Chapter 5; quidditch fights

Disclaimer: gr... Do I look like JK Rowling to you? Didn't think so.

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Katie sighed; the silence was peaceful, a calmness that filled the common room, one shared between her and her best friend, Oliver. They had been sitting quietly for a while, Oliver, as it appeared, was deep in thought over something.

Katie stood up, she smiled down at Oliver, "I'm gonna hit the hay, see you in the morning." She said, and turned around, walking towards the Girls dorm.

"Katie wait, there is something I gotta say." Oliver squeaked, his voice all over the place. Sweat appearing on his brows.

"Yeah..." Katie stopped, turning around to here what he had to say.

"Um, youmehogwarts?" Oliver said, his words slurring together, making less sense than a newborn baby.

Katie looked at Oliver, puzzled. "Um, slow down, and repeat."

"Goodnight Katie." Oliver sighed, looking down at the ground. He couldn't bring himself to say it. And he of course wanted to ask her out, which didn't really work.

"Night." Katie replied, ready to get some peaceful sleep.

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The first game of the session grew nearer. Oliver was walking towards the quidditch pitch at 5:00 in the morning. He had exactly 1 and half-hours before he woke up the team. Wood grinned, the team would be pissed at him but that's a great reason for them all to try hard and let out some extra steam.

"Oi Wood!" Growled a voice from behind. Oliver spun around to be face to face with Flint.

"I thought you'll be out here this early in the morning. Always one to wake up early."

"What do you want, here to jinx another member of my team?" Oliver asked.

"I don't know what you're talking bout. I'm only here to tell you that you're not playing Slytherin tomorrow, our seekers injured."

"What!?! Your 'seeker' is fine, you can't just do that! It's a scandal, outrageous."

"Its only quidditch Wood, anyway you do have a." Flint smirked, "Great team and you wouldn't want anything to happen to them against a house like Slytherin."

Flint started to walk off; he turned around and said, "Say hi to that chaser of yours, that Bell is hot!"

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"Come on girls wake up! Quidditch training!" Oliver said as he stood over Katie's tired body. They Weasley's had been let out of the Hospital Wing a night after they arrived. They were harassing the rest of the patients too much and Madame Pomfrey had enough, she ended up chucking them out.

"Get lost." Katie Whined.

"Come on Bell! We aren't gonna win the cup with that attitude." Oliver said and grabbed her bed sheets, pulling them off.

"You said we would have a week off!" Katie turned around, "Any way you're not allowed in the girls bedroom's, if Percy catches you-"

"Come on, I'll meet you in the common room in ten minutes! Ok?"

Katie grunted, Oliver smirked.

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Fifteen minutes later Katie came down from the girls' dormitory.

"You're late!" Oliver growled.

Katie laughed, "Yeah by five minutes, just chill for a second, Kay?"

Oliver grunted, he led the team out the common room. It was 6:59 in the morning, early but unusually usual for the Gryffindor quidditch team.

Angelina and Alicia looked tired and grumpy, Alicia kept on tripping over some of the Weasley's trip n pop string, which makes you fall over and the string disappears so there isn't a trace of evidence left.

Fred and George were placing their 'trip in pop strings' all over the Hogwarts grounds and looked suspiciously excited as they entered the freezing cold outdoors. Harry kept rubbing his eyes, trying to stay awake. 'Poor kid' Katie thought must be hard on the little fella when Sirius is trying to kill him.

Oliver looked happy and excited, quidditch to him made his life liveable. It wasn't that he was obsessed, sure it came off like that but it was a way to relax and forget about your problems. He had to admit that he maybe was a little to over excited and yapped about skills to much but Oliver's favourite saying was: Uncomfortable silence? Talk about quidditch!

Katie tried to look pissed with Oliver waking her up but seeing Oliver first thing in the morning wasn't a bad thought even if it was at 6:30. Katie sighed if only he would forget about quidditch and open his eyes? See the girls who love him and look at her as more than a friend, but why would he want to do that?

Finally they arrived. Oliver led everyone into the locker rooms for one of his pre training pep talks. "We're not playing Slytherin, we are paying Hufflepuff instead." Oliver explained to everyone how Flint came and saw him, "They've got a new captain, Cedric Digg-"

Angelina, Alicia and Katie giggled, Katie didn't know why she joined in but the look on Oliver's face was priceless.

They talked some more about plays and Oliver started going crazy when Fred and George were relaxing about playing Hufflepuff.

The team made their way outside towards the quidditch pitch with Madame Hooch sitting in the crowd.

"Ok, chasers you can practise the 'Reverse Pass' since you all should of read 'Quidditch through the ages', I will assure that you know what to do." Oliver said sharply, "Harry, I want you to do what you do best, catch the snitch! Oh and beaters, do whatever just. Don't. Hit. Anyone."

"Sure 'Liver!" Fred shouted.

Katie, Angelina and Alicia grabbed a quaffle from the basket and attempted to through to each other, over their shoulders. After a few attempts, none of them managed to get anywhere.

"Oliver, this is so hopeless! These moves are for professionals, not school quidditch teams!" Angelina yelled. Oliver payed no attention and continued to bewitch a quaffle to try and get through the goals. "For Merlins sake Oliver! Please can we at east do something useful!"

"Don't worry Angel, we have been training for an hour, give him five minutes and we will be doing a drill." Alicia stated a-matter-of-factly.

Sure enough, after five minutes of hopeless reverse passing, Oliver called out to the team.

"Ok team, no more mucking around." Oliver got scowls from the chasers but continued, "I want to try a new drill. Ok Angelina go down to the opposite goal post with the quaffle, Angelina will fly to the middle of the court while Fred tries to knock her off her broom with a bludger. Try and dodge it. Then you pass to Alicia who will be in the middle of the court, same thing will happen but George will hit the bludger. Last of all you pass to Katie who will try and score a goal while I am protecting the hoops. If you miss, we go to the start. If you get hit by a bludger- Fred, George try and hit the quaffle- we start again. The aim is for you to score a goal before Harry catches the snitch. Ok everyone got it?"

There was a murmur of yes', "Ok let's go!" Oliver said, maybe a little bit to enthusiastically. "Ok, this can be very dangerous, we will need a lot of team work from each of you. This drill helps the chasers dodge bludgers and score points. It helps the keeper block goals and the seeker catch the snitch in a pressured situation. Also the bludgers need accuracy in the game and this will help them knock Flint's head off!" "I mean, hit their target of course." Oliver added hastily.

The team got in their positions, first try, Fred knocked the quaffle out of Ange's hand, then they got it to Katie and she missed the goal, since Oliver made a spectacular save. After another hour of playing the game, Harry caught the snitch.

"OK, not bad for a first try guys, you could of done better. The game is coming up on Saturday, if we win, I can't tell you how happy I will be, it brings us this much closer to the cup." Oliver dismissed the team and while they walked to the change rooms, he yelled out to Katie, "Katie! Please try and learn how to shoot, if you play like that against Slytherin I will have no choice but to give you extra training. To improve your- err... technique."

Katie scowled, ''how dare he!?!'' She thought out loud.

"Don't worry Katesie, Oliver's an idiot. You did fine, remember that he is one of the best keeper's in Hogwarts history." Alicia said soothingly.

"But, he just implied that I'm a bad chaser! And that I can't shoot!" Katie slammed her locker shut, "to think I thought HE was NICE! Nice and Oliver just don't go in the same sentence! He's a quidditch obsessed ass hole!"

"Settle down girl, Oliver will always put quidditch first and he's a guy, I mean of course he's going to say things bluntly." Angelina said. Katie roared out of the change rooms.

She smashed into Oliver on the way. When she saw him she huffed loudly, "idiot!" Katie yelled.

Oliver, not knowing what's going on called out to Katie. "Girls." He mumbled.

Oliver walked into the guys change rooms and saw Fred and George playing a game of exploding snap.

"Hey Oliver!" George called.

"Hi." Oliver mumbled, he opened his locker and took off his quidditch top. The Weasly's weren't the best duo to talk to about girls. He decided not to bother them. But deep down, Oliver needed to talk to someone and it was either the twin's or perfect prefect Percy, "hey guy's I was wondering if you know why Katie's so pissed off, she basically ran into me, gave me the worlds biggest greasy and called me an idiot."

"Well obviously she's pissed at you, Sherlock." Fred said, he just snapped on the card pile.

"Sherlock?" George asked.

"Oh it's something I heard Harry say." Fred said calmly, "Oliver, you just humiliated her in front of the team."

"I quote, 'Katie! Please try and learn how to shoot', they came from your mouth." George said, impersonating Oliver's thick accent.

"Oh shit, I didn't think she would take it personally, I only meant for her to try harder, she's a great chaser, one of the best in the school."

"Well don't tell me and Georgey that, tell Katie." Fred said.

Oliver put his school shirt on and ran out of the changing rooms, he had to tell Katie, them fighting over nothing is rubbish. It could sacrifice their chances for winning against Hufflepuff. ior are you afraid of her hating you?i. "Shut up brain." Oliver cursed.

Oliver made his way to the Gryffindor common room. He saw Katie sitting in a chair nearest to the fire. He sat next to her.

"Sorry Katie." He genially apologised, she made no movement of appreciation, "I know what I said was rude and intolerable but I am a keeper and captain. I have a right to say what I meant."

This wasn't the right thing to say Katie's face flushed crimson, "so you're saying that you can humiliate me! Tell me what to do?"

"Err... well no, I mean yes." Oliver's stubbornness got the best of him, "you don't have to make things difficult for me! I'm just trying to be a good captain and win a game!"

"So winnings all that matters to you? I'm making things difficult? You are a stuck up arse hole!"

"And you're a perfect bitch!" The words came out of his mouth before Oliver realised. Katie gasped. She swung her hand at his face and left a bright red mark.

"You... you're so horrible!" Se cried. Katie ran up towards her room, with tears in her eyes.

Oliver held his face where Katie hit him, by this time the whole common room was looking towards him. "Well, she better apologise!" He cursed.

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Back in Katie's room, she silently sobbed; no one could make her cry, but Oliver.

Angelina and Alicia casually walked in the room, the saw Katie crying and gently rubbed her back.

"What's wrong, Kat's?" Alicia asked.

"Oliver called me a- a-"

"Say it Tie." Angelina said, whilst she rubbed Katie's back, "Tell us what he said."

"He called me a- perfect bitch!" She cried.

Alicia grimaced, "I can't believe he would say that! What a sleaze bag! He doesn't deserve you as a friend, Kate, don't worry about it."

"Your right, thanks guy's." She weakly smiled at her friends.

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AN: hmmm, will Katie and Oliver resolve this? Is there hope for their friendship? You won't find out till next chapter, I quite like this chapter, it's longer than usual. I managed to right this because I was so bored, I've hurt my back and can't do much, if I stand up, it hurts : (

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