Early Morning Wake Up Call!

[darlingdarcy]

Week Name/Date/Time: A Cloud on the Horizon / Thursday, October 19th, 2006/ 4:30am
Location: Hufflepuff Seventh Year Girls' Dorm
Open to: Deirdre, all the other girls!
Currently Involving: Darcy, Deirdre, Ami, and Veronica

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[darlingdarcy]

Darcy gave a grin of triumph - because even she knew that a crow of triumph was not appropriate at 4:30 in the morning, no matter how loud the rude old WEATHER was being - when she spied Deirdre awake. She took a moment to gather up her things and grab Veronica's hand, and then took off as quietly and quickly as possible across the dorm room toward Deirdre's bed, dragging the Ravenclaw with her.

Making a tsking sound, she crawled into the bed, squishing over so Veronica would have room too, and shook her head. "I don't see how anyone is sleeping through it, to be honest with you!" she replied to Deirdre, and then settled in. This involved rearranging the pillows to make room for the two she had brought with her (which was good! She and Veronica could each have one and Deirdre wouldn't have to have any less), stashing her bag of sweets, which meant giving it a gentle toss such that it landed on the bed down by her knees, and stacking her books, cards, bubbles, and other random little things on her tummy.

"You won't tell that Veronica is here, right?" she pleaded with a grin, asking more to give her sister a hard time about being a stickler for rules than because she thought the older girl would actually consider such a thing. Darcy beamed at the both of them. Her two favourite people, right here as close as they could get! "What should we do first?!" she asked, a little less quietly.

[a_westmore]

Ami had been asleep, accustomed to the sounds of the dormitory as well as the thunder storms and as neither bothered her, she was blissfully unaware of their new roommates. However, the next crack of lightning and its accompanying clap of thunder was particularly loud and she had been drifting towards consciousness that it forced her to peek open her eyes. She rubbed them, as she caught faint whispering and turned on her side to see a huddle on Deirdre's bed. Familiar pigtails caught her eye and she grinned, pulling herself to an upright position.

"Hey, girls," she called softly. "Storm wake you all?" She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "Are we making smores?" She smiled. "Shall I make tea?"

[deirdiary]

When Deirdre noticed that Darcy had brought Veronica with her, she smiled with delight and scooted over further to make more room in her bed. It was lucky that Hogwarts gave them such large, fluffy beds so that they could fit so many girls so comfortably into one bed! "Well, not everyone is as light a sleeper as you and me, Darcy. I doubt Glinda will wake up at all; she's a very determined sleeper sometimes." She beamed as her sister settled in with such a wide array of sleepover necessities. "Merlin, Darcy! If I didn't know better, I'd think you set the storm on purpose, just so you could have a slumber party," she pretended to look suspicious, though it was difficult through the smiling.

"Of course I won't tell! Veronica's always welcome, you know that!" she reached over and patted the younger Ravenclaw on the head gently. She ignored the teasing from her sister, knowing Darcy well enough to be certain she'd never think she'd really do such a thing.

Then, just as she was about to answer Darcy's last question, she heard Ami's voice calling out and turned, "Oh! We didn't wake you, did we?" she looked with genuine concern at her roommate. Ami would likely not be mad even if they had, but she didn't want to disrupt the other girl's sleep, anyway. However, Ami already seemed welcoming and so she felt relieved, "I don't know how we'd manage that, Ami. Perhaps we ought to stick with chocolates instead?"

[darlingdarcy]

Darcy personally thought that the Hogwarts founders probably set the standard of big, fluffy beds, and that they knew exactly what they were doing when they'd done so. She approved. She also nodded at Deirdre. "That's true, Glinda IS a right good sleeper. I'm okay with that, though, cause it means we don't have to worry quite so much about waking her, right?

When accused of starting the storm, Darcy strategically avoided the eyes of the other girls, and looked as innocent as she possibly good, hoping to imply that she HAD, in fact, had something to do with the weather. Then she paused, and looked thoughtful. "That would be wonderful, wouldn't it? To control the weather? Only it'd be a lot of responsibility." Suddenly she got indignant, "And I bet everyone would be wanting favours all the time. Like clear skies for the Quidditch game but at the same time the Herbology professor and people would want rain for the plants..." Darcy shook her head, and looked up, happy at the sound of another voice to join them.

"Hey, Ami!" Darcy called back, as quietly as one could call. "I don't have s'more actually," she sounded very crestfallen, and then perked right back up. "BUT! We were about to play Clue! Want to come with?" This said with a beaming look in Veronica's direction, because it was such a great suggestion.

[a_westmore]

Ami glanced at Glinda's sleeping form when the girls talked about her, and nodded in agreement. She doubted anything short of a fire to her bed would wake the Hufflepuff, and even if she did wake, it would be more doubtful that she would be mad at the mass forming on Deirdre's bed. She dragged her half-sleepy form over onto her roommate's bed and climbed aboard, squishing her pillow between her chest and knees.

"Clue sounds like fun," Ami smiled, nodding along. "I haven't played that in ages." She would enjoy games and talking more than eating snacks as she feared spilling anything on Deirdre's covers. She stifled a yawn, watching them put the cards in the secret envelope, and then divide the remaining cards between each player. "Mind if I'm Professor Plum?" she smiled. It was Miss Scarlet who'd go first.

[deirdiary]

Deirdre beamed at her little sister, "It would be an awful lot of work. I don't know that you'd be any good at it. You're going to be busy being a Seer with me, anyway, so it's a good thing you can't," she lightly tickled her sister's side as she teased, "I don't imagine it would be very good to have people always knocking on the door asking after the weather when we're trying to commune with the spirits and all, you know!"

Deirdre smiled as Ami joined them, though she was busy helping Darcy lay out the board and cards and things. She smoothed the comforter so there was a flat surface for the board to rest on. Then she shuffled the three stacks of cards before looking to Darcy for direction on how they should go about selecting the three cards to go in the special envelope.

She waited for everyone else to choose their playing pieces, preferring to take whatever was left so that the other girls would like theirs best. She smiled and nodded at Ami's choice, then to the two younger Hufflepuffs to choose theirs while she lined up the weapon pieces.

[darlingdarcy]

Darcy's jaw dropped. She didn't think she could remember a time when Deirdre had ever told her she wouldn't be good at something! THIS WAS CLEARLY UNACCEPTABLE! She forced herself to look at her sister (betrayed as she was it was a horrible and difficult and painful thing to do, obviously), indignation etched onto every facial feature. She was about get all huffy when the rest of what Deirdre said sunk in. "Well...that would be annoying, and people WOULD do that wouldn't they? Bother me about the weather. That sounds JUST LIKE people. But I still think I could do it. If I really wanted to." She brightened, and broke eye contact with the older girl to help set up the game board (and avoid look at her reaction), "And if you helped me!"

Darcy stared at her friends in disbelief. Why did they want to be MEN?! "Uhm, okay." She shook her head at Veronica in particular. "No no no, you couldn't look BAD if you tried. You just look crazy."

Fine, then. If no one else was going to do it (and one look at Deirie was enough to tell Darcy that SHE wasn't going to) then Darcy would! "I'll be Miss Scarlet." She plopped the piece into place. "I always figured if someone WAS actually guilty, it would be her anyway. Or the host set it up; the whole deal is shady, if you ask me." She motioned toward her sister and the cards. "How about you spread out the cards and hold the envelope and each of us draws one?" She knew Deirdre could do it without accidentally cheating. Time to start the mystery!

[a_westmore]

Ami smothered a giggle and merely smiled at the exchange between the Delaney sisters. Seers and weather conjurers? That would be quite a job description. She had no doubt the Delaneys would be even more popular with those people who would interrupt them during their spirit communication.

She placed the glasses on as Veronica placed the pipe between her lips, this time releasing a small chuckle. It was fun playing men, if only for the reason that they weren't men and imagining how they would be if they were men was hilarious. And then Darcy said she thought she would be the guilty person anyways. "Ah, but we only have four players and there are six suspects, so it could technically be one of the other two," she winked, and then looked at Darcy's bag for the remaining props. She thought it would be great if Deirdre chose Mrs. Peacock and wore a peacock feather in her hair. Unless she opted for Mrs. White and her hat.

When Darcy mentioned choosing a card to be "fair" and put it in the envelope, she nodded and followed suit. "Miss Scarlet goes first," she winked to Darcy as she took her own cards. Well, it definitely wasn't Professor Plum with the Dagger in the Library.

[deirdiary]

Deirdre giggled at her sister's reaction then shook her head, "Good thing you don't want to, then, because I'm not helping! The weather will have to keep itself! We'll have enough work to do, following in Da's footsteps, you know. And that's all the work I want!" she ruffled Darcy's hair playfully.

Deirdre smiled, then laughed out loud when Veronica produced costumes. That was entirely unexpected to Deirdre's mind, but then she usually focused on the logic of the game. She laughed at the exchange between the two third years, beaming fondly at them both. Veronica looked adorable blowing bubbles from the pipe and playing as though she was a stiff old Colonel.

Then it was Dary's turn to choose and Deirdre rolled her eyes, "Well, they're all shady. That's the point, isn't it?" she winked. She glanced down and shrugged as she thought of the characters left it could be, "Well, I suppose I'll be... Mrs. Peacock, then?" she glanced over at Darcy for approval of the choice before holding out her hand to Veronica to take her costume.

She nodded at Darcy's directions on how to choose the three clues that would be the final answer, "All right." She spread the three stacks out and waited for each of the other girls to select one card from each stack, then she slid them into the envelope in her hand, careful not to peek so she wouldn't ruin the game by knowing the final solution.

Then she set the envelope aside and picked up the rest of the cards to shuffle them and deal them out evenly to everyone. Then she settled in to pick up her own cards and study them, waiting for the game to begin.