A Tedious Task PV Detention Closed

Anastasia was a tad disappointed at the girl's lack of reaction to the dusting and organizing, but she supposed that was partially her own fault for picking a task that she didn't hate. Still, seeing as she was going to be supervising the detention, she wasn't going to make it be something horrid like gardening or cleaning something gross. She supposed, for now, she'd have to settle for tedious as opposed to torturous. She was still mildly traumatized from her own detention in the Greenhouse. A Pureblood Princess like her was less than a natural at weeding. Quite the opposite, in fact. She'd managed to get dirt all over herself, and her three showers the next day still hadn't felt like they'd washed it off. 

"You can start on that side of the room," Anastasia told her, gesturing towards the other side of the long classroom. This would be an incredibly interesting task, seeing as the school had the same ghost professor for years who hadn't much cared how the books were organized, then had two different teachers who organized things completely differently before Professor Risa. It was safe to say that they were going to have to start completely from scratch with their organization. First things first though, they were going to have to dust. A lot. 

She tried to remember what the prefect in her detention had said about her behavior. She supposed it was her job as a prefect to try to make the Ravenclaw see the error in her ways, and more importantly, make sure she would do it again. It occurred to her that if somebody said there was a detention for fighting, and one person was a first year Gryffindor and the other a second year Ravenclaw, that it would seem obvious who the violent one was. 

"So, why did you break that boy's nose?" she asked, after trying to think of a less direct way to ask her. She supposed this worked as well as any other options she might have thought of. It also occurred to her, that, seeing as she had gotten detention for hexing someone in her first week of school, maybe she wasn't the one to lecture a second year about breaking someone's nose. She could think of at least three people who she would like to punch in the face. But she didn't. Because that would be rude and incredibly violent. 

Anastasia could tell the older girl disliked her, and she brushed past it. It was mostly was she didn't think very highly of a second year who went around breaking people's noses and as such, she didn't care much what the other girl thought of her, and also because she had learned not to care what most people thought of her. 

Anastasia frowned when the girl tried to justify the violence. She said it as though any would do what she had done in the scenario. But she couldn't think of anyone who would. Yes, she was a Gryffindor, but that didn't mean she solved every problem with violence. Sure, she wanted to some of the time. Alright, most of the time. But she didn't. Because that wasn't how functioning members of a healthy society conducted themselves. "You do hear yourself, right, Miss Windstone? A bratty first year was teasing you and you punched him in the face?" Anastasia said, trying to keep the judgment from entering her voice. "As for judging someone before you meet them, our meeting consisted of me watching you punch someone in the face, so forgive me if I judge your actions just a bit."

Anastasia sighed. She needed to seem put together, not as irritated as she felt. She saw the other girl's eyes glaze over and bit her lip. Detention wasn't supposed to be daydream time! It was supposed to be a time to contemplate your actions and resolve to behave differently in the future. Neither of which the Ravenclaw seemed to be doing. "Miss Windstone, can you please try to tell me another way you could have handled the encounter?" Anastasia said, her voice as patient as she dared make it. She hoped it didn't sound too patronizing since the other girl was a year older than her at absolute most. 

She chewed her lip, rather uncomfortable with the whole situation. She was stuck in a room with a Ravenclaw, who clearly had violent tendencies, who was also clearly rather irritated with her. She glanced back over and grimaced again. The daydreaming simply wouldn't do. "I would appreciate it if you kept the daydreaming to a minimum, as that is not why we are here," Anastasia said, trying to keep her voice relatively patient. She was quite irritated at the fact that she'd had to get up so early on her Sunday morning, and a bit more irritated that Eri didn't seem to feel any remorse for her actions. This prefect thing was harder than she'd thought...

Anastasia exhaled as the Ravenclaw began talking again. At least she wasn't staring off into space again. That was the goal of detention, right? Get the people to deal with whatever had gotten them in trouble and try to prevent it from happening in the future. As much as she was wary of the older girl, she tried to listen and be relatively open to whatever the girl said. After all, she was hardly one to judge someone else for whatever issues they might have, seeing as she'd hexed someone in her first week at school. 

Anastasia barely managed to stop herself from rolling her eyes when Eri said nobody understood her. Didn't everyone feel like that at some point in their life? That didn't mean that everyone went around punching people in the face. Alright, maybe Anastasia in particular wouldn't understand her, seeing as, to the outside eye, her life seemed completely perfect, but there had to be someone else at Hogwarts who would get what Eri was dealing with, right? Anastasia chewed her lip. She wasn't exactly sure what she was supposed to say in response. On one hand, she was a Prefect, and as such, something of an authority figure to the other girl. On the other hand, she was, in fact, younger than her, so she was worried that anything she said would comes accross as patronizing and the other girl would ignore whatever she said. 

"Listen, we're both on the same side here," Anastasia said, taking a deep breath. Merlin, that sounded ridiculous. "Maybe you should talk to someone about what happened. A friend, or a professor, or one of us prefects. Because even if it isn't happening anymore, it's still affecting you. And there has to be ways for you to deal with you emotions that don't involve violence." She smiled a bit at the end, so that the other girl could see that she was joking a bit. 

She bit her lip again as Eri told her that she wasn't day dreaming. Anastasia bit back a laugh. That was in fact day dreaming. "Well then, I would apprciate it if you kept the reflecting on your whole life for your personal time," Anastasia said, fairly proud of how patient she was being. She was being far more empathic than she normally was. She supposed it was due to the fact that she was fairly exhausted more than her having some profound realization that she should be a kinder person, but she chose to ignore that for the moment.