Episode 10: The Terrible No Good Very Bad Tuesday
Saffron runs throughout campus frantically looking for Dumbledore, unbeknownst to her he’s been gone for days. Upon realizing that no one is there to help her she runs to Gryffindor Tower to find Bill. When he’s no where to be found she suffers a breakdown. Alana attempts to help the situation, but quickly grows frustrated when Saffron won’t answer her. Eventually she ends up using the silencing charm of Saffron to make her stop screaming for Bill.
Bill arrives and takes her to his room. After a long time she admit what had happened. Bill insists they tell McGonagall after she rest, she agrees. Saffron has a dreamless sleep. Helene and Elena sleep of their earlier alcohol in Ravenclaw tower. The two share a cute moment before Elena sneaks out the window.
The next morning Alana tries to apologize to Saffron, but she refuses to accept it. Bill and Saffron go to start looking for the Professor, but they end up going to breakfast because Saffron’s not feeling well and Bill’s worried for her. Charlie talks to Alana as they head to breakfast where they’re joined by Andre and his cousin Sapphire.
A bruised at Hec arrives sitting at his own table with Aud. They are joined by Jae and Awilda. Charlie receives a howler from his mom that scolds him on his recent behavior, the note end on a happy note praising Bill and Saffron’s relationship. As she’s leaving Saffron over hears Alana talking about reading peoples minds, angry that she didn’t know she tells Alana to stay out of her head and out of her life before storming out of the Great Hall.
Bill and Alana follow her out and find her sitting in the hall trying to calm down and ease her headache. She begs Alana to leave but Alana demands an explanation, she begs Bill to make Alana leave but he’s at a loss for what to do. Hector leaves the Great hall going to make sure Saff’s alright. The rest of his group decide to go work on the monster hunt.
Andre, Sapphire, and Charlie go to spy on the brewing fight. Saffron accuses Alana of using her magic to control people, citing herself, Hector, and Penny, and refuses to accept the apology again. Alana breaks down crying feeling like a monster and runs off. Andre chases after her, Charlie and (cat) Sapp in tow. Hector sits down next to Saff on the floor.
Audrey, Awilda, Wolfie, and the rest of the monsters start formulating a plan not to kill the monster, but to get Kettleburn to help them capture it. Saffron who feels betrayed Bill didn't stand up for her tells Bill he should go comfort Alana. Bill insists he wants to stay and make sure she's okay. She insists she's fine even though she can't even walk without heavily leaning on him. She decides to love him despite whether or not she trust him not to leave her.
Hector attempts to apologize for not saying their friends but botches it. Saffron decides even if she's not his friend he's hers and warns him about Sasha. Andre comforts Alana and tells her she's not a monster, the two end up kissing in the owlry. Beneath them Sapp and Charlie flirt and make animal noises to annoy Alandre. The monster hunting gang continue to work on monster solutions. Saff and Bill decided to go back to looking for McGonagall.
Hector look everywhere for Audrey, he finally finds her near the Quiddich pitch. He warns her about Sasha, but she doesn’t share his point of view and points out he doesn’t have all the facts. They come to a sort of agreement where they'll have Rakepick be the one they go to for last resort. Aud tells Hec what she heard while in the investigation/interrogation. He doesn’t like the way she word him being liked by Snape, but he lets it and her opinion of Sasha lay. Before he leaves she informs him of what the group has discussed involving the lake.
Snape interrogates Bex and Alana using similar tactics to the ones he used on the others. Bex suggests the punishment should be a year of detention whereas Alana thinks they should get a year of detention plus Hector should lose his privileges (his prefect badge). Snape implies/states that Alana is the common factor among these fights. Alana refuses to back down telling him he’s a bully and he’ll hear from her father.
Alana ends up losing a total of 600 house points, her privileges (to attend events, Hogsmead, or Quiddich games), and gains detention for as long as Snape deems fit. Bex loses ten house points and is asked/forced into attending detention as well to work on her skills and help Alana with her abilities. Once Alana and Bex are free they have a short conversation before she heads off to find Andre. He informs her he’s already received his punishment.
Andre’s position on the Quiddich team had been returned to him…. On one condition. He bet Snape Alana loved him enough to not do something to hurt him. So if she doesn’t follow through with her punishment he loses his position….permanately. On the upside, his guardianship of Alana grants him unquestionable access to Gryffindor tower, so there’s that.
Bex has her career meeting with professor Sprout who warns her that while she can help her get into NEWT level Herbology she cannot help her with potions. Sprout promises to get Bex a summer apprenticeship with Newt Scamander this summer should she manage to do well. Bill and Saff visits McGonagall who contacts the Ministry. They find out a 5931 was been filled under Dumbledore's orders and there's little they can so. They are given time off class and told to rest. Saffron suggest they use this time to go to her favorite place: the lake.
Chris Ocasio decides to spend the last few hours of sunlight engrossed in a good book. Charlie and Sapphire have a conversation about Charlie's guilt while they watch the animals in the reserve. Bex went to the reserve to try to calm down while fighting off a spirit. When Wolfget went looking for Ketteburn to the reserve he found Bex, and sensed something lurking near her.
Audrey, Mystic, Faireth, Dia, and Awilda meet up at the Courtyard and go to the Lake - Aud gives them flares for signaling purposes and also gives them a potion to breathe underwater. Green Clues. 3 sticks. Yellow Danger/Avoid that area. 3 sticks Red Emergency. 1 stick. Bill and Saffron go to the lake in their swim suits to have an nice end to their hard day.
The group enters the waters, they spread out to look for clues of monster. Aud finds dead Grindylows. Awilda goes diving and forget what the codes was for the sticks. She sees a lot of half eaten merpeople, but is too dumb to leave a red stick. This sends the others into a panic. Aud goes over to Awilda who uses “lumos Maximum” at the monster, and Fair spots one of the monsters and sends a spell flying. Everyone scrambles to get away and scare the monster away, but they notice a second one is going for Mys.
Dia scares off the one coming for her and Wil helps her. Dia helps the others fight the monster in the lake. Depulsos the monster. Yeets out twice via Ascendio. She dives back like three times because she doesn't wanna abandon her friends. Aud goes for Mys and keeps the second one away but Mys goes unconscious from water. Fair goes over to help Aud carry Mys off. Aud goes after the other one going after the others. Bill and Saffron play around splashing each other before things turn flirty and they start to snog. Awilda shouts at Bill and Saffron to get out of the water. Saffron turns to look at Awilda when something takes Saffron under the water. Bill and Aud pull her away and scares it off. Everyone escapes to shore but Aud chases after the two monsters. Awilda uses Lumos Maximun again at the second monster.
Eventually, Bex couldn’t fight the spirit off anymore and Wolfget had to step in and rid of an evil spirit that tried to posses her. She notices Charlie and Saph’s conservation while Wolfget is getting the spirit out of her and is heartbroken. Charlie and Sapphire are about to have a moment, when its interrupted by Bill yelling. They run and find the lake in chaos. Saffron is injured. Sapphire stays with the rest while Charlie tries to go help out.
Bill pulls Saffron to shore, but she’s not breathing. He gives her crappy CPR and takes her to the hospital wing. Bill, Charlie, and Hec discover a rune on her leg, which Hec points out has been there for awhile. A Nordic Rune. Wolfget takes Bex to the infirmary agreeing to talk about what happened later. Wolf talked with Hec about Bex's incident and asked him if they could talk later when Hector had time. After he leaves, she becomes depressed and questions why she’s still here when she’s so forgettable. Saffron recalls her dreams, but stays quiet, finding comfort in Bill.
Aud leaves a differently-colored flare by where they stopped at. Fair gets mad because Audrey is risking her life at every given occasion and wants to do things alone is very annoyed at her. They blows up the place where the two escaped two and now the boulders are trapping the monsters there. They get out of the lake and Aud performs CPR on Mys. Saph is nearby and unsure of what to do. When Mys wakes up they all go to the infirmary to recover and calm down. Hector is really stressed out by all the injured. Mystic arrives and Hec takes a look at her. She has a large bruise from her ankle to knee. Mystic asks for Clayton and Fair write him for her. Clayton comes and relives a memory of Mystic first being abused by their father. He then gets the idea of becoming a Hogwarts professor.
Dia gets lightly injured when the monster grabs her wand arm which she doesn't bring attention to because its "not really important". Snape confronts all of us on the way to Pomfrey's. Awilda has a panick attack that is mild but still showing, avoids Snapes eye contact when they got questioned. Dia tries to comfort Awilda but lets Aud do it instead because she's better at it. Awilda runs in Constantine and tells her everything, leaving her stressed that Contanstine will tell Snape that she has been at the Black Lake.
Dia doesn't know what to do with herself when the reach the hospital so leans by a wall. Penny joins her, asking what hapened. She then tells her off and helps out with the patients. Penny notices her discomfort and passes her a Wiggenweld potion. Penny helps out Hector who’d taken over for Pomfrey. Pomfrey leaves to drink. Charlie tries to comfort Sapphire while she is having an anxiety attack. Saph passes out. Charlie takes care of her. She wakes up delirious. Charlie convinces her to drink water. She is exhausted through everything she went through and Charlie and her end up snuggling in the bed. Bill gives Saffron potions to get all the lake water out of her and to feel better. Bill takes Saffron to his room.
Hec checks up on Bex and she continuously gets flustered as they talk. Her feelings for Hec continue to develop. Wolfget and Hector talk in the infirmary after everything calms down. Wolf apologizes to Hec for threatening him during his fight with Charlie. Hec accepts Wolf's apologies, so all is good. They talked about what happened in the forest, and both are in their road to friendship. Mystic wakes up and teleports to the Astronomy tower to hang with Dante. Dante has a flashback. Mystic Teleports them back to the Infirmary. Faireth visits them at the infirmary, but goes away quickly. She goes to the Prefects Bathroom, to test the limits of her oxygen bubble and other spells. Bex and Wolfget have a talk about the possession and bond over their experiences on demons and spirits. Wolfget agrees to move his extra lessons at the same time as the tutoring and Bex gratefully thanks him.
Mama and Papa Graves go to the ministry meeting up with Dumbledore and Rakepick. Clayton and Rakepick try to talk about Mystics mental health. They notices something wrong with Mama Graves she's quite, and won't respond unless Papa Graves asks her to. Rakepick asks about it, Papa Graves gets angry. After some communication about an earlier conversation with Dumbledore papa Graves gets frozen. They then Check on Mama Graves and discover the Imperius curse. They Break the curse and ask that Clayton, Dante and Mystic are to be alerted and must arrived as quickly as possible. Mama Graves doesn't remember anything from after the curse was cast.
Andre babysits Alana and they play sexy 21 Questions while the others are out. When Bill comes in he suggests they go check on Andre’s cousin Sapphire. Bill and Saffron go take a sexy bath in the prefects bathroom. Bex escapes the Hospital Wing and goes to hunt down Charlie and finds him talking with Saph. They ask her if she’s doing well and she confirms, calling them by their full name, something she hasn’t done since the beginning of the year and immediately apologies for it. Bex asks to speak to Charlie alone. Charlie accepts and asks Saph to meet up later, which she agrees but decides to follow them. Bex leads Charlie to a room that she used to escape to when she was younger to escape the bullies. Bex gets up and casts a few silencing charms and says coldly that she gave him a second chance after he fought with Andre, that she didn’t consider giving him a second chance when he forcefully kissed Alana until he helped her out, and because he seem to regret the fight with Hector, she will give him another, but warns him not to waste it.
Saffron tries to tells Bill what she’s been going through, but feels like he’s never on her side and doesn’t want to understand. He says she’s being unfair to Alana and that she keeps pushing everyone away. They fight and she accuses him of looking for reasons like everyone else (Hector, Jacob, he mother) does. He storms in and she breaks down crying. He comes back and comforts her. She tells him about her bad dreams. She sleeps in his bed again that night but has nightmares.
Charlie goes to Snape office where he finds Hec by himself. The door was locked and not even Alohamora could open it. Charlie began a heart to heart with Hec, apologizing for his part of the fight and what he had said. The pair made up just in time for Snape to come in. Snape questioned Hector on what punishment Charlie should get, and Hector said he had been punished enough. Snape asked Charlie what should happen to Hector and he told him nothing because they had both learned from it and made up. Snape began antagonizing Charlie about what he had been doing, using jokes that the friends had come up with to make all Charlie’s women friends out to be "harlots". Snape took away Charlie's O mark from his last paper, and threatened his future if he didn’t change his ways and friends. Charlie proceeded to tell Snape that he was not his father so he couldn’t tell him what to do with his life and if he had to give up his friends to keep on his career path, he would find another way. Snape told Charlie that his punishment was to stay away from women, or the women in his life's careers would suffer by his doing.
After that, Charlie's free to leave the office. Not Hector. He's ordered to close the door of the office and return to his seat. He does that and waits for his own punishment. Snape, however, seems finished and starts to grade papers. Hector, growing confused, asks the professor-- but Snape tells him that there's no punishment for him and that Hector has been the victim all along. He was simply keeping him there to watch the "show". Bewildered, Hector tries to reason with him even as all the house points Gryff lost is returned to him. Snape stops him from continuing, telling him that if he had a son, he'd imagine him to be very much like Hector. Understandably, the boy is stunned into silence.
Snape then pulls Hector into a very awkward embrace, one that Hector is equally disturbed and comforted by... and felt a strange sense of longing, wishing that it was his father giving him these kind words instead of Snape. The thought brings him to tears, and he leaves the office in that state.
Charlie left and was followed to the lake by Sapphire in his animagus form. Charlie told Sapphire about what Snape did and what Snape had called them. Charlie left Sapphire but not before giving her a kiss on the head and promising her that he would find a way to fix it. Charlie passed Alana on the way to Gryffindor tower and told her to talk to Sapphire because he couldnt talk to her. Charlie wrote a letter to his parents. As Charlie leaves, she sit by herself near the lake as a sad blob. Bex and Alana finds her and do some cheering up before asking her what's wrong. She tells them what happened. She goes to Bex's secret hideout and talk with them.
Hector runs into Audrey quite literally. After they get up she brings him to the seventh floor room. It's cleaned up nicely, since Hector and a few others worked on in while everyone else were still recovering in the infirmary. They sit on a couch and Hector recounts what has happened in the office, carefully leaving out what happened after Charlie left. After that, their conversation moved on to their superficial relationship and how it came out from obligation-- but Audrey never saw it as superficial or as an obligation to care for Hector, and when she questions him he begins to wonder if he's growing out of that obligation. Soon enough, his thoughts wander back to Snape's words and soon his real father, and confesses to Aud about how much he misses him and how much he hates Mr. Silva, soon asking Aud what she thinks about her own dad. Audrey tells him, and is curious why Hec's bringing this all up. He starts to cry when he thinks about his real father once more, and overcome by emotion he hugs her. She's surprised; even more so when Hector tells her that he'd like to imagine having a sister like her. She's touched by it and also finds herself hugging him back, telling him that she's been here for him and will continue to be. They sleep on the couch that night, comforted by their renewed relationship with each other.
Clayton and Rakepick have a moment as they wait to see how his mother is. Clayton accepts the position he was offered at Hogwarts. Clayton takes his siblings to go see their mother. Their mother learns of everything that has happened to. She threatens to kill their father. They stop her saying they don't want to loose her again. The boys leave, Mystic tells Mama Graves about Audrey. Mama Graves accepts it. Clayton and Dante talk. Clayton has a flashback. Clayton asks Dante to help him design his classroom at Hogwarts.
Mystic gets like no sleep because of a nightmare. Her friends ask her about it and she admits it. Dante shows up and takes Mystic back to her room to sleep. He takes Faireth to the Graves Manner to discuss how they will kill Papa Graves. Mama Graves finds out that Mystic almost drowned. The Imperius curse is mentioned. Mama Graves knows their dating. Invites all of Mystics Friends over for the summer. Clayton and Pomfrey meet up for a drink. They talk about how hard life can be. They have a moment of peaceful silence. Rakepick shows up and they all joke around. Clayton tickles Rakepick. Clayton recalls a childhood memory and Pomfrey calls them cute. Jokes get a little more ...... naughty after that. They joke around some more. Clayton sees the time, thanks them for the evening and goes home.
Costia drinks apple juice out of a wine glass, pissed that once again the others have rejected her friendship. She searches the lake for the so called “monster” that Awilda was talking about. She discovers the buried corpses of grindylows and mermaids. She throws a mermaid corpse into the lake. Large bubbles rise to the surface after, indicating that something alive is down there. The next day, Slytherin students will wake up to a half eaten, rotting, mermaid corpse outside the common room windows.
