"Me and you, right now." Ginny smirked, pulling her wand out and pointing it at your chest. "What's wrong y/n, are you scared?" You had only come out to take Ginny for a picnic but it was not long before she was challenging you to a duel. Slowly you began packing the empty food containers away as she frolicked into the forest and hid herself between a thickly barked tree. You tossed the bag of leftovers behind a tree and adorned your own wand into your hand.

"I'm going to find you Ginny!" You called out as you darted from tree to tree, dancing over the hefty tree roots that protruded from the ground. Carefully you stuck your head out, wand pressed tightly against your chest, a bolt of force hurtled towards you as you reeled your neck back in. The tree that provided your only cover rumbled and shook, you felt it barge against your back, knocking you forward and sending you tumbling towards more cover.

"Careful their y/n, you almost lost your head! I'd maybe recommend not sticking that out." You heard her chuckle but it bounced and echoed off the rough bark. "Are you going to give me some kind of challenge here or are you going to rat your way through this?"

You jumped out from behind the tree. "Aguamenti!" You cried out, a torrent of water ran from your wand and flew towards Ginny, with little effort and a wave of her wand she easily took the flow under her control and sent it back, you stumbled quickly to the side and felt a cold spray fall across your cheek.

"Close one, maybe try a bit harder next time though." Then everything went silent. You no longer heard the pitter of Ginny's boots against the fallen leaves nor could you feel her proud, overconfident presence.

"And you said I was the rat, huh?" You crept between the trees, scouting your surroundings with your wand clutched between trembling fingers.

"Flipendo!" Ginny cried as she threw herself from the branches of a tall tree. The spell thrust itself from her wand and connected with your chest, pushing you down. Your wand flew from your hand and a cloud of coarse dust swirled around you as you regained your breath. "So..." She landed softly amidst a pile of brown and golden leaves. "Are we going to say that I won this one then?"

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Written by Aaron.