Holding one girl with each hand like a convenient rope for the two bigger students, Diane had been in the brick of going 'hell be damned!' and start shooting fireworks out of her wand to get somebody's help. As the water had reached them above her neck, the situation had turned rather critical. It was just when she has getting resolute in taking the last resort out of her pockets, that a figure appeared. Then a few more. Diane was glad when one of the older ones, probably a professor, took the girl at the end of the line from her.

Then she had a crystal-like substance around her head. Why, this was handy. She floated better with that thing around her head, so her feets weren't even touching the floor as she held the other's - Daphne's - right arm sleeve not to be dragged by the current. Also, from this point of view, and a spare hand, she kind of watched passively as a row of items floated by. She did pick the photograph of the car and a boy in the forest and put it in her pockets.

Must say Diane heard the interaction around her with a unonstrusive passiveness up until they were going upstairs, then she found herself knocking on the bubble-head charm on Daphne's head, which was the closest, "Erm," she started, and her voice sounded odd inside the bubble. "The water is contaminated. We should let them know everyone must get to the Hospital Wing."

As she clumsily pulled herself up the stairs, she was thankful she hadn't been wearing her school uniform. The long robes would not have made swimming easy and they would have been far heavier to lug around. She was taking her time going up the stairs, she needed to catch her breath, treading water had taken a lot of energy out of her.

She leaned against the cold stone wall for a moment. She wanted to get back to her dormitory, but she felt too exhausted to move. Whatever courage and strength she displayed in the flood had dissipated and the old Daphne had returned. She heard a strange knocking noise, startling her somewhat. Then she noticed Diane on the step below her. Now that they were safe out of the water, she realised how silly she must look with a giant bubble over her head. She waved her wand and hers and Diane's bubbles disappeared.

She took a few steps before coming to an abrupt halt. "Did you say the water was contaminated"? she turned around, eyes wide with fear. "But... I feel OK, and I swallowed a bunch of it a few minutes ago. Am I in danger?" she asked frantically.

Diane kind of shrugged the way a naive 11-year-old would do. "I was in the Hospital Wing for contamination from the water. I did not feel anything in particular myself except cold. But I did go through treatment then and we may want to go through treatment now." She pointed at her own throat. "Could you use that spell, sonorus, and let the others in the corridor know?"

She considered it for a moment then, "You may want to replace the bubble charm when we are done."

The water splashed about pushing all the people in the first floor corridor to the staircase as it rose to touch the ceiling and stopped.

As Arethusa said, the water was drained out, the injuries healed, and everything was restored to normal.

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine..." How Whit missed her mother so. At least the term was almost over so she'd be over there soon, although she was sure that after the first couple of days Whit would be bored out of her mind and wanna come back to Hogwarts...minus the schoolwork. 'I could use some Fanta.' All of that singing made her thirsty but she didn't feel like getting something to drink. "Want a Fanta, don't you want a Fanta?" She started singing but stopped, all of it felt so familiar. Talk about deja vu!

Torin was heading out of one of the rooms on the 1st floor when he heard someone singing. And they were pretty good. Obviously it had to be Whitney singing. She was the Crazy Fanta Girl. "I'd love a Fanta!" he called out as he looked at her.

'Oh darn, now I know why this feels so familiar.' Last time Whit sang that song she was in a corridor and it was the day she had met Torin. And now, there he was, wanting a Fanta again. Oops. Whit turned around and faced him with a huge smile. "Hello to you too?" She felt kind of bad actually, twice she had "asked" if he wanted a Fanta and now, both times, she couldn't give him one. "Sorry, I'm all out, maybe next time?" she replied with a shrug. "You should try coming up to me when I do have a Fanta"

He smiled and walked over to her. "You should stop singing that when you don't have any then. It jut teases people otherwise." He winked to show that he was joking with her. Though really he sorta had been hoping that she had some so that he could try it.

Whit laughed and then a great idea popped up into her head. "Okay, since I feel kinda bad and I like you, I'm gonna buy like a twelve pack over the summer and I'm going to take it to you, how's that?" Though she had no idea where he lived she would just find out....by asking someone, or him. She wasn't some kind of creepy stalker who would like write him love poems and stuffs. ;] "Now let's see, what kind of flavor do you want?"

He thought about her offer. It seemed pretty good for him. Now he just had to think of what kind of Fanta he wanted. And it was a little hard seeing as he didn't really know all the kinds that it came in. But he wasn't going to say that to her. "Cream soda?" he said at last. that is if it came in that flavour.

Whit laughed a bit but stopped herself right after. It wasn't Torin's fault that he didn't know anything about the soda. He didn't know what Fanta was till the day they met so how could he ever know the flavors? 'Nope, sorry. They don't have that flavor." she said with a smirk and turned away, only pretending to walk off. She always seemed to have fun around this boy.

He frowned as she turned away from him. He thought that she was going to walk off. But she didn't. Good, 'cause that would have been rude! "Well, what flavours do they have then?" He wasn't really wanting to play a guessing game with her.

She could tell from his tone of voice that he just wanted to know the flavors and get it over with. "Alright," 'Doesn't have to get his boxers in a bunch.' "Well, from what I can remember, there's..pineapple? Orange...grape and....some type of apple thing but I don't really like that one soo.... Just the four I believe. Red,orange,yellow and purple. Like the four Fanta girls." Whit stopped talking for a few minutes and thought about it. She really didn't think there were anymore flavors. Just four flavors was weird though. Why not five? Four's such odd even number.....Foouur. 'Four. F-o-u-r. Four. Just weird.' She stopped and looked back up at Torin with a big smile, she didn't want him to be upset with her, that wouldn't be any fun. Then something came to her. "Oops....don't hate me Torin buuut...I just remembered something!" Torin really didn't seem like someone to get upset over a silly mistake and plus, how in the world was she supposed to remember soda flavors? She could barely remember which side was her left and right. Whit lowered her voice and mumbled, ""There is a cream soda flavored Fanta."

He listened to her as she listed off flavours. They sounded pretty good. He was just about to say which one he wanted when she told him that he had been right about the cream soda one. "AHA! I thought so!" he said as he pointed his finger at her almost like he was accusing her of something. "I want my cream soda, and I want it NAO!" Or during the summer. Whichever..

Oh dear, now he was wanting his soda now. Well, sounds like Mr. Bob here had a problem. "But, like, I don't have any now! We just had this conversation!!!" Maybe he had like short term memory loss....kinds like Dori, but not as bad. "I'll give it to you in the summer, I promise." Even if she had to rob a super market or something, she would get the man his cream soda flavored Fanta. Hmm, she needed a change of subject and fast before he like...ate her or something. Then again, he wasn't Mads' size or anything and he was the only person she thought would eat her if he got mad. Either way, a change of subject would be nice, right? "C'mon Torin, let's....dance!" Whit grabbed his hands and started dancing in circles with him. "La da dee, da da dee!!"

I know, silly. I was just being.. me. And I'm thirsty too." And talking about drinks when you are thirsty just makes you even more thirsty. And she was suddenly grabbing his hands and dancing with him? O_____O What a strange child. "WHEEE!" he said twirling in circles with her. Well, at least it got his mind off of the Fanta for the moment.

He was just being him. Well than, she'd never seen that side of him before. "I like it!" she said out loud. Wow. 'Wooooow. I would do something like that.' Her cheeks turned two shades of pink but she just pretended like nothing happened. That was always the best thing to do. Then she started to think....if he was thirsty, how did she know he wasn't hungry?!?! Torin was going to eat her! "Please don't eat me Mr. Hungry Man!!!"

Torin was dancing with her! 'Yaaaay!!!' Who knew the boy could dance? Well Whit knew now, that was for sure. Oooh but all of the circles were making her dizzy. "Sooo so dizzy." She could feel herself about to fall but maybe if she just held on to Torin she wouldn't. Other than the whole being dizzy thing, she was having tons of fun. "You should become a professional dancer." she said and started laughing.

Reese clicked-clacked her way through the corridor, wearing a pair of heels that were restored when the merprincess restored all their belongings. Today, she was heading down to the Great Hall to grab a little snack before she headed to the lake. Hmmm. Maybe she'll eat some pizza, then take a few brownies to the lake with her so she could snack on something while down there. That sounded like a good plan to her.

What the heck? Reese stopped walking when she noticed two people dancing in the middle of the corridor. Not just any two people, she actually KNEW them. It was Torin and Whitney. "Well well well," she said as she started walking towards them. "Looks like you two are having fun."

He stopped dancing. "What? Eat you?" He was frowning now. What was she talking about? He wasn't a cannibal. "Er, thank you..."

Then suddenly Reese was there. "Hey, Reese. Did you know that I'm apparently a cannibal?"

Whit heard Reese's voice but with all of the spinning and dizziness she couldn't really see her. Just as she was gonna say hello to her though, Torin replied to her accusations of him eating her. Thankfully they'd stopped dancing by then so she'd could reply without falling over. She balanced herself on both feet and said, "Well yeah, I mean, how do I know you're not hungry and....guys eat a lot. When you're hungry, you're hungry." She shrugged and then added, "Oh and, you're very welcome." She took a couple of steps back and turned to Reese.

"Hi!!!!!" Whit jumped up and down a couple of times and then gave her a huge hug. "Sorry I haven't seen you in ages. I've actually seen Torin more than I've seen you." That was kind of weird, now that she thought about it but he did always seem to pop up when she was roaming around the school or the grounds. Was he stalking her? "Pfft, yeah right! Stalking me? Ha!" And she'd done it again. It was amazing how her friends didn't think she was insane in the membrane yet.

Reese looked further down the corridor and that's when she saw the portraits. Ohmygosh. THE portraits. This was the place that she asked Jack out not too long ago. She looked back at Whitney, wondering if her friend knew about her new boyfriend. Probably. Mr. Big Mouth over there would have probably told her by now. She wouldn't even be surprised it Vannie knew about Jack since Torin hung out with her sometimes.

CANNIBAL?!

She slowly turned her head back to Torin and when she locked eyes with him, she stepped back a few times. "What are you talking about, Kane?" She asked him. She eyed the boy in front of her as she waited for an explanation on why he said he just found out that he was a cannibal.

He wouldn't eat her, right? RIIIIGHT?! Right. Torin loved her too much to eat her.

Her attention turned to Whitney when the girl gave her a BIG hug. Yes, Reese Upstead did miss her Whitney Ashford hugs. She returned the girl's hug and listened to her talk about not seeing her in a while. "Yeah, it has been a long time," she agreed. "Wasn't the last time we talked like a month or two ago? We talked in the Room of Requirement and you gave me some advice." If she remembered correctly.

Stalking? Torin was stalking Whitney? Haha. "Yeah, Torin. You do show up out of nowhere sometimes," she told him with a smile. She paused for a few minutes then added, "I'm just kidding. I know you don't stalk anyone."

"I'm not a cannibal," he told them. He was especially eying Reese, who was backing away from him. "Very funny." Then there was a stalking comment? Was this Gang Up On Torin Day? "Well... I was just in the area when I heard her singing about Fanta. I can't help it." It wasn't his fault that he was always randomly seeing people, was it? Nope.

"Umm...yeah...something like that." she said and shrugged. At least Reese wasn't mad at her about anything involving that discussion. Maybe Lima didn't tell Reese anything about not knowing about her liking Jack? And if she did hopefully Reese wasn't mad and, or, forgot all about it, so she was off the hook. Obviously the two didn't end up dating because Reese, or someone, would have told her, so Whit didn't want to ask what had happened between them, it might just upset her.

Whit turned back to Torin and heard him say he wasn't a cannibal. Where did he get that idea from? "You know, technically, I never called you a cannibal, I mean, that would just be rude. Right? I mean yeah, we're all eatable, everything in this corridor is eatable but that sir is called cannibalism and society frowns upon it." Whit really had to stop watching all of those movies, it really didn't do her any good What. So. Ever.

"Well really, of course he isn't a stalker! I mean, that would be horrible! I was simply.....thinking about a movie...that I saw over the Christmas break....and....I just....said something out loud that I hadn't meant to? Yeah, that's right. That's what happened." Surely they weren't gonna buy that.

Torin's not cannibal? Well, that's good. He sounded like he was telling the truth a minute ago. "That's good to know," she told him. She moved back over closer to him and began to look back at the portraits. She was now beginning to wonder where Jack was. She hasn't seen him for a few days.

She was still looking at the portraits when she began to talk to Torin. "Hey, Torin. You know this is where I asked..." She stopped talking when Torin mentioned something about Whitney singing about fanta. What? Looking back at her friend, she raised her eyebrow.

"Huh?"

She hasn't ever heard of someone sing about fanta. She has some strange friends. Whitney was probably the strangest out of all of them. Standing there, Reese let Torin and Whitney talk about stalking and cannibalism. There was no need for her to get into the conversation. That is, until, Whitney mentioned watching a movie over the summer. "What movie?" She simply asked.