AN: Hey so I know this is exactly like the first quidditch practice in the fifth book but I wanted my story to somewhat follow the books. Also the last part of this is complete fluff, so you've been warned.

Chapter 2

It was time for quidditch practice and Katie was in the changing room getting ready when Harry and Ron walked in.

"All right Ron?" said George, winking at him.

"Yeah," said Ron who looked extremely nervous.

"Ready to show us all up, Ickle Prefect?" said Fred with a malicious grin on his face.

"Shut up" said Ron pulling on his team robes for the first time.

Angelina then walked in and said to the whole team "Okay everyone, let's get to it; Alicia and Fred, if you can just bring the ball crate out for us. Oh and there are a couple of people out there watching but I want you to just ignore them, all right?"

When Angelina said this all Katie could think was 'who would want to watch one of our practices? They're not nearly as exciting tryouts or games.' When she walked out onto the field she got her unfortunate answer; Draco Malfoy and his idiot friends, Crabbe, Goyle and the ugly Pansy Parkinson. As she mounted her broom she could here Draco make snide remarks about Ron's broom.

"How mean can you get?" said Alicia to Katie.

"I know it's terrible, any one of us could out fly him if we wanted to. He's only on their team because his father bought them all brooms." Katie felt terrible for Ron, he was already nervous about messing up and now he had a booing section for him.

As they soared up on their brooms and formed a circle, Angelina said "Alright, we're going to start with some passes just to warm up, the whole team please-" and then Pansy Parkinson started insulting Angelina's hair but Angelina seemed to pay it no mind.

'Could any of you stupid Slytherins shut up?' was all Fred could think to Pansy Parkinson's comment on Angelina's hair.

"Spread out and let's see what we can do" said Angelina looking slightly annoyed but obviously not wanting the Slytherins to see.

As everyone got into their positions Fred was ready to know how good Ron really was. As everyone started passing the quaffle, George passed it to Harry, who passed it to Ron, who dropped it. That really got the Slytherins going; Ron dove to get the quaffle as Fred gave George a look of 'can you believe this boy?' George gave back a look of 'I know' but when Ron came back up neither of them said anything, he was already getting enough laughs from their uninvited guests.

"It's okay Ron" said Katie and gave him a supportive look which Fred thought was very nice of her.

"Just keep passing it" said Angelina.

Then Malfoy rudely commented Harry's scar but they kept on passing the quaffle. Harry then threw the quaffle again to Ron, who missed it again and had to dive for it. Angelina started to look cross and had to tell Ron to pay attention. Ron finally did catch the quaffle and then passed it enthusiastically to Katie and had it hit her straight in the face.

"Sorry!" said Ron.

'Ow. My nose' thought Katie. When Ron had finally caught the quaffle Katie was so excited and relieved for him. Katie's expectations for Ron weren't high before the practice and Ron hadn't even gotten close to them so when he finally caught the quaffle and looked like he was going to pass it to her she put out her arms to make sure she would catch it. Ron ended up throwing the quaffle so fast though, it went straight through her arms and into her face.

"Sorry!" said Ron apologetically.

"Get back into position, she's fine!" yelled Angelina. 'Not true' thought Katie. Then Angelina gave Ron a talk about how quaffles aren't used to hit people and that's what bludgers are for; of course during this the Slytherins were cheering loudly for her injury. She then tried to cover her nose which was bleeding a ton and saw Fred and George come to her.

"Here take this," and Fred gave her something he took out of his pocket, "it'll clear it up pretty fast."

"Thanks" replied Katie.

"All right," called Angelina, "Fred, George get your bats and bludger; Ron, get up to the goal posts, Harry release the snitch when I say so, let's try not to have any more injuries or screw ups."

"You okay?" said Alicia to Katie.

"Yeah" replied Katie but her nose started to bleed even more.

"Ron's making a fool of himself" said Alicia.

"He's worse than I expected" replied Katie, "I don't think Fred and George are too proud of him either."

"At least they didn't say anything, I thought for sure as soon as Ron dropped the quaffle they would have teased him but he dropped it twice and threw it at you in the face and they didn't say anything. It was so nice of them" said Alicia.

"Yeah it was" said Katie who hadn't thought about that.

When the others returned to the air Angelina blew her whistle and Alicia, Angelina and Katie started passing the quaffle to each other to try and score on Ron but Katie could hardly pay attention with her nose continuing to bleed. Eventually Angelina blew her whistle to yell at Ron for leaving two of the posts unguarded, and then turned to Katie asking if she could do something about her nose bleed. It was getting so bad she had to try and use her sleeve to stop the blood from going all over her face and the front of her shirt.

"It's just getting worse!" Katie yelled back to Angelina.

'Why hasn't Katie's nose stopped bleeding?' thought Fred, he started to check his pockets to see what he gave her. When he looked at what he had and saw that he had given a blood blisterpod which started nosebleeds all he could think was 'Oh no."

"Well let's try again," said Angelina as the Slytherins started chanting "Gryffindor are losers", but all Fred could think about was Katie. As he saw her slowly descend to the ground he flew after her, and by the time Katie reached the ground she was completely white and covered in blood.

"She needs the hospital wing" said Angelina.

"We'll take her" said Fred, "she might have a swallowed a blood blisterpod by mistake."

Fred and George put Katie between them and flew her off to the hospital wing. When they made it to the school Fred carried Katie to hospital wing and George walked beside him. When they walked in Madam Promfrey asked what had happened and Fred and George explained about the blood blisterpod and after being thoroughly scolded she finally fixed Katie's excessive nosebleed.

After about an hour of waiting at Katie's bedside for her to wake up so they could apologize George said "Fred we have to go, remember Lee Jordan and us were going to test those Puking pastilles tonight?"

"You can go, I'll stay here; I feel like I should apologize" said Fred.

"No, I guess I'll stay" replied George.

"No, it's fine, go, besides I'm the one who gave her the blood blisterpod" said Fred guiltily.

"Are you sure?" said George.

"Yeah" replied Fred.

After about twenty minutes Katie finally woke up.

"Ow" she said as she touched her nose. Then as she started to look around to see where she was she realized Fred was there. "Oh, hi Fred."

"Hey Katie, do you feel better?" said Fred.

"Well seeing as my nose isn't bleeding and the world isn't spinning, yeah much better" replied Katie, who still looked very pale.

"Here you should have some water" said Fred as her poured her a glass of water.

"Oh, thanks" said Katie.

"Katie, I'm so sorry" said Fred who had the guiltiest look on his face.

"For what?" asked Katie, who was completely unaware that Fred had given her the wrong pastille.

"I gave you a blood blisterpod; it gives you a nosebleed instead of stopping one. I'm so sorry Katie, I didn't know" said Fred who sounded ashamed of himself.

"Hey its okay, you didn't know, you were only trying to help. I know you didn't mean to" said Katie.

"And even though I'm sure Ron will, I would like to apologize for his absolute clumsiness and lack of coordination" said Fred, trying to lighten the mood, and it worked because Katie started to laugh.

"Okay, well I forgive him. Also Fred…"

"Yeah"

"I think it was great how you didn't make fun of Ron today. It was very kind of you" and as she said the very last part of this she looked right into his eyes, and as she did this Fred felt a feeling he couldn't even describe or knew he could feel. It wasn't happiness, pride, or excitement, he'd felt all of these. All he could end up saying when she was done speaking was "Thanks."

Katie just responded with "yeah"

After a thoroughly long awkward silence Fred said "Well, I best go find George, don't want him to pull a prank without me."

"Have fun" said Katie, and then Fred got up, gave her a small nod and left, leaving him and Katie both very confused.