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Alright Kiddies, I really think I'm on a role with this whole work on one story and post whenever thing... And I'm starting to think that it's actually a good story!
I know I'm posting too fast for anyone to really review, but I'm one of those people who like to read an entire fic, so I assume that others want to read an entire fic as well.. you know?
So CHAPTHER SIX OF QTTA is now up!
And trust me, kiddies, we are nowhere near complete.. Katie's only in what.. her second year? We've got five more years to go! And she still has to get on the Quidditch team.. Heh..
Well, lemme know what you think! I only write for the reviews!
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Chapter Six
"And Katie Bell's spoon dives for the oatmeal, will she be successful in yet another spoonful-" Lee practiced his commentator's voice as Katie ate breakfast. She looked up at him smiling and shaking her head. He was defaintely a hopeless case.
Fred rolled his eyes, and Lee caught, "One of the two humna bludgers, Fred Weasley, has rolled his eyes! Does this mean victory to Fred Weasley? Or to his eyes?!"
"Please tell me you won't be saying anything like that during the games," Angelina giggled as Lee's last remark.
Lee stirred his oatmeal and shrugged, "It's a possibility, Angelina. I'm just trying to get into the jist of things, you know? I still can't believe McGonagall's really gonna let me commentate." He looked back at Katie who remained silent and content. "What did you say to her, Katie?"
Grinning innocently, Katie shrugged, "I just have a way with people, I guess."
Geoarge bit into his apple, and began to choke on the chucnk of apple. Once he was able to swalow it and catch his breath, he coughed as he spoke, "You used those little puppy dog eyes of your's, didn't you?"
Ah, yes. The infamous puppy dog eyes that never ceased to sucker someone into letting Katie get her way. The only person considered to be immune to the wideness and blueness of her little weapon was Snape. George had titled them the puppy dog eyes, after she used them on him a number of times, just to avoid giving him the last of any special treats her mother might have sent.
Katie grinned at him, then wiggled her eyebrows, "Maybe."
"Well, whatever you did, thanks! And into the Great Hall, sturts Oliver, the man, Wood!" Lee then proceeded to make little cheering sounds as Oliver approached them.
Two spots of pink appeared on Katie's face, remembering just how big her crush on him was. Fred sniggered as Wood drew nearer, then spoke in a high pitched voice, "Oh that Oliver Wood!"
George put both his hands on his cheeks, and batted his eyes, "What a man!" Katie felt her face turn a deep crimson color. Now was one of those times, when she wanted to just run away and hide.
Angelina smacked both of them over the back of their heads, and told them to behave. Her gaze then shifted to Oliver, who feinged a laugh at the twins' little joke. "Ah ha ha, real funny, guys. Just make sure you don't choke during the game today."
For once, Katie was extremely happy that her back was to the scottish boy, but then again, she was sure she was blushing so much right now, that the roots of her blonde hair were now as red as her face.
"Hey, we don't get nervous. Might want to talk to Alicia though, she hasn't said a word all breakfast," George said, picking at his breafast once he had finished the apple.
George had been right, Alicia hadn't spoken since the short 'good morning,' she'd delivered to both Katie and Angelina. Oliver waved a hand infront of her blank face. Alicia immidiately blinked and looked up at Oliver. "Uh, yeah?" Judging by the tone of her voice, she was perfectly confident.
"Just wanted to see if you were alive," Oliver said as he took a seat betweer Lee and Katie.
Oh my goodness, Katie panicked. Her spoon dropped from her hand. I bet he thinks I'm a total dork! Stop looking stupid, Katie!
Angelina tried not to laugh at Katie, and somehow managed.
"Anyway, as to why I'm here," Oliver was now in business mode. His face went from gentle and fun loving, to hard and serious. "Being that it's your lots' first game with us, we're just giong to--"
"But you aren't the captain," George interjected. "Whittner is. Why isn't he doing this whole little--"
"Because Whittner is an idiot, who doesn't care about the team," Oliver replied heatedly. This was obviously a touchy subject for him. It was quite obvious that he wanted, and probably deserved the role of team captain. Once the rest of his teammates were silent, and Lee and Katie were silent, he began to discuss the game plan with them. "Now this is what we're going to do--"
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Against her better judegement, Katie did indeed go to the Quidditch match. Gryffindor was playing Hufflepuff, it was a defainte shoe in, but she wanted to be their to support her freinds in their activity. She was still very uncomfortable with the whole height thing, but she had grown used to the stands. During the practices, Lee would often go to the stands with her, and they would sttempt to conquer her fear of heights, butnow that she was in the stands with the whole entire school, she was afraid that the structure would collapse, or that they would accidentally push her off and send her plummeting to her doom before any could catch her or-- or--
"SCORE BY KYLE WHITTNER!! AND GRYFFINDOR TAKES THE LEAD!!" Lee's voice boomed over the entire field, shaking the stands that were already shaking from the stomping of feet.Katie was going to go crazy if this match didn't end soon! She was scared out of her whitt, but she endured it all the same.
The match was painful two and half hours, not including the numberous and lengthy time outs. By the end of it, two professors had to peel her away from the stands and escort her to the castle. Once she reassured them that she didn't need to pay a visit to the hospital wing, they allowed her to retreat to Gryffindor Tower.
"Katie! Where were you? Did you see us win? Did you hear Lee? See that spectacular goal I made!" Angelina was overjoyed with Gryffindor's success in the match. It didn't matter that Miles Greene had caught the snitch by accident, all that mattered was the fact that Fred, Geogre, Angelina and Alicia had proven themselves in the competative world of Quidditch, and all at the age of twelve.
They were all overjoyed, and because this was only a big deal o the six friends, a party was held. An exlcusive, private one of course.
"I was so nervous," Angelina admitted as she sat down on a couch cushion. They had all decided to sit out on the common room floor, and used the couch and armchair cushions to sit on.
They all laughed, but it was Fred who spoke, "Angelina? Nervous? No, not Angelina, I can do anything with quaffle, Johnson!" They all laughed harder.
"No but really, guys," she said, pushing Fred. "Right before the game, I was seriously nervous, but as soon as I mounted up and kicked off into the air--" she fell silent and grinned shaking her head, trying to find the words to describe that incredible rush when flying.
"It's like serious magic, right?" Geogre said with a grin. "Like, you're invincible while you're flying."
Alicia nodded her agreement, "It's amazing."
Katie listened to each of them describe them try to describe the feeling they got when soaring with the birds, but the end result was simply them saying how incredibly awesome it was. Even Lee had to agree with them all. Just because he was no Quidditch player, didn't mean he didn't love to fly as often as he could. She seemed to be the only one who hadn't flown.
"Flying sounds awesome," she said silently.
"It is," Alicia said, her eyes gazing dreamily ahead, then they snapped back into reality once she realized what Katie was saying. She looked at her freind, "You seriously haven't flown before?"
Katie shook her head, "I'm not exactly comfortable with heights."
Angelina and Alicia didn't laugh, though Fred and George's reaction was relatively the same to Lee's. They rolled over on the floor in hysterics. Lee didn't laugh this time around, knowing full and well that heights serisouly got to her. It wasn't something he would make fun of, not when it made her so vulnerable.
Then again, everything made her vulnerable.
Angelina and Alicia pulled their heads together with Katie and began to whisper to one another. "You know, we could teach you how to fly, and help you get over your thing with heights. There's time after our practices, and then the days when we don't practice, and there are always the holiday breaks too, and--"
"You're getting carried away, guys. I don't want to do all that stuff," Katie said more to herself than to them.
Alicia rolled her eyes, "How are you absolutely sure?" When Katie didn't answer, Alicia continued on, "We can start tomorrow afternoon, yeah?"
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Katie spent most of the morning staring nervously at the clock. She somehow agreed to letting Angelina and Alicia teach her how to fly and hopefully get her over her fear of heights. Her eyes were wude and her body tense with anticipation. She just wished noon would hurry up and come so she could get this over with. It would be disasterous, but if it came and went quickly, everything just might work out for the better. Right? Yeah! Of course it would.
Just to pass tmie by, Katie wrote out a rough draft of her essay then wrote a finaly draft, and managed to do some extra work. Noon had yet to come. She rocked to and fron on the couch, each minute passing at its slowest.
One it was evelven fifty-five, Katie was positive that she was going stark raving mad. Did that minute hand just move backward? That wasn't possible was it?
Noon finally did roll around, but once she was out on the field with Angelina and Alicia, she wasn't quite sure it this was a good idea. "Perhaps we should pass for today--"
Angelina pressed her broomstick into Katie's hands, and gave her that no nonsense look, "You agreed, Katie, and we aren't letting youback down now."
"Besides," Alicia said, mounting up onto her broom, "I'll be up there with you."
With a satisfied nod, Angelina clapped her hands together, "Now, mount up."
"Guys?" Katie was several shades of red, "How do I mount up?"
"This is going to be a long afternoon."
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"That's good Katie, but you don't have to lie flat on your broomstick and hold on for dear life," Alicia was a bit higher than Katie, looking down at her, and watching how she progressed. Alicia decided not to mention to her friend that she was only hovering four feet in the air.
"Open your eyes!" Angelina called, grinning.
With a shuddering sigh, Katie opened first her right eye, then her left eye. Not too bad, she thought. "Now fly higher!" Angelina's latest request was a bit much to be asking. Katie actually thought four feet was more than enough for today. "Katie, come on! Me and Alicia won't let anything bad happen to you!"
Katie nodded, and letting out yet another sigh, "Ok-- I'll-- I'll go a little bit higher." She did so, then Alicia and Angelina demanded she go higher, and higher and once again, demanded that she go even higher still. As she obeyed, her eyes were once again snapped tightly shut.
Alicia flew over to her petrified friend's side, and gently nudged her, "You want to get that rush we were talking about last night? You'll have to open your eyes and fly with me. I know you can do it, Katie. Just gotta have a little faith in yourself." Katie opened her eyes and looked at Alicia, she still had a fairly good grip on the broomstick with white-knuckled hands, and she looked as though she were on the brink if tears. She allowed herself to sit up straight, and looked over at Alicia and nodded resolutely. Alicia grinned, "Now, let's go!" And she was off.
Katie allowed herself to gether her thoughts for a moment, before she urged the broom beneath her forward. It was a very unusual feeling, the fact there was nothing but air between her and the Quidditch field thrity-five feet below. She took a few deep breaths, then peered down at the green field. "Wow," she breathed. Though the sight scared her, being so high off of the ground, it dazzled her at the same time.
Before she knew what was happening, she was moving forward, following Alicia around the the field. She was never even close to catching the other girl, being that she moved unbelievably slow, but it was still fast enough.
Angelina, who remained on the groun, jumped up and down, "Yes! That's it Katie! That's it!"
Once the two Gryffindor girls finally touched down to the ground, Katie collapsed in a heap on the field, but was smiling triumphantly. Alicia and Angelina hurried over to her to scoop Katie up in to bone crushing hugs and enthusiastic cheers of success.
And so their lessons continued on, until Katie was completely comfortable on the broomstick, and until she was able to fly as fast as Alicia. The end would result would be all three girls racing. The victor would usually be Angelina, being that she was the fastest.
As the Gryffindor verses Slytherin match drew nearer, the two girls along with Fred and George would spend most of their free time involving themselves with the bizzare practice schedule. This left Katie to tutor Lee whenever he asked. As to her flying lessons with Angelina and Alicia, they were postponed until further notice.
One night, after one practice, Katie couldn't help but laugh at the mumbles and complaints of her freinds as they trudged in from one particularly gruesome practice. "You guys look like a real mess," she said as she placed her quill down, just finishing up her History of Magic homework.
"After a practice like that," Fred muttered, "I think we look moderately good."
Lee grinned, eyes still focused on his Potions essay, "That ruthless, yeah?"
George nodded and collapsed onto the couch. Alicia collapsed down next to him and groaned, "My arms hurt! I never though I would have to go through all the for just one match."
"But you'll be playing against Slytherin, right? Then maybe all this extra preperation is really needed. According to what I've heard, they're pretty good," Katie gave Fred her History of Magic notes so that she could help give him a jump start to the whole thinking process.
Lee nodded, but Angelina simply gave an undignified snort, "Yeah right! They could at least give us time to rest, but no! It's only Sunday and that match isn't until next Saturday!"
"Those bloody prats are gonna work us everday until the match starts!" George growled, accepting Katie's Charms notes.
The rants of the four twelve year olds continued for some time, before they fell silent and worked on their homework, though Katie had the idea that Fred and George were working on something completely different. She deicded that she would keep her suspicions to herself for now.
After a few moments of silence, Katie excused herself from the group, and left the common room. A few corridors and staircases would eventually lead her to the ground level of the castle, and from there she would make her way to the locker rooms where the teams went before and after matches. Alicia had showed Katie where to get a broomstick if she ever wanted one to fly a bit.
She entered the locker room and instantly began her search for the cubboard that contained the school brooms. She didn't have to look for very long. The cupboard was relatively large and held many broom, though none of them were what she considered to be of really good quality. The best broom Katie had been able to find, was a Comet One Fourty.
It will have to do.
As soon as she reached the field, she mounted up and kicked off into the night air. She rose as fast as she could, then just when she thought she was going to ram into one of the stars, or possibly the moon, she swerved and began to circle around the field, just barely skimming over the top of the stands. The wind whipping through her hair caused her to feel a sense of freedom that nothing else could. Flying was truly phenomenal, and words couldn't possibly describe the great sensation.
Completely at ease, Katie allowed one of her hands to let go of the broom, then the other. Now she was really flying, she was really soaring through the night air.
"Not bad flying there," a voice came suddenly from the stands. Katie could recognize that voice anywhere. A blush crept up to her cheeks, and both her hands quickly gripped the broom, and she was thrown off balance. Still trying to regain her balance, Katie though nothing worse could happen, but it did. Katie rammed right into the stands, with a loud crash.
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Alright.. Another chapter done and gone..
Kathy - I can't directly answer your question, but I think you will definately find chapter seven interesting...
crystalviolinist - I'M UNIQUE!!! Oh wait.. you meant the fic didn't you.. Heh.. I knew that! Really, I did! Anyway... Thanks for the review!
BadgerQueen - well heylo to you to, and I'm glad you're enjoying the story.
Alright, Kiddies, chapter seven is on its way, and I hope you liked this as much as you like.... any other thing you like!
Later
-Richi Sama-