[Library] A Possible Plot

[Antoinette Rouge]

Antoinette was wandering aimlessly down an aisle in the library. At least, thats what it appeared she was doing. For someone who was watching carefully, however, it would be obvious that Antoinette had a plan. Her eyes were flicking continuously from title to title, and she paused, every so often, to check out a certain title, before moving on. Although it looked random, it most certainly was not. Finally, Antoinette seemed to come to a stop, out of weariness. Her blue eyes were fixed on a large book to her left, and she inched towards it, her movements graceful and slow. In one fluid movement, Antoinette slipped the book into her bag, and proceeded to the end of the aisle. With a smile to a couple of Raveclaws milling about, she walked out of the library, with no one being any the wiser. Right?

[Ellie Rook]

Ellie had been snooping around the bottom shelf of an aisle of the library. "Zinker... Zomper... Zyphyer!" She whispered under her breathe. She pulled out the thin book. It was a deep purple color, the piping around the cover a lavender. "Zinka Zyper" she read the authors name with a smirk. Who in the world would name their child Zinka, especially with the last name Zypher?

Ellie could write a book on names that parents didn't realize would humiliate their child. Ellie's name happened to be one of them. She didn't mind her first name, Elinor, nor did she mind her middle name, Abigail. She actually liked her last name a lot. However, put all three together and you get Elinor Abigail Rook, initials E.A.R. Ear! It was probably the most awkward part of the body, besides, well, you know. But how many people actually like ears? Ellie certainly didn't, and simply threw a tantrum anytime her initials were used.

Anyway, Ellie had flipped through the book while squatting on the floor. It was a stupid book about the history of the great wizard Orville Otkiss. Apparently as a three year old he discovered the glue charm, gluing his fathers head to a door. However, he died at the age of five, and therefore, the book was quite small.

Ellie looked up. Through the bookcase, she could see a girl her age on the other side. She couldn't make out who it was, but she could see that the girl kept looking around like she was doing something wrong. She probably didn't even see Ellie starring at her through the books. Ellie slowly got up, trying not to move to fast. The girl was headed toward her. With one quick look over her shoulder, the girl grabbed a book which was directly in front of Ellie, and slipped it into her bag. What could the book possibly be that would make the girl just take it without anyone knowing. The girl darted away, and Ellie, smelling some excitement, curiously followed afterwards.

The girl headed out of the library and down the corridor. Ellie followed, trying to catch up to her. As they rounded the corner, Ellie slipped on a slippery part of the floor. Giving a yelp as she went down, the books she was carrying left her hands and hit the floor loudly. Elie could see that the girl had realized that she was being followed. "Wait!" Ellie said, getting up roughly. "I saw you. What is it, that all I want to know!?"

[ Ok, I got completely carried away with back story. ]

[Antoinette Rouge]

Antoinette had been thouroughly pleased with herself. It looked as though no one had even noticed she had been up to anything shift. As she padded down the corridor, she contemplated pulling the book out for a quick look. Her fingers itched to grab it out of her bag...but she resisted. Get to someplace quiet...and empty. Antoinette's mind whirred, trying to think of where she could go. As she rounded the corner, she had just settled on a likely spot when WHAM.
A huge ruckus erupted in the corridor behind her. Whirling, Antoinette saw a girl, spread eagled on the ground, with books all around her. The girl scrambled to her feet, shouting something, and then: " I saw you. What is it, that all I want to know!" With an eyebrow raised, Antoinette knelt to help the girl gather her books. This action gave her a moment to think, and she used it, discarding possibility after possibility. What was the girl talking about? Her blue eyes hid the confusion behind them, but barely. With a smile, Antoinette laid the books in the other girl's hands. As she did so, she mentally gave up the fight, and decided to just ask her, already.
"I'm sorry....I didn't quite catch what you said as you ah...." She gestured to the floor around them. "Fell." She stuck out her hand. "Antoinette Rouge. I'm not sure we've met before."

((Don't worry about it. I can't COUNT the number of times I have gotton so wrapped up in a background story that I forget what I am SUPPOSED to be posting about. ))

[Ellie Rook]

Ellie half expected the girl to run. However, to Ellie's surprise, she came over to help her pick up her books. Maybe it wasn't anything bad after all. Maybe Ellie was just bored and she needed something to do, and made up an adventure in her head.

"As I tripped and spiraled downwards is more like it." Ellie said, adjusting the newly gathered books in her hands. She always felt it hard to express herself well with her hands full of anything. It probably came from the time she spent in Italy. Everyone used their hands to talk there, and Ellie had gotten into the habit.

"No," Ellie said, taking the girl's hand firmly. "I don't believe I have met you." Ellie didn't quite get it. She had seen the girl just take a book off the shelf and she certainly looked like she wanted to just get away. However, now, it seemed like Ellie was all wrong in her assumption. "I.." Ellie said, looking at the girl's eyes. "Its just, I thought I saw something back in the library." Ellie shifted her weight onto her left leg. "Something you did, or took actually." Ellie said hesitantly, not sure if the girl was going to hex her memory knowing that Ellie knew about her little stunt.

[Antoinette Rouge]

Antoinette's blue eyes widened slightly, but only for a moment. As she mentally berated herself for letting her shock show through, she smiled at the girl. Antoinette was stuck. If she denied having done anything, the girl-had the girl said her name yet?- would know she had been up to something shifty. But if she admitted....then the girl would know too. Luckily enough, it wasn't like she had a bomb, or a Krumple Horned Snorkak in her bag. It was just an innocent book. It wasn't even from the restricted section! Antoinette was decidedly disgusted with herself: she must have looked really suspicious, if the girl had picked up on it that quickly. Ick. Antoinette quickly weighed her options, sizing the girl up. She looked younger then Antoinette, but not by much. In a split-second desicision, Antoinette threw caution to the wind.
Reaching a slender hand into her leather bag, Antoinette pulled the book out. It was a large, leather bound copy of an old book: Theories of Transubstantial Transfiguration. The letters were stamped across the cover in gold lettering: it swirled and shifted in the flickering lights of the candles. Antoinette flashed an innocent smile at Ellie. "Were you looking for the book too? I'm so sorry...I really don't need it for tonight's Transfiguration Homework. You can use it first, if you'd like." She rolled her eyes, a grimace on her face. "Transfiguration can be such a drag sometimes."

[Ellie Rook]

Ellie watched as Antoinette pulled the book from her bag. Ellie hadn't really expected that she would give it up so easily. It seemed as though the book was any normal book that any normal student would need. Ellie thought that she must had just thought that Antoinette had taken it under suspicious circumstances.

Ellie took the book from the girl and read the cover. She didn't know what Transubstantial Transfiguration was. Ellie looked at the book, and handed it back to Antoinette. She put her hands in her pocket, and looked at the girl with a critical eye. She just knew something was going on.

"No, it's Ok. I wasn't looking for it." Ellie said, shifting her weight. [color=cornflowerblue
]"Are you sure that there is nothing special about this book?"[/color] Ellie asked. She knew something was up, but she didn't know what. She knew that she wanted in. She needed some mischief.[/font]

[Antoinette Rouge]

Antoinette's mind whirled, and she shot the girl a critical look. She was obviously not going to be shaken off that easily. With an uneasy glance at the cover once again, Antoinette established that there really was nothing extraordinary about this book. At least, not that the other girl could see. With a mental grimace, she slid the book carefully back into her bag before looking back up at the Hufflepuff. A puzzled expression slid artfully over her face.
"I can't imagine there would be anything very special about it." She said, eyebrows raised. "Surely, if it was dangerous, or something of the sort, it would be catalouged in the Restricted Section....." She let her voice trail off, leaving the sentence open to for comment.
Antoinette fought the urge to fidget with the slip of paper in her pocket. Thick parchment, she could feel it through the thin fabric of the skirt. Although she could not see it, in her minds eye, the swirling handwriting curved over and over, tracing the words she had read several times now....Professor Octavious Everitt. Professor Octavious Everitt. Professor......and the slanting writing underneath it. Those two words that sent shivers down her spine.
Resisting the impulse to snatch it from her pocket, she shot a worried expression at the girl. "You don't suppose it got put in the wrong section, do you?" She said, playing the part of the vapid, empty headed school girl. She fidgeted nervously with a blonde curl.

[Ellie Rook]

Ellie had the over whelming urge to kick the girl. She knew that she was hiding something. It was like that time in Siberia, probably Ellie's least favorite place she had lived. Her father had come home to their little cottage, and Ellie had known that something was up. Automatically, it seemed as though the world was coming to an end. No one told her that something was going on, but she had a feeling. It could have been magical intuition or something else, but Ellie knew something was wrong. Later that night, the Rook family fled out of Russia for reasons unknown to the ten year old Ellie. She never asked her father, but it was obviously not good. They had avoided Russia since then.

Ellie was getting the same feeling again. She doubted that it was anything horrible, for the girl had a point. If the book was dangerous, it would have been placed in the restricted section. Never the less, the ordinary book seemed foreboding to Ellie. Not to mention Antoinette seemed fidgety.

As Antoinette spoke her argument, Ellie kept her eyes on her, shrugging or nodding at the appropriate times. Ellie couldn't help but notice Antoinette's hand moving about in her pocket, as if she was running her fingers over an object. It was odd. Ellie thought it suspicious. Perhaps she had read to many French Mystery novels. As Antoinette seemed to have time to think, Ellie could see that something in her eyes. Fear perhaps.

"No, I don't suppose so." Ellie said bluntly, her eyes darting from the girl's eyes to her pocket. Ellie knew this girl was not as dumb as she seemed. "I suppose many things could be considered dangerous when put in the right hands." Ellie said, trying to poke at the girl, not at all knowing where she was poking or what.

[Antoinette Rouge]

((I have absolutely no idea where this thead is going to go. Any ideas? I'm just going to throw caution to the wind: be forewarned! ))

Antoinette would have liked nothing more then to place a particularly nasty hex on the nosy Hufflepuff. It was absolutely none of her business what was in this book. None at all. But the girl just kept nagging!

Antoinette sighed. She could hardly hate the girl, for nagging was exactly what she would have done in her place. Curiousity killed the cat...the mantra fluttered through her mind. People always forgot the rest of the saying though.

Curiousity killed that cat.
But satisfaction brought it back.

There was absolutely no good way to deal with this. If she hexed her, not only would she be in trouble, but it would be doubly obvious that she was up to something shift. If she told her, then not only would it be obvious, but she would have gotton the other girl involved for no reason at all. That could only mean more trouble for the both of them.

There was nothing for it. The girl would not be shaken off peacefully, and Antoinette didn't have the time to try. She really tried to avoid nastiness, but the clock was ticking. Narrowing her blue eyes at the other girl, Antoinette lifted her chin, her face the epitamy of regal disdain.

"And what, exactly, do you mean by that sort of comment?" She said, her voice scathingly uncaring. Her blue eyes were sharp, her features defined by the impatience this girl was bringing on.
It was always such a shame when intelligent, curious people showed up just when you needed an idiot.

"I am extremely sorry to have kept you, but I do not have the time to converse with Hufflepuffs whose heads are full of nonesense. She gave a disdainful laugh, her voice chiming off the marble halls. "Perhaps Transfiguration books seem dangerous to you, but to me, they are nothing more then what they seem: a book too advanced for the likes of you."

Spinning on her heel, Antoinette sailed from the encounter, her head high, her skirt swirling around her. Her heels clicked on the floor, and each step seemed to say too harsh, too harsh, too harsh. Antoinette refused to feel guilty. Perhaps after all of this, she would find the girl, and apologize for all the rudeness. On the other hand, the girl had also been extremely nosy, bordering on rudeness herself. We'll see. Antoinette told herself.

[Ellie Rook]

[ no idea, but lets say we just keep on going. PM with any ideas! ]

Ellie was getting pretty fed up. She knew she had brought this on herself, but she needed to know what was going on. It wasn't going to be another Russia where she was lost and never told anything. Ellie was going to get to the bottom of this.

It was obvious to the Hufflepuff that she was wasting away the patience that Antoinette had. She looked as thought she was going to hex her and be done with it. However, Ellie had a mean knee-reversing Hex.

Ellie shrugged at the question. She didn't actually know what she meant by the comment. She was just throwing things out there with no caution in the wind. Ellie poked again. "I just meant that what ever is in that book could be dangerous, if someone with the right mind were to use it."

Ellie highly doubted that this girl was evil. She was obviously a Gryffindor. Ellie had come to the conclusion that Gryffindors were brave and wanted glory, however, they rarely made plans to take over the world like Slytherins. She didn't really mean that she thought Antoinette was evil, she was just prodding around in an effort to get some information.

Ellie was offended by the comment. She was anything but stupid. She wasn't exactly a Ravenclaw, but neither was Antoinette. However, she chose not to say anything to the girl. Not to stoop down to her level. Antoinette walked away, and Ellie felt as though she had lost her chance in finding out what was in that book. Immaturely, she yelled after Antoinette, who had just rounded the corner again, "I hope it blows off your head!"

Her cheeks were red, and Ellie sighed. However, within two minutes she had quietly taken off down the hall after Antoinette. If the silly girl wouldn't tell her what was in the book, she would find out for herself. She reverted back to her original plan, before she had tumbled out into the hall. She would follow Antoinette to wherever she was headed, and spy on her. It was brilliant, even if Ellie didn't realize that she was bound to make some commotion and ruin her plan again. She didn't know what she was getting into.

[ neither do i. XD ]