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Clint came back to awareness to the sensation of something tickling his nose. He reached up to swipe at it and encountered a handful of hair. He opened his eyes and was met with the sight of red hair spread around him. As he laid there trying to process what he was seeing it started coming back to him: the party last night. He must have fallen asleep while playing cards with Natasha. The last thing he remembers was the two of the laying on their stomachs facing off against a game of poker. Natasha must have stayed in her spot after he fell asleep and while moving around in her sleep managed to spread her hair around.
"Hey Buck, you awake?" Steve tapped his friend on the shoulder.
When he got no response from his friend, Steve sat up and looked around. He squinted in the low light and made out the shapes of the other kids. Everyone was spread out in the Hufflepuff common room, he saw Nick and Maria curled together against the far wall and even though they kind of scared him, he couldn't help but smile at them.
For some reason Bruce was tucked into himself on top of the trunk that was holding drinks last night. He doesn't see Tony but is pretty sure he is still around somewhere. He doesn't see Hunter or Bobbi either, but he can make out Phil, Daisy and Rania laying on the mountain of pillows they piled together last night. It was pretty funny seeing Daisy and Rania build a pillow fort and watching Phil take it upon himself to collapse on top of it, effectively knocking them all down. This led to a pillow fight in the middle of the room until Phil called uncle and fell back on the ground while Daisy and Rania finished him off.
"Hey Rogers, come on."
Steve looked around and saw a figure over by the door leading out of the common room. "Tony?"
"Yeah, let's go."
Steve shrugged and made his way over to the other kid.
"Sun's not quite up yet, want to go see it?"
"Seriously?"
"You're an artist, I figured you'd appreciate it." Tony defended.
"Okay, let's go."
Clint saw the boys leave the room and made to get up when Natasha's eyes popped open.
"Clint?"
"Yeah."
"What time is it?"
"No idea, but Tony and Steve just left, to see the sunrise apparently, want to follow?"
"Sure." She got up with more grace than Clint did but they managed to make their way over to the door without disturbing anyone else.
They made their way down the corridor toward the main entrance when they ran into Steve and Tony coming back in.
"Too cold to be out there." Steve explained his shivering.
"That's too bad." Clint said.
"Gryffindor tower is one of the highest towers in the castle isn't it?" Natasha asked.
"Yeah." Steve said.
Everyone looked at him.
"I don't know guys. I'm not sure if I can bring anyone up there."
"Hufflepuff invites everyone in, plus we're the only one awake right now, who is going to know." Clint prodded.
"You can grab your art supplies while we're there." Tony said.
"Sun will be up soon." Natasha said.
"Fine, let's go."
The kids quickly made their way up the stair cases, thankful they didn't get stuck on one moving away from their intended floor. Steve had to cut off the Fat Lady's lecture about bringing outsiders into the common room by giving her the password and causing her to swing open even while she huffed in response to his rudeness.
They grabbed blankets from the chairs and couches spread around the common room. Steve led them to another stairwell they had to walk up single file to get to a door which opened onto the top of the tower.
"Be careful guys, no one is supposed to actually be out here but we come out on occasion." Steve warned.
"This is awesome." Clint grinned, despite the chilly air. "I wish we had something like this in Hufflepuff."
"You're right next to the kitchen though." Steve pointed out.
"Still." Clint made his way to the very edge. "I love this."
"Okay birdboy." Tony said. "If you fall, it's your funeral."
"I'll be fine, I've got great balance." Boasted Clint.
The kids wrapped themselves in blankets and took up seats on the roof to watch the sun finish coming up.
"Its sights like this that make me wish I had a camera." Steve said, staring out over the land below them.
"Yeah." Natasha said. "Thanks for letting me tag along."
"Of course." Steve said.
They stayed up there until the sky had lightened up enough to be called a proper morning.
"Let's go get warmed up." Tony said, being the first to stand up and head back inside.
They all got up and made their way back down into the common room.
"There you are!"
"Hey Buck, didn't expect you to be awake this early."
"You could have woken me up, Punk. I got up and you were just gone."
"I tried to wake you, you didn't budge."
"Hey guys?" Natasha interrupted them. "We're going to breakfast, you coming?" she turned and climbed out of the picture hole after the other two guys.
They waited until Steve and Bucky had joined them before making their way back down to the great hall.
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The first quidditch match of the spring term came pretty quickly for the students. Everyone was excited to see if Ravenclaw could pull off a win against Hufflepuff, since the blue and silver clad team had beaten Gryffindor in the final match before break.
"Why today?" Clint moaned.
"It will be fine," Janet soothed the kid, "everyone will play the best they can and you will catch the snitch right away."
"Hopefully." Rhodey muttered.
"Really James?"
"Sorry Janet, but I'm being realistic here. He can barely hang on to a broom right now."
"I just don't understand why Madam Pomfrey would not just heal him. Is that not her job?" Laura asked.
"Just like with muggles, a body needs to fight off some things to grow stronger." Phil told them. "We might have better potions to help with fever or pain, but a virus still has to run its course."
"This blows."
"Really Clint?"
"Sorry Pep."
"Let's go." Janet walked to the door of their tent. "That's Madam Hooch."
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"And that's another Ravenclaw goal, put through by Palmer. Current score is 90 to 30 with Ravenclaw leading."
"Come on Clint!" Daisy yelled.
"He needs to get it soon, before Ravenclaw gets too far ahead." Trip said, eyes intently following their yellow and black clothed team.
"Give it up, Ravenclaw has this." Jemma said from beside them.
"Yep." Fitz added.
"We can still pull this off." Dais shot back. "Whoo, yay Phil!" Daisy screamed with the crowd as Phil made a goal.
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"Why are we cheering for Huffle?" Pietro asked.
"Ravenclaw is currently ahead of us by 140 points for the Quidditch Cup." Lincoln explained.
"Oookay." Pietro dragged out.
"So Hufflepuff needs to win so Ravenclaw doesn't add any more points to their lead. We play the next two games, so we can catch up, but it will help if their lead isn't super far out from us." Grant more thoroughly explained.
"Jocks." Natasha rolled her eyes.
"Tell me about it." Rania said from the other side of Natasha. "This is boring."
"I didn't say that." Natasha retorted.
"No, I did."
The guys rolled their eyes.
"So go back to the castle." Grant told her.
"Everyone interesting is out here, though I do not understand why." She eyed Trip.
She was ignored as Ravenclaw scored again and the green and silver students groaned.
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"Well that wasn't great, but not terrible either." Janet said as the team changed out of their quidditch robes.
"Oh give it up, Janet. I'm sorry you guys." Clint said.
"Let's just get you back to bed." Phil said, making his way over to Clint's side.
"We can still come back from this." Laura tried stayed positive.
"At least we have the next match off." Rhodey said, "Plenty of time for us to rest up."
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