Blaze stood at the window of the owlery staring blankly at the shocking weather outside. Rain came down in horrible downpours and a strong gale howled through the grounds. "This weather is just depressing" thought Blaze as he leant against the window ledge. He prefered the owlery to any other part of the castle, the gentle sound of hooting and the occational flutter of wings shoothed Blaze in an odd way. The owlery was genrally the resting spot for Blaze's owl, Tweet, but he was currently doing a important delivery. and thats what was worring. "Tweet should be back by now" thought Blaze desperatly scanning the distance for any clue of the battered barn owl. "He better not of got this delivery wrong" grumbled Blaze to himself "I can't afford to lose any more money on these deliveries"

Blaze was now into getting money for himself, he set up his own little buiseness. He would buy stuff in, and then use Tweet to deliver it to whoever wanted it, for a higher price. Sneaky, he knew, but it was a nice little moneymaker for him, or at least it was if Tweet didn't make any mistakes. "Damn that bird" He cursed out loud sending a flock of owls fluttering away from him. Doing this job was dangerous sometimes though. Mostly his orders were harmless. A few love potions here, a couple of bottles of butterbeer there, however on the rare occasion he got a ..... unusual order, and he had an offer just like that that he needed to deal with. "I hope Tweet hasn't been intercepted" worried Blaze.

Natasha walked to the owlery. She didn't have to send anything she just liked to go up there. It was the only place in the whole castle where you could look out the window and see all of the grounds. Natash walked in to the room with her hair plastered to her face. She was rather shoked to see someone else in there. He looked like he was witing for a owl. She didnt say anything untill he spoke."Damn that bird". Natasha started to write a letter to her best friend to make it look like she had something to do. Natasha finished the letter and attached it to an owl and sent it out the window. Natasha walked over to the window next to the boy "Hello, "She said to him. was he okay he looked really worried.

"Oh Hi" said Blaze slightly taken aback by the sudden company "How long has she been here" He wondered. "Was that your owl?" asked Blaze gesturing towards the spot where the owl had dissapeared into the weather. "Out of all the owls in this castle" thought Blaze "why am I the only one with an owl that makes bad deliveries" He scowled into the harsh weather before turning back to his new company, a slightly false smile streching upon his face.

"Oh Hi Was that your owl?" The boy asked her "Oh yes that was my owl. I do hope he wont get lost in all the weather though." Natasha said gesturing out the window. Him as he scowled out the window into the weather before turning back to her, a smile streching upon his face. THe smile looked forced to her but oh well. "Are you waiting for something to arrive?"She asked her seemed to be rather anxious. "If you are it would be pointless to stand by the window the whole time. Why don't you sit down? maybe it will help."She said with a smile.

"um" grunted Blaze taking the advice and sliding to sit on the floor next to the window. "And I'm not quite waiting for something to arrive I just need my owl to take something else for me" He returned the smile to the girl slightly less falsely before it struck him. "God she doesn't know about the buisness does she" The smile slid off his face "maybe she knows about the illegal transactions I do! or she is trying to set up a rival buisness" Blaze shook his head trying to throw the thoughts away. "So, I'm Blaze" he said "who are you?"

Natasha watched as he sat on the floor "And I'm not quite waiting for something to arrive I just need my owl to take something else for me." the boy said. Natasha nodded. "Oh I see, but didn't you just send something out.... you don't have to answer that." Natasha said . She looked out the window. "So, I'm Blaze who are you?" She heard him say. She looked at him and sat down "I'm Natasha. I'm rather new so i see why we have never met."She said in a kind voice. Blaze seemed like a nice guy. He didn't seem to mind [like most others] that she is a slytherin.


[ooc: sorry im so bad at this]

Blaze returned her smile and looked again round the owlery. Many owls perched on hanging sticks around the room. Some were eating, others hooting contently. However the rain still hammered down outside, though now he had calmed down It seemed to have a nice gentle beat to it. "Nice to meet you Natasha" he said with a grin. 'she seems nice' He thought to himslef 'dispite her being slytherin.' He casually flicked his wand out and started to absent mindedly levitate a bit of owl feed. "So are you interesting in quiddich" said Blaze trying to find a topic of convosation.

"Nice to meet you Natasha" he said with a grin. 'Hmm a smile that didn't seem forced. "So are you interesting in quiddich" said Blaze. Natasha smiled something she DID know about and like. "Ya I love it." She said liking the change in topic. "Do You play?" She asked. Natasha played, she normally played chaser. Natasha had thought about going out for her house team but didn't. She loved to play for the sport not the glory like the others of her house.

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"Yea" Blaze jumped in glad they had found a topic to talk about. He hated awkward sillences "I'm chaser in the gryffindor team!" He went quiet for a breif moment while he remebered all the times he had on the pitch. "what about you?" he asked "do you play? I don't remeber seeing you in the matches against slytharin." He continued to levitate the owl feed almost without meaning to. Levitating stuff was a passtime that Blaze never got bored of but he now did it so often that he rarely thought about doing it and sometimes forgot that he was.