AN- The Rozenens first squad appears! Sorry about the Quidditch match cop
out. I'm tired. I might add it in another time. Just to avoid confusion,
here's a character list for the team: Seeker/Captain: Elizabeth
Keeper: Sean
Beaters: Frank and Anna
Chasers: Niko, Katy and Katie
If anyone needs additional information, WhetherRose or myself shall be glad to assist, seeing as this is our school. ^^
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, but I do share LCACRW and it's cast with WhetherRose. You can decide which of us owns who. ^^
*~*
"Hey, 'Lizabeth, I need your help on something," Katy started.
Elizabeth looked around. "On what?"
"I'm planning a camping trip tonight," she stated. "I need another person to come for safety."
"Why don't you take Sean? After all, you seem to have such a close relationship," Elizabeth shot back.
"It's a surprise for him that I don't want him to know about."
*~*
The next night, Katy didn't follow Sean out to where he transformed, but instead went out into a wide open area on horseback, followed by Elizabeth. The other girl had reluctantly agreed, but only after getting her sleeping bag charmed to be lightweight and to feel like her bed. Elizabeth's idea of roughing it was more along the lines of a Holiday Inn with no color TV. Katy rolled out her bedroll and pulled her compass out of her pocket.
"Just remember, Elizabeth, that the school is that way," Katy said pointing.
"What are we doing, by the way?"
"We're videotaping the moon."
"Why?"
Katy hesitated. "I. I can't say."
Elizabeth looked her square in the eyes. "He's a werewolf, isn't he?" she asked.
Katy's eyes widened imperceptibly as she slipped a mask of coolness on. "What do you mean?"
"I mean he turns into a wolf at the full moon, Katy, what do you think I mean?" Elizabeth demanded dryly.
"That, my dear, is not at all my business to tell whether or not it is true," Katy said, turning around. "Subject closed, and I have a project to finish now." Katy turned her full attention to the camcorder on the pedestal, angling it to get the full moon's dramatic rise. They had had to come so far away from the school so that the magic ebbed enough for them to use the muggle equipment. Katy remembered quite vividly what happened to her laptop.
"For what class? I'm in all of them," Elizabeth asked, trying a different tact.
"It's a personal project." Katy slipped into her sleeping bag for warmth and opening her senses wide to listen to the great outdoors. "You can go to sleep. I'll just be thinking."
Elizabeth had just huddled into her sleeping bag and rolled over to drift off when a feral howl echoed off the nearby canyon walls. The horses' heads jerked up, but Noire nudged Dervish's neck and they immediately quieted down again.
Katy leapt to her feet. 'Sean...' she thought to herself. "I'm going to take Noire and see what that is. You stay here and watch camp. If anything comes, just stun it until I get back, okay?"
Katy didn't wait for a response. She vaulted on Noire's back, jerking the end of the quick release knot and used it as a rein. She kicked Noire's sides with her heels and cantered off into the night.
When they were a sufficient distance from camp, Katy slid off Noire's back. "Stay," she ordered.
Noire snuffled, and put her head down to graze.
Katy concentrated for a brief moment, and felt her blood coursing through her veins shift, and she leapt into the night air, flapping her powerful wings. She heard another howl.
'Towards camp,' she thought. She screeched a battle cry, alerting others to her presence. She saw a figure stalking toward the camp, and dove.
With her talons, she ripped into the wolf's scalp, getting it's attention. Screeching again, she drove it away from the small camp and to the place where he was supposed to be.
The werewolf snapped at her wing, and got a mouth full of feathers for his troubles.
Katy tumbled to the ground, and lay stunned and unmoving.
The werewolf snuffled about her for a few moments, before gently picking her up in his mouth and laying down on the floor, falcon cradled between his forepaws.
*~*
Elizabeth stayed up for most of the night, tracking the moon's progress across the sky, and wondering where Katy was. Noire had wandered back to camp about four in the morning, with no sign of Katy. Elizabeth sighed, and scratched a note into the ground, packed up their bedrolls and saddled the horses, ponying Noire back to LCACRW. She would have a few words with Katy when she next saw her.
*~*
Katy groaned and shifted in her sleep. She absentmindedly pondered why her pillow felt so odd. And why was there a heavy weight on her stomach? Grimacing, she lifted her head up a little to see. Gently rubbing her head with one hand, she affectionately ruffled Sean's hair, and laid her head back down for a few more minutes.
Finally, with a large sigh, she sat up, rubbing Sean's shoulder to wake him up. "Up you get, sleepyhead," she greeted. "Quidditch, you know."
Sean groaned. "Fiend." he muttered. But he pushed himself to his feet.
His face went white and his knees gave out, sending him plummeting to the floor. "I- I got out, didn't I," he said. "What did I do?"
Katy kneeled down beside him, wrapping her arms around him. "We had a little discussion, both bringing up good points, but you couldn't hurt anyone," she assured him. He looked doubtful at her reassurances. "Have I ever lied to you?" Sean shook his head. "Why would I start now?" she asked rubbing his hair behind his ears.
*~*
Elizabeth paced inside the locker room. "Where are they?" she demanded to the others. "The game starts in ten minutes! We'll be slaughtered without a Keeper and a Chaser!"
Katie looked at their dear, irate Seeker and Captain. "They'll be here," she said reassuringly.
Anna finished yanking on her arm guard. "They've never once missed a game unless they were unconscious or ill."
"Besides, Elizabeth, Francis and Kian are available at a moment's notice to come help," Frank added.
"So calm down," Anna finished for him.
Elizabeth didn't quit pacing.
"I don't envy Katy Elizabeth's wrath when they come in," Anna whispered to Frank under her breath. They picked up their Beaters' clubs and their broomsticks, Meteor 2597s. "So we doing what we did last game?"
"Stalk a Bludger? Didn't really work that well. Remember Niko's concussion?"
"Free-for-all scramble, then?"
Frank nodded. "Yep. Want to have a competition to see who can thwack the most?" High-fiving, the pair stood and began batting practice over everyone else's heads.
Katie and Niko sat discussing the strategy. "You sure that'll work, Katie?"
Katie shrugged. "It rather depends on those two getting here. But Sean's really hard to score against. Even Katy has trouble, and she's the best Rozenens has had in ages." Katie turned around at the creak of the door opening. "And here they are now." She raised her voice to be heard over Elizabeth, who was winding up for a long rant. "TWO MINUTES! GET DRESSED, ALREADY! LIZ, CAN IT!" she shouted.
Anna and Frank stopped tossing the ball. Anna, standing on the bench, started. "Okay, everyone, for some-random-deity's sake, we're playing Chetnchexn, first squad. For two years running, and since the beginning of this school on average, we've been the best. But we can't be the best unless we work together. Whatever personal disputes we have are left behind once we hit that field. On that field, we are a perfect team. Nothing can break us up, and nothing will. We have the best damn Chasers of any magical school, we have a Keeper who almost never misses, and we have the best Captain and Seeker we could ask for! So what the hell are we arguing in the locker room for?" A trumpet on the field sounded. Anna looked at Elizabeth.
She raised an eyebrow. "Well, let's go," she said with a smile.
*~*
Just before they took off, Katy whispered in Frank and Anna's ears, "And we have two loyal Beaters who haven't killed anyone. Yet."
Anna rolled her eyes as they took off.
*~*
Sean sat on his bed, cross-legged, and holding his head in his hands. Frank flopped down next to him. "So, what's the matter? You're thoroughly miserable, and everyone on the team can see it. What happened last night?"
Sean sighed heavily. "I got out."
"Again? That's the third time in two months."
"Yeah, I know. The charms need strengthening, but even in this school, there's no one close enough to me that's also strong enough. They're Ancient Magic, you see."
"Tell Elizabeth," Frank advised him. "She's strong enough, and in Hogwarts, she was a Gryffindor."
"She's a Satine."
"So? What does her lineage have to do with this? She's your girlfriend's best friend, and Katy has good taste in friends. Like you- she trusted you immediately. Trust her judgment. Please excuse me, now. Must go traumatize something or one."
Sean smiled weakly at his friend. "Thanks."
"That's what friends are for," Frank told him.
*~*
Elizabeth grabbed Katy's arm and dragged her into a quiet corner of the common room. "We need to have a talk."
"About?" Katy asked.
"About your secrets. About where you went last night. About why you almost missed the Quidditch match!" Elizabeth exploded.
Katy went white as she flipped her hair off of her shoulders and shouted back. "You're not my bloody Keeper! I have secrets- everyone does! At least people trust me enough to confide in me!" She lowered her voice to a furious hiss. "I am loyal to my friends, and that is most definitely Sean. I will not betray his trust for something as trivial as your own damn curiosity. This conversation is over." Katy spun on her heel and stalked out of the common room into the sweltering Texan heat.
She half ran, half walked to the secured shack where Sean transformed every full moon. She found her boyfriend poking at different bits with his wand, muttering under his breath.
She couldn't help but grin, her anger already ebbing away. "You look like a fool," she informed him.
Sean jumped a foot in the air. "Don't do that!" he exclaimed, one hand held to his chest.
"Awww. Is widdle Fuzzy's hearing going bye-bye?" she teased.
Sean shook his head. "No, but if we're lucky, my heart might start again any second." He looked around. "The charms need a major overhaul before next month," he told her, face suddenly grim and drawn.
"And they're formed from Ancient Magic, ne?" Katy asked. Sean nodded. "Well, I hate to say it at the moment, but your best bet is Elizabeth. She's already guessed, by the way," she warned. "Hey, will you hide me from the terror?" she asked.
Sean looked at her quizzically. "What?"
Katy rolled her eyes. "Remember, I duck the question, and I run away from the point, but I don't lie. She's getting more precise in her questions, and we had a little row."
"You two had a fight? Over what?" He looked incredulous.
Katy rubbed her forehead. "She said thinks I have to many secrets. I think that the problem is that I'm not telling her what they are. Will you let me hideout here for a while until her temper cools off significantly?"
Sean laughed. "Yep. I'll even keep you company."
"Oooo. I'm so lucky." Katy leaned back against one of the walls. She suddenly felt rather serious. It probably had something to do with her arm throbbing. "What would you see in the Mirror of Desire?" she asked, staring blankly in front of her.
".the full moon." Sean said slowly. "I know so many facts about it, but I've never seen the damn cursed thing as a human since." he broke off, refusing to start babbling. "You?" he asked, trying to get the subject off him.
"My life as it should have been. My parents alive. Sirius free. Peter dead and tortured painfully." Katy still stared straight ahead with a somewhat dreamy expression as she imagined the past as what it might have been in another world. She shook her head one to clear it. "But that's in the past. It can never happen." She got up. "I'm going to go. do something."
*~*
Frank plopped down next to Anna in the Rozenens common room. He rapped on the paper in front of her to get her attention. "Need your help to get Elizabeth and Katy talking again."
Anna looked at him. "I'm not crazy. And I'm a seventh year, not a saint. Do you really want me to punch both of them and let them team up against a common enemy until they start talking?"
"If that's what it takes," Frank started.
Anna shook her head. "I repeat- I'm not crazy. Anyone getting teamed up on by those two deserves nothing but pity. They are DANGEROUS."
"Do you speak from experience?" he asked laughingly.
Anna looked at him. "Oh yes, I most definitely speak from experience." Frank started laughing harder. "They started with Muggle pranks, then turned steadily more... interesting."
"What'd they start with?" he asked with morbid curiosity.
"Short-sheeting my bed. But to get them to talk, I vote we stick the three of them in a closet somewhere and don't let them out until they reach a decision. But you do realize that they're going to be pissed when they get out, and start plotting their revenge." Frank gulped.
"Point. But desperate times call for desperate measures."
*~*
AN- And so ends the second installment of VDLL. Hope you enjoyed. And yes, WhetherRose, Katy was in Transfiguration and all of her other morning classes in her pjs. ^^ Remember to review. ^^ *points to review button*
If anyone needs additional information, WhetherRose or myself shall be glad to assist, seeing as this is our school. ^^
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, but I do share LCACRW and it's cast with WhetherRose. You can decide which of us owns who. ^^
*~*
"Hey, 'Lizabeth, I need your help on something," Katy started.
Elizabeth looked around. "On what?"
"I'm planning a camping trip tonight," she stated. "I need another person to come for safety."
"Why don't you take Sean? After all, you seem to have such a close relationship," Elizabeth shot back.
"It's a surprise for him that I don't want him to know about."
*~*
The next night, Katy didn't follow Sean out to where he transformed, but instead went out into a wide open area on horseback, followed by Elizabeth. The other girl had reluctantly agreed, but only after getting her sleeping bag charmed to be lightweight and to feel like her bed. Elizabeth's idea of roughing it was more along the lines of a Holiday Inn with no color TV. Katy rolled out her bedroll and pulled her compass out of her pocket.
"Just remember, Elizabeth, that the school is that way," Katy said pointing.
"What are we doing, by the way?"
"We're videotaping the moon."
"Why?"
Katy hesitated. "I. I can't say."
Elizabeth looked her square in the eyes. "He's a werewolf, isn't he?" she asked.
Katy's eyes widened imperceptibly as she slipped a mask of coolness on. "What do you mean?"
"I mean he turns into a wolf at the full moon, Katy, what do you think I mean?" Elizabeth demanded dryly.
"That, my dear, is not at all my business to tell whether or not it is true," Katy said, turning around. "Subject closed, and I have a project to finish now." Katy turned her full attention to the camcorder on the pedestal, angling it to get the full moon's dramatic rise. They had had to come so far away from the school so that the magic ebbed enough for them to use the muggle equipment. Katy remembered quite vividly what happened to her laptop.
"For what class? I'm in all of them," Elizabeth asked, trying a different tact.
"It's a personal project." Katy slipped into her sleeping bag for warmth and opening her senses wide to listen to the great outdoors. "You can go to sleep. I'll just be thinking."
Elizabeth had just huddled into her sleeping bag and rolled over to drift off when a feral howl echoed off the nearby canyon walls. The horses' heads jerked up, but Noire nudged Dervish's neck and they immediately quieted down again.
Katy leapt to her feet. 'Sean...' she thought to herself. "I'm going to take Noire and see what that is. You stay here and watch camp. If anything comes, just stun it until I get back, okay?"
Katy didn't wait for a response. She vaulted on Noire's back, jerking the end of the quick release knot and used it as a rein. She kicked Noire's sides with her heels and cantered off into the night.
When they were a sufficient distance from camp, Katy slid off Noire's back. "Stay," she ordered.
Noire snuffled, and put her head down to graze.
Katy concentrated for a brief moment, and felt her blood coursing through her veins shift, and she leapt into the night air, flapping her powerful wings. She heard another howl.
'Towards camp,' she thought. She screeched a battle cry, alerting others to her presence. She saw a figure stalking toward the camp, and dove.
With her talons, she ripped into the wolf's scalp, getting it's attention. Screeching again, she drove it away from the small camp and to the place where he was supposed to be.
The werewolf snapped at her wing, and got a mouth full of feathers for his troubles.
Katy tumbled to the ground, and lay stunned and unmoving.
The werewolf snuffled about her for a few moments, before gently picking her up in his mouth and laying down on the floor, falcon cradled between his forepaws.
*~*
Elizabeth stayed up for most of the night, tracking the moon's progress across the sky, and wondering where Katy was. Noire had wandered back to camp about four in the morning, with no sign of Katy. Elizabeth sighed, and scratched a note into the ground, packed up their bedrolls and saddled the horses, ponying Noire back to LCACRW. She would have a few words with Katy when she next saw her.
*~*
Katy groaned and shifted in her sleep. She absentmindedly pondered why her pillow felt so odd. And why was there a heavy weight on her stomach? Grimacing, she lifted her head up a little to see. Gently rubbing her head with one hand, she affectionately ruffled Sean's hair, and laid her head back down for a few more minutes.
Finally, with a large sigh, she sat up, rubbing Sean's shoulder to wake him up. "Up you get, sleepyhead," she greeted. "Quidditch, you know."
Sean groaned. "Fiend." he muttered. But he pushed himself to his feet.
His face went white and his knees gave out, sending him plummeting to the floor. "I- I got out, didn't I," he said. "What did I do?"
Katy kneeled down beside him, wrapping her arms around him. "We had a little discussion, both bringing up good points, but you couldn't hurt anyone," she assured him. He looked doubtful at her reassurances. "Have I ever lied to you?" Sean shook his head. "Why would I start now?" she asked rubbing his hair behind his ears.
*~*
Elizabeth paced inside the locker room. "Where are they?" she demanded to the others. "The game starts in ten minutes! We'll be slaughtered without a Keeper and a Chaser!"
Katie looked at their dear, irate Seeker and Captain. "They'll be here," she said reassuringly.
Anna finished yanking on her arm guard. "They've never once missed a game unless they were unconscious or ill."
"Besides, Elizabeth, Francis and Kian are available at a moment's notice to come help," Frank added.
"So calm down," Anna finished for him.
Elizabeth didn't quit pacing.
"I don't envy Katy Elizabeth's wrath when they come in," Anna whispered to Frank under her breath. They picked up their Beaters' clubs and their broomsticks, Meteor 2597s. "So we doing what we did last game?"
"Stalk a Bludger? Didn't really work that well. Remember Niko's concussion?"
"Free-for-all scramble, then?"
Frank nodded. "Yep. Want to have a competition to see who can thwack the most?" High-fiving, the pair stood and began batting practice over everyone else's heads.
Katie and Niko sat discussing the strategy. "You sure that'll work, Katie?"
Katie shrugged. "It rather depends on those two getting here. But Sean's really hard to score against. Even Katy has trouble, and she's the best Rozenens has had in ages." Katie turned around at the creak of the door opening. "And here they are now." She raised her voice to be heard over Elizabeth, who was winding up for a long rant. "TWO MINUTES! GET DRESSED, ALREADY! LIZ, CAN IT!" she shouted.
Anna and Frank stopped tossing the ball. Anna, standing on the bench, started. "Okay, everyone, for some-random-deity's sake, we're playing Chetnchexn, first squad. For two years running, and since the beginning of this school on average, we've been the best. But we can't be the best unless we work together. Whatever personal disputes we have are left behind once we hit that field. On that field, we are a perfect team. Nothing can break us up, and nothing will. We have the best damn Chasers of any magical school, we have a Keeper who almost never misses, and we have the best Captain and Seeker we could ask for! So what the hell are we arguing in the locker room for?" A trumpet on the field sounded. Anna looked at Elizabeth.
She raised an eyebrow. "Well, let's go," she said with a smile.
*~*
Just before they took off, Katy whispered in Frank and Anna's ears, "And we have two loyal Beaters who haven't killed anyone. Yet."
Anna rolled her eyes as they took off.
*~*
Sean sat on his bed, cross-legged, and holding his head in his hands. Frank flopped down next to him. "So, what's the matter? You're thoroughly miserable, and everyone on the team can see it. What happened last night?"
Sean sighed heavily. "I got out."
"Again? That's the third time in two months."
"Yeah, I know. The charms need strengthening, but even in this school, there's no one close enough to me that's also strong enough. They're Ancient Magic, you see."
"Tell Elizabeth," Frank advised him. "She's strong enough, and in Hogwarts, she was a Gryffindor."
"She's a Satine."
"So? What does her lineage have to do with this? She's your girlfriend's best friend, and Katy has good taste in friends. Like you- she trusted you immediately. Trust her judgment. Please excuse me, now. Must go traumatize something or one."
Sean smiled weakly at his friend. "Thanks."
"That's what friends are for," Frank told him.
*~*
Elizabeth grabbed Katy's arm and dragged her into a quiet corner of the common room. "We need to have a talk."
"About?" Katy asked.
"About your secrets. About where you went last night. About why you almost missed the Quidditch match!" Elizabeth exploded.
Katy went white as she flipped her hair off of her shoulders and shouted back. "You're not my bloody Keeper! I have secrets- everyone does! At least people trust me enough to confide in me!" She lowered her voice to a furious hiss. "I am loyal to my friends, and that is most definitely Sean. I will not betray his trust for something as trivial as your own damn curiosity. This conversation is over." Katy spun on her heel and stalked out of the common room into the sweltering Texan heat.
She half ran, half walked to the secured shack where Sean transformed every full moon. She found her boyfriend poking at different bits with his wand, muttering under his breath.
She couldn't help but grin, her anger already ebbing away. "You look like a fool," she informed him.
Sean jumped a foot in the air. "Don't do that!" he exclaimed, one hand held to his chest.
"Awww. Is widdle Fuzzy's hearing going bye-bye?" she teased.
Sean shook his head. "No, but if we're lucky, my heart might start again any second." He looked around. "The charms need a major overhaul before next month," he told her, face suddenly grim and drawn.
"And they're formed from Ancient Magic, ne?" Katy asked. Sean nodded. "Well, I hate to say it at the moment, but your best bet is Elizabeth. She's already guessed, by the way," she warned. "Hey, will you hide me from the terror?" she asked.
Sean looked at her quizzically. "What?"
Katy rolled her eyes. "Remember, I duck the question, and I run away from the point, but I don't lie. She's getting more precise in her questions, and we had a little row."
"You two had a fight? Over what?" He looked incredulous.
Katy rubbed her forehead. "She said thinks I have to many secrets. I think that the problem is that I'm not telling her what they are. Will you let me hideout here for a while until her temper cools off significantly?"
Sean laughed. "Yep. I'll even keep you company."
"Oooo. I'm so lucky." Katy leaned back against one of the walls. She suddenly felt rather serious. It probably had something to do with her arm throbbing. "What would you see in the Mirror of Desire?" she asked, staring blankly in front of her.
".the full moon." Sean said slowly. "I know so many facts about it, but I've never seen the damn cursed thing as a human since." he broke off, refusing to start babbling. "You?" he asked, trying to get the subject off him.
"My life as it should have been. My parents alive. Sirius free. Peter dead and tortured painfully." Katy still stared straight ahead with a somewhat dreamy expression as she imagined the past as what it might have been in another world. She shook her head one to clear it. "But that's in the past. It can never happen." She got up. "I'm going to go. do something."
*~*
Frank plopped down next to Anna in the Rozenens common room. He rapped on the paper in front of her to get her attention. "Need your help to get Elizabeth and Katy talking again."
Anna looked at him. "I'm not crazy. And I'm a seventh year, not a saint. Do you really want me to punch both of them and let them team up against a common enemy until they start talking?"
"If that's what it takes," Frank started.
Anna shook her head. "I repeat- I'm not crazy. Anyone getting teamed up on by those two deserves nothing but pity. They are DANGEROUS."
"Do you speak from experience?" he asked laughingly.
Anna looked at him. "Oh yes, I most definitely speak from experience." Frank started laughing harder. "They started with Muggle pranks, then turned steadily more... interesting."
"What'd they start with?" he asked with morbid curiosity.
"Short-sheeting my bed. But to get them to talk, I vote we stick the three of them in a closet somewhere and don't let them out until they reach a decision. But you do realize that they're going to be pissed when they get out, and start plotting their revenge." Frank gulped.
"Point. But desperate times call for desperate measures."
*~*
AN- And so ends the second installment of VDLL. Hope you enjoyed. And yes, WhetherRose, Katy was in Transfiguration and all of her other morning classes in her pjs. ^^ Remember to review. ^^ *points to review button*