First
of all so you know the name of this story has no importance to the
story line at all...I just couldn't think of anything except for
that. So I got this new idea for a story today and
just started to write it and before I knew
My name is Katherine Elizabeth Bell and I am an Auror. Not just any old Auror however, I am an undercover Auror. Other then the company I work with and my best friends/teammates/co-workers no one knows that I am an Auror. To the public I am Katie Bell, Star chaser for the Puddlemore United Quidditch team.
I sure this doesn't sound like it makes much since but let me explain. In my years at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry I excelled in Defense against the Dark Arts so when I had to decide what I wanted to do with my life Professor McGonagall suggested that I become an Auror. I was mainly interested in playing Quidditch at this point of my life so I didn't really think much of it and got my N.E.W.T.s to be an Auror but when I got out of school I worked towards being a professional Quidditch player. My best friend and old Quidditch captain, Oliver Wood, had gotten a spot on the Puddlemore United team and talked his coach into letting me try out for the team. I got the spot and became the famous celebrity that I had always dreamed of becoming. Two of my other best friends, Alicia Spinnet and Angelina Johnson, played on Wimbourne Wasps and we shared the same pitch so the four of us were commonly playing together and would have the same days off except for when one team had a game and the other didn't. Life seemed like it was going exactly as I had ever dreamed of but at the same time it seemed overly boring. On days that we all had off Oliver, Alicia, Angelina, Fred and George Weasley, and I would hang out and party like we were still teenagers in Hogwarts.
One night at a magical club in downtown Manchester the six of us were dancing and just having a ball when a nasty fight broke out. It started as just any old muggle style fist fight and then they pulled out their wands and were firing all sorts of hexes at each other. I just ducked until I herd that the one man was using the Avada Kedavra curse, at that moment I looked at Oliver, Fred, and Alicia and we all got a strange look in our eyes. The sure sign that we were about to do something completely idiotic because of adrenaline. The four of us stood up and started to disarm as many people holding a wand as possible. Then shortly after we stood up Angelina and George got up and joined our war of disbarment. All you could hear anymore was the six of us screaming "Expelliarmus" as loud as we could to distract the members of the fight so that they couldn't concentrate enough to properly cast the spell. After the majority of the men no longer had their wands I started to use the Petrificus Totalus curse on them so that they could not regain their wands or run away from the club. Before we even realized it all twelve of the fighters were unarmed and frozen. By this time the ministry cops were there to see who was using the unforgivable curse. Gawain Robards came into the club in shock because he thought that all of the criminals would be long gone by now and he would have to search for them for days. It turned out that the man who was using the Avada Kedavra curse was a Death Eater and they knew this and were on the hunt for him for months. Robards was in complete shock to find out that four quidditch players and two joke shop owners not only caught this man but him along with eleven other people not following the laws.
The night Gawain brought us back to the ministry and requested that we become Aurors. All of us were quite pleased with our currant jobs and weren't exactly thrilled with the idea of dropping everything to risk our lives in the work of an Auror. But apparently the ministry was low on Aurors and those that they had were on separate missions like Harry who was on a private mission to find and take down Voldermort. Ron, Fred and George's little brother, was with Harry and Hermione on that mission. As well the Aurors that they had had either retired or were on missions with The Order or well dead. So they were out of Aurors to have around just in case they needed one in an emergency, which also explains why Gawain himself came to the scene of the club fight. The point is that Gawain was quite desperate for more Aurors and wasn't going to let six people, who just caught a death eater and eleven other men on their free time, walk out the door.
So he came up with an idea, what at the time he called "part time aurors." Where we would continue our normal lives and our normal activities but when needed would sneak away from our real lives and become crime fighters. What Fred and George have taken to calling "A super hero lifestyle".
As time went on it really became under cover Aurors. Only kind of backwards, because instead of getting fake names and costumes to not let people know that you're an Auror it became fake names and costumes to not let people know that you're a celebrity. In our case my name was changed to River, Fred was Bram, George was Trevor, Alicia was Lauren, Angelina was Bailey, and Oliver was David (I ended up naming Oliver because he couldn't think up a name and I found it humorous to name him David because it was such a common name and other the rest of us had uncommon or just less common names). Then depending on the case we would have different appearances.
Our first case was to catch the side-kick of the man that we had caught during the club fight that started this all. He was a tall plump man that was well into his thirties and was one of the more annoying types of Death Eaters. If you're wondering how there can be different levels of Death Eaters and how we don't just think that all of them are not fun to handle. Well it's quite simple actually; there are the terrifying Death Eaters that are extremely powerful and normally at the right hand of Voldermort. Then there are the next step down which are those Death Eaters followers or side-kicks that are always doing things for the powerful ones because they have to do more important things for Voldie. Then come the not really powerful at all but think they are so they just become annoying because they act like everyone is terrified of them, Draco Malfoy for example. Then there are the powerful enough to be careful around them but weak enough that you could easily take them on their own or with weaker associates. Then comes the level of this man, the super annoying level, this level is such that they have almost no power at all so they survive as a Death Eater off of the more powerful Death Eaters. Wormtail was a good example of this level but he was higher up in the level because he clung to Voldermort, people like the man we were looking for mainly clung to just more powerful witches and wizards because they were to terrified to go directly to the "dark lord" himself.
We knew that the man was going to be at a club in London so that night we all met up at the ministry and got into disguise. I had a black hair that was pulled back into a pony tail that went down to my lower back and had green contacts on and golden hoops earrings and probably five inch heels. For the first time in their lives Fred and George didn't look anything alike. Fred had shaggy black hair and George had short blonde hair that was up in like half of a Mohawk… actually it kind of looked like Oliver's hair on George. Angelina had green eyes and lighter brown hair with blonde streaks. Then Alicia had long red hair in a seventies flowy hairdo. And Oliver had a darker brown hair colour then what he naturally had and it was all slicked over except for the very front. We looked like the seventies threw up on us, well except for Angelina and I who could easily have passed for hookers. It was all part of the plan; the club was nineteen seventies themed like roller rink. A place that I never have nor will I ever again want to go into.
There were all sorts of crazy in this place, like it was packed of those people that you wonder how they can possibly be that creepy/scummy/crazy and they all seemed to have been attracted to me. The best part was…the majority of them were muggles.
"Hey River want to dance?" Oliver asked me.
"Excuse me! Can't you see the lady is talking to me?" Said a rude muggle that had been hitting on me for the last ten or so minutes.
"I can guarantee you that she wasn't talking at all and that she would much rather dance with me." Oliver said to the man and then grabbed my arm to pull me to my feet.
"You're a bloody fairy, what use is it to you to dance with her?" The man said getting mad at Oliver.
Oliver flipped him the bird and we walked out on to the dance floor.
"You are going to get us shot before its even time" I said jokingly once we started to dance.
"Nah he's to drunk to be able to aim well enough to hit us" Oliver said.
So the plan was to have Oliver and I dancing on the dance floor, Alicia at the bar, Angelina and Fred in the corner, and George out front; each group or person had a signal to the other team if they saw our man. From there we would fallow him around the club to try to figure out what his business was here, even flirt with him if it came necessary (those were all Gawain's exact words).
So as Oliver and I were dancing I saw George inside against the wall looking at Oliver and I, this was his signal. So I turned to Alicia and she was looking at me and I winked (this was my signal). Alicia in turn got up and walked pasted Fred and Angelina and Angelina got up to go into the bathroom after Alicia and Fred went to go talk to George.
"David isn't that Trevor and Bram?" I said pointing over to Fred and George to make sure Oliver understood that our man was here.
"Yeah it is, let's go say hi" Oliver said which meant yeah let's go see where he is so you can go tell Alicia and Angelina who were hanging out in the bathroom waiting for the news.
We walked over to Fred and George who were waiting for us to get to them.
"Hey Guys, I didn't know you were coming tonight" Oliver said. We had to talk in code because it was guaranteed that there would be a witch or wizard near by listening in that could either figure out who we are or warn the guy that we're after.
"Did you see that Dave went to that bar the other night?" Fred said. I looked over at the bar and sure enough our guy was sitting there talking to the bartender.
"Excuse me; I have to go to the Lou." I said and turned to go tell Angelina and Alicia that we were officially on duty.
"Lauren! Bailey! I haven't seen you guys in like years!" I said walking into the bathroom and seeing them standing in front of the sink.
"River how nice to see you" Alicia said.
"Here come on want to go to the bar and get some drinks and catch up?" I offered and we walked out of the bathroom and sat down at the bar.
"And what are three beautiful women like you doing at a club like this?" Our guy asked everything was working as planned.
"Probably the same thing that someone as handsome as you would be doing here" I said in my most seductive voice I could possibly make without gagging because this guy smelled like death.
"I highly doubt that" the man said facing the bar again.
"How could you doubt it" I asked.
"Because there is no chance that you would be here for the same reason as me"
"Oh so then why are you here"
"You wouldn't even begin to understand"
"Try me"
The man just looked at me strangely like he was debating whether or not he would tell me and right when I thought this was going to be an easy night a man wearing black robes came up behind him and tapped him on his shoulder. They got up and walked away, I got up and followed somewhat closely and the rest of the gang split up. Fred and George went around back to make sure they didn't leave that way, Alicia and Angelina went on to the roof to make sure they didn't come up that way, and well Oliver caught up with me. We put one of Fred and George's extendable ears under the door and tried to listen in on what they were meeting about.
"As you know Randolph was caught a couple days ago buy some new ministry aurors. I've been sent to tell you to watch out because I promise you that these new Aurors will have you next on their list. And you know what will happen if both of you are captured by the ministry." A man's voice was saying.
"I've been sent to take you someplace safer before they find you. So come on we better go now in case they are already on your trail." I pulled the ear out from under the door and just I got it in my back pocket the door started to open. Realizing that it would be suspicious if Oliver and I were just standing back here, so being the quick thinker he is Oliver started snogging me.
"Oh, so sorry" The man in the black robes said walking by us.
"Petrificus Totalus" Oliver and I said basically into each others mouths and the two men froze in their tracks. I sent a pink flare to Fred, George, Alicia, and Angelina telling them to come back inside and as soon as they did all of the doors and windows closed and the music and lights turned off.
All you could see was the random light flashes of people doing hexes. And some other light that I was assuming was coming from guns that the muggles had on them. Oliver and I just stayed close to our guys freezing random people who were coming to close to us. One muggle came up behind me and punched me in the side of the face. I got carried away and tackled him fighting him like the muggle that I was raised to be until I remembered that I was magic and I could just stop him from hitting me.
"Oh so you take the easy way out" Oliver laughed when he saw the light from my wand go to immobilize the guy.
"Yeah well I need to focus on my task" I said standing up and adjusting my hair and clothes.
"You know what I just thought of" I said
"Hmm" Oliver asked listening to hear any sign of the others.
"Lumos" I said and a spark came out of my wand but nothing happened
"I'm sure they thought of that" Oliver said laughing
Suddenly a gun fire light seemed to be way to close to us.
"Who's there" Said a shaky male voice.
"I know someone's there" The voice said after we didn't say anything. I could see something reflect off of his gun and it was aimed towards Oliver, so being that weird brave Gryffindor friend that I am I jumped in front of Oliver and just in time too because as soon as I was in front of him there was a loud bang and a extremely sharp pain in my right shoulder.
"BLOODY HELL THAT HURTS!" I screamed at the gun wound like it was going to say sorry or something. Oliver immobilized the man and I just started laughing.
"What is so bloody funny!" Oliver asked me
"I could have just done that instead of jumping in front of you and getting shot." I said
"Well you're a Gryffindor…we're famous for acting and then thinking. Where did you get shot?" Oliver asked
"In my shoulder" I said like he was crazy for asking.
Suddenly a light came from his wand and I couldn't feel the pain anymore.
"The wizard's Tylenol" Oliver laughed
"Thanks" I said
"No thank you…I would have never noticed that he was aiming at me and your shoulder was right at my chest…so you pretty much saved my life" Oliver said
"Yeah well I could have saved you and my shoulder if I had just immobilized him"
"This is true but you didn't think of that and you still jumped in front of me."
"YOU BITCH! Give that back!" Came a familiar voice some what in front of us
"Alicia" I said quietly so that really only Oliver could hear me.
"You go help her I'll stay here" Oliver said
"You sure"
"Yeah she needs you more then I do" Oliver said
I ran after Alicia's voice and was soon joined by Angelina who was doing the same thing. We had come to the conclusion from what Alicia was yelling that a muggle stole her wand and she was chasing him to get it back.
When running by a door that I'm guess was near a street lamp I saw the outline of an over weight muggle with a wand running just barely in front of Alicia.
"Petrificus Totalus!" I shouted and Angelina looked at me like I was mad.
"You can't just go around cursing everyone!" Angelina shouted
"I don't think I did" I said and ran towards the direction that I cast the spell. Sure enough the muggle was standing there completely still and Alicia was next to him looking around to try to figure out how he stopped.
"Did you hex him?" Alicia asked when she saw me.
"Yeah" I said and took her wand from his stone like body
"Nice shot" She said in amazement
"Thanks…I saw him in the light of that door" I said pointing to a door a little ways away from us. Angelina came and had the same look on her face as Alicia when I first got to her.
"You actually hit him" She said in shock.
"Yeah now come on Oliver is guarding our men by himself so we better get back to helping him." I said and took off towards where Oliver and I were standing only turning around a couple of times to make sure that they were still behind me and no one else was.
"Dave liver it's us" I said once I got to where I knew Oliver could see us. And because I didn't know if anyone else was there I didn't say his real name and I didn't just say David because I knew that he would think I was expecting someone else to be there and that I was a Death Eater.
"Who all is us?" Oliver asked once I got to him
I looked around and then said quietly. "Alicia, Angelina, and I"
And soon after I said that Alicia and Angelina came running to us.
"You guys have been back here the whole time!" Alicia asked loudly.
"Yeah why" I said
"You've been back here while we have been running around like chickens with our heads cut of!" Alicia said
"Yeah well we figured that you guys were doing a good job and so we stood back here" Oliver said smartly
"No, we were watching these guys. Because they were the whole reason we are here in the first place." I said and lit up my wand so that they could see the man and the other man in the black robes.
"Well now what?" Angelina asked
"Someone needs to try to find a way to contact the ministry so that means either get out of here or find a random owl with telepathy" I said
"An owl with telepathy?" Angelina asked like I was mad.
"Yeah I've been standing here thinking of ways to get a hold of them all night and that was just one of my random ideas."
"And how would an owl with telepathy help us?" Alicia asked
"Well I was thinking that if an owl had telepathy we could think really hard about a message and then it could read our minds so then it would take the message to the ministry." I said
"And then how would the owl tell the ministry the message?" Oliver asked.
"Well I never said it would work" I said after a pause of thinking.
"So before you're insanity spreads I'm going to go and try to find a way out of here. And you can think about you're message" Angelina said jokingly and then ran out the hallway.
"It's boring over here" Alicia said maybe five minutes later.
"Yeah well it is now, but I got shot earlier so it had its exciting moments" I said calmly
"You got shot!" Alicia said
"Yeah it's fine though Oliver put a charm on my arm so that it doesn't hurt anymore." I said and Oliver started laughing and then just stopped.
"You okay" I asked
"Yeah sorry I just had one of those stupid moments where you find silly things funny, so I just started laughing because charm and arm rhyme." Oliver said.
"We REALLY need to get out of here" I said
"Has anyone seen Fred or George since this started?" Alicia asked
"No" Oliver and I said and the three of us started to worry because it had to have been an hour or so since this all started and no one had seen Fred or George.
"Accio Fred and George" I said jokingly and suddenly Fred and George came running towards us with their wands lit up so we could tell it was them.
"Whoa…it worked!" I said and Oliver and Alicia laughed. Only I have the skill too perfectly say a charm that wouldn't work and have what would happen if it worked well happen.
"Angelina told us that you guys were over here" Fred and George said looking at us strangely because we were now sitting on the floor with the two men lying down.
"We are kind of hiding in a way" I said with a ridiculous smile on my face.
"Well hiding is better then almost getting shot by magic and bullets." Fred said sitting down and then George sat down shortly afterwards.
"Well almost getting shot is a lot better then actually getting shot" I said and began to laugh.
"She
got shot?" George asked
"Yeah and I'm beginning to wonder if
loss of blood can make you crazy" Oliver said
"Am I still losing blood?" I asked Oliver who was sitting closets to me and well has been with me while and since I got shot.
"Yeah you are" Oliver said in a kind of worried tone.
"Guys there is NO way out of this place, the death eaters have though of everything. And they're out there fighting themselves and the muggles. They don't realize that we aren't the muggles, and they aren't even using the Avada Kedavra for some reason!" Angelina said come over to us.
"Why aren't they using A.K.?" I asked
"I don't know but it's really strange" Angelina said
"That is strange" Fred and George said together.
"Wait…the ministry has instant alerts every time someone uses an unforgivable curse right?" I said
"Yeah they always seem to find out…why?" Oliver said
"That's why they aren't using A.K. Because if they do then the Ministry will know and will come because it's in their range or something and the Deathers don't want the Ministry to come here." I said
"Deathers?" Oliver asked
"Yeah it's easier then saying Death Eaters."
"She has a good point though" Fred said.
"The Death Eaters were prepared for this and know that if they use an unforgivable curse then the ministry workers will be here in a heart beat." George said.
"So what if one of us was to use an unforgivable curse?" I asked
"They would lock us up" Alicia said like it was a crazy idea.
"Well like we could probably get away with the imperious curse on something that doesn't really matter."
"Kates you know better then anyone else that nothing good can come from the imperious curse" Oliver said
"Yeah…if only we had like a rat or something….with good expiation I could get out of using the curse on a rat." I said and we all sighed and sat there listening to the shots and shouts and crashes of the war that we were trapped near. After awhile I gave up and lied down. When my head hit the ground it didn't hit the ground it hit a body.
"Who body am I hitting right now?" I asked in fear that I was lying on the body of one of the men we had captured.
"You're lying on mine" Oliver said.
"Does it make you uncomfortable?" I asked because I was wicked comfortable and didn't feel like moving.
"Kates….almost two hours ago we were snogging…you resting you're head on me isn't going to make me uncomfortable" He laughed
"Ha…oh yeah" I had forgotten about that.
"YOU TWO WERE SNOGGING!" Alicia asked like we were in school and it was gross for people to kiss.
"Well only kind of….they came out of the room and Oliver used it as a cover up to why we were standing there." I said
"Suuuure" Fred and George said.
Before I knew it I was asleep. It was probably close to three in the morning by now….you would think that the ministry would be wondering why we weren't back yet. I guess it was supposed to be a difficult mission, and I guess it is but really if you think about it our mission is pretty much over…we're just trapped here.
Suddenly it felt like something was crawling on me and I could hear Fred, George, Alicia, and Angelina were talking. I quickly threw my hand up and caught the object that was crawling on me. It let out a squeal I opened my eyes to see a huge rat in my hand.
"If I wasn't so happy to see a rat this would be completely disgusting." I said
"What would be disgusting….and why would you be happy to see a rat?" Alicia asked
"Well it's disgusting because I caught a rat that was crawling on me and it's now in my hands….and I'm happy because I caught a RAT that was crawling on me and it's now in my hands"
"Katherine Elizabeth Bell you are not going to put the imperious curse on that poor rat!" Alicia said
"Hey it's the one that walked on me…and I'm not going to make it do anything bad I'm just going to put the curse on it and see if the ministry will come."
"I think we should let her do it" Oliver said in a raspy voice like he just woke up.
"I agree with Oliver and Katie…it's a try and I just want to get out of here." Fred said
"I agree with them love" George said
"Yeah sorry Alicia but I just want to get out of here and go to sleep in my bed" Angelina said.
"Alright Katie….just don't make it do anything that could hurt it!" Alicia said
"Imperio!" I said and the mouse was now in my control. I just kind of made it run around for a bit until I knew or thought that the ministry was coming.
And just as we had hope there was an extremely loud crash and a flash brighter the lighting and everything stopped and the lights came on. I then let the rat go and said sorry. I looked around and there was blood everywhere….I'm guess the blood near us was mine. And people were all over the place like stone or dying. The looks on the ministry worker's faces were almost priceless.
The Six of us stood up and got our men up and looked at each other.
"Oh Oliver, I got blood on you….I'm sorry" I said realizing that Oliver had bloody on his side almost under his armpit which is where I'm guessing I was resting up against.
"Don't worry about it…but you've been loosing blood for hours now so let's go make sure that you can get out of here and to St. Mungo's." Oliver said and he grabbed my arm and pulled me towards where the ministry workers were. Everyone around us was frozen.
"River! What happened?" Gawain shouted when he saw us.
"I got shot" I said casually
"How long ago!" He asked Oliver
"Well what time is it?" Oliver asked
"Four thirty" Gawain answered
"What time did we leave for this mission?" Oliver asked
"Eleven forty-five" Gawain said
"Well then I'd say she got shot close to three hours ago" Oliver said and I looked at my right hand to make sure it wasn't blue from lack of blood.
"Well then quick let's get her to St. Mungo's!" Gawain said and shoved us over to Nymphadora Tonks who I had gotten to know at the hospital in my seventh year when she came to ask me some questions.
"I guess you and I are going to be hospital buddies once again" She said when Gawain told her what had happened.
Fred and George came out carrying the two men to the Ministry workers and Gawain was amazed that we managed to still complete our mission threw all of this. Then they were explaining that our mission started all of it when I passed out.
Some how I managed to make it threw all of that with out passing out and now three hours after I started loosing blood I pass out.
I woke up in the hospital room and Oliver was sleeping in the chair a crossed from my bed. He was back to his normal look so I was assuming that I was too.
"Whoa Déjà vu" I said when I realized that Oliver was looking at me.
"Yeah tell me about it." He said and smiled
"Where are the others?" I asked and stretched
"At home…sleeping…elated that we don't have to go to work well today…you can't really blame them" He said stretching himself because he must have been just asleep in that chair.
"Yeah…why aren't you at home?" I asked
"Well you can't expect me to be able to sleep well not knowing weightier or not the girl that I snogged, then had my life saved by, then slept with is okay." He said with a big stupid smile on his face
"You're never going to get over that we did that are you"
"Nope…not planning on it" He said as his smile turned to a cocky one.
"Well look I'm fine you can go home now." I said
"Nah…I want to make sure that you get home okay. It's really the lest I can do, I mean you really did save my life." Oliver said in a more serious tone.
"Oh, Miss Bell, you're awake that's good how are you feeling?" The healer asked as he entered the room.
"Um…fine actually" I said and looked at my arm in the area that I was shot. There wasn't much but just a small cut almost where the bullet went in.
"Alright good…can I have you stand up?" The healer asked and I got up and out of the bed.
"You still feel fine?" he asked
"Yeah…" I said
"Great then you can go home now if you want and that cut from the bullet should be gone with in a couple of days." He said
"I love magic" I said with a smile to Oliver once the Healer was out of the room
"Ha why do you say this now?" Oliver asked
"Because in muggle world I would have been in the hospital for months with that kind of blood loss" I said
"Well then I love magic too…come on let me take you home" Oliver said and we head to my house which conveniently was right next to his so don't think he's being all cutesy by taking me home…because really he's just going back to his house.
For it only being our first real case the inter ministry was very surprised how well we preformed in that task and would soon have us as there number one protection aurors. And still no one had figured out that Code name River and Katie Bell was the same person. Not even those in the ministry other then some of the other Aurors like Tonks, and then of course Gawain. I was living the lifestyle of a super-hero. I had a job and real name with a credit card and money and a bank account and birthday at day. And then I was River the crime fighting alter ego that to most didn't even have a house at night.