Josh punched his trunk .He was frustrated with everything.Ginny was mad at him someone stole his broomstick he had tons of homework he had no money and Alina was gone.He layed on his bed and restrained himself from doing anything else.
Ginny was also frustrated. She stood in a hallway on the sixth floor, her forhead resting against the cool stone wall.
Josh finally fell asleep.He twitched slightly and started flailing in his sleep.
Xaver slipped from his bed, dressed in just his boxers, his black hair a mess, his dark eyes resting on the twitching kid, Josh. He moved to him, kneeling down, avoiding getting kicked, but getting whacked upside the head hard enough at least. He clenched a pale hand on Josh's shoulder, and transmitted a sure shock of pure electric buzz, enough to wake anyone from sleep, but safely.
"Josh," he said quietly, still wary of the rest of the people sleeping.
Josh woke up and grabbed Xaver's arm."Oh its just you."Josh let go and sat up."I am extremly frustrated right now."
Xaver smiled slightly, nodding, rising to stand.
"Yep, just me. And I noticed that frustration. What's up?"
He held out a hand to help Josh up.
Josh grabbed Xaver's hand and pulled himself up."Oh everything to do with everything.Well one thing is someone stole my Firebolt,another thing is the girlfriend i had here is now gone."He looked at Xaver and studied his face.
Xaver half-smiled, walking back to his bed and searching his trunk. He pulled out a pair of loose darkwash jeans, pulling the pants on over his boxers one leg at a time.
"Everything is a lot to deal with," he agreed lightly, zipping and buttoning up his jeans, of which were a bit looser than they had been the day before. He didn't care to put on a shirt, or shoes or socks for that matter. "Your firebolt will be found, I don't doubt it."
Xaver waved for Josh to follow him out of the dormitory.
"So your girl is gone, eh? Explain..?"
"Well i left for a while as you probably know.And i came back and she wasnt here."He said getting up to follow Xavier.
Xaver led the way down through the common room, staircase a bit, to the passageway leading to the kitchens. He was silent all the way there, mumbling only a soft request to an elf, of whom brought Xaver a large mug of coffee, and offered Josh a muffin. Xaver bent down slightly and shook the elf's hand appreciatively, before the little guy scampered off to someplace else.
Xaver turned to Josh, and faced him, sipping at the hot coffee, studying his eyes.
"So you left, returned, and found her missing? Interesting. Maybe she had someplace to go when you were gone."
"She might have."Josh said thinking about her.He took the muffin and sat dwon on a hard wood chair.
"Josh, she's a girl. You left. And if I've learned anything from my little sister, girls don't like abandonment. But you're back, right? Chances are, she might come back, too."
Xaver sipped his coffee, picking a feather from his pillow of his bare stomach, yawning absently.
"But the thing is how will she know im back?"Josh said staring blankly at the ceiling.
"I couldn't tell you that. I'm just your friendly neighborhood advice machine."
Xaver chuckled gravely.
He smiled."What year are you in anyway?"
"Seventh. I think. Yeah, Seventh here."
Xaver took a long drink of his coffee.
"Ahh fifth here never been more frustrated in my entire life.Well if Alina is gone for good i guess nothing last forever."
Xaver stared at him, long and hard, and much as a ghost would do, he sighed, finishing off his coffee.
"Time will. No matter what happens from here, then, tomarrow on, there will always be a time for it. For happiness, for love, for sadness, for murder. For life and for death. Time will linger on as we reduce to minerals and ash."
"True."Josh said staring back at Xaver.
Xaver smiled, spun the coffee mug in his hand for a moment, then handed the empty cup to a not very busy elf. He thanked the little guy, then chuckled as he left. He faced Josh again, features remote.
"Very true," he said solemnly.
"Do you think it would be soon?"Josh said not even paying attention to the little elf.
"Soon that Alina returned? Couldn't tell you. She has left, and in this day in age, I'm sorry to say that I would not know. Her affairs are not my business. Your affairs have not been made my business."
Xaver smiled at Josh, then began toward the door, waving for Josh to follow, if he wanted to. It didn't really matter.
"I'm just trying to help."
Josh got up to follow Xaver again."I guess."He said.
"Real creative there, eh buddy?"
Xaver grinned, and yawned absently, hooking his thumbs in his jean pockets.
"Early morning brain-fusion I suppose."
"I guess."Josh repeated looking down at his feet.Then to Xaver.
She has to come back sometime.He though to himself.
"She will Josh. Give it time," he said absently, concentrating on a sliver in his thumb.
"Time."Josh repeated from Xaver."Ya time."Josh said again."So were are we going now?"Josh suddenly blurted out.
"Dining hall. I'm starving still. And, nobody is in there yet. The elves usually leave the best stuff out earliest for the early devils."
Xaver slipped through the doors to the Great Hall, and sure enough, each table had a little section of steaming foods. He licked his lips and sped off toward the Gryffindor table.
It was ironic that Xaver had been placed in Gryffindor, with his heritage and history and all, but it was a statement of his character, in a way. A statement pretty much unseen until he had come here. Xaver wasn't evil, though he had done some nasty things, killed a few. He had a very ranging persona. Nobody seemed to understand that.
Eating, was definitely in his vocabulary though. He piled his plate with random foods until it was a wobbling mass, then sat back, and ate.
"Wow your exactly like me when it comes to eating."Josh did the same he filled his plate with foods that he had no idea what they were.
Xaver grinned, though he kept his mouth closed by forced habit, chuckling deep in his throat, and nodding.
-First serving.-
"Is this why half the foods are gone by time i get down here now?"
"Probably."
Xaver shoveled down some toast, then drank a glass of orange juice or three.
Hey.
At least he knew the food groups. A little bit.
"I'm surprised neither of you are twice your wieght." Ginny said, walking past them.
"Me too i have no idea were all of the food goes."He said looking at his stomach.
Xaver swallowed a little too quickly, and choked. He turned, grinning, coughing a bit, flushing a fair red. He cleared his throat, and drank down some juice.
"You're probably right," he agreed, chuckling, finishing off his plate quickly, before standing, and stretching his arms over his head, yawning.
He was still in his usual attire, just his darker jeans; it was so usual to him he had forgotten. A leather belt appeared in his hand, though, and he slipped it through the belt loops, because even with his usual feasting, he had dropped a considerable amount of weight in the last week or so. Not purposely, either.
"But, I'm not twice my size ye...ee...et," he said between yawns, shaking himself to be truly awake now, instead of just in a morning haze.
"Hey do me a little favor from now on.Wake me up when you get up ok?I usually dont have this big of a choice."He said laughing before putting 5 peices of bacon in his mouth at once.
"Weirdos." Ginny said, stopping and reaching past them for a piece of toast.
He tokk the toast right out of her hand and ate it."Thanks"
"Hey!" Ginny said, indigintaly. She scowled at him.
"All righ'," he said, absently scratching his chin. "I usually get up earlier than this, though I'm not much of a morning person. Go to bed late, get up early. Unhealthy and irrational. Just the way I like my mornings."
Xaver laughed gravely, and shook his head, suddenly holding one of the candles that had been floating over his head. He eyed it curiously, before touching the flame. The candle pooled in his hand, a mass of black shadow-liquid. He put his two hands together, then pulled them apart, reshaping the candle into the form of a black bird. The bird, sitting at his palm, was made of wax, but he waved his hand over it, it spread its wings, and swirled upward, singing some foreign song that seemed pleasing to Xaver's ears. Then, he snapped his fingers, and the bird fell like a big cloud of dust, reforming and reshaping, all of it gathering together again and returning to be the candle, lit and hovering again innocently where it had been before.
Ginny glanced at Xaver's bird then snathed aother peice of toast and stepped away from Josh.
"You escaped 'is 'ime."Josh said pointing at her with a mouthful of food.
Xaver grinned, eyes threatening her toast, before he stepped foreword, and took his own peice, chewing it absently, grinning at Ginny slightly.
"Brats." She said, shaking her head and taking a bite of her toast.
"Hey were not brats just hungry."He said grbbing some more bacon."And grease hungry too!"
Pig walked the corridors as she walked past the great hall she heard a clatter of plates and voices that echoed around the room inside making it sound twice as load she walked into the hall to investigate.
There she saw Josh and Xaver with piles of food and Ginny with a few peaces of toast. Pig walked over towards them.
" i didn't know there was so much Gd food? " she said
"Surprising what you see when your up early, eh Pig?" Ginny asked her, smiling slightly.
"Very. More food than I can handle, even."
Xaver grinned, picked up his glass and finished the juice.
Ginny finished her single piece of toast.
"See you three." She said, nodding at them, "I've got work to do today."
" see ya Gin" pig said sitting down and grabbing few pancakes and squeezed some maple syrup all over them
"Tee yaa" Josh said with a mouthfull of muffins.
"Whats up josh"said jon sittin down next to him
Josh swallowed his food."Nothin much you?"
"Not much" said Jon going for some pumkin juice