Lalala. Here is the next chapter! School started today, so updates will either be unaffected or either come a little bit later than normal. I still haven't quite figured out how these classes will change my usual schedule!
Disclaimer: I think I have made it clear that I most certainly do NOT own anything associated with Harry Potter
A/N: After reading Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince, I have realized that Katie should actually only be a year ahead of Harry! Well, it is much to late to amend that in my story! So, sorry if it's a lot off having her two years ahead of what she should be!
Rating: -T- Okay kids. Lots of bad language in this one. As well as some mild, yet not graphic, violence!
"Katie!" It was the pesky voice of none other than Emily Bradshaw and Katie wanted nothing more than to stun the life out of her. Why does she insist on popping up every time someone has the false hope that she has vanished from the earth?
"Emily." Katie said in a cordial tone. "Hi." She purposely made her tone unwelcome as she turned around from the top of the stairs to look down at Emily as she approached.
"Have you seen Oliver this morning?" The Hufflepuff queried.
"Why, no Emily I haven't." She decided to not stop there and vent her frustration towards the blonde, "Where Oliver is and when he is there is none of my business, for I am not his keeper. Just because I am in the same house as Oliver doesn't mean I know his whereabouts. So how about go and ask someone like Jon or Percy where Oliver is. They see him in the mornings before he leaves the dormitory, not me. Or better yet, why not buy him a bell to hang around his neck? Then you could hear him coming a mile away." Katie snapped at the annoying Hufflepuff that stood before her.
Emily scowled and looked at her like she was the foulest thing in the whole castle. "Why should I buy him a bell when he practically has one hanging all over him as it is?" She sneered, making a pun on Katie's last name.
"Extremely funny Emily. Honestly, if I was ten years less mature, I'd be having me a great laugh." Katie narrowed her eyes at the other woman.
"You think you're so above me, do you? It's quite the other way around, actually. You just envy me, Katie. You envy my popularity, my friends, my boyfriend. You're. Just. Jealous." Emily said, proud with herself and hopingly pissing off Katie, for she saw Oliver coming down the stairs and wanted Katie to make a move to harm her.
Katie took a few steps downwards to where she was only a few steps above Emily. "Listen, bitch, your popularity is based purely on how many people in the castle you've slept with. You are just hot gossip that won't go away. I have more friends than you could fucking imagine. And as far as being envious of you and Oliver . . . grow up. Oliver is my friend. How the fuck he ended up with you, I don't know. But, unlike you, I can have a male friend without wanting to fuck him. So shut your bloody mouth and get the bleeding hell away from me." She ended in a final tone. "Don't fuck with me or you'll regret it dearly."
Oliver quickened his pace down the stairs to get to the girls before something happened. "Was that a threat?" Emily asked innocently.
"It's a promise." Katie assured, not caring how cliché it sounded.
"Emily! Katie!" Oliver said as he finally reached them. "What's going on?"
"She threatened me!" Emily pointed an accusing finger at Katie, who just cocked her head to the side and smirked as she made her way completely down the stairs.
"Do something about it, love." Katie teased in a soft tone.
"Agh!" Emily threw herself at Katie, but Oliver, thanks to his Keeper reflexes, was able to prevent her from making any contact.
Katie had anticipated Oliver's interference at that point, and hadn't even bothered to move out of the same spot she had been holding for the past few seconds. She looked at Emily displeasingly. "That's all you've got? How disappointing."
"Shut up, Katie." Oliver told her as he loosened his grip on Emily and moved her a few paces back.
"Oi, what did I miss?" Jon was just coming down the stairs and had only witnessed the part where Emily had lunged herself at his friend.
"Katie's idle threats." Emily sneered at her.
In that moment, Katie couldn't explain it. Maybe she wanted to prove Emily wrong. Maybe she just wanted to release the pent up anger towards the girl. Or maybe she just felt like doing it. Whatever the case, Katie was on top of Emily in mere seconds. Oliver nor Jon had expected that and both were shocked when both girls tumbled to the ground.
"Shit!" Jon exclaimed as he attempted to join Oliver in separating the two. But, both figures were intent on beating the snot out of each other. Beforehand, Jon had thought given the shot that either Angelina, Alicia, or Katie would go at it with Emily if given the opportunity, and now that Katie had gotten an opportunity, he knew she wouldn't pass it up. As much as he wanted Emily to get what was coming to her, he was more concerned with a Professor coming and Katie, if not both of them, getting into serious trouble.
"Jon, a little help here!" Oliver gestured to the crowd that was drawing, and he, too, knew that it wouldn't be long before a Professor noticed or a ghost took notice and alerted a Professor. At that moment, he was even worried about a portrait seeing.
Katie was yelling various expletives to Emily as she pinned the other girl down to the hard, stony flooring and hurled punches at the girl, which Emily seemed for the most part to be able to avoid by grabbing Katie's wrists and upper arms and digging her manicured nails into the Gryffindor's flesh.
Oliver and Jon finally got the chance to get the girls off of one another, and they each grabbed one. By now Cedric Diggory, a Hufflepuff, had joined in the attempt to break things up, despite the open rivalry between him and Oliver.
"Let me go! I'll rip 'er a new one, I will!" Katie yelled as Jon and Cedric dragged her off of Emily, who was clearly on the losing side of the fight. Emily was promptly helped up by Oliver.
"Not that I don't believe you, Kates, but I don't want you getting detentions or worse. Got that?" Jon said sternly. Surprised that Alicia, Angelina, nor Iris had shown. And even more surprised at the fact Fred and George hadn't made their appearance yet.
"You alright?" Cedric asked her instinctively.
"Never been better." Katie answered truthfully. The only injuries she had sustained were minor ones that had been inflicted when Emily had quite literally latched onto her with her claws. Much to Katie's pleasure, Emily hadn't been so lucky. Katie knew the Hufflepuff was going to at least have a black eye, a busted lip, and a bruised face. Not to mention bruises on her arms from where Katie had fiercely grabbed her and tackled her to the ground. "Hey Emily!" She called not to far away to where Emily was complaining to Oliver. "Idle threats huh?" She smirked to herself and Jon turned to the side so he could contain his laughter.
Cedric didn't even see the whole thing, and managed to find it amusing. Not to mention the fact that Emily had finally gotten what was coming to her. Or the fact that there couldn't have been a person in the world that was more deserving than Katie to give it to her. Little did Katie know, or care for that matter, that Emily constantly badmouthed her and numerous other Gryffindorsin the Common Room while talking to her little minions, Simona and Marcy.
Marcy Lang, a rail thin brunette who was almost as slutty as Emily, was soon at Emily's side, fussing over her constantly and almost shoving Oliver out of the way. This freed Oliver to come over and vent at Katie.
"What the fuck was that?" He fumed at her, completely disregarding Jon and Cedric beside her. "That is my girlfriend you just attacked!"
"She provoked me! And I acted on it!" Katie objected before he could yell anymore rhetorical questions at her.
"I'm finding that hard to believe. Emily has been nothing but tolerant of you and the other's behavior towards her." The Quidditch Captain remarked.
"Behavior? Our behavior? I know for a fact she has done nothing but try and push our buttons just to try and get us to do something to earn her even more attention from you." Katie shoved Oliver away from her as he crowded her space. "Back off."
"You attacked my girlfriend!" Oliver repeated, his accent coming out thickly in his anger. "And you want me to back off! You know you are stronger than she is! You play Quidditch for Merlin's sake!" The Scotsman said, crowding her once again.
"Eh, she said back off, Wood." Cedric said placing himself slightly in front of Katie.
"This is none of your business, Diggory." Oliver said disgustedly.
"It damn well is my business when Emily, who is in my House, is constantly badmouthing Katie and other members of your Team, not mentioning House." Cedric proved.
"Oh, so she's a talker, hm?" Katie looked Emily over in the distance. "I'm up for another round!" She enthusiastically made her voice slightly louder.
Why a Professor hasn't shown up yet is quite odd. Was the thoughts of everyone observing the scene, and those who were involved.
"Katie!" Angelina was coming up out of the Great Hall and hurriedly walked over to one of her best friends. "I just heard--some Seamus kid saw it! Did you beat her --" She finally noticed Oliver and decided to go ahead and say it anyway, "--arse? Please say you did."
"I dunno. Ask her. Seems to be complaining enough." Katie smirked as she continued to look over at Emily.
"Can't believe I missed it." Angelina sighed and noticed the assortment of people that were around. "Oi! Get to class! Gonna cause a scene!" She said through her laughter and everyone surprisingly obeyed, none wanting themselves to be in trouble for encouraging a fight if a Professor was to show.
"I can't believe you, Katie." Oliver said in disbelief as he looked at her, his anger now replaced with disappointment in one of his friends. "And you, too, hm?" He turned sideways to look at Angelina.
"Look, Ol, I tried to like her. We all did." Angelina gestured to the group. Before adding to Cedric, "I mean, I dunno about you but we did." She pointed to herself before gesturing to Katie and Jon. To which Jon's reaction told her Oliver didn't yet know his other friend's objection to his girlfriend.
"Shit. Not you. Jon, you are the one who said I should give her a chance!" Oliver looked as his friend. "All you had to do is tell me!"
"Not bloody likely you'd listen! The only reason I told you to try and go out with her is because you wouldn't shut up about it, mate. I figured if you liked her so much then there must be something to it. So I let you make up your own decision." The only non Quidditch player in their group admitted.
"It's not like you would have broken things off anyway." Angelina told him pointedly.
"You know, Ange. I would have. If someone would have said something. And no one did. But I'm not now. Emily needs me right now. And Katie, you need to apologize to her." Oliver said insistently.
Cedric nor Jon nor Angelina were surprised when Katie's hand came up and slapped Oliver across the face. "Don't ever, ever tell me what to do. You may be my Quidditch Captain, but that's it. I will not and refuse to apologize to her. I don't care what you think or believe, she got what she deserved and I'd do it all again if I was given the opportunity. We," She looked at Jon and Angelina, "Along with Alicia, Iris, Lee, Fred, George, and countless others, were your friends before Emily even knew you existed. If you think that she is more important than your friends, then go ahead. Be angry about what happened today. Be angry at me. Be angry at Jon and Angelina for agreeing. But don't ever try and make me feel guilty. Because I'm not, Oliver Wood. I'm not." Katie ended and Angelina and Jon looked at Oliver in a silent way of agreeing as Cedric just looked on awkwardly, not quite getting why he had interfered.
"I have nothing else to say to you three. If you have a problem with Emily, then you have a problem with me." The Keeper turned and walked off towards Emily.
"You know, screw him." Angelina announced to her friends and Cedric. "He can pick her over us all he wants, but we don't need him."
Katie was staring off into space at that point. Slightly dazed, and most definitely confused. What just happened? She asked herself pointlessly.
"Tell the Professor I'm in the Hospital Wing." She said in a whisper toCedric, who was in her Ancient Runes class,before she headed off in the direction of the hospital. Her arms were hurting a lot more than she would have thought from Emily grabbing her.
"Katie!" Angelina called. "Do you need us to take you to the Hospital Wing? I didn't know you got hurt or anything --"
"Nothing major, Ange. I'll see you later on. Promise." She nodded and waved at her friends before walking out towards the Wing.
Angelina stared at Emily Bradshaw from a distance. "She disgusts me. Absolutely revolting. Revolting." She suddenly felt the urge to march over to Emily and tell her something or two about how she felt, and on cue her feet began moving towards the trio of Oliver, Emily, and that skank Marcy.
"Ange!" Jon was fastly walking behind her.
"Don't come near her." Oliver warned as he stepped in front of her.
"I can damn well do as I please." She yelled at her friend. Or more likely, former friend. "She has just been a wedge between every friendship you've ever made! She's a bitch and you know it! Plotting and deceiving! Very well likely a cheater, if you ask me." She narrowed her dark eyes at the Hufflepuff. "You just make me sick. You are nothing more than a ruddy piece of shit."
Emily, in all her battered glory, took this time to step in beside Oliver. "I think it would be wise if you wouldn't talk that way about me, Angelina." She said Angelina's name as if poison was running off of her tongue and accentuated her tone with a venomous glare in the Chaser's direction.
"Right. And I listen to you since when?" Angelina remarked hotly as she folded her arms in front of her chest just as Jon caught up to her.
Emily simply glared at her as Oliver came to her defence. "I'd appreciate it, Johnson, if you would quit provoking my girlfriend." Oliver told his teammate coldly.
"Ah, so now it's back to Johnson, Wood?" Angelina said just as coldly as he had. "And if you want to talk about provoking, why don't you just ask your beloved Emily."
"And that's supposed to mean?" Oliver asked the female Sixth Year.
"It means get your head out of your arse and open your fucking eyes." Jon said severely as he answered for Angelina.
"I'd suggest you stay out of this Wright. Your comments are not needed nor wanted." The Gryffindor Keeper told his friend.
"Well I definitely think my comments are needed. Because obviously, unlike you, I can see that Katie was obviously provoked by Emily." He nodded in Emily's direction. "I was here to witness it, you know."
"This isn't inbetween us, Jon." Oliver addressed his friend by his first name. "Don't make it that way."
"I'm 'making'," He air-quoted the word, "This something that I feel it needs to be made in defence of a friend who isn't here to represent herself at the moment."
Oliver's brown eye's met Jon's deep blue one's in a viscious glare that they exchanged for what seemed like minutes, but in reality lasted a mere few seconds. "I think it's best that Emily and I leave now." He turned to his girlfriend. "Do I need to get you to the hospital wing?"
"No, no, I should be fine." Emily made sure to add in plenty of fake sniffles inbetween and in the middle of words. "I'm just going to go to the bathrooms with Marcy and see if some concealer can cover this mess up." She said as she pointed to her face as an indication.
"Alright." Oliver told her softly, in a voice that could have easily been mistaken for a tone of defeat. "I'll wait for you and walk you to your first class if you'd wish."
"It really won't be necessary, Olive." Emily smiled --as much as she could smile without wincing -- before giving Oliver a kiss on the cheek and walking off with Marcy.
Several curious gazes of several onlookers who had been purposely lagging behind followed Emily and Marcy as they left the area.
"Yeah, we all better get to class." Cedric announced, uttering his first words in a long while. "No telling how delayed the stairs could cause us to be." He shrugged.
"So true." Angelina said as her temper lowered now as she looked from Oliver to the Captain of the Hufflepuff team. "Ancient Runes and Muggle Studies aren't too far away are they?"
"I don't think." Cedric shrugged yet again. "Why?"
"We'll walk together, then. Chat some, you know?" Angelina gave a small laugh and walked away from Oliver and locked arms with Cedric, which surprised him as much as it did everyone else, and the two walked away discussing their summers as soon as Angelina yelled a bye to Jon.
Oliver opened his mouth to say something to the only remaining Gryffindor in the area, which was Jon.
"I don't want to hear anymore of what you have to say mate," Jon told his former best friend as he turned and began making his way to the front hall so he could get to Herbology.
Oliver looked at his friend's back as a wave of anger, frustration, and annoyance washed over him. Then, he too, decided to head out to Herbology. He was changed now. He was without three people who he had once called friends.
Ta da! Yeah, it wasn't the best ever . . . so gimme some feedback on how to improve!
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