Hey boys and girls! An abnormally long chapter this time! O.O Anyways! I've decided that for every weekend I miss, I will write another thousand words. And since I missed the last one, 2000 words today! :D
Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter team, nor will I ever.
Claimer: I do own Julie, Vilde, Erynne, Izzy, Anne, Diana and Benjamin.
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Chapter 12: Getting to know the team
Vilde woke with sad eyes, but the eyes turned happy immediately when she realized it was Saturday and that they were going to train Quidditch. James had told them to bring some money, so they could leave straight to Hogsmeade afterwards. She loved being in her seventh year, as she now was allowed to go to Hogsmeade whenever she wanted. Vilde then jumped out of the bed and went to wake Izzy, who wasn't too keen on waking up, but smiled the moment Vilde said Quidditch.
Then Vilde woke Erynne, who almost screamed, but Vilde simply said: "Butterbeer after training."
Erynne's eyes grew big. "Yay!" she silently whispered.
Vilde then turned to the next challenge that would kill her if she was in range. But Vilde had a plan. Like always.
"COOKIE!" Vilde bellowed, succeeding in waking up Diana and Anne as well.
Vilde grinned innocently at them as they both groaned and went back to sleep.
Julie, however, had jumped so high that she couldn't find her sheets. "Crazy, I will kill you," she muttered and looked extremely angry at her.
The glare would've made Voldemort and Bellatrix, not to mention Grindelwald, proud. Oh, and let's not forget about Salazar Slytherin either.
But Vilde was totally unfazed by this and simply sighed. "We have Quidditch-practice today," she said happily.
Julie groaned. "Whatever," she said.
But Vilde was prepared for that one, and now it was the ultimate threat-time.
"Oh, well. I guess I just have to tell James that you wanted to quit, and then he'll add a boy in your stead, and when you regret your decision of leaving, the team will vote over it, and all the then four boys will outrule the three girls. And once again, the girls will be oppressed," Vilde said sadly.
The moment the last word was out of her mouth, Julie had jumped out of the bed and threw on her Quidditch-robes.
"Now, that's more like it," Vilde said, grinning widely.
"Yeah, yeah. We have to hurry! Otherwise we'll be late," Julie said seriously.
Vilde, Izzy and Erynne laughed loudly at that.
When they were all done and ready to go, Julie being the last one done, they walked down to the Great Hall, and sat down next to the marauders. Vilde gave Remus a small kiss on his cheek, which he blushed at, which was what Vilde had been aiming for and snickered happily at the shy boy.
Julie, however, gave Sirius a fullblow kiss and Sirius smirked at this. Erynne, Izzy and James rolled their eyes, while Peter sat there, abnormally quiet. And to notice he was abnormally silent was an accomplishment in itself. But he looked like he had done something he shouldn't have.
"What is it?" Sirius asked him.
Peter looked up at his friend. "It's nothing," he said, "Just a stomachache."
Vilde and Julie exchanged a look. He couldn't be a Death Eater already, could he? No, he had only been a spy for Voldemort one year before he sold James and Lily to the wretched snake. Vilde frowned thoughtfully, and Julie could see she was thinking about something serious.
"Cookie, I need to talk to you as soon as possible," Vilde finally said, realization in her eyes.
"Sure," Julie said in a cheerful tone, but in reality she was rather frightened, actually.
The look in Vilde's eyes was far from calming. She actually looked as scared as Julie felt.
"Hey, babe, what's wrong?" Sirius asked Julie, feeling the tension.
"Nothing," Julie said bluntly.
Sirius frowned, and Remus did too. He had also noticed the change in both Julie and Vilde. They looked deadly scared.
"Hey guys," a male voice said, and they all turned to see Benjamin standing there.
"Hello Benny!" Julie said happily patting the seat next to her, to make him sit down.
Izzy and Vilde smiled at him.
"Remus, Peter, this is the best beater on the team," James said, grinning wickedly.
But the grin faded quickly when he got pumpkin juice all over his face, hair and Quidditch robes.
"VILDE! I! WILL! KILL! YOU!" James bellowed on the top of his voice, and Vilde laughed.
"Ops," she said, "My hand slipped."
James rose from the bench with mad eyes, even worse than Mad-Eye, and Vilde tried to hide her grin, but she couldn't.
"I gotta jet," she said to her friends and ran off, out of the Great Hall, a pissed off James behind her.
Julie was laughing. The fright she had felt was gone, like it had never even been there. Erynne was lying flat over the table, howling, just like Sirius was. Lily was trying to conceal her grin, but she wasn't exactly good at it. Benjamin and Remus were chuckling, while Peter was smiling widely.
Then Vilde came running into the Great Hall again. "Hide me!" she yelled silently to Remus and jumped down under the bench and table.
James came running in just then, looking like a madman. "Where is she?" he yelled loudly, his hair still dripping with pumpkin juice.
"I haven't seen her," Sirius and Remus said.
Peter shook his head in a no, Lily didn't look at him. Benjamin and Izzy were in the middle of a conversation.
Erynne and Julie looked at each other and then at James. They both said at the same time: "She's under the table."
"COOKIE! ERYNNE! You morons!" Came the angry reply of Vilde.
"Aquamenti!" James bellowed, having drawn his wand and a shot of water flushed over Izzy, Benjamin, Sirius, Remus, Julie, Erynne, Peter, but not Lily.
James then ran out, before the flushed ones could react.
Vilde then jumped out from under the table. "He isn't so smart," she said, looking completely dry.
"You weren't even flushed?" Julie asked loudly.
"Nope. The table, yah know. I guess some people are luckier than others," Vilde said, almost proudly.
Remus looked at Julie, who nodded. "Oh yeah?" she asked.
Vilde nodded with closed eyes. And then an arm grabbed her and she was pushed into something wet, yet warm.
Vilde growled loudly. "Remus. I will hurt you," she said.
"Nah, you won't," he said, tickling her.
Vilde started laughing hysterically, along with the rest of the gang.
Then James came back in again. "Time for practice, guys," he said.
"You know, with girls being the majority, you might have to start calling us 'gals'," Julie pointed out, and James sighed.
"Time for practice, gals and guys," he said, defeated.
Julie grinned widely. "That's a good boy," she said happily.
The team rose and set course for the Quidditch pitch, James having finally dried away the pumpkin juice, and Erynne used a spell that made them all warm and dry again.
Lily sighed as they left. She was so tired. "Is something the matter?" Remus asked her.
"Nah, just tired," Lily said.
"Didn't you sleep last night?" Remus asked, making sure he didn't say something that Julie would've said. Something like: 'Were you and James too busy to sleep?'.
"No, I did. I guess I just woke up too early," Lily said, smiling softly at him.
Remus was the one guy in the marauders she could really talk to. Peter she didn't really know, but he was too quiet to get to know him.
"How are you, Remus?" Lily then asked, her voice serious. So serious that Remus knew she was talking about the fact that it was a full moon tonight.
"I'm fine, Lily, but thank you," Remus said.
But the truth was he was getting more and more tired of becoming a werewolf every month. And he was afraid he'd end up hurting one of his friends. He knew he wouldn't be able to hurt Vilde, because a grizzly is a very strong animal. Sirius could take care of himself. James too, really, but he didn't have teeth to bite with, and he didn't have claws to hold onto someone with.
But Peter was the one Remus was most worried about. One bite, and the rat would be gone. He didn't like that thought. Not one bit. But the others would keep him safe, right? Lily seemed to realize he needed some time with his thoughts, so she said she'd go look for Marie and take a trip to Hogsmeade.
Vilde hit the bludger towards James, who barely managed to dodge it, and Izzy, who played the other Seeker for the moment, took that opportunity to get closer to the snitch she had noticed further up. But the bludger zoomed towards her and she had to turn to avoid it. Julie shot the Quaffle at the goal, and Erynne's fingertips made it go in another direction, but zoomed through the other loop.
Benjamin shot another bludger towards Sirius, who held the Quaffle at the moment. He threw it over to Izzy, who shot at the goal, but Erynne saved it. The game went on for some time, and finally, James blew the whistle. The team landed on the ground beside him, smiling widely.
"Now time for Hogsmeade, right?" Julie asked happily.
James nodded, grinning. "You guys are really good, you know. I'm glad you're on my team," he said happily.
"No prob, Jamie," Vilde said, flashing the peace sign.
James raised an eyebrow. "Jamie?" he asked.
"I called you that once before, yah know. And it's catchy. So I'll call you Jamie," Vilde said with a shrug.
James sighed. "Yeah, yeah," he simply muttered, "We'll meet again in the Entrance Hall in one hour, okay?"
They all agreed to that, and when they walked into the Gryffindor common room, Izzy started running.
"Guess who gets the first shower?" she yelled behind herself when she was way too many steps in front of the others.
The three girls opened their eyes wide, and then they all ran for the girls' dormitory, decided not to be the last one. It ended up with being Vilde to go last.
When an hour had passed, the seven on the team were all ready to go, and they enjoyed their trip down to the town, walking in the warm summer air. When they reached Hogsmeade, they all walked towards the Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer or two. On the way, they passed a bunch of other seventh years there, as well as a lot of other elder witches and wizards.
"I really never knew there were so many people around here that weren't from Hogwarts," Vilde commented as she noticed how many people there actually were.
"Me neither," Benjamin agreed.
They finally reached the Three Broomsticks and walked inside. Vilde, Julie and Erynne walked to the back, getting a table there, while the others went to order the butterbeer.
"I'm glad we're doing this," Erynne said happily.
"What do you mean?" Julie asked, honestly confused.
"Well, where I'm from, when you're on a team, there is no reason to get to know your teammates. They just do what they're supposed to do," Erynne said dryly.
"No way!" Vilde said shocked.
"But getting to know each other is like the best thing to do!" Julie said psyched up.
"Which is why I'm glad it's not that way here," Erynne said, beaming at them.
The two C's had to grin at that.
"Yeah," Vilde said.
Izzy then came sitting down next to them.
"What's taking the others so long?" Julie asked.
"Madam Rosmerta," Izzy simply said.
Vilde and Julie nodded knowingly.
"Who?" Erynne asked.
"The bartender. All the boys drool over her. She's real nice, though," Julie said with a shrug.
"And you don't mind?" Erynne asked Julie.
"With Sirius? Nah, he could end up doing anything, but she's way out of his league," Julie said, grinning.
"You are way out of his league," Vilde commented dryly, still angry with Sirius for what he once did to her best friend.
Julie grinned at this. "I know," she said joyously.
Izzy and Vilde rolled their eyes, while Erynne just snickered. Then the three boys finally returned.
"Did you enjoy yourselves?" Erynne asked, hinting to the bar.
The boys all slightly blushed, even Sirius, and sat down. Julie sighed.
Sirius looked at her. "Nothing personal, love," he said calmly.
Vilde snorted. Sirius looked at her.
"That's the best you've got?" Vilde asked incredulously.
Julie took Sirius' hand and said: "Coming from Sirius, that means he couldn't chose her over me."
Sirius rolled his eyes, but submitted to that.
Vilde smiled again. "Okay, goodie," she said.
Then the pretty waitress came to them with the butterbeer.
"Thank you," Vilde said happily as she got hers, while the boys thanked Rosmerta with a creeping blush on their faces.
When she walked away, all the four girl started laughing loudly, while the boys simply looked troubled. They sat talking about Quidditch for a while, and they changed the subject to school, and back again, and to the Ministry of Magic, and then back again. It was obviously Benjamin they needed to 'integrate' into their pack, as he was the only one who didn't really know them. Izzy wasn't really a part of the daily crew either, but she was so easy to talk to that it was no problem.
They all easily became good friends, and even though Benjamin was in the grade under them, it was clear to them that he was more mature than they had been. Especially Sirius and James. The two boys had matured a lot over the summer break. Even Lily had taken notice to that, and both Vilde and Julie thought it was about bloody time she did. So when the seven of them left the Three Broomsticks they were all chatting lively, and all of them were glad that they had spent the day together.
Unluckily for them, someone else had been watching them. Closely.
Lily: Who?
GD: Like I'd tell you…
James: No one messes with Lily-flower!
GD: Only the one who can end up making her die, and you to live a lonely life, James.
James: LILY CANNOT DIE!
GD: Of course not, James. She won't die. At least hopefully not. Or what?
James: She can't die…
Lily: If I die, you die with me, James. Chill.
GD: Yeah, yeah, this is all very interesting, but I have something important to tell my readers, okay? Good. Okay, see, I have two different plans on how to finish the story, so I'm asking you all to say if you want Lily and James to die, like in the original plans, or do you want Vilde and Julie to save them? It's all up to you!
Shall James and Lily die, or shall they stay alive? Review guys! ;)
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