Lost in the forest of dean again

Nick was wearing a Collered shirt unbuttoned and under that was a grey shirt and in his pocket he had his Lucky Cloth and in his hand he had his wand wich was lighting up the forest around him with a lumos that was cast he was hoping to find somebody because truth be told he was lost but he didnt care he was going to find his way he just needed to find water then go north then he fell then he got up and cast lumos again with a slight cut on his arm

Snap! Nerissa twitched when a tree branch broke underneath her foot. She had no idea why she had felt that wandering through the forest would be a good idea, but she certainly saw then, as she stepped through the darkness, jumping at every sudden noise, that it hadn’t in fact been a wise idea at all. Perhaps her need to end her paranoia had driven her to enter the forest, or maybe it had been the idea of spending the evening surrounded by brilliant plants- but now that the sun had gone down and she hadn't a clue of where she was, the only thing that really mattered was escaping the place.

The young redhead female stopped short, her eyes wide, when she heard something move not too far from where she was standing. She tilted her head backwards slightly, quivering, with no idea what to do in order to defend herself from whatever horrible beast hid behind the bushes to her right. She slipped her hand into one of the pockets of her denim shorts slowly, curling her fingers tightly around the wood.

Snap! Nerissa yelped and stumbled forward, causing her wand to slip from her fingertips. She gasped and dropped to her hands and knees and began searching for the twig, but it was extremely difficult in the dark with only the moon overhead to light the ground before her.

Snap. Step, step, step…

What awful noises those were. Nerissa froze and squeezed her eyes shut tight; those were no animal footsteps, and she was sure of that. What sort of dark people wandered the forest at that time of night? Death Eaters, Nerissa could only imagine. She kept her body completely still, her face only a few inches above the ground- but her dark red hair still blew about her in the warm evening wind.

A whimper escaped her lips. What sort of danger had she gotten herself into this time around?

Nick heard a sound like a whimper so he followed the sound then he seen what looked like a person crying sorta so he took out his wand ready to fight it then he seen it it Was Nerissa Hatts nick didnt know much about her but for some reason he knew she was probilly lost so he said "Hi Nerissa its m Nick" Nick said He said his name just in case she didnt recongize him

A voice… one that Nerissa hadn’t been expecting to hear; she had expected a cold, icy voice that belonged to a Death Eater, or a vampire, but she certainly hadn’t expected to hear Nick Potter’s voice- of all people! Nerissa slowly turned her head to see if it was actually Nick who had spoken, and there he was, with a lit wand in his hand. She twisted her body around so that she was sitting on her backside on the ground, though she hadn’t forgotten about her wand, which was probably lying on the ground in the dirt somewhere nearby. “Nick? You jerk! You scared me!” she spoke, her voice cracking towards the end of her sentence; it was clear that she had been frightened out of her wits, for she was shaking and her lips continued to quiver even when she bit down on them. “Merlin…” she whispered and exhaled slowly, rubbing her face with one of her hands.

After a moment of simply sitting there, calming herself, Nerissa climbed to her feet and dusted her clothing off, “What are you doing here? And at this hour?” Nerissa asked- though she really should have been asking herself that very question- and tilted her head to one side as she examined Nick’s face, her curly hair falling over her shoulder. Something about Nick had always made Nerissa feel rather nervous and on-edge, and so, she really didn’t feel too much safer around him than she had when she had been alone. She saw some sort of darkness in his eyes that she had only ever seen in the eyes of the evilest of people… though it could just have been the moon playing tricks on her. Or maybe Nick had simply been through a lot more than Nerissa had, and it had started to take its toll on him.

She turned around once more and looked down at the ground, wrapping her arms around her midsection absentmindedly, “I lost my wand… I dropped it when I heard you coming; I thought you were a D-death Eater or something,” she stated, stuttering slightly; for some reason, she had a hard time believing that Nick wasn’t a Death Eater himself. Nerissa ran a hand through her hair to comb a few tangled strands away from her eyes and continued to scan the area for anything that looked similar to the wand she had purchased in Diagon Alley when she was Eleven years old.

"Well Im sorry if I scared you" Nick aplogized to her "I was exploering and I got lost and cant find my way out" Nick knew Nerissa didnt really fell comfort able around him because of what happened in knouckturn ally "well I promise you Im not a death eater just been thourgh alot lately" Nick told her as he bent down to help her find her wand "Is this it" Nick asked her hold up a polished stick that looked like a wand then he remembered how nerissa was evil for the longest time but he knew she wasent

“So we’re both lost… great,” Nerissa mumbled and inhaled slowly. She glanced in Nick’s direction only to catch him looking her way. A look of confusion passed over her face, and she was about to ask him what was wrong when she saw that he had her wand in his hand. She smiled softly and nodded her head, “yes, that is it, thank you,” she replied and took her wand from him, wrapping her fingers around the slender stick once more. It felt good to know that she had some way of protecting herself if anything else decided to sneak up on her.

The young female was silent for a moment before she spoke again, having had to think about her next words for a few moments, “You can never be too sure these days…”, her voice was quiet, as if she was afraid that he would take her words the wrong way and would lash out at her, but at the same time, she managed to keep her face as blank as possible in order to hide her slight unease when he was near her.

Another gust of wind blew through the woods, dancing about the air, and Nerissa couldn’t help but feel relaxed when her hair was blown backwards off of her face and her skin was caressed by the evening air. She closed her eyes and inhaled the forest’s scent- but something ruined the moment, and it had been something that she had been avoiding ever since the events of a terrible evening in Knockturn Alley. Nerissa’s eyelids twitched before snapping open, and when her eyelids did open to reveal her usually warm and friendly eyes, they were wide and filled with a strange mixture of disgust and fear. She shook her head quickly and roughly, as if attempting to knock her thoughts out of her ears.

Blood. She had seen that puddle of crimson liquid on the floor again when she had closed her eyes. It had been the reason she had avoided sleep for days, and the reason she would only close her eyes for a long period of time when she had no other choice but to do so- but that moment of relaxation had caused her to forget, and it had been a terrible shock indeed.

Nerissa glanced at Nick, but quickly darted away when her imagination caused her to see his face slathered in his own blood. She rubbed her face quickly and took a few steps forward, hoping that Nick hadn’t noticed, and that it whatever was going on her, would cease. “Uh- I- I came this way, so our best bet is to fallow this path…” she croaked in an attempt to make normal conversation.

Nick listened to her "Whats wrong" Nick asked her then he blinked and saw blood Nick had been diffrent since the battle of knouckturn and right now Nick felt like he had a crush on her now so he just stood by her "Lets go when ever" Nick said he likes plants and didnt want to leave "You like plants right Nick asked her he knew she like plants but he felt like asking her that

Talk about plants, yeah, that is normal, that is you, Nerissa thought and stopped in her tracks. She slowly turned around, her lips upturned into a fake smile, “Yeah, I love plants more than anything else,” she replied honestly, wondering how on earth he had figured that out. Had he heard others teasing her at Hogwarts? Or did he know things about her because he had been stalking her? Nerissa inhaled sharply; it was a possibility. “How did you know that?” she asked suspiciously, titling her head to the side like a pigeon once again; it had become something of a habit of hers.

Nerissa looked away from Nick for a moment to gaze at the tall trees around them. The moonlight reflected off of the leaves that decorated the trees in the most magnificent way… It captivated Nerissa, and despite having seen what she had only a moment prior, she was able to stop and just admire nature’s handiwork. “Plants are the only ones on this earth that don’t have secrets to hide… that don’t wish to hurt each other…” she spoke softly, her voice carrying in the wind, dancing about.

The young female’s eyes glittered in the moonlight like the trees’ leaves had, and for a moment she had forgotten completely of Nick’s presence. It had been a moment of peace for her, but she could hear him breathing closely beside her, and it only reminded herself that she herself could not live alone with the plants, for there would always be someone around to prove that she was no plant herself…

… no, she was flawed and her mind had been poisoned, because she was a human, and that was what happened to humans- all of them.

"I heard rumors in school But I like plants too" Nick told her as he kept walking with her then he stopped when she stopped and whent hen she went when she stopped a second time he tripped over her and fell " Im sorry" Nick said he was embaressed in front of some body he thought he had a crush on then he got up and seen some giants they were in a pack but if they saw him or her he giants were scary to him in the night time

Nerissa certainly hadn’t expected Nick to trip over her- who tripped over another person? And though it was rather amusing, Nerissa didn’t know whether she should laugh or ask him if he was alright. At first, she stood still, her lips parted slightly as if she was going to say something, simply staring at the boy who had fallen to the ground. She closed her mouth and bent down after a few moments of silence and extended her hand for him to take, “Come on, I’ll help you up,” she offered halfheartedly, not too sure if he would accept her offer or not; Nerissa didn’t know much about what kind of person Nick was, and therefore, it was rather hard for her to try and communicate with him. Not to mention the hallucinations she kept having- they didn’t help a bit.

The young female noticed that Nick was staring off into the distance, and couldn’t keep herself from fallowing his gaze to see what exactly had grabbed his attention- only to find that she wished she hadn’t done so. Giants. A whole group of them. Nerissa’s eyes widened and filled with the same fear that had shone in them when Nick had snuck up on her erlier. She slowly stood up and straightened before holding her wand out infront of her, her fingers shaking violently, nearly causing her to drop her wand again. “I-I- Oh Merlin…” she stuttered, trying her hardest to think of some sort of spell to protect herself, but it was as if her mind had shut down completely, and she was left with nothing but an empty skull and fear burning beneath her ribcage.

“OK, no more stops, we need to get the heck out of here,” Nerissa whispered to Nick, trying to keep her voice down in order to avoid being heard by the gigantic creatures. Nerissa had never actually seen one in person until then, and knew for sure that it was an experience she could have lived peacefully without.