The next week was intense for different reason. Gryffindor and Slytherin were constantly at each other throats. It seemed each was looking for any reason to fight. The Gryffindors managed to restrain themselves, but barely. There was one incident that couldn't be avoided. Ryan, who had a black eye from Rebecca's 'attack,' made it a point to stop Rebecca in the halls the next day.

"You broke our truce," he stated as Hans, Dan, and Sam surrounded her. Rebecca stopped and looked around to see she didn't have any means of escape.

After a moment, she said in a quiet confidence, "You were cursing a bludger that hit one of my friends and was after my boyfriend. I had to do something. If it had been you that the bludger was after and I figured out who did it I would have stopped them too. No matter who it was."

"Even if it was Weasley?"

"Charlie would never do something like that, but let's say he would for the fun of it. I would have given him a black eye for it, too." Rebecca finished and tried to walk away, but Ryan remained in her way.

"Malfoy, please, move," Rebecca demanded.

"Tell me who is going to be the new chaser for Gryffindor and I will."

"Why?"

"Well since Tyson is still 'asleep,' it is highly unlikely that she will be able to play in the Slytherin-Gryffindor match, Wood will need another chaser. The Slytherin chasers just want to know who is going to take her place."

Rebecca rolled her eyes and defiantly stated, "Well just have to see if Cathrine doesn't play, won't we?"

Ryan stepped aside and let Rebecca pass. After she was out of sight he started to laugh.

"Those foolish Gryffindors. They are waiting for Cathrine to wake up. It will probably take them until a week before the match to realize that they need to find a replacement. By then it will be too late to train anyone decently. I think we have this match in the bag, guys!" Ryan said to Hans, Dan, and Sam who started to laugh too.

What Ryan didn't know was that after Rebecca was heading towards the locker room to get ready for her first practice.

There was a new energy among the Gryffindor team. Part was because they all did not want to lose to Slytherin especially after one of their members was responsible for Cathrine's condition. But there was also the fact Rebecca had started practicing with the team that gave them new energy.

At first everyone was apprehensive about what was the best way to get Rebecca up to speed with the rest of the team, but it turned out that she had a natural talent for the sport. Wood was ecstatic about how quickly Rebecca got in sync with Anna and Greg.

Aaron decided it would be best if they kept Rebecca joining the team a secret from everyone including their own housemates that didn't know already. This caused Rebecca to head someplace, like the library or the hospital wing, first and then double back to the locker room before practice so anyone that saw her didn't know where she was headed.

Though she was having fun and was challenged in learning to perform the moves she had read about, Rebecca couldn't help but wish that Cathrine would wake up and take her spot back on the team. She just felt strange being on the team because her friend was lying in the hospital wing.

Cathrine hadn't woken up yet, which lead Colin who was normally a jovial person to be brooding and stand-offish. In an effort to keep him from getting himself in trouble, the girls started walking with him to classes. Colin got annoyed after a while and blew up at them all.

No one could say that they blamed him. They were all worried about Cathrine too, but Colin was the one that was suffering the most from her absence. She was his partner in crime, the half that made him whole. He didn't know what to do with himself with her lying unconscious in the hospital wing.

Colin started to disappear during his free period and after dinner. He always showed back up, so the group assumed that he had been sitting with Cathrine. Rebecca got confirmation of this when she walked into the hospital wing after a practice and found him sitting there.

"Hey," she softly said as she approached him.

Colin looked up, slightly smiled, and turned back looking at Cathrine. Rebecca sat down and was trying to think of something to say to help Colin feel a little better, but couldn't think of anything.

They sat there for a moment and then Colin mournfully said, "I just want her to open her eyes and tell me that she has a new prank for us to try out."

"I know."

"I miss her so much. . Kurt came in with Kris a little bit before you came in. The poor kid is taking it really hard. I wish she was in Gryffindor; then at least I could check to see how she is doing more often. ." Colin went on mostly rambling about anything that came to his mind. He told Rebecca of all of Cathrine's visitors including Bill and Lennon who were holding hands the whole time they were in the infirmary, Jenna who brought Cathrine flowers that she had transfigured to have smiley faces in their centers and sat with him for a while, and of course all the members of the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw quidditch teams.

Finally, Colin looked up at Rebecca and whispered, "Thank you for listening. I know I must sound very whinny, but Cathrine and I have been two peas in a pod for so long that, that..."

"I know," Rebecca interjected so that Colin didn't have to struggle to find his words.

"So what brings you here? You didn't get hurt at practice, did you?"

"No, I was hoping that I could talk to Cathrine about what the heck I was supposed to be doing." "From what I hear you fit in quite well."

"I guess I just wish I could get some advice from Cathrine," Rebecca said and then she softly added, "and to know whether she is okay with me subbing for her." Colin looked over at Cathrine and then back at Rebecca.

"I think," he started, "that Cathrine would be ecstatic that you were the one to take her place, temporarily, of course. She would know that you were getting trained to replace Anna next year not her." Rebecca was about to protest when Colin said, "I think she would only get upset if you and I joined forces and pulled a prank without her."

Rebecca laughed as Colin softly chuckled and slightly smiled. It was the first smile that Rebecca had seen on Colin's face since the accident.

"Colin, how about we go up to the common room? We need to be studying for O.W.L.s"

Colin didn't say anything just shook his head and got up. He bent over and gave Cathrine a kiss and whispered, "I'll be back tomorrow," and followed Rebecca out into the hall.

Out in the hall, Colin looked back at the door. It looked as though he was ready to run back in to the infirmary. Rebecca gentle took his arm and started to walk back to the tower. Colin reluctantly moved away from the door. Once they were out of the Hospital wings corridor, Colin was moving more on his own so Rebecca let go of his arm.

"So how is actually everything going with you-know?" Colin asked trying to leave the word quiditch out of the conversation now. Rebecca being on the house team was still a secret to almost everyone in the school and Wood wanted to keep it that way so that the Slytherins were surprised at the last match.

Rebecca looked at him and said, "It going good. I have to admit I wish I wasn't doing it for the reason I am doing it, but I can't change the past."

Colin was about to say something, but they had come around a corner and found, Ryan, Russel, Dan, Sam, and Hans standing there.

"What are you doing that you don't want to do but have to because of something in the past?" asked Ryan eyeing Rebecca suspiciously.

Rebecca hadn't said two words together to Ryan or Russel since the Gryffindor/Ravenclaw match. She was about ignored what Ryan said and walk past them with Colin when the Dan, Sam, and Hans formed a 'wall' behind Ryan and Russel making it so they couldn't past.

Rebecca rolled her eyes and turned to say, "Well if you must know..."

Colin quickly hissed, "No Becca don't!"

"They'll know eventually anyways," Rebecca whispered back.

"Know what?" Ryan asked locking his eyes on Rebecca.

"That I will be leaving Hogwarts this weekend to go to talk to my parent's lawyers on where I am going to school next year," Rebecca simply stated.

"What?" Russel asked as Ryan just stood there in shock. He didn't know anything about Rebecca possibly not coming back.

"Just what I said," Rebecca said, noticing Ryan had gotten really quiet all of the sudden.

"So you are going back to Beauxbatons next year?"

"Won't know that until I get to the office and hear my choices, now will I? Can we get through, now?"

Ryan finally got over the initial shock and quietly asked, "You are going to come back if you get the choice?"

"Does it really matter?"

"Yes!" "I would be giving up a lot if I left this school and I am not just talking about my boyfriend, which I am sure you think that would be the major factor in my decision. But like I said before I am going to have to wait to see what choices I have," Rebecca retorted back. "Now please, we need to go get some homework done."

Ryan gestured to let Hans, Dan, and Sam to know to get out of her way.

Rebecca walked past with no incident but when Colin tried to follow, Dan snidely asked, "Is Tyson up yet?"

This infuriated Colin as well as Rebecca that Dan had the nerve to say anything about Cathrine. Colin was about to throw a punch when Rebecca grabbed his arm so he wouldn't get in trouble and said, "Allow me," as she took her wand out of her pocket.

She only had it about half way out when Dan started running away with Sam and Hans close behind him.

"What in the world?" Rebecca muttered staring at the backs of the running Slytherins.

"They think you are going to curse them," Russel stated.

Rebecca looked at Colin and shrug her shoulders as she said, "I'll have to remember that. It is a good way to get rid of them when they are annoying me."

Colin laughed at Rebecca's comment, which made Ryan see red and commented, "So who is taking Cathrine's place on the team since she obviously still lying in the hospital wing. ... Well that is where you both were coming from wasn't it?"

"As I said before, Malfoy," Rebecca hissed. "We'll just have to see if Cathrine doesn't play the last match. It is after all at the end of May."

Rebecca and Colin turned and hurried away from Ryan and Russel.

Once the two Gryffindors were out of earshot Russel said, "There is something up with that team. There is no way that Wood would just sit around and not train someone in case Cathrine doesn't wake up. You know Anna is leaving the team at the end of the year, this would be a perfect opportunity to train someone as her replacement."

"Yeah, I know. I just don't know how to get Rebecca to slip up and tell me who it is," Ryan responded as they started to walk to the Slytherin's common room.

"Well, Kirsta had a run in with Chelsea Drown and she said that Chelsea didn't know who it was going to be. Harvey amazingly managed to get Lauren to say she didn't know. I saw Lennon McCartney talking to Weasely's brother and overheard him say that he didn't know what was going to happen if Tyson didn't wake up."

"Yeah, I know Cassie did some snooping for me too and she came back with the same thing. I just have this gut feeling that Rebecca knows. Weasely would have told her. I just need to find a way to get her to talk."

"Well you know there are other ways to find out the info," said Russel slyly.

"What do you have in mind?"

"Let me get everything figure out and then I will let you in on it okay?"

"As long as it doesn't take you forever, fine by me," Ryan said as he entered the common room.

"Oh it won't, don't worry," Russel said with a smile.

Colin and Rebecca walked up to the common room together and then went to their own rooms. Rebecca got changed and was about to walk out when she saw a letter on her bed.

Dear Rebecca,

I am so sorry to hear that your friend Cathrine got hurt at the last quidditch match and that you have to learn her position. I would tell you congratulations on learning the position so quickly, but I know it isn't what you want to hear. I think it would be best if you took the approach that your fellow chaser, Anna, had said. 'You aren't taking Cathrine's place on the team, you're being trained to be Anna's replacement next year.' Cathrine will wake up and be as good as new. Trust me, I have a good feeling about this. On a side note, I thought you might like to know Anna Prewitt and Erica King were excited when they heard that you finally got into quidditch. They thought you would be the only person in the wizarding world to not understand the game.(I know you have a confused look on your face. Yes, you know them. They are both in our year and are two of the chasers here. Anna has long light brown hair, pale gray eyes, and is sort of short (okay she is very short, but that's beside the point). Erica is a blonde about your height and has ice blue eyes. Can you place them now?) Of course once, I told them that Charlie was the seeker on your team and that you two were dating, they said it was about time you found someone to make you learn the game (I have a feeling that they thought that you would be good at the sport if you ever decided to get your nose out of a book a try it).

Anyways, enough of your slight problem , on to mine; I found out information on Emily (and not just that she has blonde hair and blue eyes and she is adventurous and funny and that from the stories I have gotten it seems that she is a bit of a prankster) It seems to me that they were friends first, then started to date and Ty transferring cause their break up. Ty is still as attentive as he ever was to me and the same sweet guy he always has been, but when he got that letter he just lit up. Now, he seems to be a million miles away now. I can't say that I am jealous of Emily, but I also can't say that I am not either. I had never seen him like that. And I was so happy that he was as happy as he was, but part of me wished it was me that made. What should I do? Part of me wants to break up with him so that he and Emily could have a chance at a relationship (Even though it would be a long distance one) and the other part of me wants to keep dating him. What should I do? I am so torn. I really like him, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that I am in love with him and right at the moment I don't even know why I would mind us breaking up if we were still friends. That is the drama in my life (Well that and studying for the O.W.L.s, which isn't going to well. Hopefully I have started early enough to get everything done that I need to.)

Well, I have to get going. Hope everything is going well with you and that Cathrine has woken up by the time you get this letter.

Later,

Stacy

Rebecca wrote a quick note back telling her to follow her heart with the whole Ty/Emily situation and then gave her a quick update on how things were going for her. She made sure to tell her of Sam, Hans, and Dan's reaction to her pulling out her wand.

Rebecca had fun the next day. Every time she saw Sam, Hans, and Dan all she had to do was put her hand near her pocket and they ran the opposite way with very scared faces, which sent not only Rebecca but also the other student around her (excluding the Slytherins, of course) to burst into laughter.

By Thursday the fun of it woren off, but Rebecca still found it useful when Hans and Dan were in the corridor that she need to go down to get to the Gryffindor locker room. After scaring the two off, she preceded to the locker room. Inside, she changed while Wood talked strategy with the other team members.

Under normal circumstance, he would have reamed Rebecca (or anyone else for that matter) for being late and not changed yet, but instead as Rebecca took a seat between Charlie and Anna and finished putting on her arm pads, he said, "I take it you had no problems."

"Yeah," Rebecca responded checking to see if she had her arm pads on correctly. "I ran into Hans and Dan in a corridor, but I scared them off."

"You don't think that they suspect anything do you?" Aaron sounded genuinely worried, but it appeared to be less about keeping Rebecca as a secret weapon and more about keeping her safe from foul play.

looked directly at him in the eye and said, "No, it was fairly close to the library and I had that with me." She pointed at her book bag that she had dropped on the floor next to her locker. "They probably assumed that I was heading there. . Don't worry, they were headed the opposite direction of the library so they didn't take refuge there. Besides even if they were there, they would have thought I went to see Cathrine instead of going to the library."

Aaron nodded seeming a little take back by Rebecca answering his unasked question. "Very good," he finally said. "Let's go to the pitch then."

As they walked down to the field, Charlie whispered to Rebecca, "You know you ought to try to be a little bit later next time." Rebecca looked at him quizzically as Charlie's face broke out into a smile. "He freaks out when any of us is late, but you get him worried enough that it's hilarious. If you would have been a minute or two later, oh I bet we would have seen something great."

Charlie chuckled as Rebecca mischievously said, "Serves him right. He was the one that wanted me to be late. 'We need you to be kept as our secret weapon. I want you to come in for practice after the other. No one would ever expect me to let anyone on the team be late to practice,'" Rebecca mimicked.

"He is just afraid that someone figured it out and is out to get you now," Charlie said soberly. "I got to admit the thought has crossed my mind too, but you haven't got caught yet ." Charlie's voice trailed off.

Rebecca stopped just behind Greg, Heath, and A.J. who were standing shoulder to shoulder and weren't moving at all making it so Rebecca couldn't see what made Charlie stop talking so she asked, "What's going on?"

"I don't believe it," stated Charlie.

"What?"

"The Slytherin team is here."

Rebecca couldn't see if this was true or not and part of her didn't want to either, because if she could see them then they could see her. Besides, she knew Charlie wasn't joking from the look on his face. Rebecca could help but to desperately want Charlie to turn towards her and say 'I gotcha' with a big smile on his face.

She, however, got the definite confirmation she would have gotten from looking when she heard Wood yell at the Slytherin Captain, Jason Calloway, "What do you think you are doing here? We booked this time!"

"We are here for two things," Calloway answered coolly.

"And what is that?" Aaron asked through gritted teeth.

"Well to see who your new chaser is and how good they are."

"You could do that from the stands, why are you here with your team dressed for practice and with brooms in hand."

Rebecca could tell from the tone in his voice that Wood was trying very hard to keep his cool.

"Oh, now, come on, like you would practice anything good with us just watching. I bet you would have had everyone falling off of their brooms so we would think that you were cracking up. So we are here to challenge you to a scrimmage."

There was an eerie silence Rebecca could sense that the two captains were staring each other down. Calloway was the one that finally broke the silence when he said, "What are you the 'brave' Gryffindors too scared to take the challenge?"

"No, we'll take it," Rebecca answered from behind her fellow team mates. She didn't say it loud enough for anyone on the Slytherin team to hear her, but Wood got the message as did the rest of the team.

"You're on," Wood answered loud enough for the Slytherins to hear.

"Good," Calloway said. "Now let's see who this new chaser is."

After a second Heath, A.J., and Greg moved revealing Rebecca. Staring right at Calloway, Rebecca took a few steps forward. Anna and Greg flanked her as Rebecca continued to stare at the seventh year, who wore his black hair slicked back like Ryan and had piercing blue eyes.

It wasn't until Ryan stepped into her view and said "I knew something was up, but I never would have guessed you would have been the new chaser," did Rebecca take her gaze off of Calloway.

"Well, now you know who you are up against if Cathrine doesn't play at the match," Rebecca coolly responded.

"Let's play," Calloway said.

"In a moment," Wood said. "I suggest we use a new start."

"You don't mean everyone starting on the ground."

"Yeah, unless you are too scared to do it?"

There was another moment of uncanny silence where Wood and Calloway just glared at each other.

"Of course, not. Let me just get my team ready for it," Calloway said as he turned towards his team.

Aaron walked over to the rest of the team and in a hushed voice said, "Please don't use your best moves today. Simple clean flying."

All the chasers shook their heads in agreement.

"Good. Now the way this works is that we all form a sort of circle with our brooms on the ground. The beaters are behind everyone while the chasers are staggered. Charlie you'll be positioned close to me. The bludgers are released as well as the snitch. McGuire and I will stand in the middle with the quaffle and will throw it up on the count of three. Once it is up, everyone gets on their brooms and we play with the same rules as we normally do."

As the Wood finished up his explanation of how they were to start this scrimmage, Rebecca asked, "Can any of the chasers get the quaffle?"

"Yep, it is who ever can get their broom up and on it the quickest is the one that gets the quaffle first," Wood answered looking at Rebecca who seemed to be formulating something that he assumed was a strategy.

"Do you have to be on your broom when you get the quaffle?"

"No not necessarily, but... What do you have going through your head?"

Rebecca looked around the group and saw that they all were all looking at her with the same questioning look on their faces.

"Well, I was just thinking," she started sort of on the timid side, but with increased confidence as she continued. "Why can't one of us chasers jump for the quaffle as everyone else gets on their brooms?"

Everyone just stared at her waiting for her to go on. She then went on to explain that she could with little help from one of the guys probably jump high enough to catch the quaffle, throw it off to one of the other chasers, and get on her broom with out ever touching the ground.

Wood pondered what Rebecca just said and then finally stated, "It sounds like a pretty fancy stunt if you ask me, but we wouldn't be revealing anything since this isn't how we are going to ever start a match. We can try it as long as you are sure that you will not get hurt trying it." "Trust me, I will be able to call my broom up to me as I go down and as long as I get rid of the quaffle right away I will be able to catch the handle."

"Throw it to me as soon as you get it in your hands," Greg said through gritted teeth so that if any Slytherins were looking over they couldn't read his lips. "Anna, be ready of it as soon as you get on your broom."

Anna coughed a little. She covered her mouth with her hand to stifle the cough and make it so she could say, "Okay, but pass it to me down the field. We might be able to get goal before McGuire gets down to the hoops."

"I said no fancy flying," Wood seriously whispered. It was Rebecca's turn to cover up her talking.

As she raised her hand to her face and rubbed it in a manner that would have indicated that she was nervous to an on looker she quietly said, "We're not going to fly fancy. It is just that the start is fancy enough that we might be able to get a goal really easily. Don't worry, Wood, we aren't going to show them anything new."

Wood was about to respond when Calloway yelled over, "We ready to go?"

Aaron then turned and replied, "About time."

The teams then walked over to the center of the field and formed the circle that Wood had described.

Rebecca threw down her Comet, which was one of the top brooms that were manufactured, and started to walk away.

"What's the matter, Rebecca," Ryan snidely said. "You scared?"

Rebecca turned and looked at him standing there behind Wood and McGuire as if he was the one designated to catch the Quaffle for the Slytherins. He was looking so smug that she said in a low voice, "You wish."

She then noticed that Wood and McGuire were ready to start the toss up so she quickly returned to the circle. Right when the quaffle went up Rebecca put her foot in Charlie's hands for him to help her jump up.

The move Rebecca had created threw the Slytherins off. They had all managed to call their brooms up, but the sight of Rebecca popping up in the air with out a broom to get the quaffle and calling her broom up to her stunned them for a moment. By the time Rebecca threw the quaffle to Greg and swung herself on to her broom so that she was riding it properly while Greg passed the quaffle to Anna, everyone had recomposed themselves and started to fly.

Unfortunately for the Slytherin team, Anna was able to get far enough down the pitch that she was able to score before McGuire could get to the hoops.

The rest of the scrimmage was more evenly matched, partly because the Gryffindor chasers were holding back and not doing anything fancy. Russel and Charlie were the only ones who seemed to be showing any moves that the other one might not have known about, because they both were determined to get the snitch before the other.

After about 45 minutes, Gryffindor was up by twenty points and both seekers went into a dive neck and neck. Charlie managed to pull ahead and grab the snitch before Russel could just as Rebecca scored again. Charlie landed followed by his fellow teammates.

They were all shouting and cheering that they had beaten Slytherin excited that they didn't give up any knowledge of the maneuvers they actually could execute. Rebecca gave Charlie a hug thinking that the bet between the two of them and Russel had was over. As she let go of Charlie, they both just smiled at each other, until they heard Russel laughing.

Charlie took a step towards him with a questioning look and was about to say something when Russel said, "Good thing this wasn't the real match. I would have lost my dream date."

Charlie was about to rush the Slytherin seeker and give him another good black eye as the Slytherin team retreated from the stadium, but Rebecca collapsed on the field causing Charlie to stop going after Russel to check on her.

As he pulled Rebecca back to her feet, he asked, "Are you okay?"

"Um, yeah," Rebecca whispered. "I was just was shocked. I thought it was over with. But I guess I should have known better. It was you who got it at the match and not at a scrimmage."

Rebecca gave out a sigh and picked back her broom and headed back to the locker room.