Author's Notes: I got inspired last night and wrote another chapter. This apparently is going better than I thought and will be longer than I thought. Still based on Howie Day's Collide. Thanks to anyone that review the first chapter.
Disclaimer: Still own nothing.
Chapter 2: Where I Follow You'll Go
Ron and Harry were making their way through the Forbidden Forest, each lost in their thoughts. Harry was trying to work up the courage to do what he had to do and also thinking for the first time of what his future could be, while Ron was thinking of Hermione and the fact that he most likely would never see her again. Finally, they reached Voldemort's camp undetected as they had hoped. However, their luck ran out once they saw how outnumbered they were here. It was not only Voldemort and a few death-eaters as they thought, but Voldemort, death-eaters, dementors, and goblins preparing for a full-scale battle. What they thought was going to be a slightly outnumbered fight turned into a suicide mission for both.
"Harry, we need to get the others here or leave. There is no way we can fight all of them," whispered Ron.
"We aren't leaving. I'm sick of running and hiding from him. It will end today. Send the message to Dumbledore and tell him he has an hour to get here before we sneak in," Harry whispered back while looking for an easy, undetectable entrance to the camp.
Ron turned away and found the note in his bag. This paper was one of Hermione's ideas based on the flying memo's in the Ministry, it would go anywhere within an hundred miles without using an owl. He scribbled a message to Dumbledore with a postscript to his folks since he knew that is where Dumbledore would be once they realized he and Harry left. The paper disappeared once he said the spell and he knew Dumbledore would get here immediately, hopefully following the instructions on the note. He grabbed the invisibility cloak and followed Harry around to a darker corner of the camp where they could see what was going on without being seen.
Two hours have passed since Hermione found the note. She managed to calm down but hasn't moved from her spot on the floor. She sits and stares at the clock hoping and praying that it would move away from Mortal Peril. She refuses to talk to anyone and just looks as if she has lost her place in the world, that she doesn't know where to go from here. Mr. Weasley contacted Dumbledore and the rest of the Order and they all have gathered at the Burrow trying to decide what to do and figure out where Harry and Ron went.
The Order believes that the two went to the Forest as they believe that is where Voldemort's camp is, but are unable to determine exactly where in the Forest they could be. They were about to leave and search the entire Forest when the note appears in Dumbledore's hand. He reads it, hands it to Mr. Weasley, and apparates out of the Burrow. Mr. Weasley reads the note, throws it on the table, shouts Centaur Land, and quickly follows Dumbledore.
Mrs. Weasley stays for a moment to read the note, while pops and bangs are going off all around her. She reads the note, hands it to Ginny, and crouches down to Hermione.
"Hermione dear, they're okay. They told us where they are and we're going to go help."
Hermione jumps up and starts to run to her room to throw on some clothes and follow, but Mrs. Weasley puts her hand on her shoulder restraining her.
"Hermione, they want you and Ginny to stay here, where you are safe," Mrs. Weasley says gently as possible.
"NO! I'M GOING!" she shouts, throwing off Mrs. Weasley's hand and running up stairs to change. Two minutes later she was back downstairs, wand ready, and a look in her eye similar to the one that she wore when she smacked Malfoy in third year.
"Are you two coming!" she yells as she apparates to the Forest; Ginny and Mrs. Weasley following quickly after her.
