escape route;; ellie

[erinn lacey thomas]

Erinn didn't mean to get into trouble as often as she did, it just kind of happened to her. And really, when you looked at it, it usually wasn't actually her fault that a lot of things happened to her. It was merely just the unfortunate circumstances of life that lead to her accidentally toeing the line of breaking the rules. Well, in her mind anyways. She liked to think that she was perfectly innocent in all accusations that had been brought up against her and that the first years were all a bunch of disgusting liars. Of course, that was entirely inaccurate and it was completely and utterly her fault that three first years had been sent to the hospital wing with various bleeding body parts, but that wasn't the point. She certainly didn't deserve to be sent to the headmaster because of that. Even if it was her third time that week to have been given a detention. Really, it was as if the world expected her to be some kind of model student all the time. How ridiculous could they get.

After sitting in the waiting room for a few minutes, Erinn was ushered into the Headmaster's office, where she was greeted with the unfortunate scowl of a very unhappy professor. Attempting to smooth things over with an innocent grin, Erinn considered attempting to pass herself off as Erika, since obviously the twin thing could totally have worked. However, the fact that she had a bleeding gash on her forehead from where she had tripped after going off on the first years made that slightly more difficult. Listening, only slightly, to the lecture that she was being given, Erinn nodded her head every now and then to appear like she was actually paying some sort of attention to the professor in front of her. Once the talking stopped, Erinn put forth her best grin and nodded enthusiastically once more, promising to not do it again and to follow the rules and blah, blah, blah. Anything it took to get out of there before any punishments were laid on her.

"Yes, I understand. Sorry Professor. No, it won't happen again. Yes, yes, last time I'll get off with just a warning," Erinn mumbled as everything started to come to a close. As soon as it was over, she slipped out of the chair and back off to the hallway to get away from the trouble that she had so narrowly avoided. As she bounced out of the office, a drop of blood rolled down her forehead, causing her to stop and frown in irritation. She was pretty far from the hospital wing and definitely didn't feel like going all the way there just to get some stupid cut fixed, so it made much more sense in her mind to just heal it herself. Being only in her fifth year and not exactly being the most attentive student, she wasn't at all adept in any sort of healing spells, nor did she even remember any of them. However, she was quite determined to do it on her own, so she took her wand out and pondered for a moment as she lazily started walking down the hallway. Certainly she'd remember something.

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[ellie]

Ellie walked down the hallway, books in hand. Her left sock was falling down, and she sighed in frustration and at her inability to fix her problem. She had just left Defense Against the Dark Arts, and had been concerned because Erinn wasn't in class. She probably killed someone, Ellie thought, rolling her eyes at how rebellious her friend could be. She had been in trouble so many times in the last week alone, resulting in Ellie's often contemplation as to why they were friends.

Their fathers had known each other, and they played Quidditch together, but at times they were such opposites. The thought of getting detention or getting called into the Headmaster's office made Ellie shudder, but for Erinn, it was just another day. The only time Ellie had ever gotten in serious trouble was when, during her third year, she spit in Allie Macduff's face after he said she couldn't throw a quaffle to save her life. She had spent the next three days in her dorm crying after serving her numerous detentions. Erinn had cheered her on, and so had her brother, Felix, but she had still felt guilty at her punishment. But not her revenge on Allie. That still made her smile.

She turned a corner, dropping her textbook. "Damn it," she mumbled, bending over to pick it up. As she was lifting her book, she looked up in the direction she was walking towards, when she saw Erinn walking down the hallway, looking completely nonchalant.

"Where have you been?" Ellie asked, standing completely up straight. "Did they find the body?" she chuckled, elbowing Erinn lightly in the ribs.

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[erinn lacey thomas]

As she walked down the hallway, Erinn had a rather triumphant grin on her face. Certainly, being sent to the headmaster's office wasn't something to be proud of to most people, but as far as Erinn was concerned it was a win. Well, a win in the fact that she didn't have detention. Technically, she did, but she hadn't been listening enough to hear that part and so was rather convinced that she had made it through the afternoon unscathed. Hearing a plunk in front of her, she lifted her gaze to see Ellie dropping her textbooks and bending down to pick them up. With a bit of a grin, Erinn plodded over to where she was standing. Ellie was, most definitely, one of her closest friends. They played Quidditch together as Chasers, which was a bond that obviously meant a lot, considering Erinn's dedication to the sport of Quidditch. Even if Ellie was much less of a troublemaker and sometimes even discouraged Erinn's antics, they still got on rather well.

Pausing next to where Ellie had bent down, Erinn rolled back on the back of her feet and waited for her to get up. Not exactly having the most manners about her, she didn't bother to help Ellie pick up her books and simply waited. She snorted a bit at Ellie's question, shrugging a bit in response. "All five of them, actually. In the hospital wing," she replied with a nod, sadly not kidding. "I thought they'd stay where I left them, but I guess they weren't dead enough to do that. Just a bit banged up from the fall." Erinn wasn't sure if Ellie had heard anything about the events of the morning, but it didn't seem like she had and that was probably a good thing. The less that people heard about it, the better. It wasn't like it was her fault they all somehow magically tripped down the stairs. Obviously, it was their fault for touching her broom. Everyone knew not to touch Erinn's broom.

Leaning back and stretching her arms out, Erinn looked over at Ellie was a bemused expression. "So, how was class?" she asked, assuming that Ellie had actually gone. Erinn, while not entirely a terrible student, wasn't the type to show up for class all the time. Skipping out to have fun and do whatever was quite common in her life, which made her rather glad to have Ellie around to keep her up to date. "Lots of fun, yeah?" she questioned with a smirk. She wasn't entirely certain which class it was that she had missed, but that was irrelevant really. Whichever class it had been, it probably wasn't overly important. After all, it wasn't like Potions was going to help her with a Quidditch career or anything. "Didn't blow up any potions while I was away didja?" she asked, deciding that it had probably been potions that she'd missed.

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[ellie]

Ellie shuffled her textbooks from her right hand to her left, and got in sync with Erinn's footsteps. She elbowed her lightly in the ribs, and sighed. "Erinn, one day you're actually going to kill one of these first years," she laughed, only half kidding. "And you're going to get expelled, and I'm going to say over and over again how many times I've warned you!"

"And besides, you missed Defense, not Potions," Ellie said, rolling her eyes again. "And we have an essay due next Tuesday, you might wanna get on that," she mentioned slyly, hoping to frustrate or annoy Erinn almost as a punishment for missing class. Especially since being scolded by the headmaster himself wasn't punishment enough. But not for Erinn. Nothing particularly bothered her, which, in turn, bothered Ellie.

"And we just started a new chapter, so you might wanna get notes from somebody, if you wanna catch up." Ellie looked down at the notebook that was under her textbook, gesturing to it for Erinn.

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[erinn lacey thomas]

Jumping to the side instinctively when Ellie elbowed her, Erinn stuck her tongue out at her with a goofy grin. Considering the fact that she had four older siblings, she was used to being jostled around like that and typically reacted by pushing back. However, she rarely did with Ellie, since she sometimes felt like Ellie was fragile in a way and most definitely innocent. Erinn often worried that perhaps she was too much of a bad influence on the poor girl, but usually she shrugged it off. It wasn't like it was her fault she was so awesome that Ellie wanted to hang around her. "Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're fine. Sort of. I mean, they'll be in the hospital for a few days, but at least I had the decency to save them before they hit the ground, right?" Erinn offered, with a bit of a shrug. Obviously, she was such a good soul.

At the thought of getting expelled, Erinn simply laughed. Honestly, were she to have been in danger of getting expelled, it would have happened the first year that she was there at Hogwarts. By now, it was expected that Erinn would be doing something wrong every day and sometimes she wondered if it might have been easier if she just dragged herself up to the Headmaster's office whenever she did something wrong. Of course, that would just be losing the fun of the game. "Ahh, I can still play professional Quidditch if I get expelled and theeen I wouldn't have to deal with your sorry ass dragging me to class all the time," she replied with a smirk. She didn't mean that at all, since she was actually quite glad to have Ellie around as a friend, however.

Crinkling her nose a bit when Ellie corrected her, Erinn cursed her bad luck at guessing. "Right, that's what I meant to say," she nodded, seriously. Someday, she'd catch on and figure out what her schedule was. Honestly, if she didn't have Ellie there to drag her about to her classes, she probably wouldn't have made a single one of them. She was further irritated by the fact that there was apparently an essay due coming up, which, no doubt, she hadn't started. She did alright in some of her classes, though that was usually only when she had one of her siblings or Ellie hounding over her to make sure that she got it done. "Any chance you've already written yours?" Erinn asked. Usually, that was the case and she could just nick Ellie's in the middle of the night when she wasn't paying much attention. It was much easier to make up things for an essay when you had a couple others there to mix and match sentences together into one big paper.

Notes. Erinn generally didn't bother with notes until the day before the exam. It was never anything interesting and by then, it was easier for someone else to whittle things down to the information that she needed for the exam, without any of the extra and unnecessary information that they usually had at first. "Yeeah, sure. I'll get riiight on that," Erinn promised, though that was clearly a lie. The day that Erinn got right on anything related to school would be an interesting one to see. "So, what have you been up to mate? Aside from, yanno, that class or whatever?" Erinn asked, looking over at Ellie as they started to walk further away from the headmaster's office.

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[ellie]

Ellie sighed at her friend. "What did you do, push them off of the astronomy tower?" She asked, exasperated, knowing it was not beyond Erinn to pull such a stunt, as she almost had so many times before. Ellie wondered how neither of them had been an influence on the other, Ellie for the worse, and Erinn for the, Ellie liked to believe, better.

"No, I haven't started yet," she said, knowing Erinn only wanted it to either copy it verbatim, or copy the idea of it. "But we have to finish it by Friday, so it's not on our minds during the match Saturday morning. And besides, if we did it Sunday, we'd miss practice, and you know how my brother is, he'd murder us."

"I wonder how you haven't failed out of school, Thomas," she said, looking Erinn up and down. "You don't take notes, you don't pay attention in class, hell, when you go to class, and you barely do your homework. How do you expect to take any NEWT classes next year? You're crazy."

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[erinn lacey thomas]

Erinn was slightly offended that Ellie would even ask such a thing. Push them off the astronomy tower? That would have been a terrible thing to do to the poor children. Though, in her opinion, certainly something that they deserved. However, she'd unfortunately had to settle for simply shoving them down a few flights of stairs which, coincidentally had moved and dropped them down a few flights. Erinn had been kind enough to catch them on her broom before they'd splattered against the ground, however, so it wasn't like they were too hurt. They were, however, emotionally scarred and most likely had learned their lesson by now. All in all, Erinn considered it a success; no one was dead and she had gotten her point across to the first years.

Shooting Ellie a rather sly grin, Erinn couldn't help but laugh. "If only they'd been so lucky. I guess you could say that they took a bit of a tumble down a few flights of stairs and then...off the edge of one," she corrected Ellie with a brisk nod. Erinn wasn't at all bothered by the fact that it probably wasn't a good thing to do that sort of stuff. Eventually, it was entirely possible that someone could get hurt. In fact, it wasn't just possible, it was likely. Erinn wasn't exactly the most careful and accidents were frequent where she was concerned. Though, insofar, she'd been lucky enough that it had mostly been at her own expense, as opposed to that of the others. Not that she would have minded terribly if it were the other way around, that is.

A slight frown rose on Erinn's face when Ellie said that she hadn't started her essay yet, since that probably meant that she was meaning to do it while Erinn was sitting there doing hers too, forcibly of course. Though, perhaps if she bummed it off a Ravenclaw, she could have it done before Ellie came hunting for her to start homework time. "Yeah, yeah, I can handle Felix. How could he possibly get mad at someone so smallish and adorable as me anyways?" she asked, sticking her tongue out at Ellie. It was always fun to joke around about Felix when Ellie was around, simply for the fact that he was her older brother. Of course, she got the same thing right back, having two brothers of her own. However, it was a small price to pay for getting to irritate Ellie about Felix.

As Ellie started to lecture at her again for her lack of work ethic and general lack of ability at school, Erinn pretty much tuned her out. It wasn't like she hadn't heard all that and more from Ellie and the rest of the people around her and sometimes she got pretty sick of it. Honestly, she knew that they were coming from a good place with it and they only meant well, but it was annoying. Erinn knew that she wasn't the best of students and that, sure, she probably should have put forth a little bit more effort, but what was the point? She didn't want anything to do with all that school stuff later in life, so she didn't see why it was important to put forth the effort now. Maybe if she planned on using the information at some point in her life, it might have mattered, but she didn't.

Grunting a bit as Ellie finished her diatribe, Erinn waited a moment before dignifying it with a response. "Yeah, whatever mate. I'll deal with that when I get there," Erinn replied, an irritated scowl on her face. "So, how about you and I go find something fun to do?" Erinn asked, changing the subject before it got any more serious. Of course, if you knew Erinn at all, you knew that "fun" meant danger or destruction in some way or other. It obviously wasn't a good day if there wasn't something major going down around the campus at the hands of Erinn and her cohorts. Besides, it wasn't like Ellie had been in trouble that day, so if they were to get caught, Erinn could just offer her up as a sacrificial lamb and run the other way.

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[ellie]

Ellie glared at Erinn lightly, jumping a bit and almost dropping her textbook for the second time. "Erinn! How are they not dead at this point?" Ellie couldn't imagine falling off one of the moving staircases down into the crazy depths of the room. It seemed to stretch on forever, the floor somewhat nonexistant. "You're really getting a bit out of hand, Erinn. I'm surprised those kids' parents haven't taken legal action..."

"My brother's crazy, Erinn. He'll make us do pushups until we die. And then yell at us when we can't throw a quaffle." There were very few people who were more dedicated to Quidditch than her brother, Felix. Her father was one of them back in the day, and everyone expected the Wood children to be exactly the same as their father, and Felix lived up to that. They'd been training, basically, since they were born. Both of their parents had played professional Quidditch, her father for Puddlemere United, and her mother for the Cannons, helping them bring their winning streak back after a 10 year slum. Felix and Ellie were the best of the four Woods, but that's because they cared the most. Their parents were always proud, and their family always found it funny that he was a keeper, just like their father, and she was a chaser, just like their mother.

Ellie pondered Erinn's idea. Although their ideas of fun were similar, usually, Ellie sometimes had her doubts about Erinn's intentions. But she decided to give in anyway. "Yeah, sounds good. Classes are done for the day anyway," she smiled, needing a bit of unwinding after a full day of classes, and before starting her essays and other random assignments she had to do. "What did you have in mind?"

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[erinn lacey thomas]

The reaction that Ellie gave her wasn't entirely surprising, considering she wasn't the type of person that was generally okay with pushing first years down the stairs to tumble to their deaths. Honestly, it wasn't like it was Erinn's fault, exactly. They were the one's that had stolen her broom in the first place, causing her to go after them. Besides, it wasn't like she could have known that the staircase was going to move at that precise moment, causing them to plummet even further towards the ground. "Yeah, yeah, I ask myself the same question. It's pretty sick that they didn't die, isn't it?" Erinn asked, a sly grin playing on her face. She knew that Ellie didn't mean that in a good way, but she preferred to think of it as a good thing at least. It could have been worse, but it wasn't, so it wasn't so bad.

Ellie's comment about the kids' parents warranted an amused chuckle. "Trust me, they won't be telling their parents anything anytime soon," Erinn said with a knowing nod. She had obviously been careful enough to cover her bases on that front, threatening their lives and those of their friends were this to get anywhere outside of the castle. In fact, if it even got around the castle at all, it probably wouldn't have boded well for the young girl. Her older siblings were already on edge enough about her and it certainly wouldn't have made it any better were they to hear about her most recent incident. Not to mention, she really didn't need her own parents to hear any more about what went on than was absolutely necessary.

A smile broke her lips and she nodded in agreement. Felix was most definitely crazy and all the practices he dragged them to were, at times, a bit out of hand. Hell, there were times where Erinn practically had to fake death to get out of a practice. Though, she rarely had that problem, as she quite enjoyed practice. Even if it was a crazy situation, she loved it either way. "Yeah, well. He'll get over it," she shrugged, rather nonchalantly. She wasn't too worried about Felix. She liked to think that he was much more of a softie than he let on and that, if need be, she could simply start fake crying to get out of any punishments that he might come up with if something were to happen.

With Ellie's agreement to go have some fun, a wicked grin rose on Erinn's face. Today, fun meant more trouble. Sure, she'd already been to the Headmaster's that day and doing anything else was just risking an already touchy situation, but Erinn didn't care much. They'd get over it eventually. It was also good to hear that classes were done for the day. Sometimes, well, most of the time, Erinn tended to lose track of that whole aspect of time when it came to classes. It was just too much for the poor girl to handle. Obviously, she should only have been required to keep up with one or two important classes, like Flying. That was, most likely, the only one that she'd bother with for the rest of the week.

Thinking for a moment, Erinn wasn't sure just what she wanted to do yet. Obviously, it would have to be something awesome, but just what that was, she didn't quite know. "Well, there's lots of things we could do. I'm voting we go plaster Delilah's dorm with photos of your brother and pretend like she did it. Then we can take a picture of it and send it to Felix or something, or just blow it up and put it up in the Great Hall for everyone to see," Erinn decided, making this all up as she went along. Delilah was, most definitely, one of her favorite people to pull pranks on. She was a bit crazy and that always made it fun to see her reaction. Besides, she was a Hufflepuff. She'd find a way to get over it.

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