Tratie Days

Hogwarts au

The match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff was ending early, why u ask? A certain beater knocked a bludger into into a certain chaser. Katie was falling from around thirty feet in the air, clutching her stomach. Landing with a thud that caused everyone to flinch really did worry Travis as the last face he saw on the pitch was Katie's and boy was she mad. Even whilst falling, the glare that Katie could give was worse than anyone else in the school could muster. The memory replayed in his mind over and over like a broken record whilst he walked up to the infirmary. Katie was awake, reading a herbology book, her slung up arm made it difficult to turn the pages but certainly didn't make it difficult to hurtle the 3576 page hard back towards Travis' head. She missed, but barely. Travis felt it race past every curl that stuck out a tad too far on the left side of his bed.

"Are you okay?" sheepishly he picked up the book before heading over to sit on the bed Katie was in.

"Broken ribs and arm, minor concussion and a sprained ankle but other than that fine, thanks for not aiming by the way, swinging the bat around willy nilly. Are trying to kill someone?" She shoved him off the bed before he could even sit down.

"Sorry" the murmur was quieter than a mandrake in proper soil. He stole a base from the bed besides Katie, where a first year was asleep, quickly placing in a bouquet of flowers that were obviously poorly picked from the forbidden forest, but Katie didn't complain.

"Are you still coming by the hufflepuff common room tonight? I was thinking we break into the kitchens."

"Who are you  and what have you done with Katie Gardner?"

"Nothing. She made friends with the house elves who are inviting her and one guest to a birthday celebration their having tonight, but I knew you wouldn't want to come unless I told you we are breaking in."

"All you have to say is free cake and I'd go anywhere." He smirked, winking his left eye towards his half blooded companion.

"plus I am expecting you to drop off all the notes from today, which you promised me you would get from Annabeth yesterday after my tragic fall from the sky."

"Ahh yes. You're fall from heaven because you're-"

"An angel. Come Travis using unoriginal pick up lines? I am disgusted."

"I was going to say Lucifer the devil but okay. You've gotten so self centred lately" A shocked mouth-open laugh replied to his twist on the cringy line.

"Who me? Self centred? Please. Look in the mirror Trav."

"Wow Kates, I already know I'm handsome but thanks for trying to let me know. I appreciate the attempt at flirting though." The palm of her hand git her forehead. Was this the face-palming thing that muggles do?

"I'm not flirting you idiot."

"Oh yeah I forgot your hopeless at that."

"I'm better than you."

"Is that so? Then you won't mind if I told you that I think your eyes are easier to get lost in than the forbidden forest and that your smile can light up the room better than the sun does the day?"

"Not bothered." But the ever stubborn hufflepuff was bothered. The red tint on her cheeks betraying her.

"Uh huh," Travis was not convinced "It doesn't bother you that you're freckles remind me of the constellations we study in astronomy, or how I would personally like to take up to the roof of the school to show you the best place to look at them. Or how you are by far the prettiest girl in school? How there aren't enough word in the english language to be able to describe how much I love you? How 'gorgeous' doesn't do you justice? How you so good at quidditch and look amazing gets me so distracted that I accidentally send a bludger your way? How I watch you fall to the ground glaring at me as you clutch your stomach praying to whatever God or gods that might possibly be real that you will be okay? How I risk death and expulsion just to get you your favourite flowers from the forbidden forest?"

The fiery red that Katie attempted to mask was showing as she now realise that the bouquet was a Moonlace bouquet that Travis would've had to have stolen from the nymph Calypso's lair.

"Did you just say you love me?"