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'Let's just hope for the best, there's nothing else we can do!' said Lily pressing hard on James's hand as she tried to comfort him. He was extremely worried about what would happen to his best friend and what would happen to the Gryffindor Quidditch team. The keeper Sirius had replaced was still on leave and was said to be very sick.
'Yeah… there really is nothing else that we can do!' James agreed as he ran his fingers through his already untidy hair in frustration.
'I don't know what's going to happen now, we still can't find a good enough keeper! Lloyd should've gotten like a life-time ban on Quidditch or something!' said Selina George. She was one of the beaters of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Selina was the only girl beater in the whole school and was pretty good at the sport. Her shots were amazing and her skill with the small beater's bat was outstanding. 'Instead he just gets detention for a week! No fair' she said, folding her arms and leaning against the Gryffindor common room, where James and Lily were having their conversation.
'Yeah…' said Lily, but then said no more.
Selina was an attractive, svelte girl and that was saying something, as the girls who usually played Quidditch were sort of manly and muscular. Selina was quite the opposite and a stranger couldn't have guessed by looking at her, that she was the best beater at school. Slim and slender, she just oozed feminity. She was rough and tough, very sporty and hated the fact that she wasn't tom-boyish. Wrist bands, and bandanas were Selina's style. However, her features were quite plain, but were mostly made prominent by her style and the way she carried herself.
'Shhh! Just don't make too much of noise, this cloak doesn't prevent us from being heard! Just tip it in, it shouldn't take that much time!! What are you doing?!?!?!' Ian Ulrich, the Slytherin captain whispered to Charles Lloyd, the beater.
Lloyd was crouched next to Sirius's bed in the hospital wing and couldn't be seen due to the fact that he was under the Invisibility Cloak. He had a tiny vile in his hand with a purplish-pink solution in it, which he was tipping into Sirius's medicine. The same orange-red medicine that was always placed on his bedside table so that if he ever experienced pain, the potion would be in his reach.
'Done!' said Lloyd as he tipped the bottle carefully in the potion so that it doesn't slop down and make it suspicious.
Lloyd and Ulrich then wrapped themselves in Ulrich's Invisibility Cloak and quickly sneaked out of the hospital wing, careful not to make any noise and attract attention to themselves.
'Yes!' said Ulrich as he came into the Slytherin common room and high-fived Lloyd.
'Now he'll never get better by the time of the big match! If the Slytherin team isn't winning against Durmstrang, no one is!!' said Ulrich as he contorted his face in a menacing frown, fists clenched tightly.
'That is the Breakdown Potion, right?' said Ulrich as he turned again to face Lloyd. 'Yeah' said Lloyd, examining the vile in his hand.
'Great! It opens up the wounds again and again and doesn't let them heal. Cool…' said Ulrich as he turned away happily and went into his dormitory, the Invisibility Cloak tucked under his arm.
Lloyd too, turned away and headed towards his own dormitory, happy that he had finally pleased Ulrich… which was quite impossible as Ulrich was never happy with practically anything!
'Don't you think we should go and see how Sirius is doing?' Lily suggested as James was sitting down, discussing Quidditch statistics with Daniel Thompson. It was pretty obvious that James wasn't taking in one word Daniel Thompson was trying to tell him. The whole team was gathered around a table except Sirius of course, who was still in the hospital.
'Yeah, I really think we should!' said James abruptly in response to Lily's offer. She smiled sympathetically at him and got up.
'Let's go' she said and held out an arm.
'Let's all go!' said Paul Stately who was the other beater on the team, standing up.
Daniel sighed heavily and got up, leaving his charts and notes laying on the table.
'Ok!' he agreed, motioning to everyone to come along.
The whole team got up, relieved to get away from their boring Quidditch moves and statistics. Daniel had a way to turn even the most interesting thing into a complete mind-numbing one.
Sirius was sitting up and looked around brightly at all of them as they entered. James was happy to hear Madam Pomfrey proudly exclaiming that Sirius was surely making a speedy recovery. Lily squeezed James hand in joy and hugged Sirius hard. She had grown so frank with all of James's acquaintances that she was almost part of them. Remus and Peter had also accompanied the Gryffindor Quidditch Team down to the hospital wing. As a celebration of Sirius's quickening recovery she let everyone have extra time and wasn't shrieking around as usual.
Daniel Thompson was so happy, his eyes sparkled with glee and he clapped Sirius proudly on the back.
'We need you' said Daniel as he referred to the whole team as well as himself.
'Yeah' said Selina. She came forwards and kissed Sirius on the cheek for no specific reason. Sirius flushed red. Selina was looking quite striking today. She was wearing a strappy black top and baggy jeans which were tight at the waist. Quite like a diva…
'You get better soon, okay?' she said, smiling her best smile. Sirius simply nodded. He said little and didn't really act like himself. When they asked Madam Pomfrey why that might be, she reckoned it was a side effect of the medicines Sirius was taking. This relieved them of any worries that they had.
James was extremely happy and eyed with Sirius with new value and regard. He so wanted him back… he was missing his usually loud and funny one-liners and his witty pranks. He wished his best friend would just get well as soon as possible. Obviously they needed him as keeper as well, but James wanted his simple presence more than his presence as a keeper.
So… that's that! Review for the next chapter!
PS. If any of you like Dr/Hr pairing, I have a one-shot fic that I recently put up, tell me how it is, 'cause I enjoy writing one-shots and I need to know whether I'm good at them or not! Thanks a bunch Padfootsluvr for reviewing it!!
