Katie sighed with relief when she saw Fred, for a moment she thought she was seeing things, and she weakly reached a hand out for him though even the slightest movement made her entire body ache.
As an auror she'd been in all sorts of painful situations before, even experienced an unforgivable at one point during the heat of battle, but this - this was pain she hadn't known before. Pain that stretched on for days and days, that went down into her bones and was in her every thought, and she didn't see an end in sight.
"It hurts so much," She said quietly, tears filling her eyes as she squeezed at his hand. "Why won't it stop?" It didn't seem like the pain would ever go away, in fact, it seemed that it was getting worse with each passing day.