Under Me (Slytherin Table) [Openish/Scorpius]

[mehra1993]

17 January 2008 5:25 PM

Shari was well aware of the ominous Deva member whose feet intruded upon her unusual sanctuary. She had slipped under the Slytherin House Table, of all other places to hide. She had gone through the extremes. When the door had burst, she had gone into hysterics; moments later she had begun laughing as if she were senile and now she was speechless. Her knuckles were pale from gripping her robes from fear alone. She knew that if she was to survive whatever was going on, she would have to make an alliance and regain her wand. Preferably the alliance, she had thought, but it seems everyone else is in the same predicament as me. So she sat there, under the Slytherin Table, and she waited for something to happen.

[Scorpius Daniels]

Scorpius had been crawling under house tables trying to find someone that he had known that was still possibly at one of the tables. This was hard for him to do seeings how he had just entered the school and barely knew anyone. Scorpius had been looking up at the laps of the people who were still at the tables and didn't notice anything else besides the laps.

Every now and again he would check his robes to make sure that he still had his wand hidden. As he crawled along the floor he kept on getting more and more uncomfortable with his surroundings. He had found himself at the head of the Slytherin table and something had caught his eye. He couldn't make out at first what it was and then he had realized that it was someone hiding under the table.

If they are hiding under the table that must mean that they are a student here Scorpius thought. So he decided that he was going to crawl up to the person hiding and find out if they knew anything about what was going on because he himself was still a little confused.

He finally had reached the still figure and reached out his hand and touched tapped the student on the shoulder.

[mehra1993]

Shari jumped and hit her head, clumsily, as she felt the touch. It wasn't what she had expected when she turned, rubbing her head, and saw a boy looking at her. She caught her breath before she gasped. He looked frightened...new. She could recall how that felt being new herself. She managed a whisper...Hi -

She had meant to say more, but her powers of speech had reclaimed their independent rights to hold her speechless, for she was and now just sat there looking awkwardly at this new boy.

[Scorpius Daniels]

"Oh my gosh I-I-I-I am so sorry. I didn't mean to s-s-s-startle you." Scorpius stuttered. "Are you Okay?"

Scorpius noticed that this girl had been looking at him awkwardly and he felt really bad for causing her to hit her head. "I'm so confused and I am scared. I don't know what to do. I have my wand but I am too scared to use it because I don't know what is going on." A tear ran down his cheek from his icy blue eyes.

[mehra1993]

Startled by the tear among other things, Shari calmed down a little. She bit her lip to keep it from trembling more.

'Mmm I'm alright. It's just a bump. Silly really.' Somehow when she needed to speak, the gods of speech were in her favor. She felt a little better knowing that someone else was scared out of their wits. However, as a principle, she didn't really approve of boys who cried. He seemed to be harmless but he still had a wand with him and she couldn't help but wonder if he had been sent to capture her for whatever reason. She became defensive subconsciously and spoke a little cautiously.

'Who are you?' Her tone was a little on the curt side but nowadays, one could never be too certain or too cautious.

[Scorpius Daniels]

Scorpius straightened himself out and pulled himself together and realized the tear that ran down his cheek. He quickly wiped it away and said 'My name is Scorpius Daniels and I am in Ravenclaw.'

He felt like this girl had been giving him attitude so he changed his tone of voice and asked 'And who are you?' He felt bad because he felt like he was being rude but he decided to shake it off and was hoping she wouldn't get offended. It was not in Scorpius's nature to be rude.

[mehra1993]

Shari could see his attitude shift. Maybe he was thinking the same thing she was? She decided to take a different approach. She softened. If she was going to extricate any information from this Scorpius boy she would have to do it slyly. She forced a smile.

'Sorry...I'm Sharivah Mehra. I'm also in Ravenclaw....second year. Funny we should be stuck under a Slytherin table, no?' She was trying not to sound suspicious, hoping it was working. She looked at Scorpius and tried to see past his blank stare. At the same time she shifted slightly and began to shift into a more comfortable position while maintaining a deep concentration on Scorpius. This was somewhat difficult to do anything BUT concentrate on him, hence she had no clue where her hands were going, along the floor, that is until she caught an unusual splinter in the side of the table leg!

'Ouch!' she jumped again as the splinter jabbed her finger. She smiled, sheepishly, and pulled her hand away as discreetly as she could, for dignity's sake. She touched the spot on her head where she had bumped it earlier. 'My head,' she said, trying it on as a cover up. What was he thinking, she thought.

[Scorpius Daniels]

Scorpius felt bad but couldn't help giggling seeing her jump for no apparent reason this time. He noticed her mood changed and thought that out of respect to her to calm down himself and just go with the flow. 'I know it is weird being under a Slytherin table when we are both in Ravenclaw.' He laughed and was hoping to get to know this Sharivah girl. He couldn't help but notice her beautiful eyes.

'You' he began but then decided to change what he was going to say and said 'You said that you're a second year right? Do you think if we got a couple more people together who have wands and think that we could get out of here? I just want to get up to the Owlry and send a letter to my father. I was going to do it after the feast but you know' he said as he looked around at all the commotion going on in the Great Hall, well what he could see of it at least.

[mehra1993]

She hadn't thought of this before. It seemed too daring, and Shari was still so frightened and suspicious. But the thought of leaving...of getting away...it was so alluring. She supposed that if they found more people with wands, perhaps. But for some reason she just wanted to stay under this table. It seemed to be the epitome of safety for her, right now. So, with all this mulling around in her head, she spoke softly.

'I-I don't know. It seems like some people are trying to do that heroic stuff, but I think if we just got our wands back...' she paused, not very comfortable with the lie but sticking to it nonetheless, 'we could probably stun that one Deva member standing right by us. She pointed to the feet by them. Looking around she couldn't see anyone else under the tables but she knew there were other people around. She touched her bleeding finger slightly, trying not to be noticeable. She didn't want Scorpius to know she didn't have her wand...

'Do you have YOUR wand on you?' she asked tentatively.

[Scorpius Daniels]

'I know some people are trying "that heroic stuff" but I dont want to do this because I want to be a hero I want to do this to get ahold of my father. I do have my wand on me like I said earlier. It is right here' Scorpius said as he reached into his robes and pulled out his wand. 'I can stun that Deva member without a problem but I think if both of us were able to hit them it would be better than just mine' then he got to thinking. Scorpius hadn't seen if Sharivah had her wand or not. He was hoping that she did but with what was going on it was unlikely.

'Do you have your wand because it would make this plan a lot easier?' he asked with desperation in his voice but hoping that she didn't recognize the desperation.

[mehra1993]

Her throat went dry. The truth was, she didn't. She had been forced to give it up by that very Deva member standing nearest them. She had been thinking about tripping him or something of the sort so that she could get her wand back but she didn't want Scorpius to know that she didn't have it. By now he seemed to be harmless...not a Deva spy as she had anticipated. Either way, this was who she was stuck with and if she was going to get her wand back, she was going to need his. She formulated the lie in her mind, turned it over on her lips. Listened to herself say it, and then she spoke.

'ah - Yes! Yes of course.'

[Scorpius Daniels]

"That's great" Scorpius said almost a little too loud to the point where he might have given them away, hoping that he hadn't. At the same time he was wondering why she hadn't shown him her wand like he had to her. He felt bad because during all of this he couldn't help but just hoping that after all of this settles down that they can be friends and not go there separate ways. He was hoping that Sharivah could be his first friend at Hogwarts.

"So are we going to attack this Deva member now or are we going to try to find an alliance first?"

[mehra1993]

She wanted to say, well you're the one with the wand! but she held her tongue before it betrayed her. She smiled an almost coy smile. She shrugged and a strange thought crossed her mind: he might be looking for something more. Suddenly that side of her that she seemed to inherit from her twin Mehkarah, kicked it. If she and Scorpius were to fight this Deva member and she could get her wand back, she could stun him right away...or disarm him and use his wand as a payment to let her go free! She might even pose as a Deva supporter in order to save herself. She felt she was transforming into that Mr. Hyde that Brighid usually used as an analogy for Mehka. Now it was her...Shari...Dr. Jekyll who was becoming Mr. Hyde, and as creepy as it was...she liked it. Heroes aren't always virtuous, she thought.

She looked at Scorpius squarely. 'I think we should see if we can get anyone else with wands to help out. It might benefit to have more than just us, you know? I mean what if one of us loses...loses their wand? Numbers are reassuring, you know.' She tried not to succumb to the smile that was playing at her face. Not that she had to...deep down inside, she was beaming all over!

[Scorpius Daniels]

"Okay you're right let's go get some more people" Scorpius agreed. So he looked around at what he could see from under the table, which happen to be a lot of feet, to see if he could make out anyone else that might be under a table or sitting at a table that might be able to help.

"Let's also try to see if there are any higher level students that could help us. They are probably more advanced than us, but yet again I really don't know where you strengths are and stuff." He was hoping that he was making sense to Sharivah but he couldn't be sure. "Oh and don't you think that it would also make sense to make an alliance with students from the other houses? I am pretty sure that there are some of them that are probably just as scared as we are."

Scorpius sat there thinking about what they could possibly do to get out of the prediciment that they were in, that was if they could do anything at all. He also knew that he just wanted to get out from under the table and was sick of just having a restricted view. There was this power surging in Scorpius and he wanted to get out there and fight, even though he had just started his second year and didn't have that much experience but he thought that if there was an alliance with others he could also learn on the way.

[mehra1993]

Shari sensed her companion's lack of ease. She tried not to let it influence her too much, but she couldn't help but feel uneasy herself. After all, he had a wand and she didn't, and he expected her to have a wand...and she didn't. So what now? Should they pursue an alliance with other houses? Should they attempt to draw in older students? Should they simply let everything go and wait the storm out, instead of trying for heroics? Shari knew, among other things, that she enjoyed being rescued from any form of danger, she liked playing the damsel in distress role, but she didn't feel as though this companion of hers was willing/capable of doing just that. Her sense told her now was not an opportune time to resort to a flair of dramatics, and her sensibilities refuted the latter confessing that there was no inopportune time to resort to drama! Fuddled with the growing psychological conundrum, Shari simply looked away from the Ravenboy. In a distant voice she spoke:

"I think we should sneak. You have a wand...do you know any invisibility spells?" she felt distant...pulled by some strange invisible thread. Every so often images of her twin sister flashed across her face...Mekhara laughing...Mekhara lifting her wand...Kumaran (her brother) looking confusedly at his laughing sister, a look of malice crossing her face...green sparks flying everywhere....
Shari gripped the table leg and caught her breath. She might have been screaming, she couldn't tell, but she was breathing in gasps and she needed to calm herself. It was a horrible idea...a terrible nightmare...that thought that Mekha could do something to someone so stupid and helpless! But maybe she could.

Brighid had always referred to them as Jekyll and Hyde. She had told Shari that she was easily Dr. Jekyll, that she could flirt with dark powers but still remain on the good side. But Mekha was just as easily Mr. Hyde. She could not flirt with dark powers and survive...she was thwarted by the immensity, the possibility of these powers. How could two girls, so similar, be so incredibly different?

Shari snapped back to reality...there was a boy...not the one in front of her but another...waiting on the other side of a door, somewhere, for her.