seat. She was STILL outside of the room so she could bolt and grab it. "If you want money for the sweets I brought" she shrugged and pointed at the box, "i will donate to the hogwarts needs galleons fund." she whispered.

Left it on his luggage? LIES! Children and their LIES!

Eyes narrowing to slits, Mister Akumu cracked his neck with a quick twitched and then leaned staaaaaared directly into the boy's eyes. No ticket? No problem. There was a solution.

"Money," he demanded.
Boo hoo boo hoo. Quite the sob story this one had. Didn't change the fact that she was without her ticket though.

He opened the box and took a nice BIIIIIIIIIIIG bite out of one of the sweets and then closed the box again.

Just as he was to repeat his ticket mantra, she mentioned money in exchange for the box. Yes. That would suffice. "Money." His eyes narrowed. "Ticket," he added for consistency.

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Left it on his luggage? LIES! Children and their LIES!

Eyes narrowing to slits, Mister Akumu cracked his neck with a quick twitched and then leaned staaaaaared directly into the boy's eyes. No ticket? No problem. There was a solution.

"Money," he demanded.

Boo hoo boo hoo. Quite the sob story this one had. Didn't change the fact that she was without her ticket though.

He opened the box and took a nice BIIIIIIIIIIIG bite out of one of the sweets and then closed the box again.

Just as he was to repeat his ticket mantra, she mentioned money in exchange for the box. Yes. That would suffice. "Money." His eyes narrowed. "Ticket," he added for consistency.

She felt her jaw drop when he took a big bite out of the sweets. THAT guy had done it. He had - that was the last straw. Her eyes narrowed at him. And NOW he had the gal to accept the offer of money for the box after taking a bite out of it.

"I so should have baked those cupcakes...then you'd be sorry" she muttered quietly below an audible whisper and then chirped out an almost too pleasant. "One second" though the fire behind her eyes was clear.

This girl didn't like him. This girl would cast a spell on him and turn him neon pink if he wasn't careful. Yep. She was just slightly ticked. Nothing to worry about. It wasn't as if her eyes were darkening as she spoke to him. Not as if she could tell that is.

Reaching into her pocket she grabbed some change and gave it to him. "Here take it...and" she paused trying not to evoke a deeper, darker, and far more angrier voice. "you better keep that sweet you just ate and then give them to the prefects without saying who brought them. The point was to be anonymous." She muttered slightly so the people inside of the compartment couldn't hear.

"And my ticket is in my compartment but here fine" she was flustered and trying not to go all Alice on the guy. So she pulled out a few galleons and dropped them into his out stretched hand. "THERE, thats for the ticket that I do actually have..." she muttered glaring just a bit more.

Just Push past him Oakey, he's a tiny man.
Oakey moved his head back away from the TICKET!Guy's face that was in his now. His eyes widened in surprise and his fake smile turned instantly into a frown. TICKET!Guy was not going to give up.

Did he not know any other word than 'Ticket'? He did! He can say 'Money'. Good....

...

Wait not good! "I'm not paying Money to ride the Express." He never did his past six years. why should he now, none of it made sense? He watched TICKET!Guy bite into a cupcake rather evilly. "I can summon my ticket here if you won't let me pass." Mika had the right idea, Thank Merlin for Ravenclaws...never thought he'd think that. Oakey reached down to grab his wand to accio his ticket.

Ethan was remotely glad that the compartment was bigger than the normal ones and that he wasn't claustrophobic because the place was really beginning to fill up. He lifted his eyes as another person entered.. the Slytherin Captain.. Dylan, wasn't it? He gave him a nod as he greeted him.. with his last name, a bloke kind of greeting, yeah? And he would have done the same in turn, except he wasn't completely sure of his last name.. Mont- something, all the knew was that it was a mouthful, so he settled with a "Hey, how's it going?" Oh, and then Elise provided the name for him.. Montmorendee .. right. He knew it was something like that.

Ethan's eyes fell on the Gryffindor prefect.. think Ethan.. Jake? as he walked in next and he gave him a nod in greeting before turning towards Oakey as he heard his name. Deserve it..? Ethan still wasn't sure, but he was beginning to be cool with it, he supposed. Giving his year-mate a nod, he said, "Thanks, Oakey.. same to you." Head Boy was a prestigious enough title, he guessed.. apparently the Hufflepuff did a fair job of prefecting last term to be awarded with that. His attention was diverted back to Jake at the sound of a small shriek coming from his direction and he watched with a detached curiosity over the interaction between a handful of them and the tarantula. Remotely interesting..

Ethan gave a smile in return to Ella. He had heard over summer that she was the new Hufflepuff Quidditch captain and gave her his own, "Congrats." Also noticing the new Head Girl, he gave Ness a smile and nod as well. "Hi, Ness," he replied in turn. "Congrats on the badge," he added.. interesting to go from Captain to Head Girl, though he was aware it had been done last term as well. He vaguely wondered what this girl thought of the change in responsibility.

He didn't give it much thought, however, as his attention was again diverted by the next person to arrive. The Gryffindor Captain, the one biting one of his teammates last year.. um, Alice, wasn't it? She got a nod at her greeting as she waked in and a "Hello." She was observant at least.

He then glanced up at the female Slytherin prefect as she addressed him as well. She was new this term like him, he realized, as he looked at her and he mirrored her small smile. "Hey.. thanks," he replied to her congratulations with a nod. "You too... Katrina, isn't it?" Ethan was fairly certain that was her name anyway, seeming to remember her playing Quidditch last term.

Ethan turned to Beezus with a questioning look as he heard her say his name. "Talk..? Oh, yeah, sure.. whenever," he said with a nod. "Just let me know when." And where, since he assumed not there. He knew they had certain things to discuss, figuring better sooner than later.. and Elise too? She should probably be involved as well..

And then he heard Oakey mention something about patrols.. and so should you all too? Wait, not all of them at the same time, right? Though he had to stifle a chuckle at the mental image of how intimidating a group of twelve would be pouring down the corridor.. but still.. there was a schedule, yeah? He glanced up as Beezus and Daichi stood to take the first turn, figuring he'd wait just a bit then, when his eyes snapped to the person who had just burst through the door.

Ethan stared at the ticket guy for a moment, slightly stunned at his abruptness. He watched with eyebrow raised as a few others before him pulled out their own tickets and the bloke punched them with the same politeness he had when he entered. Eyeing him a bit, he pulled his own ticket from his pocket and held it out to him. Was please not in his vocabulary?

He glanced over at Daichi at his side. Why was the boy so fidgety? He watched him for a moment as he fiddled with the zipper on his bag and he leaned a little closer. "Try your pocket?" he offered helpfully.

Well, that's definitely a lot of people in this compartment now. With this dude collective their tickets, that added one more person to the mix. Not like he had a badge, so he can get a move on later.

Kat turned over to Bee as one of her favourite Ravenclaws started to speak. Now, hold the phone. She was becoming a flatterer? The Slytherin Prefect didn't exactly plan on being one, but you know... she still liked it. Was that a perk? "Oh, is that another nickname for me?" Kat asked. You know Bee likes making nicknames for Kat and her other friends... although, Erin was still a Cornelia to her. "But thank you, I guess." Because not everyone could flatter Beatrice Castell.

Then Kat faced her bestfriend, who was probably still in denial that Kat was the Slytherin prefect. Kat didn't blame her though, because even she herself was in denial. "Thank you," Kat smiled at her bestie. The ultimate flailing over Elise's badge would happen when they arrive at Hogwarts though. She did not wanna make a fool out of herself in front of the other student leaders. "And congratulation as well!" She deserved it.

The sixth year looked at her other fellow student leaders, waiting for them to give their tickets to the cranky ticket collector. She then noticed Daichi, and Kat raised an eyebrow. Did he just... lose his ticket? "You must've misplaced it," the blonde said. It was a fair enough guess. "Or dropped it somewhere." Tick tock, though. It didn't seem like mister collector was one to wait.

After turning away from Daichi, Kat turned to Ella. The Slytherin Prefect offered the new Hufflepuff Captain a smile. "I understand the feeling," Kat said since they'll both be starting their student leader duties this term. It was something worth nervous and excited about. "But, hey, you'll do great." She knew it. Even if Hufflepuff and Slytherin were in a huge points race last term, that didn't make Kat feel anything negative about Ella. She was one of the few Puffs she actually, you know, really liked. Ahem.

And then over to Nessie. The Head Girl news was something really big, and the Badger looked like she was in denial too. So the feeling was mutual to a lot of people in this compartment, huh? Kat wasn't sure if this was a surprise, or rather just a coincidence. How was she? "Feeling great, I guess. How about you?" Kat was finding a way to keep the conversation cool, because she didn't need the Head Girl pouting. Honestly. "Well, you're welcome." Kat offered the seventh year a small smile.

Alice decided to join the conversation afterwards. Wow. Kat was starting to think that this was a rather good way on starting the upcoming term. Eh... not really, but getting to know the other student leaders was a good start. Then the Gryffindor Captain pointed out on her badge. "Yeah, I did," Kat said, because there was nothing else to reply to what Alice said. Then the fifth year started to talk about envy and awesome. Kat just beamed at that, no other words said. Alice Fischer was a flatterer too.

Kat looked outside the compartment and saw a box of whatever was inside there and it had a letter!note with it too. And ice cream from Florean's that, if Kat was right, was the never melting one. Okay... could someone bring them in? Thanks.

Oh... ticket collector got style, huh? After that dude snatched her ticket, Kat raised an eyebrow. Really? Who hired this man?! He was lucky no harm was done to her or anyone in the compartment. You know, she could just go over to Professor Lafay and report all of this, huh? Or she should just handle it herself and send a number of spells at him. Nobody messed with her. Once he tossed her ticket back to her, the Prefect snatched it immediately. Keeper moves never failed her. Cue the smirk.

Whatever, that ticket collector man was annoying. Hearing her name, Kat turned to the new Ravenclaw Male Prefect. At least he wouldn't snatch anything from her. "You're welcome," Kat said with a polite nod and small smile. Because, if truth be told, she has said thank you and you're welcome about fifty times today excluding the people in this compartment. "Thanks, and yes it's Katrina. And you are?" Sorry, didn't know you.

Dylan was taking several moments...just eyeing all those that were currently in the compartment with him. Oh, what a collection this was. And hadn't it been smart about HIS luggage being shrunk down and ON his person...in his bag? Hadn't it? He clearly didn't trust the luggage compartment...with everyone elses things in with each others...Easy way for things to get stolen, if one asked the Slytherin...


...and his attention shifted back to his girlfriend, as he noted what she was saying. Dylan knew what Elise's last name was...and didn't really care. Every name was open to interpretation in his opinion...and he had just read those Mortal Instrument books. So...Yea. She was Fairchild...but his Ravenclaw received a sweet look, anyway. "You know that I know her name...and that I don't really care, right?"

The Slytherin Captain couldn't be bothered, really.

...AND WHERE HAD CHARLOTTE GOTTEN TO?!

Panicking for just a moment, Dylan blinked several times, head darting to and fro. He hadn't dropped her. That had NOT happened...When he finally spotted her in Beezus' care, he took a few moments to calm his frantically beating heart. "............." Yea...

Dylan loved his spider more than he did most real life people. "Be. Careful."


In fact, when he responded to Jakey-love, his tone was mildly distracted as he kept eyes on Charlotte in her hands. Dylan was paranoid by nature and had a hard time trusting that his tarantula would stay in one place for Bee. Charlotte only did that for him, obviously.

...but the best mate WAS the best mate...So, Dylan flashed a lovely smile at Jake before nodding. Paintball wars always ended with a truck ton of bruises...and for whatever reasons, he liked that...

Also, he ignored the stuff about Charlotte and biting because Charlotte wouldn't bite Jake. That wasn't something that would happen. So, there didn't need to be any talk on the matter.


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

STARE.

When....in all his time on this train....had he even needed a ticket?

NOT THAT DYLAN DIDN'T HAVE HIS, THOUGH. AHEM.

There were a ton of eyes for that dude as he stood briefly, fishing the neatly folding ticket out of his back pocket. While doing so...he noted that he still had his phone... Oops...

Maybe...the Slytherin could figure out...how to make it work at school...

Oh, snap! Mission accepted.

"Here, sir." Dylan's tone was careful and judging all at once...because that was totally possible. He held the ticket out to the weird little man. Weird little man was weird.

...and with his attention diverted from Charlotte...


Forgetting momentarily about his tarantula, he gave the Gryffindor Captain a look. Yes, he remembered their conversation shockingly well. He'd done nothing but think about it...for a week now. Was he okay, though?

For all pretenses and appearances, YES. Dylan was perfectly fine and nothing was amiss. Alice would most likely see through this...but he just offered a tight nod. No words. None because he didn't have any.

None.

...And Dylan was lost in his thoughts. Why couldn't he just stop thinking...for five seconds...about...that? He turned an uncomfortable eye to Beezus and just stared at her for several minutes. There were things...but Dylan wouldn't share. No sharing of that stuff. Not between them.


SNORT. Dylan was pulled from his thoughts by Beezus addressing Elise. "Let her say whatever. I don't really care." Literally. His level of caring was at an impressive ZERO.

...and..........WHAT......had he just missed?

Bee was scooping Charlotte off Jake's arm...and Jake was panicking and freaking out. Mean eyes went to his girlfriend. What was she doing? She'd just seen how Keller had responded to Charlotte on his arm. WHY would she put her on him?

Jake could've......flailed or something....and hurt her.

Without a word, Dylan descended, almost snatching the tarantula out of her hands. "She'll stay with me." No arguments. If something happened to his little love...he'd never forgive the Ravenclaw. He couldn't be bothered with carelessness at the moment.

Clearly, the Slytherin hadn't seen her stumble and accidently drop the spider onto Jake. Nope. He'd missed all that in his musings of things...FOR REASONS.

Merlin, Dylan needed a BRO chat...with Jake.


...And whatever was going on with that ticket guy and all the racket...Could they all just stuff it? The Slytherin didn't care one bit about any of this and it was unnecessarily disruptive.

DISRUPTIVE.

So, for these reasons, they were all getting the mean eye.

Also, he was ignoring everyone else. He was sitting with Charlotte and protecting her with his life. EVERYONE JUST STAY AWAY.