Hello guys and gals! So sorry I haven't updated in ages, been busy with work and then I went and got appendicitis! Just came out of hospital D= Ah well! Lots of lounging around now, doctor's orders ;) aw yis! Anyways! Hope you enjoy!

Luke frowned in confusion at the pretty young witch he had just met, who was now lying unconscious on top of the Asinelli Tower, and at the two wizards he had also just met, arguing about how they were going to get her back to their flat.

"Does she usually do this?" he asked, running his hand through his messy dark hair which was changing from black to red to green in his worry and confusion.

Both boys paused their arguing for a brief moment to glare at him, before resuming. Luke rolled his eyes. "Why don't you just apparate?"

Draco turned again towards him and narrowed his eyes with slight disdain. "We can't do that. She's not meant to apparate in her condition!"

Her condition? What, was she pregnant?

"No, she isn't pregnant," Fred scowled, reading Luke's expression, "She's ill!"

Luke pulled his brow down into a puzzled frown. "Ill? How?"

Draco sighed irritably. "Look we'll explain later but right now we need to get her back home, before all the muggles come gawking. So unless you have any brilliant ideas Luke, kindly remain quiet!"

Luke blinked in slight surprise at his reprimand.

"Couldn't you use a broom?" he suggested. Fred had sighed with annoyance when Luke started to speak again, but stopped, when he heard his plan.

"Actually…" Fred paused, thinking.

Draco shook his head. "No use. We weren't planning on flying about anywhere over here. We didn't bring our brooms."

"Well aren't you lucky you bumped into me?" Luke grinned, taking out his wand. "Accio broom!"

Fred looked at Hermione, whose head was cradled in his lap then back to Luke.

"Thanks…"

Luke nodded in acknowledgment. "We'd better start casting some disillusionment charms, before any muggles arrive," he said thoughtfully.

Draco started on the charms as Luke scanned the skies for his approaching broom. Soon enough one came shooting towards them, slowing down to a hover before slowly dropping to the floor next to Luke's feet. Fred looked at the Nimbus 2001 with admiration.

Luke grinned, "I've been saving up for a Firebolt, but that'll take a while, so I keep this in good condition! My dad has an original Moontrimmer at home handed down from my great-great grandmother; it's his most prized possession!"

Fred's eyes lit up and was about to start talking about riding Harry's firebolt, when Draco coughed impatiently. "Gentlemen, though this talk of broomsticks is riveting, Hermione is still unconscious in your arms, Fred. One of us will need to transport her to the flat whilst the other two apparate."

Fred looked back at Hermione's slack face, with a slightly guilty expression. He stroked her hair as he spoke, "I'll take her back, you others can apparate."

Luke rubbed the back of his neck, awkwardly. "Actually…it's got a charm on it. The broom won't let anyone but me be control of it…my dad insisted that it be 'charm-locked' whilst I'm in Italy on my own…"

Fred's countenance fell into a frown. "Well can't you 'unlock' it?"

Luke sighed. "I could, but it would take several hours. My DNA is charmed into it…so it takes time to remove."

"No offence Luke, but we've only just met you. I'm not sure I want my unconscious girlfriend to fly over Bologna in the arms of a stranger…" Fred narrowed his eyes at the man.

"I swear she'll be fine…I could make an unbreakable vow, if you'd like." Luke raised his chin a little, his pride slightly hurt that he was already so mistrusted. Fred looked at Draco, who raised his eyebrows, shrugged and turned to finish the disillusion charms.

Letting out a sigh of annoyance, Fred shook his head. "There's no need for that. But if anything happens to her and I mean anything, even if a fly hits her, you'll have me to answer to!"

Luke stood for a second, staring at the angry ginger man, kneeling on the floor in front of him, before chuckling slightly, "I believe you."

"Make sure you've got her! And be careful!" Fred fussed about Luke who was hovering in front of the other two boys on his Nimbus 2001. Hermione's limp body was in front of him. She was leaning back against him, her arms lolling over his strong ones which were firmly gripping the broom.

"Right, let me move the bars for you." Draco turned and waved his wand across the bars that surrounded them for safety. A large gap grew, big enough for a broom carrying two people to get through easily.

"You know where to go, no deviations!" Fred growled. He was still sore that it was Luke carrying Hermione and not him. "As soon as you leave, we'll apparate. It should take about 5 minutes for you to reach the flat, so don't dawdle, and don't go too fast either or I'll be-"

"Yes alright, I know!" Luke cut in, the irritation building up in his voice. "Merlin's beard, you're like a mother hen, clucking about her." he muttered darkly to himself.

"I heard that!" Fred snapped.

"Good!"

"Children please!" came Draco's cool voice. "Can we get on with this? I'll need to fix the bars once you've left, so would you be so kind as to get moving?"

"Fine." Luke shot Fred a last look of annoyance, before slowly gliding out of the gap. "See you in 5," he called, before he began to make his way over the houses, not too fast, not too slow.

Fred squinted after them, his hands curling into fists as he thought of all the possible risks Hermione was exposed to, out cold on Luke's broom.

"Come on," Draco nudged Fred's shoulder, "we may as well set off ourselves!"

"Wait, oh damn! We need to obliviate that muggle taking the fee at the bottom of the tower. She'll realise we all went up, but never came down."

"Fine, but we'd better get moving! It'll take about 15 minutes to get down there!" Draco sighed.

Luke flew carefully over the beautiful (if slightly vandalised by graffiti) buildings of Bologna, conscious of the comatose young woman in his arms.

He always loved to fly over the Italian cities on his favourite broom, sometimes pausing in mid-air to watch the bustle of life below. Italian farmers calling out their wares, gelato shops with queues reaching out onto the street on hot days, a couple sat on a bench with a book, stealing licks from each other's ice-cream.

He looked down at the mop of curly chestnut hair below him. She felt very cold. It was an extremely warm and sunny day, yet the hands that brushed against his were like ice. Luke shuddered slightly. Something must be very wrong for her to be this cold and to have passed out so suddenly. After circling several houses, Luke found the small building of expensive looking flats. He paused, hovering in the air as he waited for either Draco or Fred to walk out from the front door, but no one came. Luke frowned before rolling his eyes. Great! They weren't here yet. Well they'd better not be long, he didn't like the even worse chill that had come over Hermione in the past few minutes.

"Obliviate!" Draco waved his wand and the woman's expression went blank. Fred's foot tapped impatiently on the stone floor, causing a slight echo to resonate from the walls.

"Alright, can we appar- can we go now?" the anxiety in his voice was unmasked.

"Let's get out of here first, it would cause too much of a disturbance. Just find a quiet little alleyway."

They both hurried out of the tower and into the busy street, people jostled past them towards the tower they had just exited.

"Quiet? At this time of day? In the middle of a city?" the ginger man spoke with a slight edge to his voice.

"Well let's at least walk back in the direction of the flat and hope to find somewhere quiet to apparate on the way." Draco took Fred's low growl as a sign of agreement to start off on the battle through the crowds of tourists.

Luke cursed as another tremor went through Hermione for the third time in as many minutes. Where the hell was Draco and Fred?! It was hard enough to keep his and the girl's balance on the broom as it was, let alone with her shaking. With another shudder from Hermione's unconscious body Luke decided it was time to land, he just had to hope the disillusionment charm was good enough to keep them both near invisible enough to not be seen close up on the ground.

Luke landed gently and with difficulty gathered Hermione into his arms whilst trying to stop the broom from falling to the floor and making a noise. Balancing Hermione's weight on one side, he fumbled in his pocket for his wand.

"Alohamora!" he whispered, waving it at the apartment building door. It clicked open and he managed to get inside without causing anyone to stare at the door that had apparently opened on his own. Carefully he lay Hermione down on the floor. It was a good thing that there was nobody around. Luke began to pace. He had got the right place hadn't he? Doubt and worry filled his mind then, but a few moments later a loud crack echoed around the stone walled entrance way. Luke waved his wand and the disillusionment charm disappeared just as Draco and Fred walked past them.

"Hey! Idiots!" he spat at them. The two men turned and saw them, Hermione lying still on the floor and Luke standing next to her, a glare on his face.

"'Mione!" Fred exclaimed and rushed to kneel beside her. "Yo ferret, c'mere!" he motioned at Draco with one hand without bothering to turn away from the unconscious girl. Draco's eyes narrowed at 'ferret' but nonetheless knelt down too. Luke stood at the side, glancing up the stairs and towards the doors.

"Fellas, hate to interrupt but I think we should move her to your apartment. People are gonna start to notice soon…"

"Sure." Fred grunted as he stood with Hermione in his arms, Draco holding onto one of her limp hands. The group began to climb the stairs. Thankfully there were only two flights to their apartment; the lift was only a tiny thing, barely big enough for one of the boys, let alone with Hermione in their arms.

Once inside they laid her down on the couch. Fred went to fetch a pillow and blanket for her whilst Draco sat on the floor next to the sofa, still holding her hand. A frown of confusion appeared on Luke's face. Wasn't Fred Hermione's boyfriend?

With Hermione tucked in, Fred sat on the sofa next to her and took her other hand.

"We should owl Doctor what's-his-face!" Fred muttered to Draco. The blonde man shook his head.

"Doctor Ramshaw. And owling takes too long…besides we don't have permission to send one across international borders…we should really look into that-"

"Well what are we going to do? Will she be okay do you think?"

"I have a mobile phone if that helps…? Its cause my mum's a muggle so she prefers using mobiles to owls…"

"Fascinating!" Draco said sarcastically.

"Shut-up, ferret! How do they work, Lukey-boy?"

"Well you phone another mobile…and talk instantly to another person."

Fred rubbed his chin. "And will Doctor Ramshaw have a 'mobly phone'?"

"Mobile. And probably not, but my dad does and he works at St. Mungos…"

Fred glanced down at Hermione who had gained some colour in her cheeks, but was still cold and unconscious. "Go on then…ask him to talk to Doctor Ramshaw for us?"

"He can just pass the phone to him-…oh never mind, just let me handle this!"

Luke turned away and took an oblong shape out from his pocket, Fred looked over at it, interested. He must ask Luke if he could take a look at it for his own dad back home who would want to know all about 'moblo phones'.

After a few minutes of Luke talking to the small device he pressed a button and slid it back into his pocket.

"Doctor Ramshaw says it's fine, she's just overtired. Probably a touch of sunstroke too. She should just rest and make sure she eats something. He also said Draco should stay with her…" Luke raised his eyebrows up at this but continued, "…and she'll be better in a day or two. Okay what is going on here?!" he threw his arms up in exasperation.

Sighing Fred looked down at Hermione again. Some colour had come back into her pale cheeks at least. "Alright." He nodded and Luke settled himself down onto one of the dining chairs as the boys began to explain about Hermione's curse.

Tadaaa! Not much of a cliff-hanger, but ah well! More to come ;) hope you liked it! 3 xxx