Expectations(Open)

[Dorian Knight]

He took a deep breath and let it out as he thought. What could he tell her that was safe, but would still interest her? H wasn't sure he had anyting, and he didn't know what to make up.

"I think you should have to discover my secrets in horribly miscommunicated ways, like I did yours."

[Samantha Montgomery]

"They're that bad huh?" she asked teasingly. She was making small talk but not knowing where she was going, which was strange for her.

"So tell me something else then, something easy, favorite color? Can I have your favorite color?" she laughed.

[Dorian Knight]

"I'm in Slytherin. Mandatory favorite color is green," he told her, smiling. Yes, he was joking, but he was also aware he was giving nothing about himself away.

[Samantha Montgomery]

"Is that so?" she wondered briefly if she was a traitor for finding red to be her favorite color and then she shook the silly notion away. "These different houses really seperate people from one another don't they?"

[Dorian Knight]

"Only those who want to be seperated, and let's face it, there would be seperation by another standard if there were no houses," he replied. "It's human nature to find an enemy."

[Samantha Montgomery]

"Funny I thought it was human nature to pull together." okay, well maybe she didn't really believe that, but she wanted that. She understood the business of being alone, being at the top was lonely. She didn't want to be at the top here, she wanted to win yes...she couldn't kill that particular demon, but she wanted friends, she wanted relationships, how long could you live on your own?

"Then again...a friend is perhaps the only one accessible to your back, and nine times out of ten...you'll find a knife there."

[Dorian Knight]

"Really?" He asked. "Godric, you're optimistic. What world have you been living in?" He asked. "It's my experience that people only pull together after a tragedy."

[Samantha Montgomery]

She laughed, once, Merlin if he only knew.

"I live in the same world as everyone else Dorian." she assured him but then that wasn't exactly truth either, she didn't live in an optimistic world, but rather a hell, so now that the past was behind her, she was hoping that the new ground she was working in would be softer...perhaps that made her optimistic.

"I just think that there's something inside of us that makes us cling to one another, if even for just a moment."

[Dorian Knight]

"There's something in us that makes us want to," he said. "We just rarely ever do."

And it was a shame, but it was human nature.

[Samantha Montgomery]

She reflected on that for a moment unaware if he was watching her or not, in that small moment of unguarded thinking it was just barely noticible that she wanted it as well just like every other human, but then she returned to her form and smiled up at him, "My we've gotten serious and philisophical all of a sudden."

[Dorian Knight]

"Right," he said slowly, wondering if she had been about to answer him at all, but he shook his head and let it go. "I must work on that c;ever perception... no philosophical thought. Got it. What should we talk about? Latest fashions, gossip?" He teased, his eyes bright as he asked her.

[Samantha Montgomery]

Her face practically transformed in that moment and her features turned doll like, she couldn't help it, she helped set the fashion up in the wizarding world, but she knew most guys didn't expect her to know more than designers and how to plan a party, what the latest gossip was. If Dorian wanted that from her she could be that, he'd have better luck with Lyra as far as enjoyment went. Sam wasn't trophy material, well she could be, she'd make a fine decoration on any man's arm, but she was in the competition herself, she wasn't going to rest on the shelf of a man's arm for the rest of her life being adored like a little puppy. She was going to have independence, she was going to work and cut out a lifestyle that suited her.

Still, she had her pretenses...

"The fall fashions are really top this year." she replied.

[Dorian Knight]

Dorian sighed. She was very frustrating to talk to. At some point, she was going to have to show someone that she wasn't a robot.

"Yeah?" He said. "Tell m about it," he continued. He just wanted to hear her talk.

[Samantha Montgomery]

He hadn't caught her joke, then again she had a peculiar sense of humor at times, still she didn't let up. It was silly of her to drop composure, to show disdain for what he knew her to be and yet what she wasn't. Perhaps she was afraid of anything that was less than propper and what it could lead to. Instead she nodded and began to talk about fashions, she was animated and charming and while she ran a magazine and these things he wanted her to talk about were in part her expertiese she had no desire to talk about fashion or gossip, well perhaps gossip she did like intrigue but there was more to her than that.

[Dorian Knight]

He really had no desire to listen to it, and he thought she would have known that.

He finally shook his head, and interrupted her in the middle of her spcheel.

"Samantha... are you ever happy?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

"What makes you ask?" she turned her face up at him. She wasn't even sure what real happiness looked like, let alone felt like and didn't know how to put that into words, not that she would have if she could have, she didn't trust Dorian as far as she could throw him and she knew he wouldn't be the one to dig into the darkness and find her soul to make her happy again so what was the point?

[Dorian Knight]

"You just spend all the time being whatever someone asks you to be," he said. Merlin knew that was no way to be happy.

"You're everybody else's girl. When are you going to be your own?"

[Samantha Montgomery]

When she figured out who that girl was, but Dorian had only part of the story, one dimension if he asked for it.

"I'm nobody's girl Dorian." she said standing to at least gain higher ground, " I'm just good at letting people see what they want to see, or in some cases..." she paused to make direct eye contact, "Not letting them see what they're desperate to figure out."

Most people were satisfied with the broken images and personalities she managed to pull out of no where, but the ones who wanted more, the ones who wanted to see humanity rather than perfection, they were often searching for a weakness, either that or to be friends, better acquaintances, and as they had already discussed there was no such animal as a true friend.

[Dorian Knight]

He smiled a little. "Fair enough," he told her with a shrug. But people like her burned out. That's why he never cared for the show of society, and he wondered if that was what also drove Rabastan. One day, she'd either learn to make herself happy, or she'd fizzle out. He hoped for the later.

"Is Hogwarts treating you well?" he asked her.

[Samantha Montgomery]

Her mouth fell open a little, she had been working up a good rage there and he just had to ask a question and appear so apathetic as if to make it severely unappeasing to bash him over the head with something...well either unappeasing or suddenly very appeasing. Her asessing stare told him she was still thinking about it and while she refused to sputter she was on the verge of calling him names but then she knew that she was probably just tired so she sat back down.

"Oh it's treating me dandy."