Disclaimer: None of the characters of mine though I wish Wood was. weeps

This is an Oliver Wood and Katie Bell fanfic.

Please don't flame me I can have very sensitive feelings at times though constructive critiscm is welcome. Also this is my first Harry Potter fan fiction, normally I do Tamora Pierce. Also I own the community The Enchantment of Love (a Oliver Wood/ Katie Bell community)

This story will come from Katie mainly though I may throw in another character's viewpoint. Though it might be third limited. This will be a third person chapter.

Life's Gifts

Prequel

Fifteen Years Before . . .

The little blond girl dashed through the fields by her family's summer residence in Scotland. The boys that chased her were the neighbors. Suddenly she was tackled from behind and fell to the ground getting a mouthful of dirt.

"Ugh, Oliver. Get off of me. I can't breath at all. Are you trying to suffocate me?" The girl whose name was Katie asked the boy on top of her.

"I will if you marry me, Katie. So will you marry me?" Said the boy named Oliver who was sitting on top of Katie. His brown hair was tousled and falling in his eyes.

"Oliver, I am eight and really don't want to marry you. You're my best friend for heaven's sake." Katie responded as she squirmed trying to get free. Her mouth twisted into a grimace as Oliver's weight shifted and he sat on her hair. "Oliver, you are sitting on my hair." Then she looked over at Oliver's older brothers and yelled, "Dave, Cade come and get me out. Please?"

The two boys looked at her in surprise, "Us? Why us, you should be perfectly capable of doing it yourself." Then they paused and grinned at each other. "Actually we think you are so well suited for each other we're going to -----"

Just then the boy's parents rushed up, Mr. Wood lifted Oliver off Katie and set him down. As soon as the boy's feet hit the ground Katie started yelling at him. "You bloody little boy. What was the point of that?"

"Cade, Dave, please take Oliver back to the house?" Mrs. Wood asked then but her voice tone suggested it was not a question. The boys looked at each other and then Cade grabbed Oliver and slung him over his shoulder as the started back towards the house, through the woods. Katie started to follow but Mrs. Wood called her back. "Katherine, darling we need to talk to you. It's about your parents."

Katie looked at them in surprise, her parents had gone shopping and she had been left with the Woods. That was all there was to it. "Are the back already?" she asked then titled her head as she looked up at Mrs. Wood.

"Maybe you should tell her, Nick?" Said a harried looking Mrs. Wood.

"All right, Athena. Katie, darling, your parents are dead." said Nick or Mr. Wood.

"Dead, that isn't true." Katie spoke looking up at them. She searched their eyes looking for the shred of truth that said her parents were alive. Not finding it she looked down at the ground and felts the tears welling.

"Katherine, you'll come live with us. The boys will go back to school soon. And you and Wood can play around at our house all day. Until you are old enough to go to school." Mrs. Wood told her taking her hand.

Katie looked at them in disbelief. She couldn't believe it but she followed them to their house anyway.

Present Time:

(Katie, Oliver, Fred, George, Angelina, and Alicia are all in there sixth year of school and at the age of fifteen or sixteen.)

Katie started at the tombstone one last time. It had only been eight years before, but she remembered it like it was yesterday. Her parent's death had shocked everyone, including her. There was no real explanation for their deaths. They had just died and the car had crashed.

Oliver came up beside her and gripped her shoulder, "Come on, Katie, we need to be getting home." He took her hand and led her back to the car in which they had come. Dave sat in the front seat and they slid in the back.

"You ready to go home, Kates?" Dave asked and turned around looking at her face. He knew her well, they all did but then again she had been living with them for eight years. But today it was different it was her sixteenth birthday and her parents weren't here.

"Yeah, I'm fine Dave. Mom and Dad and Cade will be waiting at home for us." She said in a choked voice. Then she turned to look at Oliver, "Thank you for coming with me."

Oliver looked back at her and his gazed softened, "Your welcome, Kates." Little did Katie know that for the past four years Wood had developed feeling for her? But he knew she only thought of him as a friend and a brother. She even had a boyfriend back a school, Roger Davis. Davis had gotten what he hadn't and it killed him every day. "Is Roger coming over tonight?"

"Yes, he is and could you all please be polite for once." Katie asked with a pleading expression. "Last time he left early because of you all staring at him so much. And the time before that matter of fact. I know you all hate each other but can you try to be nice Oliver? For forms sake, you too Dave."

"All right, Kates, but just because it is your birthday, Dave said.

Oliver thought for a moment and groaned inside, be nice to Roger Davis. Being nice to him was like having a party with death. What Katie saw in him Oliver didn't know? "Yes, Katie, but just this once. After all school is starting soon and you really don't want me to be nice to him them."

Katie looked at him as she pulled her golden blonde hair up on top of her head. "Kindness never killed anyone, Oliver, and you know that?"

Oliver looked at her as they pulled up into the driveway. "It could you never really know."

Katie sighed as Dave parked the car and jumped out running up the driveway and into the house.

"Surprise!" People yelled as the leapt out from behind various furnshings.

"Happy, birthday, Katie," said Fred and George as the cam up and grabbed her arms. "Time to eat now I am starving."

All Katie could think about was how great the party was as she went to sleep. Then she thought where was Roger during all of this. Shaking her head she closed her eyes, he was probably in the crowd somewhere.