Disclaimer: I'm not JK Rowling, and I own nothing.
A/N: This was written for Pinky Green's 'The Five Days and Senses Challenge.' It's a series of five little drabbles of Katie and Fred.
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Monday – Watch.
It was the first Hogsmeade trip of the season. Well, yesterday was. It was the early hours of a Monday morning as the carriage that was being pulled by thestrals came around the bend of the forbidden forest on its way back to the castle. The Gryffindor Quidditch team, with the exception of Harry, had decided to do a different sort of day trip; well, night trip. Most of the team had fallen asleep, with the exception of Fred Weasley. He was wide awake as he observed the members of his team. Most of them were sleeping seemingly normal, but he'd managed to find something to mentally poke fun at them about to keep him amused.
His amusement seemed to end as his eyes fell upon the blond that had fallen asleep, her head hitting his shoulder gently. Her face was almost sad as she slept silently, breathing in and out evenly through her nose. It was then, and only then, as the streaks of dim sunlight shone through the trees and gently onto her face that he realized what many boys had seen all along, and what he seemed to have always known, but forgotten. She was beautiful; seemingly flawless in all of her loneliness, and lack of love. You see, Fred knew things about Katie that other boys knew nothing about; things that made him look at her in a completely different perspective than they did.
Katie's parents had forced her out when she informed them she would be staying in the wizarding world after her graduation from Hogwarts. She was never welcomed back to her home. She had no one. Yet somehow, even through all of that pain and the loss of everything Katie managed to look at life with a sort of innocence and simplicity that Fred had never really known. He always managed to complicate things, somehow. Not to mention innocence wasn't exactly his forte. The sun continued to rise, streaking the sun with pink and purple, and Fred's thoughts continued to reel around the blond. Each second that seemed to pass another burst of sunlight covered her face carefully until she finally awoke.
Her small nose twitched slightly as her eyes began to adjust to the sun. She let out a yawn and stretched before finally lifting her head from Fred's shoulder. It was only after a few moments of being awake that Katie had realized where she had awoken from. "Thanks," Katie said with a small smile, and Fred nodded thanks in reply. Somehow though, Fred knew that the vision of her smile, that smile that he'd never really noticed before, would remain etched in his mind.