No "I" in team

[Linden Kinnek]

((Open to the hufflepuff team after Sofija posts with @Blair Bianchi))
The training was over and linden watched the other players land and make their way to the changing rooms. he couldn't believe how poorly the training had gone and how much of an ass Connor had been. what really was the point of training if they didn't get the chance to improve. not just each player getting better at throwing a ball but learning new skills and learning what you were doing wrong. he couldn't believe that Connor wanted him to just sit still, look pretty, and catch the odd ball. he sighed as he walked up towards the castle. he certainly wasn't going to face the changing room with the tension and disapproval as chocking as the lynx in the air. but he didn't want to go back into the castle yet either. he wanted someone to tell him that he was right. that Connor was out of line. he wanted Lucas, but he didn't want to make his boyfriend choose between him and Connor as it had taken long enough for the two of them to resolve their friendships and he didn't want to be the boy who spoiled that. or maybe that is exactly what he was, and Connor was being mean to him exactly because he was now dating Lucas, and he was a threat. however he could be a threat to Connor seemed laughable, the seventh year was bigger than him, smarter than him stronger than him, and well-liked by people. He flopped onto the grass on the slight hill next to the base of one of the towers. from here he could see the path to the quidditch pits and those who were coming out. he rubbed at his face the skin around his eyes stinging with annoyance before he picked a long bit of grass and started ripping it up in frustration.

 

[Blair Bianchi]

Blair wasn't feeling sure about how she felt about the practice. For the second part of the practice, she was mostly thinking about Connor and Linden's fight, she felt bad for Linden as he wasn't guilty at all. It all felt like Connor was just mad that he wasn't doing as good as Rene or someone else and just decided to put his anger out on Linden who was simply helping out to chasers. So when she was leaving the pitch, she wanted to go and find Linden, tho, it looked like she didn't even search for him as he was just laying on the ground not so far away from the pitch. "Hey Linden," she sat next to him on the ground, still a bit out of breath after the practice. "Y'know, thank you for the tips, they are really helpful," it was her way to simply say that he was right and approach the theme gently, and hopefully without Linden getting more frustrated. Wouldn't be a good way to start communication with the fact that they hadn't talked with each other out of the pitch.

 

[Linden Kinnek]

Linden was lost in his own world. A word filled with frustration and anger and general frustration not really anything specific just an unease like being on a rough sea. The sound of his name brought him back to reality looking up he saw Blair standing beside him oh hey Blair. How’d the rest of training go? he asked. He had seen it but had had missed a bit. He hoped that Connor had not caused anyone else to walk. He wasn’t as tough as his sister who he was pretty sure would have told Connor exactly what she thought about his ideas. but he could handle himself, at least he thought he did. At his next comment he smiled. thanks Blair. That makes it worth it. he said. It would have sucked it he had made a fuss about wanting to help the chasers and other players only to find out they didn’t want or need his help and Connor was right all along and that he was just a distraction to them.

 

[Blair Bianchi]

Blair shook her head at the question. "It was awful, to be honest. Once he put Rene to keep the hoops, it just felt like we forgot how to play, no one got the quaffle in," she sounded really disappointed, and she honestly had no idea whether it was because Rene was pretty good at the keeping or if it was because she was just on her nerves after that Linden and Connor fight on the pitch. "Ha, no worries. You were the right one anyway. And also, to be honest, it just inspired us to do more, so" she just shrugged her shoulders, she didn't want to say too much because Connor still was their captain and even Linden's friend, so she just tried to keep in the neutral line. "Why is he so mad at you? Like, does he often get that mad at his friend?" she unsurely asked, she quite liked Connor as their captain but not when he was in drama with other teammates.

 

[Linden Kinnek]

linden frowned as Blair said that the rest of the training had been awful. and even with Rene in the goals, no one had managed to score. "sounds like you were all a bit shaken, or was rene a fantastic keeper and I need to keep an eye on my job" he said.
it was good to be told that he was the one n the right. that is what he had always loved about being in a team. people helped each other out. if someone was struggling with one skill someone else would help them. sometimes that meant training until they improved others it meant stepping up at certain times to take the ball. he wasn't going to tell Connor about that. there was enough going on between him and Connor the team didn't need any more conflict. and Blair didn't deserve having Connor fall out with her for his apparent discretions.
when Blair asked why Connor was mad at him he thought for a moment. he had a couple of ideas "who knows. maybe he woke up on the wrong side of the bed, or the pressure from being captain and head boy is getting to him and he needs an outlet. or maybe there is something else" he said. he had gotten mad at Casper last year for a relatively minor digression when he was really mad at someone else. who was to say the same wasn't happening here. he also had an idea, seeing as he was continually being told not to get distracted and there was one player on the pitch he was most likely to be distracted by more than others. that maybe Connor was mad at him for dating Lucas but he wasn't going to say that. not if the idea of him just being generally mad was still a possibility.