...Tremble like a Tribble? Sophie snorted at that, thoroughly blowing her cover and peeking back around the corner at the approaching professor to give him a playfully baffled sort of look. "Superb word choice there." He always had a unique way with words, didn't he?

She rounded the corner properly to meet him halfway - she appeared a bit uncharacteristically bashful, though, and pressed her lips together in an embarrassed smile, eyes flickering briefly to the parchment in his hands. "Y'don't have to thank me, though. S'just... I thought people probably don't tell you what you deserve to hear often enough, so I tried puttin' it in word form on behalf of everyone." So really, if he wanted to thank someone, he should be thanking everyone, see? It wasn't just her own thoughts. "I've heard plenty of people say those things. Just felt like someone needed to relay them onto you."

For someone who was normally quite cool when it came to charming professors, she was already certain this was an unusually awkward interaction. She didn't want him to have to say anything, she just wanted him to have known the truth and boost his ego a bit.

And now he thought she was just some silly student, trembling like a Tribble.

...What in Merlin's beard was a Tribble?

The team was here! Or well she'd told them all they were meeting here to get this done. After one quick look around Lex realized the Professor hadn't been kidding when he said how AWFUL it looked. Who's idea of pink was this anyway?? And all this glitter, who had time for this????? Sweet Circe they had to get this place looking normal stat.

The walls needed re-colouring. Nothing that a little magic couldn't help fix and the glitter...well they could vanish it right? Or have it all vacuumed up with that sucking charm Airey taught. 'Vacavus' or something like that. Either way, it would get done.

Lex turned with a wide grin to face everyone that had shown up. "Thanks for coming guys, this will mean a lot to the Professor. So to start we'll need some of repainting the walls and others getting rid of the glitter itself. There are a couple colouring spells to make life easy and suction to get the hideous glitter off everything. I say we split up?" They could switch duties but it'd work best if they weren't all painting/ vacuuming, yeah?

"Let's get started!"

He wasn't sure who ELSE was here, but Lex had invited him to help. And Dima liked her even though she was scary and bossy and weird sometimes.

So he had COME.

"Hi!" And... woah, it was sparkly. He wasn't sure exactly how all the glitter had arrived outside Flamsteed's office, or why the walls of his seating area had turned that horrid shade of pink (yes, he did know it all to well. His mum had awful taste, okay?). But they had to DO SOMETHING about it.

Too bad Dima didn't know EITHER of those spells.

"Can you show me the coloring one?" 'Cause he could PAINT, yup. Just with an actual brush and not a wand was all.

Why was Zander here in the pink, sparkly room again? Well there was one major reason: Because Lex had assembled a team. And he kind of owed her one for helping him against Culloden. Even though they really hadn't budged the Professor, her help had made him a lot more confident about the who ordeal. Not to mention the fact that she helped bring Beautiful Bentley into things. So he was all BEAMS for her and especially ready to help her now. Flailsteed, he was alright. The guy had kinda sorta, actually a lot, helped him to get over his fear of delivering a special something to his most favoritest beautiful professor ever. So he was cool. Helping Flailsteed wouldn't be too bad of a motivation either.

The third year listened carefully as Lex called out a set of instructions. AYE AYE Captain! The Gryffindor jus nodded his head enthusiastically. He was even wearing some old clothes that he wouldn't mind getting all dirtied up. Plus, he had some practice with cleaning messes throwback to the pillow fight with Kevin and Peeves. Right. But how would they fix the sparkles? Would... a vacuum charm work? Or just a regular old Tergeo or Scourgify? Maybe even a Poliotus charm to polish things off at the end? "I can help with the glitter, Lex!" Even though he hated all things pink... And all things glitter.

Taking out his wand, the Gryffindor moved all the way to one of the glittered couches. "Vacavus!"... Nothing. Of course. Nothing worked on the first try. Ever. Maybe it was just his thing. Right okay, "VACAVUS!" AND Woaaaaah that was a lot stronger than he thought! Before he knew it the glitter was slowly being sucked up and the couch was returning to it's normal leathered color.

AWESOME.

Never in her eleven years of breathing did AJ think that she would be on glitter patrol. Her prefect had told her that Airey needed his little pink problem solved, and the image the first year had in her head was nowhere near as bad as the mess actually was. She slowed to a walk as she made her way to where Lex told her to meet up. "What the..." words, she didn't have them. This looked like a Valentine horror story.

"Where are the vacuums kept?" Oh right, magic. Magic would make this a lot easier for those that we're good at it. "Erm... What are the spells again?" And the wand movement. Matter of fact, a demonstration would be super beneficial. Once she got that done she would be super helpful. Pinky promise!

The first of their turn out!! Lex beamed at them and beamed even wider at Zander agreeing he would start the vacuuming. Getting right to it, she liked that, she did.

And LOOK, there was the little Ravenclaw she'd told to tag along. He was good minion company...for now anyway. She knew his loyalty didn't lie with her so she wouldnt' put all her hopes on him. Not even, nope.

Him asking about the pain and Zander already starting on the glitter made her think she might as well get rid of this hideous pink stuff. "Sure thing. We'll start over here." She said, walking over to the wall closest to them. When the others arrived they could get to the others if she wasn't there by then.

Lex stood by the wall, taking it in for a moment as she figured what be the best for use. One from an old Charms book. "The incantation is Colovaria and while casting you have to have the colour in mind. This wall used to be white and that's what we'll be getting it again. The wand movement is a point, easy enough right. Give it a try."

If he got it, she could move to another side of the wall.

And Aubrey was here too!! Lex grinned at the little lion and her dedication to getting the job done. She was actually just thrilled people showed up. Not everyone liked cleaning and being Prefect didn't automatically mean everyone listened to you.

"I know, hideous, right?"

While Dima tried his hand at that spell, Lex turned her full attention on this one. "Did you see Zander do it just now? It's not that hard once you concentrate. The incantation is Vacavus and it operates in much the same way as a vacuum so I'm sure it'll take the glitter away in no time."

Lex raised her own wand and gave a tap. "Vacavus!" And the woooshing started that lifted the glitter from the chair nearby. "See? Like that."

Right, this place was a mess. A sparkly mess.. He took a look around and pulled his wand, readying it.

"Vacavus!" He wasn't too loud about it cause there were other people cleaning and stuff, though he was curious where all the glitter being sucked up was going? Was there a magical Vacuum bag for his wand somewhere? Was the glitter going inside his wand? Who knew really.

See, Penelope liked the color pink just fine, but this...this was pretty awful. Who's idea was it to cover this place with an awful combination of pink and glitter? Not the best idea, whoever did it.

But anyway, it'd be going away soon since Alexa had asked her and some other people to help clean it up. Shouldn't take too long either with all the people that were already here so far.

And since Lex was helping the ones who didn't know the spells, Penelope just decided to go straight to work. Vacuuming the glitter seemed like the only option for now since Lex and the little Ravenclaw kid were gonna handle the walls and that seemed the easiest to take care of.

"Vacavus," she cast at one of the chairs, carefully using her wand to get rid of every bit of glitter on it. Which was a lot. Merlin.

He tagged along, eyeing the wall just like she did. Was Lex OBSERVING it? Like deciding how much of a fight the wall was gonna put up to keep its color? Could walls even fight? Normal walls didn't but MAGICAL walls, those had to be different, yeah? Yeah?

Bring it on, wall. Dima was ready for you.

"Colovaria. Co-loh-VA-ree-ah. Colovaria." Easy enough, right? He pointed at the wall, a plain stretch of white in mind. "Colovaria!" There was a flash of red light, and then the change started. It was almost instantaneous, not slow as if the color was spreading, but a fade.

So it WORKED. "I did it!" Did he get a sticker or something?

Kyroh would give him a sticker.

Alright, so now with one half of the couch taken care of, the Gryffindor turned to the other side. Merlin. This really was a huge mess. He had just assumed that the pink glitter was all Flailsteed's doing, but... apparently it wasn't. Fortunately for him though, this Gryffindor and Ravenclaw team was here to help! So yes, back to clean up.

The third year looked up at the mention of his name and smiled at both Lex and... The twin.. Which one was she? They were so similar it was actually kind of hard to tell sometimes. Or all the time. Yeah, mostly all the time. But yeah, if the firstie needed any help with the spell he wouldn't mind helping.

But right. Back to the point. He had a couch to clean! "Vacavus!" AH THE FIRST TIME THIS TIME! HA! Man. He was actually starting to get the hang of this! Awesome! He watched as the rest of the glitter got all sucked up. Perfect. The couch was looking great! Hmmm but it was most definitely missing something. Zander just stared at it for a couple minutes. Fixated. Thinking.

AHA! A polish! To make it all shiny without any glitter need. The Gryffindor smiled at the thought and held out his wand, "Poliotus!" Um. Okay. So he didn't quite have the hang of it yet.. "Poliotus!!" Thankfully it worked the second time, funny how it was always like that. Just plain funny. Ha. Anyways, now the couch was looking all shiny and man this leather never looked better! WOHOO! One couch done and... the rest of the room to go. Great.

Hideous. Hideous was a good word for it. Yup. It hurts my eyes." AJ was not a girly girl by any means, and she wouldn't even wear the color pink much less do THIS. A prank was a prank though, and this was a good one. If it really was a prank. How did we know for sure that Airey didn't like it? He seemed like the type. Oh well. It wasn't her place to judge or investigate. She was here to her her prefect, and that was it. Lions stuck together.

"I sorta saw what he did." Meaning that she heard him, and caught the wand movement out of the corner of her eye, but that was about the extent of it. Oh, but Lex was going to go over it with her. What a helpful prefect she was. The girl was downright cool. Vacavus. she repeated, and watched the demonstration. "Thanks. I'll try now."

"Vacavus." Nothing happened. Not again, and not right in front of Lex. "Vacavus." The glitter lifted, but all she managed to do was spread it out either further. Could she make this worse? 'Vacavus!" This time it worked, she watched as the glitter lifted. "Wicked." She was totally going to be helpful now. Airey was going to have the most glitter/pink free office there is.

Lex had gathered quite the group here. Nice job, prefect.

As Schuyler arrived on the glitter scene, she peered around at the mess that was SOON not going to be a mess anymore. Really, glitter was a nuisance. It got EVERYWHERE. Look at this place..

Seeing as most of the others were using the sucking charm, she figured she'd join that little Ravenclaw in doing some re-coloring. Schuyler liked color. And that shade of pink looked rather horrendous right now, so that needed to go ASAP. After moving over to the other side of Airey's door, she grabbed her wand and pointed it at the wall. Goodbye, pink. Hello.. white? Okay, that was a little plain, but she would roll with it. That kiddo was pretty decent at spells..

Anyway. With her wand arm outstretched, she adopted the boy's spell. "Colovaria."

So now that the couch was taken care of... It looked like the firstie had gotten the hang of the spell and was working on it as well! Great, the more the merrier! They'd totally have this office all cleaned up in no time. And hopefully Flailsteed would appreciate it. Merlin knows, the man probably secretly enjoyed the pink sparkles. But alas, there job was to clean so he'd clean. Right. Anyways.

The Gryffindor slowly moved away from the couch and head towards the coffee table. Thankfully, it seemed as if the coffee table wasn't hit as bad as the seats were, but there was still glitter all over. That needed to go. Asap. Holding out his wand once more, "Vacavus!" The third year watched as the glitter began slowly disappearing from the table. Thank goodness for magic, or else they'd be here all day! Merlin magic is amazing.

"Vacavus!!" He said the spell once more just for good measure as he cleaned up the entire coffee table. Well, this was going pretty smoothly!

Look at that, kid got it right away. GOOD. That would save on a lot of time. They had this whole place to clean and she didn't think she'd have all day to teach him something as simple as changing the colour of a wall. Basic charms stuff right there. "You did do it, now do it again over there. You can help Schuyler with the walls," because she had noticed the other Gryffindor arrive, HI, "then you can start on the glitter vacuuming with the rest of us."

Easy enough, yes?

She gave him a final, kinda like a 'get to it' before turning back to Aubrey who she'd be helping with the vacuuming.

It'd never occured to her until Zander did it that polishing would have added a nice touch to everything, giving it all a much cleaner look. "Nice thinking." She said, grinning over at the younger Gryffindor who was working at getting this place in tip top shape. "I'm sure Professor Airey will be through the moon when he sees it." Something that shiny, she didn't see how he wouldn't notice and be happier for it.



"That's probably one of the reasons I like you." Lex confirmed with a solemn nod. The Prefect liked ANYONE with a strong aversion to pink and Aubrey was displaying such behaviour right now so what was not to love? "Shouldn't be too much longer before the eye sore is gone. Dima and Schuyler already took out a wall each so we're almost covered." And thank Merlin too. How Airey sat in his office knowing this was what it all looked like was beyond her.

Aubrey's attempts were nothing if not a little feeble at first but Lex only gave her encouraging looks until finally the glitter started lifting like it did for everyone else that was vacuuming. "Knew you could do it. Think you can handle this couch while I tackle that one?"

They would need to spread out if they didn't want to be here all day and so she inched over to the other couch. "Vacavus." If Aubrey needed her, she'd call.

Zander momentarily, turned his attention back to Lex as she commented on his work. REALLY!? She thought it was a good idea?! He could almost feel his confidence boosting up a little and as a matter of fact, he was even standing a little straighter. Ha. "Thanks, I sure hope so," because there was a lot of work going into all of this. So hopefully he'd even be through the galaxy... Was that even a saying?... Okay... Leaving the constellation talk to Flailsteed from now on.

Anyways. Back to work.

The Gryffindor finally finished off the coffee table, and removed the magazines and other things on it. Holding the items in one hand and wand in the other, he decided to give the table a nice polish as well. Just to finish off his work AND Lex had said it was a good idea, so why not? "Poliotus!" Wow, he actually managed to get it right the first time this go and might he add, it looked FABULOUS! Except he'd never be caught saying that out loud because then he might start sounding like Professor Morgan and that would be weird.

Actually come to think of it, the only person who would probably appreciate this kind of room decor would be the divination Professor in mention. Shame it wasn't her room. That would save them all this work.

Anyways, as he looked over to the two who were working on finishing off the walls, Zander suddenly had a brilliant thought. Y'know what else Flailsteed would appreciate? Some warmth. The Gryffindor smiled to himself as he walked over to one of the finished walls and held out his wand. "Caelum Saepio!" He flicked his wand in a infinity sign motion and watched as it released some fog. Perfect. Looking around at the room, he decided to work on this wall a little longer before going back to the glitter vacuuming. "Caelum Saepio!!" Another portion of the wall began fogging too. That meant it was working. This was great.

Then, the Gryffindor walked all the way over to the finished corner and whispered one last "Caelum Saepio," before turning back to another glittery seat. Right. Now for the dirty work.

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...Tremble like a Tribble? Sophie snorted at that, thoroughly blowing her cover and peeking back around the corner at the approaching professor to give him a playfully baffled sort of look. "Superb word choice there." He always had a unique way with words, didn't he?

She rounded the corner properly to meet him halfway - she appeared a bit uncharacteristically bashful, though, and pressed her lips together in an embarrassed smile, eyes flickering briefly to the parchment in his hands. "Y'don't have to thank me, though. S'just... I thought people probably don't tell you what you deserve to hear often enough, so I tried puttin' it in word form on behalf of everyone." So really, if he wanted to thank someone, he should be thanking everyone, see? It wasn't just her own thoughts. "I've heard plenty of people say those things. Just felt like someone needed to relay them onto you."

For someone who was normally quite cool when it came to charming professors, she was already certain this was an unusually awkward interaction. She didn't want him to have to say anything, she just wanted him to have known the truth and boost his ego a bit.

And now he thought she was just some silly student, trembling like a Tribble.

...What in Merlin's beard was a Tribble?

Ah yes, there she was. Grinning and shaking his head with mild amusement as the Ravenclaw finally peaked out, the astronomer ceased his forward movement and stood with his legs shoulder's length apart in a somewhat casual stance. Hands in his trouser pockets. That was a must when being casual. Along with rocking back on his heels because that was fun and also stretched his legs a bit.

And he appreciated the compliment, hence the smile and chuckle and soon followed.

One thing about Airey Flamsteed was that he tended to feed off other people's energies - minus the negative ones like boredom and disinterest that occasional occurred in his lesson when he got carried away with an explanation - so right now his nervous energy was feeding off Miss Brown's nervous energy. Rubbing the back of his neck, he tugged on the blonde hair his fingers could grasp and looked sheepishly down at the floor. First Valentines that were unfortunately connected to astrology and now this?!

Were students trying to kill him with kindness? Kindness and speaking to him about personal issues?

But then he was suddenly struck with the memory of his 4-year-old self seeing a certain alien intellectual on the television. A Vulcan revered for his unusual persona and intellect... His papa had been right. While his heartstrings were metaphorically being pulled right now, he did not allow his emotions to get the better of him. So instead of a misty eyed gaze, his smile widened and he took a few more steps forward to place a sincere hand on Miss Brown's shoulder. "Thank you, Miss Brown. That means a lot and I am truly touched."

No shoulder pat this time. Miss Cambridge had taught him that that just was not his thing.

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The team was here! Or well she'd told them all they were meeting here to get this done. After one quick look around Lex realized the Professor hadn't been kidding when he said how AWFUL it looked. Who's idea of pink was this anyway?? And all this glitter, who had time for this????? Sweet Circe they had to get this place looking normal stat.

The walls needed re-colouring. Nothing that a little magic couldn't help fix and the glitter...well they could vanish it right? Or have it all vacuumed up with that sucking charm Airey taught. 'Vacavus' or something like that. Either way, it would get done.

Lex turned with a wide grin to face everyone that had shown up. "Thanks for coming guys, this will mean a lot to the Professor. So to start we'll need some of repainting the walls and others getting rid of the glitter itself. There are a couple colouring spells to make life easy and suction to get the hideous glitter off everything. I say we split up?" They could switch duties but it'd work best if they weren't all painting/ vacuuming, yeah?

"Let's get started!"

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He wasn't sure who ELSE was here, but Lex had invited him to help. And Dima liked her even though she was scary and bossy and weird sometimes.

So he had COME.

"Hi!" And... woah, it was sparkly. He wasn't sure exactly how all the glitter had arrived outside Flamsteed's office, or why the walls of his seating area had turned that horrid shade of pink (yes, he did know it all to well. His mum had awful taste, okay?). But they had to DO SOMETHING about it.

Too bad Dima didn't know EITHER of those spells.

"Can you show me the coloring one?" 'Cause he could PAINT, yup. Just with an actual brush and not a wand was all.

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Why was Zander here in the pink, sparkly room again? Well there was one major reason: Because Lex had assembled a team. And he kind of owed her one for helping him against Culloden. Even though they really hadn't budged the Professor, her help had made him a lot more confident about the who ordeal. Not to mention the fact that she helped bring Beautiful Bentley into things. So he was all BEAMS for her and especially ready to help her now. Flailsteed, he was alright. The guy had kinda sorta, actually a lot, helped him to get over his fear of delivering a special something to his most favoritest beautiful professor ever. So he was cool. Helping Flailsteed wouldn't be too bad of a motivation either.

The third year listened carefully as Lex called out a set of instructions. AYE AYE Captain! The Gryffindor jus nodded his head enthusiastically. He was even wearing some old clothes that he wouldn't mind getting all dirtied up. Plus, he had some practice with cleaning messes throwback to the pillow fight with Kevin and Peeves. Right. But how would they fix the sparkles? Would... a vacuum charm work? Or just a regular old Tergeo or Scourgify? Maybe even a Poliotus charm to polish things off at the end? "I can help with the glitter, Lex!" Even though he hated all things pink... And all things glitter.

Taking out his wand, the Gryffindor moved all the way to one of the glittered couches. "Vacavus!"... Nothing. Of course. Nothing worked on the first try. Ever. Maybe it was just his thing. Right okay, "VACAVUS!" AND Woaaaaah that was a lot stronger than he thought! Before he knew it the glitter was slowly being sucked up and the couch was returning to it's normal leathered color.

AWESOME.

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Never in her eleven years of breathing did AJ think that she would be on glitter patrol. Her prefect had told her that Airey needed his little pink problem solved, and the image the first year had in her head was nowhere near as bad as the mess actually was. She slowed to a walk as she made her way to where Lex told her to meet up. "What the..." words, she didn't have them. This looked like a Valentine horror story.

"Where are the vacuums kept?" Oh right, magic. Magic would make this a lot easier for those that we're good at it. "Erm... What are the spells again?" And the wand movement. Matter of fact, a demonstration would be super beneficial. Once she got that done she would be super helpful. Pinky promise!

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The first of their turn out!! Lex beamed at them and beamed even wider at Zander agreeing he would start the vacuuming. Getting right to it, she liked that, she did.



And LOOK, there was the little Ravenclaw she'd told to tag along. He was good minion company...for now anyway. She knew his loyalty didn't lie with her so she wouldnt' put all her hopes on him. Not even, nope.

Him asking about the pain and Zander already starting on the glitter made her think she might as well get rid of this hideous pink stuff. "Sure thing. We'll start over here." She said, walking over to the wall closest to them. When the others arrived they could get to the others if she wasn't there by then.

Lex stood by the wall, taking it in for a moment as she figured what be the best for use. One from an old Charms book. "The incantation is Colovaria and while casting you have to have the colour in mind. This wall used to be white and that's what we'll be getting it again. The wand movement is a point, easy enough right. Give it a try."

If he got it, she could move to another side of the wall.



And Aubrey was here too!! Lex grinned at the little lion and her dedication to getting the job done. She was actually just thrilled people showed up. Not everyone liked cleaning and being Prefect didn't automatically mean everyone listened to you.

"I know, hideous, right?"

While Dima tried his hand at that spell, Lex turned her full attention on this one. "Did you see Zander do it just now? It's not that hard once you concentrate. The incantation is Vacavus and it operates in much the same way as a vacuum so I'm sure it'll take the glitter away in no time."

Lex raised her own wand and gave a tap. "Vacavus!" And the woooshing started that lifted the glitter from the chair nearby. "See? Like that."

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Right, this place was a mess. A sparkly mess.. He took a look around and pulled his wand, readying it.

"Vacavus!" He wasn't too loud about it cause there were other people cleaning and stuff, though he was curious where all the glitter being sucked up was going? Was there a magical Vacuum bag for his wand somewhere? Was the glitter going inside his wand? Who knew really.

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See, Penelope liked the color pink just fine, but this...this was pretty awful. Who's idea was it to cover this place with an awful combination of pink and glitter? Not the best idea, whoever did it.

But anyway, it'd be going away soon since Alexa had asked her and some other people to help clean it up. Shouldn't take too long either with all the people that were already here so far.

And since Lex was helping the ones who didn't know the spells, Penelope just decided to go straight to work. Vacuuming the glitter seemed like the only option for now since Lex and the little Ravenclaw kid were gonna handle the walls and that seemed the easiest to take care of.

"Vacavus," she cast at one of the chairs, carefully using her wand to get rid of every bit of glitter on it. Which was a lot. Merlin.

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He tagged along, eyeing the wall just like she did. Was Lex OBSERVING it? Like deciding how much of a fight the wall was gonna put up to keep its color? Could walls even fight? Normal walls didn't but MAGICAL walls, those had to be different, yeah? Yeah?

Bring it on, wall. Dima was ready for you.

"Colovaria. Co-loh-VA-ree-ah. Colovaria." Easy enough, right? He pointed at the wall, a plain stretch of white in mind. "Colovaria!" There was a flash of red light, and then the change started. It was almost instantaneous, not slow as if the color was spreading, but a fade.

So it WORKED. "I did it!" Did he get a sticker or something?

Kyroh would give him a sticker.

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Alright, so now with one half of the couch taken care of, the Gryffindor turned to the other side. Merlin. This really was a huge mess. He had just assumed that the pink glitter was all Flailsteed's doing, but... apparently it wasn't. Fortunately for him though, this Gryffindor and Ravenclaw team was here to help! So yes, back to clean up.

The third year looked up at the mention of his name and smiled at both Lex and... The twin.. Which one was she? They were so similar it was actually kind of hard to tell sometimes. Or all the time. Yeah, mostly all the time. But yeah, if the firstie needed any help with the spell he wouldn't mind helping.

But right. Back to the point. He had a couch to clean! "Vacavus!" AH THE FIRST TIME THIS TIME! HA! Man. He was actually starting to get the hang of this! Awesome! He watched as the rest of the glitter got all sucked up. Perfect. The couch was looking great! Hmmm but it was most definitely missing something. Zander just stared at it for a couple minutes. Fixated. Thinking.

AHA! A polish! To make it all shiny without any glitter need. The Gryffindor smiled at the thought and held out his wand, "Poliotus!" Um. Okay. So he didn't quite have the hang of it yet.. "Poliotus!!" Thankfully it worked the second time, funny how it was always like that. Just plain funny. Ha. Anyways, now the couch was looking all shiny and man this leather never looked better! WOHOO! One couch done and... the rest of the room to go. Great.

There was....a LOT of noise going on outside his office. A LOT.

Sweet solstice were Javy and Piers back again to cause mayhem? Did he really want to venture out of his office to look? Not really, but this was where his Gryffindor curiosity got the better of him and, after slipping on his noise making slippers, walked over to his door and threw it open.

"Oh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy," he exclaimed as his feet seemingly gave off a coo-ing sound. There were A LOT of students out here...AND THEY WERE FIXING HIS SEATING AREA!

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH PRAISE THE COSMOS FOR NO MORE GLITTER!"

He said nothing more and simply stood where he was with a big doofy grin on his face as he watched the students at work.

Lex liked her! Did everybody hear that? AJ normally didn't care what anybody thought of her, but Lex was older and cool and AJ secretly wanted her approval. Lex was the kind of girl that AJ could hang out with. She could tell that they would have things in common. Beaming ensued.

The prefect watched her failed attempts until she managed to get it right, and even praised her when she did. Encouragement went a long way sometimes. Competition was the only thing in the world that made her preform better, other than encouragement. "Thanks for that."

AJ could totally handle the couch. "One glitter free couch coming up." She set right back to work with her new mastered spell. "Vacavus." The glitter was vacuuming up nicely when Airey's office door opened up. What was that noise? AJ looked down. "Nice slippers, professor."

Getting rid of this glitter was more tedious than Penelope expected it to be. Every time she thought she'd finally gotten all of it off this particular chair, she noticed there was a bit of it still stuck somewhere. It was like this stuff grew back or something. Merlin's beard.

She went over it with Vacavus several times because of this, determined to make sure ALL of it was gone. Every single annoying bit of it. She even ended up going around and behind the chair a little, JUST to be completely sure. And finally, it all paid off because the glitter was gone.

Thank Merlin.

That kid over there - Zander? - definitely had a good idea with that polishing idea, and Penelope was about to use it to make sure her awesome, newly cleaned chair when a loud voice suddenly came from the doorway...along with some strange cooing noise?

Oh. It was Flamsteed. Of course. At least he seemed excited that they were cleaning this up. He should be of course. And when one of the younger girls mentioned his slippers, Penelope looked down. "Is that where that noise was coming from?" What was the point of cooing slippers?

Zander was even insulating the place for the Professor. Something else to be noted in case the Professor wanted a complied report after. Why he would was beyond her, he didn't always make the most sense, you know?

"It's no problem! Wouldn't make sense having you here and not knowing what to do." She said with a grin as she FINALLY finished up the couch she'd moved to. WHO'S idea WAS this??? Didn't they know how HARD it was to flipping REMOVE the glitter?? Merlin's beard. They should have moved all this glitter to that person's room. See how they liked it. But that was pretty much whatever and Lex aimed next at the floor.

"Vacavus!" Suction powers as she walked along watching the glitter lift from the surfaces nearby. "Vacavus!"....what was that...?

The Gryffindor was about to turn at the REALLY CREEPY noise but the Professor's voice got her first. Of course. This didn't surprize her. "Got myself a make shift army, like you said Professor." She said with a grin and a salute. Did he SEE all the progress??

Stuck somewhere between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy in his thoughts, he vaguely registered that there were words being spoken to him and he had to blink a few times - and rub his eyes - to wake himself from his glitter-free fantasy.

"You certainly did, Miss Cambridge," he mused as he took, for the first time in fooooooorever, a confident step outside of his office and into his seating area. It was quite impressive the variety of spells he was hearing students produce, including his own Vacuuming Charm. "Absolutely stellar to see the practical application of what you've learned in the classroom." Which was a compliment for everyone, by the way. "How long have you all been out here?"

Action figure playing was, er, distracting and he easily lost track of the time.

"Why thank you, Miss Valentine," he grinned. He then gave his toes a little wiggle and his slippers moved and cooed accordingly. Which should have answered Miss Greenwell's question, yes? "You are hearing the gentle cooing sound of a Tribble for which my slippers are modeled after. Has a rather... tranquilizing effect on one's nervous system, doesn't it?" Also like their namesake, but that was a given.

He gave the area another look over. "Ah, I believe I have just the thing to assist you. Give me just a moment. I'll be right back," he said before slipping back into his office.

Awwwwww. The usually eccentric, exuberant professor looked so embarrassed! It made Sophie smile a little to see him so sheepish, and if she knew him better on a personal level, she might've given him a nice pat on the shoulder or something to make him feel better.

It didn't seem to matter that she hadn't patted his shoulder, though, for soon enough, he was reaching out to her and placing a hand on her shoulder. Sophie grinned big at that, fighting to keep his gaze without appearing embarrassed, both secondhand and for having expressed such genuinely kind feelings and having it acknowledged directly. She didn't like being a mushy gushy person with anyone but a select few, and especially not with a professor like Flamsteed.

For a moment, she was just smiling up at him, happy that he was happy and processing how awkward it was for the both of them - until she finally shrugged casually and offered, "Y'don't need to thank me. I should be thanking you for being so great and making Astronomy so easy to be interested in. There are some classes," she wasn't going to name any, "that are a lot less fun and interesting than they could be because the professor's dull or mean." Liiiiike Transfiguration. Mostly just Transfiguration, actually.

"But yours rises above the rest for all the good reasons possible." Maybe except Potions, but... "I mean it." Her tone was very matter-of-fact - she wasn't being soft and intentionally cheesy with him. "So... stick around for awhile, okay? I couldn't imagine what it'd be like to have anyone but you teach Astronomy. Bet it'd be outrageously underwhelming." She did move forward enough to reach out and nudge the professor playfully with an elbow to defuse tension this time and smiled brightly up at him.

"That's all I wanted to say, though." So she'd leave him alone. He could go back to his very important business or whatever he'd been doing.

All of a sudden, AJ wished that she had some super cool noise making slippers like the professor. "You're welcome," she said with a giggle. Under normal circumstances AJ would have chit chatted with the professor, but she had things to do, for him, btw.

Why was there still so much glitter? They had their own little army out here and it seemed like the glitter didn't wanna leave. "Vacavus." This couch still had a massive amount of glitter on it.

Looking over, it seemed like Lex had finished her couch in warp speed. She was older though, and who knew how many times she had the chance to vacuum up glitter. AJ wasn't going to take her slow progress personally.

The lion continued to suck up glitter and waited to see if Airey planned on joining them or not.

Glitter vacuuming? He didn't know that spell either, but there were SO many people doing it that Dima doubted he'd have trouble picking it up. "Okay!" Beaming at Lex and then that Schuyler girl who was helping him with the walls, the kid went back to his work.

"Colovaria!" Blank white clearly pictured in his mind, he-

.... what was that noise?

Oh! "Hi Professor Top Hat!" The first year WAVED, and... did the professor mind that he was the only non-Gryffindor here? He knew that the guy HIMSELF was one, but that was okay, right? Dima knew the COLOR-CHANGING CHARM NOW, he could make his robe crest red if needed!

SPOILER!!: *pokes him for not being a more sentimental fellow*

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Awwwwww. The usually eccentric, exuberant professor looked so embarrassed! It made Sophie smile a little to see him so sheepish, and if she knew him better on a personal level, she might've given him a nice pat on the shoulder or something to make him feel better.

It didn't seem to matter that she hadn't patted his shoulder, though, for soon enough, he was reaching out to her and placing a hand on her shoulder. Sophie grinned big at that, fighting to keep his gaze without appearing embarrassed, both secondhand and for having expressed such genuinely kind feelings and having it acknowledged directly. She didn't like being a mushy gushy person with anyone but a select few, and especially not with a professor like Flamsteed.

For a moment, she was just smiling up at him, happy that he was happy and processing how awkward it was for the both of them - until she finally shrugged casually and offered, "Y'don't need to thank me. I should be thanking you for being so great and making Astronomy so easy to be interested in. There are some classes," she wasn't going to name any, "that are a lot less fun and interesting than they could be because the professor's dull or mean." Liiiiike Transfiguration. Mostly just Transfiguration, actually.

"But yours rises above the rest for all the good reasons possible." Maybe except Potions, but... "I mean it." Her tone was very matter-of-fact - she wasn't being soft and intentionally cheesy with him. "So... stick around for awhile, okay? I couldn't imagine what it'd be like to have anyone but you teach Astronomy. Bet it'd be outrageously underwhelming." She did move forward enough to reach out and nudge the professor playfully with an elbow to defuse tension this time and smiled brightly up at him.

"That's all I wanted to say, though." So she'd leave him alone. He could go back to his very important business or whatever he'd been doing.

His hand felt like it had had a Permanent Sticking Charm placed on it as it continued to rest on Miss Brown's shoulder. Was that awkward? He probably should remove it soon or else risk the embarrassment of having it removed for him like Miss Cambridge had done. So he was staring at his hand. Willing it to move. MOVE HAND, MOVE! Only somewhere between the thought and his brain processing the request for physical action things got lost. And nothing happened.

And she was talking more. Lots of sincere words that were most definitely going to emotionally compromise himself were he to let his guard down completely. But, no offense Miss Brown, he wasn't quite ready to do that with you. In fact, there were still no students who had entirely earned that right. There were those that were close, but not entirely there just yet.

"I am just doing my job to the best of my ability," he smiled down at her. OH LOOK! His pinky was moving now. Maybe he could actually remove his hand so it wasn't just sitting there like some dead piece of moon rock in an astronaut's hand. Did that analogy even work? He was flustered, alright?! But her words were slightly reminiscent of Miss Wisteria's, causing his ears to turn a slightly brighter shade of red. "But it is stellar to hear that my efforts are having the desired effect."

He hadn't been expecting the elbow, although it did cause him to finally remove his hand from her shoulder, and took a tiny step to the side. "Newton's First Law of Motion," he explained. Because that explained everything. Obviously. "Unless you have somewhere you need to be, you are welcome to step into my office for some tea. We can find those flowers a prime spot as well."

SPOILER!!: all the "house elves"

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All of a sudden, AJ wished that she had some super cool noise making slippers like the professor. "You're welcome," she said with a giggle. Under normal circumstances AJ would have chit chatted with the professor, but she had things to do, for him, btw.

Why was there still so much glitter? They had their own little army out here and it seemed like the glitter didn't wanna leave. "Vacavus." This couch still had a massive amount of glitter on it.

Looking over, it seemed like Lex had finished her couch in warp speed. She was older though, and who knew how many times she had the chance to vacuum up glitter. AJ wasn't going to take her slow progress personally.

The lion continued to suck up glitter and waited to see if Airey planned on joining them or not.

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Glitter vacuuming? He didn't know that spell either, but there were SO many people doing it that Dima doubted he'd have trouble picking it up. "Okay!" Beaming at Lex and then that Schuyler girl who was helping him with the walls, the kid went back to his work.

"Colovaria!" Blank white clearly pictured in his mind, he-

.... what was that noise?

Oh! "Hi Professor Top Hat!" The first year WAVED, and... did the professor mind that he was the only non-Gryffindor here? He knew that the guy HIMSELF was one, but that was okay, right? Dima knew the COLOR-CHANGING CHARM NOW, he could make his robe crest red if needed!

Emerging from his office with a Cheshire Cat-like grin, he set a box of lint rollers on the coffee table and looked to the crowd. "As a final touch, if you could each take one of these and roll it over your area of my seating area," he instructed. It was part of his process, you see.

"Oh, Mr. Toussaint. I almost didn't see you there," he chuckled with a small wave. Small human in blue robes lost in a sea of taller students with crimson robes and all. "Do let me know if you need anything," he said, mostly to everyone, as he conjured himself a cloud and quickly mounted it. He would have flopped down on a sofa, but it had not been properly lint rolled just yet so it was not ready for his bum. "I'll just be right over here observing."

Oh sure Professor, take your time. Lex didn't think too much about what the Professor might have gone back to his office for. Still more of this glitter to get rid of and no time to waste. Other matters to be attended to and all that. "Vacavus!" Lex managed to get the glitter that had been under the coffee table by the couch she was cleaning. Section by section it vanished until this part of the floor could actually be considered clean.

...

.....Then he was back...with lint rollers?? Well then...

Without questioning it to much--except for the doubtful looks--she took one of the lint rollers and went over the couch she'd just vacuum. Hang on, comfort cloud. Wow Airey, way to take a seat. Though this was like a treat for him and she hadn't wanted him to help anyway. Just...she wished he'd have shown up AFTER they were done as close as they were now. Just another wall to go and the glitter over there.

Oh, plus this de-linting apparently.

roll roll roll.