I really like the idea I put in this chap :)
Chapter 57
Two weeks passed. Two weeks none-stop walking and searching for clues on were Harry might be, or someone from S.I. They tried to search for the other headquarters trough Austin's map, but they couldn't find them. Kat collided on a rock besides a lake, letting out her breath.
"This seems endless", she said looking around, "maybe…maybe we can go to Hogwarts."
"Isn't dangerous?", Fred asked turning to her.
"Since when have you cared how dangerous something is?", she said chuckling.
"True.", George chuckled
There was a silence as the chuckles faded. Only birds broke the silence and the sound of a waterfall a few feet away.
"Or maybe…", she said closing her eyes and took a deep breath, "we should stay here…forever. Hide until the war is over…"
Both smiled looking at her and slowly got close to her. With eyes that sparkled to her words.
"Just be together…no one in our arses…away from my parents…let the others deal with everything.", she chuckled, joking about the last line, she could never leave the others to deal with everything.
They listen to her words, how she let her guard down and spoke the truth with out them getting it out of it.
"Let's do it.", both said, making her open her eyes.
"Let's go back to Epping Forest", George said caressing her cheek.
"Set up the tent and the shield.", Fred joined
"And let's stay there forever."
"What about food? Money? Everything else we need?"
"We'll live until we have to. After all, we can just die together.", Fred let out a little chuckle.
She bit her lip trying to hold her insanity from seeing them with those smiles and sparkling eyes. But her body was ahead, she got on her toes and kissed Fred, deep, then George the same way. The words they wanted to hear were about to slip trough her lips. She was about to accept that proposal and just let them hold her forever when a rush of wind came trough, surrounding them. Kat turned giving them her back and she saw about 5 shadows coming to them. They were too quick, the shadows reached them before they were able to take out their wands. The shadows went around them, and the darkness made them hard to focus on a target. Fred and George surrounded Kat with their bodies to protect her from anything that could happen. As for Kat, she hold on to their shirts, tight from letting them slip away from her hands. They felt their bodies twisting around and being lifted. Kat kept her fists tight on their shirts as they grabbed her wrists to hold on to her. Their bodies hit sudden ground, Kat falling on George and Fred beside them with Kat still holding them. Fred got up and looked around with wand raised as Kat and George got up, holding hands. They weren't beside the lake anymore. They were in the same forest, but in another part of it. The waterfall couldn't be heard anymore.
"Sweetheart."
Kat turned around with already pointing at her target with her wand. Her parents stood in front of her with grins.
"You don't know how glad we are that you are alive.", her mom gave a hypocrite smile
"It broke my heart when I thought that curse hit you…really, I'm sorry, I just got my temper too high."
As they walked closer, Fred and George stood in front of Kat with wands raised.
"You two again.", the woman said, annoyed.
"We should kill you and be done with you already."
The man waved his wand quick and a green light shut out of it on its way to George. Kat shoved herself between them as she yelled protego, but the green light was meant for the ground. The two death eaters laughed, mocking them. Kat gave one step closer, ending in front of Fred and George and her temper started to get higher. She saw they raised their hands and a green sheet covered the three of them, with the death eaters behind. Kat walked to them, in rage, but stop just a few feet before the shield.
"I wouldn't do that", her dad said, meaning not get closer, "this shield can actually kill you."
"What do you want?", Kat shouted as Fred and George got closer.
"Let's play a game. Remember the game we used to play, Katy?", her mother said with a wink
Kat's mind took her back to that deadly game, the one that give her the cunningness and the fast thinking.
"Let's see how you get out."
With a grin they disappeared and Kat turned to Fred and George.
"What game?", George asked
"Be careful."
"Kat?"
"I don't know if it has changed, but they used to do this to me…they would lock me up in a shield and just made me face any types of magic; death eaters, dementors, creatures, anything."
"They are mad!"
"I know."
"How do we end it?"
"We don't. They do."
They looked at each other and then at Kat.
"They usually did it when I would beg them."
"And I don't think you're just going to beg?"
"No. Not like before."
Fred and George turned when they heard a rush coming trough the grass. Their eyes opened wide and they got closer to Kat to protect her from the werewolf that was coming to them.
"Protego!"
A shield covered the three of them as the werewolf listed his paws and started to scratch it.
"Incendio!"
Kat threw a ball of light that crash with the shield and scared the werewolf a few feet away. George put down the shield and Fred waved his wand, making roots come out of the ground and surround his legs, bringing him down and another one wrapped around his mouth.
"C'mon!", Fred said
George took Kat's hand and they started to run. As they did, they heard the werewolf growling and struggling to get lose. Kat looked back as the image of it mixed with all the bushes and trees. She bumped with Fred and George when they suddenly stopped. She looked between them to see 3 dementors coming their way.
"Expecto Patronum!"
The three of them yelled, uniting three silver lights, making a powerful one that crashed with the three dementors, sending them away. Kat felt this heat coming their way the place was lighting up. She turned around to face a Phoenix of fire. Fred and george turned when they heard her gasp and pulled her by her sleeves. They started to run as the phoenix flew behind them throwing balls of fire at their feet, making them jump. Fred and George turned, waving their wands as water appeared and surrounded the phoenix. Which did a cry as he vanished. They slowed down the pace until they stopped, the forest became absolutely silent.
"What now?", George said looking around
"Nothing. We keep the game going."
They kept looking around to be alert, but something happened that they didn't expect. A chain wrapped Kat's ankle, pulling her as she fell to the ground. She was dragged between the bushes and trees as she called for Fred and George. They started to run behind her as she kept being dragged. A sudden explosion between her and them, blew them back and fell on their backs. They groaned in pain and their ears started to ring. Their eyes opened and between the fading smoke there was no sign of Kat.
"Kat!", they both called
The ringing on their ears made it hard to listen clear for any response. They got up and started to walk fast as they looked around.
"Reducto!", Kat yelled pointing at the chain.
It broke before her ankle and the rest kept moving far from her. She got the piece of the chain lose from her ankle and got up. She started to ran to the direction she had been dragged and hope to find Fred and George.
"Arania exumine!", George said as big spiders came their way
Both kept throwing spells at them as one by one fell dead. When they found a free path they ran away from the rest. Kat hadn't bumped with anything jet, but that didn't make her keep her mind worry free. AS she walked around slowly, she would turn around with wand raised and ears alert.
"Stupefy!"
A voice said and she hid behind a tree as the red light hit it. When she looked it was a masked death eater. She pointed her wand at him and a blue light was about to hit him, but he turned to smoke and started to fly around her. She waved her wand, creating a shield around her as green light started to shot from the shadow. The death eater flew away and she started to run behind him. Two green flashes covered her vision, making her feet stop, along with her heart. The worst was in her mind as she started to walk again. When she went over some bushes and the path was clearer for her, she collided back to a tree with a gasp and her wand slipped her fingers.
"Noooo!", she screamed as she went down with tears in her eyes.
Fred and George, laid in front of her. Pale and with wide open eyes, no breathing and a blank stare. She started to crawl in her hands and knees, but stopped halfway before getting to them. She felt the forest turned cold and her body trembled.
"No!", she screamed again with a dry throat and tears streaming faster.
She hit the ground as she kept crying and her heart started to shattered. She felt she couldn't continue, she felt it was all over.
"Katy!"
She looked to her side with hoping eyes and found them, standing there, alive as ever, looking at themselves on the floor.
"What…-"
But before Fred could finish, the two visions shrunk and turned into this smoke as the vision twisted in the air.
"It's a boggart", George said as he help Kat get up.
The boggart kept twisting around finding which fear should it take.
"Riddikulus!", Fred said pointing at it with his wand
The twisting stopped as Snape appeared in big clown pants, a clown nose and a tiny hat with a flower on top. There was a silence, as a nervous Snape stood in front of them. Between the tears, Kat started to chuckle.
"Really?"
"I just thought of that.", Fred said chuckling
"I could do better, Freddie"
The Snape vanished as they kept chuckling. Before they could stop, Kat jumped to both and wrapped an arm around each one's neck. They quickly hugged back.
"I thought you were gone", she said with a breaking voice and a tear escaping her closed eye.
"We're here.", George said
"It's alright", Fred added.
Between their faces, she turned to each one and kissed their cheeks before going apart. They grabbed her hands and George grabbed her wand when they passed by it. They kept walking, holding hands with eyes wide open and looking around. Five trays of black smoke came their way from behind and started to surround them again; going around them as they took cover. Kat felt her body being lifted and twisted and she hit the ground. When she looked up, she was feet away from Fred and George, who were also on the ground. They looked at each other and they got up to go to her.
"Don't!"
But George hit the shield and he felt stings of electricity running trough his body, torturing him. Even when he felt back to the ground, his body kept twisting a bit from the shocks.
"Georgie?", Fred asked going down to him
Kat got up and she turned when she heard someone sighing.
"They are weak, Katherine. You know they are.", her former father spoke
"They will get you nowhere. You will never find your friends or Hermione. You will die out here with them.", the woman went around her, "we can help you. We promise to give you anything you want."
Kat looked to Fred and George and saw two death eaters coming their way. She gave one step closer, but stop remembering the shield. Each death eater grabbed them around their necks with their wands to their heads. Kat forgot the shield and she was going for it.
"Kat.", the man stopped her and she glared at him, "we're your parents. We know what's best for you."
The man raised his hand with open palm and a ball of white spoke appears over it. As the smokes moved, it showed her memories of her and Hermione when they were young, when she entered Hogwarts, when she met Hermione again and the others, when she rode her broom with the others…
"You can have all of this again after the Dark Lord takes over. We promised you.", the woman spoke as the man kept showing her memories. Kurt showed up too, along with Alice, Samantha, Austin and others from S.I., everyone seemed happy.
"Don't listen, Kat!", Fred shouted from inside the shield, making her look.
"They are lying! You know it!", George added
The death eaters tighten up the grip around their necks, making them groan.
"We'll let them free if you join us now…after all you'll see them again.", the woman smirked
"Of course, you won't be fighting for the same thing, but we promised we may be able to save them."
"Kat, don't!", George yelled
"Will you keep them safe during the war?", Kat asked, giving in to the offer
"If you really want to…", the man sighed, "fine. We'll work something out."
"And their family?"
"Of course."
"You know it's only Potter we're after, dear"
"Kat!", both yelled from inside, but she didn't listen to them.
"Alright. Let them go, Now!"
The man and woman nodded to the death eaters and they disappeared in black smoke, setting them free. They appeared around Kat as her former parents grinned.
"It's going to be tough now, but you will be back to killing wizards in no time. Like the good old days.", the man said and she nodded
The shield went down, but Fred and George didn't know what to do. Kat just looked at them, begging them to stay were they were. The death eaters turned to smoke and the man and woman waited for her.
"Are you ready, dear?", the woman said
Kat nodded, looking at Fred and George who took deep breaths. Her stare faded as she turned to smoke and disappeared, along with the others. Fred and George looked to her tray of smoke go up to the sky and left the forest. They looked at each other and sighed as they passed their hands trough their hairs and turned around.
"We can just let her go", Fred said
"She's not. She will be back."
"How do you know?"
"I just do. She won't leave us here on our own."
"Unless she wanted us to return home."
"She would have said it. Plus after all these days, she can't expect us to just leave. Not after everything she said."
George let out his breath and sat on the ground, Fred sat beside him and stayed in silence for a few seconds.
"You know…", Fred started before a pause, "before the death eaters came…I really thought she was going to say yes. That we will-"
"Live in Epping Forest until it was all over?", George finished, "yeah, I felt it too."
"Maybe she was. Maybe she's just as tired as us from everything."
"She is. You can see it in her. But it's Kat, she promised to look for Hermione, she won't rest until she does or find one of S.I."
After another silence, they heard spells being thrown and the ground exploding, it even trembled a bit, along with the sound. They turned around and started to get up as they saw Kat running between the trees to them. She passed by them, grabbed their hands and they started to run. After they let go of their hands, knowing they had to as the black smokes started to follow them and throw spells. Each one hid behind a tree as the forest became silent. Kat took a peek and they were gone, but they knew it wasn't safe. A death eater suddenly appeared, right in front of the tree Fred was and he hid just in time before the green light hit him.
"Reducto!"
Kat pointed at the death eater making him fall back. She started to run and Fred and George followed, so did the trays of smoke. Roots came out of the grounds to trap their ankles, but they would help each other to be free or skip them. Spells kept being thrown at them, hitting the trees or the ground. With the rush of everything and the sound of the wind passing by their ears, it blocked the sound of the waterfall. Their feet were moving too quickly to stop before the cliff, making them jump out. Their screams left their lungs as they faded down and broke when they hit the water. The death eaters appeared on the cliff, looking down.
"There's no way they survived that.", one said out loud
"She never learns.", the woman spoke with a look of pity before they disappeared.