Katie groaned and opened her eyes. Some one was shaking her awake. She was prepared to yell at her mother for waking her from a very interesting dream when her eyes focused and she found that she was looking into the face of Ginny Weasley.

"Mum said that we need to get you up. You're supposed to go down to the kitchen," she said, before walking out of the room.

Katie sat up in the bed and looked around at her surroundings. There were various articles of clothing lying around and some magazines open on a desk in the corner. It reminded her a little bit of her bedroom in her apartment in London she shared with her mother.

That's when it hit her; it wasn't a dream at all. She was hiding from her own mother and her strange boyfriend. She stood up and stretched for a second. After changing her clothes, she ventured out into the hall way. She wasn't exactly sure where the kitchen was, but she figured she'd find it eventually. The house couldn't be that big, right?

After a few minutes of wondering around and not finding a kitchen, she decided that she had better try the basement. It was, after all the only place she hadn't looked, other than the attic that is. She was relieved when she peered through the half open door to see the whole Weasley family, and Hermione Granger sitting at the table.

She opened the door the rest of the way and slowly walked in, not sure where to sit.

"Oh, good you're up dear. We will need to talk after you've had your breakfast. We still need to wait for the others to arrive," said Mrs. Weasley as she bustled around the kitchen summoning items and throwing them into a frying pan.

"Bell, sit here, I don't want Snape sitting by me again." Fred whispered, but made sure it was loud enough for his mother to hear him.

"Don't listen to him Katie, you can sit where ever you want. And for the last time Fred, Professor Snape is a respectable man, don't make fun of him." Mrs. Weasley said glaring at her son.

"But Mum, we don't like him." George said as Katie sat down between him and Fred.

"George! Don't speak ill of anyone like that." she said, plopping several sausages onto Katie's plate. "How many Hermione?" she asked as she headed across the table toward the frizzy haired girl.

"Snape's going to be here?" Katie whispered once they had finished breakfast. They were all sitting in Ron's bedroom waiting for the others to arrive.

"Yes." Ron said, wrinkling his nose. "McGonagall too,"

"McGonagall's not so bad," Hermione said thoughtfully. "She doesn't let us call her Professor because we're not in school. She's really nice when you're not in a classroom with her."

Fred snorted. "Only because she likes you,"

"Well maybe she'd like you too if you weren't such a trouble maker," said Ginny as she flopped down on the floor leaning against the back of one of the two beds in the room.

George was going to say something when the woman called Tonks came in the room for Katie, Fred and George. As they walked down the stairs into the kitchen, Katie noticed that her hair wasn't pink today; it was a rather bright shade of green.

When they entered the kitchen, there were several people sitting around the large wooden table. There were four empty seats. She took the one between George and Tonks, just so that Fred could have the pleasure of sitting next to Snape.

She saw that the older two Weasleys were there, Charlie and Bill, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. Professor Lupin was seated beside Headmaster Dumbledore and another man that Katie didn't know was sitting on his other side. There was an elderly woman who was arguing with another elderly woman that Katie recognized as Neville Longbottom's grandmother.

All of the noise stopped as they entered the room and took their seats. After a second, Dumbledore stood and all eyes went from Katie to him.

"Hello, you all had a good night's sleep I hope?" He said looking around at the people occupying the kitchen. There were several grunts and nodding heads and then he continued. "Well, as you know, we are here today because of Miss Bell. She's in grave danger I'm afraid, that's were we come in." he said.

"Now, Katie, you probably have no idea why you're here, am I correct?" Katie nodded her head and looked down at the table. "Well, that's simple enough. We have found that you're mother has become a death eater, and for some reason, which we aren't completely sure of, she wants you dead." He paused; she looked up from the table and looked at him with her eyes wide with surprise.

"We have reason to believe that her choices were influenced by her current boyfriend, Harold Parker," continued Dumbledore. He was still looking around at all of the occupants of the room. "We do not, however, have solid proof so we can't do anything about it yet,"

"Albus, if you don't mind me asking, how do we know that the girl is in trouble." Mrs. Longbottom asked, raising her eyebrows at the older man.

"Ah, yes, well you see, it's quite simple really; Mr. Snape here heard some bits and pieces of a plan that involved Miss Bell's death. Therefore, she is in danger." He replied. The older lady seemed happy with this answer and went back to watching Katie intently as if waiting for her to do a trick.

"Now, we will of course have the help of Mr. Snape to reveal more of the plan, we will have Professor Moody here to make sure that there is no dark activity around the area at all times, and Mr. Fred and George Weasley to be looking out for Miss Bell. The rest of us will be doing our part as the time comes." Katie looked around at the other people in the room. They all seemed to be looking at her and she wasn't exactly comfortable.

She couldn't help but feel relaxed as the meeting was dismissed and she was able to go back up to the bedroom with the twins.

"So I'm kind of being held hostage?" she asked as they made their way up the first set of stairs.

George chuckled. "I would say it's more of a house arrest. But you'll get used to it. We've been doing this for almost three years now, isn't that right Fred?"

Fred grunted and nodded his head. "It's not as bad as it could be. I mean at least you have us to entertain you at all hours of the day," he said smiling cheekily.

Katie rolled her eyes and grinned up at her friends who were both a good head taller than she was. "That's not exactly a comforting thought you know,"

"Hey!" George said, trying to look insulted but failing miserably. Katie just laughed and rolled her eyes again. She was happy that she at least had two great friends as her body guard type people. If she didn't she would probably be depressed and miserable.

When the made it back to the bedroom, Ron Hermione and Ginny were all sitting on the floor playing exploding snap. They quickly abandoned the game to hear what happened at the meeting though.

"How long are you going to stay here?" Ginny asked. Katie was a little bit surprised that she was included in the conversation in the girls bedroom that night.

"I'm not sure, they didn't say, but I have a feeling I'll be here for a while." She said, shrugging her shoulders.

"It's not that bad," Hermione said. "There's really quite a lot to do. Play games, eavesdrop in the Order of the Phoenix meetings, sneak around at night helping Fred and George with pranks every once in a while. But since you are really good friends with them, I imagine that you're going to be helping them quite a lot." She said chuckling.

"Sounds a lot like Hogwarts with no quidditch, very few teachers, no classes and no Slytherins," Katie said, "Especially the sneaking around and eavesdropping part." She said thoughtfully.

"You did this a lot in school?" Ginny asked, cocking her head to the side and looking at the older girl.

"Almost all the time," she said proudly. "I was in on that swamp in the corridor before Fred and George left,"

"Were you really?" Hermione said excitedly. "I never really imagined you to be that kind of a person," she said as she and Ginny got up and walked over to sit on her bed with her.

"I never thought you were the kind of person who would let me get away with being that kind of a person." Katie retorted causing the three girls to giggle.

"Oh no Fred, they've got Katie brainwashed," George whispered loudly from the door way earning a glare from each of the girls.

They soon joined in the talking fest and only left two hours later when Mrs. Weasley came in to make sure that they were asleep.

Life carried on in much the same way for the next week or so, everyone was laughing and having a good time. George and Fred were trying particularly hard to make Katie forget that she was hiding form her own mother and she was extremely great full for that.

About her second week there, Harry Potter arrived and there was another meeting, this one, she wasn't invited to, but of course the twins told her all about it later.

"They still don't have any luck," George said, sitting next to her on the floor where she, Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny were talking about what might be happening down stairs.

"I'm going to be here forever," Katie moaned and leaned her head back against the bed.

"You say that like it's a bad thing," Harry said grinning. "You can go and live with my Aunt and Uncle, although, they aren't as bad now that they met Moody," he said thoughtfully.

"I think I'll pass. It's actually nice here; it's just strange that I'm here and well.hiding from my own mother. I don't even want to know what she wants me dead for."

"Don't worry about it; they'll get it all taken care of." Fred said sitting down between Ginny and George.

"Yeah, and beside, it's nice to have some one else here. It's usually just us, Harry and Hermione and the occasional Order member that stays here." Ron said, lying back on the floor.

They were all silent for a minute which Katie found a little bit awkward; silence was something that hardly ever happened with all of the Weasley's in one place.

After about five minutes of everyone being lost in their own thoughts, Mrs. Weasley came in and told them all to go to their rooms.

Every so often, Moody would come into the kitchen with one of his strange dark detectors for a meal. When asked, he would say, "You can't be unprepared. They'll come around in the time that we're weakest you know. If no one can see 'em coming then we're weak."

About a month after her arrival, there was still no news about Voldermort's plan and Katie was beginning to think that they had made some kind of a mistake about her being in danger. But then she would remember how strange her mother was acting, and the last words that she had said before Katie left "Might want to enjoy it while it lasts".

Every day for a few hours, Fred and George would have to leave to go to their joke shop. During these times, she would usually go and help Mrs. Weasley clean up around the large house that she learned was Sirius Blacks old childhood house.

Harry, Ron and Hermione told her the story about how Sirius wasn't guilty, and she didn't feel as strange living in his old house. They told her about Sirius' family and how they were mostly Slytherins and how he had run away to live with Harry's father.

Then they finally told her about his death the summer before. How he feel through a strange veil at the Department of Mysteries after being hit with a stunning spell by his own cousin, Bellatrix Lastrange.

Katie was beginning to wish that she hadn't hoped so hard for this man's capture when he had first escaped. She also wished that she hadn't wished him dead after he 'attacked Ron', him being her best friend's little brother an all.

George always came back for lunch while Fred stayed at the shop, but Fred came home from work an hour earlier than George did. It all pretty much worked out that they both evenly split their duties at the shop and of taking care of Katie.

One night, about a month and a half into her stay, Fred came home from work and went upstairs to find Katie. She was in the room that she shared with the two other girls reading a magazine while the other two were doing each others hair. They were all talking and giggling when Fred walked in.

"Gah! Girly moments. I need to start knocking," Fred said, shielding his eyes and trying to hide a smile. Katie put the magazine (teen witch) and rolled her eyes.

"Yes, that's a good idea, what if I was changing?" she said, smiling sweetly.

"Ok, remind me not to knock,"

"What if it was me?" Ginny said, wrinkling her nose at the thought.

"Ok, we're back to knocking," Fred said with a rather disgusted look on his face. "Anyway Kate, I was just coming up to make sure you're still alive,"

"Well, I'm breathing, talking, reading, so yeah, I'd say I'm alive."

"That's good." he looked like he was thinking hard and then he said, "We're all supposed to go down to Ron and Harry's room. Something about finishing the snap tournament."

"Oh, finally, I was wondering when they were going to finish that stupid thing." Hermione said as they made their way down one flight of steps.

"You're just bitter because you were the first one eliminated," Katie said punching her lightly in the arm and smiling sweetly at her.

"You were second, you shouldn't be talking" Ginny reminded her.

"Ok, so I never really had much practice," Katie said shrugging as they walked into the room that how had a small round table in the middle with six chairs crammed around it.

After a rather fierce game, Ron was announced the champion of the Order Snap Tournament. It had been a close game though, and Harry would have beaten him if his cards hadn't exploded leaving him with slightly singed eyebrows.

Soon they had moved all of the chairs and the table out of the way and they were just gathered around talking like they usually spent their evenings.

"I got an owl from Angelina at work today," Fred said taking a sip of pumpkin juice.

"Oh yeah? What'd it say?" Katie asked. She missed Angelina; she was a fellow chaser, and one of her best friends, even if she was a year older.

"She said she read something about you missing in the Daily Prophet and was worried about you." He said. "I wish I could tell her that you're alright, but I'm not aloud to, I had to just write her back saying that I had no idea where you were and that you weren't answering my owls."

"I really miss talking to her." Katie said, sighing. "I still don't know if she thought of me as a friend of as a little sister though, and that kind of bugs me."

"She thought of you as a friend, I'm positive of that," Fred said. "You remember how she and I went as friends to the Yule Ball a few years back? Well you should have heard her talk about you. She talked more about you than she did her best friend from our year."

"If you say so," she said shrugging. "What'd she say?"

"You can never resist can you?" Fred asked. She grinned and shook her head. "Well, if you insist, she said that she was worried about your hair coming uncurled about fifty times. She said that she wished that you had a date with some Ravenclaw that was in our year. She told me about the time that you were talking about cows on steroids in your sleep."

"She told you about that?" Katie asked a little alarmed. The others snickered.

"Cows on steroids?" Harry asked, sitting up as though he were suddenly interesting in the conversation.

"Yup," Fred said. Katie felt her face getting hot and hid it behind her hands. "She also told me about the time that you slide across the library on your knees with your hands together over you head yelling fish out of water just so you would get a detention with her so she wouldn't have to do it alone,"

"I forgot about the fish out of water." she said chucking a little, trying to ignore how red her face probably was at that moment.

"I think I was in there that day!" Hermione said, "I remember you started at the back and worked your way right out the door with the Librarian yelling that you had detention after you."

"When weren't you in the library?" Harry muttered but was silenced by the glare that he received.

"It paid off didn't it?" she said, crossing her arms. "I got Head Girl."

"Yeah, and Malfoy's Head Boy. That would completely turn me off of wanted to be a head." Harry shot back.

"Ahh, young love," Ron muttered, but soon covered his face as a pack of cards came flying at him from two directions.

"What was that?" Fred said sitting up.

"Um. Nothing, it was nothing." Ginny said, speaking up for the first time since the conversation started.

"I'm sure." Katie said. "Just tell us. I mean it's obvious that you two like each other, so I'm guessing that you're going out now?"

Hermione glared at her. Harry looked a little alarmed. "Was it that.obvious?" he asked.

Fred grinned and was going to reply when Moody came bursting into the room.

"Weasley!" he almost shouted as he slammed open the door.

"Huh?" came three confused responses.

"Your shop's been broken into. I'm going down to investigate and you're coming with me." He said. Fred stood up and followed him out the door.

"Do you reckon that they're looking for you, Katie?" Harry asked, looking around at the rest of us.

"I'd say that's probably what they were doing. Or maybe it was Umbridge," Ron said. Hermione smacked him.

"It's not Umbridge. But I'd say that they were probably looking for you," she said, turning to Katie.

"I hope nothing happened to George." she said, looking around at the others. "Oh god," she closed her eyes tightly.

"It's ok, nothing happened to him," Ginny said. She sounded more like she was trying to convince herself more than Katie.

"George!" Ron said suddenly, jumping up. "We thought you were dead."

"Give me some credit," he said. "I was told to come home and look after our dear Miss Bell." He said, sitting down on the floor between Ron and Katie.

"We really did think that something happened." Katie said, looking up at him. "The way that Moody came in here, I thought the end of the world was coming." The group chuckled lightly.

"Fear not, dear maiden, Sir George is invincible," he said putting his arm around her shoulders. She rolled her eyes and pushed it back off.

"Um, guys, I hate to burst your little bubbles of happiness," Harry started getting many strange looks. He ignored them and continued. "If Moody isn't here, who's watching the dark detectors?"

The all looked at each other for a few seconds in silence.

"That's a good question." Hermione said, biting her lip nervously.

"Well does anyone know how any of them work?" Ginny said, looking around at the others.

"We can always just go and look." George suggested. "Moody was talking about them the other night remember?"

The group stood up and hurriedly made their way to the small room beside the kitchen which held all of Moody's dark detectors.

Everything was silent, and nothing was showing any signs of being any different than the few other times that they had seen them. They were about to leave when Harry stopped them.

"G-guys." He said slowly. "In my fourth year, I was in the fake Moody's office, and he.he told me that when you can see the whites of the eyes of the people in the foe glass your in trouble." he motioned to the large frosted looking mirror over in the corner.

Katie didn't want to believe what she was seeing. There were about 10 figures the one in the mirror, all of them had the whites of their eyes showing.

"Oh shit, Kate, come one, let's go get a cloak and wand and get the hell out of here," George said, grabbing her arm and pulling her out of the office. They were soon running up the stairs and grabbing a few of their belongings.

"Oh god, what now?" Katie asked as they crept away from the house, careful not to be seen by anyone.

"We'll.we'll go back to the burrow." George said. "Don't worry, we'll be ok,"

"I hope so." She said. "Isn't the burrow really far away though?" she asked, looking more nervous than ever.

"Yes, but we'll apparate a little ways from here. We don't want to be tracked close to this place," he whispered as they walked down a deserted alley.

Katie gasped and grabbed George's arm. "Please tell me that's not a person." She said, closing her eyes.

George peered through the darkness, trying not to let Katie know how scared and freaked out he was. He saw the dark figure that she pointed to. He edged a little closer to it and muttered "Lumos" to light the tip of his wand.

Katie almost screamed at what she saw in the dim light of the wand.