Only Forever (Fred Weasley x Y/N Diggory) NO LONGER UPDATING REWRITE OUT SOON

Part 20. The Second Task

*Fred POV*

I waited all night, hoping, praying. I would hear her soft voice whisper the entry password for the commons and then she would appear before me. But that never happened. She never came back, nor did Ron, or hermione. I just sat in silence staring at the dying fire all night. I must have dozed off at some point. Because when I wake it is morning, though no one is up yet. I must look like shit, I was up most of the night so I must have large bags under my eyes but I did get almost two hours of sleep which only made me more exhausted then i would have been. I knew I definitely felt like shit. Well this is going to be a hell of a day.

I hear someone slowly make their way down the stairs, I look towards them to see my twin. He knew I would be down here waiting.

"Anything?" He asks, though I can tell he knows the answer by the look on my face. He also knows I would have come up if there was anything. I simply decided to shake my head as an answer. He sighs, "Y/N wouldn't have wanted you to stay up all night waiting for her. Neither would ron."

I know that they would have wanted me to rest. But I can't shake the feeling that something bad is happening with them. They would have told someone where they were going. They always do. So why not now? Why does no one know where they are?

"You know I'm sure Cedric isn't looking any better than you."

That's right cedric. I wonder how he took to the night. Probably not well. I turn back to look at the fire, it's not much of a fire now. But Small orange flames dance on the charred logs. Red sparks fly off the dying flames every few seconds. Feeling some weight shift onto the other side of the couch, George sat next to me. I take a deep breath in, before looking at the clock. The task begins in an hour or so. I get up and head to the dorm, get dressed, what to do now?

Might as well get something done. I pick up a quill and parchment, sit at me and gorgies desk in the corner of the room. I drag the quill across the parchment to form words as I come up with ideas for me and George's future shop. Lee snores rather loudly from across the room. That boy can sleep through anything. It's time he woke up, he wouldn't want to miss the task after all. I go down to get george.

"Hey, want to help me wake Lee?" I ask.

"You know I want to. How?"

"Well-"

After explaining my plan to him, we headed back up to the dorm. First things first i transfigure his bed. Next we levitate him and his bed down the stairs. We slowly make our way out of the common room and down the corridor. We received multiple weird looks along the way, however I think they figured it out once they saw a levitating bed with a sleeping lee on top.

We make our way down a hill, and to the black lake. You see, I transfigured Lee's bed into an air mattress. So when we put it on the lake it floats, we use a spell so he is in the center of the lake and flips the mattress. In a matter of seconds lees head pops up out of the water. Me and George fall into a fit of laughs.

"Assholes!" He yells at us.

"Well maybe next time don't sleep in so damn long!" George yells back.

"What time is it?!"

"You have exactly twenty minutes to get out of the lake, get to Gryffindor tower, get changed, and meet us back down here for the task!" I responded.

"Shit!" Lee yells before, trying to get out of the water. Once he is up on land he starts to run towards Gryffindor tower in a race against time.

"What about your bed?!" George yells at him.

''You put it in there you get it out!"

"Ugh" I say before performing a spell to get it back on land, "Lets just leave it here and help him with it later."

"Agreed"

*Cedric POV*

I was pacing around the dock, my dad next to me. He was in a mental sort of shock after receiving the news that Y/N is missing. I just had to get through this task so I could talk to Dumbledore with him. Surely he would know what to do. I let out an audible sigh as the boats pulled up, dropping off the students who would be sitting in the stands.

Now Harry is standing to my left and fleur to my right, just a few minutes for dumbledore to explain then we dive in.

After a few minutes dumbledore finishes speaking and counts down from three. After that Krum, Fluer, and I jumped in. I perform a quick spell that gives me a bubble of air to breathe into it going to need it to complete this task. I don't know where Harry is. Maybe he got scared and is having trouble jumping into the water. But then I see him take a massive leap over me diving back into the water and heading off, I do the same.

Fish, Grindylows, even a glimpse of the giant squid once in a while. That's all I see until I come upon it.

A giant colony of merpeople. A few armed others next to their pet grindylows. Merlin I hate these mermaids. They are extremely territorial and tend to only listen to dumbledore. But then I look past them and see. Y/N!

She's being held down by a rope of seaweed that is tied around her ankles. I look next to her. Hermione, Ron, and I little girl who looks similar to fleur. This is the task? Retrieve living people or we may never see them again!

Surely this isn't true. The heads of the schools would never allow the lives of students to be lost. For a Tournament. WHatever currently that isnt my top priority.

I swim up to her at the same time Harry arrives. He looks conflicted, all of his friends are down here. However I knew immediately who I was to save. I came up to her. But I see a bright light behind me. They were red sparks, we waited a minute to see who had lost this task. And through the grayish color of water I see fleur's blond hair riding on a boat back to the docks. She was out. I look to Y/N's left and see the little girl who resembles her. It was her treasure, her person to save. And she couldn't have been older than eight or so. I had to do something. So i quickly find a sharp piece of rock and free Y/N then i turn to cut the girls rope of sorts and-

"You may only take one!" The mermaids hiss, well now I really don't like them. I had already cut Y/N free. I had no other choice. I looked over to Harry to tell him to choose wisely. He nods in understanding. As I grab Y/N's limp body and swim to the surface. Once we break through to said surface Y/N becomes fully awake and starts coughing. She doesn't freak out or anything though so I safely swim the rest of the way to the docks.Once there people close to the edge of the docks pull us up and wrap us in warm gray blankets. Everyone gathers around and starts asking a million questions. Out of the corner of my eye I see someone come up out of the water. Assuming it was Harry, I went to check on him. However the first thing i see is a shark head, next to it hermione. I quickly get her up and place her on the deck, wrapping her in a blanket as well. I see Y/N rush through the crowd to hug her confused friend.

"Are you alright?" She asks in a worried tone.

"Yeah I'm fine, have you seen ron?"

"Rons down in the lake." I but in. Y/N looks around.

"That means Harry is still down there." She says as she rushes over to the edge of the dock. "He needs help," She whispered.

"Y/N" I whisper to her, "Don't do anything drastic."

    But still she wouldn't look away from the water. Suddenly she starts backing up.

And then she dives in.