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[Flavio Morales-Tipene]

Flavio had never liked the dungeons. In his first and second years he tended to avoid the place like the plague when he did not need to go to classes because it was so dark, scary and occupied by Slytherins. But now he was in his third year. He knew he needed to face his fears sooner or later and he also harbored a determination to find his friend Rory. These being the reasons he had ventured to the dungeons that afternoon. His first motive was to catch up with his friend over what happened in each of their holidays, and his second motive was to put his foot down and finally tell Rory he was no longer going to write all his homework for him. He had done his friend enough favors during their previous years, and was sick of letting his own grades suffer for the sake of a friend who rarely, if ever, said thank you.

Flavio's determination was strong and his stance was confident but none of this distracted from the nerves he felt to face two of his fears at once. He secretly wanted to give up and return to his own common room but he knew this needed to be done for his own sake. So he waited, standing idly against one of the stone walls, staring down the corridor and expecting Rory to walk past or at least a different Slytherin that could point him in the right direction or help find his friend for him.​

 

[Abigail Carter]

[adminapproval=1132221]Now that Abby's bigger brother had graduated from the school, things were a lot more bareable for her now that she didn't have to look out for him all the time. She couldn't stand his goody-two-shoes ways, and she was glad that he has moved to a place of his own away from her family. She knew that her parents had a tough-love attitude, and while he might have deserved everything that they had done to him, he should have stood up for himself like she regularly did and it was never like that for her. She had always been the favourite though. She walked out of the Slytherin Common Room, and before she got very far she saw Flavio in the distance. Sighing deeply, she considered running back inside before he noticed her, but before she could she saw him glance in her direction.

Cursing under her breath, she approached him and put on a smile. "Hey, Rory. What's up?" She asked, continuing her insistence of using the other man's name ever since she had caught him doing the others work. Abby wasn't sure why he was even down here at all, wondering if he was looking for herself or for her friend Rory. Now that was another case of someone really needing to stand up for himself, it irritated Abby that Flavio just allowed him to walk all over him, but it wasn't her place, nor her problem, to really do anything about it. She raised an eyebrow at him. "Why are you down here?" She asked dryly.

Out of Character:

Admin Approval is just included because I mentioned the abuse.

 

[Flavio Morales-Tipene]

Flavio was standing near the Slytherin common room, he would of course see a Slytherin or two walking past and it would be stupid of him to expect otherwise. What he hadn't expected, however, was for one of those Slytherin students to be Abby. He furrowed his brows as she approached him, then averted his gaze to the floor when she referred to him as Rory. He understood why she called him Rory the first time they had met, but no longer saw to point of it now that she did know his real name, and now that he was about to put his foot down and tell Rory to write his own homework for a change. Or he at least planned to put his foot down. The only missing part of his plan was Rory's presence but that's exactly why he was standing in the dungeons that day.

Figuring that telling someone his intentions out loud might help his confidence to go through with his plan, Flavio looked up from the floor, to Abby as he said "How about you call me by my real name now that it will be the only one on my homework?" while tilting his head to one side. He didn't want to seem rude but he also didn't want to allow his determination to falter, either. He was worried that if he allowed himself so much as moment to be unsure, he wouldn't be able to go through with his plan. The last thing he wanted was to have spent time thinking up a plan and walking all the way to the dungeons for nothing. That would be a waste of his time and he would have felt even worse than he ever had while being caught in the trap of writing his friends homework, and being too scared to grow a backbone and deal with the problem himself. "I am here to face a problem." He answered, nodding more to reassure himself than anything. "Have you seen the real Rory today?" He looked in the direction Abby had walked from, assuming she had just left the common room.​

 

[Abigail Carter]

Abby shrugged at his little mini outburst about wanting her to use his real name. She didn't care either way, and she only really did it to teach him a lesson that he should know better than to let others take advantage of him in the way that he had let Rory do. Maybe he had learned his lesson now though and maybe he was going to actually do something about it. She gave him a smile, hoping that this was true, but overall it was his decision and she wouldn't do anything - other than mock him - to infliuencr his decision. "You do you, Flavio." She said with a chuckle.

He had never stood up to her like that before, and it was about time that he grew up and started standing up to people. Abby wasn't going to let him walk all over her, though, and she hoped that she would know better than to ever try to do anything like that. "What kind of problem?" She asked nosily. Rory had been in the common room earlier but she had lost track of her while she was busy not caring about him and his existence. "I saw him earlier. Dunno where he went though." She told him.

 

[Flavio Morales-Tipene]

Using a person's name properly was on a basic level and expectation of respect and human decency. Flavio knew this, and knew he shouldn't have been flattered that Abby called him by his real name, but he simply could not keep himself from smiling at the word. He felt accomplished with such a small victory even though he knew Abby should have been using his name all along.

He looked down the corridor again as Abby asked about his 'problem', then back to her, repressing the smile on his face while wondering if Rory would somehow make an appearance so he wouldn't need to spend more time waiting and potentially psyche himself out from going through with his plan. "My problem does not involve you, and I would like to keep it that way." He answered. Abby deserved better than to be dragged further into the unusual dynamic between him and Rory more than she already had. He was sure she had better things to do with her time than get involved in situation with two boys that were younger than her, anyway. He nodded again when Abby said she didn't know where Rory went, saying, "Thanks, I will continue to keep an eye out for him, then." While his eyes moved back to the corridor. He wasn't intentionally being standoffish but knew that he might crumble under the pressure of confronting Rory if he didn't keep up his demeanor. ​

 

[Abigail Carter]

Abby rolled her eyes when she saw the small signs that Flávio displayed when he was trying to hide something. He was obviously excited by her using his name, and she smirked at the thought that such a small thing could excite her friend. She then shrugged when she seemed to not want her to have anything to do with him being waiting here for Rory. There could only be a few things that he could be doing, really, but she elected to go for the more teasing answer. "Dropping off more homework?" She asked with an innocent look on her face. Abby had a poker face to be proud of, and she would never let slip that she was joking around with him until she wanted too. "Are you gonna just stand here until he comes back?" She asked playfully. It would be mighty boring down here. She liked the take charge, confident, version of Flávio, but she was certainly not the kind to not send some sass back in return.

 

[Flavio Morales-Tipene]

Flavio looked from the corridor and to his shoes, smiling as he shook his head dismissively at Abby's question. He wasn't going to answer her, whether she genuinely wanted to know if he was dropping off homework or not. Instead, he shrugged before looking to Abby and asking a question of his own. "Does it matter?" Now that she was using his real name, the question of the homework he was writing for someone else (or had been writing, until he made the decision to grow a backbone) was completely irrelevant. He shrugged again at Abby's second question and answered it more genuinely. "Yeah, I just plan to wait for him." He was at a loss of how else to find Rory in the castle and figured that waiting, although tedious, was his only option. That was unless Abby would be willing to find Rory for him. Though he assumed she had better things to do than look for a person she barely knew for someone else's sake. The situation was his responsibility to begin with, after all, and asking her to find him would be hypocritical when he intended to keep her away from the situation. "Where are you going, then?" Flavio then asked, hoping his question would change the subject and allow him to kill some time before he finally crossed paths with Rory.​