*Disclaimer* This story is based on JK Rowling's Harry Potter series. My original characters are Mackenzie, Tabitha, Scarlett the cat, and Mackenzie's parents. The other characters come from Rowling's books. This story begins during Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. **This episode contains some mature content**

Chapter Three- Explanations and Revelations

"Well?" Mackenzie said sitting on a desk in the empty classroom and crossing her arms.

"Well, first I guess I should say thank you. How did you learn to do a disillusionment charm?" Fred said, sitting on a desk opposite her.

"I've been learning a bunch of spells that could be useful after Hogwarts. It's not like our Defense teachers have been around long enough to really teach us much." Mackenzie shrugged. "That's not really the point here."

"Right," Fred said. He ran a hand through his red hair. He looked down at his hands and took a deep breath. "Well it's hard to explain."

"Listen, if you're just going to waste my time," Mackenzie said irritably.

Fred reached forward and took her hand. "No, please. I'm sorry. I'm just embarrassed is all," he admitted.

"If you're embarrassed to be around me then why would you try to…?" she began.

"No! Not that," he said stepping towards her. "I would never be embarrassed of you."

"Well then you need to start talking because this guessing game is getting old."

"I'm embarrassed because I don't even know your first name." Fred admitted turning red.

"My name?" she said, dumbfounded.

"I was standing there, holding you in my arms about to kiss you and I realized I don't even know your name. And I was too embarrassed to ask you." He looked down at her hand in his.

"That can't be what all this is about," she said.

He let go of her hand and ran his hands through his hair again and he turned away from her. "No, that's not all; I sort of have a date tomorrow."

Mackenzie felt as if she had been punched in the stomach. She stood starting at him. Trying to make sense of what he was telling her. "So this whole time you've…You've been seeing someone else too?" she said breathlessly.

"No," he said whipping around. He reached for her, but she stepped back from him. "Her name is Alicia Spinet. She wrote me a dew times over the summer and we agreed to go out on Saturday. But it was before I met you, before everything on the train, I just didn't know how to tell you."

Mackenzie watched him, his eyes were wide and searching her face. Mackenzie sighed, unable to process the whirlwind of emotions she had felt that evening. Fred stepped towards her cautiously. She took a step back and felt herself bump against the wall of the classroom. He stepped towards her again.

"What do you want, Fred?" she asked again.

"I want to know your name," he whispered reaching out for her hand.

Hesitantly she let him take it. "It's Mackenzie," she said.

He took one more step and reached up to caress her cheek. "I want you, Mackenzie Campbell. That is if you'll have me," His voice was low and husky and he tucked a lock of her hair behind her ear.

Her heart was pounding as she looked up into his honey brown eyes. She could feel his breath on her neck and she was hyper aware of the fact that his body was just inches from hers.

"Please say something," he begged softly.

"I don't know if I forgive you yet," she said trying to clear her head. She saw the look of disappointment flash across his face and he sighed.

"That's understandable," he said.

"But…" she hesitated, biting her lip feeling the ache of desire in her stomach. "But maybe I will give you a second chance."

"Thank Merlin," he whispered.

Then he leaned forward and pressed his lips to hers. His hand wove into her hair while the other pressed her body to his. She kissed him back, parting her lips slightly in a sigh of relief. Her hands were moving up his muscular arms. His hand slid up the back of her shirt and she moaned as his calloused hands caressed the skin at the small of her back. He began trailing kisses down her neck and she panted, running her fingers through his hair.

Suddenly Mackenzie stopped, placing a hand on Fred's chest and listening intently. He gave her a confused look and then he seemed to hear it too.

He grabbed her hand and the rushed to a cabinet at the other end of the classroom. They had just crammed themselves into the cabinet and closed the door softly when they heard the classroom door open.

Mackenzie's heart was beating wildly as she clung to Fred in the cramped cabinet and listened.

"Are you quiet sure it was this hall?" Snape's voice asked.

"Yes, Mrs. Norris came down here earlier this evening. Where is he my pet?" Filtch asked.

Fred and Mackenzie exchanged a panicked look and they waited, not daring to breathe in case they would be discovered. After a few moments silence they hear Filtch swear.

"We will check the other classrooms down this hall, but I fear the culprits have escaped once again. We will have to be more vigilant in the future.'" Snape growled.

They heard shuffling feet and the door slammed shut, knocking a few things from the shelf above them onto their heads. Fred wrapped his arm around Mackenzie and she rested her head on his chest.

Mackenzie wasn't sure how long they sat in the cupboard, too afraid to leave their hiding place until they knew it was safe. When they finally climbed out her joints were stiff from their cramped quarters. Fred stretched and gave her a sheepish smile.

"C'mon, I'll walk you back to your common room, it's late," Fred said offering her his hand.

She took it, smiling at him, and trying to smooth her hair with her other hand. Fred pulled her close and kissed her again, gently pressing his lips to hers. When he pulled away again he caressed her cheek and smoothed her hair for her. She brushed a red lock of hair from his eyes and smiled up at him. Then he intertwined their fingers and they crept from the classroom.

They walked quietly and cautiously up to Ravenclaw tower. They stopped in front of the entrance and Fred pulled her into his arms. He hugged her to him, stroking her hair gently.

"Let me make this up to you?" he whispered looking down at her.

"All right," she said. "But first I think you have to have a talk with a certain Gryffindor chaser about some plans you made."

He sighed and nodded looking into her blue eyes with his golden brown ones. "I'm really sorry," he whispered.

"For what?" she asked, furrowing her eyebrows.

"Well for the last few days and for almost getting you in trouble tonight," he explained.

"Getting in trouble seems to come with the territory with you," she said shrugging. "What did you steal from Snape anyways?"

Fred reached into his pocket and pulled out a black dried lump and smiled triumphantly. "Bat tongue, we are going to brew an aging potion."

Mackenzie stifled her own laugh as she looked from the lump in Fred's hand to his look of excitement.

Oh, sweetie," she said patting his shoulder patronizingly. "An aging potion is not going to fool Dumbledore, and besides you went through all that only to grab a lizard tongue instead. Didn't you read the labels?"

"Wait, what? You mean this isn't…" Fred looked incredulously from the lump in his hand to Mackenzie in exasperation.

"Sorry, she said giving his arm a sympathetic squeeze.

Fred sighed and put the useless tongue into his pocket again. He pulled her back into his arms and hugged her tightly. "Can I see you tomorrow?" he asked. "After I talk to Alicia of course," he added.

"Yeah, ok. I usually go to the library on Saturdays so just come find me," she said. 'Be careful going back to your dorm. Filtch didn't sound too pleased at not being able to catch you."

Fred leaned down and kissed her briefly and gave her a mischievous smile. "I'm always careful, Mack," he said winking at her.

"Mack?" she asked raising her eyebrows.

"It has a nice ring to it," he said shrugging.

She touched his cheek softly, "year, it does. Good night, Fred"

He kissed the palm of her hand before turning and hurrying down the hall towards his common room Mackenzie watched him until he disappeared around the corner before turning to the Ravenclaw entrance. She cleared her throat softly to wake the sleeping door knocker and it blinked its eyes at her.

"Have you any idea what time it is?" it asked grumpily.

"Late, I know," she admitted smiling.

"What starts with 'e,' ends with 'e,' and contains one letter?' the eagle asked sleepily.

"An envelope," Mackenzie answered

The eagle nodded and the door swung open. Mackenzie walked into the deserted common room and was walking towards the staircase leading to the girls' dorms when she saw Tabitha sleeping on a couch by the fire. Mackenzie smiled and walked over to her snoozing friend. She tapped her gently and Tabitha blinked sleepily up at her. She stared blankly for a few seconds before an angry look crossed her face.

"Where in Merlin's name have you been?" she asked sitting up and rubbing the sleep from her eyes

"Well I was in the library for a while," she said trying to hide the blush that was rising in her cheeks.

"Have you been snogging?" Tabitha asked sitting up on the couch and smiling devilishly at her friend.

"Why do you think that?" she asked trying to sound innocent.

"If you haven't been snogging then why're your lips red and why is there a button missed on your blouse. Tell me who it is, I want to shake his hand." Tabitha giggled and clapped her hands together.

Mackenzie rolled her eyes and stood yawning, "I'm going to bed," she said.

"No! You are going to tell me what happened!" her friend begged.

Mackenzie sighed and sat down back on the couch. She told Tabitha about her evening. How she had been coming back from the library and she ran into Fred and George. How she had helped him hide then asked for answers. "Then he kissed me," she finished simply.

"Did you like it? Well obviously you did if you hung around that long," she said winking and gesturing to her missed button.

"Well yes I liked it," she said rolling her eyes again and fixing her buttons.

"But?" Tabitha asked sensing that there was more to her response.

"I just don't know how I feel yet. I mean he almost kissed me twice when he had a date with someone else planned. I don't know if things are over between him and Alicia or if he wants to be together or keep things casual. There's just a lot to think about."

"Sounds to me like you are already over thinking things as usual. I'm just glad that for once in your life you did something impulsive."

"You act like I've never dated before. I've had plenty of boyfriends and some that weren't even boyfriends." Mackenzie argued crossing her arms across her chest petulantly.

"Yes, I know you've had your share of summer romances, but you've never dated anyone here. You've never dated a wizard before either. They're a whole different beast," she said with a wink.

"All I'm saying is I'm not going to get too worked up over it until I have more information. Now I'm tired, I'm going to bed." Mackenzie got up and walked up the stairs to their dorm. She changed quickly ignoring Tabitha's eyebrow waggling at the sight of the small mark Fred had left on her collar bone. She climbed in bed and slid under the covers she fell asleep quickly and dreamed of dark classrooms and calloused hands.

The next morning Mackenzie woke with a smile on her face. She dressed in a tight pair of jeans and a fitted t-shirt before packing some of her school things and heading down to breakfast, She spent the morning as she always sis on Saturdays, a good breakfast while reading the daily prophet then she headed to the library to work on some homework. By lunch she had grown restless and was unable to concentrate on her Herbology essay. She decided to head to the Great Hall for a well-deserved break.

She had just sat down and ladled herself a generous helping of baked potato soup when she glanced at the Gryffindor table. She saw Harry Potter and his two best friends chatting excitedly about something but saw no sign of either Weasley twin. She shrugged and propped her Potions book in front of her while she ate soup and French bread. She was only half finished with her soup when she was distracted from her reading by loud laughter from the entrance of the Great Hall.

Mackenzie looked up from her book to see the source of the noise. And he felt her heart drop into her stomach. The Weasley twins and Lee Jordan walked into the Great Hall, laughing wildly about something. Normally Mackenzie wouldn't have thought anything about it except for the fact that the twins each had their arm draped around two of the Gryffindor chasers, Angelina Johnson and Alicia Spinet.

Mackenzie felt the blood rising in her cheeks as she watched them walk over to the Gryffindor table. She saw Alicia plant a kiss on Fred's cheek as he gestured grandly for her to sit at the table. Mackenzie blinked the tears from her eyes and began to gather her things.

She glanced at the Gryffindor table reflexively as she stood to leave and saw Fred look up. His face paled as his eyes met hers across the room. Mackenzie felt the tears spilling down her cheeks as she turned and walked calmly out of the Great Hall towards the grounds.

She found a secluded spot near the black lake where she wouldn't be disturbed and she let the tears fall down her face as she quietly sobbed. As she watched the giant Squid backstroke across the lake she promised herself silently that she was done with Fred Weasley.