Open RP: Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

[coxinsox]

No matter how many times it rolled around, somehow, Cox had always managed to avoid Chocolates Day... until now. It had never occurred to him just how much of an evil-minded bitch Lily Evans could apparently be. When he got back to normal, there were going to be words (AKA shouting) about what she'd done to himIn the meantime, though, he was

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[hellminxmel]

Maia's drifted around for so long trying to get her iPod to work, she barely registers when she stumbles into the Ravenclaw common room. But hey, she's not exactly sad about it. This is where the booze is.

She spots an angry-looking kid--though he's only maybe a year or so younger than her--and gravitates over to him, noting how he wallops the chair leg as he sits. The angry tend to react better than the tranquil when Hell vibes pour onto them. And Maia's badly in need of some fun. What could a kid do?

Maia sits opposite him, legs crossed to show off her figure to the maximum advantage, noting how he immediately went for beer and wondering if they sell anything stronger.

'Hey,' she finally says, after regarding him enough for a few minutes.

[coxinsox]

Oh, he noticed her. How could he not? But as loud as he usually is, he was not exactly in the mood for conversation. If that Lily girl hadn't been blocking his door, he'd be drinking in his room, not out here. So he stared at her silently as she came over, blue eyes burning with barely-repressed emotion. He sniffed uncaringly as she sat down, but shifted, slumped, making it look like he didn't care.

'Cause, you know, he didn't.

He ate the silence up, drinking slowly, but when she finally spoke he shrugged. "Hey."

[hellminxmel]

'I was beginning to think,' the demon says lightly, 'That everyone here was teetotal. I'm happy to see that's not the case.'

'Of course,' Maia continues, pulling at her top, 'I always used to drink with friends. Drinking alone signalled you had a problem. A problem shared is...well,' (she smirks) 'Still a problem. I suppose you've got a story like the rest of them.'

If he wants to talk,--or not, it suits her either way--it's just that talking makes it that much easier for her to taste the emotion and figure out if bombarding them will help or not. If he doesn't want to talk, Maia can just sit and at least be in the company of a (not angelic, not evil, not hugely ugly) guy--though her ultimate motive is still to make him feel worse.

[coxinsox]

Oh, good, and she was nosy. His favorite. "Who said I had a problem?" he shot back stubbornly, raising his chin. "Maybe I just like to drink." God knew he'd developed the habit at a young age. He'd be the last one to be surprised if his liver shut down in the next five years.

"Besides," he added grudgingly after a moment, casting a dark glance at the walls. "To drink with friends, I'd have to know where the hell my friends are."

[moonylicious]

At first Remus couldn't figure out who the angry kid drinking in the Ravenclaw common room was. But the kid's gestures were, well, eerily familliar, and it had been a while, (like since his reemergence) since he'd sparred with Cox.

Walking over, Remus plopped himself down on the couch next to the angry teenager. "Aren't you a little young to be drinking that, Perry?" he asked, torn somewhere between concern and amusement over Cox's plight.

[coxinsox]

Perry jerked back forcibly from the guy who'd just totally decided to invade his couch, scowling. This jerk looked familiar -- he kind of remembered him, in the way he'd kind of remembered Lily, his whole weird muddled memory thing. His eyes narrowed. "Wolfgang." He pulled the name out of the air, but it seemed like the right one.

He snorted and tipped the bottle back, his entire posture radiating defensiveness. "What's it to you?" he shot.

[moonylicious]

Remus snorted. "Yeah, it's good to see you, too, Perrylicious." He hesitated, then scowled, because calling Cox that was just... really creepy and he vowed not to do it again while he was magically cursed.

"I just noticed you look a little... unusual," Remus asserted. "Did you eat some chocolate you shouldn't have?"

[coxinsox]

Perrylicious? Ew. Perry gave Remus a disgusted look and pushed further back. "It's Perry," he growled. "Sicko." Why did he know child molesters and drug queens? What the hell had happened to his life?

At the question, he barked out a laugh. "Your friend Lily drugged me. I guess she thought this would be a whole fucking barrel of laughs."

[busty_robin]

((Due to the magic of hogwarts!time :D))

Let's recap. Dean and Steph were tiny. Dean and Steph were very prone to breaking things.

Dean and Steph were very lost.

There was a crash (several of them, actually) behind the Ravenclaw bar, and the sight of two kids sneaking out from behind said bar. Well, the sight of the tops of two heads, sneaking out from behind said bar. Because...tiny!

"I told you we shoulda turned left," Steph said, poking Dean in a huff. "This isn't where they keep the swords. Would you ask for directions?" Dean was the boy, and the resident Tall Person, so this was his job.

[wayward_son124]

Hey, she shouldn't get huffy. Dean showed her huff right back! In the form of puffed out cheeks and a tongue. Stupid Steph.

"Why do I have to ask for directions?" he asked loudly, pouting slightly. This wasn't his dad, dagnabbit. He didn't have to listen to her or risk getting yelled at. Or The Look. The Look was not a fun sight to see. Steph did not possess the look. Also, was not very threatening in general. And was short. He didn't have to do anything she said! "I won't!"

And then proceeded to turn to the bar. And the much taller man sitting at it. Dean leaned both arms onto the bar counter, having to stand on tiptoes to set his chin onto it. "Where do they keep the swords?"

[coxinsox]

What the hell were kids doing in a bar?

Okay, that... might have been a slightly hypocritical question to ask. But seriously, there was a difference between him and little brats running around. They were even younger than Paige.

Perry eyeballed them. "If I knew, I'd be using one on myself," Perry told the boy with a black smile. "Or maybe everyone else. Go try another bar."

[busty_robin]

Hmmm. That was a pretty good idea.

Steph tugged on Dean's shirt. "Psssst." Of course, if she had to say 'pssst', that meant the comment was hearable to all. "Ask the old guy if he knows where another bar is."

[lazyscoundrel]

Reno prowled in, feeling better after showered and gotten rid of all the horrible popcorn and butter off his clothes. After spotting the beer on top of the red-head kid, Reno said, "hey, where can I get some of those?" He was desperate for a beer after all this shit. He vaguely remembered a bar...

[coxinsox]

Perry gave the new guy a long, slow look, before jerking his thumb back towards the bar. "Over there. Next to the sign that says morons enter here."

[lilypotter60]

After the stellar time she'd had talking with the Perry the Teenage Angst, Lily had followed him down to the bar, lurking in the corner and nursing a bottle of butterbeer. Generally just making sure that this young and oh-so-troubled version of her friend didn't kill himself or others. Or get into a bar fight.

Well, maybe a good brawl would help matters. Merlin knew she'd not be opposed to throwing a punch. But, anyway, she was close at hand, wand out, brooding expression on her face as she considered him. From all her experience with the damn chocolates, it was simply a waiting game at this point.

Brilliant.

She should have brought a book.

[chance_silvey]

Oblivious to the latest iteration of Chocolate Madness (TM), Chance wanders into the common room hoping for a Grapico. You never knew what soda the bar would stock. Here's Lily with a dark look on her face, and a motley assortment of other patrons half of whom don't seem to be of drinking age. Chance raises an eyebrow. "Someone repurposed the common room into Romper Room and I missed the memo?"

[lilypotter60]

Snorting softly, she nodded at Chance, eyes still fixed on where Perry held court with various members of the room - some of whom probably should be a lot taller than they currently were clocking in as. "More like someone left out brownies under the false advertisement as being full of pot, and a few of our more angry student body members are currently raging out as adolescents." Or, rather, one in particular. Who would have thought Perry could get more angry?

Leaning forward, cradling her bottle between her fingers, Lily sighed before refocusing on Chance. "And I'm babysitting. From a distance, so I don't go from 'worried' to 'murderous rage'. How are you?"

[chance_silvey]

"Smart enough not to eat food that's lying out," Chance says with a wry smile. "Beyond that? Eh." Though her mun hasn't yet gotten off her lazy ass to write Chance's boggart encounter, DADA class had been a bitch and a half for our heroine. "Taking Dreamless Sleep Potion now. That is some good shit."