Me note; Wow, Twenty chapters, it's quite a progress for me; I hope that you enjoy it, it should have been out last week but I have found a new addiction I have to read a book for English and I just can't stop reading it, it's like its possessing me, sorry.

And I have put up this chapter again since the chapter after this is so short, hope that you don't mind, now are the chapters after this the most funny ones, I have many scribbles of how it's going to turn a out and stuff... And don't forget to read the "Me note" at the end.

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Chapter Twenty; December

"Are you going to talk to him?" Daniel asked Alicia, as they had stopped to take a breather.

"Why? I don't need to talk to him." Alicia answered and shifted the backpack she wore.

Daniel leaned forward resting his hands on his knees, breathing hard. "Sure." He answered sarcastic.

"Why are you being so stubborn?" She asked curiously and bent forward to look at him. "And out of breath, we have just been walking for an hour."

"With your speed... and this up going forest hill..." He took another deep breath and looked at her. "Not everybody is a training freak like you Alli."

"You haven't been out running since I moved away from home!" Alicia said chocked.

"Nope." He answered truthfully and stood up straight. Over the summer and other holidays, Alicia usually dragged Daniel out for a run in the morning.

"You have gone lazy." She said to him, pushing him playfully on the arm.

"And after lazy come fatness..." He added, knowing that that was what she would say next. "Why did you drag me with you out here anyway?"

"Well, you were the one who complained yesterday that you hadn't done anything to help our side." She said, remembering what he had said. "And you seemed perfectly fine with the idea to accompany me up to the cave, and you know that it is a three hour walk."

"It seemed so much shorter when we were kids." Daniel complained. "What is it that we are getting from the cave?" The cave was a cave in the mountain long up in the forest, Alicia, Petra and Daniel used to hike up there and sleep in the cave for a few nights over the summer, but when Daniel and Alicia turned into fifteen and Petra fourteen, all the adults have agreed that they weren't allowed to do that, maybe Petra and Alicia maybe, but NOT with Daniel. Petra had exclaimed with a very high tone of sarcasm that she; 'absolutely had no idea why they did that!'

"The dark arts detectors we put up there and all the other funny auror stuff that I nicked from dad." Alicia told him. "Let's keep on going." She said and started to move.

"Can I ask you something and you will only tell me the truth?" Daniel said after a couple minutes of walking.

"Of course." She answered.

"Why did you break off the engagement with George?" He asked like it was an everyday question.

Alicia's tone turned cold and she started forward as she answered. "I wanted to hurt him."

"That's not the truth." He answered.

"Well." Alicia said and stopped, her tone turning angry. "If you are so frikkin' sure that you know how I'm feeling, and why I do things like I do. Enlighten me, please!" She almost yelled out in the silent forest.

"You feel trapped sometimes. A magical marriage bond is a life time commitment, and the only way out of it is death, and you feel scared about it because you have a few things in common with him, but he doesn't have any with you. And think that you are too young for this, making this bond now." Daniel said, ignoring her outburst.

"Thank you Mr Analyzer, I'll think about my situation and what you have said until our next session." Alicia said sarcastic, but couldn't help to think that he was right.

"Sarcasm is a way of hiding the fact that you are hurt." Daniel continued.

"Daniel." Alicia said to him. "Sometimes are you such a stuck up and annoying person... it's like you can't control, nor care, what you say, don't think about that it might hurt someone."

Daniel didn't answer, he just looked at her. "You know that I'm not afraid of hurting your feelings." He said. "Because I know that you'll go back to being the same person afterwards."

Alicia didn't answer, so they just looked at each other for quite some time before Alicia broke the silence. "Let's go, we'd better go home before dark." And they continued to walk up the hill. Forty minutes later the uphill ended and the rest of the way was downwards.

Once they reached the hidden opening to the cave, the out-of-breath Daniel leaned toward the stone wall. "Why couldn't we apparate?" He spoke for the first time since their argument.

"I told you, we might end up in the wrong place and be completely lost forever in the big forest." Alicia said, sounding slightly annoyed as she gave him a water bottle from her backpack.

"Can we apparate back down?" Daniel asked.

"Of course." Alicia answered and placed her hand on an out sticking stone, then turning it around like it was a combination lock. Then it clicked.

"You know, it's only sheer luck that we found out the combination code." Daniel spoke as the door to the cave opened. "Did you ever found out what they are using this for anyway, the wizard's long time ago I mean?"

"Nope." Alicia answered. "I asked dad, but he reckoned that they used it as some sort of hideout in war time. But personally do I think it got something to do with the witch hunting in the fourteenth century, they hid in here to get away from the evil little muggles who tried to burn them alive, in Sweden they were smart." She continued with and evil smirk. "Chopped their heads off first, and then burned the body."

"Of course." Daniel answered sarcastic. "Only if you are anti-magic." He looked at Alicia who just laughed softly. "Is that why they don't have such a big magic population in Sweden?"

"Oh yeah, that's what I think anyway."

The cave was almost like a living placed in the cave, the fireplace in the middle used mostly to warm up the place, the small table, and the chairs. If the place wasn't in the middle of a forest, you could almost believe that somebody lived here.

Around the walls and pretty much all over the place was dark arts detectors, the most of them was like pins and gems that would glow up when somebody was using dark magic nearby. There were also some old and non-properly-working sneakoscopes.

The both of them started to pack them down into the bag they had brought with them. Several times while they worked in silence Daniel turned around like he was about to say something to her, but changed his mind and got back to work.

"Did you ever tell George about this place?" He finally asked.

Alicia, who was starting to get mad over him constantly questions about George, didn't turn around when she answered him. "No."

"Why didn't you tell him?" he continued.

"It never came up." She answered.

"Okay." He added and turned back. But then he turned back to her. "Have you talked to anyone else about George?" He asked.

Alicia, now really mad at him, turned back toward him. "If you ask one more question about George, I will take this knife and stick it in your..."

"Got the point." Daniel said and turned back.

"Okay..." Alicia said a long while later when they were about to get done. "Maybe I am scared of being trapped, but that's not really it... he takes all this like a joke, he makes me stop thinking about tomorrow. And that is bad. In a way or another I wish that something would happen so that he would realize that people are dying, but he's just so sheltered away from it all."

"You wish that you also could be?" Daniel asked.

"Maybe." Alicia answered.

"Are you going to start to act like a maniac this time to?" Daniel asked once they were out of the cave.

"What?" Alicia asked with a little laugh. "When did I act like a maniac the last time?"

"Believe me when I say that every time that Umbridge looks at me, she sees you, what you did in school." Daniel said.

"No, I'm not gonna start to act like a maniac." Alicia promised. "Why do you have to continue to work at the ministry? And with her of all people?"

"Do you mean Umbridge or your sister?"

"Both."

"Well, since both of them are working at the department of magical law enforcement, I have to work with them. And getting out of the ministry is very risky at this time, your friend Percy was lucky he got out when he got out" He answered glooming. "Why don't you like Angelina?"

Alicia stopped and started at him, where had that come from? "What do you mean?"

"You don't like Angelina, I'm wondering why?"

"I don't like her, that's all. She doesn't like me, I don't like her." She answered. "Why do you ask all these questions?"

"Just curious, that's all." Daniel said, but Alicia got the impression that he was hiding something, but she left it alone. "What are you doing for Christmas?"

Alicia sighed. "Uh, don't even talk about it. We'd better go back."

Everyone in the classrooms eyes turned toward Alicia once she had closed the door and excused herself for her lateness. The reason for Alicia's sudden attention wasn't the fact that she was late, no it was the way she was dressed, just last night had professor Umbridge put up a proper-dressing directive, that students were going to wear their uniforms correctly and that it shall cover as much skin as possible, also that all the girls hair should be put up in as ponytail or another way out of the face

But Alicia took today as a perfect occasion to show Umbridge how much she liked her directives with a little demonstration. The way she wore her uniform showed as much skin as possibly without her actually being showing her underwear and in any way possible considered naked. The skirt she wore was shortened so that it ended right under her bottom, on the shirt was only one button buttoned; it was the one above the knot she had made with her shirt over her belly. Her hair was loose and instead of the normal black and boring shoes she wore short heeled shoes. The books for this class she held with one arm.

She wore an almost smirk on her face as she stopped at the back of the classroom where she was clearly visible to Professor Umbridge.

"What...!" Umbridge croaked shocked when she saw Alicia. "What in Merlin's name are you wearing Miss Spinnet?"

"Oh..." Alicia said with and perfect innocent and sweet tone. "It's called a school uniform professor."

"Why... are you wearing it?" Umbridge reformed her question.

"You'd rather I wear nothing?" Alicia continued, playing dumb. "Cause I can do that too?"

Umbridge looked at Alicia; she was more frustrated than anyone had ever seen her.

"Can you read?!" Umbridge asked angrily.

"Oh, I can read perfectly." Alicia said and smiled sweetly as she heard murmurs from the class.

Umbridge got silent for a few seconds before, her face had gotten in a pretty shade of red as she seemed to boil with anger inside. "I have had it from you Spinnet; I will not take any more of this nonsense from you!" she angrily walked over to her desk, sat down behind it and started to write fanatically on a piece of parchment. "This will you take to the head of you house, and you will have to change into more appropriate clothing." Umbridge gave Alicia the parchment and watched Alicia as she walked out of the classroom.

Twenty minutes earlier...

"Oh c'mon Alicia, Don't kid yourself."

Alicia sat on her bed and pulled her long socks on. "What do you have such a hard time to understand, I don't." She snapped back at Angelina. They were the only ones left in the dorm.

"And I'm white..." Angelina said back, not believing Alicia's words.

"I don't want to, not matter how much you push it." Alicia turned back to her feet and put on her other sock.

"He wants to be with you as well." Angelina said, looking at Alicia with slight concern.

"Well, if you care about George as much as you seem to do... why don't you get together with him, I don't think he'll mind shagging you instead?" Alicia snapped and stood up.

"Take that back!" Angelina snapped angry at Alicia.

"No I will not, the only reason that you take this up so often is because of him... not because of me." Alicia argued.

"He's lonely without you." Angelina said.

"No!" Alicia almost yelled out. "He can't possibly be lonely without me, he has Fred, he has you, he has Lee, he has everyone else in his frikkin family, and you are saying he's the lonely one."

"Fine..." Angelina said as she had done so many times before. "Be stubborn then, I'm only trying to do some good." She grabbed her bag with force and left for the door.

"I think that you should stop doing that, it's irritating..." Alicia snapped angry.

But Angelina didn't turn back as she walked out of the dorm.

Frustrated by the useless attempts Angelina had been constantly making in an attempt to get Alicia and George back together, Alicia turned back to her bed, taking a deep breath remembering that she didn't want to be late for DADA which started in ten minutes.


In the end of December did the snow start to fall, not that it hadn't before, but now did it fall more than before. But that wasn't the snow that had Alicia in a strange mood, the feeling she felt was similar like the one you feel when you are drowning.

"Why?" She asked and looked up at him.

"Because you are not doing so much good just sitting here." He calmly said. "I know how restless you are by only sitting and not doing anything."

"I do tons of stuff..." She continued.

"It's settled, January sixth is you going there, I have made everything clear with Dedalus and Hestia, she's coming back to England and the two of you are going down there."

"The two of us?" She asked, looking at him confused, he hadn't mentioned anything earlier about someone going with her.

"Yes, you and Katie Bell, she's your friend right?"

"Yeah." Alicia answered and felt that feeling of drowning even more, she didn't know if she should tell him about that Alicia actually loathed Katie for opening her big mouth to George, but she decided against it.

"I heard from Wood that she's talking Spanish fluently, and you can't say a word in Spanish, so... who'd better go along with you to Spain?"

"Great." She forced a smile, but inside she was dreading the thought of meeting Katie again. "It will be fun."

"Splendid, I'd better get moving then." He said and stood up from where he sat.

"Kingsley." Andromeda came out of the kitchen. "Aren't you staying for dinner, it's ready in just a minute."

"The offer really sounds tempting, but unfortunately I have other plans for tonight." He declined politely. "But maybe next time."

"Yes, maybe." Andromeda answered. "Stay safe." She told him.

"You too." He said and nodded before walking out of the house.

Once the door closed Alicia remembered suddenly that there was something she wanted to ask Kingsley about, but it had never come up since Alicia's head became full of the whole Spanish deal. She quickly stood up from the couch and walked out the door after him.

"Kingsley." She called out to him who turned around.

"Yes." He answered.

"Do you know somebody named Sara Miller?" Alicia asked and walked down the porch steps.

"No, can't say I do? Where did you get the name from?"

"I found... old letters." Alicia answered. "She was someone that my dad knew."

"How old were the letters?"

"They were dating back to about fifteen years and up till just less than a year ago." She told him. "Are you sure that you don't know who she is?"

"Sorry, I don't." He answered apologetically. "I have never heard that name before."

"Okay, thanks anyway." Alicia said and headed back inside.

Once she was inside she got over to the kitchen and offered her help, which was answered with setting the table.

"Spain huh?" Tonks said smiling as she came out with the four glasses.

"I know." Alicia answered. "But it won't be like a vacation."

"But the sun, and the fact of knowing that you're not home, you're in Spain." Tonks said dreamingly.

"You want to trade?" Alicia asked.

"Sure, sure, but do you really think that mum and Remus would let me?" She raised her eyebrow with an amusing grin.

"Suppose not." Alicia muttered, not returning the smile.

"Can I ask you something?" Tonks said.

"Sure."

"Why do Oliver and Percy call you Leesh?"

Suddenly Alicia started to laugh; it was actually a relief to Tonks that she laughed because she had neither laughed nor smiled for a long time.

"You really wanna know?" Alicia asked.

"Yeah." Tonks answered smiling.

"Oliver was babbling about nothing and everything at once, not really making any sense." She told and smiled at the memory that had happened less than a year ago. "None of us were actually listening; he was talking about one of his Quidditch mates that had a problem, and he said that he had said to his mate that he needed a Leesh." Alicia laughed again. "Percy suddenly snapped out of his half listening and said to Oliver, 'You told him he needed Alicia?', and since then have they called me that."

"That is a funny story." Tonks agreed. "You spent a lot of time with Percy and Oliver back then?"

"Yeah I did." She answered. "I got to know Percy better and actually... realize that he actually aren't the person I believed he was, actually who Fred and..." She stopped for a moment, not wanting to say his name. "...believed he was." She said instead.

Tonks saw the look on Alicia's face when she stopped herself from saying George's name, and Tonks also knew that Alicia probably didn't want to talk about him, so she left it unspoken of.

"You had a nice Christmas?" Tonks said instead.

"It's been two days and I have already repressed it." Was Alicia's answer and then she walked out into the kitchen.


Later that night when Alicia was sleeping she woke up by the sound of footsteps outside in the hall, she turned on the limp she had beside her bed and looked at the watch on the bedside table. 2:33, who was out walking at this time? She remembered that it probably could be nothing, but she'd better check, it was better being certain than uncertain.

She sat up in the bed, and reached for her wand and stood up. But at the same moment she had stood up, her door opened and in he came.

Not believing that it actually was true, but not listening to the voice in her head that said that it impossibly could be him, she practically flung herself forward and threw her arms around him.

"I'm so sorry." She whispered to him. "I'm so sorry."

"Hey don't worry; I'm here now aren't I?" He said back and hugged her.

She leaned back and looked at his face; it still was the most beautiful face she had ever seen even with the missing ear. Her eyes started tearing up at the sight of him.

"Don't cry." He told her in his calm voice. "Please don't cry, I'm not letting go of you again, I'm never going to let you go."

But the tears still came; she just couldn't believe that he was back, that he would come back after she had hurt him like that. "I missed you." She said.

"I missed you as well."

"I have regretted what I did every second since that night."

"But I'm back now, you don't need to worry." He smiled and kissed her.

They walked backwards so that they ended up back on the bed; still kissing he wrapped his arm around her waist and rolled around so that she was on top of him. She stopped kissing him and put her head on his chest, she still had her body on top of him, pressing him down with her body weight, not giving him the option to leave.

But he didn't seem to want to leave; he put back his arms around her and stroked her hair.

"I'm so sorry." She whispered to him over and over again until she fell asleep again.

A while later she woke up, she looked around, the lamp was dark, and she was the only one in the bed, it was just another dream, just like all the others, he hadn't come to her, he probably was at home, sleeping. And not having any intentions of getting back to her, that's if you listen to what Lee said.


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