Enjoying Samhain
Alethea yawned as she stretched before putting on a simple black dress and petticoat with a pair of short black gloves, finishing it off with putting her hair in a fashion net, her makeup and her Oxford heels. She quickly headed to the great hall to meet with Arthur.
She smiled as she laid eyes on him, “Arty!”
Arthur smiled back at Alethea, “Thea. Good morning!” Arthur was in a black t-shirt that had a skull on it, and gray skinny jeans. He was almost done with his cup of tea and had eaten half of his food when she arrived in the hall. “How was your day yesterday?” he asked, looking up at her while she sat across from him.
She smiled at him while her coffee popped onto the table. “It was good, I believe that I’ve made a little bit of progress. I’m going to go over it more next time and try to learn more. How was yours?” Alethea began putting some breakfast on her plate.
“The studying went well but we may have to look into a couple of things. All I can say for now is we have a lot to talk about in the come and go room” Arthur said looking down at his food with a hint of worry in his eyes.
Alethea’s smile dropped, “very well. I’ll make sure to have Gil grab a few things before we go. Depending, we might have everything in order by the end of the school year.”
“Hopefully, though if my hunch is right I may have to set up another room at my place.” Arthur said while his smile was slowly dropping too.
Alethea nodded her head and hurried with eating her breakfast. She made sure to keep a couple bites on the edge of her plate to light when she was done. After a couple minutes, they both were done eating and began to stand to head to the come and go room. Before standing Alethea threw a quick incendio at the small pile of food on her plate. As they were standing Arthur was knocked back down while yelling “You prick!” as a redhead went to hug him around the midsection. Alethea giggled as she felt arms wrap around her shoulder and felt someone resting their head on hers. “Ah yes where one is the other is not far behind, hullo Georgie.” Alethea gentles leans up and kisses George’s cheek.
“Good morning Thea” George said while laughing at his brother who was getting yelled at by the smaller male.
“Why do you get a nice hullo but I get called a prick?” whined Fred who had a pout on his face.
Alethea smiled and laughed, “you see my dear Freddie, Georgie CALMLY hugged me. You hugged Arthur and knocked him down.” Sadly this didn’t make the redhead feel better so he kept pouting since the smaller male wasn’t only yelling at him but now he was also trying to get out of his arms.
Laughing harder, Alethea rolled her eyes and looked at Arthur. “Accept the love Artie!”
“Fuck no, he knocked me over!” Arthur yelled, still trying to get out of the taller male's arms.
“He knocked you to the seat, it was like your legs gave out. He may hug you aggressively but he never tries to hurt you with it.” Alethea giggles one more time and lightly leans back further into George’s arms. Arthur stopped trying to get away from the redhead because it seemed like no one was on his side so he gave into the hug. This made the redhead happy but Arthur on the other hand was the one pouting now.
Alethea lightly shook her head, “How was your nights guys?”
“Great but Fred and I might be a little busy for a while. We are trying to plan something.” George said with a mischievous look in his eyes. Fred nodded his head in agreement with the same mischievous look in his eyes.
“I don’t trust that look…” Arthur said, looking at Thea with a hint of worry in his eyes.
“Don’t worry Arthur, nothing bad is going to happen. It’s just a harmless prank.” Fred said, burying his head into Arthur’s hair.
Alethea squints her eyes, before turning so she’s facing George, “Just make sure that it’s not bad, sweetie. I know you guys sometimes get carried away. Just make sure EVERYONE is laughing at the end.”
“Don’t worry love everything will be fine,” George says kissing the top of Thea’s head “we got to get planning now so we’ll see you lot later.”
Alethea smiles and kisses George’s nose before nodding. “Arthur and I need to head out and plan on our own as well. We might have a few extras before the next year.”
“Alright, We will see you two later at lunch.” Fred said letting go of Arthur, while George is letting go of Alethea. Once both of them are out of the hall Alethea and Arthur start getting their stuff together before heading out themselves.
Once Alethea and Arthur got to the come and go room, they saw it had a conversation pit full of bean bag chairs and a fire pit with a soft flame going. There was also blankets every couple inches and somehow there was one of George and Fred’s sweaters as well.
They settle down into the nest and begin talking, after they both put on the sweaters.
“Draco believes that anyone who he hasn’t grown up with is worthless and if he can’t wield his political power he’s worthless. Not in as many words and I don’t believe his mother taught him anything worth his berries in manipulation. His biggest power play is that his vati will hear about whatever upsets him. His vati can't do all of his battles for him. There’s going to be a point that he won’t be able to do anything and Draco will be hurt. His vati won’t take the blame for it and leave Draco to take the fall. His mum hasn’t taught him any of the good things and how to work anything. He doesn’t even understand that the always pure from his mom’s side isn’t about his blood. I need to slowly try and get to him but he also is afraid to do anything that his dad wouldn’t approve of. He’s only upset with Harry because he believes that he slighted him in front of everyone.” Thea said as she held a pillow close to her chest.
“So what you mean is that we need to give him a reality check and have him and Harry talk things out.” Arthur sighed looking at Alethea.
Alethea nodded her head, “that’s correct. I was thinking about talking to Harry tonight and for one bringing up the ritual to talk to your passed loved ones.”
Gil slithered up to Alethea with the expanding bag looped in his mouth. Alethea smiles at him and takes it before scratching his nose, “thank you gilly”
Gil has an extremely content look in his eyes and goes to wrap around Alethea’s neck, Alethea looks into the bag and sees her needle and bewitched thread as well as some bases for the emergency bracelets and smiles before scratching Gil again and getting a mouse for him.
Alethea pulls out the pieces of the bracelets and begins to put them together and places the almost finished ones by her bowl for her ritual. Alethea then takes the sweater back off and begins stitching a warming rune onto the sleeve.
Alethea perks up “speaking of, blessed Samhain Arthur. I’m planning on getting some of the house elves to bring food up and I’m going to be working on my stitching and on my family history training. You should join!”
As she is saying this, there’s an area behind the conversation pit that’s slowly sinking into the ground and growing into a small ritual area complete with two circles of candles, a small bowl, an athame, another candle and a small stone tablet.
Alethea smiles when she notices and sends a hum of her magic out to thank hogwarts. “Blessed Samhain to you too Alethea” Arthur said from next to Alethea. As they were celebrating Samhain they took this time to talk about how they each are doing in their classes and how they are doing overall.
The time was flying by really quickly to where it was already time for dinner. They knew dinner already started but they weren’t worried about missing out on anything because they knew the house elfs would save them some food. Though before they could get all their stuff together to leave the door to the come and go room opens up to Professor Snape.
“Professor, what are you doing here?” Arthur said, giving the Professor a confused look.
“I know you both missed dinner and were about to head to the kitchen to get some but there has been an incident. So you both need to head to your dorms immediately.” Professor Snape said with a straight look on his face.