Notes and Disclaimers: I don't own harry potter or gundam wing, but Gaëlle and her other friends are mine.
Chapter 7
Lie, Ivy and Gaëlle walked back together to their dormitory after they finished eating. Heero and Duo followed silently behind.
"So what did you say to us that time you yelled in French?" Ivy asked.
"Lie didn't tell you?" Gaëlle asked.
"No. I got too upset." Lie admitted.
"Oh. Well I said word for word, 'I thought you were my friends!'" Gaëlle said, "I'm sorry about that."
"We deserved it though." Ivy replied a minute later.
"Well anyway let's get our broomsticks and go fly around the Quidditch field." Lie said casually.
"Okay." Gaëlle replied. The three girls retrieved their broomsticks and quickly left the dormitory. Swiftly the two boys did the same, but went out of the castle a different, and quicker way—through the window on their broomsticks.
Once the girls exited the castle, they mounted their brooms and flew to the playing field. But once they arrived at the field, Gaëlle saw many people with their brooms.
"What's going on?" Gaëlle asked.
"Well now that you made up with the others we planned an all out Quidditch practice. It's only Quatre's sisters and Trowa's besides the rest of us." Wufei said.
"Okay, let's play." Gaëlle replied.
"Girls against boys!" Lie called.
"But that's six to five!" Duo complained.
"EXACTLY!" all six girls said as one.
"Fine. Let's play." Heero said.
"Okay, but hold on, who's in what position?" Gaëlle asked.
The boys all looked at each other. "Trowa's Keeper and we're all Chasers." Quatre replied.
"Okay," Gaëlle said. She looked at her team members; two Gryffindors, two Ravenclaws, and one Hufflepuff. "So since y'all already had this planned, what position am I?"
"Keeper." Lie replied simply.
"You're the best out of us girls." Irisa said with a small smile.
"Okay, well let's play now." Gaëlle grinned. They turned to Adele who was holding the Quaffle, and flew higher.
Ten minutes into their game, the boys had two points and the girls had three.
Gaëlle blocked the Quaffle Quatre sent at the left most goal. Cathrine grabbed it and flew away but before she could goal, Heero and Wufei ganged up, successfully snatching the red ball from the girl. Heero carried the Quaffle flying back to the girls' goals but then Lie intercepted him slyly slipping the ball out from under his arm.
Duo saw Lie and took off after her but before he could intercept the Quaffle Lie scored.
Four to two; girls were still in the lead.
Within the next twenty-five minutes two boys (one Ravenclaw and one Gryffindor) and three girls (two Hufflepuffs and one Ravenclaw) joined in the match against friends.
Now it was seven boys to nine girls.
"Hey!" Duo complained, "Girls still outnumber us guys!"
"GOOD!" the majority of the girls called out in reply.
"Come on! Let's just play!" Heero half ordered. He passed the Quaffle to the Gryffindor boy, a Fifth Year by the name of Bruce, who took it and made a beeline for the girls' goals.
Gaëlle did not see this for she was being distracted by the newly added Ravenclaw, and Duo, and Quatre.
"Hey unfair!" Gaëlle exclaimed as she caught Bruce scoring.
Four to three now.
"So totally fair!" Duo gloated.
Irisa quickly caught the Quaffle and flew with Adele and Cathrine on either side. But they spread out a bit and began throwing the ball to each other as all the other girls playing tried to fend off the guys from intercepting.
Their tactic worked all the way to the goals, continuing to throw the red ball to each other until Trowa was not able to defend the right-most goal. Adele made the shot.
Five to three.
"And you think WE were being unfair!" Duo half shouted for Gaëlle to hear. Gaëlle blew Duo raspberries as she also continued to defend the girls' goal.
Ten minutes later score was six to five, the girls were still in the lead by one point. Duo and Bruce both scored, putting the boys in lead with seven points.
"Come on girls! We can beat them!" Gaëlle shouted encouragement.
"You wish!" Bruce and Duo called back. They were chuckling as each individually flew near Gaëlle's post. Gaëlle threw sparks at the two boys with her wand that she always kept up her sleeve.
"Aw!" Bruce exclaimed as Duo shouted, "Hey!"
Gaëlle tried to put her wand back into her robes before anyone else saw it, but just as it disappeared Wufei and Heero flew to Gaëlle. She grinned sheepishly when they both gave her a look.
"Will I have to ban your wand to your room when we practice?" Heero half threatened. Wufei looked as if he wanted to cross his arms, but he'd lose control of his broom if he did.
"No." she replied simply. "But they deserved it." She added as she flew over to a different goal post. The two Fifth Years exchanged glances and then heard,
"Well they did." Lie said.
They all returned to the mock game, the girls scoring once during Gaëlle's little interlude. It was now a tie, both teams having seven points. One of the Hufflepuff girls flew to Gaëlle and asked,
"How long do you usually play like this?" Her name was Tina and she was a Fourth Year like Gaëlle.
"Until one of the teams get ten points. Then the loser team has to treat the winners to butterbeer on our next Hogsmeade visit." Gaëlle grinned, both girls' eyes brightening.
It was nine to nine and the boys had the Quaffle. Duo passed the ball to Bruce, who flew straight to Gaëlle's current position in front of the middle goal, but right before he got to her, he paused and hung back hoping to confuse her.
"Lie! Adele, Irisa!" Gaëlle shouted, keeping her gaze locked on the boy.
Quatre's sisters, Cathrine and Ivy bee-lined for the girls' side of the field. Ivy got there first and tried to sideswipe that ball, but Bruce switched it to the other side at the last second. He was about to score when Lie and one of the other girls flew to each side of Bruce and succeeded in getting the ball. Lie held the ball securely under her arm as the other girls defended her against the attempted intercepts from the boys. Lie passed the ball to Irisa, who passed it to Ivy, who scored their winning point!
Every single one of the girls all let out a whoop of joy and triumph. All the guys let out a very audible groan.
The cheers and groans were all cut short as two figures walked out onto the field. All the teens paused in the air and looked down. Then they all flew down to the ground as they realized the two figures were Madame Hooch and Professor McGonagall.
"Oh crap." A few of the broomstick mounted teens mumbled under their breath.
"Did we do something?" Ivy innocently asked. All the teens dismounted their brooms and clustered in front of their betters.
McGonagall's expression was crossed between being amused and trying to look stern. Madame Hooch had her hands on her hips and looked stern.
Heero and Wufei glared at Duo. "What'd you do this time?" Wufei hissed.
Duo went all defensive and exclaimed, "I haven't done anything!" Everybody, including the teachers silently added "yet" to Duo's exclamation.
"Settle down. Nobody is in trouble." McGonagall's expression softened just a tad. The tension from the group dissolved into nothing. "But not one of you informed Madame Hooch nor the Head of any of your Houses. We had to come looking for you." McGonagall then smiled causing the group to grow suspicious and glance at each other.
Madame Hooch continued for McGonagall, "So who won?"
The teens let out relief-filled laughter, grins all around.
"We did!" every single girl said as one.
"Well, I assume Mr. Maxwell was certainly put in his place, was he not?" McGonagall amusingly said. Duo snorted indignantly but otherwise said nothing. "Okay, fun time's over, now time to go to you dormitories. It's almost bedtime." McGonagall's smile was gone, replaced with a firm line of her lips.
"Yes professor." They automatically replied. With that they gathered their broomsticks and handing the Quaffle to Madame Hooch, they headed to the castle. The two teachers followed behind them silently, but with secret smiles on their lips.
"Girls rule and boys drool!" Irisa, Lie and a couple of the other girls chanted quietly.
Duo stuck his tongue out at the girls and swatted Lie with his broomstick. She in turn was about to kick him hard, but McGonagall was eyeing her. Instead she moved out of the professor's line of sight and then kicked him hard. The boy doubled over, his broomstick clattering to the ground. Everybody else started laughing. Gaëlle picked up his broomstick, held it in the same hand as her own as she and Trowa helped Duo up to his feet again.
"You knew that was coming to you when you hit her." Trowa told the braided boy.
"It…was worth it." Duo half-stuttered.
"Uh-huh." Gaëlle retorted. "Very worth it if you think getting kicked where it hurts for it."
Duo gave a grin, "I can get her again, anytime." He said.
Lie heard that and hit him over the head with her broom. "I wouldn't count on it Duo Maxwell." Lie said firmly.
"Keep moving." Madame Hooch said.
"Yes Madame Hooch." The students replied. They picked up their pace and not much later the entire group of students all split up and headed in the direction of their own dormitories.
McGonagall followed the six Gryffindors to their dormitory.
"I am sure you all enjoyed your game, but next time tell one of the teachers. None of you are in trouble, but if any of the others get into clashes with their Heads and they tell you, bring them to me and I'll set them to rights." McGonagall told them.
"Yes professor." Lie and the other two girls replied. The boys echoed them as they went through the passage behind the Fat Lady (Heero had said the password).
Lie and Gaëlle went to the 4th Year girl's room as Ivy went up to the girl's 5th Year room. All three 5th Year boys went tot their room where they fell asleep as soon as their brooms were put in their trunks and their heads hit the pillows.