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 Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:57 pm
Dec. 21, 12:50pm, Seventh Floor
"Sorry for doing that, sis", Gumi said. "But I just don't-"
"You-", Jade started, turning to her sister. "Did any of what Dumbledore said just now even penetrate your skull?!", she said, knocking on Gumi's head. Jade's face was now red and her eyes were hazel, which Gumi knew was a sign the Jade was beyond pissed. She began to walk. "Jeez! When are you gonna wake up and start using your brain? We are still in the middle of a war, girly."
Gumi's face fell. "I'm sorry. I- I just-".
"You just wanted to show that you were better", Jade said, turning to face her sister. "God, I know that we have powers most people here couldn't comprehend if they had a millenia, I get that. But we don't have to rub it in their faces whenever we want to."
Gumi just stood in place, silent and ashamed.
"Honey, you're my only sister and I will always love you, you know that, right?", Jade said, walking back over to Gumi and placing both hands onher shoulders. Gumi gave a weak nod. "I have always and will love you, but you have to start using your brain and think. Not about how you're gonna defeat the next person who tries to kill you, but how your actions, right now, can and will impact your life. Do you want to be known as an ignorant show off all the time we are in school?" Gumi gave a weak shake of the head. "Ok. I only tell you these things because I love you. That and the fact that I won't be around forever, and neither will you, and I don't want you to always look to me for what to do next. I mean, sure, I'd like to be able to tell people one day, 'Yep, that's my sister, and I taught her that'. But the thing that I most would want to be able to say is, 'Yep, that's my sister, and I didn't teach her that, she found out how to do it on her own.'"
Gumi just stood in place, still not talking. Jade put her arm around her and they started walking. "Hey, at least I'm still better than you at the duck and roll", Gumi said, looking at Jade with a hopeful look.
"Yeah, that you are", Jade replied, giving Gumi a semi-tight hug.
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:31 pm
Dec. 21, 12:52 pm, Seventh Floor
Kagumi easily slipped out of the hug and smiled. Putting her arm around her sister, they walked in comfortable silence. Until they saw a tapestry down close to the Divination trapdoor. It was a portrait of Sir Cadogan, sitting heavily on his pony. But in the background, there was a bluish dragon with what looked like a girl with long hair on it’s back. Kagumi paled, and pointed it out to the crazed knight.
“Sir! Good Sir!”
The knight awoke from a seeming snooze. “Yes, my dear lass?”
“What ever is that behind you?!” The crazed knight look round and, seeing nothing, ran off to find “the scoundrel,” as he dubbed it. Kagumi leaned in and beckoned the Dragon closer. “You…” she whispered. “You stay out of sight of every portrait in this castle or you’ll regret it, girl.” The dragon flapped it’s wings and sped off through the backgrounds of several portraits, until it reached the end of the hall.
Kagumi's skin seemed to regain a bit of it’s color and Jade’s nervous sweat subsided. They leaned against each other’s foreheads and let the waves of fear dwindle down into the slight fear always with them. Kagumi spoke, her eyes still closed.
“We mention this…to no one,” the vehement whisper came out like a magical blast as the air around the two grew hotter and hotter until the edges of their robes began to smolder. Jade placed a hand on Kagumi's burning skin and the heat was gone as mysteriously as it had come.
“We can’t go losing control like that, sis…and you know it. It’s far too risky,” Jade said in a soothing voice, not unlike the waves of the ocean. Kagumi looked up and repaired their robes with a wave of her hand; neither of them noticing the old candelabra twitch as they walked past. As soon as they had rounded the corner, it was gone. Nor did they notice the ghost’s head poke out of the ceiling, smiling wanly and in fear.
Dec. 21, 12:54 pm, Dumbledore’s Office
Nearly Headless Nick came bursting through the wall right behind the desk and stopped, his head hanging half-off in his excitement. “Headmaster! There is something you ought to know…”
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:18 pm
Dec. 21, 1:00pm, Dumbledore’s Office
"I see", Dumbledore said, after listening to Nearly Headless Nick's story. "I see. We'll they are twins, though not identical, but twins nonetheless, it makes sense for that to happen. Hmm, thank you, Sir Nicholas." Nick bowed and floated back through the wall. "Hmm, one's a fire and the other is a water. Well, it would make sense as they are sisters, hmm, then they are both from her then, one of the moon, which is the water, and the other of the sun, which is the fire."
Dumbledore continued to talk to himself out loud while pacing in his study.
Dec. 21, 6:30pm, Great Hall, Rent Rehearsal
After Dumbledore stated that they were to go over the scenes again, as to accommodate Gumi and Jade's 'situation', they went back and did all of the scenes that they have done, which were the Life Cafe, Light My Candle, Angel's Funeral and You're What You Own scenes.
Dec. 21, 11:45pm, Great Hall, Rent Sets
"Very good, very good, nicely done", Dumbledore said, at the end of the last take on Angel's Funeral. "Ms. Falcon, I would definatly say that your vocals have improved, significantly."
"Thank you, Professor Dumbledore", Jade said with a smile.
"Alright", Dumbledore said in an announcing tone. "All of the cast has been automatically signed up to sing in the Hogwarts Christmas Festival, and as such, you will be singing and dancing to carols and other songs, each of you will get your schedules tomorrow", he continued. "Ms. Jadalycya Falcon will be preforming along with the Hogwarts Choir." Everyone applauded. "Also, we will also be performing a scene from Rent on Christmas Night. That scene is going to at the Life Cafe and we will also be singing 'Seasons of Love', after the performance." Dumbledore then looked at his watch. "Ok then, Jade, take over with the clean up, please", he said, gathering up his things and leaving.
"Alrighty, listen up!", Jade said loudly, taking out her clipboard and standing in front of them all. "You all know your jobs, so get to getting!"
Everyone scattered and began set clean up. Harry at one point passed in front of Jade and she stopped him to whisper in his ear. He nodded with excited eyes, gave her a kiss and continued cleaning up.
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:16 pm
Dec. 21, 11:48 pm, Great Hall, Rent Sets
Kagumi looked at her sister wearily after shrinking three of the sets down. Kagumi looked over in the corner to search for Draco, but couldn’t find him. Instead, she saw an extra dressing curtain that she had never seen before in Hogwarts, though it was intimately familiar to her. She motioned her sister over without taking her eyes off of the odd object. Jade came over with a sigh and poked her sister.
“When did we get a new dressing screen? Especially that one in particular?”
“What?” She followed Kagumi's finger to the corner, to where the screen was. Her twin was shaking like a leaf on a tree and when Jade saw what she was pointing at, she was as frightened.
“What the - -”
The screen was silk, folded following an Oriental design, and pictured stitches forming a print in bright threads. It illustrated two falcons, carrying a ying-yang. However, there were two pieces missing. The outline and the middle section that separated the two halves were both missing. The Ying-Yang wasn’t black and white either, the traditional colors. Instead, one half was a pale blue, almost like the color of a blue moon. And the other was a deep fiery red - yellow mixture. Of course, each half contained a small circle of the opposite color, as all ying-yangs do. On the silver background of the silk cover, the two missing pieces were painfully obvious. Each bird carried her own half and faced each other.
Jade looked around nervously and her skin was unusually pale. Kagumi waved her trembling hand and the screen disappeared with a wisp of blue and silver smoke. Jade put her arm around her sister, who was still shaking and led her away from the corner. Draco jogged up to them, kissing Kagumi's cheek; he pulled back when she gave no reaction and he felt her clammy skin.
“Hey sweetie, sorry…Is something wrong?” Kagumi stared ahead with glassy sapphires, seeing nothing as her head buzzed with past warnings. Jade spoke up.
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:35 pm
Dec. 21, 11:52pm, First Floor, Girl's Bathroom
"Gumi", Jade said, looking as is she was going to have an attack or something. "Take me to the bathroom, please?"
"Sure, come on", Gumi said, leading Jade out of the Great Hall and into the nearest girl's bathroom. Gumi stood Jade in the middle of the room, where she swayed a bit.
"I'm not doing it", Jade said, with a scared look on her face. "I almost died last time, and I am not doing it now."
"How do you know that's why we keep getting hints?", Gumi asked. Without a response, Gumi put her hand on the back of Jade's neck, which was burning hot. "Oh, Gods, you're completely exposed, you're spot's burning up. Wait here."
Gumi ran from the bathroom, only to return with a small piece of chalk, a lit blue candle and a piece of paper. Gumi drew a pentacle on the floor, along with circle around it, with a moon in the middle of the pentacle and some other symbols, she then stood Jade in the center on top of the moon. She tipped the candle over and the chalk circle, lit up in blue flames, then Gumi spoke. "Lasciare questo fuoco di blu, oh, fresco e luminoso, per ritornare ciò che deve essere sostituito, in come tale, rinnovare la luna, a lei il palcoscenico più capace", Gumi said, her voice echoing around the room.
As she finished, the blue flames became stiff and turned into a wall. A moment after the flames turned into a solid wall, they cracked and dissolve into whisps of blue odor-less smoke. Jade was still standing in the same spot Gumi had put her, but the pentacle and symbols were now gone. "Jade?", Gumi asked.
Jade shook her head. "Hubbala!", she said. "Sheesh! Did you have to use so much force? I almost had to repel it just to stay standing."
"Well, what do you expect?", Gumi asked. "Your spot was on fire. What was I suppose to do, wait for you to turn catatonic before you snapped out of it?"
"No", Jade said, now standing next to Gumi. "But we still might wanna find Lunara and examine that sheet."
"But, I got rid of it", Gumi said.
"No, I left the imprint of it", Jade said. "It's upstairs, in my closet. You go find Lunara and take her up to the Room of Requirement. I'll finish up with everyone else then I'll meet you up there after I put our stuff away and grab the sheet."
"Got it", Gumi said. "But, Lunara might not pay attention to me, as she is your dragon."
"I don't think she'll be much trouble", Jade replied. "Now go."
Gumi nodded and scampered from the bathroom.
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:13 pm
Dec. 22, 12:03 am, Gryffindor Tower
Kagumi stood there, facing down the large, not yet fully grown bluish-silver female dragon standing in the center of her common room. Good luck for her then, that no one was up or awake…yet. With her wand out, Kagumi edged around from the portrait hole, not taking her eyes from the dragon’s.
The dragon began smoking at the corners of her snout and Kagumi ducked just as she blew a stream of fire at the spot Kagumi had been standing before she slung herself to the right.
“Now, now…C’mon, girl…it’s me. You remember me…Lunara…Come on. Just let me take you to sissy, please?”
The dragon roared then, quite loudly, before Kagumi had a chance to hit her with a silencing spell. She pointed her wand at all of the dormitory doors and whispered, “Colloportus,” which sealed them all rather tightly. There was banging on many of the doors and smoke was rising from a ruined table in the corner.
She ducked and rolled again, this time ending up almost directly under the dragon’s feet. “Gotcha! Stupefy!” The Stunner hit the Dragon directly in the belly and it keeled right over onto the circle of fluffy armchairs and pillows. Kagumi then shrank it and checked her smoking robes. Putting the unconscious dragon in her (considerably shorter) cloak, she panted down to the Room of Requirement.
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:41 pm
Dec. 22, 12:10am, Room of Requirement
Gumi had just enlarged Lunara when she had to dodge another jet of fire. "Whoa! You, stupid, son of a- !", Gumi yelled before she had to jump out of the way of yet another fire stream.
Just then, Jade came in, with the sheet that had the ying-yang on it, a large leather book with a ying-yang and a pentacle on it, a smaller book that looked to have a wooden cover and back and Tigra. "Lunara!", Jade yelled making the dragon turn towards her. "Knock it off!"
Lunara bowed to the floor as Jade walked over to her. She ran her hand along the dragon's spine, making it turn over so that Jade could rub it's belly. "Yeah, hey you, goofy Luny. You weirdo lizard, how you doin', huh?"
Lunara make almost a purring sound as Jade stroked her belly. "I told you that dragon wouldn't come quietly!", Gumi said heatedly.
"Gumi, careful, you don't wanna set your robes on fire again", Jade said, coolly, now setting the big book on the table and opening it to almost the middle of the book. "See? That's why I said I don't wanna do it again. Line 13."
Jade had pushed the book across the table to Gumi where she read the page open to her. "The Dragonriders, if unwilling to accept their challenge will receive signs, indicating that they must accept their challenge. First: their dragons will show up from out of nowhere when they least expect it. Second: they will receive a portion or symbol of their crest", Gumi read.
"The first two, we've already gotten", Jade said indicating the sheet on the table and Lunara, who was now playfully chasing Tigra around the Room of Requirement.
"No", Gumi said, "You've gotten them."
"Oh, really?", Jade said, pulling a small, limp red dragon from her pocket and carefully laying it on the floor and enlarging it.
"Laen!", Gumi said, running over and stroking the dragon's head, until its eyes opened. "Hey, there you are. There's my girl. What the heck did you to her?!"
"Hey", Jade said. "It was either knock her out and put her in my pocket, or have her be seen by everyone in the Great Hall and have to do a lot of explaining."
Gumi put on a face of acknowledgment and said, "You have a point."
"Thank you", Jade said. "Now, we have to figure out how to get out of our challenge."
"Well, can't we just say that we don't wanna do the challenge?", Gumi asked.
"Uh, no", Jade said, pointing to another line in the big book she had Gumi read from. "'If a Dragonrider states that they wish not to accept their challenge, their challenge will be brought to them.'"
"And when does that happen?", Gumi asked wearily.
"After the head of the Dragonrider Committee tries to take us to our challenge", Jade said. "Which, comes next."
Both Gumi's and Jade's faces went pure white.
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:14 pm
Dec. 22, 12:15 am, Room of Requirement
Kagumi gaped at her sister. “You don’t think they’d…Would they?”
Jade's eyes suddenly got as big as basketballs. "Oh, we gots to go", Jade said.
Nodding jerkily, Jade whipped her wand out and shrunk both dragons again. She tossed Laen to Kagumi who pocketed her red dragon. They opened the door after grabbing the huge book and the sheet, along with Tigra. Running down the hall, they were met by Dumbledore and a very serious look. He didn’t even have to explain; they knew who was waiting, more than likely in his office, for them.
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:00 pm
Dec. 22, 12:17am, Seventh Floor
"Ms. and Ms. Falcon", Dumbledore said. "Will you be so kind as to accompany me to my office? Now, please?"
Both Jade and Gumi nodded wearily and followed Dumbledore to his tower office. They had just stepped inside when they saw who was there to collect them standing before Dumbledore's desk. "Honestly, you Dragonriders can be a little to easy to find."
"Well, it would be easy for you to find us, seeing as how we were transfered here.... dad", Jade said, crossing her arms.
"Oh, Jade", their father began. "And here I thought you would be happy that it was me coming to collect you and not someone else."
"We aren't happy at all that anyone came to get us", Gumi said. "We don't want to do the challenge. The last time sis had to do it, she almost died, in case you've forgotten."
"How could I forget?", their dad asked. "I was the one who took her to the hospital."
"When do we have to be ready?", Jade asked in a defeated tone.
"Jade!", Gumi said, looking at her sister in astonishment.
"Gumi, we couldn't get out of this even if we killed ourselves", Jade said plainly. "It's just better that we do it and get it over with. Where and when?"
"January 11th, Crater Lake, Siberia", their dad said, handing them a slip of paper which Jade took. "You can bring a friend if you want, but given that you probably haven't told anyone about who you really are, you most likely won't."
"Thanks", Jade snapped. "Now go, please."
"It's good to see you again", he said as he walked past them and exiting the office.
There was a tense silence after Jade and Gumi's dad left, which lasted until Dumbledore spoke. "So, which of you will be the day challenge?", he asked. Gumi raised her hand. "Ah, so then you are going at night." Jade nodded. "Well, I think it would be best if you two went back to Gryffindor Tower", he said.
Jade and Gumi nodded again and left his office.
Dec. 22, 12:25am, Gryffindor Common Room
When Gumi and Jade entered the common room, they found Harry, Ron and Hermione sitting at one of the tables, playing a game of cards. They all looked up when Gumi and Jade came in.
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:27 pm
Dec. 22, 12:25 am, Gryffindor Common Room
“DragonRiders…”
“What?! What on earth are those?!” Harry’s voice cut through Jade’s reverie.
“Its nothing. Trust me! It’s just…The Headmaster was telling us of reports of the creatures now at the Dark Lord’s disposal,” Jade said quickly, covering up the true reason. Hermione looked relatively upset at this. Narrowing her eyes, she looked at Jade.
“But the DragonRiders…haven’t been seen for over seven hundred years…how could Voldemort have found them? Only those in their number or under their protection can find them,” she asked suspiciously. Kagumi looked sharply at her.
“And how would you know that?” she asked, her hand flying to her cloak, where there was a small lump. Of course, it was Laen, her dragon. But then, Hermione couldn’t know that.
“Binns was talking about the DragonRider clans on the last day of class. Don’t you remember?” Her eyes were still narrowed unpleasantly, which made Kagumi uncomfortable. The girl closed her eyes and distinctly remembered the class almost a week ago where she had dealt with Binns.
“Now today, we will continue our lesson on the Goblin Rebellion of 1946. From November of the previous year until May of 1946, the Goblin Clan Graphok battled with its mortal enemy, Obvdeucir. Many people of the nearby areas that were affected were convinced that their heroes of old, the DragonRiders, would come forth from their voluntary seclusion to save them. The townspeople had always been faithful, living by the laws the Riders had set down before: Mention nothing of their secrets, pray to them when in danger, and - -”
“And take every other Dragon egg and put it at the base of the mountain…” Jade whispered, with righteous anger. Hermione had shot her the exact same look then as she did now.
“And of course, to take every other Dragon egg and put it at the base of the mountain on which the Riders were presumed to live. However, Riders did not come forth, and instead only one representative came down, on a great red Chinese Fireball Dragon. And they said to the villagers to fight, for they themselves had the strength to rise up and force the warring Goblins out. You see, the Riders would do nothing for anyone that that people could do for themselves. So because the villagers and commoners had the power to defend themselves, the Riders saw no reason to interfere…” Binns’ voice droned on and on as the class sank even deeper into its stupor. Jade had turned to her sister and whispered something that no one could hear; Kagumi, in turn, laughed quietly.
Kagumi shook her head. “Binns’ usual nonsense. I swear, I don’t think he has the faintest bloody clue of what he’s talking about.” She forced a smile and ruffled Hermione’s hair. “Lighten up, ‘Mione. You’ll give yourself a nosebleed,” she laughed at Hermione’s look of disgust. Kagumi smirked and went up the stairs to the Boy’s Dorms, only to find Malfoy sitting there. He looked up at her.
“They call these dorms? Merlin, I swear: I’m going to bully Mother into putting more galleons in this school’s coffers!”
She smiled, and ruffled his hair as he kissed her knuckles. “So…what’ve you been up to?”
“Just thinking…about a few songs for the Christmas Feast…”
He smiled mischievously. “I’ve already got something completely planned out…”
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:48 pm
Dec. 22, 12:30am, Room of Requirement
After Gumi had gone upstairs, Jade took Harry back down to the Room of Requirement, where they began preparing for the Christmas performances and having a bit of fun in the process.
"I go up on-", Jade began while Harry nibbled on her neck. "On the fifth note and back down on the eighth. Will you control yourself just a bit?"
"What? Aren't I allowed to show my affection to the people I love?", Harry asked.
"Yes, but we are supposed to be working right now", she said, turning to face him.
"Well, maybe I don't wanna work", he said, a continued kissing her neck and shoulders.
"Honey", Jade said, gentley pushing Harry back. "It's your turn to practice."
Jade got up from the piano bench and walked over to the other end of the room, where there were other instruments, which included a guitar, violin, cello and drum set. She picked up the violin as Harry began to pluck out his notes on the piano. "Lookie what I found", Jade said, coming back with the violin and bow in her hands. "Jeez the last time I played this thing I was nine."
"You still know how to play?", Harry asked, stopping his playing of the piano.
"I don't know", Jade said. "Ok, let's see."
Jade ran the bow across the strings once to tune it. Then again, and again, and soon, she was playing something that sounded like an old Celtic dance tune. When she was done, Harry applauded loudly. "Whoa! That was great", he said, walking over to her. "You really know how to play that thing."
"Well, I try", Jade said, trying to be modest. She then set down the violin and bow on top of the piano. "Who knows, maybe I may play a little something on Christmas, just, for, you."
Jade snaked her hand around Harry's tie and yanked his head down to hers so that she could kiss him.
"Mmm, so you wanna play?", Harry asked, as she broke away.
Jade spun around and was magically in a dark navy blue, skin-tight suit cat ears, a cat tail, same color heels and a whip. "Tsk. Ooh, kitty's been bad", Jade said with a slight purr in her voice. Harry slid closer to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Meeeoow, I think this kitty's gonna have to teach you a lesson, in seduction."
With that, Jade back flipped away from Harry and jumped from the floor to the top of a neighboring bookshelf to a ceiling beam then back to Harry, whom she tackled to the floor, with her on top of him. "Play time."
She clapped her hands and the torches in the room went out.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:14 am
Dec. 22, 12:35 am, Gryffindor Boy’s Dorms
“I’m serious, though. This school does indeed need much more money. I mean, of course we could all just magic the things themselves, but…what if there were a true emergency?” Draco lay with Kagumi in Harry’s bed, on top of the covers. They were holding each other and he was threading long strands of midnight blue hair through his pale fingers. Her sapphire eyes were smiling at him, though her face never moved. He could tell that she was about to fall asleep.
“I love you too, Drakie…” she smiled sleepily as she said this and he kissed her forehead. He gently picked her up and, knowing that he could never get her up the stairs to her own dormitory, he simple walked her down several floors to the Slytherin section of the Dungeons. He opened the wall, which had been repaired after her attack on it, and wound his way up to the Sixth year dorms. He laid her on his bed and knelt beside her, stroking her hair and kissing her eyelids. “I love you, Kagumi,” he whispered. She snuggled into the downy pillow and grabbed his hand as he stroked her cheek.
“I love you too, Cheeky Monkey...” she murmured. As Draco rose to his feet, he saw that Pansy stood in the doorway. “What’d you bring her here for? She’s in Gryffindor,” her face wrinkled even more in disgust, if possible, since she already looked so much like a pug.
“Because she’s mine and I live here. I can do whatever I please, Parkinson,” he replied coolly. “And if I find you touching her or harming her or getting anyone else to do it for you, I’ll kill you.” He was pleased to see her eyes widen at the thought.
“But - -I love you more than she ever could!” her voice faltered slightly. “And at least I don’t hang out with The Golden Trio. Mudbloods and Blood traitors, all,” she spat at his feet.
“Potter isn’t as intolerable as you are, at least. He can, at any rate, hold an intelligent conversation…unlike you. And yes, I’m with them a lot. Because she is.”
“You’re a disgrace to Slytherin, Malfoy!” And she turned on her heel, slamming the door behind her. He smiled to himself. At least she’s gone…and you’re with Kagumi.
He took her in his arms and held her under the covers on his king-sized bed. The emerald green looked quite good on her alabaster skin and he found himself kissing her shoulder and neck more times than he could count. After sealing the door quite firmly with magic and a password for added protection, he fell into a deep sleep while breathing in the Moon flower scent of her hair.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:51 am
Dec. 22, 6:24am, Gryffindor Common Room
Ron and Hermione were sitting on the fluffy couch in the common room. Hermione was reading a spell book and Ron was looking through a copy of The Daily Prophet. There was music being played on a magical stereo that was up on a shelf in a corner of the room. Both of them had been sitting there for about ten minutes before Harry came in, with a broad smile on his face, his cloak in his hand and a lightness to the way he walked.
"Oh, my, God!", Hermione said with a chuckle. "Harry?"
"What?", Harry asked with the same smile on his face.
"Mate, you're glowing, which only means-", Ron started but then stopped with a shocked look on his face. "Oh! Oh-ho! Dude, with her? Please tell me you didn't."
"I am a Casanova of contortions, I am the gangster of love", Harry said smirking.
"The gangster, huh?", Ron asked, rising an eyebrow with a smirk. "Was it a hold up or a stick up?", he finished with a chuckle.
"Ooh, even your infantile p***s jokes seem witty and clever this morning, Mr. Weasley", Harry said, now moving to the beat of the music playing.
Just then, Jade came in through the portrait hole, her long hair swaying behind her as she walked with the same lightness as Harry did.
"Mmm, morning all", Jade said, strolling over to where Harry was now sitting. "Hell-o there", she purred with a smile.
"Buenos días, mi amor", he said as he pulled her onto his lap.
"I thought you didn't know Spanish", Jade asked, playing with his tie.
"I never said I didn't", he replied. "You assumed I didn't."
"My, my, how much you have learned", she said in a tone that hinted on the side of seduction.
"Ok, please, don't go at right here in veiw of innocent virgins, please", Hermione pleaded turning around on the couch to face them.
"What virgins?', Ron asked.
"Me, and you", she said, going back to read her book.
"Who told you I was a virgin?", Ron demanded, sitting back down next to her.
"Well, it's not like you're a hard read", she said, not looking up from her book. "Besides, you're too shy to do anything like that, yet."
While Ron and Hermione argued on the couch, Jade took Harry down to the Great Hall to see the newly put up decorations.
Dec. 22, 6:35am, Great Hall
They sat down at the Gryffindor table and were in the middle of feeding each other breakfast when Gumi and Draco sat down across from them.
"Good morning, love birds", Gumi said with a look on her face that said she knew what happened.
"How do you know?", Harry asked.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:07 am
Dec. 22, 6:35 am, Great Hall
Kagumi stared at her sister as if she was insane. “Are you kidding me? You two are walking on Cloud Nine and feeding each other, breakfast; which I happen to notice that Harry arranged for the house-elves to make Crepe Suzette, your favorite. Also, you guys are looking like lovesick Niffler pups, and Harry…Honestly, dear. While your face looks normal, probably because of the Concealment Charm my sister is so good at, your neck and the bit of chest I can see from your unbuttoned collar is covered in bites and hickies,” she turned to her sister. “And how many times did you draw blood?”
Jade mumbled something unintelligible. Her sister grinned like a Cheshire Kneazle. “What was that, dearest Jade?”
“…I hate you, you know that?”
“Uh huh…just tell me…”
“…. Six…teen.” Ron jumped back and roared with laughter, spraying the tablecloth with treacle. Hermione blushed an impressive scarlet and Draco looked at his own lover with an expression somewhere between amusement and shock that her sister had a similar stamina. Kagumi, on the other hand, snapped at Ron and crossed her arms; with a cat-in-the-cream smile, she looked superiorly annoying and Harry threw a ladle full of gravy at her.
“Hey! It’s not my fault that you can’t take the fact that I’m her twin and know almost everything,” she glowered at Draco, who was busy wiping gravy out of his blond hair and laughing at the strangled worry in Harry’s face.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:14 am
Dec. 22, 6:38am, Great Hall
"Hey, Gumi", Jade said, getting her attention.
As soon as Gumi turned to face her, Jade hit her full in the face with a spoonful of grape jam. "You be nice to me", Jade said sternly. "I didn't make fun of you at all when you and Drakey-poo did the horizontal mambo. So cool it, because I can think of many things to say about you."
Jade turned back to Harry, who gave her another bite of food. "Mm, chocolate raspberry."
"Well, what do you expect me to do?", Gumi asked wiping off her face. "I saw the opportunity and I took it."
"Oh?", Jade asked, putting down her juice glass. "Well, then should I take this opportunity to announce to the entire Great Hall what you did at camp last year?" Gumi's face went pink. "With your T-I-G-"
"NO!", Gumi shouted, covering her face, which was now apple red. "How do you even know about that?"
"I was outside the window", Jade said a smirk on her face. "Now, we're even."
For the rest of breakfast, Gumi was silent. Within what seemed like no time at all, it was Christmas Eve morning.
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