Open Teammates

[Jacob Kingsley]

Jacob had been glancing furtively down the Gryffindor table for the past twenty minutes. He was only half listening to the conversation happening around him, that he was meant to be part of, and finally he simply excused himself, picking up his plate and cup and heading over. Stopping just across from Marcos, Jacob forced himself to string the appropriate sentence together. "Can I sit?" he asked, waiting for permission. The fourteen year couldn't say he was surprised to have been named co-captain. He'd been on the team since he was a first year, and Lizzie knew his potential. He'd been more surprised to be named alongside Marcos though the more he thought about it, the more sense it made. Marcos was a good player, a really good player. And he came from a line of quidditch players. "I have some ideas for practice" he added, his voice trailing off at the end. Jacob was impressed with himself. Just a few days ago, he couldn't say anything in front of Marcos and now he'd just strung two sentences together. Confidence growing, Jacob took a seat across from Marcos and continued his meal.

Open after Emzies

 

[Marcos Morales]

Marcos was sitting at the gryffindor house table, the year was getting underway, and of course it was keeping the boy pretty busy. Between his classes and the work he was doing, the teen was hopeful that this would be a good year. Of course he felt a little frustrated by the fact of his co-captaincy, though his frustration wasn’t necessarily directed towards his co-captain specifically just the situation in general. The teen felt a bit like an extra part, he hadn’t known the former captain as well as he knew the co-captain had. He felt a little like he was just a child-minder, picked to support the other boy because the boy was too young to probably do it entirely himself. Marcos knew he was probably being a little bitter about it but he was trying his best to get over it. The teen looked up in surprised when exactly who was on his mind was in front of him. The younger boy seemed cheerful and Marcos felt bad for how he was feeling, he put on a smile and nodded, ”Sure!” the gryffindor returned with a light tone, he was curious to what ideas the other boy had. The teen hadn’t given much thought to changing up the way they did the practices, but was keen to listen to what Jacob had in mind. Even in all the bitterness he hadn’t doubted that Jacob wouldn’t be able to do the job, ”Lets hear the ideas,”​

 

[Jacob Kingsley]

Jacob was happy that Marcos seemed open to hearing his ideas. He didn't know the older boy too well. They'd played together since he'd joined the team, but that was about it for their interactions aside from when he'd delivered a rose to him last year. "Ok, so remember when we were first years and the flying professor had us play a game with different colored bludgers?" He hoped Marcos did. It had been a lot longer since he'd been a first year, but he assumed the professors all did pretty much the same thing. "I figured maybe we could do something like that? Like enchant the balls to be different colors, and then run drills where we shout the colors people target to help them be more accurate?" Jacob didn't notice it consciously, but with quidditch being such an area of comfort, he had no issues talking to Marcos when it was about this subject. He picked up his cup, taking a small sip as he waited nervously for some feedback. He hoped Marcos wouldn't hate the idea.

 

[Marcos Morales]

Marcos looked to his co-captain as the boy launched into what his idea was. He didn’t particularly remember it, but there was a vague memory of it in his head, so regardless he just nodded. It wouldn’t help this boy’s explaining it if he said no. From even what he’d said he could lightly figure out what the boy was meaning for them to do. ”Yeah, mostly,” he said but let the younger boy just continue. He was thinking about how they’d do it. He could admit that it was a good idea, it was a good way to help people try to be a little more accurate, after all, he knew that just having people practice was a pretty good thing to do, but this would help push the team to the next level. Help them get better in places that they might not have expected. Variation in practicing was key, keeping people on their toes, constantly thinking about their next move. It would be pretty important for them to do. The teen nodded, ”That would be really good. It would certainly be different, but not too different that people would out of their depth. We should do it Jacob,” the older boy said with a nod of agreement. It was a good suggestion, ”More specific practicing like that could help push the team to get the position where we can get that victory,”​