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DADA for Muggles, final class [Wednesday]

It had taken Remus and Sirius slightly less time this go around to program the Danger Room to do what they wanted (Sirius contended it was because it had threatened the computer with a good hexing, but that was debatable), but for a final examination, the professors felt that a bit of effort should be expended.

"Welcome to your exam," Sirius said with a slightly fiendish smile, extending his hand to encompass the scene before them: a large grassy area (complete with a different castle in the background. They missed Hogwarts a bit, so hush) covered in a variety of obstacles. "Hopefully you remember what you have learned. You will encounter a series of practical exercises in order for us to determine how prepared you are to face the Dark Arts in every day life. Good luck. If you get too hexed to continue, Professor Lupin and I will step in, but I don't think that will be entirely necessary."

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"Hope they don't remember. Might throw us out pre-emptively." An idea that mostly amused Effy, actually.

"Free Saturday?"

"If they do, I'll find someplace else," he promised. "I'm not a one trick pony."

Multi-talented and vastly skilled, that's what he thought he was. And he liked to think he could back most of that up with his actions.

"I'm free Saturday." Easy to say that when he had no plans. "My schedule's easily cleared."

"Not anymore." But not a change in his schedule she had any problem with, oddly enough.

Effy stepped a little closer with a grin, "And I never thought you only had one trick."

"You of all people should know I don't have one trick," he said, lowering his voice and matching her grin with one of his own. "I think that's why you...hang around me so much."

Still being careful around words, yes. Progress or not, words were still scary especially in a somewhat public setting.

"Don't worry," he said, shrugging one shoulder, "it goes both ways."

Somewhat public, and quite likely within the vicinity of Griff, who would probably be immensely smug at their proximity alone. He didn't need any more proof.

"Should hope so." It would be sad if that sort of thing wasn't reciprocated somehow. "Don't think you'd go inviting me out otherwise."

"I invite you out because I want to see you," he told her, shrugging. "Figured that was obvious."

Or maybe it wasn't. He wasn't the most outgoing guy in terms of those type of things but, then again, neither was she.

"It is the way most people work," she remarked. Not that he was really 'most people', but still. "Only other option was some grand evil plan. Decided that wasn't it."

"Don't think I'm capable of being evil?" he asked, snickering. He thought he could be evil. Well, maybe not evil, but mean and cruel were things he could do and had done. "Must be losing my edge."

"Don't think you'd take me out for drinks and pool to be evil," she clarified, smirking a little. "Not your style."

"Oh yeah?" Yeah, she was right. He wouldn't do that. Not his style. "Think you've got a pretty good handle on my style, do you?"

Pretty confident she did, yeah. All that time spent around him and all.

"I'm right, aren't I?"

"...yes." Well, that honesty was just going to make her a lot more smug than she had been. "Shut up, that just means I'm not that hard to read."

Except how he kind of was.

"Don't be smug." He figured he'd say it even if he knew it was a futile request. She'd be smug.

With him mentioning it, she was just going to be giving out more. Even with everything going on between them, she was still going to enjoy getting under his skin like that.

"Aw, why not?" She had been right, he'd admitted it, it was allowed.

"Because I said don't be smug," he said, making a face. She so easily listened to him and all, after all. Of course.

"And you're making me regret that I didn't lie to you about that, make you doubt yourself about how well you know me."

"There's something wrong with liking that I do know you?" she wondered.

Because, okay, smug. But that was just a form of enjoyment from her.

"There's nothing wrong with that," he relented, shaking his head and giving her a glare that was more teasing than anything. "Do you like that you know me that well?"

"Look like, doesn't it?" Yeah, yeah, it was definitely satisfying, in its way.

At least there was a little less of the 'smug' shining through in her grin now. That made it better, didn't it?

"It goes both ways," he had to say because feeling like he was too wide open was a little scary. "I know you pretty well. So, it goes both ways."

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"And you like knowing me pretty well?" Thought so, but it was worth checking. "Kind of satisfying, right?"

Wasn't about to deny that one. He did. Better than anyone else around here, undoubtedly.

"Yeah, I like it," he admitted with a quiet laugh. "Hey, first time in awhile I've wanted to know more than just surface shit about a person. It's not too bad at all."

"If you thought you'd guessed something right, you'd be fucking smug too." Effy felt confident in saying that too, and reached up to rest one hand on his shoulder. "And you'd ignore me if I told you not to be." In that way they were very similar.

"Yeah, yeah," he said, lifting one corner of his mouth into a half smile and ducking his head. "So, maybe you guessed right and you know me pretty well. That make you special?"

Yeah, it kind of did. Yeah.

Effy shrugged. "I'm going with yes. Good for my ego." Which didn't need all that much help, admittedly. Like that mattered to her.

Alex glanced around before stepping forward, close enough that he could reach an arm around her and trace something on her back, very slowly to help her figure it out.

Y-O-U. A-R-E.

He smiled as he finished the last letter, giving her back a brief stroke with his knuckles before dropping his arm.

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Made it nice and easy for her to pick up that one, and Effy's lips twitched into a smile of her own in return, brushing her thumb against the side his neck briefly before she dragged her hand down to tap his chest a couple of times. A slightly less definitive way of indicating 'you too'.

This was always going to be easier when they just didn't talk.

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