After Kyle divided all of the students into two teams of 5, they began eyeing their teammate's warily. She had placed Blaise, Draco, Ginny and a tall, lanky 6th year Ravenclaw on the same team purposely, not wanting to cause any arguments about the Slytherins being with the Hufflepuffs.
Because it was five on five and freezing, they all agreed that the use of the snitch was a bit much, so it would be the first team to earn 200 points. Each team had one beater and only one bludger was let out.
Kyle exhaled warily, her breath and nervous demeanor visible to Ginny.
"This could get ugly," she muttered.
"Oh, let's hope. This is the first time I've been allowed near a beater bat, I'm dying to use it on some wanker picking a fight," Ginny replied brightly.
"You Weasleys and your Neanderthal urge to hurt others," Draco sneered.
"Want me to show you first hand, ferret?" she swung the bat in warning.
Blaise shoved Draco towards the fiery red head with a large laugh.
"Hah, as if you evil Slytherins don't like torturing animals in your spare time, pretending they're muggles and all," Ginny glowered.
Thump. Crack.
Kyle had taken the bat and whacked both Ginny and Draco unceremoniously on the head. It got their attention.
One by one each of the players kicked off from the ground with force and were all flying around the pitch. Zachariah Smith and Ginny had accepted the beater's positions without much reluctance and were each taking turns flying towards the bludger and knocking it as hard as they could at each other in a challenge.
Kyle had the quaffle and scored the third goal for her team, dodging Cho Chang who had attempted a steal. A well-placed bludger from Zachariah hit her square in the shoulder dislocating it painfully.
Tears welled in her eyes, but she held on to her broom tightly flying towards Draco for a pass.
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Kyle's team won the skirmish 200- 120 after 2 hours in the air. Draco and Ginny stood at the sidelines arguing about a tactfully placed bludger and the other students were already beginning their trek back to their respective common rooms in hopes of a hot cup of coco.
Kyle wiped the few beads of sweat from her forehead and finally accepted the fact that she would have to go to the hospital wing to have her shoulder replaced into the socket.. Unless?
She narrowed her eyes and grinned then began shrugging her way out of her hoodie. She hissed in pain as the sharp ache of her limply hanging arm hit her, along with a wave of nausea.
Out of nowhere a pair of hands grabbed the yellow fabric and pulled it up over her head and off of the rest of her. Kyle spun around quickly in surprise and jumped back away from Blaise as he proceeded to poke her discolored arm.
"Idiot."
"We won," she replied cheekily.
"It was only for fun, and you played with that?"
"It's a part of the game, love. No pain, no gain, dear boy."
"Hospital wing. Now."
"What, are you a cave man now? How about, we just fix it right here, right now?"
"I don't know any healing spells for something like this.."
"Good thing I've done this about eight times in my life playing hockey.. We'll just do it the muggle way," Kyle smirked at Blaise's discomfort.
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"Muggle's are so archaic. You're going to cry. You're bloody mad. I'm not doing that.. " he hissed once she explained the instructions to popping it back into place.
"Do it, before I tell Malfoy that he gets a chance to torture me, I'm sure he'd jump at the chance to do some damage to me before a real match," she retorted in challenge.
Blaise glared into her face and took a step forward, spinning her around so she was facing away from him. Kyle placed her fist in her mouth and stared at the stands, hoping they would explode as he used his strength to maneuver the bone back into the socket.
Pop.
She saw stars, swayed, but never made a sound.
"What a trooper.." Draco drawled from away, his argument with Ginny forgotten.
Blaise turned her again, and surprised everyone with a quick hug and a mumbled apology for causing her pain.
The two Gryffindors and evil Slytheriny Malfoy just stared at his retreating back, not knowing what to say.
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