A/N: So shoot me. I started a Boot Camp Challenge on HPFC. This one is for one's OT3. For me, it's a next gen one, because that leaves a lot to the imagination. Anyways, since this is a huge project and school is a huge deal, this won't be updating regularly, and it'll just be a collection of one-shots. Hope everyone enjoys! :)

Chapter Title: Creepy Crawlies and their Homes
Prompt: spider web
Genre(s): Friendship, Humour
Chapter Summary: First year Lucy Weasley gets a right scare on her first night away from home. Thankfully, a few other fellow Ravenclaw first years are there to help… er, sort of.

Lucy Weasley may or may not have strayed away from the rest of the Ravenclaw first year group when she spotted the library.

It certainly wasn't a given.

But now, young Lucy regretted her not-decision as she wandered the empty and eerie halls all on her own. Slowly, the creepy stories Molly, her third year Gryffindor sister, had shared about the school were resurfacing. Luckily for her, it wasn't after curfew.

But that certainly didn't make the place any less scary or any easier to navigate.

Lucy turned a corner with a quiet sigh and fifty or so cautious looks around her. Fortunately for her, it couldn't get much worse than it already was.

Obviously, she thought too soon.

The moment she turned that corner, her face became only mere inches away from her worst fear. A gigantic, sticky spider web.

With its gigantic, creepy spider.

Lucy bit her tongue in order to not scream, but she was far too petrified to even breathe. How did she always end up in these situations? The young redhead let out a shaky breath and took a cautious step away. I will not freak out, I will not freak out…

Suddenly, she saw a bright flash of light and jumped back, letting out a small yelp. She fumbled for her wand, but once she finally got a shaky grip on it, she spun around and held it in the direction the light came from. She frowned when she noticed it was just another fellow first year. Lucy noted his Ravenclaw tie.

"What was that for?" Lucy suddenly shouted.

"Uh…" the first year boy muttered, pointing behind her.

Lucy turned around quickly. The spider and its web were gone. She spun back to face the boy. "Thank you," she muttered with an embarrassed tone, her face heating up.

"Well, spiders, they're right vicious things," the boy answered sarcastically.

Lucy narrowed her eyes at him and was about to reply to the familiar boy when a flash of red hair turned the corner and appeared beside the boy. She frowned. "Rose?"

"There you are!" Rose Weasley, her cousin and fellow first year Ravenclaw, exclaimed. "Where'd you run off to?"

"Erm, nowhere," Lucy muttered. She fiddled with her tie nervously. "Not really anyway."

"Yeah, well, lucky her I came just in time," the Ravenclaw boy said. "She was about to be attacked by an itty-bity spider."

Lucy crossed her arms. "It's not funny," she said. "It could've been a young acromantula and even if it wasn't, there is a large array of spiders that have immediately fatal poisons."

Rose smiled. "In other words, she's deathly scared of anything with eight legs and creepy pincers," she clarified. Lucy glared at her. "Well, anyways, glad to see you're alive, Lucy," she continued. "I certainly wouldn't want my favourite cousin dead."

Lucy scoffed. "Yeah, whatever," she muttered.

Rose smiled and ran up to Lucy and gave her a hug. She pulled away but kept her arm around her cousin's shoulder. "Well, anyways, Lucy, this is Lorcan," Rose introduced. "Lorcan, Lucy."

"Nice meeting you," Lorcan greeted with a smile. "But there's only so many times I can hex empty spider webs."

"Great to see you're a Ravenclaw," Lucy grumbled sarcastically. After a pause, she exclaimed, "It was not empty, it had a gigantic spider on it! Honestly, didn't you see it?"

"Yeah, yeah, we get it Lucy," Rose said dismissively. "You have an irrational fear."

Lucy sighed. "Forget it," she said. "Let's just go to the tower."

"You sure there aren't too many spiders up there?" Lorcan asked jokingly.

Lucy glared at him. "You know, for someone I just met, you sure are cracking a lot of 'jokes'," she stated dryly.

"She's right, Lorcan," Rose admitted. "I'll do the making fun of."

Lucy huffed. "Forget it! I'll walk back on my own, thank you very much," she said.

"And how do you expect to defend yourself from the spiders?" Rose asked jokingly.

Lucy scowled. "You think I can't tell everyone about your biggest fears?" she teased her cousin.

Rose crossed her arms and smirked. "Just try," she said challengingly.

Lucy mimicked her cousin's movements. "Tempt me," she replied.

A moment of silence followed, which Lorcan promptly broke. "This is seriously intense," he said. "If I was blind, I wouldn't think you guys are innocent first years."

Lucy and Rose looked at each other and then burst out laughing.

"Well, I need some good sleep," Lucy sighed.

"Me too," Rose commented. "Let's head to the tower."

"Wait—" Lorcan paused. "Was that just a joke?"

Rose and Lucy exchanged a glance and shrugged. Lucy looked back at Lorcan with a smirk. "Guess you'll never know," Lucy said with mock eeriness.

Lorcan glared and reluctantly followed after the two girls. Little did they know that single night would be the start of an unending friendship.

So, quite short, but I wanted to have a nice, sweet introductory one-shot before delving more into them. ALSO, something I forgot to mention: these are not in chronological order. All right.

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Thanks for reading :)