Getting out of the common room

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Sam wandered towards the North Tower, the common room was empty, everybody seemed to be out and enjoying the summer weather, he decided to follow. He made his way up the staircase, and entered outside. The sun was beaming down, and the temperature was perfect, yet nobody else was around.

He took a seat, and dug round in his robes for a piece of parchment, a quill and some ink and lay them out. He decided to begin on a letter to his brother Hi Ollie he began How are you? Surviving life with dad and, Nancy? I admire y-

He heard someone coming up the steps, and stopped writing to see who it was.

lame xD
 
Merlina seemed to be spending a fair bit of time in the North Tower of late, but she was now well and truly in love with her glass fairies. They had been a gift from her father for Yule Tide and though at first they could only hover a few inches from the ground, the more they were used the better their flying capabilities got. She had both in a small wooden box lined with navy velvet, the softest she could find so that the glass dolls didn't knock about and break. As she walked out on to the parapet she saw a boy there and smiled.

Recognising him vaguely from her house, class and their table she wondered if she should make her way over to him. They had never actually spoken or anything but looking at her glass fairy dolls she was convinced he would think she was a prized idiot and a big kid for playing with them.
"Hi" she mumbled walking hurriedly over to the opposite side to him and keeping her back to his began to take the dolls out.

With great care she lifted first one and then the other, placing them on the palms of her hands before tossing them into the air. They looked at first as if they would simply fall back to earth and smash into tiny pieces but they didn't. They began to hover, then with the wind gently blowing they glided on the currant for a moment before one fairy fluttered her wings very quickly stood up straight and began to fly upwards twisting and turning like a ballerina in the air. The sun shining through the glass seemed to make tiny prisms of glorious rainbows across the tower floor. Merlina smiled widely, they really were beautiful.
 

Sam spotted a girl whom her recognised from Ravenclaw. He had seen her round in his classes, the common room and school but he had never actually properly introduced himself, or talked to her much.

"Hello" he replied to her, with a friendly smile. He watched her walk right past him then face her back to him. He was a little puzzled. Then she began to throw things in the air. Sam looked at them with curiousity. He watched them shine in the sun, and figured that they were glass due to the rainbows that were reflecting around. He whistled under his breath. It looked pretty cool.

He hopped up and shoved his parchment and quill away, and wandered over to her.

"What are they?" he said when he was beside her, he looked up towards one, which he could see had little wings. Glass fairy? he wondered in his head.
 
Merlina heard the movement so was some bit prepared for him when he came to stand beside her. She had never been great around people, always speaking out of turn or talking too bluntly but her two years here at Hogwarts had improved her socialising skills no end. Well not by much but at least she didn't say the first thing that came into her head. She kept her gaze focused on the dolls whizzing in all directions now in the sky.
"They're glass fairies" she told him honestly, she couldn't lie anyhow. It was a family curse or gift depending on how you viewed it.
"I think they are showing off now" she grinned not used to them being quite so vigorous in their flying before, looking at him briefly she smiled, "I'm Merlina. We share classes and stuff".

Great, she sounded like some complete and utter fool now. Of course he knew they shared the same house, classes and things like that. Biting her lip to keep her mouth well and truly shut, she looked back at the dolls again.
 

Sam nodded at her reply, he smiled when she said she thought that they were showing off. He watched them fly round, doing all sorts of tricks, sparkling in the sun. He wondered where she had got them from, he had never seen them before. Not that he really looked at that kind of stuff in stores either though.

Merlina he repeated in his head, now remembering hearing her name in classes. He smiled at her last comment, he saw she was a little embarrassed but she was right, they'd seen each other round before "Yeah, I've seen you round, but never introduced myself" he paused "I'm Sam"
 
Merlina kicked herself mentally for not being friendlier in her first year not to mind her second year but she was trying or her version of trying at least. She had been saying hello more often to people and smiling when she didn't have any serious reason to smile. She had always been convinced that people would simply think someone mental if they went about smiling all the time but apparently smiling with a greeting was different. She looked at Sam now as she also held her hand out.

Both the glass fairies began to fly slowly downwards until they both rested on the palm of her hand. Turning to look at them she picked one up delicately and handed it to Sam.
"My father gave them to me as a gift for Yule Tide" she was well aware her Italian accent was becoming slightly thicker as she tried to speak her broken english quickly. So she slowed herself down a bit.
"Want to race? You can use that one" she smiled again.
 

Sam smiled and held the glass fairy in his hand "Thats cool" he replied to her. She held out the fairy, and he let it stand in his hand. he watched it, and smiled to himself sadly. His Mum would have liked these, or to even hear about it. He looked back up when hearing Merlina speak.

"Sure" he said with a smile "Sounds fun" he wondered if the fairy on his was a good flyer.
 
She held her hand out in front of her but closed her other hand gently around the fair. Turning to smile at Sam she indicated that he should do the same.
"On the count of three just move your hands" Merlina looked back at her own hands as she began the countdown, "1... 2...3!"

Merlina moved her hands and the glass fairy hovered for the slightest fraction as if deciding whether to fall or fly and then as if the decision had been made it shot upwards into the sky. Merlina laughed brightly, enjoying the sight once more.

"It should be a pretty even race, I've made sure they were both as good as each other" she told him watching as the fairy became a dot in the distance.
 

Sam followed what Merlina was doing. He smiled to himself, he would have never dreamed he would be racing glass fairies in his days at Hogwarts. He could feel the fairy beginning to get excited when the countdown began, she definitely wasn't stupid.

1... 2... 3!

He let go of his hands and felt the fairy bust out - flying the wrong way. She halted, and in a matter of seconds determined which way she wa supposed to fly. She sped off, closely behind Merlina's fairy. Sam smiled watching them zoom off, with a smile on his face.

"Cool" he replied to Merlina he didn't mind who won, he wasn't that competitive. He was just having some fun.
 
Merlina watched transfixed as the fairies seemed to dart every which way now, she began walking backwards as she looked skyward. Her right hand came up to shield her eyes from the sun. Not paying attention to where she was going her foot caught on something hard and instinctively knowing she was going to fall, reached blindly for something to hold on to. Her hand gripped Sam's arm as she sank to the ground with a hard smack. She groaned rubbing her head and finally letting go but felt utterly winded as she lay there.

For now it seemed that the fairies were forgotten about, though they continued to spin and dance in their flight until they went no farther. Suddenly closing their wings to their bodies and feet first began to fall straight back down to earth.
 
Sam saw Merlina's shadow moving back, then felt a strong pull on his hand. He was smart enough to know that she had tripped.

"You okay?" he asked, turning around concerned and noticing her on the ground. He knelt down beside her, seeing her rub her head "Ouch" He looked by her hand and if there were scrapes. For that moment, he forgot that if it was bleeding, he would probably faint. Ever since his mothers death, he couldn't stand the smell of blood.
 
Merlina laughed and sat herself up a bit still continuing to rub her head.
"I am alright Sam, thank you. I am glad I didn't pull you down with me though" it seemed ever since she had given her lucky coin away she was having more and more of these mishaps. Perhaps it really had been magical after all, Merlina had been convinced it only held a psychological hold over her but stranger things had happened more especially in this magical world of hers than any where else.

"At least there is no blood just a lump I think about the size of a lemon" she chuckled once more as she touched the offending lump now with her finger tips. It was quite painful even more so when out of the sky both glass fairies plummeted down one whacking her on the head, the other falling into her lap. The unfortunate one to hit her head bumped off it and landed in smithereens on the floor of the tower beside them. She was crestfallen.
"Sam do you have your wand with you, mine is back in the dormitory".
 
Sam was relieved that it was not bleeding, and of course that Merlina was fine. He smiled when she said she was glad that he didn't fall down with her. He could see the lump, and it did look rather big "Ouch" he said watching her touch it lightly with her fingertips.

"Yeah, I do" he said looking at the glass fairy who had forgotten that it was so easily breakable, but he was glad that it could be fixed "Reparo" he said strongly, and watched it form back into itself. He watched it to see its reaction.

[sorry that it took me so long to reply! :(]
 
[tis ok had RL stuff myself ;) it happens ]


Merlina was delighted and forgot all about the shooting pain in her head when he took out his wand and cast the repair spell on the figurine. She watched anxiously as very slowly the tiny pieces of glass seemed to collide together, meld back in place as if time was rewinding in on itself to repair the glass fairy. Merlina clapped her hands with delight when she saw it all finally together again.

"Sam thank you!" she exclaimed turning to pick up the fairy gently in her hands, "really, thank you. I would have been most upset to tell my father that I had broken one so soon. Maybe I should only fly them when I have a soft landing area arranged".
She grinned up at him "so who was the winner that time?"
 
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