It was time for the latest game of quidditch, marking the third competition of the season. The competing teams were the Slytherins which they had beaten and the Ravenclaws that Hufflepuff had. Gideon himself was rooting for the eagles and he would have even if Vi hadn't been playing. And not because of the epic rivalry people asssociated between Gryffindor and Slytherin. Nope. There was no way he was supporting Dylan...he might be civil but he wasn't a fan.

The seventh year made his way down to the pitch with the crowds and then up through the stands, the Gryffindor careful to situate himself in an area where he wouldn't be attacked for supporting Ravebclaw. Beneath his robes he wore blue with his multicolored scarf topping off the outfit as he bundled for the colder weather. Gideon sat down for the moment as everyone seemed to anxiously awaiting Vindictus and the arrival of the teams.

Good...he was right on time.

Only thing missing was a certain captain.

Ethan, clad in his typical house colors for today's game, rushed down to the stands, carrying his mug of espresso. He knew he was running late, but had to procure a cup of his favorite hot beverage from the kitchen to endure the cold weather.

As he slowed towards the pitch, the boy realized that he wasn't the only one running late. Where was everyone else? The stands looked so empty.. He made his way through the tiny crowd to find a seat, smile widening at those clad in blue. Up ahead he spotted Minerva.. oh was she commentating today? He started over towards her when he noticed she was in green.. as in Slytherin green. Small frown.. but he quickly covered it up with a friendly smile in her direction. Ethan eyed the boy (Ed) who was sitting next to her a bit suspiciously.. yep, he remembered him from the last match.. then sat down a bit awkwardly on his other side. "Hey, guys.." he greeted them both. No need to ask who they were supporting today.. "Nice hair, Min," he added to the girl with a grin. Though he wouldn't mind to see the blonde streaked with blue instead.

Ella BEAMED at the older girl, happy that she didn't mind if she sat with her. Honestly, Ells didn't know what she would have done if the girl had refused. That would have been awkward... "Hi Emmaleigh, I'm Ella." Nod. "You're um..." How did she say this? She wasn't exactly sure what the status of Em's relationship with Max was. "You're friends with Max, yeah?" There, that wasn't so bad and Emmaleigh could totally correct her if she was wrong. And the older girl had accepted gummy worms? GRIN. Ella liked her already! Yup, it was that easy. She smiled as the red head got herself some worms and followed her lead, grabbing a couple of green ones for herself. "Oh merlin, me too." Seriously, Ella could never imagine eating real worms. "I think that would probably make me sick...and make me not love these as much." Frown. That would be totally sad. "So...are you excited for this match?" Cause she looked a bit nervous, to be honest.

Damon came up a little late but hewed still there, he smiled as he saw Ariana flying, "Let's go Ari!" Damon sat down and as usual was already losing track of the game.

Minerva smiled as Ella walked by, "Hey Ella, how are you today?" She then looked to Ed and smiled, "Well if you have no one to sit with I would love the company, you could be my ears around the stands if you hear anything good I should say." She giggled then stood up looking at the time. "Oh goodness, yes I guess I should have started about five minutes ago."

Minerva hurried over to the microphone and pulled out the line up. Looking it over she smiled at Ariana's name, then glared not seeing Richard's name. Darn that material she had in mind would have to wait. Then looking at the Ravenclaw line up she frowned, Taylor's playing. Why didn't she know this ahead of time. She would have put some blue on as well. She couldn't cheer on just one friend, oh well to late now. Sitting down she took a sip of her hot chocolate and got ready to start.

"Happy Valentines Day Hogwarts. What a great way to celebrate such a romantic day. Bring your sweetie and cuddle up on the cold stands and get ready for a fantastic match against your Ravenclaw Eagles and your Slytherin Snakes. Let's look at today's lineup as we watch them come to the field. She looked at the pitch as she watched the teams get on their brooms to warm up. "Slytherin looks like they are out for hearts, and not to be romantic today. Your Slytherin line up today is, At Keeper, you have the captain, Dylan Montmorency, the fearless beaters for today are, Katrina Hudson and Kennedy Escalante . The slytherin quick chasers are headbutting West Odessa, Theodore Kinsley, and none other then my best friend Ariana Logan and finally the snakes sneaky seeker Isaac Muir.

She then pulled out the claw list, "Now your Ravenclaw line up. At keeper, your captain Maximus James, the crazy beaters today are my other great friend Taylor McIntrye and Blue Grace. These girls are pretty boys, but don't underestimate their beater ability. At chasers we have, Beatrice "Beezus" Castell, Dustin Ashby, and Genevive Branxton. Finally the claw seeker Aidan Stone. There is Professor Vindictus, he looks ready to start. Hold on to your seats love birds the whistle as been blown and it looks like a quick start."

"There is a blur of blue and green, but here comes Logan getting the Quaffle and zooming away, Logan looks great today. She is moving quickly..She looks to pass and send the quaffle sending it towards Odessa, watch out for his head claws. Odessa zooms down the pitch, can he be stopped, it's not looking that way. Odessa throws to Kinsley, Kinsley moves into score. He shoots and it zooms past James for an early Slytherin score!"

Minerva looked around the stands looked like they were filling up. That was a good thing. She needed people cheering and listening to her announce. If no one was there, what was the point of her talking..

[color=#991b33]Time for another Quidditch game! This time between Ravenclaw and Slytherin.

Penelope hadn't really been sure which team to support, so she decided to sorta support both - though hoping a liiiittle more for Ravenclaw for her usual reasons. She did know, though, that she was cheering for West, because she'd agreed to. And because he was her friend. So technically she was still supporting both teams.

And, even though it was out-of-place among the blue and the green, she was wearing her Gryffindor scarf. It was cold after all, and she liked to show a little house pride no matter what.

She found a seat quickly and settled into it until the game started, at which time she jumped to her feet. "Gooooo West!" she cheered as the Chasers flew into action after the Quaffle.

Selina was nothing sort of exhausted. The night before she had been up scratching her head trying to figure out the roster for the Gryffindor Quidditch game next weekend. The last group of people that had played had done very well, so much so that they had won, but the redhead was all about teamwork. And maybe, just maybe, she would switch things up a bit next game position wise and even let people play who did not get the chance last game. Then again, everyone EVERY practice had to prove that they deserved to be on that field. Not even the seeker position was set in stone... okay well maybe THAT position.

But today was not about how tired she was or how upset she was at the roster situation. No, today was about getting to watch some good, ol' fashioned Quidditch. And Selina was thrilled. It was a little hard for her to pick which team she would be rooting for, but Selina was NOT a huge fan of Milton, so it was pretty easy for her to choice after she remembered that. Yeah, yeah... she was rooting for the snakes. BUT SHE WAS WEARING MOUSTACHE STUFF TO SUPPORT VIVI. Because that girl defied description of awesome.

Looking all green and silver with his Slytherin cloak and scarf, Richard appeared in the stands eyeing every single person around to find himself a suitable place to get seated. At the same time, he was looking at the pitch only to see his team kicking those eagles. So proud. He had no doubt that this game was going to be the snake's and perhaps they could play Gryffindor again and Rich would be there to kick the lions this time.

Whatever...

When he finally found a nice place to get seated with a nice view of the pitch, he cringed at the sound of the girl who was doing the commentary. That stupid Hufflepuff girl again. She had better not call him names to the whole school again or she was going to be very sorry this time. It was not going to be nice. After glaring at her a bit, the Slytherin boy decided to focus on the match and try not to hear the commentary. Fair enough.

Oh. Yeah. It was Valentine's day Bliss realised and sniffed. She was alone in the stands and if she messed up this cheering stuff, she'd end the day with NO friends. That wouldn't be good. Balancing carefully on her seat, Bliss brought her knees up to her chest and rested her chin of them. She quickly tried to shake off the sad feeling she had. That obviously wasn't about being alone of Valentine's day. She looked out across the pitch and watched as the figures flew backwards and forwards.

WOW.

Was this what Bliss looked like when she was flying? She really hoped so, cos it looked amazing. OH. The line up. Bliss decided to by supportive starting now and as names came up, she gave little cheers. Though Blue, Theo and Ariana received a little louder squeals. She really hoped both teams did well. And that they had fun. That's obviously what matters most. With that, the game started and the quaffle was straight away claimed by the Slytherin's. Bliss bit her lip, hoping Blue wouldn't lose hope. Ever.

Then Slytherin scored. Wait. Bliss squinted and noticed..it was THEO. Her thoughts were supported by the booming voice of Minnie, who was commentating. Bliss was as quick as lightning with cheering Theo. She was off her seat and jumping up and down and shouting out to Theo. "WHOO! GO THEO!" She shouted enthusiastically, before sitting back down again.

"Definitely, I'd love to help." He shrugged at her with a smile and followed her over to the mic. Sitting next to her, he glanced around and saw a kid eyeing him. He couldn't, for the life of him, remember the kid's name. "Hey." Well, there were two houses being represented up by the mic now, at least. He let out a whoop at the mention of Isaac and pulled a face as she went through the Ravvie team. His eyes followed the game closely, searching for Isaac. He gave him a thumbs up when he finally found him.

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Selina was nothing sort of exhausted. The night before she had been up scratching her head trying to figure out the roster for the Gryffindor Quidditch game next weekend. The last group of people that had played had done very well, so much so that they had won, but the redhead was all about teamwork. And maybe, just maybe, she would switch things up a bit next game position wise and even let people play who did not get the chance last game. Then again, everyone EVERY practice had to prove that they deserved to be on that field. Not even the seeker position was set in stone... okay well maybe THAT position.

But today was not about how tired she was or how upset she was at the roster situation. No, today was about getting to watch some good, ol' fashioned Quidditch. And Selina was thrilled. It was a little hard for her to pick which team she would be rooting for, but Selina was NOT a huge fan of Milton, so it was pretty easy for her to choice after she remembered that. Yeah, yeah... she was rooting for the snakes. BUT SHE WAS WEARING MOUSTACHE STUFF TO SUPPORT VIVI. Because that girl defied description of awesome.

At last the teams were out and the game was begun, each team's chasers vying for the first quaffle of the game. Gideon was up on his feet with the rest trying to see the action the best. Unfortunately it was Slytherin who wound up the victor. Booooo. Oh well, it was still anyone's game as it was only the beginning. The next play he noticed the quaffle passing hands on the Ravenclaw team with Vi taking the final movement.

"GO VIV!!!" he exclaimed with his gloved hands around his lips. Lowering his arms it was then he noticed a familiar patch of red hair falling beneath a black beanie. Gideon excused himself from where he was and cautiously picked his way among the watchers to where Selina stood. "Fancy meeting ye here," he mused taking up the spot on one side of her.

Darn....a certain Slytherin keeper had blocked that shot.

Aurora, dressed head to toe in green and silver, ran down to the Quidditch pitch as fast as she could - she'd spent ages trying to get her hair right and now she'd FINALLY managed to charm it green with silver ends. She climbed the stands quickly, hoping she wasn't too late, and glanced around for someone...

AHA! She pushed her way through the crowds to get to Rich and hugged him tight. "Hi!" she said cheerily, grinning up at him. She was wearing the necklace he'd bought her - it was her new favourite thing...

Jumping to his feet as Isaac went head to head with the other seeker, Ed yelled "GO ON LAD, GO FOR IT!" The kid was a quidditch GENIUS, so surely he'd get it. He slowly sat back in his seat when Isaac missed, grimacing, but gave him a hopeful thumbs up. Maybe he'd get the next one.

“Ella,” Em repeated, committing the name to memory. Not that she needed to, because Max had mentioned her a few times. The redhead blushed at the girl's next question, and nodded. “Girlfriend actually, so, you could say that.” she said through a smile.”And your the baby badger Max carried to the common room after the last game right?” Popping another gummy in her mouth Em nodded. “I don't know why they make some types of candy. I mean, I'm not a bird, I don't eat insects.” Excited? Em shrugged. “I don't know if excited is the right word. I think I'm more nervous for Max than anything.”

Em looked up as the teams took to the pitch, and cheered when they announced Max. She watched the action taking place, and when the quaffle got near the Ravenclaw goal post, Em nervously balled her hands into fist. When Max missed the block, Em hollered out, ” Don't worry, you'll get the next one!' Please get the next one.

Minerva felt someone come up and sit next to her and she smiled as she noticed it was Ethan. "Hey Ethan, you remember Ed right?" She blushed a little remembering how green she looked today, "Had to support Ariana ya know."

Turning quickly back to the game, "James puts the Quaffle back in play.. He passes it to Beezus, Beezus zooms down the field. She has her eyes on Dylan, well for other reasons as well she heads down the pitch, she just misses being hit by a slytherin. Beezus doesn't look comfortable on her broom at the moment and she passes to Ashby, Ashby turns and moves zigzagging away from a hurtful headbutting Valentines Day present and keeps going. Ashby passes to Branxton, Branxton gets close, she shoots, and Dlyan quickly knocks the quaffle away.

Dylan puts the Quaffle back in play and passes it to Ariana, Ariana flies down the pitch. Ariana nearly misses a bludger to the head, oh I hope that wasn't from Taylor. Ariana passes to Kinsley, but wait the bludger is close to hitting the quaffle.. It just misses the quaffle and Kinsley makes an awesome catch, KINSLEY is now in a barrel roll, nice move Kinsley away from the bludger. Those bludgers are out for some red today. The beaters are moving into action. Hudson makes the hit and the bludger is going straight for Beezus. It's a hit and Beezus is off her broom. Dylan is not going to like this.. Kinsley moves down the field passing to West, West turns and moves down the field, he shoots.. and scores for Slytherin. Is he really headbutting the air, but wait, what did he just move... Was that...no, couldn't be..."looking around the stands she sees fans cheering and then sees him. "The fans are all enjoying their Valentines Day cheering for their houses.. Oh look Richard decided he would rather play the stands the play on the field today." Yes, she saw him sitting there again rolling her eyes, she turned back to the pitch.

Dylan seemed to be in a good form today. Narrowing his eyes a bit, Richard watched his best friend as he flew around the hoops. Then his eyes went to chasers. Ariana was playing filling his place for the match. She looked...well...excited maybe but she was doing fine. He, then, started to eye the Ravenclaws thinking if he could hex one of them off their brooms from the current distance. Hmm...it was not a bad plan. Maybe when one would get closer then....

...he was hugged all in a sudden. Aurora.

''Beautiful!'' he said with a warm smile, hugging her back. Good. Now watching this match with her was going to be fun. He hugged her tight for a moment then took a look at her. She really was very beautiful. He smirked at her a bit before leaning in and giving her a kiss.

This was SO exciting. Now see wished she could re-watch her own match. Bliss listened intently to Minnie, while keeping her eyes glued to the pitch. It was so easy to loose track of everything in a Quidditch game, that's why having a commentator was essential. Blink. Everything was changing so quickly.

Extremely quickly!

One thing Bliss did notice was that there were a lot of bludgers being hit around. Well obviously there was only two, but they were getting hit all over the place. Bliss gasped as bludgers nearly hit Theo, West and Ariana. She then sighed in relieve when she saw that they were completely fine. She'd hate it if they got injured, same with Blue.

OH. West had scored. She went for a slightly quieter cheer this time, seen as she was supposed to be supporting Ravenclaw. But Blue, Theo and West were friends, so it should be acceptable. Obviously. "GO WEST!" Bliss cheered anyway, not caring if everyone hated. Ok. So she would care if they did. SHH.

GIGGLE.

Ah. Ethan, that was it. He offered the kid a smile. Swallowing as he watched the game, he wondered if he was more nervous than Isaac. Maybe he needed to take a little break from staring so intensely at them and chill out a little. Ed glanced around and pointed out the pure, all out, awesome moustache t-shirt to Min. "That freaking rocks." He'd have to ask the girl (Selina; fanficfanatict) wearing it where she'd gotten it.

"Gooooo Max! Gooooo Theo! Goooo Blue!" Ella yelled, clapping excitedly. The third year had a knot in her stomach, mostly because she knew that whoever won this meant one of her friends would be upset. Ugh. Why couldn't they all be on the same team? That would make things A LOT easier. Nod.

She was snapped out of her thoughts by one word: Girlfriend. GRIN. "EEEP!" She squeaked, beaming at the red head. "I told him you'd..." O___O WHOOPS. She probably shouldn't have said that. "I mean...that's just...I'm...that's brilliant! I'm happy for you guys!" Baby badger? Giggle. Ella nodded her head, eyes on the match. "Yeah. Max is kinda...well he's pretty much a big brother to me." And so she was very protective of him, obviously. "So I have his back." Brows. "And he has mine." That's right, laying down the law. She laughed at Em's comment about not being a bird, nodding. "Exactly. I'm not a fan of the real bug-y candies. They make my stomach turn." Bleghhh. "Yeah...I'm really nervous too. I have friends on both teams and I just don't want anyone upset." Frown.

"James puts the Quaffle back in play, he sends it to Brantxon. Brantxon is being followed closely by Logan. Brantxon is just ahead of Logan and seems to know Logan is close behind. She makes a pass to Ashby and turns shoving Logan. Logan returns the shove with a smirk and moves down the field. Ashby is way ahead of her though.. Ashby zigzags past greens and passes to Beezus. Beezus turns and zooms towards Dylan. Will there be a Valentines Day gift waiting for her. She shoots and Dylan quickly diverts the quaffle. Guess Beezus is going to have to work harder for that present. The stands could be little louder, where is that friendly Ravenclaw Dragon at today??" She looked around wondering where their mascot was.

"Dylan puts the Quaffle back in play, he passes to Kinsley. Kinsley moves down the field. He is a quick little snake, but the claws are right behind him. Beezus doesn't seem happy about Dylan not letting her score, she shoves Kinsley and he keeps control of the quaffle, but Branxton is now hitting his broom. He is in a tail spin and lets go of the quaffle right towards Odessa. Odessa makes the catch and heads down the field. Branxton is on fire today staying after these snakes. She better watch though, it looks like Odessa is playing a game of chicken with her. Odessa is getting close he doesn't seem to want to zoom.. OH NO.. West just headbutted Branxton. Odessa headbutt a girl." Minerva cringed as the heads connected. "Branxton has backed off and Odessa shots, but James is there to save the day. He blocks the shot. BUT WAIT... there is the snitch and there goes the seekers. They are neck and neck.. It looks like they are doing figure eights, but Stone has his hand in the air, and Ravenclaw has caught the snitch."

As expected, it was a really good, exciting game. Both teams were REALLY good, and it was still anyone's game. Penelope had no idea who was going to win, and she kinda liked that. It was awesome seeing it go back and forth with the scoring, and she cheered extra loud when West scored ("Great job, West!"). When the snitch was spotted, she kept her eyes on it and the Seekers chasing after it, itching to be out there chasing it too. But this wasn't Gryffindor's game, so she had to keep her place in the stands and just continue watching and cheering.

At least it was an exciting game!

"These stand are way to quiet everyone.. Stop smooching your Valentines and start screaming for your teams!! The Quaffle is in the air, Branxton catches the Quaffle, but Watch out Vivi, here comes West with his horrible head. They say when boys are mean to you they actually like you, but I dont' think this is the case. Branxton tossed the quaffle to Beezus, Beezus heads down the field. Beezus barely misses a bat. She passes to Ashby, Ashby flies down the pitch. Here comes Logan trying to steal the quaffle, but Ashby moves around her and gets close enough to score. He shots and scores for Ravenclaw, but wait what is Ari doing... there is the whistle, Logan receives a foul and Slytherin loses five points. Oh Ariana be careful...Dylan doesn't seem happy as he barks orders at his team. He passes the quaffle to Logan, Logan tries to gain back the foul she just did by zooming down the field.

Here comes Beezus to try and steal the quaffle, but Logan is to quick. She zooms past her. Logan passes to Odessa, Odessa moves down the pitch. Taylor swings a bludger in his direction. West avoids being hit, he keeps moving down the field. The other beaters are on the bludger and Odessa gets out of the way. Hudson makes contact and it heads straight for Taylor McIntyre, she is thrown back from her broom. cringing hoping her friend is okay she continued to watch the game. Odess passes to Kinsley, Kinsley heads down the pitch zooming around defenders. Kinsley shoots and James is ready to save, the quaffle falls short, no score.

RAVENCLAW HAS THE SNITCH! Bliss' eyes had been following the players so closely, that she almost didn't notice the snitch zooming around above the players. It was so, so, so close. But Ravenclaw. Caught. It. The second year was one her feet and cheering like she'd never cheered before. "YAY! GO RAVENCLAW!" She yelled at the top of her tiny voice. Then she sat down and pretended that she wasn't a crazy at all.

Promise.

Staaaaaarry eyes. Every time he spoke he made her smile. Sigh. She rested her head on his chest as he hugged her and breathed in his scent... and then he kissed her and she grinned at him, taking a moment just to stare before she let her eyes flick back to the game.

Hmmmmmm... So were they winning yet? Ugh, Ravenclaws... she was beginning to understand why Theodore seemed to hate them so much - one of them had just send his broom spinning. And they were going to pay for that... grrrr.

...

Okay maybe they wouldn't pay for it - she knew it was just a game. Still, she wished people wouldn't feel the need to attack her little brother...

This was not good. Well the game was really good, but Selina always got extremely uncomfortable when little kids got hurt on the Pitch. That was a HUGE source of stress for the sixth year, especially since most of her team were fourth years and under. And watching the cutie-pie West get hurt just reminded Selina that anything could happen to her own teammates. She shuttered at the thought.

However, she kept her eyes pealed on the Pitch and chewed on her nails anxiously. Come ON Slytherin. Pull it together, let's go. And someone please help that ickle Slytherin or else someone meaning Selina was going to start screaming her head off for someone to help him.

...Poor kid.