After Lessons (Gus)

"Oooh myyy bloody ..." Gus trailed off, as his eyes and head went skyward, his hands on his hips as his body twisted away from the boy but he knew he had to look back. He also knew he was unable to finish the rest of that sentence without having the headmaster jump down his throat for inappropriate to the minors all stood around, mouths gaped at the site before them. Gus looked back to the young boy in question and he dropped his head off to the side a little as sigh escaped him. Of all the things. He was in his third year! This was his bloody first year of this lesson and the boy was just stood there, dumbfounded, covered head to toe in shit. Literal shit. From an animal. What in the bloody hell had happened Gus didn't know and he was quite frankly not a fan of finding out but the young Hufflepuff lad was definitely never going to be living this one down as the students started gossiping amongst themselves now that the shock was wearing off. Unfortunately the smell was not.

"Go on," Gus said, indicating over to the fence, "Stand over there." Bloody hell this was ridiculous, "Everybody else, you're dismissed, enjoy your extra ten minutes of freedom." He told them, glad that the day would soon be over, only it was only Wednesday, he still had another two lessons and dingus here was due back again on Friday, right before lunch. Brilliant. Sodding brilliant. "Uh-" He started, pointing to two other lads that were snickering away to one another. Gus had a feeling they were bloody well involved too but no one was saying anything. "You two wait here." He told them before he turned his wand on the shit-covered shit. Okay, that wasn't fair and he knew it, but come on! This!? "Stuggins stay still. Aguamenti." He said, a jet of ice blue light flying from his wand, it turned to water and her drenched the boy, removing a lot of the animal dung as was possible for now. "Stop shaking, it's just a bit of water." He told the boy before switching to the hot-air charm to dry him off. Admittedly it was bloody freezing outside and if he'd been hosed off he'd probably be shivering quite a bit too. "Up to the castle and wash off properly, Stuggins." He told the Hufflepuff before he turned to the Gryffindors he was certain were somehow involved. "If I hear even a peep out of you two next lesson," He said, his jaw tense as he looked from one boy to the other, "It's two weeks of detention. Go on, back up to the castle with you both." The boys gave a quick 'yes, sir' and hurried on their way. Gus sighed again, rolled his eyes and relaxed his body.

With a wave of his wand the equipment from the lesson started packing itself away. Once that was done Gus had it in his mind that he was going to need a couple of stiff drinks to recuperate from todays little episode but just as his luck was, it was Wednesday and he preferred not to drink when he had lessons to teach the following day so that left one option, a 'staff meeting' on Friday at the Three Broomsticks, after all what was the point of a lesson like today if you couldn't share it with your peers and sit down and discuss appropriate ways to handle such situations? Okay, it would be more a sharing of outrageous stories from this years lessons, and lessons over all of time. At least his trip up to the castle was a quiet one. He ran his idea of a staff meeting by Geralina in the entrance hall who was keen on attending and Lenore on the first floor. He also made mention of her little Stuggins and what he'd been up to. Next stop was Hazel's classroom. Lessons were out but he hadn't seen her walking down to the great hall so he figured he'd start there, walking the corridor until he got to the classroom door. With a gentle knock he opened the door to see Hazel grading her papers, "Got a mo'?" He asked, peeking from the door, brow quirked high, doubting she'd turn him away but it didn't hurt to look a tad adorable.

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'Of course'. Of course 'of course'! What else would she say? Gus straightened himself up immediately, probably a little too fast and gave the door a little more of a push, letting himself in as Hazel moved around her desk. She was a smashing lass and Gus hadn't had the chance to get to know her while she'd been married to one of his old mates from Hogwarts. After Hogwarts Gus had found he'd lost touch with a lot of people, Alvin being one of them and as such he'd never met Alvin's blushing bride. In fact he hadn't even heard of Alvin's accident until after he started working at Hogwarts. Thankfully he'd found out from a mutual friend, had he asked Hazel herself how he was getting on ... well he imagined that would have made for one awful first impression. Of him. Not her. She just seemed wonderful, very easy going. He would of course seemed like a complete and utter tit.

"What?" He asked of her enquiry until it struck him that she thought he was here in some kind of offical, Professory capacity but now, he was her in a sort of personal capacity, "Oh no, not that, not unless you've become head of Slytherin of Hufflepuff since I last saw you,"He chuckled. "No, I've uh- just swung by to see if you fancy joining a couple of us for a 'staff meeting'." he said, his eyes averting to the ceiling a little as he lent back with a little wiggle because honestly, it wasn't a staff meeting of any kind and he was sure his body language and the tone he used suggested it was not the sort of staff meeting one might have around Hogwarts with all the professors, Dumbledore included, "Just at the Three Broomsticks." He said, "Friday night. Lenore's coming and Geralina. She's gonna have a word with Tristan, see if he fancies a few drinks if he's got the time." He slipped his hands into his pockets and rocked back slightly on his heels, lips pursed a little as he smiled head tilted a little as he wondered if she'd have any interest at all or if she'd be busy. He wasn't even sure what Tristan's schedule was so he wasn't sure if the Astronomy Professor would be coming along or not. He wouldn't mind if it was just him and the ladies, not that he was thinking of it in any sort of sexual way - Merlin no! He just didn't mind their company, actually her rather enjoyed all of them, they were all easy to get along with and he was so glad he'd stopped talking because yep, that would definitely have sounded perverted out loud.

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It was sweet of Hazel to play along with his humour but he knew that he wasn't to everyone's tastes, in fact he thought of himself as a bit of a pain from time to time. When he'd been younger he was fairly certain he'd been a hell of a lot more boisterous than he was now and probably quite a pain in the bottom for those that weren't his friends. He had a caring streak too, he was far more empathetic and caring once he'd started his Care of Magical Creatures lessons in his third year but once he was out of his lessons and once he'd been riled up a little more by his mates, he was right back to being a typical teenage boy, and who could ever possibly blame him? He was just glad he'd never done anything outright ridiculous as a teen. He'd been relatively well behaved when it came to the girls, finding them a little nerve wrecking in the beginning but after a fair few rejections he soon built up confidence around them and realised they were just people too. Not that he'd ever really thought of them as something other than people, just that it was harder to approach them when they were so attractive they seemed like Goddesses.

There were always plenty of reasons to chose from for a 'staff meeting' and Gus always felt the best one was; "Survival." He smiled, cheeks perking up, pulling his curving lips and just lighting up his playful blue eyes, "I think that's always worthy of celebrating." He chuckled but soon trailed off. He thought of himself as funny but he knew not many others did and he'd learnt to grow a little uncomfortable with laughing at his own jokes around others, especially when they probably did not find what he was saying quite as funny as he did but anyone that worked with jumped up, hormonal teenagers would know that at the end of every week it felt like surviving the near impossible, or perhaps that was just for him because of his own career path. "Just an incident today in class. Nothing to worry about, just stinky and messy combined with a few trouble makers. The consequences I get to face choosing a Profession of teens and beasts." For the most part Gus did absolutely love his job, the students, mostly, were pretty respectful and well behaved. Today was not an average sort of day but it was one that would require talking about over plenty of drinks down at the local pub with a few good colleagues that would at least partially know what he was going through but he was certain none of them would quite get what it was to work with kids and animals because really, how many of them literally had to deal with shit on a daily basis, let alone a kid covered in the foul smelling stuff?

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Students could be full on. They were young and hormonal with the world of magic at their fingertips. There were many talented students, there were many dim students but they all knew enough to cause damage if they wanted to. The idea that a student might blow up a section of the school was never far from Gus' mind because to him, one hormonal outburst could certainly cause something like that. Thankfully nothing too bad had happened in his time at Hogwarts, both as a student and a Professor, but there were of course rumours that floated around about this one kid that once did something and another that did something else. Gus really never paid too much attention to all that malarky back in his school days, he'd been too energetic and focused on what he was up to to worry about some kids from fifty years ago rumoured to have done something extreme.

Gus chuckled at Hazel's little joke, his head looked down to the ground out of habit and shuffled his feet a little. He looked back up and across to Hazel and nodded a little, the corners of his lips pulling down a little before he smiled, “So true.” He commented, some students in particular were rather more beastly than the others, some were downright nuisances really but every student deserved the right to learn and, hopefully, they'd grow as humans with the more knowledge and understanding they got, something that would primarily rest on what they were taught at school. Of course there was a lot of parental involvement. The first eleven years of these children's lives were pretty much left to their parents or nannies and their views on others were set before they got to the castle. Some changed for the better, some were influenced for the worse but Gus always hoped the students would find themselves doing the right thing. "Stuggin's was even covered in -" Gus cleared his throat, he was about to say 'shit' but he knew that was entirely inappropriate language for school hours, words like 'shit' and 'piss' were reserved for the informal staff meetings where they could blow off a little steam, "Animal faeces and I'm fairly certain Rosenberg and Fillies had something to do with it the way they were snickering on." Gus made a clicking noise with his tongue and his teeth, bloody fed up with those two students in particular. They were a rather pain in the arse duo.

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