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Lin was very tempted to just zone out into deep meditation that was common for elves. When it was a very stressful situation and elves needed some insight, they meditated.

However, as soon as Dymetri's deep, entrancing voice spoke to her, she was lost, and not in a meditative trance. Even when she had fought with him when she had first met him, his voice and his presence had affected her. She had just been so stubborn and fought against the feelings so hard that she could keep a somewhat clear head around him.

But now, she had given herself over to him and allowed him to affect her completely. She actually even sometimes liked allowing him to make her mind fuzzy, so that she didn't have to worry like she usually did. It was just so exhausting to worry like that all the time! It was hard not to, though, unless she was forced to.

And then when he had cupped her face and said he kind of liked how he was rubbing off on her, making her into a rule breaker, she just about melted into him. Of course she was becoming a rule breaker. When she had given herself over to Dymetri, had fallen completely in love with him, she was already breaking every rule of her people... every rule of nature. Light and dark did not mix, except to create shadows, and shadows always hid things from view. Shadows concealed the truth.

She didn't care, though. It would be so much worse if she went back to how things had been before, when she had fought so much with Dymetri. She would not go back to that.

She was about to reach her hands up to dig her hands into Dymetri's soft, dark hair. When things intensified like this between them, she always felt like doing... something, but she didn't know what. She didn't know what that feeling was inside of her or what she should do with it. She only knew that it occurred when Dymetri was very close to her like this and he spoke to her the way he was now.

But usually, right when she would almost do something, he pulled away. Just like he had now. He had gone to lie back on her bed.

She was about to comment on the other things he had said when he spoke up about a note he had found in his pocket. If another girl had slipped a note in his pocket again, asking him to meet her in her room for some 'incredible fun', she was.... she was.... well, she wasn't sure what she was going to do, but it wasn't going to be very elven like! So many students around here threw themselves at Dymetri, both females and males alike! I mean really! He was a professor! It was highly inappropriate!

And no, she was not going to focus on the complete hypocrisy of her thoughts.

However, when Dymetri said something about her having trustworthy friends, Lin was completely taken aback. That was not what she had expected him to say.

She quickly went over to her bed, sat next to him on it, and leaned over his body to read the note.

A few seconds later, Lin was smiling. "Oh my... Athena... how extraordinary about her. I would not have guessed."

She then looked down at her hands in her lap and frowned. She had been so cruel to her roommate. Just because she had found out that her roommate, her first friend at this school, was half demon, she had started to avoid Athena as much as she could. She had never said anything cruel to her, but the avoidance was bad enough.

And now this. She was keeping hers and Dymetri's secret. She wasn't going to try and get back at her, use this information to her advantage. She felt so horrible...

Shintero Walked up to the main entrance of the school seeing the building whole for the first time. It had been about a month since the last time he was at the school. He had decided to go on a little trip and now had 4 swords sitting on his back, one of them being quite large. He looked up and the renewed building "Wow the school looks amazing." He said as he remembered his first day of how many parts of the school where still in ruin. His stomach rumbled and so he decided to head to the cafeteria to get some food. He stopped outside of the door to the cafeteria as he heard several voices inside and soon after lin and what looked to be a vampire exit the room together. "An elf.......with a vampire??" He then walked into the cafeteria and saw Danni standing their. "Yo long time no see. Got any grub left? I'm starving." He sat down at the nearest table.

(I'm going to bring kindra in later as i have no motivation to roleplay her at the moment xP)

Cook grinned at Alec, patting his stove affectionately. "Aint no better food in the world, boy-o, and don't you forget it." He said, then glopped more potatoes onto the boy's plate. "Eat up, boy, you're too skinny as it is." He said, waving his spatula at him.

Danni laughed along with Night, but it was a cold laugh. "Oh yes...Take a look at these..." She murmured, silently passing him the magic pictures she'd taken of Lin and teh teacher. Then she turned to Athena, raising a brow before reaching behind her and pulling a tray of food from the breakfast bar. "You need a meal, girl. You look ready to fall over." She remarked, shaking her head. Then, when Shintero came in as well, she smiled, grabbing another tray. "Just for you, boy-o. Almost missed breakfast." She said lightly, then made her way back into her kitchen, frowning when she thought of how Professor Valen had laughed at her, made a point of saying these weren't her kitchens.

With a scowl, she took back the pictures from Night and looked through them. They were good, she thought, very good. Enough to have the b*****d out on his a** and goody two shoes with him. But as much as she may want to, Danni couldn't bring herself to destory someone that way. With a curse at her own conscience, she scrawled out a letter, clipped it to the whole stack of pictures, and performed a teleportation spell on them. In the blink of an eye, they went from her hands to Dymetri's.

The note said 'My kitchen, my rules. Next time, these aren't going back to you, boy-o.' On impulse, she added the last sentences, 'Don't you hurt her, dammit. Goody goody elves are too good and fragile for us dark magic users.' She scowled, wondering why she even cared, when she thought of the evidence she'd just given him, shook her head. If the b*****d took advantage of the little elf, it was none of her business as long as he stayed out of her kitchens.

With a sigh, Danni finished washing the dishes, then froze when she saw the tiem on the clock above the door. "Oh, hell." She said, and snapped her fingers. Just as the clock turned to 9:56 she appeared in the doorway to the classroom, grinning triumphantly as the bell rang. "Ha! No detention today." She said, pleased with herself. However, she slowly tensed, little by little, when she heard a muffled giggle, and then "Congratulations, Isadora, I thought you'd be spending all year in detention the way you were going." Taking a deep breath, Danni turned to see her older sister Lia sitting at a desk, Ambrose next to her.

Oh, God, she thought, immediately stalking to the back of the room, her mood shattered. What did I do to deserve this? Was it because I scared freshman? Or because I frequently go to hell? But there's no decent reason to sic that thing on me! Oh, Jesus...

Lin had actually not heard Dymetri's words this time. She was still so engrossed with her own thoughts on how badly she had treated Athena.

Night phased through the wall behind Danni hovering behind her Darkly as he normally appeared in the classes. He looked over the class spotting the two light using siblings of Danni's. "Oh god not them," He told her mentally, watching the annoyingly Bright mooded Lia, "Little witch should be pushed into a Dark mana pit, See how she likes the other side of magic." Night scowled in his mind. He sent Danni the thought of those famous pits that could change a person's alignment with magic in a heartbeat. "All we would have too do is Get her too hell some how ... The the spirit plains, Those work well also."

Alec smiled wide as he saw his various students enter the room. He saw that Danni showed up before the bell, which was a good sign. Although he did detect a bit of malice towards the other two students who had shown up before her. He logged this away for later use as more students began to appear. One teleported onto another young man's lap, which Alec thought was quite funny and chuckled to himself along with the rest of the class. The entrance he was quite impressed with was one young man who made his own little opening in the wall and shot into the room with a large gust of wind. Alec raised an eyebrow and clapped for the young man on his nice landing. "Nice landing dude! And you're on time! Brownie points for you!" Alec smiled as he watched the young man find an empty seat.

As the clock hit 10, the bell tolled throughout the newly rebuilt school, and Alec got up from his seat and began to speak to the class in a loud and friendly tone. "Alright, I'm glad to see that most of you are already familiar with the magic that you use. That's good! It'll give me less work to do!" Alec laughed along with a few other students who chuckled at his statement. Alec walked around to the front of his desk and took a seat on it. "Ok, let's get the boring stuff out of the way first, alright? My name's Alec Leaton. You all can call me Alec, or Al if you like. But if you p*** me off, you WILL call me Professor Leaton." Alec emphasized this last statement with a more meaningful and ominous tone to make sure the class knew he was serious. Alec looked over the class and noted the looks of acknowledgment on their faces. "We clear? Good." Alec then motioned over towards the small Wyvern sitting on the new wooden perch set up on Alec's desk. "And this little guy is Onyx." Alec took a quick moment to scratch Onyx's head, and Onyx leaned into it and cooed appreciatively. "He's one of my best friends. Don't tick him off, his temper is worse than mine." At this, anybody looking at the small wyrm would swear that he made a mischievous grin at the entire class. Alec smirked at this as he continued with his speech. "Now, just so you all know, this class is going to be a fairly loose class. I don't swear by most spell books, I personally think they're too long, have way too fine a print, and over explain things. I don't like paper work, so there's not going to be a lot of homework, and your tests will mostly be practicals that I set up at each of your desks. That sound ok to you?" Alec looked around the room, nodding his head as some of the students made hand movements and gestures like they just won something. Alec smiled, knowing all too well that his class was still going to be hard.

Alec put his hands in his pockets as he continued with his opening speech. "Good! But just so you know, your tests are going to be worth most of your grade." Alec smirked as he saw the previously happy faces turn sour at this news. Alec chuckled slightly as he kept going. "Right, now that the intro's out of the way, I'm going to lay down the ground rules for the course. I don't have many, so be cool, alright?" Alec began to tick the rules off on his fingers as he listed them.

"Number one: no fighting in my class. Leave that for combat class or take it out in the woods."

"Number two: no lying around me. This is by FAR my biggest pet peeve. I don't care if your covering for a friend, or if you're trying to skip out on class. If you lie to me, I will crack down on you harder than you would think is ethical of a teacher. I want you all to be open and honest while you're in this room, we've got nothing to hide here. If you're running late or if you want to skip a class, just come to me and tell me about it. Odds are I'll let you go as long as you make up the work some other time, alright?"

"Number three: no judging your classmates. I don't care if you're a black mage and the guy next to you is a cleric. If you try and start something based on stupid prejudices, I will personally kick your a** six ways to Sunday. You don't have to like each other, but as long as you're in my class you WILL respect each other. We're all here to learn." Alec made an eye motion towards Danni who was sitting near the front row. "And yes, I'm looking at you miss Danni." Alec smirked at her to ease off on the tension, but his eyes were telling her that he was serious.

"Final rule, and this is the biggie: What happens in class, stays in class. Odds are this class is going to involve a lot of things that the school board doesn't necessarily approve of, and it would be better for all of us if we kept what happens in here under wraps, ok?"

Alec looked around the class, waiting to see the reactions of the students to his rather long opening speech.

((I'll pause here so charas can write out their reactions to the whole deal and asks questions if they have them))