Conquering the captains hussy
Chapter Six: We'll Run Circles Around Them All.
By Lady Arre
So far: Oliver has dated Marcia, who is horrible and sabotaged the gryffindor practises. we met dear scott macgregor who likes to hum and sing alot. as well as muddles in katie and olivers realtionship. Katie has spewed on Marcia's shoes, because oliver fed her haggis. marcia then dumped oliver for helping katie when she was being sick.
katie and oliver had a fight. made up and spent half the night stargazing. this aroused the suspicions of ange and alicia. then katie was late for potions so didn't go deciding instead to play quidditch with oliver and two of his friends. one, tai jennings suggested she makes oliver jealous by pretending to go out with him. Oliver turned up at jennings parents annual party in wales, and tai was being horrible. so when oliver started to leave katie ran after him and told him that she liked hijm. mot tai. and that tai was a mistake. oliver kisses her, reminds her that she is the starngest person he has ever mat and all is happy in hogwarts once more. for them anyway.
Back at Hogwarts while Katie Bell, Tai Jennings and Oliver Wood were in Wales, Angelina and Alicia were trying once again to convince the twins that knowing about the relationship between Oliver and Katie was important. It was a week long project and they had only achieved limited success with it. The twins were a little distracted, by what they did not know, and could not guess at. Because of this every time Angelina and Alicia tried to find them they seemed to be poring through potions text books, or over a large copy of the last 300 editions of lady Witch, a teen magazine that was renowned for its fashion advice.
It was odd. Angelina had thought fervently many, many times since they had tried the first time to convince them, that morning after Scott Macgregor had suggested asking the twins for help. The whole thing was quickly becoming a shambles, really… first there was the fact that Oliver had been so morose all week that he had only held practise the once in the whole week, secondly, Katie was relentlessly flirting with one of Oliver's friends, (it was slightly out of character for Katie lately for her to be even acknowledging another boy-shaped object. Since Last Christmas, Katie had only really had eyes for Oliver. It had taken Alicia and Angelina a while to notice, and their captain hadn't noticed at all.) Then there was the fact that Fred and George were reading. If that wasn't bad enough they were reading for fun, for fun from an omnibus of lady Witch, and a multitude of potions textbooks.
Add in the fact that they had a talking, Scottish mirror in their dorm, and the numerous quirks of the headmaster, and it was clear to Angelina and Alicia that Hogwarts had finally cracked.
They begged Fred and George once more for their illustrious, wondrous, fantastic, skilful, imaginative, mischievous help. In an attempt to ingratiate themselves to the wellbeing of the twins in a hope to convince them, they had even mentioned how much fun it always had been to mess around with Oliver's head. (After all Oliver was half insane at the best of times, for amusement one only had to give him a push in the right direction and sit back and enjoy the ensuing chaos) The twins had politely declined. This was only further proof that the whole school had gone completely and utterly loony. Neither of the twins had a truly polite bone in their bodies.
Giving up, the girls left the boys pouring over January 94's lady Witch, and trudged up the stairs to their dorm. Scotty was bellowing the soundtrack to titanic, A muggle movie that Angelina had seen countless times. Because she liked boats…and Jack.
Mostly Jack
She wondered why it was so much easier for rose to admit that she liked Jack, than it was for Katie to admit she liked Oliver. It wasn't as if her parents were totally against him or she was already engaged, or anything like that. Katie was just being stubborn. Alicia rose an eyebrow in Scott's direction.
"What are you singing…sorry bellowing?" she asked softly.
"Ach, that'd be one of Celine Dion's greatest songs lass."
"Muggle music?" Alicia nodded. "Maybe you could stop yelling it so loud, whisper or hum or something. We're trying to think"
"About Miss Katie and Master Oliver?" Scott stopped humming immediately. "I suppose it's futile to convince you to leave well enough alone. So I may as well join in the fun"
"You know something?" Angelina asked Hopefully.
"That Katie talks to herself a lot when she doesn't think anybodies listening." Scott grinned broadly.
Alicia groaned and fell backwards on the bed. "everybody knows that MacGregor, do you know anything that's helpful"
Scott chuckled, "you didn't let me finish lass"
"so you do know something?"
"Hush. Right then, where was I?"
Angelina opened her mouth to remind him but shut it again when Scott glared at her.
"So Katie waltzed in here the other night, beaming like anything. I had been sleeping, before she made so much noise, andyway she must have forgotten I was here, because she said something very curious."
"yes…?" the girls probed.
Scott stopped for a minute, Had he been human he would have cockd his head thoiughtfully.
"…i…I can't remember"
the girls faces fell.
"I'm kidding, don't look so blue. She said that "the plan was working" then she fell very silent and sat down against the door"
"what then?"
"I don't know, she mumbled something along the lines of peppermint icecream and ran from the room"
"Ange!" Alicia exclaimed, "shes been flirting with tai to make Oliver Jealous, that makes sense now, that makes a lot of sense"
Angelina nodded, "which is why Wood's been so damn miserable"
They turned to look at Scott, and then frowned, "but what about the twins, why are they reading?"
The first time the girls had approached Fred and George they had actually been doing something legitimate, they were looking for the easiest, and most undetectable explosive potion in the book. They'd found it, and were planning on using it for a legitimate reason, namely messing with Oliver's head. (After all Oliver was half insane at the best of times, for amusement one only had to give him a push in the right direction and sit back and enjoy the ensuing chaos)
Before the next time Angelina and Alicia approached though, they were approached by a much taller, much less prettier (in their opinion anyway.) and much bulkier figure.
"I need you to do something for me" Oliver said quietly taking a sniff at the vile sitting on the table in front of Fred, it sizzled threateningly and Oliver put it down convinced that it was likely to blow up in his face. these were the twins he was talking to after all.
George looked up. "It'll cost you," he said blankly and looked down to the powder he was mixing with butterbeer.
"What do you want" Oliver inquired, not in the least surprised. Most of their shenanigans came with a cost.
"No practise for a week" Fred said quickly. (which offcourse explains why their was no practise, Oliver was the type of quidditch captain that scheduled more and harder practises when he was feeling down, rather than what Angelina and Alicia had believed)
George nodded "that and twelve galleons."
"Done" Oliver said. The twins looked up in horror.
"What?" they mouthed in shock.
"This is worth it. I need you to find a potion formula for me; it'll be in one of two places, in Snapes personal text books, or in that girls' magazine… Lady whatever…"
Fred collected himself. "You're setting us homework?
"You get to steal things of Snape" Oliver pointed out.
"True, that's always a bit of a thrill" George agreed. "okay we'll do it"
"The potions called Pheromonius" Oliver informed him, "get me the ingredients and the formula, that's all I ask. Then you'll get the money"
"And no practise this week" George reminded him. A look of pain spread across Oliver's face.
Then he breathed deeply mumbled something to himself and nodded. "no practise."
They still hadn't found it when Oliver and Katie returned from the Jennings event. Oliver kissed Katie again at the bottom of the stairs, once she was in her dorm, Oliver fell on the couch next to where the twins were still searching. "well you've had, the week off practise for your troubles" he said. "any luck?"
"Oliver, this potion doesn't exist!" George whinged.
"Ofcourse it doesn't, but it kept the two of you off my back about Tai Jennings and Kates"
"wow" Fred seemed amazed
"that's clever" George added.
Oliver laughed, "you're welcome to give up now if you like"
"you are so so low, capt'n" the twins exclaimed, launching the omnibus lady witch at him. Oliver ducked laughing.
A/N: i know this chapter ain't so great, its a bit of a filler for next chapter. which (finger's crossed will be along shortly. so i really hoped you enjoyed this even if it was only because it says "shenanigans" (which is my favourite word at the moment as my ancient history class can testify to) so thanks for reading. even if i don't deserve it because i'm such a terrible updater.
Lady Arre