-- *you hold me down and you hold me up

[ARALYNN CHANTELLE NOTT]

Y O U K E E P T E L L I N G M E T H A T I ' M B A D
-- * but i keep on getting better faster

aralynn was bored. it had been a long, boring weekend that had unfortunately been spent studying and doing school work most of the time. she had several assignments to be completing, and yesterday, or saturday, she had spent almost the whole day working on them. assignments for potions and transfigurations, studying for a test in charms at the end of the week. it had more or less consumed her saturday. though it was necessary, it had still felt painful. aralynn valued her school work and the success of her schooling very high, but sometimes a girl just needs a break from homework. and a break from the corners and walls of the library. aralynn knew it was only going to get worse, and she was ready and prepared for that. but now that she had completed all her homework she was ready for a break and some company. she wanted to hang out with friends, or laugh at some first year student who just happened to trip and loose their homework all over the corridor. she wanted entertainment. she wanted excitement.

well there were a few places she could look for that. unfortunately, bellatrix was busy doing her own school work and no one else seemed to be interested in torturing younger students. so aralynn was then on a mission to find balthazar, whom she could not find for the life of her. she had checked the library and asked around, but no one had really seen him. so instead of just sitting around waiting for him, aralynn thought about the places he most likely could have been and searched them. so he wasn't in any of the places she had thought about. then she thought of the most obvious, and almost hit herself for not checking or asking earlier. he was probably in his room, sleeping, or studying, or looking over all his 'finds' of the week. aralynn smirked thinking about all the lovely gifts and discoveries balthazar had shared with her.

so aralynn headed up to the boy's dormitories. it wasn't as if she hadn't been in them before, particularly balthazar's room and bed. balthazar and aralynn had a very interesting and convenient relationship that had begun a few years ago. they had always been friends that flirted and teased one another, but a couple years ago they had ended up in bed together, and then a few more times. neither of them were really interested in a serious relationship with one another or anyone else, so if they happened to fall in bed with one another it wasn't really a big deal. if it happened it happened. strangely enough, sleeping together and maturing into young adults had brought their friendship closer. they could just hang out together, or helped one another with their victims. aralynn couldn't count the number of times she had asked balthazar the favour of stealing something from someone for her. he was a valuable asset to her team, and her to his if he ever needed someone publicly humiliated or perhaps seduced for information. they were happy to help one another.

she entered his dorm, surprised she wasn't greeted but any other of the guys that shared the dorm. normally she would get winks or comments, sometimes sly, sometimes cheeky when she ventured into the boys dorm. she walked over to where balthazar's bed was, and found him sitting back, book in hand. he looked fairly engaged with the book as he hadn't looked up to see her yet. "hey you," she spoke from the end of his bed. "what are you reading that has captivated your attention so closely," she asked, walking over to the side of the bed where she proceeded to hop on. she settled in beside balthazar, scanning the book for a moment before she realized it was a journal. "i'm assuming the journal does not belong to you, so who did you swipe it from?" aralynn asked becoming engaged and excited in the possibilities this had for future torturing. "and is there anything juicy in it?"

tag --- balthazar xander
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lyrics --- marina and the diamonds
notes --- sorry for the delay, but here's our thread!

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[balthazaroharaxan]

Aralynn was one of his best friends, and Balthazar treated her as such. They'd been friends for a very long time and they'd always flirted with and teased each other and a few years back, they'd ended up sleeping together. It was never anything serious however, and they were both fine with it. Balthazar wasn't really one for being tied down and he liked the freedom of sleeping with and dating other girls without Aralynn getting upset when she found out. If anything, she was always happy for him when she did and he was happy for her when the same thing happened for Aralynn.

Balthazar always stole things for her when she asked and sometimes even when she didn't ask. It all just depended on the things he was able to get his hands out. If he knew she'd like it, then he'd give it to her, if not he'd do something he liked it with. Aralynn was his teammate in friendship and mischief. He handled the stealth and thievery and she dealt with seduction and manipulation. It was a very good system and both of them always had fun whenever they teamed up to do something wicked.

Today though, he was on his own, even in his dormitory. He'd stolen a diary from a girl, Lita that ultra quiet girl, who most everyone thought of as a mute. He flipped through the pages of the journal with interest, laughing at some of the entrees as if they were from a good book. He was so wrapped up in his reading, that he failed to notice anyone coming in.

Aralynn's voice broke him out his world though and he looked up with a grin, "Hello lass." He said, scooting over to allow her more room on his bed, "Jest an interesting book." He told her, his Irish accent strong in his words, "Aye, yer right about tha'. It's not mine." He smirked, "It's Lita Spades'." He told her, "And there's so much interesting stuff, ye'd be able to spend the next couple hours jes soaking it all in." with a grin, he flipped to a page he'd marked.

"See? It says here that the lass hates her step father, that he's terrible to her....that he beats her. Normally now, that'd piss me off but she deserves it and here's why." He then read aloud from the book, cruelly mimicking Lita's voice in a whiny high pitched tone 'If anyone ever finds out I'm muggleborn, I'd be a sitting duck! And what would Severus think? He'd hate me. I couldn't stand it if he hated me. I love him so much. I love everything about him, even the way he smells. I want to run my hands through his hair and kiss him hard, but I'll never able to do that. I'm too scared.'

By the time he'd finished reading the passage, Balthazar was laughing so hard, tears were streaming down his face. Wiping his eyes he smirked at Aralynn and waved the book, "I think I stumbled on the perfect way to get meself a little servant. We'll have to be careful though, wouldn't want to get caught. Now....I reckon one of the things we should do, is create a potion and have her slip it to someone. Maybe that over grown lion Denmark or the stupid one Irving. They both deserve it. And of course, we could get Lita to do pretty much anything we want in exchange fer keeping our mouths shut."

he laughed and then reached over, running a hand through Aralynn's long, silky hair. "Ye smell nice." He remarked, "Did ye have a nice day lass? I did. Got some good stuff, including this diary. Gave Narcissa the jewelery I stole over the summer. She liked it. I also took some stuff from the muggleborn Irving, the prat. I don't think he noticed I'd switched boxes on him until it was too late." he laughed, "Muggleborn and muggles all ought to be drowned like the rats they are." he remarked.

[ARALYNN CHANTELLE NOTT]

Y O U K E E P T E L L I N G M E T H A T I ' M B A D
-- * but i keep on getting better faster

from the moment 'lita spades' exited balthazar's lips, aralynn was interested. lita spades, also known as the mute among the slytherin house. what a disgrace to the slytherin title, aralynn always thought, and therefore felt free to subject her to any of the torture that came her way. lita was weird and reclusive, but not in any way that was attractive. she was a dork, and aralynn took full advantage of being able to exploit her. at any opportunity she got, aralynn poked fun at her, or had her minions spoil lita's day. there was something about her that just begged to be a victim, and if lita was going to make it so easy, aralynn was going to obliged her. "oh! let me see," aralynn responded excitedly, getting even closer to balthazar and reaching for the book. she wanted to know all the juicy gossip, and balthazar wasn't about to deprive her from it.

"see? it says here that the lass hates her step father, that he's terrible to her....that he beats her. normally now, that'd piss me off but she deserves it and here's why -- 'if anyone ever finds out i'm muggleborn, I'd be a sitting duck! And what would severus think? he'd hate me. i couldn't stand it if he hated me. i love him so much. i love everything about him, even the way he smells. i want to run my hands through his hair and kiss him hard, but i'll never able to do that. i'm too scared.'"

as the words from lita's diaries were spoken, aralynn couldn't help but feel giddy and sickened inside all at the same time. sickened by the fact that she had just found out that lita was a muggleborn slytherin and was tainting their house and their wizarding world. giddy because now she had so much over lita it wasn't even funny. this was going to make torturing her even more fun. not only did she now hold her blood status over her head, but knew about her crush for none other than severus snape. aralynn almost couldn't believe how good this was. and all because balthazar had swiped her journal and she had stumbled into his room. she hoped that information like this would have been shared with her regardless, but she wasn't going to think about that now. she was going to think about how the best way to make this as painful and excruciating to lita as she could. "bal this is amazing. if i wasn't so excited about the possibilities this opens up for torture, i would be sick to my stomach because the contents are so utterly disturbing and disgusting. just thinking about lita and snape, it's enough to churn your stomach. but the fact that she's a mudblood makes everything so much worse. she's tainting the slytherin house."

aralynn listened as balthazar spoke about finding themselves a perfect servant and aralynn couldn't have agreed more. "and who do you think you're dealing with here? i'm the expert about getting away with things and not getting caught. i'm an excellent liar if you haven't figured that out yet," aralynn teased balthazar. aralynn's mind went over the small amount of text that balthazar had read again and she sighed as she fell back onto his pillows. this morning, even this afternoon, she never would have foreseen this. she had thought this day was going to be a write off and boring. but now there were so many possibilities. she smiled thinking about all of them. balthazar soon joined her, reaching out and running his hand through her hair. she leaned into his hand and listened to him continue.

"you are certainly right. there are too many muggleborns here and they deserve all the torment they get. i don't understand why more people don't see that," aralynn spoke voicing her opinion. she didn't care whether or not everyone belonged in slytherin. her own sister was in ravenclaw, and as much as sometimes she wished she had been in slytherin, she knew alex belonged in ravenclaw. she valued studying and was intelligent and thought more practically and logically. but she was still a pureblood. she was still a full wizard from a strong line of purebloods. so called wizards from the muggle world weren't true wizards and they didn't deserve to be treated as such. "and now there's one more mudblood in the school, and we, my dear balthazar, are the only ones who know this. and know that she's in love with severus snape, out of all people. we need a plan for complete and utter humiliation and blackmail." aralynn sat up slightly, propping herself up on her elbow and turning so she was resting slightly on balthazar. she placed her hand on his chest, tracing her finger up and down the center of it. "any ideas? or do you think you deserve a reward for this brilliant steal?"

tag --- balthazar xander
words --- 824
lyrics --- marina and the diamonds
notes --- aralynn can't wait to torture lita was all this information lol

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