"Becky wake up." Lily said and Rebecca cracked open an eye and saw Lily smiling at her.
"Happy Birthday." She said and Rebecca grabbed her pillow and covered her face.
"Nooooo." She groaned as Lily pulled the covers off.
"Happy Birthday Becky." Tessa and Jenny said with grins.
"Noooooo, sleep, no birthday." Rebecca groaned.
"You can get your Apparation license now, you're so lucky." Tessa said.
"You can do magic outside of school not to mention, it's so not fair." Jenny said and Rebecca sat up.
"There is nothing great about being a year older." She said as she rubbed her face.
"I don't turn 17 until February." Jenny said.
"You got a bunch of flowers by the way." Lily said as she pointed to the large amount of flowers sitting at the foot of the bed of all sorts.
"Andy always sends me flowers for my birthday." Rebecca said as she looked at 17 bouquets of various flowers.
"1 bouquet for every year I am turning." She said as she smelled a red rose bouquet and then looked at Lily.
"How did you know it was my birthday?"
"Andrew told me." Lily said with a smile and Rebecca groaned.
They all headed downstairs to the Great Hall and Rebecca saw Andrew outside the Great Hall with something in his hands, as she got closer she realized it was a Happy Birthday Hat with flashing lights.
"Oh hell no." She said and he smiled and shrugged.
"You can either wear it or I can put a sticking charm on it, your choice Becca." He said and she frowned at him as he placed it on her head.
"It sings too. Happy Birthday." He said and a big band started to play happy birthday out of the hat loudly and she glared at him and he smiled.
"Its alright, I know you love it." He said and kissed her cheek. "Happy birthday." He said and she rolled her eyes and walked past him.
The entire day Rebecca wore the hat, not wanting Andrew to stick it to her head and that entire day she heard people wish her happy birthday followed by a blaring big band version of Happy Birthday, nearly getting a detention from McGonagall and several other teachers due to the loud disruptive hat. Sirius had caught on and had at every chance he could wished her happy birthday in spite of her.
"I am sick of this hat." Rebecca said as she walked out of Ancient Ruins with Remus and threw the hat down the hall.
"I'm sure you don't mean that." Remus said with a small smile on his lips and she glared at him.
"How about for your birthday I get you a hat like that and follow you around all day wishing you happy birthday until you totally lose it and start a school wide massacre." She said vivaciously and he laughed.
"Yeah me on a school wide massacre." He said with a roll of his eyes. "Now you I wouldn't be surprised, please spare me though." He said and she laughed manically which turned a few heads of the students around them.
"No one shall be spared, all shall feel my wrath."
"Yes all 5 foot 5 of you, very scary." Someone said sarcastically from behind her and she turned around and looked at Andrew.
"I am 5'7 for your information, you just happen to be a giant." She said with a roll of her eyes and Andrew picked up her hat and placed it back on her head.
"She is going to go on a school wide massacre, no one shall be spared." Remus said dryly to Andrew who laughed and slung an arm over Rebeeca's shoulders.
"Becca couldn't hurt a fly."
"What Rebecca have you been hanging around?" Remus asked with a small smile and she laughed.
"Look at her, she has no idea what is coming." Sirius grumbled as he pushed his food around his plate.
"What are you talking about Padfoot?" Remus asked as he followed Sirius' gaze towards Rebecca who was talking with Lily and Michael.
"I am going to get her back."
"What for?"
"Did you not see what she did in Transfiguration the other day?"
"Well did you deserve it?"
"No of course I didn't, she was just being her bitchy self." He said and ate a piece of chicken.
"I'm sure she just shoved bird shit in your face for nothing huh?"
"Yeah, she has no idea what she has started. I have a plan."
"Pray tell?" Remus asked and Sirius shook his head as he pointed his fork at Remus.
"I'm not telling because you will say something to her because you fancy her."
"I do not." Remus shot back and Sirius rolled his eyes.
"That's why you guys always hang out huh?"
"We are friends; it is possible to be just friends with a girl Padfoot."
"She is messing with your head mate."
"My head is perfectly clear Padfoot."
"Why do you dislike her Pads? I think she is rather nice, I mean a bit of a temper but she is fairly nice, she knows a fair bit about quidditch-." James said and Sirius interrupted him.
"She is stubborn, arrogant, rude, annoying, self centered and incredibly moody, there is no getting on with her."
"Really? I think she is nice." Peter said quietly and they all looked at him.
"She is obviously two faced." Sirius said blandly.
"I think you just dislike her because she turned you down." Remus said and Sirius rolled his eyes.
"I can take rejection; she is just such a bitch, that's why I don't like her."
"Here she comes." Peter said as she got up and started to walk over.
"Hey guys, Black." She said as she looked at them and Sirius rolled his eyes at her.
"Hey Becky." James said with a smile.
"I was wondering when you were going to have tryouts, I haven't had a chance to ask you."
"Probably next Saturday. I better see you there."
"Don't worry you will." She said and turned to Remus.
"I was going to go work on some Ruins homework did you want to come?"
"He is busy." Sirius snipped and she looked at him.
"I wasn't talking to you Black." She spat and looked at Remus who glanced at Sirius who stared at his plate.
"Yeah give me a few minutes to finish this up." He said motioning to his food.
"Alright well I am going to head up to the Library, I will see you there." She said and he nodded and she walked off.
"I hate her." Sirius mumbled.
"Yes I know." Remus said with a sigh.
"Then why do you hang out with her?"
"You're saying that just because you don't like her-."
"Hate her."
"Just because you hate her means I should as well?"
"Yes." Sirius said and Remus rolled his eyes and sighed.
"I'm going." Remus said and got up and headed out of the Great Hall.
Rebecca and Lily walked down the hall towards Charms class and as they rounded the corner someone bumped in to Lily, shoving her roughly.
"Move it mudblood." He snapped and continued and Rebecca grabbed him by the back of his robes and threw him in to the wall, her wand in his face.
"Want to repeat that again?" She asked as she shoved the wand in to his neck and he glared at her.
"Unhand me." He said with a glare and she looked at him and noticed he looked oddly familiar, like someone she knew.
"Not until you apologize."
"I am not going to apologize to a mudblood." He spat and Rebecca narrowed her eyes at him and dug her wand further in to his neck.
"Becky come on, it's not worth it." Lily said and Rebecca clenched her jaw as she looked at the Slytherin boy. She grabbed a hold of the front of his uniform and brought her face closer.
"I hear those words out of your mouth again, trust me you will be very sorry, believe me." She hissed and threw him aside and he tripped on his feet and fell to the ground.
"Crazy bitch." He muttered as he got up and Rebecca raised an eyebrow.
"Yes I am, watch yourself." She said and he looked as if he were going to say something but instead turned around and continued down the hall.
"I can't believe people sometimes." Rebecca said and turned back to Lily. "You alright?"
"Yeah, it happens all the time. It's nothing new." She said with a shrug.
"Well they shouldn't just get away with that."
"Well they do, come on we don't want to be late to class." She said and motioned for Rebecca to follow.
"Who was that? He looked kind of familiar."
"Regulus Black."
"As in Sirius Black?"
"Yeah that's his younger brother. They don't get along though; he doesn't get along with his family. I heard he got disowned last year."
"I would disown him too." She muttered and Lily shrugged.
"His family are pureblood fanatics or something, they are all like Bellatrix, Narcissa and Regulus apparently."
"What makes Sirius any different."
"He doesn't believe in any of that blood stuff."
"I don't know if I have ever met people like that, pureblood fanatics, I mean all the ones I know aren't biased like that, it's so diverse in the States than it is here I guess. But I mean you always have the snobby rich purebloods but they don't go around calling people names like that." Rebecca said as they continued down the hall to Charms.
"Padfoot, why are you staring at Rebecca?" James asked as he looked at Sirius staring down the table at Rebecca who had just sat down for breakfast with Lily.
"I found a way to get her back." Sirius said with a smirk.
"Oh goodness." Remus said with a sigh.
"What did you do?" James asked as he got his food.
"I put that muggle stuff in to her orange juice that makes them poop." He said and Remus' eyebrows shot up.
"Laxatives?" He asked and Sirius smiled and nodded as he looked at Rebecca pouring herself some orange juice.
"Pads I think that is a bit low." Remus said with a frown.
"She smashed bird shit in my face; I don't think it gets much lower than that, if she drinks enough she will be in the bathroom all day." He said with a chuckle and James looked up as Lily walked inside.
"Morning Evans." He said with a smile as she passed by him and she slowed in her step and looked at him curiously.
"Morning Potter." She said and continued down the table to join Rebecca.
"She didn't tell me to shove it; I think she might be giving in." James said with a wide grin.
"I think she was just being polite." Remus said blandly as he watched Rebecca who hadn't yet taken a drink of the orange juice. "What happens if Lily drinks it?" He asked as he looked at Sirius.
"She drinks tea in the morning." Sirius said hardly able to wait to watch his plan go in to effect.
"It looks like she is pouring herself some orange juice Pads." Remus said and James' eyes got wide.
"Mate, remember how I said I would kick your ass if any of your pranks involved Evans?" James said as he got up.
"Come on Prongs-."
"No it stops with Evans, Oi Evans." James said as he jumped up and ran over and Sirius slapped his forehead and started to cut in to his food.
"Looks like your plan fell through huh Padfoot?" Remus asked and Sirius glared at him and glanced down the table at James talking to Rebecca and Lily who both looked down at Sirius and Lily scowled at Sirius as she got up and strode over.
"Now you're in for it Pads." Remus said with a small smile.
"Sirius Black could you be any more immature?" She said as she came up to him.
"Evans it was just a little joke, I mean its just laxatives, it wears off." He said coolly and she continued to lecture him on the laxatives and he glanced down at Rebecca who gave him a cheeky smile and started to laugh and he rolled his eyes as Lily went on until he sort of wished he hadn't done it in the first place. Lily Evans was practically famous for her lectures; no one ever wanted to get them if they could help it. James had his fair share of them but he didn't mind one bit if it meant he had Lily's Evans attention for even a moment, even if she was yelling at him about some irresponsible thing he had just done.
"Lily I am going to go finish up that essay I didn't finish last night, I'll see you in class." Rebecca said as she walked up and looked at Sirius.
"Nice one that would have been a good one Black." She said with a smirk at him and strode out of the hall and he glared after her trying to think of another way he could get back at her.
"Oh it's a beautiful morning." Rebecca shouted as she waltzed out of the bathroom and Tessa and Jenny glanced at her from their beds and Lily rolled her eyes as she looked up from her book.
"Why is it such a beautiful morning?" Jenny asked with a yawn.
"Quidditch try outs are today." Lily said blandly and Rebecca stuck her tongue out at Lily.
"Hush you Quidditch hater."
"I don't hate quidditch I just find that there are better things to do than quidditch-."
"Lily darling not everyone is as studious as you nor would they rather bury their head in a book when they could be out flying through the air on a broomstick, risking their lives each and every day just to bring entertainment to this world."
"Oh don't be so dramatic." Lily said with a sigh and went back to her book.
"What makes you so certain that you will make the team Becky?" Jenny asked and Rebecca gasped at Jenny and pointed her finger at Jenny.
"Nonbeliever! We have a nonbeliever!" She shouted and Melanie sat up in her bed with a glare at Rebecca.
"I already don't get enough sleep from your stupid cat, its 8 in the morning on a Saturday, I would like my sleep." She said and turned over and pulled the covers over her.
"Sorry Miss Princess didn't mean to wake you from your beauty sleep." She muttered and went to her trunk and opened it up and pulled out a long wooden case.
"What's that?" Jenny asked and Rebecca glanced back at her.
"This? Is the greatness that allows me to express my greatness in quidditch, prepare to be amazed." Rebecca said as she pulled out a long and sleek dark brown broom with the silver etching of 'Silver Arrow' in the handle.
"Meet the love of my life." Rebecca said as she held out her broom.
"It's just a broom." Tessa said and Rebecca rolled her eyes.
"It's not just a broom, it's a Silver Arrow, there were only 100 of these made in the world before there was a recall. But I have one of a hundred."
"What was it recalled for?" Lily asked curiously.
"Steering is a little twitchy when you get to top but its nothing I haven't been able to handle, its quick though I've only been thrown off once." She said as she beamed at her broom. "Thank god I was only 10 feet in the air at the time." She said smiling and kissed her broom.
"That sounds a little unsafe." Lily said and Rebecca sighed.
"Its quidditch, nothing is safe about it, including the brooms, now if you don't mind, I am going to go warm up and get ready for try outs so I can blow everyone away with my amazing skills." She said with a grin and got out her gloves and put them on and headed out of the room.
"I better see you all down at the pitch today, if I don't I will be very disappointed, I need people to root for me." She said and shut the door behind her.
Rebecca sat back watching the tryouts with the seekers, and Keepers and Beaters. She rolled her eyes as a group of girls cheered for Sirius as he got up in the air. He simply smirked at them and stripped off his shirt and threw it to them and she watched as they fought over his shirt like a pack of animals over the last piece of meat.
"I wonder how much money I could make by selling his clothes." Rebecca said out loud and Lily laughed.
"I think its ridiculous the way girls flaunt around him like they do; there are better guys they could be wasting their time with."
"Why don't you guys like each other?" Jenny asked.
"He is an arrogant, womanizing jerk who didn't get the hint when I told him no and his ego cant take it so the result you get is what we have, a hate- hate relationship." Rebecca said as she watched him hit around the bludgers at the targets. She had to admit he was a fairly decent beater, he hit most of the targets spot on but part of her wanted him to fail miserably in case they both made it on the team. She wasn't sure if she would be able to work with him on a team but if it came down to it she supposed she would be able to put aside the fact that she hated him for the good of the team, that didn't mean she would stop hating him, she just wouldn't hate him as much. She watched as the chasers tried out, most of them only alright, only a few decent ones and one or two that were actually good.
"Walcott, Rebecca." James called out as the last of the chasers to try out and she walked up and heard Lily, Jenny, Tessa, Remus, and Andrew cheer for her.
"You ready for amazingness?" Rebecca asked and James chuckled and shrugged.
"I don't know, I have seen a lot of amazingness already." He said sarcastically.
"Yeah most of the people weren't that good today huh? I thought that Leo Jerkins was pretty good though."
"He was pretty decent; this year wasn't as great year for chasers. I think we had better luck with Keepers and Beaters this year." He said and paused. "Alright get in to the air and run a few basic plays with the other two chasers trying out.
The tryout was fairly basic, mostly just passes and scoring past keepers, dodging bludgers and other players, guarding against steals and for the last part, hitting moving targets that James had set up for them to hit as they flew by them. Most of the chasers had done rather badly on that one, always throwing too soon or too late and missing the 5 targets. Rebecca managed to hit 4 of the five, only getting thrown off by a bludger flying around.
"Great job Walcott." James said as she landed and smiled.
"Thanks James."
"I'll have the results up soon; keep an eye on the bulletin board everyone." He said and dismissed everyone.
"Walcott." He called after her and she turned around and he motioned her to come over.
"Yes sir?" She asked.
"I was wondering something." He said and paused. "I do want you to be on the team, and I was wondering if you might consider being my co- captain." He said and she grinned.
"I would be honored."
"I want to win the cup this year, it's my last year and I would hate to lose to Slytherin again. We haven't won since my first year here, Slytherins don't deserve the cup, they play dirty and use brute force and money to get their way to the cup they don't actually have any talent. They are nothing but a bunch of cheaters." He said and ran a hand through his hair and looked up at her. "So you'll be my co- captain?"
"Yeah I would love to."
"Uh will it be a problem with you and Padfoot on the team?" He asked and she pursed her lips and sighed.
"I will do my best to keep it out of quidditch if he does, I can make any promises but I will try really hard to keep it cool."
"Alright thanks." He said with a nod. "Mind helping me with the bludgers?" He asked as he looked up at the bludgers flying around and she whipped out her wand and followed one of the bludgers.
"Ready to catch it?" She asked and he nodded and she summoned it to her and James jumped over and caught it as it threw him back on to the ground and he wrestled with it as he struggled to get it in to the trunk and strap it in.
"Alright, one, down one to go." He said as he got up and brushed the grass off himself and she summoned the other one and he wrestled it in to the trunk and closed the trunk. She grabbed one end and he grabbed the other and they locked it in the quidditch shed and started back up to the castle.
"I would suggest we start training on Saturday."
"Alright."
"2 weeks straight of conditioning and then start on brooms."
"Wait two weeks not using brooms?"
"Yeah, mostly running, push ups, sit ups; you know all of the good stuff to get everyone in shape." She said and he ruffled his hair slowly as he stared at the floor thinking.
"Alright, how about you're in charge of the conditioning?"
"Alright, sounds good." She said with a grin as they headed up to the castle.
"I can't believe you would make her co-captain Prongs, I am your best mate, and she is a girl." Sirius growled as he paced the common room Sunday night.
"You are still my best mate but she has more experience in quidditch and did you see her tryout? She is a great player and her being a girl means nothing."
"She wasn't that good, I think that Derek did a whole lot better than her."
"Pads, she got 4 out of the five targets, Derek only got 1. Pads she is a good player. Is it going to be a problem having you two on the team because she said she would try and keep it civil on the pitch, can I expect the same from you?"
"Prongs-."
"Sirius if you can't behave civil at least on the pitch I don't think I can have you on the team."
"Prongs you cant be serious, I am your best mate."
"Padfoot." James said and paused. "You are my best mate and you always will be but I am the captain and I have to make my decisions as a captain." He said and Sirius glanced over as Rebecca walked in with Lily and he glared at her and she rolled her eyes and sat down on the couch with Lily.
"Fine, but I am not happy about this, just so you know." He said and turned to go up to his room. He had to figure out a way to make her just as uncivil on the pitch as she was off the pitch without putting himself in jeopardy. He didn't know how he was going to do it, but he was going to try.
Rebecca walked down to the common room Monday morning and saw the Quidditch line up on the bulletin board and she walked over to it and looked at it.
Chasers:
James Potter (Captain)
Rebecca Walcott (Co-Captain)
Leo Jerkins
Beaters:
Sirius Black
Mason Brights
Keeper:
Lex Samson
Seeker:
Thomas Larson
Practice starts on Saturday; be down at the pitch by 7 AM
She frowned as she looked at the time and wondered how on earth she was going to manage to get up and start conditioning at 7 in the morning when she could barely get up in the morning. She sighed as she walked over to the couch and sat down wondering if she should just go down to breakfast by herself. Lily had just gotten up when she had and Remus was usually down by now and she was feeling rather hungry this morning. She glanced at the clock on the wall before getting up and heading out of the tower and down towards the Great Hall.
On her way to the Great Hall she got to the third floor and as she turned down a hall she saw Peeves attempting to hide as he laughed and she looked up and saw a bucket of paint and she sighed and looked around and saw the floor was waxed and that there were more buckets of paint along the hall.
"Damn you Peeves." She muttered and turned to go the alternate yet longer route to the Great Hall.
As she continued she heard a whimper from a hallway as she passed and peered down it and saw Evan Rosier and Bellatrix Black with Rabastan Lestrange and a young student who looked to be a Hufflepuff.
"Do you really need to bully younger students to boost your ego?" She asked as she walked down the hall and Rosier let the boy go and he scurried away and she suddenly felt like an idiot as she realized she was outnumbered.
"You really can't resist staying out of other people's business can you?" Rabastan asked as he pulled out his wand and she looked around wondering if there was anyone else near by. Most people were just getting up so she highly doubted that anyone would be around to help out. Yeah she had to step in and be the hero didn't she?
"No I really can't, besides we haven't had a nice good chat in such a long time, I've missed our little quarrels." She said with a false smile and glanced around as she saw the dark look in their eyes. "Well you know it's been fun chatting but I really gotta go, see ya later." She said as she started to back out and Bellatrix and Evan took out their wands.
"Looks like you're all alone." Rabastan said with a smirk and she bit her lip.
"Actually I'm not." She said smartly and they glanced around.
"Actually I think you are, there is no one here to save you now."
"Don't mess with me or Patrick will kick your ass he is standing right behind you by the way." She said and they glanced behind them and she turned and ran down the hall.
"I thought Gryffindors were supposed to be brave." Bellatrix said with a cackle and Rebecca felt her legs snap together and she toppled over and crashed in to the floor and she heard the three Slytherins laugh and she rolled over and searched for her wand and saw it 5 feet away. She went to grab it but it was shot out of her reach and she looked up as they approached her with wands out and glanced at each other and Rebecca knew she was fucked as they looked towards an empty classroom...
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A/N: Wow almost 500 hit, i never actually thought that many people might read it, thanks guys =)