Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Virginia

I entered a lease to rent a house with three other college students, one of whom we asked to leave three months into the year. We found another girl to take over the lease for her, and she moved out as well after two months as well after we asked her to leave for failure to pay rent and other bills in a timely manner. She neglected to pay rent for the current month upon leaving, as well as various bills for which her payment was already overdue. When our landlord and his leasing office did not receive her rent payment, we were summoned to court, but we called and explained our situation to them, and they allowed us to pay the rent in addition to late fees. According to our lease, one must pay rent for the two months following move-out in the case of early termination. However, we learned from the leasing office that she didn't fill out all the necessary paperwork when taking over the lease and is not technically on our lease at all when she was supposed to despite an understood spoken agreement that she did, but they do have her approved rental application on file there. For this reason, they were not able to sue her personally, hence us having to pay a total of three months of her rent to avoid eviction. My roommates and I would like to take her to small-claims court, and I am not sure exactly how much of that time we can demand reimbursement for.

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