After a few minutes Kate found herself standing in front of an old building. The word 'Library' was written in bold, black letters at the top of the building and I slip inside. I come and sit on the chair behind the desk and saw that it was ten a.m., she was right on time.
"Hi, Katherine, nice to see you're on time". Kate almost jumps as she hear Draco speaking from behind her.
"Draco, you prick, you almost gave me a myocardial infarction". She said in order to confuse him and was happy to see the look of confusion on his face which was quickly replaced by his usual poker face.
"I almost gave you a what?" He asks trying not to sound desperate but fails miserably.
"A myocardial infarction". Kate now has a smirk plastered on her face which irritates him to no end. He keeps quite for several moments before his curiosity takes over him.
"What does that mean Katherine?" He asks her giving in.
"A heart attack". She replies as she sees anger replacing the previous irritation on his face.
"Who even uses that word?" He asks, clearly fed-up with the conversation all together.
"A cardiothoracic surgeon". She replied to his question in this manner just to confuse him even more and could barely conceal her smile.
"What? Who? You know what? I don't even want to know, there are some new books in the auror section so will you arrange them?"
"Yes, of course, but who will sit here?"
"No need to make any reasons to avoid work, I'll do a spell to not allow anyone to go inside without a library card and leave with any unregistered books. Now, off you go".
"Oh fine, magic". She muttered at the end as if saying the word would put some sort of a curse on it.
The auror section was right in the front so Kate went and saw the books on the desk and began to do the work. She went and got, more like pulled, a ladder from the other end of the library, which took about half an hour of her time. She placed it in front of the shelve and started to take the books up and place them at their correct place.
Busy in her work she didn't realize someone was behind her, and she began to go up with the last three books.
"Need any help with that?" A voice asked from below her, and Kate who was just climbing the next step, was startled, and as a result lost her balance and felt herself falling. As she closed her eyes and waited for the impact, her head was filled with pictures of her brother, Draco and very surprisingly a certain green-eyed boy.
She fell on something warm, and realized it was more of a someone than something, a someone who had one hand at her waist and the other one on her head and had soon flipped them over so that Kate was on the ground with him on top of her. She deduced it was a he as he wore the same aftershave her brother, Jackson, wore.
She opened her eyes after a few moments and found them staring into the same pair of green eyes she had seen when she was falling.
"Are you okay? I'm sorry that I startled you, just thought you needed help". He asked worriedly and I felt anger rising within me.
"Why would you think that I needed help, didn't you think I could do it on my own, was it because I am a squib or because I am a woman?" She asked indignantly as she struggled to get up, which he thankfully understood and stood up himself. As he did three books fell down to the floor which, she assumed were on his back, from when they had fallen with her and she realized he had flipped them over to protect her from them.
He gave her a hand to get up which she ignored and got up on her own with no struggle.
"I asked if you needed help because you looked uncomfortable, and your back was facing me so there was no way for me to know that it was actually you, so no way for me to know that you were a squib". He said positively rendering her speechless.
"Oh, well thank you and sorry I accused you". She said looking a bit ashamed at herself.
"You're welcome and it okay". He replied, before continuing "do you need any help, you know what it's fine, we'll just get back to studying". He said, stopping mid-sentence, afraid of her reaction.
"We?" She questioned and looked to where he gestured. Stand there was a tall boy with red hair and freckles, a Weasley, and from what she had heard there was no doubt it was Ron Weasley. "Okay". She said simply as they sat to study and she put the books in their place and dragged the ladder out.
The look on Harrys face said he wanted to help her with it, but decided that she would be fine on her own and if she really needed help, she would ask for it.
With that work done, Kate went back to her desk, she hadn't apologized to anyone in a long time, she was head strong and would prove her point no matter if she was right or not, yet she couldn't argue with him. Why?
She wanted to think about it, but knew she would just be wasting her time, so she took out her Biology book and started studying the chapter she had been taught today, the Eye and Ear. It was undoubtely one of the most tough chapters in her course, just behind the Nervous System, but she had understood it even before it was taught but now that it was, it had become even more clear.
As she was learning the passage of sound in the ear, Harry and his friend Ron, she assumed, came out with five books each.
"We want to issue these". Ron said, and she had to bite back her tongue to stop myself from telling him that she wasn't his servent and that he should probably ask not order around.
"He meant could you issue these for us?" Harry asked more politely, which she was pleased with. Barely managing to hide her smile, she spoke.
"Yes, your names?" she asked in her best I-am-busy-so-leave-me-alone-as-soon-as-possible voice, which was quite true, the ear was more complex than the eye.
"Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley". She quickly found their cards and filled them up, so they could go, although, for som reason she didn't want Harry to go. She signed them and kept them as Ronald went to leave, but Harry stayed rooted to his spot.
"I didn't catch your name". He said.
"That's because I didn't tell you my name, Harry Potter". She said smirking at him.
"Well, what is it?" he asked.
She tilted her head upwards to look into those eyes she was on the verge of loving and said: "find out if you can".
At this he smirked, a trait, she realized, which made him look a little unattractive.
"Challenge accepted". He said and walked out, and she leaned back against her chair, as she was strangely reminded of Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother Reference).
