You've been on my mind ((Silas))

[summermarieroberts]

Summer wasn't sure why she was back at this school, especially considering how eager she'd been to escape when she'd been attending. Well really she knew why she was here, or more precisely who had brought her here. Since their first meeting, Summer had found herself unable to stop thinking on the handsome redhead she'd met in the shop, Silas Weasley had certainly made an impact on her.

Smiling brightly to herself Summer found herself drawn towards the Gardens, having always enjoyed hanging out there when she'd been a student herself. Sitting on her hip was her young chimpanzee Mikala, chewing on one of the leaves he'd plucked from a passing bush. It wasn't often she brought him out and about with her, he wasn't a fan of crowds, in fact he was pretty shy. Tickling his chest, Summer sat him down on a bench as she turned around, a bright smile on her face as she observed her surroundings.

"You know I spent most of my seven years at Hogwarts spent in this Garden." she said, talking to Mikala who simply clapped his hands together before rolling onto his back and playing with his foot. Slipping off her shoes Summer rolled her eyes at Mikala's antics and looked around again before stepping closer to a bush with variously coloured wild flowers growing on it. Leaning in close she inhaled the beautiful floral scent and sighed quietly. "Beautiful..."

It was no secret she adored the outdoors, in fact if she could get away with living outdoors she would, it was where she felt most at ease, more like herself. Running a hand through her soft curls she spun around on her heel and inclined her face up towards the sun, revelling in it's warmth when a sound to her left caught her attention. Thinking she'd been found out by one of the Professors, Summer readied herself to come up with an excuse as to why she was here, but instead of seeing a teacher she saw....

[silas]

Silas had been conducting a little research of his own out in the gardens, he liked to experiment when it came to Herbology and Potions, and as luck would have it, the Hogwarts garden was the ideal place to find things not listed in a textbook. Though partially maintained by the Herbology professor and the keeper of the grounds, it seemed they had allowed the space to have more free reign than anything else, there were many species of flora that Silas was more than eager to experiment with. His goal that day? Well, he wasn't really sure, he thought perhaps attempting to concoct an elixir that would conjure pleasant dreams.

So far the only ones he had read about that did anything with dreams either blocked them completely or simply made the user forget that they had had any dreams in the first place. But nothing to replace nightmares with good dreams. He had collected a variety of both magical and nonmagical plant samples, knowing he would at the very least need to be careful. A lot of the ingredients he had in his bag could be wickedly hallucinogenic in high doses, and that might render his potion more of something used to get high than to have nice dreams.

Silas stumbled a bit (over what he wasn't sure, likely his own feet) and when he recovered his balance he looked up and saw Summer, the beautiful young witch who he had helped in the apothecary all those months ago. His ears turned slightly red, she had probably seen his not-so-graceful moment, though it was quite fact that he was very clumsy on the ground. Silas awkwardly smiled, truth be told she was the last person that he was expecting to see right in front of him on the school grounds- though she hadn't strayed completely out of his thoughts in a long time.

And although he would never admit it, Silas had had a dream or two involving her. "Hello," said Silas, suddenly feeling as though the simple word were quite difficult to get out of his mouth without jumbling it. Only then did he notice a chimpanzee, which he found a rather odd sight here, he figured it must belong to Summer, which only added to the intrigue Silas felt with her.