Gen was in such a daze, she didn't even notice the fight going on by the Slytherin table. She was still staring at the Prophet that was lying in front of her when she heard the Headmaster calling people to his office. She was shocked to see Gem among them. Well, she definately wasn't hungry and she needed to relax. She pushed herself up from the table and headed back to the common room. She decided that would be the best place to wait for her sister.

As soon as the fight broke out, Monday dashed out of the Great Hall. He didn't want to do something he would regret. Now, he found himself in the library, only after retreiving the journal with everything that happened from the past couple of days. There were books scattered all over his table ranging from ones about the Dark Mark and Death Eaters to books that seemed to contain his family history. He was constantly re-reading what he had written about the dream. He just didn't know what to make of it.

Elodie stood in shock for a couple of minutes, she had watched the scene in front of her unfold and still had, pretty much, no idea what was going on. A lot of things didn't make sense right now, too many really. Especially that dream, who the heck was that red head chick? and who was Arthur? and why was Izzy in her dream? why does she even care it was a dream? but Izzy had the same dream, wouldn't that make it mean something? and why did her family have to get wiped out, with only her uncle left? all questions she couldn't answer, maybe they would reveal their answers later on, but for now she was an orphaned 17 year old that happens to be a witch, fantastic. She quickly grabbed a bread roll and walked out quickly, breaking off pieces of bread as she went, she saw Dallin up ahead, but it entered her mind, then left, leaving only a mark. like everything else in her life right now, nothing mattered, it just left a mark. She hurried away, she needed to think things through. talking wasn't good for her, she needed to tell someone, someone close, but she didn't want to talk to them. if that made any sense. She wanted to talk to her mum, but she was gone. Elodie hurried towards the lake, it was the one place she could truly think.

Dallin grimaced slightly as he propped his elbows up on the table, resting his head in his palms. He stared at whatever book was in front of him, trying to sort out his head. He had a sudden rush of sympathy for all of the Weasley/Potter/Whoever else family; surely they were even more confused (and most likely devasted) than he was.

"Sorry, I know we've never talked or anything." he looked over at Monday, a frown still etched on his face. "But I kinda need to talk, so I can figure out my brain. If you don't wanna talk, I'm okay with that - I'll go find someone else." He wasn't being rude, he just thought that maybe Monday wouldn't want to talk, that maybe he'd want to be alone or something.

Monday looked up at Dallin as he sat down. The expression on his face was one that he was starting to get used to seeing. He still wasn't completely used to it though. He hated people feeling sympathy for him, but it was going to happen and he had to accept it.

"It's all right. We've both been kind of busy with what we do." Monday liked to study and play quidditch. That was pretty much it. "It's fine. I actually think that might be what I've need. My brain is so scrambled. Especially since this weird dream that I had last night." That was the most perplexing thing. That and the fact that the Auror said 'person' when he took parents for questioning.

Oh good; Monday wanted to talk, too. Dallin pushed the book in front of him away so that he could put his arms down in front of him. "So's my brain." he told Moday. Probably not as much as some peoples', but whatever. "I feel... out of everything. I don't know what's going on. All I know is that last night, when all of you guys were in the staff room, the headmaster was with three aurors." And two of those aurors...were weird. Yeah - that's mainly what Dal wanted to talk about.

"What was your dream?" he asked, unable to stop himself.

Monday wanted to tell Dallin that there was no way his brain could be as messed up as his, but he decided against it. He needed to talk this out with someone and a fellow Ravenclaw would probably be able to help the most. Three aurors? "Really? Did any of the aurors say anything or do anything that might be strange?" He still couldn't forget that one of them had said something about one person being responsible.

Yes. Just what Monday wanted to talk about. "Well, it started out with me standing in this massive green field that was filled with purple flowers. There was this pond with blue and pink polka dotted water and the sky was green and the clouds looked like bubbles." Just this part was completely confusing to him. He had no idea that his mind could create such a place. "There was this blonde woman there and her voice was very...airy. She said I looked like someone named Rolf and a bunch of things like the air tasting like cotton candy, which it actually did. She said that someone named Hermione had a message for me and that something was missing from Hogwarts, but when she tried to tell me, the dream wouldn't allow me to hear it. She said something in Hogwarts didn't want me to know. Then the dream just disappeared."

Monday looked up at Dallin. He knew that was a lot to take in. "Does any of that make any sense to you?"

Detention. Blaire had never had a detention before in her life. Ever. She walked dejectedly out of the Headmaster's office and turned to face her twin.
'I... I don't know. I was only... I didn't mean to - I just couldn't stand to see her like that. They died m, Fia, and she was just making fun of it. I just couldn't watch - I didn't even think it would get through the shield charm, I don't know what made me choose that particular spell... I just don't know...'

Grrrr. Grr. Gem could not find Gen...anywhere! She had wandered around the whole school, with no sign of her sister. She hadn't really been paying that much attention; she had been lost in her thoughts, but she probably would have seen Gen if she had been anywhere near where she went. So Gem went back to the common room. And there was Gen, RIGHT WHERE SHE HAD STARTED! Grrrrrr. Grr. Oh well. Gem walked over to Gen and sat down next to her. "Hey Gen," she said, wondering what her sister's reaction would be.

Addie just gave him a small smile. "Nothing, just a bit of dueling then I slapped her," she shrugged. 'Then she shot a spell at me and I got thrown across the room...' she thought to herself. Only detention? They got off lighter than she thought. She thought about it though... how odd... "Could it be that he had like a charm on him or something?" she asked.

Gem looked at Izzy and tilted her head slightly to the right. How ironic that she would be asking that question. "Why?" She asked with excitement in her voice and eyes. "Did you have a weird dream last night?" she paused, and remembered to answer Izzy's question. "Yeah they can. Well, Gen and I had the same dream last night." Then and idea hit her, what if all her cousins had a weird dream? Not necessarily the same one, but weird. She would have to ask around.

Izzy nodded and smiled. "Yeah I did. And Elodie had the same dream too. But Elodie and I aren't twins." she explained. "Well, I'm going to go look it up in the library. Do you guys want to come?" She hoped they would come.

Gem was suprised, this dream thing was getting weirder and weirder. Was weirder a word? Gem didn't know...ANYWAY. Gem glanced at Gen. "Sure," she said. Well, she would go with Izzy, she wasn't quite sure if Gen wanted to. But Gem would.

Izzy smiled at Gem. "That's great. And you coming Gen?" she asked her other cousin.

It all happened so quickly Spence barely had time to register it. He shot a failed disarming spell at Kalliope, but that was all. Before Spence knew what was going on a girl had fallen... she was bleeding... slashes across her body...

Spence felt nauseous. He stumbled backward a little, in shock, watching as Fiona made her way over to the victim. Kalliope. Spence was just glad it wasn't someone he was close to. He watched as Kelby joined her, hoping they could save the girl. Spence wanted to help... but he didn't even know where he would start. A simple healing charm wouldn't work.

He felt both relieve and... the opposite of it when he spotted the nurse walk in with the headmaster at her heels. Spence probably should have expected what came next.

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

He couldn't believe he'd received detention. He didn't even DO anything! He was trying to stop other people from tearing each other to threads! Every time Spence tried to explain what happened, though, he was interrupted. Since when did the headmaster start ignoring prefects? Since when was Hogwarts so insane and his life so confusing?

Spence wouldn't be serving that detention. There was no way he was sticking around long enough for that. He would ask Kelby and Izzy if they planned on being true to their word... if they would come with him and then Spence would leave.

"Kel!" Spence called out to get her attention, as he raced down the spiral staircase leading away from the Headmaster's office. "Want to go to the library?" he asked her hopefully, running a hand habitually through his messy Potter hair. The library should be fairly empty considering they were still on winter break. It would be the perfect place to get away from prying eyes and have a conversation without worrying about eavesdroppers.

You guys are truly marvelous RPers. With the logic and the talking. Love it!
 

OOC: Just keep doing what you're doing, everyone. It's beautiful. I'm going to implant a suggestion.

Dallin, the book you were looking at appears to be a journal, and as you stare at it, you have the strange urge to open it. But should you? I mean, it's not even yours. It's just so... interesting.

Also, you'll notice a sign in your common rooms stating that, while all of the students will be returning tomorrow, classes will not begin again for another two weeks due to funeral arrangements.

Sorry it took so long...Internets been out the past two days
 

Scrubbing a hand across her face Fiona took a deep breath. She took a good look at her sister and shook her head. Kalliope could be a pain in the butt even at the best of times, but there was always a way to deal with her. Though, cursing her was so not it.

"Blaire, there are going to be people who aren't going to be sympathetic to what we are going through. What she did and said wasn't very civilized but that doesn't mean we have to sink to her level." Her voice was level and even, conflicting with her feelings inside. She put a tight lid on those though. Now was not the time to let her emotions get the better of her.

"Look, I'm going to go and get something to eat...you wanna join me?"

Dallin nodded wordlessly in reply to Monday. Yeah, the backwards badges were strange. He didn't understand them at all, and it seemed like Monday didn't either. Sigh. They'd figure it out, he supposed. Maybe it just wasn't as important as he thought it might've been. Dang confusion.

Leaning forward over the table, Dal looked at the picture that Monday was looking at. He eyed it for a while before sitting back down in his seat, not sure what to say. "Somethings missing from Hogwarts..." he said slowly, thinking about Monday's dream once again, "But Hogwarts doesn't want you to know?" Well that was weird.

He sighed, looking down at the book in front of him again. It looked sort of interesting - was it a...journal? He dropped a hand on top of it, feeling the cover. Curious, he flicked at the pages, feeling a slight puff of air on his hand as each page fell. "Hey, do you know who's this is?" he asked suddenly, looking up at Monday.

Izzy looked into her bag, uh! she had forgotten something in the Common Room. "Hey Gem and Gen. I'll meet you guys in the library, I forgot something!" she explained, as she quickly ran up to the Gryffindor Common Room. She grabbed her book that needed to be returned and then she noticed a note. It read: "While all of the students will be returning tomorrow, classes will not begin again for another two weeks due to funeral arrangements." Tears welled up in her eyes, funeral? No please, it would hurt more. Izzy started walking to the Library and she ran into something. Her hair turned a bright blonde as she landed on the ground. She looked up and saw who she ran into, Spence.