TABLE 13 | Sweethearts Tea Party V-Day Event

Regarding the first person Jack sees after the amortentia affects him:

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And Juniper gave her OOC permission.

Outfit: The remains of a burnt Slytherin vest over a burnt (no-longer-white), button-up shirt, black slacks, and black loafers. (And a green jacket given to him by Hanako.)

To Jack's mild surprise, Draven didn't explain what had happened to the questioning professor - not that Jack had any illusions that the truth had been kept quiet for his own sake. The only practical conclusion was that Draven must have really been embarrassed by what had happened. How...cute.

Jack didn't have long to be amused at the younger Slytherin's actual response to the teacher when he recognized the scent of something he'd smelled before. It was...so enticing. He froze, a look of horror plastered onto his face, as he turned to the real dealer of damage. Draven might have burnt up his clothes and skin, but Juniper...Juniper probably didn't understand the true extent of what her cupcake attack had done.

He opened his mouth to yell at her, tell her he knew she shouldn't have touched those cupcakes, but it was too late. His mouth went dry and he couldn't find the words to speak. The 'chatter fox' got tongue-tied as he stared at Juniper, enchanted by her presence. How could he have been about to yell at her?

Suddenly ashamed of how he must have looked to her, Jack glanced around - only to find Hanako offering him his green jacket. The redheaded third year took it gratefully, giving his peer a genuine, heart-felt, "Thank you," before quickly putting it on, not minding that it was oversized. Then he promptly got out of his chair, picked it up, and moved it to squeeze himself between where Draven and Juniper sat.

From there, he held out the pale pink rose still in his hand, ignoring the card that had declared Hanako his valentine for the day. He couldn't take his eyes off Juniper and thus didn't notice Draven eyeing the teapot at their table.

"I'm so sorry," he told the Ravenclaw, sincerity straining his tone. "It was just a brush of the lips. It meant nothing, truly. Please don't be angry, Miss Kelly."

@Juniper Kelly, @Draven Mirador, & @Hanako Tone

Description: Alec is wearing a blue sweater, worn jeans, and white sneakers. His nails are painted a metallic black. He's carrying his messenger bag with him, the front of the bag has pins covering the area from top to bottom. One of the pins is shaped like a wolf, the others are pinback buttons with painted designs on them.

Replaying Ari's sentiment in his head, Alec was hoping among the gaggle of professors that the nurse was somewhere there. If Ari were to faint, Alec didn't find the mental image of dragging him to the hospital wing pleasant.

Alec's mind was slowing to the point where he could catch up on older conversation, for example, the red-head, his name was Jack Burnett. Burnett was skeptical about table flipping, something Alec considered odd. More strange was that he ended up changing his mind. Alec narrowed his eyes but didn't bother to comment.

Alec couldn't focus on Burnett anyway, he had bigger problems. Crazy girl seemed to have taken Alec's small talk as a suggestion. “You shouldn't.” Alec turned, and peered looking over at the table of professors, he would make a silent gesture towards the direction of the table. As much as he wanted the table flipped “At least not now anyway. It's not any fun if you're going to immediately get caught.” Should crazy girl flip a table, Alec was informed. He was hoping she would end up flipping a table despite his warnings. Specifically this table. Alec wanted to forget about seeing the letter, laying menacingly by. It had to be considered destroyed if the table was flipped.
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Crazy girl finally recognized him, took her long enough. Alec raised an eyebrow and leaned back in his chair as he peered at her. “Dress code boy?” He asked inquiringly, a hint of amusement shown from his eyes. Alright, what was her actual name? Alec's eyes searched for the place card. Juniper.

Alec had trouble keeping track of one conversation, it was no surprise that he was overwhelmed trying to keep up and decidedly left tired guy and crazy girl's conversation to listen to for another day. The only other third-year at the table had a story. Alec wanted to listen to it, and he did, for a bit, the most he caught was something about a girl and boiling water. “Yeah, that seems pretty normal...” Alec's mind was wandering, he was still annoyed over failing to throw a drink at the fall ball earlier that year. Maybe Alec could settle for drink-throwing at the next ball. Burnett tilted his head, and Alec realized that was his cue to pay attention."Got a last name, lion? I'm not in the habit of calling people by their first names. Seems a little too personal to me." Oh.

Alec's smile fell, and he glanced to the side in an awkward manner. “Sorry... I- um... er- I don't do that.” Alec shrugged it off, still looking off to the side. Acting as if his preference wasn't just as odd as Burnett's own(Alec did have questions. Ones that some may call 'nosy'). Alec knew his response was awkward and figuring he needed to play it off offer better than that, he added, “Seems a little too personal to me.” Copying Burnett's words. Surprised when he found he could pull them off just as well as the other.

“Anything else works.” What Alec wanted to say was, 'you should have seen the things people have tried to call me before. Any reasonable person could come up with something better.' He didn't though. Those felt like the type of words that sent people backing away from you slowly. People had bad luck with nicknames, but that just made it sound as if-
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"Mr. Mason,"

Alec's eyes widened at hearing his last name, Alec visibly froze. His only act of moving was blinking. He would think about this later and how the fact that he could have been mistaken for a statue should have been concerning. When the shock wore off his thoughts came pummeling towards him all at once. You cannot punch anybody Alec. That's not happening. You don't do that, it's unsophisticated. Knight does that. Don't. A scowl formed on Alec's lips, and his head turned slowly over to Tired kid.

“And you are?” His eyes settled on the other staring Draven down, the reaction was more of a 'Who do you think you are that you think you can simply prance around everywhere announcing that?' but he held his tongue. He knew who the kid was even if the kid didn't. He was an absolute Nundu, how dare he do that! Actually that insult was going a little far. It was unfortunate that Alec knew he was younger. Alec couldn't get away with violence or even a jinx. Not that Alec would have been able to follow through...
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Out of the corner of his eyes, Alec watched as roses descended from the air. Along with the roses, the DADA professor had a few words. Alec looked over, only choosing to do this because it was about time he stopped staring down Draven and let himself blink. Alec was skeptical about the idea of spreading the love around. He rolled his eyes, returning his attention back to the table.

Ari had gotten a rose. There was a long-winded speech that Alec didn't really understand the point of. Then Ari left. Well... Hopefully he was going somewhere better? Somewhere where he would not faint. Alec watched Ari walk away, tilting his head. Alec couldn't assess the faintability that one thing or the other had, it was a lost cause. “Do you-”

He had a tendency to zone out and not pay attention. Apparently, he'd missed a lot in watching Ari because Tired kid and Jack were lip to lip. Why? Why did he have to look over that second? Alec didn't want to see that, Alec didn't ask to see that. Wait, tired kid, and Jack? One look at Tired kid was enough for Alec to know Tired kid didn't want to be kissed.

Alec's brain crashed.

See,
the problem was,
you don't do that...
It's not okay.

Alec stood up in case he needed to get involved. He had no idea what that entailed since he stood up before he could get himself to think or do anything more. He didn't need to, of course, Tired kid was capable, and apparently, Juniper, who... used cupcakes as a weapon...?

Tired kid, he really could have handled the situation all on his own. He shoved Burnett away and knocked over teacups in the process. Alec didn't focus on the teacups rather he preferred to focus his attention on Tired kid. The situation was unpleasant, and despite finding Tired kid unpleasant Alec wanted to make sure he was alright. Alec tried to pick out his features, Alec didn't know the kid well enough, his face was unreadable, it was hard to tell what he was feeling.

Jack burst into flames.

Alright, question answered. Tired kid had felt revenge was needed, he was mad, fair enough. That was as much as Alec could get his head to process at that moment. Alec reached for the opening of his bag to grab his wand. Alec wasn't going to let Jack stay on fire, for obvious reasons. Luckily someone had gotten to it far quicker, and Alec watched the flames fizzle out. Followed by the booming voice of a professor.

Jack wasn't on fire, and Tired kid was maybe fine. Those thoughts in mind, Alec sat back down. But the reassurance of the situation being dealt with wasn't helping Alec feel better. Alec buried his face in his hands and took a deep breath. Taking a second to breathe helped Alec collect himself, his brain wasn't shouting at him now, and maybe he could just sit. Alec didn't feel like talking anymore.
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When Alec removed his head from his hands his gaze descended back on the table and everybody there. It took him a few second as he watched what was going on, tuning out the noise. Someone else had arrived. Hana. Alec didn't know how long Hanako had been here, but this had to have been the worst timing ever. Hana always had a flair for dramatic entrances. Alec was always confused and strangely amused by the spectacle. It was why he'd let Hana drag him back to Katherine in the first place. Tonight however was different. Hana arrived in the middle of the professor getting involved. What were the chances?

Hana waved, and that was when Alec remembered that he had a face, and his face did not look at all like he was happy to be here. Alec attempted to look happy, it came off as uncertain. He half-waved back. Hana gestured and Alec turned his head to where Hana was pointing though he didn't really take a good look. Alec wasn't as focused on that as he was focused on trying to watch everybody at the table. Alec was still on edge. He was watching everybody at the table until he heard the slithering of a snake. Alec didn't have a problem with snakes, he liked them. But It's very different when your on edge and easily startled by anything you don't expect. Alec didn't expect Cu Sith to have come here with Hana. Alec's head snapped back to look, anddd when he saw Cu Sith, he jolted back in surprise, fell off his chair and onto the floor.

Real smooth Alec, real smooth.

Alec was less worried about the actual fall, it was a chair he was fine, he was more worried about people noticing. Alec felt he could blend into the background easily. Everybody else seems distracted, so maybe it was fine? Alec smiled at Cu Sith. “Oh my goshhhhh- don't scare me like that. It's the second time you've done that.” Alec whispered looking back at the snake. Cu sith wasn't doing it on purpose, Alec just wasn't very watchful. “It was like you came out of nowhere and bam.” Finally able to get a proper look at Cu Sith, it made Alec feel better, his mind had been giving him trouble after the whole Tired kid and Jack thing, Alec didn't want to think about it. He tilted his head. “Hana brought you?” That probably should have been the first thing out of his mouth.

Alec tried to look over at Hana, but it was hard to do that, Alec was after all on the floor, he couldn't really see anybody. “I should really get off the floor.” The snake was staring into his soul. It was uncomfortable. Cu Sith seemed to not want to be on the floor as much as Alec. He stared at snake for a second. “Fine, you can come with me.” Alec gave in, picking Cu Sith up.

Pretending as if he didn't just fall off of his chair minutes earlier, Alec stood up with Hana's snake in his arms.

Raising an eyebrow as he caught the last of what were Jack's words to Juniper. Confirmation, Alec was not the weird one here. Suddenly Alec felt like talking again. “Juniper, right now would be a good time to start picking up that table-flipping hobby you wanted to try. ”

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@Hanako Tone@Juniper Kelly@Jack Burnett@Draven Mirador

I will hopefully be faster writing replies with this thread in mind in the future? maybe? Time will only tell.

Permission was given by Hana's writer to say Cu Sith allowed Alec to pick her up. Now she can see everybody and their... mostly cute faces.

Turns out she didn't need to assault Jack, for Draven had that covered. Juni took a step back fearfully as she watched Draven take out his wand. A spell she was all to familiar with came from the tip of his wand, aimed at Jack Burnett. She watched the flames come to life and feed on the tips of his robes, not even moving to help. She looked at Draven in awe of his courage, full respect in her eyes. She finally came to her senses and wiped the frosting off of her hands. "It's called Karmaaaaa, Jack." She failed to get most of the frosting off her fingers, but she ignored it.

The professor chose that moment to walk over. She wondered if Draven would confess that his first kid had been with the burned kid on the floor. She stepped a few feet back, hoping she wasn't about to get roped into the trouble for throwing cupcakes into Jack's face. And Draven did not confess. Why? There was no need to be embarrassed from what she could see. It was easy to play the victim if it got you out of trouble, so why wouldn't Draven? His words made it sound like he had simply felt like setting someone on fire. Juniper opened her mouth to speak but then fell silent.

She watched Jack get up and pick up a snake to move it. She recoiled at the sight. "is that a snake?" She wrinkled her nose and tried to keep herself away from it. Who's was it? before she could ask, however, Jack was facing her and speaking. "I- W-what?" She took the flower from him, very confused. For a moment she thought he wanted her to hold it or something, but then she thought- was he giving it to her? She pushed her chair further from him, very confused. Alec spoke up and she raised an eyebrow. "... right. Well." She set the flower down onto the table as if it contained germs and wiped the rest of the frosting from her hands. "So very glad you're not dead, Jack." She said with a forced smile. "But you should be apologizing to Draven. Not me. "

*Changing dialog colour to not be confused with Junipers. Old -> New. Which makes Cu Sith have this color as a dialog.

Also,* Hana's not doing much here, this is Cu Sith's episode. I am just posting this right now so I don't have to write as much in the future post

All it took was a single glance at Alec’s uncertain response to Hana’s greeting that made him turn away immediately. Nope. Looking panicked was the last thing he needed to do.

Uncertainty could mean many things if not explained. Had he found out the real reason why Hana went on a date with him? Did he realize what a horrible boyfriend he was for going out with Hana when he was in a perfectly happy relationship with Wyatt? Oh gosh, was Hana the ‘other person’ in their relationship? The term which weight didn’t mean much during the Fall Ball, but now it felt like someone had worn a pair of diamond gogo boots and gave him a good kick to the jaw. That particular thing, he had real memories of. Minus the gogo boots, of course. Fashion wasn’t a priority when anyone wanted to kick him, he noticed.

"Mr. Burnett and I seem to have some artistic differences. He saw himself as alive, and I saw him dead." said Sleepy Vampy.

Unable to understand the significance of that sentence, Hanako thought; ‘Huh, well you and me both, Buddy’. Sleepy Vampy’s choice of words did little to nothing to help Hana fully understand what happened. Fine! It wasn’t hard to think why anyone would want to throw a cupcake at Jack and set him on fire. The reason can be so creative sometimes. Just like the mischievous Slytherin.

Rolling his eyes at the sleepy vampire, Hanako almost missed Jack’s grateful thanks. Not that it would be any different if he did.

Hanako took a second to look at him with an odd stare, finding it hard to form words. As someone fluent in hidden sarcasm behind kind words, Hanako was appalled that he could not sense any hidden meaning behind Jack’s ‘Thank you’. Jack was not capable of gratitude, at least not the Jack Hanako knew. Before he could act even more confused, his attention was captured by the rose by Jack’s side of the table. Aw swirly words, how pretty. Hanako managed to read just a few words from the now swirly letter.

////SELECTED ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////KISS////VALENTINE/////////////////////////

A wicked grin appeared on his face at the thought of the unlucky sucker who possibly had to lock lips with Burnett. The unlucky sucker’s name eventually appeared on the note, making his grin fell immediately.

“He-hey why does that card have my name?” Embarrassed, his voice was gentle and barely audible. Made it near impossible for Jack (or anyone) to hear properly. It would seem that Hana wouldn’t get an answer because next thing he knew Jack was no longer by his side, and had seated himself near the shortie red haired girl, making goo goo eyes at her while saying sweet words.

EW. ‘Sorry’? Hanako was not aware Burnett knew such a word. God, he had way too many problems to deal with that right now. Hanako’s hand instead grabbed the rose which had his name attached to it, rereading the single sentence with immense focus. Tackle problems one by one.

First, the Note

Second, the Jack

Third, the Alec. Which actually may not be a problem. Not if Hana’s avoidant personality could help it.

Hanako’s hand grabbed the rose which had his name attached to it, rereading the single sentence with immense focus.

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Your assigned Valentine is Hanako Tone from Table 13.

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By his 15th read, he made a really ugly face.

Without thinking it through, he -as subtle as he could- tried to rip the cursed paper to shred with his bare hands. He’d understand quickly that it was quite a sturdy note, and so his mind raced with other ideas to get rid of the evidence. Burn it? No- the professor was right there, it would be way too easily noticeable. And there's no confirmation that fire would even help. He wanted to command Cu Sith to swallow it- never to be seen again- but alas, she was too young to do so. What to do, what to do, what to do….

By the corner of his eye, he saw a nicely decorated floral porcelain teapot sitting idly in the middle of their table.

[font=Courier New]*( Permission given from Orion via discord to:

-see a few words on the note before it dissapeared
-attempt to rip the paper (auto-fail)
-drown the note in the teapot (stealth auto-fail?I think? If not feel free to do one)[/font]

Instinctively , he made a quick glance towards the Professor, who was far too close to allow Hanako to be comfortable with his plans. Thinking that he was sufficiently distracted (so long as he is not staring at Hanako’s face with full attention), Hanako gently grabbed the teapot and guided it towards the nearest cup to him, which happened to be Jack’s.

With rapid speed, Hanako opened the top lid- slipped the poor paper into the tea filled teapot, and closed it without a second thought before pouring a good amount of the tea into Jack’s teacup. Perhaps with a little mix, the ink on the paper would be one with the tea. Eitherway, Hanako was disappointed not to see any obvious change of colour in the tea cup. Too hasty with his mission, he failed to notice any other peering eyes from his table.

That was what the earlier note said before it swirled into his name right? ‘Selected ', ‘kiss’, ‘valentine’. If Hana’s guess was correct, he would need to do the unspeakable. With Jack nonetheless. EW. Hana was no prude, he had no problems with kissing strangers. But if that person is Jack then…, Hana was certain that kiss would both be written in their minds as one of their ‘Darkest Days’. This was Hana’s first valentines day party, he was deeply unaware of their rules and regulations. Next thing he knows, he can’t leave the room without kissing Jack goodnight. N O P E. He had standards, and Jack did not meet them.

With both hands on the teapot, he gently tried to stir its contents by tilting it in a circular motion.

@Alec MasonWhen Alec crashed on the floor, the snake was a little- as expected- surprised. Until she realised that his clumsiness made sense. Not only was he awfully clumsy himself, but Cu Sith’s presence was so fierce and intimidating that he couldn’t help but fall down. Of course! With this in mind, she no longer felt the need to take away cuteness points from the Gryffindor. He could still stay cute.

While on the floor, he spoke a few words in which she gently hissed back. She didn’t understand anything, but watching his facial muscles move was enough delight for her to see anyway. Fortunately, this language barrier seemed like it was no problem for her and husband number… huh- well, she didn’t know math so she will assume Alec is husband #6. It sounded like a cute number. Understanding what she was saying, Alec would pick her up and helped her see a view that was previously restricted from her.

Speaking of view….

Oh….

My…

G o d.

Draven & Junipers Cuteness:

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SHE DIED! SHE DIED AND WENT TO HELL, SURELY. Hell? Heaven? Both start with H’s, and therefore confused her when Hana tried to explain. She will assume it’s Hell, because shorter words are cuter. Her unblinking eyes continued to stare at the god sends a table apart from her. One, (@Juniper Kelly) seemed to take notice of her.

She must’ve felt it too! The spark! Well, of course she did! Cu Sith was divine, and once people looked at her, they could never stop! Feeling suddenly shy at the intense staring session they had just a second ago, Cu Sith felt herself feeling woozy and her head started swaying left and right ever so gently, possibly very obvious to the one holding her.

After a few seconds of swaying, she snapped back to reality. What was she doing? Pretty Lady ( Juniper Kelly ) was clearly asking her to come closer. Nothing was better than two cuties being in each other presence.

Gasp

But wait- she h a s a cutie. One kind enough to hold her so she could see the world. Well, he was still a cutie, but she had never been in a room with so many cuties before. Her small head started to spin from indecision. INDECISION! Oh gosh, she was going to need her priorities straight.

Who.Is.The.TRUEST.Cutie?

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Conclusion: Draven is the truest cutie. Rip Alec

Oh, who was she trying to fool. The earlier crash certainly lost Alec a few, if not more, cutie points. Besides, love at first sights was exhilarating. She knew where to find Alec, but these two gorgeous creatures (Juniper and @Draven Mirador) was a mystery. So much to learn about them, such little time. Why would she not take the opportunity?

If she had any doubts about her decision, they would be immediately swept away the second Jack joined her view.@ Jack Burnett

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[font=Courier New][Not about to spam the post with all the sev snape kid's rolls so I hope this will do as enough proof. Also, Jack isn't a 2, he's a 1. So ...

Cu Sith had no eyebrows, but she didn’t need any to show the frightening aura that surrounded her small body.

“ nnnooooottt “ she seethed hissed through her forked tongue “ cccuuuteeeee”

How dare he. How dare such .. such… DISGUSTING CREATURE- LAY HIS HANDS ON H E R CUTIE?!? What was he even doing at such a cute party? Cu Sith already had to endure enough of his presence back in the Severus Snape Dorm. Now he was here? At her birthday party? Making moves on H E R CUTIE?

Blinded by rage, she let out a horrid hiss that may or may not frighten poor Alec. She failed to care, as his cuteness level is just above Jack’s and the tower-looking moody man (@Orion Lécuyer who is also ugly) compared to the others at this table. Her standards had risen and he was - unfortunately, not cute enough.

From where she was held, she’d lift her head and attempted to reach towards where her damsel in distress needed her help. It was no use that Juniper had scooted further from the boy. To Cu Sith, she was still in danger of being infected by Jack’s ugliness. The worst death! As Alec’s hand was the only thing that supported her body weight at the moment, she could not go there as fast as she liked. But perhaps Alec could understand and respect her obvious wishes.

If Alec allowed her to land on the table, she would have the heart to send him one last grateful look.

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[won't write further than this if this is the case until my next post]

If Alec was smart and reluctant to let the angry snake go, she would look back at him with deep gaze.

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If Hana had paid less attention to the teapot, he would understand what that look meant. That look meant like they were 10 seconds away witnessing Cu Sith's special F.B.O.E.L.M.

Full Blown Out Excruciatingly Loud Meltdown

Perhaps the only ugly side Cu Sith possesses. An ugly side Alec would be wise not to test if he still wished to be seen as cute.
[won't write further than this if this is the case until my next post]

[font= Courier New]*For extra note, I do not intend her meltdown to have any statistical effects. She will scream and cry, which will only be annoying at most to Parselmouths, and after a while, she will attempt to play dead like a hognose snake[/font]

Hana's Action:
-attempting to tear the paper that was proof that he was now Jack’s valentine (auto-fail)
-attempting to put said paper in the teapot instead.

Snake's Actions:
-nothing much just dropping Alec and trying to go after the r e a l cuties. Nothing major, next actions depends on Alec

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Edits made:
-added proof of Jack's ugly roll. Which is worse than I thought. Opps

Mentioning | @Juniper Kelly

Interacting | @Jack Burnett | @Hanako Tone | @Draven Mirador

At least Burnett seemed unharmed for the most part, if one ignored the burn marks. Speaking of which, those scars were certainly concerning. It wasn't as if Orion didn't have some of his own, considering the field he had worked in before accepting a teaching role, but this kid seemed marked up more than most of the Aurors he knew. An issue for another day, he supposed. Perhaps he was even seeing things.

It looked like another student decided to be fashionably late, and was entering at... Well, a terrible time. "I have no intention of stealing your seat, Mr. Tone. Though it is your loss; I make for wonderful company, especially when sweets are involved." Ah, there was Tone's typical attitude as well; snarky comments drizzled with a side of secret insecurity. That was how Orion viewed it, at least. Humor was a great coping mechanism, and Hal liked to pretend to be harsh. Perhaps Hanako was a mini-Hal. "It seems your company for the evening enjoys setting fires. I would say I'm surprised, but it is a Hogwarts event."

Of course Draven wasn't going to confess to his crime, and none of the other children at the table seemed prepared to offer up any clues either. Merlin, he was too tired for this. His thumb and index finger massaged his temple before he spoke to the lyric-quoting teen. "Calm down and take a seat, merry murderess. You may as well enjoy this evening, because you'll be spending this weekend in detention with me." His blue eyes flickered over the heads of the rest of the children, a small frown pulling at his lips when Burnett decided to cozy up to Kelly. They seemed to be arguing over a girl. Ah, young love. "As for the rest of you, if I need to come to this table again, I'll be passing out more detentions without a second thought."

He thought he was done with the table, and was preparing to leave when Tone suddenly decided that if Burnett wasn't going to offer him his rose, he would just take it himself. A fourth person entering the now love-square, it seemed. Orion was tired, but not tired enough to miss that rapid motion from the short Slytherin. "... Really, Tone?" The professor groaned. He was too tired to deal with their shenanigans, and he had quite literally just warned them. "Alright, fine. Tone and Mirador, you can all join me this Saturday for detention. I'll see you in my office at 11 am sharp. Burnett, you can join us and we can all have a nice long talk about how to behave like proper gentlemen. I can very easily extend it to other weekends if you still choose to act up. The choice is yours." With that, he walked away before he ended up scolding the children again. From the corner of his eye he could see a certain Slytherin prefect trying to escape the event...

OoC: Apologies for the short reply. Detention thread will be posted at a later date as I do not have plans to make Orion march the three out of the event, considering he still needs to chaperon. When the thread is created, I will tag the participants.

Description: Alec is wearing a blue sweater, worn jeans, and white sneakers. His nails are painted a metallic black. He's carrying his messenger bag with him, the front of the bag has pins covering the area from top to bottom. One of the pins is shaped like a wolf, the others are pinback buttons with painted designs on them.

After having stood up, witnessing whatever was going on at the table, and making a comment(how dare juniper not get up and flip the table!), Alec's focus fell on the snake he was holding. It couldn't have been more than one minute since he stood up and there were already issues. She had hissed. Alec was silent as he stared her down, left waiting for an answer he was never going to get. If Cu Sith was going to hiss Alec at least needed to know why. He glanced towards where the snake was kissing. Burrnet, Jack, weirdo, whoever he was, Cu Sith didn't like him. Alec's surprise faded slowly. Alright, acceptable hissing that makes sense. Perhaps Cu Sith was a good judge of character. She just should have been hissing before Jack got to the point of kissing Draven.

He felt Cu Sith trying to escape his grasp and raised an eyebrow . All done peeking at people? Nope... She was trying to get on the table. Why? Uh Juni. . . Alec held Cu Sith closer, no, sorry but no.

Juniper didn't want Cu Sith near her. She made that obvious. The dilemma was Cu Sith wanted to go. Alec narrowed his eyes as he looked down at her. Cu sith would not be going to Juniper, he couldn't just put Cu Sith down either. Cu sith would realize whose shoes belonged to whose face, or at least she would try. Therefore Cu Sith would be going up to someone who didn't want her near. Also possibly get hurt? Juni was unpredictable. Maybe she'd try to keep Cu Sith away with her feet. Or maybe she would stand on her chair and scream. The options were limitless. None of the possible outcomes seemed to be good.

Alec sighed, glancing around, so she couldn't go to Juni, or anyone else who could possibly react negatively. . . That leaves nobody, except Hana and he seemed to be doing weird teapot things. Alec didn't want to know what he was trying to do. But uh Alec had a wand and it could do magic stuff. What magic stuff? uhhhhhh..... uhhhhh Alec was a wizard, why couldn't he think of something??? Flowers! Yeah, flowers. Everybody likes flowers. Alec did. At the very least, flowers had to be distracting. Perfect. Alec moved to holding Cu Sith with one arm, and opening the messenger bag at his side. Pulling his wand out Alec cast the spell, “orchideous”

Bam, a banquet of flowers for Cu Sith. But was that enough to keep her distracted for now?
She had better at the very least feel lucky. Alec didn't give out random banquets of flowers to just anybody.

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@Hanako Tone @Juniper Kelly

Since this had to do with impressing Hanako's snake, I asked for an okay for an auto-success.
The real question is if Cu Sith expects more than just flowers lol.

Outfit: The remains of a burnt Slytherin vest over a burnt (no-longer-white), button-up shirt, black slacks, and black loafers. (And a green jacket given to him by Hanako.)

Jack's eyes gleamed with joy at Juniper's words. She was glad he wasn't dead! Ignoring the forced quality of her smile, he nodded eagerly when she told him he should have been apologizing to Draven instead of her.

"Of course, but you were clearly distraught too," he said, speaking his mind earnestly with a look of concern. "But if that's what you want, I'll do it."

He turned to Draven as if he hadn't heard Alec's comment to Juniper about 'picking up that table-flipping hobby she wanted to try'. He wasn't sure why Alec would try to get her to do that anyway unless it was for his own amusement. Maybe he was trying to get her in trouble. Fortunately, Juniper seemed to know better than to listen to him, so Jack could apologize to Draven without worrying about her.

"So sorry I asked you to turn your head so we brushed lips, Mister Mirador," he said. "I didn't know you would get so flustered. It was pretty cute to watch and I'm glad I got to learn more about you because of it, but it was wrong and I apologize." He dipped his head solemnly. Then he turned back to Juniper. "How was that? Did that suffice?" he asked her.

Meanwhile, Hanako seemed to be doing something with the note attached to the rose that he had given Juniper. Jack frowned, wondering what the Japanese boy could have possibly wanted with it. "Tone, what are you doing? I meant to give that to Miss Kelly. You can't just take it." He moved to grab the teapot with the rose and note inside from Hanako. Maybe Hanako was trying to make rose tea or something, but he could do that with someone else's rose. There were rose petals everywhere, for crying out loud. Why couldn't he use those instead?

He was distracted from his attempt to wrestle away the teapot by Orion Lécuyer telling him he could join him for detention with Hanako and Draven on Saturday. "What?! But why me?!" the redhead demanded to know. "He's the one who was encouraging Miss Kelly to flip a table." Jack gestured accusingly at Alec. "I already know how to behave like a proper gentleman. And I intend to prove it to Miss Kelly." However, Orion was already walking away. Jack stared after him, looking incredulous. He hardly seemed to notice the way Hanako's pet snake was acting, not even toward him.

When Alec sprouted flowers out of his wand for Cu Sith, however, Jack turned to look at him oddly. "Are you...romancing a snake?"

@Orion Lécuyer, @Juniper Kelly, @Draven Mirador, @Alec Mason, & @Hanako Tone

*Changing dialog colour to not be confused with Junipers. Old -> New. Which makes Cu Sith have this color as a dialog.

"It seems your company for the evening enjoys setting fires. I would say I'm surprised, but it is a Hogwarts event."

Oh, that? So it’s basically another day in the Severus Snape dorm. It only takes two of them to somehow encourage arson? Hana was unsure if he should feel proud, or scared at the power they have. Hana was 90% confident that most of the children of Snape either encouraged fire-starting or were the one starting fires themselves. Jack seemed to be the former. He didn’t say any response to that, however, considering there was nothing to say. He was focused on other things of course, like getting rid of evidence that he was Jack’s valentine. Perhaps it looked too obvious when he abruptly stopped his teapot tilting scheme when his name was called by the professor.

Dradratdratdratdratdrat

“uHHHhh. What? I was thirsty and I’m experimenting with different ingredients.” He did not have the intention to explain why an enchanted note was seen as an interesting ingredient to put in tea. But an explanation was not needed Because the next thing he knew, he was invited to another tea party. One that would possibly prove worse than this current one. The only thing that made this new tea party worse was that it would be held on a Saturday. Saturday.

H I S.

P R E C I O U S.

S A T UR D A Y.

Shocked at the announcement, Hanako did a :0 and instinctively held the teapot closer, waiting for the professor to say something like, ‘ Oh, I’m just joking Tone! You don’t need detention for exploring your creativity via suspicious ingredients!! ‘.

The increasing sounds of footsteps as Professor Orion walked away from their table slowly proved to Hana that his want for a miracle was not granted. “ He- but why do I need detention as well?!? Hello??? I just got here, I’m innocent!” He’d try his futile attempt at turning this around, but alas it was no use. Professor Orion had decided to yeet himself out of the situation. Smart move. One that Hana will remember for a long time. [See you on Hana’s blacklist, Orion]. But who was he to just hand out detentions like that?

The worst part about this was the reason for his detention. He never had detention before, but if he did, he never thought it would bother him so much. Who knew his first detention would be from him trying to save his and Jack’s pride. He is beyond embarrassed. When did he ever need to care about anyone else's pride but himself?

Humiliated at this predicament, Hana’s eyes darted towards Jack who uttered … apologies to Slepy Vampy [Draven]?. Weirdo. Perhaps it was not too late to change his reason for getting detention? With one hand holding the teapot, the other went straight into his pocket. He felt his fingers graze over his wand as if itching to be used- before he sighed and went back to being the teapot holder.

As much as he wanted to take his frustrations on Burnett, burning him again would only cause more trouble. Alec was here and he certainly didn’t need to see Hanako setting an injured person on fire, even if that person was Jack. Plus, Burnett is still wearing Hana’s jacket. The jacket didn’t need to suffer as well. Green Jacket > Burnett.

Unfortunately, Jack couldn’t read the room and walked towards Hana, or more specifically, Hana’s teapot.

Hanako was sure ‘Miss Kelly’ or whoever would love to receive the tea dunked note knowing she was not cursed to smooth this red-haired trickster. Hana, however, would rather r.i.p. Did Jack lose half of his brain cells? How was he so hung up on this midget that he would be this determined to win her heart? Hana didn’t regularly hang out with him, he must’ve missed something about Burnett’s love life.

"Tone, what are you doing? I meant to give that to Miss Kelly. You can't just take it."

“ Oh, yeah? Watch me. I want it, I got it”. Hanako meant that as a snarky refusal, but things started to get real when Burnett started wrestling for Hana’s pot. Hello? Hands off his pot! It didn’t matter if Jack even got close to the teapot, because Hana only tightened his grip on it, ready to take it back at whatever cost. Fortunately, Jack was midway, distracted by Orion’s decision on their detention date, he was momentarily distracted.

First of all, Hanako prefers not to play dirty. But when it comes to his pride? He would not be placed in Slytherin if he didn’t put great importance on self-preservation. And right now, he was too unsure of his victory for the teapot against Burnett. He didn’t seem as strong, but he didn’t seem weak either. So he did the first thing he thought would help him. Which is grabbing the nearest cupcake near him (logically, it seemed that it would be one of Jack’s dozen cupcakes) and hiding it behind his back with one free hand. His stealth skills proved to be poor, but oh well.

Hopefully, Jack wouldn’t notice it as he was too busy eyeing Alec’s suspicious…preference-? Oh, who was he kidding, he understood well enough what happened the second he heard Cu Sith’s hisses. It was a shame he was too busy to join in Jack’s confusion.

Reducio

And smooch. Not Hana and Jack, of course. Ew, gross. But Jack definitely would not be able to see the cupcake going straight for his lip. It would do Jack well to at least chew the cupcake because once the shock factor was gone, Hanako had his eyes on the real prize. His teapot.

Reducio

It could be the cupcake attack, it could be Alec romancing Cu Sith, but Hanako won in terms of strength and managed to pry away the pot from Jack. “ HAH! Good job, me” he complimented himself before stepping away from Burnett and his frosting lipstick. “ I want it, I got it,” he said with more Ariana Grande flair this time. If only he had longer hair, a hair flip would feel great to do about now. It’s not every day he could win in a strength battle.

But in case Professor Orion looked at their way and sensed another week of detention, Hanako went over to his seat and grabbed one of the boxes he received. (Dee’s cupcake but ic unknown at this time). With teapot hugged closely, he’d open it first before giving it to Jack. If there was a note inside, he’d take it out first.

“ Im. sorry. For. smashing.a.perfectly.good.cupcake.to.your.face.” a long pause ensued as Hanako tried to remember what's next on the ‘how to apologize politely’. “ Smile. Oh, smile-” then he smiled at Jack. Ew, alright that was enough smiling. "Take it. Hopefully, it's not stale. But as it's for me, well-" he shrugged. If Jack didn’t take it, Hanako would set it on Jack’s table before walking to his snake and Alec, pot in hand. @Jack Burnett

He looked at Cu Sith, then back to Alec’s flowers. At least Alec didn’t hate Cu Sith. Hanako would rather be hated than Cu Sith being hated despite her adoration from Alec. Though looking at Cu Sith’s condition, it looked stage ⅔ of F.B.O.E.L.M.(Full Blown Out Excruciatingly Loud Meltdown). He winced, foreseeing a horrible screeching fest any second. With an unsure tone, he told Alec; “Hey, might want to set her down on the table or something. U-unless you want her to pretend dead right there” he warned, offering a weak smile before taking strides towards the opposite table where Sleepy Vampy and Red Haired Midget was sitting. @Alec Mason

One, if Cu Sith’s meltdown was so near, he’d rather be a bit further away. Two, Alec most likely either felt awkward or hated Hana. With this new ‘being Jack’s valentine’ thing, Hanako could only focus on one problem to deal with at a time. Getting away from him was the best thing to do, for him and Alec both.

Teapot in hand, he arrived at the other side of the table and offered the two strangers a cheshire grin. “ Ahoy, people-I-have-yet-to-get-to-know. Would you do me the honors of knowing your names, or would one of my special nicknames suffice? I give really good ones, I promise” he lied through his teeth. But he did want to get to know them.

“Miss… Kelly, was it? You're the one who that weirdo is interested in, yeah? ” he glanced towards the girl. “Yea, well your boyfriend seems a bit too fascinated with my teapot. And I’m not in the mood for sharing today, so could you maybe hmm, take him away and ride on a unicorn with him into the romantic sunset? Tell him it’s much more romantic than some silly note. That would be great thankkkkksssssss~”@Juniper Kelly

Not caring if he was unwelcomed, he sat on the empty seat available next to Kelly (Ari’s- and hopefully it's empty if not then hhh I’ll rewrite this part xD). Finally! A seat. Teapot in hand, but at least he’s able to sit down after all that chaos.

Alright, Professor Orion was gone, Jack was left to his own devices, Alec hated Hana, Cu Sith is 1 minute away from a meltdown, and Kelly needed to take Jack on a romantic walk. Well, then Hana’s attention should obviously be on Sleepy Vampy (Draven).

From over Hana’s side, he sent the 1st year a fake grin. “ Am I going to pretend you didn't set my dormmate on fire, or am I getting the tea. “ he curiously inquired with interest in his tone. He wasn't too sure if SleepyVampy would oblige to his interest in tea so in case he did, Hanako allowed them to have a different conversation. @Draven Mirador

“you know….we’re going to be best friends when we have detention together. Nothing like bonding while we’re suffering, yea? Hannah Tone. 3rd year Slytherin. You can just call me Hana now that we’re best friends” he sent a sweet smile easily seen as fake and glanced towards Kelly. “ Oh uh,, you-hmmm. I don’t know if you have the privilege to call me Hannah.. Are you two best friends?” he asked, glancing between the two. “ Cause if you are, any bestie of his is a bestie of mine~. I think we can think of a few ways to get you in detention too. Interested in joining our detenting gang? The more the merrier~”

Unfortunately, he could hear distant screaming from Alec’s side of the table. Drat- he really didn’t want to go there. But the Parselmouth in him wasn’t comfortable with Cu Sith’s crying. From his seat, he'd sent Alec a glance, ‘Want - me - there? ‘ Hanako mouthed silently, thinking Alec would rather read lips than his own voice. Especially with a frantically screaming snake on his hand.

Alec had chosen death.

Her heart had turned into poisonous french fries. Smashed and kneaded and sliced into teeny weeny pieces. Except, unlike actual fries, they should be poisonous. Because when Alec rejected her obvious demands, she felt like she consumed poison.

A cute.. Person… didn’t… listen.. To…her.. Demands..?

“C-ccu- cute-????” she hissed so softly, not tearing away from Alec’s eyes.

Alec was fortunately quick on his thinking, presenting a wonderful bouquet of flowers in front of her, hoping to ease the broken-hearted snake. Cu Sith glanced towards the flowers, inspecting them slowly at least showing that she was seeing the flowers. In silence, she looked back from the flowers to Alec and to the flowers again. He knew he was wrong to defy her, but he was trying to make up for it, right? That shouldn’t cost him his cuteness, should it?

Cu Sith turned back towards her newest cuties [Draven and Juniper]. Her fondness for them was still alive and well, as well as her urge to go to the table right now. But Alec was too in love with her. It was expected, she was irresistible. Alec didn’t like her looking at other cuties, she understood that. Jealousy is an ugly thing. Almost as ugly as her meltdown. Would the flowers and Alec be worth it?

Reducio

OOOPPSSSSS I lost the og dice roll But here's proof of them talking about it. I never lie about cuteness rolls. Juniper got a 20. Im just a dummy that forgot to screenshot it. Will stalk the bot spam in hogwarts io tomorrow so I can find it- hopefully- amin

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HOW.DARE.HE

What did she ever see in this cutie. NO. NOT CUTIE. NOT CUTIE ANYMORE. HE WAS AN UGLY. AN UGLY! An ugly who refused her obvious orders. One that tried to keep her away from her true cuties. And with such a flimsy flower trick? Was this what she got from seeing cutie potential in him? She was dIsQusStED. Her ego had taken a hit, knowing she saw something in this abomination. CHEAP. CHEAP FLOWERS. CHEAP ATTEMPT. CHEAP FACE. [rip Alec im so sorry i assure you Im not ooc laughing]

She wanted to bite him, scream at him, call him not cute. But as her anger risen to levels higher than she thought was possible, along with it felt a huge-urge-to-cry.

With a last attempt to show just how angry she is, she hissed ferociously at the bouquet of flowers. She turned to him again to do the same, but something stopped her from doing so. His eyes. Those wonderful blue eyes she used to want to poke out cause pretty things are hers, yea. But now, it’s like they were foggy. Were those really the same eyes she thought so cutely of? Were they truly gone now? Never to be seen again? He hurt her, but she still found it hard to tear away. Was their connection really over?

Cu Sith had no eyelids, as she is a snake. Therefore incapable of having tears in her eyes. So she screamed and wailed instead.

‘ NOOOTTT CUTEBUAAAAAAHAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAA ‘

And those wails would continue in a serious of loud hisses. Trying to pry away from his eyes, she flayed her head around anywhere but his direction, moving, swinging, turning just to show she was not having it.

She would stop crying soon, but she would also stop moving. If Alec didn’t let her on the table, he better hold her tighter or catch her.

Hana's Action:
-smashes cupcake to Jack's face ( agreed on auto-hit )
-takes back the teapot from Jack's not cute hands (strength roll)
-gives Dee's cupcake box to Jack
-sitting on Ari's seat (IF - I get the position right, If not I'm embarrassed and will be changing a bit) with Dee's letter (unread. too much going on rn xD) on the table and teapot in hand.
-signaling Alec if he wants help
-offering Juniper to join the Detention Geng.

Snake's Actions:
-oogling at Alec
-one post from playing dead due to heartache after breaking up with Alec. Rip Alec.

Reducio

Edits made:
-BYE I forgot to tag everyone involved I- need to sleep
-ok added. Left out Orion since he left