Chapter 58
As the water streamed down between the rocks, two heads burst out to the surface, waving around to wipe the extra water.
"Kat?", George called over as the river kept guiding them, slower now.
"Kat!", Fred shouted
"Look!"
George pointed to Kat laying on the border, with her legs still in the water, she wasn't moving. As the river took them, they help it to hurry to her. They got out of the water and Fred dragged Kat more into the ground and turned her around. George placed his hands on her chest and started give her little, but strong pushes. Kat coughed a bit and he went down to give her mouth to mouth. He stopped to look at her and Fred stayed waiting. Kat slowly opened her eyes to find George's face looking down to her with a smile forming. He slowly went down to her and their wet and cold lips touched in slow motion for seconds before he was pulled away.
"Let her breath!", Fred said and chuckled
Kat sat up and placed her messenger bag in her lap.
"You alright?", Fred asked her
"Yeah. You?", they just nodded with a smile
They stayed in silence there, just enjoying the peace and the birds singing like nothing had happened. For a few minutes, they felt free in the silence. Six weeks passed and still nothing on their way. Not a sign from Kurt, Harry, or Ron. As they started to travel more, they had less sleep, less eating and more running from snatchers and death eaters. Kat realize this is not as easy as before, it's more dangerous. Tension were growing on each one, neither show it though. They would go hours with out talking just in case something would slip out. They would also go hours with hugging or kissing, and they haven't had those nights that they spend on bed together. Nothing to calm them down.
"You're not doing it right!", George yelled at Fred in the dinning table as Kat rolled her eyes in bed, she was reading while they were working on their products.
"I know what I'm doing!"
"Like the last 30 times it exploded?"
"Shut it! I know this will work!"
Kat slammed her book to the mattress and walked out of the room to the table.
"Would you two shut the fuck up?", she yelled as they looked at her, not too happy, "I'm sick and tired of all of this! Explosions during the day and night! Face it, both of you are bloody idiots who can't do anything right!"
"And you?", George snapped getting up, "you lead us into the middle of nowhere! Do you even know where to go now?"
"No one asked you to come with me! I told you to go back to your mommy and daddy! I can do this by myself!"
"Well of course! So you can just go with your parents back to you-know-who? Or drown jumping off a cliff?"
"I wouldn't have gone trough any of that if you would have stayed at your house! I can't keep thinking about everything to save your stupid arses!"
"No one's asking you! And we can take care of ourselves!"
"Fine! Go out there and see what is like with out me!"
"So, just because you've lived on your own since you were little makes you an expert?", Fred said getting up on her face
"Better than you, yeah!"
"By the way, I think that's all rubbish just so people think you're amazing! Or have pity on you!"
Kat swung her hand to him, but he grabbed her wrist. After looking at each other with fire, she got lose.
"Is that what you think?"
Both nodded, not knowing they don't mean it. Kat gave a sharp nod and left to the room. She got her messenger bag and left the tent. With a swing of her wand she took down the shield and walked away; not knowing where she was going. She stopped when she reached the peak of a mountain where she took a deep breath and sat down with her knees to her chest; hugging them and watching the sun go down behind the mountains afar from her. She collided to her side to hit the warm grass and lie down, closing her eyes to block the light of the bright sun; she drifted to sleep, a good one, what she needed. When the night fell over her, the darkness came along. Only the moon lighted up a bit. She slowly opened her eyes to find the same mountains afar from her, but black sky around and twinkling stars. She slowly sat up and looked around. She crossed her legs and stayed still, not knowing what to do. Maybe Fred and George had calmed down by now, she thought. She got up and walked to the forest, but before entering, she saw two figures, in black cloaks and hoods.
"F-Fred?...George?", she said, but they didn't answer, they just kept walking to her in silence.
She took out her wand and gave steps back. The figures got closer with wands pointing at her, she decided she better made a run for it to get them away from that place, in case they found Fred and George. She started to run down hill, feeling the men behind her. She looked back for a second to throw a spell, which they skipped and kept following her. She stopped when she was caught in front of a wall of rocks. She turned around with a gasp, finding the two men in cloaks. She raised her wand again, preparing to fight. She heard chuckles coming from the hooded figures and saw they got their wands down. She got confuse and even lowered her wand a bit. At the same time, they put down their hoods to show their faces. Kat's lighted up with a smile after she gasped. She ran to the closest one and wrapped her arms around him. She let go of him and jumped on the other one.
"Are you two alright?", she asked letting go
"We are fine, Kat", Austin said with a smile
"Never better actually.", Kurt added
She couldn't resist, she jumped on Kurt again who didn't complained on accepting her embrace.
"Where have you been?", she asked after getting apart
"Some place new.", Austin said, "see you got my package", she pointed at the S.I. medallion Kat had around her neck.
"Oh, yeah, weeks ago. How did you know?"
"I figured you wouldn't stay still with your arms crossed, would you?", Austin said and she chuckled.
"What have you been doing on your own?"
"Um, actually I'm with Fred and George…but we had a little argument. I just stormed off to get some fresh air, but I fell asleep."
"Oh…well, do you want to get them?", Kurt asked
Kat took a pause, not knowing why, "yeah."
She grabbed their wrist and apparated them, appearing a few feet from the tent. Between the trees, a fire lighted up the place and the tent. Kat got closer and spotted Fred and George outside of the tent, wrapped in blankets, close to the camp fire. When she got out of the forest for them to see, they got up, let the blankets fall and hugged her at the same time, tight.
"We're so sorry!", both said in her shoulders as she stood paralyzed
"I shouldn't said what I said", Fred said and kissed her head
"I shouldn't have yelled at you", George tighten the hug
"Um, guys…", she got apart, right now she was too excited to talk about what happened, "look who found me"
She turned, making them look to the figures coming to them and they saw Kurt and Austin.
"Kurt…and Austin.", she went to them, "and they are alright."
"Well…good to know", Fred said
"Yes, we've come for you.", Austin said
"I passed by your house and asked, your parents are really worried.", Kurt said
"You should go back home, all three of you.", Austin added, looking at Kat
"I have to find Hermione"
"Kat, you need to be somewhere safe.", Kurt insisted
"No! Why can't you understand? I promised her I would look for her. I want to."
"You'll be getting yourself and them in danger.", Austin said
"I won't go anywhere unless Hermione's there."
There was a silence. The guys looked at her, she was determined.
"C'mon. You better stay somewhere safe then.", Kurt spoke looking at Austin
Fred and George put the tent down and got it in Kat's messenger bag. The five of them grabbed hands and apparated out of there into another forest, that looked familiar.
"Wait a minute", Kat said, letting go of Fred and George, "this is the forest where your map lead us"
"Exactly."
"But we didn't find anything."
"That is on me", Austin said rubbing the back of his neck, "I forgot to leave you another part of the map. Take it out."
Kat looked in her bag for the map and opened it for him. He took out a peace of paper from his pocket and placed it over the map, where a lot of trees were drawn and it fit perfectly. It only had a bigger tree drawn on it and with a black circle in it. Kat was confused as Austin grinned, and Fred and George glared at Kurt who haven't taken his eyes of Kat, along with a smile. Austin started to walk and the others followed, with Kat in front. They stopped were the trees were, the one in the middle had a hole in it that had nothing inside.
"Go on", Austin told Kat as she hesitated to move closer, but being him, she trusted him.
She got her head in her hole, with her hands on the log. She saw something moving at the end, like a puddle of water that reflected her shadow from the bit of light that shined from the moon. She got a knee up on the hole to go in deeper and have a better look. Her eyes opened wide as she saw a hand bursting out of the water, grabbed her by her shirt and pulled her to the water.
"Kat!", Fred and George called as they went to the hole and saw her disappear into the deeps.
"You too now.", Kurt said with a grin
Fred and George looked at him and then back at each other. Even if they just met them, they didn't trust them much, they wanted to look for Kat. George went into the hole first and jumped, disappearing into the water and after came Fred. Kat had just came out from another puddle of water and hit a solid ground floor. She lifted her head when a pair of boots walked in front of her and she started to trace the legs, all the way up. She jumped on her feet as she saw Alice with a bright smile. She jumped in her arms just when Fred and George appeared from the puddle.
"You're alright, right?", Kat asked the second she got apart
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"And Lucas?", she asked for her son
"He's fine too. We got away just in time."
"I'm so glad!"
Kat jumped in for another hug and Kurt and Austin fell on their feet out of the puddle.
"Welcome to the new Shadows Insiders headquarters.", Austin said, giving her a little push
It was like a cave with torches on the walls, giving a nice warmth, but not hot enough to suffocate you. They walked by a little hall way that lead to the training area, were half or less of what was left of S.I. was fighting against each other with simple spells and death eater puppets.
"This is what was left of us.", Austin said sighing, "but that gives us more power to fights against you-know-who. For all of them."
Austin placed his stare as they kept walking on a wall, making Kat and the others look. It had a big list of those that they lost, starting with Diana. Kat got close and passed her hand by the names.
"Diana was the first member we ever lost by an attack…", Alice said low
"I know. It wasn't in vain, though. I will make justice for her.", Kat said serious
"Well, you three seem tired. You should really get some rest.", Kurt said going to Kat, "we have a house where a few of us stay in case our houses get searched."
She took a pause looking at him, "alright."
Alice took her, Fred and George trough a wooden door that led to a staircase. They started to go up and up until they reached another door and they entered, entering a hallway that had a lot of doors. After they passed about 6 doors, they stopped and Alice unlocked it with her wand. The door opened and as it did, the lights went on, showing a nice little room with light green walls, a few flowers, a nice desk, a ceiling fan, and 3 beds with night tables beside them.
"You'll be staying here, while we figure out what to do."
Kat turned to her to speak, but she placed a finger over her lips.
"Rest now, Kat"
With out another word, she left, closing the door behind her. Kat let out a rough sigh and went to the bed that was alone on one side, besides a window. She looked trough it, being curious, expecting to see a wall of dirt of something, but it was a full view of a landscape.
"These people", Fred said chuckling as he placed his bag on the bed, "how do they come up with all of this"
Both guys chuckled, but Kat just placed her messenger bag on the floor and got under the covers as the room went in silence.
"Kat-"
"I just want to rest. See you guys in the morning."
She turned to face the window and closed her eyes, even if she didn't fall asleep quick. Both sighed and looked at each other, wondering what could be wrong and thinking it was with them. They went to her and kissed the back of her head before going to bed.