Sorry about the cliffy there!
OMG can you believe that I have finally made it to 10 chapters! Well, actually when I post this one I will have done 11! I am so glad that you guys have reviewed! And I just thought that I would make an announcement!
I finished school today so chapters should be coming up quickly!
I know that some of you didn't like it so I am going to resolve them!
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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in this story only Katie, Yelo, and Mariam
GPOV (George's POV) on the train home from his 4th year at Hogwarts
I couldn't believe that we had all believed Hermione and Ginny. I should have listened to Yelo. She at least came down to say good bye to me but to Fred she just kicked him in the shin and said that if he tried to contact Katie in the next summer then she would air charm him all the way to Kentucky. She said bye to the others civilly though and said that Katie was in no state whatsoever to come down and say goodbye. I felt sorry for her. Fred had been a real prat to Katie.
I wonder whats happening to her right now. Right now I am on the train in a carriage with Ginny, Fred, Ron, Harry and Hermione. It was a tight squeeze but we couldn't split up. We had to much to discuss said Hermione but we were all silent, reflecting on what had just happened.
"Hang on!" said Hermione.
"What now?" said Harry. He was really confused right now. He had confided in Ron who had confided in me that Harry was feeling something for Katie a sort of connection but not a lovey one. It was confusing. But he was flattered that Katie liked him because lets face it. Katie is a babe. She is soooooo hot with her sandy browny blonde hair with just the hint of red in it. Her light pool like blue eyes and her lovely figure which was just starting to form. But I knew that to me Yelo was the most gorgeous thing on this planet.
"Do you remember what Katie said?" asked Hermione
"Of course we do!" said Fred irritably.
"Oh shut up you prat!" said Ginny angrily. My words exactly. God sometimes Ginny was so smart.
"Well," said Hermione trying to avoid the awkward tension that was obviously taking over the carriage. "She said that 'people took advantage of her, and abused her.'" She continued on. "So that means that someone might have tried something on her."
"What? She would have told us if that had happened." Exclaimed Ron!
"Yeah, I mean she did say that she could trust us." Said Ginny.
"But Katie does have a habit of keeping things to herself." Pointed out Fred.
"I thought I said SHUT THE HELL UP you PRAT!" said Ginny.
"I think that Fred is right. Katie I don't think would have told us in fear that some one!" she said glaring at Fred and I "Would overreact and try to kill the person or people that did it."
"True." Agreed Ron
"Have to admit that Hermione is probably right." Said Harry.
"Agreed." Said Fred, Ginny and I at the same time.
"SHUT UP!" said Ginny getting her wand out of her cloak ready to hex her elder brother if necessary.
HePOV (just for reassurance this is Hermione's POV)
I know that Katie and Yelo are hiding something from us. Something big, really big. They had done so far to keep it from Harry, Ron and I and Ginny and even better for the past four years with Fred and George and perhaps even Bill, Charlie and Percy if it stretched out that long. But one thing for sure was that Katie had just cracked and given me the assurance that I needed. She is hiding something and I am going to find out.
Back at Hogwarts where I left off last chapter.
KPOV
Crabbe and Goyle Snr both did hexes and jinxes to stop me from moving. Malfoy grabbed on to me and so did Crabbe and Goyle. Then I was dragged to my fire place and Lucius Malfoy yelled "Malfoy Residence!" while throwing the floo powder on to the ground and letting us all be swallowed into the dark green flames.
I had never been in here before. It was a large dark space. Colours consisting of jet green and jet black. This was obviously the hotspot for Death Eaters. There were pictures everywhere, that were easy to take down with just one swipe of a wand, just in case an official wanted to come in here. Everything was calmly assorted and in the right place but in the corner was a chair and in the chair was a man.
A man I knew very well. It was the body that Voldemort possessed when he came to my room. He was looking at me. Straight at me, his eyes never straying. I was starting to not only get even more scared than I already was but very, very uncomfortable.
"Wha- What is he doing here?" I asked trying to sound brave but I was failing miserably.
"Well, we all thought that it would be nice if you spent the whole summer with your beloved Dark Lord." Sneered Lucius in a very vicious manner. I don't know what made me do it but I started to cry. I fell to my knees and wrapped my arms around myself wanting Fred to pick me up and tell me that it was all a bad dream. But instead the Death Eaters and the Dark Lord laughed, no cackled at me. I was sobbing now my howls of melancholy could probably be heard from the other side of the mansion. I was sobbing because I had probably just lost my friends and the staff would be worried sick about me in the morning when they discovered me to be gone, probably thinking I was in the Dark Forest. Snape would not be coming to the Malfoy Residence this summer. He had absolutely no reason to come here. But most of all, I was crying because of a reason that I had never allowed myself to think before.
I was scared.
3 months later at the Burrow, day before school restarts
FPOV
It was the day before school started up again. We hadn't even received one letter from Katie or Yelo. George was worried sick, as was I. Everyone, even mum and dad, was blaming me. Harry and Hermione were here. They had been for a couple of days. We had written a million letters to them but never had we gotten a reply. I felt horrible for what I had said on that last day. I went over it over and over again trying to find a meaning behind her words. They still echoed in my head. All of a sudden I heard mum yell out.
"George there is a visitor for you and she doesn't look well at all!" At this we all ran down to see Yelo with leaves and dirt covering her body with little stripes of white going down her cheeks where she had been crying.
"Stupid Pigs that you keep here!" she said and her voice cracked.
"Yelo!" said George in alarm.
"What happened to you?" asked Hermione as she was pushed out of the way by George so that he could hold her. But to our surprise Yelo pushed him away. Leaving George with a hurt expression on his face.
"Katie is missing and has been for the whole summer." She cried and then she flung herself at George saying that she was sorry for pushing him away over and over again. George, to say the least, looked very relieved that Yelo didn't hate him but worried about Katie.
"Why didn't somebody tell us!" I cried.
"Because you're a bloody prat! Now shut the hell up" yelled Ginny, I was really starting to get sick of that.
"School starts tomorrow and the staff are falling all over the place. We have absolutely no idea where she is." She blubbered out while crying into George's shirt. I had never seen Yelo so vulnerable, so weak. She was obviously worried sick about her best friend. We had to find her.
"Have you checked the Forbidden Forest?" asked Ron. At this Yelo rounded on him.
"Of course we have! You idiot!" she hissed. I believe that I spoke to soon. How could she have gone missing? This was Katie for Christ's Sake! She just doesn't go missing!
"Well, I was wondering. Could I stay here for the night?" sniffled Yelo. I wasn't going to insult her, I knew that she could start a hurricane in around 2 seconds flat.
"Of course dear, we'll conjure up another bed for you in Hermione and Ginny's room" said Mum who put her arm around her and therefore prying her away from her son. I could tell that mum was a tad uncomfortable with George having a fully qualified witch as a girlfriend even though she was a couple of years younger. With mum and Yelo gone we discussed what could have happened to Katie. Hermione and Ginny were crying. Harry looked guilty but my feelings were everywhere at once. I felt lost somehow. Incomplete knowing that Katie who I so wanted to be my Katie could never come back again.
Same Time but at the Malfoy Mansion KPOV
I had been at this goddamned house for 3 months now. I hated it. I wanted everything to be over. I had been raped by Voldemort and Lucius Malfoy almost every night. I was weak. I could see my reflection now. Thin, pale, bruises running up and down my body, my bones visible through my almost translucent skin. My eyes being the only thing that sparkled for my hair, although I had been able to wash it just minutes before was all knotty and out of place. I had an old brush which I could use. I was overjoyed that I could finally see Hogwarts again but scared, no petrified at what reaction I would receive. I could go home tomorrow. I would apparate at the very edge of the School Grounds tomorrow night and have to make my way up there. I was scared but excited. I just wanted to be in Fred's arms and apologize for hitting him. But I was weak and I was scared whether I would even make it.
The time of Apparation KPOV
"OK, off you go!" said Lucius while pushing me out the door. "Do it outside of the property, OK? We don't want ministry officials tracing your apparition now do we?" he added in a fakely sweet voice. Draco had gone on the train earlier.
"Bye bye love." Said Voldemort, still in the same body although looking weaker, Harry had done well to weaken him so much. I nearly laughed but held it back but I shuddered at his nickname for me. I turned around and ran out into the rain. As soon as I got to the gates I apparated to the edge of Hogwarts.
When I got there I discovered that it was raining here to.
"Holy Mother of fu-shit!" I yelled at the top of my voice.
"Do you have NO MERCY?" I questioned, still yelling, with my head turned up to the heavens. Better start running I thought but I was feeling so faint but I kept on going.
After around 45 minutes of non stop running, they'd be well into Dumbledore's speech by now in which they would be telling the students how I had tragically disappeared. I made it to the doors. I tried pulling on them but they were locked. I pulled out my wand which had ever so kindly been given back to me just a couple of hours ago "Alohamora!" I screamed as the doors unlocked for me and with one swish of my wand it opened. God I love magic.
I
ran through the halls and bumped into Filch.
"Katie!" he
cried and he even hugged me. Now there is a real shocker.
"Hi Filch! Is Dumbledore through making his speech?" I asked while wriggling out of the hug.
"He just started but keep on going!" he said. He hadn't noticed my appearance?
"You look horrible by the way." Nup, he'd noticed
"Thanks." I sighed before running off. Thirteen year olds were just not cut out for this. I thought as I ran down the hall feeling like I could burst out crying with pain and relief. I also felt as if I could faint any second.
I made my way to the Great Hall and I could hear Dumbledore say
"Let us all hope that somehow Katie will make her way back to us." I could even hear him crying. With that discovery, I opened the doors and ran in with tears streaming down my face.
FPOV
We had all gotten very shaken up from the Dementor
Dumbledore got up to say his speech. George was next to me with Yelo snuggled up to him. From the minute that the train had started this morning she had been permanently glued to his side and the tears had never stopped. Ginny and Hermione had tears also streaming down their faces and like Yelo they looked vulnerable. Harry and Ron looked empty. The loss of a friend. Their last sentiments to her had been ones of ashamedness and embarrassment. My body was ripped between destroying everyone and everything in sight and bursting into tears. I decided to listen to Dumbledore instead.
"Students, Students. I am glad to welcome you back to Hogwarts. Two very bad things have happened and I will start with one. Sirius Black and the Dementors. I am so very sorry that you had to encounter them today." He paused. Oh crap I had completely forgotten about the Black Breakout as everyone was calling it. The whole Katie missing thing had completely taken over my mind. "The dementors will be here all year. Please refrain from going near them and please travel in pairs. That is all I have to say on the matter. The second matter is that our beloved Head Chef Katie, has gone missing. She has been missing for the entire of the summer and has been unable to be located even by the best of the Aurors." He paused so that the customary whispers could occur between the students and Yelo's wails could get slightly louder and go up an octave or two. Was that just me or did I just feel a slightly forceful breeze? "No one knows where she is and so I beg of you to not go into the Forbidden Forest for we do not want a another disappearance on our hands." Then Dumbledore did the most unexpected yet human thing that I would never have expected him to do. He cried. And then I noticed that most of the staff on the table were crying as well, even Snape and Proffessor Lupin, the new DADA teacher. "So let us hope that Katie will make her way back to us." He said and then the doors opened and in came a young girl who could be no older than Harry bruises all over her. Her hair matted to her forehead. Her clothes were drenched in rainwater and clung to her body which looked thin enough to snap in two with just the flick of my finger. I heard a chair being pulled back and I looked to see Snape stand up.
"KATIE!" he yelled before running down the aisle.
"Oh God!" I heard Yelo whisper. "What have they done to her?" she said to herself before wrenching herself from George and literally jumping over the table and running to her best friend who was now crying into Snape's shirt.
"Oh GOD!" yelled Professor McGonagall before running down with Dumbledore walking fast behind her. Before we knew it Ginny and Hermione were over there as well, fussing over her. There were gasps of horror around us about how horrible she looked. Without realizing it I was up and walking slowly over to her. When she looked up and saw me I saw the pain and fear in her eyes. I knew that whatever she had just gone through had been painful and had instilled a certain amount of fear and vulnerability in her. I knelt down so that I could be at eye level with her.
"Katie?" I whispered. Snape was looking at me with one of those You-Hurt-Her-And-I-Will-Kill-You looks. Who did he think he was her father?
"Oh Fred!" she cried and threw her pale and frail arms around my neck and started sobbing into my shoulder.
"SShhhhhh. Don't worry baby, it'll be OK." I whispered. I now knew that I had to stay with her. I had to make sure that she would get back to health. But most of all I would be with her. For some reason, I felt like I was at home.
KPOV
"Oh Fred!" I cried and I threw my arms around him.
"SShhhhhhh. Don't worry baby, it'll be OK." He whispered in my left ear. Did he just call me baby? I'll worry about that later because for some reason I felt home and through my sobbing and Fred's whispers of comfort I smiled. And with that thought I blacked out. The last thing I heard being Fred's voice yelling my name, his tone full of alarm.
