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BanaBatGirl 
"Axe, quick, hide me!" Bunbunz whispered urgently, folding her arms tight over her chest and leaning toward him. She peeked around the defense professor to see if Torin was still there, and seeing that he was, she sighed and almost stomped a foot.
Well, the foot stomp would have been appropriate now that her only source of chocolate was apparently under water. "Stupid flood," she growled, shaking her head. "You survived though, right? Poor chocolate."
Annie returned his look with one long scan of Marcus' appearance and a little smile. "You look all right, I'd say... and don't - UGH - don't bring up that boy." She scooted closer to Marcus and spoke just loud enough for him to hear. "After rescuing my shoes from my office.... he just, like, went NUTS! Ran into him at Hogsmeade.... then Miss Upstead there came to me and said he like liked me... I have no idea how to handle it, Marcus."
It wasn't that she minded the attention, exactly, it was that... it was the wrong sort of attention from the wrong person.
He looked at her in surprise and then over to the boy who had been waving at her. Marcus chuckled softly, "Now you know what I had to put up with for all those years." Hearing her talk about his chocolate, he almost pouted at the waste. "Yes poor chocolate and all my favorites too." Stupid bloody flooding, he was totally over it.
Again he gave her a surprised look as she moved in closer to him and Marcus, smiled a very slow smile. He placed his arm around her and pulled her even closer to him and brought his lips to her ear. "Can you play along Annie?" he whispered and he gave her a small nuzzle and then looked at the boy in question and gave him a small wave with his free hand. He squeezed Annie's shoulder gently and held her close.