I don't own Night World. Jez is 12 in this, Morgead 13. My best friend and I guest-appear in this :D This idea was thought up in our last badminton lesson. It was between this and dancing to 'Austen Powers'. We had to do that in year seven. I'm not kidding.

Jez

Sport

It was PE.

Jez hated PE. Having to check her speed and strength so that she didn't stand out annoyed her. She loved running fast, through woods, racing Morgead.

Jez got changed in her usual corner, away from every else. The girls and boys had separate changing rooms, but had the PE lesson together.

Their half of the year was split into three different groups and each group had a different teacher. Jez was in the same group as Morgead.

Jez finished changing and made her way to the practice hall, tying her hair up into a ponytail. Morgead was already there, leaning against the wall. Jez made her way over to him.

"What atrocities have the vermin planned for us?" she asked quietly.

Morgead sighed. "Badminton."

Well, it's not too bad, Jez thought. "I'm going to beat you," she said.

Morgead looked at her incredulously. "Just because it's a girls' sport."

"You're just scared."

"Fine. I'll beat you. At a girls' sport."

"You should fit right in, then."

Morgead opened his mouth to insult her back, but the teacher calling them over interrupted them.

"Right, you can choose who you go against and choose one half of a court. We're working on outwitting your opponent. Try not to kill each other," the teacher said, her gaze resting pointedly on Jez and Morgead, who just gazed back at her innocently.

Jez and Morgead went together, naturally.

Jez enjoyed badminton, because Morgead couldn't play any kind of net game well. He was better than most of the humans, but nowhere near as good as Jez.

They started of gently, trying to keep a good rally going, but still forcing the other to keep moving backwards and forwards.

After about fifteen minutes, the teacher called them back.

"I won," Jez announced with glee to Morgead as the teacher started talking.

"What? No way. You hit the shuttle out loads!"

"And you missed it more than you looked at it. I won, Morgead, and you know it."

"Is this something you two would like to share with the class?"

Jez glanced at Morgead, just as he glanced at her.

"We were discussing the rules of badminton, and which line of the court would the shuttle as 'off'," Morgead said.

"If you would have listened, you would know," the teacher said.

Jez and Morgead looked down, pretending to be appropriately abashed.

"You will now play as a pair against another pair. This will be competitive."

She put them in fours. Jez and Morgead were with Georgia and Julia. They were both god, but not as good as Jez and Morgead.

Georgia served, straight to Morgead, and he hit it back to Julia. She hit it to Jez, who then hit it at Georgia. Georgia hit it right down over the net, scoring a point.

"Whoop!" Julia said, laughing.

She served, and that time Jez and Morgead got the point.

It continued like that for some time, until the score was nine-nine.

Jez served that time, and Julia hit it back. Jez had it again, and it went to Georgia. Morgead was close to the net, and he hit it straight down over the net.

"We won," he announced delightedly.

Jez laughed and high-fived Morgead.

"Good game," Georgia said.

Jez grinned at her. "You too."

"Come on, Georgia. Let's go play someone we can beat," Julia said in her soft English accent. They walked away to play one of the not-so-good humans, laughing and talking.

"We make a good team," Jez said.

Morgead looked at her, his eyes bright with happiness. "Yeah. We do."