Post 4
 

Emily walked back through the wooden doors and into the entrance hall. Wow, it was pritty. Then her stomach growled. Man, she was hungry, she'd have to find Nika and make her come get lunch with her.
Which way? Luckly she knew a compass spell!

She took the pocket watch. Her mind was on food, but she tried hard to concentrate. 'White, make it white' she told herself. She took a deep breath and cried "Comletia!"
Her watch turned into a white compass. Finally, she had made it white!

She turned the compass over in her hand. It was quite cool. Especially compared to her last 3. It was more... well it was better. She would just leave it at that.
'Right, find Nika' she told herself and made for the stairs.

Josh couldn't decide which one was worse: that Jake the HuffiePuff upsetting Evelyn or that Patroclus calling her smexy. Both were so annoying and sickening to the boy that though his conversation with Professor Magnus helped him to calm down a great deal, he could still feel anger remaining deep inside himself. There was no way he could forget about those. No way. Not unless he got his brain messed with somehow.

Therefore, this fury was not going to leave him until he...well no. Remembering Professor Magnus' words, the Gryffindor boy tried to push any idea concerning any kind of violence out his mind. However it felt like it was the hardest thing to do ever for the boy. Plus he had no idea how he could do that. He did not know what he was supposed to do and this was making him feel much more disturbed. This had been a horrible day and unfortunately the day had not ended yet.

When he decided to stop for a moment and look around to find something to distract himself from those thoughts, he realised that he had just walked in the Entrance Hall which was weird for he could not remember passing the grounds to come here from the Quidditch pitch. Something was surely wrong with him. But...he was going to deal with it!

Now, he was going to get to the Common Room and relax a little. Yes, that was a good idea. However the moment he took the first step for that the possibility that the Prefect might be there hit him making him halt where he was. So the lion boy made his way towards the Great Hall instead only to stop again. Maybe he was supposed to find Patroclus in the Common Room. Hmmmm. Looking both directions the Gryffindor got confused, unable to decide where to go just like he could not decide which one he should look for first : Jake or Patroclus.

Jake, tired and dripping wet after his shower down at the locker room, strolled up to the castle, whistling a merry tune as he went, his worries forgotten for the day.

Not paying any attention to who was around him, Jake entered the Entrance Hall, still whistling loudly, letting the sound echo around the hall. The young man had a stress ball in his hand which he was currently tossing up into the air and catching every now and then.

Hum de dum.

Still standing in the middle of the Entrance Hall, inevitably Josh Carter got annoyed with his current inability of deciding what to do, where to go. This was not like him. He usually knew the best thing to do. Why not now? Probably because the intense anger he felt messed with everything about him. And the reason for that anger was probably the most obvious thing in the world. He needed to get rid of it. But first he needed to get rid of that scarf because it had started to feel too hot for him.

So, holding his red and yellow Gryffindor scarf in one hand, he closed his dark brown eyes for a moment and took a deep breath only to relieve himself a little and he was about to mentally focus on one of his happy memories when he heard someone whistling an annoying melody making him open his eyes immediately and totally ruining the happy memory. So, the boy turned to give his most deadly glare to whomever was whistling.

Hah!

The Gryffindor froze for an instant when he saw who the whistling idiot was. The very next moment, his fury rose and conquered his whole body. Holding the scarf quite tightly now, he cursed ignoring who might hear it before yelling out of pure hatred and anger. ''YOU!'' Now he got him! He had nowhere to escape and there were no professors around. ''Stay where you are or...i don't think you'd like to know what would happen otherwise''

Jake managed to stop whistling mid-tune so the note ended up going suddenly low. He looked around with a confused frown and then...

"Ah."

Ah indeed.

Jake's eyes flitted over to the door that led to the stairs to the basement corridor, and then back to Josh. He could stay... and end up in trouble... or he could at least TRY to leave.

Because this wasn't good.

"Uhh... later dude," Jake smiled innocently and began walking quickly to the doors.

Not running.

He never ran away.

Later dude...

Later?

Who did this Mr ex-Stutters think he was? And in what kind of a business he though he was, simply wanting to postpone or/and avoid it? Josh was definitely not asking him to play hide and seek with him. Could not he figure this out? And there was no way the Gryffindor would let him do what he wanted and merely avoid or escape from the upset lion boy without the consequence of him feeling the urgent need to visit the Hospital Wing. Because...it was needed to be done. He needed a serious lesson. Josh Carter was completely fed up with this Hufflepuff's utterly annoying behaviour since his very first year at this school.

Plus... had he just smiled at him? Seriously? As if Josh could be more annoyed than he was right now. So, standing there in silence for a moment or so, his dark glare fixed at the Huffie, the boy narrowed his eyes and watched Jake walk away from him, looking like he was in a serious hurry. Hmph! If the yellow Puffy really thought Josh was going to let him pass by without showing him how it was like to be in a bit of (!) trouble with the Gryffindor boy.

''ARE YOU DEAF?'' then he yelled after the other boy and dashed forward after him. Now, there was no one to stop him. Once he approached the Hufflepuff which did not take much time at all, Josh attempted to catch his arm ''Do what told you to do! Stop there! Stop before i'll feel the urge to reshape your face and other parts''

"No, I'm not deaf," Jake called back, without looking back. "Just smart."

Nearly at the door! Then he could run.

YUP.

But then Josh had his arm, and Jake nearly had a mini-freakout. He hated people touching him, and anything where he felt he couldn't get away was bad. The young man turned back and tried to tug his arm back. "You need to let go of me," he said, trying to keep his voice steady.

He didn't even laugh at what else Josh had said, even though it had been funny. Jake scowled and tugged his arm with more strength than usual. "I'm done with your immaturity, Josh."

''Smart?'' Josh repeated looking quite amused at that very moment when he had heard what the Hufflepuff had just said. Then a rather loud sarcastic laughter of him echoed in the Entrance Hall sounding almost insane and it was apparent from that act that the boy was not really himself and had lost the control of his hatred. ''BAHAHAHAHAHHA!'' once he stopped laughing the Gryffindor gave Jake an arrogant look ''No smart person calls himself smart, Mr ex-Stutters. It is obvious then you need all the lessons i am going to teach you today''

And he was not going to like them which Josh did not care. If one asked to the Gryffindor boy, he'd say that the Hufflepuff seeker deserved everything that was going to take place in there. And it was going to start anytime by now since Josh managed to catch him. ''Perhaps in your dreams'' he replied holding the other boy's arm pretty firmly. Hah! The Huffie could only imagine that Josh let him go and that'd be just pure fantasy.

Then the lion boy was going to say something else, actually was going to warn him about even breathing the same air with Evelyn when Jake had simply called him immature. 'I'm done with your immaturity' Meh. Look who was talking about immaturity. Yet it was still annoying and did not really help Josh's already furious mood. ''Done ha?!'' so he snapped at him ''What are you going to do about it then?'' One more word to annoy him and he was definitely going to taste the hardest punch ever...

Hang... should... they...out? "Yes, we should," Aimée smiled, realising that she was still holding onto Dallins arm. Uh, should she let go, now he was using his other to run through his hair? Or would that seem like she wanted to get away from him? He might take it the wrong way if she did that, she figured, but then he might think it's annoying that I'm still holding on.

Using the 'my shoe needs tying' excuse, she smiled at him apologeticly before taking her arm off his and bending down. After retying her laces, she stood up. Now it wasn't like she'd been trying to get away from him, but if he was annoyed by her holding him he wouldn't be. Maybe.

"So, did you go 'ome for ze break?" she asked.

Jake raised his eyebrows, amused by this emotional display. "It's quite acceptable to call yourself smart if it's true, Joshua."

In his mind he added And there are no signs of intelligent life nearby, but decided not to say that bit out loud. Because he really WAS smart enough not to.

And oh, Josh was going to teach him a lesson? That was predictable, but Jake shrugged.

"What is your problem, dude? You're acting like a total neanderthal," Jake scowled at the younger boy. "You need to chill. the heck. out."

With that, Jake gave another wrench of his arm and shook his head with what might have been pity at the Gryffindor boy.

Dallin grinned again at Aimée's reply. He rocked back and forth on his feet as she retied her shoes, looking around the Entrance Hall. He noticed the house points hour glass. It looked like Ravenclaw wasn't doing too hot. Bummer.

Hearing her talk, he looked back at her. "Nope," he said, shaking his head. "This was actually the first time I've ever stayed at school for Christmas." It was kind of sad, actually. But at least Hogwarts had had a nice homey feeling during the holidays - that was nice. And he'd still gotten letters and presents from his family, which was good, too.

"What about you?" He asked, turning to face her.

It made Patroclus smiled to think that someone had looked for him on the train.....and smile more still that Jacob couldn't find him. "Sorry Mate, I will send you an owl next time if I ain't gonna be there!"
As they crossed the Courtyard, Patroclus increased his speed, he wanted out of the cold NOW!

As the great Oak doors loomed, the Lion broke into a swift power walk/jog/run thing, and covered the last few metres. "Aww that's better" he grinned as the warm of the castle sunk to his bones.

Turning on the spot, looking at all the walls, and the roof he mused out loud, "Now if I was a toilet, where would I be....." Toilets need plumbing, but there was plumbing on every level of the school, "I say we try the statue!" he announced at last, Pointing to the statue of a man holding the castle of Hogwarts on his hand, "Maybe he shrinks us, and we go into the mini-school!"

Sounds perfectly logical!

Trying his best not to make this Hufflepuff taste his own blood, Josh only stared at him as he spoke with that dark gaze of him when he kept when angry and which did not give one the sense that good things were going to happen soon. And once the Huffie was done with his words, a little sarcastic and dangerous looking smile was added to the Gryffindor's expression. ''If you were that smart, Jake, you'd do exactly what i told you to do. So, it would be much easier for both of us. And you'd be free to go into whichever hole you want to hide in after our little conversation. But...'' the angry, out-of-control Josh harshly pulled the Hufflepuff towards himself and got a hold of his other arm.

''...all you do is nothing but trying to look down on me and intentionally getting on my nerves. Does this sound good?'' he slowly shoke his head and held the boy tighter ''I don't think so.'' Definitely not good. Actually nothing was good with the current situation at all in addition to the fact that it was kind of unnecessary. This tought hitting his mind for an instant, Joshua blinked a couple of times considering what he was doing again and as he did so his grip on the Hufflepuff loosened a little. Yet Jake's next words immediately made this thought vanish in his mind though the Gryffindor did not fully understand it.

''I have no problem except...'' Acting like a total what? He had no idea what that word meant. But seeing it had come from the mouth of this Jake Morgan, there was no way it could be any compliment. ''Are you trying to insult me?'' Had not he warned him about this before? He could not remember. But he doubted Jake would follow that warning anyway. Then, there was only one thing to do...

His gaze turning into a softer one, Josh dropped both of the Hufflepuff's arms and took a few steps away before quickly dashing forward him and punching him hard in the face. ''YOU-WILL-NOT-HURT-HER-AGAIN!'' And that was all he had to say, at least right now.

SERIOUSLY!

Joshua needed to learn about PERSONAL SPACE.

"Josh. Seriously. You do not scare me, you got that?"

Of course he didn't.

ANDHEHADBOTHOFJAKESARMS.

Ugh, the kid was delusional. "Are you really so self-centered to think that all I ever do is try and wind you up? I have my own life, Josh. I only remember you exist when I see you." Geez, dude.

Anyway, yes. Josh had let go, so Jake straightened his robes. "Not insulting. Merely making an observa-"

WHAM!

Suddenly, Jake's nose exploded in pain. REALLY?! "DUDE! ANGER MANAGEMENT! SRSLY!"

He covered his hand with his sleeve and put his hand to his nose... stupid thing bled so easily.

Wait, what?

"'Hurt'... what?! Who?!"

WHAT THE HECK?!

When Jacob felt the warmth the the castle, he shivered and heaved a large sigh. "Yeah, well... there was the sort of panic of being captain. I wouldn't have been running back and forth between cars otherwise" just saying... he was too lazy to do that. Pat wanted to talk to him, he could find Jacob himself.

If he were a toilet where would he be?... what kind of question was that. "You'd be in the bathroom" he pointed out to the lion, but the boy was already going towards a statue.

Jacob examined the statue, "That seems highly illogical, but then again, everything here is illogical. So really it's very plausible"... did you need a password... or maybe you had to answer a riddle like the ravenclaw common room. Jacob had gotten good at that, though he still got stuck out every once in a while. He knocked on the statue "Hello...? Anyone home?" he raised his eyebrows. What were they supposed to do.

Hecate made her way out of the great hall into the entrance hall. She was in a sour mood dealing with the likes of Damian Slytherin. Horrible Child.

She looked at the children in the entrance hall... Was Morgan's nose bleeding? Was it the weather? Why was Carter looking angry? Blunt and Hudson was there too.

"Could someone enlighten me to what is going on?" She asked nonchalantly .

Not scared ha?! It was not really a good idea to say such a thing but Josh already could not remember any moment that this ex-Stutters said anything that could be considered good. And LIES! He was not only pretty bad at defending himself by words, he also the worst liar the Gryffindor had ever seen.

Looking down at the Hufflepuff's bleeding nose, the boy laughed rather insanely at Jake's instant yell. ''Yes, somebody needs some management. That's right'' And it had nothing to do with anger. The lion boy was going to show this poor Huffie how management was performed well enough to finish such business.

So, he walked forward and grabbed the other boy's robes with his both hands and pulled him close again. Again another lie. How stupid did this Jake Morgan think he was? Maybe he was trying his chance just because Josh was not a Ravenclaw. Hahahha. Funny. But even the most IQless person would not believe that this Huffie did not know who he did hurt, regardless of houses. ''A moment ago you were the smartest person ever, Jake, why playing the idiot now?''

Such a coward! It was not going to save him... ''You know who she is!'' Josh snapped at him as he raised another fist to punch him but at that very moment a way better idea occured in his mind. So the Gryffindor lowered the fist but harshly shoke the boy he caught some before starting to speak with a tone which was dangerously full of hatred ''There's only one way you can walk out of this in one piece.'' narrowing his eyes that were fixed on Jake, he went on ''Hit me! Do it as hard as you can! Right now!'' heh. At least he could try. ''Hit me!'' the fist was raised at him threateningly again ''Or i'll make you feel the worse than...''

Yet the madly angry Josh Carter froze when he heard the familiar voice of...

...Mistress Lafay.

Not really moving, even not his gaze for a couple of moments, Josh take a deep breath as he lowered his fist again. Then he freed the Hufflepuff and pushed him away from himself before he turned his back to have a look of Mistress Lafay.

She was demanding to know what was going on, if Josh did not get it wrong. It was a fact that Joshua Carter was the last person to lie to get rid of a certain situation. So, at first the Gryffindor slowly approached the Potions Mistress, the angry gaze was still on his face and now he was feeling too hot and sweating.

''It's always good to see you professor'' so the Gryffindor spoke totally ignoring the others in the room. ''And believe me, there's nothing going on to waste your precious attention on it''

Well, he LOVED this woman.

having to rearrange >_<
 

Josh was talking in TONGUES, seriously. He really had gone completely around the bend.

Psycho child.

Jake just did his best to ignore everything being said by the deranged Gryffindor, figuring if he let the insanity run its course he'd soon be off to Healer Moretti, to get his nose fixed for the second time this year and tell her there was a Gryffindor seriously in need of her attention.

And now he was held by the robes...

ANDNOWHEWASCHOKING.

Despite this, Jake would not hit the boy back. It wasn't a matter of honour; it was about being smart. If they were not in a place where Josh had more back up than Jake had, even if Jake was on good terms with many professors, he'd hit the boy back. If they were not at school, sure. Josh knew he would. It wasn't like they hadn't had that issue a couple summers ago...

BUT, it didn't matter. Somebody was here before Jake had too long to panic. One other person had tried to strangle him once, and that was in first year... it brought back horrible memories about the bully Jack Mosier.

BUT he couldn't talk yet.

And then Josh let go. As soon as he did, Jake pulled himself away and gently massaged his neck.

"Psycho child here hit me in the face and tried to strangle me," he explained hoarsely, his voice all funny out of mere fear. Well... who WOULDN'T be scared in that situation. "He corners me here, grabs my arm when I try to leave, goes on about teaching me a lesson and whatever. I told him he was acting like a neanderthal and THEN he says something about hurting 'her' and gets even more crazy, hits me in the face and grabs my throat, like you just saw. He told me to hit him to get out of the situation in one piece."

Which was VERY tempting. Not the one piece stuff necessarily, but HITTING HIM. "Tried to leave the situation early but probably would have hurt him and done more harm than good. I think he's lost his mind, Professor," Jake said with the TINIEST hint of concern. "I mean... he's hit me before but he's NEVER been like this."

Jake eyed Joshua Carter hesitantly. He was fully prepared to lose points for the neanderthal comment but, like he said, he didn't care one jot. Maybe Lafay had bruise paste? Or she could fix his nose.

He doubted it.

She clearly hated his mere presence. Maybe Jake should prepare for expulsion.

She raised her eyebrow at the boy. She hated when he sucked up to her.

...

He hit and strangled him? Why for?

"Hudson... Blunt..." She said calling the prefect, and captain. "Did either of you witness the exchange?" She asked.

Jacob heard his last name... he quickly turned and blurted out "It's not my fault!"

Wait, What he do? Jacob saw that it was Lafay who was talking to them and cleared his throught when she asked the question.

He didn't say that... No one heard it!

"What did they exchange, Professor?" he asked, being completely serious.

*Running down the hall Matty tried to out run a dark brown owl carrying a smoking howler. But it was no good and the owl dropped the red letter in front of Matty and it opened. He tripped and landed face first in front of the horrid letter.*

*A mans loud voice rang out shaking the walls a little.*
MATTHIAS! I SAID NO MORE FIGHTING! WHAT MUST I DO TO GET IT IN YOUR HEAD TO NOT FIGHT! AND WHAT ABOUT YOU TRYING TO BE MORE SOCIAL?! YOU ARE GOING TO THAT PARTY AND YOU WILL ENJOY YOURSELF!
*Matty laid there with his hands over his head waiting for it to be over. When it was he slowly looked up unsure what to do now.*

Marie came out of the Great Hall feeling kind of sleepy after eating so much food. Maybe she would go take a nap before she decided to study again for those blasted OWLs. Or maybe she should go look for Jimmy and get some motivation to study. He was a great motivator after all.

Not really watching where she was going she suddenly came to a stop when she almost stepped on someone laying on the floor. Noticing who it was and seeing the howler laying there in pieces she started to laugh. "Are you kidding me? You're afraid of a little howler. It's not like it's going to jump up and punch you in the nose." Geesh, Matty seemed more afraid of that howler than he did of her when she broke his nose.

Too lazy to quote XD Jakers, Mistress Lafay and Eagles' Captain
 

Though he was still mad at the Hufflepuff for countless reasons and still thought that he needed much more than what had happened so far to get the lesson he needed properly, Josh tried his very best not to charge back towards the badger boy and teach him more stuff on how to behave, for the sake of the rest of the school because it would not be a really wise act to do so before Lafay's eyes since it'd make him look like the only source of the fuss that had taken place in here.

And that was not true. This time he was going to try his best to fight against any injustice present in this school unlike what he did during the past years. So, he did not try or attemp to cut in as Jake spoke explaining what had happened though it was pretty difficult not to do so. The Gryffindor did not even comment about the insulting words he used over and over again during his speech. Ah, it was interesting to hear that Jake thought something was different with him this time. So sweet! BAHAHAHAA! Yet Josh pretty much disagreed to that.

Once the Hufflepuff was done with his words, so now Mistress Lafay knew all about what had happened and surprisingly Jake did not lie about ir or exeggerated it. Weird. Josh thought he'd do that only to make him suffer the most painful detention ever but it looked like he was wrong for once. Hmm...perhaps he had done that because he was scared of the Gryffindor boy.

Joshua patiently kept his words to himself until the professor asked a question to the others in the room and until the Ravie Captain spoke making Josh Carter laugh with a hint of sarcasm in his attitude for a moment or so till he had remembered that he probably had the Potions Mistress' eyes on him. However the Ravenclaw was still ridiculous. Anyhow...

''Professor...'' so Josh began taking a few steps closer to Lafay and looking at her, ignoring anything else as usual ''…i don’t think you need any witnesses.'' Especially NOT some cowards like that one ''I never lie about anything because i don’t need to do so. So, yes i did hit him. To be more exact, i punched him. But i honestly do not remember strangling him. Of course this does not mean i’m denying it. Perhaps i did. I don’t know.''

Jake wasn't entirely sure what to do about his nose. Despite the amount of times it bled due to contact with Josh's fist, quidditch whatnot and lampposts, he didn't know if he should tilt his head forward or back... so he just stood there, his robes sleeve over his nose and mouth, realising his shirt sleeve was probably red too.

OH. OH. Let's get some WITNESSES before dealing with injuries, SHALL WE?!

Jeeeeez, Lafay. Priorities. Straighten them.

Raising an eyebrow at Josh, Jake found it hard to believe him. "If he can't remember doing that then I don't feel safe being around someone who could do something like that at any time." And if he remembered it?

Well, duh.

"Professor... kind of bleeding out of my face here."

"Oh sweet circe, you are no help at all." She said waving the boy off. "Go back to whatever you are doing."

WHAT. WAS. THAT! She glared at the kids and saw it was a howler... no big deal.

...

"Twenty points from Gryffindor." She said with a raised eyebrow. "And you will come to my office to discuss this further."

ooc: We can just continue with our office RP and add this to it, if that's ok.

"Stop being a baby, Morgan." She said pointing her wand at his nose. A thought flashed in her mind. Maybe she should make him go to the Nurse, she was his head of house after all. "Whining isn't going to make you stop bleeding." Nehh... he would tell his father that she didn't heal him, and right now she wanted nothing to do with Marcus Lawson. So with a silent episkey, she healed his nose.

She left.