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He Died Laughing
It has been a couple weeks since that fateful night. To most it was the night that Voldemort was finally defeated, but to George Weasley, it was the night he lost his other half, his twin brother Fred. Upon returning to the Burrow after the battle, he had proceeded to lock himself away in his and Fred's old room. He didn't get up for anything, refusing to eat or talk. To his friends and family, it was like they had lost both twins instead of just one. Many people came to sit and talk to him so he didn't bother looking up when he felt another body situate itself on the end of his be. they all came, offering condolences, threats to eat, etc. Why didn't they understand that he just wanted to be left alone? Without Fred, he just wanted to die. There was nothing they could say to comfort him. Or so he thought.
"He died doing what he did best, you know. He died laughing."
The comment stunned him. It was definitely unexpected. Everyone who came and talked to him tried their best to avoid the topic of Fred's death, and if it did come up it was only to offer their sympathies. For the first time in time what might have been weeks, he looked up from his pillow, to stare at his brother Percy.
"He..died laughing? We..we were in the middle of a war. H-How could h-he have died laughing?"
It was the first time he had spoken since Fred's death. He sounded like a sad child, broken and crying. None of his family had seen him like this before. It saddened Percy to see his younger brother like this. He would never had expected to see George like that. Though if he told himself the truth, he would had expected to lose a brother. But it was encouraging enough to have George talking again, so he continued on.
"Yeah, w-we were fighting with a couple death eaters. One of them was Thicknesse. And I said, 'Hello Minster. Did I mention I'm resigning?' And Fred started laughing. He was like 'You're joking Perce!' He was so happy to hear me joking around. And then it was like the air just exploded, and..."
He broke off with a choked sob. While no one could ever understand what George was going through by losing his twin, the others were still just as broken up over Fred's death. George just sat there staring at Percy as if he'd never seen anything like him before.
"He...He d-died laughing?"
He didn't know why but this just broke him. He began to sob, his body hunched over itself in pain. He felt Percy start to move away and he pulled him back to the bed, latching his arms around him. He needed this right now. Both of them did. They sat there together, clutching each other and crying. He knew that things were never going to be the same. Fred was his other half and he was never coming back. But Fred had died laughing and smiling, and he would have wanted George to keep on doing just that; laughing and smiling. And for Fred, George would have done anything.
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