[LOG] Fooling Around

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Where: Slytherin Boys' Dormitories
When: Late January, 2022 (Fifth Year)

It was decently late in the evening when Alby and Scorp returned to the Slytherin dormitories. Classes had begun picking up again, and the two had retreated to the Chamber of Snogs for some studying and a bit of… other extracurricular activities. Alby grinned a bit to himself, thinking how wonderful it was that he and Scorp had a place like the Chamber to be alone in. He bet that any other couple in the school would kill for the ability to have a place where they knew they wouldn’t be interrupted. And it wasn’t as though Gilbert and Serge would tell on them.

As they approached the door to the fifth year boys’ dormitories, however, Alby paused. There were noises coming from within – kind of a scuffling, along with voices, though they weren’t saying anything intelligible as far as he could tell. Alby glanced at Scorp worriedly, frowning a bit. Was someone fighting? He hadn’t thought any of the dormmates had been having issues…

He pulled away from Scorp a bit and hurried the last few steps to the door. If there was a fight going on, it would be best to put it to a stop before things got serious. They all had to live together, after all, and fights were not something Alby liked. Especially not among his friends. He pushed the heavy door open, stepping into the room. At first he didn’t see where the sounds were coming from. Then his eyes fell on Alex’s bed, upon which were Alex and Joe. But they weren’t fighting.

They were kissing. Rather heatedly, in fact – Alex had pushed Joe most of the way onto the bed, one hand tangled in the other’s tie. Joe’s hair was a bit unkempt, and his hands were on Alex’s shoulders; for a moment Alby couldn’t tell if he was pushing or pulling at Alex. For that matter, he suddenly couldn’t tell if the kiss was passionate, or just sloppy.

“… Uh,” he squeaked, coming to so abrupt a halt that Scorpius nearly bumped into him from behind. He suddenly got the feeling that maybe they ought to back out of the room. Quickly.

But it was too late. Alex and Joe had obviously noticed them. Alex glanced up, breaking the liplock with Joe a few seconds later, turning his head to them with a half-chagrined grin. “Think it’s about time the two of you stopped having all the fun around here,” he said cheerily. “Don’t suppose you might’ve thought to knock?” Below him, Joe’s cheeks were beginning to turn as pink as Alby’s probably were.

[OOC: Okay, so hopefully that sounds decent. XD If there’s anything that you think needs changing, just let me know. I think this was the setup we originally had in mind, though? We may want to skip some time after a while, since I think Joe and Alex end up fighting and putting Alby and Scorp in the middle of it or something? I think that might’ve been the plan… Anyway, I think I lose at writing Alex, so. ^^;; I can make some changes if you have any preferences~ :D;]

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Alby frowned. He didn't exactly want to be here, and it was clear his boyfriend didn't, either. But this was partly their problem - well, not directly, but they all had to live together and things had been pretty uncomfortable for the past week. It would be better for them all if this got resolved now, wouldn't it?

"How do you know I was moaning - maybe that was you!" Joe exploded, taking a step closer to Alex and Alby really hoped this wasn't about to devolve into shoving. Shoving meant hitting, which meant bloody noses and black eyes, which meant explanations to Professor Blackwood and Madame Goodkind. Then again, he thought, eyes flicking towards the door, all this shouting was sure to bring Professor Blackwood any second if it didn't stop soon.

"Would you both just stop it?" he asked loudly, stepping towards the two of them, prepared to shove them apart if he had to, though he really hoped it wasn't going to come to that, because he didn't want to get shoved around by accident, which was what surely would happen if he stepped much closer. "You're supposed to make up, not make things worse!"

Alex turned his gaze to Alby, his mouth tugging down into a frown. "You're one to talk about making things worse! What's this about you and Scorp calling me a prat behind my back and siding with Joe like I did something wrong? I thought you were my friends - you two certainly seem to have enough fun making us uncomfortable!"

Alby paused, mouth opening, looking from Alex to Joe and back again. "That wasn't - we didn't - this isn't about us! Alex, you're being a stubborn git! I told you so before, just apologize and stop fighting!" His hands curled into fists - not to hit with, of course, but to give him some outlet for the frustration he was feeling. They hadn't meant to make anyone uncomfortable, after all - no one had said anything, how were they supposed to know?

"Why am I supposed to apologize?" Alex exploded. "Joe's the one who can't get over it!"

"Because I don't want you to try it again!"

"Well good, I don't much fancy the thought of getting within five feet of you ever again!"

[OOC: I suppose Professor Blackwood should interrupt in a few tags, hopefully when things are starting to come to a conclusion, or maybe things will just be weird for a while until Joe and Alex finally just deal with it and make up? XD; And definitely more fuel to the fire where Scorp and Alby are concerned is always okay~ :D]

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Whenver a fight broke out in his own home, usually Delphina arguing with Dad, Scorpius would retreat to the safety of his own room. Of course, since his ancestral home was a cave, it meant he got to hear every single word that was being shrieked by his sister, but at least he was out of the way and safely ensconced in his own habitat. He looked between Joe and Alex who were still shouting, albeit not as shrilly as his sister, and realized with sinking despair that the argument was happening in his own room this time, and that he did not have a place to quickly retreat with the exception of the common room, which was beginning to look more and more appetizing despite the fact that it was already occupied by a lot of other people.

"Oh yeah?!" Joe growled, his eyes narrowed. He took a step toward Alex and gave his former friend his best Prefect glare. Alex took a step forward too and glared right back, not intimidated. For someone who had declared that he didn't want to be more than five feet in Joe's radius ever again, he was certainly fine with being rather close.

"Yeah!" Alex said. He had his hands balled into fists at his side. Scorpius was afraid that at any moment Alex was going to throw Joe a punch, but for the moment the just quivered in anger.

"Yeah!" Joe replied. "Get out of my way, you..."

There was a pause. Alex narrowed his eyes, as if daring Joe to call him names.

"You giant pouf!"

And then there was a long moment of silence. Alex's eyes shot up in incredulity before he opened his mouth to bellow, "How dare you call me--"

"Hey! Hey!" Scorpius hardly realized that it was his own voice trying to drown out Alex. He bristled, indignant. Had he just heard that word out of Joe's mouth? "Hey! Hey!" he shouted over Alex's protests that he wasn't a giant... Things quieted for a moment as both boys turned their attention to Scorpius for a second. Scorpius felt his face flush with anger, but he was too annoyed to care for the moment.

"If you call anybody that word, ever again, Joe..."

[OOC: :D And now Scorp and Alby can get wrapped up in it too! Whee! Fighting boys. ¬_¬ Too bad this one doesn't end in a massive Slytherin orgy. D:]

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Alby nearly jumped when Scorp started shouting - not that he sounded angry, but it was rare that Scorpius ever raised his voice and it was clear now he wanted to be heard over everything else that was going on. It was enough to make the other two pause; Joe looked at Scorp for a moment before he apparently found words again.

"Says the boy who doesn't go anywhere without Alby attached at the hip," Joe said, eyes flicking between Scorpius and Alby. "You're a right pair - always snogging in the common room where you know people can see, and have you even slept in separate beds at all this term?"

Alby felt his face begin to flush as well, this time more from embarrassment than from anger. How could he turn this back on them? They were just trying to help - anything that had happened between Joe and Alex hadn't been Scorpius or Alby's fault.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Alby asked, before Scorp had a chance to respond. "Whatever we do is our business -"

"Then you should keep it between yourselves!"

"Well if you don't like it then all you had to do was say so!" Alby shot back, his voice sounding much too loud. "It's not like we were trying to make you uncomfortable! And it's not like we made you snog Alex! Liking blokes isn't contagious, so don't you dare blame us!" He took a step back, closer to Scorp, not liking where any of these arguments were going.

"Well Alex only tried that because -" Joe started, but Alex finished for him.

"Well it's not fair they're the only ones having any fun around here, is it?" Alex asked, flinging an arm in their direction. "I only said let's give it a go, you didn't stop me, and that doesn't make me a bloody pouf! I was bored!"

"Then get a girl like Zach! I'm not a girl!" Joe yelled.

"Well neither is Alby, but I bet Scorp doesn't mind when he - "

"HEY!" This time it was Alby's time to shout above the din. His face felt like it was on fire, and his fists were starting to want to connect with some faces. "Bloody come off it already!"


[OOC: Aaaand apparently Alex went there. Or something. XD; I suppose this should end soon before somebody's death ensues. :D;

Also, I would love to see a massive Slytherin orgy. XDDD That would sure be something.]

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Scorpius felt his jaw drop open for a few moments at Joe's words. He was about to say something--something he hadn't thought very hard about before deciding to say it--but Alby had already beat him to it.

"Hey!" Scorpius shouted again, but was apparently ignored by everyone. He had the urge to knock Joe and Alex's heads together to get them to shut up, but restrained himself because he knew that would make him involved in this whole fiasco more than he was already.

"Well, neither is Alby but I bet Scorp doesn't mind when he gets a nice roll in the--"

"Hey! Bloody come off it already!"

"Why can't you just go get yourself a nice girl--"

"WILL YOU SHUT UP ALREADY!" Scorpius roared at the top of his lungs, and suddenly everyone stopped talking and looked at him. And then they turned their gaze to a point beyond his shoulder.

Feeling himself flush even harder, Scorpius turned around slowly and there, in the doorway, stood Professor Blackwood with Alessandra and Rogir flanking him, all three with their arms folded, and lips pursed.

Scorpius was the first to recover. He cleared his throat, hoping he wasn't looking as guilty as he felt. "Professor," he said quietly.

"Boys," Professor Blackwood said, a sharp firm tone to his voice as he peered at each and every one of his students in turn. "Would you care to tell me what this argument is about since you seem so keen on involving the entire house?"

[OOC: Hrm, I wonder how this is gonna resolve? I have the feeling that Professor Blackwood is going to give them some sort of group detention so maybe they'll decide to be friends again there?

And call me slow, but the innuendo of "Blackwood" just hit me and OMG. *dies* My brain seriously didn't go there when I first came up with the name.]

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Alby was so mad he could practically hear a roaring in his ears; that didn't stop him from jumping and turning when Scorp yelled again, louder this time. Not that he was complaining - getting Alex and Joe to shut up was rather high on his list of priorities at the moment.

As he turned to face his boyfriend, however, his eyes grew wide as the door chose that exact moment to open, revealing Professor Blackwood, Alessandra and Rogir beside him. Alby's face couldn't get much more flushed than it was already; he dropped his gaze to the floor, not sure if the sudden appearance of their head of house was a good or a bad thing. He had a sinking feeling he was about to find out.

There was a bit of quiet murmuring in response to their professor's question - after all, no one wanted to admit they'd been fighting over Alex and Joe having a snog, or whose bed Alby and Scorp were sleeping in at night.

"Not so important now, is it?" Professor Blackwood asked; Alby risked a glance up, to see that he was looking at each of them carefully in turn, as if to determine if things had devolved into fistfighting, or just yelling. Alby was suddenly glad it had only been yelling.

"J-just a disagreement," Joe finally managed to say clearly enough to be heard; Professor Blackwood's eyebrow rose at that.

"A rather loud disagreement, I should say. I expect you boys to be able to work things out much more civilly." There was a pause. "Which is why I'm going to give you the opportunity to do so. I think a week in group detention helping Mr. Ollerton with the cleaning should do it. He's been complaing that the third-floor classrooms went neglected in the last castlewide cleaning."

Alby groaned inwardly - a week of detention, and with Joe and Alex to boot? It would be a wonder if this didn't happen all over again, wouldn't it? But apparently Professor Blackwood thought otherwise, as he looked down his nose at the four much-subdued boys before him.


[OOC: Ooh, I like this group detention idea. :D Do we want to log it out as well then in continuation, or just kind of assume things got worked out in the end? I suppose we can skip to a couple of days into it and kind of just wrap this up there~

XD Ahahaha, I hadn't actually thought about that either, now that you mention that. Oh, Slytherin House, full of innuendo~]

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Scorpius found his rather difficult to meet Professor Blackwood's piercing gaze, and so tried to focus on something else in the room. He managed to catch a look aimed at him from Rogir, who raised his eyebrows, but otherwise said nothing. Scorpius's eyes slid over to the wall.

Scorpius did his best not to groan when his head of house mentioned detention. He'd just done one of those a few months ago with Alby's git of a brother. Well, at least it wasn't scrubbing the loo, Scorpius thought, though it hardly cheered him up.

"I want you to report to Mr. Ollerton immediately after your classes starting tomorrow," Professor Blackwood said. "And if I hear that any of you are late so much by minutes it'll be double detentions for all of you."

Scorpius thought he heard Alex groan out loud.

"Is there any point you wish to dispute, Mr. Moran?"

"No, Professor," Alex replied quickly.

"Well, then, I trust that the next time you four wish to have a discussion, you'll conduct it with the type of civility that behooves students of your stature. And you, Mr. Wenlock; if I see behavior like this from a Prefect again, I will have to seriously reconsider your appointment."

"Yes, Professor," Joe replied, his voice a little faint.

"Good. Now I suggest you let the rest of the evening pass in peace, or I'll have to start knocking points in addition to assigning detentions. Good night, boys."

Scorpius breathed a sigh of relief as the Professor left, but Alessandra and Rogir lingered, shooting each other a look before stepping inside the dormitory room and shutting the door behind them.

"Look, mates," Rogir said, keeping his voice low, "the entire common room heard what was going on here," he said, looking particularly at Scorpius and Alby.

Scorpius gulped.

"Including the bit about your sleeping arrangements," Rogir added. "You're lucky Blackwood wasn't around when that got leaked, or you four would be in much bigger trouble than just a week of detention."

"My suggestion to you right now," said Alessandra evenly, "is to lay low until this whole thing blows over. Talk is going to be flying around for the school for the next few days, but thankfully you have detentions so you won't be hearing much of that, will you?" She smiled. Scorpius couldn't quite find it in him to smile back.

"All right, you blokes better get this sorted out," Rogir said. He waited for everyone in the room to nod. "Okay," he said simply, and he and Alessandra, shooting all four of them looks of pity, closed the door quietly behind them.

Scorpius glanced at Alby, not quite sure what he was supposed to be doing now. Maybe just hide in the Chamber of Snogs and come out only for classes, meals, and detention? "Right," he said, doing his best not to glare at Joe and Alex. "Thanks."

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[OOC: If we want to log it we can, but I think it'll be easier just to assume that things get worked out in the end. XD What's your opinion? :D]

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Alby's momentary relief when Professor Blackwood left the room dissolved as Alessandra and Rogir shut the door, saying quietly that the entire common room had heard their argument. All of it. Alby felt the blood drain from his face as he glanced over at Scorp nervously. Suddenly it seemed like a Godsend that all they'd gotten was detention - what if Professor Blackwood found out about the rest of it? He didn't even want to think about any of the other Slytherins telling him. He didn't think anyone would... no, they'd much rather use it as gossip fodder, he supposed.

All four of them nodded as Rogir told them to get themselves sorted, and the Head Boy and Girl left, shutting the door behind them. He and Scorp exchanged a look as Scorpius said, somewhat sarcastically, "Right. Thanks."

Joe opened his mouth as if to reply, but then apparently thought better of it and closed it again, glaring before turning on his heel and scuffling off to his bed. Alex sighed.

"Well. You were yelling too, mates. Can't say I feel too sorry for you." He turned as well, just as Joe was pulling the curtains shut on his bed. "See you in the morning," Alex finished, sitting on his own bed and pointedly paying more attention to taking off his shoes than to Scorp or Alby.

Alby bit his lip, stepping closer to his boyfriend and glancing up. At least there would be no more yelling... but did that mean things would get better from here? He hoped so. He really was sick of fighting; and now he was worried about what everyone else in Slytherin would be talking about, to boot. "I guess we should just go to bed," he said quietly, casting one last glance behind his shoulder at Alex, who was pulling off his socks now.

[OOC: Nah, I think assuming they make up would be just fine~ If we want to finish off the night, then, that can be the end of this log? :D]

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Scorpius wanted to grumble that he and Alby wouldn't have been shouting in the first place if Joe hadn't been throwing names around. Great. Now things were awkward between everybody. Well, almost everybody. Scorpius put a hand around Alby's waist, rubbing his sides absentmindedly with a finger. His mouth twitched as Joe closed his curtains as violently as he could, and Alex was doing his best to pretend he was the only person in the room.

"I kind of wanted to get more studying in," Scorpius murmured. He glanced at Alby, and gave him a wry smile and a peck on the cheek. "But I'm not in the mood," he said. Scorpius glanced at his bed, which he and Alby had been sharing for the past few nights. "I just want to get to bed now. Or maybe have a shower."

[OOC: Yeah, let's just assume they all make up and everything's hunky dory in the 5th year boy's dormitory. We can start off the safe-sex talk with Professor Blackwood with a lot of muted rumors flying around for the next few days. :D How's that?

Oh, and just a small thing, Alessandra's not the Head Girl, but whatever. I realized it's afternoon instead of evening, so we've both fucked up at least once in this thing. XD]

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Alby slid a little closer beneath Scorp's touch; he realized they should probably be discreet, given what had happened just now, but somehow he didn't particularly feel like it either, right now.

"Shower first, then bed?" Alby suggested quietly, glancing at Alex, who was dutifully ignoring them (and the closed curtains on Joe's bed). "I could use one too." He sighed. "I don't want to think about what tomorrow will be like." He could only hope that Professor Blackwood was right - maybe after being forced to spend time together, Joe and Alex would finally start talking again... and Alby had to admit, he wouldn't mind an apology, either. He was not a girl and that seemed to be just fine with Scorp. So Alex and Joe could keep their thick-headedness to themselves from now on.

[OOC: All righty, we can just end it hereabouts and assume things will get better over the next two weeks~ And starting off the next log with rumors flying sounds excellent~ >D

See, I was going to look up the head girl thing and then I just went, "Nah, I think she is so she must be." XD; Ah well, sorry about that. And... uh... maybe they strolled down to the common room reeeeeally slooooowly.... >>; That's it!]

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[OOC: Sounds like a good place to end to me! :D Err...I think it's my turn to start a log now. So I'll start with some rumors the next day at the Slytherin table, we can respond to them for a bit, do a bit of glossing over the next few weeks, and then skip to Professor Blackwood calling Alby and Scorp into his office on a weekend morning?]]

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[OOC: Sure, sounds like a plan to me! Oh, did we want to have Fred catch them at some point, as well? That can happen in a short scene if we want, and then result in their getting called in? Or shall we just go with the rumors finally getting to Blackwood and that's why he calls them in~?]

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[OOC: Earlier, I think we were talking about Fred having a talk with Professor Blackwood, probably after the rumors begin to fly around. This'll probably happen offline, unless you want Fred to also say a few things to Alby and Scorp. :D That would have to be all you because I don't think I can write ghost!Fred worth peanuts. XD]

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[OOC: Okay, that works~ Maybe I'll write up a quick scene with ghost!Fred mentioning something to Professor Blackwood, just to cause trouble. XD In all my copious amounts of spare time and all.]

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[OOC: I am so jealous of your copious amounts spare time. D: I guess I have some too, since my prof is out of town today and I don't have much to do in lab aside from reading papers. And by reading papers I mean SURF THE INTERNET.]

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[OOC: Well, I don't *really* have a lot of spare time, lately. o.o; But it feels like it now that I'm not making three costumes simultaneously! (Though I have to get to work on my Halloween costume...) Yay for profs being out of town, though~ XD]

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[OOC: Ooh, what's your Halloween costume? :D So many costumes, so little time...and uh, so little available pool of effort and caring to draw from. I think the apathy is slowly starting to consume my want to cosplay. *laughs* And I really, really like it when my profs are out of town. :D *is a lazy bum*]

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[OOC: Peter Pan~ XD Jen and I are going to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, and they let you dress up and trick-or-treat at Disneyworld~ I love it. :D Hee, and I also love it when my prof is out of town. Freedom~ XD But since the semester's started, she'll be here most of the year to teach; that's also good, though, because she doesn't reply to email much when she's out of the office, so it's easier to ask questions when she's around~]