School Year Starting Logs: Train + Feast/Sorting!

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WHO: Everyone!
TONE: Anything!
RATING: PG through PG-13
WHEN: The day of September 2nd for the train, and at night for the feast!
WHERE: Hogwarts Express/Platform 9 3/4 and The Great Hall
WHAT: Gotta get back to Hogwarts! Back to witches and wizards and magical feasts! Students and teachers are finally heading back to school on the Hogwarts express, and with the new school year means sorting for the first years!
STATUS: Ongoing!
NOTE: There is a thread for the Train back to Hogwarts, and the Feast, with a subthread for the Sorting! First years can comment to be sorted, and everyone else can greet their new house mates/students!

Comments

[mo_cara]

[ ...

Gamzee just stares at him a moment, a sudden, brilliant red blush rising into his cheeks]

Uh ...

[No. Wait. He meant-]

It's just motherfuckin' tea and shit!

[rule_britannia]

[One moment, he's just going to stare at this. A grin creeps onto his face, and he starts to laugh]

Bloody hell, Gamz, you've gone a bit red. What the devil's wrong with you?

[mo_cara]

Nothing! I just- it ain't nothing. [rubbing the back of his head, is really not going to confess the sexual innuendo he accidentally read into Arthur's last remark] I was all just up and thinking it would be pretty motherfuckin' scary if you decided to get me or something, that's all.

[rule_britannia]

[Arthur's turn to put an arm around the younger boy, fingers tapping lightly over his shoulder. He pushes the twist of paper he was given into his pocket]

You know, you're a terrible liar.

[He's smirking a bit. He knows something is getting to Gamzee, just not what it is]

Like hell you're afraid of me.

[mo_cara]

[Arthur, you have no idea what you're doing to your gay friend who has suddenly and unexpectedly been confronted by the mental image of a blond boy with big eyebrows jerking off while mouthing his name. That's ... really too much for a 15 year old to handle. And now he's getting touched. Daaaaamn.]

Sometimes I might be. Uh. Not mostly, nah.

[rule_britannia]

[By this point he'd have to be an idiot not to know the kinds of things that go through Gamzee's mind. He's being awful and he knows it, though he'll only take something like this so far.. it could very easily turn on him and then Gamzee wouldn't be the only one who's blushing]

Give over.

[His fingers are still lightly tapping against his friend's shoulder]

I'm quite sure I've never given you any reason to be scared of me. Any of that..

[There's a pause, and he taps the index finger of his free hand to Gamzee's forehead]

.. is all in your head, I'm afraid.

[mo_cara]

There's lots worse motherfuckin' things than someone going to be beating your ass or killing you or some shit. [sincerely, because there really are, like it's way more reasonable to be scared of AWKWARD SITUATIONS LIKE THE ONE THAT MIGHT BE TRYING TO OCCUR IN HIS PANTS AT ARTHUR'S PROXIMITY]

And any kind of being scared is. You know. In your pan. [Not in his head which is elsewhere, and now he's kind of staring at his friend with wide, dark eyes, like a deer in headlights. Gamzee isn't even aware he's being teased, so he just swallows and drops his eyes, trying really, really hard to think about anything else, frog's eggs, or, uh History of Magic homework, and not the other boy's fingers against his temple, under his messy fringe of curls.]

[rule_britannia]

[Aaaha oh dear. Arthur pauses, looking at the other boy's face and he can see that fear there in the moment before Gamzee looks down. One eyebrow lifts up, then he chuckles and gives his friend's shoulder a light squeeze before moving away from him and scooting along the seat to lean against the window, one foot on the seat and his forearm resting on his bent knee]

You're looking a bit peaky, there. You're not travel-sick, are you?

[mo_cara]

[Gamzee collapses into a seat in relief, pulling his knees up to his chest to hide any embarrassing things that might be trying to happen. It's one thing to talk about it in the journals, but something else to just ... have them pop up when chatting.]

Nah, I ain't never gotten sick from anything like that, at least not since I been a wiggler. [time to change the subject, maybe? Because he's still got spots of high color in his cheeks.] How's Fred?

[rule_britannia]

[Arthur pokes at the other boy with his foot]

Do we really have to ruin a perfectly good conversation by talking about that idiot?

[mo_cara]

[laughs, more softly than usual, and taps a long finger against the top of Arthur's shoe] You still don't know if you be liking him or not yet?

[rule_britannia]

...

[Arthur scowls slightly, and answers a little too quickly]

Of course I don't like him, don't be stupid.

[mo_cara]

You try kissing on him yet? [Aha! Shoe's on the other foot now, Kirkland!]

[rule_britannia]

No, Gamzee, I haven't tried kissing him yet. I haven't even seen him since camp.

[mo_cara]

I thought you dudes was gonna go do something at the Cup. [Hadn't he heard something about that?] Anyway, you should. Try it, I mean.

[Sorry, Gamzee's head is still. Uh. Somewhere else.]

[rule_britannia]

We happened to meet at the Cup. Nothing happened.

Why are you so bloody insistent on my kissing him?

[mo_cara]

[shrugs, blush rising just a little again. Normally he'd be asking because Gamzee likes to see people being happy, and finding someone to go out with makes most people happy, right? In this case, though, there's a little bit of ulterior motive.] I was just wonderin', cause your pan was all mixed up about it last time we was talking.

[rule_britannia]

Hmph..

['Mixed up' is definitely a good way to describe how Arthur feels about the situation]

I guess so.

[mo_cara]

[reaches out to pat the other boy's knee] It's cool, motherfucker. I get confused about that shit sometimes, too.

[rule_britannia]

[The blond looks up and smiles, a slightly warm expression]

Yeah. Thanks.

[mo_cara]

I got all up in the confusion shit when I first started thinking about blokes. [admits] Cause you know, they be saying at the church you ain't supposed to do that. [scratches and his nose, then rests his chin on his knees] But it'll all be working out for you, you're smart!

[rule_britannia]

[He nods slightly. Arthur's not really gone in for religion for a while now, but he knows the 'rules']

Heh.. I've never really thought about guys before. I told you that.

[A shrug]

But I've never really though about girls, either.

[mo_cara]

[Which is ... so strange to Gamzee, because he thinks about it all the time.] Yeah, lots of people is like that, I think. Just not even got it up in their pans. That's why I figured you should be trying it out, to see.

[rule_britannia]

[He shrugs and just.. looks uncomfortable]

I don't know, Gamz..

[mo_cara]

[blinks ... then looks contrite] You ain't gotta, you know. I mean, that shit ain't mandatory.