Closed Just One More Flight

[Tadgh Devlin]

Stairs, stairs, stairs goddamn everywhere. Tadgh hated it. He was used to a cramped 2 bedroom apartment, sure, but with a lift. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to put a goddamn lift in this place. And as if it wasn't bad enough, the stairs moved and the corridors were a complete maze, so if you got lost you had to go up and down even more stairs. Whoever designed this place had a really sick sense of humour, and a penchant for completely torturing kids, he was pretty sure. He was also pretty sure he was getting close to the Gryffindor common room, looking around. All Tadgh wanted was to have a shower to wash off the sweat from all this walking, then curl up in front of the fireplace and warm himself up. (Surely if you could afford enough magic to make the stairs move, you could afford enough magic to keep the castle warm?) Looking around and trying to use the unfamiliar paintings as landmarks, Tadgh was pretty confident there was just one more set of stairs to go. He sighed heavily and wrapped his arms around himself as he headed for the next flight, ready to have this stupid walk over and done with.

 

[AJ Carpenter]

AJ loved the view up in Gryffindor tower. It was honestly worth the amount of stairs they had to get up to get there. The route to the common room was one he didn't have to think about much anymore, but as he walked there he spotted another Gryffindor walking past it and in the direction of some stairs. AJ didn't want to assume, but he had the feeling the boy had no business in the Divination tower, considering he was clearly a first year. He was probably lost. AJ jogged a bit to catch up with him. "Hey, are you looking for the common room? Because we just passed it."

 

[Tadgh Devlin]

The grumble under Tadgh's breath was interrupted by a voice and he looked over at its source, meeting them with an instinctive glare. Just passed it... He felt his cheeks heat as he realised his mistake, instincts kicking in. "No, I'm going somewhere else." He snapped, hoping the older boy would leave him be. "Don't assume I'm lost just because I'm a first year, I know what I'm doing."

 

[AJ Carpenter]

AJ hadn't realized how grumpy the kid looked until he looked at him. He could tell he had embarrassed him, and opened his mouth to reassure him and say he'd made the same mistake a million times in his first year. But then the boy insisted he had been going somewhere else. AJ looked at the direction he was going again, then back at him. "Really? Where are you headed?" He asked, fully sure he was lying.