The Only Exception

Summary: Everyone love's James Sirius Potter, what's not to love right? He's handsome, charming, Qudditch star , oh yeah and the savior of the Wizarding Worlds son. For all intents and purposes the golden boy of Hogwarts, well I guess you could call me the exception, why is this you ask , my name's Anna McCoy , and I can't stand James Potter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter , only the plot =)

Chapter 8:

James POV

Christ almighty another two weeks of detention, with McCoy, eh I guess you could call that a perk, it's rather enjoyable, getting under her skin, hilarious in fact. She is walking next to me and I really couldn't help myself, I kept glancing down at her for some reason I couldn't stop myself , I wanted to grab her arm let Freddy and Ly go ahead and then snog her like no tomorrow, not that I would ever do that but I mean a guy can dream right. Maybe Qudditch practice later on tonight will take my mind off of it, off of her. Oh wait, she's on the team with me, great.

Later on that night I was sitting at dinner, all ready for practice, Freddy was sitting next to me rambling on about something or other; I honestly was completely zoned out on the conversation. I was still nodding my head though, as if I was aware of what he was saying. I looked over at Anna, Shannon, and Dom and Missy sitting right next to us, they were chatting, a moment later Shannon touched Freddy's arm and said

"Freddy, he's not listening" Freddy finally stopped talking and looked at me.

"Sorry mate, just thinking about practice," I mumbled adverting my eyes back down to my plate, Freddy's eyes shifted towards the girls and he said

"Mhmm sure you were"

"Practice time, let's go Fred,"I said as I grabbed him by the collar and pulled him up off the bench,

"But...fine... later Shan," he said and grinned at our blonde friend

"Later Freds" she replied and smiled back, yeah definitely something going on there.

"McCoy, practice?" I asked and looked down at her sitting on the bench, she glanced up at me, sighed and said

"See you girls later" as she got up and joined me and Freddy. Once we got out into the entrance hall, and McCoy saw the big clock, she looked at me and said

"Bloody hell Potter, we have like a half an hour before practice starts"

"Yeah but it's at least a 15 minute walk to the pitch and you know how Ella is , if your 15 minutes early your on time , if you're on time you're late" I said imitating their captain , 7th year, Ella Wood perfectly.

"Okay, I guess you're right" she mumbled back

"Wait what was that , can you say that again" I said grinning like a mad man, she had just told me I was right for the first time in , well in the entire time I've known her , I definitely needed to milk this for all it was worth .

"Shut up Potter" she said back bitingly

"And they're back to normal, ladies and gentlemen, all is right with the world again, gods I don't know Freddy said laughing, I blushed a little, as did McCoy.

"Who the hell are you talking to Freddy?" McCoy asked him with one eyebrow arched; face still flushed red, not going to lie she looked kind of cute like that.

"The god's, who else?" he replied as if we were supposed to have known that.

"You're starting to worry me a little bit mate, you sure you didn't get hit with any of those jinxes today?" I asked him; trying not to laugh at how strange Freddy could be sometimes.

"Nah, no worries" he replied the grin never leaving his face "How we all would have dealt if they'd kept complimenting each other and being polite , unnatural really" he mumbled. McCoy just looked at him as if he was crazy and then turned her head towards me with the same expression on her face, I just laughed at her

"Try having him as your best mate" I replied

"You both love me and you know it" Freddy said smiled never faltering as he took his arms and swung them around my and McCoy's shoulders pulling us closer to his sides.

"Where's Ly?" McCoy asked

"Library" Freddy and I replied at the same time, she gave us an amused look.

"He said he'd meet us down at the pitch" she nodded and we continued our way down to the pitch.

We finally made it down to the pitch, and we walked over to the locker rooms to get our brooms, when I heard a noise coming from the boy's locker room I looked over at Freddy who was play fighting with McCoy. He had her tossed over his shoulder, hanging upside down

"Did you guys hear that?" I asked them, they both looked up at me with confused expressions on their faces.

"Hear what?" Freddy asked as he put McCoy down and joined me farther inside the locker room, McCoy right behind him.

"Uhhhhhhhhhh! Oh god yes!"A female voice rang out, we all stared at each other wide eyed, a small giggle escaped from McCoy, as we moved forward, causing Freddy and I to turn around and stare at her, basically telling her to shut up.

"Sorry" she mouthed

"OH GOD!" the voice rang out again, making me have to put my hand in my mouth to stop myself from, bursting out in laughter , we finally made it to the locker room and who we saw , was the last person we expected to see, Ella Wood , our captain , with Will Shaklebolt, going at it like there was no tomorrow. We all stood there for a moment completely still in shock, it's a good thing we were hidden because I don't think I would have been able to move. You see William Shaklebolt, another seventh year, is captain of the Ravenclaw Qudditch team, our toughest competition .Meaning our captain was violating one of her own rules, fraternizing with the enemy, quite enthusiastically might add. I looked over at McCoy, as saw her expression mirrored mine, while Freddy's was, as per usual, much more animated. Another moment, the shock finally wore off, as it did for McCoy as well, as she grabbed both Freddy and myself, and pulled us out of the locker room. We all stumbled out onto the field, stared at each other for a moment and then burst out laughing.

"Oh my god, I can't believe they…oh my god" McCoy said as she continued cracking up Freddy was literally rolling on the ground laughing while I cracked up myself , but was soon distracted my McCoy's loud , uninhibited laughter.

"She's taking fraternizing with the enemy to a whole new level" Freddy said once he calmed down enough to speak. I merely nodded my head, still staring at McCoy, I then snapped myself out of it, not wanting to be caught staring, and replied

"You've got that right mate, totally not taking any more shit from her about taking a Ravenclaw, to Hogsmade, once"

"Now boys," McCoy started "We cannot give her shit for this; she doesn't even know we saw anything"

"Oh come on Anna , this is too good to pass up , she gives us lectures about 'fraternizing with the enemy' every time anyone is even seen with a member of a different house , and now we can't give her shit for it?" Freddy asked

"McCoy, seriously, I know she's our captain and everything but this is just too easy" I agreed with Fred's

"Yeah, okay but, it's kind of private" she countered with and almost …shy expression on her face.

"If it's so private then they shouldn't have been doing it in the very public locker room" Freddy pointed out.

"It's different for girls" she told us. And l looked at her bewildered

"How is it different?" I asked her, and Freddy nodded,

"Yeah Anna, how?" he asked, she sighed and tucked two pieces of hair behind her ears.

"Well for blokes, you guys go around bragging and telling everyone you know who your shagging, and give anyone who will listen a blow by blow oh what happened, but girls are much more private with this sort of thing, it's not something most girls want spread around to the entire school, that's all I'm saying" she finished, leaving me and Freddy speechless

"But if she didn't want anyone to find out she shouldn't be doing it in the LOCKER ROOM, I mean come on its like asking to get caught" I replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. She sighed again, and put her hands on her hips,

"Okay , so you think you're sisters or female cousins would be fine with it if some stupid blokes were going around telling everyone they caught one of them in that same situation" she replied. This definitely caught my attention,

"Would never happen" I replied

"Right, impossible" Freddy agreed

"How do you figure?" she asked

"My baby sister is never allowed to be in that situation, I would kill her, plus she's only a second year" I replied getting kind of repulsed by the thought.

"She's not always going to be a second year" McCoy replied, effectively shutting me up.

"Roxi's much sneakier than that, even if …ugh ... she would ever, you know…she would be discreet about it , and if the bloke knows what's good for him , he wouldn't go spreading it around" Freddy said

"Fine, if that's what you guys think, I'm not going to argue" she replied

"You think they're done in there?" she asked, as she leaned into the door of the locker room to see if she could hear anything, after a few moments, she walked inside and made a right into the girl's locker room.

"You think there's any truth to what she said?" I asked looking at Freddy, kind of panicked.

"Might be, she is pretty much an inside source into the female mind, so I mean she may be on to something" Freddy replied the same worried expression on his face.

"God I hope not" I replied thinking about what she said about my sister and cousins.

"Nah, she's just trying to scare us" Freddy reassured

"Yeah, it's just McCoy trying to scare us" I agreed still not entirely sure if I was trying to convince Freddy or myself. Good lord that girl confuses me.

You know how originally I thought I could get her off my mind by concentrating on Qudditch, yeah WRONG! All throughout practice all I could think about was what she said, about how it's different for girls. I mean sex is sex right, it can't be that much different for them as it is for us blokes. I mean sure I get what she's saying about girls being a little less forth coming with details but come on ,it can't be that much of a different viewpoint. And just for shits and giggles, added on to that load on my mind, now the only thing I can think about every time she flies past me is sex, as if it isn't on my mind enough. Now all I can thank about is possibly pulling her into the locker room and … oh god this is McCoy were talking about, I can barely stand to have a conversation with the girl, and now I'm thinking about bloody shagging her, fucking hormones, they're seriously just one big nuisance, causing all kinds of problems left and right, but I mean god, I can just imagine, those incredible long legs wrapped around me… UGH ENOUGH! I can't bloody stand myself anymore, the only thing I'm looking forwards to is this practice ending so I can go and take a nice long cold shower, yeah that sounds just bloody perfect.

"HEY POTTER, GET YOU'RE HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND START FOCUSING ON SCORING!" Ella yelled from across the pitch.

"You have no idea how focused I am on scoring right this bloody moment" I mumbled under my breath, glaring at her because of the sheer hypocrisy of her statement, considering what she had been doing no less than fifteen minutes before this practice began. Good lord this day really needs to end already.

A.N. hmmm okay so getting a little steamy in the locker room haha felt like the story wasn't living up to its rating ;) Let me know what you think