Post by SICILLIA SNOW on Dec 31, 2013 17:09:56 GMT
Resumé in hand, Sicillia pushed herself through the Hogwarts grounds. Her brown curls bounced off her shoulders as she zipped passed students. The freshly fallen snow looked almost inviting to the woman but Sici shook her thoughts and focused on the goal at hand. The laughter of children as they chased each other with handfuls of flaky ice turned Sici to once again remember why she disliked winter. Children she sneered to herself. Actually, children were the reason why she hated everything. She paused for a moment as her leather gloves clenched tighter to the rolled parchment she carried. Could she do this again? When Sicillia lost her job at Beauxbatons she threw an angry fit and cursed a group of students (leading to her having to flee security) but she never liked it there anyway. She had only been insulted for being fired and scared at what she was going to do after that. Her idea of working at Hogwarts was for the same reasons: easy money and free room and board.
Yes, living at one's place of employment made things so much easier. There was never any rent to pay and in the case of a boarding school, meals were abundant and always cooked and served to you. Sici loved never having to lay a finger and being waited on, it reminded her of better times. The witch reminisced of her mansion in Morocco, house elves at her leisure and as many elaborate parties as she could throw. After the money was gone, she fled to France with friends and when one of them commented on her excellent skill at dangerous hexes, Sici got the idea to apply at the school. She was there for only a term until the students complained that Sicillia didn't actually know enough of the language to properly teach a class. Faking it got her many places but a permanent career in a foreign country wasn't one of them. It was hurtful that the dismissal came so close to Christmas but Sici would get her revenge sooner or later. She just hoped that the Hogwarts headmaster had a position open for the second term of the year. It was a long shot and karma wasn't Sici's mate recently.
Always one for a dramatic entrance, Sici waved her ebony wand at the large double doors of the castle. Instantly the wood pushed open and the witch entered the hall. Her stilettos clicked against the marble floor as she cleared away from the entrance and allowed the enchanted doors to close behind her . She smirked as she took in the display around her. After so many years the feeling was still the same. Hogwarts exhaled a breath of nostalgia and mysticism. As a teen Sicillia never enjoyed school as to her it was considered a prison. In her first two years at Hogwarts, while Sici was still young and her mind free from harsh criticism, she loved being there and experiencing life away from her family. It wasn't a coincidence that the same year her brother joined her at the school did Sici start to feel a hatred for the place she once favored.
Where to go to first? Sici was well aware of the location of the headmaster's office seeing as she was sent there often as a student. But she couldn't just turn up unannounced and what if he wasn't even in his office? She'd look like a crazed lunatic waiting for him when she knew you needed a password to enter. It had been her plan originally to just barge in, thrust her falsified resumé at him and proceed to make a rehearsed speech about her success at perfecting the marks of remedial students at Beauxbatons. Now, as she stood near the doorway in pink robes she had stolen from some drunk and confunded patron at the Three Broomsticks, Sici wondered if she could pull it off again. Deceit was her greatest attribute, of course she could do it. Doubt began to grow inside, something she hadn't felt in years. Perhaps she should go to the owlery, quill up a brief letter explaining that she must leave France for the UK immediately and is in need of a job transfer. Sici cleared her throat and put her hands on her hips. No, she was ready to do this. Operation "Fool the School" had already commenced and she didn't ever quit anything.