So why hide your expletives under your breath? (Iggy)

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Adonia didn't mind herbology one bit, and he was in Greenhouse three now, walking among the plants. There were a few students in there, seemingly working on class projects. She recognized a few of them, but didn't approach anyone yet. She was in the mood for some new blood, new meat. Her week at the carnival had been so full of new people and experiences, that it had almost made her delirious with happiness. Now, she was ready to snag another feeling like that.

Someone new. Someone fresh. Someone - like that.

She caught sight of him up ahead and she paused, biting her lip in thought for a moment. She released her lip and took a few more paces forward, before settling at the plant beside where he was, and pretending to assess it.

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Herbology wasn't necessarily Iggy's forte, but it was hands on so the Slytherin didn't mind it so much. If he had to choose, he'd definitely put it up in his top classes. Maybe. Though he couldn't see why people like Professor Longbottom could build careers off of it. It wasn't that interesting, but to each his own he supposed. Class was over for the day, but the homework they had been assigned for the evening required them to take samples of Snargaluff pods to examine overnight. Luckily, the Herbology greenhouse only housed young Snargaluffs so they weren't big enough to try and attack the students - not that Iggy would know what to do even if they did.

Iggy grabbed a pair of tongs and began to poke at one of the little pods to try to pry it open to extract a sample when someone appeared in his peripherals to his right. Iggy froze slightly and glanced at the person next to him quickly. He didn't recognize her. He decided to try again at poking at the pod to get it to open but it was shut pretty tight. With a little frustrated sigh, Iggy sat back and set the tongs down. He looked then at the person next to him head on. He had definitely not seen her before. Was she a student from one of the visiting schools? She had to be. "Uh, hello?" He greeted, raising an eyebrow at her as to silently inquire what she was doing.

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The guy seemed to be having a little bit of a struggle with what he was doing, what with all of the sighs. He addressed her after seemingly giving up and she turned toward him, giving a nod of feigned disinterest. "Oh, hi there." She turned back to the plant after greeting him, not saying anything further yet. She was testing him, wanting to see what he did with her beside him. Seeing his face straight on was nice, it proved that he was just as good looking as she had guessed from across the greenhouse. The tone of his voice was something she recognized as well, his type. She was enjoying this already, just waiting to see what his next move would be. She liked to try different tactics on different people, it made life a lot more interesting, and a lot more fun. And, to her, this tactic was just as fun as fully flirting with him straight away would have been. It was just a different style. And, if he chose to ignore her maybe she would push it a little bit more.

But for now, she was just getting started. She didn't really know much about this plant in front of her, so she didn't actually touch it, but rather looked at it and occasionally lifted up finger to point out of certain part and scrunch her face up as if she was thinking about something to do with it. But really, she wasn't. At all.

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Ichabod made no effort to hide his slightly confused look when the dark haired girl only greeted him back in response and left it at that. She then turned back to the plant and seemed to be visually examining the plant in front of them. He raised an eyebrow at the girl as he watched her for a moment. Who was she, and why had she come over just to watch him work on this plant? After another moment of silence, he spoke up again. "Fancy Herbology?" He finally asked with a small, half smirk.

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He asked if she fancied herbology and she shrugged, not looking back at him yet. "I guess so," she said, "I don't really care for boring plants though," she admitted. Then she turned toward him, her hair falling over her shoulder and her eyebrow raising, "do you know what kind of plant this is? Sadly, I don't. I was just exploring a bit and it caught my eye," he caught her eye. The way she said that about the plant may have had a little bit of a connotation to him being the thing that caught her eye, but she wasn't sure if he was clever enough to pick up on that. "Nice looking things do that," she added.

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Iggy let out a light chuckle at her first words; he, too, didn't care too much for Herbology. He especially didn't care for the boring plants. No, Iggy preferred potions much more. Iggy was only slightly taken by surprise when the girl turned to face him with a raised eyebrow. She asked him what kind of plant it was and she explained how it caught her eye. However, he couldn't help but sense a second connotation behind her words but he couldn't be so sure. Iggy wasn't exactly good at reading between the lines, but this girl was gorgeous so even if she hadn't meant anything else, Iggy now found himself quite nervous. "Um," he started and turned back to the plant, furrowing his eyebrow as he tried to find words. "It's a Snargaluff." He looked back at her with a slightly more confident look. "Not too special, if you ask me," he shrugged.

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'Um', he said. What a lovely little word. It generally meant someone didn't know what to say, and she adored the fact that she had that affect on people. He turned back to the plant, named it, and then turned back to her to say it wasn't anything special. She smirked, her eyebrow lowering to match the other, "well, maybe you could show me something that is special? I mean, if you've got a minute to spare," she said, her voice still confident but in that soft husky tone she used when reeling in prey. She cocked her head to the side, "I would hope that you aren't trapped in here with these boring plants for long. Not when there is fun to be had elsewhere."

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Who on Earth was this girl and where did she come from? She certainly couldn't be a Hogwarts student, he thought. Surely they would have had a run-in by now if she were. Was she hitting on him? Or was he completely delusional? Did Snargaluff pods have that side effect? Iggy sat there a moment, blinking back at the dark haired girl with an almost dumb-founded look on his face before he finally spoke. "Y-yes, I mean. Sure. Yeah," he stuttered out before sitting up straight on his stool. He looked around. Class had been dismissed some time ago and Iggy could always come back to study the Snargaluff more. He rather hastily stuffed his quill and parchment into his bag before he got up, feeling a newfound confidence sort of take over as he did so. He turned back to the girl, offering her an arm.

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Ah, the staring. It was an even better compliment than the 'um'. Then the slight stammering. Oh boy, she was going to have a little fun with this one. She simple smiled as he agreed and waited for him to get up before slow moving away from the counter. She looked down at his arm and feigned a slight jaw drop before looking back up at him. "Handsome and a gentleman," she deducted. "I'm curious what else you've got up your sleeve erh... What do I call you?" she asked, her tone slipping into a sweeter tone rather than overly whispery. She knew how to play her cards. She knew what people responded to. It wasn't like this was her first flirting rodeo.

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Iggy smirked slightly to himself at the girl's comment. Perhaps it had caught him off guard when this girl had approached him, but he was no stranger to the reigns when it came to girls. Sometimes he just forgot that there were girls out there that were attracted to him. He hadn't dated anyone since Madison, but that hadn't exactly ended well. Iggy found he didn't like like dating so much. Or at least, he hadn't found the right girl who made him want to settle for dating. The girl asked Iggy what she should call him then and he gave a quick nod and answered, "Iggy." The Slytherin never introduced himself by his full first name. "And yourself?" He looked at the girl for her own response.

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Iggy. She committed the name to memory. "Adonia," she said, "feel free to use 'Doni' instead, though, by all means. Whatever you prefer. I'll answer to almost anything, as long as it isn't a downright insult," she said. Yes, this was one of her tactics used to give her prey permission to compliment her with whatever nicknames they chose to call her from that moment forward. She finally laced her arm through his, her free hand crossing over her body in order to rest on his arm. That was just how she linked arms. It kept him closed and, for lack of a better term, sort of her prisoner.

"So, where is the special stuff?" she reminded, her eyebrow raised at him.

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