Astral plane, activate! (HH anniversary plot, RP open to all)

[ugly-old-hat.livejournal.com]

The Sorting Hat had been dabbling in way too many fringe philosophies. (Neo-Rosicrucianism? Really, Sorting Hat?) It seemed that puppet!Ron Weasley's name for it, Sorting Hat the Wise, had gone to the Hat's lack-of-visible-head.

On the morning of Dec. 13 (or was it the 14th?) the Hat's esoteric interests affected the school for the second time.

The first instance had been more than a year past, when the Hat took a cue from Rev. Sun Myung Moon and united most of the Hogwarts students in mass marriages. That had been a lengthy and concerted effort by the Hat and its house-elf minions, opposed vigorously by the wicked (or noble??) Kojiro. Kojiro's kidnapping of the Hat's bride had been something of a turning point for the headstrong headgear.

This new instance ... even Kojiro might be powerless to counter. And the Hat's agency would be difficult, if not impossible, to discern.

In a mighty magical working, the Hat projected many of the students ... to the astral plane, in their astral forms.

Astral Hogwarts resembled the real material Hogwarts (well, the Sorting Hat's version of material Hogwarts) very closely indeed. There were some dissimilarities: did Hogwarts, on the material plane, really sparkle so much? Were there so many rainbows in the sky, without a hint of rain to prompt their presence? Were there really pastel-colored unicorns frolicking on the grounds? Unicorns with hair made of cotton candy?

Could the students fly without brooms in material Hogwarts?

Other than that, it would be instantly recognizable as Hogwarts. The astral students would find nothing jarringly unfamiliar, being astral themselves. No disorientation, as there had been with the mass weddings; only a pleasant surprise, if they did happen to remember the absence of pastel unicorns and self-propelled flight.

Finally the Hat would have achieved paradise! Too bad not all the students could be brought into this happy realm. The Hat hadn't quite figured out how to bring everyone en masse. But many of them could be.

Including Kojiro, perhaps ...


(( OOC note: People are welcome to RP astral shenanigans here, or to start their own new posts for interactions of a closed variety. Please, if you embark on NSFW action, make a new post so that it can be lj-cut with appropriate warnings. ))

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[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

She smiles, flicks her hair, and then asks in an undertone, 'You're not saying that because you're evil right now, are you?'

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

Zel raised an eyebrow. "If I was, I wouldn't tell you, would I?" he asked sardonically. "I wasn't the last time I checked, though. Trust me, when I'm evil, you'll know." He tended to get very destructive when he was evil.

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

'I just wanted to make sure,' Mel protests, and her other hand rests on the back of his head. 'Besides, other people tell me.'

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

"I'm not surprised," Zel replied. "You're a hard woman to lie to."

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

She beams. He earned a lot of points, just now, and Mel gets even closer to him. 'I'm glad you won't lie to me,' she purrs, and hey, look, her top's unravelling again.

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

Zel glanced down for a moment. "Looks like you've had a rough day, hmm~?"

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

The tildes are making her stomach flutter!

'Can you make me feel better?'

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

Zel twisted a strand of her hair around one finger, smirking. "Maybe~"

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

You can tell her heart's beating faster because she's jiggling a bit more than usual. Mel patiently waits for him to make his move--him being a man, and all.

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

Just because Zel was a dark, mysterious, broody loner didn't mean he was going to keep a lady waiting. He leaned forward - not that he had to lean too far - and kissed her.

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

Mel's pretty tall, but shorter than him. They'll make a lovely couple for the three point two hours they'll remember this for.

She kisses him back--obviously. The pent-up attraction she feels for him hasn't changed a bit--it hasn't changed at all, why else would she do Brice even though he was evil? Yay, not needing to breathe! She does pull away, though, as the kiss reaches it natural end, and says, blushing, 'I've wanted to do that for a while.'

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

"Oh, really~?" Zel grinned. "Been keeping secrets, have we~?"

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

A few more tildes and...well, I'm not sure. It'll be messy.

'I'm a girl. S'what I do.'

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

"Is it~? Well..." Zel trailed a finger down her neck. "Perhaps I've been keeping a few secrets of my own~"

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

Messiness has commenced. Somewhere, a plate has fallen in a far-off kitchen.

'Now, that's not allowed.' Mel cranes her neck up to kiss him. 'Tell them.'

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

Zel wasn't really that much taller than Mel - he hadn't actually grown since he was turned into a chimera. It sure seemed that way, though.

He kissed her back briefly. "I've wanted to do this for a while myself~"

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

Mel shrinks or grows depending on the needs of the fic. The man must ALWAYS BE TALLER THAN THE LADY. Those are The Rules.

'Why'd you wait so long?' Her eyes shimmer, with shimmery tears. So shimmery, they do it twice!

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

Naturally. She'd better hope she never gets stuck with someone really short, though~

"You know how shy I can be, Mel," Zel whispered into her ear, not very shyly at all.

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

Her heart is fluttering so much she may as well have palpatations.

'I'm glad you got over it,' she says in an equally fluttery way, so overcome she might swoon.

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

"So am I." Zel kissed her again, softly.

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

Mel swoons.

She does it beautifully, of course, but her legs go from under her and she hurtles gracefully to the ground, lying on her side, breathing softly and managing to not gash her head open on all the stone around.

SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

Zel leaned down to lift her up. Softly, just in case it might work, he whispered her name.

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

Sorry, Zel. Nothing doing. It's a pity; you're a male friend she really wants to do back in actual Hogwarts. Come to think of it, she's never had a canonical male friend she didn't want to bang. Christ.

But she looks elegantly overcome in his arms, his manly, manly arms. She's not waking up. But please, take her to wherever you wish; maybe you can both get some tail.

[ra-tilt-chimera.livejournal.com]

Zel looked down at Mel speculatively for a moment, then smiled. He brushed a lock of hair away from her face and murmured, "Why don't we find you somewhere a little more private to wake up?"

He wandered away, looking for an empty classroom. Or, if necessary, a broom closet.

((OOC: Shall we move this to another thread~?))

[totallyluminous.livejournal.com]

((Sure, do you want to start it?))