Rebecca walked down to Transfiguration and McGonagall paused in her lesson as she walked in and took her seat in the back. She glanced at Rebecca before continuing with the lesson and Rebecca looked over at James sitting with Sirius and he glanced back at her and she wondered how exactly she was going to break this to James. The Season started in less than two weeks and that was hardly enough time to start training another chaser.

After class Rebecca waited outside the classroom for James trying to think of an easy way to put this so he wouldn't blow up or something.

"James." She called as he turned to go down the hall and he stopped and turned around.

"Yes?" He asked and she motioned him to follow her and he shrugged to Sirius and followed her off to the side.

"What's up?"

"I have some bad news." She said and took a deep breath and he looked at her waiting for her to continue.

"I got banned from Quidditch." She said and shock came over his face and then the yelling came.

"What the bloody hell do you mean you have been banned? Who the hell banned you? That can't do that, the season is just about to start!" He yelled making everyone in the hall look over cautiously and he started to pace.

"Lestrange and Black tried charges against me but Dumbledore got them cleared so I got banned instead." She said as she ran her hand over the back of her neck.

"Oh I am not going to let this stand, no way, you are my co- captain- you are my player- they- they cant just ban you."

"Apparently they can. Look James I am about as mad as you are about this-."

"Oh I very highly doubt it; I am going to serious kick some Slytherin arse for this. They can mess with me but they will not mess with my team." He said with a hiss and she sighed.

"James there is nothing that can be done and don't go tearing after them, I don't think they are worth it, if the team loses you too then what are they going to do? I can help train a replacement if you want."

"Who the hell is going to replace you? Did you see the tryouts?" He said and gripped his hair.

"Michael."

"Michael who?"

"Michael Baley."

"He didn't even try out."

"I know but I saw him messing around on the pitch last weekend, plus he plays baseball during the summer. Let me talk to him alright?"

"Rebecca we have less than two weeks before the season starts, does Baley even have a broom?"

"I don't know, if he doesn't he can use mine." She said and James let out a sound of frustration and looked back at Sirius chatting with a girl.

"We'll talk later alright?" he said and she nodded and he headed back towards Sirius who said good bye and they walked down the hall together.

"Alright Michael, are you ready?" Rebecca yelled from the ground and Michael looked down at her from the broom.

"Becky, I don't know about this, I don't think I am that great of a flyer." He said, clutching the broom with one hand and the quaffle with the other.
"Don't worry, if you fall I wont let you hit the ground, come on trust me." She yelled and pointed her wand up and with three quick flicks there were three targets flying around him slowly.

"Rebecca I don't think this is going to work." James said as he sat on the ground looking up at the timid Michael sitting up on the broom which was a rather humorous sight, the large Michael sitting on a broom clutching it for dear life and a near horror expression on his face as he looked down.

"Give me your broom." She said as she grabbed James' broom off his lap and mounted on it and flew up to Michael.

"Come on, Michael don't be scared, it's perfectly safe right now." She said assuring him the best she could.

"What do you mean right now? It's not safe any other time?" He asked, his eyebrows shooting up.

"Of course not, quidditch is dangerous, just like anything else, now I know you have a good arm, I want you to fly after the targets and try to hit them, alright?"

"I have a confession Becky." He said as he looked down at the ground 50 feet down.

"I sort of have a fear of flying." He said and looked at her nervously and she gave him a bored look.

"What?" She asked blandly.

"Well a few years go, my cousin and I were playing and he knocked me off my broom, I was in St. Mungos for two nights and I couldn't play baseball that summer." He said and she sighed.

"Is there anything I can do to make you feel any safer? What if I strap you to the broom? It would be a miracle if you fell off then."

"I just don't want to uh…die." He said and she groaned.

"Look Michael, there has only ever been like 15 deaths in the history of Quidditch." She said and saw a flash of horror over his face.

"But I mean that's out of hundreds of years, so you figure like one death every 65 years or something." She said and his eyebrows rose up. "And the last guy died like I don't know a few years ago, so you're covered, come on, go." She said quickly as she saw his eyes get wide.

"I won't let you fall. You're the best chance we have of having a decent team alright? Did you see the others that tried out? They couldn't hit the broadside of a barn, go." She urged and he grumbled and gripped the quaffle as he slowly went after the targets.

"You need to fly faster than that Michael if you actually want to catch up to the target." She yelled after him and flew down by James.

"Rebecca I don't think this is going to work." James said with a groan.

"Well that's only because he is going slower than a herd of turtles through peanut butter, maybe if I chase him with a knife or something he will go faster." She said as she leaned back on the broom. "By the way this is a great broom; it is very easy to control." She said and James smiled.

"Thanks, she is my second love, next to Lily, you know." He said with a smile and she rolled her eyes.

"So have you figured out a master plan yet?"

"Yes." He said confidently as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Are you going to tell me?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"You'll tell Lily." He said with a frown.

"Dork I am the one that suggested it in the first place." She said giving him a confused look.

"It's too risky to tell you, you will just have to wait and see."

"You are still going to poison him right?"

"You will never- Baley, keep your elbow down." James yelled as Michael raised his arm up to hit a target and he wobbled on the broom and grabbed on to the broom with both hands and pulled himself close to the broom, dropping the quaffle in his haste and Rebecca glared at him.

"Come on go a little easy on him."

"Me? What about you?"

"You nearly knocked him off his broom." She said and flew over and grabbed the quaffle and tossed it to Michael who nearly fell off his broom again trying to catch it.

"You have to make at least three targets in a row before you can go back to the castle." Rebecca said and Michael gave her a pained look.

"Come on isn't there someone else that can do this? Didn't Mark Sandoval try out?"

"He was too small."

"Isn't that kind of good?"

"Yeah but he had no arm, you have an arm. You showed me not too long ago."

"We were on the ground, not flying on this dangerous piece of wood."

"Do not refer to my broom as some piece of wood." She said with a glare and he wobbled on his broom.

"Come on, I know you can do this. Do it for Gryffindor." She said with an encouraging smile and he groaned.

"Fine." He sighed.

"James I am amazing." Rebecca said as she walked in to the common room the night before the dance.

"Why is that?" James asked as he looked up from his quidditch magazine on the couch.

"Michael here, managed to hit all the targets tonight, isn't that right Michael?" Rebecca asked as she pat him on the back and he slouched down on the couch. "I think he might be ready, I mean with a few more practices." She said with a smile.

"She nearly killed me." He said incredulously.

"Surprise there." Sirius muttered sarcastically from the side and Rebecca stuck her tongue out at him.

"Oh real mature there." He said and sat down on one of the plush chairs and put his feet up on the table where Remus and Peter were playing chess.

"Padfoot we are trying to play chess." Remus said as he pushed Sirius' feet off the table and set the chess pieces that he had knocked over back up.

"She set the bludgers loose on me, no warning either, just set them loose, I could hardly see a thing as it was and here are these bludgers trying to kill me."

"I kept them off you." Rebecca said with a shrug and Leo came down the stairs.

"Leo, here." Rebecca said and threw his beater bat to him. "Thanks."

"No problem, what did you think of the bat?" He asked.

"A little top heavy but I like the grip, did you just re-tape it?"

"No, I got a new tape, it lasts a bit longer and works a whole lot better, hardly any slip, costs a lot more though but I think its worth it." He said and went back up the stairs.

"She actually knocked me off my broom, bloody menace and then she sat back and laughed." Michael said and ran his hand through his hair.

"I said I was sorry, it hit the tip on accident and you were only a few feet off the ground, i told you to keep an eye out." She said with a small smile.

"Oh what do you know, evil and sadistic." Sirius muttered as he picked up one of James' quidditch magazines.

"Don't you have something better to do? I don't know, like shagging one of your whores or something?" She muttered sarcastically and he opened the magazine and started to skim through it.

"In an hour, thanks for asking." He said not looking over the magazine and Rebecca grabbed a pillow and threw it at him, knocking the magazine from his hands and he grabbed another pillow and threw it at her and hit her in the face, knocking her back over the arm of the couch and on to the floor. James got up and looked over the arm to make sure Rebecca was alright.

"Padfoot!" James scolded and Rebecca stood up as well as Sirius and he crossed his arms over his chest.

"You are sick, you know that? And you're an asshole." She spat and turned to go up the stairs.

"You're a sadistic bitch. You aren't going to hit me or something? That's kind of your thing isn't it?" Sirius said and she turned around.

"Uh Pads I think you should stop while you're ahead." James said as Rebecca glared dangerously at Sirius and she clenched her fists.

"She can't do anything to me." He said smugly and Michael gave a strangled cough.

"I don't have the energy to deal with you, I am going to bed." She said and went up the stairs and Sirius sat back down.

"Mate are you mental, you did see what she did to Bellatrix, Lestrange and Rosier right?" James said and Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Everyone knows that Slytherins are stupid." He said and picked up the magazine. "She is no match for me." He said and flipped through the magazine and James and Remus exchanged glances.

"I am going to stay out of this, Rebecca kind of scares me so mate you are on your own with this." James said and sat back down and picked up his magazine.

"Me too." Remus said and went back to chess with Peter and Sirius glanced at Peter.

"She is pretty scary Padfoot." He said and turned back to chess with Remus.

"Well I am going to get some sleep so I can actually function tomorrow at the dance." Michael said and got up and bid them each good night and went up the stairs.

Sirius could believe his friends, scared of a girl of all things. Well she didn't scare him and there was no way he was ever going to back down from her.

Rebecca glanced down the table at Andrew and Claire whispering with each other, smiles on each of their faces as they worked on their potions project together and Rebecca looked back down at her cauldron. They had recently started going out and since then, Andrew and Rebecca had hardly talked, he was always with her.

"Everything alright Becky?" Lily asked as she gave Rebecca a small nudge.

"Yeah, everything is peachy." Rebecca said with a forced smile and looked back down at her potion.

"You keep looking over at Andrew and Claire." Lily said and Rebecca looked at her with pursed lips and gave a smug look.

"So."

"I think that might have something to do with the face that you are completely screwing up your potion when you are usually pretty good- that doesn't look right." Lily said as she looked in to Rebecca's cauldron and Rebecca looked in to her cauldron at the brownish murky smelling goo.

"Shit." She said as she got up and started to rummage through the kit she had.

"Miss Walcott what might we have here?" Slughorn asked as he walked over.

"No sir don-." Rebecca said as she heard a sizzle from the cauldron and grabbed Lily and pulled her down as the contents inside the cauldron exploded out all over the area around them, spraying people near by with the brown goo.

"It burns." A student said as she tried to wipe it off her face, leaving behind an ugly welt and the rest of the students started to complain about the burning and upon removing the brown goo revealing large red welts.

"Oh shit." Rebecca muttered as she looked at Slughorn who had gotten the worse of the blow and his entire face, neck and hands were covered in boils, welts and open sores.

"Need some burn paste." Rebecca said as she jumped up and went to the cabinet as the students rushed around Professor Slughorn and she grabbed the grayish looking cream and ran over towards Professor Slughorn.

"Sir I am so-." She said as she tripped over a chair leg and the jar flew out of her hands, shattering beside Professor Slughorn, covering him in a grey paste and he screamed as it started to eat away his skin and some of his clothes and Rebecca stared in horror. Quite the opposite of a burn paste, it was a cauldron acid cleaner used to get the grime off the bottom of cauldrons which was now eating his skin and robes.

Within minutes Lily and the Ravenclaw Prefect Tim Jones were on their way to take Professor Slughorn to the hospital wing, which on that cue Rebecca cleared out of the classroom before she could cause much more damage and she fled to the courtyard and sat down under the giant oak and sighed.

What the hell was wrong with her? She was normally pretty good at potions. Well perhaps if she hadn't been paying so much attention to Andrew and Claire she might have noticed she was putting in the wrong kind of roots and leaves.

She was glad that Potions had been the last class of the day and all that was left was to get ready for the dance, perhaps the hype of the dance would keep people occupied from the fact that she had most likely permanently damaged her professor by foul potion and acid cleaner, great.

Rebecca made her way back up to the tower and was met with the rush of students getting ready for the dance which she was thankful for.

She walked up to her room and hopped in to the shower and magically dried her hair as she stared in to the mirror wondering what she was going to do with herself for the dance. She had never really been much gifted with make up or hair, she used to have her sister or Amy deal with her hair and make up if she needed it done but she hardly ever wore make up so that had never really been much of an issue.

"Becky what are you doing with your hair?" Tessa asked as she stepped out of the bathroom brushing her hair.

"I don't know, I am not much of a hair person." Rebecca said as she twisted a strand of hair through her fingers and turned to Tessa.

"Where is Lily by the way?"

"She is working on decorations; I do hope she had time to get all dressed up." Tessa said as she walked over.

"You have such pretty hair, please let me do it." Tessa said as she played with Rebecca's hair.

"Go crazy." She said as she conjured up a chair and excitement passed over Tessa's face.

"Just not too crazy." She said slowly and Tessa smiled.

"Can I do your make up?" Jenny asked as she stuck her head out of the bathroom.

"Yeah sure, just don't make me look like a clown." Rebecca said and Jenny gave her an evil look.

Soon Tessa was pulling at Rebecca's hair and Jenny was fussing over her make up, and Rebecca half regretted letting them use her as a doll. This reminded Rebecca of the time that Katie used to experiment on her with make up and such, forcing Rebecca to be her doll by blackmailing her with the threat of telling their parents who had broken her mother's favorite vase.

"Alright I think this will do, what do you think Jen?" Tessa asked as she took a step back.

"Yes this will do just fine." Jenny said with a grin.

"You guys better not have done something awful or I will hex you in to-." Rebecca said and stopped as Jenny conjured up a mirror in front of Rebecca.

"Wow, you guys didn't do too bad." Rebecca said as she examined her now curled hair that was piled on top of her head with clips. Her make up was light, only the bare essentials which did not make her look like she had too much make up caked on like many of the girls at school looked. It was just simple eyeliner, blush, mascara and eye shadow.

"Wow thanks guys." Rebecca said as she got up and looked at the clock.

"When will Lily be here? We only have an hour left." Rebecca said and heard rushed footsteps up the stairs and the door flew open and a red eyed Lily walked in.

"Lily what's wrong?" Tessa said as Lily went to her bed and lied face down.

"I no longer have a date." Lily said muffled by the pillow.

"What happened?" Jenny asked as she sat at the foot of the bed.

"Amos is sick, he thinks it might have been something he ate but he is in the hospital wing right now." Lily said as she propped herself up. "I'm not going to the dance." Lily said and Rebecca sighed, James had obviously figured out a way to get Amos to eat the hellebore.

"Lily you have to go, you got a dress and everything." Jenny said and Lily wiped her tears.

"I can't go by myself." Lily said and looked at her dress hanging up outside the bathroom.

"I don't think that James has a date, why not go with him?" Rebecca suggested and Lily frowned.

"I would rather go with the giant squid."

"That's a bit harsh." Rebecca said with a small laugh. "But seeing that squids live in the water and it's pretty much impossible for you to go with the squid you could take the next best thing." Rebecca said and Lily shook her head.

"I am not going."

"Absolutely not, you just spent the last two hours decorating, you are going." She said and paused. "I am sure that Remus would not mind sharing me, come with Remus and I."

"No I couldn't, you are going with Remus."

"I insist and I am sure Remus would be delighted to have two dates because the only thing better than one girl is two, it's every guy's dream, trust me, so get all prettied up and we are going to the dance." Rebecca said and Lily frowned.

"Becky I really-."

"Don't make me drag you in to that shower." Rebecca said firmly and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Jenny and Tessa can do your hair and make up in a jiffy, right girls?" Rebecca said and Jenny and Tessa smiled with nods.

"Are you sure Becky?"

"Positive, now get all clean and let's get this show on the road." Rebecca said with a grin.

After Lily jumped in to the shower Rebecca sat on her bed reading and Tessa and Jenny walked over.

"Spill the beans." Jenny said.

"Yeah spill them." Tessa said and Rebecca looked up at them.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Rebecca said innocently.

"Come on, that was all a little too perfect." Tessa said and Rebecca rolled her eyes.

"It's really nothing." She said with a wave of her hand.

"What do you know?"

"I know nothing." Rebecca said with a small smile.

"You set this up didn't you? James is going to be there and take her as his own date huh?" Jenny asked and Rebecca shrugged.

"Little miss matchmaker, I never saw it in you Becky." Tessa said and they both laughed.

"Oh be quiet, don't say a word, or Kimba will claw you in your sleep." Rebecca said as she nodded to Kimba sitting on her pillow and he looked at them unconcerned and licked a paw.

"Right, our lips are sealed." They said and got up and continued to get ready.

"What if this doesn't work?" James asked as he paced back and forth.

"You mean like all of your other plans involving Evans?" Sirius asked dryly from the mirror as he tied his tie.

"I just hope she is still going." James said as he sat down on his bed and looked at the single red rose sitting on the edge of the bed. Perhaps the rose was too much, it might look like he had planned it, well he did but he certainly didn't want it to seem that way.

"Prongs when are you going to move on? There are plenty of birds out there that actually like you."

"Because I want Lily, she is different, I don't want just any girl, I want her." He said as he got up and started to pace again and stopped and looked at Remus.

"You look nervous." He said as he looked at Remus fidgeted.

"A little." He said softly.

"I would be too; you have a date with the devil." Sirius said with a hoarse laugh.

"Padfoot, come on." James said as he glanced back at Sirius who rolled his eyes and started working on his hair.

"I still have no idea why she would ask me, of all people. I mean there were plenty of other guys that asked her."

"Maybe she fancies you." James said as he leaned against the bedpost.

"No, most definitely not." Remus said with a shake of his head.

"Why not?"

"I mean, she is pretty, why would she be interested in me?"

"Mate you need to stop being so hard on yourself, I don't know if you have noticed but there are plenty of girls that are pining over you, you are just too blind to see it. Maybe she does like you."

"It wouldn't make a difference if she did anyways. Nothing would happen."

"Well if anything maybe you might be able to get a shag out of her." Sirius said and Remus glared his way.

"Shut up Padfoot." Remus snapped and Sirius raised his eyebrows as he turned around and James looked at him surprised. Remus opened his mouth to say something but stopped and grabbed his coat and slipped it on. "I'm going to go wait for Rebecca; I'll see you guys later." He said and exited the room and James looked at Sirius.

"That was low mate; do we need to go through this all the time? I mean you seem to be the only one who hates her, other than the Slytherins but they hate everyone."

"You guys obviously don't see it, she is a complete bitch, and there is nothing good about her." He said and turned back to the mirror and combed through his hair.

"Wormtail are you sure you don't want to come to the dance?" James asked as he looked at Peter pouring over some comics.

"I'm sure, thanks though." He said and went back to his comics.

"See you at the dance." James said and grabbed his coat and headed out of the room, grabbed the rose on his way out.

"Wormy what do you think? I am right about her aren't I?" Sirius asked and Peter looked up.

"I- uh- I mean-." He said and looked back down at his comics and Sirius rolled his eyes and grabbed his coat.

"Have fun with your comics." He said and walked out and headed down to the entrance hall to meet his date.

Thanks for reading. I had a bit of spare time so i cranked this out, i hope you enjoyed it. Please rate and review =)