Grace stood rooted in position, now beginning to feel slightly resentful for taking time out of her schedule to do this when she had no idea if the person she was helping would appreciate the effort. She and Chance were polar opposites and somehow she got the feeling that this was just going to turn out horribly.

With a sigh, she stepped further into the office and took a seat into the chair next to her classmate, tilting her chin up slightly and attempting to ignore any looks he might give to her.

Grace bit her tongue and resisted the urge to roll her eyes when Chance used humor about the situation, even attempting to flatter Professor Levartian with a compliment. Instead, she focused on the older woman's sentiments about deferring to her judgment on the partnership. Grace nodded, her doubts about helping momentarily pushed to the side.

But as soon as Chance made the comment about teaching her to lighten up, she bristled. She sat up a little straighter and turned to glare at him, attempting to let him know that she didn't appreciate his assessment of her. But before she could rebuke what he said, Professor Levartian had made the most outrageous suggestion known to the wizarding world. Chance as a prefect?

"Him?" she asked incredulously.  Her eyes went wide, still shocked with the suggestion and also the fact that she had questioned it outloud. She tried to compose herself and asked in a much calmer tone, "But....I thought a prefect had to be responsible and.....serious"

So Chance Ryker was one of th Arithmancy professor's favorite students?  This sounded almost as odd as Professor Levartian being one of Chance's favorite professors!  It seemed that both evaluations were based far more on personality than anything else...though perhaps sprinkled with a healthy dose of physical attraction on the Irish Gryffindor's part.  Grace definitely didn't seem interested in this pairing...and perhaps was even turning her nose up at the idea?  Was she that stuck on herself?

Chance had joked about getting Grace Eddy to lighten up, but never had he anticipated that to be one of the goals that Myrni had for pairing them up!!!  Whatever shock Grace might have shown seemed to be on par with Chance's own.  Had Myrni really said that the two of them "will be a great influence on each other."

This bombshell was followed by yet another...Chance as a PREFECT?!??  So the professor was serious?  Asking him to be a prefect?!?  Really?!?  Chance was shocked.

"Me?!?"

Regardless of how insulting Grace's comments may have been in a way...Chance actually agreed with her to a point.  He quirked a brow and left his lips open in a rather stunned fashion.

"How'zat now?"

Chance might have returned Grace's glare...but he was really thrown off too much by the whole prefect suggestion.

Myrni could sense some tension between Grace and Chance, but she almost had expected it given their vastly different personalities. Even if she was new to the school and her post as Head of House, she had no hopes of knowing all that her older students had experienced throughout their time there. That included their social interactions.

But she was confident that such a serious and studious prefect like Grace needed a counterpart who was more laidback and carefree. Both could garner the respect of their housemates in different ways and hopefully teach each other something in the process.

Myrni gently rebuked Grace's claim that all prefects had to be straight arrows. "Actually, Ms. Eddy, there is nothing  that really regulates the selection of prefects except for whatever I feel would be most appropriate. And I'm confident that Chance here will perform marvelously in the role if given the chance." To herself, Myrni added, Or risk my disappointment.

With Grace's protests sufficiently stifled, Myrni nodded encouragingly at the young man before saying, "So what do you say, Chance? Or would you like to have the holiday break to consider it?"

And here Chance thought he knew all about Myrni Levartian and what made her tick...She definitely had some surprises up her sleeves and she'd nailed him with a couple of doozies today!  First pairing him up with Grace Eddy, then asking him to take on the role of prefect...what was next?  Did the professor want him to take up knitting or bridge playing?  Chance was certainly humbled and given a great deal of food for thought from the prospect that his TEACHER actually believed Grace could learn from HIM. 

"Ya...really think I'm right fer this?  Well...I mean ya want me t'try an' show some initiative an' get out there an' do somethin' with m'life.  I don't see why I shouldn' give it a try.  Unless there's some 'do a bad job, get electrocuted' clause I don' know 'bout?"

Chance looked to Myrni, showing a spark of drive and courage against unfamiliar territories.   He wanted to please Myrni...more than his own mother.  If it would help her to fill this position and Chance was capable...he wanted to do his part and help Professor Levartian out.

"I'll have a go at it, if ya think it's fer th' best.  If it'll help?"

Myrni's brows shot up as she noted the responses from both Grace and Chance. Clearly Grace's reaction showed that she was not altogether pleased about the situation, thought she did well enough to bite her tongue. Myrni commended her for that, but perhaps the girl realized that her protested were essentially explained away. She was outnumbered. And her logic was not going to win this discussion. Myrni could read plain on her face that she believed this was going to happen and would eventually come to live with it.

Pressing her hands together in front of her, Myrni could barely hide her pleased smile and exclaimed quite  happily, "Fabulous! Now that that is sorted out....I'll be sure to talk with Headmistress Snark about the change." She grinned at both her students. "I have nothing further to discuss, so if you two would like to head out to talk about a future of collaboration....?"

And again, there was her gentle suggesting...

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OOC: Figured this might be a good place to end the thread. We can always start new ones with just Grace and Chance to get their collaboration going. And then when you finish the special title app for making him a prefect, we can also do another with him and Myrni and he can get his prefect badge from her.