Alrighty ya'll! I have updated yet again on QTTA. For those of you who are actually taking time out of your busy busy lives to read this fic, I have installed for you, a special surprise.
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Katie poked Fed who poked George who poked Angelina who poked Lee who poked Alicia. The last one poked looked down the line of pokers to Katie who was looking down at her book as if she hadn't started the poking. Alicia grinned wolfishly and poked Lee who poked Angelina who poked George who poked Fred who poked Katie.
Katie grinned and shook her head, looking back down the line of friends. She flipped a page to her transfiguration book and continued working.
Today was a free day for the sixth year students, so they spent it, studying in preperation for mid-term examinations. It was only mid-January, but the professors had insisted that they get in as much studying as possible, because their homework load would more than likely triple over time.
Fred looked at his transfiguration work, then to Katie's, then he checked George's. He squinted at his brother's then looked back to Katie's, "Katie, could you move your right arm a little to the left, I can't make out that word."
"Why don't you copy George's for once?" Katie asked, not moving her arm yet, as she hadn't completed her work. "Or better yet, why don't you do the work on your own for once? That's a good idea."
Looking over Katie as if she were a half derranged banshee, Fred simply waited for her to move her arm, so he could take down her answer.
Angelina was nudged by George, who was asking for her charms work. Angelina rolled her eyes, "I haven't finished copying from Alicia yet, you'll have to wait your turn." Angelina stuck her tongue out at him and turned back to Lee who had Alicia's handy charms work.
As she reached for the neat parchment, Lee nudged her, "You haven't even started to sopy from Alicia yet, because I am. So it looked like you're going to have to wait as well." He grinned victoriously at her before quickly looking back down at his messy incomplete work, and to Alicia's.
Katie poked Fred, "So how do you make those wretched little Tongue Toffees of your's? I have a cousin in France who I think truly deserves one."
Fred looked taken aback by the question, and dramatically put a hand to his chest, as if terribly offended by this question, "You ask me to reveal my secrets of mischief to you?" He shook his head, "Why don't you figure it out for yourself rather than having to rely on someone else to do your work?"
Katie grinned and shook her head, "Way to throw my point right into my face, Fred Weasley!"
"I try," Fred said shyly, before laughing.
"Alright, Angleina, I'm--" Lee began but, silenced himself when the girl quickly snatched up the parchment and placed it infront of her. He shook his head and leaned back from the long table they were working at. He grinned widely, noting how normal things seemed to be between them all. It didn't seem like not so long ago Angelina and Fred had hated each other with bloody passions, that George and Alicia had sided with their sibling, or step sibling in the case of Alicia and Angelina, and Katie and Lee had been in the middle of it all, choosing so side with niether Fred and George nor Angelina and Alicia.
Now though?
"Come on Fred! If you won't give me the recipe, give one to me! Please? It would be a laugh to see my cousin's tongue swell to the size of dragon and turn different colors!" Katie shook Fred's arm, who shook his head, unwilling to give in to Katie's pleas and demands.
George captured Lee's attention, and the two boys began to speak about something that Alicia and Angelina could have cared less about, leaving the two A's to finish up their work, or to just talk about random nothingness. Naturally they chose the latter of the two.
"I'm afraid my sixth year wasn't this relaxed," came a soft, tenor, though wonderfully wonderful (in the opinion of Katie that was) accent that had haunted the dreams of the Gryffindor Quidditch team for so long.
"Oliver!" Katie yelped loudly, and grinning like an idiot.
Alicia and Angelina each gave the blonde a stern look before turning their gaze toward their former captain. Fred and George simply allowed their jaws to drop nearly to the floor. Lee's eyes drifted from Oliver to Katie, who was terribly excited to see him. Perhaps a little too excited. He tried to shrug off the odd feeling of jealousy, and forced a pleasent smile on to his face.
"What the bloody hell are you doing here, Wood?" George asked, not even bother to ask how the boy was doing, or how things were going after Hogwarts.
Oliver strode further into the common room, stepped around the long table the six were working at, and collapsed on to the comforts of one of the plush arm chairs. "Didn't Katie tell you?"
All eyes were now on Katie who had suddenly become very insterested in her charms work.
Grinning slightly, Oliver leaned back comfortably in his armchair, "I'm here to support Harry in the last task of the tournament. Plus, it'll be good to be in familiar territory for a while I wait for a reply from Puddlemere United."
All eyes, including Katie's, were now on Wood once again. Fred was the first to speak, "Bloody hell, Puddlemere United? That's awesome, mate!"
"I can see the headlines now," Angelina beamed, "Oliver Wood, fresh Hogwarts graduate, ready to take on the big boys! Will he be successful in his venture? Sources say--"
Alicia reached over and pushed the girl, laughing slightly, "Of course they'll accpect you on to the team, they're blind it they don't."
And so the day was good.
(Katie: OLIVER'S BACK! ALL REJOICE!)
"You have a boyfriend, Katie! Wood is just another face." Angelina said as she prepared for bed that night. Alicia nodded her agreement and opened her mouth to speak, but Angelina wasn't quite done. "You're being a silly little girl," she continued. "You and Lee are wonderful together so do not go around and muck everything up just because Wood is back for a couple of weeks."
This time Alicia was able to speak, "And besides, Oliver has never even returned your feelings, so--"
Kati sat back in her bed laughing at her two friends, "So sweet of you to concern yourself with the well being of my relationship and all that, but I don't need it! I'm perfectly content with Lee as my boyfriend. I'm just happy to see Oliver after so long, and glad to hear that he's doing well, is all."
Angelina and Alicia fixed Katie with a scrutinizing gaze, looking for any truth behind her statement.
Katie held up her hands in surrender, "I promise."
Somewhat convinced, though not entirely, they nodded and decided to converse on something else, though that something else was a very hard topic to come by, "So..." Angelina said, looking from one girl to the next, twiddling her thumbs, unsure what to do.
"..." was Katie's silent reply as she focused her attention on to her pajama bottoms.
Alicia sighed, "I'm bored."
"Same," Katie replied.
"Maybe we should just go to sleep?" Angelina questioned, but none of the three girls were tired. After another moment of silence, then Angelina spoke again, "Alright then! Katie, truth or dare?"
Katie groaned, "Do we have to play this bloody game every time we have nothing to do? Isn't there a better game we could play?"
"If we get the guys," Alicia began, "I'm sure one them might have an idea of what we could play."
"Or we can play truth or dare with them!" Angelina grinned widely, clapping her hands together and springing from her four poster bed. "Great idea Alicia! I'll go get them, and you two meet us down in the common room. We're gonna have some fun!" Before either girl could protest this act of stupidity, she was gone.
Hesitantly, both girls slowly got up and retreated into the common room. Moments later, three slightly miffed and groggy boys, were forced into the common room by, who else, Angelina.
"Now Lee!" Angelina began in her cammando voice.
Lee jerked awake after he had fallen asleep on Katie's shoulder, "I didn't do it I swear! The owl ate it!" He fell silent noticing the curious glances that were now focused on him. He grinned weakly and coughed into his hand, trying to shrug off his unusual plea of innocence, "I mean, yes Angelina?"
Shaking her head and hiding a grin, Angelina went on, "Truth or dare?"
"I don't know, chose one for me," Lee had resettled his head an Katie's shoulder, and prepared to go to sleep.
"That's not the poin of the game Lee!" Angelina crossed her arms and pouted. "Come on, pick one! Please?"
Katie rolled her eyes and pushed Lee's head into an upright position, "Just pick one, so I don't have to hear her all bloody night."
Lee groaned and sighed, "Alright, alright. Dare. You happy now?"
Angelina nodded, now pleased that someone was finally getting into the spirit of things, however forced it may have been. Now, what could she had Lee do for a dare. Hm.. Descions, descions. "Oh! You still have that bottle of juice you lent to me and Fred for the Yule Ball?"
Katie quirked a brow suspiciously as Lee began to shake his head at Angelina, the immidiate signal for her to be quiet. Katie's icey blue gaze rested on Lee, who instantly stopped shaking his head and was looking at the back of his hands. "I haven't a clue as to what you're talking about, Angie," he answered. His voice hinting for her to drop it and move on to the dare already.
"You know! That Tipsy stuff! It wears off pretty effectively, but your dare is to chug the rest of the bottle!" Angelina giggled, pleased with her dare.
Fred and George glanced at each other, then Angelina who seemed oblivious to the amount of tension she was causing, to Katie and Lee. Alicia felt completely in the dark about the whole thing. "What's this tipsy stuff Angelina's going on about?"
Everyone was silent for a moment, before Katie grinned and jabbed Lee in the side, "Well, you heard the girl. Chug the rest of the Tipsy Gypsy Juice." The tension that had earlier been there vanished, and in no time at all, the game of truth or dare had somehow stopped, everyone had a bit of Tipsy Gypsy Juice in them, and they were having the time of their lives.
Katie tripped over Alicia who was, for some reason or other, sprawled out across the middle of the floor. The blonde toppled down with an awkward giggled, and landed on her rear. The two girls sat there giggling, a moment later, Lee and Fred joined their number, followed by Angelina and George.
Since they didn't dare venture out of the common room to get the breath of fresh air needed to ease the effects of the juice, they remained fairly tipsy until they finally fell asleep.
Yep, right there in the large human heap.
When they woke up the next morning, groggy and with a bit of a headache, they discovered that almost the entire common room was full, and that every eye was on them.
Lee nudged the twins, trying to wake them. They always slept heavy, and this day was no exception. Katie pushed them, while Alicia and Angelina yelled at them to wake up. After several more failed attempts to wake the Weasley twins, the four shrugged and left the twins, declaring them a lost cause.
"So where are you staying while you're here? Or is Dumbledore letting you stay in the castle?" Katie asked Oliver as they strode down the streets of Hogsmeade. Lee, Fred and George were unable to attend do to the minor fact that they were serving a detention long over due with Filch.
Angelina and Alicia had declared a weekend at Hogsmeade would be dreadful without the boys and elected to do some work for their classes. Which left little 'ole Katie to fend for herself. Luckily for her, she had spotted young Mr. Wood strolling around aimlessly.
"I'm staying at that inn right there," he pointed across the way at a small inn. "Not like my flat, but it does its job." He placed his hands into his pockets as they continued to walk through the wizarding village. "But what's been going on with you? What has this new year brought you, other than a higher work load?"
Katie grinned and shook her head while she shrugged, "Nothing really, I suppose. It's just a little different without Quidditch and all." Oliver nodded his understanding. The blonde targeted him with another question, "So are you really going to play for Puddlemere United? That would be so awesome! I could go around saying that I knew you before you became all big and famous."
Oliver let out a short laugh, "I haven't been accepted yet. I'm still waiting to recieve word."
They stopped at the door of Three Broomsticks for no apparent reason. They just stood there in silence for a moment, wondering what else there really was to say. That's when Katie realized, she really didn't know a thing about Oliver Wood. Sure he was that Quidditch obssesed boy he always was, but there had to be more to him than that, and that was the part of him Katie didn't know.
"Come on," that beautiful scottish accent caught her attention, and her eyes focused on him. He had opened the door and held it open for her. "Let's get some butter beer, on me."
As she entered the pub and took her seat in the booth, the internal battle began. The battle of her conscience.
Hello? Said the better part of herself. What are you doing? You've just realized how much you don't like this guy, and yet, AND YET, you're out on a date with him?
Katie smiled as a mug of the warm beverage was placed infront of her. She took it in both her hands and took a small sip, hoping her conscience would simply stop and let her have butterbeer with a friend in peace.
Though that was likely to happen.
Ahem! I said--
But the voice, which sounded oddly enough like Alicia, was interrupted by a more rougher, Angelina like voice.
Oh, put a sock in it! She's just having a mug of butterbeer you nut! The world isn't over!
The Alicia voice and the Angelina voice fell silent when Oliver began to speak. "When I asked you what was going on for you this year, you didn't really elaborate. 'Nothing much,' isn't much of an answer." He lifted the mug of liquid to his lips. Those perfectly perfect lips, (both the Alicia voice and Angelina voice sighed as Katie did inwardly.) and took a sip.
Again, Katie shrugged, "That's as good an answer as I can give, Mr. Wood."
dreamy-crazygirl - Hehe! I drove you absolutely nuts! And it feels great! Nah I'm just kidding. I'm glad you're enjoying the fic to the point where you're near spazzing out and all. And I didn't like Angelina crying over a jerky guy, but I did the same thing.. Kinda.. Anywho! I'm glad you're enjoying, keep reading keep reviewing and I love Oliver's accent!
Eruaphadriel - I'm so happy you enjoyed the ball scene. I was actually really exhausted when I wrote it, but was getting myself kind of hyper while writing it. What I wanted to kind of do was transfer the energy I had into the story, or else it wouldn't really be effective.. But that's just the way I feel. Hope you're enjoying everything thus far.
Lia06 - Cheh! There would be no romantic tension if I just got them together! No no.. I'll make them stick out for as long as I possibly can. Hehe.. Instead of watching all the love drama with older sibblings, I watched it on tv and with my friends. That's where I get all my ideas from. Hehe..
Goodybad - Thank you, thank you. I knew it would be very disappointing for George and Alicia not to dance together, because... it just would be. And I love Stewart Ackerly! -huggles Stew- I think I'm going to bring him back because I like him way too much. He's like the sweet dork or whatever. Anyway.. Likin' the chocolate LOVIN the hugs! Thanks a bunch!
Alrighty then.. I want to let you all know that in the USA Junior Nationals tournament, the team I was on (Florida) placed fifth (or so I'm told I might have to check up on that) in the nation! YaY!
GO FL! GO FL! It's ya birthday! Oh yeah! W00t W00t!
Alright, I'm done for now.
OH! And here's something very very important. For me, school starts Aug. 8th, and my writing time will be limited. I will try my hardest to update, but I can't promise a thing. Please don't hate me, but please keep your eyes open for updates. I want to at least get in two more chapters before school starts.
Later Days!
Richi Sama