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IT'S CANON. ([info]barbary) wrote in [info]possibilities,
@ 2008-04-09 02:34:00

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WHO: Heathcote Creepy Barbary and Amelia Gibbon.
WHEN: Middle of the night~
WHERE: Hufflepuff boys' dormitories, then outside later on.
SUMMARY: Amelia creeps on Creepy and then they finally go through with their plan to roll down a hill.
RATING: PG? PG-13, for cursing, since it is Creepy?
WARNINGS: Cursing is it, I think. And maybe some perversion.
STATUS: Complete~!


Creepy hadn't planned to even consider going to sleep early, because he would rather staying up late much more, but hey, he was kind of tired and still had some annoying to do. Tossing his quill and parchment over to the side, Creepy grabbed his guitar from against his bed and started to strum out random notes on it, because whatever, he didn't care if he annoyed everyone in the dormitories. After all, that was his Goal For the Night.

It took him about twenty minutes before he was tired of the random groaning and threats of throwing pillows at him before Creepy got tired of it and even more sleepy, so he set his guitar down as carefully as possible back to where he always kept it, then got comfortable in his bed. It wasn't like he was worried about what his dorm mates would thing, because that was hardly the case at all, but he didn't want to deal with anymore complaining than he already had; he was only human. And he also didn't want to carelessly drop his guitar like he would've any other time, because Creepy doubted his mother would be as willing (which wasn't very willing at all) to send him another one so soon, especially since she'd told him not to break the one he'd initially taken on the train with him.

Creepy started off sleeping on his side, a pillow hugged close to his chest, randomly sitting up to run a hand through his messy hair to make sure that none of his nightmares would come true of someone -- a dorm mate, obviously -- setting his hair on fire for being such a nuisance while he was asleep. Those dreams occurred more often than Creepy would've liked for them to, considering he tended to get on people's nerves more often than not, and intentionally at that. That was probably why not a lot of people liked him, but then again, he could never be too sure if it was his annoying habits or his hair. It was always the hair, for fuck's sake.

A lot of the time, while sleeping, Creepy would toss and turn, mostly due to his dreams. Right now, he was dreaming of breaking the guitar he'd been so careful not to break just before he fell asleep, and it was his fault this time around in his dream. Okay, so maybe it'd been his fault on the train, too, but people knew how he felt about those! If he could boycott those completely, he would, without a second thought. But instead of smashing the guitar against a seat like he had on the train, he instead threw it at a door, shouting at the top of his lungs something about not wanting to do his coursework. And actually, he was also shouting (...not quite shouting, though) that out in his sleep, too, so he really did sleep talk. No one ever bothered to tell him that before, and no one probably ever would; the fucks.


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[info]gibbon
2008-04-09 06:59 am UTC (link)
Night was Amelia's favourite time to investigate, but it was also one of the most dangerous. She wasn't supposed to be out of her dormitory then, so her options were either limited to things that could entertain her while still in Hufflepuff, and things that didn't lead her too far away from escaping back to her bed and pretending to be asleep if caught. Not sleeping was something she was so accustomed to, something that she didn't think would ever change. All the nights during her time at Hogwarts were spent reading, staring, analyzing, or making charts. By now she had dozens upon dozens of rolls of parchment filled with her random opinions on things that the majority of Hogwarts didn't know a damn thing about. That was the way she liked it, of course, and if she had actually thought about it, she knew that people would never look at her the same way if they knew the sort of things she did and wrote about. It was hers, and hers alone.

Lately she had been more of a chatterbox than she normally was, and she wondered if there was something in the water that led her to be so...loud. Usually Amelia preferred the sneaky way of doing things, the quiet way, slipping under the radar. That was easier, more convenient to her mysterious personality. But there were, of course, a fair few she couldn't pretend to go unnoticed around. Heathcote, for one. Oh, how he hated that name! But, oh! She did not understand why he could hate such a neat name. The name Creepy made him sound like the backside of a flobberworm, though flobberworms didn't have hair nearly as fascinating as Heathcote's. The hair!

Amelia crawled off her bed, almost as though she were a cat, and shoved her journal under her pillow. Someone was snoring, but she didn't bother to figure out who it was. The questions in her mind about Creepy-the-non-backside-of-a-flobberworm were racing about too quickly to contain. She had to see him. Watch him. Study his sleeping habits! Did his hair wiggle went he slept? Did he...wear a NIGHT CAP to bed?

The stairs creaked softly as Amelia started to make her way up towards the 6th year boys dormitory, a place she hadn't visited since last year. She hadn't bothered to place a jumper or longer pants over her normal nightly apparel, something her parents didn't entirely approve of, but she didn't understand that it could possibly be something bad. Her long fingers gently opened the door and she peeked her head inside the room, locating Heathcote almost as though her eyes were drawn right to him. Her feet immediately wandered over to his bed, and she was staring at the large amount of hair on his pillow in a matter of seconds. Something happened when she stared at something interesting. Her face sort of went blank and her eyes wide, almost as though she were in a reverie. They wandered down the curve of his neck before returning to his hair, just as she leaned forward slightly to try and see him better in the dark.

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[info]barbary
2008-04-09 07:24 am UTC (link)
Creepy rarely woke up because of just anything, always a rather deep sleeper. His mother would always have to yell louder than she did for any of his other siblings for him to wake up in the mornings when he'd be home, not to mention when she would need to shake him on some occasions. Also pull blankets down from his body when he was still unresponsive, but she learned early on not to do that in case something else similar to what happened one time did again. It was safe to say that Creepy's Mum was shocked silent for a few hours, and that was a feat in itself, because she never. Shut. The. Fuck. Up. It was really quite dreadful, in fact.

But tonight, for some odd reason, was completely different and he sort of turned over onto his opposite side, pushing the pillow out a little unintentionally, yawning loudly for a brief second and blinked his eyes open. He didn't keep them opened long, because Dream Land was still calling out his name loudly and pulling him back into its grasp, so he'd closed his eyes again, only to open them as soon as he noticed someone rightthere. Okay, that wasn't creepy at all! Except for the part where it really, really was, so he threw his pillow out, meaning to hit whoever was standing right near his bed, only ending up tossing it in the opposite direction. When that plan failed him miserably, Creepy yelled out at the top of his lungs, always having been a loud one with that, and he probably got that trait from his mother. If screaming like a moron didn't get whoever away, then Creepy was near positive that he was fucked in the worst was possible.

Sitting up fully, he crossed his arms over his chest as though he were a girl who didn't have a top on (what a funny thought!), his eyes opened wide and he couldn't focus on anything right now, still too tired to keep his eyes as wide as they could be before they would droop shut a bit again. Well, fuck that, because it wasn't working out for him. At all. Like, seriously, because what if it was some Creepy Killer Guy who wanted to kill Creepy and then fucking cut his hair off? Alright, that was one of the most unlikely situations Creepy could've come up with, but in his sleepy mind, it was the one that would happen for sure, no questions asked. And besides, who wouldn't want to cut his hair off? It was always the fucking hair, and people always either loved it to the point of defending its honour when it was called for, or hated to the point where people would threaten to chop it off; Creepy's friends were the exception to those two groups, though, because they always joked around about cutting his hair off.

A few more harsh blinks were made before he was up and his throat kind of really hurt from that loud scream he'd made, and he could hear some of his dorm mates groaning, probably already knowing who was being an annoying fuck (as usual), his breathing coming out quickly. From fear and from paranoia, which could be considered the same thing, but he wouldn't dwell on that anytime soon. No way, because actually, he knew whose silhouette he was staring at. Or, at least, he thought he did… who else would do that, after all?

"Amelia?" he hissed, keeping his voice low, in case any of his dorm mates heard that and they wouldn't just think he was sleep talking or trying to cause trouble. Furrowing his eyebrows, Creepy tilted his head to the side and ran a hand through his hair, his eyes straining to make out who it was in front of him, if not Amelia. The possibilities were endless, and there that word went again, which he fucking hated, and he didn't hate a lot of things. Closure! Creepy liked closure, damnit. Too bad he didn't get that with a lot of the things that went on in his life, but whatever, right, because they didn't matter anymore. Mum was the only one who still moped around about that, not Creepy, or even his siblings.

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[info]gibbon
2008-04-09 07:53 am UTC (link)
Wow. Amelia didn't know just what exactly she was going to see when she went to the dormitory, as it seemed to change drastically with each new year of students. As they got older, blokes seemed to get...strange. She had spent a lot of time focusing on how blokes in first year acted compared to those in seventh year, and there was quite a difference! But the dormitory was dark and silent, except for a few random half-hearted snores and mumbled words that she couldn't figure out, or didn't care to, unless they were coming from Creepy. Once she zoned in on him it was almost like an obsession, her top priority. It wasn't until Amelia heard Creepy yawn that she titled her head in a bit closer and stared at the way his nose sloped in that way, or the way his cheeks seemed to arch in such a way that made her want to reach forward and trace her finger along one.

If only she could get closer! There was a part of her that almost acted irrationally, the part that wanted to climb over him and get on his bed, snuggling her body against his in a way that any non-mental bloke would take entirely the wrong way. But hunching there watching Creepy was good enough for as long as it would last. And how long that was, she wasn't sure. Oh, it could be hours! Amelia could simply sneak down before everyone else woke up and jot down her notes before breakfast started! Maybe she would even attempt to sketch what Heathcote looked like curled up on his bed with his pillow right there. Was he completely starkers? It didn't appear so, but her eyes could have been deceiving her, as the dark tended to play tricks on it's victims.

It wasn't until a noise that sounded nothing like happy mid-dream mumbles invaded her brain that Amelia stood straight up again and bounced from heel to toe, toe to heel, a few times in a row and widened her eyes to the point of causing them to water. He was awake! Yelling! Any other person who had even an ounce of decency would have felt guilty about being in such a predicament, but Amelia was nearly bursting from the curiosity, just as she had been bursting to reach down and caress that hair of his. Oh, how it pressed against the pillow as he slept! Like some sort of smooshed bug, even, though much softer. And much more like...well, hair.

Her eyes started to linger down the path of his body as Creepy sat up, and she even squinted, trying to see more. Oh, the dark! Wow, what a reaction! Was he angry? Amused? Scared? Happy? Alarmed? Thankful? This wasn't what she thought was going to happen tonight! Interaction! This was something special, and Amelia couldn't help but bounce in place again, almost as though it wasn't some awkward hour of the night, and as though she hadn't just been caught in a dormitory that didn't hold her properly made bed.

"Wow, hello!" she whispered loudly, nearly singing the two words in a voice dripping with excitement. "Mm. It smells really good up here. Really, it does."

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[info]barbary
2008-04-09 09:31 pm UTC (link)
Now, Creepy would've been the first person to tell whoever it was to back the fuck away and let him sleep, but he knew who it was, and he couldn't really tell her that. He'd feel really, really bad for it, so yes, he decided not to throw a fit or make a scene in the middle of the night, at whatever time it was that he didn't care to check. It was most likely after two am, if he was guessing right, considering the time he went to bed, too. It also didn't feel like he'd slept a lot, anyway, but whatever; time was useless to him.

The way that Amelia seemed to be doing some sort of dance in place was almost cute, and Creepy wouldn't ever admit that it was more than almost cute. Whatever, he didn't think like that, no way, never! That was simply foolishness right there. Besides, she seemed so happy to be here, and who wouldn't think that was cute? There was nothing happy-making or exciting about being in the boys' dormitories, except for the odd argument that happened sometimes, which clearly would never, ever involve Creepy himself. He was the most innocent person that lived up here.

Sniffing slightly, Creepy scrunched his nose up and shook his head, then looked down underneath his blanket to make sure that he still had his pants on, because honestly, who knew with him? Creepy had a tendency to wake up in the middle of the night and decide it was too hot to keep some layers of clothing on, so they'd leave and he wouldn't even realise it until the next morning, when he'd wake up and notice that hey, people were staring at him for not having anything but his shirt or underwear on. But for now, he did have everything on, although his shirt was riding up ever-so-slightly, so he tugged that down and let the blanket fall back onto his lap.

Creepy was unsure when he mumbled, "Hey," out in return, but it was there nonetheless, and he would've felt back if he didn't say it in return. It wasn't often that people came to purposely see Creepy, unless it was any of his close friends (Myron more often than any of the others, as sad as that was), so he'd taken to just starting conversation with whoever, whenever he wanted to.

"I don't think it does," Creepy mumbled, furrowing his eyebrows, but mostly because he was used to this smell already, so he would've liked a change of… well, scent. Something not so boyish, maybe, because things got old fast for Creepy; a little too fast, more often than not. But hey, at least someone liked the smell of the dormitory, and she didn't sound like she was joking, so… one point for the boys' dormitory? Maybe.

Sitting up more, Creepy crossed one of his legs underneath himself and looked to Amelia, then motioned for her to sit on the edge of his bed if she wanted to. He bit on the side of his lip a little before letting out a loud yawn, which wasn't anything new for him, and he'd always seemed to be the loudest person in this fucking dorm. It actually wasn't anything to be proud of, because the complaining got old too fast also, and then Creepy would end up yelling back for them to shut their fucking mouths, and okay, maybe he did get himself into some arguments. Sometimes. Not all the time!

"Amelia, what are you doing up here?" Creepy asked, emphasizing his words where he probably didn't need to, locking eyes with her curiously. Amelia always seemed to be the curious one, but really, how could Creepy not be curious about why she was here? Any person in their right mind would be, Creepy thought. Except… Creepy was rarely in his right mind, so that saying didn't quite work out in his favour, but whatthefuckever.

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[info]gibbon
2008-04-09 11:04 pm UTC (link)
This was so exciting, so exciting that Amelia had to force herself to stop bouncing around before she got too dizzy and tumbled over. How could someone not find the idea of going up to a new dormitory and waking people up exciting? She hadn't planned on waking Creepy up, of course, she had planned to watch him when he slept and figure how how he differed then from when he was awake. How he breathed, how he moved, and oh, what he said if he said anything! But now he was awake, and she was awake, and they were going to be having a merry little conversation! They were almost notorious for their conversations, but that was normally just over their journals. Now she could actually hear his voice instead of simply imagining it!

Creepy looked so intriguing in the middle of the night! How long had he been sleeping? What had he been dreaming about? Had he found that most perfect sleeping position? Amelia wasn't used to things like this, for she hardly slept much, and when she did she never remembered her dreams and never cared enough to compare her sleeping habits to other sleeping habits. She was much too boring, and everyone else was much too interesting. Why sleep when nighttime was filled with so many noises, so many smells, so many things to see? She wished she were walking through the Forbidden Forest right now, a gentle wind blowing her hair across her face and blocking her eyes from what loomed ahead.

Amelia was still watching Creepy intently, as though she was afraid to move her eyes to anything else in case she missed something exciting. Her eyes picked up on his smallest movements, the shake of his head, the tugging of his clothing. Wow! How far would his shirt have ridden up if he would have let it? Was he hiding something underneath that blanket? There could be mysterious secrets under there, things that would fascinate her so much that she could most likely lean down and yank the blanket away to see.

His greeting wasn't the most enthusiastic greeting in the world, but Amelia was oblivious to the mumbled, unhappy tone. He could have been screaming with happiness again and she wouldn't have known the difference. "Oh, I think it does! There are no flower smells up here. No vanilla. It's...musky." She was tempted to raise her arm and take a sniff to see just what exactly she smelled like, as she never knew what sort of soap she was using.

Creepy's yawn made her giggle a bit loudly, so to cover her giggles she took his invitation to heart and sort of dived onto his bed, shoving her face downward and muffling her giggles with his blanket. Wow, that blanket felt different than the ones on her bed! If only she could just lay there and study it, but instead she pulled herself further onto the bed, paying no attention to the fact that her short nightgown was slipping it's way up her hips. At least she had knickers on? Or maybe she didn't, she didn't really know, but she crossed her legs a moment later and beamed at Creepy. She shook her brown hair out of her eyes and pouted her bottom lip at him.

"Well, I suspect I am here because there is no where else to be," she murmured, not really giving a proper answer and letting her eyes move away from his so she could stare upward at the bed hangings curiously. "But oh, it is so lovely up here. Not only does it smell good, but it feels good. It even sounds good. You sound good! Those noises. Interesting." She paused for a second, moving her eyes back to Creepy as she started to use her fingers like a spider and crawl them along his bed. "Are you terribly upset?"

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part one
[info]barbary
2008-04-10 08:55 pm UTC (link)
Okay, maybe Creepy could see how it would be a nice smell compared to fucking flowers or like, vanilla, but to him, it still didn't smell good up here. In fact, it smelled bad, because males were just that: males. Not all males were Pretty Boys who cared about their appearances (besides his hair, because Creepy cared a lot about that) and what they smelled like. Amelia was so, so strange, but in the best way possible, Creepy thought, because she never bored him, and it was rare when he didn't want to talk to her, even through journals. Except for that one time when he thought he pissed her off big time somehow, which she claimed to have not been in a mood, so Creepy let it drop and didn't dwell on the fact that he had put her into a mood and somehow made her off with him, but only briefly. Creepy didn't think that he and Amelia could go long without talking to each other in some form, but that was only his almost-possibly-maybe-two-am thoughts.

"I see what you mean now," Creepy said reasonably, nodding his head and smelled a bit again, his nose scrunching up even more than it previously had. If he'd went up to the girls' dormitories (…if he could, would be more appropriate, wouldn't it?), then he was sure he'd say it smelled good up there, when Amelia would probably disagree. It was just a matter of how used to their surroundings they were and whether or not they liked them. Personally, Creepy didn't like the boys' dorms that much, but what could he do about it? He had nowhere else to sleep, after all, and he didn't have many friends in his own house that he could go bunk up with in their bed, as strange as that would appear to be to some people. Whatever, Creepy was comfortable with himself and who he was.

Listening to Amelia giggle caused Creepy to giggle, which he did, without worrying about covering his mouth or anything; his dorm mates were generally used to his loud, hyena-like giggle that sounded sort of… well, creepy. It tended to get heads to turn and eyebrows to raise, and that was never his intention, but it happened, and hey, any attention was good attention, wasn't it? No, that was about publicity. Again, whatever. Creepy knew his giggle and scream were quite special, especially when put together one after another, and that brought on the thought that maybe it wasn't always the hair that scared people off, but also his giggle and scream. Not like Creepy purposely screamed as loud as he did, but hey, he couldn't help it. And the way Amelia simply flopped down onto his bed? Cute, really cute. Creepy giggled again, patting the top of Amelia's head briefly because he could, and didn't dare look down although he could see more of the girl's thigh than he probably should've. Of course he didn't! …never. Anyway…

Creepy's bottom lip also jutted out a little bit, mocking Amelia's expression, though he didn't bother pushing his hair out of his face, since he knew it'd fall right back into place when he removed his hand from it. Often, that would fuck up his ability to fly, considering he needed to hold with both hands, and he wasn't a Quidditch player, so yeah, he wasn't that skillful on a broom like they were. And if he had to push his hair out of his face? Then he'd generally fall off, hopefully never too high (besides that one time it happened and he got hurt more than he'd ever admit to), and then curse like it was going out of style. That also got him into a lot of trouble. Oh, Creepy amused himself more often than not.

Slowly, Creepy's head tilted to the side at Amelia's not-really-there-answer, but he nodded his head, because it was enough reasoning for him at gay-o'clock in the morning; he wasn't up for arguing with the logic the girl seemed to have that most likely wouldn't be very logical any other time of the day. A smile curved easily over his lips, keeping his eyes on her although her attention was long gone from him, shrugging. "It's alright up here… nothing. Special. You're easily impressed, aren't you?" he asked rhetorically, so it was more of a statement than anything else, turning his attention down to Amelia's fingers creeping along his bed, the smile staying in place.

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part two
[info]barbary
2008-04-10 08:56 pm UTC (link)
"Of course I'm not!" Creepy said, almost in a gasp, eyes opening wide because of the shock of that question; he thought Amelia would know if he was upset, and he was far from it. Besides, he finally talked to her in person outside of journals (and class, maybe once or twice?), so yeah, there was absolutely no reason to be upset at all. Creepy was already enjoying Amelia's company and her quirkiness.

It took a moment for Creepy to get his thoughts together after he spoke, a minute or so of silence following his words, one of his hands coming up to mess around with his Mop of Hair (like that was its name or some shit), then he sighed and came up with a brilliant idea. "Hey, come on. We're going somewhere," Creepy said, standing up and slipped on a pair of light coloured slippers, not worrying about his appearance and how his pajama pants were low on his hips at the moment, grabbing a few of his pillows to make it look like there was a body under his blankets, just in case.

Now, Creepy normally wouldn't want to go and do anything that could get him in trouble (what a fucking lie!), but they'd been talking about it, and now that he and Amelia were at the same place, at the same time, they could do it. "We're going out the window," he explained, leaning forward to whisper his words to Amelia, his eyes opened wide with mischief, "and going to roll down a hill. Since you never have, and it'll be fun. Then when it's wintertime, we'll compare," he finished with a sure nod, taking Amelia's hand into his own and led her over to the window, tiptoeing his way over there, kind of.

It was simply a matter of how they would do this, although they weren't so high up. Okay, Creepy would go first, and he'd offer to help Amelia out if she needed it. Turning back after letting her hand drop, Creepy brought his finger up to his lips in a shh gesture, all teasing and like they were being sneaky or something, then opened the window and slipped out without another word. He'd fell to the ground with a thump, which caused a small groan to pass his lips, but he was up a second later and motioned wildly with his hands for Amelia to follow his lead, then held his arms out, like he could actually catch her. Well, he probably could, but it was a matter of if he could keep them steady afterward or not.

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part one
[info]gibbon
2008-04-11 01:51 am UTC (link)
If Amelia had to sit down and analyze all of her senses, she would probably come to the conclusion that her sense of smell seemed to be the one that was most keen on picking up new things. You could close your eyes and realize that your sense of smell became more alive, almost as alive as your sense of sound did. Interesting! There was probably some scent of dirty shoes and of a boy who needed to hit the showers the moment they woke up the next morning, but Amelia hardly even batted an eyelash at that. It did make her want to smell herself again, so she instead settled for casually pretending to itch her nose, but she sniffed her fingers instead. Cinnamon! Strange.

It had smelt like cinnamon that day when she started to feel uncomfortable when talking to Creepy over the journals, it hadn't been long after they returned to Hogwarts. It wasn't as though he particular made her uncomfortable, as he was just a person and there was nothing to fear with a simple person, but she was uncomfortable with the fact that he wanted to hear about so many little tidbits in her life, things that she knew were too boring to ever share with someone else. Friends, as they were called, she believed, didn't want to hear about the boring aspects of your life, did they? No matter, it was fine now, and she was getting on swimmingly with Creepy!

His yawn was so funny! What a strange yawn to yawn! Did he always yawn like that? Or did he just yawn that way when he was awoken in the middle of the night? What about before he went to sleep? After he woke up for breakfast? Did yawns vary? So many questions, to little answers. But at least she had the softness of his blanket against her cheek and lips for a few moments, even if it didn't do much to hide the hiccup that slipped out after the giggle. Hiccups! Damn those hiccups, though she couldn't stop the next hiccup that escaped when she heard Creepy give a giggle in return. Merlin! Not only did he scream and yawn in the most fascinating of ways, he giggled! She felt his hand on her head without even seeing his arm come out, but she hiccuped again and bounced her head upward rather dramatically, looking at him with intensely amused and slightly silly eyes.

"Oh, the hiccup gods are angry that I have come to visit you on this night," she whispered loudly, slapping her inner palm over her mouth and the other down over her chest as though she were choking and not trying to hide a case of the hiccups. But instead of leaving her hand on her chest, she reached it out so she could let her fingers dance along the fringe on his forehead, unable to process the ability of self restraint any longer. "Wow!" she said, sucking her bottom lip into her mouth roughly and chewing on it a bit. "Nice. I quite like it." She meant his hair, of course, though she didn't seem to want to clarify that last bit.

The fingers that were crawling along his bed made their way to where Creepy was sitting, and she used her pointer finger to poke at his knee playfully before letting her fingers wander back over to her own knee. She offered him a wide-eyed stare and an expression that turned out more flirtatious that she knew it was as a response, but remained silent. Both of her hands were away from him now and resting on her knees as she continued to study him, not believing that words were always necessary to fill the silence. It seemed he had the same idea, at least until his face was lighting up so much it could have been glowing and suddenly she was alone on the bed, watching the way all that bare skin on his body almost seemed white in the moonlight. Oh, wow!

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part two
[info]gibbon
2008-04-11 01:52 am UTC (link)
"Out the window," she responded, hiccuping again and grinning, suddenly very curious by the way the warm flesh of his hand was pressing against hers in that way. Oh, he was so smart! This was so exciting! Breaking the rules, if that's what they were doing, but Amelia hardly even knew what the rules were and certainly didn't care as she watched Creepy with an excited nod. There was a buzz running through her head that wouldn't be going away any time soon, and she had swung her legs over the window even before Creepy thumped to the ground.

"Are you alright?" she called, trying to shake her hair out of her face as a rather annoying gust of wind blocked her view. "Wow, I have never fallen out of a window before!" she added, glancing up at the stars in the sky for a moment before heaving herself out of the window, almost as though there wasn't a hard ground waiting for her landing, but a giant pool of water instead. Her body made contact with Creepy, and she nearly latched herself to him, all four limbs around his body, in hopes that they wouldn't both fall over. "Oh, wow, you are a good catcher. Are you thinking about the same hill that I am thinking about, hm?"

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part one
[info]barbary
2008-04-11 04:04 am UTC (link)
Creepy had raised his eyebrows at Amelia when she mentioned the hiccup gods being mad at her for visiting him tonight, and how cute! Merlin, Creepy was liking Amelia more and more by the adorable little quirk he found out! Now he was the one thinking interesting! about anything and everything. Oh, Amelia, such a trendsetter, wasn't she? Yes, she was. Or Creepy was easily influenced, whichever, it all meant the same to him. In his head. Where most things made sense to him and not other people, so he normally kept those strange thoughts to himself.

Crossing his eyes just a bit as Amelia's hand went up to run over the fringe of his hair, Creepy giggled again, quieter, rolling his eyes at himself. Most people he would've told to fuck right off with that hair-touching-bullshit, but he couldn't tell Amelia no; it was hard to even think to tell her that word. Oh well, he was simply really nice, that was all. And he really was, clearly, because he got along with almost -- almost -- everyone. If he didn't, then he avoided them like the plague or something, so that he could avoid confrontation at all costs. He'd been in fights before and yeah, really not good at all.

Briefly, Creepy looked down at the finger that had poked his knee, then up to Amelia's… somewhat flirtatious look? Well, wasn't that new. And welcomed, obviously. Creepy's head tilted to the side, returning a look that wasn't neutral or pissed off, or even one a Just Friend would give another Just Friend. If that worked out in other people's heads if he were to speak those thoughts, that was, because it almost didn't make sense to himself, and he was the one who thought it. So confused. So, so confused this early in the morning. It was dreadful.

It didn't take long for Amelia to be at the top of the window and almost jumping down, because no other words needed to be spoken, nor did actions need to be taken. Creepy was standing up fully again, rubbing his hand through his hair, and he nodded his head in response to Amelia's question. "Fine!" he called back, his voice a harsh-sounding whisper, but only so that he could be heard from the tone of quiet voice he was using to not get caught.

Creepy really wasn't sure if they should or shouldn't have been doing this, but they'd talked about it so much, and why the fuck not? It wasn't like there was a better time for it, especially with everyone (or what should've been everyone) being asleep, so they were alone and it could work out so much better then, without any distractions or interruptions. Creepy tended to get easily distracted more often than not, which was more than likely why he had been failing his classes like a fool, but he was back on track and doing fairly well. Or as well as he could be doing would be a more appropriate way to describe it, really, because he didn't apply himself nearly as much as he knew he could've. He wasn't the brightest crayon in the box, that much was clear.

One second, Creepy was considering how badly he used to be doing in his classes, the next, he had Amelia wrapped around him. Surprisingly enough, Creepy didn't topple them both over, though he almost did, but he caught his footing and held his hands on the backs of her thighs, really not trying to feel her up. Now, had he been someone who was like that (…like quite a few of his fellow classmates were…), then that would obviously be his intentions, but at the moment, it was only to keep her steady and himself balanced. Creepy would actually feel bad if like, he let them just… fall to the ground, not to mention it'd hurt quite a bit, regardless of if there was grass there or not. It wouldn't hurt much, but enough to make Creepy not want to do it.

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part two
[info]barbary
2008-04-11 04:06 am UTC (link)
"Thank you!" Creepy said to Amelia's maybe-compliment, smiling widely, all of his scary-looking teeth showing; they were only scary because they were more pointy than most other people's teeth that he knew of. But that was his smile, as much distress as his teeth sometimes caused, and his eyes were going crossed again because of his and Amelia's closeness, so he pulled his head away and sat her down carefully. Not like he'd ever push her off of himself or anything, because uh, that would really be a rude move, and Creepy wasn't rude. Yeah. He liked to dwell on thoughts for longer than he needed to.

It took a second to think about Amelia's question, then he nodded his head, figuring they were both thinking about the rather large hill over near the greenhouses, which he was almost positive was the one they'd both meant the whole time they were planning for it. Creepy was thanking Merlin that he hadn't decided to go near the lake, because with his luck, he'd fall in and end up like, dying or something. And Creepy believed he was too young to die, so he kept it in mind not to anytime soon. Besides, he'd miss too much if he were to die.

Creepy took Amelia's wrist into his hand, then furrowed his eyebrows and rolled his eyes yet again at himself, instead holding her hand so that he didn't remind himself of some mad parent at their toddler, pulling them out of a store or something like that with his actions. As far as Creepy knew, all of this was innocent and he had no other intentions with holding Amelia's hand, or even what they were doing; he was a teenage boy, sure, but not all of them thought of shagging twenty-four/seven. Unless their name happened to be --- never mind.

Leading the way to the hill that they'd eventually roll down, Creepy snuck glances over to Amelia through his hair that was in his face, a smile curving easily over his lips. He felt like such a rebel! Like he was doing he knew he shouldn't have been (in a way, he did, but he was unsure, so it didn't count), and that was thrilling. It was fun! Kind of like how Creepy cursed a lot, knowing it was wrong, but he never bothered stopping, because it happened on impulse; he'd end up cursing without even realising it.

Once they were at the top of the large hill, Creepy's eyes opened wide in child-like amusement, taking his slippers off and tossed them down to the end of the hill, watching them fly down the whole time. Now he was barefoot on the grass, and that felt nice, then he let go of Amelia's hand (almost reluctantly, maybekindofinaway), tugging his pajama pants higher up on his hips. He turned around and giggled when he was facing Amelia, and he still had that mischief spark in his eyes, though they were far from the castle. Not like they'd get caught, he was sure.

"Just. You know, roll! Lie down and roll," he instructed, although he was positive Amelia knew, but he just wanted to talk. Creepy talked a lot, whether it was on purpose or not, because he sometimes had so much to say that he couldn't keep it all to himself. But a lot of times, he also kept his thoughts to himself, too. Half and half, really. "It'll be fun, I promise," Creepy added as an afterthought, in case Amelia doubted it or something, and the breeze outside was so nice. A summertime breeze! Creepy loved those.

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part one
[info]gibbon
2008-04-11 05:00 am UTC (link)
Oh, those hiccups. She never had the hiccups for very long whenever she randomly got them, so Amelia was hoping that they would go away after a few moments. What if they woke everyone up? Waking up to the sound of a hiccup didn't sound like it would be very fun! Creepy's dorm mates would also know that his voice wasn't high enough for the hiccups to be his, so they would most likely look over and see Amelia sitting there. She was never one to care about what other people thought about her, however, even if they were thinking that she had come up here to snog with Creepy or something.

It was almost as though Amelia was feeling something she had never felt before as her hands threaded through his hair lightly. Hopefully she would really get to touch him, or his hair, rather, some other time when she could also see what she was doing better. Somehow her face had leaned in rather close to his, so his giggle rang in her ears and caused another smile to roll along her lips. He was such a nice person, with such nice hair! Amelia wondered what would happen if she styled her hair like Creepy wore it, and it caused a giggle to pop out and echo Creepy's.

Oh, wow, that look on Creepy's face was one she had never seen before! Sirius had once looked at her like that, somewhat, but there had been something distant to it, whereas with Creepy she felt that it was something she knew, something that was more familiar and friendly. And she rather liked it, even if she didn't completely understand that they had just randomly flirted with each other with pouted lips and lazily blinking eyes. Creepy was such a nice friend. If he was her friend. She had never really had a friend, or anything that would involve those scandalous looks before!

How lovely it was to be looking up into the deep dark sky, where she could see the stars she recognized and knew by name and knew the countless stories of, stories of love and war and hatred. The wind that blew her hair delicately around her face was almost magical, a cool breeze to chill her skin that had felt like it was on fire while sharing that strange moment with Creepy only moments ago. But this was one of her favourite times of the year, when the air was battling between hot and cold, sticky and breezy. Even if they did get caught by someone who was half asleep and ready to throw detentions their way, it was all worth it in the end.

It was the perfect landing, really, once Amelia realized that she wasn't so heavy that Creepy would be knocked backward like a wayward bowling pin in a muggle sport she used to watch on the telly when she was younger. Her body was pressed against him so tightly that she could almost feel the press of his sharp curves and angles against her softer curves, but she only allowed herself a moment to think about that before she disentangled her arms away from around his neck and let the soft grass tickle between her toes. Oh, how she loved not wearing shoes! "The grass is alive beneath my feet," she mumured, speaking more to herself than to anyone else.

"You're welcome!" she beamed at him again, twisting her body around a few times and letting her arms stick out straight on either side of her body. It was almost as though she was going to start some earthy dance and praise the world for all it's wonderful beauties. If only she could fly! Simply float up into the air and get a view of what the castle looked like from above. She'd take Creepy with her too, of course, flying alone wasn't any fun! And maybe they would fly to a land far from here, one that glittered and glowed under a deep blue waterfall. Perhaps she could even be close to him again like she had been when he caught her, too, because that was rather nice.

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part two
[info]gibbon
2008-04-11 05:01 am UTC (link)
Amelia was pulled out of her reverie by the feel of Creepy's flesh on her own again, and her face suddenly sprang to life, almost as though she had just realized where she was and who she was with. Her smile was lighting up her entire face and she was so awake that she could have just been refreshed after sleeping for two straight days. One didn't need sleep to regain their energy, she believed, they needed moments like this, things to think about, people to study, sensations to feel. That was what life was, no matter what others thought.

The trek to the hill was spent finding ways to skip while still holding on to Creepy's hand by Amelia, and it was also spent humming softly and sneaking glances to make sure that that smile was still planted on his face. She rather liked his smile, and his teeth, which were very unique! But once they made it to the top of the hill the only thing she could look at was the way it almost seemed to slope down into the darkness, into the mysterious of whatever was in the dark.

"This is so fascinating!" she gushed, clapping once her hand was free and Creepy's slippers were rolling down the hill. "I don't know if I want to go backwards, that could be fun! Or sideways, that seems like the best option," she nodded. "Do you think we'll run into anything down there? No matter! There's nothing down there."

And without another word, Amelia smiled at Creepy again and got down so she was sitting on her butt and her legs were stretched in front of her. Now the grass was tickling her hands, and she giggled again picking a piece and moving it to her face so she could examine it for a moment. "I think you should come close to me so we can tell who rolls faster," she commented, looking up at him expectedly before wiggling a few times, threatening to start rolling.

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part one
[info]barbary
2008-04-11 06:15 am UTC (link)
Creepy noticed the way that Amelia was attempting to skip and walk with him at the same time, and seriously, could someone get any cuter? At all? Probably not, in Creepy's eyes, at least right now. It was still gay-o'clock in the morning, and Creepy didn't give a fuck about anything, because he was too busy making his way to a hill. To roll down. Like a child. Oh, good times from when he was younger and his Mum wasn't such a crazy woman. When his family still seemed… semi-normal, which was saying something, because Creepy's family was never normal. Oh well! Normalcy, who needed it? Overrated, in his opinion.

Sort of stopping in his tracks at the hill and looking down it with a wide grin, eyebrows shooting up high at Amelia wasting almost no time in getting down onto the ground, Creepy looked at her with that same grin and rolled his eyes jokingly at her. "I'll go before you. I'm sure either way, you'll roll faster; you're smaller, I think, so give me a start" Creepy said thoughtfully, plopping down onto the grass next to Amelia, sort of in front of her, and lied back into it, his arms stretched out above his head and legs stretched out as far as they'd go. So comfortable. Not as comfortable as his bed, of course, but enough to warrant a small sigh of content to pass his lips. Nothing like jumping back in time, so to speak, to his childhood, when he'd roll down hills with his two siblings and argue over who went the fastest or who should go first when their Mum was there to tell them one at a time.

Creepy's head had been looking straight up into the starry night sky, counting as many of the stars as he could before he got too distracted to keep the number in his head, then turned his head to the side to look at Amelia. Lightly biting on his lip, Creepy nodded and motioned for her to hold on by bringing his hand up to hold a finger up to make sure that he wasn't only counting on head motions for her to understand; she wasn't a mind reader, as far as he knew. …or maybe she was and Creepy simply didn't know? Well, wouldn't that be fun! And kind of invading Creepy's personal space, even in his mind, but that hardly mattered!

"'Kay, going. Start when I'm…" Creepy paused, scrunching up his nose in thought, then finished with, "almost down there all the way, kind of. See you at the bottom," he called, then was rolling down without another thought, trying to keep from giggling like mad, though he ended up doing so regardless. A few times, he ended up screaming louder than he intended to, though just because of random parts that weren't smooth like the others. Not like Creepy expected the grass to be all smooth the whole way down, but that Element of Surprise was there.

Creepy was having as much fun as a sixteen-year-old could have while rolling down a hill, probably even more than he should've been having. It wasn't every day that Creepy saw kids in his year or higher rolling down hills for the hell of it, and he hadn't heard stories of it, either, so he felt giddy. Like a child again, of course, which was essentially the point of it all. To also get Amelia to do this for the first time, too, because Creepy was surprised that she hadn't before. He thought that everyone rolled down hills at some point! So much fun in something oh-so-simple. Creepy loved simplicity.

It wouldn't surprise Creepy if he ended up at the bottom right as Amelia was just about there, and he could easily move out of the way, but that wasn't fun. Amelia wasn't heavy, he knew that much from how he caught her earlier (without falling over!), so he could handle her weight on him if she happened to land on him again. Besides, okay, he also liked being close to people -- especially Amelia. …that sounded kind of really creepy in his head, or like he shouldn't have been thinking of that. Hmm.

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part two
[info]barbary
2008-04-11 06:16 am UTC (link)
Once at the bottom, Creepy was breathing heavily and his eyes were closed, small giggles still falling passed his lips steadily, and although males normally didn't giggle like that, he was an exception. Creepy believed that there were exceptions for everything in every aspect of life, and one time, a neighbour told him that he sounded like a girl because he giggled. Well, he could assure anyone that he wasn't, so he was an exception to the Males Never Giggle Rule. Oh, sometimes Creepy's thoughts were so random and completely out there, like this one was.

Placing his arms flat down by his side, Creepy kept his eyes closed and murmured under his breath, nothing in particular, waiting until he either felt, saw, or heard Amelia coming down. More than likely, he'd hear her before he saw or felt her, because how could someone not sound so happy and laugh the whole way down? Regardless of the slight headache Creepy always ended up with, even when he was younger, it was all worth it at the end of the day (or night).

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part one
[info]gibbon
2008-04-11 06:48 am UTC (link)
Who else did things like this, besides Amelia? No one. Only Creepy was there to do this with her! Anyone else would have, most likely, started laughing if she had suggested that they wake up in the middle of the night, jump out a window, and roll down a hill like children were always trying to do when their parents told them not to because it was dangerous. But being told to not do something always made someone want to do it more, and even though no one had told Creepy and Amelia to stay away from the hill, it still felt like they were getting up to no good in the back of the greenhouses or something along those lines. How could she not skip!

It didn't seem like there would be much prepping needed to roll down a hill, but Amelia was taking this very seriously, and she was determined to make the most of however short of a ride it was down such a hill. If only the hills could all be so long that the bottom couldn't be seen! How dizzy would they be after that adventure? So dizzy that they would have had to spend the night outside under the stars because they couldn't get up and drag themselves back inside? Camping! Now that sounded like a splendid idea, and Amelia made a note in the back of her head to remember to bring it up to Creepy. But now she was busy watching his every move with very curious eyes. She stopped bouncing in place and scooted back a bit so he was closer to the edge of the hill and she was looking down at him with a tilt of her head. "What a good idea!" she beamed for what felt like the hundredth time that night.

She was humming again softly as Creepy got into position and admired the stars in a sky so clear that she thought she could almost see the planets beyond where they were sitting. Her eyes caught his as their heads turned at the same time, and she greeted his gaze with an understanding smile. Oh yes, going at the same time would not have been as fun, Amelia decided, nodding in agreement. This way they wouldn't run into anything, or each other, or at least she didn't think they would, and they could both enjoy their own trip down the hill.

"Interesting! I am happy that you have come up with such a good idea, Creepy, and that the star gods didn't distract you from coming up with this idea." Amelia shifted a bit so she could watch Creepy as he rolled down the hill for a few moments before it was her turn to follow. She wanted to see the way his body would roll, the way his hair would react, if he would keep his body in a tight line or a tight ball, even, or if his limbs would flail around. The way he rolled was certainly more interesting to her than the way she was going to end up rolling, and a giggle slipped out the moment his face disappeared and started to blur.

Wow! He was moving so quickly that Amelia's eyes started to dance, unable to keep up with the pace he was moving with, but the sounds he was making and the sound of the leaves and twigs crunching beneath his body filled her ears as she flopped backward and crossed her arms over her chest, hugging herself slightly as the thin material of her nightgown tickled her arms. What was someone supposed to think during something like this? Oh, she did not know! But it did not seem to matter, for the only thing she was thinking about was meeting Creepy at the bottom and asking him how the ride was.

And with that last thought Amelia closed her eyes and rolled to the left, still humming as life entirely was forgotten and beautiful reds and greens and purples danced in front of her eyes, dancing drunkenly, swaying, gliding, flying. Oh what a thing to see! Her brain felt as though she had drank too much pumpkin juice at one time, and her shoulders were roughly hitting random twigs with each time they hit the earth, but it was perfection, perfection on a hill, perfection with dozens of colours dancing before her eyes and laughs of glee escaping her lips.

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part two
[info]gibbon
2008-04-11 06:48 am UTC (link)
Why couldn't this last an eternity? It was all over much too fast, and Amelia felt the level of the ground change as she left the slop and returned to flatter ground. But the ground wasn't entirely flat, for there was still someone in the way, and she was moving at such a speed and bouncing in such a way that it all happened so fast. Whatever had been on the ground before was now underneath her body, pressed against her almost like a hand slipping inside a mitten. It took her a few moments to open her eyes, but even when she did, and even though her nose was nearly pressed right up against the nose of Creepy, his face was dancing and spinning in front of her and she was looking at him as though drunk on firewhiskey. Her legs were spread and resting on either side of his body, and one of her hands had ended up on his shoulder.

"Mmm, firm," she murmured, squeezing his shoulder softly and unintentionally swiveling her hips in a way that probably wasn't helping matters any. But she didn't get off him. It was like he was her bed and she was a pillow, resting comfortably. "What a ride, mmm. Did you enjoy it?"

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part one
[info]barbary
2008-04-11 03:54 pm UTC (link)
Exactly like Creepy had thought, he heard Amelia before he saw her, a smile curving over his lips easily at the sound of his friend (she was his friend, right?) sounding like she was having fun. It was almost as though he'd been holding his breath, waiting for that moment when she'd roll down the hill and start laughing, because how could she not? This whole thing was childish, fun, and basically everything that Creepy expected it to be. It was exciting, and not only because they may or may not have been breaking rules.

In another almost-split second, Creepy felt Amelia's body on top of his own, his eyes opening wide at that. He knew she would've more than likely ended up at least rolling over him, but no, here she was, body on top of his and well then. That was. Nice? Maybe? Whatever it was, Creepy couldn't complain, even if he wanted to. The last time he was in close contact with someone like this who wasn't one of his closest friends was… forever ago, since he couldn't remember exactly. This was so fun and Creepy couldn't imagine it getting any better than it already was.

His eyes still wide, Creepy's hands came up to rest on Amelia's hips, head tilting to the side at what she said about his shoulder, then giggled under his breath and also squeezed her where his hand was resting. "Soft?" he said, but it was formed as more of a question than anything else, eyes almost bulging out of his head from… whatever it was. Shock. Something like that, which didn't matter. But his hands moved more so that they were instead resting on Amelia's lower back, almost in a hug, a small smile on his face as his eyes closed and let out a calm sigh.

The ride was perfection and thrilling and, as Amelia would say, interesting! (or even fascinating). Creepy made a mental note to do this more often, even if it was just him by himself and without Amelia, although it would be much more fun if she came along every time he rolled down a hill. Well, besides if he were to be home and do it, because he somehow really doubted that Amelia could simply show up if he decided to roll down a hill randomly, as saddening as that thought was.

"Of course I did!" Creepy finally said after a few moments of simple silence, eyes closed and fingertips rubbing soft, slow circles on Amelia's back, purely out of impulse. Opening his eyes again, Creepy looked to Amelia with a raised eyebrow, pulling his lower lip into his mouth for a second and then shifted underneath her, so that he was more comfortable on the cool grass. "How was yours? Good first time?" he asked then, wanting to know everything Amelia thought of it.

Granted, while Creepy knew he wanted to hear everything about Amelia's roll down, he knew there was a slim chance of her wanting to talk about it. She seemed to much rather talking about other people than herself, which Creepy would need to change soon, because he hated feeling like he talked about himself too much. Hadn't he told her that before? He believed so, but he wasn't sure. And besides, Amelia was intriguing, so it wasn't like Creepy would be bored to tears, so to speak, if she were to talk about herself for once. Everyone deserved a chance to at some point, too.

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part two
[info]barbary
2008-04-11 03:55 pm UTC (link)
The first time Creepy ended up rolling down a hill was an accident, or he liked to think it was, considering his older brother, Michael, had pushed him down it. That was only done because Michael and Creepy's older sister, Hannah, had dared him to, so how could he turn down a dare? The whole way down, Creepy was screaming and scared more than he'd been his whole life, only to end up loving it by the time he hit solid, flat ground again. Hannah and Michael had gotten the completely opposite reaction to what they wanted, much to their dismay. From that point on, Creepy would randomly go to huge hills and just… roll. It made him feel free and like nothing could hurt him; like nothing was unknown, even if he did it in the dark and couldn't see the bottom of the hill.

Taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly on exhale, Creepy raised his eyebrows at Amelia and moved his hands higher up her back, sure to take his hands away properly so that he didn't make her nightgown ride up more than it probably already had, but he wasn't looking at that. His hands were now resting on her mid-back when he mumbled out, "Tell me all about it," waiting for her answer after he spoke.

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part one
[info]gibbon
2008-04-11 11:32 pm UTC (link)
Thinking about rolling down a hill too much was something that could take away the fun of it. Thinking about why they were doing this, how they were doing this, and how this was all going to end up was normally something Amelia would be analyzing right down to the very last fact. But this, this was different. A single thought was not in her mind as she twirled and rolled down the hill, and as her body became one with the night. Hopefully this will happen again! Maybe next time they could alternate and Amelia could go first!

She hadn't been thinking about run into Creepy the entire ride down, and she hadn't fully realized that she was even on top of him until that drunken feeling left her eyes and Creepy's face became clear as day underneath her. Wow! She didn't even go right over him! It was as though a hand reached out and stopped her from bouncing right over him, like it held her in place and made sure her body didn't roll off of his. What did that mean? Surely it meant that laying on top of each other was something that was required once you were done rolling down a hill! Wow, she never knew that part of it.

The first word that really did come to mind when Amelia felt Creepy's body pressed against hers was, indeed, firm. It wasn't as though he were as hard as a block of stone because, oh, that would be funny! But felt very boy-like and...firm! Strong, even. But perhaps that was something that came with all blokes, she didn't really know. She also didn't know if she was as soft as Creepy said she was, though his statement was more of a question. A giggle came out from her pursed lips, a pleased, drunken giggle. The expression on his face was rather cute, and Amelia let her eyes wander around his cheeks, his nose, his lips, studying each ounce of the shock.

"Soft," she repeated softly, letting her head lean down so she could nuzzle her face against his neck, playfully at first, though then a bit softer. It was, indeed, quite soft and warm in that area between his neck and his shoulder! Oh, wow, whatever he was doing with his hands on her back felt rather good, so good that she could have even fallen asleep, even if she didn't sleep that often and wasn't particularly tired. But it made her skin tingle and his fingers, they must have been an expert and doing this, wow!

Amelia's eyes had fluttered closed as Creepy's had before, and she didn't open them again until she felt the circles on her back moving upwards and his gaze on her face. She raised both of her eyebrows at his response and let her body re-melt into his when he shifted; hopefully she didn't weigh too much. How much did she weigh? Too much? Was Creepy suffering? She had never been on top of someone for this long, and even if she was entirely comfortable she'd gladly get off of him if it would be better for his body.

Copying Creepy's actions with his mouth, Amelia started to nibble on her own bottom lip a bit roughly, pondering the way to answer his questions. He didn't want to hear about this, really, right? Asking him for details on his own descent would, most likely, be more exciting than her own tale could be. Now didn't seem like the time to dodge whatever questions that came her way, because they were comfortable with each other and they were having a moment that friends should have, weren't they? It wasn't as though she could start pretending that she couldn't answer a question.

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part two
[info]gibbon
2008-04-11 11:33 pm UTC (link)
She sighed softly and let her eyes close again. "I liked it very much, yes. I suppose that's how every first time should be. I liked the way the colours danced before my eyes, too, as though a rainbow had exploded in front of me." It was one of those things that was near impossible to explain, but Amelia figured that she was doing well enough. Did Creepy really care to hear about such things? She kept her eyes closed so she wouldn't have to see the bored look that was most likely on his face and let her cheek rest against his shoulder again for a few moments.

"Do you think it will feel different in winter? I'm sure we'll be wearing more clothing so we don't catch a chill! Or we could even build a snowdog down here and we can aim for it when we are rolling down. Maybe one of us will bump into it and knock it over!" Winter seemed like it was far away, yet at the same time it felt like it could have started the following day. Did Creepy like winter? Or did he prefer the hot warmth of summer? Amelia didn't even know what she personally liked, it was probably a toss-up between each of the different seasons. "I wonder what would happen if someone found us down here like this!" Amelia giggled again, knowing that whoever it was would, most likely, tell everyone else and the whole school would be looking at them strangely for the weeks to come. But who cared, really?

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2008-04-12 12:35 am UTC (link)
For a moment, Creepy lied completely still, his eyes staying on Amelia and what she was looking at. Well, that was different: to be studied like that. Not like Creepy complained, because it was nice for someone to show interest in him somehow, regardless of the kind of interest it was. Amelia showed interest in a lot of things, as far as Creepy knew. Or maybe he was imagining that, because he wouldn't doubt that, considering he had an overactive imagination. Creepy's mind worked in overtime more often than not, thinking of foolish things and even more foolish thoughts about this little thing called life. Oh, Creepy.

The way Amelia giggled at whatever made Creepy giggle as well, rolling his eyes at himself, then pulled his lower lip into his mouth again. Sometimes, Creepy would randomly giggle out of nowhere, mostly when he would think of an old joke he heard before and didn't get it at the time; he was slow like that. He laughed at jokes hours after they were told, even days occasionally. That was simply how Creepy was a lot of the time.

"Soft," Creepy repeated as well, the word a murmur, then his head tilted back so that Amelia's face could nuzzle against his neck better. Creepy always liked people paying attention to his neck, whether it was playful or for any other reason, but it caused a quiet sigh to pass his lips easily, hands continuing to rub small circles on her mid-back. Yes, this was definitely nice and Creepy enjoyed it a lot. He could feel the way the material of her nightgown would move up slightly with each move of his hand, though he was almost positive that it wasn't by much, so it didn't make him stop what he was doing.

Although Amelia's eyes closed, Creepy kept his open and focused on her face, listening closely to what she had to say about her roll down the hill. The way that Amelia described the ride was almost exactly how it felt to himself, but… Creepy being, well, him, he couldn't describe it quite so well. Even if Amelia didn't describe it as well as someone else would've probably could've, Creepy understood exactly what she meant, and he nodded his head slowly after she spoke.

It was almost surprising that Amelia even decided to say anything about herself, much less what she felt while going down. One of Creepy's hands went up to run his fingers through Amelia's hair gently when her head was resting against his shoulder, resisting the urge to actually hum or something equally gay; Myron was the singer in their little group-thing, so he didn't do that much. He only played guitar and looked pretty, obviously.

Thinking momentarily about Amelia's questions, Creepy scrunched his nose up and tilted his head to the side, so that it was kind of resting over hers, cheek pressed to the top of her head. "It'll be softer in winter," Creepy started out with, because he knew it would've been; snow was so soft and cold and perfect for playing around in. And rolling around in. Creepy loved the snow aspect of winter, especially making figures and all with it, only to ruin it later on in the day. Or let it melt when the time came. At first, Creepy hated that part, but he grew to accept that he couldn't keep the snow around all the time, much to his dismay.

Creepy let out a high-pitched giggle at the thought of aiming for the snow-dog they were probably going to end up making, nodding his head quickly. "Yes! That would be exciting. And whoever hits it wins… they win whatever it is that they win!" Creepy said in an excited tone of voice, eyes opened wide, like a child being given good news; or even like it was Christmastime. Creepy loved holidays, for sure, so he was used to the expression he was giving Amelia, though she couldn't see it, because her face was on his shoulder.

For a second, Creepy thought about Amelia's sort-of-question, but more of an observation probably, about what would happen if someone came down and saw them like this. Hmm. "That would be amusing, I think! They'd more than likely get the wrong idea or something," Creepy mused, scrunching his nose up, then giggled quietly. Yeah, people assumed too much and all they were doing was lying in the grass, nothing more than that.

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[info]gibbon
2008-04-12 01:39 am UTC (link)
There was so much to study! Normally Amelia wasn't able to study people from so close, as it was hard to be nose-to-nose with someone for longer than a few moments before the other person started to complain and wondered what the hell was going on. But now that Creepy knew what was going on, and now that he knew Amelia was the type to study something new she saw at such a close distance, it was all working in a lovely way. Oh, those lips! There was something about his lips that she had never noticed before, not until she got this close to him. Was it strange to stare at someone's lips for a few long moments? Was it a sign of something? Hm. She did not now! But Creepy was special, so he deserved to be looked at.

What was she laughing at again? Oh yes, the shocked expression on Creepy's face! Thinking about it again made her chase Creepy's giggle with another of her own, and they almost sounded like they were, in fact, under the influence of something intoxicating. He was similar to her! He giggled randomly! She had the tendency to not understand a joke the moment it was told, but then three hours later she would finally get it and burst into laughter. Or she found random things funny, like earlier when she had hiccuped and when he had screamed and she had to dive into the blankets to hush herself. Oh, humour was brilliant, even if hers was unique.

Hmm, soft. Creepy was both firm and soft, while she was apparently just soft. "You're soft too, actually, though firm at the same time. I quite like it," she spoke, her voice ghosting against his neck in a quiet whisper. Oh how tempted she was to just kiss his neck and see what that would be like, but kisses were strange to her, even if she had randomly kissed people before. There was also the idea of randomly biting him, but biting his skin would make her think of biting into a sandwich or something, and that would cause her to start laughing. For now she enjoyed letting her cheek nuzzle his skin in a rather loving way.

Clothing was always in the way, and Amelia wondered, for a brief moment, if Creepy was alarmed by the fact that she was only wearing that thin piece of material and knickers (or so she assumed). Amelia was never the type to really care about what she was wearing, though she did admire the bottoms Creepy was wearing! They were entirely interesting. Thinking about that almost made her forget about what she was supposed to be talking about, her trip down the hill, though the words were flowing more freely from her lips than they usually did.

"I used to roll down the stairs when I was younger, too. Like I would take off backward and land on a mountain of pillows that I had thrown around at the bottom. Usually I ended up in a rather strange position at the bottom, wow, but that was what always made it fun," Amelia babbled, somehow finding the feeling of his hands in her hair to be a comforting aphrodisiac. She even arched her head a bit into his fingers so more of her brown hair would flow along them. Oh, Creepy, you were something fascinating, all right! Not even Sirius had done that.

"Soft and white and wet. Perfect for making the best snow-dog, you know. There is a special way of doing it to get the perfect one! I'll be sure to tell you about it, it will be interesting. And we could battle for winning...I reckon there will be something out there to win," Amelia continued, now suddenly thinking about biscuits for reasons she didn't understand. The thought of winning biscuits made her giggle, and once again their giggles seemed to be coming in pairs, as though one couldn't giggle without the other giggling in return.

"I can't say I'd mind what other people thought. Sometimes it's not worth getting your knickers in a twist over such things, but!" she ended on a dramatic note, rising her head finally and smooshing her nose against Creepy's playfully. "Have you ever made biscuits? Without magic, mind you."

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part one
[info]barbary
2008-04-12 02:40 am UTC (link)
It took Creepy longer than it probably should've to notice how Amelia was studying his face, and then his lips, almost leaning up to kiss her, but decided against it; wouldn't that make him kind of… hmm. What was the word he was looking for? It didn't matter, because he didn't do it, but instead took random glances down at Amelia's lips and then her eyes, then her nose and so on. Amelia was so pretty, and Creepy was half-tempted to ask if she thought so herself, because many girls had low self-esteem, but he also didn't do that; she probably wouldn't answer. So many questions, not enough answers. Or not enough that Amelia was willing to give, at least not in Creepy's mind.

Nose scrunching up some at Amelia saying he was soft, Creepy let the hand on her mid-back move so that he was instead running it over his side, not feeling this softness she spoke of. Maybe it was only to her when he felt soft? After all, Creepy couldn't tickle himself and laugh, yet when someone else did, he laughed like a moron. Could he even fairly compare the two? Regardless of if he could or couldn't, he still did, and it caused a very brief giggle to pass his lips, then pulled himself back together as his hand took its place back on Amelia's back, a bit lower than the first time.

Content shivers were running through Creepy's body at the cheek nuzzling, and he was also half-tempted to lean down to nuzzle his nose against Amelia's neck, but decided not to; maybe she didn't like being touched like he did. He did take a mental note to check to see where she was most ticklish eventually, though, because random facts like that were interesting to Creepy, even if others would've found them boring. Laughter was something everyone could do and tickling brought it out of them -- most, at least -- and Creepy liked that about it.

"You used to roll down stairs?" Creepy asked in a somewhat shocked tone of voice, because who did that? Besides Amelia, of course. "Well, that's definitely different, no doubt about that! Maybe when I go home for the holidays, I should do that when everyone's out, just to see how it is. Hopefully I don't get hurt, though, even if I am prone to fucking something up somehow. It would be like an experiment! I used to go down the stairs on my arse. You know, like, sit down and bump down them?" Creepy said, his hands leaving Amelia's hair and back to motion around behind her, although she couldn't see him still. "Mum used to get pissed at me for it, but that never stopped it. It was fun!"

Creepy's hands came back up into place on her back and fingers in her hair, starting back up the movements he'd been doing before. Even if Amelia didn't like touching, she seemed to enjoy this enough, so Creepy could deal with this for the time being. He wasn't like a hyperactive five-year-old who always needed to be moving his hands, but he liked the feel of Amelia's warm skin beneath his hand through the thin material of her nightgown and her soft hair running through his fingers. Merlin, he sounded like such a girl there, didn't he? Creepy thought so.

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part two
[info]barbary
2008-04-12 02:41 am UTC (link)
Tilting his head to the side again so that his cheek was pressed to the top of her head again, Creepy giggled at her going on about how there was a special way to making the perfect snow-dog, nodding his head as his eyes opened wide. "Of course! Just like there's a special way to make a perfect snow angel, though everyone knows it's just to have someone help them up after they've finished. I'm normally the one helping people up, though," Creepy said thoughtfully, both hands stopping their movement on Amelia and his arms flopped out to the side, moving in up and down motions over the grass as though there were snow beneath him and he was doing the top part of a snow angel. Now he couldn't wait for the snow to come, because of promises of snow-dogs, snow angels, and more rolls down hills with Amelia. So much fun and not enough time!

"I know! People are going to talk, whether you explain yourself or not, so there's no use in bitching over it," Creepy said in agreement, except he used his own terming for it, because he had something to say all the time. This time was no different, clearly. Amelia's dramatic tone of voice almost made Creepy sit up, which would push her off of him, and he didn't want that; he liked her on him like this. Thinking momentarily about Amelia's question, he nodded his head when he remembered baking biscuits with his mother once or twice, though one of the times didn't turn out so well. "Yes, I have. Mum told me I'm not a very good baker, but I beg to differ, because my biscuits were amazing. Even the neighbours thought so! What about you?" he asked, now pressing his nose back to Amelia's, allowing it to scrunch up playfully.

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part one
[info]gibbon
2008-04-12 03:27 am UTC (link)
Their faces were so close! It was almost as though Amelia could lean forward and hear all of Creepy's thoughts and secrets, and all those little mysteries that were bouncing around inside his head. What would she hear if she could read minds? Would she hear about how strange he thought she was, perhaps? About how he thought this was a rubbish idea and that he wanted to run back to his dormitory to get away from her? It was exactly like her to think of the downside of things, about things like that instead of how he could possibly like her company, or about how he could have been looking at her lips as much as she was looking at his. Something he was doing was getting her words to flow with ease, at least.

Amelia felt the hand on her back leave and she opened her eyes, nearly making a sound of protest, but she bit her tongue before she could express how lonely it seemed to feel when his hand was gone. It was only after a few moments had gone by that she could sense that his hand was touching his body rather than hers, and she gave him a slightly mysterious smile and licked her lips quickly. Her body shifted slightly so she could stretch her hand out to his other side, the side he hadn't been touching, and she let her fingers crawl up the side of his body gently, just like she had been doing on his bed earlier. She let her fingers crawl all the way up to his neck before settling her hand back down.

Soft, yes. There was no doubt about it that there were parts of him that could be soft one minute and then firm the next, she thought, not taking that as a sexual innuendo as someone else may have done. Or as she herself may have done if she let herself start thinking about that, of course. But there was something so non-sexual about the way she was thinking about it that it was more of an intimate feeling, like they were close and touching in an intimate way instead of a way that could turn entirely sexual with a detour of his hands or her face.

"Oh, yes. It used to pass the time, and it was also a way to see how much noise a person makes when the smack into a wall," she added, sounding so chipper that humans running into walls should have been some sort of new sport that everyone participated in once a day. "I think you will be perfect at it!" she declared, finally giving into her urge to do something with her mouth and nipping at his shoulder playfully. "Just make sure you place lots of pillows around, because getting lost inside a lot of pillows is good fun. I've never tried arse bumping! Sounds like more fun than my rolling, though. And it sounds like something that would make a lot of noise and would annoy your mum." More fascinating details about Creepy!

She really was going to have to get a notebook just for fascinating details on Creepy. She could fill pages upon pages with events just from tonight, and if they still had a future together in each other's presence, which she hoped they still had, then the notebook would get filled up quite quickly! Her thoughts on her Creepy Notebook were getting pulled away with every soft swish of his fingers in her hair. She really should tell him that she liked that, just so he didn't think she was some sort of...prude, was it, who didn't like to be touched. She may not have liked to be touched by any old random Dick, Harry or Tom, but Creepy was different.

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part two
[info]gibbon
2008-04-12 03:27 am UTC (link)
If only they could charm some snow onto the grass right now! But Amelia didn't have her wand with her, and she was pretty sure that someone would notice a random white patch in the middle of the grass if something happened to go wrong with the charm and the snow never went away or something. Oh well, she could be patient as long as they still had this hill and this weather and this togetherness. "A snow angel!" she declared cheerfully, excited by the idea all over again. Her eyes moved over to see his light skin dancing in the darkness as he pretended that there was snow on the ground, and she laughed in amazement, as if he had magically made a snow angel appear out of nowhere. "You're quite the expert then, but I reckon you should get a fair chance at helping and getting helped," Amelia nodded, deciding that come winter they would make perfect snow-dogs and snow-angels. There was no question about it!

"No use in bitching about it," she agreed, finding that to be a fascinating motto. "Wow! I like the terminology. No bitching about it," she repeated, grinning from ear to ear. Interesting how she went from thinking about bitching to biscuits, but oh wow, they both started with a b! Amelia shifted so her elbows were in the grass and both of her arms were on either side of his head, allowing her hands to tickle his ears and caress his hair, like he was doing brilliantly to her. "I bet they are the best biscuits," she commented, wishing that she had tasted a Creepy biscuit before. "You shouldn't listen to these things your mum tells you, yeah? But..." she paused dramatically again. "I think we should make some." Her voice sounded funny with her nose scrunched up against his, but it made her giggle.

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part one
[info]barbary
2008-04-13 01:00 am UTC (link)
Creepy's head turned to the side when Amelia's hand started moving up his side, all the way to his neck, and he was almost about to bring one of his own hands up to keep it there. Creepy really enjoyed Amelia apparently feeling like she could touch him without a problem, because he didn't want her to stop anytime soon, so he leaned his head up to nuzzle gently against the side of her neck, biting on his lower lip to keep from kissing her soft skin. It took a lot of self-control not to, though, simply because he was so used to being able to be open and not worry about repercussions of his actions, but what if Amelia didn't want him to kiss her neck? Sigh, so much confusion, it was almost pathetic.

A small giggle passed Creepy's lips again at how enthusiastic Amelia sounded when telling him about rolling down steps, because honestly, it sounded a bit… painful, maybe. Smacking into walls? It hurt enough when Creepy would accidentally run into them, or even light posts. Those were never fun times, but Amelia didn't seem to be the most normal person in the world, so he could see why she was so excited about something such as running into walls. "Did you ever wake anyone up when you did it? Or were you home alone whenever you decided to roll down the stairs? Did you worry about your neighbours hearing you?" he asked, truly interested in Amelia's tales about rolling down steps and the noises that she would make at the end of her tumble.

Shifting around underneath Amelia at the nip to his shoulder, he let out a short scream, though not half as loud as the ones he'd let out while rolling down the hill, or even loud enough to imply that it hurt; just to do it. Creepy absolutely loved screaming at the top of his lungs for no reason whatsoever, though, because it made him feel free. It made him feel like he was letting out all of his worries and problems and frustrations through his voice, in one loud scream, and it generally worked to make him feel better. Whenever he was at home and he wasn't alone, Creepy would scream into his pillows instead of nothing at all, in case anyone decided to come up to see what was wrong, though nothing hardly ever was. On other occasions, when he wouldn't simply scream nothing at all, Creepy would shout every curse word known to man, because that had the same effect on him that the screaming did. Made him feel so… alive!

His attention was back on Amelia after a moment, nodding his head to her comment about putting a lot of pillows around, taking note of that for future reference. While she continued going on, Creepy leaned up to nip as carefully as at the skin where Amelia's shoulder and neck connected, because his teeth were sharp, he was sure, and he didn't want to break skin. It was playful while still being careful and gentle, so that was all that mattered to Creepy, really. Not like he had anything else to worry about, so long as he wasn't being harsh or intending on hurting Amelia.

"You've never tried arse bumping?! You really, really should! It's so much fun, except it kind of makes your arse really numb afterwards, naturally. We could do that together sometime, too, we just need to find lots of steps," Creepy said, nodding his head wildly, which caused his hair to move around with that motion, since it almost seemed to have a mind of its own. That really only happened because he hadn't brushed it or anything before he left, so it was quite wild at the moment, occasionally falling into his face, probably to be an annoyance to Creepy.

Amelia's enthusiasm and attitude toward everything they were talking about was amusing to Creepy; most people spoke in a deadpan and didn't like talking about childish things, such as snow-dogs and snow angels, or rolling down steps and hills, or even arse bumping down steps. But Amelia did, and that made Creepy like her more than he already did; she wasn't so mysterious now, like she was over their journals, whether it was intentional or not. Amelia was, as she'd put it, fascinating, and Creepy wished she would talk more about herself -- fuck, let him know anything more about herself. It'd be so interesting and it'd keep the feeling away from Creepy that he talked about himself too much.

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part two
[info]barbary
2008-04-13 01:00 am UTC (link)
Once he was finished with his motions of pretending to make a snow angel, Creepy brought his hands back up into their positions on her back and fingers started running through her soft hair again, shaking his head at her saying he deserved a fair chance of getting helped as well. "No, I'm perfectly fine with being the helper most of the time. My imperfect snow angels are what's special! They look like someone stepped all over them, and that's perfectly fine with me! They were still made by me at the end of the day, you know?" he asked, though it sounded more like a statement than anything else, and now he nodded in response to his own not-really-question, his shoulders shrugging just a bit.

"No use in bitching about it," Creepy repeated right back to Amelia, like she'd done to him, but he didn't plan on them going back and forth like that for the rest of the night; he was simply talking for the sake of talking. "Mum used to tell me that all the time. You're living in my house, which means my rules. There's no use in bitching about it, Heathcote," he mimicked, his voice kind of taking on a higher pitch to mock his Mum's voice, a scoff passing his lips at the thought of her. Oh, how he sometimes really loathed that woman, but at the same time, he loved her more than anyone, so he never let on how much he really disliked her occasionally.

Creepy allowed his eyes to slip shut once Amelia started to caress his hair and tickle ears, a soft, barely audible purr being made in the back of his throat, along with a giggle after that, a smile appearing again like a permanent fixture on his face, which it really was one right now. Creepy's eyes opened again and he nodded as well to Amelia telling him not to listen to his Mum, because he wouldn't in this respect, eyebrows raising at her dramatic tone again, though he could only grin widely at the rest of what she had to say. "Of course! I think we should, too. It'd be really fun. And messy! My hair looks hilarious with a bunch of flour in it!" he mumbled, his voice as enthusiastic as he could get it, and he leaned up without really thinking and pressed a gentle, fleeting kiss to Amelia's cheek after he stopped their noses from being pressed together.

Now, Creepy acted on impulse more often than not, and he wasn't new or a strange to kissing friends on the cheeks (or even family members!), but what if that was weird to Amelia? Too soon? As far as Creepy knew, he and Amelia were friends, right? So many fucking questions, it was ridiculous! More than a little bit, too. But he wouldn't let too much shock show besides the way his eyes opened wide and he bit on the side of his lip as he settled back down into the grass properly, his hands and fingers having faltered in their movements, then he let out a slow exhale and offered a reassuring (nice? Strange? Weird?) smile to Amelia quickly.

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part one
[info]gibbon
2008-04-13 11:37 am UTC (link)
It almost seemed like a game, a game of who could find out who was the softest first. Creepy versus Amelia, a touching battle that would last until a general consensus was made about just what exactly it meant to be soft, and once they had decided on that, a decision on who was, in fact, the softest would be in order. But at the same time, Amelia couldn't look at it as anything other than pure interest, like one may become interested in studying plants or history or other, more common things that had nothing to do with him; she was interested in Creepy and his potential softness. The skin that was dancing underneath her fingertips certainly wasn't anything like the fin of the merepeople, or some scaly reptilian creature.

It was so intriguing, in fact, that initially Amelia didn't notice that Creepy was responding to her touches instead of just resting there like some sort of log. The trail up his side and off his neck couldn't last forever, however, and by the time her hand was just coasting off his neck she allowed herself only a moment to forget about that so she could analyze whether Creepy was going to kiss her neck or not. She hadn't been expecting him to, though that wasn't saying she would have smacked him if he had. A million tiny goosebumps formed over her skin, and oh, wow, there was a shiver riding down her spine! What a spine-tingler Creepy was! She had only a second to reward his nuzzling with a soft sigh before her mind wandered off in another direction again.

She was thinking about the time when she was seven years old. The age when she wore pink dresses, no shoes, and always had dirt smudged across her nose. It was also the age when she realized that she enjoyed decorating her hair in different ways, and especially started to favour the two braids. It was a warm summer day and all the windows were open. Typical. Everything was so typical about it that little Amelia was rolling down the stairs and perfecting the right way to land without breaking any bones. She had been going about this for a few minutes when her grandmother stopped knitting so she could join her granddaughter in rolling down the stairs. She tried it once and bumped her head, but she laughed along with Amelia and kissed her on the forehead, telling her she loved her and that she herself was too old for such things.

She hated thinking about these things. She couldn't grieve for the memories of time with her grandmother. No one cared. No one was going to bring her back, so what was the point of thinking about her? About her old life? Amelia visibly shook her head and let her breath out quietly, blinking a few times until Creepy was a clear view under her. She couldn't giggle back, but his giggle was so calming that she forgot about those other things. "I always used to do it when everyone was at home. Or when they were gone, it never particularly mattered. I suppose it was almost something to be expected in my household, like it was when I would rearrange everything in the cabinets. I made up little cheers to go up with it all, too," Amelia responded a bit airily, smiling vacantly and scrunching the lower half of her face in curiosity.

That look of curiosity turned into one of pure wonder when she felt something sharp nipping at her. So that's what it felt like! It tickled! But in a way, it felt rather good. As his face leaned closer against her neck, Amelia had allowed her face to press against his head in a nuzzling way again, until a giggle escaped and she squirmed slightly, immediately coming to the conclusion that her neck was a ticklish spot. Oh, wow, he should do that every night before bed!

"I have not," she commented, the last of her giggles wearing off with her first few syllables spoken. "But it sounds like a fantastic time! An interesting adventure!" she agreed, watching Creepy's hair bounce with wide eyes. "I suppose having a numb arse could be interesting. Someone could slap it and you wouldn't feel it!" Her voice was sightly devious as she stared at him, as though silently threatening to slap his arse after they went arse bumping. "Yes, we must find those stairs. Oh, stairs and hills! Who really knew the wonders, mm." Or who really knew about the wonders of his hair! So many wonders in there.

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part two
[info]gibbon
2008-04-13 11:37 am UTC (link)
The barrier that Amelia normally had up had started to edge way, though she suspected that this was only something that would take place around Creepy. Whether just for the time being or for other times if they got together again, she didn't know, but right now she was deciding that doing more than just staring at him was something she both needed and wanted more than anything.

"As long as you're sure about that," Amelia said a few moments later, as she had become distracted by his hands again. She was going to be thinking about this moment for days to come, she already knew it. "I suspect that's because you're such a good helper, anyway. If you were a rubbish one, no one would want you helping them. That's the interesting part, really," she continued, wishing that she could see one of those specially imperfect snowangels, if only for a few moments before it was taken away! "Maybe after we make them we can destroy them, too. Then we can see the before and after!"

His mother didn't sound like the friendliest person ever, but she sounded like an entirely fascinating person that Amelia wanted to hear more about, even if Creepy wasn't fond of sharing many tales of her. "That was a good impression," she said, beaming at him impressively. "Sometimes rules are made to be broken, and other times they are made to be obeyed. Depends on the situation, I suppose." It was hard to focus on what she was even talking about, for she wanted to hear all those noises that were escaping from between his lips. She caught the giggle, but there had also been some other sound that she wasn't able to figure out other than thinking it was just some sound of contentment. Hopefully! Hopefully not a sound of annoyance, though Amelia was slowly starting to figure out that Creepy wasn't annoyed with this whole thing. Progress.

She had never smiled so much before! Maybe it was contagious or like some sort of addictive drug, but she had a feeling that she was going to be smiling a lot more now because of this experience. She hoped that Creepy would be, too; not that he had ever seemed like some sort of bloke who needed constant cheering up, though Amelia admittedly had never paid him the attention he deserved before. "It will be fun. The mess is better than the result. I'll make a chart of different flavoured biscuits we can try, and then we can decide on what one is most appealing," she added, speaking as though it was a done deal. Done and signed, certainly going to happen. She was about to speak again, but then Creepy's lips were on her cheek, and if she thought she could have blushed, she would have been, but her skin was tingling again. Friendly? Did friends do that after plans were made? "Wow," she murmured, deciding to say nothing else and leaning down instead, nearly forgetting to tilt her face a bit so her lips landed on his cheek, though still somewhat close to the crook of his mouth. How friendly!

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part one
[info]barbary
2008-04-13 08:50 pm UTC (link)
Creepy was more than a little relieved that Amelia hadn't smacked him or anything for even going near her neck for anything, even a nuzzle, as much as he liked doing what he did, he didn't think he'd be doing it again anytime soon. After all, why would he, when Amelia could've gotten tired of it oh-so-quickly? Creepy liked new things and he would find new ways to make Amelia feel special -- or whatever it was he was doing and he wasn't sure what the call it. It didn't matter, actually, so Creepy shook his head and offered a sort of shaky smile, simply because he was still in the mindset that Amelia was going to kick the shit out of him on second thought.

The way Amelia seemed to space out a bit frightened Creepy, but only because she might have been thinking about how she was going to tell a Professor what he'd done, or even worse, but then she was back with the conversation after a shake of her head and a sigh. "You al--" he started, then stopped and rolled his eyes at himself, because he thought into things far too much. Instead, he listened to what Amelia had to say and a grin was forcing its way over his lips again, because honestly, her family seemed almost abnormal as his own in their own little way. Amelia being the one who reminded Creepy of himself, of course, with her antics. "Why'd you rearrange everything in the cabinets? Mum used to complain when one of me or my siblings would misplace something -- especially the sugar," Creepy mused, eyebrows furrowed, then his nose scrunched along with that statement, kind of like how Amelia's face scrunched up after she was done speaking. "Also, what kind of cheers?" he added, simply out of curiosity.

A quiet giggle passed his lips at her squirming on top of himself, which caused him to squirm a bit himself, face nuzzling her neck again against his better judgment. Okay, so sometimes, Creepy said he wouldn't do something and then ended up doing whatever it was he said he wouldn't again for the hell of it. Not like Amelia seemed to mind or care, and he'd nipped her neck, not just nuzzled it. Those two were completely different things! And Amelia still didn't seem to care. But maybe nipping could stop for now? Unless Amelia liked it enough to do it again, but regardless, it didn't matter; Creepy would keep his teeth to himself, as far as he knew.

Allowing a mock disappointed sigh to fall from parted lips, Creepy shook his head at Amelia and then smiled at her, this time not shaky or nervous, but sincere. And he really liked her right now, as friends should, of course. Friends liked each other. And again, as far as he knew, they were friends. Maybe not best friends, but also not just acquaintances. Turning his head to the side at the idea of someone (possibly himself…) slapping Amelia's arse because it was numb, though she was staring at him, he let a small laugh out, closing his eyes. That would definitely be interesting, as Amelia put it. It seemed like Amelia had certain words she really liked, and Creepy could've sworn they'd talked about words she liked through their journals before. Maybe, he couldn't remember. "We'll find them sometime soon. Maybe it'll be in the middle of the night again so that no one can assume anything. Like our mental stability, obviously," he snorted, even if he didn't exactly care about what people thought about him.

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part two
[info]barbary
2008-04-13 08:51 pm UTC (link)
"I am," Creepy said reassuringly, his hands continuing to move over her back and fingers through her hair, now humming under his breath some random tune he didn't know the name of, possibly one he'd been playing earlier before he went to sleep. "I've never been told I'm a rubbish helper, except for when it came to helping my sister with getting things from high up on shelves, because I'm not exactly a giant. Kinda like how Donut is, you know? He's really tall," Creepy thought out loud, his eyes opening wide for no reason, like this had been some sort of revelation or something like that. "Yes! Exactly," he continued with, that same grin forming back over his lips again, almost tempted to sit up and look to make sure there was no snow around, because he was so ready for it. But of course, there was no snow, much to Creepy's dismay. "Two of them: one before getting fucked up, then the other that we'd purposely mess up for the hell of it. Yes, I think that'd be perfect."

Creepy shrugged his shoulders up some, pulling his lower lip into his mouth briefly, then sighed out slowly. "Thank you! I've had a lot of practise, because Mum… she does a lot that pisses me and my siblings off. It's almost sad, really, but we'd always see who could impersonate her the best. My sister, Hannah, was the best at it, and my brother and I write it off as her being a female like Mum is, you know? So of course she'd be better at impersonating her voice and all," Creepy explained, rambling on about himself a bit too much, then he mumbled out a quiet apology and continued to listen to the rest of what Amelia said. "I agree. But I break rules more than I follow them. I blame being a teenager," he said with a mischievous sort of grin, one of his eyebrows quirking up after what he said.

"Definitely fun. Then after we make a mess of ourselves -- or I make a mess of myself, at least -- then we can run over the floors in our socks and slide! I did that at home, too, though Hannah always told me I was a moron for it. Like she'd never ran around and slid on the tiled floors," Creepy said, rolling his eyes at the thought of his older sister, who was always the ruder one of his two siblings. For a moment, Creepy thought of not even asking this next question, but he decided to go for it anyway; nothing bad could happen besides her telling him no, right? "These charts, will you let me see these ones? I've never been one to make charts for the hell of it… though, I suppose it's a hobby of yours more than anything else, right? Didn't we talk about this? I don't know. What's your favourite flavour of biscuit? Mum taught me how to make a lot! She said the chocolate chip ones were the best, though, and not so much my peanut butter ones. Shows what she knows! I quite enjoyed my peanut butter ones," Creepy scoffed, like he was bitter at his mother, but it was a joking one, for the most part. Talking about baking biscuits with Amelia and actually planning to do it was making him all… happy with excitement, and he normally didn't get excited easily. Oh, how he changed around different company.

Creepy's stomach was clenching up until Amelia mumbled out a wow, which he thought was by far her favourite word, if she hadn't told him her favourite already, and he took that as a good thing. It wasn't a curse word or a smack across the face, so anything that wasn't either one of those things were good to Creepy. What he hadn't expected was for Amelia to return the kiss, though more to the corner of his mouth than his cheek, and if Creepy could've put his hair over his face like it did all the time by itself while he was sitting upright and walking, he would've. Instead, he let out a small giggle, nodding his head in approval to… well, whatever that was. Friendly-like, he assumed, since it didn't seem to be anything more than that.

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part one
[info]gibbon
2008-04-13 11:51 pm UTC (link)
Amelia wasn't an expert, but she knew that girls randomly smacked guys over the head, or on the arm. Was this some sort of strange pre-mating ritual flirting? Or was it really anger? She herself wasn't one for violence when angry about something, she was more the type to go wallow away and ignore everyone. Not that that had ever been a problem before, as there weren't many people that she actually had to ignore in the first place. Now there was Creepy, but she certainly couldn't ignore him! But she couldn't tell him that this whole thing was exciting, either, for that was tuning into the emotions just a bit more than she thought she could admit.

Spacing out was something Amelia had the tendency to do, even when she was in the middle of a conversation. If she wasn't careful she'd up getting up and walking right back to the castle, getting lost in her thoughts and forgetting all about Creepy and how they had been having a few good minutes together. It wasn't a matter of her being bored with whoever she was talking to, for she didn't find a whole lot of things boring. It was more a matter of her need to figure things out on her own, to crawl back to the safety of being alone, where no one could bombard her with question upon question that she had been asked countless times but still didn't know how to answer. She noticed that Creepy was about to say something, and she did wonder it what it would have been. She stared at his lips, almost waiting for him to say whatever it was again, but instead he started over on a new topic. Hm. How to answer such a thing? She know how she should answer it, but could and should were often two different things.

"I suppose because I liked to see the way things could all match up with each other. Cans to cans, bottles to bottles. Red things to red things, blue things to blue things. It was often very boring at my house, so I had to find ways to entertain myself. It was lovely fun, that. But oh, the sugar! You should make sure to never put the sugar in a place where no one can find it. It's something that everyone likes to be aware of," she rattled on, not aware that she was rambling on about something that really had no point. But, alas, that was a habit. "Oh, cheers, you know. Like people cheer at Quidditch games, perhaps, only they would involve rolling down the stairs and landing in the splits." Did that make sense? No, most likely not. But what made sense anymore?

Aha! He had picked up on her ticklish spot, unknowingly to the both of them. It wasn't as though many people had wanted to come up and nip at her neck, so it was certainly understandable that she had just realized it was a sensitive spot. But, oh, wow, in the back of her mind she couldn't help thinking about the fact that Creepy now knew about this spot, so maybe he would take advantage of this knowledge sometime in the future? Would he want to do something like that? Would she be excited to have him randomly remember that her neck was sensitive and nip at it again? She was analyzing things again. Even if her face looked alert to what was going on, the wheels of her brain were still rolling around at a pace that probably wasn't entirely too healthy. It wasn't as though she were taking a test and having to remember things, where at least the wheels in her head would make sense. This was just Creepy and Creepy's mouth and Creepy was...well, Creepy.

She couldn't help but further speak on the arse-slapping matter, most likely making herself look as though she actually enjoyed such talk more than she did. Or maybe she really did enjoy talking about body parts, who really knew? "Hm, but you know, if my arse was numb and you were slapping it, I don't reckon that could be a whole lot of fun because I wouldn't be able to feel it," she pointed out, still staring at him as his head tilted and he laughed. "So maybe there will have to be slapping when it's numb, and then slapping again when it's over," she decided, coming to the conclusion that this was the perfect solution to the whole thing.

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part two
[info]gibbon
2008-04-13 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Did Creepy really like her enough to make so many plans with her? To not pretend that this hill adventure had never taken place? She didn't know, but she hoped he did. "Oh, yes! Because then we will have to try and be quiet so we don't wake anyone up! That will be an adventure all on it's own," she giggled, laughing harder at his snort. He snorted!

"Oh, good," she responded, still staring at him intently as her giggles about his snort vanished. There was still an urge to laugh inside her, as it was hard for her to disconnect from something that really amused her, but she managed to push it away as she pondered what that tune he was humming could have been. Fascinating, that! Was it something he had simply made up on his own, or was it something muggle? "A giant," she giggled. "I don't think you should be a giant! That would be much too tall, and you would constantly be smacking your head on things all the time. But you can always ask Donut to get things for you if you need them, and your sister could have, perhaps, climbed onto your shoulders!" Shoulder rides, also very interesting. "It would be perfect. I suspect the messy ones will be more exciting to look at." Her ears started intently listening to the tales of his family, and even if he didn't think it was very interesting, Amelia was fascinated and was hanging on his every word as though he was talking about why the world spun. "Your sister does have a better advantage, and that's not fair," she commented seriously, absorbed by the thought of impersonations now.

Amelia's eyebrows shot up and she started to grin again. Sock sliding! Messes! Falling, perhaps! Danger! Touching? Falling on top of each other? She had no idea where that thought came from, but it wasn't one she was in a hurry to dismiss. "I think everyone has done that, even your sister! Wow! But we have to make a really good mess, just so it's really slippery! No fake slipperiness," she giggled. She swallowed her giggles when she spoke again, and that blank look came over her face for a moment. She never talked about this. There were so many charts in her bedroom at home, and a bunch in her trunk at the foot of her bed here at Hogwarts, but she had never showed anyone the things she made charts on. Stupid things, random things, things that others probably never even noticed. There was a sad expression on her face, one that always made her look like she was going to start crying even if she wasn't going to. "Sure, I'll show you the one I make about biscuits," she answered a moment later, deciding that was a safe enough answer. "I'll use different colours for each of the biscuit types, but wow, peanut butter! I love peanut butter! So much better than chocolate!" she transitioned unintentionally into another topic. "Then you can owl your mum some our biscuits and you can show her that chocolate chip isn't always the best." The sad expression had completely disappeared into a look of joy.

She still had the look on joy on her face as she stared at him and arched her body upwards slightly, balancing her weight on all fours so Creepy was sort of trapped underneath her and she was giving him a look that could have just followed a snogging session. The only reason she was getting off of him was because she thought he may have been getting tired of having to balance her weight, especially after that (not-so?) friendly kissing match took place. But that didn't mean she was getting off him without making a show of it, however. She was leaning forward, accidentally (on purpose?) causing the collar of her nightgown to hang down in a way that would certainly allow wandering eyes to sneak a peek. If there happened to be any random eyes looking for a peek, of course. It didn't last too long, however, for she had been leaning down so she could plant a series of quick kisses on Creepy's neck and shoulder as she shifted her body over to the grass and curled it into a tiny little position. She wrapped her arms around her knees after moving her face back up and stared at Creepy.

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part one
[info]barbary
2008-04-14 02:32 am UTC (link)
Shifting underneath Amelia again, Creepy took notice (yet again…) at the way she stared at his lips, and in all of the films he'd even seen, didn't people usually do that because they wanted to kiss? Or was Creepy thinking far too much into these things to actually realise it meant nothing more than a simple stare? It wasn't like Creepy's lips were amazing or anything; they were just lips, but fuck. It didn't make sense to him. Girls didn't make sense to him, really. Besides, Creepy saw Amelia as a friend and friends didn't kiss in that way, did they? Fuck again. Creepy was overanalysing shit, like he always did. He gave up, he truly did.

Before now, Creepy had never thought of rearranging anything to see how they'd match up, but now that it was mentioned, the idea sounded perfect. How would they look without being so messy? Creepy's mother always tended to simply throw things into the cabinets without much thought, and the only thing she really paid attention to was… well, the sugar. Why, Creepy never knew, but his mother seemed to go bat shit over the fucking sugar. Like it was her lifeline or something: sugar, cigarettes, caffeine, and a lot of sleep. Creepy thought that sounded like the life he'd like to have, but his Mum was so unhappy, so he didn't want that at all; he liked be happy.

"That sounds. Interesting," Creepy said, having to pause to think of an appropriate word, but he didn't use that one in particular because Amelia did all the time. It did seem interesting. All Creepy did to entertain himself at home was bother his older siblings and try to avoid his mother at all costs, just so that he didn't get any verbal abuse, so to speak. "Well, it's fine if I know where the sugar is, because then it's not in a place where I can't find it. Just not everyone else. I'm not very worried about them not being able to find it, though, and I'm going to stop talking about sugar now," he concluded, nodding his head quickly and offered a smile to Amelia, doing as he said he would and stopped talking about sugar.

Hmm. Creepy wasn't really into Quidditch like everyone else seemed to be, but that probably didn't matter, because he didn't speak up on his slight-dislike of it very often. "That'd be cool! Like, yeah, I think so. I mean, how many people can make cheers out of rolling down stairs and landing in splits? I know I wouldn't be able to. But you. You can! And that's cool," Creepy rambled, doing exactly as Amelia had not even a minute earlier, then sighed at himself; he could be so embarrassing. Especially when he went off on a rant like that, about something so stupid.

Creepy's eyes opened wide at the thought of slapping Amelia's arse at least twice, and he had to do his best not to choke on his own breath that he took in, a giggle passing his lips to cover up his shock. "Well, that could work. Experimentation again, maybe?" he asked, trying to mask any sign of shock or maybe looking-forward-to-ness that he could've felt. Okay, Creepy was a bit of a pervert, but he fully put the blame onto Donut. No doubt. Donut was the perviest one of them all!

Amelia's giggle was contagious and made Creepy giggle as well, though not as long, and he simply nodded to her comment about keeping quiet so they didn't get caught. With Creepy's luck, they wouldn't get anywhere before they were caught and he had to deal with any detentions or punishments, because he couldn't get out of shit easily. Creepy was also a horrible liar, too, so. Maybe it was best if they were as quiet as a mouse. Yes, that phrase fit perfectly! Though mice were sometimes loud, from Creepy's experience, but whatever.

"I wouldn't want to be a giant… I'd feel so tall and just. No. I like the height I am, most of the time, though others, I want to be as tall as the sky so I can touch the clouds and stars. But that's gay, so I'm not going to say that ever again," Creepy said, offering Amelia another smile, then quirked up one of his eyebrows after he spoke and shrugged his shoulders up briefly. "I've never done a shoulder ride, though! Maybe I should one day, with someone who can pick me up. I think it sounds fun, too!"

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part two
[info]barbary
2008-04-14 02:33 am UTC (link)
Creepy nodded yet again and completely let his body relax against the grass, the hand in Amelia's hair falling from it and onto the ground, his other one still on her back and making small movements. "Yes, really slipperiness. I think we just need to have a flour fight and be done with it," Creepy decided, a giggle passing his lips at the image he got of he and Amelia throwing flour at each other for the hell of it, then he sighed to himself and kept his eyes on the girl. The look of almost-thoughtfulness scared Creepy for a moment, because he was used to them talking without any awkward silences or anything and the sad expression didn't help matters, but she continued on within a moment and stopped his fear of her hating him or something. "That sounds great. Peanut butter should be brown, I think," Creepy suggested, but he assumed it would be anyway, because of its colour. Peanut butter had always been one of Creepy's favourites, although many more people preferred chocolate chip over it, but they didn't matter; they could have their opinions. Again, no use in bitching about people having different tastes.

Once Amelia was on all fours above Creepy, he felt like he was missing the warmth he had before, which he was, but he wasn't going to actually make her get back into place. His hand was still running over Amelia's back, slower now, and their eyes locked together, almost like they were talking with them instead of actually doing so verbally. Their expressions matched, kind of, and it made Creepy's stomach flutter out of nervousness, and he didn't get nervous, most of the time. Oh, Merlin. Such confusion still! Creepy looked down briefly and saw that the collar of Amelia's nightgown was down some, and it caused him to cough now, seeing something(s) he probably shouldn't have seen -- or not yet, at least -- and he quickly diverted his attention elsewhere.

The attention he'd put somewhere else didn't last long because of the series of kisses to his neck and shoulder, which caused him to giggle and shake his head, closing his eyes as the smile stayed at his lips, looking over to Amelia after a moment of just breathing deeply. He would've returned the favour, but he was sure that it wasn't needed. "Let's get back to the castle," he mumbled, then stood up and picked Amelia up with him, though he didn't keep her held in his arms for long. He glanced around for the slippers he'd thrown down, but he couldn't seem to find them, so he was fine without them for the moment; tomorrow (or when he woke up again would be more appropriate), he'd be worried, but not now. They didn't matter.

Taking Amelia's hand into his own again, Creepy led the two of them up the steep hill, having a bit of trouble himself, but not all that much, really. It wasn't that hard, after all. It was only walking up a hill. But he kept his hand locked with Amelia's the whole way, eventually letting their fingers link together, a soft squeeze being given, because he could. Now that he was stood up again and his hair wasn't kept back from being lying down for a while, it was in his face without a second thought, kind of, causing him to roll his eyes at it. Oh well, it made Creepy… well, himself.

Most of the walk back was quiet, minus the few noises of the night that were natural, and Creepy had to help Amelia back up into the window, then pulled himself up as well. The whole thing of being separated from Amelia was almost sad now, since they'd spent so much time together within the span of a few hours (or he assumed it was), but they had to eventually. After mumbling that she'd better get back to her own dorm, though reluctantly, Creepy closed the window again and carefully tiptoed over to the side of his bed, hand linked with Amelia's again and he hadn't realised he did that, but he did and he stopped her from moving further. Leaning forward, Creepy pressed his lips to Amelia's cheek again, letting her hand go while he did that and then giggled almost-nervously, pushing her gently over to the door and let her leave. Afterward, Creepy hopped back into bed and lied down, soft sighs passing his lips, getting to sleep fairly easy now. Easier than earlier, at least.

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