the tin man goes BOOM

[Lovely Knight]

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Here she was; bucket, polish and rags in hand, expected to serve her detention dusting off the antique displays of armor. The pink haired girl really had protested for the benefit of the iron, gold and silver clad suits that she was not the right specimen for the job; this punishment simply was not suitable, however, no one listened to her. Lovely Knight on some type of cleaning duty never resulted in anything other than chaos, and a bigger mess scattered about than what had originally been there!

Things had started out fairly well for the most part; Lovely was gently polishing the suits with the rag and keeping focus - until she remembered she'd brought a muggle music playing device along with her in her pocket. What better way to make work fun than playing some music, right? Time would fly after she was lost in her favorite melodies! So - happy and optimistic about chasing the boredom away - she had switched it on and stuck each of the ear pieces in her ears. Lovely Knight danced around all of the suits of armor; hips swinging, arms flailing, feet kicking - it would come as no shock to anyone who knew her well enough (and her knack for causing calamity even if it wasn't intentional) that in the midst of her spaztic movements she had booted the knee cap right off one of the tin men!

Her sterling gaze widened in horror, her lips puckering in an 'O' of surprise as the gold suit quivered and then finally crashed to the ground in shambles - taking out its neighbors who in turn took out their neighbors until finally the pink haired girl stood in a disasterous array of gold, silver and iron spread out all around her on the floor. "Oh...poo..." She groaned and lowered her head into her hands; kicking out at a helmet and sending it skipping and clattering across the room. She was in big trouble now! She'd warned them! You'd think the teaching staff would know better by now!

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[Darian Good]

♪Darian
{{Little soul
Your dreams are waiting}}

Darian had been wandering the corridors all day, simply for something to do. He liked to walk and think, which shouldn't come as a surprise to most people. He knew a fair amount of them by face, and he knew all too well that they knew him for walking around and gazing at whatever his eyes set on. They didn't find him odd. In fact, Darian could tell that they simply either ignored him or smiled at him, which was fine by him either way.

Now he was on his way down to the Hufflepuff common room. He was walking past the armor gallery when a helmet came skipping out of the room, right into his Converse clad foot. Looking down at it, he couldn't help but smile. One of the suits of armor clearly had 'lost its head', and, though it was a completely tacky joke, Darian couldn't surpress the smirk. He bent low to pick it up, stuffing the drumstick he had been idly twirling between his fingers into his back pocket, and made for the armor gallery's door. He was surprised, however, when he saw a large mess of iron, silver and gold strewn upon the floor and a pink haired girl who stood in the midst of the wild sea of armor.

"Lovely?" Darian said, trying so hard not to grin.

It looked as if she had been set to do some task in the armor gallery that clearly hadn't gone too well. By the look on her face, and the look of the room, she had done something disasterious, and Darian wasn't one to leave the situation in which someone needed help. He walked into the room, pulling out his wand from another pocket, and pointed it at one of the suits on the floor.

"Repairo." Darian said, smiling as the suit jumped up and back into place. He turned his blue-gray gaze on Lovely, still smiling. "What trouble did you get yourself into this time?"

[Lovely Knight]

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When Lovely heard footsteps approaching the pink haired girl tried to hide; but where exactly? Every formidable hiding place was destroyed; in ruins all because she couldn't keep her groove thang in check! Lovely Knight feared she'd never see the sun again! However, it wasn't a professor, prefect, or the Headmistress that came stalking in, but Darian Good. So maybe she was saved? Darian had rescued her in a time of distress once before, helping her out of the janitor's closet she'd accidentally locked herself in, and even had gallantly offered to aid her in finding her pesky cat too!

"Well hi my new bestest buddy!" Lovely sang happily in relief as she skipped towards Darian, arms swinging enthusiastically by her sides much like a child's would. Her lips were turned up in a very large, slightly Cheshire grin. Lucy probably would have hit her for declaring Darian her new best buddy but when drastic times called for drastic measures; well she'd do anything. Not that she didn't like Darian Good, she found him to be quite suitable company actually - but she would lay it on thick, especially when she wanted something.

"What did I do? Gosh. You try to explain that a wand has other uses besides magic to a Professor and they become cross. When you try to demontrate this, they go BALLISTIC!" Lovely exclaimed and gave an exaggerated shrug of her tiny shoulders. "Now I have detention and I was supposed to clean all the suits - without magic - and I accidentally knocked one down. Then they all fell down and now I'm doomed!" She said with a disgruntled huff.

"Yeah, I know, bloody funny isn't it?" Lovely was a tad sarcastic, "I try to be good and create more mayhem accidentally than on purpose!" She said as she took note of his laughing eyes and amused smile. Sure it was funny when the calamity was happening to someone else... but not when it was happening to her. Thank God Lucy wasn't around; though the red hair girl would offer to help her clean up the mess she'd made she probably would only worsen the problem. The two of them, though fun, were definitely not a good mix when it came to being serious.

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[Darian Good]

♪Darian
{{Little soul
Your dreams are waiting}}

Darian grinned, still waving his wand and watching as the suits began to jump back into place. He knew that her flattery was all to keep him helping, but it didn't matter. She was funny and amusing, and Darian loved to help people, so he'd continue to help repair the suits of armor until every last one was standing tall. Maybe he'd even offer to stay and help polish some. Surely no one would notice if she got done a little faster, would they? Most of the professors were off patrolling different corridors or holed up in their offices grading papers, and Darian was sure most of the prefects would have laid off by now.

Darian had to try so hard not to start laughing as she went through her story. He was just picturing what had happened in his head and the idea of it all was far too funny. No, he didn't find Lovely stupid or anything, but he did find her clumsy ways amusing. It was something he was finding that he liked about her very much. She had a way of getting into some unusual times of trouble, and Darian, the past two times, had been the one to help her out of it.

"They fell like dominoes, huh?" Darian asked, flicking his wand at another suit. He couldn't help but let his eyes wander the room a little, taking in the fact that it would take quite some time to finish everything. "First the janitor's closet, then the cat, and now suits of armor. You have a habit of getting between rocks and hard places, don't you?" He spared a glance at her, giving her a wink and a smile, and then resumed work.

[Lovely Knight]

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While Darian repaired the suits with the use of his wand; she picked up her bucket and rags and carefully began to polish once more. She couldn't allow herself to dance this time, or to become distracted. The consequences could be catastrophic for the both of them now that Darian had come into contact and was less than a couple feet away from her. She giggled in spite of herself. Okay, maybe what had happened was funny and worthy of a few laughs; giggle snorts, hysterics? She had stuck her wand up the unsuspecting nose of once of her professors after all; to prove the point that wands had other uses besides magic. Like nose picking.

"Did you know that wands are awesome for picking your nose?" She asked casually, as though that were quite a normal thing to use a wand for. "I don't advise practicing it though - that's what landed my ass in here." She informed and stepped up to another suit, polishing it once Darian had it repaired.

"There's no fun involved while strolling Easy Street but considering you're always saving me when I'm in distress, does that make you my loser in aluminum foil?" Lovely asked him with a playful smirk. Coming from Lovely, the loser in aluminum foil bit was a greater compliment then being a knight in shining armor. Gosh, those knights had their heads so far up their asses it was a wonder they could breathe! They could take their swords and shove it you know where...

"I think I'll get into sticky situations more often, then." She purred with a coquettish wink of her own directed at Darian.

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[Darian Good]

♪Darian
{{Little soul
Your dreams are waiting}}

"Did you know that wands are awesome for picking your nose?"

Darian actually choked on air as she said this. Where on Earth did she come up with such crazy ideas? However, the fact that she had just asked one of the most random questions Darian had ever heard did not bother him; In fact, it did quite the opposite. He was laughing now, his mouth spread into a wide grin, and he almost couldn't say 'Repairo' for the next suit of armor. No, Darian had never thought about picking his nose with a wand, but he had to admit, it made a useful object if one didn't want to get boagies on their fingers.

He listened to her go on about how she landed in detention, never failing to smile. She was awfully fun to be around, and awfully pretty. Even Darian, who didn't find himself crushing on girls often, could notice that fact. Hell, he was a guy, after all, and he did notice when a female was particularly attractive. And Lovely was a riot. She had pink hair, something that was wild crazy, and a personality to match! She made Darian's sides hurt from laughing, and that was a nice feeling.

"There's no fun involved while strolling Easy Street but considering you're always saving me when I'm in distress, does that make you my loser in aluminum foil?"

Darian grinned, finishing the second to last suit of armor. Well, he had saved her twice, hadn't he? And did that mean he'd end up pulling her from quite a few more situations? Well, it didn't matter to Darian. For one thing, he loved helping people. It was what he did and one reason why he was in Hufflepuff. And, for another, Lovely, like thought before, was indeed a riot. She was incredible to be around and made saving her worth-while.

"I think I'll get into sticky situations more often, then."

"Then consider me your idiot in aluminum foil, Lovely," Darian laughed, flicking his wand at the last object on the floor.

The room was back to sorts, but still needed quite a bit of shining. He bent low and picked up another rag, taking the polish from Lovely's hands without a word and dug his rag into it. He figured she wouldn't mind if he stayed around to help out some more. After all, she had just flirted with him, and don't think Darian hadn't noticed. Sure, he wasn't a shy guy, but he didn't flirt back the same way every other guy would have. He did things his own way.

"You might want to be careful, though," Darian smiled. "I'm sure even you hate having so many detentions, now don't you?"