fandomhigh | Detention: Saturday, January 14, 2006

Rita happily pointed her wand at the board, making a list of names appear.

Han Solo
Pippi Longstocking
Pip Bernadette
Quinn Morgendorffer
John Sheppard
Lana Lang
Maia Rutledge
James Ford
~~Barbossa~~

“Students are expected to sign in,” Rita said. As soon as Quinn and Barbossa took their seats, Rita set a pile of writing materials on the former’s desk, and nine pairs of dragonhide gloves, as well as nine tiny nets, on latter’s.

“Boys and girls, it seems you’ve been naughty this week,” Rita said disapprovingly, addressing the whole class. “So until midnight tonight, you’re all going to be staying here. And you’ll be doing punishments to fit the crimes and according to my whims, really. And since there are only two students in here who seemingly did not cause mischief to ear this detention - Mr. Barbossa and Ms. Morgendorffer - they will be my Special Helpers for the day. That means, Special Helpers - if you see someone misbehaving, let me know immediately.”

“Thanks to Mr. Solo, you will all write me a one hundred-word essay on respecting the privacy of the opposite sex. If I am not satisfied with your essay, you will make a better effort. Ms. Morgendorffer, you are in charge of passing out the writing material and collecting it. And boys and girls - I expect neat work.”
“Because of all of you who thought that playing in the water would be fun, I’m going to teach you about the things that actually live in the water.” She indicated three tanks at the front of the room, and lifted the dropcloths off of them. In each one, nettles and grayish-green, slimy plants grew. The students’ attention was more likely to be on the pale green, goblin-like creatures, however.

“I would like you all to harvest as much gillyweed - the stuff that looks like rat tails - out of there before you leave. In groups of three - Mr. Ford, Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Solo together; Ms. Longstocking, Ms. Lang and Ms. Rutledge; and Ms. Morgendorffer, Mr. Barbossa and Mr. Bernadette. Please wait for Mr. Barbossa to hand out your protective gloves and nets.”
“Then we will have lunch. I hope you all like what I’ve provided.”
“After lunch, there will be some beginner's potion-making - you will all be extracting four ounces - that’s approximately a full plant’s worth - of bubotuber pus." Rita pointed to nine slug-like plants on her desk. "You will work alone. Continue to wear your gloves, boys and girls, unless you’d rather like to have boils."
“And once that is finished, you will spend the rest of your time quietly in your seats, doing lines.”

“I will not - I repeat, will not tolerate undue chatter in this detention. And do not forget that I have a wand, whereas none of you do. Anyone who talks out of turn runs the risk of being jinxed or worse. I will not hesitate to full body-bind any of you, much less transfigure you into something unpleasant for the duration of the day.”

She smiled sweetly. “Any questions?”

[ooc: All right kiddies, here’s how it’s going to go:

Comment in all of the threads. RP out what Rita has asked you to do. If you don’t, she will be cranky. If you talk about non-detention stuff, and Rita catches you, she will be cranky. If you talk back, she will be very cranky.

If Rita gets cranky, she will seriously cast a spell on you.

I won’t do anything to actually HARM a single student in here. But you might find yourselves unable to move, turned into a highly unpleasant animal, tickling for no reason at all, and so on. Furthermore, she’ll assign you detention again next week if she has to take to magical measures.

I do expect to see a full 100 word essay.

The grindylows will not bite unless you piss them off. Be careful.

The food is not poisoned. Scout’s honor. :)

The bubotuber pus is your own domain. Get boils, don’t, whatever.

And as for the lines, C&P is your friend. And yes, Rita and I are both OCD enough to check that your character has done it the full 25 times.

Finally - if you don’t know HP canon, please do take advantage of those links. Additionally, you can ping me in the OOC thread, or I *should* be on AIM (beetlewhatbeetle).

Most of all, remember: Rita is not nice. She is not your pal. She is a bitch, and she *will not* hesitate to turn you into a newt. (And you will not get getting better...until I say so, anyway.)

And you won’t be getting out until 3 AM EST. Sorry, guys. Like I said...Rita is a bitch. *shrug* And you know the rules on that - no playing in anything else until that time. And if I catch you? Consequences.

[ooc2: OCD threads ~~going up momentarily. Wait for them and then please do use them~~ ARE UP.]

[ooc3: ~~I'm going AFK for an hour. If you have questions, hold off until I get back, please~~. BACK, YO.]

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Maia looked thoughtfully thinking of what she had seen while she was in the clinic. "I think it hurt bad when they changed me but...I really don't remember it."

"I think I had an upset stomach and of course there were the bad smells..." Pippi crinkled her nose. "Who were these people again? So I can clobber them for you if I ever meet them."

Maia smiled at her offer "No they are, well there are from the future so I think we'll all be dead and gone by the time they actually exsist."

"So what was the point then? Did they even tell you?"

Maia sat back "They sent us back to save their lives. Apparently our future in there time isn't so very nice. They took us, changed us, brought us back to save them." She said trying to remember everything she had heard Mr. Tommy telling Diana.

"I don't get it." Pippi said, "How can you save them if they're so far off into the future?"

Maia looked down at the floor. "I can't say right now. It isn't time for that."

Pippi rarely stops smiling, but she does so now.

"As if keeping you a kid for 60 some odd years and not letting you enjoy it wasn't enough. They must have saddled you with some kinda heavy responsability..."

She sat back. "I guess I'm lucky... Witch-Doctors don't ever want much more then for you to swim into some underwater cave and harvest the spines of a mysterious man-eating beast that smells like rotting ham..."

Maia looked a little surprised by Pippi's words, nobody really saw it that way other then herself. She didn't mean to make Pippi's bright little smile fade, she tries to smile to reassure her it was ok and she had been dealing with it since she came home and it would be ok.

Hearing the second part of Pippi's tale her eyes go a little wide "Why in the world would they send you to do that?"

Pippi shrugs.

"Who knows, I think maybe they just wanted me outta their hair while they got things set up..."

Pippi's simle does return in short order.

"Well if they ever show up again you can come and find me. Chances are I'd be with Walter and Pip, whom I think you already know. We'll give them a pounding if 'they' try to take you somewhere you don't want to go."

Maia was speechless and touched by the younger girls bravery. She knew they would never come for her again they had done their damage already. Maia just looked at the girl in amazement. "Aren't you just the sweetest person." Maia whispered. Swallowing hard she gave Pippi a smile now. "I do know Pip, I haven't met Walter yet but Pip told me he's from the same time I am so we should get along just fine when I meet him." She took a deep breath and smiled again "I think meeting you might just be the best thing that comes out of this entire detention."

Younger being a relative term, Pippi held out her hand for Maia to shake.

"Charmed," she said as she had heard fine gentlemen say to fine ladies once, "Charmed, by my honor."

Maia shook her hand and nodded. "Charmed indeed." She said happily.

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