Okay so I suck at posting. Don't tell me cuz I already know.

Sorry though...school is a motha and I hate it. rawr.

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Chapter 18: I once was lost...

Harry lay in his misery as the rain started to accumulate suddenly. There were pools of water all around him. He wished they would rise up and over him. To drown him. Just something to end his misery. Something to end this pain that consumed every fiber of his being. His glasses were of no help to him now. There were rain drops covering them. His hair was wet as if he had dunked it into a lake.

All of him was wet. He was soaked through and through. His skin was ice cold to the touch, had he been able to feel it. "I wish you were here mum..." he uttered to himself. "I wish you could be here right now...here to help me. To save me." He cried pitifully.

"I wish anyone was here to save me..." he said as the warm tears streaked his icy-cold face. He meant it literally. If Snape had been there to save him, he would've been happy.

Fred and George were not where others had time to look for them. They had to go find Harry now! "FREEEED! GEOOOOOOORRRRGE!" Mrs. Wealsey shrieked one last time before slamming the door to run outside in search of Harry with the others.

Hedwig had to slow up for them to be able to follow her. She wanted to give one incredulous flap of her wings and zoom off to her master. If she did, then they wouldn't be able to see her and they would get lost.

Ginny was doing well to keep up with the Hermione, but she had a bit of trouble keeping up with Ron who was a natural runner (due to all of the sneaking out they had done in their previous years.)

Mrs. Weasley however, being the weight she was and hadn't had too much exercise over the past years had a harder time keeping up. She always shouted at the others if she fell too far behind, but otherwise, she would just let them run ahead.

They all began to feel more and more anxious as Hedwig seemed to fly faster and faster. "Come on Hermione!" Ron shouted turning his head around. Little did he know that up ahead was a small rock, but big enough to do some damage.

Right as he was about to turn his head back around, his foot caught on the underside of the rock and fell down onto the muddy, wet ground, arms flailing in surprise. "Ron!" the two girls shrieked.

Mrs. Weasley had also seen her son fall and somehow got an energy boost and ran faster up to them.

Hedwig unknowingly flew on without noticing the others had stopped.

None of them cared about kneeling down in the rain and mud, Ron was clearly in pain by the way he was grasping his leg, clenching his teeth, and occasionally letting out small groans of pain.

"Ron, let go of your leg or we can't help you!" Hermione yelled over the sound of thunder and rain. "It hurts!" he yelled back angrily.

"Ronald Weasley let go of your leg or we'll leave you here and go find Harry!" Mrs. Weasley said getting the better of her youngest son.

Ron reluctantly let go and clenched his fists ever so tightly as Hermione tried to roll up his pant leg. "OW!" he shouted.

"What now?" she yelled over all of the noise. "YOU HIT MY LEG!" he boomed. "WELL STOP MOVING!" she said yanking his pant leg up over his knee.

"OOOOW! YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE!" he said grasping his head in pain.

"Well at least she doesn't have to pull it up any more!" Ginny yelled for her.

His leg had a thin, but long gash running vertical, but slanted down his right shin. He had small blood streams running down his leg.

Mrs. Weasley, having had some medical experience prior in her life was the only one who could figure out what was wrong. She knelt in the mud beside her son's leg and lifted it onto her lap. She wiped the blood off of his leg gently as she could with her sleeve. "I want you to tell me when it hurts!" Mrs. Weasley instructed her son.

Ron nodded in agony.

Mrs. Weasley had barely touched a spot beside the cut on his shin when Ron yelled loudly over the rain. "It must be broken..." she muttered frantically.

"WHAT?" Hermione and Ginny yelled to her.

"It must be broken..." she said barely above a normal voice, but they knew what she had said to them.

Hedwig came in sight of Harry and started to zoom downwards. She looked behind her and saw that the others were not there. She looked back and forth between Harry and where she thought the others had been. Should she fly back and get the others? Or stay there with Harry for a little bit?

She landed lightly on Harry's stomach and walked up his chest to his neck almost. She cooed to him questioningly.

"Go...go get the others...I'll...I'll be fine..." he said to his faithful pet. "Go on and get them!" he said pushing her up into the air.

Hedwig nodded reassuringly and zoomed off to find the others.

"Do either off you have your wand?" Mrs. Weasley inquired from the two girls.

"No!" Ginny shouted. "What about you Hermione?" Mrs. Weasley looked pleadingly at her. "Hold on!" she called searching around for it in her jacket. "Aha!" she said pulling it magnificently out of her inside jacket pocket.

"Hold on!" Hermione called muttering some spell.

Being the clever witch that she was, she conjured up a large bubble shield around them to protect them from the rain.

She handed her wand over to Mrs. Weasley who conjured up a brace for her son.

"Brace yourself Ronald!" Mrs. Weasley called out to her son.

A few minutes later, Ron was thoroughly tired out from screaming and they were all soaking wet and freezing. Luckily, a white bird came out from the treetops and down to the others.

She saw Ron's condition and knew that she would have to practically walk in front of them to let the others keep up with her.

They got Ron standing and they started off again, in the search for Harry.

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