Someone had told Sander about this Room of Requirements. This room was special. It could be anything the wisher wanted it to be. As he had stood in front of the wall, he kept his mind focused on what he wanted the room to be for.

"An Ice Hockey Skating rink....An Ice Hockey Skating Rink....An Ice Hockey skating rink." Sander thought hard and long. "I need a place to practice. Please show me an Ice Skating rink."

Then out of nowhere a door appeared in the wall. Sander looked around making sure no one had seen him and then he walked towards the door, opened it and walked through it, closing the door shut behind him.

Alex could hardly contain her excitement. She was meeting Sander and they would finally have the chance to go skating. She arrived at the entrance to the Room of Requirement, as that was their designated meeting spot. Alex must have looked crazy standing in the hallway holding a pair of ice skates, but she didn't really care. She hoped that she wasn't too rusty at skating. It had been a while since she was last on the ice. Alex passed the time by visualizing herself gliding on the ice and she waited..........

Sander smiles and waves in greeting when he saw Alex waiting outside the room for him.

"Apologies for keeping you waiting. I had to grab some stuff for our skating adventure today. I hope you're ready. Let me open the door for you." Sander told her before turning to the wall. He pictured the ice skating rink in his mind and immediately a door appeared in the wall.

"Ladies first," Sander bowed to Alex, a wide grin on his face, as he leaned forward and opened the door for her.

Alex was lost in her own world. She was imagining herself skating when Sander arrived. He was full of smiles and as she said hello, he explained what he had been up to. " I am sooo ready", Alex said. "" I can't wait to see!".
Suddenly a door appeared before them and Sander opened it.......

"Come on Sander, just a few more steps!" she exclaimed, nearly bouncing with excitement as she led the blindfolded boy to the entrance of the Room of Requirement. He didn't know where they were, of course, although after all those stairs, he could probably guess.

But, he wouldn't know what was in the room, of course. "Oh Sander, I hope you like it," she said, giving his hand a squeeze as she brought him to the doorway.

Sander held his hands forward trying to feel where they were going. "Where are you taking me woman? I don't know about this. You could be leading me into the dungeons for all I know." Sander called over to Tessa.

He had to be honest though. If it hadn't been Tessa, he wouldn't have consented to being blindfolded. But this was Tessa. And even though he had only known her for a short, he trusted her completely.

Then he bounced up against a wall. "Oh I'm sure I will like it if I get there in one piece." he chuckled even as he allowed Tessa to guide him.

"Are we there yet?" Sander asked getting excited at the prospect of seeing what Tessa's surprise was.

Tessa smiled as she watched Sander coming with her. Unfortunately, at that moment, Lux's words about wanting to kiss Sander entered her mind- but she quickly pushed them away. "It's not the dungeons," she scolded with a soft laugh.

"You did that on purpose and you know it," she scolded laughing. "Besides, that's nothing compared to what you may leave with," she added mysteriously. "Yes, we're very close," she told him, and opened up the door. "When we step through, you can open your eyes!" she told him with a grin. And led him through...

Olly was hovering just by the entrance to the Room of Requirement. While the door was in fact unlocked, it wasn't open far enough to be able to look inside. Not just yet anyway. Not until Schuyler arrived. She'd made sure that no one else was around. Also she was sincerely hoping that no one would walk past now, seeing as it was probably quite clearly etched onto her face that she was in fact just a little bit...nervous.

Though there was no need to be. She just still owed Schuyler an answer.

Hopefully the Gryffindor would be here soon. It wasn't like it was a long way from her common room or anything. The opposite, rather. So, Schuyler should hurry up a little because Olly was pretty sure she could hear footsteps approaching. She leaned against the wall right beside the door that had materialized some time ago when she'd started her preparations.

Giving herself something to focus on she held up her hand to inspect it.

The Room of Requirement was a new place to meet up. And Schuyler had never actually been in the room before, partly because she'd forgotten about it and partly because she hadn't known its password for all of last term. Honestly, though.. the blood pop question was a tough one! And she'd gotten bored of testing out her password theories only to be rejected. Nonetheless, the password was - hopefully - new, and she was still quite curious about the place. Even more so now because it had something to do with Olly..

The journey from the common room to the Room of Requirement was a short one, and when she rounded the corner and saw her girlfriend already there, she smiled.

Her legs brought her closer and her eyes stayed on the other girl as she seemed to examine her hand. "Wondering what color to paint your nails?" If she needed any help in that area Schuyler could pick out a few choice shades for her.

Olly tried to look casual to whoever was about to round the corner. Her hand looked terrible. Seriously. Like her grandmother's. She flexed it, watching the wrinkles smooth out. The age spots were still very much visible, however. She sighed and frowned down at her skin.

"I was thinking green." She looked back up at the other girl with a small grin, raising her eyebrows at her. Yes?

Of course she wasn't serious, though. Carefully pushing herself away from the wall, Olly took a step towards Schuyler. "Hi." By the way. She glanced behind the Gryffindor for a moment to make sure they were in fact alone. They were. Good.

Eyes back on her girlfriend's Olly smirked. "Have you been in there yet?" At this she nodded behind her at the door in the wall.

Green.

That was a little vague. Was it forest green? Sage? Mint? Aquamarine? "Maybe viridian." Not such a shade like, say, Slytherin green. She returned the smile.

"Hi back." She noticed the other girl's eyes get pulled to the distance. Schuyler didn't really care to spare a thought about whether anyone else was around, so her sight stayed on her girlfriend. Hmm. What was on her mind? Something.

But eventually she did look away, at the door to the room of requirement. She shook her head. "I would have told you if I had." The sentence jogged her memory and she smiled at Olly again. "I wish you had seen the daydream I made in Charms class earlier this term. It was just like what I told you I thought I'd see in this room." The flower fields and such. And still her favorite lesson at Hogwarts to this day. Good job, Professor Facial Hair.

But that was beside the point. Back to here and now, yes. "So," she tugged on Olly's hands. "What are we doing here today?" She grinned and lifted an eyebrow curiously.

Viridian. Olly couldn't help but be amused. "Right." Though that was enough about her nails. She really wasn't here to discuss colors of nail polish. Maybe they could discuss it some other time. Or you know, not.

Listening to Schuyler's answer, she smiled and nodded along. Daydream in charms? Yes, she really would have wanted to see that. It really shouldn't have come as a surprise that Schuyler too would remember their talk about the room of requirement. It was kind of...well, an obvious association seeing as they were standing IN FRONT OF the room.

Still, Olly was a little surprised. Positively though. As shown by the smile on her lips.

"Weeeelll-" She dragged out the word, her eyes briefly flicking down to their hands. "It's about that actually." She took a small step backwards and to the door. "You told me all about what you wanted the room to look like and I didn't really have an answer." And no, she really hadn't expected to answer that question at all even though she'd promised it back then.

"Well I kind of do now." Or as close as she'd get anyway.

Somehow Schuyler got the impression that Olly wasn't so concerned about nails and nail polish. And that was okay. Because Schuyler was more keen on finding out what was going to be behind this door in a few moments.

She tilted her head slightly when Olly began telling her the reasoning behind why they were here. It dawned on her then, as the words left the other girl's lips... That day by the lake, Olly never had told her what she thought the room might contain for her. Schuyler had shared, but not Olly. It had been one of those times where her girlfriend - okay, not girlfriend then - requested a raincheck. And to be honest, Schuyler hadn't expected one. Mostly she'd forgotten about it up until now.

Though now that the subject had been raised again, Olly's promise was all but forgotten. The smile slowly formed on her lips and there was a curious glint that had appeared in her eyes as she took a step forward. "Well? Let's see it, then."

Well? Let's see it, then.

Olly smiled while taking another couple of steps backwards, still holding on to Schuyler's hands, until her back was almost touching the door. Right. "It's..." Somehow she felt the need to say something else before showing her the room. "It's not like your thing exactly." Well, THAT was quite an ironic thing to say really, though Schuyler wouldn't know why and hence might be a bit confused as to why Olly was now frowning at her own choice of words. "It's just that-" Really? Words. Olly, use words.

Her lips curled into a small grin. "You asked me what I liked. What I liked a lot. So, I think this-" She nodded behind her. "-sort of answers that question." Or WOULD answer that question. It was definitely one of the things she liked a lot.

A tight-lipped smile crossed her face as she moved forward with the tug of Olly's hands. 'Not like your thing' really didn't explain all that much, but the unsatisfied frown on her girlfriend's lips was too endearing to go unnoticed. Plus, Schuyler didn't mind if Olly could or couldn't get her thoughts quite across now.. because she'd be seeing the room first hand in a moment, right? So she just smiled still and watched her.

It was easier to follow the words that were strung together next. What she liked a lot was behind the door. "I think I should be included in the contents of your room of requirement, then," she grinned. And technically, she would be there in a few moments. So there. She moved a little closer to Olly, but her hand went for the doorknob. "Can I open it?" Hmmmmmmmm?

There was almost no situation which Cutty found all that desperate. Not even the recent loss of his wand caused him to truly panic. That is not to say that he didn't want to crucio Beverly Wayne for having the sheer audacity to make him pay twice for something that was already his, but he saw always that there were multiple ways out of any situation one found oneself in.

Even ones that seemed the utmost dire. They were all going to die if no one found a cure for this their ever-closer creeping toward death. And whomever did certainly would be holding a lot of cards at the table, wouldn't he?

He paced and leaned against a wall. No one around as far as he could see. And Cutty preferred it that way. More so when he'd found an entrance way had presented itself. His sense of caution was not at all there and accounted for as he pulled back the handle and stepped beyond it.