its just {something} to do -- duncan

[peyton]

PLEASE DONT LET
MY DREAM RUN DRY UNDERNEATH, UNDERNEATH
THIS AMARILLO SKY

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Life seemed to enjoy throwing things at one single person, it was as if chosen people had a black cloud leering over their head making it so bad luck could easily find them and make it all worse. Peyton seemed to be one of those people. First her sisters death, then her mothers accident (though she luckily lived) and now her own illness. Why was she being targeted? It was not fair, and now she was bound to be spending half of her holidays in and out of the hospital for treatment for her cancer. She was praying that they really had caught it in time for her family's sake, they could not handle another bad outcome.

Peyton pretended that the idea of possibly having cancer, though she knew it, deep in her heart that she did even without the test results, that the idea did not frighten her. The more she pretended though, the worst it got. She really had no one to talk to and even if she did she wasn't sure that she could get the words to come out of her mouth.

Looking in the mirror she put her shakey hands on her beautiful blonde hair. She had once neglected it and cut it off but now she seemed to be attempting to preserve it. If she was sick, it wouldn't be long before it started to fall out. How she was dreading that. Cringing at the thought she pulled out the hair tye and let her hair fall swiftly over her shoulders. Scrunching it up to bring some of the curls back she sighed. That was better. It needed a chance to blow freely in the air.

Picking up her guitar she quickly put it right back onto her bed, today, it was not going to do her any good. She needed to get out to do something fun instead of hiding away in the dormitory like she had recently been doing. Grabbing her coat she took off toward Hogsmeade.

Walking through Hogsmeade she found her way into Zonko's joke shop, maybe it would give her an idea of something fun to do. Looking around she picked up a small blue bottle and examined it. The store was empty, not even the owner or worker was insight. It was silent. Weird. And then, the door slammed shut and she jumped as she dropped the blue glass bottle on the floor and it leaked all over as it seemed to slowly start sprouting roots. "That is defiantly not good at all," she muttered as she looked around taking her eyes off of the mess.

Within seconds, the roots grabbed ahold of her ankle. Spinning around she lost her balance fell to the ground as she felt the roots began to drag her toward what was looking like a big flower with teeth. "Really, why the heck would this be in a joke store!" she screamed as she grabbed onto the pole that was in the middle of the isle, "I could use a little help here," she yelled.

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TAG(S) duncan.
STATUS finished =]
WORDCOUNT 573
CLOTHES Here, just with jeans on!
CREDITS JADEN. @ caution 2.0
NOTES none atm
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[marika2]

"And it's been a while
Since I first saw you

And it's been a while
Since I could call you."

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Duncan had nothing to do lately. All pranks seemed just boring, he definitely needed something new. Fortunately it was a Saturday and it meant a trip to Hogsmeade. What meant nothing else but a step to Zonko’s. They always had something he could use on his fellows. Of course Duncan like their competition better. Weasleys knew what was funny. Though they had their store in the Diagon Alley and he was at Hogwarts now. Oh well he could live with it.

Duncan made his way to the joke shop. He knew it the best. He could even go there with closed eyes. So he stepped in with a full smile on his face. And everything would be great if he didn’t saw Peyton there. What could she do there? It was not a very place girls like her like to spend time in. He tilted his head watching her. She dropped what she held just as the door shut. Funny, he frightened her just walking in. Duncan laughed seeing what was happening with her. He should help her but he thought that he will have fun first. But when Peyton yelled for help he moved from his place pulling out his wand. "Oh dear. I didn’t know you like Herbology so much." Duncan laughed again before he used his wand to release her. "By the way you found something which can come in handy." he winked at her and held his hand to her to help her up.

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TAGGED; Peyton
LYRICS; Staind - It's been a while
NOTES; my muse is kinda low

[peyton]

PLEASE DONT LET
MY DREAM RUN DRY UNDERNEATH, UNDERNEATH
THIS AMARILLO SKY

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Of course nothing would go or work our alright for Peyton. Not that it surprised her. Holding on to the pole Peyton sighed. Only she could get herself in such trouble. It kind of made her laugh though. After that night with Dom, Peyton was slightly out of it. She had let the alcohol consume her thoughts and everything enough that she had ended up doing stuff she would have never done, she had got a tattoo! Her parents would freak. Then again, they didn't really know the rest of her plans yet, so maybe the tattoo would be the least of their worries.

Peyton knew someone else was in the shop. That was evident beings she had them to blame for her problem. Who snuck into a store? Okay, they probably really hadn't snuck in, but to Peyton it had seemed that way. Any chance, it was a Hogwarts student which just made the situation that much worse. Anyone seeing her was bound to laugh.

Hearing footsteps Peyton looked up into the face of one of her good friends, Duncan. He seemed pretty amused by the situation and she couldn't help but glare at him playfully. "Oh yes, I just love herbology defiantly the things that want to eat me," she said though she couldn't help but laugh after that. It was kind of halarious.

Once she felt the plant give her foot up, Peyton quickly pulled herself up off the ground. She wasn't planning on sticking around on the ground long giving something else the change to grab her. Brushing herself off she looked back down toward the floor. If she had been the one to walk in on such a thing she would have laughed her ass off, but beings it happened to her she wasn't about to laugh that much.

Finally bringing her gaze back towards Duncan she smiled. "At least some good came out of that," and then she laughed again. This time it was much harder to control. What was wrong with her? Oh that was right, Dom was rubbing off on her. "If it hadn't been for my knight in shining armor I would have been gone, thank you Duncan, I owe you big time," she said jokingly with a slight curtsy with a small smile on her face.

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TAG(S) duncan.
STATUS finished =]
WORDCOUNT 402
CLOTHES Here, just with jeans on!
CREDITS JADEN. @ caution 2.0
NOTES hehe its all good
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[marika2]

"And it's been a while
Since I first saw you

And it's been a while
Since I could call you."

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Duncan made a funny face as Peyton glared at him. He knew she didn't mean it. She couldn't be angry at him or anything. He laughed along with her after she finished her statement. "Oh, I am sure you're like a dessert for that plant. It eats only such sweet things as you." he grinned raising his eyebrows few times playfully. Oh yes, he was in a good mood today.

He used his wand to repair broken bottle and then to minimize a plant which wanted to eat his friend. He wasn't very hard-working student but charms always came easy with him. A plant was back in the bottle now. Duncan grabbed it and took a short look at it. "It must be something new. I may use it on someone who doesn't expect a prank." Yes, pranks were what he liked. What Gryffindor didn't?

Hearing Peyton's other words Duncan bowed to her. "Always at your service, milady." he said. "So, what are you doing here?"

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TAGGED; Peyton
LYRICS; Staind - It's been a while
NOTES;

[peyton]

PLEASE DONT LET
MY DREAM RUN DRY UNDERNEATH, UNDERNEATH
THIS AMARILLO SKY

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Taking a few moments to straighten herself out and examine herself to make sure that she had not picked up any dirt from the floor, she continued to brush the last bit of it off her jeans. She then brushed a few of her stray strands of hair which had once again found their way in front of her face out of the way. She then flipped her head upside down and shook her hair out to make sure that when she flipped it back over that it was all back to normal and there were no fly away strands. Finally happy that she had managed to get herself back in order she turned back toward the bottles she had been examining. "Why would they have such a thing here? It could be dangerous," she said refusing to pick up another bottle.

She was clueless as to why a prank store would keep something dangerous, then Peyton stopped to think, maybe by the time she had got to the plant it would have turned into something stupid. There was no way such a dangerous thing would be sold in Zonkos. How stupid she felt for falling for it, but then again she had only ever been in the store once or twice before so she knew nothing about the pranks.

When Duncan commented on the plant wanting something sweet for dessert she laughed slightly and shrugged. "What can I say, I'm as sweet as sugar," she said. It wasn't at all true lately, but a week ago it would have been true. Peyton was rather a sweet girl and she still was, she was just experiencing life a little more now.

As he bowed to her she smiled. She seemed to be smiling a lot despite her cancer and it was nice. It was nice to be happy and to be able to laugh and she could thank her friends for that. If she didn't have them she would have probably lost her mind by now. When he asked her what she was doing there she turned back toward him once more. "I don't know, got bored and wanted something fun to do so I thought I'd come see what kind of trouble I could get into, care to help," she asked him with a mischevious smile on her face.

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TAG(S) duncan.
STATUS finished =]
WORDCOUNT 404
CLOTHES Here, just with jeans on!
CREDITS JADEN. @ caution 2.0
NOTES hehe its all good
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[marika2]

"And it's been a while
Since I first saw you

And it's been a while
Since I could call you."

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Of course Duncan thought the same as Peyton. That kind of stuff could be dangerous but he wouldn't admit that before he experienced it himself or his close friends got injured badly. For him it was just for fun, an item for a good prank. Hey it was a joke shop at last. It couldn’t be cursed or anything, it was just for making fun of others. So he shrugged with innocent face not saying a word.

He smiled at Peyton as she laughed at his comment. Yes, he did think she was sweet as sugar. But even sugar can be sour sometimes and it was what he liked in Peyton. She wasn't banal or stereotyped. She was a friend he could look for all his life and never find the same. He could share every little secret with her and be sure she won’t tell anyone. For example he wasn't the best prefect ever; he did not do his job well because he didn't really care what his housemates did. He would be a hypocrite if he told on them to Headmaster or teachers while he was doing the same as them. And Peyton didn’t judge him for that.

"Of course." Duncan said smiling. "But to get into trouble you should go somewhere else than a joke store."

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TAGGED; Peyton
LYRICS; Staind - It's been a while
NOTES; sorry it took me forever

[peyton]

PLEASE DONT LET
MY DREAM RUN DRY UNDERNEATH, UNDERNEATH
THIS AMARILLO SKY

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Peyton couldn't help but smile at her friend. He was one of the only people she knew she could fully count on, even more then Dom. Sure Dom was a good friend but when it came down to things Dom was more important to herself then anyone else. The thought wasn't a plesant one for the blonde girl to think about her best friend but it was only the truth and she still loved Dom for who she was anyway. All one had to do was be around Duncan, it was hard to not smile or laugh when he was around. It seemed he had that effect on people, or maybe it was just her.

Glad she had fully dusted herself off and had stepped away from the shelf that had held the plant that had wanted to eat her. Looking at it she shook her head once more then directed her attention back to the guy next to her. As he spoke she shrugged. "I was curious to see if I could find something to use to get into some trouble and play pranks on people, but I guess I'm the one who got pranked," she said shrugging.

She then went to look around. The shop owner or worker had not came out yet so she hadn't been in trouble that way. Though she almost wondered if she should pay for the product she had broke. Then seeing that no one would know that she had broke it other then Duncan she had no intentions on paying for the thing that wanted to eat her. "Guess it was a bad idea to come here. Your the genius, tell me oh great one, where can I get into some trouble?" she asked him a slight evil smirk on her rather delicate innocent face.

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TAG(S) duncan.
STATUS finished =]
WORDCOUNT bah i don't know
CLOTHES Here, just with jeans on!
CREDITS JADEN. @ caution 2.0
NOTES hehe its all good
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