Chapter 13

A week had passed since Charlie had left. Cate had managed fine, even if she had no idea what to do. She didn't even know how Charlie had found out she was pregnant in the first place.

On Saturday morning, the young woman woke horrible sick, but not just from the regular morning sickness. This resulted in her having to take a trip in, to Hogsmaede as Madam Pomphrey was gone herself.

The trip went fine there, and the return was perfect until the moment she reached the Hogwarts gates. The sky slowly became cloudy and dark, even though it was only noon, soon, rain began to pour down.

"You have got to be kidding me." She groaned, pulling her cloak over her head, coughing slightly. When the castle grew closer, a strong wind blew across the grounds, blowing the lights dim, as the light was re illuminated, the door to the school stood open.

Catherine shrugged it off, she just wanted to be inside, dry, and get some sleep. The twenty-one -year-old walked up the stairs into the shelter of the black entrance hall, just as her hand touched the door handle to the Great Hall, a voice shouted out an incantation.

"CRUCIO!" The shrill voice called, hitting Cate with the unforgivable curse. The young woman dropped to the ground in pain, not having time to grab her wand, she was utterly defenseless. Her stomach was tied in knots, she felt like she was going to vomit again, like someone was stabbing her repetitively. Suddenly, it all stopped.

Cate looked slowly up and around, and saw no one, all the lights were back on, above her, she heard footsteps running over. They stopped suddenly as the person fell to their knees.

"Catherine!" Professor McGonagall gasped, "Are you all right?" Cate attempted to sit up, but she couldn't, neither could she speak.

"Tonks! Get Amelia! We need to transfer Cate to St. Mungo's!" Those were the last words Catherine heard before she fell unconscious.

When she awoke, Catherine's eyes searched around the room, it was a badly painted yellow room. As her vision glided around the room and came into focus, it stopped on Mrs. Weasley, who sat in the bedside chair.

"Cate!" She jumped, "You're awake! Thank God." Her eyes seemed to be shining with light tears"

"What...how long."

"Nearly a month dear."

"What?" She slowly sat up.

"You were hit hard with the Cruciatus Curse. Not only did the normal effects of pain occur, but you're unborn child was killed. Minerva said she saw you fall, and the black out, she thought you had died for sure. Luckily enough, you weren't, and got the proper treatment here in time."

"Do they know who did it?"

"No. However, they're positive it was someone who was against you, and the child."

"Oh."

"It's been all over the papers. We managed to collect all the articles."

"What about Charlie?" Cate managed to whisper out.

"Oh my...we heard about that through Tonks. The papers revealed the truth about the child, and we sent them to him."

"You know where he is?"

"Well...we attempted to send them."

"Oh..." Catherine paused to think about what else would be new to her or Mrs Weasley, "Severus..."

"What about him?"

"He's evil. He has been the entire time, he encouraged Draco to do it."

"He was put into Azkaban last week."

" Oh...okay." She fell silent.

"It's been rough recently eh?" Molly rubbed her shoulder gently.

"Yeah."

"At least there isn't a child to worry about anymore."

"Yeah." Cate sighed, "I'll be glad when I get back to Hogwarts, it'll keep my mind of things."