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Chapter Ten; I'm not in love
Kissing each other like there was no tomorrow, George walked forward and laid down Alicia on her bed in the room she shared with Ginny, while they stayed at the headquarters in London. She pushed herself away so that she lay in the middle of the bed without breaking the contact of their lips.
He climbed on top of her and moved his kisses away from her mouth and down toward her neck and even further as he unbuttoned the uppermost buttons of the black shirt, while supporting himself with the other.
He could feel that she liked it, really liked it. Especially by the way that she almost squeezed his head into a smaller shape, and moaned for more.
Not remembering that they forgot to lock the door, it suddenly opened and their contact broke. Alicia cursed under her breath and closed her eyes and really hoped that it wasn't one of their parents, or somebody that would definitely tell their parents.
"Sorry!" Georges soon to be 14 year old little sister said and put her hands over her eyes. "I'll go, don't worry I won't tell anyone." She turned around and closed the door.
When the door closed, George looked down at Alicia a few seconds before he rolled off her and started to laugh.
"What are you laughing at?" Alicia asked him. "If she had opened the door two minutes from now, we could have scarred her for life."
"For a minute there, I thought that it was mum." He continued to laugh. "I'm just happy that it wasn't."
"You're an idiot." She responded, not amused. She rose from the bed and walked over to the door.
George rolled over to his stomach and looked up at her. "Don't go." He pleaded. "I'll die if you go!"He added in a dramatic voice, but his voice turned into laughter. "Don't go... I need you." He looked at her with the most serious look he could bring forward, but his expression still turned into laughter.
"Get a grip." She said with a smirk and walked out of the room.
"I can't believe that you are dating my brother." Ginny said later that night when they were supposed to sleep, but none of the two girls had that in mind.
"I can't believe that you walked in on us." Alicia responded.
"How does it feel?" Ginny asked, she sat up, clutching her pillow close to her chest.
"How does what feel?"
"Being in love?" Ginny continued. "Unless you aren't, I can perfectly understand if..."
"It feels amazing." The older female interrupted. "You wanna know what it feels like?"
"I'd like to, I hope that I also will fall in love one day." Ginny responded dreamingly.
"Well, if you stand up and hold out your arms. " Alicia said, making a demonstration. "Then you spin around the fastest you possibly can, just staring forward, not making eye-contact with anything." She took down her arms. "That's how it can feels sometimes, you don't know which way is up and which is down."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Can I ask something else?" Ginny asked.
Alicia nodded in response.
"How come that you are dating George? I mean, you're smart and pretty, you can probably get any kind of guy at all, you can get someone that is smart and deep... I don't mean that George isn't smart or deep, but..." Ginny stopped and didn't know how to continue. "You know..."
"You think that George and I are in two complete different categories." Alicia understood what Ginny meant, even though she expressed herself badly.
"Kinda, not complete, but still." Ginny said. "I would never have thought that he would get together with someone like you."
"Well, I'd always loved to have someone that I can stun with my smartness." Alicia responded with a smile.
"I can't wait to fall in love." Ginny said with a dreaming smile.
The third day after Alicia had woken up from the comatose; she still hadn't been allowed to get out of bed. But she didn't mind, she had George to keep her company. They started the morning with cleaning her feet and smear them in that stinky herb-balsam that Mrs. Weasley had, and putting on clean socks on her feet. She still had ache in her feet when she walked, but it felt better and better for time to time.
Then he got her breakfast and tea. George had gotten out of his mum what the medical potion really was for; it was actually helping her immune system. And after the breakfast he kept her company. Alicia felt a little evil for taking George away from Fred, but Fred told her not to worry about it. He had spent nineteen year with George and felt a little happy about that George had found somebody else to bug, but he was just joking about that.
The morning after George had slept in Alicia's room had Mrs. Weasley walked in and woke them up, she had happily said 'Good morning' and walked over to the window and pulled away the curtain. 'Time to get up' she had told the two of them, who was just waking up. The both of them were a little surprised that she didn't get as... "Upset" as last time she had walked in on them.
George got out of the bed and stopped his mum, who had gotten out into the hall.
"Mum." He said to her.
"Yes, dear?" She turned toward him.
"You... um, don't mind that I slept in Alicia's room?" He asked. "Cause she, um, didn't want to be alone and..." He explained.
"George." She said to him. "Both of you are 19 years old, adults in the eyes of others. Things were different last time." She explained to her son. "But..." She added in a serious voice. "I expect the two of you to keep it in your pants while you're staying here."
"Right." George nodded. "I promise, cross my heart."
Mrs. Weasley smiled at him and walked down to the first landing.
"That's right Georgie." Fred said in a mocking voice, from the door opening to the other room. "Keep it in your pants!" He laughed and pointed a warning finger toward him.
(Me Note; I love that saying, "keep it in your pants")
This day was different though, Lee and one of his co-workers from WWN were coming over for dinner to present an idea they had to the others. Nobody had any idea of what it could be, but George had told her that Lee had sounded so excited when he spoke to him.
But between the morning and dinner time, George had his whole attention turned toward her. He had taken on the hard task to read to her. She had asked, or more like demanded him to entertain her. He had picked a book to read to her, "Terror at Hogwarts" was it called. There were five books in a series about a vicious and invisible serial killer that woke up from time to time at Hogwarts. The serial killer wasn't really a killer, it was more like a terroriser at Hogwarts and the main character was trying to stop it, but failed in every book.
"Charlie gave the first book to me and Fred the summer before we started Hogwarts and I can promise that we, at least I, didn't want to start school afterwards." George laughed. "The really funny thing in this book is that there is always something wrong with the defence against the dark arts teacher, like in real life."
"We haven't really had the same DADA teacher for more than one year." Alicia also laughed. "Except from Quirrell, who we had two years." In their first year had they had a different teacher, but he had gotten fired when one of the poisonous Lizards he had gotten permission to take to school to show his students, escaped. Ten people were put in the hospital wing, but nobody was seriously damaged.
Alicia loved the "Terror at Hogwarts" books, the serial terroriser reminded a lot of their fourth year when the basilisk was loose, many people thought that 'IT', like it was called in the books, had awoken and started to kill people, but it wasn't.
"Alicia, I can't read if you keep snogging my ear." George slammed the book shut, but didn't turn his head. "Well, at least I should be happy you are snogging my 'ear' and not my hole."
"I would snog you even if I had to face your hole." She giggled and kissed him again.
"Then I don't read to you anymore." He said and threw away the book, but instead of going all pissed off, he turned around to catch her mouth with his. They fall back onto the bed, George on top of Alicia, kissing. Only concentrating on each other until the door opened and in came somebody.
"Oh, don't let me interrupt, this only used to be my room, and that bed only used to be mine!" the annoyed voice of Percy interrupted them.
"Glad that you don't mind Perce." George mumbled and continued to kiss the giggling Alicia.
"Hello!" Percy said loud. "Still in the room!"
"Geesh Perce." George said and sat up. "You start to wonder if you have ever gotten lucky."
This statement tongue-tied Percy, who didn't come with a smart remark back. But after a minute or two he said; "Mum says dinner's ready."
Alicia popped up on her elbows from where she still laid on the bed. "They told me that all of you had decided that you should stay away from this place so that you can keep your job, right?" She smiled.
"Yeah, the order members decided that. But I had to come since I heard that you were awake." He explained. "What's smelling? Have you two not learned how to open a window?" He said and opened the window to the room. "There you go."
"It's my feet." She answered him; she lifted her feet of the cover and wriggled them in the air.
"Ah, now I see." He nodded. "Mum's balsam extraordinaire, the left side of my butt smelled the same a whole week when I was 14." He said.
"I don't think I wanna know why." She responded.
"My beloved brothers had put up a trap outside my door." He explained anyway. "Dinner." He reminded George. "Lee and Kennedy's here, so's Kingsley."
"The whole order's here?" George asked.
"No, just them." He said. "Oh, Bill and Fleur are here as well."
George turned around to Alicia and whispered so that only she could hear. "I think that is the whole order." Then he leaned forward and gave her a small kiss goodbye, but she closed her arms around his neck and they were down in the bed kissing like there was no tomorrow again.
"Hello, I am still in the room!!" Percy said even louder.
"Sorry Perce." George mumbled, but Alicia didn't let go of him. "Not my fault she wants me." He continued to kiss her.
But Percy gave up and walked out of the room, muttering to himself that they are nutters.
But George managed to break out of her hold, got up and got out of the room.
"Oh, hey Lee." Alicia heard George say through the crack in the door, he hadn't closed it completely.
"What?" He said next in a chocking voice. "Dead? Are you sure...? Oh, poor Angelina."
"What?" Alicia said loud so that they could hear them out in the hall. Had something happened to Angelina? Maybe Alicia didn't like her, but she still cared. "What, Angelina? George?" She called.
"How are you doing?" A very smile faking Lee came into the room.
"Oh, don't bother about me, what happened to Angelina?" She asked worried.
"Um..." Lee started. "Angelina's husband has been murdered by Death Eaters since he's a muggle-born and didn't show up from his hearing." He continued. "She was crying her eyes out when Katie found her; she left the country just a couple hours ago."
"Oh my shit." Alicia said to herself. "That's horrible." She shook her head, poor Angelina.
"But how are you? And what happened before? You just disappeared from the wedding, one moment you were there, the next you were gone." Lee asked her.
She hadn't told anyone what had happened that night; she had been trying to avoid it. "George, can you help me get down to the kitchen?" She knew that there was a day that she had to get out of this room and face the cruel world outside.
"I'm gonna tell everyone what happened the night Rabastan Lestrange died." She said and George hurried over to help her get down to the kitchen.
"Hey, Alicia, wait up for me." Ginny ran after Alicia who was walking a deserted corridor at Hogwarts. It was in the middle of September and she and George hadn't been talking to each other over two months.
"Hey Ginny." Alicia said and smiled at the younger girl, she didn't really feel like talking to Ginny, but still stopped. She actually did some manners, thank you. But she often chose not to show them.
"Hey." Ginny smiled and walked up to her. "How are you?"
"Good, you?" Alicia responded hoping that Ginny would just say what she had to say and then leave her alone.
"Wonderful." Ginny responded. "I was just wondering... how, um... things are between you and George? I haven't seen the two of you together for a while."
"What do you mean? George and I are not a couple anymore." Alicia answered annoyed, the last thing she needed was George's little sister playing matchmaker.
"What?" Ginny asked surprised. "But you shouldn't let mum and dad get between the two of you, it couldn't have been that bad."
"Ginny, I'm only gonna tell you this once..." Alicia said serious to the little Weasley girl. "If, George and I would have stayed together this big cloud of expectations would hang over our relationship."
"What expectations?"
"Expectations that it would hold forever, that we would get married and have a family together and the whole package." Alicia rambled on; every emotion that she had shut out during these two months suddenly came back to her. "And it won't, I know that it won't."
"But you love each other." Ginny said in a disappointed voice.
"No, Ginny. I don't know about George, but I'm not in love." Her eyes started to water up. "What George and I had was nothing more than just a fling, a crush, nothing more. I don't know anything about Love, I'm just 17."
She blinked away the tears she had before looking down on the floor and continuing the lie she knew she had to say. "You were right; I and George are in two complete different categories. I can honestly say that happy to get writ of him, I hate that he can't take anything serious, life is just one big joke to him and Fred, we are one step away from another wizarding war, and all they can do is to think about their stupid joke stuff. Not caring that more people might die."
A tear had escaped from her eye and fallen down her cheek, so she didn't look up at Ginny before she stormed off into the direction she was heading.
Ginny stood at her spot and just looked after Alicia for some time before heading to the other direction.
But in a third hallway, that lead to the one where Alicia and Ginny had been talking, a heartbroken George leaned toward the wall, having heard the whole conversation.
"I'm sorry George." Fred said to his brother.
"Hello." Alicia walked up to the reception at St. Mungos Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. "I'm here to see a Kaitlin Bell."
"And you are?" The receptionist looked suspicious at Alicia.
Alicia turned around toward her dad. "Dad? Can you take this?"
"Alli, you just have to be sturdy." John said and walked up to the receptionist. "Jonathan Spinnet Auror." He said with a smile and showed the receptionist a piece of parchment.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Spinnet, but Miss Bell is not up for visitors at the moment..." The receptionist started. "I can only let her family see her."
"Well, I can't report back to the Auror office until I see her." He continued sturdy. "And my daughter here is a very good friend of hers, and I'd just have to check on her condition since she was injured by dark magic. Don't you want the person that gave her the object to go into custody, before he strikes again?"
"Mr. Spinnet." The receptionist was also just as sturdy as John. "I can't let anyone else but her family see her..."
"Well, then I reckon that I have to sit over here and wait until you let us check upon her." He said and motioned toward the waiting room. "I can wait a very long time."
"Fine." The receptionist gave up. "I can let you see her for 15 minutes. No more, but if Miss Bell's brother inject on any level you have to respect that."
Katie had three brothers, one younger and two older. Alicia hoped that it was Jensen who was there, because he was the only one that Alicia knew.
The receptionist directed them to the fourth floor where Katie was having a private room on ward forty-one. A special ward built for patients with really dark magic injurys and in possible need for extra protection. Inside the room was Katie lying on a bed, talking happily with her brother Jensen, who was holding her hand and smiled at her, but the smile wasn't a one of happiness it was more of sadness.
When Alicia and her dad got into the room, Jensen's smile faded and he stood up, facing them. Katie also turned around and got a very big smile when she saw Alicia.
"Alicia!!" She said happily. "I can't believe that you found time to come and see me. How's the little one, does she miss me?"
"What little one?" Alicia asked and walked up to the bed, her dad stayed in the back ground.
"Your little one." Katie answered looking on Alicia like she was the one talking crazy.
"Don't worry; she's mixing fantasy with reality." Jensen explained. "Everything that she's saying is just... I don't know, crazy."
"Oh, hush, Jensy. I'm the only one who speaks the truth." Katie said.
"She thinks that the war is over, that Harry Potter defeated you-know-who." Jensen continued. "It's just crazy, the war haven't even started."
Alicia's dad also walked over to the bed, but instead of saying anything he took the patient chart from the end of the bed and looked at it.
"Anyways Alicia, how is your baby?" Katie looked completely serious when she spoke to her ex Quidditch mate.
"My baby?" Alicia asked, she didn't have a baby. She glanced up at her dad, who also had turned his attention toward Katie.
"Yes, little Fred, named after Fred who died in the last battle." Katie got a sad expression on her face. "I know that she's only three months old, but I know that she's going to be the biggest prankster Hogwarts have ever seen. With George as a father, she'll be that." She got that big happy smile back. "She looks very much like you, except from her eyes and hair. Fiery red hair, just like her daddy, on the very day she was born was her hair red. I don't think that I have ever seen anything prettier than that."
"Um, Katie, George and I haven't spoken over one and a half year." Alicia told Katie the truth. "And we don't have a baby."
"But... you do." Katie looked chocked. "You have to fight; you can't let your marriage get ruined this easily. I know that you had it a bit shaky, since Fred died just a couple hours after you got married, but Little Fred needs her daddy." She started to cry. "The two of you belong together; I could clearly see that the night when Little Fred was born. I have never seen either of you so happy."
"Katie, Katie." Alicia sat down on the bed and hugged Katie, fighting back her own tears; it hurt her to see her friend so upset. "Sweet Katie."
"Promise me that you will go to George and talk with him?" Katie let go of Alicia and whipped away her tears as she looked at Alicia. "You have to work this out for Little Fred's sake."
"Okay, I promise." Alicia smiled at her friend. "Can I ask you something? When is little Fred born?" She knew that she shouldn't ask, but she had to.
Katie's face changed; suddenly she didn't look like she had been crying at all. "Shame on you..." She said with utter shock. "What a horrible mother you are, not even remember when your own child is born." She gave Alicia a playful slap on her arm. "Little Fred Weasley the second is born the twelfth in the twelfth." She said with pride in her voice.
"Okay, Katie, I have to go now." Alicia said and gave Katie another hug.
"Okay... Give Fred a kiss from me. And promise that you'll talk to George and work things out." Katie said happily and waived her hand.
"I promise." Alicia smiled at Katie before walking out of the room with her dad.
"I'll walk you out." Jensen said and followed them.
"I hate to see her like this." Alicia said when the door closed and the three of them stood in the hallway.
"Me too. But I mostly feel happy that she's alive." Jensen answered. "All these things she's saying... Is she always going to be like this?" The question was more addressed to Alicia's dad, than Alicia.
"Most likely not." He answered. "She got the right treatment pretty quick, but it will take a long while before she'll be remembering her real life."
"All this talking, it's like she's... mixing reality with some dream she had." Alicia said.
"Yeah, you'd better just play along... otherwise she'll get upset, like you saw earlier." Jensen continued.
"If you keep telling her that she's wrong."Alicia said. "She'll probably retreat into herself and she won't make a recovery."
"Yeah." Jensen answered, he seemed so distant. "I think that I have to go back in."
"Do you think she might tell the truth, but the future instead of now?" John asked Alicia when they had gotten out of St. Mungos.
"No Dad, I don't think so..." Alicia shook her head. "I really don't think so."
Two months later, after that Alicia had visited Katie couple times every week. Katie fully remembered who she was, but she didn't remember anything after the accident, she didn't even remember anything of what happened that same day. Alicia also soon forgot about Katie's prediction, and continued with her life.
Me note; I'm so sorry for the delay, I have been very busy with school. But we have a October break this week, so I'll have nothing to do except being home the whole stupid week. So I think that I can make up for the delay.
So, What do you think? Was Katie speaking of the future or is it all just rubbish?
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