I'm just replacing this chapter because I've made some dicky mistakes :) I hope this is okay now.
Although Susan was close to Fred Weasley, over those nervous couple of days she got a lot closer to George. Slightly quieter, and usually the brains behind the pranks, he was a lot more like Susan herself then Fred.
The children were all well rested, they had had no 'experiments' since Percy and Harry's attempt to escape and they'd fashioned several bags which they'd filled with food and blankets. Now, in the dead of night, they had to cause the accidental magic. They each held their bag (they each had a bag with some food and a cup in, with Percy's also having the bottle in it) and a pillow under their arm.
"Think about what makes you angry. Think about it really hard." Percy whispered to his friends. He thought about Fred and George bullying him (and avoided the thought that they'd reconciled with him), Fred thought about himself, bullying Percy, George thought of the boy in the village who had punched Fred square in the face and gotten away with it, Ron of the man who had taken them all and given him a large scar across his chest, Ginny of the time her twin brothers had snapped the head of her only plastic doll straight off (all the rest were rag dolls sewn and made by her mother), Cedric of the time when he saw the beautiful Cho, a girl from his village, get hit by a bunch of boys and pushed over into the mud, spoiling her red silk dress, Neville of the bad lady who had hurt his parents, Harry of the Dursleys, Susan of the people who killed the vast majority of her family and Luna of the people who didn't believe in nargles. The result was instant, and tremendous. The wall in front of them exploded, exposing the cool night outside. Each child wrapped a blanket around their shoulders, took their bags, and began to run.
The children had travelled about three miles, and they were all tired.
"Let's just find a cave or somewhere to sleep." Percy suggested, stifling a yawn.
Luna, who seemed the most tired, took Percy's hand and allowed him to drag her along. After a few minutes, the pack found a large, mossy rock with a small opening. Percy squeezed through and shouted back,
"Come through!"
They crawled through to a large, rocky cavern. A small, bubbling stream ran across the back of the cave and out of another hole, slightly larger than the one they entered in. The floor was coated in straw, and had obviously been used by others as a resting place. Tired out by the immense magic and trek, they all fell asleep quickly.
The next morning, the children awoke in the same rocky cavern, which now had a dim light filling it from the various holes. They all felt cold, damp and hungry as well as tired, but they knew they had to continue. They washed their faces in the stream and each only ate a small amount of bread and an even smaller chunk of cheese, leaving the rest. Luna was the one struggling the most. Great grey bags were under her eyes and she was struggling to even take in some bread. Percy looked thoughtfully at her.
"Luna, Ginerva, Susan, Harry, Neville, Ronald, you are all going to stay here. Your food and blankets will keep you until we get adults and come back to find you. Me, Fred, George and Cedric will go on. You're all to tired and to weak and to young."
Normally, young Ginny would have argued. But she was tired, and she was hurting. She'd only suffered one operation, which was her sole experiment, but her scar was long and painful. She was only seven.
The children found it difficult to say goodbye, even if only for a short time. Luna had found herself getting very fond of Percy, and hugged him hard before he left. Ginny hugged her three leaving brothers in turn, each one holding her tightly. Susan clung onto George, hugging him as a sister hugs a brother, not a friend hugs a friend. Harry had become fast friends with the twins and Cedric and said goodbye to all with a saddened heart, while Neville just watched, stunned. Ron gave his twin brothers a tentative pat on the shoulder and his oldest present brother a hand shake. And so, they parted. Susan, Luna and Ginny sat on one ledge in the cavern, not talking, just sitting, while the boys tried to fill the lonely silence with chatter and laughter. But their laughter was high pitched, their chatter bitter.
Meanwhile, the older boys were trudging along, thinking of those left behind. Fred and George only thought of two: Ginny and Susan. Ginny because she was their baby sister, Susan because she was their friend. Percy thought nervilly of both Ginny and Ron, while Cedric didn't think about anyone at all. As they walked, Percy suddenly walked straight into a man with a large black dog on a lead. He was about to apologize when he saw who it was. It was Remus Lupin, his babysitter when he was small!
"Remus?"
"Percy? What are you doing out here? Where are your parents?" Remus asked with a frown. He hadn't seen the Weasley family since young Percy was perhaps four or five, when he had moved to Germany, and now here was confronted with him and his twin brothers.
"I think we were kidnapped." quietly said Percy. He waved his hands at Fred, George and Cedric and added, "Not just us. Ginerva, Ronald, a girl called Luna, Harry Potter and a girl called Susan."
"I...I'll apparate Fred and George and Cedric to your house and say that you're safe. Then you'll have to show me to where the rest are." Remus' face had an odd, closed look about it. He quickly put one hand on Fred's head, one of George's and a foot on Cedric's foot, and apparated. He appeared about five minutes later, holding a basket.
"Molly has given me some food for you while we walk." he explained. He handed it over. Percy opened it and eagerly ate the turkey sandwich, roast potato and stuffing ball and drank the small bottle of milk within a minute. A thin film of milk remained around his lips, making the astutely adult pre-teen look about nine.
"You might want to wipe your mouth, Percy." Remus quietly suggested with a smile. Flushing, he withdrew his dirty grey hanky (he had used it to mop many tears back in the room) and quickly wiped his mouth.
"I think this is it, Remus." Percy told the scarred man. His dog, who Percy had found out was called Padfoot the Second, sniffed the small bit of wool from Luna's dress then the rock and squeezed through.
"I won't fit through that gap, and you'd probably be better to persuade them out anyway."
"There's a bigger one, around the side. You can go in as well, then." Percy pushed his wire glasses up his nose before running around the side. He pointed to the larger hole which allowed the bubbling brook out, and quickly crawled through. His knees and hands got very wet, as did Remus's, but they were soon in. They were greeted by a bad sight. A small pool of blood sat on the floor, and was slowly drying. The children were all crowded around something.
"Ronald? Ginerva?" Percy sharply said. They jumped, and turned around. Tears were running down each child's face.
"The bad men." stuttered Ron. "They found us. They badly injured Neville. And they left us with a muggle-born witch called Hermione, she's trying to heal his wounds even if he is about to die." Ron pointed at a small, slim girl with frizzy brown hair and freckles across her snub nose.
"How is he?"
"He might die." Hermione told him as she deftly tied her sock around Neville arm which seemed to be pouring blood.
"Who's that man?" Susan asked, looking at Remus.
"Remus. He's come to take us home." Percy spoke flatly, staring at the pale body of Neville.
Molly Weasley stared at the group of children, and suddenly started to cry. They were filthy, pale, tired and had blood on their hands. Her beautiful daughter had an obvious scar on her knee. She rushed at the group and yanked them all into a giant hug, even those she had never met before. Meanwhile Remus was tying his dog to a tree: it was very dopey, but had a handsome sheen.
"Where did you get your dog, mister?" A long voice innocently asked him. Cedric, who was cleaned up and in fresh clothes smiled faintly.
"Oh, I found him alone on the streets about 7 years ago. I kept him because he reminds me of Siri- I kept him because he is so lovely."
Only one more chapter now!