Oh! Was that all? Lex gave a firm nod, her smile widening a little. "Yup, you'll never find a truer rumour than that. Candy's pure gold. Do you like it?" She finished off her chocolate frog and went rummaging around for something else while he tried his hand at asking her.

A sugar quill. Very nice.

And now he was reaching for paper and talking about thank you gifts. "Hogwartians are genuine folks that like genuine things. If you wanna show your thanks it's best you deliver it, yourself. It's no secret we don't much like you guys being here, handing it to them personally, they'll see you're not so bad afterall and might consider hating you less than the others." That was just how she thought they would see it. For her, candy was candy no matter where you got it from. She'd eat it and like him no more than she did before eating it but Lex took the list anyway.

...

The Common Room too? Okay. No. "Just one problem with that. Gryffindors eat a lot. If I put them there there will be no left overs. I'm not a messenger who's content with charity work. Gimme my own candy and I'll deliver the rest."

What did she look like? A house elf?

Never ever?! Tag's life was obviously lacking. Swimming with dolphins was the best thing ever, maybe even better than his birthday. And his birthday was on New Year's Eve, so he always had fireworks and all the cool things, but.. DOLPHINS! 'YOU SHOULD VISIT!' They could row out into the bay and then fall out of the boat and.. not tell his mam, he didn't want to get into trouble again. Or he did.. he just didn't want his mam to find out. 'My mam says it's dangerous, but dolphins are SO cool! I want to be one, when I'm older. Like the special people!' Donny rambled on.

Ooh! Tag had gone in and he had lived to tell the tale! That was good, since he'd already sent his owl off with a letter to his mam, telling him all about his future adventures into the lake. He'd also told her that JUST in case the merpeople decided to adopt him, his second hand owl Paraselcus should go to Abbi. JUST IN CASE! All his drawings should go to Elodie, cause she liked the frog one he made her. He beamed when he remembered that she had called him cutie. 'I'll find out and I will tell you how cool they are! I bet they are SO cool! Maybe they can adopt me, I could be one of them... but then again maybe not... I like my friends.' He wanted to draw lots more for Elodie. And other people, of course, but Elodie first. She gave him lollipops. 'Lodie gives me lollipops, that's nice huh......?' SO SO NICE.

Donny stood as still as he could while Tag tied the fins to him, patience wasn't really his best quality. And it tickled! He let out an involuntary giggle before covering his mouth. Right, fins attached. He wiggled his arms about to try and get used to the weird feeling. Did dolphins always feel like this..? 'It feels funny..'

'She's not loud 't all!' Nope, nope. She was just lotsa fun to be with. Especially when he visited her the summer before last, they'd spent the first half hour screaming, one could NEVER be too loud! 'I don't think he likes cats much.'

Ok... so maybe an invisibility spell wasn't the best idea ever.. but it'd be so cool to be invisible. He could scare people all the time. 'You're so clever, that's why you're old already.' Donnacha nodded and gave him the thumbs up. 'Like a lifeguard! My cousin is one. He was there when the dolphin rescue happened!'

...what's a helicopter? 'What's that?' He shook his head, trying to get rid of the dizzy feeling.

"I have way too many notes." Way too many. She needed to condense them if she was ever going to be able to have things down to a t before exam season. Exam season. ugh. Gross. It made her stomach flip a few times and she felt a little ill at there mere thought of it now. It'd pass, and it was going away right now because she wasn't studying. She was spending time with her friend who had needed her recently, and who was pretty awesome. "Rewards. She gets to do the things she wants, but only if she's studied." Not that they were studying much, because rewards sometimes involved naps.

Naps could be long.

"Calliope and Rooney are....7 this year, I believe? Calliope is Dex's daughter. Roo is Tam's eldest. And Brinlee iiiiiiiis....uh...I think she's about 3? 4 in July, if I'm correct." It was hard to remember specifically. All she knew was Calliope and Rooney were a few months apart and were calling themselves 'twins'. Cute! "I think you'll love them." Els got on perfectly well with the kids.

Brin was clingy.

"Obviously, you'll be with Tam all the time though." Travelling. Wows.

Yes! Donny. Never ever did Tag ever go swimming with dolphins. It was something that had never crossed his mind. So he didn't think about it, obviously. But now the kid seemed so happy about it so Tag just smiled along. " Visit your home in Ireland? Sure thing. I haven't been back there in ages so I could probably visit my dad after hanging out with you for a bit. Summer time, yeah?" Because summertime was the best time to go swimming with dolphins. Right Donny? Donny would know the answer. Just to be a bit curious Tag asked " And how does one become a dolphin, Donny?" Tag really wanted to see the logic behind this kid's brain.

Merpeople were cool. Dolphins were cool. This kid's brain was going to explode one day, Tag thought. " I bet they are cool! Yeah? Merpeople. But, Donny, you can't be a merperson and a dolphin at the same time. Maybe, you can become a Merlphin. Part merperson part dolphin. How cool would that be, huh?" The boy's dream would probably be concluded if that could happen to him. Tag could already see Donny smiling brilliantly and going about all his adventures. " Very nice." That's all Tag had to say.

Tag raised his eyebrows when he heard Donny giggle but he didn't say anything of it. Let the kid giggle. It wasn't causing any problems or anything. Also, should Tag bring up the life jackets?

" No No. Not loud. Just excited and full of energy!" That was the correct term. " Jozsua doesn't know what he's missing out on. I think cats are awesome."

An now furrowed eyebrows. So Tag was only old because he was clever. He wasn't sure if he wanted to take that as a compliment. Of course, people wanted to be clever, but they didn't want to be old either. " Old and clever. Thanks?" Maybe he should stop being clever. He didn't want to age anymore. Nope. He wanted to stay sixteen. "Dolphin rescue? What happened?"

..... " Its this type of vehicle that flies in the sky and it has these rotators, wings, that go round in circles. That's a helicopter." Or that's as best as Tag could put it.

The surprise on Adi's face made Dylan feel even more bad. Rubbing the back of his neck nervously, he nodded and chuckled softly at what the fellow Puff said about a dictionary. "Yeah..." he said, shifting where he sat a bit.

Laughing again, Dylan shrugged. "Yeah, you seem pretty awesome, I gotta admit." he told him with a chuckle. He slowly let out a breath then, still feeling a bit bad inside for being such a jerk. Ah, well. It was nice to know Adi still didn't hate his guts. [/s]At least, that's what it seemed like.[s] Then Adi went back to the guitar subject. Right. He had almost forgotten! "Right, right...guitar..." he muttered as he leaned over and grabbed his guitar and held it in his lap. "Well, we can start whenever. Right now sound good?" he asked.

OOC: This RP is taking place on the Durmstrang Ship

Headmaster Zitnik had given his students one simple rule while they stayed at Hogwarts. A simple rule that a few of his students thought they didn't need to follow. Did they really think they were going to get away with it without him finding out about what had been going on in his absence? Well he found out and now he was here to have a little 'chat' with his students about their behavior.

So now here he was, on his ship waiting for his first student to arrive. He had sent them all an owl telling them he was there so they better not keep him waiting. Things would only get uglier if he had to go into the school and track them down.

So, who will be the first one brave enough to come see their headmaster?

As soon as Bronislava got the owl, she literally dropped what she was doing and headed straight out of the castle and towards the lake. She knew better than to keep her headmaster waiting and from the tone of his letter also knew that he wasn't pleased. Not that she was surprised really, but she was not about to make him wait and make things worse. She respected the man very much, but couldn't help to have some fear there as well.

It wasn't hard to see the great ship docked at the lake from a distance and she smiled in spite of herself at the familiar sight of it. The Durmstrang girl walked a bit faster, more deliberately towards it, until she reached it and boarded. "Headmaster?" she called out, walking slowly once she got inside, her brown eyes searching for the leader of her school. She sucked in a breath as her eyes suddenly locked onto his and she immediately stopped her gait. "Headmaster.. you've arrived," she said with the faintest of smiles. "It is good to see you." Yes, they were in need of his leadership again.

Zitnik didn't have to wait too long before his first student arrived on the ship. He should have known it would be Miss Zvonimir. She was a good girl, one he didn't have to worry about while he was away.

"Miss Zvonimir. Yes, I have arrived a few days early thanks to the owl you sent me." The owl that made him none too happy with the boys from his school. "Please, have a seat." He gestured to the empty seat across from him. "Is there anything I can get you before we get started here?" Or she could get it herself. She did know her way around the ship after all.

Mischa had received the message informing him and the others of their Headmaster’s arrival. The Durmstrang seventh year had a very good idea why the man was there and he could not lie to himself. He felt responsible. Immediately after exiting the Defense Against the Dark Arts class he hurried down to the Lake where the famous Durmstrang ship stood.

It was time to meet with Headmaster Zitnik.

The owl she had sent. Bronislava watched his expression carefully, finding it somewhat difficult to read. She knew he would be none too pleased with the things she had said, but his displeasure did not lie with her, did it? No, she soon decided, he would likely appreciate her information. His displeasure lay elsewhere and deservedly so.

"Zhank you," she said with a nod and took the seat offered to her. "Am I zhe first to arrive?" The room was empty besides Zitnik and herself, though she did allow her eyes to wander to the doorway. No one else here yet and she did not see any of her classmates on her journey, though this somehow did not surprise her. That was fine though, would give her some time to discuss important things before the others came straggling in.

Her eyes snapping back to Zitnik at his offer, she allowed a grateful smile to appear and gently shook her head. "No, not necessary, zhank you." She had just eaten before she came, or more accurately was eating when the owl came and she tossed the rest to come down here. Not that she always felt quite that level of obedience was necessary, but she had very much looked forward to his return and the things they had to discuss. "I am glad zhe owl I sent expressed zhe urgency I felt. Zhings are not going as expected and I feel your guidance is necessary to change zhat." And time was running out.

The rumours had been confirmed then. He now knew he was talking to the correct Alexa that everyone had been talking about. "Some candy, I do yes. But ozers not so much." His pearly white smile was still worn. "What is your favorite?" He asked.

This whole talking bit was not what he wanted to hear. Did she really think that he cared what they though? Of course not, but he knew he had to make it seem that their feelings were of his concern. "I see what you are saying, but my problem is that I do not 'ave time. I 'ave zings to do you see." His smile turned irresistible so that he could try and get her to say yes.

There was his life saver. "Deal." He nodded at her. "You take as many as you want as long as each of the people on zis list get one." He gave the list to her. He then pushed the package of some of his sweets towards her. "Zank you."He wouldn't give her the chance to deny him again, he needed a yes answer.

For a moment Lex merely sat staring at the smiling Frenchie. He...smiled a lot and it was creeping her out. Cautiously she took a small bite of her sugar quill and just STARED at him, hoping he would take the hint. There was a lot to be said about someone who smiled too much. They couldn't be trusted. Did no one learn from the Puffers??? At least he wasn't completely weird. He liked candy. "Chocolate frogs, definitely. I used to have like a dozen a day until my bestfriend told me I should cut back."...Now she had 6...it was horrible.

Lex waved him off dismissively. "Excuses excuses. I'll deliver the candy for you but you don't have to lie about it." They all had things to do. Did he think they just sat up in their Common Rooms all day? Classes, homework, socializing, not studying. All things that occupied her day. Also, this....this was probably really mean but if he didn't stop smiling at her like that she was going to punch his teeth down his throat. It was CREEPY.

And would you look at that, they had a deal. Lex looked over the list. Not that many people, not that many stops to make and they were all only required to get one. She looked to the full bag of candy. Naturally the rest were hers. NATURALLY.

Alexa put the remainder of her sugar quill back into her bag and reached for a frog from his. It was a standard rule of thumb. Finish the next person's candy before resorting to your own. It was how she worked. The card she looked at briefly then pocketed for Alice. The girl still collected them right? After taking a bite she couldn't shake the feeling the taste was a bit off. She'd eaten enough to know when they were different. Her curious gaze fell to him again.

"Are these like, imported or something? I mean...there's just something about it...I didn't know they made them different in France." And another bite. Really, what was it?

The ship had arrived, and the Scandinavian actually felt relieved. It was about time that the Headmaster got here, though she didn't think he would be pleased at all with what his students had been doing. She was guilty herself of a little bit of that. At least she hadn't gotten caught like Mischa. Oh Cha, you went a bit too far.

Karina quickly boarded the Durmstrang ship, making sure to look her best for her meeting. She smiled slightly at Mischa and Broni as she walked aboard and then turned to where the headmaster was seated. "Headmaster! Was your journey well then?" she started off with a polite question. She did not sit like Bronislava, if Headmaster Zitnik wished her to be seated as well, he would offer her a seat. "I understand that I will be in the first task of the second round?" she continued on lightly. Of course she knew the answer to this, but wanted to make certain that she had gotten it correct.

"Yes. You are the first to arrive." Which pleased him very much. "Without the others around right now we will be able to discuss the letter you sent me." He wanted to make sure he understood everything before he talked with the others.

Leaning forward he pulled out the letter Broni had sent to him. After reading it over one more time he placed it on the table in front of him. "First I would like to thank you for bringing these problems to my attention." He would have thought the Headmistress or even the professors of the school would have informed him of the things his students had been doing. But no, he had to hear about it from one of his own students. "Now tell me, what exactly is it that Mischa got...?"

Hearing his name called out he stopped mid sentence and looked up to find Mischa and Karina standing there.



"Miss Wozniacki, I assume you are not blind or deaf, so that means you can see and hear that I am in the middle of a conversation at this time." Was this a look at how his students had been disruptive in classes? "You and your sidekick will go sit outside the door and wait to be called back in. I will deal with you soon enough Mr. Moller." He would decide later if he would call them in one at a time or together. "And shut the door on your way out."

He waited for Karina and Mischa to leave before turning back to Bronislava. "Now where were we?" He glanced down at the letter on the table. Right. Mischa and the troubles he's getting himself into. "What exactly was it Mischa got himself caught doing?"

Mischa returned Karina's smile with a small one of his own. If he had known the Headmaster was already speaking with Broni he would have waited outside. Zitnik was angry wasn't he? Mischa knew it was his actions that had caused this. He also suspected Broni had been the to inform their Headmaster of that incident. Should he be feeling afraid? Or even angry at Broni? He wasn't feeling either. He was still annoyed with himself for being caught by that Prefect though there had been no evidence to prove his guilt.

Mischa snapped back to reality. Sidekick? He calmly looked at Zitnik. He understood the man was angry but he certainly was not Karina's sidekick. However he nodded in the man's direction and followed Karina making sure the door was shut behind them.

Bronislava nodded her understanding to her Headmaster. She could speak more freely about her concerns and clarify anything that needed to be addressed during a private meeting. That was fine with her. Tilting her head slightly, she watched as he pulled out the letter she had sent, then allowed a faint smile to appear as he addressed her again. "Yes, Headmaster," she began, "I felt it was best you knew vhat vas happening." In all honesty, she wished he had stayed with them but she understood that he had his own school to run and trusted a select few to complete their tasks.

She opened her mouth to speak again, then turned at the sound of voices. Oh, Karina and Mischa had arrived. She gave them an acknowledging nod with a small smile for Karina. A smile which faded as she heard Zitnik's harsh tone and she lowered her eyes respectfully. She felt a twinge of sympathy for her friend to be reprimanded yet she knew she did speak out of turn. And as for Mischa, she knew he'd be getting his soon enough. The 18 year old waited for her classmates to shut the door before she lifted her eyes to Zitnik again.

She waited for him to finish then she donned a concerned frown. "Vell, to begin, zhere have been classroom pranks. Many of zhem. Ones zhat I vould not call purposeful." She eyed Zitnik carefully, sure he would know what she meant. "I do not know who has been causing all of zhem, exactly. But I do know zhat Mischa vas accused by one of zhe prefects who saw him vith his vand out." Though if she was being fair, that particular spell he had been accused of casting might have been useful, had the pranks been fewer and the targets more specific. And had the boy not gotten caught. But as it stood.. "Now zhe Hogvartians are suspicious vhich makes our plans more difficult." Though she was working on her own, hopefully that would make up for things.

Vilhelm had hurried as fast as he could once he received the letter, but he could see now that there were others here before him. He walked up to Mischa and Karina and greeted them.

"Hello," he grunted. "Are we waiting to talk weeth zhe Headmastair?" He didn't want to get into trouble.

Mischa could see Vilhelm approaching hm and Broni. "Hello,'' he replied. "Ves, ve are. He's inside speaking vith Broni.'' Speaking about him and his failure. Mischa blamed no one but himself for that failure. Himself and that prefect. She claimed she saw his lips moving. That was a lie. He had non verbally cast the spells. The wand was a different story. She he obviously seen that even though he held his only a little way out of his pocket.

He suddenly wished Broni and Zitnik would hurry up to just get this out of the way. What was done was done and nothing can change that.

Interesting choice, and surprisingly so one of the sweets he had spiked, hopefully she would help herself to one sooner or later, it wouldn't be such a bad thing for him to see if his potion actually worked or not. "Zey are not ze 'ealziest zings but zat is good you do not eat so many." He nodded. He was one of this kids that was usually forced to eat healthy around his parents, but on his own he made sure he got the good stuff.

For once he was not actually entirely lying, he was busy and he had work to do and preparations, but of course he could have made the time. He did not wish to argue, therefore he just nodded his head twice at her.

As she reached into his bag he watched her, this would be the testing then? He watched her place one in her mouth and only hoped she wouldn't eat all of the sweets after that. He needed those people to receive them and before the next round.

Her question almost had him fumble about with his words, but he was careful not to and was grateful for her mentioning of France. "Yes, I zink it must be ze milk zey used." He grinned once more. "Do you like zem?" Or more like where they having an affect? He continued to watch, waiting for the potion to work its magic.

This was one of those times when she would pretend his accent was too thick for her to understand. Did Lex care how healthy candy was? NOPE. Did she need some foreign pretty boy telling her how to eat and in what quantity? NOOOPE. Therefore, could she understand him at that second? You guessed it, nopeeeeee. Not even a nod of acknowledgement. Besides, she was a little busy tasting this candy.

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.......

"The milk...yeah....maybe..." She just didn't feel so right, kinda light headed really. This, she was sure, was NOT the milk. Vaguely she heard him say something and turned to look at him. Blink.

...

......Blink blink blink.

A smile slowly spread across her face. The Gryffindor scooted as close to the boy as was possible before simply plopping down on his lap. "Like what? You? I do, I very much do." She nodded, the smile breaking into a grin. Such a nice face, she could stare at it all day.

There was no such thing as too many notes.

But Charlie was probably the only one nerdy enough to think that. It was true that she'd already started looking towards the exams she was to sit next year, but that wasn't something that she was going to tell people. "Condensation?" Of the notes. "Maybe you should try and write everything you know out about something, then anything you don't know makes a new pile of revision notes. Until you've learnt it all." It helped her to figure out what she'd forgotten, anyway. "And you know, if you need any help with anything..." Moral boosting, snack fetching, note checking? Charlie would be her gal.

"You keeping tabs on her, then?" Charlie giggled at the thought of Elodie scolding Olly for not doing any work.

Nod. Nod nod and more nodding. "I'll try and remember that," she said. And that would make her seem really nice and polite and friendly and stuff, and then maybe the kids would like her, and therefore Tam would like her.. even more, right? Sounded about right to her. "I'm so excited, Els!" 'Paris, here I come!'

It didn't take long. One moment they were discussing milk and the next moment they were admiring him. Exactly what he wanted. His pearly white smile only grew as she sat on his lap. He was careful to lean too close for her face. He felt kisses would be taking a bit too much of an advantage of her, but hugs were fine.

Gaston wrapped his muscular arms around her and looked at her smile. He was pleased to see that his potion was after all a success. The day of the tournament she would be gushing over him along with the other newly "Gaston #1" fans rather than focusing on her own school. This was good, very good. You see his long hours of studying had paid off.

"You do?" The smiling continued. "In that case you promise you will deliver the chocolates correctly?" Now how could she resist?

Elodie's face twisted as her friend spoke about notes, and she just nodded along, intentionally taking none of it in. She had no clue what her friend was going on about, but she was good at the nodding thing. A pro, even. Her face probably gave it away that she was as confused as a...really confused thing. "Uh huh." She threw that in, because verbal confirmation was good. Pro at that too.

Keeping tabs though? Els grinned. "Got her on tabs." Maybe not, because Elodie was a busy girl and had to keep up her appearances. To her boyfriend, anyway. And best friend. Her C's were really the only people who saw her socially. Ever. Too busy for anyone else. Whoops. Sorry.

"Rooney has this dog... Elphie. He takes her everywhere. Just talk to him about space or the dog and you'll be well away. Brinlee likes horses." And they were both pretty cuddly with new people, which always worked in favour. Els didn't mind telling Choo this stuff, given she'd be spending her summer with them anyway. "You are? I'mglad." Because it was important, for sure.

His arms, SOOOOO much muscle. Alexa practically melted. "Do you work out, your arms are impressive." Could she feel them? Well, she technically was but you got the idea. Lovely, they really were. Lex was memorized by everything on the Frenchie. That smile, such a pretty smile. The Gryffindor was lost in it.

She giggled at his question. "Of course I will silly. I'd do anything for you and your perfect face." Perfect face with those dreamy eyes, those lips. Without waiting for an invitation she closed the gap, testing his lips for herself.

Soft. She approved. Lex drew back and leaned against his chest with a contented sigh. "I like your lips, not as much as I like yoooou but close enough. I can hand these out to anyone you want. Anything else you want?" His chest was so warm. She wanted to stay like this forever. There was no rush. Just being here with him made her happy. It was him, he just wanted him.

Why couldn't more people be like him?

Adi could see that Dylan meant what he was saying. And it would never hurt to have one more friend. Adi grinned at the boy. "Don't worry about it. We're good.'' They were. Both of them were even as they took turns getting ink on the other after all even though Adi's had really been an accident. "And thanks! Maybe you'll be awesome too.'' Because from what he had seen so far, Dylan had not been awesome.

Saying no more on the topic, Adi turned his full attention back on the guitar. He could hardly wait for the day he actually could play one by himself. Like a professional. Was Dylan kidding? "Right now is perfect!''