Ch 5 Leaving
(Kat's foster home: Sep 1)
"Where the hell were you yesterday! You should have been cleaning. You went off with that boy again didn't you" Kat just sat at the breakfast table listening to her foster father, Hank, yell at her. Since her mother died when Kat was five, leaving no information on how to contact any relatives or Kat's dad, she had been shuffled from one foster home to another. All together she had been in ten different foster homes in the twelve years she'd been in the foster care system. She had been in the latest home for a little over a year and knew that as long as she didn't interrupt Hank he wouldn't hit her, and that she couldn't count on Nicole, her foster mother, to help her. "You're a slut! You're mom was probably one too! She probably didn't even know your dad, who probably slept around with lots of women leaving bastard kids like you all over the place! This boy is probably going to do the same thing. He's a no good foreigner!" as he yelled this the glass in his hand exploded. Kat started to get very angry, it was one thing to bad mouth her, but you didn't bad mouth any of her friends especially Adam in front of her. "Adam is not a no good foreigner! He's a great guy and my best friend. Maybe if you wasn't such an asshole I'd stay around more often!" Hank slapped her, knocking her to the ground and causing her to hit her head on the table and start bleeding. Hank started coming to hit her again when she glared at him and he went flying into the wall. Kat ran out the door to a wooded area and teleported away.
(Remus's House: Same day)
Things at Remus's house were even more frantic then when they were getting ready to go to Diagon Alley (owing in part to some of the pranks Harry bought from the twins.) Remus was running around trying to find quills, ink, and much to Sirius's irritation his leash. Sirius meanwhile was helping Harry get his trunk to the front room, Arwen had left earlier that week and the adults wouldn't tell Harry where she had went. After he found everything Remus called a taxi and Sirius transformed and let Harry put the leash on him. Remus and the taxi driver got Harry's stuff into the trunk and then they left for King Cross Station. They had no difficulty getting onto the platform where they meant the Weasleys and Hermione. "You kids behave yourselves and don't get into any trouble. Have a good year." Mrs. Weasley told them. "Have a nice time at school. Good luck with your new DADA teacher." Remus told them with a smile as Sirius gave a bark.
After many hugs they all got on the train and Ginny went off to find her friends. The trio went to their usual compartment at the end of the train and Harry and Hermione pinned their prefects' badges on their robes. "I still say McGonagall and Dumbledore were out of their minds when they made you a prefect" Ron commented. "So did you find anything about Adam and Katlyn?" Harry asked Hermione ignoring Ron's comment. "I didn't find much on Adam except that he may have ended up in Australia. Katlyn and her mom went to America where Vanessa died. She didn't say anything about Remus or any other relatives before she died so Katlyn ended up going to the foster care services. She would have been five at the time and that's were I lost track of her." "Ugh, this is going to be impossible how the hell are we suppose to find them while we're at Hogwarts." Ron said. " I have my dad helping me. I didn't tell him who's Adam's father was naturally but I told him that some of Harry's parent's friends were looking for their lost children and he agreed to keep looking while I'm at school. He'll send me a letter if he finds anything." "Thanks Moine." Harry told her.
"Well, Well, if it isn't Potty, Weasel and Mudblood. I'm surprised you actually had the guts to come back to school after what happened last year," came a cold drawled voice from the door of the compartment. "Sod off ferret boy!" Ron yelled at him, as he and Harry jumped up ready to fight Malfoy and his two cronies. "Back off Malfoy or we'll have another incident like the one on the way back from Hogwarts our fourth year." "You wish Potter. You don't have the Weasel twins here this year to protect you lot" Malfoy sneered. Just then the old witch pushing the trolley came and asked if anyone would like some refreshments, not one to pick a fight in front of an adult Malfoy left taking Crabb and Goyle with him.
Harry bought some Cauldron Cakes for everyone and they sat back down and started talking about the summer and other things. " So how close are you guys to fully transforming now" Harry asked. Harry and Ron had decided to become animagi at the beginning of their fifth year and had eventually talked Hermione into doing so also, with the help of Sirius and a grudging Remus they were close to doing it. Harry's from was a stag like his dad, Ron was a panther, and Hermione was a cat. They spent the rest of the trip just talking and the boys eventually ended up talking about their favorite subject Quidditch and Hermione read her transfiguration book.
(Talphine Island, TP Ship: Same day)
Adam was walking out of the shower with a towel wrapped around his waist when Kat appeared with a large red mark that was starting to turn purple on her cheek and a bleeding cut on her forehead and stumbled. [OH MY GOD! He's in a towel. Looks GOOD on him, he's been working out. He's HOT! Oh god stop thinking about him like that] Kat though stumbling and blushing when she saw Adam in a towel. "Kat are you ok? What happened?" Adam asked worriedly as he steadied her with the hand not holding the towel in place. "I'm ok she answered somewhat distractedly. "Let me get dressed and then I want you to tell me what happened." He said leading her to a bench. Then he went off to his alcove to change.
[Oh man, of all the times she had to appear it was when I was getting out of the shower with only a towel on! She probably didn't notice. What the hell happened to her? If I find out who did this to her I swear I'll…] all of these thoughts were going through Adam's head as he got dressed and went back out to talk to Kat.
They decided to go back up to the beach to talk after Adam dressed Kat's forehead. "Then all a sudden the glass exploded just as I started yelling at him." "Kat you shouldn't have put yourself at risk just for me like that." " You're the greatest guy I know and my best friend, there's no way I'm going to stand by and let some one bad mouth you in front of me. Besides that's not even the weirdest part after he hit me, he started to come at me again. I glaring at him and then he was all a suddenly thrown across the room. Why does stuff like this happen around me? I mean stuff like that happened around me before I even became a Tomorrow Person." " I'm not sure Kat. Stuff like that happens to me too when I get angry every now and then. I talked to the others but nothing like this ever happened to any of them. I do know one thing for sure you'll not going back to that house." " Adam I have to or else Pierce will thing I ran away again and I'll get sent back to the orphanage which is even worse then living with Hank till they find another foster home to take me" " You can go there at night and act like you're going to bed then teleport here and stay at the ship. You teleport back before they wake up and leave a note saying you're going somewhere. That way it looks like you still live there. They'll never know the difference." Adam said after a while. [Wait a minute did I just ask her to move in with me! Oh god!] He thought to himself after the words were out of his mouth. [Holy shit! Is he asking me to move in with him! No he's just being a friend that's concerned for my safety nothing more. He doesn't see me that way.] Kat thought as she said " You mean like live here on the ship with you?" [Oh god. She must think I'm such an idiot!] "W..W..Well, w..What I mean is.." [If I live here I run the chance of running into him in a towel again. NO, NO, Don't think that! Don't think that. He's just a friend and that's all] "Ya sure. Fine." "O.K. I'll help you move in later today." While they had been talking they had unconsciously been moving closer to one another. They looked up at on another surprised at how close they were to each other. They started to lean in close together. They were just inches from each other…. When Megabyte appeared on the beach before them. He looked at them, as they practically jumped away from each other, and smirked, "What you're two doing?" he asked innocently. "Nothing! Just talking!" they both said at the same time. Megabyte smirked some more. [OH MY GOD! I almost kissed him. What was I thinking?] [I can't believe I almost kissed her she probably thinks I'm an even bigger idiot now]
Kat and Adam were so busy being angry at themselves and Megabyte was so busy annoying Kat and Adam that none of them saw the large red bird that had been watching Kat and Adam the whole time take off heading North.
(Hogwarts: Start of term banquet)
Harry, Hermione, and Ron listened as the last first year was sorted into Ravenclaw and McGonagall took the sorting hat and stool away. "Attention students there are a few start of term notices before we start this wonderful feast. First the Forbidden Forest is strictly forbidden to all students," Dumbledore seem to be looking right at Harry and his friends who had yet again somehow ended up in the Forbidden Forest the year before, " Also transfiguring candies have been added to the list of illegal items. If anyone would like to view the whole list it is in Mr. Filch's office" Ron moaned "The twins gave me some more Ferret Fudge to try out on Malfoy." The trio laughed remembering when Ron's older twin brothers had tricked Malfoy into eating some fudge that they made that turned the person who ate it into a white ferret. When asked they said they got the idea from the fake Moody who turned Malfoy into a ferret and bounced him around the entrance hall in the trio's fourth year. The twins were now trying to improve it by trying to use a spell on it that would make the person bounce around also and gave some to Ron to try out at school.
"This Halloween we will be celebrating a little differently then usual," everyone perked up at this and listened very closely. "We will be having a Halloween Ball." Everyone got really excited except for Harry and Ron who both groaned. " I don't know what you two are so upset about the last ball was really fun." Hermione said. "Ya for you cuz you were with Vicky" Ron mumbled under his breath, luckily Hermione didn't hear this because she was listening to Dumbledore announce their new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who seem to have not arrived yet. " Lastly I know you are all very curious about who the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is going to be this year. Let me introduce to you Professor Arwen Ambria." Dumbledore announced as Arwen walked into the hall. Harry, Hermione, and Ron clapped the loudest of all the other students who just clapped politely except for Malfoy and many other Slytherines who sneered at the idea of a woman for their DADA professor. Arwen smiled and winked at the trio as she took her seat next to Professor Snape who glared at her. "Let the feast began." Dumbledore finished. Food magically appeared in front of them and the trio began to eat. During the meal they talked to Nearly Headless Nick and Harry said hello to the Creevy brothers. Afterwards he and Hermione led the new first years up to the Gryffindor tower and everyone went to bed.