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OMG can you imagine chapter 60! For me writting this much... well if you knew I started out typing with two fingers to have written this much... let's just say it was amazing! Espeacially when I first started writting this I thought it would be around 25 chapters! LOL!

Well hope you enjoy this one!

Chapter Sixty

From One to Two

The rest of the day passed without incident, though Taylor was sure the Head Boy was still upset about her going into her brother's room. She didn't know what to say to make him understand, not without telling him the truth and that just wasn't possible. That night Hunter had early patrol, so Taylor stayed in the Hufflepuff study with Sally-Anne and the others. She enjoyed Sally-Anne's sense of humor and she was getting used to Ernie's always right, pompous attitude. Even Justin had started to speak to her, especially since her run-in with the Slytherins earlier that day.

She was sitting at a table with Sally-Anne and Justin working on Charms homework when the Head Boy returned.

"Hey,"

Taylor glanced up at the tall Hufflepuff and he smiled at her, before conjuring a chair and joining them. Taylor enjoyed the normalcy of the moment, just sitting and doing homework. Of course hers was very messy, she was a horrible writer with her left hand. Still it was nice to be able to do that much.

That night she stayed in the hospital again. She was running out of excuses for herself but she couldn't seem to be able to make herself go to her dorm for the night.

The next morning Hunter had a double study and they ended up working on defensive spells the whole time. Taylor knew the Head Boy wasn't impressed with being taken out so quickly yesterday by the Slytherins. They made some real headway, with a couple of stunners and his shield charm.

After double Transfiguration, Taylor wanted to go up to the hospital to check in and when she walked through the doors a very welcome voice called to her.

"Well there you are! I was beginning to think you weren't going to make it until supper!"

"Hermione!" Taylor yelled as she ran across the room and hugged her friend sitting in the bed. "Oh Merlin! It's so good to see you awake! How are you feeling?"

"Really good actually." Hermione said with a smile.

"So I'm just chopped liver am I?" Ron asked with a bit of a smirk.

Taylor glanced over at the red haired wizard and grinned. Getting up, she went and hugged him too. "It's really good to see you too! How are you feeling?"

"A right sight better than you have been I expect." Ron said a bit awkwardly as his ears turned red.

Taylor sat back and cocked her head, "What do you mean?"

"Well, when we woke up this morning and you weren't here, Hermione got a bit… cheeky with Pomfrey,"

Hermione added, "I wasn't the only one threatening to go looking!"

"…so she told us about you, and your hands… and well…" Ron trailed off as his face turned red also.

"She told us that she kept us sedated so long because your wounds on your hands were so painful and no pain potion worked and she didn't want to wake us until our wounds had healed enough so they wouldn't cause us uncontrollable pain." Hermione said in her matter of fact voice.

It was Taylor's turn to turn red. "It wasn't…"

The Hufflepuff interrupted her. "It was very rough for a couple of days."

Taylor sent the Head Boy a dirty look before turning back to Hermione. "Yeah, well, I survived."

"So how are your hands now?" Hermione asked.

Taylor glanced down at her bandaged hands. They didn't hurt all that much anymore. Her right one was still fully bandaged but her left had most of her fingers sticking out and her thumb. "They are getting better."

"It must be hell to use your wand with your hand bandaged like that, or are you trying to use your left?" Ron asked half jokingly.

Taylor froze for a second before catching her bottom lip in her teeth and started chewing on it.

"Taylor, what's wrong?" Hermione asked quietly, her voice full of concern.

"I ah, I lost my wand." Taylor whispered.

"You what? When? Where?" Hermione gasped.

"Bloody Hell!" Ron exclaimed.

Taylor looked up into the witch's eyes. "Last Saturday."

"You mean to tell me you've been wandering about this school all week wandless!" Ron demanded. "Bloody Hell Taylor! Are you nuts?"

"No Ron, I think I'm still as sane as I ever was!" Taylor snapped.

"Taylor, you do realize how dangerous that is, don't you?" Hermione whispered, looking at her friend horrified.

"Yeah I think I figured it out somewhere between falling flat on my face and getting attacked by a bunch of Slytherins!" Taylor said sarcastically.

"You were attacked? Where was Hunter during all this?" Ron demanded as he glared up at the Head Boy.

"I wasn't far, Weasley!" Greg said coldly, but Taylor cut him off before he could say anymore.

"Ron, put a sock in it! Greg's been with me all week. He's been there to pick me up more than once!" Taylor glared at the redhead.

"Maybe you should tell us what all has happened." Hermione said in a firm tone.

The bell rang then to end lunch break.

"I've got to go. I'll see you after class." Taylor said as she stood up.

"Why don't you take my wand, at least then you'll have one." Hermione offered.

Taylor shook her head. "It wouldn't work right, and I'd rather have no wand than one that doesn't do what I want it to, if I need it. I mean I'd have to try and use it in my left hand too. I'd just end up jinxing some poor first year or something."

"Well, that would be something!" Ron said forcefully.

"I have something," Taylor pulled out the bag of Weasley's defensive concoctions. "It'll have to do for now."

"Taylor…" Hermione called fearfully.

"I'll see you at supper time. It's so good to see you guys awake!" Taylor called back as she started out of the hospital with the Head Boy.

Once outside, the Hufflepuff said, "You should have taken Hermione's wand. Weasley's right, it would have been some help."

Taylor stopped and looked up into his blue eyes that were clouded with worry at the moment. "Yeah but that something would have come at an awful price wouldn't it? I'd have left my best friend defenseless."

The Hufflepuff's eyes widened. "You think she will be attacked in the hospital? The Slytherins wouldn't dare! Not with Pomfrey there."

"I'm not thinking of the Slytherins, well not the ones still in school at least."

"You mean Voldemort or his Death Eaters?" The Head Boy asked. He'd gotten better at saying the name, the courage of the witch in front of him helped.

"Look, it's not like I think he is going to attack the school today or anything, but I just couldn't… I know what it feels like… and I can't do that to my friend."

The Hufflepuff could see the shadow of fear that flickered through the witch's eyes before it was chased away by a determined glint. Slowly he nodded his head. He might not agree with his witch's reasoning but he could understand where she was coming from. "Alright Gryffindor. I'll agree with you for now, but tonight we go to McGonagall about getting you a new wand. Your left hand is good enough to hold a wand and I'll feel better knowing that you can at least jinx a first year."

Taylor rolled her eyes a little as she said sarcastically, "Look out Voldy here we come!"

Hunter shook his head exasperated. "Do you really have to make fun of his name? I mean saying it is one thing but…"

"What? Voldy? How about Ol' Voldy? No? Well how about He-Who-Can-Be-Named-Because-He's-Nothing –But-A-Big-Bully!"

The Hufflepuff sighed as he rolled his eyes in complete exasperation. "You know it's times like these that I'm not sure if you're brave beyond belief or completely off your rocker!"

"Now that you mention it I haven't seen that darn rocker for a while, have you?"

The two set off through the school debating the witch's sanity.

That evening, after first grabbing something to eat in the Great Hall, having missed lunch completely, the two headed for the hospital again. The Hufflepuff had quidditch practice that evening so he was going to drop the witch off before heading for the quidditch pitch.

After greeting the two Gryffindors, the Head Boy left saying he'd be back after quidditch and his patrol.

Taylor noticed that her brother was finally getting his color back and seemed to be breathing a little easier, more like he was just asleep instead of the more mechanical deep breathing of the powerful sleep potions Pomfrey had been giving him. Ginny too seemed to be doing equally as well, a fact Taylor mentioned to the other two.

"Madame Pomfrey said Harry and Ginny are most definitely out of critical condition and that the healing potion is really starting to work. She wants to wait a couple of more days before bringing them around, but all in all they are going to be alright." Hermione told Taylor before bringing up the topic that had been bothering her all afternoon. "So what happened to your wand?"

Taylor glanced around and Ron put up a silencing charm before she told them what had happened to her wand and what had happened the past week.

When she was done Hermione was the first to speak.

"I can't believe you took such a risk."

Taylor shrugged her shoulders, "What was I supposed to do, hide in here all week?"

Her two friends stared at her for a moment before finally Ron said, tongue in cheek. "That might have been the smartest choice with only a bunch of Hufflepuffs to keep an eye on you."

The next morning, which was Saturday, Hermione and Ron were released from the hospital, much to Taylor's relief.

The three Gryffindors and lone Hufflepuff made their way down to the Great Hall for breakfast. Ron was teasing Taylor about her stay in the Hospital Wing the previous night and she smacked him hard on the arm, and then shook it as she grumbled about putting him back in the hospital. The whole school seemed to look when they entered the Great Hall and numerous people called out a hello as they made their way to their normal seats at the Gryffindor table.

Taylor had paused at the doorway unsure what to do, but Greg had put his hand on her back and gently guided her after Ron and Hermione. She'd glanced up at him but he had just winked and smiled down at her.

The conversation at breakfast consisted mostly of well wishes and enquiries as to how her brother and Ginny were doing. Greg had told her quietly about going to McGonagall earlier that morning, about getting a new wand but in the current state of things new wands were hard to come by, so she'd have to stay wandless for now.

They were almost done eating when Greg excused himself and stood. Taylor went to get up too but he bent down and whispered.

"Stay here, I'll only be a few minutes. I've just got to see Justin about something."

Taylor sat back down as she nodded, "Say hi to everyone for me, and tell them I'll drop by the study room later." The Head Boy gave her a cheeky grin and winked before heading for the Hufflepuff table.

"… yeah it was like she'd changed houses or something! Wouldn't even give us a how to!" Seamus' voice was complaining jokingly as Taylor turned back to the table.

"What are you on about now Finnigan? Just because I decided to spread my much sought after company around doesn't mean that I've forsaken Gryffindor! Come on now, the Sorting Hat put me here just so I could bug you!" A few laughs and quite a few snickers followed Taylor's statement and wise cracks flew around the Gryffindor table the rest of breakfast.

The Head Boy caught up to Taylor, Hermione and Ron in the Entrance Hall and all four headed for Gryffindor Tower for a quick shower and change of clothes. Pomfrey had given them their school uniforms to put on that morning, and as it was Saturday the three decided that some more casual clothing was called for.

The Gryffindor Common Room was mostly empty when they arrived, as most of the students were still in the Great Hall finishing breakfast. The Hufflepuff took a seat on one of the sofas in front of the fire, while the three Gryffindors headed up to their respective dorms.

The Hufflepuff stretched out his long legs after picking up a quidditch magazine off one of the nearby tables to read while he waited. The common room slowly began to fill as Gryffindors made their way back, and other than curiously looking at the Hufflepuff sitting in their common room, didn't bother him. Seamus and Dean flopped down in the other seats by the fire and struck up an easy conversation about quidditch.

The Head Boy just happened to glance over by the stairs as the red haired witch he was waiting for came down. Warmth spread through him at the sight of her in worn jeans that showed off her shapely hips and thighs without being too obvious, a loose fitting dark green jumper and dark red hair that was still damp from her recent shower. In his mind she was perfect. Then she saw him and her face lit up, as well as her eyes, as she grinned at him and his heart gave a stutter because he knew that beautiful smile was just for him.

Taylor paused on the last step as her eyes collided with the blue ones of the Head Boy. Smiling she went to join him on the sofa to wait for Ron and Hermione. A few minutes later Ron joined them with his bag slung over his shoulder. He'd only just sat down when Hermione came down.

"Well, I think we need to head for the library. We have a lot of work to catch up on." Hermione said as she stood waiting expectantly.

As Taylor, Ron and the Hufflepuff stood, Seamus asked. "I'd've thought you'd've had the whole library memorized by now!"

Taylor caught Hermione's eye before saying in an off hand sort of way. "We do but we found numerous spelling and grammatical errors and we have decided to fix them, lest you poor less ed-je-ma-cated students fall prey to them."

Ron and Greg's snorts of laughter lasted until long after they excited the portal. Hermione rolled her eyes at the younger witch but couldn't quite keep the grin off, as they headed down the corridor in the opposite direction from the library.

Ten minutes later they arrived at a long blank wall opposite the tapestry with the dancing trolls.

"So Taylor what exactly did you say to seal the room?" asked Hermione briskly reminding the others of McGonagall.

Taylor repeated her request to the Room of Requirement, "Hide them, keep them safe until we can come get them, please!"

Hermione pursed her lips as she thought mumbling, "That could make things problematic."

"You don't say." Taylor muttered back sarcastically. The bushy haired witch didn't even glance sideways at the other witch.

Several hours later very frustrated and getting short tempered, the three Gryffindors and Head Boy finally called it quits and left the still sealed Room of Requirements empty handed. They had tried every possible combination of words that they could think of, and though they had gotten the room to show itself a few different times, neither Taylor's wand nor any of their other things were in it.

"We'll just have to wait until Harry and Ginny get out of the hospital and then try again." Hermione said as they made their way towards the Hospital Wing.

"So you think that the Room of Requirement took Taylor literally when she said we can come get them?" The Hufflepuff asked curiously. "What is them?"

Taylor glanced at the other witch before looking up at the Hufflepuff who was walking beside her as she said quietly, "Them… the Horcruxes."

The Hufflepuff stopped walking as his eyes grew wide. "You… you were trying to…!"

"Shhh!" Hermione hissed as she glanced around at the deserted corridor and with a wave put up a silencing charm.

"You were trying to destroy a Horcrux!" Greg asked in a disbelieving voice. "But I thought you said that was really dangerous."

Taylor nodded. "It is but we were trying the idea you had…"

"So that was what you five were up to? Are you nuts!" Greg asked getting angry.

"What the hell did you think we were doing Hunter? Painting pansies?" Ron growled as he glared at the Hufflepuff.

"Greg, listen," Taylor started and then gave a shortened and condensed version of what happened in the Room of Requirement. When she was done she could see a muscle twitching in his jaw. "What did you think happened to land all of us in the hospital?"

Gritting his teeth, his voice was low and angry. "I don't know but I sure as hell didn't think you were all foolhardy enough to mess with something like that!"

Taylor put her left hand on her hip and glared at the Hufflepuff. "It needed to be done. We took all the precautions we could…"

"Let me guess, this was Potter's idea?" The Head Boy demanded.

Ron stepped toward the other wizard as anger flashed in the Gryffindor's eyes.

"Look you two! Quit it! Greg, it doesn't matter whose idea it was, we needed to try." Taylor looked up into his angry blue eyes pleading for him to understand, before she looked at Ron. "Ron, it's my fault I didn't tell Greg sooner. So just give him a break okay?"

Irritated at the Gryffindors, as well as himself, Greg ran a hand through his hair. He had suspected deep down that's what the Gryffindors had been up to. Somehow he had just known but he hadn't allowed himself to dwell on it. Not when his witch had needed him so much the past week and he knew it would just piss him off. Needing to just get away for a little while to cool down and think, he invented a need to go to his common room and left. Though he hadn't missed the hurt look in his witch's eyes when he left her standing in the corridor with the other two Gryffindors.

Greg didn't return to his common room though. He did what he had always done when he needed to think and that was walk. That's how he had ended up discovering four hidden passageways in the castle. Of course they were all sealed now but he had found them exploring the castle while he was thinking.

The mystery around his witch, and in extension Potter and the others, just seemed to get bigger the more he found out. One thing that was bothering him was why hadn't McGonagall questioned Taylor more? Did she too know what the five Gryffindors were up to? It only made sense, otherwise by the amount of school rules that they all had broken the past couple of weeks, they would have all been expelled. He included himself in that number.

Deep in thought, the Hufflepuff wandered the corridors for hours, not heading back to rejoin his witch, instinctively knowing where she would be, until it was curfew time and he had patrol.

The dim lights in the Hospital Wing seemed to cast an eerie glow as lightning lit up the sky outside the high windows and thunder rumbled over the grounds. The uncommon winter storm seemed to bring with it a feeling of unease that the three Gryffindors sitting around their two friends in the hospital beds just couldn't shake. Rain lashed against the windows and even inside the stone walls of the castle, the sound of pounding rain prevailed.

Taylor couldn't seem to shake the feeling of impending doom that had settled on her shoulders since Greg had walked away angrily earlier that day. She had made to follow him but Hermione's hand had stopped her saying, "Just give him a little time alone. I think he needs some time to think." Taylor had nodded and reluctantly followed her two friends to the hospital. The Hufflepuff hadn't been in the Great Hall for supper, something that hadn't gone unnoticed by either the Gryffindor table or Hufflepuff.

Lightning once again lit up the large hospital, imprinting the room and its occupants boldly on the retinas of the three Gryffindors sitting in the chairs, before the room was once again plunged into relative darkness, before thunder crashed overhead shaking the windows.

Coming to her feet, Taylor began to pace. The storm and everything that had happened recently making her uncharacteristically edgy and restless.

Hermione watched her friend but when she glanced back at Ron he motioned with his head. Looking closer she could see him glance at the underage witch pacing restlessly at the end of the bed then back at her and giving his head a tilt toward the doors. It took a moment to catch on that he was telling her to go. She looked at him curiously but he just repeated the motion with his head. Making the excuse that she needed to use the lavatory she left.

Ron watched his witch walk out of the doors before getting up himself and moving in front of the underage witch's agitated pacing. She almost ran into him before she stopped, looking down into her worried hazel eyes. Her face was thrown into stark relief as another flash of lightning lit up the ward. She jumped slightly when the thunder reverberated through the castle. With a small smile he put his hand awkwardly on her shoulder and rubbed it.

"What's wrong?"

Taylor didn't know what to say. It was like the storm, with every bolt of electricity that came streaking down from the heavens, charged her emotions. Worry changed to fear, changed to her brother, and Greg and her wand and the Horcruxes and…

"You know I'm here for you right? You might not like the way I look out for you sometimes but until your brother wakes up, I've got your back…"

Taylor's jaw dropped as she stammered, "My-my-my brother?"

"Yeah, your brother. So that makes you my honorary little sister."

Taylor was shocked as her mind reeled. She asked astounded, "You know…? How? When?"

With a little shrug he said, "Harry told me when you and Hermione were taken by… Well he was really upset, understandably, and he told me."

"So you know… but why…?" Taylor couldn't seem to complete her thoughts, let alone her sentences.

"Harry… he blamed himself about you and Hermione getting caught. Well I kind of, maybe, accused him of… well, you know how I get about Hermione. I'm sorry for being… for accusing you and Harry of… well, now that I know that you're his little sister… You know." He shrugged self-consciously.

Taylor couldn't help but laugh at Ron's attempt at an apology, while telling her about when her brother broke his number one rule of never telling anyone. "You're forgiven, Ron. It's what big brothers do isn't it? Look out for their little sisters? Thank you for telling me." Taylor gave him a quick hug before backing up a step again. This really did explain the reason Ron had been acting differently towards her since getting back from…

"No problem. I shoulda maybe told you sooner but I thought Harry might have already."

A few minutes later, Hermione came back as lightning once again lit up the ward, but it was like when Lupin had figured out who she was, it helped assuage her raw emotions, making them easier to deal with. The three Gryffindors headed back to their common room as the curfew bell rang.

A/N Well there you have it... Ron told Taylor that he knows Harry and her are sister and brother. I know Ron might be a bit out of charactor here, but I tried to make him as close to charactor as possible, or how I seen him in my mind anyway. So Greg is upset again... and I know some of you will start to think he is a bit of a drama queen or something but I hope you will give the guy a bit of a break he has found himself in the middle of a very dangerous circle of friends who have bad things happen to them VERY often! I also thought back to when I was in high school(I'll not say any dates as I don't want to date myself for how long ago that actually was! LOL!) and I remember boyfriends and girlfriends always seemed to be have a spat over this or that so I don't think I am too far off for two teenagers. Hopefully this will let you know where some of this is coming from at least. Enough A/N rambling for this chapter! ;)

I want to thank those who left a review! And Alerted and Favorited this story! Plus thank you to my wonderful beta barbc who has made this story readable! Well until next time, cytpotter.