Scowling, Leane stepped out of their embrace as she looked up at Fynn, "Jerk." Crossing her arms as a playful smile crept into her lips, Leane added as her mind raced with an idea, "Fine, your hostage, your rules. However, vice versa, my hostage, my rules."

Grinning, Leane took Fynn's hand and darted down the hallway until they were in total darkness and pressed him back against the wall gently. Tossing the books to their feet, Leane wrapped her arms around Fynn's neck and pressed him back against the wall. "I've taken you as my hostage, so my rules."

Wearing a grin to match Leane's on his lips, Fynn tightly wound his arms around her waist and tugged her closer. "For now, hmhmm," the young wizard agreed, leaning forward to nip at her jawline in between words, "though the role of hostage can easily be switched over to you."

Turning his words into actions, Fynn easily switched their positions by rolling against the wall. His hands switched from being around her waist, to pressing against the wall - locking Leane between his both arms - as he pushed Leane's back against the brick walls aswell.
Leaning in again, his mouth descended upon Leane's for a series of short, teasing kisses, his grin unwavering.

Leane laughed as she eagerly returned his kisses, murmuring softly between each kiss as she slowly began to deepen them, "I think I like being a hostage if it means making out with my captor for the rest of the free period before going to class. Can't have you missing your precious Arithmancy, or whatever that class is called, now can we?" Leane added with a teasing wink. Tugging lightly on his belt loops, Leane pulled him closer as her tongue fought his for dominance when they kissed.

The battle of tongues - and wills - continued for quite a while longer. When Fynn won, his tongue roamed the inside of Leane's mouth, caressing the soft insides of her mouth and rubbing against her tongue. Upon losing, he pushed his tongue against Lee's, and suckled on it lightly, instead.

His knee had wiggled a way in between Leane's leg, and in such a manner, he did continue to kiss her - apparently, rather liking the idea of skipping over free period in favour of making out.

"Fynn..." A soft moan escaped Leane's lips as they kissed, loving how persuasive her kisses seemed to be in getting Fynn to skip class with her. Leane may work hard in general to keep her grades high, but she only did it when Saiyuri kept her in line. Now, now that she had an excuse to slack off and skip, Leane was more than happy to stay by Fynn's side and kiss up instead of going from class to class and studying.

It was wrong, she knew, but right now she was far too happy to care about her prioritizing skills. Right now, Fynn was all that mattered to her. Having him now, after so long of believing false words and suppressing their true natures, Leane wasn't ready to let go and behave just yet. In time, she would fall back into her usual studying habits and Fynn would win, but for right now, she wasn't going to give in so easily.

"I love you," Leane whispered against his lips between kisses; letting time wash over her as she melted against her fiancee, letting their kisses consume her thoughts.

"I love you," he murmured softly, a certain urgency behind his words that was mimicked in his kisses. Fynn seemed to be just as inclined to indulge himself a little while longer as Leane was, his grip on her tightening, pressing her more against the wall.

Neither teen bothered to notice about time passing, and Fynn only looked up somewhat startled when one of the nearby clocks loudly announced the passing of the hour.

Leane groaned as Fynn broke their kisses and she heard the clock strike. Well, Leane couldn't complain too much. After all, she did have close to a half hour of Fynn's lips all to herself. Lost in her thoughts, Leane's eyes simply stared up into Fynn's, one hand caressing his cheek while the other clutched the short hair in the back of his head.

Fynn tilted his head lightly to the left as he reached up to Leane's ear to push a strand of hair back into place. His expression was tender as he did it, considerably less heated then his kisses had been. It wasn't hard to see that Leane's mind was elsewhere, but it gave the black-haired Gryffindor the chance to just openly admire the girl in his arms. Her pale skin, her carefully applied make-up, the redness of her lips and the adorable curve of her nose - Fynn absorbed it all, as he had absorbed the rest of her, in bed.

It was only after he'd looked at her to his hearts' content, that he said in a hoarse whisper, "The clock struck midnight, Cinderella. Are you going to run away, now?"

It took a few moments for Leane to register Fynn's words. However, when her mind finished taking in the handsome sight of her fiancee - from his tender eyes to his kiss-swollen lips - Leane smiled as her eyes locked with his.

"Only if you promise you will always chase after me," Leane whispered softly before leaning in and placing a long, tender kiss upon his, "I couldn't bare the thought of running if I knew my Prince Charming wouldn't chase after me."

A small, pleasurable sound escaped his lips as Fynn replied to the kiss - and his reply was given just as softly as her question had been; though he gave it with a naughty glimmer in his eyes, "You don't have to worry about that - my physical condition might not be all that, but I'll chase you until I croak from exhaustion."

"Mmm, perhaps I'll let you catch me just before you croak," Leane murmured softly with a teasing wink before leaning back out of their embrace and picking up their Transfiguration books. "Meet you in the usual stairwell after we grab our books?" Leane inquired against his lips with one last kiss, knowing that if they waited any longer, despite how tempting it was, that they would end up late for class.

It was hard to not just grin like an idiot at the word "usual", but somehow Fynn managed. The fact that they had a usual stairwell already made him feel as if he'd just gotten an overdose of the Cheering charm.

He smiled and nodded in reply to Leane's suggestion, taking his Transfiguration book out of her hands and placing a soft kiss on her lips. "I'll be there in a sec." He'd have to run in order to make it - Gryffindor tower wasn't at such a dazzling height as the Astronomy tower was, but it still took a while to get there, what with all the moving staircases.

With a last smile and a light wave, he parted ways... only THEN wondering about the bad impression his "stealing away of Leane" might leave with her friends.

Leane grinned happily as she nearly skipped down to the dungeons, her shoes shuffling across the floor as her hair and skirt swayed back and forth, her clock flowing behind her as her hands clutched her book behind her back. In such a stride, her book bouncing lightly against her bottom, Leane entered the passageway to the Slytherin Common Room and headed up to her room. Switching her book to her Arithmancy book, Leane fixed her hair and touched up her make-up before heading to the staircase aforementioned.

-

Drew sighed as he looked at Kalli, "It's quiet."

"I don't like the sudden buddy-ness with Fynn.. It's.. unusual. And Lee's becoming more and more distant," Kalli added solemnly as she looked at the empty seat beside her where Leane usually sat. "Though I still don't think Josh should have punched him."

"I agree, it was going too far. However, we know Josh - he's hypocritical when it comes to Leane and her love-life, and he's very emotionally and impulsively driven."

"The bloody idiot," Kalli said with a frown in Josh's direction, who sat at his usual table with another Slytherin and an empty seat, where Saiyuri used to sit.

Josh simply slid further into his seat and avoided Kalli's gaze, knowing he'd have even more hell to pay tomorrow when they were alone together at Hogsmeade.

It took Fynn a bit longer in order to get to "their" stairwell, and when he reached it, he put his hand against the wall and one in his side to catch his breath. Rather then just taking his book, he had quickly grabbed the enchanted messenger bag he used in school, and it was now loosely hanging against his hip as he leaned forward to catch his breath.

- - - - -

"He punched Fynn?" The curious, accented voice that spoke up behind Kalli and Drew was clearly Anna's, and as she leaned forward on her desk - chin on her folded hands, eagerly awaiting this new information, she looked from one friend to the other, eagerly awaiting a reply. "What'd I miss?"

Running up the stairs to greet him, Leane wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a loud, hard kiss. "Ready?" Leane said with a grin, full of energy that stemmed from her last half hour spent with Fynn. Taking his hand into hers, Leane placed a tender kiss upon his forehead as she whispered teasingly, "Did you run all the way there and back?"

--

Both jumping slightly from the scare, both turned and teasingly glared at Anna. "Leane and Fynn spent the morning together. Josh found out and decked Fynn in the jaw thinking he was stupid enough to not use protection. An assumption he only took further because Leane had no response as to if Fynn did or not because Leane couldn't possibly know. Fynn, kept the information to himself, which I personally don't blame him, most likely because it was truly none of Josh's business," responded Drew as he shifted in his seat to look at Anna.

"Not to mention it was most likely a slap in the face to poor Fynn," Kalli added with a glare over at Josh before looking back at Anna. "What are you doing here anyway? Aren't you supposed to be in class?"

Giving her the stink-eye for her excessive energy, Fynn grunted a cave-man like grunt in reply to her teasing, "Uhn." With his arm loosely draped around her waist, he started to walk in the direction of Arithmancy, burrying his nose in her hair for a moment before kissing her cheek. "Didn't want to make you wait - and otherwise we'll be late. If we're going to go to class, we might aswell be there in time."

- - -

"Nah, I have free period now," Anna dismissed Kalli's question with a smile, waving her hand lightly as she did so while her eyes lingered on Josh's head, trying to read some kind of feeling out of his expression - or lack thereof. Finding nothing interesting there, she shifted her attention back to Drew and Kalli, and silently thought over their words for a moment.

"Well..." she began, chewing on the inside of her cheek a bit as she gave a doubtful face, "if I had a younger sister who'd done something like that, I probably would've smacked the guy, too. I would've smacked my sister, too, though... it's not the guy's job alone to think about being safe." Shifting around on her chair a bit, Anna crossed her arms on the desk while leaning forward some more, adding in a whisper, "I'm not saying Josh is right, but you have to admit that it's understandeable."

Leane laughed as she captured his lips in a warm kiss, "Mmm, and here I thought you were just eager to get the class over with so we could have time to ourselves before Astronomy late tonight."

--

Drew sighed, "Yes, but socking him in the jaw without even knowing the truth?"

"I still don't agree to it what so ever. And yes, Leane should have known - but this is Leane we're talking about. She never thinks of anything once her passion takes over," Kalli reminded with a sigh.

"Besides, Josh would never hit Leane. Not even if his life depended on it," Drew added with a smile at Josh.

"He loves her far too much to ever do something of the sort," Kalli added softly as she looked over at Josh with a sigh, hating seeing the distressed look upon his features and in his body language.

"Time to ourselves, hm?" Fynn's hand came up to lightly caress her cheek as he gave a warm kiss in return, a smile on his face indicating that he rather liked that idea. The smile turned teasing, and he tried to sound stern as he said, "You mean, more time to study, I presume?"

- - -

It took a moment for the younger girl to speak up, as she was too occupied biting on the nail of her thumb to really say anything. "I never suggested that Josh would hit Leane," Anna eventually said, distractedly, eyes on Josh as she sat slumped against the back of her chair.

Behind the thick rim of her glasses, Anna batted her eyelashes a couple of times in an attempt to focus back on the matter at hand. "Do you guys think that, maybe, Fynn wants her to spend more time with you? 'cause..." Her slim index finger hovered mid-air as she lightly pointed at Kalli, before continueing, "You said she seems to becoming more and more distant..." the finger turned positions so that now Anna was pointing to herself, "And he told me that you guys were a bad influence..."

Anna's eyebrows furrowed together lightly, suggesting, "Surely you don't think that he is trying to isolate her?"

"If we must we must! But only if I get a reward for casting correctly," Leane teased with a wink as she slightly stuck her tongue out. Giving him one last tender kiss, Leane took Fynn's hand and began leading him in the general direction of Arithmancy, her lips still locked on his as she walked backwards.

-

Kalli's brows furrowed as her lips deepened into a frown, "No.. He couldn't possibly.. Could he?" she asked as she looked at Drew.

"I don't know. I don't think he'd be so conniving... Then again, he hasn't been overly welcome at our table. Perhaps he's just nervous to be around us after all this time? And Leane knows that and so she stays away?"

"But surely she'd talk to us about it.."

"Perhaps."

"And surely she wouldn't just leave us because of her new bo, right?"

"I don't think Leane would consciously do that, no. But if guided astray little by little.... Well, who's to say."

"But Drew.. This is Leane we're talking about! That's it. When she gets here I'm stealing her after class and we're all talking this over. Got it?"

With his eyes opened, Fynn attempted to guide Leane in the correct direction in front of him - trying to make this kissing-while-walking thing work to the best of his abilities.

The concept of rewarding Leane for participating and doing her best was already deeply rooted in his brain.
The only difficulty that Fynn foresaw was his inability to stop in time so that they could actually continue their lesson...

Which, considering how touchy-feely they'd been the entire day, even after a morning of being all over each other... would be a considerable problem to overcome.

- - -

Though her opinion wasn't asked for, Anna gave it anyway by giving Kalli a reassuring smile and nod, saying, "Talking it over sounds like a good idea. Drew," this with a sweet smile and a glance at Drew, before looking back at Kalli. "makes an excellent point, though."

"I mean, I've hardly talked to him, and he seems nice enough... but you all have a very solid reason for disliking him, and I don't think he's been welcomed into the group very well... Which isn't surprising, don't get me wrong-!" Her hand rose lightly in defense, and Anna gave an apolegetical grin while saying, "But don't forget that you guys didn't seem all that inviting to me, either. You're a tight-knitted group; becoming a part of that as an outsider is a rather daunting task."

After a third painting muttered words about their indecency and open display of affection, Leane laughed and gave Fynn one last long, hard, loud kiss. Grinning, Leane wrapped her arms around his waist as she fell into step beside him, "And I promise, once I'm thoroughly rewarded you can go back to helping me, alright? I'll behave myself and not keep us distracted for too long," Leane added with a wink as she looked up at him.

-

"Yes... I suppose you're right. We are at fault to a degree.. And without Saiyuri here to keep all of us in check, I'm afraid we've run rather a muck and have been quite vile.. haven't we," Kalli said with a sigh, "Do you think that's why she's ventured away? Because we've been so against her decision?"

"Kal, don't worry yourself so much. Leane still loves you, so stop blaming yourself, you hear me? I know what Anna's saying, and I think she's right. But in time we'll all get along, and in time Leane will come back to us. We just have to get things straightened out and remember where our loyalties lay," said Drew with a sigh as he gently caressed Kalli's back, "Don't worry, our friendships aren't going to fall apart. Leane is just happy that she and Fynn are together again, as is he. They just need time to themselves to make up for all the time they've lost. Can you blame them?"

It was simply impossible to ignore the upturned face and the wink... and so Fynn ignored the muttering paintings one final time, just so that he could softly brush his lips against Leane's. It was a very light touch, simply his lips going from left to right against hers for an instant, before he pulled away with a warm smile.

"You are pretty distracting," he agreed, the corner of his mouth turning upward as he hugged her to him a bit more - picking up their pace as he noticed the time on one of the large Grandfather clocks. "But who says I don't want you to distract me?"

- - -

Anna watched the interaction between the two friends with a soft smile, admitting to herself once again how hard it would prove to be to become a part of the group. Rather then seeing it as a difficulty though, Anna was the type to see it as an interesting challenge, and so for a short time she continued to stay silent, before - once again - giving her opinion.

"Drew is probably right, Kalli. I don't think Lee is trying to distance herself, or is even concious that she has been a bit distant. Try to think back on the first couple of weeks or months with Josh - once you know that you're both in love with each other, it's hard to include other people at first, 'cause you just want to be together."

Curiously, she glanced at Drew, wondering if he would back up her conjecture. "Right?"

"You say it every time I'm reminded that we have to go to class or have to get back to studying," Leane teased as she lightly tugged on his tie, pulling his lips to hers for a proper kiss before slipping out of their embrace and darting down the hallway and up the set of stairs.

-

"To an extent, yes. Josh and Kal weren't as distant as Leane and Fynn, but that was because we made such a fuss over them because when it finally happened, it was about time. We were all happy for them. But this case is different, is it not?" Drew added softly.

Following her at a relaxed pace, Fynn stuffed his hands in his robe as he grinned. Lee -did- have a point there, but he wasn't about to own up to it.

- - -

Anna smiled softly as she nodded, mimicking Drew's tone to say, "Though to them, it probably feels like it was about time, too."

Reaching the hallway leading to the Arithmancy room, Leane waited for Fynn to catch up with a grin upon her lips.

-

"I understand how they're feeling," Kalli said softly.

"And we know what they feel and why they are how they are. However, they sure have strange ways of showing affection for one another.." Drew finished as he shook his head lightly.