"Please, out! Visiting hours are over!"

"Please, just a few-"

"No!"

Katie's eyes fluttered a bit. She saw a girl who she thought she recognized, arguing with a woman she thought she recognized. She heard a gasp and groggily turned her head towards the sound. Everything she saw was a foggy picture, and she tried to make out what she was seeing and hearing.

"Look! She's awake!"

Katie tried to recognize the voice. A hand touched her forehead.

"Still warm.." The owner muttered.

'Why would I have a fever?' Katie wondered. She struggled to pull herself into a sitting position. Instead, she only managed to pull herself into a slump against the pillow behind her back. Blinking, she studied the seven faces staring at her. Her whole team was there- Harry, Ron, Fred, George, Angelina and Alicia, and a rather ticked-off Madam Pomfrey.

"What-" Katie wanted to ask a million questions that were whirling though her mind, but was cut off by six voices.

"Katie! We thought-"

"I'm so-"

"Worried, we-"

"Fred, he"

"Bludger, it"

"Are you O.K.?"

"ENOUGH!" Madam Pomfrey screeched. "Get out!"

Angelina once again pleaded with her.

"Madam Pomfrey, we deserve-"

The mediwitch cut her off. "Alright, ONE of you. But only one. The rest of you- OUT."

"I'll stay…after all, it was my fault." Fred said, quietly.

The questions came roaring back with full force in Katie's mind.

"Are you sure?" Alicia asked Fred.

"Yeah. I'll see you guys later." Fred called to the team as Madam Pomfrey ushered-or rather, shoved- the group out. She huffed, then turned to attend to the other side of the wing. Fred pulled up a chair to Katie's bed.

"Katie…" Fred started to say, then shut his mouth, as if wondering where to begin. "Look…I'm so sorry…for what happened. I saw the Bludger heading for the box and- I don't know…something just told me to hit it. I had no idea you were flying by at that instant." Fred looked mournful.

"Oh, come on, now, I'm sure that something-"

"It is my fault, you know. I heard the whistle, I knew practice was over, I should have-"

Katie cut him off. She had a knack for that, even when she was groggy. "Don't you think it's a bit peculiar that the Bludgers went after me a heck of a lot more than anyone else?

Fred nodded. "Well…yes…"

"I think that's happened to Harry before… but that was Harry, something always happens to him. Why would Bludgers go after me?" Katie looked at Fred quizzically.

"Well, what about that Slytherin seeker? Ana? Would she do anything?"

"Do you honestly think she has the power to do something like that? I doubt it. Something was up." The bell rang, signifying the students to go to class. Fred stood up. "Guess not. I'll come back…I have that Netwhilst class…I'll bring your homework." He tried to smile as he left, but it looked a little half-hearted.

'Netwhilsts…' Katie thought, before allowing herself to sink back into the bed and fall asleep.