Anastasia didn't even bother to respond to that rude Charms woman. Forget her admirable effort when it came to fashion; when it came to people, she was just heartless. Almost as bad as Annie, in fact. HEARTLESS, she said.

Turning away with a soft 'hmmph,' the redhead turned toward the Hufflepuff boy, who was offering to check for other un/conscious students. "Yes... yes yes," she nodded to his request slowly, "just...figure out who needs medical attention..." those who didn't were just going to be told to go back to the castle, she supposed...

Then IT appeared. The evil, vile, ugly spirit that had been haunting HER jewelry and HER castle all year long! "YOU!!" the redhead had time to gasp as things clicked into place at last. He must have been possessing the plant the way he had been possessing her brooch! Why, he could have had the plant STEAL the brooch from her room!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

The spirit zoomed through the Headmistress and headed on its way, and she felt her knees nearly buckle. "I...I ahhahiaiii...." she stammered and grabbed onto the nearest person, which, well, happened to be that poor Hufflepuff boy. "I think we should probably get to the castle," she gasped, still in shock from like HER BIGGEST FEAR EVER zooming straight through her.

MERLIN, why was it always the ghosts?! Shaking her head, Annie muttered some choice words under her breath and closed her eyes. She took a deep breath and straightened up, wand out once more. She had no time to freak out now. SHE HAD A GHOST TO FRY.

"FOLLOW THAT GHOST!" Yes, she would be leading another charge... probably straight back to where they'd come from... what a fantastic day it was. NOT.

Hecate rolled her eyes. Who did she think she was? Napoleon?!

She followed the Headmistress anyway.

Oakey slowly placed Elise down to the ground and removed his robe now to replace the make-shift pillow just as Kurumi had made for the girl. He tucked it under her head and stood back up. He listened to the horrible mess of a Head Mistress tell him to go ahead and find anyone who was out cold and/or coming to.

That seemed to be doing it for himself though as Kurumi whom he believed to be out cold asked him if Elise was okay. "Who?" he asked, "Oh, yeah she's fine. Just out cold, her breathing is fine too. Then he heard a loud voice yell about his plant! He pushed his head up to see what he assumed was probably Isfret.

Now with the plant gone Oakey wasn't so afraid anymore, the couldn't be said about the Head Mistress though, she sounded horrified as he snatched Oakey up by his shirt! SERIOUSLY WHY WAS EVERYONE GRABBING HIM TODAY. He wasn't sure what he was supposed to say back to her, wasn't that order more for one of the Professor here? "I-uh-sure, Where is it headed to?" He didn't get any response from her as she released him and rushed out of the Green House. He grasped his wand tightly and looked around to everyone else still lying on the floor. "Dammit", he said softly to himself as he followed the Head Mistress out of the Green House.

Things were starting to happen way too quickly for Sierra to process them all at once. The plant was dead, and therefore so were two professors. She'd be lying if she said that didn't upset her. She sort of liked both of them, really. Even if they had made bottle rockets in Astronomy...

Sierra started frantically looking around, waiting for some direction on what to do next. To the castle, they go, it seemed, but...a part of Sierra just wanted to go home. She hated evil ghosts and now she likely had a lifelong fear of plants, so...why did she find herself wanting to dash back in to the castle, bee-lining for the evil ghost, at the speed of light?!

...oh, right, because her mother was headed there, too; and truth be told, even though Sierra was a sixth year and tried to give off the impression that she feared nothing and bowed down to not a soul...

... ...she was afraid of evil ghosts, and right now...

...she wanted her mom.

Dylan had been helping with the pulling...to the best of his ability. He'd latched onto Skylar and Branxton...Others had quickly joined him. Together, they were doing their best to break Milton free from this plant's clutches...

...suddenly...more shouting filled the greenhouse...and then there was a massive explosion! The Slytherin Captain flew back, landing with a sickening thug on his side against a large stand of ceramic pots.

What...in the...?!

Sitting up with some difficulty, hissing and groaning as he went, the Slytherin glared around the greenhouse. Sound was oddly muted...All he could do was take in things by sight. It was like a bomb had went off. Plant and plant!guts were spewed everywhere...and upon further observation...in was on his face. Who...?

...Then his vision was being obscured by a thick grey smoke that was slowly condensing into...Isfret?

Sounds came roaring back, with exceptional clarity. Sweet Merlin, the headache he had...and his body literally felt broken. Damn pots...That was going to leave a bruise...

...The Headmistress was commanding they follow? How was he suppose to do that when that Professor just blasted them to hell with her stupid spell? Dylan idly wondered if he could get the Ministry involved. That lady didn't need to teach if she wasn't smart enough to know that she could've KILLED them all. Just...GAH!

Standing slowly, he finally felt a burning sensation on his skin...When had THAT happened...Then it wasn't just in one small place...It seemed to be all over. Dylan's eyes widened. Burn paste, maybe...later? Honestly, he was in so much pain, the burning didn't even bother him.

Yea...Where was Milton? Oh...Unconscious. SIGH. Was the Healer on her way? "Has someone sent for Healer Tiltstorm?" Yea, he was going to make sure Shacklebolt was okay before following the moltey crew to handle Isfret.

WHATTHEHECKDIDSHETHINKSHEWASDOING?!?!? Seren stared at the ... MUDERscene. Not only did that reckless woman BLOW UP THE PLANT! But she put STUDENTS in harms way!!!! THIS WAS INSANITY!
Mouth gaping open for some time, Seren finally snapped back to life.

While the able bodied people were on a ghost hunt, she would.... sort out this mess... what in the name of whomping willows was she going to do now?
One hand still on her wand, the other clasped the last remaining tendril of the exotic plant. THEREWASHOPE?! Maybe.

Still, the words of... whatever it was echoed in her mind. HIS plant? Pfft, it was very clearly Truebridge's.

But nevertheless, bigger fish to fry. Turning her attention to the unconscious and wounded, she grimaced. This was not her role. She healed plants, not people.
"How is everyone?" she asked frantically, searching the faces of the victims, pausing on Kurumi briefly.

THATWOMANCOULDHAVEKILLEDHERPREFECT!!!

No one had to tell her twice! That ghost was pretty cool and staying here to wait on healing was not.

All the different Professors asking if everyone was alright barely registered to the girl. She simply took a quick look around to make sure that everyone she cared about was alright then she bolted from the greenhouse behind those that had already done so. If he leg wanted to hurt it was free to do so but she wasn't going to be paying it any attention any time soon.

Speaking of attention...she'd left poor Felix alone in the Great Hall from fear the plant might snatch him from her...now that there was no plant...

Yeah, she'd pick him up so he could have fun in the ghost hunt too. What? He liked adventure as much as the next feline you know.

Hissst did she care about the looks and the accusing eyes? No she didn't because the plant was dead and that was all that mattered. It wouldn't be able to eat anyone else so all the looks were insignificant and therefore ignored to the 1000th.

Because surely they would still be throwing meat at the bloody thing if she hadn't blown the monster up. And she did a bloody good job of making sure it was dead, thank you very much.

Maybe he next time someone said step back, they wouldn't do their own thing and ignore the warnings.

........
And then the ghost thing..happened and Sophia blinked and blinked and then looked at Alexa... Umm no, this was not cool it was...weird..even by magical world standards it was weird.

After her moments of shock, Sophia followed the headmistress out. Seren could keep them company while while the others went after the ghost.

Minerva felt someone come near as she continued to try and get Milton awake looking up she recognized the Slytherin captain. Well there was one good thing to announcing the matches she was at least able to recognize more people that she might not know. He then asked for about a healer, "Yes the headmistress sent for the healer right before the ghost started." She glanced around everyone still seeming more in shock then anything else and oh they were leaving, but.. but.. what about Milton not even awake, shouldn't they make sure he was alive okay. Looking back up to Dylan, "Your older and would know more spells and stuff to deal with this ghost if you want to go with them. I'll stay here and help make sure he is alright." and looking around some of the others.



...and then she saw Bentley's face and wondered if someone needed to go catch the Herbology professor before she hit the ground from seeing the mess and the plants. Minerva wasn't sure what she was going to do, but she looked around and asked about everyone, "Milton is still out cold professor, and a few seem to be injured." She tried to think of things to maybe say to the professor, sorry about your murder plant, but she wasn't sorry. She really felt Bellaire did exactly what needed to be done. Since she was under Magnus' shield charm maybe she didn't think it was as bad as it had been. When more students and staff were leaving the greenhouse Minerva looked at Professor Bentley and really any professors still left in there. "I can stay and help here. So many are headed for the ghost, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea for a few to stay behind and help with any injured and starting to clean this mess up." Or be around when Bentley finally hits shock and falls over from her greenhouse being destroyed.

ASDFGHJKL;

Everything seemed to be in fast forward ever since Kat arrived. First, Bellaire BOMBARDED that plant 'til its death and the pullers (what a NAME) trying to save Milton Shacky-bolt from being fully digested. The Slytherin grimaced at the thought of Burbage being FULLY digested. Ew. Wonder how she tastes like. Disgusting. But well... good bye Burbage. You won't will be missed.

And then... WHAT THE FIREBOLT. Who was that? Calling that thing 'his' plant? GETTOUTTAHERE you weirdo. They will pay for this? Uh oh, now that part was bad. Pay for what? Kat didn't even know what BAD they did. They just saved Milton's life and saved the school from that awful looking man-eating fast-digesting really disgusting plant... Obviously that weird thing was at the wrong state of mind. PSSH.

AWW NOW WHERE WERE THEY GOING?! Kat frowned. They just came from the library, you know! That thing was making their lives harder. SNORT. Reluctantly, Kat followed the 'thing' whatever it was.

Cassia was trying to process what was really going on in here. So the plant had the captain and they were trying to pull him while others would hit the plant with things or cast spells at it. Mind her it didn't sound like a very good idea. Doesn't the plant have like a professor and a student? Just a thought. But if they were thinking that maybe sacrificing a couple of lives in order to save the rest of the others lives at the castle....Cassia was ok with that.Unless she's among the sacrifices. Because she thinks Snakes are too valuable to be sacrificed.

She nodded at Lex as the lioness said that they were trying to save the captain. Cassia of course had a response to that on her mind but figured it wasn't the time to word out thoughts and express opinions while an evil plant was gulping people. So her debate with Lex will have to wait until it's safe enough that you don't have to watch out for any tendrils reaching for you, which was what Cassia was doing regularly standing there. You never know when a plant wants to encircle around your limbs. "Just don't do stupid things." Which was exactly what Lex would do. "Or get yourself killed or gulped by a plant." Cassia said really concerned. And yeah now she really knew that Lex is a best friend of hers.

And then..Booooom. The second-year found herself staggering backwards when an explosion erupted. Cassia's first thought was that the other plants in the greenhouses were ATTACKING. She darted her eyes around to look for a human shield and she of course didn't choose Alexa because the girl is her friend. You don't use friends as human shields until you are certainly doomed. And joy it was when Cassia glanced at the charms professor and saw that it was the woman and she blew the plant up. Of course that was Cassia's first opinion when the other people decided to search for the plant. And the other opinion was to burn the plant down of course but that worked.

However, it'd have been nice and considerate from the Charms lady if she had warned them. What if a student accidentally got blown up along with the plant. That would have been tragic. So the captain was unconscious. Well, it was reasonable. And then Cassia looked for Bentley to see the woman's reaction. Cassia predicted that it'd be priceless. And indeed the woman seemed t find trouble processing the turn of events. But the more priceless was the headmistress's reaction. Now was the woman really crying? Cassia doesn’t remember her crying when the poor student was gulped by the plant!
Black smoke…..why is there black smoke. Cassia didn't know about the others but she didn't have a clue that they had such ghost in the castle! She blinked at the creepy spirit and convinced herself that threats were not directed at her. Poor charms professor, she probably was the first wanted person on this ghosts list. Oh well, it was nice knowing her.

Caught up in all this chaos. Cassia hadn't noticed Theo standing a couple of feet from her. And how spy-ish the two looked. The second-year offered her friend a cool, awesome, and spy-like nod and a tilt of head. Which was supposed to mean…Are you spying like I am. That of course if Theo was able to decipher the awkward head-move. And because she doubted her own skills at codes and signs she walked towards him. "Hey Butress! Like the chaos?" She beamed. "Do we follow that ghost or it's too risky?" And if it was risky then the Slytherin's awesome and most valuable spies…..well and only, shouldn't risk their lives!

The snake took a measuring look around seeing who was leaving and who was staying. She needs to make sure that if she decided to follow the ghost some brave and smart people would be around to save her.

Cece was sitting in her office reading a book, enjoying a rare moment of quiet when said quiet time was interrupted by a patronus. Not just any patronus either, it was a patronus from the headmistress. Sensing the urgency in the message she put her book down and followed the thing to the greenhouses.

"HOLY MERLIN! What happened here?" she shouted as she looked around at the disaster. Was this a greenhouse or a potions lab? This was the kind of mess she would have expected to find after a potion brewing gone wrong.

Where was Bentley?

Sitting up straight now, Kurumi breathed a sigh of relief at Oakey's words. Oh good. The smoke hadn't gotten to her in her defenseless state thanks to the baby mandrakes. But before she could really thank Oakey he was rushing out of the greenhouse with the Headmistress and others. She would thank him properly later. Instead she focused on slowly standing up and rolling her sleeves a bit to check out the burns from the hot plant goo. They didn't look...too bad? Maybe? They HURT like the dickens though, and that wasn't a good sign.

And then she had mixed feelings about hearing that the Healer had been called. She knew the woman did not like her...so she was a liiiiiiiiiiiittle worried that the woman would just tell her to suck it up and deal since she was a Gryffindor, or a prefect, or a seventh year, one of those options. And Kurumi really didn't want to go to the hospital wing when all THAT was going on. She needed to get back to the library, fast, where Walnut was and where she could make sure that her Gryffindors and the other students were alright when Isfret did get there.
"I'm...um...alright, professor," she said a little unconvincingly considering she had scorch marks on her robes and burns on her face and arms. At least she had been wearing her uniform pants this day instead of her skirt, right? "Elise is outside though. I set her out there to keep her away from the smoke since she was unconscious." Just as Professor Romanos had suggested. "She should wake up soon though...since she was just knocked out by the baby mandrake's cries..." Mandrakes there were now....where exactly?

o___________________O

Did they get blown up too?

Seriously, did the Charms professor just NOT care about student welfare? She clearly didn't about Milton. Smacking him while he was unconscious from a coconut to the head - or whatever it had been - and now nearly blowing him up.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND FREEZE.

The Healer was here....and Kurumi was half tempted to just roll her sleeves down over her burns and hide them...but Professor Bentley wouldn't allow her to do such a thing, so she was just doing to wait and see how the woman reacted to her being...injured.

....goodie....


"Professor Bellaire blew up a plant," Kurumi stated bluntly. That pretty much WAS what had happened really.

Ethan glanced over at Milton as Minerva said something about him not waking up. The boy figured it was either the mandrakes as someone mentioned.. or he passed out from fright after being thiiis close to becoming a hungry plant's next meal. Because that would have been Ethan's state if he were in the Captain's position. Either way, he was sure his fellow Claw was not deceased and he then turned his attention to the Headmistress and Bellaire. So that was it.. Burbage was basically confirmed to be beyond saving. He had feared the worst when he started out in his search group, but didn't really want to admit it. now he had no choice..

And then his eyes drifted over to the grey smoke piling out of the plant.. and what came out of it. "...whatthehellwasthat?" Ethan's eyes grew wide and he simply stared after the angry ghost thing as it zoomed off towards the castle. Follow it? His eyes snapped back to the Headmistress at her order suggestion. Um.. no, he didn't think he'd be going after that thing any time soon.. Besides it looked like enough people were going anyway.

He looked over at Minnie again as she spoke.. this time to Professor Bentley, and he stole a glance her way. He knew she would be beyond words and he dared not look at the left side of the greenhouse for a similar reason. The boy had a sinking feeling all the extra work he had done this term was destroyed.. and he just didn't want to face that yet. He nodded in agreement with Minnie. He was glad she wanted to stay because he didn't want to follow a vengeful ghost.. though he probably would if she did.. Then he looked back to Bentley. "I'm alright, Professor, so.. if you need any help.. I'll stay too.." Thankfully he and Minnie had been close to Magnus and her shield because he hadn't been hurt at all.. other than a couple bumps and bruises from falling backwards. Apparently a few weren't as lucky.. but at least no casualties and the Healer was there now anyway to sort the injured out.

Theo had already cracked open a chocolate frog when the grey mist appeared.

O___________________________o

Distracted in the moment of horror, the frog jumped out of his hand and escaped. Good thinking, froggie! Theo wanted to escape, too! He was terrified of ghosts. Though he did kind of wanna follow it... just for curious-George reasons.

"Hey, Catty....." Theo said, coolly. He was okay... yep, he would be okay.

Cassia was actually the EXACT person he needed to see right now, cos of the whole 'ghost are suspects' case they had been investigating. Though not too much had actually come out of the case. But it was enough of a reason to answer the girl's question. "W-we should go... it could be important for our..." What were they even?

"Records."

Blasting... shouting... screaming... fire... hot plant goo...

Ew, hot plant goo. ALL OVER. GROSS.

There was pounding in his head, probably leftovers from the mandrakes, and an extreme pain in his left wrist where the blasted plant had been dragging him across the school. It didn't help that people had been trying to tear off his limbs in order to detach him from the plant.

Milton let out a quiet whine that quickly turned into a loud, gutteral groan as he rolled onto his side. Something felt weeeeird... His stomach was churning... "Ohhhsweetmotherofmurgatroyd," Milton managed to grunt out before rolling over and releasing his breakfast all over the feet of an unlucky Hufflepuff (Nessie).

Uuuuuuuggghhhhjdfakjsdhfsj. Milton flopped onto his back, unaware of what was happening anymore? "Whaathappunneddd?

Grab Milton! Right.She could do this...or maybe watch..no that was really mean and not hufflepuff-like. So go or...wait what was Oakey on about?

For a short moment Nessie turned her attention towards him. He was saying something about Dylan. Ness gave the Slytherin a HUGE glare and sort of wished she could shove him there along with Milton, of course she'd never have the heart to do that to anyone not even Dylan.

If she was in Milton's situation she knew she would have wanted help and it was for that matter, that Ness went forward to the plant on fire and helped the others, only to hear an instruction to step back. Of course Ness followed this and with fear in her eyes watched the events of what happened next.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!!

There was a massive explosion and just like that the plant was gone and shattered into pieces. A few seconds after that some smoke appeared and with it came Isfret the scary dude.

WAIT..wasn't HE the PLANT? Or maybe he was in it? Merlins pants this was SO confusing! With too much happening all Ness could do was stare at Isfret in shock and when the villian left she kept her gaze where he had been.

WAS THAT? EWW!!! EWWWW! EWWW! EWW! EWWW! EWWW!!

There was a small mumble coming from the ground and as Ness looked to see who what it was she saw something else instead. "MILTON! I'M GOING TO KILL--" The smell! Oh Gosh! It was bad.

Gulp! She would not repeat what he had just done to her. Blocking her nose and trying not to actually look at her feet, Ness aimed her wand where the mess was and uttered a small "Scourgify." With that her shoes were clean again. "That plant got you, then there was some chaos and more chaos, so Professor Bellair blew the plant up and YOU decided to VOMIT on my feet! " The red head uttered quickly with an eye roll.

That silly plant should have eaten him whilst it could have.

To follow the ghost now then?

Okay, so most of them seemed fine. The bits of flying plant had been soft really, so they hadn't done too much damage. The force of the blast though had thrown a few kids off their feet - and a couple were unconscious. Including the Ravenclaw Captain she had just helped rescue. Although that appeared to be because of the mandrakes.

Checking on the kids around her, Isabelle brushed them off and looked for any signs of bad injury. Next thing she knew a loud shouting happened and a ghost flew right through the Headmistress and away towards the castle. Now, that was not what she was expecting. She wasn't sure what she was expecting - but it definitely wasn't that.

Standing with her mouth open, she jumped at the sound of Bunz ordering them to follow the ghost. Yes. Follow. He was behind this. Where the heck had he gone?



Just as she was about to charge out after their leader, Isabelle nearly bumped into the Healer. What had happened? "Sophia happened," Issy said, quite deadpan.

"There's a few students unconscious from mandrake cries, and some from the blast. I don't think anyone is serious though," she said, looking around at the disaster scene. But equally importantly, she could go now that a trained healer had arrived to help Seren who might need her herself at some point

"Must dash, emergency up at the castle. Evil ghost escaped!" With a quick point in the direction of the castle, Isabelle dashed off, picking up her robes so she wouldn't fall over them as she ran.

One minute Selina was holding onto Vivi and the next she felt the room getting really hot and an explosion sounding in her ears. With Mortimer in her hand, she held on fast to where she was in the room so she was not blown back, but she felt Vivi slip out of her grip and just like that- her friend was gone. She did not even want to think about, in that moment, what had happened to anyone else in the room, especially not Kurumi or Dylan or ALICE. OH NO ALICE!

So once everything cleared, the redhead opened her eyes and started to franticly look around the room for her friends and teammates. It seemed that everyone was a little worse for wear, but they were okay. They were all moving, which meant that they were alive. So WHO was the idiot who put all of her friends in harm's way?

Oh wait, look at that. It seemed like Kurumi had read her mind because the moment she had thought about it, her best friend answered her very question. Hold on, wait. A PROFESSOR put everyone's in harm's way. The sixth year was confused. Professors were SUPPOSED to be smart, correct? So why did one of them just pull a really dumb move? Ugh, just like Selina had predicted they were all going to die because of adults stupid mistakes. Horror movies did not lie.

Hugging Mortimer close to her chest, Selina wiped some of the plant residue out of her red hair, "Ugh," she groaned, "This is gross..."

When she tuned back into the conversation, she heard that everyone was talking about moving again. Yeah, because running straight into the face of the bad guy was ALWAYS the way to go. She was already at risk because of her personality. People in movies like Selina were always one of the first to go, so why tempt fate? But when Kurumi was leaving, she had to follow. There was NO way she was letting Kurumi get hurt. Yeah, okay like THAT would ever happen.

So she pulled herself off of the ground and yelled after her best friend, "Hold on! I'm coming!" Yeah, she was totally going to die. The dumb one's always did.

Why?

Why her? Or more to the point why her greenhouses? It seemed as though every year SOMETHING had to go wrong...

She needed Caltex, needed his cuddles and his fluffy head to distract her.



Eyes glazed over, Seren heard a murmuring that sounded like familiar people talking. Staying? Oh ... of course.
"Good... thank you..." she replied softly, still taking in the scene. "This... stuff.... needs to be put in the compost." Out of sight, out of mind. Right? The plant flesh... residue... charred remains... whatever it was now, was not helping her.



She was starting to feel faint... squatting down to the ground, thinking it would be a lesser distance for her to fall should she faint, she nodded at Kurumi's response. "Good... thinking. Good."

Even with an audible entrance from the Healer, Seren didn't move. It was a good think Kurumi was able to speak on their behalf.
"What she said," she affirmed.

That woman. KILLED a plant, INJURED Kurumistudents and... and... just walked away. If she wasn't a mature grown up the woman would get a flaming pile of dragon dung on her doorstep.




... oh good... he was alive. "Welcome back Mister Shacklebolt."

Minerva heard sounds coming from Milton.. Good did that mean he was coming around. She hoped so, "Milton.. are you alright?" She watched to see if he was in pain anywhere or if he had just passed out from everything going on. Then he turned and Minerva was glad that she was on the opposite side of that... Ewwwww poor Nessie.. Looking away Minerva's stomach turned. She didn't want to see or smell that. Thankful that Nessie cleaned it up fast she turned back to Milton. Listening to Nessie she looked up at her a bit shocked, he was almost eaten could we use some nicer words, but Min wasn't going to say anything. Then Milton asked what happened, well no need to bother him with the explanation, just see if he was alright was the important part, plus Nessie did a pretty good job at explaining so no need to say it twice. "Milton the healer just got here, let her make sure your alright first, then worry about more details later.."




Minerva heard the Healer as soon as she walked in. Not surprised by the response that she had seeing this place. No one would have reacted normal, it had to look like a war was done in this room. She heard Kurumi speak and then Magnus. She had to remember to thank Professor Magnus for putting up the shield if only more students would have listened to Professor Bellaire maybe they wouldn't be hurt right now. Looking to find where the healer was at Minerva decided Milton needed to be the first checked. He was drug from who knows where clear the to green house and then almost eaten. The rest just either passed out from sound or had plants hit them and really since it was just plant parts, Milton really could take priority.

"Healer Tillstorm, I think Milton needs looked at first if possible. That flesh eating plant had wrapped around his wrist and drug him from I'm not even sure where since I was in here with Professor Bentley. It was still wrapped around him when some chaos broke and spells were flying around him to hit the plant. I don't think he was hit by any, but he did pass out. We got him free right before the plant was blown up. He's just waking up now." She hoped that was a good enough explanation for the healer to be able to know what might be wrong if anything was with Milton.



Minerva then heard Professor Bentley speak and looked up at her, she was not looking well. Standing up and getting out of the way for Healer Tillstorm to be able to look over Milton, Minerva moved closer to Professor Bentley, "Professor.. are you alright?" she knew she wasn't how could she be. The plant needed to end the way it did, but she still knew it would be hard on the herbology professor to see it happen. Glancing at Ethan she wondered how he was taking this all in.. He was really good at Herbology and seemed to really like all the plants as well.

When Professor Bentley gave them a job to do and Minerva looked around, "Okay Professor we can get started on that." She turned to Ethan, "Well guess we should get started.." giving him a small smile she looked around trying to even figure out where to start. This place was a mess. Well had to start somewhere. She went over and began collecting plant parts. Honestly the composed just didn't seem like the best place for this thing, letting the students have a nice bonfire and having it completely burn sounded like a much better idea, but she wouldn't say that opinion in front of Bentley or even Ethan.

Dylan gave the Hufflepuff a look, grimacing as he felt his ribs more than ever. He was extremely annoyed from almost being blown up, of course. "Don't tell me what I should do."

The Captain wasn't one to be micromanaged.

...and that didn't exclude this girl. He didn't even know her...

Healer Tiltstorm!

"Burn......paste. please." He gritted out, feeling the stinging on his neck, hands, and cheek intensifying. Dylan was cursing the Charms professor heatedly under his breath. "Stupid cow..."

Shacklebolt.

He was okay.

The Slytherin Captain slowly wobbled over to him, kneeled down and clapped Mildew on the shoulder. "The Healer's here...Relax, mate." Yes, Dylan was relieved his fellow Captain was okay. Although, when he'd really started valuing Milton, the Snake didn't know. "The plant's been blown up."...if that's any comfort.

Nasty glare/grimace for YOU, Bellaire.

From his spot beside Milton, Dylan nodded his head at the Herbology Professor. "I'm prepared...to help." After he got burn paste...and someone reset his ribs, maybe. He just hoped there wasn't internal bleeding...How would he know? Would there be signs?

...And that Hufflepuff...

EYEROLL.

"You need to chill..." Sweet Merlin, someone was trying to act like a know-it-all and that bothered him for some reason. Cookie was bad enough...At least she knew how to tone it down, though.

...or maybe he was just on edge and finding things to nitpick.

SO STRESSED!

Why he was still on the ground, Ethan wasn't sure.. Perhaps it was the shock of all that had just transpired.. or, more likely, the fact that he was delaying the inevitable, but as the Claw Captain came to and puked all over that Puff's shoes, Ethan felt it best to get up now and he rose from his seat on the ground.

A rude voice at his side caused him to turn sharply and the fifth year raised an eyebrow at the Slytherin boy as he snapped at Minnie. He looked to be in some sort of pain and figured he was as edgy as the rest of them after what had happened.. so he decided to let one minor transgression slide, taking that into consideration.

Making his way over to ruined remains of the monstrous plant, Ethan still refused to look over at the left of the greenhouse. He knew what he would find there, but some defense mechanism kept him from looking.. as if not seeing what was sure to be there would prevent it from happening or being true. He became vaguely aware of Minerva relaying the events to the Healer as he decided his next course of action.. a bucket would probably work best to collect the compost.. Good Min, he thought to himself with a grim smile, glad to know she could keep her head about herself in a crisis - even if it was over now.

And then the tone again. Just.. no. Ethan turned from where he stood and narrowed his eyes at the Slytherin. Chill..? "She's fine," he said, the hint of a scowl at his lips. "Only giving the Healer essential information so she can best assess the situation.. " Why would he have a problem with that? "Maybe you need to chill." Yeah, he was annoyed too for his own reasons and certainly wasn't in the mood for anyone to be rude to his girlfriend.

Not waiting for or caring about a response, he turned to Minerva. "I'm going to get started if you want to give me a hand," he said flatly, thoughts about his own investments in the greenhouse threatening to come to the surface. Walking towards the supply closet, he grabbed a bucket and his eyes drifted towards that end of the building. Even out of the corner of his eye he could see the damage and he turned fully in that direction. The hybrids he had worked on.. most were failures in the beginning.. but the few that had started to take now were shredded bits of greenery on the greenhouse floor. Months of work, destroyed in seconds. The 16 year old forced down the lump that was starting in his throat and made his way over to what were once his plants. Could nothing be salvaged?

Minerva glared at the captain.. Dylan that was his name, right.. Did he seriously tell her to chill. Excuse me, who does he think he is. Minerva glared at him, "I have no reason to chill thank you. Everyone just left for that ghost and didn't see if Milton was alright, then you have some that are passed out and I was just trying to let the healer know, so you can just back off."

Yes she was being snippy, but he had no right to speak to her like that. She had done nothing wrong and looking around she was about the only one to actually speak up and explain with some detail.



Then Ethan was at her side and sticking up for her. She couldn't help but smile. He was the greatest wasn't he. She felt like the luckiest person to have him. Glaring back at Dylan she then tried to ignore him. She turned when she heard Ethan say about cleaning up, "Yes I grabbed some plant parts She then saw him get a bucket. Why didn't she think of that. Setting down the plant parts she went over and got a bucket of her own and then gathered the parts up again putting them in the bucket.

As she turned to look for more she noticed Ethan and frowned. It was then that she remembered he had been working on something in one of the greenhouses. He had told her that once. Was this the greenhouse, oh that was just horrible if it was. Walking over towards him Minerva frowned and put her hand on his shoulder. "Ethan were your plants in here?" She looked around at the mess.. "I'm so sorry, I know how much you like working on them and you worked so hard with them." She left her hand on his shoulder trying to comfort him.