Ch. 18
Going Home
The next day everyone was packed and waiting for the carriages to take them to the train for the ride home. It had been decided the TP's would take the train so they would look like ordinary students. (Bill, Percy, and Arthur Weasley had performed memory charms on all the students who had seen Kat and Snape appear on the grounds.) All the TP's would meet their parents there or in Kevin's case his aunt (true to his prediction his parents hadn't been thrilled about his going to wizarding school so he was going to live with his aunt yet again) at King's Cross like regular students. Kat would meet her dad there and Harry and Adam would meet Sirius (who had been cleared and given an huge compensation for wrongful imprisonment after they used Versium on Wormtail) Arwen. They had filed for custody of the both of them after Sirius was freed. They bought the house right next door to Remus.
Adam pulled Kat into a small alcove in the Entrance Hall while they were waiting for the carriages to talk. "Ya?" she asked. "KATIWASWORRIEDSICKABOUTYOUWHENYOUWERECAPTUREANDILOVEYOU" "Adam slow down." Kat told him. Adam took a deep breath, "Kat I was worried sick about you when Voldmorte captured you. I was afraid I would lose you like I almost lost you when you fall over the railing in the warehouse…" [Oh my God! This isn't going where I think it is, is it? Oh God I hope it is.] Kat thought distractedly. Adam took another deep breath, "Kat, I love you," he said. [OH MY GOD! He said he loves me!] Kat just started at him with her mouth hanging open. [I knew she didn't feel the same way] Adam thought taking her reaction in the bad way. "I understand if you don't feel the same way, and I won't get in the way of your happiness," he told her and started to turn away blushing furiously. [You idiot! What were you thinking telling her that?!] he yelled at himself. [WHAT! How can he think I'm not totally in love with him?!] Kat stared at him some more, then grabbed him by his robe, spun him around, and yanked him towards her kissing him heavily on the mouth.
"What the…?"Adam stiffened in surprised but then relaxed and started kissing her back oblivious to everything but her lips on his. Kat wrapped her arms around his head and started running her fingers in his hair. [Oh God how stupid could I have been to wait this long to do this!] she thought. Adam ran his hands up and down her back pulling her closer to him. [This feels so right, how could this long] he marveled.
YA! Go Adam! "Wahoo!" BRING IT ON BABY! "Go Kat!" "Ya!" Adam and Kat broke apart when they heard the clapping and catcalls both inside their heads and outside. They turned around to see their fellow TP's including Ginny, and the trio standing there smirking at them. "I think you guys broke a world record." Megabyte commented. "It's about bloody time!" Ami, Jade, and Ginny exclaimed. "How were you guys able to go without breathing for so long?" Ron asked. "Ya we thought you both would end up in the hospital wing again!" Harry commented. "So this is where you guys were hiding?" Kevin teased. "Seeing as how you two were too busy to notice. We decided to come get you to tell you the carriages arrived." Hermione told them smiling. Kat and Adam blushed causing everyone to laugh.
On the train they all played Exploding Snaps and Kat noticed again how close Harry and Jade were sitting and Kevin and Ginny. Just then Malfoy and his cronies came by and started taunting them. "Well, Well it looks like you've added more losers to your club Potter, a bunch of Mudbloods, the son of a convicted criminal and another poor muggle lover. And just when I thought you couldn't get any lower." Harry, Ron, and Megabyte jumped up ready to fight. While Kat used a wind spell to shove the three out Slytherines out the door, Hermione used one to shut it, and Ginny one to lock it so only Malfoy, Goyle, and Crabbe couldn't open it. Everyone looked at them in astonishment. "What?" Kat and Ginny asked innocently, "Honestly all three spells are in Basic Book of Spells Level 5" Hermione said exasperatedly, causing everyone to roll their eyes and just go back to playing.
A couple of minutes later Adam and Kat got up to use the restroom at the same time. " Going to look for an empty compartment?" Megabyte commented offhandedly. Everyone laughed as Kat shoved him off his seat. "HEY!" Kat and Adam came back a couple of minutes before they got to King's Cross, both looking a little disheveled. Everyone looked at them and started laughing making the two blush. (This made everyone laugh even harder.) Ginny gave Kat a mirror and a brush so she could fix her hair and Adam used a comb given to him by Harry of all people. " Harry why do you even bother carrying a comb cuz it doesn't do you any good," everyone laughed and Harry shoved Ron causing him to fall onto Hermione causing both to blush and making everyone laugh harder.
At the station they went through the gateway in pairs, Hermione and Ron first, Megabyte and Ami, Kevin and Ginny, Harry and Jade, and lastly Kat and Adam. Mrs. Weasley gave everyone big hugs and asked them how they were doing. "You all need to come by sometime this summer, you hear," she told them all before everyone left going their separated ways.
Sirius, Arwen, and Remus smiled when they saw Kat and Adam come through the gateway holding hands. They all hugged each other and said good-bye to the Weasleys and other TP's and their parents and Kevin's aunt as they left. Then they all went to their new homes with their newly found families.
The End!