He sat in an empty classroom, copying down the notes that were on the board. He was the only person there. As he wrote, he could tell the sun was starting to set. He was almost done. "God this is so gay" he muttered as he continued to write, he had quite neat writing. Well for a guy anyway. His sister always boasted about how she was the cause of his neat handwriting. She was probably right, but he didn't really care. He dipped his quill into some ink and looked at it. The last paragraph, as he started to write he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. Getting quickly to his feet he walked over to the window. It was strange, a large red car was moving up the roads that lead from the outside world to Hogwarts. He watched as the car started moving closer and closer. Suddenly there was a loud screech from what seemed to be a secret alarm system. He looked around. The screeching became louder for a second, then a voice boomed from what seemed to be right next to him. "Students, Teachers please return to your common rooms" he grabbed his bag and pulled the parchment off his desk that he was writing on. Taking out his wand he flicked it at the board, suddenly it was clean. Then sprinted out of the room and headed towards the common room. As he got close to the great hall he heard a noise. He started to descend the set of steps that would land him straight to the entrance when the doors opened slowly. He jumped back up the steps and dropped to the ground so he could just see them yet they couldn't see him. Two men stood in the doorway, both with balaclavas on and two pistols. His heart suddenly skipped a beat. 'What the hell were they doing here?' he thought quietly to himself as he looked around for any signs of other students. The men were quite tall, one was wearing a red t-shirt and the other a black one. "Hmm… This looks like a nice place to rob." They said to each other looking around and the one on the left moved to the closest painting. As he passed the suit of armor a large crash came from inside. He spun around. "What the hell was that?" Then saw the suit of armor and sighed. "God I must have just tapped it with my gun like this." He knocked it the loud noise seemed to repeat itself. As he got closer to the painting he stared at it. "Hmm this painting is stupid there's no one in it…" Joseph quickly whipped out his wand just incase he needed it.
There was a noise behind him, as he spun around he saw a fifth year girl who was in his potions class hiding, she looked almost petrified. She had long brown hair and eyes and she was quite tall. As he looked at her she gave a little mummer as if to tell him not to even think about it. They must have heard her as well "Hey Dave, I think there's someone up there." He looked at her, her eyes widened slightly. "Shit shit…" He grabbed hold of her and pulled her into the closest room and shut the door locking it. As he heard them climb up the stairs he held his breathe. They were screwed, he knew that there was no way that they could get away from them and they would be able to tell that they were in this room. He listened, a creak gave him the knowledge that they had stepped on the first step. Then the second, third, forth, his heart was racing, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth- "Ahh" he heard a scream. Ofcourse the trick step, he couldn't help but laugh. After a moment of cursing and swearing from outside he heard them continue. Alicia, the girl who had been standing near him seemed slightly better. As they got closer he looked at her and moved closer. "We are going to have to use these…" he whispered looking at her. "I know… fucking hate muggles." Alicia or Leecie, was one of Beth's friends, she also happened to be Marcus Flints younger sister. He heard them leave the steps and turn to the door that they had shut. "Come out come out, we won't hurt you if you do." He looked at her. "I guess this is it, expelliamous should work…" she nodded and smiled. "Lets go." He pulled his robes off so he was just wearing his black echo t-shirt and ¾'s. He stepped closer to the door and clicked it unlocked; she hid in the corner out of sight and waited. As he opened the door he looked up at them. "Ummm…." He looked at their guns and then at the ground. "What are you doing here?" the one with the red shirt asked as they moved into the room and slammed the door shut behind him. "I-I-I'm homeless and this is the only place I can stay." He lied, looking up at them with what seemed to be tears in his eyes. "Please don't hurt me." He begged. They looked at each other. "I'm afraid we can't promise that, they both put their guns to his forehead, and suddenly. He whipped out his wand and screamed "expelliamous" at the same time as he heard Leecie do yell it. A gunshot went off; as he jumped back from fright he watched the two land on the ground, their guns landing beside his feet.
They stared up at him stunned. "What the hell was that?" Leecie stepped out from her hiding spot and moved beside him, her wand pointed at them. "Get up." She commanded as Joseph bent down to get the guns. He heard another noise from somewhere downstairs, he was miffed at who or what it was, he guessed it was another person hearing the gunshot coming up to help them. However when the footsteps reached the room and the faces rounded the corner it was not the people he had expected. "Joseph Engel, Alicia Flint what are you two doing here!" Professor Snape had entered; the two men were now lying on the ground in front of them. "Professor we didn't make it back to the Slytherin chamber beca…" Professor Dumbledore entered as well. Joseph stared at them, he felt like they were going to be in some serious trouble now. He looked at Snape who seemed to be dumbfounded to Dumbledore who's face turned into a giant grin for a second as he winked at them both then looked really serious. "Do you know how many rules you have broken?" Snape yelled at them. "Let me guess about 15?" Joseph replied sighing slightly. "Make that 25 Mr Engel" Snape spat, "Albus I believe these two should receive serious detentions for this." "I am quite aware of this however, if these two had not stepped in our school would be bare of all possessions." He smiled. "I believe our thanks and some congratulations should be awarded to them instead." He smiled. "Joseph I think that we should give you 100 points, and you Alicia 100 points." Joseph looked at Alicia who had a huge grin on her face. "Thank you Sir, I am sorry about that but I was kept in by professor Snape as I missed one of his classes." Joseph said and looked at him "That's very good Joseph you may leave." Dumbledore replied, and with that Joseph and Alicia headed back to the common room.