Web Of The Executioner[A Hogwarts RP/Started/Accepting/PG16/Co-hosted by DarkAngel787] IN Character

[Skarlet]

Tenacity blew his new-found girlfriend a kiss as she left his side, before he made his way over to one of the arm chairs, and sighed. He'd go to bed soon, but right now, he just wanted to enjoy being back in the castle. He wanted to think about all the previous years here, and how great they'd been, and yet how easily this year was already topping them. He remembered third year, when he'd first talked to Selene, it was only brief, a simple "Hi." And he remembered feeling shy when she replied, but look at where they were now. Tenacity closed his eyes and started to drift off to sleep right there in the common room.

 

 

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Hammish set his butter beer down on the bed side table and wrapped his arms around the boy who's lap he was sitting on. Hammish had never been happier. In this castle, with this boy, in these arms, he belonged. Hammish rested his head on Gabe's shoulder and spoke in an almost whispered hush. "I love you Gabriel, I never want this to end." Hammish said sweetly as his mind wandered to the future. He saw himself and Gabe, years in the future, holding hands, kissing, flying broomsticks together. It was a future he wanted so badly that he would kill for it.

[Aesirson]

Lex quickly found himself in the fifth year boys bedroom and was just about to throw his luggage into a closet when he remembered a rumor he had heard even before hs tepped onto the train at King's Cross. There was a boggart hiding somewhere in the castle, and this was a tricky one as it moved very often so the teachers had not managed to find it yet. He wondered a moment about what his greatest fear would be, then pulled out his wand. He knew the right spell, and he slowly opened the closet. At the moment he opened the door he felt a small shock in his spine, as if he had just been very shocked, but the closet was empty. He placed his luggage into the closet and then went down to the common room again with a weird kind of victorious smile printed onto his lips.

"It's good to be back, isn't it?" He expressed to everyone present.

[DarkAngel787]

Selene threw on her pajamas carelessly and unpacked into the drawers underneath the four poster bed of hers, and then she stepped into the covers and promptly fell asleep.

She was in a dream, but it was quite troubled. She was talking to Tenacity and walking down the halls when she felt a crawling sensation on her back. She looked and there was a Tarantula. She tried to get it off but it held fast, sinking its fangs into her back. She felt completely sick and took a few feeble steps then tottered over, dead.

Selene woke up in a cold sweat. Good. It was a dream.

What a strange one, though...

 

((I will make it morning when most of hte people have their charries go to bed, unless Skarlet has something else in mind.))

[Skarlet]

Tenacity awoke in the armchair he'd fallen asleep in the night before. He was still wearing his robes. He'd slept well, he didn't smell bad, he was already set for the day. He smiled and straightened his robes, before asking a 5th year girl the only question he could really manage to hold within his mind at the time. "Has Selene gone to breakfast yet?" The girl shook her head and Tenacity smiled, he turned his head up toward the starecase. Waiting for the first sign of his girlfrend's emergence.

[DarkAngel787]

Selene woke, still sweating from a variation of the same dream. She pulled on her robes shakily, her hair a dark brown color. She went to brush her teeth and hair, and then walked down stairs, looking for Tenacity.

"Morning" she said, falling into step with him. "Looks like we have Angelique first period today," she commented. "Do you have something different?"

She took his hand, wondering if he would keep it there.

[Skarlet]

Tenacity smiled lovingly. "Good morning, gorgeous." He found himself staring into Selene's eyes for a moment, before he answered he was lost in them. "Yeah, I have charms too. And I wanna appologise, I mean, for Angelique... She's a veela, and I don't know if I'll be able to help it." He said taking a stab in the dark realising that his run-in with the half-veela girl last night bore a remarkable similarity to Professor Angelique's presence. He felt a guilt already. The possibility that he could ruin his new-found relationship by staring at a veela, being completely powerless to resist terrified him, but also, mae him feel a deep-seated guilt, he knew he was powerless, but there was still no excuse for that.

[DarkAngel787]

Selene shrugged. "I don't care, they're veela, even I think they're pretty." She shrugged most things off as usual, unless they really weren't trifling. "Let's go for breakfast, then we can see what we can do about the veela..." she made to walk towards the portrait entrance, waiting for Tenacity.

 

Other students were making their way to the portrait as well. They were getting a lot of stares with them holding hands and such. One first year stared open-mouthed so long, Selene was sure that there had been five bugs that had landed in his mouth.

"Oh move on and stop staring, haven't you seen anyone hold hands before?" it was finally getting on her nerves slightly.

[Skarlet]

Tenacity smiled. He loved Selene's sense of humour. The small first year boy looked downcast and slightly frieghtened. "Sorry." He said, shuffling off. "Don't worry about it kid, just, try to be more polite." Tenacity said, the guilt in the pit of his stomach starting to subside. Tenacity climbed through the portait and moved his hand to a more steadying position to help Selene climb through the portait hole. Tenacity's eyes were wide, his smile was intense. Everything was perfect.

[DarkAngel787]

They walked down to breakfast, but Selene paused in front of a rather large portrait of a wizened old witch that was shaking and sobbing.

She was quite certain that the witch hadn't been painted that way, because, for one, she was next to the picture that contained a back little staircase that led to the Arithmancy corridor, one of the shortcuts that Selene was proud of knowing and had taken many times, so she was sure none of the portraits nearby had been sobbing before.

Also, there was a label beneath it:

"Agatha Prine,

Most Cheerful Headmistress of Hogwarts Academy of Witchraft and Wizardry."

 

"What is it?" she asked the portrait.

The portrait just shook its wizened head. "N-no," it sobbed. "It was terrible! The sp-- oh no!" she began a whoel new round of sobbing.

"Oh well. Just probably dreamed or something. Do you know if portraits dream?" Selene thought nothing of it as she continued to walk wiht Tenacity.

[Skarlet]

"Well, I assume they probably can't have new dreams, but perhaps the dreams a person had already had when they were painted would be 'remembered' by the Portrait?" Tenacity proposed, although he wasn't sure at all and he felt it was probably a long shot. The duo continued walking, but as they grew closer to the Great Hall, the sounds of fearful muttering filled thier ears. Something serious had happened. Tenacity picked up a few words here and there. "Spider..." "Blood..." "St. Mungo's"

[DarkAngel787]

Selene shook her head, confused. "They can't have ALL remembered it," she muttered. "They aren't even from the same time period! And it only seems to be from around this corridor," she added as they turned into the Defense Against the Dark Arts corridor and all the portraits were silent.

"But what about a spider could be so terrifying? I mean, I don't exactly like them, btu I wouldn't be sobbing about it if one dropped onto my shoulder...well, maybe I would scream a little and...well, you get my point," she added hastily.

[Skarlet]

"I'm not sure, but it's not like Hogwarts would devote an entire corridor to aracnaphobic witches and wizards..." Tenacity turned to Selene, he was a little spooked, but he was able to take it in good stride. "Something tells me these portraits are a little worse around spiders than you are though." Tenacity's mind silently bubbled away, wondering what the portraits could have witnessed. Little did he know that they'd missed something.the last few traces of blood, drying on the ground. Tenacity out of instinct tightened his grip on Selene's hand slightly.

[DarkAngel787]

Selene nodded, agreeing. Her hair had turned the color brown again, for her alarm in what the portraits were doing.

"Well anyways, it seems strange that they would be arachnophobic..." she turned into the Great Hall and sat down with Tenacity. "The spider must've been a big one if the whole corridor saw it,' she added after an afterthought, pouring herself some pumpkin juice to start. She took a small serving of toast as well.

[Skarlet]

Conspicuous by her absense was Emaline McLillith, The Hufflepuff girl's prefect. Her house's table was virually silent, there was a lot of muttering, and a few confused first-years asking many questions. When they were answered there were surprised and worried ghasps. Tenacity looked into Selene's eyes. "What do you think's happened with Hufflepuff?" He asked the girl, knowing that she wouldn't actually have that much of an answer. But she was the smarter of the two, that was a given, so perhaps she'd figure something out, maybe it had something to do with the spider situation. Tenacity assembled a bacon and egg english muffin and started to eat slowly as he tried to push this series of events from his mind.

[DarkAngel787]

"I dunno," she siad, trying to talk around the mouthful of toast she had just unfortunately taken. "But..." her hair turned the pleasant shade of light orange, the color she used when she was curious. "I think I'm going to ask." she stood up and walked over to the largest huddle of Hufflepuff girls and boys she could see.

"'Scuse me, but what happend to Emaline? She asked, trying to see them.

"They say she was attacked," whispered a first year boy furtively. "But no one saw it happen! She's a natural sleepwalker, and her friends forgot to restrain her-- so down she went the corridor and she wasn't seen again, but they found her body on the ground in the morning!"

Selene's eyes widened. And it had something to do with a spider, probably, she confirmed with herself. THAT was why the portraits were so distraught. They had seen it happen.

[Skarlet]

Tenacity continued to eat, although he looked over at his girlfriend, noticing the change in her body language he stood up and walked over to the girl, putting his arm around her. "What's happened?" He asked worriedly. By now the word had started to get around. Some of the more cruel Slytherin students actually seemed atleast glad that if it had to happen it had happened to a muggle-born, and a hufflepuff at that. Tenacity looked around, even the staff were in a hush, and professor McGonagal was no where to be seen.

[DarkAngel787]

Selene shook her head. "It's terrible," she finally said, shocked. "She was attacked in the corridor last night..." she shook her head, and led the way back to the Gryffindor table to finish her breakfast.

Some of hte crueler Slytherin seventh years were laughing about it at their table, and Selene's hair turned scarlet. "A girl was mauled in the hallway and they're laughing about it?" she asked, her hair turning a darker shade of scarlet.

She made a move as to get up and walk over.

[Skarlet]

"Selene..." He said, fairly sure that the girl wouldn't stop for him, he didn't bother finishing his sentence, instead he jumped up and drew his wand, ready to defend her should she draw rhe ayr of any of the Slytherins she was about to approach. Tenacity moved along beside her. They'd been noticed. One of the Slytherines stood up. The ringleader of the group that had attacked Gabe and Hammish on the train. He laughed as the younger Gryffindor students made thier way toward his friends who turned to face them.

[DarkAngel787]

Selene stepped after Tenacity, already rehearsing several of the most useful but not fatal curses she had learned so far in her education and her side education (she loved to read all seven volumes of "Curses, Hexes, and Jinxes for the Mischievous"). She drew out her wand.

"So you think its funny that a perfectly respectable Hufflepuff girl got mauled in a corridor?" she said, her words piercing with venom.

 

The oldest Slytherin guffawed and made a rude gesture. The rest of them laughed.

Selene colored.

"Yeah, some Hufflepuff B**** got all bloodied up. Mudblood, Hufflepuff, worst combination." the rest of his cronies laughed.

Selene held out her wand. "Tread carefully here," she said with venom.

"What are you going to do about it, B****?" the boy said, staring at her in a way that made her skin crawl.

[Skarlet]

"Call my girlfriend a b**** one more time and see what happens." Tenacity growled aiming his wand squarely at the boy's chest. "Oh, your girlfriend is she? Somehow I thought you were a f** like your little Irish fri-" That was it Tenacity had heard enough. "Everte Statum!" The boy was sent flying. He colided with one of his minions and started to pull himself to his feet. "Levicorpus!" Tenacity felt himself being hoisted into the air by the ankle. One of the Slytherin's minions charged toward the now incapacitated Tenacity and scored a punch square in the face. Tenacity yelled in pain and held his now-broken nose.

[DarkAngel787]

"Desaugeo!" Selene yelled in desperation as she saw her boyfriend get punched in the nose. "Whats the matter, you too stupid to know any good spells so you go for muggle violence? Wow, no wonder you have muggle borns, you're jealous of their abilities!"

They charged her, except for the one that got hit by her curse and his molars were lengthening alarmingly fast.

"Levicorpus!" Someone yelled. She muttered the counterspell to herself, Liberacorpus, and she and tenacity were let down.

"Is that the only spell you know? AVIS! OPPUGNO!" She conjured herself a flock of birds that went and attacked the Slytherins.

[Skarlet]

"Finite!" Came the sound of a French woman's voice, All of the boys present turned to see professor Angelique standing with her wand out. "Vot is ze meaning of zis? attacking one ano-zere in ze great 'all you 'ave ruined breakfast for everyone, and zis boy. 'e is 'urt." She said reffering to Tenacity. "Episky!" she called and he felt a rush of hot, then one of cold. beyond that his nose felt fine, and with another flourish of her wand, the boy's robes came clean. He sighed a dreamy sigh at Angelique and softly spoke the words "Thankyou professor." "No, you are not out of trouble yet. Ten points vill be taken from Gryffindor 'ouse." The Slytherines smiled cockily, savouring the damage they'd caused. "Do not laugh, I am not finished." She said waving her hair to gain control of the group, by releasing her Veela charm. "I saw and 'eard what you boys did. Thirty points, will be taken from Slytherine, for insensitivity, predjudice, and rudeness." None of the boys seemed to care what had just happened to thier houses, but the professor soon departed after saying "Now back to your house tables." Tenacity followed her instructions silently and un-hesitantly.

[DarkAngel787]

Selene followed, slightly concerned with Tenacity's behavior towards the veela but that was past now. "Are you okay? Sorry for getting you into that...it was my fault..." her hair was pink. As soon as they were sitting down, she looked at his nose. it looked fine. She shrugged. "They were asking for it though," she added apologetically.

She glanced after Angelique. It seemed strange that she arrived, then the girl was attacked...

She supressed that thought. how would that be possible at all? She was perfectly nice!

[Skarlet]

"I'm fine, and you were wonderful, Selene." He said sincearly. He was glad that she'd been able to think under preasure, otherwise, with his formerly broken nose, she could have been in a lot of trouble. The students were starting to head off to thier various classes now, and Tenacity stood, offering his hand to Selene as he did so. She looked gorgeous with her pink hair once again. Postively lovely. Tenacity still couldn't believe that somehow he'd managed to earn himself a chance with Selene, she was miles out of his league and he knew it.

[DuckyTC]

Crinkling his nose, as something soft tickled it, Gabe opened his eyes, and yawned, before rubbing at his eyes. Taking his hands away from his eyes, his vision blurred, before he saw Hammish, still snuggled up against his chest, still deep in sleep. Reaching over to his bed side table he lifted the small clock he had brought with him from home. 'damn, we're late' He gapsed, as he gave the small boy a soft shake. Not having any effect, Gabe kissed the top of the boys head, giving him another small shake, 'come on, I thought I was the deep sleeper' Gabe laughed. Smilling as Hammish finnaly woke up, and pulled himself up to hug Gabe, he laughed 'Hame, you do realise we are like really, REALLY late, dont you?' Gabe asked, as he sat up and kicked his blanets off. Running to his trunk Gabe muttered under his breath, 'I really wish I unpacked last night now' as he pulled out some clean robes, trousers and a shirt. Laying on the ground wresstling with his trousers and shoes, Gabe finnally managed to get them on, as he herd Hammish giggle at him. Looking up he saw Hammish was fully dressed, bar his tie which he was putting on now. 'shut up, its not funny' Gabe pouted, as he Grabed his wand, cat, his tie , his shirt and his jumper as the pair walked down into the common room, Gabe pulling his shirt on, tyring not to drop anything at the same time.

 

Running out of the common room together, the boys ran down the stair case at top speed, despretly hoping that the staircases wouldnt change, at the same time as Gabe was trying to button up his shirt. Walking into the great hall, as a group of slytherins walked out, Gabe slung his tie losely over his neck, as he and Hammish walked in and took their place at Gryffindor table. 'Well at least we have time for some toast' Gabe smiled reaching over for the toast, as he winked at Hammish.