Fights and Flying Chapter 8

As the healing process began, Jackie got a lot of visitors, even Dumbledore. Of course he came in to ask that she keeps Remus' secret. She sat up and nodded, promising on her life she won't tell a soul; he had gripped her hand gently and smiled at her. She smiled back at him and he left. Sirius came in every day for at least a hour before going out again, Severus came in as well; he brought her a tulip he knicked from Hagrid's garden. She laughed when he handed it to her and she told him she loved it. Finally three days later she left the hospital wing when she had a test to do in Potions, being Severus' partner in the exam she passed it better then she thought she would. She admitted he did most of the work and he got the better grade. For the next week she walked slower and Water-Walked barely; her legs when they finally did heal all the way were severely scarred and always would be. When Madam Pomfrey offered to use a potion to get rid of them, she asked that she keep them…as a memory. Pomfrey stared at her but shook her head and Jackie left again right after arriving. She hurried down to dinner for a good Thursday night and that Saturday, James was going up against Hufflepuff to see who got to play in the final game of the season; then three weeks after that Slytherin was going against Ravenclaw for the final game showdown.

On Friday the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff Quidditch captains got into a fight and Jackie was first on the scene; she yelled for Sirius and he came out when he heard her call him. James right behind him, the Lion kicked the Badger in the gut. Severus came into the Entrance with James Potter and he pointed his wand at both of them and they separated after both being thrown into a separate wall. Jackie stepped away from him bumping into James, she had never seen that power in him before; she was a little scared.

"Knock the shit off or you'll both be flying through glass windows next time, got it?" he growled. They nodded, they both had a bruise or two, the Badger probably had a cut lip, but Jackie couldn't see him from her distance.

"Severus calm down," Jackie whispered as McGonagall hurried into the Entrance Hall.

"Snape put your wand away now!" she shrieked, then turned to the two captains. "Who would like to tell me what bloody happened?" she asked looking from one to the other.

Lion glared at Badger, "He came at me with his wand and said he was going to hex me-."

"Liar!" Badger yelled at Lion, McGonagall's face turned flush and then the colour of beets.

"I am not! He attacked me, she saw it." He said pointing at Jackie, she stepped back again.

"Don't drag me into this, I saw nothing Professor. They started fighting when I entered the Hall," she breathed out. She stepped back again, into Potter again. Lucius watched as the second year watched the two captains.

Badger yelled, "No, he started it and he hit me first!" he yelled, other teachers were coming into the Hall now. They both stood up quickly and both exchanged spells; Jackie covered her face and turned. Sirius took her from James and she stood at his side with his right side in the middle of her body, he took her hand. McGonagall took out her wand but it was too late, Lion cast a fire spell and the Badger was nothing but a burst of flame; Jackie looked over as he did nothing but screamed and beg for help. Jackie stepped forward; she looked back at Sirius, he was frozen with fear- so were James and Remus. Badger screamed even more.

"Bloody hell, you people!" she muttered loudly and stepped forward and used magic to put the fire out that surrounded him completely. He had passed out from the exhaustion and the smoke that had creped into his lungs made him breathe hard even as he lay unconscious. Jackie hurried forward and made sure he still had a pulse. Professor Flitwick scurried forward as well and knelt down. "He'll live but he needs rest." Jackie muttered. He nodded and used a levitation spell to carry his burned body to the hospital wing. Badger's body had been burned so badly blisters had formed on most every spot on the body; his hair was gone so he was bald now, and it would be at least a few months before he a full head of hair back. She went to Severus; he stared at her.

"Why did you help him, someone would have."

"Then they would have right away-."

"Detention for the rest of the year!" McGonagall breathed out slowly as she gave her own Gryffindor Quidditch Captain detention, "Fifty points from Gryffindor."

"Professor it wasn't his fault, he was being controlled. He would never have used that spell unless under the Imperius Curse," she said calmly. Everyone turned to her again, Sirius stepped forward but James quickly grabbed him; Jackie didn't see that happen.

"Are you willing to bet your position on you team for that?" she asked, and Jackie nodded, definitely. "Fine, we'll run tests on Mr. Hector here. Meanwhile stay out of the hospital wing, Jerome's brother, Jeffery will need rest."

"I would never hurt my brother Professor, we were fighting about-."

"Doesn't matter!" she barked at him. "Go to your Common Room Hector; now."…

(I own the two Hectors) Jerome is the same age as Jeffery; twins but fraternal, not identical.

…Jackie watched as Jerome was walked with a group of friend right behind them, he looked back at her and smiled. She nodded and left the school to go see Hydro and Hydra, the fairy water twins.

"It's undeniable, the spells they'll use on Jerome will hurt and on Jeff, he'll be in pain when they pour the water on him at Mungo's!" Jackie was nearly yelling inside, but outside she her voice was louder but not yelling, as she wanted to be. She was pacing back and forth on the water; she treated the water like what Sirius treats the solid ground under his feet. Hydro and Hydra sat patiently as their friend let it all out: the anger and frustration.

"Let it out Jackie, let-it-out." Hydra told her smiling for comforting reasons.

"Jerome was there, he let me ride on his broom last year, and he's the reason why I love flying. Jeff and I never really met, but I'm sure we'd never get along anyway. I mean with me being in- in Slytherin and he's in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw or whatever. And what about the person who put Jeffery under his command!" she yelled in frustration and the water started to move quickly. Hydra and her brother moved so they wouldn't get hurt by the waves as they sat on the rocks; a bog enough wave smashing against where they say could knock them out for a good few hours or even kill them. She settled thinking of her two small friends and sighed; she kicked the water and it went splashing against the side of the wall instead. She felt tired all of a sudden, "I bet someone put him under that Imperious, either a student who just really hated them both or a Death Eater as school." They both gasped.

"No, don't say that! A Death Eater here?" they cried and flew to Jackie nearly knocking her over, they clung onto her sleeve and held on tighter then necessary. "Why here?" Hydro asked her, she shrugged.

She voiced a few thoughts, "Spying for Voldemort, just because he was bored, hated them both, wants to win the match next game. Jeff's injury is bad enough where he'll be out for at least a month, my burns were bad but his is terrible." She closed her eyes and tried to remember everyone in the Entrance Hall: too many people were there; she can't remember all their faces. She went over and sat on the rock by Hydro and Hydra, quickly and carefully the two fairies moved down the rocks both looking terrified about something.

"What are-." She screamed and jumped as someone grabbed her from behind and into the loading building for the boats; the boats weren't there of course but it smelled of wet wood.

Jackie struggled still unable to see who it had been, she knew it wasn't Sirius otherwise she would turned and actually kissed him. James and a few others came to mind, but they were ripped from her mind as the person who dragged her threw her into the wall. She hit her head but was able to stay conscious.

It was a man with cold skin, tall, dressed in black and blond hair. He wore an odd shaped necklace around his neck and he looked afraid but angry. "What do you want?" Jackie muttered as she rubbed her head and stood up. She glanced at the necklace, she recognized the stone in it.

"Where the bloody hell am I, tell me human or die."

"You're at a school, bastard." She snapped, she used her magic without him noticing as she gathered up water from behind him as had it transform into a person made of water.

He stared at her and pointed to wards the school, "This is not a school girl! That is a run down castle used for nothing! Where am I!" he yelled. He lowered his hand and hit her as he lowered it to his side. She gasped from the sudden pain in her cheek and fell to the ground again. She looked up at him and had the waterman do what she wanted him to do. He rushed at the blond man and he yelled for her to stop as she got up and sprinted to the castle. He followed her so she jumped off the pathway and climbed up the rocks, stupid-stupid-stupid.

Hydro flew as fast as he could and found Severus first as he came outside to find Jackie. James was close by and heard the plea as Sirius' girl was trapped with a creature of some sort. He went in and grabbed Remus and got Sirius to follow.

Back with Jackie and the man who was now catching up to her was within reach of her hair and finally he grabbed her around the waist. "Let go!" she struggled and saw James. "James!" she screamed for help; James' eyes narrowed and took out his wand and so did the four behind him, Peter, Remus, Sirius, and Severus. "Sirius, Severus!" she yelled.

"Stay back or die, tell me where we are?" he whispered. It was hard to breath as he moved his arm to around her throat, Sirius demanded her release but the man ignored him.

"You're at our school, Hogwarts, we're students; I have the same necklace you know." She added.

He began thinking: with two he could give one to Drusilla and they could rule the day and night, "Walk, we're going to go get it."

"I'd rather not." She muttered; her classmates had no idea what was going on. But Jackie was making worse because his arm tightened around her neck. She gasped for air, but he lowered his arm slightly and she added. "It's mine and you'll never have it," she said. She then rammed her elbow into his stomach and forced her heel down hard on his toes and he screamed and she pushed him away from her so she could get to Sirius in time. They and met her, Sirius took her in his arms and held her tight; she rested her head on his chest and Severus asked is she was OK. She looked back at him and nodded and turned to Sirius again and he kissed her as Remus and James took over along with Severus. He used a spell that made the man suffer from several wounds and James looked at him disgusted.

"Are you a martin Snivellus?" he asked him, Severus glared at him, and pointed his wand at him. Jackie yelled for them to watch out as the blond man came and grabbed James, Sirius let go of Jackie and went to help his best friend. Peter screamed and started crying as he collapsed onto the grass, Jackie went to him and asked for him to stop, and be brave; Cross ran to help her brother.

The man's face went rigid and Jackie realized he was a vampire, "I Spike, take thee life." He said speaking Shakespearian. Jackie pulled out her wand now and had it pointed at Spike, James wasn't afraid. Spike held James by the throat with his arm draped around him, the vampire looked at the second years, no fear was showing. It worried Remus. Spike wore a short sleeve shirt and combat boots; he also had a long sleeve leather coat that went to ankles almost. It looked new and barely worn already. He hair eyes were hazel and his skin pale; it made Jackie think of when she spent four months getting her skin to change colour last year.

Sirius begged for him to be let go, "Take me instead."

Jackie looked at him, "What? No, if I give it you will you let him go." Sirius asked what that was, but she didn't answer.

"Sure, I like a good gift. Now be good little girl and go and get it." She nodded and ran off. Sirius was still asking what that was when she came back; Jackie took something else from Narcissa, she had one almost the same thing so she asked if she could borrow it. Cissy had given it to her and before she found out why, Jackie was gone.

"Let him go first," Jackie forced as she caught her breath. Spike said to hand it over first, she shook her head. "That is my brother," she really meant it, although no one realized it. "Let him go and I'll give it to you-."

"Give what?" Sirius yelled. She told him to be quiet and he looked at Remus and Peter.

James was let go and waited until he was close enough where she could grab his arm and pull him to her, she instead would go back on her promise and use her magic; the blood that had already dried on his face, hands, and any other visibly part of his body was washed away as the gigantic wave came up and took him without a word. He yelled for help as he disappeared from view; the wave carried him so far from the castle, the Germans would use him for the war. Jackie went over to the ledge and saw him gone, Hydra flew over to her and sat on her shoulder with her brother on the other. Sirius ran over to her.

Just imagine a high wind blowing and then the light fades as he scene dissolves into Saturday at eleven...

James mounted his broom and kicked off right away and went into position; Severus took Jackie's hand and held it tighter then he meant to, but she didn't care; her focus was on her brother. the snitch was released and he watched as it disappeared into the bright sun, clouds formed right then and it golden ball became invisible to the naked eye. he sighed as he lost sight of it, then the whistle was blown and the quaffle was released and the game started. James flew off to his right and went to wards were Sirius, Remus, and Peter were sitting cheering for him. The opponents had already scored a goal, ten-zero for Ravenclaw, the two brothers had decided not to cancel the game and now they were competing against each other. One would win and the other will lose today... Jackie watched as her half brother circled ten times while Gryffindor scored three times and Ravenclaw another two times, tying the game.

Severus growled every time James' team scored, he was for the Badgers and Jackie was for her brother's team. She gasped as James went into a dive, she jumped up and went to the railing. she gripped it with her fist and yelled for James to pull out, even with the ground, he couldn't hear her of course but still did pull out a spectacular dive and the other Seeker urged for his broom to go faster. James did the same thing and pulled ahead slightly. Jackie started beating the railing yelling for her big brother to go faster.

"COME ON JAMES, GO FASTER!!" she screamed. James suddenly pulled ahead and reached out; so did Badger as he pulled up next to him as well. he reached out and hit James' arm out of the way, but James just pulled up faster.

"NOOO!" Severus yelled when James grabbed the golden ball.

"YES!" Jackie yelled as she punched the air and hurried down to him. Sirius met her half way and they took hands as they ran over to him. James jumped up and down as he held the Snitch, Jerome picked him up and held James on his shoulder...

James looked down at Sirius, he saw Lily up in the stands smiling as she spoke with her girlfriends. Jackie saw Severus kick the wall of the stands as he left them; Gryffindor and Slytherin would be going against each other in three weeks from that day. Jackie turned Sirius to her and she kissed him, he stared at her as she let him go and kissed her back. James laughed at them and turned back to his fans...

Three weeks later, the game started during a thunderstorm; Jackie had cheated and helped James with his vision problem with his glasses. she used a spell that would repel the rain drops, he hugged her and wished her luck. He wore the gold and scarlet as she had the green and silver robes on.

"Hey get away from her Gryffindor."

"It's alright, we were wishing each other luck." she said quickly and walked away following her Captain to their side of the changing rooms. She waved back at him but he was already walking away so he didn't see her wave at him from behind. She saw Sirius coming to wards her, she smiled as he reached her finally and kissed her.

"I love you Jackie, don't get hurt or anything today. I can't take that anymore," he said as if he has been the getting hurt.

She laughed, "I promise, or at least I'll try not to get hurt OK." he nodded and kissed her quickly. "If you hurry you can catch up with James," she asked him, he thought she was going to ask which side he was one, but she didn't. She kissed him and hurried to catch up with her Captain, he turned to her and told her to do her best as it was up to her to win the game.

"Jackie," he said. She was relaxed, she looked up at him, she was the only one who wasn't nervous or scared. "If we need a fast grab, this is it; get the damn Snitch as fast as you can." she smiled and kissed his cheek.

"What do you think I did the very first game, take my time?" she said as she led the way outside, "Good luck!" she called as she disappeared into the pouring rain; her new acquired magic helped her a great deal that game. She knew from the score board that Gryffindor was in the lead by twenty to ten, she knew that her team would win if she wanted them too, instead she planned on letting James win this game. She saw a bludger head her way and she dodged it easily, he changed direction and went a different way and she heard a Beater close by, hit it in some direction. James came out of nowhere, she smirked at him.

"Seen it yet!" he yelled through the pouring rain, then he noticed something, "You're not even wet." he was soaked and shivering, she was just cold.

She put her hand on his back and he dried off right away. he stare at her as she did a simple spell to keep him dry, "How do you do that?"

"Just simple water magic that Hydro taught me last year, try going swimming without getting wet?" she laughed and sped off. "Come on it's over here." James saw it too, he sped after her.

"You take it Jackie, you deserve ti with everything you've been through." he yelled.

"Hell no, if you let me win by all the shit I go through, you'd never win a match against me; Besides I already made up my mind, you're getting it this game!" She told him.

"Then we get it together." he yelled, she laughed and finally agreed, first they needed someone to see them getting the snitch at the same time.

The the rain stopped long enough for people see the two Seekers, everyone grew louder as they both raced to get it. If they had perfect eyesight they would be able to see them both smiling as they reached for it at the same time; the whistle blew when James and Jackie grabbed the snitch at the same time. They held onto it as they landed, both completely dry.

"WE WON!" Slytherin cheered.

"WE WON!" Gryffindor cheered.

"Actually both of you won," they frowned and glared at the Ref.

"WHAT?!" they yelled, Sirius and Severus both ran down. "We grabbed it at the same time," James told them, Jackie nodded.

They all asked who was the final winner, Dumbledore came down, "Who touched it first?" he asked them, Jackie looked at James.

"He did, but we grabbed it at the same time-."

"WE WON!" Gryffindor yelled, Jackie smiled again and let go.

"Jackie." James said, she shrugged and went back to the Slytherin team as they yelled with anger, but not at her as she figured they would have been.

...Gryffindor won that year and they also won the House Cup in June as well; the exams went by smoothly and James and Jackie passed along with Sirius, Remus, Peter, and Severus of course. The blond man who almost killed Jackie and James was never seen again. On April first, James was able to steal a kiss from Lily Evans; he paraded around for a week, she always threatened to hex him. Lucius and Narcissa got engaged on the train ride home and Sirius liked how Jackie was amused that he proposed on the train, where they had also met. Lily and Jackie became friends-sort of- they spoke and did homework together in the library, but on the train they were complete strangers and that didn't bother Jackie one bit. On the ride home Cross sat with her Quidditch team since they were going to say good-bye to three players, the two Beaters and one Chaser were in their seventh year in Jackie's second. Her Quidditch captain had next year yet to get the Cup for Quidditch; she wasn't promising that she would let James win next year, but she just might do it again... she wasn't sure yet. Sirius passed a few times and she always saw him, she smiled and he grinned back at her. Her trunk and owl were with her, her owl out of it's cage and standing next to her, Gyn was silent as usual. Her friend Severus sat next to her and she leaned against him like a pillow, Sirius saw this the first time, but didn't care. Severus kept his arm around her and often whispered in her ear, she smiled when he did, because it tickled; Lucius and Narcissa sat alone in their own compartment as she already began planning her wedding in a year.

When the train got in, Jackie had Gyn in his cage and was at the windows, she saw Jimmy waving at the train as it pulled in; not waving at her, but waving with a huge smile on his face. She waved at him and he actually waved back! Jackie wondered if he was on drugs or drunk; James didn't see him right away but did when Jackie went over to him as Jamie and Jodie ran over to Jackie as they saw her. Jimmy said that Jackie's parents couldn't make it, and she was practically family anyway so he picked her up this year. Jamie and Jodie's curls had gotten curlier and longer, they eyes were ligther and beautiful. James said hello to them and gave them the last of the sweets he had gotten from the cart on the train. Sirius picked up Jodie and she pecked his cheek. He reddened and hoped that Jackie didn't see, she had and she laughed at him. He kissed her quickly and Jimmy's eye narrowed, Jackie wore the green necklace he gave her for Christmas.

Severus's father had glanced over and caught Jimmy's eye, the began thinking the same things: Jackie was old enough now, she was still underage but... it was getting close to her time when she joined Chelsea. Jackie went to Severus and hugged him good-bye, he hugged her back. He told her to remember to write, she promised and made him promise the same thing, he chuckled and nodded and she went with Justin Riddell. Dorea was there and she glared at Jimmy as he walked past her.

"Can't keep me away from my son Dorea." he whispered as he past her, Jackie held Jodie and Jamie was next to her oldest and youngest sisters as the young girl told Jackie all about home. Jimmy pushed Jackie's trunk with Gyn on top of it. He listened as Jamie spoke quickly and clearly. He wondered if his oldest daughter noticed the bruise on her shoulder or the back of the neck; Jackie hadn't. James rode home with Dorea, Sirius with his mother and father and younger brother, Remus with his parents, and Peter with his mother's boyfriend and of course his mother. Severus left with his mother and father; Lily told her parents as her older sister Petunia glared at her as she spoke all about the spells and potions she made that year, the grades she had gotten and about her friends. Chelsea lay home in bed, waiting to have to tell her daughter that she might be pregnant again...