Quidditch by Moonlight ((Elijah))

Ruby smiled and closed her eyes as she entered the stadium. She threw her head back and sighed happily as the wind blew through her hair. It had been a long time since she had played quidditch.

She didn't notice as her broomstick, which had been hovering beside her, dropped to the ground. Her broomstick was one of her great pains in life. It was a Cleansweep 11, which wasn't too bad, but one of the highest things on her wishlist, among others, was a better broom.

It was a cool night, but Ruby was too happy to be outside that she didn't notice. She hadn't bothered with a jacket, knowing that once she got flying she would warm up right away. So she just put on a pair of denim hotpants and a jumper, enough to stop her from freezing but also allow her to move at the same time.

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Ruby heard someone walking towards her and turned around, only to be hugged tightly by whoever it was. She looked up and smiled when she saw it was Elijah.

'Why would I worry about falling when you're here to catch me?' She said flirtatiously, looking up at him with her eyes shining. She couldn't wait to get on her broom. Which was probably lying somewhere by her feet.

The weather was perfect. The moon was full. This looked to be the funnest game of quidditch she would play ever since moving to Britain.

Ruby's eyes widened and flashed orange in surprise. 'Elijah, what are you doing?'

She watched with an alarmed expression on her face as he shrunk her broom. She had barely pulled her wand out of her back pocket when he picked her up.

Squealing in surprise, Ruby was too stunned to do anything as an immediate reaction. As soon as she realised what he was doing, she looked at him weirdly, with her amber eyes turning a deep purple.

'Wait a sec! Don't I get a say in this?' She said, hopping off the broom annoyedly as soon as he put her on it. She was surprised to say the least. He wasn't acting as she would have expected him to, but then again, she didn't know Elijah enough to predict his actions.

Ruby rolled her eyes and muttered under her breath. 'Show-off.' She couldn't stop a smile from tugging at her lips though. Elijah didn't mean any harm.

Smiling and shaking her head, Ruby held onto his outstretched hand and climbed on behind him, balancing almost as well as him. She grinned at Eli as her eyes returned to their original colour.

'I'll do what you want, because I feel like having fun. Not because it's what you want me to do.' She said, in an effort to stop herself looking like a complete pushover.

'As to trusting you, I am not so stupid to trust a boy I know nothing about, apart from his parentage.' She said, looking him seriously in the eyes.

If she had learnt anything in her 15 years, it was to not believe everything a person said. She had found out first-hand what blindly trusting someone could cause. She had trusted her mother, for instance, and look what had happened to her.

Ruby laughed when they started going up. She looked down and smiled, feeling more at home in the air than she ever could on the ground.

Ruby watched Elijah as he spoke, taking in everything he said with an interested expression on her face. She didn't take her eyes off his face, wanting to catch any little giveaway that would tell her he didn't mean what he was saying.

'I know you wouldn't let me get hurt. But there is a difference.' She said when he finished. She looked away for a second, biting her lip, and then looked back up at him. 'And I know who I'm talking to. I understand who you are. Sure, you're Victor's son, too, which is something you can never be rid of, but right now, I'm talking to Elijah. The fool who couldn't even get the right Muggle Studies class.'

Ruby smiled as she said the last bit and looked down again, happy to finally be off the ground. 'If you can prove to me that you deserve my trust, then you can have it.' she said, meaning to close the subject, which was unnerving her slightly. It wasn't often she had conversations about trust and she didn't know how she felt about trusting people.

Ruby grinned and tried to balance on one leg, unbalancing herself in the process. As she wobbled uncertainly on the broom, which was way too fast, in her opinion, she grabbed onto the first thing she saw. Which also happened to be Elijah.

Deciding that she was better off safe than sorry, especially now they were so high, Ruby put her arms around his waist and held on, half-innocently pressing her body up against his. She watched the ground get further and further away and said 'What broom is this, anyway? It's much faster than mine.'