<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/3d/59/07/3d5907ad1382a4def0eb0075c2bc128a--evan-peters-man-candy.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/yuExVFv.png)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>NAME:</strong> Derek Darley (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=299655.msg14655389#msg14655389)<br/><strong>YEAR:</strong> Ravenclaw 6th Year<br/><strong>BLOOD STATUS:</strong> PUREBLOOD<br/><strong>WAND:</strong> 13 Inches | English Oak | Wampus Cat Hair<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong> Blue Jeans, White T-Shirt, Gray and Black Jacket, Messy Trainers<br/><strong>DATE | TIME:</strong> Monday, 2 September 2019 | Very Late Evening<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong> Hogwarts Grounds &gt;&gt;&gt; Shrieking Shack<br/><strong>CONTENT:</strong> Stealing a kiss under the whomping willow<br/><strong>MOOD MUSIC:</strong> Childish Gambino - 3005 (https://youtu.be/tG35R8F2j8k)<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong> Audrey, CLOSED </td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Derek was nervous. Even if he had done this a thousand times before. Still, he had never done it with Audrey. There wasn't time for him to explain the peculiar type of potion that he had drafted up in the library in his third year. In truth, he was very proud of it, but he'd take that time to boast on another day. With baited breath he waited to feel Audrey's vial fling out of her hand toward the stump. In truth, it didn't need to hit the stump. It just needed to break open in an area far away from them. In truth, two of them didn't need to be there anyway. The tricky part about the Whomping Willow was that it could see people without eyes. It used what he assumed as magic to sense things. It was hard to out run without some sort of distraction, and there were very few (if any) who would sacrifice themselves as a distraction to the Whomping Willow while another would run toward the trunk. Why would anyone do that, anyway? To carve Audrey and Derek into the stump of the tree for no one to see.<br/><br/>Thinking on it. That was rather romantic and Derek would consider that later.<br/><br/>Derek threw his vial shortly after Audrey and the sounds of them cracking open echoed to their ears. However, Derek took no time and grabbed Audrey's hand dashing toward the tree as fast as they could. They could hear the creaking of the tree as it began to come alive and swing it's tense branches. Smashing into the ground. However, the sounds were from the opposite direction of Audrey and Derek. The tree was distracted by what looked like a pair of two people looking exactly like Derek and Audrey running in the opposite direction! Giving them a straight B-line for the tree!<br/><br/>These vials were not polyjuice potions, but instead mirror images that lasted a matter of ten seconds. However, because they were a mirror -- they went the opposite direction of Derek and Audrey as they ran for the tree. "Don't stop running!" Derek said if Audrey ever turned back to see what had happened. If she did, she would see the reflection of herself looking back as well as the Whomping Willow smashed through their smoky like images. Why did they pick those images over the live Audrey and Derek? That was another trick of Derek's great mind with potions. He added in the sap of sweet Maple trees from North America. Trees could love and fancy things too, couldn't they?<br/><br/>It wasn't until Derek met the base of the trunk that he finally slipped his hands toward the bark. Fishing around for something frantically as the mirror images on the other end of the lawn stopped too. "Now... where is this," Derek said. Admitting that he hadn't done this in a few months. It wasn't until his fingers found the knob that pressed in when he applied a bit of pressure. "Ah ha!" Derek said turning to look at Audrey in a cocky smile. "You thought I was the knob, but actually this is the real knob..." Derek's eyes opened wide as he began to see the tree position it's forces away from the mirror images that were created by the vials, and this time start to head toward them.<br/><br/>"Blimey," he muttered pressing into the button and the tree feel frozen. Stiff and rigid. Frozen in air as they finally had a moment of protection. Derek's face wouldn't show it, but his heart was beating so fast. He had worried about Audrey tripping and the Whomping Willow seeing them over the images, but it didn't happen. "You're quite the athlete, Audrey," Derek said with a cheeky grin, breathing hard as he closed the distance between them. His hands rested on her hips and he looked into her eyes. They were alone and the sweat on his brow was turning cold in the summer night.<br/><br/>Adrenaline did curious things. He pulled her closer to him from her waist. Looking down at her from their height difference as his left hand went up to her chin. "That was very thrilling, but all I want to do is..." Derek began to say tilting her chin up toward him. Leaning down and then planting a sweet and soft kiss from under the branches of the defeated Whomping Willow. He smelled like tree sap from the potions he had drafted earlier. However, his lips were soft and pressed between hers. There was a softness, a sweetness, and an urgency as he hoped to feel her kiss back.<br/><br/>Derek only let his tongue part between her lips once before he pulled away. Already feeling the tree beginning to shiver alive once again as he pulled away. A cocky smile on his face as he said, "C'mon. We're not done yet. I still have to take you to my personal hell," and then slipped his other hand away from her chin and back to her hand. Walking toward a large hold in the tree that he leaned down into and walked into the large hold near the side of the branches that rose from the ground. Waiting for Audrey to come in with him.<br/><br/>There was a small tunnel, but it wouldn't be long before Audrey would see light from Derek's wand. Then the light would give a glimmer toward chairs and tables. A ratty old bed, and what looked like the inside of an abandoned old house. What more, from the windows, was the vision of Hogsmede down upon them. It may have taken a second, because Derek wouldn't say anything while Audrey was looking around, but they were in the Shrieking Shack.