Safe House

Forty five

We had been in the Summer holiday for a few weeks now.

We wasn't even home for a day before the order were making plans to go get Harry.

With Theo home, they weren't necessarily secretive, but they wouldn't talk about anything important around the both of us.

Guess they were being cautious, just in case he was still talking to Draco, somehow, even though Remus Lupin and Mad-Eye Moody stole Theo away to interrogate him as soon as we had arrived home.

We hadn't heard anything from or about Draco since the night of Professor Dumbledore's death.

Theo had been quiet and... disappointed? Or just sad, maybe even lonely, throughout most of the month, he only really talks to me when we're alone, the happy-go-lucky, sarcastic, funny Theo had seemed to disappear.

Mum was the one to notice a lot, keep bringing it up to me and treating him much more... delicately.

One of the perks of being stuck in the house, was that I was of age and I passed my Apparition test, so I could apparate everywhere, which was fun because I managed to scare Ron every time, now I know why Fred and George only apparated everywhere.

Both siblings of mine were jealous that I could and they couldn't, Ginny being only fifteen and Ron failing his test.

The reunion with Russel was a very exciting time, I was hoping that he hadn't forgot me and replaced me with my parents as his owner. But as soon as he saw me he was bouncing into my arms, licking my face all over as his tails wagged from side to side, Theo didn't appreciate how he follows me everywhere, he even sleeps in our bed, many times my boyfriend sleeping on the end as I cuddled with my baby.

Mum had made it her mission to get Theo off cigarettes, since she caught him smoking behind the shed late one night. I didn't know about it, as I must've been asleep, until the next morning when she cornered me, wanting to find out if I did it as well, which I quickly dismissed, agreeing with her in her plans of getting him to cut down, even if I did grow to find it attractive, but that's besides the point.

The plan of the seven Potters had gone ahead. Six members of the order were going to drink Polyjuice potion to disguise themselves as Harry, so that we could bring him to the burrow from Privet Drive safely, in order for the Death Eaters to not get a hold of him.

The other Potter's were going to be; Hermione riding with Kingsley Shacklebolt, Ron with Tonks, George with Remus, Fred with Dad, Fleur with Bill, and Mundungus with Mad-eye Moody.

It was the twenty-seventh of July.

Mum, Ginny, Theo and I were waiting at home for everyone to turn up with their portkeys.

Mum had begun pacing the Garden, Ginny leaning against the wall, Theo and I were sat on the steps, my head on his shoulder as he smoked a cigarette, ignoring the disgusted looks both my mother and sister shot at him with every puff, Russel was running about, irritating the chickens yapping happily.

"At least one of them has to be back, right?" Ginny sighed out of boredom, blowing hair out of her face.

"Ron and Tonks should've been here, I'm guessing something must have happened, considering they've missed their portkey" Mum said, worry thick in her voice.

"Why didn't we think of ways to get in contact with each other, for this reason" I said, stating the obvious.

"Not now, Keira!" Mum snapped at me.

It was a few more moments of silence before a light went off, signalling someone had portkeyed here.

Mum and Ginny both ran across the garden, Theo and I jumping up from the steps.