Expectations(Open)

[Dorian Knight]

"Am I?" he asked. "That's a perception I should probably work on changing."


(OMG that was so short...)

[Samantha Montgomery]

"You don't like appearing clever?" she asked not putting surprise into her voice but curiosity. She didn't like people seeing what she was either. She let people think she was poised and gracious, the epitome of a lady, she hid all of her ugly spots, the true reason she was a slytherin through and through.

[Dorian Knight]

"People will expect me to care more if they think I'm capable of it. Similarly, they'll expect me to study more if they think I'm in the least bit intelligent. You wonder why Raveclaws always have their noses in a book? It's expected of them."

[Samantha Montgomery]

"That is rather brilliant." she said with a laugh and she concluded that it was true as well, if she showed the slightest interest in something people expected her to be the best at it, and if she wasn't she was punished.

She smiled at him, "You really are clever."

[Dorian Knight]

Dorian smiled. “Don’t go spreading that around,” he teased. “I’ve worked very hard to make people think otherwise, and I won’t have you go destroying that illusion.”

Finally, he thought, they seemed to be having a conversation that didn’t center around her insulting him, and him pointing out to her that she was insulting him.

He wondered what illusions she was trying to keep, what aspects of her personality were fake.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"Something tells me I'd be destroyed first if I attempted to do something you didn't like." she said, her tone was teasing in return but there was a lot of truth in that statement, perhaps it was something she read in his eyes, perhaps it was just something she felt, but Dorian could be a very dangerous opponent when pushed. This came from years of sizing people up and she was pretty good at it.

[Dorian Knight]

"That would be like destroying the Venus de Milo," he returned, complimenting her with a gentle smile. "I'm not the big bad wolf, Sam. I'd really appreciate it if you stopped looking at me like I was."

He slid down from the top of the table he was sitting on to sit in the seat next to her. "Do you spent a lot of time in libraries, Sam?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

Compared to a half naked statue on one hand, and an object de'arte in another. She decided that it was probably a line but a flattering one at that and she allowed herself a small secret smile that widened at his next comment.

"I don't know what it is about you Ryan...still even now you say you're not a big bad wolf, and I have no real reason to suspect fangs from you but part of me wants to run ahead and warn grandma that you're coming." she told him honestly blinking at the truth that was coming shyly from her lips.

She pulled herself together at his next question, "Hmm..Libraries. Oh! Yes I do. I adore books."

[Dorian Knight]

He laughed and shrugged. "I think that's a compliment, although I can't be sure. I'll take it as one anyway and say thank you."

He wondered if it was him that distracted her for a moment before she could answer his question. He nodded anyway. "Our library doesn't have many entertaining reads, love. Have you been to the library in Hogsmeade? I think you'd rather like it."

He didn't know. He'd never been inside. But he assumed it was nice, and that she would like it, and so he suggested it.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"I have." she nodded, "It's nice." books were her forte, books, publications, the written word, hell photography, she had to be at the top of her game when it came to anything written and she was.

"And you? Do you read?" she shook her head at how that sounded and quickly modified, "I mean..often...do you read often?"

[Dorian Knight]

He rolled his eyes. "No, miss. Ma and Pa never taught me what them words mean."

He raised an eyebrow, mostly to cover up that fact that no, he did not read a lot. In fact, this was the first time he'd even set foot in the library in over a year, and now he couldn't remember why he had come in today to save the life of him.

"I read," he answered, giving her a gentle smile.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"Oh stop teasing me you!" she said tempted to throw a pencil at him or something. She didn't usually get teased, not like this, she usually had such good control over her words, over her actions. She didn't like that Ryan ruffled her feathers, she didn't like it one bit.

But Lord that "gentle smile." Wolf was right, she was in danger being around him, she didn't feel so funny around others and she hated that she felt it here.

"What...what do you read?"

[Dorian Knight]

Dorian, on the other hand, loved the affect he had on her. "Well well well," he said, giving her a surprised look. "You actually can break that perfect posture and smile. Who knew?"

He laughd and fended off the pencil as she asked what he read and he gave her a look like he couldn't believe what she was doing to him. "Books?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

She only got more annoyed but he was probably enjoying that too much so she calmed herself down and wondered why she had to calm herself anyway, " I smile often thank you very much." she smiled robotically, she smiled grandly, she did have sincere smiles that she were bestowing more and more on other people, but the smile she had given him was utterly unpracticed, she had just felt, teased...and happy about it...and so she smiled, perhaps that was the key to it's brilliance.

She rolled her eyes at him, "Yes books silly, but what kind?"

[Dorian Knight]

(I swore I answered this one)

Dorian shrugged, smiling at her smile. It looked so unused, that particular one.

"Any kind of books. No, that's a lie. I don't read muggle books. They're terribly boring," he said, making things up off the top of his head. That one was a common belief among purebloods though.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"Have a favorite?" she asked, tilting her head up at him. She didn't think Muggle books were boring, in fact she had quite a few that she liked terribly but she didn't announce that now, she understood that it was a common thing among purebloods.

[Dorian Knight]

He rattled off the name of a wizarding book he had heard Lani talking about once. If she liked it, it had to be good. She rarely finished a book because they didn't hold her attention, so it seemed like a good one to pick.

"And do you, Sam? Have a favorite book?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

"That's a good one." she replied but shook her head at his question, "I could never pick one." she sighed, it was true she had several favorites in several genres but no one book topped them all.

She could hardly believe the conversation as it was going...how strange it was that they were here talking about something as inconsequential as books, well books weren't inconsequential to her but she could only imagine what they were to him. She realized she didn't know him very well at that.

"Tell me something about yourself Ryan."

[Dorian Knight]

"I honestly could have guessed that you would say that," Dorian told her, smiling at her. "You seem like the type that would say every book was your favorite."

Her next question, no, command, caught him off guard and he smiled. "There is a lot to tell, simple as I may be. What can I tell you that would interest you?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

"A secret." she smiled devilishly, "You know mine. Tell me one of yours." she asked in a soft tone, her eyes had turned liquid as well. Sam never knew what she looked like when she talked to others, not really, she practiced in the mirrors at times and attempted to perfect her speech, but she didn't know that her eyes entranced, her lips tempted, and her voice seduced much as it was doing right now.