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Halo's Cast (cast_no_shadow) wrote in mistaken_pieces,
@ 2009-01-25 22:38:00

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! ip, - 2020 september, - teachers lounge, [player: halo], [player: mandy], acevona sumner, ariana silver, darl rayne, neville longbottom

September 25, 2020 - Teacher's Lounge
Who: Ari, Ace, open
When: Evening
Where: teacher's lounge
Status: Open, ongoing

While Ariana could have graded her papers in her room, or her classroom, or the small office that had been allotted to her that she knew she'd never use, she found the teacher's lounge to be infinitely more interesting. Tonight, she had a test to grade for her third year class, and she wasn't looking forward to the abyssmal results. Despite a change in her curriculum, Ari thought they still weren't really catching on.

Which meant another revision in her third year syllabus to slow things down further, and amendments in future years for the ones that stuck with the class.

Exhaling, she let herself into the teacher's lounge, and she offered a smile to the woman already there. One of the other new staff members - the healer. "Evening, Miss Sumner," she greeted her with a bit of a tease in her voice.

"To you as well, Miss Silver," Acevona returned with a grin. The Muggle Studies professor had proven to be one of the people that Ace liked upon meeting. They'd developed something of a friendship, and she found herself occasionally seeking out Ari for conversation when things got ... crazy in the infirmary.

She eyed Ari's work, and decided that - unless the professor wanted to chat - she'd leave her to her work. She did, however, get her a cup of tea. Perhaps someone else would roam in? Ace smiled as she settled back in her seat with the newest copy of a magazine dedicated to new advances in the healing field - very interesting reading, that.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-01-28 11:49 pm UTC (link)

"No, nothing like that," she assured Neville with a grin. "Just...an occasional bit of transfiguration or something. Nothing big," she said pointedly as she glanced to Acevona.

Ace had a very 'I'm not your mother but I wish I was' expression, and Ari had an idea of where it was heading. She'd gotten the lecture often enough from friends at the Ministry. "Nothing that will get me in trouble."

Ace lifted her hands defensively in an 'I said nothing' gesture of surrender. It did sound amusing, and if Ari really wanted to risk herself ... well, so be it.

"It's a real laugh," she assured Darl, since he, at least, seemed to appreciate the idea of it.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-01-29 04:39 pm UTC (link)

Darl nodded. "I wonder how they justify it," he mused lightly. "Likely half of them convince themselves they did it deliberately..."

He chuckled to himself, though he did feel vaguely guilty for being amused at the muggle magician's expense. It wasn't as though it was their fault that they didn't understand.

Neville grinned incredulously at Darl. "Well what would you do, if you were onstage in front of a crowd, and reached into a top hat intending to pull out a rabbit and pulled out a chicken instead?"

Darl raised a finger into the air triumphantly, and brought it down to point at Neville. "Exactly," he declared.

Neville chuckled to himself, and shook his head.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-01-29 04:47 pm UTC (link)

"I've actually done that before," she admitted, almost sheepishly. "But he was really good about the whole thing. A real showman. Made it up like he'd meant chicken the whole time." She paused. "Those sorts are the only ones I'd do that with. Not the real nervous ones, or the ones likely to be upset by it. Swear to Merlin," she said at Ace's look.

Ace shook her head. "I wash my hands of it. If someone from the Ministry happens to be there, it's on your head, Miss Silver."

"And what a pretty head it is," she said with a grin and a little laugh before she dropped her eyes to the papers she was pretending to grade.

Then, because she was feeling high spirited and just a little impish, she rolled her shoulders before reaching back one hand to rub at them while the other held her quill over the papers she was grading.

Ace lifted her magazine slightly to hide her smile. Good lord, the woman clearly had no shame at all.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-01-30 07:40 pm UTC (link)

Neville watched her movements, partially concerned. "Are you all right?" he inquired gently. "Sore shoulder?"

Darl turned to Ace with a small grin.

"The Ministry has no sense of humour," he declared. "Changing a rabbit into a chicken is hardly hurting

He didn't really believe that. Well. To a degree. But for the most part, he was just being difficult.

Neville rolled his eyes, deciding not to get into it with Darl, and stood up slowly looking mildly concerned. "I could try to rub out some kinks, if you'd like?"

He was only half as naive as he was pretending to be.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-01-30 08:15 pm UTC (link)

Ace snorted back a slight laugh, wondering if she should leave the pair of them alone. "Well, I'm sure it would give them a bit of a headache if they had to figure out how many people saw Ari's wand under the ... table."

She exhaled a faint sigh, then decided she'd spent too much time listening to the kids if she was thinking about wand jokes. Good lord. She did sneak a glance toward Ari and Neville, but she had a feeling she couldn't stay here and not giggle.

"I should ... probably go see if anyone else has managed to walk into a bludger today ..."

Ari tried not to grin, though Ace's repressed giggle wasn't helping. "Well, if you wanted to," she said to Neville. "I certainly wouldn't mind."

That comment eked another laughter-sound from Ace, and Ari glanced over toward her with a grin.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-01-30 11:12 pm UTC (link)

"I would hate to see you suffer," Neville said, perfectly calmly - as though he were stating a fact. Which really, he supposed he was.

Darl didn't catch on right away, but after turning his head from Ace to Neville and Ari a few times, he picked up on it, his understanding washing over his face along with the clear sense that things had just gotten awkward for him. He cleared his throat, and shuffled his feet a bit.

"Need a hand?" he offered to Ace. He didn't really intend to walk with her back to the infirmary - he just wanted an excuse to get out of there.

Neville was still pretending like he hadn't cottoned on yet, eyebrows up in an entirely innocent expression as he started to move closer to Ari so he could rub her shoulders.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-01-30 11:33 pm UTC (link)

"Certainly. If there's some poor student halfway between the infirmary and here, they might need to be carried." Nevermind that she could levitate them... they might need to be carried. "We'll see you two later," she said to them as she folded up the magazine to set it aside. Rising, she smiled to Darl.

She wasn't oblivious; she was fairly certain he was just using her as a convenient excuse to leave the pair of them alone.

She also thought that if they saw Lockhart, they should point him toward the teacher's lounge - and then she realized Ari was rubbing off on her. Since when was she a prankster on her own.

Ari lifted a hand to sweep her hair aside, pulling it over one shoulder to bare her shoulders to Neville. She grinned when she caught Ace's eye. "We'll see you later," she echoed. "Friday, if not before," she said a little pointedly. She didn't want Ace trying to back out of the date thing they had going on.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-01-31 03:52 am UTC (link)

Darl offered a wave as well, turning to follow Ace out of the room. He stretched a bit, flexing his hands.

When they were safely out of earshot, he turned to Ace and said, "Thanks for the excuse... but if you'd rather I not stalk you back to the infirmary, I'd understand," before he grinned a bit. "Unless you'd rather I repay you for your kindness by following you back? Make sure you don't run into any students causing mischief?"

He waggled his eyebrows a bit.

Neville - somewhat awkwardly at first - eased his hands onto her shoulders, rubbing them a bit weakly at first before he got the hang of it, pressing a bit harder. He tried to find the places where the muscles were tightest so that he could work on those - since he assumed they were likely what was paining her.

"Is this all right?" he asked her somewhat nervously.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-01-31 04:10 am UTC (link)

"She's incorrigible, really," Acevona murmured with a slight shake of her head. "And you're welcome to stalk me if you're so inclined. I might even have something a little more interesting than tea to drink."

She did have a couple of different bottles of wine, though she didn't actually imagine he'd be interested in hanging about with her.

Ari exhaled a contented sigh. "It feels good," she murmured as she shifted slightly to guide his hands where she wanted them. A soft, encouraging moan crossed her lips and then she wondered if that was a bit much.

Well, she'd see how he'd reacted to that, and go from there.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-01-31 08:37 pm UTC (link)

He grinned. "Tempting offer. I may have to indulge myself," he said with an amused grin before glancing over his shoulder back in the direction of the teacher's lounge. "Well, I suppose there's something to be said for knowing how to get what you want," he said with a shrug.

He paused briefly, a smile crossing his lips. "Does it still count as stalking if you've invited me along and are fully aware of my presence? Should I duck into the shadows to hide?" a series of intermittent chuckles left him as he contemplated that.

It might have been a bit much, and Neville chuckled slightly, but he moved his hands where she indicated. He was comfortable enough with how things were progressing, he didn't feel the need to stop. Wasn't the purpose of this so that she would enjoy herself?

"Better?" he asked, once he'd moved his hands.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-01-31 09:59 pm UTC (link)

Ace thought about that as she started away from the lounge down the hall toward the infirmary. "Yes," she decided. "It still counts as stalking. Shadow hiding is just... extra credit," she continued with a faint smile.

She opted not to comment on his assessment of Ari getting what she'd wanted, but instead simply smiled.

"Much better," Ari decided. "How long do you think you can keep that up for?" she inquired, a bit of an impish grin on her lips before she leaned forward to let him get at more of her back - if he was interested, of course.

She wouldn't abuse this, of course ... but as long as he was inclined, and willing, she certainly had nothing against his hands being on her back.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-02-01 12:56 am UTC (link)

"Extra credit?" Darl asked, grinning with amusement. "Well, in that case, perhaps I should attempt it."

He paused. "On second thought, perhaps not. I'm not terribly stealth. I'd imagine you'd see me."

He rather thought himself to be quite funny.

"Until my arms get tired," he reasoned, voice tinged with amusement. "Though I'm not sure when that would be," he said, genuinely answering her question. "I don't give extended massages very often."

Or at all really, but she seemed to be appreciating it. He started to move his hands further down her back, pressing his hands into the muscles.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-02-01 01:08 am UTC (link)

Ari yelped then giggled as he happened to find one of the odd ticklish places on her back. "Sorry," she said as she glanced back over her shoulder at him. "It's the angle. This works much better when I'm laying down."

And while she meant that in a completely non sexual way, she made the jump to the sexual pretty easily, and at least had the good grace to blush.

"You ... not stealth? Really?" Ace smiled over to Darl. She herself happened to be fairly stealth.

But she happened to be a lot of things. A hunter, a public relations person for a very secret organization, a poisons mistress, and a little bit of an assassin. And now, a healer at Hogwarts.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-02-01 02:45 am UTC (link)

He raised an eyebrow, making note of the spot so that he wouldn't accidentally tickle her again, but perhaps he would tickle her on purpose next time.

"Do you often do this lying down?" he inquired innocently, but the smirk on his lips gave away that he knew exactly what he was asking.

"Hard to believe, I know," Darl said, nodding almost sadly. "But I'm afraid I just haven't got the knack for it. I'm a far to obvious person. And my beauty," he gestured to his face, as though being humble. "Well. It's distracting in and of itself. You can hardly blame me for not being able to walk around unnoticed."

He grinned at her in a joking manner to let her know that he was kidding. Mostly. At the very least he was exaggerating.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-02-01 02:57 am UTC (link)

"I do a lot of things lying down," she said, with just a hint of a seductive edge to her voice. "Maybe you'll find out about a few of them sometime."

Recovered from the tickling, Ari closed her eyes and tried to relax under his hands. It was difficult, because she was trying not to think about what it would feel like to have his hands on her bare skin. That train of thought was going no where good, and she did try to derail it.

"I did notice that, yes," Ace murmured. "There were all sorts of complaints about you always winning the hottest professor award at the end of term feasts. It's so distracting it's almost ... mesmerizing."

She grinned lightly to him before she gestured toward the infirmary. Of course, if he was inclined to head elsewhere, she'd be fine with that. Though she wouldn't mind the company, either.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-02-02 01:33 am UTC (link)

Darl was momentarily taken off guard. "Really?" he asked, a bit of a smug smile in place. "They talk about me?"

Belatedly, he realized that had probably been a joke, and he hastened to make it appear as if he'd known that all along. But his awkward weight shifting, change in expression, and clearing of throat probably gave him away.

He glanced to the infirmary, decided that yes, he did have a bit of time to kill, and nodded his head, gesturing that she should go first and planning to follow her in.

Neville chuckled. "Perhaps," he said as he continued to move his hands over her back, but he didn't think that that would be tonight, at any rate. That would be moving far too fast for his liking. He thought he'd like to take things a bit slower.

But he was enjoying giving her this massage, and providing her pleasure in that way. So maybe in the foreseeable future.

And then he wondered if he was getting ahead of himself. She may have just been... joking. Maybe she had no interest in pursuing a relationship other than platonic.

Maybe he was as naive as he was pretending to be, he thought with a small smirk.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-02-02 01:43 am UTC (link)

Ace grinned lightly as she stepped into the infirmary. "Well, they do talk about you," Acevona agreed as she gestured him through the infirmary proper and up toward her quarters. Everything was up there, after all. "Do you prefer white or red wine?" She paused. "Or something a little harder?" She was moderately pleased that Ashley had been a wine drinker - there was a nice wine rack with a pair of glasses that the former healer had left behind.

Ari smiled lightly, her eyes closing. She did sigh softly, contently, and she sort of wondered if he would keep going indefinitely, but she also wasn't really inclined to ask him to stop.

Still, it might be best to move this sort of thing out of the teacher's lounge. Arching her back, she straightened a little as she glanced over her shoulder to him. "Thank you," she murmured, hazel eyes gleaming almost playfully.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-02-02 07:57 pm UTC (link)

He smirked a bit. "Wine's fine for now," he said with a nod. "Red, if you have it." But he reasoned that she wouldn't have offered if she didn't. He still had a vaguely bemused expression in place.

"Isn't that something," he said quietly. "I never would've thought myself the type to start those kinds of rumours among the students," he grinned. "Should I be flattered or concerned?"

He took that as his cue to stop, and though he kept his hands resting on her back for a moment, he did drop them after a moment. He flexed his fingers briefly before dropping his hands into his lap, and smiling at Ari.

"Feel better?" he asked lightly. Then, "Glad I could help."

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cast_no_shadow
2009-02-02 09:51 pm UTC (link)

"Students? Oh, no. I meant the professors." She smiled to Darl before she slipped the wine glasses off the rack filling each half full with the red wine before offering him one. "Have a seat," she murmured, gesturing around the room. There were a couple of chairs, positioned to be convenient places to converse from.

"Definitely feel better," Ari murmured to him as she stretched and straightened completely before reaching for her quill again. The papers weren't going to grade themselves, after all.

"Let me know when I should return the favor," she said to him quietly, glancing over to him.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-02-03 07:18 am UTC (link)

He was mildly taken aback again, and couldn't decide if he thought that Ace was joking or not, and shifted his weight somewhat uneasily from foot to foot before he accepted the offered seat and glass of wine.

"That so?" he said with a vague sort of smirk, swirling the glass absently before taking a sip. "Mmm. This is good, where'd you get it?" he asked conversationally.

He smiled, nodding his head and absently wishing that he'd brought his own papers to grade - but he supposed that he could just as easily grab one of the offered magazines and sit here and talk to her if she was inclined that way - and just read the magazine if she wasn't. So he did that, nodding to her slightly.

"I will," he assured her. Though he wondered in a vague sort of way if he would have the guts to ask her if something came up.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-02-03 09:15 am UTC (link)

"That's so," she agreed, though her grin may have made a liar of her before she sipped her own wine. "I don't know, actually. Madame Wolffe left it here when she vacated the premises, but I believe she did say it was elven made wine."

Speaking of, she wondered how far along Ashley was, and if they'd be hearing about a baby soon. But likely not that soon, she reasoned, if it had been late spring. Shaking off her thoughts, she smiled to Darl.

Ari glanced over to Neville with a little smile. She wondered if that was the sort of 'I will' that was stated simply to placate the other party, with no intended follow-through behind it.

Well, either way. She turned her attention back to her papers, content enough to pass the evening quietly in his company.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-02-03 10:36 pm UTC (link)

"Elven made?" he raised an eyebrow curiously, sniffed at the wine and took another sip as though he expected it to have changed now that he knew it's origins. "Curious. Don't know that I've ever had it before..."

He reasoned he probably had. His father had liked to pretend that they had something worth boasting about, and likely would've splurged at a party or two. But he didn't really like thinking too much about that.

He had been too preoccupied with the possibility that he might have admirers to have noticed her sneaky grin - though at this point he was rather entertained by the notion. He smiled slightly to himself.

"Were you - ah - familiar with Madam Wolffe then?" he asked curiously. He assumed as much - if she hadn't been, she likely wouldn't be offering him the other woman's wine.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-02-03 10:52 pm UTC (link)

She nodded. "I met her during the tournament, and we stayed in touch after that. I suppose there was a bit of string-pulling involved to get me in here," she said with a little chuckle before she sipped her own wine.

She did wonder if he'd known about the misfiring curse box, then reasoned he probably hadn't heard. And she wasn't exactly in a rush to reveal anything about that. It was - sadly - still an unsolved mystery. She reasoned it was related to the incident, but had no proof either way. "I knew her husband as well. The former librarian?" She smiled. "And I imagine when they have their baby, I'll hear about that as well."

Though that reminded her she should probably write to Ash, see how she and Ben were doing.

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unrulybehaviour
2009-02-03 11:46 pm UTC (link)

He smiled warmly. "Nothing wrong with a bit of string-pulling," he said, his tone suggesting agreement - as though he'd just been talking about how he pulled a few strings to get here himself. "Hogwarts is a truly wonderful place to be - at any age. It's no wonder the old students are pushing to get back in to teach!" he said before he chuckled a bit.

He realized that he was half assuming that she had been a student here, and really didn't know if she had been or not. He sipped lightly at his wine before he felt compelled to make a big deal out of apologizing for any possible offence she might have taken to that.

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cast_no_shadow
2009-02-03 11:59 pm UTC (link)

She chuckled softly. "Well, we've got to get our teachers from somewhere. Stands to reason they'd be from here." She paused. "Ashley was from Beauxbatons though," Ace murmured. "Maybe it was the accent that had all the school boys ... crushing on her?"

Her head tilted before she took another sip of her wine. "I think I'm glad I don't have that particular issue," she decided.

She studied him curiously for a moment. "Which house were you?"

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