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Perfect Easter 2020 Cake
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Inspiration is hard lately so, I decided to make smth fun! Here’s a simple character prompt sheet made by me! All you need is some time and a D20. Tag me, if you make a character with this sheet, I’d looove to see the results!!
I rolled and here’s my result: A smug firbolg knight with an otherworldly guardian at his side!
When you have tons of fanfic ideas, but you don’t know how to execute them properly:
THIS IS TOTALLY ME!!!!!!
Ravenclaw Ask Game
Gryffindor | Slytherin | Hufflepuff
1. Do you have a passion project? What is it?
2. How many languages can you speak?
3. What was the last book you read?
4. Where in the world would you most like to visit?
5. Top 5 fictional characters?
6. Something you miss from your childhood?
7. What skill do you wish you had?
8. Tell us an interesting fact
9. What was your favourite subject in school?
10. Favourite planet?
11. Which historical figure fascinates you and why?
12. Favourite mythical creature?
13. Do you believe in any conspiracy theories?
14. What is your favourite word?
15. Do you have any obsessions right now?
16. Do you play any instruments?
17. What’s your worst habit?
18. Do you have a collection of anything?
19. What’s your biggest ‘what if’?
20. What is your favourite fairy tale?
21. Have you ever dyed your hair? Is there a colour you’d like to dye it?
22. If you could learn one language overnight, which would you choose?
23. What’s the most useless thing you know how to do?
24. What’s the most important change that should be made to your country’s education system?
25. Most ravenclaw thing you’ve ever done?
The Memory of You, Chapter 1, has been posted!
Hey everyone! My NaNo piece, The Memory of You, has finally started posting! I’m so excited to share it with all of you!
Thank you to @coyg-81 for my beautiful cover and her amazing Alpha skills!
@smithandbarrowman, @breathofthephoenix, and TriDogMom (who apparently does not Tumblr) have all helped to make this story amazing. I don’t know what I’d do without them.
The Memory of You by PotionChemist
Rating: E
Summary: Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger fell in love against all odds, but there was one big problem — he was already married.
Pressured, Hermione does something she promised herself she would never do again and erases their affair from his memory. Completely devastated, she avoids seeing Draco or the Malfoys at all costs.
But is their love too strong? Are they inevitable? What will happen if he finds out about their previous relationship?
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23353534/chapters/55949518
FFN: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13534427/1/The-Memory-of-You
Ravenclaw: I don't feel good.
Hufflepuff: Are you sick?!
Ravenclaw: No, I just haven't slept for three days because I was rereading four different books.
GUILTY !!!! I do this too offen!!
•Answer 20 questions then tag 20 followers•
Tagged by @hauntingdeath Thank you!
Name: Dilyana
Nicknames: D, Dilly
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Height: 165 cm
Languages: Bulgarian, English, some basic Russian and Spanish
Nationality: Bulgarian
Favourite season: Each one has a thing I love, so all of them
Favourite flower: Orchid and rose
Favourite scent: coffee, hiacynth
Favourite colour: Purple!!
Favourite animal: Can’t possibly pick just one, I tend to adore the entire animal kingdom
Favourite fictional character: Sherlock Holmes
Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Coffee
Average sleep: What is sleep?
Dog or cat person: I have three cats and a dog, you tell me
Number of blankets: At least three
Dream trip: Road trip in a VW bus through Europe <33
Blog established: 2012
Followers: 633
Random fact: I collect ugly teddy bears that no one wants for a reason that’s beyond me
I tag @iamforevercaptured @venom-and-mania @midnightsilver @fitchersvogel @riverphoenixloves @braveincafleet @itsnevertoolatecuzlifestartsnow @sheliesshattered @drawingfromthevoid @slucajnigost
Shit I’m on mobile so I can’t copy and paste and what not like a normal human being so please let me know if I missed any 😂🤷🏼♀️
20 Questions - 20 Followers Tag Game
Tagged by @sinister–potato
Name: 🤐
Nicknames: Fox
(Fox originally came from a joke between a friend and the hunger games—fast forward a decade and I ended up earning the same nickname for a completely different reason from a completely different friend. Apparently the universe has spoken.)
Zodiac: Aries I think?
Height: 5’1” (sorry I’m a product of the American school system)
Languages: American Sign Language, English, a bit of French, a vague sense of understanding of Spanish.
Nationality: Legally? American. Spiritually? Scottish 😂
Favourite Season: Autumn 😍
Favourite Flower: Iris & Lavender
Favourite Scent: Lavender, Coffee, Orange
Favourite Colour: Navy or Emerald green
Favourite Animal: I’m actually known for being absolutely obsessed with every animal. I think they are all so fantastic and incredible that it’s impossible to choose a favorite. Basically ask me about any animal and I’ll go into rant mode about how amazing said animal is.
Favourite fictional character: The Doctor, Kaz (six of crows) —these are jus two from a huge list of characters I love.
Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: tea
Average sleep: anywhere from 2 hours to 20 hours. #spoonieproblems
Dogs or cats: BOTH.
Number of blankets: so many. So so many. I love a good blanket.
Dream trip: travel the world. I don’t care how, I just have a list of countries I need to see.
Blog est. : honestly have no idea…
Followers: 56
Random fact: I don’t understand the concept of time like at all.
I tag @vanillabat99 @dvasxmeka @gingerdaile @etherviolet @myeyesarenotblue @bluefaewren @concerningwolves @anyone else who wants to do this?? 😬
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Name: Batty
Nickname(s): I don’t really have any, feel free to give me one ^-^
Zodiac: Taurus Sun, Leo Moon, Cancer Rising
Height: 6ft
Languages: English, French, and I’ve just started German!
Nationality: Canadian!
Favourite Season: Autumn!!!
Favourite Flower: Peonies, Dandelions, and Lilacs ^-^
Favourite Scent: Ooo vanilla, pine, dirt, and pumpkin spice
Favourite Colour: Pink! Or blue or yellow!
Favourite Animal: Cats, bats, ferrets, bears
Favourite Fictional Character: Hmm.. I can’t remember their names but the main characters in the Airborne Trilogy are 10/10. I also like The Doctor, Bulbasaur, Cinnamoroll, Blue, Stitch, and Baymax!
Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Tea!!
Average Sleep: Uhhh varies from negative sleep to like 12+ hours, but lately I’ve been getting about 9 hours on average!
Dogs or Cats: CATS
Number of Blankets: Not enough
Dream Trip: Europe!! I wanna go to Europe primarily, but also I really really wanna travel the whole world
Blog Established: Uhhh… Spring/Summer of 2017?? I think??
Number of Followers: 1500 ish (I’ll edit with an accurate number in a moment)
Random Fact: I like building houses out of Lego!
Tags: @halfannoyed @transebs @meteoriteskies @woolooisme @dancy217 @friend-through-teenage-nights @idontevenknowhatimdoingnow @hecameinuninvitedandhewontleave @goldenxtongued @chrislikespancakes @feralfawns @ anyone else!! Just say I tagged you ^-^ 💕💕💕
Hi!!!
Name: Luno
Nickname: Don’t really have one >_<
Zodiac: Taurus
Height: 5′1″
Languages: English, some Spanish, and a small amount of Japanese
Nationality: American
Favorite season: Fall! Or autumn if you’re fancy
Favorite flower: Black dahlia
Favorite scent: Lavender or like lowkey popcorn
Favorite color: Purple >_<
Favorite animal: Walruses and bunnies! And dogs and cats!!
Favorite fictional character: In terms of my own? Atchison and Cymbeline, what lads. Outside of the bubble that is my own stories, I’d say Eijiro Kirishima from mha or like White Blood Cell from Cells at Work
Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Tea alll the way
Average sleep: Anywhere between like 0 and 10 hours
Dogs or cats: Both!!
Number of blankets: One
Dream trip: Japan! And I’m going this summer!!!
Blog established: April 2019
Number of followers: 83
Random fact: I think the only interesting thing about me is that I’m a synesthete hahaha
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Name: Lyra
Nickname: Idiot
Zodiac: Gemini
Height: 6'0"
Languages: English and learning Swedish
Nationality: American
Favorite Season: Summer
Favorite Flower: I forgot what I said before
Favorite Scent: Book
Favorite Color: Dark blue/purple
Favorite Animal: Cats
Favorite Fictional Character: The whole Good Place cast
Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Tea
Average Sleep: 8 hours
Cats or Dogs: Cats
Number of Blankets: Just the one
Dream Trip: Sweden. Lovely looking place
Blog Established: Honestly no clue and I’m lazy
Number of Followers: 27
Random Fact: I will play any brass instrument I can get my hands on. And it will be oatmeal.
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There we go that’s a majority of my followers. The other 7, minus @hecameinuninvitedandhewontleave, can act like they’ve been tagged.
Thanks!
Nickname: Ro
Zodiac: Capincorn
Height: 5’5”
Languages: English and learning ASL (American sign language)
Nationality: American
Favorite season: Winter
Favorite flower: Bluebonnet
Scent: Pine trees
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite animal: Axolotl
Fictional charecter: There are too many and the list only grows with every book I read 😅
Coffee tea or hot chocolate: Tea
Average sleep: About 6 hours
Dogs or cats: Cats
Number of blankets: 5
Dream trip: Driving and camping at all the National parks in the U.S.
Blog established: 2018? Idk
Followers: 36
Random fact: My room is painted purple and has gold stars on the ceiling
Tagging:
@bex-the-disaster-child101 @rhetorical-questioner @alltheeighties @blueoxygensblog @a-l-l-e-y-s-t-h-e-t-i-c @slytherinintj13 @justastressedroyalty @diabollicdult @queenromelle255 @silver-latin-and-salt @sarcasticmalecfan @glorified-stardust @delicious-flute-loops @wolfie979 @acourtofwingsandwyberns @thatonegayasexual @evchance @mansikkaomenabanaani @nargles-everywere @quintessentialworld @eisthenameofme @edgydumasdepresedbitchthotbastar
Name: Remy
Nickname: Rem, Quin
Zodiac: Aquarius
Height: 5 foot 4
Languages: English, learning German at school
Nationality: English
Favourite Season: Autumn
Favourite Flower: Iris
Favourite Scent: vanilla, baked food, books.
Favourite Colour: Royal Purple
Favourite Animal: jellyfish! There’s a type that is literally immortal!
Favourite Fictional Characters: all of them… I just love them all.
Coffee, Tea or Hot Chocolate: hot chocolate.
Average sleep: I don’t want to say in case any of my partners attack me… like… 4?
Dogs or Cats: cats but I do love dogs.
Number of blankets: one
Dream Trip: dude, one where I can just have all my partners with me.
Blog Established: I wanna say 2018
Followers: 115
Random Fact: I have a really strong connection to water.
@mufflechickie @dappervenom @princemesscharming @a-friendly-magical-witch @cloverplayz @captainrandomstranger18 @ninnapons @bexxbeauty @soupgromlin @snowylass @patchworkofstars @i-am-trying-i-promise @eden607 @enby-fander @awkwardsunshineandrainbows @fucktuplex @a-yellow-carnation @mr-darcy-fangirl @bluesea-sosp @thestarswelcomemewithopenarms
Name: Jillian
Nickname: Jill
Zodiac: Aquarius
Height: 5 foot 2
Languages: English, learning Spanish
Nationality: American
Favorite Season: Autumn
Favorite Flower: Blue poppy
Favorite Scent: Lavender, Mint, New Books
Favorite Color: Periwinkle
Favourite Animal: Mantis Shrimp
Favorite Fictional Characters: Bronwen Dathirii and Ty Blackthorn
Coffee, Tea or Hot Chocolate: Tea
Average sleep: 7 hours usually
Dogs or Cats: Dogs
Number of blankets: Three
Dream Trip: Anywhere with my friends
Blog Established: Late 2019
Followers: 20
Random Fact: I collect semiprecious stones
Tags: @an-irish-goose @quintessentialworld @a-fearful-ace @what-username-where @silverswordthekilljoy @imma-horrible-mistake @cinnamonnommingbrooke @finduilaslinwellyn @bring-us-a-rat @relicta-lucem @anxiouslyasexual @thelockenessmonster @emo-est-slinky @midnight-spectrum-again @deepfried-dildos @qackydontus @thatspectacularpigeon @hufflepuffgirl01 @bowl-of-excuses
Name: Qackydontus.
Nicknames: Any shortening of the above.
Zodiac: Sagittarius.
Height: ~183cm.
Languages: English.
Nationality: English.
Favourite Season: Autumn.
Favourite Flower: Don’t have one.
Favourite Scent: Don’t have one.
Favourite Colour: Purple.
Favourite Animal: Honey Badger.
Favourite Fictional Characters: Bandit, Dodger, Rincewind, The Luggage, Granny Weatherwax, Death, Moist Von Lipwig, Raistlin, Pug, Marcos the Black, Kevin, James, Rorschach, Deadpool, & Victor Zsasz.
Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Hot Chocolate.
Average Sleep: ~7 hours on a school day, ~9 the rest.
Dogs or Cats: No preference.
Number of Blankets: One blanket and two duvets.
Dream Trip: World tour to see all of my friends.
Blog established: Mid-November 2019.
Followers: 332.
Random Fact: I whistle on the inbreath.
@flashdrivegarbage @ryebread356 @onlyoneformeisme @kingofbattletoasters @welcometocrowshell @official-lucifers-child @mimsidoodles @flannel-wearing-book-nerd @secretly-shoto-todoroki @panpotterhead3000 @pancakeke @elsisselene @13-legged-larry @a-fools-lore @lil-dane @lil-tumbles @memes-and-anger @otter-faces-reality @bigbisonburger @echobyrnes and anyone else who wants to participate!
OK GUYS I’M DOING THIS ON PHONE HERE WE GO
Name: Elsis Selene (not IRL name)
Nickname: Elsie
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Height: 151.5 cm
Language: Indonesian, English, study Chinese at school but….no, understand a bit Latin and Javanese
Nationality: Indonesian
Favorite season: rainy season (I think I might like winter once I get to experience it tho)
Favorite flower: Asian pigeonwings (Clitoria ternatea)
Favorite scent: Candle-lite Company’s Lavender (candle), Glade’s Tropical Flowers (room perfume), tropical rainforest (natural like really going into a forest), PETRICHOR
Favorite color: ice blue, purple
Favorite animal: cat
Favorite fictional characters: Anna and Elsa (Frozen)
Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Hot Chocolate. (I drink coffee not for fun but to stay up)
Average sleep: …….6.30
Dogs or cats: cats
Number of blankets: 1 in use, 2 others to change between
Dream trip: A nice sea cottage (like Maldives) or a stay in the middle of a tropical rain forest, or a super safety camping near a lake in a prairie under a sky of stars and surrounded by fireflies
Blog established: Created on Jun 1 2017, didn’t get what I looked for, quitted, tumblr went blocked by govt, got back in somewhere few days after the policy update last Dec 17 2018. Been active mostly on mobile since.
Followers: 94
Random fact: my life is forever directed towards science but deep inside I can tell that I have always wanted to be a theatre person.
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@ireallydontknowwhatimdoing-101 and anyone who wants todo just reblog
Idk if that even 20 i used numbering but i think i messed up when removing it
Thanks for the tag!
Name: Alyssa
Nicknames: Lyssa, Lys, Drew
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Height: 5'4"¾
Language: English
Nationality: American
Favorite Season: Spring
Favorite Flower: Alyssums
Favorite Scent: My nose doesn’t work real well, so idk
Favorite Color: Purple
Favorite Animal: Sharks!!
Favorite Fictional Characters: Draco Malfoy and thats all i can think of
Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Hot Chocolate
Average Sleep: 4-6 hrs
Dogs or Cats: Cats!
Number of Blankets: Two
Dream Trip: To the UK
Blog Established: October 2019
Followers: 117 (i think)
Random Fact: I love to write
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Name: Ellie
Nicknames: Ell, Elle-Belle, Elmo
Zodiac: Capricorn
Height: 179cm
Language: English
Nationality: Australian
Favorite Season: Winter
Favorite Flower: Sunflowers
Favorite Scent: Lavender, peppermint, eucalyptus, vanilla, cookies, candy floss
Favorite Color: Purple
Favorite Animal: Elephants
Favorite Fictional Characters: Spike from BtVS, Weevil, Tormund Giantsbane, Sandor Clagane, Prince Roan of Azgeda, Hermione Granger, Severus Snape
Coffee, Tea, or Hot Chocolate: Tea is my lifeblood
Average Sleep: 7hrs
Dogs or Cats: Cats
Number of Blankets: 15
Dream Trip: Around the world. Heavy on the UK, USA, and Africa
Blog Established: no clue. maybe 2014?
Followers: 2166 (as of posting this)
Random Fact: I love to garden
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How do you go about with building a new world? Where do you ever start? I’m so lost at the moment my one shot steampunk themed has now being made into a campaign!!
Thank you so much for coming to me! I hope I give you great advice!!! Bare with me…. I like to type a lot (that’s my English degree at work)
I like to start with a town - so if your one shot had a small town that the players began in, just use that town again! I think it is important to start with a town, as opposed to a city because cities are so large and can be overwhelming for the DM to create. Towns are better to start with than villages because villages are so small that the players can run out of things to do within 3-4 sessions!
So I like to start with a single town, I don’t even think about the geography of the country………….okay that’s a whole lie - I do think about geography of the country and I go overboard and it is stressful but I’m trying to give you good advice… don’t be like me…
ANYWAY! Starting with a good town (around 900 to 5,000 people) is the way to go! Don’t worry about the rest of the world for now - in fact, in order to avoid thinking about the rest of the world - treat your town as it’s own little country or own world. Think about NPCs the party may encounter and what sorts of quests the party can be sent on. I think a town gives the characters the ability to reach levels 3 or 4 before adventuring out into a neighboring small city or another neighboring town with new adventures and new people. But we aren’t thinking that big are we?? - oh no we aren’t!!!
****Just a disclaimer…. not thinking beyond your town can get tricky when players begin to ask questions about the world outside of the town. My advice for this is to say the first thing you think of - because I think whatever your mind jumps to when players ask “but what’s the neighboring city like” is more than likely how you would end up making it anyway so just role with it! If it changes, you can always be honest with your players and say you are “trying to take it slow and the neighboring city turned into “X” as opposed to what I said originally.” or better yet you can refuse to answer player questions if they aren’t in character. That way you can blame NPCs for misdirection hehehehehehehehehe****
Developing NPCs for your town is an important next step. I can’t say how many NPCs you should create - and trust me you will create some NPCs on the fly no matter how much you try to prepare (those darn players are crafty) - but I’d start with perhaps 10? Give them their own backstories and make the unique. Then guide your players towards them, without railroading them of course.
Create enough hooks within the town to help the character reach levels 3 or 4 before branching out. So create several session ideas - you can always use tumblr for plot hooks or even this amazing instagram called fantasyquestboard - they give you just enough of an idea to let your own creative and beautiful mind wander and before you know it you have the next session idea!
Let your players drive the story and world creation. If your players get hooked to one particular NPC, let them explore that NPC as much as possible or as much as the NPC would allow. Let them guide how you craft your story and world. Perhaps the party really loves the traveling merchant, Penny, who comes to town every few days with new weapons and trinkets from other cities and towns. This particular NPC can give the players a look into the world you haven’t finished creating yet but you can use her to gage whether the PCs are interested in what you’re thinking of creating. Perhaps Penny comes to town with an exotic fish and tells the players all about how she had to travel to a far away pirate island just to get it? Maybe the players would like that or perhaps they aren’t interested in steampunk pirates.
Or if a PC isn’t from the town your playing in, ask the character (as an NPC) what their hometown is like… now your player will look at you and ask you, the DM, “what’s my hometown like?” my response would be “what do you think it’s like? Based off your character; how they grew up, what they like and don’t like, etc, etc, … what’s their hometown like?” these are good conversations to have before playing (I like to sit down with my players and be there as they create their characters, guiding them with my DM typed questions but not influencing how their characters are made) but since you are building off a one shot - these types of conversations will be fine mid-session!
Now… you might be saying… “but Chelsea…. my mind can’t stop from thinking about the greater world around my players!!” my response: NARROW YOURSELF!! If you must, continue to think about the greater world but try not to plan each and every city or town or village, not yet! Just trust me! Think about the political system of the world - perhaps there’s a new president of the country and he is pushing new law after new law (giving you the opportunity to show the characters the greater world around them and show them how the world is always at work and never static). Or perhaps there is a dragon rampaging and burning the other half of the country and the PCs hear about it from the local paper boy? This gives the players a taste of the world and it gives you a release for your crazy creative outlet… just remember to do something about that dragon before the players reach the other side of the country.
To recap:
- start with a small town
- create lovely NPCs for said small town
- develop enough sessions within this small town to help your PCs level up to at least 3
- let your PCs likes, dislikes, and interests help you (the DM) create the greater world.
Finally, once the players reach level 2 or 3 (depending on which level you want them to be at before leaving), begin thinking about the next town/city over and how do you get the PCs there? A quest from a favored NPC perhaps? You can decide to add a small hamlet or village along the way to the next town, giving the opportunity for dungeon delving or extra XP.
World building can be extremely overwhelming - I overwhelm myself with each and every campaign I make. Honestly, it can produce burnout. But I think following this advice would help! Especially for newer DMs. Now…. if only I could take my own advice?
xx
Chelsea
Me, describing my game to a non-D&D player
Me: So my party is hunting a lich.
Friend: What’s a lich.
Me: It’s like a zombie wizard, but super smart, and it doesn’t eat brains.
Friend: So like Voldemort.
Me: Yeah, basically. And we know the lich is in a specific city, so we talk to the guard, and the Marquis and the heads of the magic school.
Friend: Like Hogwarts?
Me: Kinda. If McGonagall was a dragon lady druid and Flitwick was a worshiper of the goddess of knowledge.
Friend: Sounds about right.
Me: So the head of the wizard academy–
Friend: Dumbledore.
Me: Sure. Only if Dumbledore was secretly an ancient Dragon in disguise.
Friend: That wouldn’t surprise me.
Me: So Dumbledore tells us that the lich is probably trying to kill him and that he might be hiding in the secret vault under the school that’s full of magical items.
Friend: A chamber of secrets?
Me: APPARENTLY.
Friend: So you’re at Hogwarts, and Dumbledore sent you into the chamber of secrets to fight Voldemort. You’re basically Harry Potter.
Me: (thinking about my dwarf eldritch knight who dumped wisdom) No. I’m Ron.
So my one shot “the glorious eclipse” kinda has already lasted about 12 hours(2 sessions) so far and they only made it through halfway ooops. It’s super fun and built around steampunk Victorian time. So I have now decide to expand it into a full on campaign. 🤫🤫😂😂😂
Just finished making this map of the my world of Krimuven and super proud of it.
My group is stuck in the wild stone forest at the moment, after their blimp crashing.
Any advice for a new dungeon master??? 😊😊
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Just completed writing up my first ever DMing one-shot
^^^ *how I have been today trying to put this together*
For the drabble: Thorfinn x Hermione, “are you serious?”
Thorfinn Rowle stopped dead in his tracks, one hand tangled in his long blond hair where he’d been scratching idly, his eyes widening at the sight of the small, curly haired witch standing at his locker inside the Quidditch dressing sheds. She was in the process of performing some charm or spell on the contents of his locker, he realised, his eyes narrowing hatefully.
Fucking Granger.
The bitch he’d been butting heads with since his third year when the buck-toothed little first year had tattled on him for making out with Cindy Sheppard in the library and got him a month’s detention. The vicious witch who’d been pranking him, and hexing him and cursing him at every opportunity and the girl he’d been paying back in full, with interest, every damn time.
“Are you serious?” he demanded, scowling at her when he realised she was casting an Itching charm on his towel, evidently knowing the rainy weather he’d been training in would leave him desperate for a hot shower - desperate enough not to check his gear for hexes.
“Actually, I consider myself quite the jovial sort of witch,” Hermione answered without turning to look at him, continuing her spell. He watched her transfirgure his bottle of shampoo into the shape of male genitalia, and hex the contents of his bottle of conditioner bright purple to ruin his perfect blond locks.
“I consider you the worst little shit I’ve ever met,” he informed her, cranky at the sight of her meddling.
Training had been horrendours tonight. He was team captain for Slytherin and the rag-tag collection of misfits he had making up the bloody team were only barely just a step above useless. This was his final year; he needed to do well to impress the scouts so he could make the NQL and it felt like everything was working against him, from this vicious little witch all the way down to the sodding weather.
“Someone’s cranky today,” Granger replied, and when she turned to him, closing his locker at last, she looked only too pleased by his foul mood. “What’s the matter, Rowle? Those dreams of making it to the NQL slipping through your fingers like your bat on a rainy day?”
Thorfinn narroed his eyes.
“Did you hex my bat, too?” he asked, having dropped it half a hundred times today, no matter how tightly he gripped it.
“Would I do something like that?” she asked, and her innocent smile didn’t hide the evil gleam in her dark eyes.
Of course she’d fucking hexed his bat. Fuck! He was going to kill her. It was the only answer.
“You can’t fuck with my gear, Granger,” he complained. “Ground rules, right? No fucking with each other’s future.”
“Mmm, I remember,” she nodded, and Thorfinn narrowed his eyes, recalling that it’d been her, all the way back in her first year after three months of torturing each other with pranks and hexes and mean acts of petty violence and theft, who’d suggested that if they were going to keep doing this, they needed ground rules. Including not fucking with anything that could affect the other’s future after he’d stolen her bag and amended all of her homework to include picutres of dick’s scrawled on the margins and a replacement of the word ‘and’ with the word ‘todger’.
“You know Qudditch is my future,” he growled at her. “You know that future is connected directly to my fucking bat. And you hexed it?”
“You stole all of my books, and got me banned from the library for a full month,” Granger answered. “My future obviously lies in academics, and you fucked with it. I retaliated. Get over it.”
She turned and began to walk away, uncaring and insensitive to his foul mood, and Thorfinn saw red. He had his hands on her shoulds, spinning her and slamming her back against the line of lockers before he could think better of it. And he had her wand-tip gouging a hole in his neck just as quickly.
“I didn’t steal your books,” he growled in her face, not even noticing that he’d lifted her a few feet off the ground until she kicked him in the knee.
“Oh, rubbish,” she rolled her eyes. “Put me down before you get hurt, Superstar.”
She brought her knee up, trying to nail him in the nuts but Thorfinn blocked her, sliding his own knee between her thighs and right up against her twat, trapping her.
“I didn’t take your fucking books,” he growled.
“Then who did?”
“How the fuck would I know?” he spat, raking her a look of disgust. “Despite your daydreams, Princess, my life doesn’t revolve around tracking your every move.”
She snorted and rolled her eyes again, clearly not beleiving him and Thorfinn wondered how much trouble he’d be in if he dumped her arse in the middle of the Black Lake in the depths of winter. He could drop her from a great height into the frozen waters without a lot of remorse, he was thinking.
“And even if I had taken your books,” he went on, feeling his magic surging with his anger as the air in the locker room began to crackle with static electricity. “It wouldn’t count as fucking with your future because you’re only a sodding fifth year. Fucking with my bat is directly fucking with my future! This is my final year. If the scouts don’t recruit me at the end of the year, I’m fucked. You get that?”
One of the nearby wooden changing benches caught fire when she rolled her eyes a third time, making a dismissive noise of disgust.
“Temper, temper, Superstar,” she chided, and fuck her, but she was enjoying this, he could tell.
“Fuck!” he hissed, releasing one of her shoulders to aim his wand over his shoulder and douse the flames before they could get him for destruction of school property. Again. “That was your fault.”
“I’m not the one who sets things on fire with my mind because I can’t control my temper,” she argued. “Are you going to keep acting like a Neaderthal, or are you goinng to put me down?”
“You hexed my bat!”
“You got me banned from the library for a full month!” she hissed in return. “In O.W.L. year! With that fucking psychopath running things!”
“It’s barely Novemeber,” Thorfinn rolled his eyes this time. “You don’t need to start cramming for your exams until, like, Easter.”
“And you don’t need to be able to hang onto your bat in a rainy training session in November when NQL scouts won’t even see you. They only come to games, and usually not until third term,” Hermione argued.
“You’re impossible!” he growled at her.
“You started it!”
“Bollocks, I did! You tattled on me for snogging someone in the library and started this entire mess.”
“You were soiling my favourite book with your tart,” she argued.
“I don’t spend enough time hexing you,” he grumbled, shaking his head when she eyeballed him stubbornly, refusing to accept blame for her actions just as she’d been doing since this entire ordeal began.
“I don’t spend enough energy trying to trip you down the stairs so you’ll break your neck and be out of my life,” she answered contrarily and Thorfinn didn’t even think about it before suddenly his lips were on hers.
Shit. What the hell was he doing? She’d just threatened his life and he was kissing her. Maybe that last blow to the head with the Bludger when he’d dropped his bat had scrambled his brains.
But Granger was kissing him back. Her wand was lowering from where it’d dug a hole in his neck, and her free hand was sliding into his wet hair, and he still didn’t know what the hell he was doing, but damn if she didn’t kiss like the devil. His hands on her shoulders slid up to tangle in her wild hair and Thorfinn threw caution to the wind, snogging her with every skerrick of fury inside him and pouring five years of pranks and annoyances and general tension into that one kiss. He poured everything he had into that kiss, his tongue making love to hers and his body grinding into hers hungrily while she squirmed atop his thigh like she couldn’t get enough, either.
When they pulled apart, panting, she blinked her eyes open slowly as he met her gaze before raising one eyebrow at him.
“Are you serious?” she asked, and she sounded scornful, rather than intoxicated on his prowess.
Shit.
“Yep,” he answered, lowering his leg from between her thighs and letting her down before removing his hands from her person entirely and stepping back. “That happened.”
“Right,” she muttered, her face furrowing into a frown while he stared at her, a little shell-shocked; a little horrified. Kind of turned on.
“Fuck,” he said, before turning and striding away from her and leaving her to make a run for it from the dressing shed.
He was so distracted that it took him several minutes to undo the charm on his shampoo bottle once he got in the shower. So distracted he forgot about the purple conditioner. And when he dried off afterward and immediately began to itch like mad, Thorfinn realised he was so distracted, he’d forgotten about the fucking Itching Hex. Shit.
#classic hermione
Daily #2,292! No one is more shocked than me.
Now if only I could *always* not be anxious…
I need to be in this kind of head space again so I can continue writing Pack Secerts on Wattpad...