Tripping And Falling

By. Chrissy

Part 8



Disclaimer: All characters except for Isabelle are owned by the Goddess, JK Rowling. Please don't sue because I own nothing you'd want.



Summery: A little quidditch off the record between Slyther and Gryffindor. How will Izzy fare?



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Once both teams had arrived on the pitch and they had a ref the game started. Blaise Zabini was the ref even though she was a Slytherin because her younger sister was a Gryffindor so she wasn't favoring either house. Izzy got ready to fly again as she and everybody else who was playing took positions on the field.



It was really cold out and it was slowly getting dark. She tried to remember the chaser moves that her cousin had taught her but wasn't doing a good job. 'Guess I'll just have to try my luck and see what happens.' Isabelle thought dismally.



They all took to the air and she soared over to the quaffle and took control of it. Isabelle then passed it to the other chaser and sped toward the Gryffindor goal posts. (AN: I have to Harry Potter my spell check it keeps trying to change the words. It wants to change quaffle into chiefly and Gryffindor into griping, not to mention Slytherin into slathering!) She shot but the quaffle was bounced back to the Gryffindor chasers by Ron, the Gryffindor keeper for the match.



As Isabelle and her counterpart for the match sped to the opposite side of the field, Malfoy and Potter looked from above at how well she was doing. Once the other chaser bot the quaffle and passed it to Isabelle she passed it back. Then he passed her the ball again and she remembered a move from her cousin's teachings about a zig zag. So they continued to pass it back and forth until they reached the goal and Isabelle flew high and the other dude flew low and they thought she had the ball and were waiting for her to score when the guy shot and got it through.



One point Slytherin- zero Gryiffindor. The wind was really starting to blow hard and Isabelle gripped her broom tightly, now wasn't the best time to be thinking of her fear of heights. She took a deep breath and went again after the quaffle that had progressed it's way across the pitch. She was about the get a pass from the dude (whom I don't feel like naming, lazy much.... yes! All the time ^_^ ) when a bludger came from out of nowhere (a.k.a Fred) and knocked her right off of her broom.



Hermione was yelling various profanities at Fred while running onto the pitch to help Isabelle. George sent his own bludger at Fred as he landed. Draco and Harry were already on the ground and trying to wake her up. Not only had she fallen (Gee, that happens a lot but nobody else gets hurt but her, right?) From very high in the air, she also had a fever and had probably gotten sick while playing.



Hermione started arguing about how dangerous Quidditch was and Ron was muttering about how they had magic for a reason and they didn't need to carry her but Draco insisted on carrying her. Fred wanted to go see Pompfry as well because George hit him hard with that bludger.



They reached the hospital wing after running into Snape and McGonogal walking together in the hall. Pompfry immediately started working on Isabelle while Fred sat on the bed across from her as read Teen Witch Weekly, the magazine that was sitting on the side table. McGonogal and Snape ushered them all outside of the infirmary and started asking questions.



Draco answered, "We were both out there because of scheduling screw ups with the pitch so we decided to have a little play for practice. Isabelle was playing because she wanted to try and we didn't see anything wrong with it as long as she stayed out of the way of the bludgers....." he whispered the part about bludgers and fell silent.



Harry finished for him, "The Slytherin Beaters weren't paying attention and neither was Isabelle and she got hit. We think she started playing with a cold and her fever worsened as she played so she didn't have enough strength to remain conscious after the fall."



Draco nodded. Snape looked indifferent, "What was the score?" McGonogal looked very upset with that question, "Who's idea was it to have to teams have 'a little play for practice' without teacher permission?"



"Score was 1 Gryffindor and 1 Slytherin." Fred piped up from inside the infirmary.



"I did", Draco and Harry both answered McGonogal's question at the same time. She looked at them and raised an eyebrow. Gave them both detention and then stopped Snape from threatening Hermione's prefect-ship.



"You were there Ms. Granger and you are a prefect. You could've stopped them from playing and next time you are out of line you will no longer be able to call yourself a prefect." Snape drawled monotonously.



"Severus-" Minerva began but was cut up by Draco



"You know damn well she is a talented witch but there is no way she could stop Potter and myself from facing off. We out-power her any day." Draco said, Hermione looked miffed but decided not to bring it up just yet because he was trying to save her.



"Same goes for you Malfoy- I'm sure your father wouldn't like it if you were no longer a prefect." McGonogal said as she walked back into the infirmary to check on Isabelle and help Pompfry.



"Never mind her Malfoy, you will always be a prefect." Hermione and Snape said in practically perfect synchronization. Hermione blushed and Snape scowled realizing they'd said the same thing. Herm sat on a bench and George held her telling her Isabelle would be fine. Snape returned to the dungeons or something because he walked off. Harry and Draco were pacing wildly. When Fred came out George, Harry, Draco and Ron (who'd come up a few minutes after they did) jumped him and started cursing and hexing him. Sure it was part of the game but she could be seriously injured now!



Minerva stopped it and brought Fred back inside. She gave Ron, George, Harry and Draco detention (AGAIN!) And went back to helping Pompfry. She instructed Hermione to take the others back to the common room and Malfoy should go to his. They moped around for a bit and took their sweet ass time going but they went in silence.



Stupid Fred stayed away from them even after he left the infirmary. Malfoy stayed in the common room while the others were also awaiting news in the Gryffindor common room. Harry said he was tired and went up to the dorm. He took his invisibility cloak and snuck out the door when Lavender and Parvati came in from Hogsmede.



He snuck all to way to the infirmary and was hallway in the door when he walked into something invisible. As far as he knew, he was the only one with an invisibility cloak in Hogwarts so this other person must've used a potion, "Who's there?" He whispered.



Draco shooshed him, "Shut up Potter!" and they continued to sneaking it. They got into the room that Isabelle was in (the door was open) and watched Pompfry explain to Dumbledore that she was suffering from some sort of flu that no potions or spells were working against. Isabelle had been fix from the fall but the flu was really hurting her.



'I didn't even know she was sick....' Draco thought as he sat on the bed next to Isabelle's and stared at her pained face which scrunched itself up in frustration and pain every few seconds. Harry sat on the bed across from hers and watched her, not knowing where Draco had gone.



'I thought she looked fine... maybe Voldemort cursed her or something because of me...' Harry thought. He always thought that whenever something was bad, it was Voldemort so this was a natural assumption for him. Draco's thoughts were much more reasonable, on the other hand he didn't have Voldemort after him either..



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AN: So it's a lot shorter than the last part- not my fault I'm a busy girl! Um I still need to know which option you want.



Thanks for reviewing and let me know if you want Izzy to have amnesia. Here's the options:

1) Draco has to go home for the holidays as much as he wants to stay until Isabelle wakes up from her fall off her broom. He leaves and Isabelle wakes up to find Harry asleep in the chair next to her bed. She assumes he is her boyfriend and when he wakes up to find she think's he's her boyfriend he goes along with it.

OR

2) Isabelle falls off her broom and doesn't have amnesia so she decides to go home with Draco for the holidays since her aunt will be at Draco's visiting his mother anyways.

Let me know- PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!