(Here is the next chapter. Bludgers and Quidditch. Hope you enjoy. Read and review. Also I want to make a note))

Notice: In the last chapter, with the boxers and banners, I took the idea from jamespotter24 and I forgot to give credit. So thank you James!!!

Second Notice: I don't own any of this. No HP do I own. Sob.

Third Notice: I own Sirius. HE IS MINE GIRLS BACK OFF. XD

Bludgers and Quidditch



Cleo walked down stairs, remembering what had happened the other night. Her lips curled into a tiny smile as she sat down on the couch, waiting for the others. She wore light blue jeans and a long red sweater, her hair was in a white bandanna.

"Morning Cleo, did you have fun watching Sirius strip?" Draco was the first to come down, and plopped into an armchair. Cleo stared at him.

"He didn't strip..."

"I know, I know. He told us about it last night, we were waiting for him in the dorm." Draco said, the others were slowly coming down and said hello.

"Oh. Well, Haha." Cleo muttered and looked at Sirius, doing all she could not to jump on the table and shout 'Sirius kissed me on the forehead!' for some odd reason. James began to speak.

"Sirius told me he talked to you a few weeks ago about Quidditch. We finally dropped the other Beater, since he got extremely annoying and pushy. So anyway.. do you want to try out after breakfast?" James asked, shoulder and shoulder with Sirius.

"I would love to! But.. I don't have a broomstick. I could probably look for the fastest school broom though..." Cleo shrugged.

"You could use my other broom. It's a Shooting Star, but pretty good. I have a Nimbus now, I always keep my brooms for like..." James cut Sirius off...

"I think he still has a broom from when he was six."

"It was five." Remus reminded him.

"Sirius talked so fondly of that broom..." James chuckled. "So then, after breakfast, we'll try you out, all right?"

"Sure!" Cleo said happily, and grinned eagerly at the prospect of getting back on a broom again.

The group headed down to the Great Hall and all sat down, except Sirius, who walked over to the Ravenclaw table, and talked to for a long time, who looked exactly like Cho Chang.

"Who's that?" Cleo asked, never taking her eyes off her as she bit into a bun.

James looked up. "Lola Chan. Sirius's new girlfriend."

Cleo choked on her bun. He had a girlfriend. For a weird reason this bothered her, the bun she just ate rested hard in her stomach, she felt a knot forming in it. "Probably just nervous about tryouts." The girl assured herself and looked directly at her plate as Sirius came over.

"I'm going to get ready." Cleo stood up. "You have a lipstick smudge on the left side of your lip." She said to Sirius, not even looking at him and strode out of the Great Hall.



She walked outside and jumped onto the broom, to get used to the speed and get used to a broom again. Cleo sighed as she started shooting up in the air, and flying around a few times. When she flew, it was like flying took her troubles away, made her forget her thoughts.

The girl on the broom gripped the handle gently, and leaned forward, trying to see how fast it could go. It was roughly near sixty, which was really good, so she was happy with the broom. Maybe over the summer, she'd be able to get a job, and when she returned to the present, she'd have a bit more extra change.

"Earth to Cleo. Come in Cleo. Over." James asked flying to next to her. Startled, the blonde nearly fell from her broom but hung on. "Come back down and we'll get the bludgers out."

She nodded and turned the broom around and down, landing smoothly so her toes floated just above the grass. There was Sirius, James, two fourth years were chasers, the keeper was a seventh, Cleo thought his name was Michael O'Ryan, and the seeker was a third year, she didn't know. The only one in the stands was... Lola. She glared at her but then looked back at James, completely ignoring Sirius, she couldn't look at him for reasons she didn't know.

"All right, first I'll just let a bludger loose and let you chase it around and stuff, then you and Sirius will work with one, then I'll let the other one loose, got it?" James asked her, opening the crate.

Oh joy, I get to work with the person I can't even face. How fun. "All right." Cleo spoke, grabbing a beater's club.

Without warning, James let a bludger loose, and everyone stood back. The small ball flew right for Cleo's face, but she knocked it straight up, hitting it with such force it was just a tiny speck at the top, then started speeding around, heading for Sirius, but she stopped it, then it ran off.

Cleo looked at them for a minute and blinked. "At this rate they won't even go near the players." Then whipped her head and slapped the ball with her club, sending it on impact right into a school wall.

"All right, now you and Sirius." James said and Sirius looked at him and nodded, and started chasing after the small black ball.

Cleo took a breath and turned around to watch him wham it at her. Well she whammed it back. "HOLY HELL SIRIUS DUCK!" It was aiming dead in his head. He ducked and wheeled around to smack it away. It started going after Michael, and Cleo sped for him and pushed the bludger away with her club, which strayed off, Sirius shot it back at her, and they shot it back and forth.

When James let the other one out, it was pretty much the same thing. By this time, he was grinning quite happily.

After about ten minutes, he called them down, and they each chased after a bludger and put it into the crate, and hooked them down. "All right Cleo, you wait here, were going to talk it over..."

James motioned Sirius to come over, and the team huddled in a group, Cleo looked over the broom she had ridden. After a few minutes, the group turned around, and everyone looked at her.

"Cleo.. your in." James grinned.

Cleo held it in and pretended to be calm. She was jumping up and down, whooping and screaming and dancing inside herself. She just smiled and nodded, if she opened her mouth she was afraid she'd get carried away.

Sirius smirked at her. "Just let it out."

Cleo grinned and jumped in the air. "I'm on the team, I'm on the team." She danced around happily, ignoring odd stares she got from the others besides Sirius and James. After a minute she stopped and took a breath. "All right. I'm fine."

They nodded vaguely and James turned around. "All right, that's enough fooling around today, practice will be after dinner on Tuesday." He said, and grinned, walking over to Cleo. Sirius waved to Lola to wait a minute and came over, also.

"Nice flying, real nice flying." James grinned at her like a father. He had the exact same glint in his eye like Oliver..

"I knew you were rough but.. you really attacked the ball. When I was putting the bludger back in, it didn't give much of a struggle.." Sirius said, looking at the crate with a huge smile on his face. Cleo shrugged.

"And this was practice." Cleo could be much rougher in games, she gave Malfoy a bloody lip once, and a lot of players almost fell off their brooms, a lot. "I'ma go in, see you later." The girl said. "Want your broom?" Cleo asked in a dull tone, spinning it infront of her like a baton.

"No, you can hang on to it." Sirius said, looking at her oddly. "Really, no need to be so happy." He said sarcastically.

Cleo shrugged. "I had to get that little bout of out of my system.." She said simply and turned around, walking back to the school, not even nodding a greeting to Lola.

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Two weeks later was the first game for her, against Slytherin.

Cleo sat down on a bench, waiting for James' pep talk. He seemed a lot like Wood, with that mad glint and obsessive practices.

"All right, were going against Slytherin, I think we can win. We have a great keeper, who will block out any and all goals, a quick seeker, two powerful beaters who will keep us safe, and three awesome chasers. We can beat them, I know we can." James said proudly, looking around at them. "Now let's win this thing." And he gave them a look that said 'Or else'.

Each team went to the middle and kicked off. "Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd there off!" Called John Jordan.(Yep .. Lee Jordan's father.)

Cleo soared to the top and looked down at them, watching the bludgers fly, and where everyone else was. She saw a bludger going for Sirius's head, but one coming directly for it. "SIRIUS DUCK!" And just in time, he did, sending the two bludgers crashing into each other and bouncing back, Cleo and Sirius began chasing after them.

Cleo sent one at one of the Slytherin chasers, who had the Quaffle. The ball hit his stick, spinning him awkwardly, and he accidentally let the ball go. James was under him and grabbed it, grinning happily at Cleo as he scored.

"Ten to Zero, Gryffindor!" John's voice rang in glee. They scored another one. "Twenty to Zero, Gryffindor!"

Cleo whooped and James did a celebration lap before the game continued. The Slytherin seeker began chasing after the snitch, and Cleo shot a bludger right infront of his path, making him have to change course. The Gryffindor seeker, Dan Toner, gained on the snitch. They scored again, twice.

"Forty to Zero!" Slytherin scored. "Forty to ten Gryffindor!"

Cleo cheered when their team scored, then cheered on the seeker, twice having to knock a bludger away from getting in his path. "Cleo! Duck!" Cleo heard Sirius shout and she did, a bludger flew right above her head and she slapped it away, luckily it headed for the opposing team's seeker.

Suddenly, there was a gigantic cheer from the Gryffindor side. Dan caught the snitch! "ONE HUNDRED NINETY TO TEN! GRYFFINDOR WINS THE MATCH!" John shouted, cheering. The Slytherin side all booed, but were drowned out by cheers.

Everyone went into a circle, hugging Dan and having a group hug. "We won the match, we won the match!" Everyone chanted.

Cleo felt four arms around her, hugging her tightly. They belonged to James Potter and Sirius Black.

"You were GREAT!" They said, all patting her on the back, and the rest of her friends came down. Even Draco didn't mind the Slytherins lost.

Cleo just smiled, blushing slightly from the cold air. "It was fun.." She said vaguely, drifting off, getting very tired and yawned.

"Aww, is the baby getting sleepy?" Draco teased. Cleo nodded.

"Yes mommy, can I have a nappy?" She said chuckling. "I'm going to get washed up, see you in the common room." Cleo called, heading back to the school.

When Cleo came down stairs, wearing a different set of the same colored clothes, everyone was in there. There was music, dancing, food, everything.

"Hey Cleo!" Astra said, dancing around with Remus, they walked over to her. "Really good out there on the field."

"Yeah, thanks." Cleo smiled at her. "Any sign of the others?"

"Well I'm right here!" James called, coming up to her. "Sirius is probably off snogging Lola or something."

"For your information, we never snogged. Let alone kissed. And second off I dumped her." Sirius said, plopping onto an armchair.

Cleo looked at him. "Aww, I'm sorry." She said sincerely, but for some reason she didn't mean it. Oddly enough, she was glad he dumped Lola.

"Why? What happened?" James asked, sitting down on an armchair next to him.

Sirius just shrugged. "Well for one, she was flirting with some guys in Ravenclaw, and I caught her snogging with one. I asked what she was doing and she said it was because I wouldn't do anything with her. And we never really clicked, you know?" He didn't really seem that down.

"Oh." The others all said.

"Well Sirius, there are plenty more girls out there who'd give their right leg to date a 'cool' guy like you." Cleo tried to keep her voice normal, but there was a bit of anger hinting around. It was true. All the girls goggled at the Marauders, basically because they were popular and cute. She didn't understand how these girls could care whether they had the most popular, or hot guy. Honestly, some people were so dense.

He just shrugged and sighed leaning back, then looked at the crowd. "What's this for Prongs, ol' pal?"

"For winning the match!" James said, grinning and dragged them off the chairs and into the crowd...

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