That night after everyone had gone to bed Alicia and Fred stayed in the common room.
"Ok," Fred said, "Talk"
"Well...."Alicia said,"I think that I may have noticed a Mr. George Weasley staring at our little Ms. Katie Bell a few times and I want to know if he maybe possibly likes her."
"Well..." Fred said,"That depends on if maybe our little Ms. Katie Bell may possible like a certain Mr. George Weasley."
"What?" Alicia asked.
"Ok fine," Fred said,"Why do you want to know?"
Alicia sighed,"Ok, Fred if I tell you a secret will you PROMISE to NEVER thell anyone...especially not George?"
Fred said,"Yes, But if I tell you a secret you have to promise to never tell any either, especially not Katie."
"Ok," Alicia said, "Katie has had the biggest crush on George since our first year."
Fred burst out laughing.
"It's not funny you idiot!" Alicia said whacking his arm.
Fred gained control of himself again, "Ok...I know it's not, it's just that..." he started to laugh again and then stopped himself,"It's just that George has liked Katie since our first year also!"
"Oh my gosh!" Alicia said, then she started to giggle, "They BOTH like each other!"
They laughed for a moment then stood up to go.
Fred drapped his arm around Alicia's shoulder,"Well, there is only one thing that we, as their best friends, can do."
"And what is that?" Alicia asked duck out of his arm.
"Get them together." Fred said.
"Of course, it'll have to be devious." Alicia said grinning
"And it'll have to be sneaky," Fred said with a matching grin.
"I think we're on to something." Alicia said. "I'll meet you here same time tomorrow to get our little 'operation' underway?"
"Most definatley." Fred said
*One Week Later*
"Ok team, today is our first Quidditch match of the season. Yes it's against Slytherin, and yes they'll probably play dirty. But we must not stoop to their level....ummmm what else did Oliver used to say before a match?" George Weasley was giving his pep talk as the captain of the Gryffindor quidditch team. "Oh well, do your best and we'll win this game."
The team cheered and headed outside. A week had gone by since the hebology lesson on villians root and Katie getting in trouble with McGonagall. Since then Katie had actually defied Professo McGonagall again when she wanted them to perform a spell which literally blew the other person to pieces. McGonagall insisted that they would all be put back together again, but Katie insisted that it was too near (if not) dark magic and refused to do the spell, once again being forced to leave the classroom and spend the time in her dormitory. Katie had also gotten into a bit of trouble with the new defense against the dark arts teacher who had wanted them to practice dueling with new spells, only these spells were quiet harmfull and dangerous, Katie again refused and was sent off by herself. The rest of the class procastinated untill they only had ten minutes left and then purposley messed up on the spells.
"Katie you can't keep doing this, just do like the rest of us," Alicia had said to her,"You're going to end up failing all your classes."
"I can't Alicia," Katie had replied,"I KNOW it's wrong and I refuse to take any part in it."
Katie had still spent the majority of th week worrying about her grades and was pretty stressed out. 'Ok Katie,' she said to herself, 'We're going to go out there, forget about grades, and play hard for Gryffindor.'
She took a deep breath and stepped onto her field.
"Three...Two...One..Go!" Madame Hooch yelled. Both teams flew into the air.
An hour later things weren't looking good. The slytherin team had knocked a bludger at Ron's arm, purposley hitting his arm with the bludger and the paddle. Unfortunatley there was no replacement keeper for Gryffindor so Ron had magically made himself a makeshift splint and was trying to play keeper with a broken arm. The score was 160 to 20, Slytherin was ahead. There was still no sign of the Snitch.
Suddenly a Slytherin chaser scored against Ron who was trying his hardest. 'Great,' Katie thought, '170, to 20, that means that is we get the snitch...I'll be a tie, 170 to 170' Just then she saw Harry race of towards the other end of the field. 'the snitch,' she thought. 'I've got to get the quaffle and score quick!' She stole the quaffle from a Slytherin player who was watching Harry and sped toward the other end of the field. 'Oh no,' she thought,'I've got to get somones attention before I score!'
"MADAME HOOCH!" she yelled as loud as she could, Madame Hooch looked up at her in time to see her score with the quaffle and with just enough time to look back and see Harry catch the Snitch a second later.
The Gryffindor stands exploded with cheers and rushed out onto the field. They had won their first match!
On the ground Katie hugged Alicia and Angelina and Harry, when she got to George he picked her up in the air and spun her around.
"You did it!" he cried, "We won!"
Katie laughed and he set her down and they hugged. Just then Katie felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around there was Professor Dumbledore. And he didn't look very happy over the victory.
"Katie I'm afraid I have some..some bad news," he said,"Please come to my office with me. Mr. Weasley you come too, It might make it easier if she had a friend present."
Katie followed Professor Dumbledore confused, 'what is it?' she wondered, 'Is mum sick? Am I being expelled for those little incidents in class?' she worried untill they reached Dumbledore's office.
"Sit down Katie, sit down." Dumbledore said. "I'm afraid that Voldemort has been gaining power, he has been out killing man of Hogwarts best graduates. Among them is your brother, Stephen."
Katies mind went completely numb, 'Stephen, dead, no..no Stephen couldn't die! It was impossible! I need to get out of here, I need to run from here, it's got to be a lie.'
"Here is a letter from your parents." Dumbledore said handing her a letter. "It came in the middle of the game I'm sure you want it."
Katie took the letter and then ran out the door. George looked at Professor Dubledore, "I'd better go after her." He said and excused himself.
George walked up to Gryffindor tower. As soon as he opened the portrait hole he saw a party inside. 'Great' he thought. He saw Alicia and grabbed her arm pulling her over to him, "Did you see Katie?" he asked.
"Yeah," Alicia said,"She ran in here a second ago and ran straight up to her dorm, I was just about to go check on her."
"Don't bother I'll go," George said. He climbed the stairs to the girls dormitory, when he reached the seventh year dorm he knocked on the door. "Katie?" he called. there was no answer, "Katie it's George. I'm gonna come in." with that he opened the door.
Katie was standing over by the window staring outside.
"Katie, I wanted to say, that I'm very sorry, I remember Stephen from our first year, he was a great guy. And I'll be here for you if you need me." he put his hand on her shoulder.
Katie spun around and threw her arms around his neck. She had tears streaming down her face.
George wrapped his arms around her tightly 'I'm only doing this for her as a friend.' he thought, 'nothing else.'
She sobbed onto his shoulder for about an hour. Then the Gryffindor girls came upstairs.
"Hey guys!" Alicia said, then she realized Katie was upset, "What's wrong?" she asked.
Katie sniffed and handed Alicia the letter from her parents before taking Georges hand and leading him from the room.
"I..I think I need to write back to my parents." She said. They went down to the common room together. "You...you don't have to stay with me if you don't want to."
George looked at her, there was no way that he was going to leave her alone at a time like this. "That's ok, I don't mind." he said
Katie picked up a quill but her hand was shaking to hard to write.
"Here," George said taking the quill from her. "You tell me what you want to say and I'll write it for you."
Katie nodded, "Dear mum and dad, I am very upset by this news. I want to come home. Please let me go home. Send an owl for me and tell me what train I should take. love Katie."
George finished writing and gave her the quill, she very shakily signed her name.
"Come on," George said taking her hand and heading toward the owlery.
They sent the message on one of the schools owls and went back to Gryffindor common room. There they sat down on the couch.
Katie sighed, "I can't beleive this happened." she said.
George put an arm around her and she leaned into him putting her feet up on the couch.
'Should I tell her how I feel about her?' George thought,'It might help her to feel better if she knew someone else loved her after loosing her brother, but what if she doesn't have anyfeelings toward me. It would probably upset her more. Well if it upsets her I can always say that it's a friendship kindof love.'
"Katie, I love you." he whispered. He waited a second and looked down at her. She was asleep.
George sighed and put his feet up on the couch also not wanting to move her head from his chest and wake her before leaning his head on the arm rest and falling asleep with his arms around her waisted.
About twenty minutes later Fred and Alicia snuck down to meet each other and discuss operation George and Katie.
"Awwww...look." Fred said seeing them asleep together on the couch, "Isn't that sweet."
"Adorable," Alicia said. "Fred I have some awefull news, Katie's older brother died, that's why she was so upset."
"Oh gosh, I'm sorry for her."
"So am I, She'll probably go home for a week or so, then after that we will have to play it all by ear. I don't want to rush her into an emotional relationship at a time like this."
"Ok Ok," Fred said, "Hey, maybe we won't even have to do anything, they are asleep together on the couch, maybe they've come out and said how they feel for each other."
"Doubtful" Alicia said.
The two headed back up to their own dormitories.
A/N-ok now things will start to pick up a bit more. Ummmm...I hope you liked it! I'll put more up soon. Oh yes, and PLEASE don't tell me Dumbledore was out of charector I know he was, it was like that for a reason. THREE MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!! I'll probably have to wait for my sister to read the book before I do (she's more obsessed then I am) So PLEASE don't put out any spoilers on ff-net!!!!
disclaimer-all of these charectors belong to JK Rowling.
"Ok," Fred said, "Talk"
"Well...."Alicia said,"I think that I may have noticed a Mr. George Weasley staring at our little Ms. Katie Bell a few times and I want to know if he maybe possibly likes her."
"Well..." Fred said,"That depends on if maybe our little Ms. Katie Bell may possible like a certain Mr. George Weasley."
"What?" Alicia asked.
"Ok fine," Fred said,"Why do you want to know?"
Alicia sighed,"Ok, Fred if I tell you a secret will you PROMISE to NEVER thell anyone...especially not George?"
Fred said,"Yes, But if I tell you a secret you have to promise to never tell any either, especially not Katie."
"Ok," Alicia said, "Katie has had the biggest crush on George since our first year."
Fred burst out laughing.
"It's not funny you idiot!" Alicia said whacking his arm.
Fred gained control of himself again, "Ok...I know it's not, it's just that..." he started to laugh again and then stopped himself,"It's just that George has liked Katie since our first year also!"
"Oh my gosh!" Alicia said, then she started to giggle, "They BOTH like each other!"
They laughed for a moment then stood up to go.
Fred drapped his arm around Alicia's shoulder,"Well, there is only one thing that we, as their best friends, can do."
"And what is that?" Alicia asked duck out of his arm.
"Get them together." Fred said.
"Of course, it'll have to be devious." Alicia said grinning
"And it'll have to be sneaky," Fred said with a matching grin.
"I think we're on to something." Alicia said. "I'll meet you here same time tomorrow to get our little 'operation' underway?"
"Most definatley." Fred said
*One Week Later*
"Ok team, today is our first Quidditch match of the season. Yes it's against Slytherin, and yes they'll probably play dirty. But we must not stoop to their level....ummmm what else did Oliver used to say before a match?" George Weasley was giving his pep talk as the captain of the Gryffindor quidditch team. "Oh well, do your best and we'll win this game."
The team cheered and headed outside. A week had gone by since the hebology lesson on villians root and Katie getting in trouble with McGonagall. Since then Katie had actually defied Professo McGonagall again when she wanted them to perform a spell which literally blew the other person to pieces. McGonagall insisted that they would all be put back together again, but Katie insisted that it was too near (if not) dark magic and refused to do the spell, once again being forced to leave the classroom and spend the time in her dormitory. Katie had also gotten into a bit of trouble with the new defense against the dark arts teacher who had wanted them to practice dueling with new spells, only these spells were quiet harmfull and dangerous, Katie again refused and was sent off by herself. The rest of the class procastinated untill they only had ten minutes left and then purposley messed up on the spells.
"Katie you can't keep doing this, just do like the rest of us," Alicia had said to her,"You're going to end up failing all your classes."
"I can't Alicia," Katie had replied,"I KNOW it's wrong and I refuse to take any part in it."
Katie had still spent the majority of th week worrying about her grades and was pretty stressed out. 'Ok Katie,' she said to herself, 'We're going to go out there, forget about grades, and play hard for Gryffindor.'
She took a deep breath and stepped onto her field.
"Three...Two...One..Go!" Madame Hooch yelled. Both teams flew into the air.
An hour later things weren't looking good. The slytherin team had knocked a bludger at Ron's arm, purposley hitting his arm with the bludger and the paddle. Unfortunatley there was no replacement keeper for Gryffindor so Ron had magically made himself a makeshift splint and was trying to play keeper with a broken arm. The score was 160 to 20, Slytherin was ahead. There was still no sign of the Snitch.
Suddenly a Slytherin chaser scored against Ron who was trying his hardest. 'Great,' Katie thought, '170, to 20, that means that is we get the snitch...I'll be a tie, 170 to 170' Just then she saw Harry race of towards the other end of the field. 'the snitch,' she thought. 'I've got to get the quaffle and score quick!' She stole the quaffle from a Slytherin player who was watching Harry and sped toward the other end of the field. 'Oh no,' she thought,'I've got to get somones attention before I score!'
"MADAME HOOCH!" she yelled as loud as she could, Madame Hooch looked up at her in time to see her score with the quaffle and with just enough time to look back and see Harry catch the Snitch a second later.
The Gryffindor stands exploded with cheers and rushed out onto the field. They had won their first match!
On the ground Katie hugged Alicia and Angelina and Harry, when she got to George he picked her up in the air and spun her around.
"You did it!" he cried, "We won!"
Katie laughed and he set her down and they hugged. Just then Katie felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around there was Professor Dumbledore. And he didn't look very happy over the victory.
"Katie I'm afraid I have some..some bad news," he said,"Please come to my office with me. Mr. Weasley you come too, It might make it easier if she had a friend present."
Katie followed Professor Dumbledore confused, 'what is it?' she wondered, 'Is mum sick? Am I being expelled for those little incidents in class?' she worried untill they reached Dumbledore's office.
"Sit down Katie, sit down." Dumbledore said. "I'm afraid that Voldemort has been gaining power, he has been out killing man of Hogwarts best graduates. Among them is your brother, Stephen."
Katies mind went completely numb, 'Stephen, dead, no..no Stephen couldn't die! It was impossible! I need to get out of here, I need to run from here, it's got to be a lie.'
"Here is a letter from your parents." Dumbledore said handing her a letter. "It came in the middle of the game I'm sure you want it."
Katie took the letter and then ran out the door. George looked at Professor Dubledore, "I'd better go after her." He said and excused himself.
George walked up to Gryffindor tower. As soon as he opened the portrait hole he saw a party inside. 'Great' he thought. He saw Alicia and grabbed her arm pulling her over to him, "Did you see Katie?" he asked.
"Yeah," Alicia said,"She ran in here a second ago and ran straight up to her dorm, I was just about to go check on her."
"Don't bother I'll go," George said. He climbed the stairs to the girls dormitory, when he reached the seventh year dorm he knocked on the door. "Katie?" he called. there was no answer, "Katie it's George. I'm gonna come in." with that he opened the door.
Katie was standing over by the window staring outside.
"Katie, I wanted to say, that I'm very sorry, I remember Stephen from our first year, he was a great guy. And I'll be here for you if you need me." he put his hand on her shoulder.
Katie spun around and threw her arms around his neck. She had tears streaming down her face.
George wrapped his arms around her tightly 'I'm only doing this for her as a friend.' he thought, 'nothing else.'
She sobbed onto his shoulder for about an hour. Then the Gryffindor girls came upstairs.
"Hey guys!" Alicia said, then she realized Katie was upset, "What's wrong?" she asked.
Katie sniffed and handed Alicia the letter from her parents before taking Georges hand and leading him from the room.
"I..I think I need to write back to my parents." She said. They went down to the common room together. "You...you don't have to stay with me if you don't want to."
George looked at her, there was no way that he was going to leave her alone at a time like this. "That's ok, I don't mind." he said
Katie picked up a quill but her hand was shaking to hard to write.
"Here," George said taking the quill from her. "You tell me what you want to say and I'll write it for you."
Katie nodded, "Dear mum and dad, I am very upset by this news. I want to come home. Please let me go home. Send an owl for me and tell me what train I should take. love Katie."
George finished writing and gave her the quill, she very shakily signed her name.
"Come on," George said taking her hand and heading toward the owlery.
They sent the message on one of the schools owls and went back to Gryffindor common room. There they sat down on the couch.
Katie sighed, "I can't beleive this happened." she said.
George put an arm around her and she leaned into him putting her feet up on the couch.
'Should I tell her how I feel about her?' George thought,'It might help her to feel better if she knew someone else loved her after loosing her brother, but what if she doesn't have anyfeelings toward me. It would probably upset her more. Well if it upsets her I can always say that it's a friendship kindof love.'
"Katie, I love you." he whispered. He waited a second and looked down at her. She was asleep.
George sighed and put his feet up on the couch also not wanting to move her head from his chest and wake her before leaning his head on the arm rest and falling asleep with his arms around her waisted.
About twenty minutes later Fred and Alicia snuck down to meet each other and discuss operation George and Katie.
"Awwww...look." Fred said seeing them asleep together on the couch, "Isn't that sweet."
"Adorable," Alicia said. "Fred I have some awefull news, Katie's older brother died, that's why she was so upset."
"Oh gosh, I'm sorry for her."
"So am I, She'll probably go home for a week or so, then after that we will have to play it all by ear. I don't want to rush her into an emotional relationship at a time like this."
"Ok Ok," Fred said, "Hey, maybe we won't even have to do anything, they are asleep together on the couch, maybe they've come out and said how they feel for each other."
"Doubtful" Alicia said.
The two headed back up to their own dormitories.
A/N-ok now things will start to pick up a bit more. Ummmm...I hope you liked it! I'll put more up soon. Oh yes, and PLEASE don't tell me Dumbledore was out of charector I know he was, it was like that for a reason. THREE MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!! I'll probably have to wait for my sister to read the book before I do (she's more obsessed then I am) So PLEASE don't put out any spoilers on ff-net!!!!
disclaimer-all of these charectors belong to JK Rowling.