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KPOV

I got out of bed stiff and sore and then quickly applied my concealer on my body. I ran to the Great Hall and singled out Yelo who was sitting next to George. She saw me and waved madly at me to get over to her. From the look on her face something had gone wrong. I ran over.

I couldn't help feeling stupid for what I had done last night. How had I been so blind. Of course now they were going to try and interrogate me. I bumped into something rock hard. I looked up and saw Cedric Diggory. Wow, did he always look like that. So perfect, and… manly?

"Hey." He smiled, pulling me up effortlessly.

"Hey." I smiled back. I saw Fred out of the corner of my eye looking so mad he could punch the table in half. Ron had a hand on his shoulder as if he was restraining him.

"So, where are you going?" Cedric asked, bemused.

"Breakfast." I replied simply.

"Awesome." He said

"Yeah, I know. Did I do a good job?" I asked. I loved feedback.

"What do you mean?" he asked, looking confused.

"I am the head chef, Cedric." I said slowly while playfully punching him in the shoulder.

"Oh yeah that's right. Yeah the pancakes were fantastic." He said.

"Great." I said.

"You look really tired." He commented.

"Yeah, rough night." I said without thinking.

"What?" he asked. I yawned.

"Rough night." I said again and I rubbed my neck. I winced when I hit a bruise. It must be fresh, it certainly wasn't there yesterday.

"Hey are you OK?" he asked. Bending down and pulling up my hair. He touched my shoulder as if to tap it in reassurance but it hurt a lot. It had been dislocated last night.

"OUCH!" I squealed. Obviously loud enough for most of the surrounding to hear because Fred was up and out of his chair closely followed by Yelo and the others.

"What did you do to her?" Fred asked angrily.

"Nothing but notice the concealer all over her." Cedric paused I couldn't see his face but I could feel his fingers rubbing off the concealer and his gasp of shock and horror. "My God Katie! What did you to last night! These bruises are fresh."

"Nothing." I said quickly pulling up but that hurt to and my groan gave me away. Neville came over and picked me up. Who knew the kid had it in him.

"Hey now put her down Neville." Fred said, obviously wanting to be the one carrying me and I had to say that I wanted it to be him above all others.

"I was just doing what I was asked Fred. Relax. McGonagall told me to take her to Madame Pomfrey alone." Neville replied. I could tell he was lying but no one else could. They all looked at McGonagall at the Staff table who was digging into her scrambled eggs and pancakes. They must be good.

"Fine. Neville we believe you." Ginny said. Neville propped me up a bit and I was sick of pretending that it didn't hurt so I shrieked and yelped at once.

"You OK?" Harry asked nervously.

"Do I look OK?" I said. "Now go and figure out that egg. Cedric help him. Don't you think that you owe him one?" I said. "Neville come on take me to Madame Pomfrey's." I amended. And with that Neville was walking out of the hall with me.

Once we were in the passage I started my interrogation.

"Where are we going?" I hissed. We weren't going to Madame Pomfrey's.

"Dumbledore." He replied.

"What!" I hissed.

"I need to ask you both some questions." He said. God he was being a bit more reserved than usual.

"Why?" I asked, genuinely curious now.

"Because I think I know who you are." He replied. I stiffened.

"No you don't." I said

"Oh yes I do." He said rather cockily. Bastard.

"Prove it." I said just as cockily as he did.

"Katie Jane Potter otherwise known as Mariam's heiress." He said smugly.

"Bastard." I muttered, finally voicing my opinions.

"Thanks." He said.

"How do you know anyway?" I accused.

"Because my parents kept on talking about you. 'save the potter girl' and so on." He replied. His voice a bit sad. It clicked.

It all made sense now. Of course it did. Neville was trying to take on his parents' roles. Everyone from the order of the phoenix who had survived had sworn to protect the potter twins. Of course when my parents had gone on the list and known that they were a target the order already had a pretty good idea that whatever was with Harry and I was important. So of course Mr and Mrs Longbottom had been mumbling that!

"OK, I guess that makes sense." Was my brilliant reply but I think Neville could tell that I could see where I was coming from and that I could also see what was going on because he smiled at me and chuckled,

"Thanks Katie. Now whats the password to this eagle?" he asked. We were now standing in front of the entrance to his office or his 'domain' as I'd heard kids speak of that before. I simply flicked my hand three times and the eagle turned producing 986 stairs, yep I still remembered how many there were.

"Oh." He said.

"Don't worry Neville only certain people that Dumbledore allows can do that. We can't let to many people know the password, can we now?"
"No, I guess not." He said and we climbed the stairs together.

"So whats the deal with you and Fred Weasley?" he asked. We had been silent for all of 15 seconds and he comes out and asks me that? Of all the things to ask me…

"You get straight to the point, don't you?" I asked.

"Your evading the question." He pointed out. I sighed and gave him my answer. I told him the entire story and by the time we had got to the top we had to wait outside of the office so that I could finish.

"… and so I want to get back with him but I want him to apologise to me."

"But everyone is saying that you and Diggory are having a thing." Neville said bewildered. He really was sweet. He would be a good ally to have. No, wait a second, a good friend and ally to have in the future years.

"No!" I said shocked. "Tell them to stick their wands up their asses! No way are me and Diggory having a thing! He's going out with Cho Chang! You know, the girl that Harry likes?" Neville nodded. "I am totally and irrevocably in love with Fred not Cedric."

"Oh." He said. We were silent for a minute until he thought of another question to ask.

"What are you going to do when Fred finds out about who and what you are?" Neville asked. I froze. I had been going out with Fred for nearly a whole year and I had no idea what the answer to that question was.

"I don't know." I mumbled.

"I thought as much." He replied.

"He's like my lifeline Neville, I cant do without him." I said

"I know that." He said.

"How?" I asked

"Because I watch you with him and inside your eyes is a need, now I have a feeling that You-Know-Who does that thing to you at night." His voice strangled with pain

"Yes." I said, ashamed.

"I think that as much as it hurts you, as much as he hurts you, you really cannot live if Fred leaves you."

"You're right." I said, smiling at him. He was good at this.

"Good, I am incorrect often but if I say so myself I think I am pretty good at this." He grinned to which I laughed.

"Now, if you're quite done with your heart to heart I do believe that you are outside my office for a reason." Came the voice of Dumbledore. He had listened in! I'll be giving him a piece of my mind later on!

"Coming!" I cried getting up alongside Neville and pushing open the doors.

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FPOV

I saw Neville carry Katie off towards Madame Pomfrey's office. We all turned to Cedric our faces glowering.

"What did you do to her?" Yelo said through gritted teeth. Her entire body was tense and not even George's touch could correct it as it usually did.

"Nothing. She rubbed her neck and winced, I asked what was wrong with her and it all went from there!" Cedric defended. Not good enough.

"What did she do to herself?" Hermione wondered to herself more than anyone else.

"She said that she had a rough night." Cedric put in.

"Probably cooking or something she stayed up to an ungodly hour." Yelo said. She was hiding something. It was then that Dumbledore's voice rang through the hall.

"Could all members of staff please report to my office immeadiately and Miss Yelo also."

"Gotta Go!" Yelo said before running off.

"Why do I think that this has everything to do with Katie?" Ron asked nervously.

"Because, most likely its that, or its about Harry." George said.

"Hey! I resent that!" Harry exclaimed.

"Well George is right, you do cause a huge stir every now and then." Hermione said.

"Oh shut up." Harry said, while punching her playfully in the shoulder.

"What are they hiding!" Ginny exclaimed.

"I have no idea." I replied.

"Why does this all have to be so complicated!" Harry asked exasperated.

"Because friends tell eachother the truth!" Ginny said.

"Well she told us something important last night." Ron pointed out.

"Yes but not how she got them." Hermione said.

"It's a bit obvious guys!" Cedric exclaimed.

"What do you know?" I asked.

"My dad works for the ministry, right?" he said slowly

"Yeah." We all replied.

"And your dad does to." He repeated in the same slow voice.

"Yeah." All the Weasleys said.

"Well ask your dad about her. She is quite special." He said. And with that he left.

"What was that all about?" Ginny asked.

"Hey guys!" I voice popped out! Katie was here.

"Katie!"

"Yelo!"

"Neville!"

we all chorused. They were all back.

"I just wanted to tell you that I am going to Special Treatment for three days and then I'll be back to watch Harry perform but I am going to give some explicit instructions." She said. Special Treatment. She hadn't been for so long!

"Hermione," she continued. "You'll be in charge of helping Harry and forcing all of the others to do so. I want that egg figured out by the time I get back, got it!" she said.

"OK!" Hermione said brightly. She liked being in charge. I saw Ron mouth a 'thank you' to her. It was no secret that Ron liked Hermione. Well no secret to everyone but Hermione.

"Fred, George, you are to be in charge of keeping Harry's spirits up! Whenever he is down you bring him up! I don't want a suicidal Harry on my hands when I get back!" She was awfully chipper something was wrong.

"Harry, as much as I don't want to be biased I do want you to win more than anyone else. Yeah, Cedric's good but I do want him to come second and not first. So please, for the love of God! Focus on that egg and listen to Yelo who'll be helping you."

"Sure thing." He grinned. At that moment Dumbledore burst through the door. He looked furious. Katie immediately grabbed my hand and held on to it so tightly that I couldn't even feel any circulation from my wrist down. When he got to us he turned to Katie and said,

"I am so sorry but the results are worse than we feared. You won't be here for the second challenge. You'll be lucky to even be back for the Yule Ball after the Christmas holidays." Dumbledore's voice sounded sad and strained. Painful almost…

"Why?" Katie gasped.

"The results were worse than we feared." He replied in the same voice.

"Why?" Katie asked again.

"There seem to be a few… developments with what can happen to you." He said even more strained. Neville tightened and Yelo clapped her hand against her mouth.

"Jesus!" she said.

"What the bloody hell is going on?" Harry asked but no one scolded him for his language for we were all wondering the same thing.

"Nothing of your concern Harry." Dumbledore said in an ominous tone.

"Why? Are you ill Katie?" Hermione said, starting to get worried.

"Something like that." She said in almost a whisper.

"What results are you talking about?" Ron asked.

"Please no more questions." She cried.

"Can I go with you?" I asked, fearing that the answer would be the same as always.

"You have school." She said, yep, same old answer. But then to my surprise she got on her tip toes and kissed me lightly.

"Besides," she whispered. "You don't want to see me in special treatment, I look dreadful."

"You can't look dreadful." I said. Katie rolled her eyes and turned to Dumbledore, her face pained. I hated seeing her like this.

"What did you mean that certain things can happen to me now?" she asked.

"Not here Katie." Dumbledore said.

"Hey Katie," Ron started, oh lord, this wont end well.

"Yeah." She said facing him

"Cedric said something to us, something about the ministry knowing about you and all. It got me thinking…"

"There is a new prospect to us all, Ron thinking!" Ginny said

"No!" Ron said, very irritated. "I was thinking about when dad first met you and he started saying something which you cut him off. Why was that?" Ron asked. Good question.

"Well everyone knows me at the ministry because I am the youngest fully qualified witch." She explained. That made sense.

"Oh." He said. Hermione didn't buy it along with Ginny. Girls. Can't they trust anyone??

"Well I guess that I should be off then." Katie said, attempting at being chipper but she was off again.

"Wait!" I said, just realizing something.

"Yes Fred." She said.

"You'll miss our 1st anniversary." I said disappointed.

"Well your present to me can be taking me to the Yule Ball and my present to you will be a surprise!" she said.

"That's hardly fair!" I said.

"Well, you taking me to the Yule Ball is all I want! So you'll be giving me a great present!" she said, her smile was genuine now and for that I was glad. Dumbledore nodded at me appreciatingly. Snape interrupted and glared at us, his gaze lingering on me for a second to long.

"Its time to go Katie." He said in a warm tone.

"Alright." She said before walking off and gazing behind her and calling out to us to remember her instructions to which we gladly obliged. This would mean that we would be on our own for the second trial. But Harry will be fine. He is every bit as headstrong as Katie is even though they have different ways of showing it. It is kind of scary how similar they are.

KPOV

I was now on the train to St. Mungo's. How could I have been so blind but to see that Neville would know? Of course he would! His parents knew of me, they had just found out about Harry and I before the attack against them was launched.

Pretty much Dumbledore had been not surprised at all that Neville had known. He had posted a letter to the ministry at once to let them know that Neville was alright to attend meetings and such for it.

Some tests were done and the results as I found out just beforehand were shocking. Apparently Voldemort was getting stronger! If he got any stronger he could some serious damage to me. I was to undergo some serious training sessions to improve my physical strength and demeanor. But something of more importance was plaguing me.

Fred and I were back on! The brief conversation that we had shared had clarified that much. I would like an apology though. Snape had interrupted our conversation though. I think that he thinks that Fred isn't good enough for me and almost rejoiced in our separation. Oh well, Fred and I are for real, I know it, and if he doesn't like it then he will have to deal with it. He cant move away though. I couldn't bear it. He and I are to attached. He and I were partners. We both caught tit bits of information from the other side and reported them back. But the others were getting to close to my secret. That was my biggest worry. My biggest joy though is me and Fred. And I will choose to revel in it as soon as possible.

That was my last thought before I succumbed to a sleep that was well overdue.

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Yay! Chapter 21 is up! I hope that you all like it. Sorry that it took so long! Computer stuffed up AGAIN and I have been so busy! Its hard to get about 20 minutes of solid writing time without being interrupted.

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