Coming Doom? (open)

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"Yes, very invigorating." Angel agreed with a nod of her head. They began to walk back up to the castle, Angel remembering that she needed to walk extra-slow because Jenna had much shorter strides than hers. She twirled his wand between her fingers, thinking.

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Jenna watched the common misconception unfold. Everyone thought that since she was short, she must walk so much slower than them. Well, they had that wrong. Jenna's small legs moved nearly twice as fast as the average walker. She was used to it by now. Her mother had never slowed down much. Jenna kept an even pace with Angel up to the castle. "Do you swim much?" Jenna asked her.

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Angel gave a small nod once more. "Yeah, as often as I can. The Healer recommended I do so actually, with all my stress disorders and whatnot." she said. This was true, with everything Angel was doing, she frequently got completely stressed and liable to snap. Swimming helped.

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Jenna chuckled. Angel must be awfully stressed if she had to see a Healer about it. Jenna was different, she just suffered in silence, shutting herself away from the world until she felt a little better. "Well it's good that it helps, then," Jenna replied.

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"Yes, all my anxiety just seems to melt away. Certainly stops panic-attacks." said Angel. She had been liable to get them in her third and fourth years, which was why her parents had taken her to a Healer. She flicked her wand at the heavy doors to the castle once they neared them, she hated opening them manually. She should probably drop a few subjects and have a normal schedule... But now that she thought about it, Angel wouldn't dream of dropping anything. She just loved school.

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Jenna was secretly glad that Angel had opened the doors with magic. She had never been able to open them without a lot of strain on her part. "Well, then swimming would definitely be a good thing for you to do," Jenna replied. She remembered having a panic-attack once when Penelope had accidentally lost her in a mall.

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Angel nodded, being exceptionally quiet. She wouldn't get in trouble for being out past curfew since she was a prefect, but Jenna could. Angel supposed that she could just say that she had found her cousin on a walk and was escorting her back, letting her slide with a warning.

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Jenna noticed Angel's sudden quietness and soon figured out why. She was afraid of getting Jenna in trouble if they were caught. Well, that made sense, but Jenna doubted they would be caught. Plus, most teachers let Jenna slide by with warnings about curphew anyway. Jasmine had gotten the prefect badge instead of Jenna, that's what they all thought.

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Angel wished she knew where a secret passage to the Ravenclaw common room, she didn't really want to walk up six flights of stairs to get to the common room, then another flight to her dormitory. Hogwarts was far too big. "Any passages you know of?" Angel asked.

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Jenna thought for a moment. Oh, of course! The one that led to the sixth floor corridor, fairly close to the Ravenclaw common room. "Yeah, there's a nice one that goes to the sixth floor, with a very slight incline," Jenna replied, walking toward where she remembered finding it. She found the special tiles on the wall, hidden behind some potted plants. Jenna moved the plants aside and pushed in on the middle tile. A passageway opened up. "Here we go!" she said, letting Angel walk in first.

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Goodness it was dark in there. Angel pulled out her wand and held it high. "Lumos." she whispered. The passage was flooded with light, there, that was much better. She began to walk up the passage, making a mental note to remember that passage. She could barely notice the incline. But, Angel had to duck down a little, the ceiling was low.

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The passageway was magic, so within a few minutes they were at the other side. Jenna tapped the wall with her wand and it melted away to reveal the corridor. Their dormitory was across the hall and a little to their right. "Here we are," she said as she walked up to it, looking behind her to make sure Angel was there.

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Angel stumbled out, straightening up and feeling a pain in her neck from being doubled-over so long. At least they didn't have to climb all those stairs. "Nox." Angel said quietly, and the light at the end of her wand went out, leaving them in the dark corridor.

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Jenna gave Angel a smile small that she probably couldn't see in the darkness. Jenna's eyes scanned the corridor and then she whispered the password to the portrait and it swung open to let them into the Ravenclaw common room.

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Angel climbed in after Jenna, then sat on a couch. She wasn't exactly tired at the moment, the swim through the cold lake had woken her up a bit. She would go to bed later, not now. "Are you heading to bed, then?" Angel asked Jenna.