After begging, and pleading, and sneaking, and just being miserable and on the brink of tears, her father had finally given in and granted Phoebe permission to visit Elphias. Of course, she had to take some potions, wear a mask, and Phoebe seriously had to throw down the big orange suit her dad had demanded she wear and it was---just wrong. No. Seriously? No. She could deal with the mask, because that's what happened with patients, but--

"Ohhh," she let out when she finally entered his room. Goodness gracious, this was horrible! She couldn't help Elphias at all and he looked so sick and so tired and Phoebe wondered if he even wanted to see her. Maybe he just wanted to be by himself, Merlin, she knew she would---well, no. She'd want Elphias to visit her. And, honestly, she would've earlier if her dad wasn't such a nutcase with all of this, but when you were high up on the healer list you could do things that made it near impossible to sneak it, but. They went back to school tomorrow! She couldn't leave without saying goodbye to Elphias, or telling him to get better.

Phoebe slowly made her way to the bed, sitting in a chair by his side. Ohhh, she couldn't cry. She couldn't cry. Stop being stupid! Seriously! He's going to think you're nutters! "Hi."

Who: Emmeline Vance, Dedalus Diggle, Elphias Doge, and their worst nightmare
What: MASS HYSTERIA
Where: Order of the Phoenix headquarters, the attic (you know they pimped out every bit of that house)
When: Tonight

( Bollocks to being calm and collected. He'd like to see Dumbledore or Auror Moody face off against three bears. )

They were seriously just sitting there studying. Seriously! She needed help with Charms, Elphias had offered, and now they were sitting at the little square table in the corner, going over notes and figuring out theories. There was no reason for the common room to have emptied and left them completely and entirely alone. None. They were studying, nothing else! Phoebe hadn't even noticed that they were abandoned until the crackle of the firewood made her jump.

Though, now that she thought about it, Brad had been totally pushing three people out of the common room door, and Emmeline had definitely grabbed Anneliese and Ellie by the arm to pull them up the stairs. Were...were people plotting against them? Nuh uh. No way. Why would they care? It wasn't as if they were dating or anything and the rest of the Houses' lives depending on whether or not she and Elphias kissed or snogged or even held hands and oh God. What if it did? What if everyone in all of Ravenclaw (Phoebe wouldn't even let herself think outside of Ravenclaw tower) was watching and waiting to see what would happen? She knew how gossips worked, she was one of the best so--so---

"Ah, how much--how much stuff from sixth year have you been reviewing for your N.E.W.T.s?" she asked, running a nervous hand through her hair because she needed to ignore the silence that had fallen upon the common room.

"GO RAVENCLAW!" Phoebe shouted into the still partying common room as she spun around on the steps of the boy's dorms. Oy, seriously? Seriously?! They'd won! Brilliantly! Against Slytherin! And it was amazing and it was awesome and she was so, so wired, and people probably thought she was drunk (like a few of the Ravenclaws down in the common room) but she was just really, really, really, really happy, and hopped up on like six cups of some of this like super sugary drink that someone had brought in from shedidntknowwhere but it was really, really, really, really good and!

Now she was going up to visit Elphias! Who didn't like parties and was up in his dorm studying! Who the heck didn't like parties? Well, Elphias would definitely be one to fit into that category, so Phoebe wasn't too surprised, but she sprinted up the steps anyway to go and drag her---well...her....Elphias, down the stairs.

Haaahahaha. Her Elphias. Gaw.

But that was to figure out for another day. Phoebe shrieked and high-fived a fifth year named Cristian that came out of the dorm as she hurried up to the seventh years', and shouted another pro-Ravenclaw cheer down the stairwell before finally reaching Elphias' dorm.

"Knock, knock, knock!" she shouted at the door, knocking on the wood with each word.