Author's Notes: Laura does something that no one, even her friends, would believe she would do. I also make this chapter a songfic chapter because the song I picked for this chapter matches how Laura is feeling now.

Disclaimers: I don't own "Untitled," it's by Simple Plan, and yes that's the name of the song.

Chapter 12: Laura runs away

Laura was cowering in her invisibility cloak, lightly weeping for what she did to her mother. She should been in Azkaban for what she did, but everyone expect herself knew she as forced to cast one of the unforgivable curses on her. She could remember the anger and the hate she had in her mind and the words and her mother's screams.

I open my eyes
I try to see but I'm blinded by the white light
I can't remember how
I can't remember why
I'm lying here tonight

Laura missed out a three days of classes and she never came down for any food. The House Elves and some of the students would bring her some food but it would remain untouched. Laura felt like she didn't deserve to be witch, and even around her mother when she finally woke up…if she ever will. Laura took her backpack, and packs some of her muggle clothes, a blanket, and some dried jerky and fruit Falco gave her before she left for England.

And I can't stand the pain
And I can't make it go away
No I can't stand the pain

She wrote a quick letter with a few tears dropping on the letter. Laura addressed the letter 'To my dear friends' and laid both the letter and her wand on Hermione's bed. She took her invisibility cloak over her and disappeared from Gryffindor Tower before anyone came back from dinner.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione were worried about Laura when they came back from dinner, and brought her up some food and a glass of pumpkin juice. "Laura, are you okay?" Hermione said as she came in the girls' dormitory, but she didn't hear Laura crying, in fact it was silent.

Hermione came out when Harry checked the Marauders' Map. "She's no where in the school…" Harry said checking all part of the map thinking Laura went down to the hospital wing but she wasn't there or anywhere on the map. Then Hermione went back into the dormitory and found a letter with Laura's wand on top of it lying on her bed. Hermione brought it out to show Harry and Ron. "She won't…" Hermione open the letter and then reads it:

How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
Got nowhere to run
The night goes on

I can no longer study magic, by the time you read this, I will be long gone. I can't live with my mother with her looking at me in shame because of what I've done to her. I'm now a toy to Voldemort, and if a stay around with my wand by my side I'm nothing but a weapon against my friend and family. I'm sorry, Drake, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but I can't fight anymore.

Laura.

As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

The tear drops that made the ink run knowing Laura was upset about writing this, but neither of three would believe she would think that of herself. She's not a weapon, and they knew Laura could fight back, if she would listen to reason anymore. They looked out the window and the snow started to fall harder as the foot prints were now covered up from the new snow.

Zack heard the news about Karen from Falco, and he couldn't believe Laura would do that to her mother. Drake sent him a letter telling him about Laura refusing to go to class and coming down for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Zack was trying to figure out everything that happened when a white owl flew into his cave with a letter on her leg. Zack took the letter and the owl quickly flew off. Zack reads the letter quickly with three words written on it "Laura Ran Away!"

Zack quickly changed into the mountain lion and ran out of the warmth his cave to find the trouble teenager as he run full speed in to the forest.

Laura walks through the forest, she could hear the whispers again, and she lost her voice from the cold in the air. She could see her breathes as she continued going deep in the forest. She couldn't change into the white lion because Zack knew her animagus form and she knew he was looking for her now if Falco or Drake sent a letter to him.

Everybody's screaming
I try to make a sound but no one hears me
I'm slipping off the edge
I'm hanging by a thread
I wanna start this over again

Laura felt the cold wind began to pick up and the snow became heavier and hard for her to walk through, then she tripped and fell into the soft snow cover ground. She couldn't move anymore, she shivered lightly and tried to get herself up but it was no use.

So I try to hold onto a time when nothing mattered
And I can't explain what happened
And I can't erase the things that I've done
No I can't

Her vision became blurred as she slowly subsume to the cold air and the snow as she began to get covered by the falling snow. She didn't care anymore, at least she was far away from her friend and family, and they would never get hurt by her… again.

How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
Got nowhere to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

The snow continues to fall heavily upon Laura's body as she shivered one last time. What's the use, I'm better off dead, then I won't hurt anyone ever again, she thought to herself use she closed her eye and her world was engulfed by darkness.

I've made my mistakes
Got nowhere to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

Two hours passed since he got the message, Grayclaw follow her scent the best he could hoping she found a cave to hide in from the weather. The mountain lion shivered lightly, thinking of the warmth of his cave, "Great, why didn't she pick spring to run away…" he growled softly as he sniffed the ground for her scent again. He found a cave and looked in it quick but saw no signs of her. He moved out cave, his first task was to find her, then try to been her back to Hogwarts.

He catches her scent again, but this time it was stronger, the mountain walk slowly, following her scent till he saw a lump in the snow. Grayclaw growled lightly, "Please be ok, kid," as he uncovered the snow from the frozen teenager gently with his paws. He garb Laura by the collar of her shirt with his teeth and threw her on his back. "She needs to get warmed up first…" he growled to himself as he took her back to the cave he found a few minute before he found her.

He went deep into the cave and gently allowed Laura to slide off his back. He changed back into his human form and built a fire to warm up the cave. He took off his robe and rolled it up for a make shift pillow as he places it under Laura's head. He looked in her backpack she was carry and found her blanket and quickly covered her in it. He gently places his fingers on her neck and checked her pulse. "Thank god, it's recovering." He said as he felt herpulse speeding up again. Her breathing wasn't steady but he knew she would be better by morning as he gently rubbed her forehead. He changed back into his animagus and lies down beside her. He wasn't going to leave her alone, and he was willing to protect her from anything in the cold night.

The panther roared into the forest calling for his lost friend, a tiger and the wolf watched calmly at the worried panther. "Drake, calm down," The wolf barked at the panther that leaped down in the snow with his eyes glaring at the wolf. "Ron, I've told you it's Shadowclaw, and how can I!" The panther growled at him that was when the tiger jumped in front of them.

"Shadowclaw, don't even think about." The tiger growled back at the panther that then leaped back in the trees when Falco and an owl landed in the next tree. "Anything?" The panther asked in a growl but both birds shook their head. "I'm sorry, Drake, we couldn't find her." The owl hooted but the panther growled at the owl.

"Don't use my real name, it's Shadowclaw!" The panther roared at the owl then the falcon pecked at the panther's skull. "Enough, these guys didn't know your animagus form's name, Shadowclaw, Just calm down!" Falco squawked at the panther who was upset enough. The panther took a deep breath and sighed heavily, "Harry, Ron, Hermione, I'm sorry, it's just I'm worried about her."

"We all are, Shadowclaw, and we'll find her don't worry." Falco said gently and the trio nodded their heads. "And you three need to think of names for yourselves, you never know who can hear you in your animagus form." Hermione flapped her wings lightly, her form was like Harry's owl, Hedwig expect for her eyes. Hermione couldn't think about till she looked at the ground. "Snow will be my." She hooted

"Just call me Bane." The wolf barked and the Falcon nodded his head

The tiger couldn't think of a name for himself, and then a name popped into his head, "Talon." The panther nodded his head lightly and he jumped down from the tree.

"We should head back to the castle." Shadowclaw said in defeat, "Grayclaw will continue to look in the forest for her." The owl flew down on the wolf's shoulders and the four animaguses disappeared into the school before the dawn's light pecked over the horizon.

Laura was stiff from sleeping on the cold ground when she woke up, the light enter to halfway inside as she slowly got up. "How did i get here?" She whispers lightly as she looked at the entrance of the cave. The snow fall was still continuing when she grab her stuff. Then a mountain lion stood in front of her and the exit as she tries to head out, "Please, move aside, Grayclaw, I don't deserve to learn magic." Laura said in shame.

The mountain lion changed into Zack and he looked at her with a worried looked on his face, "Laura, you can't run forever." The trouble teenager sat down on a boulder in the cave and was now crying, "I hurt my mom, Zack. I can't go back and face her." Laura wept.

Zack sighed, "And you're going to take a lesson from me, huh, run and hide rather then try to face her and tell her the truth." Laura looked up at Zack with tear running down her face. He knew she was scared, she was afraid of what her mother would do to her. Zack sighed then he realize he too was running in fear of Karen's wrath, and he knew now was the time to face it. Zack smiled down at Laura, "Laura, we both need to stop running, soon or later we both need to face her."

Laura looked down to the ground, Zack kneeled down and Laura hugged him lightly, "We'll face Karen together, Laura, it's time I face her too." Zack said hugging her back. Laura nodded her head and Zack took a step back and changed into Grayclaw. Laura gently got on his back and he started walking out of the cave where five hooded strangers with white masks over their faces stood in front of them.

"Hand over the girl." One of them demanded, Grayclaw growled and Laura was defenseless without her wand. Grayclaw roared as the first spell was cast at them. He leaped out of the way but Laura fell off. Grayclaw roared at Laura, and she ran off in the woods while Grayclaw fought the four of the five Death eaters. The fifth death eater chased after her knowing she couldn't run far.

Laura quickly hid behind the tree breathing slowly, she couldn't keep this up, then she heard Grayclaw roars silenced, and she heard foot steps coming towards her. "Grayclaw?" Laura said in a shaken voice but when she looked from behind the tree a death eater stood in front of her.

"Time to stop running, girl," The death eater mocking said with his wand aimed at her. Then a spell hit her from behind and she couldn't move as she fell to the ground and another was cast to prevent her from calling for help and the death eater in front of her said "crunio," and she couldn't scream as the pain from the curse surge through her body and she fainted after third Cruciatus Curse. Soon the five death eaters disappeared with Laura who they knew wouldn't fight back.

End notes: Yes, cliffhangers are fun aren't they? You don't know what happen to Zack/Grayclaw, you don't know if Karen is still alive, and you now want to know what Voldemort going to do to Laura? The fate of Karen and Zack will be reveal next chapter and the beginning of a rescue mission will be setup by Falco and Drake. Stay tune.