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And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all
And you flashback to when we said forever and always
-Taylor Swift
He walked through the gardens surrounding the cemetery, the heat overwhelming him and the sun glaring down from the blue sky, almost mocking the fact that his emotions were anything but pleasant. He'd felt so lost for the past month. It wasn't right, Fred being gone. He'd lie in bed of a morning, expecting, hoping, waiting, for Fred to call out and tell him to "get his lazy ass out of bed and down to the shop already!" but it never happens and the moment each day when he realises that it won't happen, it hurts. The pain becomes unbearable and George curls into himself, not getting out of bed except to relieve himself. The weather outside, he has no idea what it looks like, because inside it's like that Eeyore character from those Muggle story-books Hermione once showed them, there's a rain cloud following him everywhere, adding to his misery. 'Forever and Always. Pfft. That doesn't work if you're not here Freddie.'
He hates the emptiness. The flat that is so quiet now that he is the only one there. All those years, all twenty of them, felt so wasted now. The two of them had been together from day one. They shared everything, did everything together and now they couldn't ever again. The only times one of them had been hurt was when they were separated; George was with Remus when he'd lost his ear while Fred had been with their Dad and then when Freddie... w-when he... when it happened Fred had been with Percy, while George was fighting elsewhere in the castle. He just couldn't handle the fact that his brother, his twin, his other-half was gone, just like that.
Now he sat at the grave for the first time, looking at the headstone. "Frederick Gideon Weasley – Twin, Prankster, Brother, Son. Loved by many and forgotten by none. Mischief Managed." He thought about the words they'd chosen and how accurate they were – Harry must've added the last bit.
And then, for the first time since the Final Battle he spoke: "Hey Freddie, I know you're there. You have to be, you never leave me unless it is absolutely necessary, which is why I'm a little bit confused. Why aren't you still here? Physically here. You promised me, that day we got in trouble for turning Ron's teddy into a spider, when you took the blame for me. You said 'We're in this together Georgie. I'll always be with you. Forever and Always.'"
He slowly became more frustrated, his voice raising until he was practically screaming, "Did you forget that Fred? You made a promise, and now you've broken it. I never picked you as one to break a promise..."
As he kicked the grass by the headstone, he sighed, "Oh, I'm so sorry Freddie. I know you didn't choose to break it. You had no choice. You'd never willingly leave me, I know that. I just... I miss you. I don't know what to do without you. I keep expecting to hear your voice and then I realise that I won't. Well, I'm going to make you a promise now. First things first, I'm going to go back to the shop – I might not go out to the customers just yet, I wouldn't want to scare them. But I can work on those inventions we started before everything happened. My second promise, I'm gonna name my first son after you. My wife may not like it, but too bad for her; she'll have to deal with it. I love you Freddie and I miss you. But I promise I'll never forget you."
Conjuring up a small wreath of pink agapanthus, he laughed knowing Fred would be planning on pranking him for it, "Goodbye Freddie. I love you."
END
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