Chapter 9 I Spy, I Cook.

Carina moved to her room and rummaged in her closet changing from the hospital gown to a pair of black pants with white pen strips then reached for a black shirt. But what she was really looking for was absent. She had to find it, she felt the chain hanging from her neck but she had to find her cloak. She moved to her guest room that used to be his, and with a deep breathe she pushed herself to go in. She went the closet and opened it and found it empty. She sighed and then called out "Soot!"

With a 'pop' he was there. "Oh Miss! Soot so scared for Miss!"

"Soot! I'm so happy to see you!" She ran to the house elf and hugged him tight.

"Soot has missed his Miss!" The house elf said happily. "Let Soot do something for Miss, please!"

"Alright, can you tell me where my black cloak is?" She asked the elf sitting on the floor down at his level.

"Yes, those pesky elves at Hogwarts is cleaning it, and they not give it to Soot, even when Soots tells them too." The house elf crossed his arms over his small frame.

"Well, Soot tell them it is Masters orders, and they have to give it to you now."

"Yes Miss!" The house elf was gone with a 'pop'.

Carina moved to her room and put on her usual black boots with the small heel. She turned when the 'pop' sound announced that Soot was there again. He moved to her and handed her the cloak.

"Anything else Miss needs?" he asked.

"Yes, is Remus here?" she asked in return.

"No, Mister Remus is staying at The Burrow." he answered.

"Oh, well I guess I'll have to head over there then." She bent and kissed Soots forehead with a goodbye.

Then she was gone again, and stumbling out into the common room of The Burrow. She had landed on her knee and hissed silently, she wasn't as strong as she was before being hit with that God awful curse. Then again she had left the hospital before she was supposed to, she decided that since that was the case she would just have to fake it and act tough! She stood and held her shoulders back in a strong stance then moved silently across the room.

"Who'se there!"

Carina jumped about a foot in the air. So much for faking it and acting tough, she sighed and turned to see Moody sitting in a dark corner, the only way she even saw him was the small blaze his pipe gave off.

"It's Carina Dumbledore, nice to see you Moody."

"Don't give me that, Carina Dumbledore is recovering in the hospital. Now you have to give me proof." He snapped back.

"Oh can it, you old coot. I have big information from Severus, and don't you dare role your eyes at his name!"

"Well fine, now I'm convinced it's you, no one else could be that tarty to me. It's almost as if you aren't even afraid of me."

"The list of people who scare me is a very small list and I assure you, I hadn't even considered adding you to it." she huffed at him.

"See, tarty." he snapped back.

"Goodness, you and my mother both." she sighed and then began again. "I believe there is a spy at Hogwarts. One of the new staff. I believe it's the same man who cursed me." She sat on a chair opposite him.

"Yes, we thought as much. Kingsley and I have considered it as good as done when we lost the fat lump of a coward, Slughorn."

"Yes, there was no way Horace would have stayed at Hogwarts. Not without my father." Carina sighed.

"We will have to station a few Order members at the school then. You should stay away from them." Moody proclaimed.

"Well thats dumb." Carina snapped back. "I'm empathic, you need me to tell which is the snoop."

"Empathic? Like your father, eh?" For once Moody seemed glad to know her.

"Yes, and he trained me in using my abbilities."

"I would figure he would have." Moody said as he wondered over the facts. "Yes you shouldn't cut yourself off from them completely but never be alone with any new staff, understand?"

"Yes sir."

"Now then shouldn't you still be in the hospital."

"No, I'm fine. I'm going to go start breakfast." she said as she noticed the first touches of light filling the dark sky.

She was in the middle of flipping the bacon when she heard a noise behind her, she turned to see a stunned Mrs.Weasley behind her.

"Whats all this now?" Asked the shocked lady.

"I was up, so I thought it'd be better to not waste time, so I decided to cook for everyone. I hope you don't mind."

"No, I'm just shocked, no one else ever helps like this, not without being asked or told. May I be any help?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she saw Carina drop two eggs into the same skillet with the bacon.

"Huh?" Carina inquired at the look on Mrs.Weasleys face.

"You put the eggs in with the bacon!" Molly cried.

"Yes, I know it always taste better that way. Here have a bite." She handed Molly a loaded fork.

"Well, blow me over, it is better! I thought you'de messed up! Where did you learn to cook?"

"I'll tell you, if you promise to keep my secrets." Carina asked her with a small smile.

Now Molly was a gossip, she knew she was one, but when she promised something she held true to her word. "Yes I promise."

"Well then, first let me tell you that I've practically lived alone since I was 14 almost 15 with a house elf. But I hated having to depend on someone for food. If something were to happen I'de starve. Soot taught me the basics and when I turned 16 I began to plan meals. I would even go and shop for my supplies. Well one day I was shopping and I smelt the most wonderful smell, I followed it to little tent, and outside over a flame a old Hag was cooking. Well I began to go by and talk to her and we became fast friends. She taught me all sorts of wonderful recipes, encluding this one. She died though when I was just 18. It was very sad."

"Are you talking about the old hag down by Slugs and Jitter Apothecary?"

Carina nodded and knew that the speech was coming.

"Don't you know that she has a highly disreputable past! She used to get in trouble all the time for charming muggle cookware. She's been an outcast for years! What were you doing talking to someone like that!" Molly scolded.

Carina smiled at the lady, she was such a mama bear! "Molly do you know who I'm in love with?" she asked with a smile knowing full well that Molly would have heard and passed around many rumors.

"Well, I have heard tale that you are in love with a certain ex-Death Eater, but I thought it was Remus." she pushed a bit with the Remus, as if she hoped that she was right and the rumors wrong.

"The rumors are true, I have such respect for him and such an endearment to him for who he is. Even though half the Order despises him because of his convictions. Well his convictions are apart of my love for him, had he not had these convictions he wouldn't have my heart. If he had the convictions and ignored them then I would have changed my view of him, but he had convictions and felt so strongly for his convictions that he risks his life for them. He knows his past was dark and wrong, but he changed! He felt convicted of his wrongness, the same that I do for my own sins. Many people in the Order are 'spotless' but their convictions are weaker then his because of it, they wouldn't be willing to die for it the way he is." She paused and flipped the bacon and smiling kindly to Molly she continued "I am who I am, I'm unaffected by what others think, and yet I'm completely affected by what I think. I can't shun a person just because others shun them."

They continued the job of cooking and they talked more on lighter subjects, but Molly now had a respect for Carina that she hadn't before, and she had a new respect for Severus Snape as well.

A/n This is just a short chapter for you guys, because I have sucked lately and you guys have really rocked. So here I'll try to get a new chapter up tomorrow too, but if I can;t then please don't hate me too much.

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