conscience becomes sound [alley]

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Since school had been in session for a while, Scorpius had decided to give himself a break and wander the school grounds. He liked to go to the lake, but honestly he had neglected the rest of the castle at the beginning of the year in favor of the library and the common room. The fact that it was winter played no small part in his sudden need to be outside. Something about the chill upon his face and the lack of students made him feel at ease.

He crossed the courtyard where a small group of students were huddled together, most likely gossiping. Scorpius didn’t like to gossip; in fact, he avoided it like the plague most of the time. He had been the subject of gossip far too often to ever indulge in that himself, unless it was between friends and done only in a playful manner. Then again, one had to have friends that they could relax with before that could happen. Who had the time?

Tuning the group out he took his coat off and placed it on a bench so that he wouldn’t have to feel the cold of it…. And because he didn’t know what people had sat here before him and what they were doing t the time that they did. As he often did he took out some parchment and a quill and began a lengthy letter home to his parents, even though nothing of note had happened over the school year so far.

Almost as if she could read his mind, his silvery owl circled the sky above until Scorpius held his hand out. She landed on him and proceeded to run her beak through his hair (a very odd habit in his eyes, and he wasn’t sure where she had picked that one up).Scorpius moved back a little bit but laughed, tying the letter to her leg."Be careful, Arestel," he said softly, not wanting to alert the gossipers to his presence. As he watched her fly away he still had a rather dorky smile on his face…

Which turned to something like horror when he realized that he wasn’t alone in the courtyard anymore.

[Alleyne Sinclair]

blank stares at blank pages, no easy way to say this
YOU MEAN WELL, I'M TRYING TO LET YOU HEAR ME AS I AM

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Alleyne was in one of her moods where she just wanted to wander, she wasn't exactly sure why. It could be she just needed alone time to think, or it could just be because she enjoyed exploring the castle and grounds. She didn't have class right now, so she decided to head out towards the grounds, as she hadn't been out there, besides a couple of trips to the lake, in a while, and she missed looking at all the trees and such. Plus, she figured the cool air would probably help to clear her mind.

As she walked, she thought about everything that had been going on lately. She hadn't really seen as much of her brother recently as she would have liked, and that made her sad, she'd need to work on that, she missed her Jazzy. And Aito... if it was possible, it seemed like his nightmares and sleepwalking were only getting worse, I mean, he'd almost drowned himself a couple weeks back, until she showed up. She hated seeing him like that, and she wished there was something more that she could do, but what could she? Sighing, she blinked, and breathed in the chilled air, feeling it like ice against her skin and in her lungs.

She decided to head towards the fountains and courtyards, changing direction slightly as she made this decision. She figured she'd walk around a bit, and then find a bench to sit down on. As she walked through the courtyards, all mostly empty except for a few groups of giggling gossiping girls, whom Alley rolled her eyes at as she passed, Alley let a small smile form on her face. Despite the cold, and harshness of winter, everything about these grounds was still just beautiful. As she turned into what looked like a completely empty courtyard, she looked around for a bench to sit on, and eyes settling at a bench a few feet away, realized she was wrong about the courtyard being empty. Instead, sitting there, his coat covering the bench beneath him, was Scorpius. She watched as he softly told his owl to be careful, before sending it off with a letter, a dorky smile on his face, and she grinned.

Suddenly, he noticed her standing there, and the look on his face made her laugh lightly. "Hey Scorp, writing to the parents?" she said, still grinning, "I haven't written mine in a bit, I should probably do that at some point. Mind if I sit down? I don't want to impose, but if you wouldn't mind the company..." As she spoke, she walked over to the bench, standing next to it, she waited for him to respond.



AND THEY TELL ME TO BREATHE EASY FOR A WHILE[/size]
I learned the hard way, they say things you want to hear[/size]

Wearing: uniform. Tagged: Scorpius Lyrics: love song -Sara Bareilles.
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[Scorpius Malfoy]

Scorpius lightly gestured to the bench, to a part where his coat lay across it. He didn’t mind if she sat on his coat because he knew her. He still wasn’t thrilled that she saw his more sensitive side but it was still better her than one of his admirers or ‘rivals’. “I haven’t written home in a while either, so I thought that it was a good time.” That was a complete lie, since he wrote home more often than he spoke to people who were in the same room with him. He couldn’t help it. His family had always been close, and he would fill the physical distance with his written words.

“I don’t mind if you are here though. It means that no one else will talk to me.” He paused, realizing that sounded mean. As if Alley was someone that others would avoid… He wasn’t quite sure how to fix his mistake, so he laughed somewhat awkwardly and turned his eyes downward, to where his hands were now clasped together over his knee. “I didn’t mean it to come out like that… I mean, sometimes when I’m by myself people come talk to me about things that I don’t care about. Like the Yule Ball, and their dates, and quidditch… I like it, but it doesn’t mean that I want to talk to everyone about it.”

He wondered what was wrong with him, giving her a mini-rant about the school. He decided that it was probably because he had sort of ignored everything and not complained about it, and now it was all coming out at once. At this rate, Alley wasn’t going to approach him after today either. “Sorry… How are you doing, Alley?” She was probably bored if she ended up out here alone. And he just kind of swamped her with his own problems… He felt like a jerk now.

[Alleyne Sinclair]

blank stares at blank pages, no easy way to say this
YOU MEAN WELL, I'M TRYING TO LET YOU HEAR ME AS I AM

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Alley nodded as Scorp mentioned that he hadn't written his parents recently either, and had thought now was a good time. And when he gestured for her to sit down on a space covered by his coat, she smiled and did so. Alley wasn't sure why she hadn't written her parents recently to be quite honest, she normally wrote her father more often than her mother, but even he hadn't received a letter from her in at least a week or 2. He replied that he didn't mind if she was here, and that it meant no one else would talk to him, and she frowned slightly for a moment, before he continued, explaining. He said he didn't mean it to come out like that, and that sometimes when he was alone, people would basically just start bugging him about things he didn't want to be bugged about. Alley could definitely understand the need for alone time, and not constantly wanting to be bothered with conversation about things one didn't even care about, so she nodded. "Yeah I kind of understand what you mean," she said.

He suddenly changed the subject, apologizing, and asking how she had been doing. Alley pondered the question a moment, before answering. How was she? She'd be lying if she said things were perfect. She still wasn't 100% over everything that had happened with Riley the previous year, and so her self esteem had gone down just a tad. She felt like she was slowly drifting away from her brother, as it seemed like she hadn't really spent quality time with him in ages, and she hated it. But physically? She was fine. And her grades and other school related aspects? Great. But she wasn't going to ramble on and on about all of that to him, it wasn't his problem. And so she simply gave him the generic half true answer she gave most times people asked how she was. "I'm doing alright. Just focusing on school and stuff mostly lately. You know same as usual."



AND THEY TELL ME TO BREATHE EASY FOR A WHILE[/size]
I learned the hard way, they say things you want to hear[/size]

Wearing: uniform. Tagged: Scorpius Lyrics: love song -Sara Bareilles.
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[Scorpius Malfoy]

Alley's silence at Scorpius' question made him nervous for a moment because he wasn't sure if he had asked at a bad time. He wasn't psychic but he should have assumed that the majority of the time his classmates weren't doing well. It was part of being a teenager. But then she responded in a somewhat evasive manner. At least, her response was the one that people gave either when nothing at all was going on their lives or they just didn't want to talk about it. He was fine with that. He would talk about awkward things if people wanted him to, but for the most part he would mind his own business.

“Yeah, I know what you mean,” he said with a small smile. Despite his words, his eyes showed that he really did know that she was being thoughtful in not going into her problems. “There hasn't been that much going on lately. The beginning of the year was more lively, but then, I guess that it always is.” People fell into their old routines and things seemed less exciting. Scorpius thought that school was dull most of the time because he didn't have much of a social life and school was too easy. “What made you come outside?”