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[augury_megan]

Who: Megan, Zach and Ernie

What: Do you sleep anymore?

Where: Couch by the fireplace, Hufflepuff Common Room

When: After curfew, November 11, 1997

Status: Incomplete

It’s amazing the way a nice warm bath creates that tired feeling in your body and that foggy feeling in your brain. Megan changed immediately into a flannel pair of pyjamas, just perfect

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[augury_zach]

Another night creeping around the school had turned up absolutely nothing of use. Still no clues as to where those lost days went and, as each day passed, the chances of finding out anything became as likely as Neville Longbottom playing an excellent game of Quidditch.

Zach entered the common room, peering around in the darkness lit only by the flickering in the fireplace. He moved across the room, intent on heading straight to bed.

Someone screamed.

He froze. A shadowy figure sat on the sofa, then fell back and disappeared from view. He moved toward the sofa, peered over the edge of it.

"Megan. I thought it was you"

[augury_megan]

"What the hell, Zach? Are you stalking me?" Her voice was terse, but it was residual from the panic the dream had caused. "It's the Common Room in the middle of the night. What are you doing?"

[augury_zach]

Zach studied her face for a moment. "No, I'm not stalking you. I'm skulking around, but it's nothing to do with you."

He straightened, then seated himself on the arm of the sofa. "Why are you sleeping down here anyway?"

[augury_megan]

"I don't know. Because its comfortable? This was just where I ended up after the party." Megan pulled the blanket around her tighter and turned on her side, so that she could watch the dying embers at the base of the fireplace.

Mentally, she was trying to push away the image of suffocating snow.

[ernie_dt_mac]

Ernie had stayed till the very end to help boot out the last of the party-goers before the House Elves came in to clean up the armour room. Only once he'd been satisfied that all was well did he head back to his House, intent on a good night's sleep. He had spotted Megan asleep on the sofa immediately, but hadn't wished to wake her up, and after a soft kiss to her cheek, had left her to her slumber

[augury_megan]

Fuck! Ernie! Megan thought as she made her way out of the shadows.

"It's fine. He's here with me. Though, where he was before I woke up...your guess is as good as mine," she said calmly.

[augury_zach]

Zach looked at Megan, frowned. Judging by her expression, things could get decidedly interesting one way or another.

"We're just having a bit of a slumber party," Zach whispered into the darkness. "Though we haven't started painting each other's nails yet."

[ernie_dt_mac]

Ernie chuckled. "Well, I'm glad to hear Hannah and I won't need to be fishing you out of the bath anytime in the near future," he joked to hide his genuine relief. Zach had worried them all, and Ernie feared that the next time... He quickly pushed the thought to the back of his mind.

"A slumber party would sound fun if it weren't a school night, and we've got bloody Muggle Studies in the morning. I don't know about you, but I don't want to risk facing Podmore without a good night's sleep." He unconsciously rubbed at his eyes. "Anything interesting keeping you up? Or anything I need to take care of?"