You and I

By: ProngsLivesOn125

Note: Thank you to all my reviewers! You're amazing! Set in Katie's 6th year Oliver's 7th. This should be interesting . . .

Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Rowling, nor do I own any of the characters

Chapter 3: How can you be hungry?

Eventually Oliver did buy something for Katie. It was a pack of chocolate frogs. He knew it was boring, but he didn't really know what else to get her. She thanked him kindly, and then suggested that they might head back to the castle before it got too dark. As the exited the shop, Katie accidentally bumped into someone.
"I'm so sorry!" she said quickly looking up at the person, and then she wished she didn't. Her stomach was doing flip-flops. She turned red, and then before she walked away, the person spoke.

"Katie. How are you?" A tall Ravenclaw boy asked.

"I'm Fine."

"Enjoying your day?"

"I was," Katie said and then decided that she couldn't take it anymore. She felt her feet move beneath her. And then she was gone.

"Thomas" Oliver said, nodding his head.

"Wood" Jacob Thomas replied.

"Well, I'd better-, uh," Oliver started.

"Yeah," Thomas said, while Oliver ran to catch up with Katie. The boy just stood there in the entrance of Honeyduke's, watching Oliver run after Katie. He shook his head and remembered all the times they had together. Suddenly, he felt something hard hit his shoulder. A kid was trying to get in the doorway.

"Hey! You gonna move or what? The rest of us would like to stock up too, buddy!" The blonde boy said impatiently. Jacob moved aside and opened the door for the group of what looked like to be third years.

"Merlin!" another boy in the group said, "you think the guy just been hit with a stupidity curse"

Meanwhile, Oliver was trying to find Katie. He'd checked almost everywhere and he still couldn't find her. He was beginning to get worried because it was getting quite late, and Hogsmeade was known to be a little shaky in the later parts of the night. He quickly ran into Three Broomstick's and peeked into the section where students usually sat, but he didn't see her there. He was running out of time. He walked through the whole village and he finally ran into George.

"George, have you seen Katie?" Oliver asked him desperately.

"Yeah, she went back with Alicia and Angelina. She was in a right state. What did you do Oliver?" George replied.

"It wasn't me! Everything was fine until we ran into Jacob" Oliver said.

"Oh shite."

"You can say that again." Oliver said, thankful that at least he knew Katie was safe.

"Oh shite."

"I didn't mean literally!" Oliver said taking off in the other direction.

"Where you going?" George called after him.

"Where do you think?" Oliver called back. Fifteen minutes later, Oliver was back at the front gates of Hogwarts. He ran up the staircase, through the portrait, and into the common room.
"Where is she?" he asked to Alicia who was sitting next to the fire.

"Upstairs. She won't talk to us. She's put a charm around her bed. Angelina's trying to get her out. What happened?"

"Long story. Any way you could get her down here?
Oliver asked pointing to the staircase. He knew that boys couldn't get up the girls staircases.

"Well, yeah, maybe. We can try. I'll tell her you're here. " Alicia said as she headed up the staircase. Oliver sat down on the couch thinking. He knew that Katie and Thomas had been involved. Well, he didn't know how much, but he knew they were together for a long time. Everything was fine with them. Until that night, he remembered. She had caught him in the library with a girl from Ravenclaw. There was nothing that Jacob could do then. However, she left him a lasting memory. There was a scar under his eye where Katie had punched him. Oliver knew more than well if you got Katie angry, you were in for it. She had a temper that was un-controllable once you got her mad enough. Katie had been a wreck for a long time after that. Oliver had been Katie's crying shoulder after 'the day'. She didn't want to go to lessons or practice, but Oliver forced her. He knew that she needed to be distracted. She made a point of avoiding Jacob Thomas at all costs. And for probably the first time in a long time, she had run into him. And now everything that she had been holding in was flowing out and she didn't know how to stop it.

After half an hour, Oliver seriously doubted that he would get to talk to Katie that night. A few minutes later, though, a very puffy-eyed and tear-damped Katie was being pushed down the stairs by Angelina and Alicia. She was trying to go back up the stairs, when Oliver got up and went over.

"Katie?" he called gently. She turned and looked at him. She sunk to the floor. Oliver went over to her and picked her up. He ushered his hand at Angelina and Alicia. They went back upstairs. He carried Katie, who was still sobbing, over to the couch and they both sat down. She clung on to him. She cried and sniffled, and got Oliver's shirt all wet. She was muttering things that he couldn't understand. Oliver just nodded and kept agreeing. All the while, he tried to calm her. He patted her hair. He rubbed her back. Eventually, she began to calm down and come back to her senses.

"I'm sorry" She said, sniffling. "I'm a mess." Katie started to get up, but Olive didn't let her. He knew she would just go back in her room and cry herself to sleep.

"Hey. You're okay." Oliver said.

"I'm sorry I left, but I couldn't stay. I just couldn't be around him anymore. It makes me remember, and all I want to do is forget. I'm done with him, and with everybody." She said, sniffling again.

"Everybody?" Oliver asked.

"Not, you Ollie. You're always here." She said smiling for the first time in a while, and hugged him.

"I'll always be here." Oliver said.

"I know"

"You okay now?" he asked. She was still clinging to him, and he didn't mind one bit.

"Yes. I think I'm alright now." Katie said.

"I'm glad" said Oliver. Katie sensed that he was going to leave, and she didn't want to be alone.

"You don't have to leave, you know. We don't have classes tomorrow." Katie said, matter-of-factly. Oliver didn't know how to answer. He should probably leave. He didn't want to do something that they both would feel awkward about tomorrow.

"Katie I know you don't want to be alone, but-" Oliver started.

"Then don't leave me"

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The next morning Katie didn't know where she was. She knew she wasn't in her bed. She was cold too. But next to her, there was something warm. She grabbed on to it. It woke up.

"Hey" it said.

"Hi" Katie replied. They were on the couch in the common room. They had both fell asleep.

"Thanks for staying with me" Katie said.

"That's what I'm here for" Oliver said smiling at her.

"Ollie! You've got morning hair!" she said giggling at his head. There were pieces of hair sticking up in all directions.

"Well, I didn't have much of a chance to change, or brush my hair for that matter." Oliver said taunting her back.

"And yet, you still look fabulous!"

Oliver smiled, "Wanna get breakfast?"

"Do you ever stop eating?" Katie asked, amazed that he could be hungry at such an early time.

"Do you ever stop asking that question?"

I will be out of town, without acess to a computer until the 11th of July. The next chapter will be written over my vacation, and uploaded after I get back. Hope you liked this one. Prongsliveson125