#that kagome would never srsly put herself at risk like that

[zefyre]

hii today I felt like prompting you, hope you dont mind! kagome making it into the quidditch team and she loves the thrill of the game more than she thought making riskier and riskier moves. the boys are laughting if off first but one day she nearly killed herself with a stunt and still just laughed it off so. so they had to talk

“Oh shit,” Kagome exhaled on a breathless laugh, heartracing and exhilaration running through her veins as she just barely caughtherself before flipping off her broom. She pulled back on the handle, steering up and zipping higher into the air.

Just as she was passing her brother, who was gaping at her and looking a bit paler than normal, a white-knuckled grip around his broomstick, she laughed and joked, “Note to self, don’t try a dive that sharp again. Well, not without practicing it first!” and then off she went, back to searching for the snitch.

She missed the way a shadow crossed her brother’s face, something dark and thunderous churning in his gaze; how Sirius had pulled to a stop at his side, watching in concern and looking a little agitated himself.

“Has she gone absolutely mental?”

James shook his head, unable to form the words. “Let’s finish this,” he muttered, just barely loud enough to be heard over the din of cheers.

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Kagome was still riding on the adrenaline from the game as she slipped into the Gryffindor locker room, shrugging off her quidditch coat, when she stopped at the doorway.

There, waiting for her all line up, was her team with her brother at the head, looking particularly unhappy. Sirius similarly sported such a look. Kagome scanned the rest of the team to find them nervous and confused (the younger members) or vaguely uncomfortable (the older ones).

Kagome slowly slung her coat over her shoulder, stepping in the room fully and letting the door close behind her. “…What’s going on?” she asked, spirits dampening, starting to get a little concerned. They should be halfway ready to celebrate by now. “I know we didn’t score as many points as we wanted to this time, but I’m sure we can make it up next game.”

“Kagome.”

The witch in question stilled at the tone of her brother’s voice. She was in trouble, that was for sure. Her eyes flickered to Sirius, but aside from a flicker of sympathy, his expression was otherwise neutral. She turned back to her brother, eyebrows furrowing, “James?”

James stepped forward, “What you did today was dangerous,” he said, serious, “You could’ve gotten hurt with the stunt you pulled.”

Kagome stared. “It’s… it’s no different than the dives I’ve done before, James,” she said, visibly flummoxed and speaking slowly, “M-maybe a little sharper and okay, I almost flipped but I pulled back before anything happened.”

“Yeah, and you also dived straight into the path of a bludger!” Kagome flinched a little at James’ accusation. “And don’t tell me you didn’t see it, because it came this close,” he held up his forefinger and thumb to demonstrate – the distance between which a piece of parchment would have trouble passing through. “And even you aren’t that fast on your broom to dodge it that close unless you already knew it was there.”

Tight-lipped, Kagome turned away. James, however, had only just begun.

“And speaking of other dives, that’s the problem!” James began to rant, a scowl marring his face. He looked like all he wanted to do was march over to her and shake her and he probably would have too had Sirius not stepped up behind him to put a hand on his shoulder. Whether it was for her benefit or her brother’s, Kagome honestly couldn’t tell. The expression on his face was synonymous to his name, which was rare in of itself. “This isn’t the first time you’ve pulled risky moves and they’ve only been getting worse. This is more than just being daring, you’re being reckless, and it needs to stop now!”

Kagome snorted now, unable to help herself. “Is this my captain speaking, or is it my brother?” she said baldly as she turned on him, disbelief writ across her face. “I made a mistake today, I’ll own up to that, but it’s those dives that caught the snitch and won the matches for us. I’m not about to stop because you’re feeling overprotective of me!”

“I’m not being overprotective–!”

“—Well I don’t see you mother-henning anybody else around here!”

“Yeah, maybe that’s because no one else is trying to get themselves killed!”

“Merlin!” Kagome threw her hands up, eyes rolling skyward as she mouthed the words ‘getting themselves killed’ incredulously to herself. She shot him a flat look. “You’re overreacting.”

James pressed his mouth into a thin line and took a step forward, glaring hotly at her. “If I was? I wouldn’t have the whole team here backing me up.”

Kagome’s eyes snapped to Sirius, challenging him to agree. Sirius had to look away, his hand pulling away from James’ shoulder to come up and rub at the back of his neck instead, nervous energy radiating off him in waves as he fidgeted.

“Kagome…” he said, meeting her gaze with a helpless shrug. “This isn’t the first time you’ve had us worried, and yeah, we all had a good laugh at the close shaves you’ve been dodging lately but today… It wasn’t funny, that dive and you almost getting brained… And still, you just laughed it off like it was no big deal. Like you weren’t taking it seriously.”

Kagome’s hands fell to her sides then, an unpleasant feeling stirring in her chest that felt a little too like betrayal for her liking, and when she searched the faces of her team it was only to see them looking back at her genuinely worried.

Kagome turned back to James, whose agitation had receded into something warier. “I’m not trying to get myself killed,” she said softly, and watched as some of the tension bled away from her brother’s body, and it hit her then how concerned he was that might actually have been true. That unpleasant feeling from earlier deepened. “I’m just… having fun. It’s not like I don’t know what I’m doing and I’m just pulling these dives thinking bollocks to the consequences. It’s just… I made a mistake, got a little too careless, a little too into it.”

She shook her head. “I don’t have death wish,” she went on, and laughed as the idea was honestly ridiculous to her. As if she would risk everything, risk his life and Sirius’ and Lily’s and Remus’ and god, so many others, for something as silly as a fucking quidditch game. “I don’t where you got the idea from but you need to trust me.”

“No, what I need you to do is to stop pulling those dives.”

“Even after I said I knew what I’m doing?” Kagome snapped, “I haven’t even gotten hurt –

“All it takes is one time—!” James interjected, only to get cut off himself.

“What if’s and maybes and almosts,” Kagome talked over him, voice becoming dangerously loud as she glared at him, “I’ll be more careful but you’re being unreasonable by saying I should quit the dives full stop.”

“No,” James snipped back, “I’m being the captain.”

Kagome laughed, scathing and sarcastic. “No, you’re being overprotective. Like you’ve always been. You really think, really, that if any of the others pulled the same dives you’d be here dressing them down?”

“Everybody agrees—”

“Not everybody knows I’ve been practicing this.”

Kagome gave her brother an incomprehensible stare – until James matched it with a stare of his own, and it was a match off between the two siblings stubbornly staring the other down.

In the end, it was James who broke it

“You’re benched for the next match.”

Her mouth dropped to gape at him incomprehensibly, that earlier feeling of betrayal lancing through her now like a white-hot blade full force, and the grip she had on her broom was so tight a flitting thought in the back of her head wondered if she might snap it in two.

Something must’ve shown on her face because Sirius was stepping up now, hands up in a gesture no doubt to calm them both down, but Kagome was already snatching her quidditch coat from over her shoulder to ball it up and chuck it.

It landed bulls-eye at the toes of James’ boots.

“Don’t bother because I quit,” she snarled, eyes flashing with fire, and it was with deep satisfaction to see the shock rocking through James’ face this time, “I don’t want to be on a team where my own captain can’t trust my flying. And I’m gonna be real honest, don’t really want a brother that can’t trust me.”

“Ka-“

Kagome didn’t let him finish, she had already turned on her heel to stalk out, letting the door snap shut and cut him off.

#that ending... honestly got away from me #lolol drama drama #probably a liiittle ooc? #but idk as i was writing i had the thought #that kagome would never srsly put herself at risk like that #her friends and family's lives are counting on her #she'd have fun and all but she'd still be super conscious of that #i guess is what im saying #in any case #hope you enjoyed it nonny! #thanks for the prompt #domino effect #my fic #prompt fill #nonny #mail time