Notes: Again this is JKR's world.

I want to thank all of the reviewers.. Means loads to me that you like the story!

bri007: You did not hurt me in anyway, what you said is true, I really do need to work on grammar… But you seem to like the idea of the story, which means LOADS to me! We all have things to work on, and grammar is just one of my many 

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Iluvtodance: Hmmm seems to be a theme that I need to work on spelling and grammar… I am working on it, and going through the chapters a bit more… And your right it is the small stuff that really makes something great. I tend to beat myself up about it… But I also figure it is better to take the chance and post the story than hide from my faults (and you did not insult me at all.. the fact that you want more makes me smile (loads))!

Evelas: Hehe…. I have been on the edge of Katie and George or Katie and Oliver for a while now…. So this story branch of this story is about me figuring it out (I actually have most this story done and have started writing about Katie's 5th year… yea I'm a nerd)

Chapter 9

The next Hogsmeade weekend came on Feb. 12th. Which was so close to Valentines Day that most girls had become giddy. Ang and Katie seemed to be the only ones who did not care.

"Hey Katie you coming?" George asked her on Feb. 12th. Katie had not worn anything special like Ali had (she had thought dress robes were a must), and she was happy to see that George looked the same as well.

"Yea I am." She smiled taking his hand.

"Good." He smiled at her. It was crazy how happy this couple seemed to be.

Ang and Fred had vanished somewhere along the walk, and Ali and Lee had long been gone on there love celebration, as Katie called it just to annoy Ali.

George and Katie were walking hand in hand when George all at once pulled her a different direction, it was towards to lake, and not to Hogsmeade, which was fine with Katie, she could really care less at this point.

"You alright?" He asked her.

"Yea… you?" She asked a bit confused.

"Yea, just figured that you know with everything you should get something nice." He said as they walked up to a blanket with a picnic basket and butter bears. There was a dozen roses, a candle, and much to Katie's shock another little box that seemed to come from the same place that her necklace had come from. (Which she never took off). It was amazing, although there still was snow on the ground somehow she just assumed that there would charms on the blanket.

"What got into you? Ali?" She asked looking rather shocked.

George laughed and picked her up and placed her on the blanket, just than Katie saw that a few of the flowers were able to spray snow, and Katie being Katie thought it would be fun to attack George with them before he got her. After getting him right in the face, he laughed and the two chased each other around spraying snow at each other laughing.

Finally after a few moments they fell on the blanket together laugh. George had wrapped his arms around her, and Katie used him as a pillow laying on her side. The couple stayed like this for at least an hour before George's tummy started to growl, which caused Katie to go into a fit of giggles.

"Hey not fair." He said as she grabbed a piece of fruit out of his hands and bit into it.

"I think it is." She laughed, and as she was about to take another bit he stole it from her. "Hey!"

"What?" He said acting like nothing had happened.

"Oh is that how it is?" She had a rather large grin on her face as she jumped up and grabbed the apple from him and took another bite.

"I guess so." He laughed jumping up to catch her, when he did he took a bite of the apple and than the two tripped over a twig. Not a blanch, or a root, but a small little twig. Rolling down the hill they stopping right before they hit the water and the two were lost in a fit of laughter.

Had someone seen them they would have had a hard time not laughing at the two who were covered in snow and unable to stop laughing. Finally able to stand up George took her hand leading her to where the blanket had been. Taking a seat George pulled her down into his lap, and again the two broke into a fit of laughter.

"What the hell is so funny?" A very annoyed voice came. Katie and George stopped laughing at once.

"Ah Wood." George said looking at him blankly. "Just ourselves actually."

"Yup, just laughing at ourselves Oliver." Katie said as she noticed George holding her a little tighter, and she can't say she minded.

"Fine." He muttered and started to turn around, but to Katie and George's surprise he did not and looked at Katie. "This is all your fault you know? Your selfish, your beautiful so you get away with it, and your too damn clever for your own damn good. And by the way Gavin and Samantha are going to get married with or without you, but Gavin still does not want you back in his house, in fact he has never been happier with all your stuff out of the place. As for my parents you must have a done good number on them to get them to like you so much." He spat at her feet and turned and walked away.

"Bloody hell Wood what is your problem you—" George had started.

"Shh… Its ok George. I'm going to go give him a piece of my mind. And make sure you don't eat all the fruit I don't want to have to fight you for the last piece or anything." She smile brightly and kissed him for a moment before jumping up and following Wood.

"Hey WOOD" She yelled even though she was a few steps behind him.

"What?" He turned looking down at her, and all he could think about is how pretty she was when she was fiery like this.

"What the bloody is your problem? If you had really started to dislike me that much you could have just asked me too move out, and trust me I would have. I do not want to live with you if your going to treat me like this. I did nothing, nothing wrong. Your girlfriend hates me and I can't do a lot about that… As for you, you overgrown, egotistical troll! You seriously have something you want to say too me but you'll never have the guts too. So if you don't mind I'm going to go sit with my boyfriend, who is by far the better of the two of you." She glared at him, she was about to turn around. "Oh I forgot this." She said and with that she punched him again, this time on the right side. "Don't bother talking to me Wood." With that she jogged back to a smiling George.

"Remind me not to make you mad ok?" George said as he started to tease her with some grapes.

The two fell into fits of laughter almost the whole day sitting outside on a heated blanket. At sunset they just sat watching it before George thought trying to be romantic would be a good idea, he kissed her before giving her, her gift. As she opened she saw that it was earrings to match her necklace. She could not have been happier with him, and when she kissed him in thank you it was a very powerful kiss.

"Had we been standing I think I would have fallen over." George said with a smile as they parted.

Katie merely blushed and looked in his eyes.

"Katie don't look at me like that." He smiled brushing his hand across her check.

"Look at you like what?" She asked him rather confused, and it showed on her face.

"Like… like…. Never mind." He smiled looking into her eyes, and if Katie was mistaken she could see the possibility of love in them, and it clicked.

"Ok." She muttered. "But I'm not sure I can help it." She blushed even more., and they both laughed.

"Come on, we can't have one of our chasers catch a cold." He smiled and they gathered up the stuff and headed up to the castle, as they walked into the castle laughing they both froze when they heard.

"Katie Bell." It was Professor Dumbledore. "I think we need to talk." Katie who was terrified that he was mad, was a bit relived to see him smile a little.

"Ok…" She looked to George. "I'll see you later."

"Miss. Bell you should at least kiss your boyfriend before we head off. I'll turn around." This had to have been the most embarrassing moment for Katie and George, who she did kiss, smiled, kissed again.

"I'll still see you later." She smiled as her boyfriend walked away bright red.

"That's better, now come with me." He said leading here towards his office. "Fizzy Busy" he muttered as the staircase opened up. Katie fallowed him still rather nervous, she also played with necklace a bit trying to calm herself down. "Now do you know why you are up here?"

"For punching Oliver." She said rather calmly, which even surprise her.

"Well that is part of the reason." He still smiled at her. "And if I might say you are quite the strong lady. However your are not suppose to attack fellow students whether it be with spells or with fists."

"Yes sir I know." She now thought she was going to be in trouble.

"Don't worry about it, from what I understand he deserved the punch. As for you and Mr. Wood's dislike for each other I am worried." He peered over his half moon glasses studying the girl. "I understand that you were kicked out of your brothers house and are living with the Woods." Katie nodded. "And your brother is to marry Oliver Woods girlfriends older sister." Katie nodded again. "Well that puts you in a rather hard place. Now I would like to see you and Oliver get along. I know you two care about each other a lot more that you are willing to see."

"Excuse me sir? That I am not willing to see?" She asked.

"Yes Katie." He smiled. "I've brought you up here to try and help you move past the hardships and move to where you can except a few things. For one Oliver Wood will always play a major part in your life. As you will play in his. Secondly the two of you have amazing talent when it comes to Quidditch, you see things that others do not. And at times I wonder if you don't see more than he does." He gave her a rather bright smile at that. "But Katie," he took a serious tone, "I want you and Oliver to work on mending your bond, it is too important for survival to not have."

"Survival sir?" Katie asked him.

"Bonds of all different types are formed, what you and George Weasley have is a strong bond, but what you and Oliver Wood have is something that will last a life time on many different levels, that is if you both can get over your pride to except each other, no matter what either of you choice." He again smiled. "Love is something that needs to be held onto and kept, and you two might not see it, but you two love each other on levels that most never dare too dream about. Now Katie, have a lemon drop and go talk to Wood, he is at the moment in the hospital room with a rather bruised face." He smiled and pushed a tin with lemon drops in them. Katie took one and popped in her mouth.

"Sour." She answered, and nodded as she got up. "Thank you sir." She smiled as she left the office. Following what she promised she would do, she walked to the hospital wing. When she walked in she saw a rather cranky looking Wood. She walked over and sat on the edge of his bed.

"What do you want Katie, to punch me again?" He asked not looking at her.

"No." She said and instead curled up and lay down next to him wrapping an arm around him.

He was shocked, a bit annoyed, but he felt comfort from her being there.

"I came to talk to you." She said. "Oliver I can't lose you, no matter what."

"Katie—"

"Will you just let me finish." She snapped, and he nodded. "Oliver, I might be falling for George, but you're my best mate, the one person that I don't think I could live without, which makes me think that you feel the same way. We can't live without each other."

To Katie's surprise he started to cry. Katie looked up at him and moved a bit so she could give him a bit of a more normal hug, he wrapped his arms around her and cried into her shoulder. After he cried for a good 10 minutes he calmed down, still unable to speak, but very attached to her all the same. About 20 minutes after that Katie was shooed out. She held Wood's hand for a moment before she got yelled at again. As she made her way back to the Gryffindor common room she ran into Ali and Lee who were walking back.

"Katie!" Ali called seeing her friend. "Where were you and George today?"

"By the lake." Katie answered in a rather dry tone.

"Did you two break up or something?" Lee asked.

"Of course not." Katie looked at him. "I punched Wood again."

"Katie!" Ali looked shocked at her. "Are you two ok?"

"I don't know."

"What do you mean?"

"I think we have a lot to work out."

"Oh. Well Lee and I had the most amazing date." Ali latched onto Katie's arm and told her the entire date by the time they got into the common room. Lee had been smiling like an idiot who won a prize the whole time.

"Katie there you are what happened?" George jumped up and ran up to her.

"Come on." She said she'd see Lee and Ali later and dragged George to a bit of a secluded part of the common room and told him everything that happened, which too her surprise he took better than she thought he would.

"Are you ok?" He asked her looking worried at her.

"Yea…. Are you?" She asked him rather confused.

"Katie you just told me the truth about what happened of course I am ok with it." He smiled and picked her up placing her on his lap. "Anyway last I looked you were my girlfriend." He gave a rather cheesy grin, which made Katie laugh and kiss him.

"Yea I guess your right!"

"KATIE BELL!" A very angry voice rang out through the common room, from one very angry girlfriend whose boyfriend happened too be sitting the hospital wing because of her.

"Yea Becca." She said getting up and walking into the center of the common room to face her. Katie who stood at 5'2 and Becca who was at 5'8 stood about 3 feet away from each other.

"You slimy, dirty, annoying little girl."

"That's a really bad thing to call someone Becca, to bad its you saying them, has no effect on me."

"Your brother is so happy to have you out of that house its unbelievable. My sister turned your room into mine, so now your officially never moving back in there. No one wants something like you."

"Last I looked I was living with the Wood's"

"And they will kick you out too once they see what type of person you are." Becca kept glaring at Katie who was looking at her rather calmly. "And you're an awful chaser. Everyone on the team hates you."

"Sure they do Becca." She could not help but laugh, for just than Ang, Ali, Fred and George got up and stood next too her.

"Well Oliver will hate you forever you know."

"No he won't."

"You little –" and she went on to call Katie some pretty bad things.

"Is that all you have Becca, poor insults?" Katie asked.

Becca stormed up to her and went for a punch Katie ducked and instead swiped a kick at her knees causing her to fall down. Becca started to cry, and most the common room, which had gone rather quite, started to clap. Katie turned around grabbed George and went back too sitting on his lap, she picked up some of her work and started to do it.