Second Comings
Chapter Four
No peanut butter and Quidditch?
Disclaimer: I do not own the HP world that belongs to JK Rowlings she just graciously allows us to play in it. And her characters are hers she just lets us have our own spin on them. All the characters you do not recognize our mine. I own Alianna, Adiann Akurse, Victoria Talons (Tori), and Tyler Griffith. Julia White owns Devon Aingeal and Shanka Nosizwe. So leave our original characters alone Do Not steal them please. If want a more in depth look at what's going on with the trio and such go read Harry Potter's Worst Fear by Julia White. Our fics are interconnected. Ok sorry on to the story…
Lying in my new warm four poster bed I watch as the sun comes up with Tori snoring beside me. As the sun starts to touch the edges of the sky I decide to get up and change into some clothes and brush my hair.
"Oy! You know be nicking my…socks…" Tori mumbles.
I laugh and go to end of my bed to my brush back and get out my book Tyler bought me. I run my fingers over the soft red leather before opening the first page.
"This book belongs to…" I whisper to myself reading the first lines on the front page. "Alianna." As soon as it leaves my lips it appears on the page. More words spread out on the page.
"Alianna you have decided to enter the world of self expression in the from of the written word. There are no ends to where this can take you and will take you. Now are you ready to start?" The words stop spreading. I look around the room before slowly shaking my head yes.
"Good well then let's continue. First things first, is how to put it into words. #1How to form a thought either complete or incomplete. This being one the most simple things of all A sentence showing emotions can be complete or incomplete. For example." The words stop again. This book had to of been created by some nutter.
"'This book had to of been created by some nutter.' Is a complete thought."
"Morning Alianna. Oh I'm ready for breakfast." Tori yawns and I quickly shut the book and lower it in my trunk. She climbs out of her four poster bed and changes in front of me without any concern at all. She gives her hair a ruffle and it becomes sleek and smooth as if she hand just flat ironed it. She slips on a thin jacket and sticks her wand in her pocket.
"You been up long?" She asks as we walk into the Common Room where everyone is crowded around the notice board. A tallish girl stands in front of them holding a thick piece of paper and hold her hand up and everyone falls quiet.
"Just being named Capitan of this year Gryffindor House Team is my duty to announce try outs. There is only one spot to fill this year seeing as how Ginny, Jack, Andrew, Ron, and Harry will be returning to their duties on the team. Tryouts will be tomorrow at 12:00pm. Please come to the pitch early if you are going to need a broom to use."
"Come off it Katie! Tomrrow? That doesn't give any time to practice! If the pitch is booked today where does that leave the rest to practice?" A voice yells from within the crowd.
"Well I'm sorry then, you'll just be out of luck. Here is the signup sheet to book the pitch. Good luck everyone." She sticks the piece of paper on the board as people scram to get to it to sign up.
"People go mad over Quidditch." Tori rolls her eyes and flops down in a chair at the fireplace.
"Well I bet they judge on skill around here. At Americus it was all about popularity."
"That's how it is in Slytherin."
"Not this year!" The same girl giving the information from the board walks over.
"What are you on about Katie?"
"They've got a new captain this year. Akurse is his name I think. Anyways he gave me the Slytherin schedule and everything. Said he even might want to come to the D-" She looks over at me.
"Doesn't sound like any Slytherin I know? You ever played Quidditch Alianna?" Tori props her feet onto the chair sitting sideways. Katie takes the seat beside me looking at me intently.
"Well I've played before, but never been on a team. Those prats at Americus wouldn't know good Quidditch skill if Maximus Brankovitch III of the Fitchburg Finches threw a snitch at them." I look down at my hand and start picking at the sides of my nails.
"You know your Quidditch, Alianna is it?" Katie says with an intuitive look in her eyes. I shake my head yes. "I want you on the pitch as soon as breakfast is over. I'll have Tyler Griffith from Ravenclaw meet you there to do a few runs with you. He's a brilliant chaser on his team."
"Oh she already knows him. Don't you Alianna?" Tori smiles with a flirty giggle. I blush and put my hair behind my ears.
"Good then. I'll be by later to see how it's going." She pointed her wand at the signup sheet and my name appeared at the top before she walked out of the Common Room. Many people called after her and made heavy sighs as they saw my name at the top.
I follow Tori into the Great Hall and take a seat. I fill my goblet with orange juice and look around at the food. I take a piece of toast and look around for something to put on it. I should have known. No peanut butter just jams. marmalade, and butter. I spread a bit of grape jam on it and top it with another piece of toast. Tori chats away with a dirty blonde Hufflepuff boy before turning back around to pour sugar in her porridge.
"Wasn't he to die for? Who wouldn't fancy that blonde hair?"
I smile and nod even though I really wasn't looking at him. There is only one person I'm looking for. Across at the Ravenclaw table Tyler sits eating a toast and jam sandwich just like me. He looks up at me, looks at his sandwich, and looks at mine and smiles his bright smile.
"This porridge is missing something. Butter that's it. Alianna will you hand me the butter? Alianna the butter right there. Alianna? Oh I see. Go over to him unless you just plan on staring at him until practice at the pitch!" She nudges me off the seat till I almost fall into the floor. I take one last bite of my toast sandwich before taking a slow walk to Tyler. His hair is perched over his right eye as usual. He sets his sandwich down and brushes the crumbs off his hands before gesturing for me to take the seat in front of him. I smile sitting down.
"Good morning. I was kind of surprised when Katie came to me a little while ago. I didn't see you as being on a Quidditch team, but it's not the first time you've surprised me. So do you know what position you want to go out for yet? Oh never mind Katie already told only chaser is available! So how do you like school so far? Of course school doesn't really start until classes start. I see you and Tori Talons are friends."
"Yeah she's really wicked." He breaks his sandwich in half and hands me the other half with a smile.
"So are you ready to go? The pitch is packed today so we better get out there seeing as how we're first. Do you need a broom? The school has nothing but Shooting Stars and my team has all Clean Sweep 7s, but if you want you can use mine. I've got a Comet 260. Got it for my birthday not to long ago."
"That sounds fine."
He chatters on as we walk out into the sunlight of the Quidditch pitch. We walk to the blue and bronze side of the pitch where an old broom closet sits in the back. He comes out holding his Comet 260.
"Here you are. Have a run while I go get the Quaffle then we can go over some stuff before Katie gets here." He hands me the broom then disappears back behind the blue and bronze. I mount on and take off high over the pitch and look back at the castle bathing in sun. It's so breath taking I nearly forget I'm flying but the light breeze reminds me of what I'm doing. I make a few rounds and get a feel of the way the pitch is. I do a couple fast turns and run through the seat boxes and swing back around to do a nose dive then flowing into a Double Eight Loop around the goals before landing on the ground softly. I hear clapping from afar off and it gets really loud as Katie lands beside me. She jumps off still clapping.
"Watcher, Alianna! That Double Eight Loop was brilliant. Maybe you should go out for keeper!"
"Bloody hell Alianna! I thought Katie said you've never been on a team?"
"I haven't. But I used to hangout on the pitch during my free time. Um…Everyday for the last year I think."
"Well crack on, then! Come on Katie let's see what she's got." Tyler throws the Quaffle to Katie as I fly up high. Not even two seconds and I have the Quaffle and already scored twice. I zip and zigzag every which way in a Woollongong Shimmy. I let Tyler get right up beside me. He makes a quick turn and I nearly plumle into one of the Ravenclaw flags. I nose dive down again and Katie gets on my tail. She runs around the goal posts confusing me and steals the Quaffle scoring three times before I steal it back. Tyler winks at me as he passes down and shakes his head toward Katie. I get the signal and we go into a Porskoff Ploy. I dart up with Katie on my tail. Tyler is circling down below. I throw the Quaffle down to him and he passes it to Katie who scores. Doublecrosser.
"You're pretty wicked Alianna. You're going to need loads of work on your formation and passes though. Besides that you are…usable. I don't feel like going through all that codswallop tomorrow just to fill one spot. So welcome to the team. I'll be making out schedules later this week." She mounts her broom and flies off.
"Alianna you made it!" Tyler goes in to hug me and I back away slightly. "Sorry. Um..Lets get off the pitch before everyone finds out."
We walk back to the stairs and I leave Tyler to go back to the Common Room. Tori sits at a table talking to another Gryffindor that looks to be about a Seventh Year. She touches his arm before he walks off and she goes back to whatever she was writing on. I tap her on the shoulder before sitting down and laying my head on the table.
"Have you looked at your hair at all in say the last couple minuets?" Tori pulls a piece of paper from under my forehead.
"I just got back from the pitch. I made chaser." I say tryingly through my dry throat.
"Alianna that is great! I'm so happy for you. But really go brush your hair. Oh yeah our first class in like twenty mintuets so no time for a nap if that's what you were thinking" I pull myself up the stairs and fall onto my four poster bed. Before I know it I'm back in St. Mungo's asking where is my mother…
The next couple days went by fast and full of homework and new classes. Me and Tori sit in the library with big thick books surrounding us shielding us from seeing anything. My quill has been run ragged today so much it's in a very bad crumpled state.
"Honestly how am I supposed to remember all this rubbish? 'The Draft of Peace is used to give a person an absolute sense of peace. To much of it will…' Blah blah blah! I could use some of this stupid potion right now! All this homework is unnerving me. I mean we have practical tomorrow. Double Potions with Ravenclaw and we have to remember all this by then?"
"Do be quite!" Madam Pince whispered loudly from somewhere over our mountain of books hiding us.
"Well I might as well use this time for my advantage." Tori looks over the mountain of books then pops her head back down. She rubs her fingers together and takes a piece of hair from around her face. As she runs her finger down it, it turns the same bright blue as her nails.
"Tori? Won't you get in trouble for rubbish like that?"
"Not if it's gone by class tomorrow." She tucks the now bright blue piece of hair behind her ears. "Let's go it's almost 8:00pm. Madam Pince will have the books us chasing out if we don't leave soon."
We pack up all our books, stacks and stacks of partchment, notes, and crumpled quills. Madam Pince eyes as we walk out with our books into a corridor. All the facts I learned in Shanka's class seem to just swim in my head and I can't grab onto them. We come to the entry to the Great Hall where the feast seems to be close to over.
"Care for anything to before we jump back into these books?" Tori says with a yawn.
"Not really. I have some chocolate back in our dormitory."
"That sounds like a good, but skiving off supper is not my favorite thing to do of course."
"Well I could go for a spot of something when I think about it." We go into the Great Hall where it's thinning out a bit and sit away from everyone. I take a piece of roast chicken and boiled potatoes before downing two glasses of pumpkin juice. The table is quieter than on most nights. I guess because it's not packed, but no one seems to be talking to one another. Grey clouds swirl in the ceiling letting a couple stars twinkle here and there. The same blonde Hufflepuff from the other day comes by to chat with Tori only she blows him off.
"What was that all about? I thought you fancied him and his blonde hair?"
"Oh him? Oh no not anymore. Let's go. I don't like having to whisper in here. You could hear a feather drop in here!"
We enter the Common Room where it is slightly full and head straight the stairs to our dormitory.
"Hey where are you off to Tori?" Seamus yells after us standing next to a boy a little bit lighter skinned that Professor Shanka sitting on a loveseat.
"No time Seamus. Major potions homework." She says beginning to run up the stairs again.
"Oy, Tori I have something to tell you!" Seamus and the other boy come running after us. They get about four steps up as we reach the top before the stairs go slick and they slide down almost hitting their noses.
"It'll just have to wait you too. G'night Seamus. G'night Dean." She says with a laugh. I can still hear them yelling at us as we get into our dormitory.
"Well I don't feel like studying now that we're up here." She throw off her school robes and pulls on some night clothes. "Why don't you brake out that chocolate?"
I change as well and pull the warm blankets of my bed over me before handing Tori a big chuck of chocolate. She gets in her bed and softens the light.
"So where did you go before Americus?"
"Oh loads of places. Let's see there was Salem's School for Magically Inclined Witches, Salem Witches Institute, School for the Witches of Australia, The Institution for Wayward Witches. That was a reform school. I didn't spend too much time at those. Maybe a month at the most at each of them. I spent a year at Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. Pure-Blood Witches of France woudn't take me because I have no background." I stuff a piece of chocolate in my mouth.
"No background?" She says tucking her hair behind her ear. As she does another piece of hair turns blue.
"Yeah. Well I have no family or anything. No past basically so no one knows my bloodline or anything."
"This may sound stupid, but where did you come from?"
"Well I was three years old and fond wondering in St. Mungo's asking for my mother. After that I was taken to St. Augustine's Home for Orphaned Children of Magical Origin. When I turned eleven I went to Wales School of Spirits. It was a very strange school. They studied spirits form the beyond and stuff. I hated it there." My hair keeps falling in my face so I pull it into a messy ponytail and prop my head on one arm.
"So you did ask about your mom? Do you not remember them?"
"I don't even know if I had parents or not. There was a piece of parchment stuck inside my robes though that only had one word on it, Alianna. I wouldn't say anything after the nurses said they didn't know where my mother was. I don't think I talked for three or four years after that."
"Wow that's a long time without talking! I could never go that long. Of course I do talk too much sometimes. This chocolate is amazing. Where's it from?" she holds her hand out for another piece.
"A chocolate shop in America. We used to visit a little town in the mountains every so often called Smokeypipe. It was kind of like Hogsmead visits. It had this wicked chocolate shop."
"Well you haven't has chocolate until you've had Honeydukes! Sometimes I think the school is full of Honeydukes chocolate addicts! I know of some people who used to sneak into there and nick it all the time." We laugh as she stuffs another big piece in her mouth. The door knob start to turn and then the door flies open. A girl with flaming ginger hair and a very angry face burst in and slams the door behind her causing my chocolate bar to fall off the desk and into the floor.
"GINNY!" Tori says through a mouthful of chocolate. The girl's hair flows out behind her as she kicks a trunk out the way. I can't believe I didn't notice that new trunk at the end of the empty bed before now. She doesn't even notice us almost as she flies into a rant.
"What is his problem! What does he want? Does he think I would hurt him or something! I don't want him angry? I don't even know what presses his buttons anymore! Why can't he just understand me? Why can't...WHY CAN'T EVERYTHING GO BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS!" She kicks the trunk again and it goes flying across the room hitting my trunk and bed. Her screaming voice turns into big sobs and she collapses in the floor. Tori who had just been watching her outburst like me runs over and puts her arms around her. Tori rocks her back and forth as she cries.
"Ginny hun…ssshhhh…Everything is just fine. Everything is fine. It's going to be ok….sssshhhh….just let it all out." Tori strokes her long hair. Every once in a while she would try to say something through her tears that made no sense. Tori leads her over to her bed and covers her up patting her back softly. I pull my covers up to my face and right before she turned out the light I could make out a tear running down Tori's cheek.
As the girl's sobs stop and she gave into sleep I pulled my blankets around me and sat inside the window with my forehead to the cold glass. I can't imagine the type of pain she's going through. She's lucky though that she had her parents while she did. I bet they even told her they loved her too. At least she has that. Some owls fly outside swooping down to catch mice. I wonder if my mother said she loved me. Did she ever kiss me goodnight? Did she ever hold while I cried like that girl? I close my eye against the glass and try once again like a thousand times before to paint her face in my mind.