A/N: Once again...I own zilch but Jocelyn and the always cute Pip. And my plot. Yes...that's it.
For All We Know
MoonlightSerenade
Chapter 2: Introducing Pip & Settling In
The beautiful English landscape held Jocelyn's attention for somewhere around thirty minutes, truly having missed it in her absence. The view from her bungalow was of the street below, cars rushing by at all hours of the day and night, but she'd grown used to that. If she wanted to see something beautiful Jocelyn would walk to a park that was about 15 minutes away from her. She even caught site of a thestral soaring briefly above the treetops before it ducked back down into the protective, leafy walls of the Forbidden Forest. Some smoke was curling out of the hut that was on the edge of the forest which mean that the half-giant groundskeeper was still at the school, hopefully he was still teaching Care of Magical Creatures. Hagrid was the best possible professor for the job as he loved magical creatures. Well, creatures of any sort, really. The larger they were, the more Hagrid loved them. Some of his previous pets had been a dragon and an incredibly large spider.
Jocelyn crawled out of the window ledge and took off her cloak, hanging it upon a coat hanger near her entrance painting, then proceeded to ring the brass button that was supposed to summon and house-elf to her chambers. She figured that she might as well begin moving in, she assumed that she would begin to work with Severus within the week. After ringing the bell she didn't have to wait long, and house-elf appeared in front of her with a sharp crack around five or ten seconds later. It was very short, as all house-elves were, around two or three feet in height with light brown skin, similar to some house-elves. This one had very long, thin, floppy ears, a short, tiny nose, and large eyes the color of the needles of a pine tree.
"How can Pip help Miss today?" he asked, bowing until his ears brushed the floor.
"Hello Pip. I need some help moving my belongings from my home to here. I was told to ask you for assistance."
"Yes, right away! To where is Pip going?"
"Twenty-two High Street, Bungalow six, London. Just, ah, bring everything that you can manage. Books first, please."
"Pip is happy to help, Miss!" With that Pip disappeared and Jocelyn sat in one of the chairs, a royal blue color made of a very soft material to wait for the slightly hyper house-elf. "Always pleased to serve, apparently." Jocelyn hadn't ever had contact with a house-elf before, she had only seen photographs in a book about magical creatures. The Bauer's hadn't ever had any real use for a servant, only four people lived in the house and it wasn't a tremendously large house. Jocelyn's mum, Kelly, was able to take care of the house an her family at the same time, always succeeding in making sure that both were impeccable. Jocelyn admired her mother to no send, she was beautiful, graceful, intelligent, forgiving, and she was such a wonderful mum. Jocelyn wished with all her might that someday she could be just like Kelly.
Pip reappeared, making it sound like a firecracker has just gone off her in room, jarring Jocelyn from her thoughts and she rushed over to the creature, relieving him of two heavy boxes of books. She carried them over to the bookshelf and set them down, ready to put them on the many shelves of the tall bookshelf.
"There are two more boxes of just books, Miss. After that Pip will be bringing your clothing."
"Very well, thanks," she replied from her squatted down position. Pip disapperated once more and Jocelyn began to pull books out of the boxes, sorting them by subject, the largest pile being books about potions, but she also had books on herbology, transfiguration, and charms. Herbology was extremely useful with potions because when you need a magical plant for a potion, one would be able to understand what magical qualities that plant had. The transfiguration books and charms books were for her own purposes. Jocelyn wanted to know as much as she could, she was hungry for knowledge. That's why Jocelyn was a Ravenclaw, always reading, always studying. It may have also been because she was trying very hard to earn back lost points.
Another crack, a thud, and then another crack. Jocelyn turned and saw two more boxes that contained the rest of her collection of books and she walked over that way, moving those boxes over to where the other boxes were, pulling out book after book as she kept organizing each book.
"I have too many bloody books..." Jocelyn muttered. It felt like sorting out her books was taking ages. "This is exactly the reason why I have got to stop purchasing books constantly." She said that, but she didn't mean it. She knew that if she went to Hogsmeade today that she would stop in the book shop and probably purchase at least one new book. People were always publishing some new magical theory or spells...Jocelyn wanted to know them all. She also liked to do reasearch on something that interested her enough, sometimes proving new theories wrong. She never released what she found to the public, not wanting to seem hateful or too smart and actually get attention. That's not what she wanted at all...to be anonymous was bliss in her eyes.
Pip kept popping in and out for the rest of the afternoon, Jocelyn didn't even notice that he had stopped bringing things from her bungalow until she realized that it had become eriely quiet, simply because she become somewhat accoustomed to the noise he would make while entering and leaving. Turning about she saw items from her house scattered around the room, Pip must've tried to find a place for everything that he had to retrieve for her. She sighed, realizing that it was going to take her all day to settle herself in. A clock in the room told her that it was nearing noon, her stomach's complaining made the fact known that she needed to get some food. Another press of the button had Pip apparating to her chamber and she ordered a plate of whatever was being served at the time. Jocelyn ate most anything, no matter how good or bad it was or what it was, for that matter. He brought the food back and she kept working, telling her stomach that until all her books were at least sorted, it wasn't getting any food.
Jocelyn stood back and looked at the books that litered the floor by her bookshelf and breathed a sigh of relief. "Finally done with that...now it's time to eat."
A/N: Sorries for taking so long to update...real life decided to send me for a whirl. Craziness ensued. But I assure you that I am now focused on...other things as well as this? Cold hard fact: I am very interested in this story, but things are going nuts for me. Updates will be, at best, irregular for "For All We Know", but they will occur. I promise. I will not abandon this fic.
Oh yes...and if there are any spelling/grammer errors that I've missed, please point them out. I'm still looking for a beta...if you wish to be one, email me, please.