Hi guys, just a quick note: for the sake of the plot, Katie is going to be in the same grade as the Weasley twins, Lee, Angelina and Alicia. Thanks!
Disclaimer: I am not JKR and don't own HP.
Katie Bell was officially screwed.
"Damn you, George Weasley!" she screamed as she tore down the corridor. Thanks to that blasted prat, she was going to be late for Transfiguration, miss three quidditch practices for detentions, and more importantly, murdered by Oliver Wood.
She supposed that the Transfiguration and detention consequences would have to wait, because Oliver-Speak-of-the-Devil-Wood was storming down the corridor looking absolutely livid.
"Shit!" Katie squeaked, diving into the nearest hiding place – a broom closet… only to jump out again after finding Cho Chang and Colin Creepy in there… ew. Unfortunately, thanks to the two lovebirds, she was now face to face with an angry Wood.
"What the hell, Bell?"
"Erm, did the Weasleys sneak rhyming potion into your pumpkin juice?"
"Don't play dumb with me, Bell!"
"What are you talking about?" said Katie innocently as she backed down the corridor, aiming for the nearest classroom.
"You know as well as anything!" Oliver yelled. He snatched for her tie, but Katie agilely evaded the chokehold and bolted.
"Transfig! Gotta go!" she called with false cheerfulness and sprinted for her life. By the end of the hallway, Katie inwardly groaned. She had run away from McGonagall's lair instead of towards it. Too late now, she thought. In fact, this was a golden opportunity… Katie Bell liked her revenge, and George Weasley was so going to get it for this.
Katie stormed towards Gryffindor Tower, planning on a nice afternoon of skiving off and plotting Weasley Number Two's demise. Maybe, if she was lucky, she could come up with a plan to save her skin from her quidditch captain as well. As Katie stomped into the common room, she was met with a pleasant surprise.
"'Leesh!" she squealed, delighted that she would have someone to rant to and throwing herself on the couch. But before she could even start her tirade, Alicia interrupted her.
"Katie! You won't believe Fred-bloody-Weasley! The little git!"
"Funny, I was going to say the same for George, but I was going to use a slightly more offensive term to describe him…" before Katie could explain any more, another girl burst into the common room.
"I'M GOING TO WRING JORDAN'S NECK… while I'm hiding from Wood," Angelina finished in a smaller voice.
"Join the club, Johnson," Katie said.
At the same time, all three girls began to yell, berating the boys who had just ruined their lives.
"And can you believe it, I used to like him?"Alicia finished with disgust.
"I WAS GOING TO ASK HIM TO HOGSMEADE!" Katie roared.
"Jordan's going down. He will pay," Angelina said with a vicious light in her eyes.
Just then, someone crashed through the portrait hole.
"WOOD!" Katie yelled in warning, then bolted for the stairs. But she was too late. Damn Oliver and his perfect "Petrificus Totalus" spells. Katie saw that Angelina was also frozen, halfway up the stairs to the dormitory. With a mental smirk, Katie noticed that Oliver hadn't spelled Alicia, but was rather blocking her way to the stairs, blushing fiercely. Alicia gave him a sultry glance and Katie could see him swallow a yell, substituting with a quieter tone, though it was no calmer than his usual shout.
"What. Happened."
"Ollie, Ollie, Ollie," Alicia said, pulling him down on the couch by his tie. Katie could see Oliver's cheeks turn a deeper shade of fuchsia.
"W-what Al-licia?" Oliver stuttered.
Clearly still using her advantage, Alicia molded her lips into an attractive pout and flipped a strand of fine wheat colored hair out of her eyes, leaning towards Oliver suggestively. "I can explain, Wood."
Olive sharply breathed in. "G-go ahead, Spin-nnet?"
"See, Ollie, it wasn't me, Katie or Angie at all. The root of this nasty rumor lies with a certain set of redheaded twins and someone by the name of Lee…"
Katie, working free of the "Petrificus Totalus" started to jump in with a nicely placed insult about the Weasley twins, but Alicia shut her up with an urgent glare. Katie figured it had something to do with the "flirt shamelessly with Wood and hope to escape his wrath" plan.
"Anyway, Ollie, you see, Fred, George and Lee were using this plot as revenge. They clearly anticipated that you would be angry." She touched his arm. "And understandably sooo," she purred, leaning even closer.
Oliver clearly fought his urge to turn to jelly right then and there, and attempted a stronger tone. "So there is no truth at all that you three were caught fraternizing with the enemy in the same broom closet?"
"Of course we weren't!" Alicia said, looking remorsefully at Wood.
"Then why does Roger Davies confirm said action with Bell?" Wood snapped.
"Erm," Alicia gulped. "He's, well, a prat, and you know Davies! He'd tell the Daily Prophet that he and McGonagall were snogging if anyone let him! And you know as well as I do that I would never let Diggory near me," she placed a hand on Oliver's tie, straightening it. "I do rather like quidditch players, though."
Unfortunately for Alicia, Oliver was trying extremely hard not to be distracted.
"And what exactly were the boys taking revenge for?" Oliver asked suspiciously.
"Oh, it was nothing really," Alicia said was a fake laugh.
"Really?"
"Well, Angie and I just assisted Katie in getting them detention, although a few hundred points did get docked from Gryffindor…"
"WHAT?!" shouted the always overly competitive Wood, forgetting that his sexy crush was sitting right in front of him, blinded by his obsession with anything involving points.
"We had a good reason!" Alicia argued.
"A good reason?" Oliver spat. "You're a great member of Gryffindor for sure. Losing 'several hundred points'," he muttered under his breath. "You know, Spinnet, I don't care how good of a Chaser you are, but I might just have to kick you off the team for this. And you too, Bell and Johnson. I can't let you go unscathed for something so despicable!" By the end of the sentence, his voice had escalated into a roar.
"NO!" Katie yelled, knowing that it was definitely time for intervention.
"It was all because we like those guys, you know, like – like- them, then they all started going out with other girls… I mean really! Why the hell would George want Marietta-sodding-Edgecombe? And it's not like we hadn't snogged before! We were practically an item! Same with Angie and Lee and 'Leesh and Fred!"
" 'Leesh and Fred?" Oliver repeated dumbly, his face frozen.
Suddenly, seeming to come to his senses (not as in sanity, as in normal Wood behavior), he screamed "INTER-TEAM RELATIONSHIPS? YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! THAT'S IT! YOU'RE ALL OFF THE TEAM!"
"But Lee's not even on the team? How is it an inter-team relationship?" Angelina argued weakly. But Wood had already left the common room in a huff.
Katie crossed her arms. George Weasley had better be scared.
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