─── chapter four

everyone turns to look at rubi. "the fat lady is gone!" fred exclaims. george nods his head agreeing. she pushes past a few people and that's where she sees it, the portrait slashed open.

everyone whispers conspiracies of what happened. "let me through please, im head boy" percy pushes past everyone.

"oh great look who it is, big brother coming to the rescue" says rubi smirking. the third oldest weasley glares at her.

"get back, no one will enter this dormitories until its been fully searched" rubi frowns at the portrait. how sad.

"the fat lady! she's gone" ginny yells out. rubi spins around seeing ron, harry, hermione and some griffindor third years.

"serves her right, she was a terrible singer"

"shut up ronald, like if you could do better" rubi glares at her younger brother. he stares back at her with his mouth popped open.

"stay calm everyone, ravenclaw's back to your common room." everyone stares at the slashed portrait, with the fat lady gone. even the other portraits look terrified of it.

"the headmaster is here" rubi turns to see commotion coming from the stairs and students moving aside. "you heard, move!"

harry grabs rubi and pulls her back to not get pushed by dumbledore. she turns to go off on the person who touched her but it was harry.

"oh, thanks harry" she smiles at him. he smiles a bit awkwardly. she looks down at his hand that is wrapped around her wrist. he's so warm. she thinks frowning.

he sees where her eyes are staring at. his eyes widen and he lets go. "mr filch, round up the ghost, were going to search every painting in the castle and find the fat lady"

"we dont need no ghost professor, that lady there"

immediately as he points, everyone runs towards the portrait. people push through the stairs, trying to reach the painting. the golden trio running up besides dumbledore. rubi in pursuit.

"my dear lady, who did this to you?" dumbledore asks the woman calmly. she pops out her head. sobbing and trembling.

"eyes like the devil and his soul as dark as his name. its him headmaster! the one they all talk about, hes here somewhere in the castle...sirius black!" she slowly goes back down shaking horribly.

"secure the castle." dumbledore mumbles to filch. "rest of you, to the great hall!" dumble yells out to all the kids surrounding him.

rubi looks at the shaking lady, frowning and hugging herself. "come on love, we should head to the great hall" fred wraps an arm around his sisters shoulder. rubbing it soothingly.

rubi turns around to let her brother lead her to the great hall but from the corner of eye she sees harry staring at the painting looking a bit terrified.

she stops walking and fred turns to look at her questioningly. the ginger walks up to him and taps him on the shoulder. he turns to look at her a bit alarmed.

once he realizes it's her, he calms himself. "hey, you ok?" frowning at her he nods, not to reassuringly.

"you sure, you seem a tad shaken up?" he looks at her for a second before turning around and walking away.

rubi looks at her little brother raising an eyebrow. he shrugs his shoulder's before running off to find harry.

she sighs before walking back to her brother and linking her arm around his before heading towards the great hall.

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everyone starts putting their sleeping bags on the floor. either by themselves or by their friends. rubi finds a spot right next to fred.

leanne was busy at the moment flirting with george and laying her sleeping bag right by his. so rubi had no choice but to sleep right next to her brother.

"i feel like were gonna loose our brother because of her" said fred, scrunching his nose while looking at his twin brother and leanne smiling and laughing together.

rubi nods in agreement. she sits right next to her brother, shoulder to shoulder, playing with her fingers. "fred"

he takes his eyes off his brother and his sisters best friend to look at her. he hums. "i still dont know what my boggart meant, it didnt come clear to me. do you thinks its possible that the boggart made a mistake"

he frowns at her. why was she so worried about this? "i dont know bb, im not exactly an expert at boggarts, so i wouldn't be sure" she looks at the ground, letting her thoughts cloud her mind.

"hey" fred grabs his sister by the shoulder, hugging her. "why are you worrying about that, it shouldn't matter" he frowns trying to make her look at him.

"im not scared of things, ive always been the fearless one and then suddenly this boggart starts telling me that my biggest fear is caring for someone more than i care for myself"

she rubs her hands on her lap, trying to get rid of the sweat off them. "well, how much your getting worked up about it maybe it is true." she snaps her head up at him, looking at him with glossy eyes.

"i- im not afraid of that, i can love some else that's not me-"

"i never said you couldn't bb, im just saying that maybe that it is true that you are terrified about it, its ok to love someone else more than you love yourself, for example i love you and george more than i love myself" he moves a few of strands from her face.

she puts a hand to her mouth, trying to keep in her sobs. "i just realized how narcissistic and selfish i sounded, you just said you loved me more than you love yourself and here i am not wanting to love somebody else more than myself."

shaking her head, she grabs her blanket and stuffing it to her face. "bb.... its ok, stop beating yourself up, you know there's a lot of people out there who wished they could love themselves and yet they cant, you have a gift"

he pulls the blanket from her grasp and looks at her face. he wipes away her tears and kisses the top of her head.

she hugs him and snuggles against his chest. "dont ever leave me, i dont know what i would ever do without you gone." she lets out a breathy laugh.

"never" he smiles.

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the three ginger triplets stumble in to the classroom laughing and gasping for air.

"you finally decided to join us miss and mister weasley" they all look up to see their potion's professor standing there glaring at them.

they all furrow their eyebrows at him. but the girl weasley is the first one to speak. "where is professor lupin?"

"miss weasley, do you always have to be a nosey fool." he says ignoring her question, while passing out books.

fred growls while george cracks his fingers glaring at snape. from the side of the classroom some 5th year slytherin's snicker "and do you have to be such an insufferable cruel person!"

everyone snap their head's towards rubi, where she's standing with watery eyes, clenching her hands in a fist.

snape gives her a disgusted look. "70 points from griffindor and you'll be having detention with me for a week" he snarls at her.

"you cant do that-!" fred starts but snape interrupts him.

"would you like to join her mister weasley and give her an extra week!" he slams his hands on the table, glaring furiously at fred and rubi.

george bites on his lip, trying to keep his mouth shut, fred fumes in his spot breathing heavily. while rubi stands there wanting nothing but to just hex him to next week.

fred and george stomp to their seats, still glaring at the professor. snape smirks before looking back at rubi. "would you like to say something else miss weasley, or do you want me to take away more house points from your house"

she wipes away her angry tears before sitting down in her seat. gripping her wand in her pocket.

snape turns dramatically towards the board.

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the bell rings and rubi abruptly stands from her seat, running out the classroom. the twin brother's run after there sister, knowing that she needed comfort at the moment.

they look for her trying to find out where she went. they were going to give up hope of finding her but they here silent sobs coming from the girl's bathroom they're passing.

slowly they push open the door, hoping that their wasnt any other girls there. the silent sobs start to become more clear the more they walk in.

fred is the first one to push open the stall. rubi sits on the floor holding her face and rocking back and forth. they slide down the stall, sitting beside her.

she looks up and sees them staring at her with pitied faces. "dont look at me like that, i hate your pity" her chin trembles while she looks away.

"these floors are disgusting, we should move, i dont want feces on my robes" george smiles softly. she snorts, wiping her face.

he quickly stands up, putting out a hand for her. she takes it and he pulls her up. fred pushes himself up and smiles at his sister.

"you know, snape is a prat if you ask me" rubi lets out a breathy laugh, dusting off any dust on her robes.

"well dont you look awful" a high pitched voice says. they whip there head's around to see moaning myrtle.

"hey myrtle" rubi says rolling her eyes. myrtle sighs dramatically. "if you'd like to drown in your despair, your welcome to join me and my toilet." she moans out.

the triplets stare at her dumbly. "uh ok..." rubi blinks at her.

fred lowers his head to rubi's ear, without taking his eyes off myrtle. "i feel very uncomfortable in this situation because of the thoughts that are running through my head."

they all scramble out the bathroom without another word to myrtle.

"remind me to never go back in that bathroom ever again." george shudders. the other two nod at him staring ahead.

fred jumps up out of nowhere making the other two flinch at the sudden reaction. "i almost forgot we have a quidditch game tomorrow, your coming right?"

george nods furiously, agreeing with his twin. rubi groans in response. "why should i go, i dont even like it" she whines, her voice still raspy after her crying session.

"because were your twins, and because of this" george grabs her arm showing the bracelet on her arm. "what?! you made this for me when we were eleven, were fifteen now you arseholes"

she glares at them. "well you did promise that as long as you live, you would never abandon us, its carved into one of the charms" he wiggles one of the charms at her.

"im not abandoning you though, i just simply dont wanna go to some stupid game." they gasp holding a hand to their chest.

"its no ordinary game sister"

"it was made by the hogwart founders themselves"

"the founders"

"thats not true-?!" she tries to say but they interrupt her.

"you dont ever disrespect the game quidditch like that" fred moves his finger disapprovingly at her.

"ever"

she rolls her eyes and sighs. "fine, ill go, i just don't understand why i have to go, besides this year we have o.w.l.s and i really need to study hard if i want to become an auror."

"sometimes i question if you really are our twin especially since your so different from us." she snaps her head towards george frowning.

"hes only kidding bb" fred glares at george. she looks away and starts playing with the bracelet on her wrist. letting her thoughts consume her.

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"im going to murder those two"

rubi shivers, while clenching her coat to keep her warm. rain was pouring all over, people could barely see the players because the rain kept on getting in their eyes.

rubi was sitting right next to a loud leanne, she was cheering loudly, chanting george's name.

rubi wasnt a big fan of quidditch, but their were times she liked watching it. but not in this type of weather. especially since its really dangerous and her brothers could fall at any minute and die.

not only was her brothers playing at the moment, but cedric was also playing. her supposed boyfriend.

she was worried like hell for him, she would never admit out loud but she was hyperventilating inside trying to convince herself that he was going to be fine.

and to make it even worse, thats when she recognizes that raven colored hair in the air. harry.

great, now she felt even more like shit knowing that a boy younger than her boyfriend and brothers, was in the air also playing in this terrible weather.

obviously it would make her feel worse even after she's become a bit closer to him this year.

she watches as suddenly harry dives, probably sighting the snitch. cedric following in pursuit as he sees harry speeding after it.

even though cedric was her boyfriend she was silently hoping someone would stop him so harry could catch it. i mean it was her house after all.

they start heading up in to the clouds to catch it. she felt even more scared as she watched as harry flew up in to the clouds.

merlin please make sure nothing bad happen to him. they disappear out of sight but everyone else on the quidditch field continued playing.

lee's booming voice slowly becomes silent to her as she suddenly sees something falling from the sky. recognizing the raven colored hair, she pushes everyone, running down the stairs of the stands.

but suddenly somehow he slowly starts coming down. george sees him and immediately goes towards him and catches him.

he goes towards rubi and lays him in front of her. "oh my, harry, harry" she grabs his face between her hands. frowning at him.

she looked at him sadly while running her hands through his disheveled hair. "move, move!"

she looks up and sees dumbledore standing over them looking at harry. "headmaster, he needs to be taken to madam pomfrey" she says quickly trying to stay calm.

"stay calm miss weasley, we'll help him, fred! george! help your sister take harry to the hospital please." they nod and take harry from rubi's arms.

they quickly run towards the hospital. "rubi, rubi! wait!" cedric shouts out to rubi but rubi ignores him completely being to worried about harry.

cedric sighs, running a hand through his hair.

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"he looks a bit peaky, doesnt he?" ron says looking at harry, tilting his head to the side. rubi turns to give ron a deadly glare.

everyone turns to look at him. "peaky?" fred says looking at him with a 'are you serious face' "what do you expect you idiot, he fell over 100 feet." george says.

"yeah ron why dont we walk you off the astronomy tower-" rubi begins.

"-and see what you look like" the triplets say in unison, glaring at their brother.

"probably a right side better than he usually does" everyone snaps their head towards harry. he smiles, while opening his eyes slowly. rubi lets out a breath of relief.

"how are you feeling?" hermione asks dumbly. harry raises an eyebrow at her. "oh brilliant" rubi snorts, smiling at him. he looks over at her and sees her holding his hand. he blushes lightly looking away.

"you gave us a scared there mate" fred walks over and sits on rubi's lap. making her let go of harry's hand, he frowns at the sudden lost of contact.

rubi looks at fred. "what. are. you. doing?" she growls at him, feeling the pressure of his body on her legs.

"siting on my sisters lap?" he says like its the most obvious thing ever. she glares at him pushing him off of her. he stumbles, trying to get his balance.

everyone laughs at him. harry smiles at them, but suddenly realization falls across his face. "what happened?"

"well you fell off your broom" ron frowns at him. "no, really?" harry and rubi say unison. they look at each other and harry blushes while rubi chuckles.

"i meant the match, who won?" everyone suddenly stays quiet looking at each other. "um, no one blames you harry" hermione starts trying to say it slowly.

"the dementors are not supposed to come inside the grounds, dumbledore was furious. as soon as he saved you and made rubi, george and fred take you to the hospital, he sent them off" she gulps.

ron moves uncomfortably "um there's something else you should know too harry, erm- when you fell uh- your broom sort of blew in to the whomping willow..."

harry looks at his broom sadly. rubi puts her hand on top of his, smiling softly at him. fred starts making kissy sounds at them.

"i change my mind ron, i think im going to make fred walk off the astronomy tower"

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