PROFESSOR BOTROS! Mika wanted to apologize for not being able to finish making her Grandr. She had wanted to and then the soul-sucking beasts had rattled their way in. Seriously she was going to keep her distance from anyone whose breath rattled…even if it was just because of a mild case of Emphysema.

But as she got there the food and the site of a pot of hot water for tea made her stop momentarily. Her attention was grabbed by the headmistress’s skipping…but for now all she wanted to do was talk to Botros.

“BOTROS” she squeakily squealed as she skipped to the table and waved her hands. One hand on her hip the other one in the air. It was like something had possessed her some idea that is, the tune of a song began to vibrate from her throat in a humming sound. She was fighting the urge to sing. Nope no singing none nope. It didn’t work.

“I’m a little teapot,” she squeaked out. All of a sudden her voice got louder until she was practically scream-singing the words to the song. "I'M A LITTLE TEA POT SHORT AND STOUT" she was even holding her hand in the air like the teapot's spout. "HERE IS MY HANDLE" she inched the hand that was on her hips up slightly indicating it as her handle. "AND HERE IS MY SPOUT" she used the hand that was in the air and twisted the wrist up towards the sky.

"WHEN I STEAM UP HEAR ME SHOUT! TIP ME OVER AND POUR ME OUT!" beaming she was beaming..."I LOVE TEA...tea is awesome tea cakes and tea...tea without tea cakes tea served in these gourds called Yerba Matte I had that earlier...TEAAAAAA do you like tea? TEA IS AWESOME." It would be a wonder if the entire school including those on the seventh floor hadn't heard her exclamation about tea.

Blinking she just stood there and beamed at the Professors.

Truth be told, Airey wasn't even sure what had possessed him to shout about Pluto like that. He was a facts man. Putting emotions into a scientific debate and classification was strictly illogical. There were guidelines to be followed and Pluto had strayed from those therefore, by definition, it was no longer a planet. Still, for WHATEVER reason he felt sorry for the planet. He himself had been an "against the status quo" sort of person and had been rejected for it.

Still was, as a matter of fact. One look around the staff table and all the looks and glares he was receiving from various collegues told him as much.

So, he was just going to stay now with his face smashed against the table and be an awkward ostrich.

Maybe catch a few Z's while he was at it.........

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And why on Earth did Airey have his head against the table?! Slipping into her chair, she hesitated a moment before poking his upper arm. Wake up? Please?

...............or not.

Lifting his head slightly, Airey turned towards the jabber and saw that it was the Arithmancy professor. What? Had she come to make fun of him too? Give him weird and judgemental looks? Hmmmmm? "Can I help you?" he asked lazily.

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Oh yeah, that wasn't awkward or anything Airey.

Elwood gave the Astronomy Professor a quick, sort of hurt look before turning her gaze from him. She took a big gulp of her drink and tried to look anywhere but the blonde man. Even when he shouted about Pluto not being a planet anymore.

She was tempted to point out to him that Pluto, for the majority of the human races' time spent on Earth didn't even know it existed so that it was classified as a planet for a minute time in history so he shouldn't be that upset about that. Especially not NOW when he was the one who just snubbed her and didn't even wave or smile at her.

That's not how you treated someone who kissed you...someone who was your friend!

HMPF.

As if to avoid eye contact with his one colleague, he turned his head in the opposite direction and unfortunately met eye contact with Calista briefly enough to make his insides squirm again.

Planking. Yes. Planking seemed like a brilliant idea right about now.

He was just SO good with women. So good. NOT.

He didn't end up planking, but instead tried to offer her a smile. Only his smile came across as more of a terrified deer in headlights sort of look. He DID manage to lift one hand and wiggle his fingers at her. Had she been looking? Maybe? Did Calista and Medea really have to sit RIGHT next to each other?

SPOILER!!: speech!

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Well this was it, she supposed. Time for the grand old speech. Annie's tummy felt queasy at the idea of talking, of addressing that empty seat beside her, but it could hardly be avoided now. People were getting hungry, Hufflepuffs were coming up to the table to try to talk to them, students were wanting to say their goodbyes...

She heaved a sigh and stood up. It would be better to just get it over with. She cleared her throat and waited for silence, then amplified her voice and began in a very somber and serious tone.

"Good evening, everyone, welcome to the end of term feast. As you all doubtless know by now, we lost a very important staff member last week. Our Groundskeeper, Mr. Alistaire Firth," she nearly choked on his name but tried to hold on to her resolve to be strong, "was attacked by dementors whilst defending his fellow staff members. This tragedy is completely unexpected and I accept full blame for Mr. Firth's current condition. I am so sorry that our Class of 2081 had to have such a stain on their year, and so close to their graduation as well." She gave a few of the tables sad looks.

"But the year does not have to end on an entirely bad note. Mr. Firth was a cheerful man, beloved by many throughout the school, and always working to improve the grounds and the educational environment of you all." She gestured toward the student tables in what was hopefully a cheerful manner? They had all thought he was handsome cheerful too, no? "Next school year, I am pleased to announce that we will be removing the hefty turnstile fees in the Great Hall and all four common rooms, and will be reducing fees and improving fundraising measures elsewhere in the school. We will also be working closely with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to get back our funds and to investigate the source of these dementors plaguing our school!" Damn straight! Here here! The redhead banged her hand on the table a few times to make her point.

"Now then, let's move onwards and upwards from here and enjoy the feast. Make sure you all congratulate Hufflepuff House on their..." how many was it now? "House Cup victory, Slytherin House on their Quidditch Cup trophy, and Hufflepuff AGAIN with their Gobstones victory. Now let's all eat and enjoy our time together!" Because you never knew how much you had left, right?

She put on a brave final smile just as the food, which was somewhat improved from the start of the year, appeared. But instead of sitting down, in a shocking turn of events, the redhead climbed up onto her throne-like chair and declared in a sing-song tone:

"IT'S FINALLY SUMMER, NO MORE DIRT! NO MORE OF THIS PLACE!"

Then she proceeded to hop down and begin skipping around the Great Hall, humming a made-up tune about summer and sunshine and flowers. WHO WAS WITH HER, EH? She was going to personally make it her mission to end the year on a better-than-dismal note.

Oh. Goodie. Speech.

Airey tried his best to sit up during it, mostly looking down at the table top and his spork which he had, yes, somehow snapped in half again. It didn't even cross his mind to try and fix it with magic. He felt too broken inside. Broken just like his spork.

But then there was food. Food and drink. Only he didn't have his two front teeth and it still felt weird trying to eat without his front teeth. Which is why he removed a curly straw from his pocket and stuck it in his goblet of pumpkin juice and began to suuuuuuuuuuck.

Heh. Curly straws WERE rather fun. Probably the best thing about the feast right here.

His mood darkened a bit more when he saw all the love that the very man who had PUNCHED HIM IN THE FACE was getting from Miss Cambridge. She was probably glad he had gotten punched in the face. Had both his teeth knocked out. All because he had eaten her ice cream in front of her while trying to prove a point. Don't mind him. Toothless Aireyhead over here moping about and sipping through his curly straw.

Even Cece was getting more love than he was. A HUG from Mr. Gunter.

Where was his hug? And why wasn't anyone telling him he should be Headmistress? Er...Headmaster.

No one cared about little ol' him. He was just invisible.

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Laura was going to do this, she was going to do this, she would need a plan though, well saying that the best plans were those that just came about without thinking about it she walked up to the staff table and looked for Professor Flamsteed, she wanted to speak to him.

"Professor Flamsteed." Laura smiled, when she finally spotted him. "I just wanted to say I hope you.." Laura faked tripped up and knocked a glass of whatever it was on Professor Flamsteed shirt. "I'm sorry sir, I hope you have a great summer." Laura just stared wondering what the Professor would say.

See? Even spilling pumpkin juice all over him. And now his curly straw was on the floor too.

Drip drip drip went the pumpkin juice. And his favorite t-shirt was covered in it now. And his pajama bottoms. "Fat's alwight, Miss Hyde." As least she acknowledge he existed and all that. Now he just needed to clean himself up. "I hope you haff a good summa as well."

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“I’m a little teapot,” she squeaked out. All of a sudden her voice got louder until she was practically scream-singing the words to the song. "I'M A LITTLE TEA POT SHORT AND STOUT" she was even holding her hand in the air like the teapot's spout. "HERE IS MY HANDLE" she inched the hand that was on her hips up slightly indicating it as her handle. "AND HERE IS MY SPOUT" she used the hand that was in the air and twisted the wrist up towards the sky.

"WHEN I STEAM UP HEAR ME SHOUT! TIP ME OVER AND POUR ME OUT!" beaming she was beaming..."I LOVE TEA...tea is awesome tea cakes and tea...tea without tea cakes tea served in these gourds called Yerba Matte I had that earlier...TEAAAAAA do you like tea? TEA IS AWESOME." It would be a wonder if the entire school including those on the seventh floor hadn't heard her exclamation about tea.

Blinking she just stood there and beamed at the Professors.

He was back to looking at the top of the table now - and trying to figure out how best to eat his meal with his broken spork. Mashed potatoes should be easy enough to scoop. Not to mention if he had to he could just use his hands. They did that in some cultures.

But then he was distracted once again by the Ravenclaw singing. Oh how he wanted to stand up and start singing with her, but he just could not find the energy to get up and do so. He just wanted to fall asleep in his chair. Better yet, in his office. Only being in his office reminded him that there was no Pebbles and that just broke him. Broken like his spork. Broken like his teeth.

He offered the girl a politie clap before his blue eyes went back towards the other end of the table and...OH CECE! RIGHT! He had needed to speak with her. Sluggishly, Airey pushed his seat back and walked over to the Healer, hand in his pocket as he searched for his two front teeth.

"Ahem," he said while clearing his throat. He hated interrupting the moment she was having with Oakey...but his teeth... "I wath wondering if I coold ashk you somefing, Heawer Tillsturm."

And then he smiled a little. TADA! Missing teeth!

Oh look. The Potions Mistress was even getting a hug. WHERE WAS HIS? He had a boo boo. A bad boo boo too.

OH WOE WAS HE!

Josephina had been so busy moping and working on comprehending Airey's outburst and making sure he wasn't like dead and stuff, that she completely forgot about greeting her colleagues. She barely heard someone greet her and looked down the table to see where it came from. Oh. Calista. The woman was nice and all, even her subject was semi-fraudulent and lacking proof.

"Evening, Callie." Fina replied back, monotonously. Oh. The house cup. They won!? Staring for the first time at the Hall's decor, she admired it a moment before looking back at the blond. "Thank you. I'm proud with their behaviors this term." She was proud, even if she felt inadequate in some parts, at least one area of her life was good?



And then it was time for the speech, which started off just like any other traditional speech. Except for mention of ... Firth, in which unfortunately she looked towards the empty chair and felt sick thinking about it. He was so ... why did bad things have to happen to good people? It just wasn't fair. He was a Gryffindor; brave.

Wibble.

Hardly listening to the rest of the speech, as her thoughts were on the soulless former-groundskeeper, she then stared in shock when Annie suddenly exclaimed loudly about no more of this place. WHAT in Wenlock's was the redhead carrying on about?! Why was she so gleeful anyway?!? OH ............ YELLOW AND BLACK!!! Of course!

Well that just made a whole lot more sense now. Even if she herself didn't have the energy to ... skip ... she was just gonna sit there and watch the ever energetic headmistress celebrate for her.

... and the energetic Divination professor too? Wenlock. What WAS she doing?! Dancing to the headmistress' skip?! Awwkkkwardddddddd.

And what was Alexa Cambridge doing down there to Erik?! She have something in her eyelash she wanted to show him? A chocolate frog piece?

And how come the healer got a hug from Oakey?!? She was his HOUSE HEAD and yet he hugs the healer?! Good vibes about badgers winning the house cup had passed cause now it was just her .... and herself ... and nobody there. Nobody remembers the dear numbers lady.


....... what? Having been distracted by all the shenanigans down at the other side of the table, she forgot completely about Airey's earlier outburst. Until he awoke and looked over to her for a brief moment. Which caused her to stare back, confused. Had she bothered him or something? Why was he talking to her again? She didn't address him ... did she?

"Uh... um..." Swallow. "You okay?" As quickly as she asked that, came another distraction and outburst from a student, which was just as well, cause then she didn't even notice Laura come and knock over Airey's goblet, spilling a drop or two of the juice on her jeans.

Not that it mattered anyway.

... because a Ravenclaw was singing that classic nursery school song to the runes professor.

The runes professor who was just so ... admirable and a total sweetheart, really. Was there any need for the ravenclaw to be SHOUTING at him?! Probably not. Noting his attention on the food, she focused instead on him. On those cheeks. Those wrinkles. Those big ears.

And without warning, she wrapped her arms around him to pull herself close to him, whispering his ear, "you've got some schmutz on you, right there," and moved her mouth down and smacked a big kiss on those lips that one could only get after decades.

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PROFESSOR BOTROS! Mika wanted to apologize for not being able to finish making her Grandr. She had wanted to and then the soul-sucking beasts had rattled their way in. Seriously she was going to keep her distance from anyone whose breath rattled…even if it was just because of a mild case of Emphysema.

But as she got there the food and the site of a pot of hot water for tea made her stop momentarily. Her attention was grabbed by the headmistress’s skipping…but for now all she wanted to do was talk to Botros.

“BOTROS” she squeakily squealed as she skipped to the table and waved her hands. One hand on her hip the other one in the air. It was like something had possessed her some idea that is, the tune of a song began to vibrate from her throat in a humming sound. She was fighting the urge to sing. Nope no singing none nope. It didn’t work.

“I’m a little teapot,” she squeaked out. All of a sudden her voice got louder until she was practically scream-singing the words to the song. "I'M A LITTLE TEA POT SHORT AND STOUT" she was even holding her hand in the air like the teapot's spout. "HERE IS MY HANDLE" she inched the hand that was on her hips up slightly indicating it as her handle. "AND HERE IS MY SPOUT" she used the hand that was in the air and twisted the wrist up towards the sky.

"WHEN I STEAM UP HEAR ME SHOUT! TIP ME OVER AND POUR ME OUT!" beaming she was beaming..."I LOVE TEA...tea is awesome tea cakes and tea...tea without tea cakes tea served in these gourds called Yerba Matte I had that earlier...TEAAAAAA do you like tea? TEA IS AWESOME." It would be a wonder if the entire school including those on the seventh floor hadn't heard her exclamation about tea.

Blinking she just stood there and beamed at the Professors.

So there he was, peacefully stuffing his face and smuggling some food for his Cruppy when there was a Ravenclaw girl saying his name without any title and singing and dancing (?) and then shouting. He had the spoon suspended in midair between his plate and his mouth throughout the teapot song and eventually he stuffed his spoon in his mouth and gave the girl a short clap before taking the spoon out and busying himself with his plate.

Poor kids traumatized after the news! They were going kookoo.

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The runes professor who was just so ... admirable and a total sweetheart, really. Was there any need for the ravenclaw to be SHOUTING at him?! Probably not. Noting his attention on the food, she focused instead on him. On those cheeks. Those wrinkles. Those big ears.

And without warning, she wrapped her arms around him to pull herself close to him, whispering his ear, "you've got some schmutz on you, right there," and moved her mouth down and smacked a big kiss on those lips that one could only get after decades.

?!?!?!?!

..........?!?!?!?!?!?

........................??!?!?!?!?!?

Welp. He hadn't had a friendly peck like that since he last saw his daughter, and so Botros patted the young woman's shoulder, "There there. You're just like the others. Traumatized by the tragedy. There there." He needed to get out of here soon before the kids started giving him friendly pecks too. Blasted school.

Where did his cane disappear to?

Minerva had to get away from her table.. This should be a happy time they had won the cup again, but her face and puffy eyes showed this was not a happy time for her. She couldn't take the hugging anymore... She couldn't take the chatting anymore. She needed to just get away from it, but going back to the claw table was just not happening either. To much emotion sat around there and she was just exhausted from it all. So Minerva made her way up to the Staff table. Keeping her distance as she moved quickly away from the end that help the terrifying wacka doodle twins. She stopped for a second and turned walking towards Tillstorm. This could be a death mission or it could be alright she wasn't sure. All she knew was her heart was racing and her panic attack was itching to come out the closer she got to the woman.

Keeping a good distance from the woman and only making eye contact for a quick second in a quiet shaky voice she spoke, "Healer Tillstorm. I.. I wanted to thank you again.. For the smelling salts that day with the.. the dementors." She kept her focus at the table like a terrified puppy dog. She looked back up again without making eye contact.. "Ma'am.. I also want to apologize for anything that was out of the ordinary for me the hug the last few months.. I know now my actions weren't really my own." She glanced down towards Lafay for a very very quick second. She probably should say that same thing to her, but that woman terrified her more than this one.. So she would maybe just avoid Lafay for awhile.. or take Wade with her when she apologized

Once she was done speaking to Tillstorm Minerva quickly made her way to the other end of the table so she wouldn't be hexed or burned again. That's when she froze. Mamma Hadley was kissing Botros??? What was going on here... O_o did those dementors make her lose her mind as well. Maybe they could share a room at St. Mungos She wiped her stinging eyes as she made her way in front of the three professors on the end. "He.. hello Professor Flamsteed.. Are.. you alright?" She looked concerned for the man. He wasn't himself that was obvious. She gave a small sad nod to Professor Botros as well, "Hello Professor.. Ummm... " nice kiss? Honestly what do you say after seeing something like that.

She then turned her focus on the person she was wanting to see most. She had avoided Hadley's office since the prefect event for good reason. After seeing her mother figure almost be taken by those horrid creatures, she just couldn't face seeing her if something was still wrong. Minerva knew she had froze that evening and couldn't do anything to help her. That hopeless feeling washed back over her and she bit her lip trying not to cry again. " Pr..professor.. Hadley.. How.. are you?" she seemed alright she was kissing another professor, that showed alright didn't it? "I.. I hadn't been to see you in awhile.. and wanted to make sure to say thanks.. for the year and have a great summer before the feast was over." She looked down wiping at her eyes again.

So, here was Wade walking towards the staff table as he approached one Professor. He heard so many rumors since he came here the first time last year on how evil and dragon-like she was. But.. she couldn't be. Professor Lafay had been so nice to him and a lot of people this year, even throwing an ice cream party despite.. well, you know. Wasn't she also fairly close with Mr. Firth? It must have been horrible for her to witness such a nice gesture turn out like this. He waited until she was done speaking with a younger girl before he went up to her.

"Hello, Professor Lafay.." He greeted her, "I just wanted to say-" and there Wade went, reaching over to give her a nice big old badger hug. "Thanks.. for this year, and I hope your summer goes well." He let go right after.

Hecate had just returned to the table and her seat, though she hadn't yet sat down when the Hufflestud approached the table. As he began speaking, her left eyebrow rose...

...but then...

...



His arms went around her arms. Although younger, he was taller than she. Most of the upperclassmen were... Her eyes became real wide and she turned completely red. A tomato red...

Once he let go of her, she just looked up to him and tried to say something... but what? You're Welcome? Don't you ever do that again? Diffindo? All that came out though, was fish face... you know the kind. Lips opening and closing, with no words coming out.

Finally... she just nodded nervously... twice, and sat down... hopefully he couldn't reach her again. Her wand would be ready this time...

Why did Hufflepuff always want to HUG HER!!!

As soon as Wade let go, he somewhat binked at her reaction. Was she getting upset with him? Or was she.. aw. Wade frowned a little, he didn't want to make anyone cry, especially Professor Lafay, who had such a tough reputation. He sheepishly rubbed the back of his hair, while saying softly. "Erm.. that was all I wanted to say.. I'll see you again next year." Then he gave a last smile before turning to return to his table.

...What? Huh? "Uhmmm ok..." Was all she could muster up.

Did she have a sign that said 'HUG ME' on her forehead?

She turned and looked towards Hadley. Why didn't she keep her badgers at bay? Was it her? Did she send them to her for public displays of affection?

Oh his face was red. Was it now. How kind of her to point it out for him. A vein started angrily pulsing in Erik's neck as he reached for his cup of water again. He was undecided on whether to drink it or throw it on the girl.

What -seriously, what- was wrong with her?

"I vill NOT be getting ice cream or syrup or anyvhing else vith you, Alexa." He finally replied, very, very patiently considering where his blood pressure was right now. He opened his mouth to add on to that with several other things he would never do to/with/near the girl, when she then complimented his face.

She called him pretty. Pretty? Erik had never been pretty in his life. Handsome, charming, dangerously good-looking...those were all much more accurate adjectives. He shook his head again, just...dumbfounded at what to say to that. Dumbfounded speechless.

Thank Odin for the Potions Mistress. Erik let out a deep sigh when Lafay, somehow, swooped to his aid. Yes, the ice cream...distract the girl with the ice cream.

"Here, Miss Cambridge..." he echoed the professor distantly, "take the ice cream and go back to your table." And forget that you ever embarrassed yourself and your professor by confessing......anything.......to him.

You know what? This had gotten old faster than she thought it would. Sitting at her table, this seemed like the perfect way to entertain herself--don't get her wrong, his expressions had her cackling on the inside--but her short attention span was beginning to get in the way again.

She eased off the table, straightening at his rejection of her ice-cream offer. It was just as well, whatever was in the ice-cream here was probably down at Florean's too.

"Well. That's cool too I guess." She said with a shrug. He'd gotten completely serious, that killed the fun in every sense of that phrase. His face was still red but he looked like he was about to bust a blood vessel. No more Professors dying, thanks. She didn't wanna have to sit through another boring speech about loss of lives and appreciating what one had. Nuh-uh.

She looked to Professor Lafay who'd gotten her ice-cream. It almost made her sick.

Just her usual state?

"The Professor has a point there." Probably not the best thing to admit, but necessary. She wasn't about to shovel more ice-cream down her throat. NOPE. She scowled the moment they BOTH instructing her to have the ice-cream. "No thanks, I'm going strictly veggies for this feast. It's for Oakey, he's graduating and nuts about the stuff. I haven't been very open to his point of view so I figured why not." JUST NO MORE ICE-CREAM! Meeeerlin.

Hold on.

She was starting to get the feeling that they actually believed her. In fact...the History of Magic Professor seemed almost cross by now. Lex's brows crinkled. "You don't have to look so serious..." Her scowl grew deeper after a second look at the ice-cream. "It was just a joke. I...don't do crushes--I meant what I said about you being interesting, you blow things up but..." Just no.

The joke was boring now and she still wanted none of that ice-cream. Professor Lafay could enjoy. Was she embarrassed? Not particularly. Just reeeally bored again.

Why was it that whenever she was having fun it was somehow wrong? Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez. She bet Professor Airey wouldn't have been such a fun-sucker.

Adjusting the Slytherin tie he had wanted to wear the duck tie he had gotten from Professor Flamsteed but didn't want to risk point loss at the last minute, Daichi made his way towards the staff table. He checked if his Prefect badge was correctly pinned to his shirt and ran a hand through his newly styled hair.

There were a few people he wanted to say goodbye. Reaching the long table, the Slytherin took a deep breath before he looked around. He saw a few other students talking to the Professors and the Prefect waited with his hand folded in front of him.

He looked far more mature than when he had been all year thanks to that bloody ice cream. He hated how had acted and wished he could turn back time and not eat any ice cream. Still, he couldn't and he knew he had to live with it. His chocolate brown eyes searched the table before they landed on the person he first wanted to talk to.

Professor Flamsteed looked...different without a suit. Why was the man not wearing a suit? This was weird, yup. Choosing to ignore his new choice of clothing, the Prefect moved a little closer and waved his hand. Though not as excitedly as he alway did. "Hi Professor" he began and sighed. "I just...i wanted to say goodbye and ...and thank you for ..you know...that thing i talked to you about? ...listening and stuff" The fact that he was really going to see a psychiatrist after school was still scaring him.

SPOILER!!: Fina...and stuff

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....... what? Having been distracted by all the shenanigans down at the other side of the table, she forgot completely about Airey's earlier outburst. Until he awoke and looked over to her for a brief moment. Which caused her to stare back, confused. Had she bothered him or something? Why was he talking to her again? She didn't address him ... did she?

"Uh... um..." Swallow. "You okay?" As quickly as she asked that, came another distraction and outburst from a student, which was just as well, cause then she didn't even notice Laura come and knock over Airey's goblet, spilling a drop or two of the juice on her jeans.

Not that it mattered anyway.
The runes professor who was just so ... admirable and a total sweetheart, really. Was there any need for the ravenclaw to be SHOUTING at him?! Probably not. Noting his attention on the food, she focused instead on him. On those cheeks. Those wrinkles. Those big ears.

And without warning, she wrapped her arms around him to pull herself close to him, whispering his ear, "you've got some schmutz on you, right there," and moved her mouth down and smacked a big kiss on those lips that one could only get after decades.

Airey offered the woman a small shrug. Did he LOOK okay? "I'f been beddah," he said as a weak reply. Truth. Vague. But still true.

He was just about to go back into napping position when the Arithmancy professor was moving and..............EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW. SERIOUSLY?! She had jabbed him in the side for THAT?

Airey's nose wrinkled and his face distorted as if he had a pile of fresh dragon dung under his nose. She had old man cooties now. And Old Man River had woman cooties. Which also meant that he had a double dose of women cooties since Calista had kissed him and then he had kissed Medea and....

....ew. Was that his skin crawling right off his bones? Not at the thought of Calista or Medea though. Why was all this so confusing and just sdlfkdjfkdjfefieofsdnksdnso?

There was a whole lot of touching going on tonight. Hugging and kissing and stuff and it was freaking him out a little bit. But would never admit it out loud that he wanted a hug too.

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"He.. hello Professor Flamsteed.. Are.. you alright?" She looked concerned for the man. He wasn't himself that was obvious.

Thankfully Miss Wheatborn distracted him. Only when he looked on the young woman he felt horribly guilty. "No, Miss Weeborn, I am not," he said as he rose from his seat so he could more easily lean across the table if needed. "I had no idea that aish cream wood do that." And he had GIVEN it to her. He had given it out to so many. So many. He had infected so many students and....

Okay. His cheeks were getting a bit damp now. He just felt AWFUL about all this. If she hadn't requested her to come to his office then she wouldn't have been given the ice cream from him and then maybe her term would have gone better and... "I am tewwibly tewwibly sorry," he said, the gap where his two front teeth should be showing quite prominently as he spoke.

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Adjusting the Slytherin tie he had wanted to wear the duck tie he had gotten from Professor Flamsteed but didn't want to risk point loss at the last minute, Daichi made his way towards the staff table. He checked if his Prefect badge was correctly pinned to his shirt and ran a hand through his newly styled hair.

There were a few people he wanted to say goodbye. Reaching the long table, the Slytherin took a deep breath before he looked around. He saw a few other students talking to the Professors and the Prefect waited with his hand folded in front of him.

He looked far more mature than when he had been all year thanks to that bloody ice cream. He hated how had acted and wished he could turn back time and not eat any ice cream. Still, he couldn't and he knew he had to live with it. His chocolate brown eyes searched the table before they landed on the person he first wanted to talk to.

Professor Flamsteed looked...different without a suit. Why was the man not wearing a suit? This was weird, yup. Choosing to ignore his new choice of clothing, the Prefect moved a little closer and waved his hand. Though not as excitedly as he alway did. "Hi Professor" he began and sighed. "I just...i wanted to say goodbye and ...and thank you for ..you know...that thing i talked to you about? ...listening and stuff" The fact that he was really going to see a psychiatrist after school was still scaring him.

He was just about to lean forward and give Miss Wheatborn a hug when Mr. Katharos appeared at the table. Oh sweet solstice, him as well. Airey had also given this boy ice cream. And Miss Cambridge. And Miss Wisteria. And...so many. He had nearly gotten them all killed.

All of them.

His cheeks were definitely moist now and he somehow pushed his anxieties about sentimental physical contact aside and pulled BOTH students in for a hug. "Mr. Katharos," he said, squeezing the boy quite tightly. "I am so sowwry to you too."

And MERLIN was he going to miss this boy.

Oh! Minnie was here as well?

The Prefect's eyes went to his newly made hufflepuff friend and smiled a little bit. The fact that he was going to not see her again was terrible because they had just started to become friends. He was about to say something to the girl when he was roughly grabbed and pulled forward in to a hug by the Professor together with Minnie.

The Slytherin let out a squeal of surprise and awkwardly held his arms by his side when the hug tightened. He now had to gasp for air and began to LIGHTLY punch the man's arms for him to let go of him and his friend. "S-Sorry about what?" he asked confused when he noticed that the man was crying now. And....were few of his teeth missing?!

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Oakey let the moment go, his face no longer red from embarrassment. "I-uh I've already opened it. Tried to read one page, but my table is really talkative. Had to put it down, I'll read it on Train....home." Right, he needed to stop reminding himself about leaving Hogwarts. Just the thought of it was putting a bad taste in his mouth. "You live in Hogsmeade?" Not sure why that mattered to him, just a good way to continue conversation he supposed. He looked over at Alexa who had offered the Healer cookies then eyed them himselves. "She's got a good point she does." Oakey picked up three Cookies from the dish that Alexa sat down then stuffed them into his face. "MEWINDESAWDEWISHUS!" He looked at Alexa. Did she get this recipe from Kurumi or something? Oakey finished chewing down the last bit of Cookies then picked up one more from the plate for safe keeping.