“Make way for the Bacon Sandwich maker god!” Ethan loved making entrances, and bombarding the house elves in their territory was no exception. Always make an impression, yes? Or maybe not? The house elves did look at him all right, but then continued to walk to and from places cleaning up the kitchen or preparing food for their hungry visitors. “Well, that’s a bit rude. You should have at least said hi...or even a wave will do.” Ethan scrunched up his nose as he placed his first bacon sandwich on a countertop nearby, and extracted all of his cooking utensils for the next task.

Pointing his wand on the stove, he casted the fire spell on the burner and commenced the cooking. “Incendio!...fiyaaaaaaah.” Next was placing the frying pan on the stove, and drizzled a little amount of oil on it, waited for the stuff to heat up, and then added the bacon strips one by one. Now that he’s using normal fire, he need to keep an eye out on his bacon strips. The quality and crispiness should be the same with his first one so the answer won’t be a dead give-away for Simon, yes?

Sizzle. Sizzle. Sizzle.

And as he waited for his bacon to cook, he went on to do the next steps.

Cosgrach was caught. Hehe. He swallowed the piece in his mouth and grinned at her unashamedly. "I thought of doing 'E' for 'Elodie', but did you know these house-elves CAN bake?" It was a rhetorical question. She did know that. "Sorry, Elodie. I'm a man." He then took another bite as he motioned with his other hand for her to take the seat across him.

"Enniway," he told while he was still chewing (he'd covered his mouth with his free hand though because ewwww he wouldn't show her the contents of his mouth while eating), "how are you?" A small talk wouldn't hurt.

She shook her head, tutted and put her hands on her hips. Of course she was kidding with him, but it was fun all the same. "I can one-up you, Professor. I can bake." Boom. Take thattttt, 'fessor. She could have whipped him up enough cupcakes that him eating one wouldn't have mattered. Not that it did anyway. Els sat herself down, but only after tucking her legs underneath her.

How....was she?

She raised an eyebrow in confusion, but answered anyway. "I've been better.... Why? Who's been talking to you? What've they said?" Was it Cat? No... Cat wouldn't talk about her like that. And Sophie didn't know enough. No one knew enough. No one knew anything, really.

"How are you?

Alright time to get cooking in the usual kitchen. He didn't need to use the Kenaz rune. He would just have to use the regular flame that he would use at home. He brought the bread and cheese and bacon in with him from using it in the workshop. He got his work station going. He put his bread on the cutting board and started to clean. He used "Scourgify!" and cleaned his workspace. Now once everything was clean, he began to butter his bread slices on the opposite ends. After that, he went to heat up the burners on the stove. He waited till he felt the heat. After a few seconds, he felt it. Then he sprayed cooking spray on the pan and heard the spray sizzle. It was done! He looked around and didn't see Lux yet. He smiled and continued to go on with the task at hand. He didn't want anyone spying on him!

Zander walked into the kitchens feeling a little more confident than he had been when he had walked into the acient runes workshop. After having successfully made the macaroni once, his self esteem was starting to feel more steady. And hopefully this would be a lot easier since he wouldn't have to worry about all that kenaz nonsense. Plus, the kitchen was familiar territory for the lion.

Walking up to the stoves he pulled out the second box of macaroni shells, some cheese, and a little bit of milk. His mother always added milk. It made the macaroni softer and WAY MORE YUMMY! After pulling out another pot he set it on top of the stove and "Incendio"ed that thing. WOOHOO! Magic is so liberating! Something about it always gave him a rush.

Anyways... He poured in all the shells and set the dial on a little bit higher. He'd need all the heat he could get. Especially because he needed the water to boil before he could drain it all out. AH. Macaroni was a solid choice for sure.

Lucy made her way in the kitchen to cook her French fries.
She took out her items from the bag.
"Aguamenti! !!" Lucy cleaned the workstation..
Lucy pointed her wand on the stove:" Incendio!"..Now she was ready to start cooking!

Alright time for the next step....

He put the bread slices and cheese on and added the bacon pieces that were extra from the workshop into it. Then it was cooking. It seemed like it was cooking fast. He checked it and it was brown but not brown enough. He waited a few seconds and then it was crispy. He flipped it over and then it was cooking. He waited a couple more seconds and then it was done! He could smell it again and it smelt delicious! His mouth was watering. He removed the sandwich from the pan and put it into the Tupperware. It was all set. Now he needed to go find one of his best friends to taste test them with. He wanted to know if she could tell the difference. He hoped he would be able to trick her but Lux wasn't that gullible.

Now onto cleaning his station. He was so used to it at home, he put the pan in the sink and cleaned it by hand. He was scrubbing and whistling. Afterwards he dried it off and then used "Scourgify!" and cleaned the oven off. There all done!

Everything that gone great for the first part of the cooking thing but now she had to use one of these stoves in a real kitchen. Emmylou started to get some flashbacks of when she almost burnt her grandma Duchannes house down using stuff like this. Emmylou liked the magical way better! So much better. Just don't burt anything. Emmylou had her finished candies in the smaller container and the rest of the ingredients in the larger container and instructions were in her back pocket. Emmylou grabbed a medium sized pot and a cookie sheet. She remembered mostly what she had to do so maybe she didn't need the paper but she was going to keep it close to her just in case she needed it or forgot something.

The third year turned on the stove to preheat it at 290 degrees. She sprinkled the powdered sugar on the cookie sheet and set it aside. She poured some water into the pot and then the sugar syrup. She stirred and stirred the liquids until the syrup has dissolved. Now she had to wait about thirty minutes without stirring it. Emmylou knew that she should have brought a book with her.

With her fire lit, the first year was good to go. She REALLY didn't feel like doing this all over again considering that she JUST did this with the rune. Glancing at her recipe she thought that next time she needed to pick something that didn't have so many steps.

In a separate bowl she added a cup of butter, cup of white sugar, cup of brown sugar, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract. 3 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 2 teaspoons of hot water that she conjured from her wand, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and 2 cups of semisweet chocolate chips. Whew. It was a bowl full. She made certain to mix everything together until the consistency looked like cookie dough in her mind.

She decided this time she would just smear the cookie dough down to match her cookie-pie creation that she made the first time. That way it would look like she meant for her stove top cookies to be a stove top cookie pie... or cake. Wasn't that what her mum called it? A cookie cake? Anywho... she tried to pay better attention to the time this go round.

Once everything was all done. She turned the fire off and boxed up her creation for the last time. Making sure that her are was cleaned, AJ gathered up all of her personal belongings. The lion needed a guinea pig now.

EEEEP okay so now the water was boiling! And the macaroni shells were starting to float up. That meant that they were about ready... Hopefully... Again Zander lifted up the pot, turned down the heat, and ran to drain the water. Hopefully this batch would turn out just as yummy as the first. Once the water was all drained out Zander took out a single shell. Tester peice? Mhmmm, it felt soft enough...

Wasn't there a trick about throwing the noodles at a surface or something...? Eh. Nah. It probably didn't even work anyways. Last time Zander tried to throw food... It ended up all in his hair. So yeah, not going for that again. This kitchen was cursed. Okay, so back to the macaroni shells!

The third year poured in a tiny bit of milk, just enough to go around the bottom of the pot. Perfect! Now for the cheese blocks! One... Two... Three... How many had he put in the first one? Six? Yeah. That sounded like a good number. After plopping all six cheese blocks in, Zander waited for them to get all melty and gooey. MHM cheese is the best. Then once they started softening up, he promptly began to stir the mixture around a little bit.

Then he turned off the heat and TADAAAAH! Macaroni part 2, SUCCESS! His parents would be so proud! And so would Hadley. Hopefully... Grabbing a nice sized container he poured the macaroni in, making sure to stick a label on top saying "2". This way he'd be able to differentiate between the two foods. He did a couple quick cleaning spells to clean up his surroundings and then he hurried off to go find his food victim tester. Ah, this was actually kind of fun!

Sniff, sniff. “Oh, Merlin that smells so good!” Ethan closed his eyes as he inhaled the scent of bacon while spreading stuff on his bread. Multi-tasking, yo. A house elf broke his reverie though when it tugged on his trousers and pointed at his pan. “What?” Ethan scrunched up his nose and abandoned his bread and spread as he peeked on his frying pan. The bacon strips were done already, and if the house elf didn’t intervene, he’d have a very toasty bacon.

Ethan extinguished the fire and placed the bacon strips on another plate with layers of paper towel. He dried each strip off and laid it on his sandwich, then topped it sliced tomatoes, lettuce, cheese and all the good stuff. He did leave another piece for himself though and popped it inside his mouth. The Slytherin took note of his observation and cleaned up his mess. He gathered all of his used cooking utensils and used the cleaning spell on each item. He called one house elf and instructed it to put back the kitchen utensils for him, and another elf for the unused ingredients. He gave the counter a final wave of his wand to make sure that everything’s clean. “Scourgify!”

All right. Now he’s got to find Chef Simon to judge. He wore his satchel again, and carried the two plates on both hands. “Simon…you are one lucky chap.”

Cosgrach raised his eyebrows in wonder, but he wasn't surprised too. He didn't know if the girls in the last year took some secret baking classes, but so far the three he knew could bake wonders.

"I don't doubt that, Elodie," he said with a big smile, and grabbed another cupcake. There were two flavours - his favourite two: lemon and chocolate. He indicated with his other hand for her to take one, as well. Or didn't she eat cupcakes someone else baked? Heh. Wouldn't be surprised, again.

...Cosgrach frowned to himself in confusion. Should he know about something? "No one's told me anything," he said carefully, "but should they have? Is something wrong?"

Until she answered, he was going to ignore her question back, because clearly he was splendid whereas she was terrible.

Once she'd settled into the seat and leant into her hand, she did reach for a cupcake. But only after he'd pointed out for her to take one. She always had time for cupcakes. Maybe. "Thanks 'fessor.. What's the occasion?" There was usually an occasion for someone to provide you with cupcakes unless that person was Cat. And Cat usually brought her cupcakes and spaghetti or cupcakes and hugs. There was always a duo with her best friend; she knew her that well.

And there it was...

She'd gone ahead and put her foot in it. Hadn't she yet learnt that just nodding along and saying you were fine meant you'd never have to answer any questions? Clearly not. Els sat quiet whilst she finished off the bite of cupcake in her mouth, and once she had that swallowed... she shrugged. "Boy drama, Professor. Boy drama, worrying about the future, and expecting to fall short of everybody's expectations of me. Other than that... I'm fine."

He wasn't going to question boy drama, right? Men didn't do that, did they?

Cosgrach looked offended at first, but jokingly. He then chuckled in good humour. "What, can't I give you cupcakes just like that?" He shook his head playfully. "We're meeting in the kitchens, and I thought we might enjoy some delicacy." Fine, he looked like he usually sought something if he was being nice to people, but... he was a nice man, promise.

"I can poison the idiot," he casually offered, but his expression said he WAS worried for her. "Because clearly he doesn't deserve to live if he's hurting you." He shrugged as he eyed his cupcake. "Have you decided what you want to do after graduation?"

She tilted her head, raised her eyebrow and then smiled softly. "I don't just like cupcakes, you know? I'm a huge fan of spaghetti. And ice cream." She wouldn't let him know that it was her favourite when they were both in the bowl together but if they were sharing delicacies in the kitchen, then he may as well know what her favourite was. Cupcakes were fine though, and she was enjoying this one very much so.

The prefect blinked a few times, and left the cupcake in her hand and stared at the Professor. POISON? "No! No..." She was shocked that he'd suggest something like that, even though she wished she could take him up on the offer. "I'm the one who hurt him...is hurting him... I don't know. It's my fault though." That was Coul. With Connor...she couldn't take any more blame than she had already and she knew the reason she'd been so sad was because she blamed herself more than him now. Maybe he deserved something along the lines of poison....

Or maybe she was just looking for a way out of the situation without having to let him down and tell him nothing more was going to happen between them because she was very much focussed on getting her ex boyfriend back, and even had something planned out for the occasion.

"Travel, 'fessor. I think I want to travel for a year. I'm deferring my place at university for the year if I get the grades... I think I just need to get away, you know?"

Finally the last step..
Lucy looked at the frying pan..when she saw the bubbles, she throw the little pieces of potatoes..
The temperature of the oil didn't seem high..the potatoes were remained yellow without the golden crust..therefore she decided to try a new baking..
She took out the potatoes from the pot and she thought:" Why not?!?!". Lucy throwed again the potatoes into the pan for the second time..
" Incendio"... the flames grew up..
Lucy said:" Not so much !!!"
In a few minutes the potatoes were cooked..maybe burned but cooked..
who could judge such a disaster?
She took two plates, however, and looked around for someone...

...But...but...Cosgrach looked at her with big eyes. What did that mean - she didn't like cupcake? It didn't make sense! EVERYONE loved cupcakes! He'd specifically asked for cupcakes so that she would like...

"Okay," he simply said, and to feel better again, he stuffed another cupcake into his mouth.

So he was busy chewing while she spoke, and he tried to chew that quickly not to make her wait too much for his input.

"Oh, c'mon!" he somewhat impatiently said, "don't try to be the hero by taking all the blame upon yourself. No one's ever 100% guilty in relationships." Did he appreciate the speed he chewed that cupcake to say that? "Who's he?" Did Cosgrach know? He hoped so.

Cosgrach nodded. "The wisest thing to do. At least that's what I'd done too." He smiled a little. "So you have got a major in mind? Or countries?"

The hero?

The HERO?

Elodie gave her Professor a look, placed her cupcake down and folded her arms with a sigh. "I'm not trying to be the hero. I'm being the villain, because that's what I am." That was all that was happening here, and the fact he even thought she was being some sort of hero was...ridiculous. "His name is Coulson. He graduated last year. Split up with me over Christmas...." Admitting it properly out loud still hurt though, and she closed her eyes for a moment and steadied herself with a shake of her head.

"The other he, though, is Connor Jones.... I kissed him. I told Coul. He dumped me because he can't trust me. That's that." It wasn't though. She'd kissed Connor since the break up, and yet she couldn't get over Coul. And her Professor most definitely didn't need to hear any more and get an opinion on her. She was the person in the wrong here.

"I wanna go into Healing.. I think I want to deliver babies or something like that. I figure maybe a year away might make me realise properly if that's what I want or not..." Was he hoping she'd have said Potions? She'd considered it and maybe she could combine it with her healer studies. Maybe.

Bay held his already mixed ingredients in one hand and his box of cookies that he had already made in the Acient Runes Lab that were nice in his box. Opening the door to the kitchen he saw that there was a nice opening.. Moving over towards it he placed that box down and grabbed his pre mixed cookies.. he had done that earlier in the lab so he only cooked half of it up there.. and then now the rest.

Bay grabbed a cookie sheet and wiped it down with butter.. he didn't want them to stick and he has seen his mum do this a million times.. and this was the only thing he learned from it.

Once the sheet was greased he went over and washed his hands.. yeah he knows he just washed them before he left the lab but theres no harm in cleaning them again.

Now back to his cookies.. putting his hand in the bag he grabbed a little bit of dough as he started to roll it around in his hand, after it was nice a smooth he placed it on the sheet and did the rest of the bag. Once the bag was empty he had 12 nice little cookie dough balls on the cookie sheet.

So he has pretty much done the dirty work so he went to go wash his hands again. On his way back he turned on his oven to 350 degrees so now all he had to do was wait for the oven to beep so it will tell him that it was at the proper heat to cook the cookies.

Coulson... Cosgrach didn't know him. Better. Elodie probably wouldn't want his involvement, but he would most likely be unable to hold himself back from at least trying to fix it. He politely looked away while she struggled to hold her tears back (he assumed), and kept silent as she went on telling.

...oh. He'd never took her as someone to cheat on anyone, but she'd gone and done that. And she had to be a complete Hufflepuff and go tell Coulson, didn't she? Cosgrach sighed.

"Then you are the villain, Elodie, sorry," he said. "Was it worth it, then? Kissing Connor?"

...ah, healin - BABIES OKAY COSGRACH WAS NOT PANICKING WITH THE WORD NO NO -

"So you like babies?" he breathed and looked at her differently - almost as if he admired her for that. "How?" How did she do it? Could he do it too? What did he have to do?

Well yes. Thank you very much for that, Professor. For once someone was letting her feel as bad about it as she wanted to. "No.. Not worth it at all. I regret it more than I regret hating my mum for getting sick." Because that hadn't been her fault, but she'd had no one else to blame when she'd known and she didn't understand anything that had been happening. "I wish I'd had someone to stop me and ask if it was what I really wanted..." She sighed then, and put the last little bit of the cupcake in her mouth and fell quiet to finish it.

"I worked real hard for Coulson to be my boyfriend you know? He didn't want to be, but I worked real hard and convinced him I was worth it..." Not that she was worth it now. Not that she'd actually ever been worth it. He'd had the right idea in the first place.

It wouldn't matter once she was gone though. She could pretend she was someone else. Forget everything from here. As much as it stung.

She noticed the new expression, but said nothing about it. "Yeah. They can't answer back and I don't seem to get as annoyed with them as I do the usual people I encounter." Actually..he was one of the few she hadn't had to contain an insult about. "M'not sure yet. I think I might look into it a bit more. Just do my healer studies and then look at it after or something... I have no idea."

His oven finally beeped and he grabbed his cookie sheet as he placed it quickly in the oven… it was so hot in there.. how did these muggles do this everyday when ever they wanted to cook.. Looking at his watch he made sure that they weren't inside the oven no longer than 10 mintues.. because they would be burnt otherwise.

Leaning against his work station he waited for the cookies to cook… he kept watching his watch and the time felt like it was going on forever!! why…. he just wanted these cookies cooked already so a. he could have some and b. that he can get someone to taste test them.

minutes pasted as he looked at his watch once more and it was time for the cookies to come out..moving quickly to the oven.. he made sure to turn it off.. he was pretty sure that the house elfs wouldn't like it if he burned the place down.. did he mention how hot it was down here?

Putting on this mitt thingy that protected his hands he opened the doors and pulled the cookie tray out of the oven and he got a blast of hot air as he placed the tray on the counter.. then he took his scooper thingy and placed it on the cooling down tray.. while he got the second box ready, making sure he wrote kitchen on the bottom of the box he started to fold it.. once it was done folding the cookies should be nice and room temp.

carefully placing the cookies in the box he tied it up and went to go find someone to taste test each cookie to tell him which one was better.

...

Oh. Ouch. She messed up big time, didn't she? Cosgrach wanted to point out that Coulson probably never wanted her, then, seeing as forced relationships barely worked out, but he knew better than that. He wished there was some way for him to find Coulson, though, and talk to him or something, because it hurt his heart to see Elodie this hurt.

"Boys aren't worth it, Elodie," he said in the end in an effort to make her feel better, "Coulson's probably moved on to some other girl pretty quickly. So you stop mourning over that now." Yeah? This came from a male too, mind ya. Hear this advice!

Ooooh... Cosgrach had never considered it in this light. "But they cry? And you can't know what they are crying about?" Or did everyone else but him posses some talent to know what was wrong with a baby? Hmm... he needed to ask... Soheir, about it. "Well, I hope you decide the best for you, girl." ANd not forget her old p'fessor here.

Quietly, and..only quietly, Elodie managed a protest and then a squeak. Moved onto another girl... Another girl. A girl that wasn't her. Sure, she'd been around Connor and things...but this was different. Coul was hers. He was supposed to be hers. He was still hers. Right? The thought of it made her stomach turn, and she could have excused herself then to go cry in the bathroom until she made herself sleep or something else. Instead she sat there. Glued to her spot. Unable to move with the thoughts of another girl with her guy.

Her guy that was so hard to understand. Her guy that had only ever let his guard down with her. Her guy...that had once worried she had drowned when she played dead in the lake. Her guy that knew when something was wrong, who promised forever, who promised chickens one day... So Elodie was stuck, and she was crying. Her eyes filled up, and her chin went on a wobble spree and she sighed. Sighing brought on the onslaught of tears and she was very quickly a sobbing mess.

A sobbing mess that couldn't believe he'd said that.

How dare he? How dare he think such things about Coulson when he didn't know him. How dare he agree she was a villain and then practically tell her she wasn't good enough and was THAT easy to get over. She already had enough of those thoughts herself. "He WOULDN'T!" And that was all she had to say on the matter.

But she did have a cupcake to throw at his face. Which she did.

Not even that would hurt as much as the heartbreak.

...

Okay, maybe a squeak... was a step towards healing? Like, "YOU'RE RIGHT! I FEEL BETTER ALREADY!"??? Cosgrach... was sure. Yeah. It was that!

...but then she was crying...

But crying only quickened healing! What good did it do to keep it all insi - oh merlin he was doomed, wasn't he? He was doomed, and she was the one sitting closer to the door, and he had no chances of escaping, WHERE WERE THE ELVES ANYWAY WHY WEREN'T THEY ENTERTAINING HER, the last time a girl cried in his supervision, she'd gone hysterics and Cosgrach had to give her a calming draught and her cousin caught him and - he was doomeddoomeddoomed - and he didn't even have a calming draught on him all he had was -

"No Elodie don't -" SHE WAS SCREAMING "- OF COURSE HE -"

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

..............................WHATTTT EVENNNN -

"Ouch."

HE WAS THE VICTIM HERE! She confused him with her stupid love story and who kissed who and what was he supposed to do, give her false hopes??? Say Coulson would OPEN HIS ARMS to her? Was this the prize of being honest? He was VERY disappointed with this youth, they threw cupcakes at the EXPERIENCED! If she didn't want to hear the TRUTH, she might as well speak to a wall!

But worry not! Cosgrach KNEW what to do!

"I KNOW exactly what. You. Need!"

Producing THREE vials of very fancy-looking potions from his pockets, he grinned at her cheerfully (although with his white white face and shaking hands due to panic, it might as well have looked like he was in deep pain). "A TOTAL makeover!" he announced cheerfully like in comedy movies. "I'd brewed you these potions - a hair one that changes your hair colour and makes it soooo easier to shape," he was picking the correct vials while he explained (and he was talking fast to finish before she had a chance to interrupt), "a nail one that you dip your nails into and they get the design you want! and something for a face that cures acne and everything." He looked at her excitedly and in fear. "I wanted to meet to give you these because you are such a lovely girl and I thought you'd love these, and I see you DO need them! He will love new Elodie!"

YEEEEAH, he was SO clever!