AN: okay so my brother's off to college and here's the next chapter, kind of fluffy but also transitional, sort of, mostly just fluffy.

Disclaimer: If you think I'm JK Rowling then you should probably throw yourself in front of a speeding car because there's no hope for you.

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Chapter Six: Ninety Laps

All the team was sitting in the bleachers yawning and chatting about the drama between Sirius and Jack. The whole team knew they were fighting, because when Sirius and Jack fought the whole world knew, and know they were both late to practice.

James was tapping his foot impatiently and staring at the castle doors expectantly.

Suddenly they were thrown open and Jack stumbled down the stairs as if she'd been pushed, Sirius stood behind her laughing. Jack reached up and yanked him down the stairs in retaliation which caught him by surprise. He picked her up and threw her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

"BLACK, MARQUETTE!" James yelled across the grounds angrily.

Sirius let Jack slide off his shoulder and they both trudged towards James trying not to laugh. At the last second Jack tripped Sirius and ran to stand next to James grinning triumphantly.

Sirius growled but ended up smiling back at her.

James said still a little angrily, "Look, its great you guys are friends again and everything but you have to come to practice on time, especially you, Marquette."

That wiped the happiness right off their faces as they both mumbled apologies looking at the ground.

"Change and run a lap for every minute you were late. And, by the way, practice starts at seven o' clock and its eight-thirty," James said about to turn his back on them.

"But that'll take all practice!" Sirius protested.

James nodded, "Then I guess you should really start running. Everyone else: In the air!" James turned back to them and said, "Look, I'm really sorry, guys, but you know anyone else would've had the same punishment."

"James, you don't really want us to run ninety laps?!" Jack asked disbelieving.

"Do as many as you can," James said an apologetic tone in his voice and then he mounted his broom and flew into the air.

Sirius sighed and turned to Jack, "Anyone else would've gotten the same."

Jack nodded and started walking towards the locker room when she was tripped. She screamed as she fell to the ground and landed on her stomach.

Sirius stood in front of her laughing and asked, "You okay?"

"You had better start running!" Jack threatened.

Sirius started running away and Jack grabbed his ankle and which pulled him into a similar position as her own. Jack jumped up and started running for the locker rooms.

James shook his head from where he was watching them in the air. It was weird when they were fighting but he'd forgotten how out of control they were after they made up.

"Okay," Jack said as they trotted back towards the pitch, "We're gonna stick together and jog it out. Then we are so racing the last lap!"

Sirius grinned, "Brilliant! For a moment I thought we were gonna have to behave."

"Behave?" Jack asked a grin on her face her icy blue eyes twinkling, "What does that even mean?"

Sirius laughed and they both started jogging.

James would stop and watch them trip each other, eventually after a long pause of good behavior Sirius tackled Jack and the war started again. James chuckled as he watched their tiny figures run around the pitch.

After the sixtieth lap Jack threw herself on the ground and said gasping, "I refuse to go on! I'm officially protesting!"

"I'll give you a piggy back ride, come on!" Sirius said offering a hand to her.

Jack scrutinized Sirius suspiciously, "Is this like the tripping truce, where you tackled me instead?" she asked.

Sirius grinned, "Nope. I'll give you a piggy back ride."

"Alright!" Jack said taking Sirius's offered hand grinning. She jumped on his back and he started trotting around the pitch.

Sirius dumped her to the ground at the end of his lap and said, "Okay! My turn."

"What?!" Jack asked surprised.

"I gave you a piggy back ride, now it's my turn!" Sirius said, "It's only fair."

"This was exactly like the tripping truce!" Jack gasped indignantly.

Sirius shrugged grinning, "Let's go I want my piggy back ride!"

Jack stood up grunting in a rather unladylike way as Sirius climbed onto her back. She started trotting as fast as she could, but it was hard to concentrate with Sirius breathing lightly on her ear and neck.

When she finally reached the end of her lap she dumped Sirius and then flopped onto the ground almost landing on top of him, "You need to lose some weight!" she said out of breath.

Sirius laughed a mischievous grin on his face as he said, "That's not the usual response I get after I've just ridden a girl for a good forty-five minutes."

Jack looked at him her pale eyes wide in astonishment and then she covered them in embarrassment, "Oh my god I'm never going to hear the end of this am I?"

Sirius shook his head as he got back up to his feet, "No way," and he offered her his hand.

Jack took it and as she got to her feet she commented, "My knees are weak!"

Sirius grinned as he said, "That's more the standard response."

Jack groaned but she was grinning slightly.

She blushed a dark red when James yelled down laughing slightly, "Black! Stop riding Marquette and do your laps!"

Sirius laughed and yelled back, "Sorry cap, I couldn't contain myself!"

James laughed too and said, "Just don't let it happen again!"

"Oh my god!" Jack said mortified as the team laughed with James and Sirius.

Sirius started running and so Jack followed him. Suddenly she was struck by an idea and she tackled Sirius from behind. But somehow in the air they twisted around and Jack ended up underneath Sirius face to face.

They stayed that way a moment their faces dangerously close. Jack could feel her heart doing double time against her rib cage and her eyes locked with Sirius's eyes.

Sirius grinned at her mischievously and Jack shut her eyes embarrassed. When she opened them Sirius was even closer, grin gone, looking like he was about to kiss her and then he whispered, "I have orders to contain myself."

Jack blushed as Sirius slowly stood up being careful not to hurt her. "Come on, twenty-eight laps left!" he told her, offering her a hand up and a smile for the third time that night.

Jack groaned and took the hand allowing him to hoist her to her feet, "I swear to God I'm going to kill James!"

Sirius chuckled, "Theirs only two hours left, cheer up!"

"Ughhh!" Jack groaned again jogging obediently after Sirius. She was soon grumbling, "I want a hot breakfast and a warm, cozy bed, some ear muffs so no one could wake me up, and a knife with James's name on it!"

Sirius was chuckling, "Jack, babe, you're going about this all wrong! You can't think about what you wish you had, you gotta think positive. Think about how this could be worse."

"Sirius, how could this be worse?" Jack asked tiredly.

"Well it could be blisteringly hot. You could be running alone or with someone gruesomely ugly," Sirius offered as he dropped back a little to run alongside Jack instead of in front of her.

Jack sighed and feeling disagreeable because Sirius had proved her wrong said, "Who says I'm not running with someone gruesomely ugly?"

Sirius pretended to stumble and clutched his heart, "A knife straight to my heart!"

Jack giggled at his antics.

"Aw, come on, Jack you know you like me!" Sirius added.

Jack, caught off guard by hearing the question she had just been asking herself moments before, sped up and ran in front of Sirius for a while.

Eventually Sirius caught up again and said, "Would it be that bad to actually like me?"

Jack gulped and said, "I won't be my mother for anyone Sirius. I think you could probably be the one guy who could have the power to do that to me. I'd really rather not talk about it if that's okay?" Jack added when Sirius opened his mouth to protest.

After a moment of agonizingly uncomfortable silence Sirius tripped Jack who fell to the ground with a scream. She jumped up and sprinted after Sirius who had taken her fall and turned it into a head start.

When she caught up with him she jumped on him again and went down with a scream as her foot landed under Sirius's weight twisted around. She rolled off him and Sirius scrambled up quickly, "Are you okay?"

Jack rubbed her ankle as she felt it swelling underneath her fingertips, "Yeah, I'm fine" she said. When she got to her feet she set a slower pace and kept her face carefully controlled whenever she had to look at Sirius so he wouldn't be able to tell she was in pain every time she put her foot on the ground.

As the team landed in the center of the pitch James yelled to the two runners, "Just do one more lap and then call it a night!"

Sirius answered for them yelling back, "Got it Cap!" then he turned to Jack and asked, "You ready for that race?"

Jack nodded attempting a grin through the pain shooting up her right leg. They both took off running around the pitch. For a while Jack was able to match pace with Sirius, but very soon the pain became worse and she had to slow down.

When Sirius felt he had a good lead he looked behind him and saw Jack lying in the grass, he stopped and called back, "This isn't the best time for a nap, Jack!" When he got no response, not even a twitch he started trotting back to her a worried expression on his face.

The whole time he was jogging towards her she didn't move once when he reached her he saw how shallowly she was breathing. He gave her once over and when he saw her right ankle he swore loudly. It was swollen to roughly three times the size of her left ankle. Sirius picked her up gently and started carrying her limp body towards the hospital wing.

She opened her eyes when he was halfway to the castle and asked, "Sirius?"

Sirius looked into her cloudy blue eyes and felt his chest tighten, "Yes, love?"

"What happened?" she asked groggily

"You passed out cause you were running on a whacked out ankle," he told her as he got closer to the front doors to the castle.

"That wasn't so smart, was it?" Jack asked worriedly.

Sirius shook his head, "Not really."

"Jean always says that I'm not very smart when it comes to health," Jack mumbled looking a kittle like she was on the verge of tears.

Sirius leaned down and kissed her forehead, "Don't worry I'll get you all fixed up."

Jack smiled a little, "Thanks Sirius," she said closing her eyes.

Sirius grimaced, "You're welcome."

AN: okay so look at this people a second chapter, doing good on focusing on this story, right? Okay so here's the thing its really annoying to have to retype everything but I'm going to because I should and NEVER again will I write a story that I plan to put on this site on paper first.

Anyway so I think im really gonna enjoy this story, there's SOOO much insecurity running around anyway REVIEWWW