Dungeon Corridor
 

The dungeons! They had always spooked her out, but she had adjusted last year thanks to the potion classroom's location. So it wasn't too bad for her to walk through them as she began to make her way to the Slytherin Common Room. There she hoped to meet that new firstie she met, or that second year too. She wanted to show them around a lil, you know get some good exploring buddies? Buuut she wasn't so sure where to find them so she thought some waiting at the common room might work...or not...she could always do something else cause come to think of it that waiting sounded boring. Real boring! Mhhm!

..What to do then? Was there anything enter----

Ohhhhhhh! Entertainment! A NEW Professor doing strange things! Time to investigate? MHHHHMM!

"Hello, Professor!" Did she have to mention his name? Cause she didn't remember it, she totally had other things to think about. "What are you doing?" Straight to the point.

Was he imagining things because he was bored, or was there really something behind this wa--

There was someone approaching, wasn't there? And that someone had seen him tapping on the wall, hadn't they?

Turning to her, it took all Cosgrach's will not to glare. But who wandered here--except that it was the corridor for Slytherins to open to the world--if she wasn't a Slytherin--

"What are you doing here?" He was the authority, she had to answer.

She saw what he did there. Mhhm. Very clever indeed and if he was about her size she would have known exactly what to say, but she knew better than to test authority not to mention you had to be on professors good sides if you wanted to get away with things. You know?

"I was just looking for somebody." Totally the truth okay? Did he have to look so scary? Though Abbi TOTALLY wasn't scared. Nope.

Now back onto him, but she couldn't sound bossy..she had to be careful with her words. "Can I ask Professor, why you were examining the walls? Were you looking for the ghosts?" Like maybe the Bloody Baron liked to walk through them and this Professor was searching for him. That could so happen.

Just looking for somebody? Cosgrach squinted his eyes at her. Since when did little girls like her wandered down the infamous dungeons to just look for somebody? What happened to Slytherin notoriety? Or was she lying?

Right. Paranoid ideas were dangerous. He didn't need them with a hopefully-sweet girl like her.

Ghosts? He smirked. "Yeah, I was," he said casually, because saying 'I'm trying to get used to here,' would be VERY unprofessional. "Have you seen any?"

Annnna XD
 

Sophie paused in the corridor, despite really wanting to get to the common room. Classes would start up soon, and she was hoping to just rest up and prepare herself before then. Why was she pausing, though? Well, there was some girl up ahead skipping merrily along like the best thing in the world had just happened to her.

Eh? A Hufflepuff? In the dungeons?

Sophie better send her along. She headed forward and straight toward the girl. When she finally got a few feet away, she said, "The kitchens are just one floor up. You can there by taking the stairs." She pointed toward the stairs behind her.

Waittt. Why was some girl coming right up to her? Grace wanted to get to the common room, an she couldn't do that if some girl was in her way. Oh. She kind of recognized the girl. Was that Sophie? She hadn't seen her for a while, but she was sure it was. Was she a slytherin too? She knew her brother was. So maybe she was too? That would be pretty cool.

"Oh.... I don't want to go to the kitchens." No. Why would she want to go there. Ohhh. Sophie thought that she was a hufflepuff? Well. She had wanted to be one. But no. She wasn't one. "Oh no. I'm not a hufflepuff." Sadly. "I'm a Slytherin."

Sophie could sense the girl's confusion, which only further led to the belief that this girl was lost. What was she so happy about it for, though? Ehh... She didn't want to go to the kitchens? Errr, okay then. The Slytherins didn't exactly have free room and board for the other houses down here, but whatever.

...but then the pieces started coming together, and the girl announced that she wasn't even a Hufflepuff after all. "Oh," was all Sophie managed to say. After everything had had time to settle in, she added, "My bad. I just thought...you know." Skipping and stuff? Yeah. Anyway... "Are you a first year or something?" Because Sophie hadn't seen her around until now.

Lulu! :)
 

Ugh. Jun didn't like being down in the dungeons. Even for potions class he didn't. But there wasn't much he could do about it. He liked potions and all. The dungeons were just moldy and smelled weird. Nonetheless, he walked along, thinking of going into the potions classroom to get some practice in. But he spotted a little midget, looking distraught on the ground. Jun couldn't help but snort as he walked over to her. He did it quietly so the midget wouldn't wake or open her eyes. Maybe a nice surprise from Jun would wake her up. Though, it only worked that time he taught her to play piano.

Tippy toeing to her, Jun leaped and jumped in front of her. "MIDGET!" He yelled at her. Maybe now she'd be a bit more awake. Jun knew she definitely would.

Yupp. The girl had thought that she was a hufflepuff. Grace giggled a little. Maybe Sophie didn't recognize her? Or maybe it was known that she should have been a hufflepuff. "I wanted to be one... like my mom you know?" Would Sophie remember that their mom's had been friends. Actually. Grace just remembered something. Sophie's mom had been a gryffindor. Sooo she wasn't in her heritage house either. Interesting. Very interesting.

"But nooo. I'm a snake." She beamed. She was already really proud of that. She didn't care any more that she wasn't a hufflepuff. That was old news now. Oh yes. Sophie really didn't know who she was. "Yeah. I'm Grace Paton...."

Somehow, after sitting there for at least five minutes, the password never made it back to her brain. She did begin drifting off to sleep though and she probably would have completely fallen asleep if it hadn't been for a certain giant ruining it for her.

Charlotte really hadn't heard anyone walking down the corridor so when Jun showed up and YELLED her name, she was more than a little surprised. A loud squeal left her mouth and she opened her eyes wide in shock, mostly scared. She looked up and once she realized it Jun, she glared at him. WHY did he have to be so annoying? "WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU DO THAT?!" she yelled up at him and then kicked his leg (not too hard) because it was the only thing she could reach. She pulled her knees in and wrapped her arms around them, and looked down the corridor so that she wasn't looking at him. She let out a sigh and mumbled so that he could barely hear her, "Ican'tstandyou."

Jun pulled a face when Lottie kicked him. Or should he start calling her Reese? Maybe when we wanted to be extra annoying to her he'll call her that. But right now, Jun rubbed his leg and sat in front of Lottie. "Wanted to see if you were awake or not? But looks like you are so," Besides, making Lottie annoyed was really easy too. It was probably because of her anger issues. Either way, Jun just liked being with Lottie because she could be such a child sometimes and he looked more mature around her. Lottie had mumbled something so Jun decided to ignore her. It was probably something about her hating him. Which he got a lot from her so it was no big deal.

"Anyway, why are you sitting in the corridor looking all distraught, princess?" He ruffled is now brown hair and crossed his legs. No cap today. Jun had already woke up with bed head and just put hairspray in it.

Did he have to call her princess though? All it did was make her feel bad for yelling at him. Somehow, he kept being nice to her -- on occasion -- even though she never really stopped being mean to him. "....sorryforkickingyou." She forced herself to apologize, even though any normal person would just speak at a normal volume to another person to see if they were asleep or not but whatever.

And now she had to explain why she was sitting there. This was exactly what she didn't want. She was going to tell him that she'd forgotten the password and then he was going to laugh and call her a midget again and she would just sit there not saying anything because if she did say anything it would just end up sounding mean. "I'm...uh..." Charlotte tried to think of a lie, anything really, but there was no way she could say she just wanted to sit on the floor because normal people would sit inside of their common room and she couldn't do that. "I forgot the password and can't get in so I'm sitting here and waiting to see if I can remember it because I don't want to ask anyone for the password because then they'll think I'm dumb." She finally turned her head so she could look at him and see what his reaction was and saw how much nicer his hair looked in person. She swore to herself in her head, hating how nice his hair was andhowcuteshethoughthewas.

He shrugged. "It's not like you broke my leg or anything. Besides, you're not too fond of me," Which was true, though he still liked to bother her because he could and Lottie getting angry was funny to him. Just imagine a really short girl pouting and throwing tantrums. It was pretty funny to him anyway.

But now the story about forgetting the password was probably funnier. Jun snorted and shook his head. "You are dumb. Just ask someone to give you the password. Tell them you're new and I'm sure they'll understand," Because not all Slytherins were bad. Like Adelaide. She was a nice snake with pretty red hair. He would ask someone for her but then why would a Slytherin give a Ravenclaw the password to their common room. It made no sense either way. "Would you rather sit on another dirty floor, or the comfy common room?"

"You realize you don't make any sense, don't you? You say I love you and then you say I'm not fond of you and it just...it doesn't make any sense." She really wished he would just decide what he thought she thought of him so she could make sense of him but it didn't seem like he could do that. "Choose and stick with it: do you think I like you at all or not?" She didn't mean to get so serious with him, although he was probably used to that by now, but she needed an answer -- and not a flirty one either.

Charlotte glared at Jun as she watched him laugh at her. AND HE CALLED HER DUMB. Maybe it really was his goal in life to make her angry because he just seemed far too good at it to only do it because he enjoyed it. "I am NOT dumb." She wanted to hit him again but she refrained. "It isn't that simple, okay? If it was, I would have done that already!" What did he care anyway? He should have just gone on his merry way and left her to her nap. So what if she was on the floor? "And as you should know already, I don't mind sitting on the floor at all. It's not that dirty either." She lied through that last bit because she was in denial of how dirty these floors really were. If she didn't think about it, she would be perfectly fine.

Jun let out a long exasperated sigh. Did she really need an answer? To him, it was pretty obvious how she felt about him. "No, I don't think. I know you don't. And maybe if you weren't so uptight all the time, you would know that most of the time I'm only joking with you. But I guess that'll never change," He was completely serious now. Something he doesn't usually get; only when he was annoyed or angry. Right now, Jun was a bit of both. But he could only blame himself for talking to Lottie in Diagon Alley and being rude to her. Maybe he should've just kept walking along the street and left her lost there.

"How is it not easy?" JUST ASK FOR THE STUPID PASSWORD. At least she didn't have to solve riddles to get into her common room. Passwords were easier to remember than thinking up an answer just to get some sleep. Jun rolled his eyes at her. He just stood shut about the dungeons floors not being dirty. You know because the water coming from the walls and mold were not dirty at all. Mhm. "If you say so. Still, do you need help remembering the password?"

Well then. She hadn't actually been expecting him to take her so seriously. Or, rather, she expected him to answer her seriously but she didn't expect him to actually be serious about it. Charlotte had never meant to upset him, at least not this time. "I didn't meant to...I mean.." Good job, Charlotte. "...I shouldn't have asked." There wasn't really much else for her to say. She could tell him that she didn't not like him and that she considered him her friend and that she couldn't help always getting angry but what would it matter anyway? It wasn't like it would change anything.

Asking someone wasn't easy for a lot of reasons and she wasn't going to just tell Jun about it because it was clear he was annoyed enough already. Charlotte was almost positive he'd never understand it either so it would just be best to lie. "No, I don't need help, it's fine. It's not important. I'll ask someone later, I guess." And she wouldn't but he didn't need to know that.

What was Jun doing down the in the dungeons anyway? From what she understood about Ravenclaw, their common room was almost exactly opposite of where Slytherin's was and classes hadn't started yet so it really didn't make any sense for him to be there in the first place. "Weren't you doing something down here? Before you saw me, I mean?"

No. She really shouldn't have asked. It just put Jun in a bad mood and that's when people should stay way from him. So he just ignored what she was saying and focused on his shoes. There was nothing grand going on there but it was better than looking at Lottie in the eyes after what he said to her. Jun was feeling bad now but he wasn't going to admit it. But then he started playing with his hair; still not looking up at Lottie.

He nodded. She might as well ask if she wanted to get inside. But then Jun remembered that Lottie was really stubborn so she probably won't even ask. She'll stay out here until she actually remembered the password. Lottie should've wrote it down somewhere or something. He took out a candy from his pocket and popped it into his mouth. Digging back into his pocket, Jun took out a lollipop for Lottie. "Want one?"

"I was heading to the potions lab for some practice before classes started," he answered her. Which was true. But now he was starting to regret even calling out to the midget while passing by. "I should probably head back there," Only because he was in a bad mood and was Lottie didn't want him around. But then Jun wouldn't concentrate on potions. He might as well head back to the tower.

Those eye squints really didn't do justice to his aging. Did he know that? He could of done with a bit of botox but Abbi wasn't saying anything like that to him...yet. Maybe after they became friendy friendy but now he was all glarey glarey. Why? Abbi didn't know exactly.

Oh well. Maybe he was trying to scare her? But guess what? ABBI AINT SCARED. Nope.

Creepy. He liked ghosts, maybe he'd become one when he died. Abbi would totally become a real fairy in her next life and not a witch, she was sure of it. "Nope haven't seen a single ghost. " Not in these corridors, at least. "Are you the new potions professor?" He must of been if he was here. "Are you good?" Like at potions and all is what she meant.

This was why Charlotte didn't have friends...along with her not being able to talk to people normally but mostly because she was very good at upsetting them. But maybe it was for the best? Maybe after today Jun would realize how annoying he thinks she is and then he'll never speak to her again and she would just go back to being Charlotte Stylinson and not Candy Midget and everyone would just be happier. Or, at least, Jun probably would be.

She was glad that he didn't push her to ask anyone for the password right then and there even though she was sure he knew she wasn't going to ask. And when he offered her a lollipop, she didn't even feel like taking it. "No, thank you." If this wasn't awkward tension, she didn't really know what was. Charlotte didn't quite understand why he was offering her candy anyhow, he knew she had plenty of it stashed up in her room.

Now he was going to leave and she was just going to let him. He had more important things to do anyway and it wasn't like they were getting anywhere here. She pulled her legs in closer to her and rested her head on them, not looking at Jun but looking just past him. "Probably. I'll see you later." There. The end. Sadlife.

GOOD, because Cosgrach had absolutely no idea what he would be saying to a ghost if she directed him to one. He tried his best disappointed face, though, and decided to have a conversation with her instead.

Students. Kids. He had to get used to them.

"I am, yes," he said, then rolled his eyes annoyedly. SRSLY. Why did everyone feel the urge to question that? Did he look like a good-for-nothing his parents tried to raise?

"I am," he said, then toned down his irritatation. He wasn't being wise with it.

"Do I look like I'm not?"

Like her mom? Sophie nodded very slowwwwwly, like she was supposed to know the girl's mom or something. "Oh, well, both my parents are Gryffindors, so it happens," she said with a shrug. "Did you want to be a Hufflepuff?" That must have been one awesome sorting--going in expecting the worst and ending up with the BEST!

Sophie grinned when the girl announced herself as a snake. "Well, congratulations then. What'd your mom say?" she asked. Sophie wished she would have been a fly on the wall when her parents read the letters she and Caleb had sent home.

Pause.

"Wait," Sophie said, shifting her weight from one foot to the other, "you're Grace Paton? Don't I know you?"