Things That Wiggle and Squirm

[Rose Weasley]

It was roughly midafternoon and the weather was frosty as ever. There was no particular reason why she was up on the roof of the astronomy tower... none whatsoever. Not even the bucket beside her could be thought of strange. Sure it was filled to the brim with flobberworms and other mucus filled creature but other than that everything was perfectly normal. Rose rubbed her frozen hands together in an attempt to get warm. It was the third of December and a little birdie told her something equally slimey as the bucket beside her had Herbology out in the green house. Lucky for her, Muggle Studies had ended rather quickly and she was able to linger about the roof for the git.

Now.. causing trouble wasn't her thing. She left that stuff to James or Albus. But this was a different story. Somethings as petty as revenge often couldn't be helped when big dumb slytherin's messed with her own flesh and blood. Yes that was right. She was still pissed at that git for what he did. Hurting poor Hugo. Just the thought of her dear brother made her heart well up. For days after that he didn't even dare to look at her cause stupid scorpius that scumbag. Sure it was partially her fault, intervening in her brothers fight but... it was a reality she wasn't comfortable accepting yet. Rose leaned against the parapet and watched like a hawk, her eyes dancing across the lawns for anything that resembled a snake. Malfoy was easy to spot, she thanked her bloody stars for that. He was just unnaturally slow... what the hell was taking him so long?! Her brow furrowed in annoyance, she was begining to lose the feeling in her fingers.

[Venitia Ives]

Venitia had finished her class and now had her break until her last class. She was not very hungry to go get something to eat so, she decide to go to the astronomy tower roof. She liked going up to the roof because it was a lovely sight expect for the roof it self. The roof was nothing sepulchral but looking out towards the land made up for it.

She had walked the halls thinking of what to do when she got there. It was a pretty quite place. Nothing to bother you. She thought that she might get some homework done or just read a book. She did not just want to spend it all looking out and staring the whole entire time. It would be partly a waste. If she knew she could get something down at a good time she would. She never liked waiting forever to get homework done. She knew if she did wait until the day before it was do,she would be a mess.

When Venitia had reached reached the roof,she notice that someone else was there. She did not want to intrude on the girls pricey but, Venitia did want to stay in the tower. She decide that she would say something to her. "Excuse me Miss but do you mind if I stay here? I do not want to bother you." Venitia said politely to the girl.

[Rose Weasley]

Rose jumped to attention at the sound of 'excuse me miss', elbowing into the bucket in the process. She could feel all this really going wrong, what with this unknown stranger coming up and noticing her. Excuse me miss usually followed with detention so it was second nature to freak. Rose eyed the bucket as it tottered nearly over the edge. She fumbled to grab it, pulling it close to her before it fell overboard. Some of the slime sloshed onto her robes in the process and she stared at it disgustedly. Somehow it was Malfoy's fault... it always was. If that little git hadn't already appeared by now he'd be the one soaked with yucky stuff. "ohh" she whinned to herself, setting aside the bucket and rubbing her now ruined blouse, completely forgetting for a moment what had originally startled her.

After a few moments of rubbing she slowly looked up... uncomfortable now. "uh.." Rose stared at the girl, attempting to acess her. She was... definetly not a prefect nor head girl.... Too young to be a teacher, and too pretty to play quidditch. She seemed safe.. for now. "It's freezing up here.. cant believe anyone would want to stay up here for the hell of it." she stared at the girl in disbelief. "You can stay if you'd like.. on one condition" she added with an innocent smile "Help me spot a slimey git. Shouldn't be hard. He looks almost as foul as he smells"

[Venitia Ives]

Venitia was a bit startled by the girls reaction. She had felt bad for scaring her. She did not mean too,it must have been they way she come off. She was politely that people thought she was a teacher,or some kind authority when not seeing her face. it also probably surprised her because of the bucket she saved had gotten some gross slime on the girl. She was probably going to do something with it, since it seemed important to her. "I'm sorry to have sacred you" Venitia said to her. She wanted to apologize since she did bust in on the girls privacy.

She smiled at the girl about the freezing comment"Well It's nice up plus not a lot of people come up here,if you want to be alone,it's probably one of the best."Most of the times Venitia had come up her it had been empty. This would probably be the first person she ever run into up here. Venitia was please to hear that the girl did not mind her staying but when she had heard the one condition she wondered if it was going to be bad. She listen to what she aid and laughed. "Of course I will help you!"She said happily. If there was something Venitia liked doing was helping people play pranks on other people."By the way my name is Venitia."She said smiling at the girl.

[Rose Weasley]

"Yayyy Great!" she cheered, quickly peering over the parapet to make sure the slimey git hadn't passed while she was distraced. He could of like.. had some sort of radar or something. You never knew when it involved the Malfoy name. "Venitia? Pretty!! It sounds so elegant" she smiled staring at the girl. It really did suit her. She was tall, elegant, polite... Rose looked down at herself. She was far from a Rose... though the thorns were very much her if you knew her well enough. "I'm Rose." she introduced herself "It's refreshing to find a redhead not related to me these days" she giggled.

Rose seated herself on the parapet, her paranoia of Malfoy escaping her little revenge scheme was begining to fill her brain. She scanned the grounds for a moment. "I dont normally do this" she stressed onto Venitia, drumming her fingers against the bucket of flobberworms and other gross creatures unconsciously, feeling some of the slime stick to her hand. "Ugh" she cried out disgusted, pulling her hand away from the bucket and attempted to wipe it off onto the parapet. Somehow the only one getting affected by this prank seemed to be Rose herself... she wondered if this was Karma's doing. "Dammit" she cursed to herself, whimpering a bit in the process. "Is it so wrong to want to cause pain and disgust to someone who deserves it greatly?" she pouted, looking to Venitia for some sort of comfort.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Scorpius had been having a crappy week. Mum watching his every move like a hawk in Potions, Father owling him every other day to pick his brain about information he just didn't have about the student that was supposedly attacked, and overall just being annoyed with the castle population in general. The last straw was leaving one of his charts he needed to finish up a paper due tonight. He heard muffled girl's voices and sighed. Saying the hell with the grade and just avoiding the gossiping busybodies was very tempting. Not much of an option with a grade crazy lunatic Mum living in the dungeons near his dorm.
He thought he might be able to avoid them, when he heard a familiar harping tone, one he wouldn't miss anywhere. Pain and Disgust? Had someone done something worthy of her vengeance? Should he cave in and go ask to help defend her honor? Or should he skive off, and hide while he still had his dignity? She had a viper's tongue, and while he still harbored a small dream of someday winning her over, frankly she was the one person in the school that could terrify him with just the thought of one of her verbal rampages.
Stupidity, hormones and naivety won out. Again.

"Pain? Tell me, Who has earned your undying enmity today, Rose?" Scorpius turned around the corner, and saw Venitia, one of the older girls, and lost his tongue for a minute. Another gorgeous redhead, though frankly he knew he had no chance with her. He gave her a weak smile, and was about to ask Rose about the disgust, when he saw her robes - and the slime. He turned his head aside and bit the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing, but all that did was make him produce some kind of fake coughing/snicker noise. And it hurt.

[Venitia Ives]

Venitia had smiled at Rose for her kindness and how she was cheery. Venitia walked over to to her newly founded friend Rose and looked into the bucket. It was disgusting stuff in there. She really wanted to get revenge on someone. Venitia thought."Oh Thank you" Venitia blushed a bit when Rose had compliment her name. " I actually love the name Rose,It matches your hair." She said smiling at her. There were red roes and her hair matched it perfectly "oh you must be one of the Weasleys!" they where know for their red hair."Well you know red heads are the best!." she giggled along with Rose.

Venitia did not know why she was so comfortable with Rose, She talked like she had know her for her whole life. Usually Venitia would be very quite. Maybe it was because they where redheads?

"Well It depends."she said to Rose "If the person just is really bad a deserves, then I would have to say yes."She smiled at he "Plus if its a guy,they always deserve it."Venitia giggled. Venitia usually knew boys deserved to get it because they did dumb things,so why not get good revenge on them when you could."So this person really must have pissed you off since that stuff looks disgusting." She giggled some more but stop as soon as she heard someone else had talked. It was the young Scorpius. It seemed as if he came from no where. Venitia had wondered if he was Roes target. She would soon find out.

[Rose Weasley]

Rose was startled by Malfoy. "He--you-- down there?" she was baffled and the words pouring out of her made no sense. In a fit of surprise she pushed the bucket behind her out of Malfoy's view and jumped up from her seat. The whole point of the prank was that he didn't know. ... so what the hell was he doing up here? She soon found herself being less worried than furious which always seemed to happen when Malfoy made his entrance. She bit the inside of her cheek to stop herself from going ape on him.

"As if you didn't already know. Could you be more obnoxious?" she shouted at him, her fists curling unconsciously. Right now all she wanted to do was beat him to a pulp and gag him with the flobberworm. But no.. she had to keep her cool. Rose peered at Venitia. Her new friend.... she'd be mortified if she saw that side of Rose. "Yah yah keep laughing you dumb ape..... This is all your fault" toward the end she whinned a bit, annoyed at him and everything about him. In fact.. it was peculiar.. Malfoy NOT being down there and then ending up here on the roof of all places. He must have overheard then jinxed her in revenge because there was no way she could have that much bad luck in just a matter of minutes. "It was you wasnt it you baffoon. Hexing poor innocent girls on the roof.. since when did you sink so low?" she huffed, forgetting that just moments ago she wasn't exactly what you'd call 'innocent'.

[Scorpius Malfoy]

Scorpius was confused as hell. Rose's fragmented opening sentence didn't help much. Was he supposed to be 'down there'? She shoved the bucket behind her, and he pretended not to notice. He risked a glance at Venitia for a clue, but she wasn't much help. She looked vaguely amused in some way that didn't give him much hope.
"...umm..Rose...I hate to burst your bubble of suspicions but...I got here AFTER you..."

He wondered what was in the bucket, but didn't want to get much closer. It was probably more of whatever was on her coat. Had someone hexed it to land on her when she got up there? With Rose's 'sparkling' personality, it wouldn't have been a surprise. Though it was something he himself enjoyed to watch, he could see where anyone else might want a bit of anonymous revenge. Then again...she seemed so disheveled, and disoriented. If he were older, he'd definitely spot the signs of a flustered girl with a prank gone awry but as it was, he was just really confused. He hazarded a guess, and hoped she didn't just explode.

"Rose...between you and me..." he walked up closer, and leaned in to whisper in her ear, "are you on drugs? You can tell me...or you can talk to your parents about it...they'll listen" he added helpfully, hoping she'd get some rehab soon, before she began to show the long term effects.