Notes: again just using the world of JKR

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Bri007: I hope this chapter is a bit better… I am rather bad with grammar and such (always have been for odd reasons). Anyways tried something different with this chapter… let me know if it helps!

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Chapter 8.

Katie woke up early on Christmas day. She went downstairs to where the tree was to find Mr. Wood sitting and reading the newspaper.

"Good Morning Katie." He said with a bright smile.

"Merry Christmas Mr. Wood." She said taking a seat on the floor near the fire.

"You doing alright Katie?" He asked her.

"Yea…" She answered looking at the fire. "Thanks for bringing me into the family."

"Hey you are always welcome here Katie." He smiled.

After an hour or so Mrs. Wood and Oliver came downstairs. Oliver was taken back when he saw Katie sitting by the fire. It was as though she were being framed by the fire.

They all exchanged gifts. Katie got a new broom book from Mr. Wood, and some pretty hairpieces from Mrs. Wood. Her parents had sent her money, and a t-shirt from the states. Ali and Ang sent her some candy and a notebook. Oliver gave her a picture of the two of them in a frame, and an amazing painting of the same picture. It was cheesy but really nice.

When Oliver opened his gift he was floored. It was all the idea's Katie had but never shared. He was shocked at how amazing her mind was. She had a move for everything in there. It was the best gift he had ever gotten, at least that is what he told her.

After a large lunch Oliver went over to see his girlfriend, and Katie went for a walk. She needed to clear her mind. She wondered the muggle streets with a smile on her face. She saw a bunch of couples, and lots of families. Katie in sense, felt lonely, but she also felt oddly independent.

The rest of the holiday past fast, which Katie liked. She finally filled in Ang and Ali, who had sent and owl a day to make sure she was alright. Katie also sent lots of owls back and forth with George. Fred even sent her one cursing her brother, which made her laugh. She and Oliver never saw each other anymore. He was always with Becca, and Katie was mostly out walking.

Mr. and Mrs. Wood, who had finally talked Katie into call Mum and Dad had been worried sick about her, and did everything to make sure she was ok. She never talked to Gavin, nor did she get anything from her brother for Christmas.

Katie stayed in on New Year's Eve while everyone else went out. She did take a walk and watched people. Something in her had changed. She had become a bit quite, and a bit of a mystery.

On January 2nd she could not wait to get onto the train, saying goodbye to Mum and Dad, well Mr. and Mrs. Wood she managed to find a compartment alone. She was not ready to face people. To her surprise Cedric Diggory came into her compartment and smiled.

"I hear you have been kicked out of your brothers house and are living with the Wood's and your parents moved to America because they hate you, and you are an awful kid who forced the Wood's into taking you in." He laughed. "Becca really hates you."

Katie laughed and gave him a short overview of her holiday, he smiled at her. "Your strong T. don't worry about it."

And with that they talked about other things, including the fact that Cedric's parents were doing well. And for the first time sense she left Hogwarts did she feel even a bit like herself.

As the train pulled up to the Hogsmeade station Cedric and her got a carriage and went up to the castle together.

George was sitting on the front stairs looking really nervous. The second Katie stepped out of the carriage he ran up and picked her up in a rather tight hug. He did not let her go until it was just the two of them standing outside in a hug with her trunk next to them.

"I've been so worried about you." George whispered.

"I've noticed." Katie laughed.

"Hey…" He smiled and gave her a small kiss.

They got some house elf's to take her trunk and managed to sit in the common room talking almost all night. That was until Ang and Ali got so mad at George for keeping her that she was dragged to her room to talk to them.

"I can't believe Wood is still with her." Ang said while Ali nodded.

"Maybe he really likes her." Katie said, both girls rolled their eyes.

"Katie he is in love with you, he is with her just because you're not with him." Ali said with a laugh.

After a bit they talked about the other girl's holidays, and such. Ali and Lee had expressed their love. Ang and Fred were still together and happy. Everything seemed to be great other than Katie's issues with her family and Wood.

The next morning Katie went downstairs to find a rather annoyed Wood talking to Harry.

"But a fireboats? She took away the fire bolt?" He was saying to Harry.

Katie, Ang, Ali, and the twins missed the rest of the conversation, but the twins filled in the girls who were outraged that the broom was taken away.

Katie barely had time to think with practice every night, even though there next game was not until Feb. 5th. On top of that she had lots of homework, and barely anytime to sit with her boyfriend.

Oliver was still with Becca by the Slytherin-Ravenclaw match, which still bothered Katie and the rest of the team. The only time Katie even talked to Oliver now was during practice or a hello in the halls.

As they all went up to watch the Slytherin, Ravenclaw match Katie sat on George's lap and watched, she was not much in the mood for cheering, and therefore she just rested her head on Georges shoulder. As the game ended Oliver cornered the whole team and started talking about ideas for their next match.

"Oliver that's enough for now." Katie finally said after an hour.

"But Katie these are yours."

"I know Oliver, but just not now, and anyways Becca is waiting for you." She nodded her head to where Becca was.

"Oh, ok." He looked taken back, this was one of the few times Katie stopped Quidditch talk. "Ok well um see you guys at practice on Monday."

As they turned to leave Oliver stopped.

"Hey Kates can I talk to you for a moment?" He asked.

"Sure." She kissed George and told him she'd see him soon. "What is it?"

"What got into you?"

"What?"

"This is not like you."

"What's not?"

"This."

"What's this?"

"Not wanting to talk about Qu—"

"Quidditch."

"Yea."

"Well—"

"Well what?"

"I'm just not in the mood."

"Why?"

"Because."

"That's not an answer Katie."

"It is now Oliver."

"Katie this is annoying."

"What's annoying?"

"This."

"What's this?"

"Not talking to ea—"

"Each other."

"Yea."

"Oh. "

"Well"

"Well what?"

"Never mind."

"Ok." And with that Katie turned and walked away leaving Oliver looking after her blankly. She caught up to George, who wrapped his arm around her.

"What was that about Kate?" He asked her holding her close.

"I have no idea."

"What did he say?"

"Nothing really, he was just shocked that I was the one to call the meeting like that." She shrugged.

"Well we're happy you did." Fred said a few steps ahead of them, Ang and Ali nodded Harry even seemed to agree.

George and Katie let the rest of the team disappear into the great hall as they headed up to the common room, taking a seat on one of the larger chairs. Katie who had taken to curling up on Georges lap had done so again.

"Hey Katie your quite today." He whispered into her ear.

She just shrugged and used his shoulder as a pillow and shut her eyes. George had not really been sure what to say to his girlfriend, who just had not been herself sense she had been back. Her friends had no idea what to do, and Oliver had nearly stopped talking to Katie.

After 10 minutes Katie had drifted off to sleep, which as George well knew was about the only time the girl fell asleep. He was happy to help, but he really wanted his happy girlfriend back.

After that night Katie seemed to have realize that she had been rather selfish over the past weeks and needed to pay more attention to George, and what he needed, and stop thinking about her issues, which really were not as bad she felt they were. At least that is what she told herself.

After a Quidditch practice about a week before the next match Katie talked George into staying out and flying around a bit more. She had been working on a new idea, and wanted to go over it with him, which made him really happy that she went to him and not Wood.

After an hour Katie landed and George right after her. She turned to face him and ran up to him jumping in his arms, rather shocked and not sure what got into her he laughed and held her up. She kissed him, which shocked him more causing him to fall backwards onto the grass, she laughed, tickled him and thought that this was a great time and place to snog for a while. And that's what they did.

An hour latter Wood had come out of the locker room with his girlfriend, and both half naked, the couples did not notice each other until Oliver had slipped off his boxers and Katie and George heard Becca giggle rather loudly. Katie and George, shocked, grabbed there brooms and ran to hide, however when they finally got out of view George stopped her noticing that they left the quaffle out.

When Katie turned it was clear that Becca had lost all of her clothes and the two were about to become rather close, Katie who was disgusted with Wood, walked straight out onto the Pitch. She said nothing to them at all, just picked up the quaffle and throw it over Wood and Becca to land in place in the box, to even Katie's surprise it landed where it was meant too. Wood had turned around, fully and looked at Katie blankly.

"Well Wood I guess I know why you've changed so much." She looked him dead in the eyes. "And don't worry I wont let your parents know." She rolled her eyes. "Oh and Becca learn to work out."

With that Katie had turned to see a grinning George, who was trying very hard not to laugh. When Katie reached George he wrapped an arm around her and the two headed up to the castle, they took one look back to see Becca in tears, and Wood still looked shocked.

Well if that did not sell the fate on Katie and Wood's relationship what would? The very next day Wood saw a rather frisky Katie snogging her boyfriend in an empty hall and thought it would be funny to try and embarrass here by calling a few people to see them. Katie and George laughed and let Wood again stand there looking shocked and this time annoyed as well.

Practices for the most part went on normally, except for the fact that Katie and Oliver seemed to be a bit harsh with each other. Katie who always got things past Wood seemed to be more determined to get things past him, and Wood seemed more determined to not let anything past. Which to Wood's upset Katie got everything past him.

The last practice Harry had his fire bolt, and wow was it amazing to watch. Katie was amazed at how well it preformed, and Wood and her actually had something nice to say to each other, that was until Wood saw an angry Becca waiting for him. Katie was not very upset about it, and George laughed. Katie and George never told anyone what they saw, but they could not help but laugh about it.

The next day was the match, which was amazing, everything went well Katie, Ang, and Ali, who always worked well together worked better then they ever had. Nothing except them, they were almost golden in there non-stop scoring.

Everyone partied and it was a grand old time until McGonagall came out in her nightdress yelling at them all to go to bed.

The three girls who were all in extremely good moods went up to bed. Before they knew what was happening Ali, Ang, and Katie bounded downstairs to find there boyfriends huddled together. As Katie pushed to George she noticed he looked rather worried.

"Ron was almost attacked by Sirius Black, but he is ok, as you can tell from his girly screams." George said trying to sound as if he were joking, but it was clear he was really worried.

"Its ok." Katie muttered wrapping her arm around his taking his hand and leaning into him a bit, she was worried, scared, but she could not really make clear thoughts of it all.

It was a really stressful night, and although the twins acted as though nothing scary had happened and it was nothing to worry about Katie and Ang knew much better. Ang had gone back to bed before Katie had, she stayed with George and Fred trying to make sure they were alright, and slightly joking with them, which always worked with the twins.