There just seemed to be new things happening in the castle every day it seemed. And not one of those days had Karma decided to attempt to find Piper until now. She was so bored, and there wasn't really anything to do. Besides, she was almost about to give up on her search for this girl. Before she had always appeared where she didn't need to be, and now, it was like she was hiding from Karma.

Who was she kidding, Piper probably was hiding from her anyway.

Finally taller today, because she had her favorite heels on, she strolled down the hallway with Piper's letter in her hand. In addition to feeling comfortable, since she had on her favorite jeans and the red hoodie that Kris had sent her for her birthday, she was also feeling confident, as a woman in red should be. Aha, but she was always confident.

Cue hairflip. Oh but her accessory that was her favorite? Of course, Precious was sitting on the eighteen year old's shoulder, perfectly content with her owner being up higher so she could see even more from this level. WHEEEE.

Now, where was Piper when she needed her?

Piper was strolling confidently down the hall in her new heels Okay.. that was a lie. Piper was attempting to walk in her new heels and it wasn't working at all. Ever since she had met Wes, she was attempting to well, look nicer. Which included her new black skirt, violet shirt, the exact color of her eyes and of course, those dratted heels. She tottered a bit off balanced for a moment before putting her hand out and steadying herself on the wall.

"How do girls walk in these things?" She wondered out loud as she put a hand up to smooth her new hair style. It was no longer down and flowing, but it was up, and in ponytail with a pouf like thing in the front. Yes, she thought it looked a little unlike her, but it looked good. All the girls in her dorm had nearly fallen out off their beds when they had seen her emerge. She sighed a bit, thinking of Wes, she hadn't seen him, since their kiss.. and she missed him alot.

She turned a corner and then looked up only to be staring right at Karma.. Whoa.. Piper tottered a bit as she tried to stop and steady herself. "Hello.." She said timidly, as she teetered a bit more on her heels.. Drat.. why did she have to wear heels today of all days? When she might need to run..

Hmm. The grounds were still wet with snow. It was weird, she didn't even have the urge to go run out and jump in it all! Wha --

Clicking heels. Hmm. Could it possibly be her BFF walking towards her on this very boring day? Even Precious perked up and turned her head to look around behind her owner's lucious blonde curls to see what was going on. Then, the clicking seemed to be... different. That wasn't her Evee, because Evee knew how to balance. Aha, so there was a newbie in heels. Smirking, Karma turned around to look at who was coming.

Only to face the person she was least expecting to see wearing heels. Karma's smirk grew as Piper began to wobble and teeter this way and that, and raised an eyebrow.

"That's an interesting outfit you have on," she said, folding one arm across her body with the letter, and the other arm resting on the folded one to provide her chin a place to rest upon. "First timer?" Well duh.

Piper sighed a bit as Karma spoke, Interesting.. All that trying, and all she got was interesting.. " Uhh..." She trailed off, it wasn't really a compliment.. Piper's cheeks flushed with embarrassment, and she looked away, still holding onto the wall. "Well um,yes actually it's my first time out on these things.." She said as she wobbled and nearly fell over..

Thankfully her hand was on the wall.. Goodness, she was standing still and she nearly fell..Perhaps heels were not such a Good idea for her.. You are going to wind up in the hospital wing Piper.. and all to impress a boy.. Piper sighed as she looked at Karma, a little warily. She wondered what the other girl wanted with her. Ohh dear, she needed to be brave.. and not be afraid, she wasn't good on these things with strong legs, who knows how she would be on them with weak ones..

Karma was still smirking slightly as she eyed Piper's wobbling and trying to balance. Maybe the skirt was a little short for winter, and she wasn't going to completely diss on it yet. "Is this for somebody special?" she inquired. Better not be for Emiliano. AHEM.

Precious' tail flicked back and forth along the back of her owner, trying to assess the new person about to fall down. Of course, if she did, Precious would be the first one to administer kisses to the booboo's! Oh yes she would. She got ready in her pouce position.

Karma put down one arm, but still had the other across her body, holding Piper's letter. "Anyway," she said, playing with her necklace. "I got your letter, which is why I'm roaming the halls by myself. Emiliano gave it to me, and I finally decided I wasn't busy enough to come find you." Eh, a little bit harsher than what she had meant, but it didn't really matter. Piper disliked her as much as she disliked the tottering Gryffindor.

Smirk.

Piper blushed slightly and sighed as she heard Karma speak, she watched her smirk and she folded her arms a bit. Just because I don't know how to do these things properly, there is no reason to smirk at me, you know you could just try to help me, instead of making me look and feel like an idiot.. Piper's thoughts were going a mile a minute, and she sighed.

"Yes, it's for Wes.." Piper replied softly. Her hold on the wall slackened a little bit as she eyes the cute kitten on Karma's shoulder.

Piper took a step back as Karma spoke, and she blinked a little. Ouch... Gah... Man she felt about two inches tall at the moment. She wished desperately for Wes to be there, but he would just drool over Karma.. sigh..

"Well, umm okay.." Piper responded, as she looked over at the smirking Ravenclaw. "I meant what I said in there...And I should add a few things.." Piper took another step back.. and caught her heel on the stone.. Oh no...

She was going down..

All Karma could think was that it better had been for Wes. If it wasn't for him? There might have been some serious clawage right about then. Not that it was like Karma to do that, but if you fight fire with fire...

She straightened up as Piper spoke about how she meant the things she wrote in the letter. Karma certainly hoped for Piper's sake that she did, and that this was the perfect princess Veela's her time to talk.

Once she opened her mouth, Piper began to fall. Without thinking, Karma moved forward, and conjured a huge, thick and fluffy pillow behind Piper to land on, along with sending a Cushioning Charm to her heels. Precious poised herself along Karma's shoulder, and helped balance Karma from falling herself.

"You should test fly these out before you wear them," Karma said, crouching down next to Piper as Precious jumped off of her shoulder and onto Piper to check for any booboo's. None spotted, but she licked her nose just for the sake of it, and walked back to her owner.

Piper looked up at Karma from her position on the floor and she smiled a bit. "Thank you." She said as she sighed a bit. " Yes, I know. I have a feeling that I am going to break something wearing these.. but I have to try and be a girl now and then.."

She then giggled as Karma's kitten jumped off of her shoulder and onto her. The cute little thing must have been looking for injuries, but seeing as she was fine, it licked her nose and then hopped back up onto Karma's shoulder.

"So uh... you wanted to talk?" She asked as she attempted to right herself, and get herself gracefully up off the floor.

Seeing as how Piper was fine, and Precious having examined the falling girl already, Karma swiftly stood back up. She even thought about offering Piper a hand to pull herself back up with, but knew that more than likely, she wouldn't be the one to accept the help. Again, that is. Since Karma had already helped her twice.

Now it was time for the talking, as what Piper had mentioned. Karma sighed, leaning against the wall with letter in one hand, debating on where exactly to begin.

"So, in Hogsmeade," she started. "That day, when I had been walking on the ledge and Emiliano was holding my hand - you walked in on the wrong side of that." She breathed out through her nose before continuing. "He was steadying me along, because I was about to jump down. Besides, you needed to stop assuming things, anyway. But the Hogsmeade thing? Not really what I intended to talk about here."

Dun dun dunnnn. She was trying so hard not to growl or snap or have her claws come out at the thought of what she was about to say next. She wanted to pull her hair out strand by strand for each time Piper had hurt Emiliano, but she crossed her arms. "I really don't think you understand the depths of pain you caused Emiliano that day you decided to pull that little stunt with Wes. Acting or not, you should have never done that." GAH. Her voice kept lowering dangerously with every sentence. "He's still hurt about that. I hope you're happy."

The last part, Karma had kind of snapped at her, but it wasn't exactly her fault for being mad. Okay myabe it was, but still. She had hurt Emiliano! Karma began to walk away, when she stopped, and turned back to face Piper. "I was going to accept the apology, and offer mine. But I don't think I can be sincere enough about it right now."

Piper steadied herself on the wall as Karma got up and began to speak. Piper really couldn't do anything but stand there and listen, though with each word Karma spoke, Piper seemed to get smaller and smaller.

Yes, that fateful day in Hogsmeade. Piper sighed a bit as Karma spoke. Goodness, she hadn't even done anything that day but barge in and start to cry.. And there they were, jumping down her throat again. She went to open her mouth, but Karma had already moved on.

Well this one she could respond too. "I never meant to hurt Emiliano, you have to believe that. I just thought, that maybe he might finally figure out who he wanted..And he has.." Piper said looking at Karma.. "You.." Pipers voice wasn't mad or angry or even sarcastic. It was even, though dangerously close to cracking with her pain. "I am not happy that I hurt him, not at all. And if I could have done it a different way, I would have..But I don't think you should be here reaming me, when my actions got you what you want.." Tears filled Piper's eyes, as she watched Karma walk away.

"I didn't expect you to accept it.. Not at all really.. And I'm sorry, for hurting Em.. you have got to believe me on that front." Piper turned, and started to walk away, and she had gotten a good distance away from Karma, when her emotions started to come out, and she started to cry, she hated the fact that she had hurt someone, Yes Piper probably had gone about things the wrong way. But she had Wes now, somewhere.. Gah where was he, she missed him.

Tears were pouring from her eyes, making it hard to see as she walked, and she caught her heel on a crack in the floor, and before she knew what was happening, She had tripped and landed hard on her wrist, which she heard snap...

Piper gritted her teeth as she looked down at her wrist and noticed it hanging off at an odd Angle.. Ohh no.. She thought as the hall way started to spin around her. She was glad she was out of sight of Karma, as she felt her head go numb, and suddenly... everything went black...

Everywhere he seemed to go lately he was always getting wet. Maybe, Ryder thought, the best thing to do would be just to wear rubber boots everywhere now. He pulled a newspaper clipping out of a waterproof pouch as he walked. Now that he wasn't anywhere that he would have the possibility of getting it wet, he was free to carry it around again.

He looked around the corridor as he walked, speeding up as he passed someone he didnt know. After he was further down the hall he slowed his pace once again.

Jack had been sitting along the floor of the first floor corridor, trying really hard to block out the conversations of the two people further along the hallway. He was trying to study Herbology, and while a normal, smart person would get up and move to a different location...he was too lazy today.

Just as he went to stand up, he accidentally bumped into someone who was walking by, obviously in some sort of hurry. And...was that a rain poncho he was carrying? That did seem to make sense--after all, the Great Hall was flooding, it was only a matter of time before it made it up here...

"Hey, the first floor isn't flooding too, is it?" he asked the guy in a rather hurried voice. Maybe he knew something he didn't know...maybe a classroom was flooding or something? And to think, he had been so STUPID as to sit on the FLOOR while the possibility of flooding was around.

Ryder's head snapped up. His thoughts interupted by someone banging into him. His hand automatically closed around the clipping before shoving it as gently as he could into his jeans pocket.

When the boy said something, he looked a little older than Ryder, but he couldn't be sure, Ryder turned his attention to him. "Not that I know of," he said, a hint of worry to his voice. "At least, I sure hope it's not," he continued. "No, it can't be..." he muttered to himself.

"Oh. Ok...I was worried for a second," Jack said with a grin. "I'm sure it hasn't reached up here..." he added. True, it hadn't reached the first floor YET. It was only a matter of time, he was sure.

"Oh, I'm Jack by the way. Jack Fritzera," he said, holding out a hand for a friendly handshake. "And sorry about knocking into you before," he added, smiling sheepishly. Him and his stupid height.

"Nice to meet you, Jack," Ryder said, shaking his hand. "I'm Ryder Montgomery," he told the Jack. "It's okay, don't worry about it," he said, smiling.

Sauntering slowly along the first corridor, Ari, as always, had one hand trailing along the wall--her left hand--and in the other hand was her white cane, which she swept in front of her. She was wearing her Ravenclaw 'uniform', for once, having the longsleeved shirt rolled up to her elbows--and a pair of dark jeans. Other than that--it was all in place. Her short hair was more feathery than usual--and it swayed with her walking, slightly.

"...two hundred fifty four..two hundred fifty five...two hundred fifty six..." Ari's hand found the edge of a brick that portruded slightly from the wall. Pausing for only a moment, she kept going, "One...two...three.."

He turned the corner into the first floor corridor, the smell of the water hitting him reminded Professor Kapoor of the recent floods. Locked away in a tower that was appearing more and more ivory by the rising integers of liquid, he'd become nearly oblivous to it. He sniffed. Wiping a tear from one of his eyes (onions always did that to him), he heard the small voice of one of the students...counting. Miss Malone had that habit about her, but until that moment, being face to face with her, he had mistaken it for a peculiar passtime.

"Good morning, Miss Malone!" He boomed convivially in that way that sometimes people mistakingly do to folks who are sight impaired not hearing impaired. Not a moment after, he winced to himself, as silently as he could as a thought occured to him. Did he just throw off her counting? What if she got lost and all because he said 'hello'!? Kapoor took a long step sideways to make himself out of the way of Miss Malone, the sound of his own jaunty quick footsteps giving away his position.

"Seve--" Ari quickly cut off her counting and stopped rather abruptly when someone--one of the Professors--adressed her. Taking her hand off the wall, it hovered between herself and the wall for a moment while she thought--quickly connecting the voice with the name. Of course--it didn't require a bit of thought to recognise the voice--It was a voice she always thought as sounding on the brink of a smile.

"Professor Kapoor!", she smiled, touching her glasses (a bad tic she had) and angling her head upward slightly. "Good morning to you, sir." She brought the cane directly in front of her, resting both hands over the top of it. Arienna's head slightly cocked to one side as her train of thought took over for a moment.

Divination Teacher. Divination tower. Tower--as in: almost completely opposite the first floor. "What brings you down here, sir?"

Sadie had just taken a blanket from the girl whom she believed to be named Rachel when the water in the Entrance Hall rose quickly, pushing her up onto the first floor.

Sadie swore, now very cross and irritated. "What is with this damn water?"

She looked around hoping that no innocent minded first years were standing around. She then decided to take Rachel's advice and head up to the dorms. At least those would be dry.

Robert took a deep breath and held it as the water rushed higher and started making him move out of the great hall. Opening his eyes under the water he swam against the current in search of the familiar petite figure of Liz. Seeing the familiar looking bag being clutched by a hand he swam over and resurfaced nest to Liz, grabbing her hand and clutching it as they were swept up. When the water stopped rising he shoved Liz up higher onto the steps and pulled himself out of the water, his clothes sopping wet and sticking to him. "Bloody hell!" he said as he shook his head to somewhat attempt to dry his hair.

As the current had started sweeping her toward the entrance hall, Elizabeth had made sure her bag was still over her shoulder and secured, before setting off with strong strokes toward where she thought the stairs were. The current really did seem like it was trying to get everyone out safe, even though the only thing keeping her from dwelling on how cold she was was her movement. And once she surfaced, she glanced around, assuming Robert had been swept in the same direction as her even with the extreme difference in size. As he appeared near her, she felt him grasp her hand before they were swept up the stairwell and her green eyes looked at the water in confusion.

When the current finally deposited them on the stairs almost into the first floor corridor, she blinked before she was pushed back even more. Half lying on the floor of the corridor, completely drenched once again, barefoot, and cold, she shook her head to try and get the wet hair out of her face before giggling at the outburst from Robert. "Apparently we're not allowed past the first floor now," she said, still giggling. "Did you happen to see my robes floating around before we got kicked out?" Not that sodden robes would actually help, but now that she wasn't moving as much, the freezing water that had doused her multiple times since her trip downstairs was hitting her and it was taking pretty much everything to keep from shivering. At least her Impervius spell had held on her bag, so her snacks, shoes and the few textbooks and everything that were inside were still safe.

The water began seeping through the floorboards and into the first floor corridor. The sound of the water trickling in was faint.

Daphne aimlessly wandered the first floor. All the professors had begun to stress the importance of NEWTs, and she was beginning to feel the pressure. To make things worse the Ravenclaw Common Room was packed with Hufflepuff students, making it difficult for the seventh year to spend time alone.

As she rounded the corner, she couldn't help but hear splashing with each step. Then her feet started feeling unusually cold, and she realized what was happening. "AAAAHHHH!" she shrieked, instinctively hopping onto a windowsill, pulling her legs close to her chest. She found herself oddly paralyzed and frightened by the water, leaving her confined to the area.

Ari shifted her weight, before jumping when she heard someone scream. Putting her back to the wall, she turned her head to the Professor, "Sir?" At the same moment, she placed her cane back out in front of her. She didn't feel the water pushing against her cane yet, nor did she feel it through her shoes.

Diane had only just came out from the History of Magic classroom, big backpack in place walking nevertheless rather calmly, when she saw a peculiar scene going on, involving a girl she had met who climbed over a window sill in fear and, was that girl--

"Excuse me," Diane said, approaching and placing a hand over the shoulder of the girl with a cane. "Let me lead you out, this place is flooding." There was no doubt about it, the girl, she was blind. Diane held her arm, though from this perspective it was even more obvious the difference of height - why, Diane was only a first year, "My name is Diane, what's yours?"

But, as she was trying to lead her to the stairs, and before the girl could answer, she looked up and addressed the other Ravenclaw. "What are you doing out there, Daphne? Hop down, the corridor is going to be completely flooded in a couple of minutes and we better get out."

She herself had pretty good reasons why she should have no contact with the water whatsoever.