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"Oh, im so buggered!" Kat announced to Ellie.
"The feeling is neutral. I can't believe how hard James made training tonight." Ellie said. She and Kat were walking back from a three and a half hour training session, because they had a quidditch match on Saturday which was, as James so nicely put. Two days away, meaning twenty four hours, or one thousand four hundred and forty minutes away.
"Sometimes he can be such a slave driver!" Ellie added.
"Well, at least you don't have to wiz around the field every second. Being chaser really has some dreadful consequences." Kat argued.
"You know what; I can't be bothered to argue with you right now." Ellie stopped, she heard a noise, the continued, "Kat, there's someone around the corner."
"Oh, don't worry about it." Kat said, "It's probably just a teacher or something."
The two girls walked on, Kat was unfazed by the noise, but Ellie was slightly more anxious about walking through the corridors, especially at this time of night.
"James, sometimes you really frustrate me, you do know that right?" Sirius was complaining as they sat in the common room playing chess.
"Why so my dear fellow? Oh, and I believe I can take your queen, oh ha." James responded using a very annoying old English voice.
"You just do, I'm going to bed, see you in the morning!" Sirius said yawning.
"Right-on, old boy, good night." He responded, whilst having a right old laugh.
At that moment Kat and Ellie barged through the common room entrance, and stood flabbergasted.
"I don't believe it!" Ellie screamed.
"You leave after us, and you're here before us!" Kat yelled furiously.
"And then, to top it all off when we get here, after being scared shitless by some strange noise, you're playing chess, and Sirius is going to bed!" Ellie screamed so angrily, but Kat noticed something that was really unusual, Ellie's hair wasn't changing colour like it normally did.
Kat started too yell like Ellie, but halfway through she caught onto what Ellie had said. "Yeah! What, Ellie you were scared by that noise?"
James sat there, he was practically wetting himself out of fright, but by the time he actually got around to speaking he had his cool charm back.
"I'll never tell it's a Marauder secret." And with that he left to go up to his dormitory, leaving Kat and Ellie to scream profanities at the boys' dormitory stair well.
As Ellie and Kat walked through the girls dormitory hallway there were heads peeking out of doors all around them.
"Oh would you all get back to sleep!" Ellie shouted, and pulled out her wand, and cast a spell so that all of the doors slammed shut in there faces.
"So Ellie, why were you so scared back there? I mean it's kind of unlike you, you're normally so brave and courageous, like a Gryffindor should be; I thought you weren't afraid of anything." Kat asked.
"Oh, I must have just had a temporary lapse in judgment." Ellie said.
Kat definitely thought that something strange was going on, as Ellie wasn't acting herself, she was acting like Emma was acting a few days ago; she was acting like Emma was when she wasn't really Emma. So Kat decided to test this theory.
"So Ellie, did you get the streamers for Lily's surprise party yet?" Katherine asked.
"Oh sorry, I haven't managed to get them yet. I'll order them by owl tomorrow." Ellie said.
Kat whispered something under her breath, and pulled out her wand. Long thin ropes tied all around Ellie.
"What are you doing Kat?" Ellie asked in a frightened voice.
"Don't worry, im just going to go and get Lily and Emma, you wait here. Oh, I almost forgot. Kat flicked her wand again, and a sign came out that read, DO NOT, under any circumstances let me out of these ropes!
A few seconds later Kat returned to Ellie, accompanied by Emma and lily.
"So Kat, could you please explain to us exactly why we're awake?" Lily said whilst yawning.
"Yeah, I'm really, really tired." Emma said giving a humungous yawn.
"Well, our dear friend Ellie here forgot to by the streamers for your surprise party Lily!" Kat said very deviously.
"But my birthday isn't for four months." Lily said sounding very confused, but then she soon realized exactly what Kat was trying to say.
"You're not Ellie, where she you wacko!" Emma screamed, she was praying that Ellie wasn't locked up in a cupboard like she was.
"I'm Ellie! I am I am!" She screamed repeatedly.
'Ok then, what did you give me for my birthday?" Emma asked.
"I don't know." Fake Ellie said. She was defeated.
Kat and Lily picked Imposter Ellie up by the rim of her robes and dragged her out into the common room.
"Emma, go and get James, Sirius and Remus. Kat and I will deal with this one." Lily instructed Emma. Emma ran as fast as she could. Up the stairs, and straight to the boys dormitory.
"Help Sirius, James, and Remus. I need you NOW!" Emma screamed at there door.
"Oh so now you want us." Said Sirius jokingly.
"Stop it, it's Ellie, or should I say, well actually I don't know how to describe it." Emma said panting. Remus heard Ellie's name and he ran to the common room, shortly followed by the others.
They all arrived in the common room, to find that Lily was lying on the floor unconscious, the imposture was missing, but no one could see Kat.
"Lily, Lily!" James yelled, running to her side, shaking her awake.
"What happened?" He asked.
"I don't know, Kat and I heard a crack by the fire, and suddenly I was lying here. I remember people, in cloaks, and Kat tried to fend them off, but she couldn't, there was just far too many of them." Lily said beginning to get up.
"Where's Kat?" Emma asked, now coming over. "And where's Fake Ellie?" She added.
"Fake Ellie, is no longer just fake Ellie, I saw who it was, the potion was wearing off. It was Black." Everyone turned to look at Sirius.
"Not him, Bellatrix Black, Claudia's Twin!" Lily added.
"It is alright Lily; we should get you to the hospital wing." James said, he was only concentrating on Lily, her arm was bleeding, and she had a cut on her face.
"Hello, does anyone care that we can't find Kat! We should look around the room, maybe she was flung onto a wall or something." Sirius said.
Everyone started to search the room; it didn't take long before someone managed to spot the blood trail that was on one of the walls near a window.
"Shit!" James said.
"Double shit!" Remus added.
"I triple that Shit!" Sirius said, gulping at the sight he saw.
"Would you stop shitting, everything and actually see if it's her blood!" Emma yelled, and ran over to the wall.
Kat was lying on the floor, unconscious, blood dripping from her head, and her hair was draped over her face.
"Someone, run and get a teacher." Emma screamed, she was crying by now. James ran out of the door very quickly, and headed straight for McGonagall's quarters.
"Um, is she dead?" Remus asked bravely.
Sirius went over to her, bent down, and felt for a pulse. He tried to hide his emotions; he couldn't bear to let Emma and an injured Lily know that Kat hardly had a pulse.
"Sirius, tell me!" Emma said.
"Err; she's kind of got a pulse." He said, he wasn't lying, but he wasn't exactly being that truthful either.
At the moment, McGonagall ran in, closely followed by James.
"Oh dear Lord." She said. McGonagall levitated her; suddenly she and the others were in the hospital wing.
Madam Pomfrey came running towards them, she quickly healed Kat's Head wound, and the colour was now beginning to return to her face, although she still looked very weak. Madam Pomfrey laid her down on a bed, and covered her with a blanket, and wrapped her head in a bandage. James looked at lily, and saw that she was holding the wound on her arm a lot tighter. Madam Pomfrey saw this, and told her to relax on a bed, and to let go of her arm. She revealed a deep wound, caused by her fall. Madam Pomfrey healed her arm and the cut on her face, and told her that she will have to rest for a little while, as she had lost a lot of blood.
Emma turned to Sirius, two of her best friends were injured, and she didn't know what to do, she turned and looked at Kat. She was lying there; to Emma she looked almost dead, with her hair still draped over her face, and her eyes closed. Then Emma looked over to the bed where lily was laying. Lily wasn't as badly injured, but she still looked very fragile. Then it occurred to Emma.
"Professor. I think you should know what happened." Emma said, and then she went on to tell the professor about how she had been locked in a cupboard, then she told her about what had happened tonight, by the time she finished, she felt that she needed to have a lie down as well.
'So let me get this straight, you're telling me that Kat here was attacked, within this school, and that the Black's, except you Sirius, and some other people." McGonagall said.
Then she continued, "Do you have any evidence?"
"I don't know, there's probably some in the common room." James argued.
"Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about it. All I think is that you should all get some rest, and just enjoy the rest of your school year." McGonagall said, and left. But unbeknown to the others, she wasn't going back to her quarters; she was heading straight for Dumbledore's office.
Half and hour later, and well into the night, everyone had left, although not voluntarily. Madam Pomfrey had kicked them out.
Lily was finally asleep, and Kat was still unconscious, but they were no longer alone, the real Ellie had walked through the door, and collapsed at the feet of Madam Pomfrey's office.
"Oh my!" She whispered, and she gently lay Ellie down on a bead, and gave a sleeping potion. Madam Pomfrey then left to go and get Dumbledore. Soon after she returned with him.
"When did Miss Andrew's come in?" Dumbledore asked.
"About one. Should someone alert the friends and family of the three girls?" She replied.
"I decided not to worry them, better to let the girls do it." He added.
"I think we should both get some sleep, I agree."
The next morning everyone was in the hospital wing. They were all so excited that Ellie was ok, but Kat still hadn't woken up.
"So Ellie how do you feel?" Remus asked.
"Oh, I'm great; I can't wait to play quidditch tomorrow." Ellie replied.
"Listen, when I thought that you were hurt, like really badly, I felt my heart jump, I realized that life without you would hardly even be life at all. So Ellie, will you come to Hogsmeade with me next time, you don't have to, but I'd really like it if you did." Remus said he was really nervous; he didn't want her to say no.
Ellie didn't' say anything, instead she leant in for a kiss.
Sirius, James and Emma were watching from the other side of the room.
"The Lord must be shining down at us today, because everything is going great, well except Kat, she's still not awake." Sirius said. They were all watching her, praying that she would wake up soon.
"Oh Shit! If she doesn't wake up soon, who'll play quidditch tomorrow?" James added
"Stop worrying about your team, if she doesn't wake up then the match will be postponed. James, shouldn't you go and find Sam, because I don't think that he knows yet." Emma suggested. James nodded, went and kissed lily goodbye, and then left the room, to find Kat's boyfriend Sam.
When Sirius saw that James had gone, he pulled Emma into a bear hug, and whispered, "I don't know what I would do if you were in Kat's position, if that was you, and then I think I would die of pain, the pain of almost losing you." Emma looked up into his eyes and just hugged him tighter. "I swear I never want to let you go." Emma confessed.
"Don't worry; I will always be here for you."
James was quickly running up and down the corridor, then he came to the sudden realization that it was only eight o'clock in the morning, and that Sam would probably be at breakfast.
He entered the great hall, and saw that Sam was sitting with his brother Matt, and they were busily chatting away. James calmly approached them, but as he walked over Sam turned around and saw James walking towards him, with a solemn, but casual look on his face, this could only mean one of two things, Sam was in trouble, which he knew he wasn't or, it was Kat.
"James, what happened to her?" Sam asked whilst standing up out if his seat, he was getting ready to run to were ever she was.
"Last night Kat and Lily were attacked in our common room, lily's ok, but Kat still hasn't woken up, she got hurt pretty badly, Dumbledore thinks that there was at least a dozen of them, against just one of her." James said calmly.
"She is alive though; I mean she's not in a coma or anything." He asked.
"No, but I think you should come with me. You never know, you're voice might wake her up, mine woke up Lily." Sam nodded, and walked out of the great hall with James.
Back in the hospital wing Ellie was sitting on Lily's bed, and Sirius, and Remus were told to leave and go to class.
"Ellie, why do you think they targeted us? I mean it is not as if some seventh year Hogwarts students can really do anything that harmful." Lily said weakly, she had lost more blood than she had first thought.
"I think that it might actually be that we are so close to Dumbledore, and when the time comes, the other side wouldn't really want that, know would they?" Ellie said.
"I guess not, but what did Kat ever do to them, they could have just left her alone, like they did me, but no they had to try to finish her." Lily added, she had turned her head to look at Kat, she looked so lifeless.
"Kat's pureblood don't forget, to them she's like a traitor, she like Sirius, and James, and me were all traitors to the blood line."
Lily nodded in recognition, and then she signaled to Ellie to look at the door.
Sam had just entered, but he entered alone, as James had to go to class.
"Ellie, Lily. Are you two alright?" He asked out of politeness.
"Yeah were fine, were only in her for a day of observation." Ellie added.
"It's alright Sam; she's going to be ok." Lily said trying to comfort him.
"But she looks so blank, she just looks like she dying." Sam said sadly, Kat was the best thing that had ever happened to him, and it was fading away from him.
"Just talk to her Sam, comfort her, or shake her, just let her know that you're there." Ellie suggested.
"Alright, here I go."
"Kat, hey Kat, are you in there?" He said, and then he started to lightly shake her and whisper the words Kat.
Suddenly Lily saw one of Kat's ears move, which was like the thing she would do, to make people laugh.
Kat slowly began to open her eyes, and in a very soft voice she said, "Am I dreaming, because I swear I just heard God calling my name."
Sam's entire face seemed to break out into a huge smile, she was alive, and better still, she was definitely Kat.
A/N Hey, well I hope you like this chapter, it took me not that long actually. But I hope you enjoy.
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