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KPOV
"I'll kill him." Yelo muttered as she ran out of the room. I fell to the ground but before my knees felt the floor Fred had caught me and pulled me up into a comforting embrace. I cried into his chest.
"What was that about?" Fred hissed. Oh no, oh god no. I broke away from him and wiped the tears away.
"He just didn't realize that I was such an active member in the order, that's all." I said quickly cupping his cheek in my hand.
"Surely he must have known! She's out every night!" Ron exclaimed
"Sirius chose to be ignorant." Remus said
"Twit." Ron muttered. Our coversation was disrupted when I distinctly heard a loud crash.
"YOU IDIOT SIRIUS!!!! YOU GO IN AND APOLOGISE! OPEN THIS DOOR OR WILL I HAVE TO BLOW IT DOWN! GODDAMMIT OPEN THE GODDAMN DOOR!" Yelo screamed.
"Wooooooooow." Harry said.
"Yep, and I go out with her." George said in resignation and with a sigh he walked out of the door.
"Baby, come on if Sirius is going to be a twat then let him be!" we heard him reason.
"Hasn't got a chance in hell." Arthur chuckled.
How could Sirius have said that? I was his goddaughter or I was until he declared so. I started sobbing again.
"Oh don't cry! Please don't cry." Fred begged
"He is so whipped." Bill laughed.
"Shut up." Molly scolded. "Can't you see that they are in love??" At that I only cried harder. I thought that Sirius loved me as well until he found out about what I really was?? Oh god. Fred would leave me. He would cease to love me. What we had now was only temporary. A strangled sob of horror ripped through my body. I couldn't stop. Fred was pedantic by now.
"Baby! Babe! You know that you'll always have me." He said in a loving tone which only made me cry harder. I heard Yelo's voice tell Fred that she would take me up. Yelo then made a soft breeze lie me down and blew me up the stairs. The last thing I remember was succumbing to slumber in my bed.
KPOV – 2 weeks later
I was lying on my bed. It was the day of Harry's trial. All I could do was wait. I had been doing that for 3 hours now. They would be home any minute with the news. I couldn't stand it. I had to know what was happening. I had been crying mostly for the past week. Memories of Sirius' reaction, memories of the two parties I had gone to over the past week but most importantly the way that my friends had been giving me a wary stare. Even Fred had been acting differently around me. He hadn't even touched my face or held my hand. I felt so worthless. Only Yelo and the adults minus Sirius had been remotely helpful. I had been sworn in as a guardian for Harry. There were fifteen of us. Dumbledore, Snape, Arthur, McGonagall, Molly, Sirius, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Kingsley, Remus, Tonks, Fleur Yelo and me. I had twelve guardians as well but Shacklebolt and been the twelfth, not me, because I couldn't be a guardian to myself.
Being a guardian meant that you would go to extreme lengths to protect the one you were guarding. If it meant life then so be it because it would be a necessity if we were to win. Harry and I had to be around. I didn't know why I had to be around but I think that the others do. They are keeping something from me but whenever I ask them they just brush it off saying that with Fred around I would be OK. That always confused me but then it didn't. They were probably concerned for my mental health and that Fred was keeping me sane, which was completely and utterly true but I just didn't know what that had to do with me sticking around for the final battle, whenever it would be. I just knew it was coming. There was a knock at the door. Its probably Yelo, or maybe Ron, he hadn't been so bad lately.
"Come in." I said. The door opened and Sirius came in, he looked terrible. As if he'd been crying and banging himself around. Poor thing. Wait a sec, I was angry at him. Pull yourself together Katie!
"Can we talk?" Sirius asked. He looked so broken that I couldn't refuse.
"Sure." I said in a motherly tone, patting the part of the bed beside me. He lay down next to me. We used to do this on visiting days. But we'd be on the hard prison bed not a comfy one like this. We were silent for a few minutes and when it grew awkward he broke it.
"I am sorry for what I said. It was out of line but I am just so worried about you."
"I know you are but surely you must have known before this?"
"I think I did, deep down, but I never wanted to believe it so I pushed it aside. I just wanted you to be James and Lily's little girl for a little while longer."
"You know for someone who accused me of having sex on your indoor patio you are seriously contradicting yourself here." I said. He let out a throaty laugh as if he hadn't laughed in days.
"Your right. I know that its been going on for so long and I wish that I could just take you away and hide you from it all, Harry as well."
"But its impossible. The only reason I do what I do is because if I don't you'll all die. I couldn't live with that."
"I know you couldn't. Mariam felt the same way according to Arthur." That grabbed my attention.
"Arthur?"
"Yes Arthur. He knew Mariam." Sirius said in his "don't-you-know-this" voice. Cocky man.
"I didn't know that. How did he know her? Did they go to school together?" I asked.
"He was four years older than her and you know that Mariam died for the man she loved."
"She loved Arthur!" I nearly screamed. Sirius clamped his hand to my mouth to silence me so quick that I couldn't utter another word.
"No she loved Arthur's little brother! His name was John. Fred's middle name is his namesake. Its fate that you and Fred wound up together. Frederick John Weasley." Sirius explained.
"No one has ever told me that before." I said. Wow, this was new.
"I don't know why but can I ask one thing?"
"Anything Sirius." I said.
"Are we still family?" he asked nervously.
"Course we are you loser." I laughed. That was when we heard the shouts of joy from Arthur. Harry was a free wizard. Thank God for that.
First Day of Hogwarts
KPOV
I was in the kitchen. It was after Dolores Umbridge had made it clear that she was here to shake things up, a lot. How dare she?? She couldn't just come up here and be all fancy pansy cos she worked for Fudge who really was a Potty man anyway.
Dumbledore had been ignoring Harry all year. Even after the hearing he hadn't said a word to Harry. He was way out of line and I intended to talk to him about it. I felt that the school was changing. I knew that the people were. Shamus was being a complete and utter dick to Harry and I knew that Harry was going to explode if the merciless schoolmates didn't cool down towards him. It seemed as if we were the only ones who believed him (as in the kids or members of the order) or the girls who had recently discovered a brand new dose of estrogen that was completely directed at Harry. Hell, they'd believe him if he said he was Voldemort himself. God, everytime I entered a 10 meter radius of Harry its almost as if he is swimming in a sea full of estrogen. Poor guy.
The other guys were burning with jealousy. I had even heard Fred complain that Harry was getting all of the girls… I had dealt with him afterwards. George daren't complain for he had Yelo to deal with him if he did. Poor guy. A thought hit me hard.
Mariam died for the man she loved. She was nearly 18 years old. My destiny was to follow in her footsteps.
I would die for Fred. It was my destiny. I would die for the man I love. No! No! No! No! I want to marry Fred! I want to have kids and grow old with Fred! Why! Why is life so unfair?
Hold on. If I had to die for Fred then that would be the ultimate sacrifice. I was the sacrifice. I was the one who would have to die in order to save the wizarding world from Harry. And if I didn't die for Fred then Fred would die. I couldn't have that. He had to live. I knew that our love would be short. When he found out what I was then he would hate me forever. I would rather die than have Fred not love me.
So perhaps, in some sort of twisted sick way, I wanted to die for Fred???
Oh God help me.
I have so much thinking to do.
HPOV
"Here he is."
"Did you hear what he's saying about You Know Who?"
"Bloody disgrace I say."
These whispers have been haunting me ever since I got Hogwarts. Sirius has written to me but no mention of the Katie incident. Why can't he mention it? It just isn't fair anymore. He just can't understand that we are all worried about her. Well, at least, Ron, Fred, George, and I all are but he won't budge or no one else in the order will.
I am over it. Ginny is going around and calling everyone liars but that included Katie. She still had her theories of who or 'what' Katie was. Hermione was edgy but she was happy that we had a friend that we could trust. I asked her what she meant by that and she rolled her eyes (so I knew I had missed something very important) and told me that obviously Katie was very protective of us and whatever she did for the order was lonely or horrible but nothing to horrible because she was only fifteen and the adults wouldn't let her do something too bad. But she was very protective of us because we were probably the only real friends she had around her age.
That made sense. We heard the clipping of highheels and the humming of a very high and prim voice. Umbridge.
"Good morning children." She said joyfully
"Mornin'" we mumbled back
"I am going to the kitchens to interview the chef, Katie Brown. She may lose her job because of this." The High Inquisitor laughed at the idea gleefully, she has issues.
"Why would you do that to her?" Hermione asked
"Oh, Miss Granger, there are so many things you don't understand about her." Umbridge said
"Like what?" Ginny asked, interested now. Umbridge leaned in, as if she were to tell us the biggest secret in all the world.
"It is the most secret of secrets ever kept in the wizarding world. Your parents would know because of your father's job. But it is his choice to tell you, not mine, I am bound to secrecy from Cornelius Fudge himself!" he whispered, giggling at the end. Then she walked away.
"Katie's job!" Fred exclaimed after a minute of silence.
"Katie will handle it, we will only jeopardize it if we interfere." An irish girl said, her long blonde curls cascading down her back. Her fierce blue eyes gazing at us intensely.
"Luna!" Ginny cried, that's right, Luna Lovegood, the weird girl from Feast night.
"Do you know what the secret is?" Ginny inquired
"Oh yes, but I shan't tell, the punishment is death for anyone who tells someone else, especially you Harry Potter." She said seriously.
"Why me?" I asked, voicing everyone's unspoken question.
"Dear lord I have slipped up again! Father will have my head if I say anymore!" she said clapping her hand to her mouth as if in shock that she had told us that.
"Please tell us!" Fred begged. "Is she in any danger?" Ron rolled his eyes at me. Of course he didn't care of the secret, just if his true love was safe, but then again I had never felt that way about anyone so I had no idea what he was feeling like.
"Katie is always in danger." Luna said sadly. "And there is nothing she can do about it."
"What do you mean?" Hermione asked.
"She means that Katie has a destiny and that you should not interfere with it. It is of the cruelest manor and only those chosen shall know of it now." Said a snide voice behind us. Snape.
"Please, sir, tell us what it is." Hermione pleaded
"I shall not! And I if I hear of you asking of it again you shall be suspended or expelled." He replied coldly.
"Yes sir." We all said in unison sighing with defeat.
Sorry about the short chapter. I just felt as if I had to get something out before you all started hating me a lot. I promise that there wont be a huge gap next time. The chapter will be a bit longer as well.
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