Overtime. (Zoey)

[Danny McKay G5]

“What a day.” Danny said while a big smile was still on his face, a smile which seemed to have lasted since the end of the Quidditch game. He sat alone in the Common room beside the fireplace with his broom and a broom cleaning kit that he never bothered to use besides today which was special. This broom had been able to fly with the best and help him catch the Snitch so it deserved to be treated properly at least for today then he would probably start to forget once again. The broom wasn't in bad shape but it never did get cleaned, Danny just made sure never to damage it. Normally Danny had to keep his broom with all the other students but seeing as how he was a Perfect it was easy to sneak in and take it back to the common room.

Just holding his broom again reminded him of today and of the hours after it. Most of the other Gryffindor students were up in the common room celebrating after they won and Danny couldn't help but join in for awhile. He had to admit being popular was fun, not that he didn't have many friend before but just walking the halls and random students congratulating him was a great feeling. Sure there were a few Hufflepuff who weren't to happy about it and made their feelings clear Danny did let it bother him. Danny stopped thinking about all of it when his hand ran a crossed a small crack in his broom and his attention was drawn to it right away. “I didn't even get hit by anything...” He muttered as he cleaned the spot where the crack was but his hopes of it being just dirt didn't help. “Well I'll just have to get it fixed during winter break.” Danny said as he put the broom on the side of the chair and just relaxed.

Danny knew he would be tired from staying up late but he couldn't sleep, today had been too prefect to go to sleep and go back to normal school life just yet. The game just kept playing in his head, especially the part where he caught the Snitch before the Hufflepuff Seeker which shocked Danny the most, Finn had been playing Seeker for a lot longer then Danny and yet he still caught the Snitch and Finn even saw it first. He chalked it all up to just beginners luck but even if it was luck he was still proud of how he played, of how the whole team played. More then a couple times Danny had to refuse taking all the credit when students came up to him. He wasn't that stupid to think just a Seeker alone could win a came, surely without Zoey and melody around he would have been hit by everyone of those Bludgers. Danny kept staring into space till he heard the sounds of someone coming down the stairs and he just looked to both of the stairways waiting to see which side they would appear from, the boys or girls side.

[zoeyshay]

Gryffindor win!

Zoey strolled into the girl’s dormitory with a triumphant grin on her worn out face as she popped open her trunk. She as the only one in the dormitory, not to her surprise; they were probably all still in the common room celebrating the win. Actually, she herself was surprised that she had made it in here. As she had walked through the halls and got a lot of ‘good jobs’ and ‘awesome games’ along with pats on the back and a few quick hugs from random strangers she had never seen before. She supposed it as part of being on the Quidditch team, but she swore that never happened last year. Maybe it was her position as Vice. Or maybe the fact that she was the youngest Vice out there now…And one of the best Beaters of Hogwarts. She shrugged happily and changed from her scarlet and gold trimmed uniform that she had worn proudly today and into a blue long sleeve shirt that seemed to match her eyes almost perfectly and a pair of jeans.

She was pretty hot, despite the cold, windy weather from outside. Her pale cheeks ere a bright red from the windburn, her temperature, and the overall cheeriness she was holding in her small frame. She pulled her wild black curls into a messy side swept ponytail to cool off and she rubbed her eyes. Zoey’s muscles ached all over, especially her arms. She had whacked the heck out of those Bludgers out on the field, and she could feel in her throat that she was going to have a weak, possibly no voice, for a couple of days. This as the down side of Quidditch- the hurting and suffering she went through after it. She left her arms dead at her sides, but wore a smile as she walked down the marble stairs into the almost empty Common room.

She saw messy brown hair belonging to Danny from one of the chairs and he had turned to face her direction, probably hearing the small taps made from her shoes on the staircase. She grinned a waved a weary wave. Her arm muscles were strained and hurt from the game to give the full on happy and energetic wave she wanted to give. Zoey walked to the couch practically let herself drop into the space next to Danny. She closed her eyes for a moment before straightening up in a long process and looking to his broom. “Hey…weren’t you supposed to leave it in downstairs?” she asked with a playful grin on her face.

“You did great today.” She nodded, hoping he didn’t hear the small crack her voice gave in exhaustion from all the screaming and yelling she did today. She turned her body and sat Indian style to face him.

[Danny McKay G5]

Danny soon smiled as he watched the figure come down from the girls dormitory and he could soon tell that it was Zoey. Danny could tell she was probably just tired as him and yet still couldn't fall asleep just like he couldn't, then again she might be up for other reasons. Danny looked at his broom for a second then laughed slightly as he turned back to her. “Us Perfects don't have to be perfect all the time and anytime you want to sneak out at night just ask me. I can just say I'm training you to be a perfect.” He replied with a small laugh at the end then smiled once again as she told him he did a great job once again. Danny had been hearing that a lot since the game and still never got tired of it, maybe he would in a while but for right now it still felt great to hear. “Yeah I was pretty great out there and you were okay too.” Danny said laughing slightly as he tried pretend to be that vein.

“I'm kidding, I couldn't have done it without you Zoey. Also melody too, I need to find her and thank her as well. Without you two I'd probably be in the hospital wing tonight and that's if I was lucky.” He said with a smiled as he watched Zoey turn in her seat and face him. Danny let out a small yawn then sighed slightly. “We should be allowed to not have classes tomorrow since we won.” Danny said with a weak laugh as he wished for that to happen, he didn't feel like going back to normal school life just after such a great day.

“So what are you doing up so late, shouldn't good girls be in bed right now?” Danny said with a grin as he teased her slightly.

[zoeyshay]

“Ever heard of abuse of powers?” Zoey asked with a smart tone while hiding a smirk momentarily before letting it out. She let out a quiet laugh before looking toward the dwindling fire dancing in the fire place and back toward the stairs. She began looking around, seeing no one around. “Well, they all went to bed early for a Gryffindor win, now didn’t they?” she halfway asked herself before shrugging. Danny went on and the girl couldn’t help but smile at the attitude in his voice. She knew right away that he was kidding- Danny was never one to be vain. Zoey laughed a bit before focusing back onto Danny and his words.

“Eh, you’re a skinny one, you would have dodged them like Finn did…except for the first one I sent him…” Zoey grinned proudly while attempting to massage her sore biceps. Danny yawned and Zoey scowled silently before yawning too. She noticed a while ago that whenever someone around you would yawn, she’d have to yawn, sort of like an impulse. The yawn left her eyes a little watery and the urge to sleep stronger, but she wouldn’t let herself. She didn’t want that great day of glory to end. To be honest, she didn’t receive that much congratulations. Who’s pay attention to a Beater, or the Vice Captain? The ones that mattered were the Seeker, the Chasers that did best, the Keeper and the Captains; at least in the eyes of the crowd they did. Zoey didn’t really care though. She knew she played her part well and helped out in ways unseen by most. At least Danny knew.

Her black curls shook and danced around her face as she nodded weakly in agreement. “I’d give everything to skip bloody Herbology. I hate it.” She wrinkled her nose as she spoke of the subject, as if it stunk to just mention it. Who in their right mind would enjoy working with stinky, harmful plants that one some occasions, screamed and knocked you out? Zoey remembered that time in her first year she hadn’t fastened her ear muffs correctly when they were working with those…plants? Of course plants…she couldn’t remember the name, but she didn’t really care. She was instantly knocked out and woke up in the Hospital Wing with a nasty headache. Danny began teasing her and Zoey laughed. “Well, maybe I should ask you the same thing, bad boy.” She grinned, putting emphasis on the bad as she used sarcasm.

[Danny McKay G5]

“I wasn't abusing my powers, I just made sure to check the Broom storage room in case someone was hiding in there.” Danny said laughing slightly, that was the lie he had prepared for himself in case a teacher asked him what he was doing walking around. It was nice to be a perfect, he got to walk around at night and many other things. The only downside was that if he did actually catch someone he would have to punish them and he never liked that part especially if it was a Gryffindors but he had to remain fair to all the students. As Danny thought about being a Perfect he wasn't quite sure how he even became out. He wasn't even trying to be one like some of the other students, a lot of them seemed to be trying so hard for the title and one day it was just given to him. Danny just nodded as she commented on how everyone had gone to sleep already. “Yeah none of them are night owls like us I guess.” Danny said with a shrug as he just smiled.

“Me bad? Well that's just silly, I'm a Perfect.” Danny said with a grin as he stood up and tried to look like he was being serious. “ We are the trusted few who guard the halls and protect our younger students. We always tell the truth and never do anything wrong, we also don't steal our brooms out of the storage room and bring it back to the Common Room.” Danny remarked as his act started to break down from how he was begining to laugh at himself slightly. “It would just be... unperfectly.. imperfect?” Danny asked out loud as he thought of what the word would be for not acting like a Perfect. Danny just shrugged as he settled on imperfect for what the word should be.

Danny stood there for a second then looked as his broom and smiled again. “Well seeing as how I have to return my broom before someone else notices.” He said with a laugh as he held his hand out to Zoey. “ Perfect in training Zoey, would you like to come with me as we patrol the castle? Especially the storage room of course.” He asked with a grin as he looked down to Zoey.

[zoeyshay]

Zoey herself was caught laughing a little harder at Danny’s ridiculous excuse. Her mind played different scenarios where Danny was roaming around, about to get his broom and out of the broom closet comes someone. It sort of made her wonder- what would Danny do if he caught someone doing that? She couldn’t imagine him, laid back and almost getting into major trouble and mischief king himself getting people in trou- wait a second, was that really how she viewed prefects? She smirked a little. Actually it was. It was just hard imaging Danny as one of them. Maybe he’d be cool. Hopefully she would too, she hoped. Her attention was drawn to Danny who spoke again, replying to her comment.

Zoey stuck her tongue out, as if all the early birds could see while in their beds. “We night owls work our arses off to win a quidditch match, and no party.” She crossed her arms and pouted momentarily. To be honest, she was looking forward to the after party, with all the butterbeer, wizard rock, and the full common room with constant pats on the back. Well, it seemed like maybe they didn’t play well enough? That couldn’t be, because with a starting Seeker and barely any players, and the youngest member of the team as vice was playing, and they won! How in the world was that not good enough? Zoey crossed that option out of her head and decided that maybe, the fans were tired from the chilly, spine shivering, teeth chattering conditions in which it was today. Zoey still felt cold, as if she was on the pitch, even though when she was actually on the pitch, she barely felt a thing. Boy, did she love adrenaline.

Zoey snorted a little at Danny’s comments, instantly covering her mouth and nose and feeling her cheeks turn red. Her eyes were wide as she wore one of those silly smirks of ‘oops’ as she lowered her hands. She just shrugged and began laughing again. To be honest, she couldn’t think of a time recently that she had been this full of laughter and smiles. It was usually frowns of annoyance and dread with her head filled with thoughts of her dreadful father. Leon Shay. She never would have guessed her father was out there, and so cold. Well, he got a shock when he learnt Zoey was a hot headed but big hearted Gryffindor and proud. Expect a Slytherin, eh? Well, surprise. Zoey sighed a little bit right as Danny spoke again. She shot her lowering head up to look at him once more.

She smiled again as she nodded, grabbing his hand without thinking? “Hey…wouldn’t we…at least, I get in trouble? I’m not a prefect yet…” she cut herself off and just shrugged, letting go of his hand even though a part of her still wanted to hold it. Now, off to the broom closet they go! She chuckled a bit. “So…How’s being a prefect?” she asked, a little curious. Afterall, she had gotten hints and bits of information leading her to think she was going to be a prefect next year from both professors and current prefects. A part of her was looking forward to being able to walk the halls at night, looking like you were patrolling, but the other part wasn’t looking forward to the extra responsibility to add to Quidditch captain/vice (which ever she was last year) and the dreaded part guaranteed to come- getting people in trouble.

[Danny McKay G5]

Danny just smiled as Zoey laughed at his excuse he had prepared. He had actually thought it was a pretty good one in case he ran into any random teachers who might be walking around. Every now and then as a perfect you did bump into a teacher or two or other prefects which was kind of cool he thought, unless it was one of the Slytherins. They always seemed to give Danny a hard time but he just ignored them most of the times seeing as how be barely ran into them anyway and a prefect cant get another prefect into trouble without a good reason so he was safe. All and all being a prefect was pretty fun and Danny was making sure to enjoy every bit of it he could. No longer could he get in trouble for sneaking around late at night because he wasn't sneaking around anymore, he was allowed to be out. He felt a little bad about abusing his new Prefect powers but he wasn't abusing them too badly so he didn't feel too bad about it.

“Well I'll make sure to have a big party planned after we win the next match, that way we can party all night and feel tired in the morning in a huge group.” Danny said with a laugh as he realized how right Zoey was, sure they had a small party after they won but it wasn't really what he was expecting. Then again Danny didn't really know what to expect this was the first game he was ever in and the first time he had ever won too. Just that thought alone made him smile with a sense of pride, his first game was a victory. “It's a good start.” Danny thought with a smile as he paid attention to Zoey once again.

He couldn't help but laugh a little as Zoey's laughed turning into a quick snort then she tried to cover her mouth right after it happened. “Don't worry I won't tell anyone else about how cute that was.” Danny let out while he was still laughing as he teased her slightly. Danny smiled as she toke his hand and stood up then asked about her getting in trouble. “ Don't worry, I'm a Prefect and if anyone catches us I'll just claim your a terrible sleep walker who I have to drag back to her bed every night.” He said as he laughed a little while teased her slightly. “ See an air tight story in case we run into trouble, just act like your asleep if something happens and we're good.” Danny added as he started heading out of the common room while listening to Zoey ask him about being a Prefect.

“It's pretty simple, just walk the halls at night whenever you feel like it and look for people breaking rules, as you can tell I don't look that hard.” Danny said with a grin as he held up his broom slightly and stopped as they reached the portrait door then pushed it open softly just in case The Fat Lady was sleeping. She was actually gone from her portrait when he looked but this was normal, she always seemed to run off at night. He held it open for Zoey then closed it after she walked out. “ The only time you really have to do something is when there's some dance or event.” He said as he started walking again then turned to make sure Zoey was following. “ So how is being a vice captain, any special rooms you get to use or something like that? Because we Prefects get our own bathroom.” Danny said laughing slightly as he talked about the bathroom, it wasn't anything special but some students actually thought it was so much better then all the others.