Secrets and Dirty Deeds
By the Barefoot Pianist
Chapter 4
"Alright, men! That'll do for today. Good job everyone!" yelled Malfoy, signalling the end of the session. As everyone started to fly down onto the ground, Malfoy said, "Okay, thanks to everyone for trying out. The results will be up in a week, and you can check that up in the common room. Now get to the change rooms!" and the team dispersed into their own ways.
"Hang on!" Carmen caught up with Malfoy, outraged. "I was here to fucking tryout, and you don't even give me a chance! You disgust me!"
"Who said the tryouts were over?"
"Huh?"
"I said, who s-"
"I heard you the first time!"
"Oh, right."
"Okay," she tried to keep her cool, but clearly showing her relief. "So what's it going to be, Captain?"
Malfoy bent down to the open crate and took out a small gold golf-ball…no, walnut… no, sphere. He held it up for Carmen to see – the snitch. "Whoever catches it first, wins. Easy as that," and he let it go, the snitch instantly flying off into the vicinity.
Carmen quickly mounted her broom and took off, the first off. Malfoy took his time, and easily caught up with Carmen hovering in the air, eyes squinting to see any movement down below. After a while both were flying around the stadium, closely tailing each other, Malfoy caught Carmen's eye. Carmen went to raise her eyebrow, but she saw him give a smirk, the one she hated so much, and saw him start to dive down, still looking up at her for a tenth of a moment before Carmen started following him. She followed him, desperately trying to find the snitch, when she heard his voice from in front of her, "You're never going to catch up with me with your Comet 260!"
But before she started to put her whole effort into moving faster, she caught a gold glint in the corner of her eye and quickly pulled up, pointed the broom in the direction and sped off, leaving Malfoy in her wake. He hadn't seen it after all.
It was too easy for her, he realised. Carmen had caught the snitch and she now grinned triumphantly squiggling the snitch between her fingers in mockery.
There was nothing to it, "Best of three," he called out to her. She nodded and let go of the snitch, instantly disappearing.
"On one," she shouted back and started counting down. "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, ONE!" and at that they both flew off, circling the stadium. However, before she knew it, Malfoy had dived again only to pull up with a sure glint of gold in his grasp.
"One more game left," he said and threw the snitch up into the air. The sky had started to get dark, probably close to 5 o'clock. But not much of that mattered to either of them; they were going to get the snitch, whether it cost them their lives.
After flying around for a while, Carmen made a dive, forcing Malfoy to trail after her. Once she was sure that he had clearly thought that she'd seen the snitch, she made loop in the shape of a knot around Malfoy and flew in the opposite direction. However, she couldn't fool him. He caught up to her easily, and at that moment, saw the snitch hovering near the opposite goal posts. Carmen saw it too, and both made one straight line towards the other end of the pitch. Malfoy was edging forward and Carmen concentrated hard trying to move forward. She finally caught up with him, and caught his eye, surprise, maybe admiration that seemed impossible for a Malfoy to carry. But as they both grew closer to the snitch, a blur cut across where the snitch was suspended one moment and empty space the next.
"What!" shouted Malfoy in frustration. He looked to his right and saw someone in scarlet robes, tossing the snitch casually in its palm.
"What the hell do you think you're doing, Potter?" shouted Malfoy.
"Yes, that is the question, though misdirected. What are you doing on the pitch during our training session?"
"Didn't your mother teach you not to interrupt people?" Carmen said in a motherly voice, quite unnatural to her.
Harry looked coldly at her, but before he could utter a word of a comeback, Draco said quickly, "Come on, we'll finish this later," and urged her to fly down to the ground. "Ouch, Carmen," Draco said, half happy. "Ouch."
Carmen's lips twitched gleefully.
A/N: R&R please! So Carmen isn't exactly perfect... but I did warn you that she was no Mary-Sue!