At William's response to her question, Katie nodded, murmuring an "Okay." He must have been around to see this before, she guessed. So of course, she was going to take his word on that.

"After cheese?" Katie repeated after Professor Lainey, glancing back as the woman.. hugged her from behind? Strange. Blinking once, the Hufflepuff reached up to give her hand an awkward 'there there, Professor' sort of pat. Was she that worried about Jake vomiting? Looking back at the pair of boys just in time for the puking, she made a face and looked away. "Ewwwww." At least it wasn't blood.

Lainey was.. looking into the garbage can? .... "Should I get the nurse, or.. see if she has something for anti-puke stuff or something?"

He knew it was coming and he was prepared for it. When Jake let the flow of vomit out he closed his eyes and clung to the desk on which he was now standing by, hearing the noise and shuddering. "Eww Jake that's nasty." he groaned before shaking his head and looking at Lainey. "No ma'am, I watched my cousin puke, of course it was morning sickness but still same thing, no?" he explained shrugging as he took his wand and twirled it. "You want me to get rid of that for you? The smell might become tiresome." he asked glancing at her.

Looking at Jake he shook his head, moving over and snatching the candy form his hands, "No Jake no more sugar for you. Don't you think you should visit the nurse? I don't think the nice professor here wants more vomit in her office." he said, trying to sound cheerful as he eyed the boy.

Poor kid.

"How about some nice veggies huh?" he asked instead, grinning.

"Talking about cheese right now.... does not..... feel right. To you? Not to me." Lainey had zero discretion as she looped the front of her robe over her to block out the stomach fluids stench filling her room.



"Oh how nice of you to offer, William." OF COURSE, it was the Ravenclaw in the room. If Lainey's face hadn't been concealed by her robe, he would have seen her BEAMING at him. Maybe he could still tell by the crinkling of her eyes. Either way, Lainey used her toe to push the vomit-filled can towards William for him to handle.

"I'll award Ravenclaw a few points for your help. Thank you."

Meanwhile.

Ahem.


Lainey rolled up her sleeves, retrieved her wand, and cast silently on Jake. It wasn't a dangerous cast, and certainly nothing permanent. But there would be absolutely zero possibility of candy getting into his mouth again. She'd sealed his lips together.

"Now, now, Jake. You do not take without asking and I need to have enough to go around for all the lovely children that stop by my office. You shouldn't be greedy - and besides - yours went to total waste, did it not? Waste not, my boy! Waste not."

Lainey twirled her wand in her fingers, calculating what to do next. Hmm. "I should think your Head of House should hear about this." In other words she was leaving Jake lip-locked for now. Lainey pulled out a little sticky-note to write the Hufflepuff Head of House a note. "I trust you can deliver yourself and this note to them? Yes?"

That idea probably would have scared Jake had he been thinking rationally. But... he wasn't thinking rationally (or IRrationally, considering his Healer phobia was highly irrational).

But enough of the nonsensical ramblings.

Dude. William was no fun anymore. WHY couldn't Jake have more?

"Bbbbut I wa-"

And for some unknown (for now) reason, his lips slammed shut... and it felt like they were glued together.

At least he didn't have to have vegetables either.

There was the perp.

Grrrrr.

Tilting his head sideways as he looked at Lainey, Jake looked confused. Take without asking? But... he wanted it. Now.

Of course, the boy had no worries about going to see Masterson about this; he had no idea whether bad things would be said.

Hmm.

Nodding his head slowly (why would he lie?), Jake held out his hand for the note for whenever Bag Lady had written it... and he kind of sidled closer to William and the candy.

For later.


WAIT! What if he had to puke again?

William nodded eagerly seeing her eyes crinkling, his eyes lighting up at the possibility of points. It was much easier than doing work he thought grinning as he nudged the vomit-filled can over to him, moving it a fair distance away from professor Lainey in case he messed up the spells he'd need. He didn't need her scowling at him, not when it was apparent - or so to him - that she was smiling.

Brandishing his wand again he flicked it slightly, pointing it at the can and said "Evanesco." in a clear voice. No surprise the vomit vanished before his eyes, but the smell remained. Hmm, was there a scent spell he thought, frowning a bit as he looked at the can. It looked clean but one could never be sure. "Scourgify." he muttered, his wand directed at the can again. He was lucky that he had learned those spells during his last term or else, well he hated muggle style cleaning.

Once it was cleaned he grinned, putting his wand back in its holster on his wrist. "There, all cleaned professor." he said as if the spotless can wasn't proof enough.

Turning his attention back to Jake, the ever vomiting boy he shook his head slightly, about to say something when he stopped speaking. Huh. That's weird he thought before glancing at Lainey again and realizing what was happening. "Sorry Jake, you can't have any more sugar." he said a bit sadly, his blue eyes gentle now. Jake would forgive him, right?

Yeah sure.

Standing by the desk he watched him sidle a bit closer to the candy dish and sighed. Jake Jake Jake.

Arya was making her way back from Charms carrying a plate of covered fresh baked cupcakes in one hand, and a partially iced cupcake in the other hand. She was making her way back to her common room, thinking about what professor she would give one of her delicious treats too (besides her favorites) when she passed by the HoM classroom.

Never having been in the office, and the fact that she heard the professor was new she decided that this lucky professor would be the first to get one of her cupcakes. Had she not been working with Santi, then she would have trashed all the treats. But her partner did such a awesome job helping her that she wanted to share them ALL. Strolling to the professor's door, she glanced at the sign before giving it a few knocks with her elbow. Then she went back to licking the chocolate icing off her cupcake while she waited.

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SPOILER!!: Jake

That idea probably would have scared Jake had he been thinking rationally. But... he wasn't thinking rationally (or IRrationally, considering his Healer phobia was highly irrational).

But enough of the nonsensical ramblings.



Dude. William was no fun anymore. WHY couldn't Jake have more?

"Bbbbut I wa-"

And for some unknown (for now) reason, his lips slammed shut... and it felt like they were glued together.

At least he didn't have to have vegetables either.

There was the perp.

Grrrrr.

Tilting his head sideways as he looked at Lainey, Jake looked confused. Take without asking? But... he wanted it. Now.

Of course, the boy had no worries about going to see Masterson about this; he had no idea whether bad things would be said.

Hmm.

Nodding his head slowly (why would he lie?), Jake held out his hand for the note for whenever Bag Lady had written it... and he kind of sidled closer to William and the candy.

For later.


WAIT! What if he had to puke again?

"You're such a good boy. Here."

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Originally Posted by the note

Dear Sir,

Jake Upstead threw up in my office. Thought you ought to know. I know Hufflepuffs are dear, dear creatures but are they typically this reactive to candy?

Cheers,

A. Lainey

PS: Please unstick Jake's lips for me, will you?

Lainey handed the note to Jake, and then fished a single, wrapped peppermint from her candy jar. "This is for your Head of House. I expect you to deliver the note AND the candy to him. Both in one piece. If you can do that, then perhaps we can talk points, as well."

You know, rewarding for lessons learned and such.

"Besides, I wouldn't suggest sticking candy in any of your other orifices. Nasty that. Off with you now and good luck!"

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SPOILER!!: William!

William nodded eagerly seeing her eyes crinkling, his eyes lighting up at the possibility of points. It was much easier than doing work he thought grinning as he nudged the vomit-filled can over to him, moving it a fair distance away from professor Lainey in case he messed up the spells he'd need. He didn't need her scowling at him, not when it was apparent - or so to him - that she was smiling.

Brandishing his wand again he flicked it slightly, pointing it at the can and said "Evanesco." in a clear voice. No surprise the vomit vanished before his eyes, but the smell remained. Hmm, was there a scent spell he thought, frowning a bit as he looked at the can. It looked clean but one could never be sure. "Scourgify." he muttered, his wand directed at the can again. He was lucky that he had learned those spells during his last term or else, well he hated muggle style cleaning.

Once it was cleaned he grinned, putting his wand back in its holster on his wrist. "There, all cleaned professor." he said as if the spotless can wasn't proof enough.

Turning his attention back to Jake, the ever vomiting boy he shook his head slightly, about to say something when he stopped speaking. Huh. That's weird he thought before glancing at Lainey again and realizing what was happening. "Sorry Jake, you can't have any more sugar." he said a bit sadly, his blue eyes gentle now. Jake would forgive him, right?

Yeah sure.

Standing by the desk he watched him sidle a bit closer to the candy dish and sighed. Jake Jake Jake.

"Would you like to help Jake to his Head of House? I say, it is a LONG venture out there. And, to be honest, I'm curious to know if Jake figures out a way to ingest that candy. Should be worth watching. Then he'll puke out his nose! You can be my eyes, since I need to stay here and all."

It'd be curious, you know? It would. Ravenclaws appreciated that sort of thing, right? Or maybe just Lainey. Hmm.

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Originally Posted by grangerfan8

Arya was making her way back from Charms carrying a plate of covered fresh baked cupcakes in one hand, and a partially iced cupcake in the other hand. She was making her way back to her common room, thinking about what professor she would give one of her delicious treats too (besides her favorites) when she passed by the HoM classroom.

Never having been in the office, and the fact that she heard the professor was new she decided that this lucky professor would be the first to get one of her cupcakes. Had she not been working with Santi, then she would have trashed all the treats. But her partner did such a awesome job helping her that she wanted to share them ALL. Strolling to the professor's door, she glanced at the sign before giving it a few knocks with her elbow. Then she went back to licking the chocolate icing off her cupcake while she waited.

"Come IN, come IN! Come forth, little one! Pay the lingering vomit smell no mind!"

If Jake's lips hadn't been stuck together, he would have wibbled slightly.

But they were... so he couldn't.

Instead, the boy took the note and the candy, staring at them both blankly before nodding. He did, of course, feel a little insulted that the lady felt she needed to have someone following him to see that he did as he was told. He wasn't THAT bad after all...

...

...

With a small sigh through his nose, Jake nodded again and turned to the door, intending to see Matserson ASAP in order to get them point Lainey spoke about. Even though he really wanted that candy...

And he was super tired now... feh.

tching her cupcake container, Maddie nervously knocked on the door. She wanted to give the Proffessor a cupcake, and she also wanted to ask about her subject, History of Magic.

It was kind of hard not to notice the smell, but after a moment of inhaling the scent of her cupcakes she was able to ignore the fowl scent. Strolling into the office, she smiled at everyone, her eyes gliding over their faces before landing on the professors. "Hello professor, I'm Arya Lovegoods. I came by to say hey and to see if you could help me with my charms homework."

She held up the tray to the woman and removed the plastic covering to reveal a varity of cupcakes. All were chocolate, with either vanilla or chocolate icing. A few were decorated with flower shaped candies while the rest had gummy worms or rainbow sprinkles.

"We're suppose to share the cupcakes we made in class, and I thought you might like one, there really good." She would know, she had three already. Arya smiled up at the woman and waited for her to take a cupcake.

William nodded dutifully, a small grin on his face. "Of course professor, it would be my honor." he replied as he mocked bowed at her, blue eyes sparkling, glancing at Jake with a tight grin. This should be interesting he mused silently

Walking over to the boy he patted his back gently. "It'll be okay, Masterson will fix you right up." he said cheerfully as he began walking with him to the door, tossing a wave to Katie and whoever else was in the room. He was curious as to how Jake would eat that peppermint candy, if he could even get it through his lips at all. He just hoped he didn't vomit again, that would be nasty, especially since you know he couldn't open open his mouth at all.

Why did he get himself into these messes again?

Oh right. He was nice.

Sigh.

"Not at all, Professor." Katie shook her head a bit and covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve, trying not to breath in the smell. No.. cheese was not a good topic now. Nope. Keeping in mind that there was a child named after cheese did nothing to help, either.

Waving after William, the Hufflepuff noticed a couple other girls enter and between that and the thought of food and throwing up, she thought it was about time to go. "Uhm, I'm going to go for a walk now, Professor. Get some fresh air," She said, starting toward the door. Katie added, "It was nice meeting you. I'll look forward to your class!" with a slight wave of her hand before exiting the office.

"Toodly DOO!" Lainey called, louder than she should have. But, then, she shouldn't have been even saying ODD things like "toodly doo" anyway.

Best to just pretend it didn't happen. Like vomit in her office, it just didn't happen. La la la.


"Stop knocking at my door and get yourself in here!" Lainey was going to take the door off her office. Maybe a sheet would be cool up there... It wasn't like a secret was really a secret at Hogwarts, anyway.



"Ah.... Oh."

Errrrr.


Ummmmmm......


Lainey's nose wrinkled. Like cheese, cupcakes just didn't seem all that.... appropriate. Cupcakes after vomit just... "Set them down, love dovey pumpkin pie," what.......? Must stop talking, full stop, "and let's discuss these cupcakes."

Lainey plucked one from the tray and SNIFFED it HARD, coughed, then stuck the very very TIPPY TIP of her tongue to the frosting.


"You say YOU made these? With Professor Lexi?" Merlin, what was that girl's last name..... "Carlton? Carrolton? Pretty girl. Teacher thing." They probably knew what she was talking about. Probably. Lainey dipped her finger into the icing and rubbed the textured goo between her fingers. Hmmmmmm.

Maddie smiled and walked into the office
'Hallo, Proffessor!' she said brightly 'I was wondering if you'd like to help me with... two pieces of homework?' she said 'I have to share one of my chocolate cupcakes with a teacher, and also do an Arithmancy reading on a teacher as well' she smiled hopefully

Oh Merlin's granny panties WHAT was going ON? Wasn't it universally known that Lainey was PICKY about food? For good reason, sure, but....


MORE CUPCAKES? Someone was messing with her, right?


Alright. Alright. Okay. She was a good sport. For the KIDS she'd... "Share with me. Share with me? Oh why not. Bring it on, kiddo." Sigh. It WOULD be a little first Ravenclaw. The Achilles's heel. "Bring it on. Tell me what you need... other than me fattening me up on cupcakes."

Lainey would get to eating it. Maybe. Didn't she have a dark magic detector 'round here somewhere? Hmmm....

Maddie smiled. Picking a cupcake up with a napkin, to make sure there were no germs, she set it down on the teacher's desk.
'I was wondering if, apart from taking a cupcake, you wouldn't mind me doing an interpretation of your core numbers for you?' she asked politley 'It's part of our Arithmancy homework'

Grinning, she placed the cupcakes down on the professor's desk. She wasn't exactly sure what there was to 'discuss' about the treats, not much you can do with cupcakes beside eat them. Though a few other ideas did come to her mind.

She watched with an amused expression as the woman sniffed the cupcake, cocking her head to the side as the woman sorta kinda licked the frosting. Weird this professor, good weird though....funny weird.

Professor Lexi? Her brow creased in confussion for a moment before realizing what the professor meant. "Professor Carlton? Yes ma'am. We made them in class using a few charms. There's nothing wrong with them....if that's what your worried about." Cause that seemed to be the case. "I had a few earlier."

Stupid lips!

Jake had gone to see Masterson, but everytime the looked, the man was busy, so the boy hadn't even approached. Which meant he couldn't get his lips unstuckeded, which meant he couldn't eat... or talk.

Knocking on the wood of the door, very grubby note now in his back pocket in case his plan went wrong (see, he didn't read the note so he didn't know Masterson was meant to unstick his lips) and... well... maybe the truth would work.

Jake would had bit his lip... but intsead he chewed on the inside of his mouth, waiting to see Lainey.

She was walking, she was walking, she was walking...she was stopping.

Hmm. Right in front of the Professor Lainey's office as it was.

Cocking her head to the side Ivory studied the door. It seemed like any other door...but it wasn't because inside resided a professor, and not every door opened to a professor.

It was a funny coincidence it was, that right when Ivory had been pondering about how to go about completing her HoM homework that she would happen upon the door leading to the said professor who assigned it. Maybe it was fate, maybe not. Either way, Ivory decided it was divine intervention of the homework gods that brought her here.

Intervention that clearly wanted her to ask the professor about the homework. Or more importantly to ask Professor Lainey to tell her something about her history here at Hogwarts. Wasn't that the biggest of paradoxes. If Ivory were to write an essay about Professor Lainey that she herself would read. Reading her own history. Was there a point to that?

Well she was going to find out.

Peering through the slightly ajar door and spying only blue, more blue, a big ostentatious desk, and the most wonderfully elaborate college, Ivory took a deep breath and called out as she shuffled from foot to foot.

" Helloooo, Professor Lainey?...Divine intervention from the homework gods has brought me to your doorstep...."

Evan, with a parchment and a quill, walked a bit axiously towards the History of Magic office. He had wanted to interview Professor Male Lawson, but then decided that Professor... Lainey?.. would be better. It'd also be interesting for the professor to read her own past from another person's point of view. It was like reading your biography. Would be fun for Evan, at least.

Just as he was looking for a chair to sit and wait, he saw that the door was open. He frowned. Should he get in? Maybe the professor forgot it open? He peeked inside. It looked like it was intentionally left open. Nevertheless he waited at the threshold, knocking on the door. He just couldn't walk in like that, although the door was open.

OOC: I am SO so so SO sorry. Is it too late to do this, honey? If it is, you have my apologies. Let me know if it is, and we'll work something out.


"I wouldn't mind a BIT, Maddie. You need to rub my belly or know my birthday?"


"Oh. So YOU made them. And you don't have any personal vendetta's or scores to settle with me right?" Lainey MIGHT.... maybe.... perhaps eat one of these. Student made cupcakes seemed alright. Maybe. Hopefully.


"Jake UPSTEAD. Don't stand outside my office. Get you bum in here. Someone might see you out there and think we're friends." GEEZ. Man. Lainey waved him in like a muggle person trying to land a plane.

".... hello......? I think I'm me and I think I'm here?" In other words, COME INNNNN. "Enter if you dare!! MUUUHAAAHAAAA. Or just come on in. Hi."



"I keep saying it - someone is going to see you standing out there and start speculating. Get yourself in here! I have candy! I lure children to my laaaaaair with caaaaaaaandy!" And perhaps Professor Lainey had had just a BIT too much candy today... A bit.

OOC: It's not too late, it's fine Arithamncy homework stays open until finals!

Maddie smiled
'It depends on which numbers you want done, Proffessor' she said, looking at the book with her homework in it. 'Which do you want, The Life Path Number,The Expression Number, The Heart’s Desire Number or The Personality Number?' wow, there were a lot of core numbers.

A hue grin spread across her face as she surpressed her giggles. Funny professor. "Of course not, professor Lainey. I just wanted to share my hard work with you. There safe, girl scouts honor." She couldn't even atempt to pull of a serious face so she just held up her hand as if pledging to the woman with that big grin of hers.

"Oh Merlin's Grandma's Knickers. All of those sound like a disaster and then some. But.... I guess... it's no big secret that I have a serious personality disorder. Let's just see how bad it is." Lainey waved her hand around like a maniac and waited for the worst.


"Huh." Lainey held the hand gesture back up to the wittle baby Puffy and only hoped it wasn't something totally rude. Well. Sort of hoped. Ignorance was bliss and all. "So you're probably going to stand there and watch me eat. Or want to. So I can tell if you if they're any good or not."

Awwwkwwwwarrrrddddddddd.

But Lainey did it anyway. She peeled back the little paper, then shoved a good third of the cake in her mouth.


"IF I wii I OPFLY AMING OO!" Lainey replied, mouth full.

Evan smiled at the professor, already liking her as he walked inside. The office was friendly and cosy. Aww, the child in the pictures was so cute. BUT, he wasn't here for the boy. He was here for the professor. Turning to her again, "Thank you, professor." he said, his smile turning into a grin. He had a feeling this professor had a few great stories to share for... the homework she gave.