Heroes & Villains[Open]

[Haley Seay]

Haley slid out of the tunnel with ease it was dark and she pulled her wand out and said Lunos. Her wand lit up and she looked around and let all of her surroundings appear to her. She knew a little about this place and had been here only one other time. Lupin had come here every full moon and she knew why. It was day time still with some light trying to wiggle its way through the cracks. Haley saw all the dust that was there as she "Tergeo!" As the dusk was not a noticeable now. She wounder who would show up to this little hang out tonight. Haley had just came from Dumbledore's office for a little meting they had about what she wanted to do when she left at the end of the year. She wanted to come back and teach the kids and had agreed to think about it and she left his office.

Haley's eyes landed on a crate that was there and sat on it as she sent bubbles out of the end of her wand. She looked at the stairs with a slight smile and something in her telling her to go and look at the rest of the house. She stood with a graceful movement and went up the old stairs slowly as she held on to the railing and stepped onto the top landing. She saw a few doors but the one that she went for was at the end of the hall. She reached the door as she slowly pushed it open and put her head into the room and saw a bed that look as if it had been broken. Haley knew that this was the room were Lupin stayed when the moon was high and full. She walked in a little more and looked around at everything that was in there. A small broken piano was the only other thing in the room.

Haley had forgotten all about the others as she started to go back and the walked out of the room she would come back and check out the other rooms another time. She started to go down the stairs when she heard something behind her. She stopped and turned and looked behind her with her wand high in the air. She started down the stairs again and thought that maybe it was haunted like everyone said and not just Lupin. She sat back down on her crate and looked at the tunnel as she waited.

[Ripley Todd]

A figure in muggle clothing crossed the lawn of Hogwarts heading to the Whomping Willow. The brisk fall wind blew Ripley's hair across her shoulders, brown eyes looked back to the castle once more, she glanced around as neared the tree. "Okay, Rip," She rolled her shoulders and raised her arm. “Wingardium Leviosa.” A small branch lifted off the ground and hovered a moment, before Ripley guided it to the knot she had seen The Marauders use the night she spied on Remus.

She hurried down into the tunnel feeling the tree start right back up again. Lumos She commanded, her wands tip lit up and cast a warm glow in the dismal tunnel. “Nice.” She muttered beginning the walk towards the Shrieking shack. Her boots made little noise on the rocks and dirt, her sighs every now and then gave the place a bit of sound.

Finally she came to the end leading up into the house. With yet another sigh, and thinking about why she was doing this stopped seeing Haley just ahead. She whispered. Nox. the light went out. “Haley!” She shouted in a ghostly voice. “It’s the ghost of your great, great, great, great, great aunt’s cousins sisters daughter once removed on your mothers side here to haunt you.” She walked out of the tunnel with a smirk. “Don’t shoot.” She held her hands up in surrender. “Please I’m innocent.”

Ripley looked around, the last time she had been in there had been when she was spying on Remus and the others. Now, it was even creepier, before it hadn't bothered her, maybe because Remus was there and had made it feel safe. Don't ask how that made sense to her, it just did. "What're we doing here anyway? Human sacrafice?" Rip inquired sarcastically, looking around. "Or maybe mice."

[Haley Seay]

Haley gave a small laugh as she watched Ripley climb out if the tunnel. She put her hair behind her ears as she stood up to speak to Ripley. “No we are not going to be sacrificing anything.” She said with a little shaking that thought from her head. She looked over her shoulder as she looked where she had just come from. “This is the only place I know to be safe.” She told her friend with a smile as she looked with her wand by her side.

Haley looked at her with a smile as she thought about what to say next. “You’re the ghost of your great, great, great, great, great aunt’s cousin’s sister’s daughter once removed on your mother’s side?” She said as she with a little laugh as she said it. It was a little tongue twister for Haley. She looked at her friend as she went over to her. “Oh yeah Dumbledore may make me a teacher after I graduate.” Haley said with a great smile of her face her eyes as bright as the sun. She gave off a glow as if the sun was on her skin.

Haley went to the window and turned back to Ripley. “Have people been acting odd to you lately?” She asked with a different tone of voice she never used. “I mean there have been a few Hufflepuff’s and Ravenclaw’s acting like Slytherin’s lately.” Haley said with a little bit of fear in her voice. “I mean Slytherin’s are a bunch of little odd balls.” She said with a smile. “It may just be me.” She said with an unconvinced sound.

Haley looked around the room and back at Ripley. “So have you made any moves on Lupin?” She asked with a smile on her face as she went on. “Have you got him under your powerful command?” She started to laugh as she out her wand behind her ear and walked around the room.

[Ripley Todd]

“Where’s the fun in that?” Ripley asked teasingly. She tucked a hank of brown hair behind her ear looking around the house with a small scowl. She hated what Remus had to go through in this place, and hated even more that he had forbidden her to go with him and to sneak out to join them. But she supposed if it made the poor guy worry less than why not.

Ripley made a face at Haley. “Great, so when I serve detentions they’ll be with you?” She asked grinning. “That’s great, personally as much as I love this place I see myself fighting, so I’m gonna be an Auror.”

She joined Haley at the window and pondered on the question. “Well, there were students murdered so I can see that having people acting weirdly. Slytherin’s have always been fucked up in some way or another.” She looked out towards Hogsmead, a dark look crossing her face. “There’s something going on with those houses, either Ravenclaws are trying to figure out the murders, or they’re apart of ‘em, no offense, but some of them are questionable. The Hufflepuff’s are way to nice. And us Gryffies, if anyone of us tried that me and the others would kill them ourselves.” She shrugged turning away from the window. “It’s dark time.”

“I wish I had a powerful command.” Rip muttered bummed out. “He wants time to think and I gave it to him.” She sat down on the staircase. “My moves have done diddly squat,” The American sighed heavily, the sigh of the defeated, something she rarely did. “I dunno, I told him I didn’t want this to be a relationship where only one person cared and that everyone deserves second chances.”

[Haley Seay]

Haley looked at Ripley with a smile on her face as she looked at the ground." Well everyone in our group of friend is having relationship problems." Haley said with a little crinkle her nose she looked at Ripley as she listened and let everything process. Haley opened her mouth and than shut it thinking of the words that she wanted to say. “If I became a teacher I wouldn't give my friends detentions." Haley told her as she paced the room. “I don't even know if I truly want to be a teacher, I want to find my family after I leave or if not that I want to fight for Dumbledore." Haley let her feelings out as she looked at Ripley. “I mean if a war is coming I want my part to be a hero." Haley looked at her friend.

Haley was having a hard time trying to make a choice as if she wanted to stay with the school or go out and fight. She thought of everything she had done in the school and not much of it was a good thing she wanted do so much but was a little frightened to all her family was evil and what if Haley was evil too. She felt tears run sown her face as she stood there and knew that if anyone saw her cry she would lose herself and never be looked at the same way again. But she didn't care what if she was evil she was so easy to be convince of things. Than there was making fun of Snape she had made it her goal at school to pick on him. She was confused and knew that she was crying harder than a minute ago. She looked at her hand and put them over her face.

Haley tried to make herself quite but she started to become louder as she looked at Ripley everything from her years came back and flooded her mind she was weak and there was nothing she could do about it. Haley felt the world crash on her as her knees let out and she hit the ground. She looked at the floor and felt herself come to a stop. She wiped her eyes and stayed looking at the ground. She was nothing and she had meant nothing to anyone in her years at the school. Haley had that dry feeling in her throat as she let her breathing become normal.

[Ripley Todd]

“No shit,” Ripley replied furiously, her temper had been short those days—shorted than usual, she had already gotten three detentions for fighting so far…in two days. “Well, than you’re not doing your job right,” Ripley stuck her tongue out playfully. “That’s part of being a teacher. Feel the power.” She stood up to pace around the room while listening to Haley.

Ripley looked at her with dark brown eyes, that showed maybe every emotion she could possess, love, loyalty, anger and also sadness. “Hal, no one said you had to be a teacher right away, find your family, and fighting for Dumbledore, you’re already doing that, and you don’t need to be an Auror or a teacher. And being a hero,” Rip shook her head. “There are no hero’s in a war.”

If there was anything really truly hard for Ripley emotionally it was when her friends cried. “Aw, shit.” Ripley put an arm around Haley’s shoulders. “Come on, Hal, don’t cry, cause if you cry then I’ll cry, then it’ll be pandemonium and the guys will find us be all ‘what the fuck?’ and then we’ll have to explain to them and lie and say it was like PMS.” She wrapped her other arm around Haley giving a sidewise bear hug. “Come on, don’t make me burp the first verse to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”

[Haley Seay]

Haley looked at her with a soft smile as she got up and knew what would make her happy. She waved her wand and casted the Orchideous charm and the flowers came out of the end of her wand. She picked a few up and put them into her hair. She looked at her little Ripley as she looked at her with a smlie. " All I know is that I am going to miss you the most when I leave Ripley you are my best girlfriend here!" She said with a grin on her face as she pulled her into a hug. She looked at the outfit she had picked and sighed for she was in a Corset top that was black and white with a black Asymmetric skirt. She was impressed that she got through the tunnel with no rips in her outfit.

She looked at Ripley for a moment and looked her in the eyes as she pulled her own hair into a tight ponytail." I could go for a pint of Ice Cream with two spoons." She looked at her friend with a smile as she looked at her." Look at us we look like our owls just died." She said with a small sigh as she looked at her braclets she had on."Here take this." She pulled off her scarlet colored braclet that was a friendship braclet until she casted a few spells on it. " It is great when you need a little pick up." She said as she looked at Ripley with a bright smile.

[Ripley Todd]

" All I know is that I am going to miss you the most when I leave Ripley you are my best girlfriend here!"

“Well, hey anytime—“ Ripley’s last words were a yelp as Haley yanked her into a hug. “Yup, this is nice.” She patted Haley’s back somewhat awkwardly. Being released she backed up a step, with a smile. “You done, crying and shit.”

I could go for a pint of Ice Cream with two spoons."

“Yeah, ass cream would be good right now,” Ripley quipped twisting to one side then the other cracking her back.

" Look at us we look like our owls just died."

“You were the one crying I just said if you cried it’d make me wanna cry.” Ripley retorted with a smirk. She looked at the bracelet Haley was holding out and took it. “Thanks Hal.” She slipped it on. “Well, it is my houses color.” She looked at it, Haley was right it was making her feel better. “What’s it got on it, happy juice?”