A day in the dark.

[emptyyourself]

Who: Severus Snape, Harry Lockhart, Martha Jones, Tony Foster, Mozenrath, Open to anyone
What: A day in the life - Dead the in the Water
When: All day, including the 12am-6am Kitchen Guard shift.
Where: All over.

You know the routine. Tag in whenever you like! Snape won't be responding to journal communications for a while.

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12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[emptyyourself]

[Snape has not slept in 48 hours and is now guarding the kitchen. Far from having dulled senses, he's just very short-tempered.]

Re: 12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[canisayfuckmore]

[Harry can't sleep. Afflicted with the neon disease, his mum used to say, Only here there's no neon and now there aren't even any normal lights. Darkness at night? How unnatural is that? It's freaking him out and so instead of staying in his equally-freakishly bare room he's decided to actually help out by patrolling randomly, eventually making his way down the level one hallway when he notices light coming from behind the Dining Hall doors and decides to investigate. He pokes his head round and takes a look]

12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[emptyyourself]

[Not one to invite people to break into a supposedly empty room, Snape has kept his wand lit just to give everyone the idea that someone is indeed sitting around, just waiting to hex those with mischief in mind.

Unfortunately, the light seems to be drawing a crowd. Or just Harry Lockhart.]

Not you.

Re: 12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[canisayfuckmore]

... Yup, me. [Harry gives Snape a hesitant smile and sidles fully in.] Guarding the kitchens then? [A pro at stating the obvious, is Harry.]

[He glances around the room to see if anyone else is there, then walks up to Snape, jumping onto a table and swinging his legs. He shivers] Aren't you cold? [The big hall isn't very comfortable without the heating going.]

12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[emptyyourself]

[Oh God, the dunderhead is going to stay.

Snape frowns, then scowls when Harry sits on a table - as if the chairs aren't perfectly good. And is he really going to hang about and complain about the cold?]

There are those who take it into mind that, when something abnormal occurs - a power failure, shall we say? - it is a signal to begin looting in preparation for the end of times.

12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[canisayfuckmore]

You don't say. [Harry looks a little shifty. It's not so long ago he would have been one of those types.] So you're, fighting the good fight? One thief at a time. Anyone tried it yet?

[He glances at the wand.] And, uh... What'll you do? If you catch them?

12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[emptyyourself]

[Snape looks steadily at Harry, waiting for him to finish his barrage of questions.]

We're one day in to our crisis. I expect those who might be tempted to steal from the kitchens are waiting to see how much of a crisis we are in.

[He didn't respond to the latter question; he felt it was rather obvious that, if he could make a cigarette vanish, he could make someone regret stealing food.]

Re: 12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[canisayfuckmore]

Hm, yeah. [He shifts slightly away from Snape's wand.] Is it hot? Can you make it hot? [He spreads his hand as you would over a fire, but doesn't actually bring them any closer to the wand. It is a weapon after all, even if it can do other, less harmful things as well.]

12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[emptyyourself]

[Snape chooses that exact moment to decide that Harry Lockhart is functionally retarded.]

It isn't a toy.

12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[canisayfuckmore]

Yeah. I know that, 'course I know that.

[It's just... shiny and. He mentally stops himself, He can't really tell, but Snape might be frowning even harder. Gone from the 'I will murder you' face, to 'I will use your entrails in a magic potion' face.] Do you use body parts in potions?

[Did he say that out loud?]

12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[emptyyourself]

[If Snape were the sort to slap his forehead in exasperation, he would do just that, right now. At least Lockhart doesn't seem to be much of a reader.]

No, I do not use human body parts in potions.

[He pauses, then adds for good measure, just to screw with this annoying man:]

Anymore.

Re: 12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[canisayfuckmore]

[He shudders.] Eurgh. [A pause.] You were an inmate, right? [Another shudder. Maybe he doesn't want to know any more.]

[He glances around the empty hall, then back at Snape.] This ever happen before? A flood like this?

12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[emptyyourself]

I was an inmate, indeed. I'm a convicted murderer.

[He fixes Harry with a stare at this, ignoring his question about the flood.]

I used the toes of my victims for hangover remedies.

Re: 12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[canisayfuckmore]

[He freezes, gives Snape an incredulous stare, then laughs a little nervously, not a hundred percent sure the other man's lying.]

You're shitting me. You are shitting me. [Squint.] Toes? What do you do with the rest?

12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[emptyyourself]

[Deadpan.]

I eat the rest.

[He reaches into his pocket and withdraws the one potion he managed to save from the Admiral's apparent purge of the ship.]

Incidentally, I have one vial left.

[He holds it out to Harry, his expression completely neutral.]

Re: 12:00am - 6:00am (Any time therein)

[canisayfuckmore]

[He stares blankly at Snape, then... cracks up laughing.] Oh man, you had me, you, almost had me.

[He does give the vial a wary look before taking it gingerly, almost dropping it, catching it again.] Ahem. [He acts like he'd meant to do that.]

So... what do you put in them? [He holds the vial up to the light to see if he can make out the contents. He hadn't been able to with the last one, but... okay so he was checking for any toe-like shapes.]