Annabelle didn't want to hang around in the noise of the Common Room so she sneaked through the hidden door and slid down the wall a few feet away from the door. She got herself comfortable before untucking the book from under her arm. leaning it on her knees so that it frll open to her place, she began to read.

Due to extreme boredom, Cass decided to explore the dungeons. She exited the noisy common room and walked down the dark and gloomy corridor. Most people would probably get scared by the eerie green lights and the dark corners, but she wasn't. She was a Slytherin after all. She belonged here. This was home.

Helena decided to go for a walk around the dungeons to start and remember the places, so she would never be late for classes, which was her biggest fear. She felt a little bit scared but seing a few other stundents around made her feel more comfortable. What could happen, anyway? she thought. It's Hogwarts, it must be safe.

"Hi..." Damian whispered with a smile on her face that was odd because it seemed friendly and wicked at the same time. There were two things Damian did as a habit in the dungeons - sneak up on people and whisper.

"Did you want to give me a heart attack?" laughed Helena, taking a deep breath. She was so easily scared. "Hi," she added smiling, "I'm Helena."

Chandler had no clue as to how anyone could possibly live in...THIS. It was a dungeon and the idea of living in a dungeon was pretty weird and creepy if you asked him. But Leo did live in here, well the Slytherin dorms which was in their common room but still! It was in the dungeons, in this scary place, he wouldn't be so surprised if Leo was scared of it. He leaned slowly back against a wall and tilted his head to look at Leo, making sure there weren't any surprising things that would happen if he DID decide to just lean back casually. "'Ow do you zleep at night down 'ere mate? Zeriously, it's freaky."

Leo was in his PJs, just like he had told him best friend he would be. In fact he was wearing his Mario PJs because he was THAT cool, plus they were the COMFIEST PJs in the whole wide world. FLANNEL FTW. The even funnier part of his outfit was the fact that he was wearing dinosaur slippers with his Mario PJs. What do you expect though? HE COULDN'T LET HIS FEETIES BE COOOOOOLD.

Hearing Chandler's words, Leopold shrugged. "I....don't either."He blinked, eyes wide. He didn't LIKE the dungeons in fact, it scared him quite a bit. He didn't LIKE the cold, depressingness."I HAVE NOT LEFT THE DORMS BECAUSE I'M SO SCARED TO COME OUT HERE!!"He whispered but in a frantic tone.THAT was how scared Leo was of the dugeons. "What if they have medieval torture devices down here? WHAT IF THEY WANT TO USE THEM ON ME."

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He didn't WANT to die here.

Chandler, before he had turned his head around to face Leo forgot entirely that he was wearing his Mario PJs and automatically let out a loud snicker. Hey, it wasn't his fault it was funny and the fact that they were Mario flannel PJs and he also had some dinosaur slippers on made it ten times better. SNORT. But what do you expect, this was Leo we were talking about though Chandler couldn't help but snicker.

He shrugged, at least he was safe near the kitchens though he didn't like that Leo had to sleep here. It was quite scary not to mention freeeeeeeziiiing. "You...'aven't?" He blinked, wide eyed as he looked at Leo in disbelieve. Wow, he wasn't joking but surely after this he wouldn't just go back there and spend the rest of the year in his dorms...right? "But mate, you 'ave to come out 'ere, you can't just stay in your dorm for ze rest of ze year." He would just befriend another male fourth year Slytherin to drag Leo out there daily. "And...it izn't ZAT bad." Okay, maybe it was but Chandler was trying to reassure him that it wasn't as scary as he thought. Not that he thought it would work but at least he was trying. "Medieval torture devices?" He chortled, "I'm zure zey don't 'ave ANY in ze school you're just...over reacting."

WHY WAS HE LAUGHING?!

Leo raised an eyebrow, a confused look spreading across his face. "WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!"He asked while flailing his arms around. Did he have something in his teeth? Did he say something wrong? WHAT DID HE DO THAT WAS SO FREAKING FUNNY?! Leo had no idea. He had none what so ever. Only French Fry would start laughing in a scary dungeon....

*sigh*

Leo shook his head slowly at his best friend, biting his lip. He had now stopped with the flailing."It's too SCARY to leave the dorm..."Leo said, his voice frantic once again. FRENCH!fry didn't seem to understand. HE didn't have to come down here alone at night when scary things might happen. He could go....where ever his common room was which was probably located in a less scary part of the castle.

Right now, Leopold Gordon O'Donald wished he was a Hufflepuff.

PFFFFFT. "YES I CAN!"Leo said. He COULD stay down here for the rest of the year!"I could live off of the candy I brought with me."Leo said with a steady nod. He liked candy so it most certainly wouldn't be a problem.It wasn't that bad. Leo just shook his head, disagreeing with his friend. "YES.IT.IS."

END OF.

He was over reacting?

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"You don't know that."Leo mumbled, crossing his arms. "What if the professors are like evil BLOOD SUCKERS who kill students who wander in the dungeons late at night? I'D BE ONE OF THE FIRST TO DIE. I'M THE WEAKER ONE OF THE HERD...."He wasn't aware he was making ZERO sense right now. Hehhh.

Okay enough laughing, control yourself Chandler it isn't THAT funny...okay maybe it is. SNORT. "Umm, nothing. Nothing at all." He said with a smile to cover it. The fact that Leo was flailing didn't help, it just wanted to make him laugh even more so instead he bit his lip slightly. That worked. "Why are you flailing anyway?" He asked with a small chortle. Oh he had stopped now? Good Leopold. Hehe. "Come on, I'm zure it's not zat scary. Maybe it iz a little I'm not going to zay it izn't but I'm zure you'll cope." ...In the future. Maybe. Or maybe not and he'll never get used to it. Oh boy.

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He wasn't going to...was he?

"..Are you going to ztay down 'ere for ze rest of ze year?" He asked, now concerned. Maybe they should go see the headmaster if he could get re-sorted. Into Hufflepuff maybe. Chandler would like that very much, it was boring at times without his best friend. "But candy izn't exactly 'ealthy iz it?" Before the year was over he'd probably have all of his teeth gone rotten. He sighed, they weren't getting anywhere were they? "I don't believe you. I mean, I could ztay with you down 'ere for a week if I could." But he doubted that he would be able to without getting into trouble.

Chandler shook his head. "I doubt that zey would 'ave medieval ztuff 'idden down 'ere." And like he said he was just over reacting. "Blood zuckers?" He laughed, hehe blood sucking teachers. LULZ. "Were zere any blood zucking teachers at Beauxbatons?" NO. So why would there be any in here? "But if you zink zat zen don't wander ze dungeons at night." Chandler shrugged, if he was scared then why would he wander the dungeons at night? He didn't make any sense. "'Erd? What 'erd?" Now he REALLY wasn't making any sense.

"Hey. I'm Damian. So... how are you feeling around here?"

Feeling the need to explore more of the castle she'd now call home, Sierra stepped out the Slytherin Common Room and made her way down the dungeon corridor. Alex, her twin brother, seemed to despise the dungeons, but oddly enough, Sierra was comfortable here. She guessed it had something to do with the fact that she was truly a snake at heart.

She smiled at that thought as she walked further down the corridor. When she was done exploring the dungeons, she'd head up a level and see what the kitchen level was like. That was the level Alex lived on---with the Puffer Children. *sigh* Then after that, she'd keep climbing until she finally reached the floor her mum had lived on when she was here--the seventh floor.

Glancing up, she happened to catch sight of a girl she was sure was also a Slytherin. Sierra would give her second, maybe third year. No older than that, though. "Hey," she said, as she came to a stop near the girl.

Cass jumped slightly at the sound of someone's voice. Even though she wasn't really, really scared of the corridors, she still couldn't help but be a little scared of whatever it lurking around the dark corners of the dungeons...

"Oh, Hi!" She said, relief evident in her voice when she noticed that it was just another Slytherin.

Whew.

"Around here... in the dungeons or at Hogwarts?" she asked, smiling. "Here, I can't say I'm pretty comfortable, especially after you scared me," she laughed, "but Hogwarts is great. How about you?"

Fallon was leaving the common room about to head down to the quidditch pitch. She was so excited to go flying again. She loved it so much and couldn't wait until Quidditch season started. She was humming to herself and just really excited and hyper.

Fallon was so hyper that she started to skip down the corridor. Yes, the sixteen year old was skipping down the corridor. She really was hyper. It didn't help that she'd just eaten some chocolate so yeah. Hyper Fallon skipping usually meant clumsiness. She didn't even realize that she was about to bump into someone...

Hmm. This corridor lead down to the dungeons. Good observation Finlay. The boy smirked as he made down there. Ara could potentially be down here, seeing as she was a Slytherin. Well....he hoped she would be down here, otherwise it would've been a rather big waste of time.

But before he could actually get anywhere near the slytherin end of the corridor, he had bumped into someone. Or actually someone else had bumped into him. Finlay frowned as he looked who it was, but then he smiled again. "Fallon!" He hadn't seen her for a while, since the train journey....where they had those nice kisses. Oh opps. Maybe he should inform her that he had a girlfriend now? That would probably be a good idea

Fallon almost fell over as she bumped into someone. She was going to tell them to watch where they were going even though it was totally her fault, but stopped when she saw that it was Finn. She grinned remembering the last time she'd really talked to him.

"Hey Finn!" She gave him a quick hug and pushed away those funny feelings in her stomach. She'd finally come to realize that she liked him. She'd also noticed he spent a lot of time with girls. Fallon knew she was in for it. Oh well. She'd think about that later. "I haven't seen you in a while. What've you been up to?"

It was nice to see Fallon actually, especially as he hadn't in a while. Maybe he should've hung around the dungeons more often, he'd have a better chance of seeing his snake mates....and he did have an awful lot of them. Although he was meant to be looking for Ara, he decided that talking to Fallon for a little while wasn't going to hurt really. He was sure Ara wouldn't mind.

What had he been up too? Apart from snogging Ara? Aha. That had been taking up a lot of his time really, but he had a feeling that probably wasn't the best thing to say. He didn't really want to cause a cat fight in the middle of the Slytherin common room. "Just general stuff...classes." Man he sounded like such a nerd. "and I tried out for the 'claw quidditch team too." Because he was just that epic

Classes? The was boring. Fallon wasn't going to judge though. "Well...that's fun." It wasn't. And then he mentioned quidditch and Fallon was ecstatic to talk about it. "Really? What position did you tryout for? I'm hoping to get the Beater position." She knew most people underestimated her as a beater, she was a short girl after all. But she could be brutal on the pitch.

Fallon smiled at Finn. She missed him and wished she could see him more often. She was going to have to make a better effort.

"Yup." Finlay grinned, resisting the urge to flex his muscles a bit. Finn loved quidditch, so much that he had one thought it as a career, but now he was determined to be a hit wizard. Because that was totally cool. "Ooh...." It seemed that he talked to a lot of girls that were beaters. Hopefully Fallon would never threaten to hit him with her beaters bat. Because that wasn't very nice...at least he had never gotten hit by it. "I'm going for chaser." Because he loved glory. Haha. But he knew that he would be pretty epic at any position really.

"I think I did well..." He mused. Actually that was the reason why he was headed down this way. "I was just coming down here to find my girlfriend and see what she thought." Ahh there we go. That allowed him to subtly tell her about Ara.

Fallon watched as Finn's arms moved. She thought maybe he was going to flex his muscles or something like that. She figured that would probably be pretty normal for him. Fallon nodded. "Chaser's fun. I played it once when I was on the reserves first year." She still loved being a beater though. Nothing beat hitting something really hard at your opponents.

Fallon nodded. She was going to say something when he mentioned a girlfriend. Wait. When did this happen?! She felt a little sad and angry at the same time. She really hoped he didn't have a girlfriend when she'd kissed him. That would make her feel horrible. "Oh well I'm sure you did all right." She was just going to bypass that statement and focus on it later.

"Mmm...." Chaser had been the position he'd played when he'd messed around with his brothers....they'd kinda made him be it, so he'd gotten used to playing it. But Finn really didn't mind anymore, it was his favorite position. "I love flying..." He mused with a smile. He loved himself more, but that was not something that really did not need to be said. It was obvious that he was so epic, and loved himself. But then he was rather vain, so maybe he should keep his mouth closed a little sometimes.

He noticed how she didn't say something when he'd mentioned a girlfriend. Did she not like it? Hmm. He didn't know, but decided against pressing it. Finn really did not want an angry girl on his hands, not when that girl was a beater. hehe. "Yeah....well we'll find out."

Fallon grinned. "Me too. That's actually where I was heading now." She really wanted to practice before the next tryout session. She was a little bit slow and didn't like it. "It's just so relaxing and fun." It was great way to relieve stress. She was kind of glad that's where she was headed now that she learned he had a girlfriend.

Fallon was glad he didn't question her pushing off that statement. "It'll be okay. I'm sure you did better than you thought you did." She was constantly being told that. Especially by Aaron, but she still doubted herself.

"Ah...Awesome." Finn grinned at her, maybe he could come up, and help her. That could work, and he could get in some practice. "I could come practice with you if you want." Because then he could see how good she was. hehe. Because he was naughty like that. "Well....it's not fun when you have bludgers hitting you." He'd had many a bruises thanks to bludgers. He'd have to warn Ara about that....just so she wouldn't worry.

"I hope so." He laughed, grinning at her. He knew he was epic, it was just that the others might have been epic too. But really he didn't mind if he didnt' get on the team. Not everyone could.