Runs in the Family Open

In her own eyes, Illowy did not look fine, and was very badly beaten up, but Millie had also been in a multitude of fights, and had looked worst. But that wasn't a very good comparison. She put down her large cat and watched as Honey began walking to and from each person in the room. 

The tall Gryffindor smiled politely though, despite the fact that her cat seemed very interested in a very specific bathroom stall. What a weirdo.

"He won't hear of it, promise," She said to Illowy. Like she would even talk to him. They weren't even friends, just teammates, like everyone on the team. Except Maggie, who was a second string Beater and had been Millie's friends for a long time. Longer than she had been on the Quidditch team.

As the American girl explained how to clean a cut and treat basic wounds, another girl walked in, covered in... were those tadpoles? Millie bit her lip, trying to keep back a laugh. "Oh my, what happened to you?" She asked, trying to keep a straight face. How the hell did you even get tadpoles here? Did they even exist in Hogwarts? Since when did non-magical creatures even get in this place?

What a stupid though, of course non-magical animals existed in Hogwarts!

Halston had heard enough to realize that she really needed to leave. She worried that somehow this might tie back to her, in case she was found in the bathroom later, just sitting in the corner like a crazy person.

She considered the situation for a moment. The girls seemed more concerned about the safety of the girl who'd barged in first. That was good, because maybe she could try to sneak out without drawing too much attention. Halston had grown tired of the stall and would do anything to get out.

She tried to move. She tried again. Halston glanced down in bewilderment and her heart sank as it dawned to her—she was stuck. Her foot was stuck in the moss and other much surrounding the toilet. She figured that it was some magical substance from the way she couldn't simply dig herself out with her nails. She brushed her hair out of her face. At glance at her fingers and she realized too late that her hands were covered in dirt.

“Oh, God,” she gagged, feeling like she was going to throw up. She frowned and tried to come into a standing position, but the muck held fast. The force was so instant and unprepared for that Halston was thrown back, knocking her head against the wall.

The sound wasn't too loud, but one of the girls were bound to hear it. Halston grabbed her head, knowing that her hair was just getting nastier an nastier by the minute. She whimpered quietly and stood there silently, wondering whether she should ask for help. She knew she shouldn't have stayed there for the amount of hours that she had.

Halston said it quietly at first, but then shouted it, in a shaky breath. “Can someone help me, please?” At that same time she tried to get into a better standings position, grabbing the toilet paper holder on the side, but the object was so old that it broke apart, along with the wall.

Suddenly the wall was falling towards Halston and she threw her hands up to shield herself, ducking into a feral position. The wall fell around her, causing a loud boom. The area filled with dust and Halston sat there, coughing hard.

"Rook? Who's Rook?"

Illowy gave a roll of her eyes to the American, "You don't need to worry about who he is." she assured, hardly about to point out her cousin just to run the risk of someone else snitching her out to him. However she was glad to hear of Millie's promise not to tell him; even if she didn't know the girl well enough to trust her entirely, the lion hadn't betrayed her trust yet and there was no reason for the other girl to assume she would now.

This impromptu gathering suddenly seemed to evolve into a full blown party as another girl, practically dripping in tadpoles, barged into the room. Though before Illowy had a chance to even say anything about it, there came a ruckus from the stalls and a cry for assistance before once of the rotten stall walls full on fell over into an absolute mess.

The clatter was loud enough for even Illowy to flinch a bit before hurrying over to the obvious first year. The older girl waved her hand around a bit, trying to wave away the dust, "For the love of all things decent." she muttered. By this point, the poor child was filthy and coughing from the dust, "What the bloody hell are you thinking, sneaking and hiding about. Especially here." she scolding, moving to try to take the girl by the arm and assist her out of her rather unfortunate position.

Luna blushed as she saw the girl holding back laughter as she asked what happened to her. This was exactly what she had been trying to avoid by coming here. Now her efforts were all for not. “L-like I’d tell you.” She said snapped.

“So unless you know how to get tadpoles out of hair then mind your own business.” She said icily.

She was going to continue her venomous spiel before a cry for help cut her off. The girl in the bloodied jumper was the first to spring into action.

“Oh let the creeper rot. Serves her right..” Luna grumbled. However, despite her annoyed tone and general huffiness she moved to help the jumper girl with her rescue efforts.

She shoved open the stall door of the stall next to the trapped girl and began trying to pull the wall back upright and off the girl while jumper girl tried to pull her out. It went about as well as one would expect an eleven year old trying to lift anything would and she only managed to lift it slightly off.

“Well don’t all help at once!” She snapped at any who weren’t already moving to help.

dNPC Astrid Kovac | @Illowy Magnard | @Euphrasia Millie | @Halston Wright | @Luna Ludal

Astrid blankly stared as another girl rushed in, her whole self wiggling? Astrid slowly noticed the many tadpoles one by one, wriggling in the girl's hair. Astrid wondered how that had happened before she heard something fall behind her, and a shout. She quickly turned around seeing a girl who had managed to get her feet stuck in muck and got an entire stall wall to fall on her. She gasped in amazement, watching as Illowy quickly helped the girl. The tadpole girl tried to get the wall off of the poor girl. It was only the cat who seemed to have known that the girl was there before the commotion. Astrid quickly ran over to the tadpole girl, helping her pull up the wall off of the stuck girl. Astrid was surprisingly strong for such a short tiny girl, but she was still a First Year. She managed to get the wall up a little farther.

"I guess Illowy's okay." She whispered, testing out the name. She found it interesting, but wasn't able to concentrate on it too much before jerking back to reality to help keep the wall up. She shot a quick glance at her partner, noticing that the girl was probably from Hogwarts. And probably the same year. The eyes were what surprised Astrid the most. But-again- she couldn't think about it for too long, before propping up the wall some more.

"I'd suggest you try to get unstuck as quickly as possible." Astrid muttered, knowing she probably couldn't hold it up for too long.

Could Millie have used Spongify to help the new girl with her tadpole incident? Probably, but before she could get any words out, the toilets from the side of the room came crashing down to the ground, and Honey, the poor cat, leapt out of the way, hissing angrily at the collapsed wall. 

The Gryffindor girl ran forward and pulled her kitty out of the way, and into the safety of her arms. Millie pulled her wand out of her back pocket, and pointed it at the wall. Illowy and the other girl began moving the walls with their hands. She furrowed her eyebrows, couldn't they just use their wands?

"We're witches aren't we?" She asked, sitting down Honey and pulling out her wand from her back pocket. Pointing her Cherry wood wand at a large collapsed piece. "Wingardium Leviosa," She said, waving her wand at the wall. Slowly but surely, the wall piece went up, and moved to the other side of the room.

Millie moved forward and helped pull the girl out of the rest of the ruckus around her. "Are you alright?" She asked the girl, but then turned to the rest of them in the room. "Are you all okay?"

She tried to keep calm, but damn, her body was shaking a little bit. Honey, though, seemed pretty fine. Her tail was a little bit puffed up but otherwise, she didn't seem to be in pain or anything.

“Thanks..” She muttered to the girl coming to help her pull the door up. It was quite the task and she didn’t even look at the girl who asked if they were witches.

“Im not the best at charms ok s-Hey!” Luna gasped as she had been so busy trying to pull the door off the creep girl she didn’t notice the girl that had been trying not to giggle at her had drawn her wand and cast windgaudium leviosa.

She slid off the door with a squeak of surprise and landed right in the dirty toilet in the stall her and the girl helping her had been inside. Luna couldn’t believe how awful one persons luck could be.

The sorting, her dreadful amount of homework, detention, the tadpoles, the abandoned toilets being the opposite of abandoned and now this. Ankle deep in disgusting toilet water she took a deep breath before trying to step out of the toilet. Her first leg got out just fine, but her back foot was not so lucky as it caught the lid and sent her tumbling forward before face planting into the dirty floor.

She pushed herself up slowly. A glare of absolute fury as she stormed up to Millie.

“What the bloody hell is your problem?! You could’ve warned me!” She spat venomously. A small trickle of blood began to flow from her right nostril. Luna noticed but didn’t care as she kept her glare focused on Millie.

Though she was trying her best to stay furious her true feelings were beginning to break through as tears began to form at the edges of her eyes. She wiped them away quickly pretending she was wiping the blood trying to maintain her icy, furious demeanor. The last thing she needed was to start blubbering like a 5 year old in front of these weirdos. Let alone this Gryffindor.

As dNPC Astrid Kovac | @Illowy Magnard | @Halston Wright | @Euphrasia Millie | @Luna Ludal

Astrid sighed as the weight was lifted off her arms. She hoped that two people helping the stall girl was enough. The Ilvermorny student, though, was a little miffed at the comment. Sure, she was a first year, but her instincts lied in what her physical form could do, rather than the possibility of maybe casting a spell correctly. But she shook her head, trying to ignore the feelings. After all, the older girl was only trying to help.

But the tadpole girl would have none of it. And Astrid couldn't blame her. She had come in with tadpoles all over her, which probably wasn't a pleasant experience. Then, when she wanted privacy, the girl found herself in this mess. And to top it off? Her foot got stuck in a toilet, pushing her to the ground. But all of that aside, it didn't seem fair to blame the one who tried to help. So, Astrid walked over to the angry one, putting herself between the target and the fury.

"Hey. I'm sorry, but can you calm down a bit?" Astrid would try to lead the girl over to the sink, where she would then rip some cloth off of her robes to put water on it. She handed it over to the girl (whether or not she followed), to wash her face, maybe catch her breath. While it might've been abandoned, the girl wasn't supposed to drink the water, and it would be soothing without harming her further (hopefully).