Avoiding Noah (Open)

[Axel Malfoy]

Axel was sick of dealing with his older brother and decided to venture outside the castle for the afternoon. He took his potions book and headed to a tree by the Black Lake. The lake was frozen over and the ground was covered in snow.

Axel sat down, opened his book to page one, read the first sentence and then threw his book at the lake. He never really liked potions anyway.

[rosier]

Evan had been walking by at the exact moment Axel chucked his book at the lake. He watched the large text thud on the ice and then skid toward the center where the ice stopped. The giant squid swam past, lifting a tentacle out of the water and causing a large splash when it came back down. "Oi! I don't think you're mum would appreciate you feeding your book to the giant squid, Malfoy." He stood, leaning against the tree that Axel sat under.

[Axel Malfoy]

Axel jumped when he heard someone talking to him, but relaxed when he noticed it wasn't his brother. "Wha...Oh, hey Rosier," Axel said. "I'll just explaion to Mum how I really don't like potions," he smirked.

[rosier]

"Right," he chuckled. "I'm sure she'll understand." Evan wasn't very good at potions either, but he didn't go around chucking his books when he felt like it. He sat on the soggy ground next to Axel and looked out at the lake. "Ten knuts says you can't get it back before the squid gets it." The summoning charm was a third year spell, so unless Axel was a super genius, neither of the boys could perform it just yet. It would take some serious plotting to obtain the book.

[Axel Malfoy]

Axel raised an eyebrow at Evan. The only way either of them could get it would be to run out and grab the book. "And risk getting eaten by the giant squid? I'm small he'd eat me in one bite!" Axel laughed.

[rosier]

Evan laughed, picturing the squid slurping Axel up like a long piece of spaghetti. "Are you chicken, Malfoy? Wait 'til your brother hears about this..." he commented, goading Axel into trying for the book at least. He, along with everyone else in Slytherin House, knew the brothers had their moments. Siblings didn't do well in Slytherin together, for the most part.

[Axel Malfoy]

"I'm not chicken," Axel defended himself. "I'm just not in the mood to get eaten by a giant creature of the lake," Axel added. He huffed when Even mentioned Noah. The sibilings sometimes got along, but mostly when they were home. At Hogwarts, it was classic clashing of first year and sixth year.

[rosier]

"Well apparently your book is." Evan waved to the book. "Goodbye book. You will not be missed. Though Axel's rear will wish he'd taken better care of you when his dad wallops him. So long..."

[Axel Malfoy]

Axel rolled his eyes, but Evan had a point. His dad would most definaly kill him if he had to pay for a third potions book. The first one may have just HAPPENED to catch fire in class one day.

"Alright, fine, I'll get the bloody book," Axel groaned. He stood up, his robes were soaked with snow, and began his way out to the edge of the lake, slipping and sliding all the while. He got about 15 feet from the book when one of the squid's tentacles rose out of the lake. Axel looked at it in terror and turned on his heels, still slipping around as he ran back to where he and Evan were sitting.

"Okay, I'm chicken," Axel admitted. "You're turn."

[rosier]

Evan was on the ground, laughing after watching Axel slip and slid as he scurried back to the ground. He even had tears in his eyes and his sides hurt. "Bloody hell, Malfoy! That was brilliant. I had no idea you were a comedian."

When Axel made it back by the tree, Evan tried to control himself, though he still laughed every few breaths and his eyes were still watering. "No way! The deal was for you to get it for ten knuts." Evan thought for a moment then countered with, "twenty knuts and I'll get your precious book."

[Axel Malfoy]

Axel paused, wondering if he even had 20 knuts to spare. He was sure he did, just, most of which was back in the dormatory. "Fine, have a go," Axel said, still catching his breath.

[rosier]

Evan wasn't one to turn down money, nor a challenge. He just prayed, as he stepped out onto the frozen lake, that he wouldn't look as foolish as Axel had. That was not the reality of it, however. Only ten feet out he lost his footing and slid onto his bum with a hard thud. He wasn't far enough out that the ice was thinning yet and his weight did not crack the ice. He wobbled as he got back into a standing position, then moved his feet in a skating motion and slid over to the book. When he tried to stop himself he again slid onto his rear.

He grabbed Axel's book, and slid it toward the shore where Axel was waiting, probably laughing but Evan didn't bother to look as he now heard a cracking sound and scurried back to the thicker ice before he fell in. When he finally made it back to the snowy ground he was out of breath. Breathingly heavily, he put out his hand. "That'll - be twenty - knuts - Malfoy."

[Axel Malfoy]

Axel was indeed laughing as Evan made it back to shore. "Well, it was worth the show Rosier," he smirked, handing Evan the money from his pocket as promised. He heard the thinner ice begin to crack and, even though they were securely on land, Axel backed away from the lake a bit, closer to the tree.

[rosier]

"Can it Axel." Evan pocketed his twenty knuts and even though he was quite embarrassed, he was also proud of himself. He thought he could get the book, but thinking and doing are very different things.

Evan's robes were damp now, having been sitting in the snow and then rolling around on the ice. He pulled out his wand and used an air spell unfortunately the only one he knew blew cold air) but it dried his robes well enough. "So," he sad as he put his wand back into his pocket, "why'd you chuck your book out there in the first place?"

[Axel Malfoy]

"I don't like Potions..." Axel said shortly. In truth, Axel had just about enough of his brother's taunting for the day, and with a bit of pent up anger at the older Malfoy, his book had taken the punishment.

Course... he didn't like potions either.

[rosier]

"Right. And chucking your book into the lake is going to get you out of taking Slughorn's lessons, is it? Brilliant. I don't know why I never thought of that," Evan said sarcastically. As twelve year old, Evan wasn't too aware of what was going on with other people's emotions. Had he been, he might have noticed that Axel seemed more upset over something, rather than just disliking Potions. But, as a twelve year old boy, Evan also enjoyed poking fun at people, which led to him saying, "I bet your brother never threw his books into the lake to get out of classes. But then, you're clearly smarter than him, ain't ya?"

[Axel Malfoy]

"Course I'm smarter than my prat of a big brother..." Axel said with a defiant smirk. Then he frowned. "But don't tell him I said that," he laughed nervously.

[rosier]

Evan laughed loudly at Axel. "Yeah right Malfoy! You're barely smarter than that twit Hagrid." Evan, being neither Axel's not Noah's friend, did not mind taking the mickey out of either of them. He wasn't being biased, just having a few laughs.

"Not to worry, mate. I don't get on with my sister much either. But she really is a twit. Noah's just obnoxious. You've got it lucky with a brother."

[Axel Malfoy]

Axel raised an eyebrow and shrugged silently. Lucky, yea, that was the word, dam bloody lucky having Noah as an older brother.

Who was he avoiding by sitting out in the snow again? Oh right, NOAH!

"You've got a sister?" Axel asked, he didn't really know anything about any of his house mates.

[rosier]

"Not just one. I've got six sisters. All of them spoiled prats, and just because most of them are older they think they can play jokes on me." There was Esther, Eloise, Electra, Emily, Euphadora, Evan, and Elenore. His parents were quite fond of the letter E apparently. "But my sister Euphadora, she's a fourth year, she's the worst. No mate, you've got it good with a brother. Believe me!" Evan didn't take offense, or even care really, that Axel knew nothing of his family. Evan barely knew anything of the Malfoys. His mum was always getting on him to take more of an interest in the other pureblood families, and with good reason. In less than a year he would be distantly related to Axel, as his cousin Narcissa was going to marry Axel's cousin Lucius. But that would hardly make them family in Evan's book so he didn't care to learn the family trees.