Chapter 15 - Gryffindor v Slytherin
October 1992
It was that time of the year again. The heavily awaited Quidditch match between Slytherin and Gryffindor, all students would wake up earlier than normal just so they could get the best spots in the stands. It was Slytherins first game with their new seeker and although Malfoy had actually been pretty good at training, Rayna was still worried. Higgs had more experience and was a natural, knowing how Gryffindor played however Malfoy had never played the Gryffindors before and obviously was a lot less experienced.
Rayna knew Oliver would play this to Gryffindors advantage.
Oliver had smiled briefly at her when their eyes met across the sky before he shook hands with Flint so the game could start. Like always the hand shake was firm, as if they were both trying to crush the others hand so they couldn't play.
The game started off well for Slytherin, Rayna caught the quaffle first sending it straight to Adrian. They were nearing the Gryffindor hoops in a trio, constantly throwing the quaffle between them as the Gryffindor chasers tried to keep up. Flint threw the quaffle towards the left goal but Oliver caught it safely between his hands.
He smirked at Rayna who laughed quietly at him.
She sped away, chasing down the players in red and gold.
"and Alicia Spinnet drops the Quaffle." Lee Jordans voice echoed around the stands.
Out of the corner of her eye, Rayna saw a bludger speed towards her. She ducked, moving out of the way as it missed her. She followed where it was going, it seemed determined to hit something. She watched as it went flying towards the black haired Gryffindor, Harry Potter.
"Ray!" Adrian shouted gaining her attention. He threw the quaffle to her before he sped ahead, avoiding Katie Bell who was flying straight towards him.
Rayna caught the quaffle flying as fast as she could go towards the Gryffindor goals. She was determined to score against Oliver just so she had a chance to smirk back at him.
She clasped the quaffle tightly under her arm using both hands on her broom to push it forwards faster. Approaching the hoops she aimed for the left one.
Oliver knew how she played. She was unpredictable, yet he could always predict what she was going to do.
Rayna hadn't slowed down yet and Oliver was starting to worry that she was going to collide with him.
At the last minute Rayna swerved quickly, nearly flinging herself off her broom, shooting at the right hoop and scoring.
Oliver was trying to regain his balance as he looked at her with both eyebrows raised, amazed at how daring that move had been.
She smirked at him as he shook his head at her in disbelief, chuckling quietly.
"training for the ballet Potter?" She heard a voice say a couple meters away from her. She looked to see Malfoy sneering at the Gryffindor seeker and she rolled her eyes. She wished he would just focus on playing rather than taunt the opposition.
Harry glared at the blonde before his eyes adverted to something near the boys head. He immediately lurched forward on his broom.
On the other side of the pitch Flint had hung by the Gryffindor goals after Rayna had scored. He could see Wood watching her and smiling dumbly to himself. Flint didn't like it at all.
"she looks good flying huh Wood?" Flint called over to the Gryffindor keeper whose attention was now drawn on him.
"what do you mean?" Wood spoke glaring at the Slytherin captain.
"you know what I mean" flint glared "such a shame you can never have her. Such a shame that its Higgs who gets to touch her whenever he wants, oh and that brown haired Ravenclaw she slept with last week, don't forget about him." Flint spoke, watching the brown haired boys reaction. Oliver's face sunk, his eyebrows knitting in confusion at how Flint's words affected him.
Olivers brow creased further, his eyes now glaring deadly at Flint, he didn't like what he was saying at all. It didn't sit right with him. The thought of Rayna being with someone else who wasn't him just wasn't something he wanted to think of. Especially not during a Quidditch match when he should be paying attention to the game and encouraging his team.
"I don't care who she sleeps with." Oliver finally said through gritted teeth.
"we all know that's a lie" Flint laughed spitefully seeing just how much his words were affecting the Gryffindor.
"Katie Bell scores, 40-20 to Gryffindor." Lee Johnson shouted enthusiastically.
"shouldn't you go and help your team?" Oliver sneered pulling a face that did not look right on him. Oliver was never one to get to mad or wound up this easily by a Slytherin, but the things flint said made him fuming.
Oliver couldn't stop thinking about his words. How he could never have her. How she had slept with two people in the past week. He looked over to where Rayna was, laughing at something Higgs had just said to her in passing.
Oliver glared at them until his attention was drawn to Harry who had nearly been knocked off his broom by a bludger.
"watch yourself harry!" Oliver shouted to the black haired boy. Harry stared at him before shouting.
"Wood! look out!" He shouted back as the bludger came out of no where, hitting the top of Oliver's broom stick. This caused the broom to snap in half, Oliver losing control and falling straight to the ground in a hurry.
"Oliver" Alicia shouts gaining Raynas attention. S
he turned around to see what had happened and found herself watching the Gryffindor keeper fall to the ground. It was as if everything suddenly went into slow motion. The game was still going on, Alicia had flown straight down to the ground and ran over to the keeper who was laying face down on the floor.
Rayna heart had stopped. She was frozen in the air unsure what to do. Oliver looked lifeless laying splayed out. She couldn't see his face.
"Ray" Flint shouted trying to snap her out of her trance. "Rayna!" he called flying to be next to her. "what's up?" he said following her eyes to where the Gryffindor keeper layed on the ground, people huddling around him gasping in shock.
Flint wanted to laugh but he couldn't instead he found himself annoyed by the look of concern on Rayna's face.
"Harry Potter has caught the snitch." Lee's voice could just be heard over the cheers of the Gryffindor stands. "Gryffindor wins"
Rayna glanced in the direction of Harry Potter who was on the floor. A bludger was making it's way down towards him and he flung himself out of the way. In seconds the bludger was hit by a flash turning into hundreds of smaller pieces before floating slowly to the ground. A group surrounded him and Rayna lost interest.
She turned to Flint who was still by her side in the air.
"think the decision was right to chose Malfoy as seeker?" she asked glaring at the Slytherin captain before sparing a look to the blonde haired Malfoy boy who was sheepishly laying on the ground in pain.
Rayna flew down to the ground landing next to Higgs. One look at his face told her he was not impressed with how they jad performed.
"told Flint it wasn't a good idea." Higgs mumbled as Adrian walked over to join them looking just as annoyed.
"we all knew it wasn't" Rayna replied just as moodily. "don't know what he was thinking"
"Higgs" Flint spoke from afar jogging to catch up with the three Slytherins.
"i'll see you guys later" Higgs said quickly before leaving to walk straight back to the castle.
Flint had now joined the two remaining Slytherins, all of them watching Higgs retreating figure.
"I won't be surprised if he quits" Adrian said to them. Rayna nodded in agreement.
"don't blame him if he did" Rayna said glancing at Flint turning to walk towards the lockers.
Flint would never admit it, but seeing two of his friends walk away disappointed in him kinda hurt. He spared a look at Adrian who shrugged before walking to the locker room. Flint followed with the rest of the team.
Oliver had been taken to the hospital wing. Once he woke up from his unconscious state he panicked.
"Oliver" a voice cried from beside him making him jump. He winced in pain, looking up to see Alicia, Katie and the twins.
Madame Pomfrey hurriedly walked towards the Gryffindor who had woken up.
"drink this quickly" she rushed to give him a small bottle of clear liquid.
He sat up slowly before drinking it in one, wincing at the sour taste.
"it should heal you straight away" she spoke "you should be able to leave in a couple hours.
"thank you" him mumbled.
Madame Pomfrey walked off mumbling something about Gryffindor and Slytherin matches and how she needs another hand to help on these days.
"did we win?" Oliver asked, Alicia rolled her eyes.
"you almost died and one of the first things you say is if we won!" she spoke shaking her head.
Oliver ignored her.
"Well did we?" he asked again.
"yep" Fred replied "Harry caught the snitch soon after you fell, although i'm pretty sure the Slytherin's charmed the bludger to go after him. It was tailing him the whole game".
Oliver sighed in relief. At least the Slytherins didn't win. He found that he couldn't fully relax after knowing this though. Normally after winning he found a weight lifted off his shoulders for the rest of the day until training the next day.
Something was still eating at him and he thinks he knows what. Flint's words from the game had stalled him during the match causing him to lose focus.
"we're going to go to dinner" Alicia said "is there anything you need? Madame Pomfrey said you can leave in a couple hours which is great because we're throwing a party in the common room to celebrate"
The last thing Oliver felt like doing was celebrating.
"great" he said smiling, trying to look enthusiastic. "I'll see you later" he spoke.
Alicia leaned over to kiss him quickly on the lips. He smiled at her comfortingly.
"see you later" she spoke before following the rest of the team out.
Oliver looked over to see Harry Potter asleep in the bed opposite him. He briefly wondered what happened before he remembered what Fred had said about the charmed bludger.
Oliver was allowed to leave the hospital wing an hour later. He wasn't hungry enough to go and join his friends at dinner and instead opted for escaping for a couple hours before going back to the Gryffindor common room.
He headed down to the Quidditch pitch needing to retrieve his bag and quidditch plays book. It was getting darker outside as the Autumn air was becoming colder. He tightened his scarf around his neck, rubbing his hands together to try and get warmer.
He walked straight into the Gryffindor locker room, the lights coming on automatically as he stepped foot in.
He glanced out of the window that faced the Slytherins locker room and couldn't help but notice the light was on. Oliver retrieved his bag and book, sitting down on the middle bench and sighing. He was glad that they won but angry at himself for not being fully focused and ending up in the hospital wing.
He decided to head back up to the castle, the air becoming to cold for him. Making sure he locked up something from the pitch caught his eye.
Intrigued, Oliver moved forward to get a better look. Rayna was hovering near the hoops, a quaffle in hand as she flew towards them, swerving the quaffle and throwing it through the middle hoop before flying fast to catch it the other side. He leaned against the wall next to him fascinated by the speed she had.
Rayna could tell someone was watching her closely and she had a good idea of who it was. Flying to the ground she walked straight past where Oliver was standing.
"spying on the competition?" she asked without looking at him.
"wouldn't dream of it" he smirked following her.
"would be too much of an easy game for you, there's no fun in that" she spoke before coming to a stop. She only now turned to face him a concerned look upon her face. "how are you doing?" she asked.
"i've fallen off my broomstick so many times that i'm used to it by now" he spoke.
"it looked pretty serious" she said looking down at the floor.
"i'm fine" he spoke. "it just Quidditch for you"
"I guess"
He felt mad at her for some reason and wanted her to know but she changed the subject.
"so... you and Spinnet still together?" she asked looking at the wall behind Oliver and tracing the golden patterns with her eyes.
"um yeah" he said a little awkwardly, blushing.
"that's nice" she spoke feigning interest, but her voice came out flatter than she intended.
"what about you? I heard you and Higgs were a thing and also some Ravenclaw guy? That pretty impressive if you ask me" he spoke rasing his eyebrows and watching her reaction.
Rayna had no idea what he was talking about. She frowned in confusion a little taken aback by his words.
"What do you mean?" she asked, looking up and meeting his eyes.
"I mean... sleeping with two guys in the space of a couple weeks is a bit..." Oliver made a gesture unsure what to say.
Rayna was furious. He obviously believed a rumor that someone had made up.
"i don't want people to think you're a.. you know..." Oliver could tell he was digging himself into a hole by Rayna's reaction. He didn't have the right to judge her. Even if this was all true it wouldn't be his place to comment.
He wasn't even giving her a chance to tell him it wasn't true.
She raised her eyebrows folding her arms.
"no I don't know, but please go on, finish that sentence" she tapped her foot waiting for his answer.
"a slut" he spoke, the anger he felt from earlier making an appearance as he said the words.
"lovely" she said glaring at him.
Oliver now knew why she was in Slytherin. She had the same deadly glare that all Slytherin's possessed.
"where are you going?" Oliver asked as she started walking away without saying anything.
"to find flint" she called out not turning back to look at him "going to see if he wants to sleep with me"
Oliver stared after her, eyes wide and mouth slightly parted. He wasn't expecting her to say that.
He followed after her, keeping his distance as he followed her path. She was walking fast, her fists clenched by her sides telling Oliver that she was angry. He wondered if she was actually going to find Flint.
She took the opposite direction to he Slytherin corridor and he lost sight of her retreating figure. He climbed the stairs to Gryffindor tower, annoyed at himself and definitely not in the mood to party.
However upon walking through the Gryffindor portrait it looked like no one was in the mood to party.
Professor McGonagle was talking to the students as they gathered around looking worried.
"i'm afraid we must be extra careful due to recent events. Mr Filch's cat has been petrified and we must take all precautions. At this moment Professor Dumbledore is deeming Hogwarts safe, but we must take in consideration during our actions, try to be in pairs and do not venture out late" Professor McGonagle looked worried as she spoke.
Once she had left the common room was filled with worried whispers and hurried conversations.
"what was that all about?" Oliver spoke once he reached his friends.
"there's talk about the chamber of secrets being opened again. Last time it was, a muggle born was killed" Katie spoke.
Oliver couldn't help but feel worried as he looked at his friends. He himself was a half-blood, yet a majority of his friends were muggle born.
AN: Thank you for reading, sorry for the late update i've been soooo busy. Hope you like it and don't forget to review and follow xxxx