Tell-Tale Heart

[Octavian Vetrov]

It was a year to the day since Octavian had met Marisol. Back then she was blissfully ignorant to the fact he was engaged and he about her being a werewolf. Though he liked to think he had taken her news better than she did his, though Octavian wasn't sure which posed the biggest threat to their relationship. None of that mattered, for one night they were going to be happy and forget about their problems. Octavian wasn't quite as happy with his costume as he had been the previous year but it would do. The final step was attaching the fake mustache, thankfully magic was far more effective than glue. Once he was ready he left the dorm.

Marisol had gone ahead to say hello to her friends so Octavian headed straight for the great hall to meet his girlfriend. Octavian walked into the great hall and was surprised to see what could only be described as a carnival rather than the usual dance. Octavian wasn't sure he liked the change, he had been looking forward to dancing with Marisol. The Gryffindor grabbed himself a drink and looked around the hall for his girlfriend, hoping he would spot her with her two best friends. Neither liked him very much.

 

[Marisol Woods]

Marisol was excited for Halloween as usual, but more so this year because this time last year she had met Octavian. Although they had not started officially dating until February, Marisol still liked to think of the occasion as an anniversary of sorts so she was excited to see him. She dressed in a short brown dress with leaves in her hair and was surprised to find that the Great Hall didn't look as it normally did on Halloween. After looking at all the things around the great hall she thought the new change wasn't so bad. After Marisol had caught up with her friends for a little, she went to look for her boyfriend and finally found him. She bounded over to him and said, "Hey!" to him, a little giddy already. She smiled at him happily but there was a hint of nervousness behind her smile because she had finally told him she was a werewolf and although he still seemed to have taken the news pretty well, she was still hesitant about things between them.
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[Octavian Vetrov]

Octavian's eyes lit up when he finally saw his girlfriend. She had seemed different since telling him her news and so far he was doing everything he could to reassure how little it bothered him that she was a werewolf. Once she said hi Octavian decided to skip his introduction and pulled her in for a deep kiss. "Happy anniversary," he smiled at her. It may have taken them a few months to become official, but it was a year to the date that they had shared their first kiss and that was a night Octavian still trrasured. "This is errm, a little different than last year," He laughed looking around the carnival. "Show me around?" He asked, Marisol had been there a little while already, presumably she knew what was worth seeing.

 

[Marisol Woods]

Marisol smiled into the kiss that Octavian pulled her in for and laughed afterward at the feeling of his false mustache that he wore for his costume. She grinned again as he wished her a happy anniversary, glad that he remembered it just as fondly as she did. She was glad this time there wasn't an entire crowd of people watching them closely. She looked around and shrugged when he pointed out how different the great hall from last year's event. "I think it's pretty cool! And we'll still have the yule ball to dance together," she said reassuringly, already looking to that event with her boyfriend. "Let's check out the spooky tent, it can't be that scary," she suggested playfully.
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[Octavian Vetrov]

Octavian smiled as Marisol talked about the Yule ball, he too was looking forward to the dance, more so now he knew the halloween event was so different but he knew they would still have fun. "I can't wait to see what your dress," He flashed a cheeky grin at his girlfriend as he kept hold of her hands. At her suggestion Octavian pulled her over to the spooky tent. "That sounds like a challenge," He said sticking his tongue out. He suspected that given what she was, very little scared her. "You may need to hold my hand," Octavian joked nudging her.

 

[Marisol Woods]

Marisol smiled at him as he said he couldn't wait to see her dress for the yule ball and leaned up to kiss him on the cheek for the comment. As they walked towards the spooky tent Marisol looked around at the different costumes and began to notice that quite a few people were dressed as werewolves. The idea of being portrayed as a monster by someone else made her feel conflicted. While she did hate werewolves herself despite being one and thought that they were monsters, she didn't like the idea of others thinking of her in the same way and wearing a costume about it. Marisol's face fell but she tried not to let it show as Octavian made a joke about her holding his hand in the spooky tent. She turned away from the costumes and laughed slightly, taking hold of his hand and linking their fingers together. "Don't worry I can protect you," she teased, trying to cheer up even if the joke was about her lycanthropy as well. "Maybe the house ghosts will be in there trying to be scary for once," she said, not finding the idea of ghosts scary anymore since they floated around the castle regularly.
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[Octavian Vetrov]

Octavian wondered briefly if his comments made Marisol uncomfortable, any joke about her being able to protect him could be reference to her condition, he didn't want to make light of it but she didn't seem to take any offence by what he said, so perhaps he was just over thinking things. Octavian put the thought to the back of his mind and beamed at his girlfriend as they made their way to the spooky tent. "I hope so, hopefully one of them jumps out and say boo, or you know something scary, our ghost isn't exactly the scariest, in fact I wonder if Vex is around," The house ghosts may not be scary, or at all interesting, but Hogwarts resident poltergeist knew how to liven up a party.

 

[Marisol Woods]

Marisol led the pair of them toward the haunted house and waited in line for their turn to enter. She chuckled at the mention of their House ghost and nodded in agreement. "It's hard to find ghosts scary when all the ghosts we see here at Hogwarts are nice," she pointed out. So she was excited to see what the staff had put in the tent to scare them. She laughed at the mention of the poltergeist and said, "If Vex was around we'd know right away," she said, knowing that the ghost could not resist causing mayhem. "Although he did seem rather sad at the beginning of the semester so maybe he's not up to his usual antics," she added with a small shrug. Either way Marisol was happy to be spending time with her boyfriend tonight and she hoped the spooky tent was fun somehow.
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[Octavian Vetrov]

Octavian laughed as they made their way over to spooky tent. It was true the house ghosts were nice so maybe they wouldn't be what made the tent scary but he was interested to see what did. The Gryffindor didn't scare easily so it was eager to see if what awaited them inside would actually do the trick. "Yes thata true, how fun would it be, though I'm not sure I want anything poured on my costume," Octavian laughed remember the poltergeists antics at the sorting ceremony. Arriving at the tent Octavian took Marisol's hand and led her inside. "Merlin's beard its dark in here"

 

[Marisol Woods]

Marisol nodded at Octavian's comment. She had only run into the poltergeist once and she definitely wanted to do it again because it was on her and her best friend's adventure list but that list was only reserved for Wyatt and Asaiah so Marisol didn't say anything to Octavian about it. She smiled when he took her hand as they entered the tent and was glad he had done so because it was so dark. "Are you scared?" she teased him, laughingly lightly, but she stayed close to his side as they walked through the tent. She could hear werewolf howls and screams in the distance as part of the tent's spooky effects and Marisol sighed sadly.
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