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Paging~ Captain Oblivious. ([info]vaisey) wrote in [info]riddikulus,
@ 2008-03-01 22:28:00


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WHO; Melanie Roberts && Charles Vaisey
WHEN; Saturday afternoon.
WHERE; A moving staircase that's currently on the west side of the third floor! The Quidditch pitch later on.
SUMMARY; Quidditch honestly isn't that dangerous. The only logical thing seems to be a flying lesson.
RATING; PG, most likely?
WARNINGS; ♥ ♫
STATUS; In progress.



It could have been an inkblot, really. It was just a small thing, nothing too extravagant, but the second he’d hexed it private and placed his quill back in his bag, he felt a jolt through his stomach. Honestly, who drew hearts? Melanie did, but really, no one else. The whole thought that these journals had been devoid of scribbles was beyond him, after all, they were teenagers who were bored more than they had rights to be. But the heart was there. He’d written it. No dwelling on the past, right?

Charlie ruffled his hair and then let out a huff of air as he made his was up the second staircase, his Firebolt trailing behind him almost like a dog would. It was quite a sight, really. Some third years had taken to gawking back on the first flight of stairs, even though they weren’t relatively new; Firebolts were rare—one of the perks of being on the Slytherin Quidditch team. Charlie looked upward as he kept walking at a brisk rate, and opened up his journal again to see if Melanie had responded. It was odd how he would check this thing more than should be allowed, especially when he was expecting something from Melanie to pop up. He was just about to close it when he noticed that Melanie had responded back and without thought he stopped walking immediately. His broom bumped into him and a couple of Gryffindors gave him unpleasant looks as they walked past him. Charlie couldn’t help but smile and dug into his bag for his quill, glad to see that it still had ink it in. For all his boasting, walking and writing at the same time was rather hard, especially when the staircases were moving faster than he’d wanted them to.

You can't see me? Charlie nodded once before closing the journal quickly, smashing his quill in between the pages in his haste, and walking even faster. He looked around the third floor, before rushing past a group of girls hovering on one of the corridors. There was a small gasp as the Firebolt barely flew above their heads while it followed him. With a small sight of relief he saw Melanie on the staircase a couple of yards away from him, and walked forward quickly before it began to move again.

There was time to gain his composure, he would always try to, at least. Whenever Charlie was around Melanie he seemed to be more awkward than he usually was, which was saying something. Charlie smiled once and took a couple of large steps, holding on to the strap of his book bag, before coming to a halt and letting a smile come across his face.

“Of course you can’t see me, I’m right behind you.”


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[info]melanie
2008-03-02 07:50 am UTC (link)
Perhaps Matthew was right whenever he shook his head and sighed and told Melanie she needed to perk up, because no one could be that oblivious and gullible at 16, but she honestly couldn't understand why Justin was so opposed to her dating Charlie. Charlie was a good person, despite the fact that he was a Slytherin. He was nice, too and very funny in that dorky way of his and cute and very charming, and he had perfect timing, because he always seemed to know when Melanie needed something and he sent her cookies at midnight without knowing she was hungry and there were a whole lot of other things that she couldn't quite remember at the moment, but she'd be sure to write them down whenever she did. And now he had popped out of nowhere and offered to keep her company, just when she needed it the most because her day had been completely horrible. Seeing both Stewart and Garrick hit the ground so awfully had scared her beyond belief and not even winning the match had done a thing to improve her mood, so spending some time with Charlie now seemed like a heaven-sent. The thought that Charlie was a skilled legilimens had fleetingly crossed her mind a many times, because sometimes the coincidences were a bit too creepy, but Melanie would rather believe that Charlie simply knew her very well – and maybe that was being gullible or naive or whatever word her brother was using nowadays, but Melanie wasn't about to question it. She liked Charlie, Charlie liked her back and that was that.

She was getting very impatient now, though, because ten minutes ago, Charlie had said he'd be there in five and if he didn't hurry up, the staircase would start moving again and Melanie would end up travelling all over Hogwarts on those steps. The idea seemed rather fun, even if it wasn't as classy as a magic carpet. She chuckled at the thought, images of herself riding a carpet through the halls of the castle while Peeves tagged along keeping her distracted from her impatience. It was very silly of her, because she had just seen Charlie that morning during the game, so waiting a couple of minutes to see him again shouldn't have been such a big deal. And she shouldn't have been checking that journal so constantly.

Good thing she did, though, otherwise she would've missed Charlie's response. With another chuckle, she scribbled a quick reply and didn't even bother closing the journal as she waited, with eyes fixed on the page, for new words to appear. How was she supposed to believe that trusting Charlie was a bad thing, when he was so nice and she was having such a good time?

Melanie was startled her out of her daze when Charlie sneaked up behind her and her first reaction was to let out a gasp and throw a quick glance over her shoulder, not having expected him to get there so fast.

"You shouldn't sneak up on people," Melanie started, still looking a bit wide-eyed, but smiling at the sight of him. "If I had good reflexes, you could be dead now. Or petrified. Or, y'know, something bad like that."

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[info]vaisey
2008-03-02 09:33 am UTC (link)
There was something about being around Melanie that made him slightly skittish and very calm at the same time. It was a very odd sensation, but really, the moments leading up to seeing her were worse on his nerves than anything, so actually seeing her was nothing but a relief. A withheld breath would be let out, something he would always do, unconsciously of course, and then he would feel calm, because he was near her. Then he would have to worry about talking to her or trying to seem relatively interesting or even breathing. He would have to remind himself of that sometimes, which was rather foolish when he’d think about it, but he wasn’t able to control it, so he’d always try his best to ignore that little flaw. Inhale, exhale. Melanie.

“You have good reflexes, you just didn’t want to stun me. I’m sure. But I’m sorry, you’re right. It’s not very polite.” Charlie gave her what he hoped to be a confident smile, but it was more out of habit than anything. He seemed to smile more around her, and since they started talking again… and dating. “But I wante—” Charlie was cut off by a rough and loud noise; the staircase had begun to move and was already three inches away from him in the moments that he’d frozen from the loud sound. Charlie’s eyes darted from the growing gap to Melanie and shook his head as he took a notable jump over the large gap between the staircase and the landing that he was on, his broomstick still trailing behind him.

“Crap,” noticing that he’d forgotten his bag on the landing, Charlie quickly grabbed his wand and muttered “accio!”—in too much in a rush to deal with a nonverbal spell. There was no mistaking the audible sigh of relief that Charlie gave as the bag floated over, avoiding the three story fall that he could have easily made himself. Motioning his wand to place his bag on the staircase, he rested his hand on the side of the stairs before turning around and facing Melanie, unsure of how to act. He gave her a small smile, hoping that she wouldn’t realize that he could have very easily have fallen trying to get on the staircase, before sliding down to sit.

“…So. Never a dull moment?”

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[info]melanie
2008-03-03 01:20 am UTC (link)
The initial scare of having someone sneak up on her had worn off quickly, her eyes returning to their normal size and her smile looking more genuine than queasy, so Melanie wondered why her heart was still beating as though it wanted to jump off her chest. She reckoned Charlie had something to do with it and she shrugged it off, not giving it too much thought. At least it was her heart acting crazy and not her stomach, which just last month had taken to doing cartwheels and jumping jacks, all at the same time, every time Charlie was around. And had it really been a whole month already? The thought didn't help slowing her heart, but it did widen her smile.

"No, no. Hm, that's not it," Melanie said in mock seriousness while busying herself with her journal and bag. "No, I could've--" The rest of her reply got lost along with Charlie's in the rough noise. True to her previous words, it took her all of three seconds to register what was happening and by the time she stood up, the staircase had already moved a few inches away from the landing. Melanie really wanted to laugh, because now Charlie had to walk all the way to wherever the staircase landed next to get to her. Or, well, that would have been the sensible thing to do, but since when did he do anything sensible? She watched with wide eyes as Charlie took the risk to jump over the gap. The gap wasn't too wide, really, but a simple slip would've had him falling down three floors. And crashing. And dying, most likely, because she doubted Madam Pomfrey had any remedy for death by stupidity. And, sweet mother of Merlin, the nerve of him!

"CHARLES VAISEY, ARE YOU INSANE!?" She all but screeched, ignoring his casual comment, before sitting down again and taking a deep breath, trying to calm herself. He was okay, he didn't die. He could've died, like Stewart and Garrick could've died that morning, but he didn't and it was okay and she should stop worrying so much about it because everyone's bound to die some day. Eventually. Yeah. "Of course you're insane, everyone's insane and you're all going to kill me one of these days," she kept muttering to herself as she waited for the staircase to stop moving to get off of it, trying to avoid looking at Charlie. She wasn't mad, but looking at him at that moment would make her want to either hug him to death or push him off the staircase herself, which would result in his death either way and she really, really didn't want him to die. So she waited and avoided looking at him and that's when she noticed the Firebolt hovering over them. So much for avoiding him. "Uh, Charlie? Why is there a broom following us?"

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