God this took me forever to get done. I must say that my updating might be a little sporadic in the next few weeks cause Ive been taking extra hours at work. I'm not going to put up any thank yous in this chapter simply because I just wanna post this up as fast as I can. So for everyone who has reviewed recently I am soooo grateful. Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy this god awful chapter, heh.


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Chapter 8- Oh How Love is Blind

"I don't know Angelina!" Alicia hurried around the table and reached for the closest napkin. Dousing it in a water glass she moved back around the table and pressed the napkin firmly over Oliver's eyes. " Don't worry Oliver, just sit still and relax. Everything will be fine."

Alicia held the napkin over Oliver's eyes while her own searched for Fred. Where the hell did he run off to? " Did Fred go to the bar for more water?"

Angelina completely ignored the question. "I just don't understand what happened, Alicia." Angelina paced nervously beside Katie. " Oliver, you sure you didn't eat anything or have anything funny this afternoon?" She paused for only a second before beginning to pace again.

"No no, oh god, no." Oliver dug his hands into the arms of the chair. "I didn't have anything unusual. Oh geez what am I going to do? Alicia what do they look like? Are they still white?"

Alicia cringed and slowly took the napkin away from his eyes. She shuttered slightly and then peered over into Oliver's eyes. "Uh, yeah they're still white. You still can't see anything?

Oliver jerked his head to the side and began shaking. "I knew this would happen! I knew it! Everything was just going so well and now I'm going to be stuck like this and oh my god what am I going to do for the rest of my life. I can't live without Quidditch but I cant play if I can't see a bloody thing!" He hunched over and dropped his head into his hands.

Alicia placed her hands on his shoulders. This was not exactly the date she had been expecting. In fact everything had been going so well when they were out on the dance floor. She was laughing and having a good time, and Oliver seemed to be enjoying her company without even mentioning anything about his Quidditch profession. Overall she had been glad she accepted this date with her former Quidditch captain.

Now…

"Should we take him to the hospital? I mean he's really not looking to good." Katie piped up from behind her.

"I don't know…I don't know…" Alicia just ran her hand over her mouth.

"Oliver can you see this?" Lee waved his hands erratically in front of Oliver's face.

"No."

"What about this." He shook his head back and forth and his dreadlocks waved furiously through the air.

"Lee I cant see a blasted thing!"

"Geez temper temper."

"Lee!" Katie shoved him aside. " This really isn't the time. Go…go see if Fred got the water."

"Well for Merlin's sake." He backed away from the table. " I know when my services are not needed. I only wanted to lighten the mood but fine. Fine! Push me away…I see how it is."

"Now Lee!" Katie pointed towards the bar.

Grabbing Katie by the shoulders he leaned over and planted a kiss. "I love when you are demanding." He smirked and made off into the crowd in the direction of the bar.

"Alicia, you need to calm down. You running around like a lunatic isn't going to help anything." Angelina took hold of Alicia's arm.

"She's right Spinnet. Just take a seat. We'll just wait until Fred comes back and then I'll apparate to the hospital."

"Oliver! You can't apparate in that condition. We'll go outside and get on the Knight Bus. I'll go with you."

Oliver just let out a slow deep breath. " My career is over. My life is over. I knew it….I just knew it would happen."

"Knew what would happen?" Lee emerged from the crowd and approached the table.

" I thought I told you to go find Fred!"

"I did." Lee pointed to a red head bobbing through the crowd before it pushed through a line of people and revealed a very nervous looking Fred.

"Uh, here I got two glasses of water." He handed one out to Alicia.

"Ok, Oliver just take a breath, drink this and just calm down. As soon as you regain your composure we'll get going. I'm confident that one of the medi-witches will be able to help you out."

" God I hope so." He fumbled with his fingers for a brief second while Alicia handed him the glass. " I mean if this is it…. I always knew it would happen. I knew if I let my guard down my biggest fear would come true."

There was a crash.

All eyes, well those except Oliver's, moved towards Fred. His own face was full of such utter shock that he hadn't even registered that he dropped the second glass of water.

"What was that?" Oliver jerked slightly in the seat.

"Fred, are you ok?" Alicia, who was closest to him, took out her wand and vanished away the shards of glass.

"Yeah I just- well I cant believe-" The words he was looking for became lost in his mouth so he shrugged.

"Well if everyone is done making this night even more stressful I'm going to take Oliver to St. Mungo's." Alicia placed her hands on Oliver's arm and helped him rise from the chair.

"You want me to come with you, Ali?" Angelina caught Fred scanning the club out of the corner of her eye. Something definitely was off about this situation.

"No it's all right." Alicia helped Oliver place his arm around her shoulder. " You guys enjoy the rest of the evening. I'll see you back at the apartment Katie." She smiled slightly and began shuffling towards the door with Oliver.

"See ya soon, Oliver! Lee called out. " Hey why'd you hit me?" He glared at Katie.

"See ya soon? Bloody hell Lee the poor guy just lost his eyesight. You'd think you could have refrained from saying something that involved 'seeing'" She shook her head.

" Hey!" Angelina's forehead was resting in her hand. " No more arguing. Lets just get home for the night, ok?"

"You don't want to stay any longer?" Fred was still scanning the crowd. "Has anyone seen George? I sorta need to ask him something."

Angelina narrowed her eyes. " I knew it."

"Knew what?" Fred finally stopped searching and turned to face her.

Katie and Lee stood silently at the table but both knew what was about to go down. Angelina was about to have a fit.

"I knew you had something to do with Oliver's eyesight! You've been sweating ever since you dropped that glass, Fred! You look like someone just found out your deepest secret, and now you're looking for George to figure out your next move."

Katie and Lee both shot Fred a very surprised look.

"Look I have no idea what happened….ok well that isn't entirely truthful, but that's why I'm looking for George. I need to find out if he was the one who did something."

"Did what?" Angelina punched him in the shoulder.

"Ow! I want to see if George somehow slipped Oliver one of our new pills."

"Pills? Pills! You had George slip Oliver one of your stupid pills?" She hit him again.

"Hey I'm going to start counting this as abuse soon." Fred rubbed his arm. " And to be clear, I don't know if George slipped him one of the pills. It's just that." He sighed. God he was so going to get it. " These new pills we've been working on, well you slip them into someone's drink and they dissolve. Once the entire glass is gone it takes about a half hour for them to take effect." He stopped.

"What do they do?" Angelina went to swing at him again, but Fred moved back to avoid the hit.

"Right, well, the point of the pill…." He ran his fingers through his hair. " They're supposed to make your worst nightmare come true. Guess Oliver was terrified of losing his eyesight….heh…" He chuckled weakly as Angelina's eyes grew wide.

"Come on. We're going to your flat." She grabbed Fred's hand and Katie and Lee followed right behind.

"Why? What's that got to do with anything?" He yanked his hand away from hers.

"Because…" She stormed out the exit of the club and out towards the street. " Your stupid brother is the brains behind this." And with a pop Angelina was gone.

"Mate, how come you never told me about these pills? Merlin I have so many people I'd love to try them on!" Lee gave Fred a congratulatory pat on the shoulder. "They sound brilliant!"

"You both are idiots." And with another pop Katie was gone.

"Don't mean to cut you off, Lee but if we don't get to my flat Angelina will kill George."

"Most true my friend."

Two more pops sounded, and both Fred and Lee disappeared from the street.


He knew it was eventually coming. The girls were smart and he was certain one of them would figure it out before the night was over. He was hoping it'd be Alicia so he could get her alone in the flat for a few hours. Changing into an old tee shirt and a pair of torn up pants, George sat down on the sofa and began to wait. By now the pill would be taking affect, and he wondered what exactly Captain Blood's biggest fear really was.

Conjuring himself up a cup of black coffee, he kicked up his feet and stared at the front entrance. Any minute.

Then there was a pop and a screaming Angelina.

Bloody hell.

Another pop followed, and George closed his eyes as Katie appeared at her side.

Two more pops followed that, and Fred and Lee both apparated directly in front of Angelina and Katie. The four had all begun to move at the same time and became quite entangled with each other.

George couldn't help but snicker.

"This…" Angelian broke free from the mess. " This is definitely not funny, George!" She towered over him while he sat on the sofa. "Do you know where Alicia is right now? Do you?"

"Comforting poor Captain Blood I bet." He sneered.

"No you wanker she's at the hospital with him! Oliver nearly had a heart attack all because of you and your stupid brother!"

George quirked an eyebrow. " Fred had nothing to do with this. It was all my idea and besides it's none of your business what I do, Angelina."

"None of my business? What! You are deliberately trying to piss off Alicia, one of my best friends, and you think that's none of my business." Lifting a pillow from the armchair she hurled it at George's head. "It's bad enough Alicia is giving me a hard time about walking down the aisle with you, and now you go and do this! I swear if she leaves and its on your head…" She began to mumble incoherent things under her breath.

George, however, just stared at her with a confused expression on his face. "What do you mean she doesn't want to walk down the aisle with me?"

"Exactly what it sounds like genius." She rolled her eyes.

Katie and Lee threw each other sideways glances and made off for the kitchen. Anything was better then hearing Angelina and George argue over how much Alicia hated him. It usually ended up with Fred prying Angelina from George.

"What the hell! Why wont she just grow up?" George threw the coffee mug at the wall.

"Oh and like you placing one of your childish pills in Oliver's drink is any more mature?"

"It was just a joke, Angelina."

"It was rather funny." Fred piped up but was immediately shot a look from Angelina.

"See, Fred thought it was funny." George pointed towards his brother.

"That's why Fred is better off sleeping here at home tonight and not coming back to my flat." She grumbled.

" You don't get it Angie." George rose from the couch. " All I want to do it get her to see that Im sorry about the past, but she wont give me the chance. She's being so stupid about it."

Angelina dropped her head into her hands. "George your just never going to get it are you?" She sighed. " Look I'll be the first to admit that Alicia goes overboard with this whole grudge thing, but you- you don't understand how deep you cut her when you said those things."

"Angelina it was a mistake, and I regret that every day of my life." Stopping in front of the oval mirror hanging on the wall he glared at himself. "I just don't understand why she couldn't move on with her life…why couldn't she just let me go."

Angelina pushed herself from the couch, and joined George at the mirror. " You don't understand, George." Placing her hand on his shoulder she gave a semi shrug. " Look there is like a million different types of love out there in the world. You've got the love between you and your parents, or the love you share with a sibling. Hell you've even got the love you have between friends which is like the love I have for you, Katie and Lee." She sighed. " But then there's the love that makes you feel like you are above the world. It's the love that makes you feel alive and happy… it makes your heart beat fast and your head a little dizzy, and maybe the only thing that makes any sense it the fact that you know you cant spend another waking second without having that person there beside you. It becomes a love so unconditional, so beautiful, so emotional that it embraces the soul far greater then any other love you can hold for anyone else. This is how Alicia loved you, George. When she told you how she felt eight years ago she was trying to tell you that was how she loved you….and the most you could do was turn your back and fly out those doors."

He sighed, and turned his head. He couldn't even look at himself in the mirror anymore. The most he could do was take a breath and walk out the door. He needed to get to the hospital. He wouldn't be turning his back anymore.


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