we'll never make a sound - LUCAS -

[ROXY FAYE FINNIGAN]

"We should uh... hurry, then. Before the room's stolen from us by some other coup- I mean, group." she glanced at him, only able to see half his face in the light of her wand tip and from what she could see he looked the most flustered she'd ever seen him. she bit her lip and nodded, not sure what to say in response in all honesty. she knew he hadn't meant it like that.. but .. well after that kiss and all it was bound to come off the wrong way. oh she hated this...this whole awkwardness. it was almost as bad as when they'd broken up before .. but this time roxy was detirmined not to let it get to their friendship.

it hadn't meant anything... no the kiss had just been.. a blip! yes a blip in ... in self .. control ... wait that made no sense, it wasn't like they'd both been begging to kiss the other before hand and suddenly not been able to contain themselves.. no that wasnt it. well .. she didn't think it was... so a blip in .. in uhm ... rational thought. yeah that was it.. they hadn't been thinking, and the darkness and the enclosed space and quiet had just made them .. stop thinking properly and .. and..

..it sounded lame to roxy's own thought but she didn't want to think about it, for some reason she accepted this completely ridiculous suggestion and tried to move on. "Well... it is a dark tunnel. You never know what might be lurking in the shadows." she started to walk alongside him, catching his comment and unable to help laughing, a light grin on her face as she glanced toward his shadowed handsome features. "oh what like darth vader's going to jump out on us?" she joked and rolled her eyes. it would be kinda cool if more hogwartians liked star wars, they could have had big movie nights with back to back marathons and uhm .. star wars .. conventions? no that was lame... and besides, roxy felt that this ... well it was kind of her and lucas' thing.

not to sound couply - like when a boyfriend and girlfriend go skiing or something and tell everything it's 'their thing' because .. as a couple thats what they do. no .. but .. roxy sighed quietly, not able to work it out in her head. for her, she just felt that the whole love of star wars was something fundemental about their friendship, like a little 'inside joke'. she loved the fact that her and lucas could joke about star wars, quote it to each other, talk about the characters and argue amicably about which movie was best. times like these.. going off to watch a movie marathon of the excellent series, throwing popcorn at the screen and each other and laughing at the best bits... it was just .. her and lucas, thats what she loved about the fact that they were kind of alone in the 'dorky muggle movie lovers' club.

just her luck that suddenly she managed to find a dip in the path, her left foot catching in it and she stumbled right toward lucas, yelping slightly in surprise as her hands grabbed out for anything to try and steady herself to save a face plant on the ground... and her hands had to go and clutch for that warm being beside her didn't they, half falling against him and his strong body. she hadn't meant to grab for him, but he was the closest thing to her right now, and probably the least likely to hurt her - the wall wasn't exactly spongy. she just.. didn't think.. and suddenly she found herself clutching him in effort to stay on two feet, caught offbalance...



( ooc , so much denial xDDD )

[LUCAS HARRY SHUNPIKE]

Surely this couldn’t be the most awkward thing Lucas had, or ever would experience right? He’d nearly lost his pants in a prank gone wrong in the middle of potions class in his third year… that had been damn embarrassing. Kissing your ex girlfriend on an unexplainable whim had to come, at the very most, second to that, right? …Right? And then for the future… okay, Lucas could imagine all sorts of things to happen to him in the future that might make these few minutes no longer seem so “HOLY SHEEP I’M SCREWED”. Like… like… like sleeping with Roxy’s sister! She certainly had enough of them for him to choose from. Yeah, that would be pretty awkward! Especially if she came home one day only to see them half naked on a couch or something… that would totally beat out kissing her in a tunnel! But, unfortunately, Lucas had to accept that would never happen. Well, unless he and whichever one of Roxy’s little sisters were really really drunk which could certainly be arranged in the holidays… but still, the possibilities were slim, and the consequences were rather terrifying indeed. But, short of sleeping with her little sister, he couldn’t really imagine anything more awkward ‘holy sheep’ inducing than the kiss.

All sister-sleeping speculations aside, Lucas needed to get his mind off of this awkwardness. It had been how many minutes since the kiss now? But everything was a reminder, most notably Roxy, and with her here it was impossible to not think of her and therefore the kiss and let the awkwardness seep into his veins again. She seemed to be handling herself far better than he, in his opinion. Maybe that was because it was no big deal to her… she probably kissed tonnes of guys, being as gorgeous… …special as she was. He was now probably just another name to add to a growing list of men, or rather boys, chasing after her… no big deal at all. And… that was a good thing, right? If Roxy could get over the awkwardness maybe, just maybe, he could forget about it, too.

"oh what like darth vader's going to jump out on us?" Was she seriously mocking the very imposing ‘Ani’ Skywalker? Oooh, bad move. “Darth Vader is a very, very dangerous man, Roxy,” Lucas informed her solemnly, somehow keeping an entirely straight face. “He should not be spoken about lightly… you may jinx us.” The ‘villain’ was pretty much his favorite character from the entire series. There was something about the guy’s heart wrenching story and turn to evil that just got Lucas every time, ya know? Call him insane, but Lucas pitied Darth Vader as much as he would pity a fluffy kitten soaking wet and ragged sitting in a gutter in the middle of a rainstorm. Yes, he did just compare Darth Vader to a kitten. You were not imagining things. It was a very close resemblance, in Lucas’s very interesting mind.

He let his mind wander to the ‘possibilty’ of Darth Vader jumping out of the shadows and attacking them… more likely the villain would be Peeves intent on ruining Lucas’ peace, as Lucas always tried to return the favor. He wouldn’t put it past the poltergeist to come and stalk the pair if he caught wind of their location… Lucas like to think he had a ‘special’ relationship with the spirit. Well, he did, in a way. There weren’t many students who regularly partook in two-sided water balloon fights with someone who’d been dead for centuries. Peeves could just float through the walls of the slanting passageway and pop out of nowhere, causing them to scream in surprise…

Oh, speaking of screams, was that one? The thought passed Lucas’ head like a comment on unusually sunny weather, and the next moment he was being nearly knocked over himself as Roxy collided with him. He wasn’t sure what had happened to make her yelp and fall in to him, but his reaction was instinctive. His arms wrapped around her under her arms, carefully pulling her up with a sort of hug until he hoped she was closer on her feet. He relaxes his arms, but moved his hands down to her sides to steady her in case she hadn’t quite recovered her balance yet. His mind didn’t even really register that he had, yet again, his hands on her perfect body, he was just concerned for her safety. “Darth Vader scare you?” he teased. He was fairly sure that she’d just tripped, but he couldn’t resist teasing her as though she’d been scared by something that had made her trip into him.


(OOC: When all else fails, speculate about screwing your final's sister! Good boy, Lucas!)

[ROXY FAYE FINNIGAN]

roxy couldn't stop thinking about the kiss...though she was working hard to avoiding the awkwardness - and she had to note, she felt she was doing better than lucas - she just couldn't get her mind off of what happened. her mind still reeled from the moment he'd suddenly taken her in arms and pressed his soft lips to her. she wondered what had made him do it. had he just been tryingg to surprise her and he hadn't thought the idea through? was he, god forbid, just playing with her? she'd had a fair few relationships over the years - not that she got around, heck no - and she'd had a couple of boys play with her unbenownst to her until they tossed her aside without a care and left her heartbroken.

but..this was lucas...he wouldn't do that right? he wouldn't hurt her...? sure he was a guy, and most guys seemed programned to be complete asses...but lucas was diffferent. wasn't he? roxy bit her lip to hold back a sigh, surprised at herself for even doubting him. the kiss had just been some sort of...thing. yeah she'd label it a thing for now. they'd just forget about it and go out with other people and that would be it. only the thought of that made roxy's gut wrench and she only assume that the thought of forgetting it..the thought of lucas with another girl hurt. it was strange...when they'd broken up, yeah she'd been hurt..but they'd both moved on and she hadn't felt like this back then - hadn't minded when lucas got other girls...felt glad that he had. but now...something was different.

no, roxy had to forget about the kiss. even if she was on the brink of thinking that perhaps she'd rekindled her feelings for lucas, he couldn't possibly feel the same way. he'd probably forgotten who he was with and just kissed her because...because...oh she had no idea. maybe he'd just wanted a kiss and she'd been there and he knew she wouldn't slap him for it. it hadn't meant anything...not to lucas and..surely not to her right? but if that was the case...why did she want it to happen again? why did she want to feel his arms around her again? roxy felt like banging her head against the wall over this...she was so confused, so unsure ...and she couldn't stop thinking about it.

“Darth Vader is a very, very dangerous man, Roxy,” roxy pulled herself forcefully from her thoughts and looked at him in the halflight, giving a small smile. "yeah...he's terrifying." she teased, but the joke didn't sound right...she didn't sound right. it was all that speculation over the kiss...it was wearing her the heck out. if they could both just talk about it maybe...if lucas could explain why he'd done it...well it would be a punch in the gut to hear him say that he'd only done it because she was there...and he'd been thinking of someone else the whole time...but at least if she heard it from his own mouth she might be able to get over it already. “He should not be spoken about lightly… you may jinx us.” she rolled her eyes lightly and smiled again before going back to chewing her top lip, unable to think of a whitty response to that.

and then she had to go and trip didn't she..right into his arms. she felt his warm arms catch her, keeping her upright - thank god for not face planting the floor - she swallowed and his hands on her once more reminded her of the kiss. “Darth Vader scare you?” roxy couldn't meet his eyes, couldn't think of anything to say and she simply gave a small nod and a "y-yeah." her thought preoccupied with the fact that he was holding her...roxy mentally shook herself. no this wasn't good..she couldn't fawn over him...she couldn't..be all...'oooh lucas -swoon-'. she couldn't do this. roxy quickly set herself back on her feet, removing her hands from his chest where she'd fallen against him and took two steps back so that his hands would fall from her waist.

"come on i think i can see the end." she murmered, biting her lip and looking at the floor, cheeks burning bright red and she quickly turned and started walking for the end, her gaze fixed firmly on where she thought the end of the tunnel was - she'd lied about seeing it, but she'd needed to start walking again..anything to get his hands off her right then lest she'd given in to her weird thoughts and tried to kiss him this time. she needed to get far away from any of those thoughts, any temptations...maybe the film was a bad idea...maybe once they got out the tunnel she should just walk away... she swallowed and bit her lip harder. she wouldn't walk away from lucas...she couldn't. she just didn't know what else to do because...she really thought..that once more...she was quite possibly starting to fall for lucas... and she didn't think she could handle him rejecting her.


( ooc , oh wooooow... lucas...really?? see, if roxy knew he was thinking about that, that is what she'd slap him for..and then she'd feel upset and think he likes her sister lols xD hmm she's being all silly and insecure whaaaat is the matter with them both...WE NEED DECEMBER ALREAADY XD )

[LUCAS HARRY SHUNPIKE]

"yeah...he's terrifying." Lucas wanted to sigh, but didn’t because he feared he would be badly received on her part. C’mon, you can do this! he tried to encourage himself. Only a few minutes earlier they’d been laughing and joking and everything had felt so right… but then again, so had kissing her. It was the awkward aftershock that felt wrong and just… yeah, there was no better word to describe that than wrong. Maybe it only seemed so in contrast to how right it had felt to have his lips against hers- NOT AGAIN. There had to be something in this world that could adequately distract him. Every topic in the world could not lead back to that perfect body and luscious lips of Roxy Finnigan, or her amazing personality or that purely amazing smile that could send his knees weak- WHAT DID I JUST SAY?

Aw, shit, ‘Lukey’ was screwed.

Was this normal? It didn’t seem it could be… with other girls, other ex-girlfriends, the thought of kissing them again often disgusted him. Relationships ended for a reason, always, didn’t they? There weren’t any exceptions. You broke up because you weren’t meant to last- there were differences you just couldn’t solve or get over to continue to be together. If he should still be hung up over Roxy, they would still be together, correct? Therefore the best assumption was that they were completely ended, and he should not think of kissing her any more than he would think of kissing someone he was never romantically involved with, like… like Lily Potter or someone like that. …Why did he always let his mind stray to kissing other girls? Was that the only way he could stop himself from focusing on Roxy? Seemed like a bit of a shitty deal, if you asked him.

"y-yeah." Should he even bother trying to lighten the mood anymore when it was so overwhelmingly obvious that neither of them were comfortable being around each other at the moment? Maybe they should call off this little movie date marathon they had planned. They could post-pone it for a little while… a few days, or weeks, or months… long enough that the awkwardness could evaporate and they could be around each other without Lucas’ mind inevitably wandering to kissing her or just holding her in his arms where he felt she’d fit in like another puzzle piece. How could they just relax and watch the movie together when each were so obviously preoccupied? But Lucas wasn’t going to be the one to suggest the cancel… because what if Roxy wasn’t fo the same mind? Maybe he was just reading too into her tone and what she’d said, and then he would have extreme potential to offend her by suggesting that they should cancel their little date, which he didn’t want to do.

It was like he was on fire- how quickly Roxy moved away from him so that his arms fell limply to his side, hanging there awkwardly like they didn’t know what to do when they weren’t holding her. Oh, fucking fantastic, he was getting all poeticicious (or something like that) over his ex… just damn perfect, wasn’t that? She wasn’t even looking at him… ugh, this movie marathon, if it did happen, was going to be a disaster, wasn’t it? He could senseit… Lucas had no seer blood in his lineage that he knew of, but not all seers came from a blood line, right? Maybe that was his ‘superpower’ developing. First vision? The destruction of the friendship between himself and one of his closest friends.

"come on i think i can see the end." It was a lie. Lucas had been down this passageway often enough in the last six and a bit years to know that the tunnel continued for at least another two minutes before ending at a dead end, no obvious exit. But he didn’t correct her, despite how much the ‘brush off’ kinda hurt. If she was that uncomfortable… let her run off in a rush to avoid any more awkwardness. He followed behind at a slow pace, one hand clenched into a bit of a fist at his side. Ugh… the day had been looking so great twenty minutes ago.

The rest of the movement through the tunnel passed in complete silence. At least, on Lucas’ part it did. His mind was rolling too much to think to speak and make the walk a little best awkward. Even if he did talk… they were screwed as far as awkwardness levels went. Might as well accept that and move on. Eventually, though, the solid rock wall that was the end of the tunnel showed up in front of them. Without a word Lucas tapped the tip of his wand against the stone, stepping back to watch as the stones withdrew into themselves a bit like the bricks at the entrance to Diagon Alley. This time Lucas didn’t have the heart for a flourish and a gentlemanly ‘after you!’ He just quietly stepped through, not even looking behind him to notice the open portrait that would close up once Roxy came through. He walked a few metres away, and then stopped to pause and wait for Roxy to show up. Only a little ways ahead he could see the fruit bowl painting that led to the kitchens. “You want to do the honors?” he asked with a small smile, trying not to seem so ‘meh’ as he was.


(OOC: Love. )

[ROXY FAYE FINNIGAN]

She bit her lip as Lucas went silent, wondering if her quietness had done something to upset him. She hadn't meant to, she was just so caught up in her thoughts, so .. absorbed by everything that she hadn't really thought about how lucas might have picked up on it. She glanced at him a little nervously in fact, worried that she'd angered him or something and that he was going to frown at her and walk off and ignore her for a month. She didn't want this to become like last time, where they went for months and months without speaking because it was just so awkward between them. She'd always enjoyed being around Lucas, even before they were going out - when they were good friends, he'd always been a great guy and she'd loved talking to him, having a joke with him. When they were going out she'd felt like things were just the same only better...because she'd felt special to him, like ... she was the only one he looked at, like... she was the only girl for him, and yet they'd still have that friendship..

..and then they'd broken up and she'd lost that part, in fact she'd lost everything and that had been the worse times of all. Even sitting near him at lunch or class could end up with awkward silences as they fumbled for conversation. It had taken so long to get to being good friends again like this, that she didn't want to loose it - not now. She noticed that he'd half clenched one of his hands, able to see the slight straining of his muscles at the movement in the soft half lights of their illuminated wand tips. She looked away and chewed on her full lower lip, only succeeding in reminding herself of the feel of the press of his lips against hers. She tried to shake it off, eyes glancing around the tunnel. She couldn't believe that she was starting to fall for him again, it cold only end badly surely. Lucas didn't - couldn't - like her in the way that she was begining to like him again...this was only end in her getting hurt.

But Roxy was a fool, she knew she was and she couldn't stop herself from falling for someone, especially when that someone was Lucas - even if she should. As she said she could see the end, she knew Lucas knew she was lying - after all, she'd never been here before, there was no extra light and he probably knew the path like the back of his hand but she couldn't help but say it. Oh how she was hating this awkwardness...and yet with it came this strong sense of determination - they had to push through this. That kiss had been.. wow... but they couldn't loose their friendship over it.. not again. She hung back when they came to a dead end, suffering the silence with good grace and using it as a chance to breathe, steadying herself and clearing her thoughts. She needed to stop reading into it so much, to just.. calm and get back into how things were before. The quiet and darkness of the tunnel were helping, and she watched quietly as lucas stepped toward the wall, wand out stretched.

She allowed curiosity to take her, as she watched with interested eyes as he tapped a brick on the wall - and much like with Diagon Alley, the wall slowly broke apart, seperately neatly to reveal a passageway for them to pass through. She glanced toward Lucas, watching him step through first and going to follow him, trying to force back that swell of awkward and worry that she'd offended him as she caught the look on his handsome face. But she couldn't dwell on it - they had to get back to how they were. She headed across the corridor after him toward the Kitchens and flashed Lucas a smile, as convincing as she could. "this came out quite close!" she said cheerfully, looking left and right in curiosity down the corridor and taking note to remember that passageway. “You want to do the honors?” she looked back toward Lucas, seeing his smile and responding with her own. "sure," she said lightly, forcing the awkwardness back and going to tickle that pear under the door opened...



( ooc , < 3333 )

[JAYCEN NATHANIEL TATE]

There was obviously a hell of a lot to do this year. Jaycen had never expected his seventh year at Hogwarts to go by easy, persay, but he hadn’t expected it to be the rush of activities and responsibilities that it was. He’d come into the school year only really expecting to be the head boy, as he’d been told so in a letter back at the beginning of the year with his school supply list. And in all fairness to his other responsibilities, they were his choice. If he didn’t think he could handle them, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Quidditch team or put his name in the Goblet of Fire (though he still wasn’t exactly sure why he, out of tens of other Ravenclaw guys who had put their names in, was picked). He’d made his bed, and now he had to lie in it.

It did get a bit stressful, though, when he had so much work to do on top of his responsibilities. The upcoming task, Quidditch practice that evening, a patrol afterwards, an extra homework assignment in Potions Class, and a Prefect meeting in about fifteen minutes that he didn’t know how long would last. He sensed another late night… maybe he could actually see if he could trade patrol shifts with someone? It was worth a shot at the very least.

The head boy was making his way from the Potions classroom, where he’d been asking the Professor a few questions about the assignment, to the classroom where prefect meetings were always held. He didn’t think he’d get used to the fact that he and Raychel were supposed to be in charge of these meetings when he’d spent the last two years just being a lowly little prefect waiting for orders. He should probably be at the meeting fifteen minutes early, but as it was he was pretty sure he might only end up there a minute early at the most. Meh, oh well. Wasn’t like he’d miss anything.

He was walking down the hallway that held the famous Pear painting (that had been a not-so-secret passageway to the kitchens for a while now) when he saw them. Two Gryffindor seventh years, his year, so of course he recognized them. When he got a closer look, though, he recognized them as more than just his classmates. “Roxy?” he called, diverting his path so that he walked closer towards them. His eyes glanced at her companion, Shunpike if he was remembering correctly, but then looked back to her. “Aren’t you forgetting something? We’ve got a meeting like… now. Well, in ten minutes, but… I don’t think you have time for a trip to the kitchens.”

[ROXY FAYE FINNIGAN]

“Roxy?” roxy jumped at the sound of the second voice, not having thought for a moment that anyone else could possibly be down here too, having forgotten entirely that the world was not merely made up of her and lucas. once she'd gotten over the shock of someone else being in her and lucas' little bubble, roxy realised two things, a: that she recognised the voice, and b: that it had called her name. she blinked and turned on the spot, perhaps a few beats too late, and gave jaycen tate a half smile. "yeah?" she asked, wondering if her and lucas were about to get told off for heading to the kitchens for .. some reason or another. well it wasn't breaking the rules or anything, but she didn't know...

“Aren’t you forgetting something? We’ve got a meeting like… now. Well, in ten minutes, but… I don’t think you have time for a trip to the kitchens.” roxy's eyes widened and in an almost comical fashion, her palm touched her forehead. "oooh yeah... crap!" she bit her bottom lip. roxy still found it hard to believe sometimes that she'd been made a prefect - she wasn't smart like most people, in fact she was probably the person most liable to blow something up or set something on fire...a trait she got from her father she'd been told. she wasn't exactly..set in following rules, she'd broken a few minor one's here or there, enjoyed a good harmless prank or two, and her record for detention wasn't exactly clean. so that time she'd opened the envelope and her prefect badge had fallen out she'd been surprised as heck - delighted yes but.. surprised. still, she wore it proudly..even if she did tend to stick to old habits.

but now she was in a bit of a pickle, wasn't she. she'd said she'd have a movie marathon with lucas and now she was going to have to dash off to a prefect meeting. she would say that they could watch the movie's after but... well these meetings didn't half tend to drone on for hours on end - it was oging to be a long night. "i have to go.. i'm sorry," she turned back to lucas, appology written all over her face; she felt really bad, and awkwardness forgotten for the moment, without even thinking, she reached up on her tip toes to go to kiss lucas' right cheek gently, blushing furiously but smiling gently at him all the same. friends could kiss friends on the cheek right? she'd kinda done it as an appology for the awkwardness too.. she should've tried harder..it had very much almost ruined their afternoon. "raincheck... we still have to do that marathon." she told lucas with a small grin, before turned to walk the few paces over the jaycen. "let's go.." she said lightly, and made to walk off, glancing back toward lucas before he dissapeared from sight...




( ooc ,a few days late and annoyingly shooort, my baaaad. but hope this might cheer ya up a bit..and lucas <3333)