The Prodigal Son Returns (Open)

Ezio had taken to wandering the halls at night as of late, unable to sleep. He just felt as if the whole world had crashed around him so suddenly. Mikael and Ted both simply seeming to vanish without a trace; Professor Riddle offering to help him protect his sister in some creepy off handed, cynical kind of way. Not that Ezio had turned the man down though, which he hadn’t, but something just didn’t sit right about that man with the dark haired Ravenclaw boy. His nights had already been restless, and had now become increasingly sleepless as well. He knew his studies wouldn’t falter because of it, but he just wasn’t ready to go ask Madame Pompfry for help just yet; he was too proud.

Of course Ezio had managed, by some miracle to make a new friend, Finn from Slytherin house. His father would be so damn proud that his last son finally had a ‘friend’ in Slytherin. Now don’t get the boy wrong, Finn was a great guy. Seemed to share Ezio’s thoughts on many things, but it just wasn’t the same as having Mikael and Ted around to talk to, joke with, or complain to. And Siobhan had vanished as well. He cursed softly and kicked at the ground, only managing to put a scuff on the floor that Filch was sure to whine and groan about when he found it. Screw the old man, Ezio thought bitterly, but then the lovely pale freckled face, frame by its gentle red hair floated through his mind. Siobhan gently smiling at him, and he could help but physically smile back. He turned and tried to rub the mark off the floor, but had only just started to make progress when he heard an odd thumping sound.

Ezio followed it as it echoed through the empty corridors. As he got closer he noticed it sounded like a ball being flung against a wall, and then more specifically like a tennis ball. When the sixth year was just on the other side of the corner from the ‘ball bouncer’, he pulled his wand and then swung out from behind the wall, lighting up the tip to show him the face of whoever was there. A moment later the wand hit the floor with a wooden clatter. ”Mikael?” It was barely more than a whisper.

Ezio didn’t even look at the offered wand, his eyes were still stuck on Mikael. Of all the nerve, the audacity, to sneak out and back into the school without telling a soul a thing, and then make jokes about it. He stepped towards his friend, pausing for a moment before practically throwing himself onto him in a hug. ”Good God man. Where have you been? You just vanished one night, and no one could tell me a thing.” He pulled back, but kept his hands on Mikael’s shoulders, staring at him as though it had been years instead of simply weeks. He finally took his wand back from Mikael, this huge, rare grin on his face.

”Come, we’ll go to the kitchens and have a nice long chat alright?” Ezio had so many questions he wanted answers to, so many of them, but he didn’t want to make his friend feel over whelmed or anything. Some food and butterbeers in the kitchens should be good though. Knowing Mikael was back in at Hogwarts was the best thing in Ezio’s life right now. Ted had vanished shortly after Mikael, and Siobhan sometimes during the Family Weekend. Since he and Siobhan hadn’t really gotten to know each other that well, he never dreamed to relate her disappearing to something similar with his brother’s fiancé.

The Ravenclaw couldn’t seem to wipe the grin off his face as he turned to lead the way to the kitchens. He could of course just call to Trixy and have her bring stuff to them, but they were less likely to be caught by a head boy, head girl, Filtch, or a teacher down in the kitchens, so that’s where he was headed. With his plan coming together more for getting Amelia out of his father’s house and the return of one of his best friends, things where starting to look up again. Of course there was always that thing with Professor Riddle, but he didn’t know what to make of it just yet, and decided not to bring anything up either.