Purley, London

"Whoops...." -I laugh-

I smirk. "Cheeky... and I thought I could trust you," I say teasingly.

"Well, Topher may have had a hand in teaching me about deception..."

OOC: "Deception! Disgrace! Evil as plain as the scar on his face! Deception (an outrage)! Disgrace (for shame!) He asked for trouble the moment he came!"

IC: I roll my eyes. "Of course it'd be Topher..."

OC -Takes idiot side of me out back and shoot him for not anticipating that.-

IC

"But still..." -I kiss her- "That was fun."

OOC: What did you expect? That's one of my favourite Lion King songs, from my favourite Lion King film...

IC: "It was brilliant. You did well for your first time... until you fell in." I smile mischievously and kiss him back.

"I'm no where near as good as you though."

"My dad's better. He usually makes it halfway up and back before me, Mum and Hazel have even got that far."

"I can imagine so, I hear Strayers go through rigorous, near inhuman physical conditioning..."

"Mum's the Strayer of the family, Dad's the one who didn't even know about them before her... Dad's just a showoff."

"He seems like a very good man!"

"He is. He used to work for the Ministry, until it got even worse."

"What made him officially leave?"

"My second arrest..."

"Good... no parent should have to endure that twice. Not that I'd know.."

I hug him. "If you'd been the one facing Azkaban, my parents would have come to help anyway..." I look at him, frowning slightly. "I have a question about the Maker... If I remember rightly, Artemis had a human mother, even if it wasn't quite the same as me, for example. What about you?"

OOC: I've worded that poorly... :L

"The way Artemis was made and the way I was made are very different. Artemis's was the 'first draft' so to speak so his method of construction was not as refined as mine was."

"At least that's how the notes put it."

"It makes it sounds like you're both just robots," I say angrily. "The Maker deserved what he got."

"Yes, he did..."

"I'm sorry I brought it up..."

"It's fine... I never have to deal with him every again... except when I sleep..."

"I still think there's something that can fix that. Isn't there a potion Madam Pomfrey uses to give students dreamless sleep when they're healing?"

"Yes, but I've never asked to use them on myself."

"Why not?"

"I didn't think I needed it, besides the dreams have only been especially bad recently."