Trial and Error

Day 1: Pansy

It was still a bit dark out when Draco left the room. He couldn't take Blaise's snoring and was almost happy he could leave early. What he was not expecting was to find Lana sitting at the kitchen table, surrounded by papers and one odd silver contraption in front of her.

Upon hearing his footsteps, Lana looked up and then very quickly realized what was happening, or rather what she had missed. "Shit, is it—?" Her head whipped at the clock hanging on the wall. "It's 7am? It's 7am!" She was like a hurricane the way she jumped from her chair and spilled the other pile of papers on her lap then somehow managed to knock a set of books on another chair at the table.

"How is it that I'm the one going to be interrogated but you're the one who looks nervous?" Draco watched her try to gather all her things together. Why she didn't just use magic to collect her things, he didn't understand.

Lana scoffed at him. "Please, you never get nervous!"

Draco shot her a look for her comment that sounded a bit too certain. "How would you know that?"

Lana stopped only to deadpan him. "I was in your fucking classes! You never got nervous about anything! Where did my — agh!" She found her favorite pen underneath the table. "Anyways, just give me 5 minutes and I'll be ready to go!"

"Did you even sleep?" It was a funny question to ask knowing he hadn't slept a damn minute.

"Oh, I'm sure I dozed off at some point..." Lana dropped all her papers on the table. She would sort them out later. "There's a bunch of random letters between the 7th and 8th page of my essay."

"You're, what, 24? Why are you at school again?"

"Twenty four and a half to be exact. And it's a long story that I'm sure you care nothing about so let me get changed and then I'll take you to MACUSA."

"I don't need a bodyguard," frowned Draco, watching Lana hurry past him to the hallway.

"And I don't need you escaping on me!" She called, and missed his initial deadpan face. "And," she called just as he turned around, "I have class right after so it's sort of a two-fer for me. Drop you off, then go to school. Will they be waking up before noon?" She pointed behind her to signify Blaise and Pansy.

Draco scoffed. "If you're smart, you'll answer that on your own."

"Touché," nodded Lana. "Five minutes!" She pointed at him then disappeared into her room.

Draco had to resign himself to wait, just like with everything else in his life. He eyed the messy stack of papers on the table and, against his better judgment, wandered over. It was nothing he could really understand as it seemed like it was all muggle related. There were some words that stood out, amongst them 'theory, hypothesis' and other terms related to the area of research. Even the odd silver device on the table had similar words. It seemed like Lana took this research of hers very seriously.

He spotted the mess of random letters on the screen of the device, figuring that was when Lana had slept for a bit. He wondered why she didn't sleep at all. He knew why he didn't sleep but usually normal people did sleep through the nights.

"Don't touch it!" Lana's sudden appearance, and yell, did honestly startle Draco.

He jumped back from the device, eyes wide for a moment until he realized it was Lana and quickly composed himself (the only way he knew how).

"I wasn't touching any of your stuff!" he said defensively.

Lana came running to the table, making sure her laptop didn't shut down on her. "Good!" She furiously tapped the mouse pad to keep the screen on. "Because I haven't backed anything up yet!"