Keeping me sane
Summary
Liberty temperance Evans was adopted into the weasly family after her parents died. She became close to 4 of the weasly boys in particular, Ron, the twins and especially Charlie, he was her best friend ever, they were like soul mates. Destined to be together (A/N- when I say 'together' I don't mean dating kind of together best friends together, but who's to say they won't date later…. But that's not now… they might not)
(A/n: - (AU!!)This is set in Harry's fifth year, liberty is same age as Harry and that… Draco is a spy for the OotP and parings are, HPGW, HGDM, FWKB, GWAJ, BWFD, RLNT, CW+liberty, these peeps aren't together strait away.. also Sirius IS a bachelor Percy's a loner and Rons gay…) enjoy!! RR pleez!
Main story
"we need to plan our next attack my Lord, I strongly suggest it be at the weasly home, that way they'll all be in one place, or at least they'll all turn up there…" a voice mused smoothly.
"We will soon luscious but we must wait, they could still be cautious, what with my death eaters having not long left the eldest Weasly brat alone. No, wait a while, when they've relaxed more, then we'll attack…" another voice hissed out ,calmly, unlike that of luscious malfoy.
"yes my lord, as you wish" luscious' cool voice replyed, as he backed out of the room bowing.
PLATFORM 9 ¾
"Oi, gerrof!" came the muffled voice of Liberty, " I've only been gone for a while, no need for the killer hugs.."
" aww, but I missed you over Christmas just because you have you OWL's next year, doesn't mean you need to stay at Hogwarts…." Said the one and only Charlie Weasly, releasing his best friend from a bear hug that could out do Mrs Weasly's if it wanted too, " anyway Liberty, aren't you the one who sent me a letter saying you felt lonely and no-one would give you a hug hmm?"
"DON'T call me Liberty, and for your information, I got a hug" lib replied folding her arms and turning away, " even if it wasn't the one I needed.. AHH!
Lib fell forward at to people collapsed on top. Hearing Charlie start to laugh at her struggles to get up, she dropped her head in defeat and mumbled a quiet "why bother" to herself.
" aww Libby aren't our hugs enough?" said the oh too familiar voice of George weasly,
" yea, what's wrong with our hugs?" came the identical voice of Fred weasly, the twins..
"there's nothing wrong with your hugs, but I do wish you would warn me beforehand, cuz one of these days I might just die at your hand, now get of… please" lib stated as she held up an expectant hand.
Charlie grasped lib's hand and pulled her up.
"thank you Charlie how kind of you" she said pointedly at the twins. "stay there, I'll just get my trunk and Tilli's cage and then I'll find Ron and the rest" and she wandered off toward the Hogwarts express
Georges POV
" come on Fred, it doesn't take that long to say goodbye to Angelina, just because she's your girlfriend, don't mean you can take 15 minutes to unlock your lips" I said as Fred, as he dragged himself away from his girlfriend, Angelina Johnston.
"come off it, just 'cause you aren't dating anyone." Fred replyed, grabbing his trunk from the luggage cart and walking ahead of me. I pulled my trunk and both our brooms (thank you Fred…) from the cart and followed him over to where lib was talking to Charlie a little way away from mum and dad. Lib was standing with her arms folded but was smiling.
"..anyway, weren't you the one who sent me a letter saying you were lonely and no-one would give you a hug hmm?" that was Charlie, he was smirking, obviously he'dsaid something clever..
"DON'T call me Liberty and for your information I got a hug." She turned away at this point… I looked at Fred and we moved a bit closer to hear better, us both covering our heads to hide our hair.. we were about 3 metres away now..
"even if it wasn't the one I n…" we didn't ear the rest as we were now lying on top our dear Lib, engulfing in a dramatic hug, sniggering at her scream as we went down.
"Aww, Libby aren't our hugs enough?" I asked, I a mock hurt tone, just to make her feel bad, Fred had his lip out
"Yea, whats wrong with our hugs?" he said, in the same tone as I had used, we weren't really upset, but I had been the one to give her that hug after all...
"there's nothing wrong with your hugs, but I do wish you would warn me beforehand, cuz one of these days I might just die at your hand, now get of… please" lib answered, emphasizing the 'please' when we didn't get off her straight away. She held up a hand which was grasped by Charlie and he pulled her up to her feet.
"Thank you Charlie how kind of you" she said pointedly at us, she obviously expects us to have helped her up, but never mind
"stay there, I'll just get my trunk and Tilli's cage and then I'll find Ron and the rest" and she wandered over to the train, (Tilli's libs grey cat, hates Harry…)
"Hey, where's Bill?" I asked mum, who was wittering on to dad about his receding hairline and how he should let her put it back, "he promised he's be here for the holidays?
Mum just looked at us like she'd done something bad, and it isn't used very often, this means something
"yea where is he? He has not got himself drunk and locked himself in a tomb again has he?" Fred asked, looking from mum to dad with a quizzical look on his face, " I swear that brother of ours is more bother than he's worth sometimes" he said looking at me
Mum was shifting from one foot too the other, fiddling with her skirt, " well, erm… well, you see…."
"Yes?"
" he is still coming, just not as soon as we'd have liked, you see honey, he's still trying to persuade Fleur to come down as well, and well oh fine" she held up her hands in defeat she never was a good liar, " he's only just been released from St Mungos."
Our jaws dropped at hearing this
"who's just been released from St Mungos?" Libby ,Ron, Hermione, Draco and Harry with Ginny hanging from his arm (they had hooked up during the Christmas holidays when Libby, me and Fred had stayed back for OWL studies) came up behind us sporting 5 trunks, 5 brooms and 3 cages with them.
"It's Bill, he's gone and landed himself in St Mungos and has only been released today, and won't be home till…" I turned expectantly to my mother waiting for the answer.
"Tuesday after next" she supplied
"…Tuesday after nex WHAT?? That long? What did he do to himself?" I was worried. If he'd lost a limb he could be fired, you need to arms and legs to help with the curse breaking in Egypt
Mums eyes were starting to well up ask she spoke, Libby went and put an arm around her,
"Shhh, don't worry, I'm sure it's not that bad, if he's managed to contact us then he has to at least have all his limbs.." she rubbed her back comfortingly
" he was attacked by death eaters, at seems that you-know-who was after the creatures used in the tombs, and Bill and a couple of his friends were the only ones big enough to stand up to them" she took a deep breath and carried on, " he got hit with the 'sectumsempra' and the cruciatis curse, he's still very shaky and jumpy, I could tell from the writing in his letter.."
Normal POV
Ginny was clinging onto Harry and bawling, Ron was just shaking, Hermione had turned and was weeping on Dracos shoulder (A/n: they aren't together, he was the closest person to her :), Libby was just standing there, silent tears rolling down her pale cheeks, Charlie, walked over to her and pulled her into a hug, rocking her side to side stroking her back while her tears soaked through his shirt. Charlie seemed to be the only person to hold himself together, other than the twins. They knew that Bill wouldn't want them to be crying aver him when he was OK.
"Shhh, don't worry, he's going to be ok shhh" Charlie whispered to Libby, she wasn't much of a crier, but when it came to family, (A/n: she is adopted remember, but the Weasly's are still her family) she was like a leaky pipe, silent, but there all the same.
Because Libby's original family weren't there, she would do anything to protect this one.
"Charlie?" Libby looked up at her best friend with glassy eyes
"yea?"
"can move your hand up a bit?" Charlie moved his right hand about an inch further up her back " no, your left one"
Charlie's left hand had slipped down onto her bum, when he noticed this her blushed a shade of red that rivalled his hair and moved it round her waist as she put her head back onto his shoulder and let the rest of her tears out, staining even more of his shirt with the salty liquid.
"well then," came the slightly croaky voice of Mrs Weasly, "lets get through the braaier before it closes, Remus and Tonks will be wondering where we've gotten to, and don't worry dears, you won't have to tell them what happened, they already know."
When she received questioning looks about how they know she explained that Tonks had apperated to Egypt to help fight the death eaters off, and then took Bill to St Mungos.
As Mr and Mrs Weasly, Charlie, Libby, Fred and George, Ron, Harry, Hermione and Ginny oiled themselves and the luggage into the magically enlarged green for Anglia (a new green one, not the blue, one that's in the forbidden forest after Ron and Harry flew it there in 2nd year), they endured the painful journey back to the burrow, the silence only broken by the occasional sniff from Hermione and Ginny. The worry and fear that filled the air in the car slowly cutting away at the hearts of the choked up souls inside..
(A/n: thts ma first chapter of ma first fanfic!! Sorry is so depressing but it had to be done.. trust me it does get funnier!! Please RR xx)