Cosed Help! Pv, Kim Sato & Colin McCoire

The great lake is one of the places Samantha could be found most whenever she was at Hogwarts, coming in second on her list of favourite places after the library on the first spot. As the weather improved, the prefect could be spotted outside more and more every week and today was no exception. Having planned to read outside, the brunette made her way over to the great lake with her bag and a big smile.

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As she got closer to the water she noticed some movement, causing her to stop abruptly. Squinting, she tried to get a better look at whatever caused the splashing. Was it the squid or was somebody breaking the valuable rules of great importance by swimming in the great lake? Soon the young prefect was distracted by something she saw in the corner of her eye. It seemed like a figure, presumably a student, with purple hair got rid of something before diving in the water. An offended gasp escaped Samantha's mouth when she noticed the person jumping in the water and swimming over to the place where she had previously seen the other movement. How dare they swim in the dangerous lake without supervision and break the rules!

As fast as her little feet could carry her, she started running towards the place she had seen the second person going into the water. Her bag, which contained the book she had wanted to read among other things, hit her side with every step she took but she didn't let that slow her down from catching the rude little rule-breakers. It took Samantha pretty long before reaching the place where the purple-haired student had gone in the water, because she had been on the other side of the great lake before, and when she finally arrived there were three other students, from which two completely soaked, on the grass.

Her shiny prefect badge was worn proudly on her robe where everybody could see it, as she approached the students with a serious look on her face. "Samantha Salwis, Prefect of Ravenclaw," she introduced herself to the other students. "Did you guys have a nice unauthorized swim in the great lake against the school rules?" the brunette asked with all the sass in her little body. Lying to her would only make the situation worse since the two were caught red-handed.

Attire: Usual weekend kit: Slytherin pride, neck ring, kilt, no shoes. Nothing fancy!

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Classes were done for the day and Colin decided it would be a great day for yet another dunk in the loch, so he decided to head down to his dungeon home and change out of robes and into a more comfortable kilt. He didn't even bother with socks or tying his shoes, because he knew exactly what he'd do once he hit the courtyard!

And with that, he dashed through the common room, waved to any friends that were there and was out into the corridor in half a wink. Once he got to the impressive stair well, he dashed up all 236, 409 stairs, headed for the courtyard and the fresh air of the Highlands! He hardly slowed down as he kicked off his Doc Martens and deftly caught them up in his hands. Tying them together, he slung them over his left shoulder and let out a joyful howl before embarking on the mad dash down to the lake.

"OWOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

He saw that someone else shared the same brilliant idea of going for a swim, but they were already quite a ways out from shore. Colin had decided to explore closer in, so he chucked his shoes, shirt and kilt in a heap, leaving him among the seven percent of Scotsmen, and he happily waded out into the comfortably cool waters of the loch.

After a while, when Colin was under the water checking out some interesting rocks and things along the bottom, he heard a muffled, roaring splash. He looked up from his position near the bottom and could see a dark shape heading away from shore. Clearly he was not the only person who enjoyed a dunk on the loch!

Thinking nothing of it, he rose to the surface for a quick breath and then dove again to continue his exploration. He felt like Jacques Cousteau, exploring some ancient sunken city as he sifted through the artefacts left behind by the inhabitants of the last civilisation of the place. He found the remnants of tough leather, possibly a warrior's caligulan boot, which he left behind; a little ways on he discovered a nobleman's treasure hoard, a heavily tarnished bracelet and neck chain; and a most curious thing indeed --- clearly some daring explorer had dropped her treasure map, only for daring adventurer Colin McCoire to yoink it from the depths of Manana's lair! For indeed, he held in his hands, apart from the bracelet and the necklace, a packet of old parchment into which someone had tucked, of all things, a wax pencil! He could see a faded design on the front, but that would have to wait! He had to go up and take a breath!

Standing at the shore, he heard a voice from behind: "Irish! What are you doing here?" Colin turned at the sound of Kim's voice. He was about to cry out a greeting to his Gryffindor friend, but once he saw that Kim was dragging a fellow student along, he splashed over to help.

"Kim! What happened!? QUINN!!! Are you okay!!??" He shook Quinn by her shoulders.

As he crouched down next to his friend, he heard another voice. Uh-oh. It was a Voice of Authority. He hadn't noticed anyone else nearby as he got out of the water, and he didn't know who Samantha Salwis was, except perhaps in passing from Quinn, but Colin felt in very bones that the voice would just have to have a Prefect's badge behind it!

"Did you guys have a nice unauthorized swim in the great lake against the school rules?" the voice said.

Colin looked up from Quinn. Sure enough. Crisp Ravenclaw robes. Book in hand. "Oh drat," he said under his breath. He knew that Ravenclaw Precepts were most to be dreaded, and this one looked like she'd be a hanging judge for sure! There's be no getting around the rules with Salwis on the watch!

Well, nothing for it lad! he thought. Colin looked up at the new voice. "Oh! Good afternoon Miss Prefect Salwis!! It's a pleasure to see you down here by the beautiful lakeside! It is a lovely afternoon, is it not?, for a nice dunk in the loch or," he nodded briefly towards Samantha's book, "a bit of light reading?"

Colin stood up then and gave the Prefect a bow, then pushed his hair back out of the way behind his shoulders, his brilliant green eyes fixed confidently on her face.

@Kim Sato | @Samantha Salwis | @Quinn Root

KIM!!

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Kim will notice Colin's scars: bite marks on his right chest; several long scratch marks on his chest, belly and right arm and side; as well as one of the werewolf's fangs. He can also plainly see what seven percent of Scotsmen wear under their kilts!

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@Kim Sato @Colin McCoire @Samantha Salwis

The first of the tree to speak was quite an interesting figure to say at least. Where typical students would apologise or try to deny breaking any rules, he started to talk about the weather. If she had broken any rules, Samantha wouldn't have called the presence of a prefect a pleasure. What an odd kid was this boy. "I am not here to make small talk," she told the boy seriously while looking at him bowing with great suspicion.

After taking a deep breath the second one to speak was the other girl, who admitted she had swam in the great lake. A big grin appeared on the prefect's face when she heard the unknown girl admit she had broken the rules. The smile didn't last long, as it was replaced by a worried look in Samantha's blue eyes when Quinn addressed the topic of drowning. "Oh no, are you okay?" she asked worriedly, gently placing her right hand on the shoulder of the other girl to check if she was fine. The brunette may hate rule-breakers but she hated the idea of having a student drown a lot more.

"It's a good thing Kim was here then!" she said relieved, trying to figure out which of the two boys was the saviour. She didn't have to wait very long for the answer because the purple-haired boy started to speak. While the boy was talking, Samantha took the time to observe the boy. Towering above her, he was wearing soaking wet clothes and a couple of pieces of jewellery. He calmly explained the situation, showing respect to her as prefect, and did a quite good job convincing her he had done the right thing by breaking the rules.

"Well, you did break the rules," she said thoughtfully, "but you did it to save somebody who was drowning because they were stupid enough to go swimming in the great lake against the rules." After finishing her sentence Samantha glared at the other girl for a second before turning back to the boy who had asked the question. She needed to make a decision and stick with it or these students might question her authority and not listen to her. "You did the right thing, so you won't be getting detention," she informed Kim. "However, the same can not be said for these two," she said, turning to the other two students.

They had both admitted to swimming in the great lake without permission and neither had done it to save somebody's life, so they deserved detention. "What are your names, houses and school year?" she demanded. "Don't even think about lying to me," she told the two before they would get any weird ideas. "Hereby, I give you," her finger pointed to Quinn, "and you," now aiming her finger to Colin, "detention for breaking rule number 6, which is students may not swim in the lake without staff supervision," she quoted the rules she knew, along with all the other school rules, by heart.

OOC info detention:

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Congrats Colin and Quinn! You have managed to land yourself detention! You can familiarize yourself with our Detention System here. You, the player, are absolutely not in any trouble, the detention is IC.

I will make the starter of detention in which I explain the context of the detention, the expectations, and the requirements to complete the detention. Only when I post the detention thread (I will try to post it in 24 hours) will the detention rules begin. You can continue to RP in this thread, to have your character react to the situation or even try to bully Samantha out of giving them detention.

If you have any questions, feel free to owl or dm me

Colin gave the Prefect a look of confusion. "I wasn't making small talk! I was simply greeting one of our dear school's beloved Prefects!" But Samantha's prefecturely glare would not be budged or softened by Colin's honest respect for her authority! She merely shifted her gaze and focused her interrogation on Quinn and Kim. Colin didn't like the sound of that!

He knew he'd been caught fair, and one detention was a small price to pay for a relaxing swim! But there was no way Samantha could give either Kim or Quinn detentions! After all Kim rescued Quinn and Quinn was nearly eaten by deep pelagic creatures of the abyss!

Colin watched as she focused on Kim and --- didn't give him detention!! "Yes! Justice is not dead!" he said quietly. "Well that ought to about wrap it up!" Colin fully expected to be the only one to receive detention.

But when Samantha said 'these two', Colin's jaw dropped open! The witch was going to give Quinn detention too!? Colin had to think fast. It's bad enough Quinn almost drowned, but to land in detention too? That was too much! "Hey! You can't do that, Salwis!" He looked back at Quinn quickly, hoping she wouldn't say anything. "You've got the wrong end of the broom, Prefect: you shouldn't give Quinn detention at all! She almost drowned! Anyway. Er. Twas my idea."

Colin folded his arms across his chest and stood in front of Quinn. Mostly so the Prefect couldn't see Quinn's face. "I mean, you have to admit, it really is a lovely day for a swim! In fact, I was just now exploring the archaeological remains of an ancient and undocumented coastal habitation! Picture it!"
He spread his hands apart as if miming a window into the imagination. "Here, among the rocks the intrepid explorers glode smoothly beneath the brisk water's surface! On the search for ancient ruins and long lost treasures! Ever aware of the pelagic dangers that lurk in the gloomy depths! I enticed her to go for a swim! Anyway, it's not my first. B-but we got separated, and I thought she was exploring on her own. But that's when Kim saw her and rescued her! She's been through enough, don't you think? Anyway, I'm the only miscreant here."

Colin nodded his head and stared into Samantha's blue eyes. "You can send me to Azkaban! But don't take Quinn! Not for this!" Colin had no idea what Rule No. 6 was, but he wanted to protect his friend from it.

@Samantha Salwis | @Quinn Root | @Kim Sato