Disclaimer: I wrote this when I was 12 to 13 in 2003. Harry Potter is hereby © to J.K. Rowling. Everything else is © to me, or its respective owners.

Chapter Eighteen: Hospital Wing, Bed Number Fourteen

Cho woke up in a brightly lit room, painted white. Realizing where she was, she moaned. She noticed that her friends were sitting around her, and she caught their attention. Harry was holding her hand and he looked up.

"Cho, how're feeling?" He asked.

"Better…but my head hurts…" Cho replied.

"Madam Pomfrey says you got a mild concussion…you hit the floor pretty hard."

"What happened? I just remember…"

Cho wailed again and burst into tears.

"Harry! I have to tell you something! It was awful, wretched! I can't believe it happened! Josh Davies! He used a Polyjuice Potion, or something, he pretended he was you, and after class ended, it was just like last August, and then Roger was there, and he wanted-" She began, but Harry had kissed her gently, and embraced her.

"Cho, it was just a nightmare. You fell asleep in class, and you just dreamt all that happened." Harry replied, as Cho cried into his shoulder.

"But, it was…so real…" Cho said in a muffled voice.

"It never happened, it was just a nightmare…it wasn't real…"

Cho felt comforted by his words, and she relaxed and fell into his soft embrace. They held each other for a little longer. Cho felt safe in Harry's arms. They released each other, and Madam Pomfrey came over, and shooed Harry, Ron, Tom, and Draco away and out the door.

"How's your head, dear?" the nurse asked.

"It's fine…" Cho replied.

"And your stomach? Mrs. Felton was kind enough to tell me about you…"

"It's fine too."

"Well, you may go. But when it happens, come here straight away."

"I will."

The girls left and joined the boys outside the door. They filled them in about the conversation, and then they proceeded to the Gryffindor common room.

They took seats by the hearth, and talked quietly amongst themselves. A girl of about sixteen with flaming red hair approached them.

"Hi…" Ginny said nervously.

"Hi."

"Did you happen to see the article in "Teen Witch" in the romance edition?" Ginny asked.

"Yes." Cho replied.

"What article?" The others asked.

"It was an article about Harry and I…and after reading it, it gave me a reason to create a list of people to kill…" Cho said.

"Could we see?"

Ginny took the magazine and put it on the right page, gave it to Hermione, then ran up to her dormitory. Harry, Hermione, Ron, Alyssia, Draco, Whitney, and Tom were reading the article, surrounding the armchair that Hermione was sitting in. They looked up from the magazine, all of them looking angry and surprised.

"I'm so going to kill Pansy Parkinson!" Alyssia and Whitney said angrily.

"We'll help fire this Maya Cornwall…" Tom and Draco added.

"And we'll get the editors of this magazine suspended." Ron and Hermione continued.

"Well, that leaves Harry and I to kick everyone's ass…" Cho finished sarcastically.

The group started laughing, and decided to turn in. They headed to their dormitories and went to sleep…

Cho woke up in the middle of the night. She glanced at a clock in the dormitory. It read '3:44 AM'. She had no idea why she had woken up so early. But her question was answered, as she felt a horrible pain in her abdomen. She got out of bed as quietly as she could, then put on a dressing gown. Her hand was on the doorknob when Hermione rushed over to her.

"Where are you going so late?" She asked.

"I don't know…" Cho replied.

Cho felt the pain again, and Hermione noticed it happened in a pattern. Her brown eyes widened, and her mouth formed a large 'o'. She hurriedly woke Alyssia and Whitney. The two girls woke groggily. Alyssia checked her wristwatch and groaned.

"Hermione! Look at the bloody time! It's nearly four in the morning!" Alyssia hissed.

"Quiet. Cho woke up in the middle of the night…I think it's time…" Hermione said, barely above a whisper.

Whitney nodded. She took Mercadez, scribbled a quick note, put on her dressing gown, went to the boys dormitory and returned. All the girls were ready to go. Quietly, they left the girls dormitory and descended the spiral staircase and went out the portrait hole and into the hallway.

It took them a while, but they reached the hospital wing, and knocked on the door. Madam Pomfrey appeared in the doorway looking flustered, holding a candle.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Madam Pomfrey, it's Cho…" Whitney began.

"You don't need to say anymore. Put her over in bed fourteen, by the window…I'll put a silencing charm on the ward, that way we won't wake anyone…Now each of you have an important job to do. Granger, get all the supplies, Mrs. Malfoy, you'll help me with one of the most important jobs. Mrs. Felton, you're going to have the most important job of all…you're going to walk Miss Chang through this, since you already know what to expect…" The nurse explained.

The girls nodded, Madam Pomfrey put a silencing charm on the room, rushed around getting things. Cho had been moved into the hospital bed, and the nurse approached her.

"She really doesn't look like she's even carrying a child…" Madam Pomfrey muttered.

"It's a charm…image charm…" Cho gasped.

"I see…now try not to talk too much, you're going to exhaust yourself more…"

Cho nodded. Madam Pomfrey cast the counter charm, then gave Cho a potion.

"Drink this. You're terribly low on energy. It'll make you sleep for a few hours. You need all the strength you can get…you won't feel any pain while you're sleeping…but once you wake, the potion's effects will cease instantly and the pain will return, but you'll have lots of energy…"

Cho nodded, then drank the contents of the bottle, and fell asleep instantly.

Harry woke at about seven in the morning. Ron was up, as well as Tom and Draco. Liam suddenly came in the dormitory.

"What's up?" Harry asked, putting his glasses on.

"Well, Hermione, Whitney, and Alyssia are gone. And it looks like Cho is too." Ron replied.

Tom stooped down and picked up a small infant off the floor. Mercadez.

"Whitney left Mercadez with me. She left me a note, but didn't say anything that could give us a clue as to what's happened." Tom said.

"So Liam, what's the word from Akira?" Draco asked.

"Aki, Angela, Alicia, and Alexa have been searching the whole girls dormitory for an hour, and they've found nothing." Liam replied.

Akira came running into the dormitory and right into Liam.

"Oops! Sorry Mez…" Akira apologized.

"It's fine really…so what's new?" Liam asked.

"Cho is definitely gone. But we probably aren't looking hard enough. We all have been working on empty stomachs…so how about breakfast?" Akira replied.

Everyone agreed, and headed down to breakfast, and ate quickly. Afterwards, they went to the grounds and started searching for the girls…

It was almost noon, and Akira left for an hour to search the castle, Tai had come by and the guys were eating an early picnic lunch. They were resting from their long search, and talking about places where the girls might be.

"They could be in the library…Hermione might've talked them all into some huge assignment…or got them to join S. P. E. W. or something…" Ron said.

"Not likely…Hermione gave up on the house elves ages ago." Harry replied.

"Maybe they're helping the teachers?" Liam wondered.

"No…that sounds more like Hermione…" Ron and Harry answered.

Just then Akira came rushing over, red splotches on her cheeks and severely out of breath.

"I found them!" Akira gasped.

"Where?!" They all asked.

"Hospital wing." Akira replied.

"WHAT?! Why?"

"I don't know! Wait…" Akira said, going into thought and ignoring the others. "August, September, October, November…" She suddenly gasped.

The others caught on and they scrambled to their feet and ran to the castle leaving Akira and Liam behind.