A little too jumpy finished

Maybe it was fate, or maybe it’s sheer darn luck, or he was just at the right place and time that he was on his way to one of the abandoned toilets that day. He was heading back from the greenhouses after Herbology while brushing bits of soil off his robes. His professor made them repot Shrivelfigs, and somehow he ended up with dirt on his hands and robes. He decided to stop by one of the older washrooms to clean up since the newer ones near the Great Hall were always crowded.

While walling down the hall, the sound of something bouncing caught his attention. It was not footsteps or dripping pipes but rather something light and hitting the floor over and over again. Curious, he followed the sound until he reached the door of the abandoned toilet. Everyone knew it was empty, or at least, supposed to be.

He hesitated. It was not exactly a place anyone wanted to hang around, but the strange noise didn’t stop. When he opened the door, the sight that greeted him was unexpected. Beans, jumping ones, bouncing across the cracked tiles. Right in the middle of it all was a girl lying flat on her back looking defeated and amused at the same time. He was trying to make sense of what he was seeing as he stepped inside carefully,

“Uh… what exactly happened here?” Sounding concerned and confused. Odd as it may seem, the girl was grinning despite her situation and asked him if he was there to save her. Zephyr didn’t know what to say. He looked around again, realizing that even if he wanted to help, he didn’t quite know how. “Maybe. Depends on what I’m saving you from.”

@Bree Grey

Word Count: 323
Ooc notes: -

Interactions/mentions: @Zephyr Deakinand @Hazel Nelson
Date: Nov. 4th 2025

Her grin manages to become wider when he asks what happened. Pushing herself off the floor, she puts a serious face on and gets to eye level with him. "Well I have a cousin who's muggle born and sent me... these beans," She gestures with her hands to the beans that are jumping wildly around the room, "And said that I know what they are. So I thought that they were just some regular ole beans or chocolate beans from how dark they were. But when I opened the jar in here and tried to eat one they all started jumping! And I fell over a million times trying to catch them all!"

Tilting her head slightly she looks at the kid questionably, "Do you know what these weird beans are? And I'm still trying to decide if Hazie planned this all or she truly thought I knew what these are. Hazie, or Hazel thats her full name, is my cousin. She tends to prank everyone even through owls. I'm leaning more towards the first one because of how she acts. So back to my original question. Are you here to save me?"

As she watches him carefully while she waits for an answer she spots something in his hair. A bean! Gasping softly, she quickly whispers, "stay still" and manages to grab it off his head without it jumping away. Smiling at him triumphantly, she shows him the bean before putting it in the jar.

Sighing softly, she runs a hand through her hair. This probably would've never happened if she didn't open the damn jar. She should've known what Hazel would do. And now shes a mess. And this boy will hopefully help her. Looking towards the guy she tilts her head. He's a Hufflepuff. He looks round her age. Brown hair and green eyes. His name though? Unknown. "Oh by the way. What's your name? Mines Bree. Second year, gryffindor."

Zephyr honestly didn’t expect to see her grin to get even bigger, but somehow it did. Then she pushed herself off the floor as she was explaining what happened and how did she end up in that predicament. He tried to follow, really, he did but every few seconds a bean bounced past his shoe and will steal his attention. He had never seen food try to escape before except for that one time a chicken ran into the kitchen at home, but that didn’t count. “Sounds like you have an interesting cousin.”

Her explanation got more dramatic with every sentence, and the part where she said she tried to eat one made him blink, “You tried to eat it…? Won’t that… bounce in your stomach…?” He said the words innocently, he was not judging, mostly confused. Once she finished her whole story and asked the question again, “I can try? I’ve never rescued anyone from beans before.” He almost laughed by it died in his throat when she suddenly gasped out loud. He froze on instinct, but he didn’t lose his voice so he asked…

“What is it?” In a very soft voice, almost like a whisper, eyes slightly wide. As per her request, he stayed still just as she reached toward his head, and he tried not to flinch as she plucked a bean out of his hair like it was completely normal. She held it up proudly before putting it in the jar. He let out a breath he didn’t realize he’s been holding.“…So they really are everywhere.” He was glancing around as if more were hiding in his clothes.

She inquired if he knew what these beans were, and his response was a shake of his head. “No idea but if they’re jumping like that, I don’t think they’re for eating. Unless you like chasing your food first.” It was his turn to grin, merely teasing her at what happened. Her cousin Hazel sounded like the kind of person who would thrive in pranks. “At least it wasn’t a glitter bomb, that sounds worse.” He said out of the blue, sounding amused.

Realizing he hadn’t done the normal introduction thing like a proper student should. “Oh, right. I’m Zephyr, first year Hufflepuff. And uh…” glancing at the mess on the floor, “…I’m guessing your day’s been interesting.” He crouched to grab a bean that bounced near him, missed it, grabbed again, missed again, then finally cupped his hands around it with a small “Whoops!! got it.” He stood back up and dropped it into the jar. “There. Only about… twenty more?” He wasn’t sure if he was helping, but at least he wasn’t getting knocked over like she had. “Don’t worry, we’ll catch them all.”

@Bree Grey

Word Count: 440
Ooc notes: Im so sorry this is so late!

Interactions/mentions: @Zephyr Deakin/ @Hazel Nelson/@Mikey Forville
Date: Nov. 4th 2025

As the Gryffindor explained what happened, she noticed the boy watching the beans jump around. When she finishes, he pauses for a moment before saying that her cousin was interesting. Letting out a soft laugh under her breath, she looks at him, "Well that's one way to describe her. But she has her ways. She's fun though!" Watching him, he seemed to be thinking through he explanation before speaking once more. The next thing he said though he was much more surprised. Shrugging at his question she looks around before replying. "Well I have know clue. Maybe Ill ask hazel."

Smiling brightly when he agrees to help her, she spots the bean on top of his head. As she snatches it, he asks what it is. In response she holds the bean up proudly, before putting it into the jar. Nodding in agreement, she asks if he knows what they are. When he says no she sighs softly, "Well I don't. And I don't think muggles do either so I still don't understand why she sent them to me. And I think you should go talk to Mikey if you want to know about the full experienced of being glitter bombed. I heard that she would send him owls with it. Dont know why."

After introducing herself, he says his name is Zephyr and is a Hufflepuff as she assumed. But he's a first year. Well looks like she dragged him into her troubles already. As she thinks this, he crutches down and attempts to catch a bean. After a few failed tries he, manages to get it. Passing him the jar, he puts it in there. She quickly closes it before the ones that she managed to get before he arrived escape.

"I hope! I don't think we could keep a bunch of jumping beans hidden from everyone else. Its only in a matter of time, someone else would come in here and let them all lose!" Shuddering slightly at the thought of a bunch of beans jumping around hogwarts, looks at him, "Soooo what's the plan then? Should we just blindly try to grab them? Although I don't think that would work."

As she waits for his answer, she spots her bag on the floor across from them. Quickly walking across the room, she pulls out a quill with ink and some parchment paper. Dipping her quill she starts a letter to Hazel. "Do you have any questions you'd like to ask her?"

Finishing the letter, she signs it. Folding it up she shoves it into her pocket, mentally making a reminder to send it out before dinner.

While Zephyr listened to the girl speak, his eyes shifted between her face and the beans. If it's out of curiosity or he’s worried one of them might launch itself at him again, he was not sure. It sounded like a lot. It was not so bad, but still dangerous in his opinion, in a very playful way. “Fun is definitely the word you use after you survive whatever she does. I don’t think I’d last a week as her cousin, no offence meant, of course, I'm just not as energetic, that's all.” Unfortunately, the answer would only come from the source of chaos herself.

He almost stepped back when she reached her hand out and grabbed something from his head. Turned out it was a bean, then put it in the jar, while he was left surprised at how casually she did it. He runs a hand through his hair afterwards, just in case, then lets it drop back to his side. What a headache those beans were. "What do you even call those beans anyway?” He gestures to the ones still hopping around. “Because if muggles made them, they’ve got some explaining to do.”

Another bean bounces past his shoe, and he lifts his foot instinctively, stepping on it. He crouched and grabbed it before it could even move again. “And why are they jumping? Is it magic or something alive in there?" He was curious and wanted to know if they’re supposed to stop at some point.” He only looked at her again when she mentioned glitter bombs. “Owls with glitter? That's interesting.” But there was one thing that confused him, "Uh... Who’s Mikey? Should I be scared for him? Or of him?” He reached down and tried to trap another bean with his hands. It jumps away at the last second. "Blimey!" He groaned in annoyance.

“…I think they know I’m nervous,” he muttered and then glanced at her with a crooked smile. “So, let me get this straight: your cousin sent you mystery beans, glitter owls, and emotional damage. Does she ever send... I don’t know. Normal letters?” She closed the jar shut tightly, and just looking at her, he was impressed. If he were her, he would have panicked and dropped it again. “Yes...” Nodding when she mentioned hiding them. “That would be bad, really bad.” He imagined a bean hopping down the corridor, and then another student opening a door, who would start screaming and slipping. Yeaaah no...

He straightened up and looked around the washroom, trying to think of a good way to manage this. You walked into this Zep, might as well help. "Blindly grabbing them is what we’re doing already, as you can see, not great, not to mention very slow.” One bean jumps off a sink, “They’re too fast.”

She grabbed her bag, pulled out parchment, and started writing. He blinked in confusion. She's writing now, here in the bathroom, with jumping beans? “Oh, you’re writing to her...” At her question, "Err, yeah, actually, can you ask her what they’re called? And if they’re supposed to stop jumping at some point, and maybe why she thought sending them to you was a good idea.” His brow furrowed. “Do you know any spell that could freeze them? Or slow them down?” He motioned toward the remaining beans with his hands. “Anything that makes them stop moving because catching them while they’re doing this feels impossible.”

@Bree Grey

Word count: 485
Ooc notes: I sold my bus pass to buy this charm It was 8 galleons

Interactions/mentions: @Zephyr Deakins, @Hazel Nelson and @Mikey Forville
Date: Nov. 4th 2025

Laughing at his response for her calling hazel fun, she shrugs, "If you say so. She's actually very sweet to be around when shes not in the mood for trouble." After she grabbed the bean, he ran a hand through his hair then asked what the beans were. "I have no clue! I told you, or I think I did, that she sent me these with a letter saying that she assumes that I know what they are. And don't drop the glass." After saying that last part she pauses and thinks about what she just said. "Ohhhh I don't think these were supposed to be let out! She said don't drop the glass I thought she said that because the glass would shatter."

Her cheeks turn red at this. He moves his foot quickly and crotches down catching her eye. Watching him, he picks up a bean and holds it to his face as if he's examining it. Shrugging when he asks if there's something magical in it or something alive, "Well I don't think its magic because I believe she bought these at a muggle store. And I hope there's nothing alive in these!" Taking the bean from him,, she puts it in the jar as he questions her about Mikey. "Mikey's a wonderful person! We met for the first time in detention! No need to fear him!"

As she says this, he attempts to catch another bean. Standing back up after the failed attempt, he says that they knows he's nervous. Smiling at him she tilts her head slightly, "Why are you nervous? A couple of beans wont harm you." Laughing at this she looks around. It is not a couple of beans. And after all he came in while she was lying on the ground. So maybe the beans are dangerous.

She goes to her bag and starts writing a letter to hazel. Asking him if he had any questions, she laughs slightly at his response. "Definitely writing those ones down." Signing her name off, she folds the letter up. Pocketing it, she looks around. His question of if she knows any freezing charms pops back up in her head. Thinking about it her face widens into a grin. "Yep I sure do! Although I haven't had the need to do it until now, so lets hope it works out."

Pulling her wand out she closes her eyes. Thinking back to the lesson, she remembers what the professor said. Something about moving your wand in the shape of a mountain and say ih-MOH-byoo-luhs. Finally opening her eyes again, she glances over to Zephyr. Finally she points her wand towards the beans. Sallowing slightly before saying, "ih-MOH-byoo-luhs."

After casting the spell, she doesn't dare to look over at Zephyr until she sees the beans stop jumping. Turning towards him, her smile practically splits her face in two. "I did it!" She squeals!

The girl tried to defend her cousin again saying she’s very sweet when not plotting trouble. “I’ll take your word for it then.” At least the cousin has a sweet side with penchant for trouble. A fun combination indeed. She shared that her cousin specifically told her not to drop the glass, Zephyr found himself laughing as he looked at the beans that were already inside the jar, then to the beans that were still bouncing around the bathroom. “Let me guess, you dropped the glass.” Hence why she ended up in this predicament in the first place. She must have known that already based on her cheeks turning red, he couldn’t even tease her. Instead, he focused his attention to the hopping beans with new understanding. “So they weren’t supposed to be free range.”

He leaned down again to caught another bean and held it close to his face. “I’m pretty sure muggles don’t sell aggressive jumping legumes. At least not in the shops I’ve seen.” And he grew up in the muggle world all his life, there’s nothing like this. She was hoping there’s nothing alive inside and even he doesn’t believe that. But who knows, you’ll never know when it’s about magi. He immediately pulled the bean farther from his face. “Let’s not think about that possibility.” If ever, he didn’t want to feel guilty. He handed it over to her and watched her drop it into the jar.

She shared who Mikey was and told him there was no need to fear him. “Detention bonding, I see you have different tastes in who you befriend with.” He tried catching another bean and failed in frustration. When she asked why he was nervous about the beans, he gave her a look. “First of all, it’s not a couple. There’s at least fifteen.” He pointed toward one that had just ricocheted off a stall door. “Second, I walked in and you were on the floor surrounded by this mess. That doesn’t exactly scream harmless to me.” Despite that, he smiled and added, “I’m not scared, I just want to know what I’m dealing with.” Who wouldn’t?Another bean bounced past him and he instinctively lifted his foot again. “And I don’t trust anything that moves as if it had personal vendetta to me.”

Zephyr couldn’t help but shake his head how the girl could still write in the middle of this mess. She’s acting very calm for someone who accidentally create a bean invasion. She even shared she wrote his questions to her cousin. He didn’t expect his suggestion of stopping their movement would be taken seriously and not only that, there’s also a freezing charm she could use. “You do? That’s great then.” He stepped back to give her space and avoid the possible line of fire. He’s not doubting her skill, he just preferred not to be collateral damage.

She pulled out her wand and closed her eyes, maybe concentrating on the charm she needed to cast. He had done that himself plenty of times. This is also a chance for him to see a new spell so he watched as she did the wand movement and how she pronounced the incantation. Immobulus? He held his breath without realizing he’s doing it, waiting what will happen to the beans. The beans all stopped moving completely. “Woaaah!!! That’s so cool!” He poked one nearby bean and it didn’t move at all! Bree exclaimed she did it and a grin spread across his face. “You really did!” He started grabbing the immobilized beans one by one and putting them back into the jar. “Easy peasy.”

@Bree Grey
Nice! The effort to buy the spell! *clap, clap!*

Word count: 402
Ooc notes: End it however you want!

Interactions/mentions: @Zephyr Deakin
Date: Nov. 4th 2025

Her face turns bright red when he asks if she dropped it. Biting her lip, she decides to not answer and allows him to believe that she dropped the glass. There's no way she would tell him that she opened the jar, not dropped it! He nods and says something about free range. They continue to talk as they collect the beans. After she told him about Mikey. Letting out a laugh when he says that she has a different taste in friends she smiles. "He seems to have an issue with the dead ones here. I seemed to have issues with the alive ones here so of course we bonded." pausing slightly as she watches him, she tilts her head, "As terrible as that sounds, he's the opposite of what you might think of someone for fighting ghosts."

Zephyr protects against being afraid of the bean. Stifling a laugh, she shrugs at his explanation. She goes off to the side and writes a letter to Hazel. After finishing it she nods to his question if she knows a freezing spell. For once she was glad that she actually paid attention in Charms. Taking a deep breath she casts the spell. Not daring to look at Zephyr until he shouts out that she did it. As if she cast it on herself, she stood there frozen for a second. Then her face breaks out in a giant grin. Turning towards him, she pulls him into a hug of celebration. As she does, she slips on a bean. Falling into him, they both end up onto the floor. Rolling off him, she smiles.

"Looks like I ended back where I started. On the floor." Letting out a soft laugh, she picks up a bean next to her and rolls it in between her fingers, "At least you're here too!"

Breaking out in a grin, she gets pulling. Grabbing his hand, she pulls him up too. Once they're both standing and stable, she starts picking up the beans. Putting them into the jar quickly, they finish putting all the beans away in ten minutes top. Closing the jar tightly, she turns towards him.

"Thank you for helping with all of this," Tucking a lock of her hair behind her ear she continues, "Hopefully we see more of each other and have a less chaotic time." Smiling shyly, she puts the jar into her bag.

There was a sudden confusion he felt as soon as he saw her red cheeks after he took a wild guess at what happened to the glass of beans. He also noticed she didn't respond to that and instead, looked away from him. There's just one thing that came to mind seeing that, that whatever happened her has got to do with whatever she did and she was embarrassed by that knowledge. Understanding that predicament, he didn't push nor ask further and just let it be. He just said, "Free range beans, apparently.” And shrugged, not making a big deal out of it anymore. “At least we got it under control now.” Thank Merlin for that or else they would be stuck here for an entire day.

For the person she kept on mentioning, Zephyr was curious, "You seem to admire that person very much. You even defend him even though he was not here. By any chance, are you two together?" She kept on making him believe that he's a nice person although he didn't have any issue with any of that. First of all he didn't know the guy to conclude anything about him. Whatever she's saying, he would trust that.

While she was writing a letter, he could only watch her, impressed that she could focus in the middle of this mess. Thankfully, she knew of a very helpful spell. It was fascinating to see all the beans froze where they once bouncing and all fell onto the floor one by one. He laughed and cheered for her, happy that the girl had cast the spell on the first try. What he didn't expect was her running toward him and giving him a hug, probably out of excitement at a successful spell casting. Not expecting that they both toppled onto the floor. "Ooof!" He landed on his back and groaned at the impact of the fall on his back.

Hearing what she said, Zephyr chuckled and rolled on his side. When she pulled him up and they finished gathering the last of the beans, he sighed in relief, glad that's finally over. “No problem, really, I found it fun even how weird it happened.” The girl got busy hiding her glass of beans and he took that as his cue to finally leave. He'll just freshen up in his common room. “Maybe next time we meet, it won't be this chaotic. Nice to meet you Bree, see you next time!” With one last glance at the toilet, he joked at the girl, “Time to leave before anything else decides to attack me.” He headed for the door, shaking his head and laughing quietly to himself.

END. Thanks!