The Lord Commander Returns (Open RP with Jon Snow on the Grounds)

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

((For the purposes of this RP and future RPs, assume Jon has been popcorn and now is not! He does not remember any previous plots or how he got to Hogwarts.))



Jon awoke in the dark, in a stone room, and at first, thought nothing of it. Then, he noticed the lack of fur blankets, and more importantly, the lack of cold. (It also smelt like someone had poured all the butter in Castle Black into the room and Jon was already preparing to head to the kitchens and find out who was responsible for wasting perfectly good food.) It was just warm enough that Jon was beginning to actually sweat in his heavy black garb.

Stannis, Jon thought immediately, Stannis and his red woman. Is this heat her doing?

He called Ghost to his side and ran out of the room, stopping suddenly when he noticed that he was not in any corridor he recognized. Suspicious and frantic, he raced down the halls and down stairs, all the while thinking, There are not suits of armor, paintings or tapestries in Castle Black, this cannot be possible!

And suddenly, he was outside.

There was no wall.

It was summer.

Jon was not in Kansas Westeros anymore.

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[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

Sam came to awareness slowly, dimly aware of the fact that the room he was in was far too hot and that his blacks were covered in butter and salt. He could not remember, at first, why this had happened, but it all came abruptly back. This was Hogwarts, ergo he must have turned into popcorn.

Trying to brush off the butter and salt from his clothes, he hurried out of the room just in time to see an unmistakeable white wolf streaking ahead of him and another grease-spattered figure in black trailing after.

"Jon!" he called, jogging to catch up, although they'd gained a sizeable head start.

Eventually, Sam managed to chase him down after he'd gone outdoors. "Jon!" he tried again, his breath coming fast and harsh. "Wait for me!"

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

Jon whipped around to face Sam. "Sam!," he shouted in surprise, "Why aren't you in Oldtown? Why is it summer? Where has the bloody wall gone?"

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

Sam stopped walking, giving himself a moment to catch his breath. "You don't remember, do you?" he observed astutely. "We're both at a place called Hogwarts. It's a school of magic, and I don't think either of us originally meant to come here."

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"I should say we didn't... Wait, how do you remember and I don't? Didn't you just wake up here? Was I here before?"

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

"We've both been here," Sam answered. "And... I don't know why I remember things and you don't. I just... know we're both a long way from home."

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"Been here? How long?," he asked, thinking of Stannis and the Others and bloody Janos Slynt at the wall. Seven hells, every day away was a danger.

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

Sam shrugged helplessly. "I don't know," he admitted. "It's... been a few months." Jon was clearly not going to like that answer, but it was the best he could manage.

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

Now is not the time to panic, Jon thought.

Now is the time to despair

"Oh gods," he whispered roughly, "Months." He sat down hard on the ground. "Gods only know what's left of the Watch now."

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

Sam dropped to the ground beside him. "I know," he said quietly, if a bit awkwardly. "I wish there was something we could do... someone we could send word back to... so at least we'd have news."

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"If wishes were horses, Sam...," Jon replied forlornly, shaking his head. "Though I suspect any news we'd get would be bad."

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

"So... what should we do?" Sam asked quietly, perfectly willing to do whatever Jon might ask of him.

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"Does noone know of a way back to Westeros?," he asked.

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

"I don't know," Samwell answered gravely. "I... don't think any of the others have returned."

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"...I see. Perhaps we ought to find a way then? Is there a collection of books in this castle that we could start with?"

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

"There is a library," Sam answered. "We could start there... But maybe we should clean ourselves up first? Unless you just... you know... want to go around smelling like butter all day."

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I suppose we ought to go rid ourselves of this butter," Jon said as he looked down in disdain at the grease stains on his clothes. "Where are the baths?"

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

Sam rose and led the way back into the castle. "I don't know where they are in Gryffindor," he answered. "But I remember where they are in Hufflepuff."

Contrary to popular belief, his heart did not skip a beat, nor did his bosom heave or loins quiver at the thought of scrubbing butter off of Jon's virile young body.

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"...Gryffindor?," Jon asked, "Hufflepuff? What in the world are those?"

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

"They're... areas of the castle," Sam explained. "Dormitories, I guess you'd say. You are staying in one called Gryffindor and I'm in Hufflepuff. Don't ask me where the names come from. I did not make them up!"

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"No, I don't believe those are names you would have picked, Sam," Jon replied, smiling for the first time since he'd woken up. "You know how to find them?"

[sam-the-slayer.livejournal.com]

"I think I remember," Sam answered earnestly. "Although this castle changes itself around so much. But let's try this way."

Sam's instincts proved good, and soon they were crossing into the Hufflepuff dormitory.

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

Arya was dozing in a tree not far from the castle. Without her brother in Gryffindor anymore, she had absolutely no desire to stay in any place that housed Queen Cersei and had taken to sleeping outdoors. It was certainly warm enough. She jerked awake, startled to hear Jon's voice, and nearly fell out of her tree. "Jon?"

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"...Who's there?," Jon asked aloud, his hand quickly moving to the hilt of his sword. He squinted and looked up into the tree from whence the voice came.

"...Arya?," he asked cautiously.

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

((Action approved by Jon-mun.))

Arya's ears hadn't been playing tricks on her. She jumped out of her tree and threw herself at Jon, grabbing him tight in a hug. "Where were you? I couldn't find you anywhere! I thought you'd left!"

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

Jon looked down in surprise. "I don't remember being here before, Arya, but... I know I was, Sam told me so."

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

She shook her head in confusion. "Of course you were here, I was at your Sorting. What do you mean, you don't remember? Did you hit your head?" She sniffed the air and backed away, finally noticing the smell and residue on her hands and front where she had hugged him. "You're buttery. You were popcorn?!"

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"I was what?," he asked frantically. "How could I have been popcorn? How is that even possible?"

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

"I don't know, but people do that here. They go away and they're popcorn, and sometimes they don't come back. I've heard some of the others here talking about it before. Sometimes the ones that come back don't remember anything." She shook her head and chewed on her lip, wondering how she hadn't noticed that Jon of all people was popcorn. "You don't remember any of it?"

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

Jon shook his head slowly. "Not a bit. Last I remember I was at the wall..."

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

"But you're back now. That's good." Her mind raced around, trying to think of what she could tell Jon. "You're in Gryffindor with me. But I haven't been around there lately. It's better out here." She tried to remember anything else, but realized that she hadn't spent much time around him since he first arrived at Hogwarts. "I snuck up (http://community.livejournal.com/hogwarts_hocus/1025084.html) on you in the forest once," she said lamely.

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"You must have gotten better since I last saw you, then. So you've been sleeping outside/ A bit foolish if you've got a perfectly good castle, you know."

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

She puffed up a little at the compliment. "I wasn't trying to sneak up on you this time. I was... there's people in Gryffindor I don't like." One person, anyway. And one that scares me.

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"Who?," he asked, "I'll be living there too, so I think I ought to be warned."

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

She chewed her lip some more. "Queen Cersei," she said, not looking up. "And a scary man with yellow eyes."

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"What in the seven hells is the Queen doing here?," he cursed. Though... With Queen Cersei here, it meant she couldn't send any more of her catspaws up to the Wall to try and unseat him.

[runaway-stark.livejournal.com]

"I don't know," she said, teeth gritted. "I try to stay away from her. You can't kill people here, and I don't want to be near her if I can't kill her."

[starkwhitesnow.livejournal.com]

"Good. Do stay away from her," Jon replied absently.