'I wanna be praised from a new perspecrive,

But leaving now would be a good idea,

So catch me up I'm getting out of here.'

The Quidditch Match

It was absolutely freezing outside in the stands. Even with large groups of people everywhere, body heat just wasn't an option at today's match.

"Is it usually like this?" Riley asked Lily as they made there way through the thickening crowds.

"Rowdy and noisy? Pretty much," Lily responded, bashing into people so she could get through.

Riley had never once attended a Quidditch match at Hogwarts as she always used the free time to take advantage of the deserted library. It was murder to find peace in there at the weekends.

Riley made a grab for Lily's hand as they came across a thin gap that would take them to the very front of the stand. Lily pushed through the gap, pulling Riley with her, causing the two girls to fall onto the floor.

"Watch where you're going!"

Riley cursed silently to herself when she heard Claudia's voice and stood up and helped Lily, who she had landed on top of.

"Riley? Why are you here?" Claudia asked, looking surprised.

"I came to support my house," she said, not looking at her sister directly in the eye.

"That's different." Claudia stated. "Did you send away your flowers?"

"Yes," Riley answered bitterly, now looking at Claudia. "Did you?"

"Of course, I did!"

"I wasn't sure, that's all." Riley shrugged. "You just seemed a bit too cheery for my liking, giving the circumstance."

Claudia glared daggers down at her and opened her mouth to say something, but Riley cut her off.

"No, Claudia. I know what you're going to say. That that night on Halloween I was a bit to happy, and yes I was, but do you know why? I had accidentally drank Elixir to Induce Euphoria, so that's my excuse and a pretty good one if you ask me. And what's your excuse, hmm?" Riley spat. "Is it that you're just over the moon that you finally have your first boyfriend? Your just so happy about that that you don't give a flying fuck about our grandfathers death, isn't that right? "

Everyone standing around the girls had quieted down to listen to Riley, who didn't realize how loudly she was actually shouting. Claudia looked at her sister, shocked by the outburst. Never had Riley shouted at her. Riley had always had bitter feelings towards her sister and those feelings were always returned, but she usually kept those feelings bottled up and only replied with sarcastic comments. Never before had she yelled at her.

"What?' Riley snapped at Claudia. "Can't think of a lie on the spot? That's what I thought. C'mon, Lily."

As soon as Riley turned to walk away, the crowd around them moved out of the way instantly to let her through. Lily followed behind her and chose a space to stand that was right up at the front. All of the other stand were full and Madam Hooch had stepped out onto the pitch, the teams then following behind her on their brooms.

"Are you ok?" Lily asked, as the crowd cheered.

"D'you know what? I feel great!" Riley exclaimed. "That was fourteen years of built up anger, finally getting let out!"

Madam Hooch blew the whistle and the pitch was filled with blurs of red, gold, green and silver.

"And they're off! Gryffindor in possession of the Quaffle. Potter passes to MacDonald who dodges a bludger sent from Black of Slytherin-"

"I didn't know Mary played Quidditch!" Riley exclaimed.

Lily nodded, "Yeah. She only made the team this year, though."

Riley nodded and looked back onto the game. Alongside Mary was Sirius, who was sending bludgers at Slytherin players. She then looked over to his brother, Regulus. Merlin, they looked identical. If Riley didn't know Regulus was in the year below them, she would've sworn they were twins. Regulus was a bit more bulkier than Sirius and his hair was much longer.

"-AND POTTER SCORES! 10 POINTS TO GRYFFINDOR!"

The whole stand had erupted. Riley watched as the Slytherin keeper, who she didn't know the name of, was yelling at Malfoy, who just flew away without a care in the world.

The game was becoming pretty eventful. The two teams were now tied at 230 and there was still no sign of the snitch. Nobody was really watching who had the Quaffle anymore. Everybody's eyes were on the Black brothers who seemed to be having a war over the bludgers, hitting them at full force towards each other. Madam Hooch had called them both off the pitch at one point to tell them to focus on the game, not personal differences after Sirius nearly knocked Regulus into the stands, the bludger going with him. They had calmed down after that.

The game had started to slow down after that. It had been going on for almost two hours and the players didn't seem interested anymore, but it was a Gryffindor vs. Slytherin game and both were determined to crush one and other, so they kept going as aggressive as ever, throwing the Quaffle all over the place.

"Sirius!"

Sirius had stopped just next to there stand and Riley looked over the edge and saw Claudia beckoning him over. Riley rolled her eyes and watched as Sirius glance at the game and then zoomed over to her. She couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"He honestly isn't doing that is he?" Riley yelled.

Lily shook her head. "No brains, honestly. If we end up loosing, it'll be all his fault and I wont blame the Slytherin's for taunting us if we loose if we have someone as stupid as him on our team."

Riley nodded in agreement. Nobody else seemed to of noticed Sirius. Their eyes were on both of the Seekers that were now diving for the Golden Snitch. Riley's eyes flickered from the Seekers to Regulus Black who was just a few feet away from Sirius. She saw a bludger get sent his way and saw that he then hit it in the direction of Sirius.

"Shit," Riley mumbled and then hung off the edge. "Black! BLACK!"

It was getting closer…

"BLACK!" Riley screamed.

He looked around for the person calling his name. He still hadn't noticed the buldger-

"SIRIUS, MOVE!" she screamed as the bludger just about came into contact with his head. But she was too late. Just as he was about to turn around to see what she meant, it hit him right on the side of the head and sent him flying off his broom, his arm hitting the side of the stand. Riley heard screams all around her and quickly pulled out her wand.

"Aresto Momentum!"

X

Everything hurt so bloody much. But he could feel his hand as it was warm, so that was a good sign. Sirius couldn't remember what had happened. One minute he had been talking to Claudia, the next someone was screaming his name and it had all went black.

"I can't believe you of all people were the one to save him."

"Oh, shut up, James. I'm not that heartless."

Sirius recognized the voice and he himself, was shocked at what he had just heard.

"Before what happened on the pitch, I would've disagreed, Martinez," Sirius said and opened his eyes, revealing the sight before him. James was sitting to the left of him, Riley beside him and Remus beside her. On his right, Claudia sat, his hand in hers, Peter sat beside her and the rest of the Quidditch team stood at the bottom of his bed, including Lily.

"You alright, mate?" James asked him.

Sirius looked down. His left arm was in a sling.

"I've felt better," he shrugged and grinned. "Did we win?"

"Yeah, we did. Just as you fell off your broom, Jack caught it. You should've saw the Slytherin's faces. It was priceless."

"I'm sure it was," Sirius laughed.

"Your broom is fine by the way," James carried on. "Right after the match, Riley went onto the pitch and got it while we brought you up here."

Sirius eyes fell onto Riley who was looking down at her hands.

"Right! There is simply too many people in her. Only four visitors per patient. Now, out!"

The rest of the team mumbled things like it was good to see he was ok and Riley stood up to leave with Lily.

"No, Riley. Stay." Sirius said.

Riley turned around to face him looking surprised. Sirius knew how she felt, he too was surprised with himself.

"She said only four people-" Riley tried to reason.

"Claudia, do you want to go down to dinner? I'm fine here."

"What?" she asked. "Are you sure?"

"Positive," Sirius replied. "I'll see you in a while, promise."

Claudia nodded and gave him a kiss on the cheek and left, glaring at Riley before leaving.

"I'll just wait on you outside," Lily said and left after Claudia.

Riley resumed to her previous seat.

"It was you trying to warn me, wasn't it?" Sirius asked her.

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Why shouldn't I of?"

"You didn't answer my question."

Riley sighed. "I done it because although you were being stupid by…I don't know, abandoning the game, it was still unfair of Regulus to send the budger towards you when you had no clue whatsoever that it was coming and he obviously sent it intending serious injury."

Sirius nodded.

"That's pretty much it," Riley said.

"She also saved you from a painful landing," Peter cut in.

"Really?" Sirius asked her, now slightly amused.

"Yeah. Dumbledore probably would've done it but…Well I had my wand close to me and I knew the spell so…I done it."

Sirius nodded, again and Riley stood up.

"Well, I'm going to go down to dinner, see you guys later."

As she pulled open the Hospital Wing door, she stopped.

"Thank you, Riley. And…apology accepted."

She turned around to see Sirius grinning and sent him back a smile and caught him winking before she turned back around to leave.

Two chapters in two days. Might as well get used to this guys! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I know I did!

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