I do not own any of the characters in this story expect for Kathleen and the plot.

Chapter 12

What was happening last in our story:

"Oh dear, I know you love him, but what exactly did this spell require you to do to almost kill you." Molly stated

Kathleen sighed she knew this was coming, she looked up to the faces of her family and said, "Well I think you all better sit down because I don't know how your going to react to this but the spell that I performed was "Mens mentis corpus corporis pectus animus debeo infinitas infinitio."

Kathleen took a deep breath and continued, "It means Mind, Body, Heart, Soul bound to eternity."

And now on to the story!!

At first Ginny, Hermione, and Molly all just looked like Kathleen had three heads. But then they started to work it through. Ginny was the first to speak up.

"What do you mean 'bound', is it like a wizard wedding how they bind the magic and souls of two people, like that kind of bound?" Ginny asked trying to make sense of it.

Kathleen sighed, looked to her family and tried to explain this complicated situation said, "Yeah sort of, I mean when I bound myself to him, I bound my soul to him but in doing so I now share some of my power with him now, so yeah I guess in a way, it's like a wizard wedding."

"Wait, wait, wait, and just hold on one minute." Hermione said standing and pinching the bridge of her nose with her eyes closed.

When Hermione opened her eyes, she looked directly in to Kathleen's and said, "Do you mean to tell us that when you performed the spell you knowingly performed a sort of marriage to Charlie and in the process gave him some of you dragon healing abilities?"

"Well no not a marriage to Charlie, he is not bound to me in any way, but I am to him, so it is not like a wizard wedding because if it was he would be bound to me. "Kathleen tried to explain, while looking at all the occupants in the room.

"Ok now I'm a little confused………. huh????" Ginny said looking perplexed while she made a face.

Kathleen laughed a little at this then grimaced; it still hurt to breath a little.

Hermione being Hermione caught on right away and said looking shocked to say the least, her eyes were as big as saucers as she said, "You do know that means right?"

Kathleen looked to Hermione with confident eyes and nodded while saying in a quiet voice, "Yes, I know what that means."

Meanwhile ginny who was looking back and forth during the exchange, with a confused face said, "Good now that you two know mind filling me in?" Looking at both of them and getting a little mad at being left out.

Hermione looked at Ginny and shook her head and said, "You really are related to Ron." Hermione sighed and tried to explain the best way she could, "It means that Kathleen did a sort of one way marriage to Charlie, where she is bound to him and can marry no other while Charlie who is not bound can marry who ever he wants and on top of that she is currently sharing some of her dragon healer powers with him, did I get everything right so far?"

Hermione asked looking to Kathleen who nodded and said, "Yeah that about covers it."

Ginny just stood there with her mouth hanging open, just staring at Kathleen like she had just told her that she was the Easter bunny, before she snapped it shut and proceeded to yell, "WHAT!!!!"

Hermione held up her hand to silence Ginny and said looking serious, "Not now Ginny, we had a little bit of a problem here other that this."

Ginny looked Hermione square in the eye and said, "How could you possible say that this is not a problem, she just performed some spell to make her bound to Charlie till the day she dies, and you don't call that a problem?"

While Ginny and Hermione were arguing, Mrs. Weasley sat in the corner listening and taking it all in with a thoughtful expression on her face.

She had learned in 2 weeks time of being with Kathleen, ever since she had sent the girls here to be with their significant other. They had spent a lot of time together. Kathleen would go to work and come home to the burrow and spend the night, and the two would talk for hours about everything: Bill and Fleur's life and how much love and devotion they show to each other, Fred and George's joke shop and pranks, Molly's fears about how she thought her kids would all leave her and not want to come and visit, Molly told her all of her fears and worries, while Kathleen would listen and in return tell Molly all about her fears and insecurities.

Her fear was that Ginny and Hermione would forget all about her and leave her all alone. Kathleen would tell her how much she missed them, how they just used to hang out and talk about every thing and how much she missed just spending time with them. She would tell her how she really did love Charlie but there was no chance that some one like him would want some one like her.

In that short amount of time Molly really got to know Kathleen and together they had formed a strong bond, one of mother and daughter. Molly had come to think of Kathleen of her third daughter, and she understood that she loved Charlie and told her to tell him how she felt but Kathleen would only shake her head and go up stairs to Charlie's old room to sit for a little bit. Molly had learned about the type of person Kathleen was. She loved, caring, great with kids, honest, dependable, loved to help out, she would sit with Mr. Weasley for hours and talk to him about muggle technology since she lived in the muggle world till she was old enough to go to school, she was always worried about others wellbeing instead of her own. She was a great person.

Molly looked across the room to Kathleen whose eyes were filled with tears. Molly instantly was at her side and hugged her telling her everything was ok, at this Kathleen just cried harder. Molly sat and rocked her back and forth trying to sooth the girl enough to get one coherent word out of her while she glared at Ginny and Hermione who had stopped fighting at the sound of Kathleen's sobs.

Hermione instantly felt bad as did Ginny, and went over to Kathleen's bed side and sat down.

As Kathleen calmed down a bit Molly pulled back and smiled tenderly at her while wiping away her tears. Kathleen smiled sadly at Molly and took a deep breath.

Ginny was the first to speak, "I'm sorry if we upset you hon, you just gave us a bit of a shock." While she hugged her closely.

"Yeah sorry it's just you know me and my big mouth, I didn't mean to say about having another problem but it is a bit of one." Hermione told her while hugging her tighter.

Kathleen just nodded but Molly spoke up and said in an irritated voice, "Yeah what was this problem you were talking about?"

"Well other that this spell can not be reversed, It was what do we tell Charlie when he wakes up and is aloud to go back to work and starts to talk to dragons or heal them or something to that effect, we have to tell him something." Hermione reasoned while looking uneasily at Kathleen who had her head resting against Molly's shoulder, her hair hanging loosely around her shoulders.

"Well I can see where that is a bit of a problem." Molly sighed and looked to Kathleen who still had her head bend down. "Dear, what do you want us to do or tell him, it's up to you?" Molly said while stoking her hair soothingly.

Kathleen looked up at Molly who had an apprehensive look on her face, then looked to Hermione and Ginny who looked just as nervous. Kathleen sighed and said, "You can tell him that when he was hit by the dragon something happened to make him able to connect with other dragons, and he is now able to heal little things wrong with the dragons but I DO NOT want you tell him ANYTHING about me, not how I healed him and most definitely nothing pertaining to or about the spell, I do not want his pity. And you are only to tell him about the dragon ability AFTER he finds out about it himself, when he comes to you, which you know he will, pretend to run test and then tell him the story but nothing about me, UNDERSTOOD." Kathleen finished looking at Ginny and Hermione. When she did she seen the guilt on their faces and somehow already knew what happened but she asked anyway. "What happened?" Kathleen asked half afraid and half already knowing the answer.

"Well, Charlie woke up not long ago and when he did we all went to see him, we asked how he was doing he said a little sore but fine and then Hermione said his test results were fine and he was in healthy condition, at this he asked why he shouldn't be and we told him about the accident and I told him that you healed him." Ginny finished looking remorsefully at Kathleen.

Kathleen looked to Hermione and said, "That's all you told him then?" Hermione nodded.

Kathleen let out a breath, nodded and said while looking at Hermione and Ginny, "Fine but I want him to know NOTHING ELSE." As they just nodded, Kathleen sighed and felt very weary but she needed to get out, so she said, "Thank you all for being here for me but I need to go." Trying to get up out of the bed but was being held there by 6 arms.

"Oh no you don't you are going to stay right there, it's around 10:00 and you need to eat something to get your strength up and I would like to take some test to make sure your ok." Hermione said as Kathleen finally gave up and lay back down on the bed looking very much drained.

Ginny nodded and said, "I'll go get you something to eat, you just need to rest right now." Ginny hugged her gently and walked to the door.

"Well I have to go check in on Charlie but I will be back, I promise." Hermione said hugging Kathleen and whispering, "Sorry" in her ear then stood up and walked out the door.

Once they were alone, Molly looked down at Kathleen who was laying there looking as fragile as a new born, with her eyes closed. Molly took that moment to just look at Kathleen, she was a very beautiful, long blonde hair spread out on the pillow around her looking like a halo, long eyelashes that rested on her cheeks as she closed her eyes, and if one were to look behind her eye lids would the most intriguing set of bluish-green eyes she had ever seen, and behind those eyes rested a soul of pure gold, a soul that was now bound to her son who would never know anything about how this wonderful woman willingly risk her life to save him and who loved him so completely it was incomprehensive.

Molly sighed and started to get up but was stopped by Kathleen's weak voice saying, "Wait, please."

Molly sat back down on the edge of the bed, looking into Kathleen's uncertain face and taking her hand in her own.

Kathleen looked down at their intertwined hands and sighed saying, "Are you upset with me." Then looked up to see Molly's face change from questioning to shock.

"Of course I not upset with you what would ever give you that idea?" Molly asked her.

"Well Ginny and Hermione seemed to freak out a bit, so I thought you would too. Molly please understand why I did what I did. I know it was dangerous and there is no way to reversed anything that was performed in the spell but I want you to know that if I had to do it all over again, I would still do the spell, I love Charlie very much and would do anything for him and give him anything, he already had my heart, body, mind, and soul all I did was make it final." Kathleen explained smiling through her teary eyes down at their intertwined hands.

Molly gently took her hand away from Kathleen's causing her to look up. Molly took Kathleen's face into her hands, looking into her eyes and said, "I understand why you did it, I understand completely I too would do the same for Arthur if I was in your situation, but I wish you would reconsider telling him at least how you feel about him, if not about the spell. But I do understand why you don't want to tell him about that, because you feel that if you did he would feel like he had to be with you since you are bound to him, but you don't want him to love you out of pity but because he loves you for you. But I think he already does." Molly finished and tenderly kissed her forehead.

Kathleen smiled at Molly with tears in her eyes and said, "Thank you for understanding and always being there for me through all of this, and treating me like one of your own it means a lot to me."

Molly hugged her tightly and replied, "I will always be here for you and to me you are my daughter, so I will always be here whenever you need me but right now I think you need to rest." Molly told her while pulling back and smiling gently.

When they pulled apart both had tears in their eyes. Kathleen nodded unable to talk and lay back down on the bed.

Molly gave her one final kiss on the head and stood, "I want you to rest now, Ginny will bring in your lunch in a little bit, and the rest of the family will be showing up soon so you better get some rest." Molly told her while heading to the door. Kathleen nodded tiredly and yawned while settling into her bed and closed her eyes.

Molly smile gently at her and left the room to find Hermione and Ginny.

Hermione was just exiting Charlie's room when Molly came upon her.

"How is he doing?" Molly asked Hermione.

"He's fine; he's still sleeping though he will probably wake up tonight sometime, due to the fact that we gave him a strong sleeping potion that is especially used for healing." Hermione said to Molly as they headed down to the little kitchenette where Ginny was preparing Kathleen's food.

Ginny was leaning on the counter with her head in her hands, when Molly and Hermione came in.

Molly went to her daughter seeing her in distress and pulled her into a comfort hug which only a mother can provide.

"SSSHHHHH, it's ok darling, everything is ok now, Charlie is fine and resting peacefully, Kathleen is doing just fine too, she just needs to rest a bit, she's a strong girl and she can pull through it." Molly said soothingly as she rocked her and stroked her hair gently as Ginny cried onto her shoulder.

Hermione nodded tears of her own in her eyes and tried to speak but her voice just crack so she cleared her throat and tried again, "Yeah she'll be fine Gin don't worry." But it sounded as if she was trying to convince herself more that Ginny.

Ginny finally looked up at her mother, tears streaming down her face saying in a sad but serious tone, "I know she is strong in the body sense so she will pull through that but what about emotional, how can possibly live knowing she is bound to the only man she has ever loved and not be able to tell him everyday, to hold him or just be held by him, to never feel his kiss, or the gentle caress of his hand while they make love, how can she possibly make it through that, I don't know if she is strong enough mentally or emotionally to go the rest of her life knowing that I know I couldn't." Ginny finished this looking in to her mothers eyes whose were filled with the same concern and grief that were mirrored in her own.

Molly sighed and looked down at her daughter and said, "I know dear, I know I couldn't do it, but on a happier note I know that Charlie has feelings for her but Kathleen does not want him told anything and she refuses to tell him anything because she thinks that if he finds out she is bound to him that he will take pity on her which is not the case."

Both Hermione and Ginny's head shot up at the mention of Charlie's feeling for Kathleen. So after Molly finished talking Hermione asked her, "How do you know that Charlie likes Kathleen?"

Molly just chuckled, wiping her own tears from her face and replied, "Because dear a mother knows all."

Hermione and Ginny nodded and were even sadder than before knowing that Kathleen's love returned her feelings, they didn't know if they were as strong but it was something for them, but Kathleen didn't want to tell him fearing that he didn't, so they were left with feeling the depression at their sisters' unrequited love and were unable to help her as she had helped they both get together with their own men but they couldn't do the same due to Kathleen's insecurities.

Hermione sighed and said, "I want to help her, but I don't know how, and I know she won't let us."

Ginny nodded saying, "I know, she can be so insecure sometimes, I know even if we told her that Charlie returned her feelings she wouldn't believe us."

Hermione nodded but Molly spoke up, "I know Kathleen will not act on her feelings but what about if Charlie acted upon his, then she would have no reason to not tell him her own feelings, right." Molly finished looking at the girls who both were thinking it through.

"Well I guess but how are you going to get Charlie to do that with out telling him any thing more about Kathleen?" Ginny asked curiously.

"I have my ways dear don't worry about that, I will talk to Charlie when he wakes up." Molly replied smiling a little wider

Before either of the girls could respond, Harry and Ron came through the door.

"I thought I heard your voice." Harry told Ginny as he tenderly kissed her head and hugged her to him.

"Yeah, we were just got back from checking on the dragon and she is in her cage and surprisingly just laying there." Ron said hugging Hermione to him and kissing her head as she snuggled up to his chest.

"Oh good I'm glad you got everything under control but I just need to talk Kathleen her food and I will leave you all some alone time, oh before I go do you happen to have any of that healing potion for Kathleen that you gave Charlie, Hermione?" Molly finished putting some pudding on the tray and turning to her.

"Yes it's just in the cupboard beside her bed, but I don't think she needs it." Hermione said looking a little confused due to the fact that Kathleen was not a flight risk like Charlie was.

"Oh I think just a little bit in her juice would do her some good, don't worry she'll be fine with me you two go rest a little yourselves and I will take care of them." Molly said as she smiled to the happy couples and headed out the door and down the hall to Kathleen's room.

Everyone remained silent after Molly left.

Ginny and Harry were just holding on to one another, occasionally whispering 'I love you' back and forth, but just enjoying each others company as were Hermione and Ron.

Finally Ron broke the silence and said, "How is Kathleen doing?"

"Oh she's ok, just very weak at the moment." Hermione replied smiling sadly remembering the earlier conversation about Charlie's feelings, she decided to just ask the only two people who knew Charlie almost as good as himself.

"Um, Ron I have a question about Charlie and Kathleen, do you think he likes her?" Hermione asked hopefully looking into his eyes.

"Well first of all how do you mean like a friend?" Ron asked her.

Hermione shook her head and replied, "No more than a friend, do you think he loves her?"

Ron looked thoughtful for a moment before saying, "Well he never told us himself, did he Harry?" Ron said grinning over at Harry who was smiling back at him and said, "No he didn't tell us himself per say, but when he talks in his sleep……well talking wouldn't be it, it's more like moaning in his sleep." Harry replied chuckling softly.

Ginny smacked Harry in the arm and said, "Be serious, he actually moans her name in his sleep?"

Harry rubbed his arm and said, "Well her name he moaned in his sleep while we were at the burrow but then when we came back, there was a couple of night he would say in a normal voice, 'I love you' then would mumble her name and that was it."

Ginny looked excitedly to Hermione who was just as excited and nodded pulling the boys down the hall to Kathleen's room to tell Molly and Kathleen this new development because maybe if Kathleen heard that Charlie had feeling for her from other people like Harry and Ron maybe just maybe she would believe them and hopefully would tell Charlie that she too in fact loved him also.

NOTES: sorry don't hate me but hey it's me and I like being mean…lol just kidding... any way if you like it please review and thanks to all that did review.

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