Dear Fred,
I am sorry for leaving you so soon. I wished that it could have been me instead. I never meant it to happen like this. I imagined us together until the end. Then we both could set off to the heavens together. I am so very sorry my dear brother, best friend, and companion for leaving you, we will be reunited together again very soon.
Love from your brother,
George Weasley
My hand started to shake at the end of the letter. Could I just turn my back on my family? I sealed the letter and placed it in my back pocket. How am I going to tell Ang…..
" George what do you think you're doing," Angelina was yelling as I was edging toward the door.
"I already told you," I said quietly, "I am going to be with Fred."
"Yes," Ang said, her voice getting softer and softer, "I know. But can't you wait until your time actually comes to be with to be with him. I can't stand to leave Fred and Roxanne alone."
I did a half-turn half-pirouette as I turned around to look at her, "What are you talking about?!? Fred and Roxanne aren't going to be alone, because you are NOT coming."
"Well you don't expect me to be a lonely mother, I need you George!" she started yelling again.
"Yes, well I can't stay here. I need my big brother!" I said. Then for some weird reason I started crying, crying my heart out in front of Angelina. Angelina took the remaining steps in between us to close the distance. She wrapped her arms around me and she started crying, too. It was a blissful moment until Roxie came down stairs and saw us crying. She started crying, also. Then Fred came down stairs and hugged Roxanne. And I looked at Ang her face had a sad smile, but her eyes had a sort of happiness to them. Angelina and I then ran forward and hugged Roxie and Fred. We all were like that for a long time. When finally Fred said that crying just wasn't his thing. All of us started to laugh at this point and I squeezed them all together in one last hug.
"Angelina, you were right, I love you all. But I don't know how to cope with being without him."
"Who are you talking about, Dad," Fred asked. While Roxanne nodded her head vigorously wanting to know, too.
"Fred," I said with a croak, "Your namesake."
"Wow, why did you name me after Fred?"
"Um…." I didn't know what to say. Should I tell them? I looked at Ang and she gave me a small jerk of the head, which meant a yes. "Well he was my brother; we were twins- just like you two. We were the best of friends and he was always there for me. On the night of that big fight I told you about, a Death Eater named Rookwood killed him. I wasn't there but Uncle Perce told me all I needed to know."
"Percy said that he chased Rookwood out of Hogwarts and into Hogsmead. Rookwood ran all the way to where you could apparate- which is out-of-bonds-Hogwarts. And he disappeared. Now none of us know where he is. But I doubt that he will come again, because he has no purpose now that Voldemort is dead. "
Fred and Roxie were staring at me as though I was crazy.
Finally Roxanne's stomach growled and Ang lead her toward the kitchen. Fred had not moved a single cell in his body after I was finished and I was scared that he would get mad at me for naming him after someone who died.