The Lines of Separation ((Ryoko))

[Kailyn Valak S6]

Kailyn walked down the halls of the castle, Josephine on one side and Dakota on another. The three of them had just come from DADA and they were heading back to the common room when Kailyn realized she had left behind a piece of parchment she had been writing on in class. Since it wasn't class-related notes that Kailyn was writing, she didn't want the professor to find it. "Damn, I'll meet you guys back in the room. Have to go back and grab something I left behind." She turned back, leaving Jo and Dakota, hurrying to get to the parchment before someone else did.

Kailyn pushed through the crowds of people, angry that they didn't seem to make a path for her as she went. "Out of my way," she said with scowl to one of the younger boys who was walking and talking to a friend, not paying attention to where he was going. Kailyn gave him a bit of a shove before arriving just outside the door of her DADA class. Just then, she saw a smaller Gryffindor girl standing with a piece of parchment in her hands. "I think you have something that belongs to me," Kailyn said with a snarl. She took her wand and summoned the parchment to her fingers. Just then, she realized that it wasn't in fact the piece of parchment that she had left behind. "Oh, perhaps this isn't my parchment," she said, crumbling it and throwing it to the ground.

She walked past the girl and into the room, quickly finding the desk she had been sitting at just minutes before and realizing that the parchment wasn't there. A bit of fear rushed into her body before she turned calmly and went back into the hall. The younger Gryffindor girl was still there. "Did you see anybody walk out of here with a piece of parchment similar to that one?" she asked, looking down at the ground to the crumbled piece of parchment. Kailyn had no sense of guilt for how utterly rude she was being. All that she cared about was getting that piece of parchment back.

[ryo]

Ryoko was wandering in the common room with her parchment in her hand. Jin-Sang was sitting in the common room, writing something on his parchment fastly and excitedly. Ryoko watched him for a few times wondering why he was so excited. Then, she neared next to him walking with only one or two steps. She looked at his parchment but it was not like a lesson. It was just like a letter to someone. Ryoko smiled but Jin-Sang did not still notice his big sister. Ryo put her fingers on his letter and lifted her head fastly, not looking at her brother. "A letter?" she smiled looking at Jin-Sang after she asked this question to him. Jin-Sang lifted her head shocking, as noticed as Ryoko. Ryoko began to laugh. "So what are you writing?" Ryoko tried to take his letter from his hands fastly, but Jin-Sang was more faster than Ryoko. "Give it to me, I want to see what you wrote." said Ryo. But Jin was trying to shove her to not give the letter. Ryo gived up and stoped looking at Jin. "You won. But just for now." Ryoko said to him with a bit of nervous. "I'll know your secret." then she left him alone. Jin-Sang did not say anything. Ryo understood he was waiting to leave the common room and then he could continue to write it. He understood that Ryo would be leaving the common room, because she had worn her comfy clothes again to leave and she had her parchment in her hand to work. "As usual, she will work in another place.. I'm free." Jin-Sang thought.

Ryo forgot Jin-Sang for a few minutes. Actually just tried to forget him and the letter that he was writing. Normally, she was wondering so much these things and events, specially about her cousins, Jin-Sang or parents. But now, she had to go... Ryoko thought the students in the corridor was flurried while she was walking to one of quiet places in Hogwarts. May be this was an estimation because of Ryoko was so flurried about her lesson in the parchment. She had wroten a big part of her lesson to the parchment in the common room. So she wanted to continue to write it in in another place, to be quiet and good. Silent environments had always helped her to do her schoolworks better. She always wanted to be in common room, just for resting or talking to her friends, not to do her schoolworks. An empty class or a silent library was so better than the common room for her lessons, according to Ryo. Because the common room was always noisy. Actually it was not a bad thing for her, just it was bad for her lessons. Aready she loved the common room so much, to see a lot of Gryffindor faces in the common room was so funny for her, everytime.

Continued to walk. Suddenly she hit a younger girl who she did not notice. The girl was a Slytherin student.. For a few minutes the girl who dropped her books looked at Ryo nervously. "I'm sorry," said Ryoko was all Ryoko could say showing her doubtful eyes. Ryo picked up the girl's books fastly and stood up to give the books to her. But the girl was not doing anything. She was just looking at Ryo angrily. A few minutes later, the girl took her books fastly and went, pushing Ryo. "Hey!" Ryo shouted to the girl. But she disappeared suddenly. "One more new Slytherin face! What a beautiful year for me!" Ryoko thought. She met an another Slytherin face while she was continuing to walk. This girl was flurried too. Suddenly she took the parchment from Ryo's hand and Ryo opened her eyes well shocking. She had taken her wand and had summoned the parchment to her fingers saying this wasn't her parchment. Ryo was still in shock. She had gone and then she had come again to ask a question to herself. Ryo tried to hold out to not be crazy for now while she was looking at pieces of her parchment. But she knew that she could not hold out no more. To say to the girl that she need to stop it was so good, but Ryo was not understanding the girl. Ryoko was sure the girl did not want to understand Ryo too.

"What's wrong with you?" said quickly to the girl. "My parchment, it is.." she coudn't continue to talk. She gulped. "What did you do it?" she said then. Really, Ryo wasn't understand. But she was not sure that she wanted to understand. Suddenly Ryo felt more nervously. She thought to lift her wand up and to blow the girl up. But she knew she couldn't do it. "Tell me!" she shouted to the girl not avoiding herself. Ryo didn't care the girl's parchment no more as she didn't care Ryo's parchment. It was not just a parchment, it was an important lesson that Ryo had tried on it and Ryo was sure the girl had understood that. Ryoko dreamed again that the girl had hanged to the wall and her hair had disband like a poor girl. But Ryoko was not a Slytherin girl, she never couldn't these. Never.. She was just dreaming when she was angry. She felt that she could not hold out forever, lifted her wand to the girl's neck. "What will you do to compensate this case?" she said quickly.

[Kailyn Valak S6]

This girl was a fiery little one. Kailyn realized right away that she was not going to be of any help to her, and so she was about to turn away, ready to ignore the girls demands. She wanted answers as to why Kailyn acted the way she did, but Kailyn wasn't about to give anyone a reason for what she did, especially not a younger Gryffindor brat. "You're useless," she said, eyes narrowing while the thought of one thing and one thing only: retrieving her now lost piece of parchment. Just as she was about to walk away though, the girl approached her, uttering threats as she held her wand level with Kailyn's neck.

Having no wand at the ready for defense, as Kailyn had hardly felt she needed one, she felt the slightest tinge of fear seep into her veins. Then, in a second, she realized that there was no serious threat coming from such a young student. At worst, Kailyn might lose her voice for a while. Then again, that would be terrible, Kailyn thought. Narrowing her eyes even more, Kaily's steely stare was meant to interject some fear into the girl. Gryffindor or not, Kailyn knew that intimidation wasn't partial to houses. Anybody could be scared if you knew how to do it properly. Kailyn didn't need a wand. She just needed her venomous lip and the right body language.

"If I were you, I'd put that filthy thing away before I snap it. Threatening someone who has just lost something is no way for a young lady to act. Don't they teach you filthy Gryffindors anything?" A look of disgust spread across Kailyn's face as she slowly reached her hand up to Ryoko's and pressed downward, forcing the girl to lower her wand. "That's a start," she said with indignation. Kailyn hardly wanted to waste her time with the girl as it seemed obvious she didn't have her parchment. Still, it was almost too much fun seeing the girl, probably not even a teenager yet, demanding that Kailyn take responsibility for her action. Drawing her own wand, Kailyn, used the levitation spell to levitate the girl's parchment to her. "There's your parchment," Kailyn said innocently. "Now, everything is squared away. Just be sure to act more lady-like next time because I won't be so kind if you threaten me again." A sly smile danced across her face as she turned to go again, still angry that she hadn't found her parchment yet. Frankly, she didn't need any more delays.

[Mrs Norris]

Students students students. Everywhere she looked there were students. Actually what Mrs Norris saw was the flowing robes as they swished to and fro on the ground. However, the erratic pattern to them signaled to her that they were students. Almost drunk. She made her way slowly down one corridor and then up the next. This time of day was when students loved to cause the most mischief. It was late in the afternoon when all the classes were done and students were free to go to their respective common rooms or the student lounge or the library or wherever young humans went when they wanted to unwind. Mrs Norris would gladly recommend a sunny nap to them if they only bothered to listen. They never did however. Almost as if they didn't think that cats could give sound advice. Hah!

Turning a corner, Mrs Norris found herself in an almost deserted corridor. The Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom was done this way. The professor sure knew how to clear a room. Druex was him name. The corridor was empty save two girls. They seemed to have their voices raised. If only she could understand human language! At most she could only understand tone. And this tone was anger. Mrs Norris tilted her head to one side and sat on her hind legs to watch. She would let them continue a little before she got the bald man. All of a sudden one of them took out her wand and aimed it at the other girl. Although it was entertaining, violence was not something she could tolerate. Action had to be taken. She stood on all fours and sauntered over to the two girls. By this time one of them was heading to leave. Mrs Norris had to let them know that violence would not be tolerated.

She wove an 'S' pattern around their legs making sure to rub them with enough pressure to make her presence known. All the while she was mewing. Once she was positive that she had their attention, she left them to go and fetch the bald man. He would put it into their language.

[ryo]

Ryoko wanted to run. But she knew she couln’t do this. Ryoko didn't know what to make of this whole situation. She looked around the corridor aimlessly, searching for an answer. Answer? No answer. Ofcourse. She looked daggers at Kailyn. She didn’t understand this girl and she wasn’t thinking that she will understand her any more, because Kailyn was not like her. She couldn’t be like her too. Ryo was neither angry nor calm, at that moment. Now, just she was looking soulless. She was trembling? Not sure. She knew she was holding her wand more tightly now. She didn’t want to use any magic. Not now. Not here. Not for this situation. "If I were you, I'd put that filthy thing away before I snap it. Threatening someone who has just lost something is no way for a young lady to act. Don't they teach you filthy Gryffindors anything?" Ryo began to breathe more fastly for a moment. “You’re not me. And you can’t be too.” She dogmatized.

There was a look of disgust spread across her face. She had acted suddenly to lower Ryo’s wand. And she had won. Ryoko was thinking like it was the end. No, not actually. Ryo was just in shock. She went back a step slowly and looked her wand on the ground. "That's a start," Ryo lifted her head suddenly and looked at the girl squinted. She said nothing. She just continued to look. And she turned her soulless mood, she had let to be this again. And again, she was breathing so fastly. Ryoko was angry, but she was not thinking her schoolwork no more. And while she was lifting her wand to the gril’s neck, she was not thinking her shcoolwork too. She was just angry to the gril’s behavioral and recklessness. Kailyn was trieng to be innocently towards to Ryo, at that moment. She had said to Ryo that the parchment was ready to give. But Ryoko was stil soulless towards to her. She didn’t remember her mood like this before this time.

"Now, everything is squared away. Just be sure to act more lady-like next time because I won't be so kind if you threaten me again." Ryoko coudn’t stand these words any more. While Kailyn was beginning to act to go, Ryo wanted to stop the girl. “Hey!” She waited for a minute. She was beginning to feel Mrs Norris’s coming. So even she did not move and waited for Mrs Norris’s going. And Mrs Norris had gone. She turned quickly to the girl again. And began to talk after she took her wand from the ground. “Actually, you sould really know that I did not threaten you. I just said the true. And I am gonna continue to say too.”