"Thank you Derian." Heather said through a bright smile. "I'm about to be late for charms class so I gotta run." She turned and walked away, but not before giving him a half hug.

Kay turned at the sound of someone talking. She wasnt use to people talking to her when she practiced. "Hi, Rene. I'm Kay" She said pulling her broom to a stop. "Sure that would be great." She said moving to stop next to her. "That would be a great help to me, thanks. Then we can toss the Quaffle back and forth to help you out too. I mean if you'd like." She said smiling. It would be nice to have a friend on the team and to practices with.

"Ooooo I'm sorry I didn't mean to interrupt." Witsy did feel bad, she was so pumped for practice that she needed something... leading her to forget her manners. Passing a slant smile, half embarrassed, looking to Derian and nodding, helping to remember his name, and Heather, "Nice to meet you," she added, "Rafe? Rafe as in the one who's been keeper for the past three years?" Witsy thought, cool. "If you wouldn't mind another person that would be great." She smiled back.

She knew who she was now; Rex's ex. She ddin't care his past had no effect on the friends she made know "Okay," she summoned the buldger "You ready?" she asked moving back alittle nit so that they had distance between them for her to bat the bludger. "The bludger is charmed that if it is not caught then it will return itself back to me. I have a quaffle to so yeah that would be great I really need practice. It was getting boring practicing alone." she replied

Vashti was about to reply and introduce herself as well, but before she could the girl was already flying back to practice and then talking to a couple other students. Er. Okay then.

But catching that Quaffle had made her realize how much she'd missed playing Quidditch and now she really wished she'd grabbed a Quaffle of her own when she went to borrow the school broom. At least tryouts would be soon, and she could only hope she hadn't gotten too rusty without a year's worth of practice. So she sighed and continued her lap around the pitch.

Selina made her way back down to the Pitch. She had to make sure she was absolutely ready for try outs when they came. That meant her daily practice had to stay constant as it had the past few days.

Holding the same broom from the shed that she had grabbed the last week Selina mounted the broom. In one swift moment she was up n the air and zooming about running her drills. She flew laps, ran her Quaffle drills, and did all of the moves and plays that she had ever learned.

One hour into her practice she touched down to grab two "bludgers" (enchanted plush balls) to chase her about the field for practice sake.

"Me too. I hate praticing by myself." Kay said getting ready for the Bludger. "Yes ready." She smiled and waited. "The Quaffle will be fun too." She said watching.

"Okay," she said tossing the bludger at Kay, so that she could hit it and then they could practice alittle. "So where are you from?" she asked watching the bludger travel towards her.

Vindictus was watching from afar with a pair of trusty Omnioculuars and what he saw ruffled his Ravenclaw feathers - somehow, a few students decided to sneak REAL equipment onto the Practice Pitch as if he'd let them 'play' with a dangerous Bludger without an adult supervising them!

Broomsticks, bats, and harmless enchanted balls (such as golf balls, tennis balls, and volleyballs) were the only allowed items when official practices weren't in session.

It was time to make his presence known to all, and he marched directly to the middle of the pitch with his arms folded across his chest and an uncharacteristic scowl on his face.

Lexi was nodding at Legend that she understood what he was saying... then it happened. Vindi. Looking angry. she spotted him and flailed a little bit on her broom, which looked awfully ridiculous in her position. Sighs.

She felt herself slide a bit on her broom and gripped it tightly. Okay, she had not fallen off of a broom since she was... younger. No way. Abandoning Legend and that other guy she went into a slow dive and straightened out in time to skid to a stop WEEEEEEELL away from Vindi. Perhaps he would wait to shout until she was gone.

There was something about shouty professors... her antlers seemed to reverberate the sound. Yeah. No good. She tucked the broom under her arm and began to walk rather casually AWAY from the pitch.

"Come here, Lexi," Vindictus said rather sternly. He didn't mean to sound as if he was about to give her a scolding but his eyes were tracking a Bludger being bashed around by a few Hufflepuff students.

Allllmost off the pitch.... Man. He shouted... That caused Lexi to cringe slightly.

Taking a deep breath she turned around and smiled brightly. It may have looked a bit... off though. Making her way back to the rather intimidating Flying Instructor she cleared her throat a few times trying to find her voice. "Yes, sir, Professor Vindictus, sir?" she said in a MUCH too happy voice. Really? How many times had she said sir? Nerves. NERVES.

"Is there something wrong with your broom?" he asked her as he pulled out his wand and pointed it directly at the Bludger being hit back and forth by two Hufflepuff students.

With a few flicks of his wand, he cast a switching spell on the Bludger and turned it into a sparkly pink rubber ball that squeaked each time it was hit.

Her... broom? "Uhh. No sir. Not that I know of. It's fairly new. Why does it look like something is wrong with it?" she said in a slightly panic stricken voice as she held the pink broom up close to her face to try and inspect it. Because she TOTALLY knew what she was looking at.

Her attention was diverted as Vindi raised his wand and pointed it up toward a pair of Huffies. OH! Was he gonna... Oh. She gave an involuntary snicker and looked back at the man.

"You looked rather wobbly on it as you decelerated. Did you hit the tail twigs against something or did you chip your broom handle?" he inquired. "Tryouts are just around the corner and I'd hate for you to be flying on a damaged broom."

Well. That was embarassing. Unable to stop the giggles that errupted she shook her cute little antlered head and said, "No sir. It was because... Seeing you kind of... scared me. There were people with quidditch supplies that ought not have them... and well I figured you were going to get mad." Yeah. Best not to be around if that ever happened. "And I can't play this term. OWLs and all that. Need to focus on studying," she said with a grimace. She really wished she didn't have to say that.

"Sorry to scare you, but I've seen some gruesome Bludger injuries caused by people playing with them without proper supervision," he said apologetically. "But you're not trying out? What a shame! Did you tell Simon?"

Who felt kind of silly now? Lexi. That's who. Visibly relaxing she smiled brighter at the man and nodded her head. "I know sir. As many times as you have taught your classes not to mess around...here they are," she said as she looked up.

"Yessir, it really isn't cool. I look forward to quidditch more than anything else. I didn't sign up, so I reckon he knows. If I am ever needed to sub I would though. Maybe," she said chewing on her lip. Could she go an entire term with no quidditch. Doubtful. She might just have to try though.

Chuckling she said, "Could you like... make a quaffle or bludger like... deflate or something. Like... when someone is hitting or throwing it. Because that would be pretty awesome to see the look on someone's face. Thinking they ruined your property and all." Devil's advocate? Perhaps.

Still a quaffle in hand she flew around when she spotted the young Ravenclaw again. Adrenalin was rushing and she was in need of a quidditch fix. Passing the ball over to her she relayed instructions, "I want you to try to get it through the hoop, me acting as keeper, am gonna defend the hoops, okay? Lets see what you got." She gave a competitive smile hoping she was starting to get a rush.

Rene turned for a moment and saw a student and the flying teacher talking on the field if she was right they looked as though they were talking about her and well some of the other people who where using stuff to practice. She decided to fly down and introduce herself. Tilting her brom just a bit she landed firmly on the ground only a few feet from the girl. The balck ball in her hand. "Hello. Im Rene, Rene Cullen. I couldn't help but notice that you where looking in my direction. Is there something wrong?" She asked sounding alittle snoty but she needed to make it known she hated that some people like the girl seemed to be a Teacher's Pet.

JP walked onto the pitch to try and practice and see what he needed to work on.
"Well here goes!" He wasn't used to the speed of his new broom. "Well mom wasn't lying" His eyes began to tear up as he flew in and around the posts. "Alright." He threw a shiny galleon into the air and saw it flutter through the side of his eye. As fast as he could he flew right to the spot but it began to fall he plummeted to the pitch and right before hitting impact he pulled up hard on his broom. "Got it! Alright. I'll go again" This time he threw it farther.


JP flew over to the only other Ravenclaw he saw on the pitch. "Maybe i should talk to her. She looks like was on the team before. Wouldn't hurt. Tryouts are a couple days from now."
JP shouted over to her. "Hello. I'm JP. I notice you're the only other ravenclaw out here. Were you on the team last term?"

Vashti had completed another lap around the pitch when the Gryffindor from before appeared out of nowhere once more, and she had to pull up and turn to the side slightly to avoid flying into her. Then suddenly the girl had tossed the Quaffle to her, and in the moment that she caught it, she noticed Professor Vindictus standing down there on the pitch - and in the next moment she ALSO realized something that she ought to have thought of before if she'd had any sense at all.

"Wait, uh..." she started, hoping the girl wouldn't zoom off again before she could say something. "Where exactly did you say you got this from again?" Couldn't have been the broomshed because Vashti was fairly certain there hadn't been any Quidditch equipment in there. Not that she'd exactly looked since she'd been mostly focused on getting some flying in, so she was only fairly sure. Like...eighty to eighty-five percent sure.

And then a younger Ravenclaw came up to her, and even if she didn't know him, Vashti was glad to see him there. First Ravenclaw she'd seen flying around, as if no one else in Ravenclaw liked flying, which could be seen as ironic since their animal mascot was an eagle, and, y'know, eagles flew around a lot.

"Nice to meet you, JP," she said with a small smile. "I'm Vashti." The team last year? Sadly, there was none. "There was no team last year because of the Triwizard Tournament. Quidditch was cancelled for it. You didn't hear about it?" Maybe he was new? "But I was on the team the two years before last year."

"Actually, it's quite easy to do," Vindictus grinned. "But I'm not going to mess with anyone today - it's actually more fun to do it during a lesson."

She adjusted her broom simultaneously to prevent any of them from smashing into each other. "The broomshed, I came earlier when they were just about running out." Witsy had a quizzical look as if why did it matter. Seeming confused she asked, "Does someone else need it?" She started looking around from groups of people to other groups ready to hand over the ball.

"Nice to meet you Vashti. Well the thing is that i studied abroad last term."
He just not realized how out of the loop he felt not being here last term. " What position did you play if you don't mind me asking"