lazy saturdays are the best kind {alice

[Gideon Prewett]

Gideon was on a mission, vital to his survival. The only way that he was going to make it through the next week of classes was if he was able to get a pack of cigarettes soon, as his store was running dangerously low. He had tried various, magical alternates to keeping his stash from diminishing so rapidly, but there didn't seem to be a cure out there. The one that had some promise was the idea of multiplying the cigarettes by magic until he had what he needed. However, this posed a problem because if he tried to multiply a copy, it ended up being very weak and making him want to smoke more. That wouldn't be so bad, but his roommates had caught onto this, and stolen all his real cigarettes, so all he had left were the copies.

So Gideon picked up his sweater and headed for- well, not the hills, but for Hogsmede. It was the same difference, anyway. He pulled it over his head, which left his hair even messier, but Molly wasn't around, so that didn't really matter. No one was going to yell at him about it, that was a definite perk of being a seventh year. You got major respect. It was fun to see the looks in the first years' eyes, for instance, when they realized that he was the big, bad Ravenclaw Beater and Quidditch captain.

So Gideon walked along the path, intent on his purpose, when he saw a girl up ahead of him. Well, this might be a business trip, but why not have some pleasure, too? He thought to himself, and hurried to catch up with her. He was already begining to formula a plan. If it was someone boring or taken, he would just ask about homework and leave. If it was someone interesting, though... well, then, he could always wait and get a new pack later. "Hey," he said, slightly out of breath because of the cold, before he realized who it was.

[Alice Prewett]

Alice sat by the roaring fire in the Gryffindor common room a piece of unferaled parchment lay on her lap and at the top a title read The Ways and Wonders of Arithmancy Now Alice could usually real of many interesting facts in Transfiguration or Defense Against the Dark Arts but some how Arthimancy all ways managed to stum her. This was something that had all ways troubled Alice and unfortunalty there was nobody around to help her.

So Alice headed up the stone staircase of the girls dormitory that morphed into a steep ramp if a male stepped on it. She scurried up the steps into the girls seventh year dormitory her inks and quill in her hands which she set in her open trunk before she stack the books tha had fallen over. Then closing her trunk lid she grabbed her coat before she headed out of the door on headed out of the Gryffindor common room.

Now Alice's feet padded down to stoney hallways of Hogwarts as she headed for the path that lead down to Hogsmeade. And soon enough Alice was walking along that very path. But there was another set of footsteps behind her and then they called out to her and she reconised his voice instantly so she turned around to face her cousin. "Hey Gideon, going to Hogsmeade?" Alice asked curious to what her was doing.

[Gideon Prewett]

Gideon smiled when he realized who the girl was. It was Alice Prewett, of all people. Not that there was anything wrong with that, of course. Gideon loved Alice. But that love was strictly platonic, considering that they were cousins and they weren't the creepy type of purebloods, either. So there wasn't exactly going to be any of the type of fun that Gideon had in mind going on. But that was okay, because as far as female type people went, Alice was high up on Gideon's list of sane birds. So it was not really a loss at all. She just wasn't anything like what Gideon was expecting.

"Yeah, it seemed like a good thing to do today. Before it gets way too cold to make the trip." He decided to "accidentally" neglect the fact that he was going for cigarettes. The whole smoking thing tended to bug people for some reason. Gideon had no idea why. Besides, that was something he could do later. Gideon was naturally a sociable person, and he would rather spend time with someone else than complete something he had to by himself. "But what about you? You doing anything important today?" Gideon didn't want Alice to feel obligated to hang out with him. Though conversation with her was bound to be more interesting than some ditzy Hufflepuff.