The next morning Jane and Hermione woke up at the same time. They noticed they had fallen asleep on Jane's bed. They smiled before sitting up. Lavender, who had woken up too, was looking at them weirdly.
"What you've never been in a sleep over?" Hermione said.
"No" Lavender said looking at Jane and Hermione as if they had grown another head.
"Well, me neither, but I heard it was something like this" Hermione said standing from Jane's bed. Jane got up too and started getting dress in her Quidditch uniform. Hermione and Jane got ready quickly and left Lavender and Parvati in the room while they went down to the common room. There weren't many people there but they found Harry sitting on one of the couches.
"Harry?" Hermione said uncertain and he looked up.
"Oh hey, Hermione, hey Jane" He said smiling at the girls. Hermione took that as a good sign and sat down beside him. Jane hesitated a little before sitting on Harry's other side and taking his hand. Harry was surprised by the gestured but still squeezed her hand trying to reassure her. They stayed there for a while, until Oliver went down to the Common Room and made them go eat so they could go early to the Pitch and practice before the game. The three friends went down to the Great Hall, but only Hermione started eating once they sat down at the Gryffindor table.
"Come on you guys you have to eat" Hermione said when she noticed they weren't eating.
"I'm not hungry" Jane said and Harry just nodded.
"You need the energy, at least eat a toast" Hermione said. Harry listened to her whereas Jane just kept staring at the food in front of her.
"Come on Jane, eat something" Hermione encouraged while Fred and George sat down at either side of Jane. They started filling their plates immediately. Jane watched as they ate and groaned
"How can you two eat?"Jane asked.
"Why wouldn't we eat?" Fred asked before taking a bite of his beacon.
"Argh, I think I'm going to be sick" Jane said closing her eyes. She did look a little green and that made her friends stop eating and look at her.
"Jane you don't look so good" Harry said worried for his sister.
"I'm fine... Or I'll be fine. Don't worry" Jane said resting her head on the table.
"You sure you are okay?" Fred and George said at the same time.
"Yeah, I just need a little fresh air, that's all" Jane said standing up and leaving the Great Hall. She walked through the Hogwart's grounds until she was on the Quidditch Pitch. There she found Oliver up in the air enchanting Quaffles to go his way so he could stop them. She laid on the grass and looked up. From where she was she could see Oliver training and began to relax. She watched him for a while and imagined herself up there feeling the wind on her face. The rush she experienced flying. And that protectiveness she felt when she had the Quaffle in her hands.
She daydreamed for some time before she felt a shadow fall on her.
"What are you doing kid?" Sirius asked sitting down beside her. She sat up and smiled a little.
"Not much" she said. "What you got there?" She added noticing he had a big package.
"Well you see I realized you don't have you don't have a proper broom and took the liberty of buying you one" Sirius answered nonchalantly.
"You can't be serious, this is a broom? For me?"
"Of course I'm Sirius" he said smiling making Jane roll her eyes. "But seriously the broom is yours" Jane opened the the package and smiled.
"Now the Slytherin won't have an advantage over me" Jane said.
"I like the way you think, now stop wasting your time and go get ready" Sirius said smiling, getting up, and helping her to stand up. Jane ran to the lockers with her Nimbus 2001 smiling. When she got to the lockers Angelina and Katie were already there getting dress.
"There you are" Katie said already changed in her uniform.
"Yeah we thought we were going to have to tell Oliver you had bailed" Angelina said putting on the team's jersey.
"Oh sorry to worry you" Jane said blushing at the comment and at the fact she was going to have to change in front of the two girls.
"Don't worry," Angelina said.
"Come on Angelina let's go so she can change" Katie said noticing Jane's hesitation and blushing. Jane smiled thankfully at the girls as they left. She changed quickly and went to the other lockers where the boys were and where they usually met to review their tactics.
"Good Jane you are here" Oliver said as soon as she entered. "Okay so, I want to try something. You Jane start slow make the Slytherin confident making them think you don't know how to play. Then you actually start playing. Understand" Oliver added and Jane nodded. They reviewed their other tactics and then made their way to the Quidditch Pitch. They waited until their names were called and then, the game began.
Jane started slow as Oliver instructed letting Katie Bell and Angelina Johnson take the lead. She was so into that part of the game she didn't notice a Bludger following her until it almost knock her down.
"Sorry Jane that was close" Fred called.
"It's okay" She answered but in that moment the Bludger came back. This time Fred batted it away but it came back.
"What the bloody hell is going on?" Fred cursed aiming the Bludger to a Slytherin player but the ball made its way back to Jane. Jane moved out of the way and noticed Harry having the same problem she was having and George helping him.
"Maybe we should call time out" Jane told Fred and Fred made signs to Oliver so he would call time. When they went down Oliver started yelling at them.
"What is wrong with you people. Jane I know I told you to start slow but I think you can show them your full potential now" Oliver said.
"Oliver it is not her fault the Bludgers have gone rouge" Fred started.
"Yeah they are only following Harry and Jane" George added.
"Still you can't let that stop you" Oliver said.
"Don't worry I can play with a Bludger on my tail." Jane said and Harry agreed.
"Alright, prove it" Oliver said and they started to play again. As soon as Jane was in the air she had to evade the Bludger. She practically ignored the Bludger as she made her way to the Slytherin chaser who had the Quaffle. He hesitated when he saw her and the Bludger coming and Jane took that opportunity to steal the Quaffle. She rushed to the Slytherin goals and scored giving Gryffindor the first point in the game.
"Good one Jane" George called as she rushed away so the Bludger wouldn't hit her. The game continued like that until Harry spotted the Snitch and started chasing it with Malfoy hot on his heels. The Bludger following Harry wasn't helping much. Once he almost had the Snitch but the Bludger hit him on the right arm breaking it. Fortunately, Malfoy wasn't doing so great either and Harry managed to catch the Snitch with his left arm unfortunately he also managed to crash. Everyone ran to see if he was fine but were stopped by the Bludger that wouldn't stop trying to hit him.
"Finite incantatem" Sirius said pointing at one of the Bludgers while Tonks pointed at the other saying the same spell. Both Bludgers stopped immediately and Jane landed running to Harry.
"Harry, are you alright?" Jane said kneeling beside him.
"I think I broke my arm" he answered.
"Come on we have to take you to the infirmary" Sirius said helping Harry sit up.
"Excuse me, but I think he shouldn't wait, I'll heal him" Lockhart said kneeling beside Harry.
"I don't think so" Sirius said helping Harry stand up.
"You don't know what you are saying" Lockhart said and acting faster than anyone could react he said a spell and Harry's arm went slack.
"What the bloody hell did you do!" Sirius screamed at Lockhart while Tonks holded Harry up and Jane in place so she wouldn't do anything stupid.
"I just mended Harry's arm, nothing bad"
"No, Lockhart you just disappeared every bone from Harry's arm" Sirius said taking a step toward Lockhart.
"Yeah, that happens sometimes, but the point is it doesn't hurt anymore" Lockhart said smiling before turning and practically running away.
"Oh if I get my hands on him" Sirius muttered before turning to Harry. "Come we have to take you to Madam Pomfrey, she'll know what to do" They all went to the Hospital Wing and when Madam Pomfrey found out what had happened she was furious. She gave Harry a potion that made his bones grow back but it would be painful.
"Now everybody leave Mr. Potter is in for a tough night" Madam Pomfrey said shooing everybody. Hermione, Jane, and Ron hesitated until Sirius made them leave with Tonks while he stayed with Harry for a while.
"Oh I wish I could throttle Lockhart" Jane said.
"Aren't you a feisty little thing" Tonks laughed and the other two joined her.
"It's just that he gets on my nerves sometimes" Jane said.
"I noticed dear" Tonks said smiling at her. "Come you have to eat something after that magnificent performance you did today" Tonks added leading the way to the Great Hall.
"Wow, and here I thought I would never see this place again" Tonks said as they entered the Great Hall. The three students led the way to the Gryffindor table and Tonks just followed. A lot of the other students stared at her.
"Please have they never seen a woman in their life?" Tonks asked quietly.
"Probably, but then again they might be staring because you are changing colours. But of course that is just a guess." Jane said and Tonks huffed but stopped changing colours. They sat down at the Gryffindor table and started eating with the exception of Jane who just stared at her food.
"Come on Jane eat something" Tonks said with a no nonsense tone. Jane listened but didn't eat very much. After dinner Tonks said her goodbyes and left. Hermione and Ron went to the common room while Jane started roaming the castle afraid of going to sleep and blacking out again. Unfortunately for her Snape caught her.
"Well Potter, what do you think you are doing?" He said.
"I'm kind of running from my nightmares, but they just caught up with me" Jane said and he glared at her.
"Come on Miss Potter I'll escort you back to your common room"
"But professor I'm a big girl I can walk alone. Besides are you going to make me walk hand in hand with nightmares?" Snape glared at her but internally he was delighted she seemed to have gained her cheekiness back.
"Watch it Potter or I might give you detention"
"Sorry professor, I would love an escort back to the common room" Jane said sarcastically and it took all of Snape's self control not to laugh. They walked quietly to the Gryffindor common room and when they got there she turned to him and said, "Good night, professor and thanks for making sure I came back safe"
"My pleasure" He said rolling his eyes and leaving her there alone. She smiled to herself before entering the common room. The common room was full and on party mode since they had won the Quidditch game. The Gryffindor partied for a while but soon McGonagall made them go to sleep. Jane went to her bed and closed the curtains. She went to take the diary from under her pillow to tell Tom about her great day but as soon as she touched the book she blacked out.
Now I am really sorry for making you wait so much but I was school's prisoner so please forgive me. I'll try to update soon I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
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